The name hinted by us two weeks ago has already been confirmed: Yes, Motorhead shall headline the second day (June 29) of the Kaliakra Rock Fest at the Kaliakra Stadium in Kavarna, Bulgaria! Tickets for Lemmy’s show – just like the ones for the Heaven and Hell concert on June 28 – shall cost 30 […]

Swiss industrial gods The Young Gods shall release a new album entitled “Super Ready/Fragmente” through the label Play It Again Sam on May 7. The 12 tracks on the CD present the first new recordings by the avantgarde trio since their 2004 album “Music for Artificial Clouds”. The group fronted by vocalist Franz Treichler is […]

Six weeks prior to the European release date of the upcoming Dimmu Borgir album “In Sorte Diaboli” on April 27, the album appeared on a website featuring free downloads for everybody. Since press worldwide was supplied with individual download accounts for the music on the Nuclear Blast website instead of regular promotional CDs, the source […]

The Associated Press reported that Brad Delp, the lead singer of Boston who was found dead in his home on March 9, left behind a note stating: “I’m a lonely soul.” According to police reports, Delp has committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning after he sealed himself inside a bathroom with two charcoal grills. In […]

Manic Street Preachers have confirmed the details for their long awaited new album. Entitled “Send Away the Tigers”, the CD shall be built up of 10 songs, and is due to be released on May 7. The full-length effort by the Welsh trio will be preceded by the single “Your Love Alone Is Not Enough” […]

Sum 41 have announced they have completed the follow-up to 2004 album “Chuck”. The self-produced effort was recorded in Los Angeles and follows the first new material by the band since the departure of guitarist Dave Baksh. The CD should come out this summer. The Canadian quartet has already started auditions to find a replacement […]

Franz Ferdinand have started work on their third studio album. Frontman Alex Kapranos said that the new songs he and guitarist Nick McCarthy are writing are different from their previous work, “but will still sound like Franz Ferdinand”. The Scottish group will forego almost any summer festival appearances in England or Europe to work on […]

There’s a new (freak) show starting on Tangra Mega Rock soon… However, it shall be in Bulgarian only… at least in the beginning… so no other details shall be revealed yet…

Metallica have entered studio in Los Angeles this week and began recording their ninth full-length album. The quartet shall lay down 14 songs for the follow-up to “St. Anger” (2003) until June, then take a break for its European tour, and finish the recordings in August. The CD should come out no later than the […]

Dead Kennedys have licensed their classic “Too Drunk to Fuck” for use in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino movie, entitled “Grindhouse”. The track was originally released as a single in 1981 and quickly became a total hit, although being banned from Radio 1 airplay… Later on, “Too Drunk to Fuck” was included in Dead Kennedys’ last […]