Danish extreme metallers HateSphere have launched a vocalist search following the departure of longtime singer Jacob Bredahl last Monday. The band will play its first shows with the new singer in November, so he is really urgently needed. Besides, the musicians are “not only searching for a vocalist who can sing and scream, but also […]

Bulgarian metal veterans Ahat have revealed the name of the suporting act for their show on September 27 at the 3000-capacityВ Universiada HallВ in Sofia, Bulgaria. The honour shall be given to the young rockers Boxer. You may check them out at myspace.com/boxerbg.

Nightwish shot two videos in Los Angeles with director Antti Jokinen (a.o. Beyonce, Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Korn, Stratovarius) at a cost of 270,000 Euro. “We saved time and money by doing two videos in one session,” band leader Tuomas Holopainen explained… One of the videos, “Bye Bye Bueatiful”, can already be watched below:

Nick CaveВ and Warren Ellis, known for being collaborators in The Bad SeedsВ and Grinderman, emerge on the music horizon again, this time as composers, performers and producers of the the original soundtrack to the movie “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”. The CD with the music for the movie about the notorious […]

Bulgarian electro-industrial psychos shemale Zero recorded a brand-new song, entitled “Deliverance from Hypocrisy”, and shot a video for it. You may download the video in high quality from the Download section of Stroeja.com. A low resolution version of it is available here:

It turned out that Hilly Kristal – the owner of legendary New York punk rock club CBGB, who died last month of lung cancer – has left behind a $3.7 million estate after his death. While he was apparently socking away a lot of money while he bitterly disputed an increase in his club’s rent, […]

The Daily Star and other yellow papers are reporting that England’s drug lord Pete Doherty (Babyshambles, ex-The Libertines) and Kurt Cobain’s notorious widow Courtney Love have been seen making out in British bars. According to the media, it’s too early to call it romance, but it’s hard not to get giddy with speculation about the […]

Richard Reinhardt a.k.a. Richie Ramone, known as drummer for America’s punk rock godfathers The Ramones from 1983 to 1987, has filed suit against Apple Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for copyright infringement. According to Richie, the companies do not have permission to sell downloads of six songs that he wrote – “Smash You”, “Somebody Put […]

Italian melancho metallers Novembre shall release their new full-length studio album, entitled “The Blue” (view cover in the left), on November 5 via the British label Peaceville Records. The follow-up to last year’s “Materia” is going to containg 12 songs recorded at Finnvox Studios in Helsinki under the guidance of producer Mikko Karmila, known for […]

Canadian extreme metal avantgardists Voivod have created videos for the last two songs off their latest album “Katorz” (2006) and uploaded them on the Internet. The word goes about “The X-Stream” and “Polaroids”, the latter featuring some of drummer Michel “Away” Langevin‘s animation work. Now sit back and give in to the stream… “The X-Stream“ […]