Arson Anthem – the project featuring Down vocalist Phil Anselmo on guitar, Mike Williams of Eyehategod on vocals, Hank Williams III of Superjoint Ritual on drums and Collin Yeo on bass – will release its self-titled debut EP on February 19 via Housecore Records. The label was created by Anselmo and focuses on his side-projects […]

Type O Negative have finally uploaded the video for “September Sun” on the Internet. You may watch it below. The clip was shot last October and comes off the band’s latest album, “Dead Again” (2007). The video premiere of “September Sun” coincides with the day the song enters our Tuborg Top 40 Mega Rock Chart…

After visiting Bulgaria half a year ago for the fisrt time ever, the Japanese band Yamato shall return in the Eastern European country on February 11, 2008. The show with the traditional Japanese wadayko drums shall take place at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, starting at 8 p.m. Tickets cost from 16 to […]

Mr. Vegard Sverre Tveitan, better known as Ihsahn of Emperor, Peccatum and Thou Shalt Suffer, shall release his second solo album in the spring. The follow-up to “The Adversary” (2006) is to be called “Angl”. Ihsahn – “Invocation“

This week’s edition of the weekly FractureВ Show on РњРњ TV (Sundays at 10 p.m.) shall feature a live report of Benediction’s show at the 20 Years Nuclear Blast Fest in Sofia Bulgaria, as well as videos by The Red Chord, Autumn, Daath, Sanctity, Moonspell, Paradise Lost and more.

Re-Act have announced the first two shows promoted by them in 2008. Both concerts shall take place in the end of January at the Swingin’ Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria. The first one is scheduled for January 24, featuring Britain’s Romeo Must Die, Macedonia’s Hardfaced and the local Underdogs. Three days later, on January 27, the […]

Atrocity have posted a 1-minute audio sample of their cover version of the Frankie Goes to Hollywood classic “Relax” HERE. The track comes off the German metallers’ new studio album, “Werk 80 II” (view cover in the left), which features interpretations of hit songs from the 80’s and is scheduled for release on February 29. […]

R.E.M. have announced their eagerly awaited 14th studio album shall be entitled “Accelerate”. The follow-up to 2004’s “Around the Sun”, which was recorded in Vancouver and Dublin with Bloc Party and Snow Patrol producer Jacknife Lee, is expected in April. According to frontman Michael Stipe, “Accelerate” is a guitar-driven album – “the fastest we’ve made […]

Megadeth have officially revealed the line-up for this year’s North American edition of the Gigantour, which will kick off mid-April and run through the end of May. Joining Dave Mustaine & Co. on the bill will be In Flames, Children of Bodom, Job for a Cowboy and High on Fire.

Crowbar‘s frontman Kirk Windstein (also in Down) and guitarist Steve Gibb have started writing songs for the band’s next full-lenght album. The only thing known so far is that the follow-up to “Lifesblood for the Downtrodden” (2005) should surface this year…