Mikael Г…kerfeldt has revealed some details about Opeth‘s upcoming full-length studio album. The follow-up to 2005’s “Ghost Reveries” and this year’s live masterpiece “The Roundhouse Tapes” shall contain 7 tracks with an average running time of about 10 minutes. “These songs are a bit more energetic,” Mikael said. “They remind me of our third record, […]

After some musicians revealed their favourite albums for 2007 a few days agi here, Thiago Sarkis of Imhotep.no has now got hold of Rob Halford, Steve Vai, Mike Patton, Rudolf Schenker and 63 other metal stars that picked their favorites of 2007. Here are the personal album charts by some of them: Alan Nemtheanga (Primordial) […]

New York City’s metalcore masters Sworn Enemy just completed their highly successful Persistence Tour in Europe together with Hatebreed, Agnostic Front and Ignite. More about it, as well as some details about the band’s new studio album, “Maniacal“, were revealed to Tangra Mega Rock by guitarist Jamin Hunt. Check out the interview taken for the […]

Original Slipknot guitarist Josh Brainard and his current band On a Pale Horse shall release their new album in the end of March 2008. The CD shall be entitled “A Generation of Vipers” and is going to surface via the label Corporate Punishment. Meanwhile, check out On a Pale Horse’s new video for the track […]

America’s Decibel Magazine listed its chart for the best 40 metal albums released in 2007. We think it would be interesting for you to see what our colleagues think, so here’s their Top 40 chart: 01. Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb02. Watain – Sworn to the Dark03. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works04. Jesu […]

Metallica offer you as a Christmas gift their entire August 17th, 1985 performance at Donington Park, Donington, UK for free download! The recording’s total running time is 46 mintues, and the setlist featuries “Creeping Death”, “Ride the Lightning”, “The Four Horsemen”, “Fade to Black”, “Seek and Destroy”, “Whiplash” and “Motorbreath”. Go download the show HERE […]

New York’s gypsy punk rockers Gogol Bordello shall finally release their first three records in Europe as well. The word goes about the albums “Voi-La Intruder” (1999) and “Multi Kontra Culti Vs. Irony” (2002) and the EP “East Infection” (2005), which originally surfaced in the USA only via Rubric Records. The European premiere shall happen […]

Two members of the disbanded metallers Pissing Razors – guitarist Matt DiFabio (also in Single Bullet Theory) and vocalist Andre Acosta – have joined forces in a new project called The Downtrodden and plan to start recording their debut album in late January 2008. The band’s line-up is completed by Seven Witches bass player Bill […]

You’ve got some photos, paintings, poetry or anything else connected in one way or another to KamelotВ and/or Firewind? Send it a.s.a.p. to fenove@abvpro.comВ and your works shall be published in a special Fan Area on www.abvpro.com. Besides, there’s a realВ chance your fan art to be given to KamelotВ and Firewind in person right before their show inВ Sofia, […]

The end of next week shall witness the release of the Bulgarian translation of the book “Iron Maiden: 30 Years of the Beast” on the Bulgarian book market. The word goes about the unauthorized biography of the British heavy metal godfathers written by Paul Stenning. The book (view cover below) includes 344 pages and can […]