Rob Halford has made Fight‘s song “Christmas Ride” available for free download via halfordmusic.com. The track was originally released in 1994 via Epic Records as a promo CD single (view cover in the left).

Deep Purple‘s keyboardist Don Airey will release a new solo album, entitled “A Light in the Sky”, on February 25 via Mascot Records. The effort features plenty of guest musicians, a.o. Laurence Cottle (bass), Darrin Mooney (drummer of Primal Fear and Gary Moore), Thunder‘s Chris Childs (bass), Gary James (drums) and Danny Bowes (vocals), and […]

Chicago-based rockers SOiL (no to be confused with L.A.’s Soil) have recorded a cover version of Soundgarden‘s early 90’s track “Rusty Cage”. You may check it out at the quartet’s official MySpace profile at www.myspace.com/soil.

After playing 223 shows all over the world throughout 2007, America’s metal defenders Trivium have announced: “We’ll be off the road for roughly the first 6-9 months of 2008 writing and recording our third release.” Obviously, we’ll have to wait at least about a year for the follow-up to “The Crusade” (2006)… So meanwhile, check […]

After confirming their participation at next year’s Rock im ParkВ and Rock am Ring festivals in Germany (check out the Gig Guide), Metallica announced they’ll continue their European conquest to the east: The four-piece shall play the Slaski Stadium inВ Chorzow, Poland onВ May 28.

Bulgaria’sВ ska-punk mastersВ Svetlio & The Legends shall play live at The ClubВ in Sofia, Bulgaria this Friday, December 21. The party starts at 10:30 p.m.,В with tickets costingВ 5 Euro.

After we entered into 2007 with an alternative speech to the nation by Bulgaria’s anti-heroВ Bitcheto (check it outВ here), the tradition shall go on! This time the ALTERNATIVEВ address to the Bulgarian nationВ on New Year’s eveВ shall be done byВ Svetlio& The Legends themselves! Their speech in the first minutes of January 1,В 2008 shall be preceded by tons of […]

After announcing that the new Slipknot album shall be “heavy as fuck”, Joey Jordison revealed some more details about the follow-up to “Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)” (2004). The nine masked cutthroats shall enter studio in January, with a CD release planned for the spring. Slipknot plan to start touring a month before the album’s […]

The 43th issue of Bulgaria’s Pro-Rock Magazine (view cover below) shall be published this Saturday, December 22. Except for the cover story (dedicated to Rob HalfordВ and Fight), the edition shall also feature articles about Nightmare, Paths of Possession, Mystic Prophecy, Radiohead, Darkest Hour, Primordial, In Vain, Coheed and Cambria, Laethora, Gallhammer, Shaman, Civilization One, Blotted […]

Walls of Jericho shall a release a new, as yet untitled EP in March via Trustkill Records. It’s being produced by Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour), who also does guest vocals on several tracks. The effort’s premiere shall concide with another release of the Detroit-based female-fronted metalcore quintet – the DVD “Live in South America”, […]