Buzz Osborne and his gang are hitting back in the late spring of 2008. That’s when The Melvins‘ new full-length studio album is goin to surface. The follow-up to last year’s “(A) Senile Animal” is still untitled, but it’s been confirmed it’s gonna appear via Mike Patton’s Ipecac Recordings.

Earth – the Seattle-based drone experimentalists lead by Kurt Cobain’s best friend Dylan Carlson – have announced the name of their next full-length album. It’s going to be entitled “The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull”, and is due in February via Southern Lord records.

Mike Patton is continuing his activities in the film world. After starring in 2005’s “Firecracker”, the current Peeping Tom and Fantomas and former Faith No More and Mr. Bungle frontman will voice “lend” his voice to the creatures in the upcoming the post-apocalyptic movie “I Am Legend”. Besides, he’s composing the soundtrack for the 20-minute […]

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will release their new, 14th full-length studio album on March 3, 2008. Entitled “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!”, the CD was produced by the band and Nick Launay, who worked with them on their latest effort, “Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus”, and was recorded during the summer at State of the […]

Radiohead have uploaded two visualizations of songs off their current album “In Rainbows” on the Internet. The word goes about the tracks “Jigsaw Falling into Place” and “Bodysnatchers”, which may be watched below. As for “In Rainbows”, it shall get its physical release on CD on January 1, 2008. Jigsaw Falling into Place Bodysnatchers

The German label SPV has set March 31, 2008 as the release date of the official double retrospective DVD “A Pulse Of Kapitulation – Live In East Berlin 1990” by the thrash metal veterans Kreator. Details about the effort’s substance shall be announced soon. SPV also plan other intriguing metal releases for next year, a.o. […]

Bulgaria’s melodic rock quintet Shangri La, formerly known as Sad Toy Killer, shall play at the upcoming edition of the Р•uroSonic Festival in Groningen, The Netherlands. The date is January 11, 2008, and some of the other acts scheduled to appear on stage are Turisas, Hooverphonic, Volbeat, Stalingrad Cowgirls, Lightspeed Champion, Bloodgroup and many more.

A private eye has been charged for breaking into Chris Cornell‘s house. The investigator, called Matthew Turner, was hired by the former Soundgarden and Audioslave vocalist’s ex-wife Susan Silver (ex-manager of Soundgarden and Alice in Chains) after a dispute about the ownership of 15 guitars. When Turner found out there’s nobody home, he let himself […]

Bulgaria’sВ Pro-Rock MagazineВ shall give away the new Manowar DVD “Live in Bulgaria – Kaliakra Rock Fest 2007” to the first 20 people who subscribe to the mag’s editions for 2008. The price is 40 levaВ (20 Euro) for 11 issues, and the subscription form is available HERE.

America’s contemporary “working class heroes” Green Day shall enter studio in January to start recording their next album in January. Unfortunately, there’s still no particular information about the follow-up to 2004’s “American Idiot”…