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Al Jourgensen’s label 13th Planet Records has launched a special website dedicated to Ministry’s late bass player Paul Vincent Raven. You mayВ check it outВ atВ thirteenthplanet.com/raven.

The new Bulgarian punk rock hopes A-Moral offered another song off their upciming debut album “Kicks for All Jesters” (view cover in the left) for free download. Its title is “Choice”, and it’s available in our mp3-section. “Kicks for All Jesters” shall be released next week via Area 51 Records.

Joey DeMaio and Eric Adams shall visit Bulgaria’s capital Sofia on December 1 to present the brand-new Manowar DVD “Magic Circle Festival 2007”. What’s known so far is that the two American musicians shall be accompanied by their russian colleagues Sixth Sense, and thatВ a special press conference shall be held at Sofia’s Black Box Club.

Drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott (Hellyeah, ex-Pantera, Damageplan) has revealed that he intends to release “Dimevision 2” – a DVD tribute to his late brother and bandmate Dimebag Darrell Abbott. Besides, Vinnie and his father are putting together the first official photo book for Dime. Both issues will be out next year.

Kiss will play a full concert right after the opening of the 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship, which happens to be the Australian Grand Prix. The legendary quartet will provide a spectacular conclusion to the race, set to take place in Melbourne on March 16.

After some serious line-up changes, the Bulgarian alternative rock quintet Awake returns on stage. To begin with, the guys shall take part in the 11th edition of the Seattle Night Fest, set to take place on November 26В at theВ Alcohol Club in Sofia. Three days later the band shall play at the Swingin’ Hall in the […]

Iron Maiden’s Somewhere Back in Time World Tour 08 is continuing to sell amazingly well. The latest countries to go Maiden-mad are Sweden and Finland, where the band sold 123,500 tickets on Monday alone! The tour kicks off in India on February 1 and shall circle the entire globe throughout 2008. It will see Iron […]

Besides joining Ministry for the C U LaTour in 2008, Swedish experimental audio-extremists Meshuggah shall celebrate the beginning of the year with the release of their long-awaited new studio album. The follow-up to 2005’s “Catch 33” will contain nine songs, and is going to surface via Nuclear Blast under the title “obZen”.

Current Down and former Pantera and Superjoint Ritual frontman Phil Anselmo‘s next reincarnation shall be the guitar player for a project called Arson Empire. Originally going by the name of Arson Anthem, the quartet’s line-up is rounded by Hank Williams III on drums (ex-Superjoint Ritual; son of country music legend Hank Williams Jr.), Collin Yeo […]

Yesterday at 4:15 p.m. the legendary vocalist of Yes and Jon & Vangelis, Jon Anderson, arrived at Sofia Airport in the outskirts of Bulgaria’s capital. We’d like to remind you that the reason for the singer’s visit is his concertВ tonight at the 3,000-capacity Universiada Hall. The show starts at 8 p.m. В В Photos: SME