OnВ November 10В the 8th Ball Club inВ Sofia, BulgariaВ shall host the third edition of the punk/hardcore festival East Noise Attack. The event will feature 8 bands – Brothers in Blood, G.O.T.C., Spot, Cold Breath, BFDM, Crowfish, OutrageВ and Indignity. The show starts at 5:30 p.m., with tickets costingВ 6 EuroВ (presale)В andВ 8 EuroВ (at the door). Their number is limited to 230. […]

Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali has recorded a CD entitled “24/7/365 – The Tribute to Led Zeppelin” (view cover in the left). Released under the Frankie Banali & Friends banner, the effort features Frankie himself on drums, backed by an impressive list of guests, namely bassist Tony Franklin (The Firm, Blue Murder), keyboard players Neil […]

Less than a month before devastating the Winter Sports Palace in Sofia, Bulgaria together with Amorphis, Edguy, Agathodaimon, The Revenge ProjectВ and Overdawn, Britain’s death metal machines Benediction forced their bass playerВ Frank HealyВ to confess to Tangra Mega Rock everything about the band’s upcoming studio album “Killing Music”, the preparations for the 20 Years Nuclear Blast FestВ in […]

After releasing the debut single “I’m Not Jesus” off their new album “World Collide”, Finnish metal cellists Apocapyptica have created a second video for the song off the CD. The word goes about “S.O.S. (Anything But Love)”, featuring a guest appearance by Lacuna Coil singer Cristina Scabbia and shot in Vilnius, Lithuania. Regarding the album […]

Mike Patton‘s live performance with the NorwegianВ composer John Erik Kaada at the Roskilde Festival in 2005 is going to surface on DVD in November. It’s going to be called… “Live”, of course.

Guitar virtuoso Gary Moore will join drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox – the same Jimi Hendrix Experience rhythm section that played Woodstock – to perform a selection of Jimi Hendrix songs on October 25 at the Hippodrome in London. The gig will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the late guitarist’s show at the […]

California-based atmospheric sludge avantgardists Isis are to release a new EP, entitled “Holy Tears”, through Mike Patton’s label Ipecac Recordings. Due in early December, the effort is going to feature a studio, a live and a video version of the title track, plus a remix of the song “Not in Rivers, But in Drops” done […]

German thrash metal veterans Kreator have announced a show in Bulgaria at the end of the year. The band is scheduled to play at the Hristo Botev Hall in Sofia on December 15. Additional acts to take part in the show shall be announced soon…

In a posting on his official website, Trent Reznor has revealed: “I’ve waited a long time to be able to make the following announcement: As of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. “I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have […]

Long-time running thrashers Testament announced they’ve hired former Slayer, Exodus and Forbidden drummer Paul Bostaph (on the photo) to record the drums for their next studio album. Paul replaces Britain’s drum beast Nick Barker (Benediction, ex-Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, etc.), who was supposed to work with Testament on the still untitled CD, but is […]