TheВ third Playstation 2 rock game, “Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80’s”, will be on sale during the summer. What’s more interesting is that its soundtrack is going to include tracks by guitar-driven rock legends like Twisted Sister, Ratt, Quiet Riot, Dio, Asia, Accept, Poison, Skid Row, Faster Pussycat, Extreme, Scandal, Billy Squier and Eddie Money.

Emperor frontman Ihsahn (real name – (Vegard Tveitan), his wife Starofash (Heidi Solberg Tveitan) and the fiddler Knut Buen a.k.a. Grimen have united in an experimental folk metal project called Hardingrock. The trio’s debut album, “Grimen” (view cover above), shall be released on June 11 via the label Nyrenning Forlag. Two songs off the CD […]

Team Sleep, the trip-rock project featuring Deftones’ Chino Moreno alongside Todd Wilkinson, Zach Hill of Hella, Rick Verrett of Tinfed and DJ Crook, is putting the finnishing touches to its second fulll-length album. The follow-up to the band’s 2005’s self-titled debut shall appear during the summer.

The supergroup C-187, featuring Patrick Mameli (guitar; ex-Pestilence), Tony Choy (bass; Atheist, ex-Cynic), Sean Reinert (drums; Cynic, ex-Death) and Tony Jelencovich (vocals; M.A.N., ex-Mnemic, Transport League), entitled their debut album “Collision”. The quartet’s CD was recorded at Spacelab Studios near Dusseldorf in Germany with Danish producer Jacob Hansen, known for his work with bands like […]

Last night, May 28, 2007, California’s syco maniacs Suicidal Tendencies and their young Bulgarian colleagues Last Hope did a high-class show at Sofia’s Hristo Botev Hall – unfortunately, in front of less than 800 fans… Photos, aВ report and the setlist of the concert is available HERE.

Although still on tour, Sacramento’s experimental metal masters Deftones are already writing songs for their next studio album. No details are known so far, except for the fact that the band has set up a backstage writing room…

Cornelius Jakhelln of Norway’s avantgarde metal duo Solefald won the first prize in a big Scandinavian novel contest for his saga novel “Gudenes Fall” (“The Fall of the Gods”). A part of the prize sum shall be used by the musician to build up his new little record label in Berlin, called Von Jackhelln Inhuman, […]

Former Styx vocalist Dennis DeYoung has revealed the front cover artwork (view it in the left) for his upcoming full-length solo album. Entitled “One Hundred Years from Now”, the CD is going to contain 11 tracks melodic rock tracks and is due to surface in the near future.

OnВ May 31В (Thursday) Sofia’sВ Tri Ushi ClubВ shall hos a release party for the new Nine Inch Nails albumВ “Year Zero”, presented by the Bulgarian DJs Dr. TerrorВ and M.O.S. Krindo. The party starts at 9 p.m., tickets cost 3 leva / 2 Euro, and the poster can be viewed in ourВ Gig Guide.

Now you’ve got the chance to visit one of the shows which are part of the Tuborg Green Fest 2007, a.o. INXS, Pink and Michael Bolton in Sofia, and Beastie Boys and Red Hot Chili Peppers in Serbia. For checking out the rules of the game, visit www.tuborg.bg.