After making disparaging comments about recently deceased pop singer Whitney Houston, KFI AM 640 radio personalities John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou — of the Los Angeles station’s ‘The John and Ken Show’ — have been suspended for a week and a half. The station announced the suspension on its web site Thursday, calling the comments […]

Crazy Australian hardcore band DEEZ NUTS will play for the first time in Bulgaria on 22 March. The gig is set to play at Sofia’s *MIXTAPE 5* – the small venue and at the same time, US prog metal legends FATES WARNING will play in the big venue of the club on the occasion of Tangra Mega Rock’s SIXTH Annivesrary. […]

DIMITER VASSILEV, aka NUFRI, leader of seminal Bulgarian alternative band PANICAN WHYASKER, but also member PYROMANIA, R.O.B.T.F., BASTARDOLOMEY and more, has started a brand new band called SKITNICKS. A brand new song called ‘SHIZO DOLL’ is entering our TUBORG TOP 40 Mega Rock chart his week. SKITNICKS consists of NUFRI (vocals and guiar), drummer MILEN IVANCHEV (Bastardolomey), guitarist IVO PESHEV (Pistamashina) and bass player RADO YOVHEV (Тremor). You can listen to some more songs […]

IRON MAIDEN are going back on the road this summer, and they’re turning the clock back to 1988. The band will launch their Maiden England world tour in North America on June 21, in Charlotte, North Carolina. And the set list and stage production will closely mirror the Maiden England video, which was filmed on […]

Liverpool, UK-based atmospheric rockers ANATHEMA will release their new album Weather Systems on April 24th. The track ‘The Beginning And The End’ off the new album can be downloaded for free at this location. And here’s the Weather Systems tracklist: 01. ‘Untouchable, Part 1 02. Untouchable, Part 2 03. The Gathering Of The Clouds 04. […]

A full length sample of EPICA’s new song ‘Storm The Sorrow’, the first single from their new album Requiem For The Indifferent, is available below. Click the Amazon.com widget at the bottom of the page to order. EPICA will release their new album, Requiem For The Indifferent, in Europe on March 9th via Nuclear Blast. The North […]

April 6th 2012 is the day! The new ACCEPT album ‘STALINGRAD’ will be released worldwide. The previous record ‘Blood Of The Nations’, which was released in August 2010 was a huge success and nominated over 50 times worldwide for the “Hardrock and Metal Album Of The Year” being the most successful album of ACCEPT history.  […]

Australian thrashers MORTAL SIN are currently without singer, since Mat Maurer has left the band. Here´s the official statement: “This is an official announcement from Mat Maurer. I have decided to leave the band for personal reasons, & irreconcilable differences. Last year was an incredibly difficult year for me personally & I have decided to […]

THE CRIBS have announced full details of their forthcoming fifth studio album. The Wakefield band, a trio once more after the departure of Johnny Marr last April, will release ‘In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull’ on May 7. The album was largely recorded in New York with MGMT and Flaming Lips producer David Fridmann […]

JACK WHITE has released the video for ‘Love Interruption’, the lead single from his upcoming solo debut, Blunderbuss.   Directed by White himself, the clip also features back-up vocalist Ruby Amanfu, clarinet/bass clarinet player Emily Bowland, and Brooke Waggoner on wurlitzer electric piano. Watch it below. Blunderbuss is out April 24th via Third Man/Columbia.