Last night, June 4, 2007, after a quarter of a century of waiting and hopes, Bulgaria finally welcomed Iron MaidenВ fronted by Bruce Dickinson on native soil. Some thoughts and memories of the show, as well as the entire last night’s setlist can be found HERE. Professional photos of the event, courtesy of Svetoslav Dragiev and […]

Obituary have brought in former Iced Earth and Deicide guitarist Ralph Santolla to help them out on the recordings of their new studio album, “Xecutioner’s Return”, due to be released by the end of the summer. Santolla is also likely to tour with the veteran death metallers until early 2008, when guitarist Allen West should […]

R.E.M., Iggy Pop, The Melvins, Bad Brains and David Bowie are among the artists that have contributed songs to the soundtrack for the movie “Kurt Cobain about a Son”, due to be premiered in late 2007. The soundtrack itself will be released in the USA on September 11. It won’t feature any songs by Nirvana, […]

Just a year and a half after coming to life and 3 months after releasing their self-titled debut EP, a terrible tragedy happened to the US indie rock/wave sextet Ra Ra Riot. Yesterday afternoon (June 3), 23-year-old drummer John Pike (on the photo) was found dead in seven feet of water in Buzzards Bay near […]

Korn have decided to put no title on their upcoming full-length studio album. In other words, the follow-up to “See You on the Other Side” (2005) shall appear under the moniker “Korn”. The CD is going to contain 12 tracks and shall officiallny appear in Europe on July 30 via Virgin Records/EMI.

On Sunday, June 3, exactly atВ 2:36 p.m. Iron Maiden landed with a prvate charter flight at Sofia Airport. After beeing welcomed in the VIP area by the local promoters of the band’s show at the Locomotive Stadium tomorrow – Sofia Music Enterprises – Bruce, Steve, Dave, Nicko, Adrian, Janick and the group’s seventh member, long […]

On Saturday, June 2, Iron Maiden performed in Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana on their current A Matter of the Beast Summer Tour ’07. What’s been most curios is that the British sextet played four songs from their 25-year anniversary album “The Number of the Beast” rather than the previously announced five. Here’s the exact Ljubljana setlist: […]

“Carry On”, the second studio solo album by former Audioslave, Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog vocalist Chris Cornell (view cover in the left), is available for streaming in its entirety on the singer’s official MySpace profile. The CD shall be released in Europe on Monday, June 4, via Suretone/Interscope Records.

Former Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick has revealed the second part of the “Kissology” DVD series is already on the way to be completed soon. While the first part of the video documentary went from 1974 to 1977, “KISSology: Volume 2” picks up in 1978 and goes to 1995, showing documentary and concert footage from Kiss’ […]

Samples of the 3 audio tracks featured on Velvet Revolver’s EP “Melody and the Tyranny” (view cover in the left), which is being released today, can be heard HERE. Here’s the exact tracklist of the current effort by Scott Weiland, Slash, Duff McKagan, Dave Kushner and Matt Sorum: 01. She Builds Quick Machines 02. Just […]