Club O!Shipka in Sofia will remain closed during September as well. Unfortunatelly all the planned events had to be cancelled. The owners of the club had been doing some renovation since the beginning of the summer and they are still going on. More information is to be released soon!

NINE INCH NAILS is reportedly working on material for its next album, according to Launch Radio Networks. Band leader Trent Reznor is said to be writing songs with an eye toward releasing a new disc sometime next year, although there’s been no official confirmation of those plans. Reznor, meanwhile, did post a message at the […]

SONATA ARCTICA’s live DVD, “For the Sake of Revenge“, has been certified gold in the band’s home country for sales in excess of 5,000 copies. The set entered the Finnish Music DVD chart at position No. 1 back in June. The CD version of “For the Sake of Revenge” landed on the national album chart […]

German hard rockers SCORPIONS are among the artists whose BMG Music Publishing catalog is being purchased by Vivendi’s Universal Music unit for $2.09 billion.Paris-based Vivendi said the deal will make Universal the world’s leading music publisher.Vivendi said BMG‘s catalog includes over a million copyrights, including COLDPLAY, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, MAROON 5, CHRISTINA AGUILERA, R KELLY and […]

Damon Albarn is writing the music for a Chinese circus production.The work is due to get its debut at the inaugural Manchester International Festival next June.The Blur/Gorillaz singer recently returned from several weeks spent travelling across China, where he recorded with a variety of local musicians. He is now back in London working on the […]

For the first time in 30 years, Bob Dylan tops The Billboard 200 with “Modern Times.” Not only is it the legendary songwriter’s first album to reach the throne since “Desire” in 1976, it’s also his highest debuting album and his best sales week since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. The Columbia set […]

The Cooper Temple Clause are back with a single and a UK tour.After a long absence, the Reading band release ‘Homo Sapiens‘ on October 23, their first release for new label Sequel, an imprint of Sanctuary.The single is taken from the band’s third album ‘Make This Your Own‘, due for release in January 2007.

Swedish “death ‘n’ roll” band HEARSE, featuring former ARCH ENEMY singer Johan Liiva and ex-FURBOWL drummer Max Thornell, has finalized the track listing and artwork for its fourth album, “In These Veins“, due in October via Dental Records. The follow-up to 2005’s “The Last Ordeal” was recorded and mixed by Dan SwanГ¶ (EDGE OF SANITY, […]

Long-defunct New Orleans metallers EXHORDER — cited by many as the originators of the riff-heavy power-groove approach popularized by PANTERA — have had several live video clips from their 1998 reunion show posted online. These three clips are from August 14, 1998 and were filmed at a club called Zeppelin’s in Metairie, Louisiana (although the […]

Norwegian “viking” metal band GALAR has finished recording, mixing and mastering its new album, entitled “Skogskvad“. An MP3 of the song “Hugin og Munin” can be downloaded at this location. The album artwork can be viewed here. An October release via Germany’s Heavy Horses Records is expected. “Skogskvad” track listing: 01. Skogskvad02. Ragnarok03. DГёdsmyr04. Kronet […]