Recordings for the 11th AMORPHIS album will start in September at Petrax Studios in Hollola and 5K Studios in Helsinki. Lyrics will again be crafted by Pekka Kainulainen, who already collaborated with AMORPHIS on the previous three albums. The new album will be produced and recorded by Peter Tagtgren (Abyss Studio, HYPOCRISY, PAIN) and released […]

CRADLE OF FILTH have announced an October 30th North American release date for the band’s 10th studio album, The Manticore & Other Horrors, out just in time for Halloween courtesy of Nuclear Blast USA. European release date TBA shortly.   Commented the band’s infamous front man, Dani Filth: “This is our 10th commandment in metal. […]

GARBAGE has launched the official music video for ‘Big Bright World’. “It is directed by the amazing Julie Orser and featuring some of our wonderful fans in the under water scenes.” – the band says in a statement. GARBAGE has returned with ‘Not Your Kind Of People’ on 15 May thorugh the band’s own Stunvolume label. This is GARBAGE’s […]

On today’s edition of his ZOO radio show, ANDREY VLADOV will play some fantastic sounds of the likes of: ONDATROPICA (Pictured); TOUMANI DIABATE; BEN ZABO; DANIEL MELINGO and ANDRE WILLIAMS together with THE SADIES. The ‘ZOO SHOW’ kicks off on Monday at 4 pm BG time (3 pm CET) on radio Tangra Mega Rock. It has several reruns during the week – for […]

You can now download the official Serj Tankian app for free. I Am Serj gives fans the ability to rework, remix and create their own music utilizing the songs that appear on Tankian’s latest release Harakiri. The System of a Down vocalist teamed with the creators of the IAmBeatBox app after using that program to […]

This week, we will be joining the World’s celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of THE ROLLING STONES !!! Every day, from Monday to Friday, MONY PANCHEV will be playing nothing BUT the STONES. And will tell us their amazing story… But we like it…  

Legendary JOE COCKER is set to make an impressive return. Following on from the resounding success of his 2010 platinum-selling, number-one album ‘Hard Knocks’, the Grammy-Award winner delivers the outstanding follow up album; ‘Fire It Up’. For his 23rd album Cocker returned to Matt Serletic’s (Matchbox Twenty, Santana, Rob Thomas, Collective Soul) Californian Emblem Studios, […]

DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN guitarist Jeff Tuttle, whose been smashing away at his axe for the better part of the last half-decade, is leaving the band. He has quit New Jersey’s noisiest band in favor of going back to school to pursue his film studies. The band shared the news of Tuttle’s exit on its Facebook […]

RolllingStone.com reports that during an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit yesterday, NASA researchers revealed the songs they use to wake up the Mars rover Curiosity each morning. In addition to playing songs by: THE BEATLES, THE DOORS, SIMON AND GARFUNKEL, and FRANK SINATRA, NASA has used the ANTHRAX cover of JOE JACKSON’s ‘Got […]

Legendary FISH will talk live to VASSIL VARBANOV this Sunday, 19 August. The ex-MARILLION frontman will tell us everything about his forthcoming gig at Plovdiv’s Roman Theater on 21 September and (possibly) his next studio album. Additionally, some new albums will be played on TANGRA METAL SHOCK – including STEVE VAI‘s ‘The Story of Light’ and KATATONIA’s […]