High-quality fan-filmed video footage of veteran San Francisco thrash metallers Exodus performing on July 5, 2008 at the Tidal Wave Festival at the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in San Francisco’s McLaren Park can be viewed below. As we already informed you, Exodus shall play at this year’s Thrash Till Death Festival in Kavarna, Bulgaria on August […]

Austrian Death Meachine – the new solo project of Tim Lambesis, best known as frontman of California’s metalcore masters As I Lay Dying – has put up two songs off the upcoming debut album “Total Brutal” on myspace.com/austriandeathmachine. The tracks’ titles are “Come with Me If You Want to Live”, “If It Bleeds We Can […]

A brand-new interview with Down drummer Jimmy Bower, given exclusively to Tangra Mega Rock, can be read at this location.

This Saturday, July 19, 2008, a new show starts on Tangra Mega Rock – Tangra Mega Live! Listen to the two-hour-long weekly show Saturdays at 10 p.m.! The first edition of Tangra Mega Live starts this Saturday with live shows by Radiohead, Foo FightersВ and Smashing Pumpkins!

Former Megaherz members Alexx Wesselsky (vocals) and Noel Pix (guitar and programming) will release the third album with their current electro-metal project Eisbrecher on August 22 via AFM Records. The follow-up to last year’s “AntikГ¶rper” will be entitled “SГјnde” (“Sin” in German) and will be “the darkest and hardest album so far”. Eisbrecher – “Phosphor” […]

Destruction mastermind Schmier has revealed that “Gary Holt of Exodus and Jeff Waters of Annihilator play as guest musicians on the song “Urge (The Greed of Gain),” which will be part of the German thrash metal veterans’ new album, “D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.“, due out on August 29. “The first solo is Gary’s, the second is Mike Sifringer’s […]

Former Manowar guitarist Ross The Boss releases an album on August 22 via AFM Records. Entitled “New Metal Leader” (view cover in the left), the music on the CD will be… true metal, of course… or, if we quote the official press release: “first-class, stomping, ground shaking epic heavy metal in the style of “Battle […]

The Performing Rights Society has published a Top Ten of the most played songs in the UK of the last five years. Plays on TV, radio, websites and in venues were used to collate the chart, and the winner is… Daniel Powter‘s 2004 hit “Bad Day“. Here’s the Top Ten of the most played songs: […]

Rage Against the Machine vocalist Zack de la Rocha and former The Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore have unveiled a new song by their project One Day As a Lion on myspace.com/onedayasalion. The track, entitled “Wild International“, precedes the duo’s debut self-titled EP, which set for release next Monday, July 21.

The last surviving Ludwig drumkit that belonged to late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham will be auctioned at the Idea Generation Gallery near London’s Liverpool Street on September 4, 2008. The five-piece kit is the only Bonham-owned intstrument to exist outside the family estate, and is estimated at ВЈ20,000. Jim Morrison‘s final 20-page notebook of […]