With every newВ LORDI album comes a brand new look for the Finnish heavy metal monsters and now with the imminent arrival of the band’s fifth studio album, ‘Babez For Breakfast’, Lordi has new masks to reveal. This time their costumes, as well as the music on the new album, have a hint of the golden […]

A stash of reggae legend Bob Marley’s master recordings and personal belongings has been destroyed by a fire in Aburi, Ghana. The tapes were being stored at the solar-powered studio established by Marley’s wife Rita, who has lived in Africa for the past decade. The studio complex, Studio One, was set to officially open in […]

Finnish metal band Children Of Bodom is currently in the studio recording a new album for Spinefarm/Universal. Tracking is taking place in Helsinki with producer/engineer Matt Hyde (Slayer, Hatebreed) at the helm and production is expected to continue through September. Bassist Henri Seppala has issued the following update: “Drums are being tracked right now. Jaska […]

Kazaa is back. The former peer-to-peer music service has relaunched as a cloud-based streaming service with access to 1.6 million songs and 1 million song lyrics. There’s not much that initially sets the new Kazaa apart from other services in this space, and the smaller catalog will prove a challenge. But the lyrics feature is […]

Kings Of Leon’s new album Come Around Sundown will be released in the UK on 18 October and 19 October in North America. The follow-up to the Nashville quartet’s hugely successful Only By The Night, which sold over six million copies worldwide and won four Grammy Awards, Come Around Sundown was recorded in New York […]

Spirit of Burgas is back! And so is the JACK DANIEL’S ROCK STAGE – a prominent feature of the biggest Bulgarian Summer festival. Expect to see twenty killer bands over three days. The line-up – courtesy of Tangra Mega Rock – will showcase exciting and diverse new talent as well as some of the biggest […]

‘A Voice In The Dark’, the brand new video from German power metallers BLIND GUARDIAN, can be viewed below. The song comes off the band’s new album,В ‘At The Edge Of Time’. “‘A Voice in The Dark’ is such a great song! And it delivers everythingВ  diehard Blind Guardian fans would probably like to listen to.” […]

10 days after closing by stormВ the KAVARNA ROCK FEST 2010, German heavy metal leaders are preparing for the official release of their first studio album in fourteen years. ‘Blood of The Nations’В will be officially out onВ 20В August through Nuclear Blast/Wizard. Рўangra INTERVIEW ACCEPT Meanwhile, ACCEPT announced that they willВ join forces with veteran rockers KING’S X for […]

Soundgarden have announced they will release a career retrospective titled Telephantasm. The recently reunited band will issue the set on 28 September. “It includes songs from all of our albums and EPs, including Black Rain, an unreleased track from the Badmotorfinger sessions,” the band said in a statemtent. “Plus, we are releasing our first-ever DVD […]

Congratulations to Nightwish singer Anette Olzon and her boyfriend, Pain bassist Johan Husgafvel, on the birth of a boy. The happy event happened on July 30.