In an exclusive partnership between Nuclear Blast Records and MP3.com, Therion‘sВ latest studio album, the dual-disc “Gothic Kaballah”, will be available for streaming in its entirety for seven days prior to the album’s North American street date of February 6, 2007. Check it out HERE!

Vitamin Records will be issuing the “The String Quartet Tribute to Dream Theater” on February 20, 2007. Selected by the progressive metal masters’ drummer Mike Portnoy himself, the tracklist for the album is as follows: “Overture 1928”“Pull Me Under”“As I Am”“Peruvian Skies”“The Dance of Eternity”“Lifting Shadows Off a Dream”“Ytse Jam”Hell’s Kitchen” Vitamin RecordsВ got quite famous […]

It’s official: the US death metal monsters Cannibal Corpse shall play live in Sofia. The show shall take place at Hristo Botev Hall on March 5, 2005. The bloody massacre is going to start at 7 PM with brutal sets by the opening acts – Holland’s Disovowed and Denmark’s Urkraft. Tickets for the event cost […]

Pain – the electro metal side-project of Peter TГ¤gtgren of Hypocrisy, signed a deal with Roadrunner Records. The first result of the cooperation shall be Pain’s fifth full-length studio album, due in April 2007. The still untitled CD shall be “harder, with heavier guitars, massive string eruptions and enhanced vocal performances,” claim Roadrunner’s official representatives […]

Deicide’s drummer Steve Asheim was arrested in Innsbruck, Austria, for bank robbery! The incident happened when he tried to pay a large cash sum into an account, the money coming from merchandising sales on the band’s current European tour. Because of Steve’s “less than formal appearance”, and the fact that some of the notes were […]

Asesino’s second album, “Cristo Satanico” (“Satanic Christ”), has just been issued via Dino Cazares’ own label Odio Records. The follow-up to 2002’s “Coridos de Muerte” was recorded at Undercity Studios in Los Angeles and contains “15 songs of filthy perversion, satanism, molestation, rape, sodomy, murder, death… oh, and of course, love,” according to a press […]

Down have been writing material for their third full-length album, “Down III”. Рўhe follow-up effort to their 2002 release “Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow” is going to be produced by Warren Riker (Crowbar, Sublime), and shall consist of 18 tracks treating topics like the devastations caused by hurricane Katrina, the death of former […]

The video for the song “Forgotten Generation” by Rob Halford‘s solo band can be watched online at this location. The song comes off Halford’s retrospective double album “Metal God Essentials, Vol. 1”. Meanwhile, Rob is working on Judas Priest‘s next studio album. The successor of “Angel of Retribution” (2005) shall be entitled “Nostradamus” and shall […]

In the summer of 2007, nine years after the release of the retrospection “Live” (1998), Lacrimosa shall unleash a brand-new, double live album. Its title is still unknown, but it is clear that it shall feature not olny recent wave/gothic hits created by Tilo Wolff and Anne Nurmi (a.o. “Lichtgestalt”, “Letzte Ausfahrt: Leben”, “Kelch der […]

Next week, Mr. Burian Maslev shall be Vassil Varbanov’s special guest in the show Varbanov Supermarket (aired daily between 10 AM and 2 PM on Tangra Mega Rock Radio). The main topic of the conversation shall be the resurrection of the so-called Independent Music Scene in Sofia. Up until last year it used to be […]