STATUS QUO drummer MATT LETLEY is to move on after 12 years, the band have announced. But he says his decision isn’t connected with next year’s FRANTIC FOUR reunion shows. He’ll play his last gig with Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Andy Bown and John ‘Rhino’ Edwards on Wednesday, December 19, at the O2 Arena in […]

On January 22nd, BAD RELIGION are set to return with their latest album True North. With Christmas right around the corner, the long running Los Angeles punk outfit decided to give fans a sneak peak of the album’s title track by sending it out via their mailing list. If you enjoy the BAD RELIGION sound […]

TARJA TURUNEN will present the magnifiscent ‘BEAUTY AND THE BEAT’ show at the naional Palace of Culture in Sofia on 30 March 2013. It will feature drummer MIKE TERRANA and an Orchestra and Choir. You can now see the first poster of a whole series with more to come soon. Tickets are available via www.tixgate.com.

On today’s edition of his ZOO radio show, ANDREY VLADOV will play some fantastic sounds of the likes of: – THE SCANTHARIES; – THE EVENS; –  BAD BRAINS (pictured); – MATTHEW DEAR; – BO NINGEN…. 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 – […]

A book about the Communist era in Bulgaria is out today, 17 December. ‘Valleys of Time’ (‘Долините на времето’) by LYUBOMIR MANOLOV and edited and designed by TEODOR MANOLOV of avant-garde band SMALL TRAGOEDIAS, is a selelction of 20 true stories about the victims of the Communist regime in Bulgaria during the 50s, 60s and 70s.   . And here’s the […]

GHOST has unveiled a song from their forthcoming album. The track is called ‘Secular Haze’ and can be streamed at this location. Though the album titled and its exact 2013 release date is still unknown, ‘Secular Haze’ is indeed our first taste of GHOST’s sophomore album. More details regarding the new album’s release should come […]

Keith Deen, former vocalist of 1980s Los Angeles thrashers HOLY TERROR, died on Thursday, December 13 after a three-month battle with cancer. He was 56 years old. HOLY TERROR was formed in the mid-1980s by Kurt Colfelt (a.k.a. Kurt Kilfelt; ex-AGENT STEEL) and ex-DARK ANGEL drummer Jack Schwarz, who left before the release of the […]

Long-running German metallers HELLOWEEN have released the official video for the first single from their new album, Straight Out Of Hell. The six-minute opus for ‘Nabataea’ develops on several levels, including 3-D animation at motion picture level. The legendary kingdom Nabataea provides the atmospherically dense reference for the strong first release from HELLOWEEN’s new album. […]

MARILYN MANSON has shared a picture of his reattached ear after he was involved in a fight in Switzerland. The goth rocker Tweeted the image, which you can see to the right of the page, after telling fans that he’d needed 24 stitches to save the ear after a grisly brawl in which he was […]

In cooperation with Bushido Brazil and Bamberg, BraziliaN metal veterans SEPULTURA have released an official Weizen beer to celebrate their 25th Anniversary. The beer is brewed as a traditional German Weizen beer featuring “aroma and flavors of banana and clove from a special strain of yeast that produces the chemicals that lead to these perceptions.” […]