HARDCORE SUPERSTAR – Swedish inventors of what is known and loved today as “Street Metal” – are happy to announce the release of a new album via Nuclear Blast in early 2013! The record is entitled ‘C’mon Take On Me’, was produced by the band, mixed by no less a figure than Randy Staub (METALLICA, […]

JIMI HENDRIX‘s favourite Fender Stratocaster sold at auction for £237,000 at the weekend. The iconic musician loved the black guitar so much that he swapped it for a cheaper model just before raising a fire on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. The instrument, sold by former roadie James ‘Tappy’ Wright to fund […]

Canadian metal legends ANVIL have entered the studio to record the group’s fifteenth album entitled Hope In Hell with producer Bob Marlette at NRG Studios in North Hollywood, CA. The End Records (North America) / SPV (Europe) will release in spring/summer 2013 with a world tour to follow. Tracklisting, artwork, and release date for Hope […]

After METALLICA’s contract with Warner Bros. expired, many fans wondered where the band would go with the next phase of its career. It looks like METALLICA has chosen to stand as an independent entity and launch its own label, dubbed Blackened Recordings. In an announcement posted on the band’s website, METALLICA explains: “Some of you, […]

GLASVEGAS have released their new Christmas song as a free download – you can listen to the track below. The track, titled ‘No Her, No HYmN’, can be downloaded for free from the Glasgow band’s website – Glasvegas.net – but they have asked fans for a voluntary donation to Scottish Care and Information on Miscarriages […]

Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne is sharing a picture of himself at the session. The metal icons continue to work in the studio on their new album with producer Rick Rubin; the project is due to be released in April. The new album will be the mostly-reunited band’s first studio effort since 1978’s ‘Never Say Die’; […]

‘The Living Infinite’, the ninth studio album and first double album release by Swedish melodic death metal maestros SOILWORK, will be unleashed on February 27th in Asia (via license to Marquee Records), in Europe on March 1st, and in North America on March 5th. Produced by Jens Bogren (OPETH, AMON AMARTH, BLOODBATH), ‘The Living Infinite’ […]

NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS has dropped the first cut off their 15th studio album together, Push the Sky Away, which will surface February 19th via Bad Seed Ltd. Opening track ‘We No Who U R’ haunts by with minimal orchestration, save for puddles of organ, percussion, and harmonies. As CAVE laments, “There is […]

On today’s edition of his ZOO radio show, ANDREY VLADOV will play some fantastic sounds of the likes of: – CARIBOU are getting back but as DAPHNI; – MOGWAI (pictured) with fantastic remixes; – DARK HORSES; – TAME IMPALA and – ALLAH-LAS… The ‘ZOO SHOW’ kicks off on Monday at 4 pm BG time (3 pm CET) on radio Tangra Mega Rock. […]

INXS are JACK DANIEL’S BAND OF THE WEEK on radio TANGRA MEGA ROCK!  During a show in Perth, Australia, on 18 November drummer Jon Farris took the mic from latest singer Ciaran Gribbin and told the audience: “This is the last time we will perform together.” They were touring as support to Matchbox Twenty and celebrating the 25th anniversary of […]