Swedish extreme metallers Soilwork are continuing work on their new album, due later in the year via Nuclear Blast. At the moment, vocalist Bjorn Strid is in Canada, recording vocals under the guidance of Devin Townsend of Strapping Young Lad (who has assisted the Swedes on their 2002 release “Natural Born Chaos”, too). Songtitles set […]

Lostprophets have finished writing songs for their new, fourth, as yet untitled album. The Welsh alternative rock sextet intends to start recording in May and June. The follow-up to last year’s “Liberation Transmission” is expected to surface sometime during the autumn.

Ozzy Osbourne‘s first new studio album in 6 years, “Black Rain”, will arrive on May 21 via Epic Records. Songs off the CD can already be heard on the singer’s website, as we informed youВ a week ago. All the material has been recorded at Ozzy’s home studio in Los Angeles and, what’s more important, it’s […]

Dimmu Borgir are to release their eighth full-length studio album, entitled “In Sorte Diaboli”, via Nuclear Blast on April 27, 2007. Some three weeks before this date we got the Norwegian black metal leaders’ vocalist Shagrath on the phone for a quite intriguing conversation full of shocking confessions, as some would say… Like, for example, […]

Next Wednesday,В April 18, Sofia’sВ Dauhaus ClubВ shall host a show by the Bulgarian one-man folk/ambient project Kayno Yesno Slonce, the German electro-psychedelic formation Alcalica, and the mysterious trio Osil Amuk… The event (organized by Corvus Records) starts at 7:00 С‡.. Tickets cost 5 leva / 3 Euro.

Nile are currently finishing mixing their new album, entitled “Ithyphallic”, which shall be the death metal egyptologists first release via Nuclear Blast Records. The band entered Sound Lab Studios in South Carolina with producer Neil Kernon in the end of February. Karl Sanders (vocals, guitar, keys), Dallas Toler-Wade (guitar and vocals) and George Kollias (drums) […]

The White Stripes have revealed that their upcoming studio album, “Icky Thump”, shall appear in Europe on June 18 via XL Recordings. The front cover of the follow-up to 2005’s “Get Behind Me Satan”, which we informedВ you about a month ago, can be viewed in the left.

The 35th edition of Bulgaria’s Pro-Rock Magazine appears tomorrow, April 12. The cover story hails the metal kings Manowar, while the other features reveal the latest news about a.o.В Type O Negative, Machine Head, Dark Tranquillity, Cornerstone, Threshold, Annihilator, Tarot, Dying Fetus, Pro-Pain, Magnum, Last Hope, Burzum, After Forever, Neal Morse, Kayno Yesno Slonce, Free, Steve […]

Four demo tracks from Voivod’s latest album, “Katorz” (2006), have been posted online at VoivodFan.com. The songs are “Mr. Clean”, “The Getaway”, “Red My Mind” and “After All”. The Canadian avantgardists will enter the studio sometime in the autumn to begin recording their next full-length effort.

Sweden’s metal masters HammerFall, who parted ways with bassist Magnus Rosen a month ago, have found his replacement. The word goes about the original band member Fredrik Larsson who decided to rejoin his former colleagues.