ANTHRAX have brought in former Testament/Slayer drummer JOHN DETTE (pictured) for their UK and European tour supporting MOTORHEAD. This is because CHARLIE BENANTE is dealing with ‘personal stuff’. The last show of the track is on 5 December in Berlin.

GREEN DAY will release ‘Dos!,’ the second album of a trilogy, on Tuesday, November 13. The project follows recent issue of ‘Uno!,’ and the forthcoming ‘Tre!’, whose album’s release has been moved up to December 11 from its original date of January 15, 2013. Fans can now preview songs from ‘Dos!’ in the player below… […]

Six weeks after the fabulous concert at Plovdiv’s Roman Theater, ANATHEMA have announced that touring member DANIEL CARDOSO has joined the band full-time. The keyboardist will bring his additional talents as a producer and drummer into the fold, with mainman Daniel Cavanagh sure the results will create the “strongest incarnation” of the band. Cavanagh says: […]

Slovenian band ELVIS JACKSON is set to play at Sofia’s *MIXTAPE 5* club on 23 November (Friday). WICKEDA and OGI 23 are also on the bill.  Show kicks off at 10 pm with tickets available via www.Ticketsream.bg.

We have four HOT new tracks entering our TUBORG TOP 40 Mega Rock chart. And here they are: DEFTONES – Tempest HIM – Strange World PARKWAY DRIVE – Old Ghost / New Regrets  SAM ALONE – Gallow VOTE HERE  

MONY PANCHEV’s very special ROCKENROLL radio show today is dedicated to the music of the fantastic bands: THE KEEF HARTLEY BAND (pictured) and QUINTESSENCE ROCKENROLL kicks off at  4:00 pm BG time (3 pm CET) on radio Tangra Mega Rock. For the several reruns of the show – CHECK in our SCHEDULES. 

German melodic metallers MASTERPLAN have revealed their new band lineup. Joining recently announced new drummer Martin “Marthus” Skaroupka (CRADLE OF FILTH) are vocalist Rick Altzi (AT VANCE, SANDALINAS, THUNDERSTONE), who replaces Jorn Lande, and bassist Jari Kainulainen (pictured below, ex-STRATOVARIUS, SYMPHONIA). The band are currently recording the follow-up to their 2010 release, Time To Be […]

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE have a new drummer. It’s sort of their old drummer. You might recognize him. His name is Dave Grohl. Moments before QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE frontman/nucleus Joshua Homme broke the news to Zane Lowe on BBC’s Radio 1 today that longtime drummer Joey Castillo had left the band, the […]

Not only is Public Image Ltd. back in action these days, but two of that band’s key early members — bassist Jah Wobble and guitarist Keith Levene — have reunited to record their first full-length collaboration since PiL’s classic 1979 album Metal Box. Their new record, Yin & Yang, is due out Nov. 12 in […]

One of Bulgaria’s best alternative bands of the 90s,  ANIMATSIONERITE will play a reunion gig at Sofia’s *MIXTAPE 5* club on Friday, 9 November. MOBY’s bass player SVETLANA VASSILEVA is joining the band for this event.  ANIMATSIONERITE will present new material at the gig and will release it soon after. Here are the running orders for the show: 19:30 – doors […]