Mark Reale, the founding guitarist of the legendary metal band RIOT, passed away yesterday (Wednesday, January 25) in a San Antonio hospital due to complications of Crohn’s disease — an ailment he has battled for most of his life. He was 57 years old. Reale had reportedly been in a coma for the past two […]

SOUNDGARDEN singer CHRIS CORNELL will be performing at Muhammad Ali’s 70th Birthday Celebrations, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, on Saturday, February 18th. The 16th Annual Power of Love Gala will raise funds in support of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health and The Muhammad Ali Center. ABC will […]

MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER have released a terrifying new music video for ‘Open Your Eyes’, starring the one and only Danny Trejo. The video, which is stylized as a short film, can be seen below. Maylene frontman Dallas Taylor says, “We’ve always been huge fans of Danny Trejo. We were on the same […]

Biohazard drummer Danny Schuler has left the band’s current European tour. This is because his wife is about to give birth. Danny Lamagna of Sworn Enemy will temporarily take over. Last week, Biohazard vocalist/bassist Scott Roberts was rushed to hospital prior to the band’s first gig on the Persistence Tour 2012 in Belgium. However, he […]

OSI, the band featuring Jim Matheos (Fates Warning) and Kevin Moore (ex-Dream Theater), have a fourth album on the way. Called ‘Fire Make Thunder’, it’s released at the end of March through Metal Blade. Jim Matheos will be on tourВ in Europe withВ FATES WARNING. The Sofia, Bulgaria gig is on March 22 at *MIXTAPE 5* club […]

Our friends at Mahaloto publishing house are now giving us the Bulgarian language version of PATTI SMITH’s book – ‘Just Kids’. “Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second […]

Reunited german metal legends RUNNING WILD will release their brandnew album ‘Shadowmaker’ in Germany on April 20th, in Europe on April 23rd and in the US/Canada on April 24th 2012 on SPV / Steamhammer.В The album will be released as a limited first edition in a black jewel case with silver printing and slipcase plus a […]

АНЕКANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN has a brand new studio album called ‘Everything Is Changing’, released onВ 20 January. This is the first effort the mesmerizingВ ex-THE GATHERING singer putsВ under her own name afterВ several albums released as Agua De Annique. ANNEKEВ will be headlining one of theВ many concerts for radio Tangra Mega Rock’s SIXTH anniversary bash on 21В April (Saturday)В at theВ *MIXTAPE […]

Cypress Hill have announced that they will be releasing a new ‘dubstep’ five-track EP in early April. The rap veterans, who released their eighth studio album ‘Rise Up’ in April 2010, have collaborated with dubstep DJ Rusko on the EP, which you can watch a trailer for by scrolling down to the bottom of the […]

The music streaming service SoundCloud has passed the 10 million user mark for the first time. In less than half a year the site has seen its user base double from 5 million in July 2011, to 10 million in January 2012. To celebrate the success, the site launched a new feature whereby users can […]