Italian goth metallers LACUNA COIL are confirmed to play in Sofia on 2 June – the first day of  LOUD FESTIVAL 2012! BEHEMOTH and W.A.S.P. are also on the bill with MESHUGGAH, ANNIHILATOR and SLAYER playing on the second day – 3 june.   LACUNA COIL’s brand new albu More bands will be announced soon. Two day tikets priced 99 BGN […]

German thrash titans KREATOR just revealed the title of the bands upcoming album: ‘Phantom Antichrist’.   The album is currently being produced at the famous Fascination Street Studio with renowned producer Jens Bogren (OPETH, KATATONIA, SOILWORK, DEVIN TOWNSEND, AMON AMARTH) in Örebro, Sweden. ‘Phantom Antichrist’ marks the bands debut for Nuclear Blast and is set […]

Anathema will return in April with Weather Systems, their brand new studio album. Weather Systems is the follow-up to 2010’s We’re Here Because We’re Here. That album featured prominently in numerous end-of-year polls and the producer, Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), has described it as ‘definitely among the best albums I’ve ever had the pleasure to […]

Cassidy, guitarist and co-founder of D.R.I., is recovering in hospital after complications, including infection, following his colectomy surgery earlier this year. A colectomy, for those not well versed in such matters, is the complete removal of one’s colon. Blabbermouth are reporting that Cassidy’s doctors have pinpointed the infection, and while he is likely be released […]

The Darkness are currently working on a come back album. And they provide a free dowload today. The new song is called Nothing’s Going To Stop Us, and will be available from 2pm UK time on Wednesday, February 1, for free HERE. The band will be headling the Big Top Stage at the Isle Of […]

A long-lost guitar solo originally recorded for ‘Here Comes the Sun’ has been discovered after more than 40 years. NME reports that George Harrison’s solo, which was ultimately left off the 1969 single, was unearthed by his son Dhani Harrison, as well as Beatles producer George Martin and his son Giles Martin during a visit […]

Grammy-winning Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell has signed on to perform a Feb. 16 benefit show in San Francisco to raise money for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. The event will take place at the the historic Regency Center reception hall (pictured below). Tickets to the fundraiser — which will cost $100 for general seating, $1,000 […]

As previously reported, Los Angeles TERROR are coming back to Sofia to play a ball bustin’ show at the 4 РљРњ Party Center.В  They will bring DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR and TAKE OFFENSEВ for the gig onВ 20 April which will be on the occasion of radio Tangra Mega Rock’s SIXTH Anniversary bash. The concert is promoted by […]

Napster, the website that was once considered to be the flagship service for illegal filesharing, has relaunched in the UK and Europe as a legal, streaming service. The service, which was set up in 1999 by Shawn Fanning, was bought by online music subscription service Rhapsody last year, who opted to retire the name and […]

Former White Stripes main man Jack White has announced details of his first solo debut album release. Due April 24, ‘Blunderbuss’ was produced by White and recorded at his own Third Man Studio in Nashville. White describes the project as “an album I couldn’t have released until now. I’ve put off making records under my […]