Fear Factory and The Sword will open for Metallica on the following dates: Sep. 15 – Melbourne, Australia – Rod Laver Arena Sep. 16 – Melbourne, Australia – Rod Laver Arena Sep. 18 – Sydney, Australia – Acer Arena Sep. 21 – Christchurch, New Zealand – Cbs Canterbury Arena Sep. 22 – Christchurch, New Zealand […]

Congratulations to Joey (Jordison, MURDERDOLLS) for being named the Greatest Drummer Of The Last 25 Years by the readers of UKВ Rhythm magazine. Rhythm recently polled all of their readers to vote on the 20 best drummers of the last quarter century and Joey was crowned number #1, taking an insane 37% of the total vote! […]

The band, who will play the Jack Daniel’s Rock stage at Spirit of Burgas 2010 on Sunday, August 15, lands in Bulgaria tomorrow and will perform a warm-up gig on Thursday night at rock bar ‘Fans’. Earllier, the band will guest in the Tangra Mega Rock radio studio. O’CASAN have within months have stirred huge […]

MetalSucks sent over an excerpt from Dave Mustaine’s new autobiography ‘Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir’. The excerpt is where Mustaine discussed the punch that led to Metallica firing him. The excerpt: The actual fight didn’t happen right there. They call it a hang fire, like when there’s an unexpected delay between the trigger of a […]

Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers Nightwish are in “the deepest countryside of Finland” working on material for their new studio album, which they will begin to record on October 15 for a late 2011 release. Commented keyboardist/mainman Tuomas Holopainen: “Another week passed by, another week of rehearsing, song-shaping, sweating, boating and fishing. The happiest event, naturally, was […]

‘The Final Frontier’ will be officialy out on Monday,В 16 August, but Tangra Mega Rock’s Maiden maniac,В Stefan Yordanov is readyВ with his verdict. “It’s not an easy task for someone like me who has followed this band for more than 25 years to focus mu thoughts and theories on ‘The Final Frontier’. The reasons are emotional and […]

British jazz drummer Jack Parnell, who served as bandleader on ‘The Muppet Show,’ died Sunday at his home in Southwold, England, following a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 87. Parnell was born in 1923, the son of a showbiz family — his father was a music hall performer and his uncle ran a string […]

After four and a half years of Tangra Mega Rock in its new format and over ten of the old radio Tangra, one could say we’ve seen it all and you lot have definitely heard it all. Well, almost… For we are now on the verge of seeing one of our biggest dreams come true. […]

Father-of-six Rod Stewart is in seventh heaven – his wife Penny Lancaster is pregnant again. The rock legend, 65, is already dad to five kids – Kimberly, Sean, Ruby, Renee, Liam – with three different women, as well as four-year-old Alistair, with Lancaster. And Stewart, who has spoken of his desire for another child, is […]

Patricia Neal, the Oscar winning ex-wife of children’s writer Roald Dahl, has died from lung cancer, aged 84. Neal won the Best Actress Oscar in 1963 for Hud opposite Paul Newman, but her career was marked by ill health. She gave up acting two years later at the age of 39 after suffering a series […]