In conjunction with their first headlining tour in four years,В PRIMUS is offering fans a handful of tracks from tour rehearsals at Primus HQ in San Rafael, CA, earlier this summer.В  The band plans to head into the studio soon to record their first album since 1999. Les Claypool said, “I haven’t rehearsed a band this […]

Well, here we go, yet another Summer of TMR festival madness. After the overwhelming success of our festival radioВ at Kavarna Rock Fest 2010 and our riveting reports from the AC/DC show and Sonisphere, we’re now setting off for the Spirit of Burgas seaside festival, where we’re doing the Jack Daniel’s Rock stage (check). Meanwhile our […]

‘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. […]

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 […]

It appears that the rumours of a new Van Halen album are right on the money. An official statement from the band’s publishers, Warner/Chappell Music, not only confirms that their agreement with Eddie and Alex Van Halen has been extended, but tellingly ends with the following line: ‘The group is currently in the studio recording […]

‘Black Rain’ was recorded during the Badmotorfinger sessions, but never released. Until now. The song will appear on a forthcoming greatest hits album called Telephantasm: A Retrospective, out September 28th. ‘Black Rain’ will also be available on the new Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock game, out on the same day.