A medley of five new songs by the Swedish metallers Falconer, taken from the group’s forthcoming album, is available for download as an MP3 audio file here. Entitled “Among Beggars and Thieves” (view cover in the left), the full-length CD was recorded at Andy La Rocque’s Sonic Train Studio and is due in August via […]

Nuclear Blast Records have signed the Tasmanian death metal band Psycroptic. The first fruit of this new cooperation shall surface this autumn in the form of the group’s fourth album, entitled “Ob(Servant)” (view cover in the left). The follow-up to 2006’s “Symbols of Failure” was mixed and mastered by former Machine Head and Soulfly guitarist […]

Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsay Buckingham is to release a solo album in mid-September. Entitled “Gift of Screws“, it will include guest appearances by his main band’s colleagues Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. Lindsay Buckingham – “Big Love“

Obituary are to release an EP called “Left to Die” in September. It will include a cover of Celtic Frost’s “Dethroned Emperor”, as well as a reworked version of Obituary’s classic cut “Slowly We Rot”: Obituary – “Slowly We Rot” (live 1990)

There’s just about a week left until the groundbreaking show by Metallica, Down and The Sword at the 50,000-seat Vassil Levski National Stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria… and it’s almost sold-out…

The Performing Rights Society has published a Top Ten of the most played songs in the UK of the last five years. Plays on TV, radio, websites and in venues were used to collate the chart, and the winner is… Daniel Powter‘s 2004 hit “Bad Day“. Here’s the Top Ten of the most played songs: […]

Rage Against the Machine vocalist Zack de la Rocha and former The Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore have unveiled a new song by their project One Day As a Lion on myspace.com/onedayasalion. The track, entitled “Wild International“, precedes the duo’s debut self-titled EP, which set for release next Monday, July 21.

Tarja Turunen shall do her first-ever live performance in Bulgaria on October 28, 2008! The former NightwishВ singer shall play at the Universiada Hall in Sofia, with tickets going on sale next Monday and costing 20 leva (the first 500) andВ 25 leva (resp. 10 and 13 Euro). Tarja Turunen – “I Walk Alone“

On July 12, during the closing night of the Magic Circle Festival 2008 in Germany,В Joey DeMaioВ has announced that Manowar shall release their new full-length studio album no later than mid-July 2009. The as-yet-untitled CD, due to be preceded by the single “Die with Honor” (see below), shall be accompanied by a fantasy novel written by […]

British music legend Sir George Martin, most famous for his work as composer, arranger and producer of all of The Beatles‘ original records has been honoured with a lifetime Grammy honour in Los Angeles this weekend, July 12. Martin recieved his career honour at the Annual Grammy Foundation “Starry Night” charity gala dedicated to him […]