TheВ Paiste Drumset Competition 2008 is now on. To find out more, go to pro-technica.com/drumset/.

Download, Bloodstock Open Air and Hard Rock Hell are among Britain’s metal festivals which have been nominated for the “Best Toilets” Award in this year’s UK Festival Awards. The winners will be determined by public vote at festivalawards.com until October 20, and the ceremony will take place on October 30 at the IndigO2 in London.

The next edition of the Fracture weekly metal show on MM TV shall feature videos by Crematory, Down, Gojira, Benediction, Sinner, Ross the Boss, Enthrallment, Scars on Broadway, Korpiklaani, Scar Symmetry, Thunderstorm, Trivium, Arsis, One Way Mirror and more.

Diary of Dreams shall attend a party at the Fans bar in Sofia on October 25, right after the end of the Gorgon Fest, which the band is scheduled to headline.

Alaskan metal heavyweights 36 Crazyfists have posted an entire show from their current tour online.The set was filmed at The Lost Horizon in Syracuse, New York, and can be viewed here: 36 Crazyfists live 2008

Kreator revealed the final tracklist for their upcoming full-length studio album, “Hordes of Chaos“, due out in Europe on January 19, 2009 via SPV. The song titles go like this: 01. Hordes of Chaos (A Necrologue for the Elite)02. Warcurse03. Escalation04. Amok Run05. Destroy What Destroys You06. Radical Resistance07. Absolute Misanthropy08. To the Afterborn09. Corpses […]

A brand-new Smiths collection, entitled “The Sound of The Smiths“, is to be released on November 10. With 45 remastered tracks across two discs, the effort spans the group’s career from 1983 to 1987, with classic singles such as “How Soon Is Now”, “Panic” and “Girlfriend in a Coma”, as well as b-sides and live […]

Paul McCartney and Killing Joke bass player Martin “Youth” Glover are ready to release the third album with their electro-oriented project The Fireman. Entitled “Electronic Arguments“, the follow-up to “Rushes” (1998) shall be released on November 17, featuring 13 tracks (all written by McCartney). The first one, called “Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight”, […]

Tickets for the upcoming show by Haggard, Remember Twilight andВ Exciter at the Blue Box Club in Sofia, Bulgaria, go on sale tomorrow via Eventim.bg. The first 300 tix for the concert, scheduled for November 20, shall cost 12 Euro. Afterwards the price will be 15 Euro, and at the door – 18 Euro.

Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, The Nightwatchman) is releasing his new solo album today, September 30, via Epic Records. Entitled “The Fabled City” (view cover in the left), the CD was produced by Brendan O’Brien and features guest appearances by Serj Tankian (System of a Down) and American country singer Shooter Jennings. Tom Morello […]