AC/DC will release much-anticipated new album “Black Ice” in three different collectible covers, which can be seen below. The CD is due out on October 20 worldwide, and the first single off it, “Rock’n’Roll Train“, shall hit radiostations this Thursday. A 30-second sample of it is already available on myspace.com/acdc. В  В  В 

After “The Day That Never Comes“, Metallica offered a second out of the 10 songs set to appear on the band’s eagerly anticipated new album, “Death Magnetic” (view cover in the left), scheduled for release in less than 3 weeks – on Friday, September 12. The track chosen is the CD’s closer, “My Apocalypse“, which […]

Rick Wakeman shall perform his first-ever concert in Bulgaria on September 1, 2008. The event promises to be a unique one, as the maestro thinks himself… You can read his full revelations HERE.

Hard rock veterans Thin Lizzy shall play their first ever concert in Bulgaria on October 3, 2008! Tickets for the event, scheduled to take place at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia,В В shall cost 20-50В leva / 10-25 EuroВ and will go on sale tomorrow via TicketPro.bg. The boys are (back) in town!

“Tragic Kingdom” – the 6th of the 13 tracks from Cradle of Filth‘s upcoming album “Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder”, will be available for 24 hours as a free mp3 download from all Roadrunner Records and Cradle of Filth websites from Wednesday, August 27, at 6 a.m. CET. The CD itself (view cover in the […]

Former Trouble singer Eric Wagner has launched a new Illinois-based “rock/acoustic/psychedelic project” called Blackfinger. A song called “All the Leaves Are Brown” is already being streamed on myspace.com/blackfingereric. Eric left Trouble in April 2008, and was quickly replaced by no other that Kory Clarke of Warrior Soul.

The new, 50th edition of Bulgaria’s Pro-Rock Magazine shall surface on Friday, August 29 (view front cover below), featuring articles about Slipknot, Destruction, Iced Earth, Crematory, Walls of Jericho, Hail of Bullets, The PineР°pple Thief, Benediction, Extreme, Cavalera Conspiracy, Testament, Therion, Black Winds, Canvas Solaris, Lacrimas Profundere, Mystica, Anathema,В  Hawthorne Heights, Rookie of the Year, […]

The weekly metal show Fracture on MM TV shall return on air on September 7, 2008. The first issue shall feature tons of exclusive footage by a.o. Cradle of Filth, The Sisters of Mercy, Exodus, 3 Inches of BloodВ and Overkill, among others.

Lee Dorrian’s record label Rise Above Records shall celebrate its 20th anniversary with a show at ULU in London on December 13, 2008. Headliners for the event shall be Grand Magus and Electric Wizard. Other bands to appear include Taint, Gentleman’s Pistols, Litmus, SerpenCult, Moss and Diagonal. Tickets are on sale now via ticketweb.co.uk at […]

In the wake of the birth of German thrash metal veterans Destruction’s tenth full-length studio album, “D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.“, the trio’s frontman and mastermind Marcel “Schmier” Schirmer revealed everything we need to know about this special project. The entire interview is available HERE, and the album’s acrostic tracklist looks like this: 01. “D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.”02. “Elevator to Hell”03. “Vicious […]