A brand-new interview with Down drummer Jimmy Bower, given exclusively to Tangra Mega Rock, can be read at this location.

This Saturday, July 19, 2008, a new show starts on Tangra Mega Rock – Tangra Mega Live! Listen to the two-hour-long weekly show Saturdays at 10 p.m.! The first edition of Tangra Mega Live starts this Saturday with live shows by Radiohead, Foo FightersВ and Smashing Pumpkins!

Former Megaherz members Alexx Wesselsky (vocals) and Noel Pix (guitar and programming) will release the third album with their current electro-metal project Eisbrecher on August 22 via AFM Records. The follow-up to last year’s “AntikГ¶rper” will be entitled “SГјnde” (“Sin” in German) and will be “the darkest and hardest album so far”. Eisbrecher – “Phosphor” […]

Destruction mastermind Schmier has revealed that “Gary Holt of Exodus and Jeff Waters of Annihilator play as guest musicians on the song “Urge (The Greed of Gain),” which will be part of the German thrash metal veterans’ new album, “D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.“, due out on August 29. “The first solo is Gary’s, the second is Mike Sifringer’s […]

Former Manowar guitarist Ross The Boss releases an album on August 22 via AFM Records. Entitled “New Metal Leader” (view cover in the left), the music on the CD will be… true metal, of course… or, if we quote the official press release: “first-class, stomping, ground shaking epic heavy metal in the style of “Battle […]

A spokesperson for The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood has confirmed that the guitarist has entered rehab. He told the BBC NewsВ that Wood was “seeking help” in a rehab centre for alcohol-related issues. Ronnie previously entered rehab in 2002…

Southern California progressive instrumentalists Cosmosquad, featuring guitarist Jeff Kollman (UFO, Glenn Hughes), bassist Christopher Maloney (Dweezil Zappa, Hardline), and drummer Shane Gaalaas (MSG, Glenn Hughes, B’z), will release their first-ever live DVD on July 22. Entitled “Lights… Camera… Squad!” (view cover in the left), the effort was recorded during the band’s October 18, 2007 performance […]

Metallica kicked off the second leg of its summer 2008 European tour last night, July 16, at the Bergenhus Castle in Bergen, Norway. The group’s setlist can be seen below – hopefully it will be (almost) the same next week, on July 25, when James, Kirk, Lars and Rob will play at the Vassil Levski […]

In an era of low-budget videos, R.E.M. are back with one full of special effects. The band makes good with its major-label budget for the video for “Man Sized Wreath“. It’s the third single (after “Supernatural Superserious” and “Hollow Man“) off this year’s album “Accelerate“. R.E.M. – “Man Sized Wreath“

The so-called “electro-grind/hardcore” act I Set My Friends on Fire have signed a deal with Epitaph Records. The Miami-based duo’s full-length debut for the label shall be entitled “You Can’t Spell Slaughter Without Laughter“, and is due out on October 7. Additional info on the weird project can be found at myspace.com/isetmyfriendsonfire, as well as […]