After parting ways with original vocalist Tommy Cummings and replacing him temporarily with Jake Veredika (ex-Periphery), former Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares and his current band Divine Heresy have managed to find a new lead singer for their upcoming tour of Mexico and South America. The honour has been given to 28-year-old Travis Neal (on […]

Powersword – the new Norwegian “true power metal” band that consists of current, former and session members of 1349, Pantheon I, Urgheal, Trollfest, Zeenon and The Allseeing I – will release its debut album this autumn. Entitled “Eurosteel“, the CD will feature 8 songs. Two of them (“Fighting for Steel” and “My Love Won’t Make […]

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“

At the end of this new you can watch Radiohead‘s new video for “House of Cards“. No cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data, and was directed by James Frost. Radiohead – “House […]

High-quality fan-filmed video footage of veteran San Francisco thrash metallers Exodus performing on July 5, 2008 at the Tidal Wave Festival at the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in San Francisco’s McLaren Park can be viewed below. As we already informed you, Exodus shall play at this year’s Thrash Till Death Festival in Kavarna, Bulgaria on August […]

Austrian Death Meachine – the new solo project of Tim Lambesis, best known as frontman of California’s metalcore masters As I Lay Dying – has put up two songs off the upcoming debut album “Total Brutal” on myspace.com/austriandeathmachine. The tracks’ titles are “Come with Me If You Want to Live”, “If It Bleeds We Can […]

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” […]