Bleeding Through have posted a new song, “Orange County Blonde and Blue“, for streaming on myspace.com/bleedingthrough. The track comes off the Orange County metalcore group’s new album, “Declaration“, which is due on September 30. Recorded in Vancouver, Canada with producer Devin Townsend of Strapping Young Lad, the CD is going to feature 11 tracks. Bleeding […]

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 final line-up of the upcoming Spirit of Burgas open-air festival, set to take place on August 15-17, 2008 on the beach in Burgas, Bulgaria, has finally been revealed. The schedule looks like this: August 15В – The Sisters of Mercy, PendulumВ DJ set,В Gravity Co., HMSU DJ set. August 16 – Asian Dub Foundation, Pharoahe Monch, Metropolis […]

Pete Doherty has announced that he will complete the recording of his debut solo album by the end of July and release it later this year, most probably in the autumn. Songs set to feature on the effort by Babyshambles‘ notorious frontman include “Darksome Sea”, “Salome”, “Broken Love Song” and “Withdrawn and Shaken”.

U.S. prog metal leaders Dream Theater are going to release “Chaos In Motion 2007/2008” on September 23 via Roadrunner Records. The word goes about a double DVD documenting their Chaos in Motion World Tour, which kicked off June 3, 2007 at the Monsters of Rock festival in Milan, Italy and concluded almost a year to […]

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“