Bass player Geezer Butler has confirmed that Heaven & Hell – the band featuring him, guitarist Tony Iommi, singer Ronnie James Dio and drummer Vinny Appice – is currently in discussions with various labels about recording a brand new studio album in 2008. More information will be made available soon.

Italian dark metallers Novembre have posted the brand-new video for the track “Anaemia” in the Internet. You may watch it below. The song is one of the 12 cuts on “The Blue” – Novembre’s upcoming studio album, set for release on November 5 via Peaceville Records. Expect a review of the CD next week, and […]

Drummer Jimmy Bower has revealed that he and his Down bandmates have 350 hours of footage shot during their European tour in 2006 by director Jim Van Bevan (a.o. Superjoint Ritual and Marilyn Manson). The band plans to blent live footage with backstage shots and release it on DVD “in the near future”.

…today. The emblematic Tangra Mega Rocker left Bulgaria and eveyrhitng he loves and cares for behind, in favour of Dimmu Borgir, Kataklysm, Subway to Sally, Edguy and Blind Guardian. That’s right – Mr. Varbanov is heading to the 20 Years Nuclear Blast Festival in Stuttgart, Germany, set to take place tomorrow. Expect photos and info […]

After Radiohead tried to turn the music business upside down by releasing “In Rainbows” via their website only by letting fans decided whether and how much to pay for it, US hip-hop and spoken word artist Saul Williams and Nine Inch Nails’ frontman Trent Reznor decided to follow the Brits’ footsteps. Williams, who participated with […]

Disturbed have entered a Chicago studio to begin recording their fourth album. The follow-up to 2005’s platinum-certified “Ten Thousand Fists” bears the working title “Indestructible” and will be released in the spring of 2008 via Reprise Records. According to vocalist David Draiman, the upcoming effort he and his colleagues Dan Donegan (guitar), Mike Wengren (drums) […]

Actress Evan Rachel Wood, best known as Marilyn Manson‘s girlfriend, is close to signing a recording contract with Interscope Records, which happens to be Manson’s label, too. The deal is “still in negotiations,” says an insider. “The general buzz is that she does have a very good voice and genuinely wants to make music,” adds […]

The British electro-wave female four-piece Ladytron (featuring the Bulgarian musician Mira Aroyo) are in Paris working on their fourth full-length album. The follow-up to “Witching Hour” (2005) is being co-produced by the French electro wizard Vicarious Bliss, and is scheduled to surface sumetime next year…

On Wednesday, October 24, the main hall of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria wasВ shaken by Panama’s legendary drummerВ Billy CobhamВ and his bandВ Culture Mix. An extremely pleasant live report shall be published HERE soon, while photos of the evening (courtesy of Victor Alexandrov) are already available in our GALLERY.

To celebrate the birth of Opeth‘s double live album “The Roundhouse Tapes” (view cover in the left) on November 5, Peaceville Records have launched a special website dedicated to the releaseВ HERE. The online shrine features audio excerpts from the recording, an interview with the Swedish avantgardists’ mastermind Mikael Akerfeldt, desktops, photos, a free mp3 trackВ and […]