Today at 12:30 at noon Tangra Mega Rock broadcast a conversation with Amorphis‘ leaderВ Esa Holopainen. The main topic? The upcoming 20 Years Nuclear Blast Fest in Sofia, Bulgaria on November 3, of course. The full text of the interview can be found HERE.

The ska godfathers Madness have announced they’ll return with new studio stuff for the first time in almost a decade! To begin with, the gand shall release a new single, entitled “NW5”, on January 14. As for the full-length follow-up to 1999’s “Wonderful Madness”, it shall appear sometime in 2008 under the name “Lucky 7”.

The American-Bulgarian gothic metal quartet Voice of Glass entered Ardent Studio in Memphis, Tennessee for one day to record three brand-new songs – “Making Me Real”, “Beautifull”В and “Let You Dying In”.В You may already check them out atВ myspace.com/voiceofglasss.

As we informed you recently, progressive rock icons Yes’ vocalist Jon Anderson shall play live at the Universiada Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria on November 14. It got clear that the musician has prepared a two-hour-long setlist, including solo stuff plus compositions from his work with YesВ and Jon & Vangelis. Tickets cost from 13 to 25 […]

Former End of Green mastermind Michelle Darkness has completed work on his debut solo album at the Sonic Pump Studio in Helsinki, Finland. Entitled “Brand New Drug”, the CD is going to surface on Friday, October 26, via AFM Records. The album’s substance shall consist of 10 dark songs composed and performed by the musician […]

After months of silence, the Bulgarian alternative metal quartet Sepuko 6 returns on stage. The guys shall play live onВ October 27В and November 7, respectively at Sofia’s Ball Club and Plovdiv’s Petnoto. Additional info can be found in our GIG GUIDE. Meanwhile, Sepuko 6 uploaded the song “For” on their MySpace profile.

After the release of their latest album “Ghost Opera” via SPV, US melodic metal masters Kamelot will do a major European tour in April and May 2008. Special guests during the Ghost Opera European Tour, Part 2 shall be Greek phenomenons Firewind with virtuoso guitarist Gus G at the helm, and female fronted American/Austrian gothic […]

Two members of Norway’s Enslaved stole a free-grazing sheep that were the property of politician/Liberal Party leader/farmer Lars Sponheim. It seems Sponheim’s Liberal Party has been advocating the legalization of all illicit Internet downloading. They say the business is already freely accessible and downloading should be legalized. Enslaved think that argument is weak and decided […]

Former Accept frontman Udo Dirkschneider and his German heavy metal horde U.D.O. have set “Metallized – 20 Years of Metal” as the title of their upcoming best-of album (view cover in the left), due in December via AFM Records. The CD will include 12 of the band’s most famous songs, two unreleased cuts, an acoustic […]

As we informed you recently, today, October 22, is the official birthday of the long-awaited second full-length studio album by the reggae metal masters Skindred, entitledВ “Roots Rock Riot” (viwe cover in the left). The CD contains 12 tracks. The third one, “Rat Race”, can already be listened to and watched here: