Vocalist and band co-founder BjГ¶rn “Speed” Strid presented “Sworn to a Great Divide” – the seventh full-length studio album by Sweden’s melodic death metal leaders Soilwork (view cover in the left), due out on October 19 via Nuclear Blast – in a friendly conversation with Tangra Mega Rock. The entire interview, featuring thoughts about the […]

Brazil’s crust bands Crust DivisionВ and Korrozao are going to do a show at the 8th Ball Club in Sofia, Bulgaria on October 24. You may check out their music respectively hereВ and here. Except for the South Americans, the concert shall also feature the local acts OmertaВ and Old Joe’s Anger. The event starts at 8 p.m., […]

California’s experimental prog-latino rock outfit The Mars Volta have delayed the release of their fourth studio album, “The Bedlam in Goliath”, to January 29, 2008. As we already informed you, the CD shall appear via the label Gold Standard Laboratories. What we’re able to reveal now is the album’s complete tracklist (in alphabetical order): Abernikula […]

Former Nightwish frontwoman Tarja Turunen has revealed the cover artwork for her upcoming solo album, “My Winter Storm”. You can see it in the left. Due in Europe on November 19 via Universal Music, the CD was produced by Daniel Presley (a.o. Faith No More, The Breeders). As for the music, it was recorded in […]

Agnostic Front members Joseph James and Steve Gallo and their Brooklyn-based hardcore project Inhuman have announced they’ll release their new album, entitled “Last Rites” (view cover in the left), to October 23 via I Scream record. Two of the 11 tracks on the CD – “What You Wanted” and “Fashist” – are available for streaming […]

Drummer Steve Hewitt has surprisingly left Placebo after 11 years. In a statement singer Brian Molko said: “Being in a band is very much like being in a marriage and in couples – in this case a triple. People can grow apart over the years… There simply comes a point when you realise that you […]

On October 26 (Friday) the Military Club inВ Shumen, BulgariaВ shall host a multinational metal show. To be more precise, the local extremists Overdawn (on the photo), EnvyВ and Color of Hate shall share the stage with the Romanian assassins Aron and the psychos Home hailing from China. The start of the concert shall be given at 7 […]

The Police have received a high honour from France yesterday “for their contribution to the arts”. Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland, who played two sold-out reunion shows in Paris last weekend, were greeted by the French Culture Minister Christine Albanel herself, and were honoured as chevaliers of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Nightwish, Dream Theater, Blind Guardian and Threshold are among the bands contributing songs to the movie “In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale”. The film itself, scheduled to hit theatres across the USA on January 18, 2008, stars Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, John Rhys-Davies, Ray Liotta and Burt Reynolds, a.o.

The names of the five bands who’ll fight for this year’s Alarmprisen (Alarm Awards – due on October 27 in Oslo) in the “Metal” category have been revealed. The honour has been given to the sympho black metal stars Dimmu Borgir, their rawer colleagues Satyricon (on the photo) and Mayhem, the Trondheim-based old-schoolers Keep of […]