On October 16 Columbia Records shall release 2-DVD box set by AC/DC, entitled “Plug Me In”, featuring more than 5 hours of mainly rare and previously unseen music video footage. Disc 1 is going to be dedicated to the years with late frontman Bon Scott, while the second CD shall be all about the Brian […]

Britain’s hard rock icons Deep Purple shall play live in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia on November 1. The show shall take place at the Festivalna Hall, starting at 8 p.m. and with tickets costing 30 leva / 15 Euro.

Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante and George Harrison’s son Dhani Harrison have recorded some instrumental parts for Wu-Tang Clan‘s cover version of The Beatles‘ classic “‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. The track is going to appear under the title “Gently Weeps” on the legendary NY rappers’ upcoming studio album, “8 Diagrams”, due out […]

German metal veterans Helloween have revealed the front cover artwork for their upcoming new full-length studio album, “Gambling with the Devil”, due in Europe on OctoberВ 29 via the label SPV. You could check it out below. The CD will feature 16 songs, a.o. “Crack the Riddle” (feat. Biff Byford of Saxon), “The Bells of the […]

Machine Head and Enter Shikari were the only two bands that whon two awards each at this year’s annual Kerrang! Awards. Rob Flynn & Co. scooped Best Album for “The Blackening” plus the Hard Rock Hero awards, while Enter Shikari won Best Live Act and Spirit of Independence awards. Welsh rock band The Lostprophets have […]

“”Eva” is very, very far away from what the album is like. I think it’s the softest song ever done by Nightwish. Рўhere are алсо songs like “Amaranth” that are a bit more easy listening and radio-friendly, but as a whole, “Dark Passion Play” is the heaviest album Nightwish have ever done.” This statement was […]

Ferret Music and Filthy Note Records shall release the compilation “Viva La Bands, Volume 2” on September 3, featuring some exclusive tracks written and recorded for the CD by bands like Bloodhound Gang, In Flames and Clutch, as well as songs by Children of Bodom, GWAR, The 69 Eyes, Revolution Mother, Malevolent Creation, Dimmu Borgir […]

California’s metalheads Hear ATREYU’s New Albumhave posted all the 11 songs off their new studio full-length album, “Lead Sails Paper Anchor” (view cover in the left), for free listening at myspace.com/atreyurock. The CD itself is going to hit the stores on Tuesday, August 28.

Yesterday in New York major record labels and SoundExchange have inked a deal with big webcasters like AOL, Live365, MTV, RealNetworks, Pandora and Yahoo! that the latter will not have to pay more than $50,000 per service as a per-station or per-channel minimum royalty to webcast sound recordings. So far there was no limit to […]

Joy Division‘s classic final single “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is to be-released September 24. This way the song will get a third chance to become a chartbreaker, after getting into the Top 20 twice – in June 1980 and in June 1995. Two weeks later, on October 5, the movie biopic about the life […]