Philip Chevron – the lead guitar player for the English-Irish folk/punk rock masters The Pogues – has been diagnosed with locally advanced throat cancer. The musician will not be present for the band’s European summer shows and the US tour in October and November and, according to The Pogues’ official homepage, “Though it is not […]

Punk legend and The Stooges frontman Iggy Pop will voice a role in an upcoming animated drama, entitled “Persepolis” and revealing the story of a young girl struggling with life in Iran after the fall of the the shah in 1979. Iggy will be joined by actors Sean Penn, Catherine Deneuve and Gena Rowlands. The […]

The cover artwork for the upcoming Heaven & Hell official CD and DVD release, entitled “Live from Radio City Music Hall”, has been revealed on Black Sabbath’s official homepage, Black-Sabbath.com. For your faciliation, you can view it below as well. “Live from Radio City Music Hall” contains 15 live cuts by Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, […]

Metal Mind Productions have set an August 6 European release date for former Iron Maiden and Wolfsbane singer Blaze Bayley‘s live DVD. Entitled “Alive in Poland” (view cover in the left), the digital video disc was recorded on March 24 at this year’s edition of the Metalmania Festival in Katowice, Poland, and contains Blaze’s 90-minute […]

Ulver mastermind Kristoffer Rygg (ex-Arcturus) has revealed that his gang of Norwegian avantgardists has nearly completed work on its new studio album. Entitled “Shadows of the Sun”, the follow-up to “Blood Inside” (2005) shall appear on October 1 via Jester Records.

The now legendary 1984 debut demo by San Francisco’s extreme metallers Possessed, entitled “Death Metal” and considered to have given an official name to the the entire genre that flourished years later, is availavle for free download in its entirety. Just right-click the songВ titles below, save them and listen to death metal history: POSSESSED – […]

As we informed you half a year ago, German Frankfurt-based thrash/fun metal veterans Tankard have re-recorded their biggest hits for a compilation album, entitled “Best Case Scenario: 25 Years In Beers” (view cover in the left), due to be released on August 31 via AFM Records. The effort, celebrating a quarter of a century in […]

The tenth edition of the traditional Bulgarian Seattle Night jams shall take place not as usual in Sofia, but at the Music Beach ClubВ inВ Shkorpilovtzi (at the Black Sea Coast near Varna), which we informed you about HERE. Seattle Night X shall happen ofВ July 27-28, featuring performances by a.o. P.I.F., Skre4, Awake, JeremyВ and Gabana. Tickets cost […]

The self-titled one and only album by P, originally released in 1995 via Capitol Records, has just been reissued by Caroline. It features 11 alternative rock songs, including a cover version of Abba’s “Dancing Queen”. As for P, we’re talking about a short-lived American project (1993-1995) consisting of Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes on vocals, actors […]

PJ Harvey has revealed the final tracklist for her new studio album. The long-awaited follow-up to 2004’s “Uh Huh Her” shall be entitled “White Chalk” and is going to surface in Europe on September 24, containing 11 songs: The Devil Dear Darkness Grow Grow Grow When Under Ether White Chalk Broken Harp Silence To Talk […]