New York hardcore beasts Madball are finishing up the recordings for their upcoming album at Planet Z Studios in Massachusetts with producer Zeuss (worked with a.o. Hatebreed, Shadows Fall, Throwdown). Entitled “Infiltrate the System”, the CD is scheduled to surface sometime during the autumn via Ferret Music.

Nuclear Blast have launched a special website dedicated to the current activities of Nightwish. You can check it out HERE. The final details about the future activities of Finland’s metal superstars are as follows: A new single, entitled “Eva”, shall be available for download on May 30. That’s when the name of the band’s new […]

German heavy metal veterans Helloween entered singer Andi Deris’ Mi Sueno Studios in Tenerife, Spain today, May 11, to begin recoding their next full-length album. The CD, due to be produced by Charlie Bauerfeind (Blind Guardian, Saxon), is scheduled to appear on Halloween, October 31, followed by a European tour starting in mid-November.

Thin Lizzy are set to follow in the footsteps of Queen, The Jam and The Doors by embarking on a reunion tour without featuring their original lead singer (the Irish band’s frontman and main songwriter Phil Lynott died in 1986). Tho vocal duties shall now be handled by the group’s guitarist John Sykes. The stage […]

“Over the Madness” – a documentary shot by French director Diran Noubar – shall be premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 21. The movie tells the story of Paradise Lost and their enormous impact on the contemporary gothic metal scene.

Two people have been arrested after the theft of the artwork slated for use on the cover of the new Smashing Pumpkins album, “Zeitgeist”, due to be released on July 7. The drawings and photos were taken from the band’s rehearsal room in Chicago and subsequently uploaded onto an unofficial Pumpkins website…

The Rolling Stones are set to change the location of their forthcoming Serbian concert in order to avoid traumatizing hundreds of horses. The band was scheduled to play at Belgrade’s Hipodrome on July 14, but animal protection society ORCA objected to the choice of location, fearing the 300 horses housed in nearby stables would suffer […]

Tomorrow, May 11, Sofia’s Backstage ClubВ shall host the show of Kosovo’s garage punk rock bands HosenfeferВ and Psycho Sonic Boris. The start shall be given at 9 p.m., tickets cost 5 Euro, and local support comes from Leepra DeLuxe. Some hours before theВ event, at 11 a.m., the musicians shall invade Tangra Mega Rock‘s studio to tune […]

After retiring from active playing and recording in 2001, Manchester’s indie rock veterans James recently announced their comeback. To celebrate the event, the Brits have justВ released a best-of album, entitled “Fresh as a Daisy – The Singles” (see cover above), including their greatest hits from 1983 to 2001, as well as the brand-new single “Who […]

Funeral for a Friend are streaming their entire new album, “Tales Don’t Tell Themselves”, at their MySpace profile at www.myspace.com/funeralforafriend. The CD by the Welsh rockers is going to be officially released on Monday, May 14, via Atlantic Records.