Iron Maiden’s Somewhere Back in Time World Tour 08 is continuing to sell amazingly well. The latest countries to go Maiden-mad are Sweden and Finland, where the band sold 123,500 tickets on Monday alone! The tour kicks off in India on February 1 and shall circle the entire globe throughout 2008. It will see Iron […]

Besides joining Ministry for the C U LaTour in 2008, Swedish experimental audio-extremists Meshuggah shall celebrate the beginning of the year with the release of their long-awaited new studio album. The follow-up to 2005’s “Catch 33” will contain nine songs, and is going to surface via Nuclear Blast under the title “obZen”.

Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that he asked Thom Yorke to record a duet with him, but the Radiohead frontman turned him down. “My daughter was putting an album together and she put us in touch,” the Beatle explained. “I asked Thom to do a duet, but he said he couldn’t because he only felt […]

Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington plans to focus on his side-project Dead By Sunrise in 2008. The band’s debut album should be released by spring 2008. Dead By Sunrise’s line-up is rounded up by Orgy‘s Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck, and Anthony “Fu” Valcic.

A few days ago the Bulgarian avantgarde scene witnessed the birth of a new electro-experimental project. The founders are two well-known Sofia-based musicians – Emil Vulev (ex-Violet General)В andВ Pavel StoitchevВ (ex-Band of Mad Women). The still unnamed band is looking two experienced additions, namely aВ bass playerВ and aВ female singer willing to work both in the studio and live. […]

Mark “E” Everett’s ever-changing project Eels shall release two massive compilations on January 21, 2008. The first one, “Meet the Eels: Essential Eels, Vol. 1, 1996-2006”, features 24 of the American alternative formation’s most famous tracks, as well as a DVD with 12 of the band’s promo videos. Meanwhile, “Eels Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities […]

Motley Crue intend to start recording a brand-new studio early next year. The effort, tentatively due in the summer of 2008, has the working title of “The Dirt” and, at least according to vocalist Vince Neil, the drummer will be… the recently departed for the N-th time Tommy Lee…

Ministry have revealed the details about their upcoming last ever tour, set to kick off in spring 2008 under the name C U LaTouR. For the world treck the American industrial metal godfathers shall be joined by Swedish extreme experimentalists Meshuggah and U.S.-based Hemlock. The tour starts in Canada on March 28, stopping in 33 […]

November 19, 2007 shall witness the European release of the ninth full-length studio album by Germany’s heavy metal masters Gamma Ray, “Land of the Free II” (view cover in the left). A day earlier Kai Hansen and his current band, together with his former colleagues Helloween, shall play live together in Sofia, Bulgaria as part […]

Canada’s experimental punk rock veterans NOmeansno shall play live in Bulgaria for the first time ever next Wednesday, November 21. The venue is the Swingin’ Hall in Sofia, and support comes from Vancouver’s Invasives (former Married to Music) and Bulgaria’s Crowfish. Additional info about the show can be found in our GIG GUIDE, while music […]