Queensryche has begun working on the follow-up to last year’s “Operation: Mindcrime II” in Seattle. Frontman Geoff Tate tells Billboard.com he hopes the as-yet-untitled set will arrive next summer or fall. “We’re just into the first couple months of writing for it, and it’s a theme record. It’s based on modern American life, sort of […]

Universal Music Group has extended its buyout offer for Sanctuary Group to Aug. 2 after the major admitted its proposal had been cleared by slightly more than half of the independent music firm’s shareholding. On Thursday (July 26), acceptances had been received totalling more than 96 million Sanctuary shares, or 43.6% of the company’s issue […]

KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley was forced to pull out of the show on Friday night (July 27) where the group performed as a three-piece in San Jacinto, California, about 90 miles (145 km) east of Los Angeles after his heart started beating at more than twice the normal level. Stanley wrote on his web site […]

Presenting the third part of an ongoing epic concept journey through a progtastic variation of styles, elements and emotions, the first gigantic appetizer is about to be unleashed: in October, the first single / EP will hit the shelves and all details and infos will be revealed at an exclusive press conference at Wacken Open […]

Re-Act Music announced that the tickets for the upcoming concert by California’s NOFXВ and Ignite in Sofia, Bulgaria are on sale now. The first 100 tix have a special price of 20 leva / 10 Euro. Afterwards they’ll cost 25В leva / 13 EuroВ (presale) and 30В leva / 15 EuroВ (at the door). Tickets are available via Рўicketstream. The […]

Prong have set “Power of the Damager” as the title of their new full-length album, due on October 2 via Ministry mainman Al Jourgensen’s label 13th Planet Records. The CD, recorded at Sonic Ranch Studios in Tornillo, Texas in a line-up featuring Tommy Victor (vocals and guitar), Monte Pittman (bass) and Aaron Rossi (drums), is […]

Jethro Tull‘s mastermind, singer and flutist, Ian Anderson, shall bring his famous show Ian Anderson Plays Orchestral Jethro Tull to Bulgaria. The concert, featuring Mr. Anderson himself, as well as the Classic FM Orchestra, shall take place at 8 p.m. on September 1 (Saturday) in the ancient Roman theatre in the town of Plovdiv. Tickets […]

The Rolling Stones notorious guitarist’s forthcoming autobiography has caused a bidding war among several companies. According to insiders, publishers have already offered Keith Richards an advance of 7.3 million U.S. dollars for the book’s rights… Most likely, the bid shall be won either by HarperCollins or by Little Brown Publishing.

New York’s progressive metal quartet Coheed & Cambria have completed the recordings for their new, fourth full-length studio album, due to surface in October via Equal Vision Records. The follow-up to 2005’s “Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness” shall be entitled “Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star […]

Sweden’s metal extremists Soilwork have decided to call their upcoming full-length studio album “Sworn to a Great Divide”. According to latest information, the effort shall surface in October via Nuclear Blast.