Coverage of the local rock and metal scene internationally that includes Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Instrumental solo artist Valentin The Mad has released “In Memory”, a melodic metal instrumental track dedicated to late Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington. The track is a part of his ongoing “Deadly Obsession” solo […]
Tokyo based “Samurais from Hell”, SURVIVE, have unveiled the Japanese release date of their new album “Immortal Warriors“, being September 12th! Furthermore the band has revealed the tracklisting, album artwork (created by Dedy badic […]
Invisible City is the 10th studio album from China’s leading instrumental rock band WANG WEN, whose international audience has grown tremendously since 2016’s critically acclaimed album Sweet Home Go!; a dark, bleak and melancholic […]
Chinese thrash metal band Ancestor released their new song recently. You can check out the stream for their song “Deathlike Silence” below. The song is from the band’s upcoming new album Lords of Destiny. […]
Dream Patrol, the international heavy metal/hard rock act assembled by Ronnie König and with a Nightmare on Elm Street-inspired name, has published a lyric video for the track Get Back Home. Get Back Home […]
South Africa’s finest alternative prog rock export Deity’s Muse have released an official video for ‘Walls Down’, taken from their latest album Convergence. Vocalist and guitarist Wayne Boucher explains how the band filmed the video in […]
Now entering its 7th year, South Africa’s foremost alternative, rock and metal Festival Krank’d Up 2018 takes place on the 29th September at Sundowners in Alberton, Johannesburg. This year sees UK tech-metal pioneers Sikth […]
Hate City’s Facing the Gallows have revealed their plans for the future after vocalist Bryan Binneman announced his departure at the end of June. The news came via the bands Facebook page this morning: […]
Western Australia’s progressive metalcore sensations, Icarus Lives are heading to Japan this August in support of their latest record ‘Vantablack‘, where they will be supporting Canadian metalcore legends THE AGONIST and Europe’s CELLAR DARLING […]
Johannesburg’s Alternative Rockers OTN have released the lyric video for their track Braille, premiering in Australia here at The Rockpit. The first single taken from their debut album Tabula Rasa, releasing on the 6th […]
Today sees the release Dirty Moonshine’s new single Shake The Roof taken from their debut full length album Bottom of the Barrel, which is set for release on the 27th July 2018. The band […]
Indonesian progressive metal band GODDESS OF FATE are streaming a video for their song “Aromantic Part 1“. The track is from their recently released album Spiral Orchard Part 1. The band commented “‘Aromantic Pt.1’ […]
Cape Towns Gypsy Jungle Music Collective Crimson House have announced that they will be spending 2 months in Pretoria where they will be working on completing their 4th studio album. They’ll be playing a […]
For many rock listeners, Gaborone, Botswana is not the first location one thinks of when it comes to the hometown of many heavy metal bands. But since 2006, the three-piece Skinflint has been making […]
Dividing The Element is a Zimbabwean metal band from the country’s capital city, Harare. Their self-titled debut album was released on the 5th of May 2018 while participating in the Zimbabwean leg of one […]
A new year. A new chaper. This is Leatherjacks. Continuing the success and repercussion from 2017´s first album “The Lost Arks Of Rock And Roll”, Mauro Cordeiro follows on with a new lineup and […]
Gunshot Blue is a South African psychedelic blues act born amongst burning incense, black ink, prayer beads, tattooed skin and religious icons back in 2014 at SA Hardcore Social Club in Johannesburg. Today sees […]
Africa’s metal Mecca, Krank’d Up returns with an emphatic bang at the announcement of SikTh as their first international act of 2018’s highly anticipated instalment. That’s right, South Africa, the Watford mathcore sextet that […]
Johannesburg’s whiskey-swilling, cigarette-toting, blues-swinging, rock ‘n rollers Dirty Moonshine has launched the Australian premiere of their new video here at The Rockpit for their track Toxic Waltz taken from their forthcoming debut album Bottom […]
South African old skool thrashers Deadline have released the video via an exclusive Australian premiere here at The Rockpit for the track Bloodbeast taken from their critically acclaimed 2017 album Black Wolf City. Vocalist […]
Indian heavy metal band Against Evil first enthralled listeners when they released their debut ‘Fatal Assault’ on the Indian sub-label of Transcending Obscurity. Three years later, they conjure up enough material to release their […]
Singapore post-hardcore band Villes have released their latest single and music video “The Other Side”, taken from their charts-topping album ‘The Cure’. The new video follows the concept of duality in perception, carrying the […]
Today sees the release of Seasons from Pretoria’s Sludge n Rollers Ruff Majik. During the course of 2017 the band released 3 EP’s, The Hare and the Hollow, A Finch in a Cherry Tree […]
Be. Our. Guest. Three words that resonate with millions of people as the soundtrack to a Disney favourite, encompassing the collaboration of a multitude of beings from candlesticks, to clocks, to humans, to create […]
Cape Town’s OHGOD are very happy to announce dates for their German tour that will see them playing Dunk! Festival and Pelagic Fest. They will also be supporting progressive metalcore giants Jinjer on the […]
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