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NEW SINGLE “WILL WE EVER” RELEASED 5 NOVEMBER 2021 PRE-ORDER ALBUM / STREAM SINGLE MARCH/APRIL 2022 UK TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUEST TROY REDFERN TICKETS – www.willeandthebandits.com “Wille and the Bandits are a blues rock powerhouse.” – […]
Slovenia based Aggressive Metal Visionaries WITHIN DESTRUCTION Announce their debut Australian Tour. Blistering the opaque realms between extreme metal and electronic tunes with their unique concoction of pure relentless metal, WITHIN DESTRUCTION will be serving up […]
North Carolina hard rockers THE FIFTH, who have just released their new self-titled Ep are releasing the first video from the record today. The band decided to team up with well respected outlet, Brutal Planet […]
– New Album Coming 2022! – Following a decade of wreaking havoc together, Virginian metal maniacs MUNICIPAL WASTE and Nuclear Blast have officially re-signed a worldwide deal that will extend the NUCLEAR-WASTE union for years to come. To date, co-conspirators’ partnership has […]
‘Weep When You Die’ is the alcohol soaked, anthemic new single and video from Gothenburg’s leading exponents of street metal, HARDCORE SUPERSTAR. It has been unleashed today on all digital platforms (streaming and download) via Golden Robot Records (for […]
Sweden’s boogie rock legends Diamond Dogs are back with the new single and music video “Alright Brutus I’m On! The track is taken from the swedes upcoming double album ‘Slap Bang Blue Rendezvous’ , […]
After releasing their digital EP We Are Nøt Okay in early 2021, rising German-Austrian nu-metal stars OCEANS unveil their brand-new digital single ‘Sulfur’ today via Nuclear Blast. Following the fashion of their previous releases, […]
New Official Music Video, New Album, Not The End Of The Road, out January 21 [Photo Credit: Holger Fichtner & Patrick Schneiderwind] German chart-toppers KISSIN’ DYNAMITE (#7 on the German Album Charts) are gearing up for […]
Upcoming Album “Gods Of Tomorrow”! Out Nov 26 Ten long years after their last studio album “Don’t Talk Science” legendary hard rock band VICTORY has announced their return to the scene with a brand new album “Gods […]
“”‘Advent‘ is a testimony of all the raw energy accumulated within this band since the release of our latest album”, DYNAZTY vocalist Nils Molin describes the band’s highly anticipated new single. “When the pandemic stopped us from touring in 2020 we decided to put […]
Originally released on Halloween 1981, CIRITH UNGOL are celebrating the 40th anniversary of their landmark album, Frost and Fire, with special, multi-format re-issue packages set for release on December 17th, 2021. Pre-Orders are available today at Metal Blade Records […]
“Let’s set our piano on fire!” might be a sentence we haven’t heard since the good old rock’n’roll days of the 70s. However, more than any other song from EPICA‘s upcoming audiovisual release, ‘Kingdom […]
British Progressive Rock Luminaries JETHRO TULL have announced details for the group’s first studio album of new material in over 18 years! Originally making headlines in March of this year, the band’s newest offering, titled […]
Metalville Records announces January 28th, 2022 as the international release date for The Quill‘s Live, New, Borrowed, Blue, a personal selection of unreleased song treasures from their long career. Digging through old boxes, you find stuff you’ve […]
ARIA TOP 5 / NO.1 VINYL ALBUM, 30TH ANNIVERSARY RE-RECORDED EDITION OF ‘ALL FOR ONE’ OUT NOW Today The Screaming Jets have announced a very select run of dates, on their C’MON SUMMER tour of January and […]
Two of today’s most dynamic live bands, Mammoth WVH and Dirty Honey, are joining forces to bring their high-octane rock’n’roll out on a 30-date, co-headline North American tour. The “Young Guns” tour begins on […]
In what seems like an eternal rollercoaster of close calls and postponements, Silverback Touring are pleased to re-announce the DEVILSKIN “RED” Tour with a new set of dates. The hard-hitting Kiwi band released their […]
THE CAT EMPIRE – THE FINAL SHOW OF THE ORIGINAL LINE-UP AFTER 20 YEARS with CARÃVANA SUN and TIJUANA CARTEL In the first of a series of announcements featuring artists playing Thursday 14th April, Bluesfest would like […]
DAY ONE – OASIS: With ‘Covers & Rarities’ being released this month, we wanted to take a week to celebrate the fantastic musicians that we’ve covered! This week we’ll be releasing each cover from […]
The year of the corona-pandemic, when the music world was forced into a standstill, five old friends put in motion an old idea that had been lingering – and what eventually was to become […]
WITH LATEST MEMOIR, THE FIRST 21: HOW I BECAME NIKKI SIXX – ALSO FEATURED ON AMAZON, USA TODAY’S BEST SELLERS LIST SIXX:A.M. HITS ALBUM FEATURING BOOK COMPANION SINGLE – “THE FIRST 21” ALSO AVAILABLE NOW […]
LABEL WILL RELEASE A RE-ISSUE SERIES BEGINNING WITH THE DELUXE EDITION OF ‘REDEMPTION’ Little Caesar are best remembered for their version of the soul music song “Chain of Fools, a 1989 hit single from […]
AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER AT THIS LOCATION – NEW SINGLE “CARPE DIEM (SEIZE THE DAY)” OUT NOW COVER ART BY PAUL R. GREGORY Life hath no fury like a legend in full roar … and on February 4th, […]
December 24th, 1914: Late On Christmas Eve, British Expeditionary Force heard German troops in the trenches opposite them singing Christmas carols and saw lanterns and small fir trees along their trenches. Messages began to be […]
In March 2021, Swedish heavy metal commando ENFORCER released its second live album, Live By Fire II, which included a truly triumphant show captured in Mexico City, 2019. But ENFORCER have not been revelling […]
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