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Rising power metal band DOMINUM leads the living into the world of the undead with their energetic and entertaining debut album, Hey Living People! Emerging theatrical power metal unit DOMINUM will release their debut album, Hey Living People, […]
ROCKARIA has been on the airwaves entertaining the ears of Perth’s community listeners for an incredible ten years and so it’s fitting they should celebrate in style and how better a way than with ten […]
Symphonic metal legends SERENITY have revealed the final single, “The End of Babylon”, from their new studio album, Nemesis AD, out November 3, 2023 via Napalm Records! Successor to The Last Knight (2020) – which […]
Metal Blade Records has just released the new digital EP from Athens, Greece extreme symphonic metal act, W.E.B. titled Into Hell Fire We Burn. The digital EP is a follow up to 2021’s Colosseum, which […]
Veteran rocker, podcast host, songwriter, and Foo Fighters guitar slinger Chris Shiflett has just dropped a full LP of Southern California-inspired and Nashville-executed country-rock tunes. Out now via Blue Elan Records, Lost at Sea finds […]
West Coast deathgrind practitioners CATTLE DECAPITATION unleash their brand new video for “Solastalgia.” The track comes by way of the band’s critically lauded tenth studio album, Terrasite, released earlier this year via Metal Blade Records. […]
Iconic, experimental death metal outfit JOB FOR A COWBOY will release their long-awaited new full-length, Moon Healer, on February 23rd, 2024 via Metal Blade Records. The release marks the band’s first new full-length in a […]
GRAMMY® Award-nominated act In This Moment have released their new studio album GODMODE via BMG. Listen HERE The group’s eighth album GODMODE finds vocalist Maria Brink and guitarist Chris Howorth writing the most powerful songs of their career. Recorded at Hideout Recording Studio in Las Vegas, […]
THE DOORS ALIVE take great care to re-create the true essence and magic of THE DOORS. Get ready to be transported back in time as they perform all your favourite hits from THE DOORS iconic songbook. THE DOORS ALIVE is […]
Lenny Kravitz returns with a brand new single and NSFW music video entitled “TK421.” Directed by acclaimed video director Tanu Muino. It heralds his 12th full-length offering, first release in five years, and first-ever double LP, Blue Electric Light, arriving on March 15, 2024 […]
FROM THE JAM announce their Final Tour of Australia dedicated to all the Australian fans of The Jam. For this finale they will perform a special set of The Jam’s Greatest Hits from their complete […]
Following their appearance at the inaugural SXSW Sydney Festival just less than a week ago, Canadian quartet Hotel Mira return with their new album ‘I Am Not Myself’. Their hip-swerving, passionately pop-contorting contemplation of identity […]
This is the bands first studio album since 2017´s “Flames”, and not only are they back, they are back with a vengeance! Every single one of the ten new tracks shows a band that once […]
Duran Duran have released their highly anticipated sixteenth full-length, Danse Macabre, out today via Tape Modern/BMG. Listen HERE. Victoria De Angelis of Måneskin appears on the album’s focus track, a cover of Talking Heads’ ‘Psycho […]
British slide guitarist and singer songwriter, Troy Redfern is pleased to announce the release of his new single Getaway. It’s the second single taken from his forthcoming 2024 studio album Invocation. Getaway is released on […]
We interrupt your regular viewing to announce Australia’s biggest touring Festival, aka Good Things Festival is now officially sold out in Brisbane! For all Brisbane folks that have missed out, we still have sideshows which is […]
As their European tour continues into October, KINGSWOOD haven’t forgotten about the homecoming summer plans they have in store for their Australian fans. The beloved Melbourne four-piece are finishing 2023 out strong, dropping an extensive […]
“All live all the time!” AMBER WILD started in January 2023 with one simple goal: make the kind of music they wanted to hear. Fiery guitars, thunderous drums, and raw vocals filtered through a kaleidoscope […]
In what promises to be a momentous occasion for heavy metal fans down under, two legendary bands, KREATOR and IN FLAMES, are set to embark on a colossal “Klash of the Titans” co-headline tour across Australia in 2024. This monumental collaboration promises to […]
Australian ANBERLIN fans will be in for a treat this summer, with the beloved group set to return for the first time since 2019, in January 2024 making their long-awaited return to a country long […]
Prepare for an extraordinary musical journey this January as Dire Straits Legacy and Nazareth unite for an unmissable series of shows along Australia’s east coast. Dire Straits Legacy (DSL) features many key original members of Dire Straits who contributed […]
Queens of the Stone Age will headline some special events, as part of the LOOKOUT Festival, when they arrive in Australia for their ‘The End Is Nero’ Summer 2024 Australian and New Zealand tour. These exciting […]
OBITUARY remains to this very day as one of the most influential and ground breaking bands in the death metal genre, one which they helped to create. Combining hyper-speed guitar riffing, complex arrangements and guttural […]
After another monstrous sell-out in 2022, Froth and Fury Fest returns to Pirate Life Brewing in 2023 for another round of the loudest riffs and the tastiest beers in what is THE must-attend annual celebration […]
Australian heavy trailblazers Northlane will be back on home soil this February for their first and only headline tour of the country in 2024. The band will do a full lap around the continent with a packed […]
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