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Kiss have today announced that they will be the first ever band to perform in Space, revealed in a special press conference via live streaming. The veteran rockers will finalise their final tour before […]
When matchless vocalist/guitarist Alexi Laiho and guitarist Daniel Freyberg joined forces with Waltteri Väyrynen, Mitja Toivonen and live keyboardist Vili Itäpelto to form the explosive new metal pillar BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT, it was meant […]
After consultations with NSW Health and the NSW Minister for Health, Brad Hazzard, sadly they have arrived at the decision that it is in the interests of the safety of everyone the festival be cancelled […]
The upcoming One Guitar, One Night Only tour will be the first time that “Mossy” has played to his beloved fans acoustically in theatres in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane in 5 years […]
Multi-platinum rock band STAIND has announced that they will be releasing their first album in nine years, Live: It’s Been Awhile, May 7 via Yap’em / Alchemy Recordings. Pre-order the album HERE. STAIND’s massive […]
UK metalcore band Architects have released an Amazon Original version of their song “Animals” recorded live at Abbey Road Studios in London. This new version of the song is available to stream and purchase […]
SATYRICON‘s first album, Dark Medieval Times, was released in the autumn of 1993 followed by its successor, The Shadowthrone, only eight months later. These pioneering pieces of art marked a start of a Black […]
After recently announcing the title of their upcoming magnum opus, Vampyric Masters of Extreme Metal, CRADLE OF FILTH, are busying in the shadows to reveal further insights on ‘Existence Is Futile’, an album that […]
Why didn’t anyone think of this before? Kuepper; the co-founder of ’70’s proto-punks The Saints, chief architect of the uncompromising Laughing Clowns and The Aints! and master songsmith over some 15+ solo albums, and White; […]
Dark Horse Records celebrates the release of ASSEMBLY, the newly remastered collection of solo cuts from Joe Strummer, the former front man of The Clash, with the video for “I Fought The Law“. The song was famously covered […]
The 8th instalment of Metal United Down Under (MUDU) returns in 2021! This year the annual event will be hosted at Badlands Bar in Perth on Saturday June 12th and will feature 7 acts […]
Hardware, the third solo album from ZZ Top front man Billy Gibbons, has wrapped recording and post-production and is set for release June 4th by Concord Records. The album was recorded at Escape Studio […]
Hey Sydney! You’ve waited so patiently, and the wait is now over as it’s revealed Full Tilt Festival is heading your way. That’s right, the biggest alternative music festival will be held at Bella […]
Crobot and Mascot Records have announced the global release of an EP titled Rat Child on June 18. The complete track listing features “Mountain” (featuring Frank Bello), “Kiss It Goodbye” (featuring Howard Jones), “Everyone […]
LAMB OF GOD is celebrating the release of the live edition of last year’s critically acclaimed self-titled album with a new lyric video for the bonus track ‘Hyperthermic/Accelerate.’ Available today via Nuclear Blast Records, […]
Flesh & Blood was a short lived super-group put together by Mark Mangold (Touch, Drive She Said) on keyboards, Danny Vaughn (Tyketto) on vocals, Al Pitrelli (Savatage, Joe Lynn Turner, Alice Cooper) on guitar, […]
2x Grammy® nominated band Gojira have shared “Amazonia,” a brand-new single featured on their widely anticipated new album, FORTITUDE, which will be released April 30th via Roadrunner Records. “Amazonia” is available today HERE and […]
After thrilling their legion of fans by surprise dropping the blistering and brand new track Devastation, gold-selling, Columbus, Ohio-based rock band Beartooth have announced details regarding their fourth studio album Below. Fans can pre-order […]
SOCIAL DISORDER, lead by multi-talented Anders LA Rönnblom – best known as the founder and songwriter from Killer Bee and X-Romance as well as a member of Wolfpakk – has signed a worldwide deal […]
‘Suspicion‘ is the second serving from the latest batch of DATSUNS tunes, now ready to be dished up to the masses. Touching upon this present era of paranoia, the failure in the currency of words, what […]
Steel Panther is going big. Really, really, really big. Like, outdoor festival style show type of big! And they’re bringing 5 kick ass bands with them to electrify and amaze your eyeballs and ear […]
Today, SoCal icons and one of the best-selling punk rock bands of all time, The Offspring, have unveiled the accompanying music video for their recently released single Let The Bad Times Roll, the title track from their […]
Canadian melodic death metal heavyweights KATAKLYSM unleashed their 14th full-length studio album, UNCONQUERED, on September 25, 2020, via Nuclear Blast Records. Today. marks the 6 month anniversary of the release which garnered the band a Juno nomination. With the world […]
On April 16, Cannibal Corpse will release their fifteenth studio album, Violence Unimagined, via Metal Blade Records. For a preview of Violence Unimagined, the new single, “Murderous Rampage“, can be heard below. Comprised of eleven tracks, Violence Unimagined is state […]
While concerts and cheering crowds seem to be a long-lost echo from the past these days, melancholic progressive metallers AMORPHIS bring back some of the life and incomparable energy that many of us have […]
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