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Michigan’s own, POP EVIL, have released two new singles “Let The Chaos Reign” and “Work“, marking the first taste of new music from the band since their Pop Evil full-length in 2018. The new […]
Primal Fear recently finished the recording of their upcoming 13th studio album, set to be titled “Metal Commando”. The title of the album speaks for itself – “Metal Commando” contains 110% Primal Fear and […]
The Pretenders have today revealed the brand-new video for their current single The Buzz, taken from their new album Hate For Sale, out 17 July via BMG. Made entirely under lockdown, the video was produced and […]
Some of rock and alt/rock’s heaviest hitters have teamed up amidst the current pandemic to re-record and film a new video of Filter’s Billboard chart-topping hit single “Take A Picture” from their respected quarantine headquarters. Spearheaded […]
Legendary YES guitarist STEVE HOWE has announced he will release LOVE IS via BMG Records on July 31. LOVE IS marks HOWE’s first solo album since the all-instrumental Time in 2011 and has a balance […]
Heavy punk/metal band American Terror, featuring members of Skid Row, Sugar Ray, Phunk Junkeez, and Grayson Manor, has just released “She’s A Bitch”, the second single from their debut album. The track is available […]
Brant Bjork delivers more grooves and soul with his rocking new single “Cleaning Out The Ashtray“, streaming exclusively via The Obelisk today. His upcoming self-titled album “Brant Bjork” is due out May 29th on […]
Surprise! Jeff Scott Soto has released a new live album, “Live At Frontiers Rock Festival 2019” on all digital platforms. Today marks the one year anniversary of the performance captured in Milan, Italy on […]
Brazilian heavyweight SEPULTURA launch the SepulQuarta sessions, a weekly event where the band will give insight into the band’s colorful history, do a Q&A session and perform a new track live. “SepulQuarta was born […]
Toronto’s PUP released the massive Morbid Stuff last year to critical acclaim, earning countless year-end nods, their late-night debut on Late Night With Seth Meyers, and a largely sold-out world tour that had them […]
Platinum selling International recording artists STATIC-X have filed a police report with the LAPD, siting that their warehouse space (which is also shared with the band Dope) was recently robbed of nearly 200K worth […]
Before he was a Guru, Dave Faulkner was a punk… … and his name was Dave Flick. The punk band Dave formed in Perth in 1977 – or more precisely the band that he […]
The long wait is over, Katatonia’s new opus City Burials is out now through Peaceville Records! Having delighted fans earlier this week with the release of their 3rd single “The Winter Of Our Passing” the band […]
Evanescence will release their first album of new original music in nine years, The Bitter Truth (Sony Music Australia) over the course of this year, beginning with the first song and video, Wasted on […]
This upcoming European summer will hold a musical surprise: Metal legend U.D.O. will publish an album in collaboration with the official Concert Band of the German Armed Forces (Musikkorps der Bundeswehr). The album is […]
With a new election on the horizon and America still on the brink, Ministry’s Al Jourgensen has re-entered the studio to create his missives that will become material for a to-be-announced new album on […]
Paradise Lost have released ‘Ghosts‘, the second single from their new album “Obsidian“, out on May, 15th, via Nuclear Blast Records. The newly minted anthem is a guaranteed dancefloor-filler at any discerning goth nightclub […]
“Dion knows how to sing, and he knows just the right way to craft these songs, these blues songs. He’s got some friends here to help him out, some true luminaries. But in the […]
ALESTORM Releases New Single & Official Video, Tortuga Gives Away An Alestorm Nintendo 64, AHAB Announce First Live Album, DRACONIAN Announces New Epos, Under a Godless Veil. We’re heading west, to the land […]
Grammy-winning songwriter, solo artist, and voice of Creed, SCOTT STAPP has released a provocative, timely visualizer for new single, “Survivor.” The piece takes the place of a live-action video, which was cancelled to observe […]
The Rolling Stones have released “Living In A Ghost Town“, the band’s first new material in 8 years. The track is available on digital platforms and is accompanied by a music video seen below. […]
With the release of Katatonia’s new opus City Burials imminent, on April 24 through Peaceville Records, the band present their 3rd single to be taken from their new studio album entitled “The Winter Of Our Passing”. The track […]
Lamb Of God have unleashed another track from their forthcoming self-titled album (now due June 19 via Epic Records) in the form of “New Colossal Hate” – a song which finds the band at […]
Today Jackson Browne releases another topical slice of commentary in his newest single, Downhill From Everywhere. Taken from his forthcoming 15th studio album, the song features on the soundtrack to a ground-breaking new documentary […]
For the better part of the past five years, top-charting masked metal machine MUSHROOMHEAD have been crafting the epic follow up to their monumental 2014 full-length album, The Righteous & The Butterfly – waiting ever-so-patiently to drop […]
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