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Here’s a new STYX video to brighten your day! Their classic hit, “Too Much Time On My Hands,” was filmed from the band’s home studios specifically for Pittsburgh #SteelersNation in time for today’s game […]
Los Angeles hardcore titans TERROR surprise fans with Sink To The Hell, a four-track 7″ including four previously unreleased tracks. The record is available TODAY via WAR Records and is streaming in its entirety. […]
Black Sabbath unleashed the group’s fourth album in two years in 1972 with Vol 4. Stacked with classic tracks like “Supernaut,” “Changes,” and “Snowblind,” the record harnessed the group’s surging popularity to reach the […]
The story of Kreator’s meteoric rise to the global elite of thrash metal bands from their humble beginnings in Essen Germany, began under their first name of Tormentor in the early 80’s. It was […]
CLUTCH is once again gearing up for another edition of their Live From The Doom Saloon streaming concert series. The band will be playing a 15 song set of their classics as voted by the fans. Tickets […]
The highly anticipated new project from acclaimed guitarist GEORGE LYNCH (Dokken, Lynch Mob), THE BANISHMENT, has today premiered their debut single “Lost Horizon” pegged to the launch of an Indiegogo campaign to assist with […]
Australia’s premiere progressive metal act Voyager recently performed an online show, inspired by the legislation that was passed in Australia that prevented them from touring their latest album, ‘Colours in the Sun’. The show was initially taken […]
King of Sweden Release New Single ‘Dreaming About The Emerald’, Rick Pierce Group Release New Single ‘Tick Tock’, Lost Relics Release New Single ‘Unrealistic Cause’, SKAM Release New Single & Video ‘One Track Mind’. […]
Thy Art Is Murder have rescheduled their upcoming Australian tour. The Human Target tour, due to kick off later this month, will now take place in October 2021. Tickets on sale now at thyartismurder.net. […]
Controlled Chaos shines the spotlight on not only Sevendust drummer Morgan Rose’s drumming prowess, but his songwriting, singing, and production chops as well. Morgan co-wrote the EP with Sevendust bandmate Clint Lowery. To commemorate the release, […]
West Virginia based, Screaming Butterfly Entertainment has announced Nick Menza “This Was My Life” – The uncensored documentary film of one of metal’s greatest drummers who died doing what he loved best. This Was […]
Canadian progressive sci-fi metal innovators VOIVOD return with a much overdue new live release entitled Lost Machine – Live. The album was recorded in Québec City during the worldwide touring cycle for the band’s […]
It’s holiday season in Hornography land, as we get ready to party amongst our local metal brethren with a heavy celebration for the last HORNOGRAPHY of 2020! For a big metal party we need […]
The Pretty Reckless will release their fourth album Death By Rock And Roll on February 12, 2021 via Century Media Records worldwide, excl. USA. The album, which follows 2010’s Light Me Up, 2014’s Going to […]
The 2021 RED HOT SUMMER TOUR is already sought-after, with three of the shows selling out in the first week of sale. Audiences in Victoria, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory have […]
Earlier this year, CRO-MAGS released their first album in twenty years with the critically-acclaimed In The Beginning. To close out this year of international turmoil and disease, the band announces the 6-song EP, 2020, […]
THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA spread first Christmas vibes with ‘Paper Moon’, EPICA release music video for their second single ‘Freedom – The Wolves Within’, CADAVER Release Lyric Video For “Let Me Burn”, MACABRE release […]
Canadian prog-rock-band Saga announce the release of their new studio album “Symmetry” on March 12 via earMUSIC. After going on tour in ealry 2020, SAGA went straight into their home studios – the result: An album full of acoustic originals. […]
Tech-death masters PSYCROPTIC reveal a music video for the title track off their new EP “The Watcher Of All“, which comes out this Friday, November 27th on Agonia Records (physical release) and Prosthetic Records […]
This summer in Newcastle is set to get hotter as Scene & Heard Festival returns with another epic line-up, featuring the cream of the Australian 90s/noughties alternative music scene. Following up its successful 2018/19 […]
Due to production delays currently affecting the music industry, Craft Recordings announces the new comprehensive reissue of George Thorogood and The Destroyers’ Live in Boston, 1982 will now be available worldwide on December 18th […]
ENSLAVED‘s new studio album Utgard was recently released into the world, the concept of which explores the esoteric place in Norse mythology that celebrates the rebirth of the individual – a place where one goes for unification of […]
Powerhouse all-star band DISCIPLES OF VERITY (D.O.V.) continues to build momentum with the release of the fourth single and video, “I Am I,” from their upcoming debut album, Pragmatic Sanction. Released as a single […]
Due to popular demand, Metallica‘s Helping Hands 2020 streaming party benefitting the band’s All Within My Hands foundation has been extended. The live show may have ended, and the auction has closed, but there’s […]
Puscifer, who recently released the critically-acclaimed album, Existential Reckoning (Alchemy Recordings/Puscifer Entertainment/BMG), have premiered a video for “Fake Affront”. The clip features performance footage from the band’s recent record-breaking livestream event, “Existential Reckoning: Live […]
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