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English metal legends CARCASS will return this fall with their first collection of new music, “Despicable,” in 7 years. The forthcoming EP features 3 brand new tracks, including “The Living Dead At The Manchester […]
Behemoth have announced In Absentia Dei, a groundbreaking immersive livestream spectacular which will broadcast on Sunday, September 6 from a secret church location in Poland. The event will be streamed in high definition 4K, with an […]
Metallica have released a video clip from the upcoming S&M2 live release for the classic track “For Whom The Bell Tolls“. METALLICA and San Francisco Symphony‘s September 6 & 8, 2019 “S&M²” concerts were […]
Time to know “Cruel Hands Of Time”, the rare and unreleased studio outtake present in the reissue of the 2002 TYGERS OF PANG TANG album, “Ambush”. And what a better way to know it than with […]
The time has finally come! Sweden’s rock sensation BLUES PILLS release their long-awaited self-produced studio album “Holy Moly!” today and are ready to drag the listener into a world of psychedelic tunes, soaring soundscapes, […]
GRAMMY Award®-winning, internationally lauded band Deftones have announced their feverishly anticipated album Ohms, arriving on September 25th via Warner Records. The announcement arrives with the epic title track, new video directed by Rafatoon and updated website at deftones.com. Speculation of the forthcoming […]
SIX FEET UNDER Reveal Details For New Album, ‘Nightmares Of The Decomposed’, VIO-LENCE Launch Video For A cover version of the Dead Kennedys classic, SURMA Reveal Details For Full-length Debut, ‘The Light Within’. […]
What started as a quick studio session on Nick Oliveri‘s last Australian tour visit in 2019 has ended up becoming a new collaborative project for the ex-QOTSA/Kyuss bassist and Australian act The Black Armada. […]
SIXX:A.M. Presents: Artists For Recovery, have released “Maybe It’s Time” featuring the incredible line up of Corey Taylor, Joe Elliott, Brantley Gilbert, Ivan Moody, Slash, AWOLNATION & Tommy Vext! The song is the cornerstone […]
The new ‘Depression Core’ project of Philip Anselmo EN MINOR is now releasing the second new track, taken from their debut full-length ‘When The Cold Truth Has Worn Its Miserable Welcome Out‘. The album […]
GRAMMY® Award-winning singer / songwriter, actor, and New York Times Best-Selling Author, Corey Taylor has shared the official music video for his single “Black Eyes Blue.” The DJay Brawner directed music video arrives as […]
Biffy Clyro today share a striking new video for their current single “Space”, from their new studio album ‘A Celebration of Endings’. “Space” represents the album’s stripped back, emotive centrepiece. It’s a song that’s […]
Following the commercial and critically acclaimed success of the recent albums “Blues” (2019) and the three-week running No.1 album on the Billboard Blues Chart “Check Shirt Wizard – Live in ’77” (2020), UMC is […]
SEETHER is celebrating the release of their highly anticipated eighth studio album, Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum — their first in three years — with an epic global livestream event to be held Sunday, […]
Metallica returned to SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show last Wednesday and performed remotely from its base of operations in San Francisco. Lead singer James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, and bassist […]
Throughout their illustrious 45-year career, the ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND have played many legendary venues and widely-praised live shows; however, up until this point, the sold-out show on July 19, 2005 at the Warner Theatre […]
Symphonic metal masters KAMELOT have finally released the bombastic live album, I Am The Empire – Live From The 013, demonstrating the band’s exceptional stage presence and quality straight to their most dedicated fans […]
Future Kings & Queens is the brand-new single from rock powerhouse AshenMoon and once again it showcases their faultless songwriting and musicianship, suitably topped off with the soaring vocals of Toby Rand. “Future Kings […]
Legendary SoCal artists (HED) P.E. have revealed the second single from the upcoming Class of 2020 album, “Death Awaits.” “The Great Equalizer. Here is a situation where I thought I was being original, only […]
PALLBEARER, who are set to release their fourth album, »Forgotten Days« on October 23th via Nuclear Blast, have released a second track from the nine-song album: ‘Rite of Passage‘ that you can watch below. […]
After transporting us into a new dimension and lifting us up into a higher level of modern metal, AMARANTHE are ready to drag us deep down to hell: Forged in the burning fire of […]
Currently leading a number of Billboard’s Hard Rock charts, SEETHER offers another strong preview from its upcoming new album today with the release of the heavy new track “Beg.” The adrenaline-fueled new rave-up is […]
Joe Bonamassa is set to perform a special live stream pay per view concert from the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee on September 20. This concert will feature the songs from his new […]
PRIMAL FEAR recently released their highly anticipated 13th studio album, “Metal Commando”, which has entered the charts worldwide, achieving them their highest entries ever and six top ten positions; including #7 in Germany, #6 […]
On September 25, The Ocean will release their 8th full-length, Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic, via Metal Blade Records (CD / digital) and the band’s own Pelagic Records (vinyl). In 2018, The Ocean released Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic – the first half of […]
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