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Recently, H.E.A.T announced their brand-new album “H.E.A.T II” which is set to be released early next year. “H.E.A.T II” is the first album to be produced entirely by the band – with Jona Tee and Dave Dalone as […]
Hard rock juggernauts HALESTORM will be on Australian shores in December for their Australian headline tour, presented by MJR Presents by arrangement with UTA. Unfortunately, Black Stone Cherry are today having to cancel their […]
“It’s been said that SIMPLE MINDS has a love affair with Australia and I think that’s true.” So says SIMPLE MINDS singer Jim Kerr. And the love affair is continuing, with seminal Scottish band […]
Everclear have announced a string of headline tour dates across Australia on top of the Hotter Than Hell tour shows that was previously announced. The tour takes the US rockers across regional towns as […]
For the first time in Australia!!! Denmark’s ARTILLERY are easily appointed as one of Europe’s earliest exponents of thrash metal, and the band’s contribution to the classic genre is difficult to ignore. Delivering a […]
Bring Me The Horizon continue their assault on 2019 with the release a new track entitled Ludens from the highly anticipated Death Stranding Soundtrack (Original Music from the World of DEATH STRANDING: TIMEFALL). Frontman […]
SONS OF APOLLO – former Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (ex-Guns N’ Roses), Billy Sheehan (The Winery Dogs, Mr. Big, David Lee Roth) and Jeff Scott Soto (ex-Journey, […]
Iron Maiden, one of the most influential rock bands of all time, return to Australia and New Zealand in May 2020 to perform 6 massive arena shows on their Legacy of the Beast World […]
Grammy-nominated and Gold-selling hard rock heavyweights Killswitch Engage have announced their Spring 2020 North American tour plans. The band, recently recognized by Forbes as “one of modern metal’s most cherished acts” will return to the road to […]
Byron Bay’s Parkway Drive have announced the forthcoming release of a brand new film VIVA THE UNDERDOGS. The feature length documentary is due to hit EVENT and Village Cinemas for one night only on […]
Already respected as one of the finest drummers in the world, Dave Lombardo (Suicidal Tendencies, Dead Cross, The Misfits, Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Grip Inc., Slayer) has accomplished another longtime goal, adding film scoring to […]
Whoever has been following 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, over the past 9 years, does not only know that it is much more than just another festival at […]
“I’ve been doing this for 50 years, 10 with Black Sabbath and then 40 years of my own. This box set is my solo career.” – OZZY OSBOURNE For the first time in his […]
Industrial goth/rock quartet DAVEY SUICIDE will treat audiences across the West Coast to the first glimpse of new material from their upcoming album ROCK AIN’T DEAD-out January 24, 2020 via Out Of Line Music/InGrooves-as […]
The world’s premier rock and metal festival Download returns to Australia after a hugely successful 2019 that saw the event debut to 20,000 heavy music fans at Parramatta Park in Sydney and return to […]
This January is shaping up to be a wild one with Terror headlining around Australia in support of their latest album ‘Total Retaliation’ with special guests Malevolence for their debut visit to our shores. […]
Lloyd Cole’s new single ‘The Over Under’ (available now) is taken from Lloyd’s sensational new album ‘Guesswork’, which was released in July. Lloyd has long been a fan of Bristol contemporary artists Harrison and Wood and contacted […]
Status Quo released “Backbone” – their 33rd studio album back on September 6. The new LP was their 33rd 33rpm! A new video for the track “Running Out Of Time” can be seen below. […]
With more than 80 million albums sold and 16 Top 30 hits, Foreigner is universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world. Now, ‘Foreigner – Double Vision: Then And Now’ takes viewers […]
Nothing More, who’ve tallied three top 10 singles from their latest album, the 2017-released The Stories We Tell Ourselves (Better Noise Records/ Eleven Seven Label Group), have also shared a new video for the acoustic version of “Fade […]
Finland’s multi-Platinum cello-rock band Apocalyptica announce a spectacular new music video for “Rise”. Integrated with the achingly beautiful new song from the band’s upcoming studio album Cell-0, due out January 10, 2020 (Silver Lining Music), “Rise” […]
HYPNO5E have forged the term “cinematic metal” with their truly epic- scope compositions, oftentimes exceeding not only the 10- but the 20- minutes mark, merging elements of contemporary metal with latin folk and soundtrack-score like […]
LINDEMANN, the second coming: the German-Swedish power duo Till Lindemann (Rammstein frontman) and Peter Tägtgren (mastermind behind legendary metal bands Pain and Hypocrisy) are set to unleash the second LINDEMANN album on November 22! In […]
Good Things Festival, Australia’s favourite alternative east coast summer music festival is almost upon us and it continues to bring the good news. As a strong supporter of Australian music and talent, Good Things […]
Perth’s heavy metal home HORNOGRAPHY returns for November with another local metal release party and a great variety of 3 sensational heavy live acts. Throw in a metal DJ, merch market, crowd photographer, slideshow […]
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