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Queen’s iconic music video for “Bohemian Rhapsody” has now officially passed 1 Billion views on YouTube, making history as the first pre-1990’s video to reach one billion views on the platform. The accompanying video […]
Godsmack – Sully Erna [vocals, guitar], Tony Rombola [guitar], Robbie Merrill [bass] and Shannon Larkin [drums]–have achieved a career first by scoring three #1 singles from the same album. This week, “Under Your Scars,”the […]
Slipknot has shared Solway Firth, the second new song to be released off their widely anticipated sixth LP, We Are Not Your Kind, which will arrive August 9th on Roadrunner Records. Solway Firth is […]
Have you ever wanted to give back to the men and women who put their lives on the line? Here’s your chance to help support them but not in the typical fashion. Operation Music […]
GRAMMY Award-winning metal band, High on Fire has announced a juggernaut North American fall tour with Power Trip. Dates kick off on November 7, 2019, at Levitation Festival, the 3-day music festival held in Austin, TX, now […]
KORN have shared the official music video for their new single You’ll Never Find Me. The Andzej Gavriss directed video can be seen below. You’ll Never Find Me is the lead single from KORN’s […]
Multi-platinum, four-time GRAMMY-nominated rock band Goo Goo Dolls have officially announced their highly anticipated 12th studio album, Miracle Pill, out September 13th, 2019 via Warner Records. In an exclusive feature with SPIN, lead singer and guitarist John […]
You are about to enter a hallucinatory space populated by witches and psychics, tarot cards and crystal balls, madness and trepidation, and a harrowing ride in a hearse driven by a Hell Hound. During […]
Pinnacle Music Group are absolutely thrilled to announce that the legendary guitar virtuoso MARTY FRIEDMAN will be returning to Australia, for the first time with his full “Super Band” across four VERY intimate venues. […]
Cradle of Filth keyboardist and vocalist LINDSAY SCHOOLCRAFT, has just released her stunning cover of The Cure‘s “Lullaby“. The song is from her upcoming album Martyr which was co-written by former Evanescence drummer Rocky Gray. Lindsay commented “Lullaby was […]
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, […]
Seminal rock band +LIVE+ today (July 19) release the super deluxe 25th anniversary edition of their landmark 8x multi-platinum sophomore album THROWING COPPER on Radioactive/MCA/UMe. The band today also shared the lyric video for […]
TWILIGHT FORCE unveil digital single & music video ‘Dawn Of The Dragonstar’, SONATA ARCTICA reveal details for upcoming album “Talviyö”, BURNING WITCHES digital single ‘Wings Of Steel’ out now, FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY release […]
The Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Beth Hart will be releasing her brand new studio album War In My Mind on 27th September via Provogue and, following the stunning sold out performance at the Royal […]
Iggy Pop has confirmed the title and release date of his new album: Free, the first new Iggy Pop album since 2016’s Post Pop Depression, will be released September 6 via Caroline Australia. While […]
CATTLE DECAPITATION will begin their Summer Slaughter takeover this Friday. Boasting its first-ever triple co-headlining bill, this year’s edition of the Summer Slaughter tour finds CATTLE DECAPITATION, Carnifex, and The Faceless all sharing the spotlight […]
Quiet Riot To Release ‘Hollywood Cowboys’ Album In November, Pretty Maids announce new album “Undress Your Madness”, Liv Sin to release new album “Burning Sermons” Veteran rockers Quiet Riot will release their new […]
Swedish heavy metal heroes SABATON release their new album “The Great War“, on Friday July 19th, 2019 on Nuclear Blast. It promises to be one of the biggest Metal albums of 2019. The release […]
It is hard to believe that is has been almost two decades since Killing Heidi released their debut offering Reflector. The album spawned the smash hit singles Weir and Mascara and embedded the album […]
Fresh of the back of a huge run of international shows, Hardline Media are absolutely stoked to announce that SACRED REICH & VIO-LENCE will be heading down under in late FEBRUARY 2020 for an […]
Dutch Metal titans EPICA are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their milestone album “Design Your Universe”. To mark this special occasion, EPICA will be re-releasing this fan-favorite album as a Gold Edition on October […]
In the early morning of June 13, 2019, the silence of the northern Swedish wasteland near the small town of Kiruna was torn by a bellowing hiss. At 04:23 the German Aerospace Center (DLR) […]
Previously unseen, candid images of Catfish and the Bottlemen in the studio, on the road and enjoying down time feature in the video for ‘Conversation‘, the latest single to emerge from the band’s third […]
Grammy-nominated, Gold-selling metal heavyweights Killswitch Engage have just shared new song, I Am Broken Too. Listen and watch the lyric video which features singer Jesse Leach’s handwritten lyrics below. The song appears on the […]
Today is the release of the new music video for multi-platinum rock band Skillet’s quickly climbing, Top 20 rock single “Legendary” in advance of their tenth studio album Victorious (August 2/Atlantic Records). Skillet currently […]
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