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Buckcherry’s new studio album, Warpaint, scheduled for a March 8 release, is available for pre-order. The 12 track album is available in both CD and vinyl formats. Anyone pre-ordering the album digitally will receive […]
Norwegian black metal masters 1349 have released a new single, titled ‘Dødskamp‘. The song has been commissioned by Innovation Norway, Visit Norway and the Munch Museum, who asked four Norwegian artists within four different […]
This year’s lineup for Rocklahoma festival has been announced with legendary Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne leading the charge with Disturbed and Shinedown as headliners alongside a big lineup that includes Bush, Steel Panther, […]
Rose Tattoo’s – ‘Never Too Loud’, released in 1997 through Repertoire Records Germany, was a ‘Popumentary’ Series, spanning the band’s career at the time. Now, 22 years on, the Hard-Ons, join Rose Tattoo on their […]
Announcing the MAX & IGGOR CAVALERA ‘BENEATH THE REMAINS AND ARISE’ tour – celebrating an incredible selection of the best tracks from the two albums each night! The legendary brotherly duo of MAX & […]
Santa Ana’s Observatory OC (3503 S. Harbor Blvd) will host the massive DIMEBASH 2019, fueled by Monster Energy, on Thursday, January 24, 2019! The event will be hosted by Sirius XM’s Jose Mangin, and […]
Swedish visionary metallers SOILWORK have released their long awaited new album, Verkligheten! In celebration of the release the band has also released the music video for crushing song ‘Witan’. Coinciding with the release of the globally […]
“Fall Into The Light“, a brand new song from progressive music titans Dream Theater, can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming 14th studio album, “Distance Over Time“, which will […]
BEAST IN BLACK – unveil new single ‘Die By The Blade’, IN FLAMES – drop lyric video for ‘I, The Mask’, BLIND GUARDIAN – reissue “The Forgotten Tales”, “Tokyo Tales” and “Live”. […]
The Neal Morse band – Neal Morse (lead vocals, guitars, keyboards), Mike Portnoy (drums, vocals), Randy George (bass), Bill Hubauer (keyboards, vocals), Eric Gillette (guitars, vocals)—will take fans on THE GREAT ADVENTURE with their […]
It’s not every day that metalheads get the opportunity to witness three of metal’s finest vocalists on the same concert stage – Tim “Ripper” Owens (JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH, DIO DISCIPLES), Harry “The Tyrant” […]
Chainsaw have sharpened their blades and are ready to slaughter Australia. Let the bloodbath begin! Chainsaw are a 4 horse powered thrash act based in Stockholm, Sweden. The band was founded in 2003 with […]
Gary Clark Jr. returns with a brand new and powerful single This Land from the album of the same name. The song is taken from his forthcoming third full-length album, This Land to be […]
Cancer Bats are charging into the new year with a brand-new track titled Inside Out. Recorded during the same sessions that made their critically-acclaimed sixth studio album The Spark That Moves, the band opted […]
Melodicrock.it, in collaboration with Burning Minds Music Group & Rock Temple, is proud to announce the third, official edition of “A Melodic Rock Night“! After the success of the first two events, “A […]
Flotsam And Jetsam release their blistering new album ‘The End Of Chaos‘ on 18th January on AFM Records. They’ve just released their last teaser before the album comes out, and you can check out […]
The mighty Behemoth will soon be in Australia as part of the Download Festival! In anticipation of the trek, the band have launched a new video for Ecclesia Diabolica Catholica (directed by Grupa 13), […]
For the very first time, German progressive and technical death metal virtuosos OBSCURA bring their jaw-dropping musical prowess to Australia and New Zealand! From their very beginnings in 2002, the band have demonstrated an […]
Masked Intruder, the ski-mask clad, punk rock felons from Madison, Wisconsin have announced details surrounding their escape from prison and upcoming album III, their third full-length and debut release on Pure Noise Records / […]
Millencolin have released a new song Nothing, from their upcoming album SOS, out February 15 on Epitaph. SOS, is Millencolin’s ninth studio album and their first in four years, it was recorded at the […]
UK’s legendary extreme metal icons CRADLE OF FILTH recently announced their return to North America in support of their latest album Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay! For the second leg of their North […]
Metro Detroit’s newest pop culture convention, Astronomicon 2, will once again take place at the Wyndham Garden hotel in Sterling Heights, MI from February 8-10, 2019 – promising to fulfill the pop culture cravings […]
Of the iconic images of the 80’s decade in Rock n Roll, one that certainly stood the test of time is Alice Cooper’s then “Rambo-looking” guitar player shooting fires on the crowds from his […]
Mark Morton, the prolific guitarist of Lamb of God, has released the second single from his debut solo album, Anesthetic, out March 1, 2019. “Cross Off” featuring Chester Bennington premiered today as Zane Lowe’s World Record […]
After the loss of saxophone player and longtime band member Magic Gunnarsson (who died in a drowning accident 2014) Sulo and the rest of DIAMOND DOGS called it a day. They released the album […]
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