Iconic rock band ALEXISONFIRE debuted a brand new song, “Familiar Drugs” today. Produced by AOF, long-time friend Karl Bareham (City and Colour), and mixed by Grammy-award winning Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Kings of Leon, […]
Heavy Pettin’ first stirred into action when vocalist Hamie, guitarists Gordon Bonnar and Punky Mendoza, drummer Gary Moat and bassist Brian Waugh first burst out of Glasgow in 1981. They were vibrant, priapic, anthemic […]
Italian progressive metal band, LAST UNION, have announced European – Eastern Europe Tour Dates as support of DELAIN & AMARANTHE, and one show with SOUNDSTORM & KALIDIA. LAST UNION have released their debut album ‘Twelve‘ […]
Memphis, Tennessee rockers EVERY MOTHER’S NIGHTMARE kicked off the first of their 2019 dates at TC’s Midtown in Conway, AR on Saturday, February 9th. EMN currently has several dates scheduled with more pending confirmation. […]
The Wildhearts release Dislocated, the first song from their forthcoming album ‘Renaissance Men’. Listen to the cathartic Dislocated HERE. On 3rd May ‘Renaissance Men’, The Wildhearts’ first full-length studio album in 10 years is […]
I love it when you get mail, real physical mail. When we started off the Rockpit ten years ago it was a rare treat to get records in the mail, but after a few years […]
Valentine’s Day + Beth Hart = A pretty faultless combination and this was evident with a near full house at Mt Lawley’s Astor Theatre on Thursday night, as the singer songwriter opened her Australian […]
Finnish folk metal legends Ensiferum will be hitting Australia’s East coast at the end of Februrary. Ahead of the tour, we conversed with bassist Sami Hinkka about the band’s plans for the upcoming shows, […]
By enormous demand, more new shows have been added to Elton John’s mammoth Farewell Yellow Brick Road World Tour, which lands in Australia-New Zealand in November this year. The music legend will bring his […]
New Zealand native hard rock band Like A Storm came stateside to headline the first ever satellite radio stations Sirius XM Octane Accelerator tour. This tour was created to help up and coming rock […]
BEAST IN BLACK unleash music video for “From Hell With Love”, THE VINTAGE CARAVAN release Fleetwood Mac cover ‘The Chain’, ANTHEM release new digital single ‘Immortal Bind’. Up and coming metallers BEAST IN […]
Novacastrian Hardcore outfit Liberties are today announcing the release of their Broken EP on April 5, along with the drop of their new single and videoclip ‘Crooked States‘! The new EP is available to […]
Born out of the emerging metal scene of Calgary, Alberta in Canada, RED CAIN is a modern melodic metal project with European roots. With intricate songwriting, a heavy yet melodic feel reminiscent of progressive […]
Pop Evil has released a new music video for their track “Be Legendary” today as the band continues to wow fans across the U.S. on their current headline tour. “Be Legendary” marks the fourth […]
Black Veil Brides vocalist Andy Black has announced “The Ghost Of North America Tour 2019” for April and May. The tour will feature support from The Faim and Kulick. Andy Black recently released his […]
The beauty of music is that sometimes you give an album a few spins and you’re not quite sure what to say, you know there’s something there but the music is either out of your […]
I remember loving Heaven’s Basement (2008 – 2017) the band Buchanan joined in 2010 and left in 2015 and their blistering EP’s and debut album ‘Filthy Empire’ – a band that joined that long list […]
Lizzy Borden Celebrates Valentine’s Day with a new music video, Visigoth launch video clip for “Traitor’s Gate”, Sacred Reich Begin Recording New Album, Exumer reveals details for new album, ‘Hostile Defiance’, Blaze Of Perdition […]
Perth’s new home of local metal meetups HORNOGRAPHY is all locked in for another month, this time with a special event – the new album release party for local metal act ALL THIS FILTH! […]
Australian-American Rock collective THE DEAD DAISIES recently revealed music from their latest album, Burn It Down, would feature exclusively as the soundtrack for the upcoming horror anthology TV series, “Welcome To Daisyland” which […]
TRAUMA has released a new lyric video for the song “From Here To Hell“. That song is on the album “As The World Dies“, which will be released on February 15th 2019 via PURE […]
East Coast’s Sabbath-worshipping metallers HIGH REEPER are unleashing the video for ‘Bring The Dead‘ today via Kerrang! Their sophomore album ‘Higher Reeper‘ comes out March 22nd on HPS Records. Headbang or die! And these […]
A public memorial for former Rigor Mortis and Warbeast vocalist BRUCE CORBITT will be held on Saturday March 9th at the Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth, Texas. CORBITT passed away on January 25th following […]
The Flaying, death metal from Quebec City, Canada will release their second album “Angry, Undead” on March 22, 2019, via PRC Music. Working with Christian Donaldson (Cryptopsy) at The Grid in Montreal, QC, the band has […]
Metal United World Wide, the huge metal community effort, goes in the second round. The date is set: 15 June 2019! That’s only 4 months to go and preparations are speeding up. Last year, […]
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