I think over the years I must have seen a couple of dozen Doors cover bands, some great and some awful, after all when it comes to cover bands The Doors are a sure-fire winner: […]
The Train has arrived….. and it’s time to get on….doors are closing. From the opening riff of the title track ‘Subway to the Stars’ your getting low heavy groove ridden guitar tones that sets the […]
The one minute and seventeen seconds of gentle acoustic guitar that opens this second release from Perth’s own Sister Switchblade reminds me of the intro to Icon’s mighty ‘Hungry for Love’ a deep cut of […]
The name Michael Sweet might be eternally entwined with the band Stryper but over recent years he’s been involved in a number of great projects – from fronting legends Boston for five years and two […]
TOOL have released OPIATE, UNDERTOW, ÆNIMA, LATERALUS and 10,000 DAYS on the various digital service providers for the first time – listen HERE. “Our obsession with, and dream of, a world where BetaMax and […]
On October 9, Metallica will bring “S&M²“, a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the original “S&M” concerts, album, and film that also commemorates the grand opening of the state-of-the-art Chase Center, a historic […]
The Wiesbaden guys THE NEW ROSES are Germany’s most successful new rock band! They will be celebrating their album release “Nothing But Wild” live at the Wacken Open Air on Friday, and there will […]
Sometimes albums are just released out of time, think of all the great records being made today that would have ridden high in the charts in years gone by. Roxy Blue’s 1992 debut – […]
When you talk about classic albums shaping genres Cruelty and the Beast by Cradle Of Filth sits proudly and menacingly at the top of the tree for extreme music. In 1998 Cruelty and the Beast was […]
Handsome Tours is delighted to present, for the first time in 15 years, mclusky*. Featuring Future of the Left members Andrew “Falco” Falkous and Jack Egglestone, with the addition of Damien Sayell from the […]
Norwegian black metal masters 1349 have announced the release date of their new album. The record, titled ‘The Infernal Pathway‘ was recorded in Amper Tone studios and Studio Nyhagen with engineer Jarrett Pritchard earlier […]
San Diego Deathcore masters Carnifex return for another round of annihilation in the form of new album WORLD WAR X and by hell below, it is a triumpant return. The overall theme of […]
The RED HOT SUMMER TOUR celebrates 10 years of Red Hot Rock in 2020 and in true style, organisers have put together an incredible all Australian line-up for a massive four-month series of dates. […]
Germany has produced some great Hard Rock bands over the years but at the moment there is none better than The New Roses, a band whose mix of Hard and Southern Rock with a pinch […]
With Pure Noise Records currently killing it with their heavy roster of hardcore bands, a tour featuring a selection of them was a no brainer and that loaded tour hit the Bottomlounge in Chicago […]
Wage War have released two new tracks from their forthcoming album ‘Pressure‘ – out Friday August 30 through Fearless Records and Caroline Australia! The album can be pre-ordered/pre-saved at https://lnk.to/wwpressure! The two tracks – […]
Bad Wolves have released the first track, “I’ll Be There” from their forthcoming new album. I’ll Be There debuted #6 on iTunes Metal Chart & Added to Breaking Hard Rock & Breaking Metal Apple Playlists. Bad […]
Two of rock’s most iconic modern day voices are coming to Australia for a world-first set of co-headline acoustic dates! Asking Alexandria’s Danny Worsnop and Bad Wolves’ Tommy Vext will bring their raw, un-plugged […]
Guitarist Lou DiBello certainly showed the world he is most talented on the six-string with his previous album, ‘Heat Wave’ (which contained the rocking highlight, “Full Throttle”). On August 2, 2019, he will prove […]
The Inaugural Perth Rocks Festival promised so much – Fifteen bands, two stages & nearly ten hours of high-quality live music – not only did it deliver but it ticked every one of those […]
Timing, as the saying goes, is everything. And when you’re a career artist like TOM KEIFER, you know exactly what it takes to get to the pinnacle and just how precarious it can be […]
Iggy Pop has unwound a drastically different track from his coming album Free (out 6 September via Caroline Australia). “James Bond” tells a story: “I don’t know what she’s up to exactly, but the tables […]
Kent’s favourite two-piece punk provocateurs, Slaves have released The Velvet Ditch EP, their first new material since the release of their UK top-ten album, Acts of Fear and Love. The EP sees the band showcasing the […]
Best described as “Oddly Timed Stoner Jazz Rock with a Dash of Goth”, Sydney’s Magnus spearheaded by enigmatic frontman Arne Heeres are back with “Humbugger“, their second single from forthcoming album Detachment. The tour will take the band […]
Aussie legends the Cosmic Psychos are excited to breathe new air into their 2011 album Glorius Barsteds by way of a Mikey Young remaster and a fresh lick of paint from illustrator Ben Brown. The […]
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