The wildest, wettest, dirtiest, hardest, heaviest most rocking heavy metal tour to hit Australia and New Zealand shores ever in the history of anything ever is coming….a little later than originally planned. For obvious […]
Vocalist and co-founder of legendary ‘80s hard rock group Great White, Jack Russell, is proud to announce the release of a very special acoustic album revisiting the band’s 1987 multi-platinum masterpiece Once Bitten featuring […]
After their “The Aeromantic Experience” tour was cancelled due to travel restrictions because of Covid-19, THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA announce a live stream concert on forthcoming Saturday, April 18th, straight from The Tivoli. The […]
Scottish craft brewer BrewDog and American heavy metal band LAMB OF GOD announce the release of the world’s first non-alcoholic collaboration beer, Ghost Walker. The announcement was originally planned for the start of the […]
The Date are one of Perth’s most beloved and enduring bands. Now into their fifth album, the band remain true to their ethos of ‘write for yourself but play for your fans’ on the […]
Caligula’s Horse, hailing from Brisbane, Australia, a leading light in contemporary progressive metal worldwide, recently announced their fifth studio album Rise Radiant for release on May 22. Produced by the group’s Sam Vallen, and […]
2020 may be the scene of real life dystopia but in the sleepy town of Wimborne things have been brewing since 2018 when one of industry’s best kept secrets Clams stepped back into the […]
One of my favourite albums of last year was by a band Id never heard of before, Hepcat Dilemma. Not only was it unexpected it was also chock full of the sort of music […]
Finnish sextet NIGHTWISH have released their long-awaited ninth record HUMAN. :II: NATURE., a double album containing 9 tracks on the main CD and one long track, divided into eight chapters on CD 2. To […]
Released to coincide with their incredible 50th anniversary in 2019, this documentary traces the history of a band who became the unlikeliest stars of the generation. It starts off setting the scene with shots […]
The official lyric video for the song “Glorious End” from the thrash metal force Warbringer can be seen below. The track is taken from Warbringer ‘s new album, “Weapons Of Tomorrow“, which will be […]
Six albums in Vega are sounding great and opener ‘Blind’ has the sort of assured swagger that sets your mind at rest that this will be another classic: it’s a song with ‘stamped on’ Melodic […]
I loved 2018’s ‘Waking Up Dead’ and two years later Bullets and Octane are back with another weighty slab of punk-fueled kick ass dirty hard rock and roll with ‘Riot Riot Rock ‘n’ Roll’. […]
Mongolian rock sensation THE HU is releasing a brand-new music video for “Wolf Totem” featuring Papa Roach front man Jacoby Shaddix. The video is the first from the soundtrack of The Retaliators, a new horror-thriller from Better Noise Films, […]
UK hard rock band, RYDERS CREED, have released their new lyric video for ‘Cut Me Down‘, the second single from the highly anticipated 2nd album ‘Lost Souls‘, which will be released May 8th via […]
With only one month left until the release of their sophomore album SUNSHINE on May 8 via Steelhorse Entertainment/The Fuel, Arizona-based rock and roll trio THE BLACK MOODS–whom the Arizona Republic describe as “the […]
Recently, BLUES PILLS announced their thrid studio album, “Holy Moly!” to be released on June 19th, 2020 via Nuclear Blast and today, they release a new video for the second single, ‘Low Road‘ from […]
Stockholm’s masters of melancholy, Katatonia, have outdone themselves once again with yet another beautiful, meticulously written masterpiece titled ‘City Burials’. With a career spanning close to 30 years, Katatonia have evolved throughout the […]
H.E.A.T is a band that has always been at the forefront of the resurgence of modern Melodic Rock and whilst in the past they’ve experimented here and there this year – 2020 they’ve taken everything […]
Finland’s SINISTHRA featuring Amorphis vocalist Tomi Joutsen are sharing the first single ‘Closely Guarded Distance‘ off their forthcoming album, “The Broad and Beaten Way” due out May 15, 2020 via Rockshots Records. The band comments about the song: “‘Closely Guarded Distance’ is the centrepiece of […]
Faroese Viking lords Tyr will bring the bite of winter’s frost to our shores in October 2020, and they will be accompanied their Russian compatriots Arkona for this massive Folk Metal double bill! All […]
Opening with the title track ‘Change the World’, Harem Scarem’s 16th studio release instantly reminds you of why this band should always have been huge. There’s no one out there in Melodic Rock land […]
Rocklahoma 2020 was slated to take place between May 22 and 24 at Pryor Creek Music Festival Grounds in Pryor, OK. The festival has now been cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and […]
Ex-The Runaways singer Cherie Currie has set an April 28 digital release date for “Blvds Of Splendor“, her latest solo project, via Blackheart Records. The LP features guest collaborations with Billy Corgan of Smashing […]
“Fatal Frame”, the second single off the upcoming album Premonitions, to be released on May 8, 2020 via Napalm Records, is yet another marvelous sample of SOJOURNER’s unsettling sonic storytelling. The maestros of levitating […]
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