Steve Hughes, one of Australia’s founding fathers of heavy metal unleashed his first new music in 22 years in late 2020 with the release of Eternum – Alone But For The Breath Of Beasts! […]
Metallica have released 3 versions of the track “Holier Than Thou” from the upcoming Black Album 30th anniversary boxset including cover versions by Biffy Clyro and Off! as well as a pre-production version of […]
SAVING ABEL has announced the return of original vocalist Jared Weeks and Shade of Grace – Twenty Year Songs, a new EP that revisits some of the group’s earliest material, out this Friday. Shade […]
Australian Progressive Metal/Hard Rock band Age of Emergence released the third single/lyric video, Ascender, from their EP The War Within Ourselves. The EP was released on 27 March 2020. The band was supposed to […]
German progressive heavy rock band, SONS OF SOUNDS, have released a music video for their new single Frequency Of Life, taken from their forthcoming album, witch will be released later this year via El […]
SoCal icons and one of rock music’s best-selling bands of all time, The Offspring, have debuted the accompanying music video for their recently released track This Is Not Utopia off their chart-topping tenth studio album Let The Bad […]
Long-running heavy metal supergroup DOWN, featuring vocalist Philip H. Anselmo, guitarists Pepper Keenan and Kirk Windstein, drummer Jimmy Bower, and bassist Pat Bruders, will return to the stage Friday, August 13th for a very […]
YES, who are Steve Howe, Alan White, Geoff Downes, Jon Davison and Billy Sherwood, will release their new studio album THE QUEST on InsideOutMusic/Sony Music on October 1. Containing 11 songs, 8 on the […]
Polish death metal legends VADER released their much acclaimed 15th full length, Solitude In Madness, in 2020 and proved to the world that even after almost 40 years of existence they were still one […]
It’s always great to hear new music from Albany’s The Erotics and whilst an EP always leaves you wanting more, to gather so much great music in just five tracks shows that an incredible […]
Apologies for the late review, mid pandemic I changed States and managed to get locked down in Melbourne leaving a pile of review material somewhere when I returned to NSW I completely forgot about […]
HEAVY METAL TELEVISION, the world’s longest running streaming video channel for hard rock and heavy metal music videos and content, will officially relaunch on Monday, July 5th at 12am Eastern Time. “It really is […]
At eight tracks long Wildstreet’s new album ‘III’ (their second full length) isn’t exactly over-delivering. It’s been ten long years since their EP ‘II’ which came out three years after their 2008 debut when […]
Beats Cartel presents a post-apocalyptic national display of strength and solidarity in AFTERMATH, a touring heavy event this Winter. With the shackles of the two years that was slowly being loosened, there has rarely […]
There’s a Harder dirtier Blues rock edge to opener ‘Fools Gold’ and even more guitar. It’s a wonderful start and one that sets you immediately at ease if you’ve enjoyed these guys before and […]
One Desire have two great big powerful Melodic Rock albums behind them and we’re just getting ready it seemed to take on the world when we were plunged into the pandemic. This is if […]
Guitarist Vinnie Moore, best known for his solo albums and work with rock icons UFO, has released a new video titled “Kung Fu Grip” from his latest album “Soul Shifter“! Says Vinnie, “This is […]
DORO Pesch of Warlock reveals the album artwork as well as the tracklisting for her upcoming live masterpiece Triumph And Agony Live, which will be released on September 24th through DORO’s own label, Rare Diamonds […]
Just recently, virtuosic extreme metallers, OBSCURA announced that their sixth studio album “A Valediction” will see the light of day on November 19th and that they are ready to hit the road with their upcoming European tour in […]
Today, the legendary Lee Aaron reveals the new video “Vampin‘.” The track is the third single taken from the forthcoming new studio album Radio On!, set for international release on July 23rd via Metalville Records. The […]
Still fresh from their “L.A. Collection” classic rock’n’roll dive into the past release, rockers LUCER return to the present with the song “Trouble“. The new single from the Danish four-piece is the first taste […]
Legendary guitarist Steve Hackett, releases his new studio rock album Surrender of Silence on 10th September 2021, via Inside Out Music. The album features 11 new songs as Steve has been working hard through […]
50 years ago, Daddy Cool‘s first single “EAGLE ROCK” topped the charts for months on end. It became a genuine cultural phenomenon, and the group’s debut album DADDY WHO? went on to break every […]
Here’s one to look out for if you’re on the East Coast of Australia… There’s a Grungy sway and staccato jangle of guitars of the title track to this EP and plenty of pent […]
Back in the early 90’s one of the best live bands you’d see in the pubs and clubs of Australia was Nick Barker and the Reptiles. They toured relentlessly and always put on a memorable […]
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