Slayfest is always a big event when it rolls around every year, having become one of the premier metal events in WA for those that love their music on the heavier side. Despite a […]
Electric State are a rock band from Perth, a recipe mix of Alice in Chains, a dash of Black Sabbath, chopped with Rival Sons with a Pearl Jam infusion. Throw a little bit of […]
The 8th instalment of Metal United Down Under (MUDU) returns in 2021! This year the annual event will be hosted at Badlands Bar in Perth on Saturday June 12th and will feature 7 acts […]
Hardware, the third solo album from ZZ Top front man Billy Gibbons, has wrapped recording and post-production and is set for release June 4th by Concord Records. The album was recorded at Escape Studio […]
Hey Sydney! You’ve waited so patiently, and the wait is now over as it’s revealed Full Tilt Festival is heading your way. That’s right, the biggest alternative music festival will be held at Bella […]
Crobot and Mascot Records have announced the global release of an EP titled Rat Child on June 18. The complete track listing features “Mountain” (featuring Frank Bello), “Kiss It Goodbye” (featuring Howard Jones), “Everyone […]
LAMB OF GOD is celebrating the release of the live edition of last year’s critically acclaimed self-titled album with a new lyric video for the bonus track ‘Hyperthermic/Accelerate.’ Available today via Nuclear Blast Records, […]
Finnish melodic metal band EVIL DRIVE strikes back again! On their 3rd upcoming album they present themselves more powerful and with major musical and technical improvements. The much awaited third album “Demons Within” will […]
Flesh & Blood was a short lived super-group put together by Mark Mangold (Touch, Drive She Said) on keyboards, Danny Vaughn (Tyketto) on vocals, Al Pitrelli (Savatage, Joe Lynn Turner, Alice Cooper) on guitar, […]
2x Grammy® nominated band Gojira have shared “Amazonia,” a brand-new single featured on their widely anticipated new album, FORTITUDE, which will be released April 30th via Roadrunner Records. “Amazonia” is available today HERE and […]
After thrilling their legion of fans by surprise dropping the blistering and brand new track Devastation, gold-selling, Columbus, Ohio-based rock band Beartooth have announced details regarding their fourth studio album Below. Fans can pre-order […]
SOCIAL DISORDER, lead by multi-talented Anders LA Rönnblom – best known as the founder and songwriter from Killer Bee and X-Romance as well as a member of Wolfpakk – has signed a worldwide deal […]
‘Suspicion‘ is the second serving from the latest batch of DATSUNS tunes, now ready to be dished up to the masses. Touching upon this present era of paranoia, the failure in the currency of words, what […]
Vanadium have a long history with the Perth metal scene that goes back to what many consider to be the golden age of the scene back in the 90’s, a time when local music […]
My love for these guys started back in 1989 when I heard the original Swedish pressing of their classic debut “Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride” in 1989 (a far superior album to the rejigged US release […]
US progressive hard rock band, FICTION SYXX featuring former members of BILOXI, XYZ, KING KOBRA, have released a music video for ‘Innocence‘, it’s the 3rd single out today and taken from the upcoming 3rd […]
Steel Panther is going big. Really, really, really big. Like, outdoor festival style show type of big! And they’re bringing 5 kick ass bands with them to electrify and amaze your eyeballs and ear […]
Today, SoCal icons and one of the best-selling punk rock bands of all time, The Offspring, have unveiled the accompanying music video for their recently released single Let The Bad Times Roll, the title track from their […]
Canadian melodic death metal heavyweights KATAKLYSM unleashed their 14th full-length studio album, UNCONQUERED, on September 25, 2020, via Nuclear Blast Records. Today. marks the 6 month anniversary of the release which garnered the band a Juno nomination. With the world […]
Melbourne’s melodic thrashers, TRIPLE KILL, release their new single ‘Finish The Fight’ in tribute to popular science fiction video game series, Halo. It is the first song released since the band’s debut album, Age […]
On April 16, Cannibal Corpse will release their fifteenth studio album, Violence Unimagined, via Metal Blade Records. For a preview of Violence Unimagined, the new single, “Murderous Rampage“, can be heard below. Comprised of eleven tracks, Violence Unimagined is state […]
While concerts and cheering crowds seem to be a long-lost echo from the past these days, melancholic progressive metallers AMORPHIS bring back some of the life and incomparable energy that many of us have […]
LAMB OF GOD has debuted a new live quarantine session video for the track “Routes,” featuring a guest appearance by Testament vocalist Chuck Billy. “Routes” is taken from last year’s self-titled release, which will see […]
Throughout March and April, some of the world’s greatest guitarists will come together to raise money and celebrate the music of legendary guitarist and composer Jason Becker, who has been living with ALS for […]
Internationally renowned Renaissance folk rock band Blackmore’s Night release the official music video for their new single ‘Second Element‘, taken from their new studio album “Nature’s Light“, released on March 12 Blackmore’s Night have […]
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