After a five year hiatus that threatened to extend a lifetime, the Bondi (now living in Byron Bay) three-piece Cog continue to shift gears with the announcement that they’re finally releasing more of their back catalogue, […]
HYPNO5E have forged the term “cinematic metal” with their truly epic- scope compositions, oftentimes exceeding not only the 10- but the 20- minutes mark, merging elements of contemporary metal with latin folk and soundtrack-score like […]
LINDEMANN, the second coming: the German-Swedish power duo Till Lindemann (Rammstein frontman) and Peter Tägtgren (mastermind behind legendary metal bands Pain and Hypocrisy) are set to unleash the second LINDEMANN album on November 22! In […]
Today sees the release of the live video for The Man, the new song from Johannesburg based quartet The Color Blew. The Rockpit has the Australian premiere which can be seen below. Taken from […]
Good Things Festival, Australia’s favourite alternative east coast summer music festival is almost upon us and it continues to bring the good news. As a strong supporter of Australian music and talent, Good Things […]
Off the back of a huge sold-out national headline tour, Australia’s elite metallers Northlane announce the 4D regional tour. The tour sees the band hitting up the east coast of Australia throughout January 2020 […]
Perth’s heavy metal home HORNOGRAPHY returns for November with another local metal release party and a great variety of 3 sensational heavy live acts. Throw in a metal DJ, merch market, crowd photographer, slideshow […]
Episode 11 of The Heaven & Hell show…presented by The Rockpit. Each episode is split into 2 segments – The first hour is Heaven, which represents the hard rock and blues and the second […]
Tempe, Arizona’s The Black Moods have released their third single titled “Whatcha Got?” The song has been added to over 30 Rock stations in the first two weeks and is poised to be their […]
Technical death metal Egyptologists NILE are proud to release their ninth album, Vile Nilotic Rites, today via Nuclear Blast. In celebration of the release the band offer fans the lyric video for the song, […]
Legendary NYHC pioneers AGNOSTIC FRONT are back to the scene with their 12th studio album, Get Loud!, which will be unleashed next week via Nuclear Blast. Today they release the music video for the […]
“Sweat” is the new single from US sleaze hard rockers KICKIN VALENTINA and the first single to be taken off the upcoming EP, “Chaos In Copenhagen“, out on December 6th. It’s a hell of […]
NIGHTWISH recently announced their new live release “Decades: Live In Buenos Aires“, which is due to be released on December 6th as: BluRay Digibook, 2CD Digipak, BluRay+2CD Earbook, 3LP. The band now release the […]
Beloved alt-rockers The Lemonheads return to Australia this December and today Handsome Tours announce the tour supports. Special guests for the tour are The Restless Age with local supports in each city (see below). […]
Midnight, the witching hour – even more so in the final night of October to the 1st of November, when according to the popular American Halloween tradition all sorts of ghosts, vampires, and other nocturnal creatures are […]
Melbournian hell raisers Clowns have had a MASSIVE year with the release of their fourth studio album Nature/Nurture bringing with it many a milestone. The album that had been dubbed “their strongest record yet” by Stack Magazine debuted at #6 in the […]
California’s Hollywood Undead have returned with their fiery new single, “Already Dead“, which premiered exclusively in the US on the satellite radio station SiriusXM Octane. The new single drops today on all digital stores […]
After touring Australia, Europe and America over the past 12 months, Melbourne’s Kingswood return with new single “You Make It So Easy“. An instant classic from the KW songbook, You Make It So Easy […]
Darwin’s metalcore five-piece, Summit, are back with a brand new single “The Good Life” and to accompany, the band is also excited to announce ‘The Good Life Tour’, their first tour of the East […]
The official lyric video for the new Motley Crue song “Ride With The Devil” can be seen below. The track appears on “The Dirt Soundtrack” that accompanies the recently released Netflix film “The Dirt“, […]
Ahead of this weekend’s WAMFest & WAMCon program, the 2019 WAMAwards lead the way in shining a dazzling light on an incredible weekend of local music to come. Returning to it’s luxe home at […]
The Maryland Doom Fest celebrates its 6th anniversary next June and today brings you its confirmed roster of over 50 of today’s heaviest bands to hit its stages in 2020. Maryland Doom Fest brings […]
The Helsinki Vampires THE 69 EYES recently released their 30-year-anniversary album »West End,« and immediately hit #1 in the Finnish charts. With plenty of tour dates in Europe and the USA at the horizon, the band is […]
Australia! Get ready as two of the UK’s most prestigious tribute acts hit Australian shores for the first time ever! Featuring legendary guitarists Sam Totman (Dragonforce) and Richard Shaw (Cradle of Filth), as well […]
Frontiers Music Srl has announced the signing of Dirty Shirley, a new band project featuring guitarist George Lynch (The End Machine, KXM, Lynch Mob, ex-Dokken) and vocalist/keyboardist Dino Jelusick (Animal Drive, Trans-Siberian Orchestra). Dirty […]
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