All the latest in the local music scene across the U.S. and Canada
DEEP DARK RIVER, the acoustic doom, folk, blues, ambient and soul side project from Vesperia‘s Morgan Rider has posted a new video covering DIO‘s “Holy Diver”. Rider comments: “I had a lot of fun working on […]
Imagine if Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, and Alice Cooper had a grandmother that fronted a rock band…enter Granny 4 Barrel! A Neo-Victorian steampunk shock rock nightmare – she is the Matriarch of Metal! And […]
Baltimore pop-punks At Face Value (formerly Face Value) is back with the follow up to 2016’s “Thick as Thieves”. Upcoming EP “Ivy & Echo” marks the band’s first under the new moniker, and their […]
Calgary, AB’s 420 Music & Arts Festival presented by METALHEADS UNITED announces their 2018 line-up for April 19th, 20th, and 21st featuring headliners Dopethrone, Brant Bjork (Kyuss, Vista Chino) (special guest DJ set on 420), Sasquatch and La Chinga along with over 20 other […]
Rock band From Ashes To New have released their single and lyric video for “Crazy,” premiering the song on SiriusXM Octane today. “Crazy” is the first single off of their upcoming LP, The Future, […]
Recently signing to Vancouver, BC’s TEST YOUR METAL RECORDS this past December, North Carolina sci-fi metallers XAEL have their next video offering “Last Arbiter” as part of their forthcoming sci-fi adventure album of the same title set […]
Australia’s own, The Lazys, have signed a record deal with Golden Robot Records, for the release of their new album, Tropical Hazards, outside of Canada, where the band now resides, and is one of the […]
F.W. Murnau’s silent classic Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is the nightmarish backdrop for this gothic-tinged, progressive rock track. “Thought and Memory” is from the 2017 EP “Dragonfly“. “Dragonfly” is the follow-up EP to […]
A name is a name is a name is a name. In the case of Canada’s MORPHCORED, this is entirely the case. The band was birthed into existence as the result of ‘morph’-ing early […]
Christian Metal Band TOARN has released the official music video for the single, “Jonah,” off of their upcoming debut LP, The Dying Flame, due out February 23 via Luxor Records. Filmed and Directed by […]
Following the huge success of their second album ‘Burn The Ships’, which saw the single ‘Where the Wind Blows’ hit number 27 on the Billboard Rock Charts; Texan rockers Blacktop Mojo are releasing their […]
Combining the melodicism of Dokken with the hard-hitting approach of Pantera, SiLK9 is certainly one of the more promising hard rock/heavy metal bands to hit the scene in modern times. And this is certainly […]
Houston-based progressive metal outfit, OCEANS OF SLUMBER, have debuted the music video for the title track, “The Banished Heart”, off of their upcoming March 2 release via CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS. The band commented, “As […]
Deliverance are pleased to announce they are working with Roxx Records and 3 Frogz Records, to officially release their brand new album, ‘The Subversive Kind,’ on February 23rd, 2018. Hailing from Los Angeles, the […]
From the American South, Kentucky, comes southern blues rock champions, OTIS, who released their critically acclaimed second album “Eyes Of The Sun” on Purple Pyramid Records in September 2017. The album was Executive Produced […]
With just over a dozen years under their ornate-buckled celtic belts, Canada’s Battlesoul have forged an enduring anthology of epic-ness crafted from the blazing furnace of molten metal. What is most telling is their […]
The fast-rising Madame Mayhem shows why her band gained countless fans recently, supporting Fozzy for a European tour – in the form of her new killer music video, for the track “War You Started.” […]
Inspired by artists as diverse as Volbeat, Crobot, David Wilcox, System of A Down, Nirvana, Megadeth, Black Sabbath and Slayer, yet forging their own unique sound, Ottawa, ON’s TRIGON have a new single to share with fans […]
Toronto-based symphonic metallists Operus will have the honor of supporting a pair of dates for one of the genre’s top bands on January 26th and 30th, when they will open for Rhapsody (on their […]
U.K.-based punk rockers, COUNTERFEIT. have made a name for themselves across the pond and are ready to conquer North America. Kerrang! has called the band “the real deal” and V Magazine called their album, […]
Los Angeles, CA’s progressive rock/metal outfit SIFTING have taken the art of progressive shred to a whole new level with their ground-breaking new music video for the song ‘Epsilon’. This is the fourth music […]
Primitive Race has released the lyric video for their “Cranial Matter,” off of their November 3rd released Soul Pretender LP, to celebrate the album’s dubut on NACC Top 200 and #27 Weighted / #22 […]
The Dangerous Summer have released a new single today, “Valium”, the third off their upcoming album The Dangerous Summer, out January 26th via Hopeless Records. Check out the static visual video for “Valium” below. The release of “Valium” […]
Malden, Massachusetts traditional heavy metal band IRON WILL, featuring members of RAVAGE backing vocalist Tony ‘The Metal Duke’ Canillas has released a cartoon lyric video for the song “Nightmares” from the band’s new independent […]
Of Virtue has released their brand new single, “Surrounded” officially. Originally premiering via Alternative Press on Jan 19th, today the video/song are finally live on all formats including YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp […]
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