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To celebrate the release day of his first-ever solo album, GRAMMY® Award-winning singer / songwriter, Corey Taylor has announced that he and his band will be make history on October 2nd with Forum Or […]
For the first time ever, Sully Erna and Aaron Lewis, two of the most acclaimed frontmen in rock–the voices of multiplatinum rock bands Godsmack and Staind–will perform their hits together, side-by-side, in an intimate […]
BEHEMOTH Re-issues debut EP on vinyl and CD, THE OCEAN Premieres video for new single Pleistocene, SIX FEET UNDER Launch Lyric Video for new single “Zodiac”, ENSIFERUM launches lyric video for “Run from […]
JINJER Announces Alive In Melbourne Live Album, NACHTBLUT Release Second Single “Leierkinder”, THE UNGUIDED Reveal Video for New Track “Never Yield”, FEUERSCHWANZ Release Official Music Video For “Im Bauch des Wals”. Ukrainian modern […]
Scandinavia heads down under as Silverback Touring bring you two of Sweden’s finest Hard Rock exports H.E.A.T and CRAZY LIXX. This will be the first Australian Tour for both bands and the action takes […]
Nuclear Blast artist Hatebreed will release their eighth studio album Weight of The False Self. The 12-track album is stocked with pit-stirring anthems. It arrives on November 27 and is available for pre-order here: […]
There are nine more reasons to look forward to Wacken Open Air 2021, which will take place from July 29 to 31 and is already sold out. Slipknot, In Extremo, Sick Of It All, […]
Disturbed, the two-time Grammy nominated and multi-platinum band, have shared their cover of Sting’s hit single “If I Ever Lose My Faith In You.” Said the band about the new cover, “We have loved […]
Legendary SoCal artists (HED) P.E. just released their twelfth studio album, Class of 2020, via Suburban Noize Records on August 21. The date also marked the 20th anniversary of the group’s breakthrough album, Broke. […]
Upon its release in 1980, the ‘Ace Of Spades’ album was nothing short of a game changer for all forms of hard rock. Like lightning in a bottle, it perfectly captured everything great about […]
Australia’s maniac sons, King Parrot, are back with a blistering new track called “Banished, Flawed the Docile“, and it’s an absolute screamer. Delivering their uncompromising brand of thrashy, punked-out grindcore chaos, this is just […]
“Man (and woman) has strived for the ability to fly , from first acquiring altitude, to crossing continents, then oceans and then circling the globe, to heading out into Space, to trying to communicate […]
Rock ‘n’ roll duo Janet Gardner and Justin James premiere their latest music video for “Rise Up.” The track comes from the recently released Synergy album, available via Pavement Entertainment. “Rise Up” combines the […]
Twice Grammy-nominated and millions-selling progressive music titans DREAM THEATER have today released a statement about the Australian leg of their “Evening With” touring cycle. The dates, which were to happen in November 2020, will […]
New Zealand band, DEVILSKIN have released their fourth single and video from their album RED entitled ‘Sweet Release’. ‘Sweet Release’ focuses on the tragic, needless death of 21-year old Nicky Autumn Stevens in Hamilton […]
4 weeks after the release of their 21st studio album “Whoosh!”, Deep Purple continue on the path of the new album by releasing an official music video for their third single “Nothing At All”. The lyrics of […]
Perth rock act The Silent Deeds recently announced the release of their new EP “Down With Me” which will be out October 23rd. To celebrate, the band will launch the first of a series […]
Steve Hackett presents another taster from his forthcoming live release Selling England By The Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live At Hammersmith, which will be released on 25th September. Recorded in 2019 at the Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, […]
KILLER BE KILLED, Max Cavalera (Soulfly/ex-Sepultura), Ben Koller (Converge/Mutoid Man), Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan/The Black Queen) and Troy Sanders (Mastodon/Gone Is Gone), announce one of the year’s most anticipated heavy releases, confirming […]
Following riotous singles “Ormfolk” and “Forsen,” Finnish folk metal act FINNTROLL present the third preview from their upcoming album Vredesvävd with the new track “Mask”. Says the band of the song: “The worms of […]
PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS are back in town! The Hard Rock powerhouse from Wales announce their new album “We’re The Bastards” today, to be released on November, 13th via Nuclear Blast! Singer […]
DEATH DEALER, lead by ROSS THE BOSS have returned for another heavy metal attack with their 3rd record CONQUERED LANDS – to be released worldwide November 13, 2020, through STEEL CARTEL. Watch the album […]
One of Australia’s founding fathers of heavy metal is about to unleash his first new music in 22 years! Steve Hughes, known to the world for the last two decades as the cutting edge […]
Founding KISS guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame member Ace Frehley shared the second single from his highly-anticipated second collection of eleven rock ‘n’ roll covers titled, Origins Vol. 2, in the […]
ANAAL NATHRAKH Launch Lyric Video For New Single, “The Age of Starlight Ends”, ALLEGAEON’S RILEY McSHANE Joins weekly “Metal Blade Live Series” as host, SIX FEET UNDER Launch lyric video for new single “Amputator”, […]
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