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Hold onto your snotty noses ladies and gentlemen, have we got some news for you! Wash those hands, horde that toilet paper, and get ready for the return of Perth’s favourite local metal night […]
KORPIKLAANI premiere their “Harmaja” live video, HEATHEN release album trailer, discussing the first single ‘The Blight’, DESTRUCTION release new live single “Born To Perish”. The folk metal superheroes KORPIKLAANI will premiere their […]
After 14 weeks of streaming from his remote Adelaide property and various breweries and wineries around Adelaide, Dave Gleeson and local guitarist mate Crafty have found a new home for their show and created […]
Australian rock and guitar legend Ian Moss has announced the release of the sixteen track concert album – LIVE – on Friday, 24 July 2020. Recorded at The Playhouse in Canberra and Sydney’s Enmore […]
Californian dark groove metallers Devildriver recently announced their upcoming double album, “Dealing With Demons“. The first volume — titled “Dealing With Demons I” — drops on October 9 via Napalm Records and marks the […]
The video for hard rockers Steelheart‘s timely, powerful, anthemic ballad “My Freedom” can be seen below. The song will be released digitally worldwide on Friday, July 3. Originally available on their most recent studio […]
Mongolia’s biggest rock band, The HU, have just dropped a beautiful new acoustic video for ‘SHIREG SHIREG’. The enchanting video for ‘SHIREG SHIREG’ shows behind-the-scenes footage of the band in the studio, offering fans […]
ELLEFSON the eponymous solo band of Grammy-Winning Megadeth bassist/co-founder David Ellefson has announced the release of NO COVER, an LP featuring 13+ cover songs including classic tracks from Motorhead, WASP, Def Leppard, Cheap Trick, […]
The Allman Betts Band release their second full-length studio album titled Bless Your Heart on Friday 28th August 2020 via BMG. The first single, “Magnolia Road” was released on all DSPs Friday, June 19. […]
On September 25, The Ocean will release their 8th full-length, Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic, via Metal Blade Records (CD / digital) and the band’s own Pelagic Records (vinyl). In 2018, The Ocean released Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic – the first half of […]
Roundhouse Entertainment and Frontier Touring wish to advise that it is necessary to reschedule the SIMPLE MINDS Australian and New Zealand tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Federal and State Government directives. The 40 Years […]
In what will be regarded as an incredible act of bravery Bluesfest has announced Early Bird tickets to its 2021 festival will go on sale today. This announcement comes one week ahead of what […]
Legendary British Blues Rock band Savoy Brown led by founding member Kim Simmonds, announces the August 28 release of their exciting new album, “Ain’t Done Yet”, on Quarto Valley Records. The new album follows […]
SABATON recently released a new live version of the album track ‘The Attack Of The Dead Men’ featuring RADIO TAPOK, which will be physically released on July, 10th. Today, SABATON present a new video […]
On Saturday, July 11th at 6:00AM AEDT, Trivium, the kings of streaming who have been embracing the art of the livestream for years, will play their first live show since the April 2020 release […]
Experience the electricity of a live CANDLEMASS performance straight from your home! The Swedish Grammis award-winning/US Grammy-nominated doom metal legends are scheduled to host their very first livestreaming concert – a special performance to […]
Whitechapel have launched a new animated video for the track “Doom Woods“, which appears on their latest album, The Valley (2019). Guitarist Alex Wade comments: “We are excited to release the animated video for […]
In the world of rock, GILBY CLARKE needs no introduction. From crunching legendary chords on his beloved Gibson Guitar in the stadiums with Guns N’ Roses, to getting down into the Snakepit to with his GNR buddy Slash, gracing our […]
Following on from the release of their single ‘Crawl’ back in April, which clocked up well over 100,000 streams on Spotify within weeks, L.A. GUNS have dropped their next track ‘Well Oiled Machine’, through Golden Robot Records. Also lifted […]
Swedish hard rock act H.E.A.T. have released the final single from their highly acclaimed “H.E.A.T II” album recordings. With this new single “Back To Life“, H.E.A.T bring the listeners back to life from the […]
The official lyric video for “Blood From Above“, the new single from openly Christian hard rockers STRYPER, can be seem below. The song is taken from the band’s forthcoming album, “Even The Devil Believes“, […]
NONPOINT premiered their impassioned frontlines tribute video for “Remember Me” today! The band is currently in the studio and will be releasing new music this fall. “This Frontlines tribute aptly named “Remember Me” edited […]
Extreme metallers BRUJERIA are proud to release their new »COVID-666« digital single via Nuclear Blast Records. In celebration, the band offer fans the release of the quarantine themed music video for their title track […]
Bay Area thrash legends HEATHEN are back! Today, the band reveal the details of their fourth studio album entitled, Empire Of the Blind, which will be released on September 18th via Nuclear Blast Records. […]
One and a half years after the release of her extremely successful double album “Forever Warriors, Forever United” (#1 in the German vinyl charts, # 4 in the album charts), metal queen DORO Pesch […]
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