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DELAIN To Release New Album, Apocalypse & Chill, (0) Releases “(1136)” & New Video, Amberian Dawn Releases Cover of ABBA Hit “Lay All Your Love On Me”, SERENITY Releases New Single & Official Video for […]
With a career spanning close to 30 years of astonishing sorrow and heavy riffage, Crowbar will finally make their debut in Australia this week. Releasing 11 studio albums, coupled with singles and music videos […]
4x Platinum, 6x Gold record selling rock juggernaut FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH have announced their long awaited eighth studio album, titled “F8” today. The album will be released globally on February 28th, 2020 and […]
Premier independent U.S. music festival producer Danny Wimmer Presents announces the anticipated music and art lineup for the second annual Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival, which returns to MAPFRE Stadium in Columbus, Ohio […]
There are few bands who’ve had more of an effect on the course of classic heavy retro rock this decade than Germany’s and Nuclear Blast’s KADAVAR, having never sounded so much in command […]
SLAYFEST is proud to announce it’s returning in 2020 to deliver another massive night of rock’n’roll brutality for heavy music fans in the west, and the first line-up announcement is here! Headlining the 2020 […]
With Christmas only weeks away, we have the perfect stocking fillers for you and all your heavy music loving mates… write those letters to Santa and request your tickets to the official Download sideshows! […]
The Duke of Spook and his devilish ghouls, WEDNESDAY 13, has debuted an unreleased cover of Gary Numan‘s song ‘Films‘ from his debut solo album “The Pleasure Principle”, which just turned 40 this past […]
Clutch announce the release of “Fortunate Son”. The single is the fourth in a series of new studio recordings that comprise the newly launched Weathermaker Vault Series. “Growing up it was hard not to hear CCR’s Fortunate […]
Sunday, 16th December 2018: The cold fingers of winter have already reached out for the British capital but there is one place in London that is set on fire as KREATOR thrill their fans […]
Firmly placed as both progenitor and progressor within their field, MONO is like no other artist – visceral, engrossing and showing no signs of decay after two decades spent creating waves of beautiful and expansive rock […]
Grunge rock legends, L7 are set to unleash their live force when they return to Australia and New Zealand in May 2020! Unmistakable in their own unique sound, L7 pioneered the grunge movement with […]
For the first time in almost a decade, Boston-born pop punk outfit BOYS LIKE GIRLS will be returning to Australia in April 2020 to perform in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. At these […]
Rise Records is pleased to announce the signing of Norwegian band KVELERTAK. The band will release their long awaited, fourth studio album Splid on February 14th, 2020. The record will be the first from […]
H.E.A.T, the Swedish hard rock sensation, have now answered the question fans have been asking ever since the release of their single “One By One” in September 2019: when will the long-awaited new album […]
COLD CHISEL fans continue to show their love for the legendary Australian rock band with a day on the green shows in Victoria’s Yarra Valley and Orange, NSW now officially sold out, making this […]
Canadian heavy metal/thrash legends ANNIHILATOR are pleased to unveil the official video for “Psycho Ward.” The thought-provoking track centered on domestic violence, comes by way of the band’s seventeenth studio album, Ballistic, Sadistic, set […]
As part of their Amazing Disgrace World Tour, The Quireboys have announced an extensive tour of the United States, including stops in California, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Denver, Houston, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Cleveland, New […]
In Spring 2019, Blaze Bayley launched the ‘Tour of the Eagle Spirit’, taking in venues in Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Belgium, France, UK, USA and Canada. In September 2019 Blaze took that tour on […]
SandJam Presented by Pepsi announced this morning that Shinedown, 311 and Weezer will headline the 3rd annual rock music festival set for April 24-26, 2020 at Panama City Beach’s M.B. Miller Pier. Another 20 acts […]
PIXIES, one of the most influential alternative rock bands of all time, have just announced the support acts for their almost SOLD OUT Australian tour in March 2020. Both hailing from Melbourne, taking the […]
Neil Fallon is the lyricist, singer, and rhythm guitar player of the rock band CLUTCH. What you might not know, is that since 2017, he’s also been on the board of the non-profit organisation […]
Ocala, FL rock band A Day To Remember have unleashed their brand new single Resentment. The hard-hitting track is available to stream and download now HERE. The band has also shared an official music […]
Paul Dainty AM, President and CEO of TEG DAINTY is thrilled to announce that the jaw dropping, heart stopping, ARENA ROCK MUSICAL, Jim Steinman’s Bat Out Of Hell will tour Australia in June 2020! […]
Golden Robot Records (Part Of The Golden Robot Records Entertainment Group) are proud to announce the World-Wide singing of PHIL X & THE DRILLS. PHIL X needs no introduction having been an integral full-time member of […]
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