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Already respected as one of the finest drummers in the world, Dave Lombardo (Suicidal Tendencies, Dead Cross, The Misfits, Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Grip Inc., Slayer) has accomplished another longtime goal, adding film scoring to […]
Whoever has been following 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, over the past 9 years, does not only know that it is much more than just another festival at […]
“I’ve been doing this for 50 years, 10 with Black Sabbath and then 40 years of my own. This box set is my solo career.” – OZZY OSBOURNE For the first time in his […]
Industrial goth/rock quartet DAVEY SUICIDE will treat audiences across the West Coast to the first glimpse of new material from their upcoming album ROCK AIN’T DEAD-out January 24, 2020 via Out Of Line Music/InGrooves-as […]
The world’s premier rock and metal festival Download returns to Australia after a hugely successful 2019 that saw the event debut to 20,000 heavy music fans at Parramatta Park in Sydney and return to […]
This January is shaping up to be a wild one with Terror headlining around Australia in support of their latest album ‘Total Retaliation’ with special guests Malevolence for their debut visit to our shores. […]
Lloyd Cole’s new single ‘The Over Under’ (available now) is taken from Lloyd’s sensational new album ‘Guesswork’, which was released in July. Lloyd has long been a fan of Bristol contemporary artists Harrison and Wood and contacted […]
Status Quo released “Backbone” – their 33rd studio album back on September 6. The new LP was their 33rd 33rpm! A new video for the track “Running Out Of Time” can be seen below. […]
With more than 80 million albums sold and 16 Top 30 hits, Foreigner is universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world. Now, ‘Foreigner – Double Vision: Then And Now’ takes viewers […]
Nothing More, who’ve tallied three top 10 singles from their latest album, the 2017-released The Stories We Tell Ourselves (Better Noise Records/ Eleven Seven Label Group), have also shared a new video for the acoustic version of “Fade […]
Finland’s multi-Platinum cello-rock band Apocalyptica announce a spectacular new music video for “Rise”. Integrated with the achingly beautiful new song from the band’s upcoming studio album Cell-0, due out January 10, 2020 (Silver Lining Music), “Rise” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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“, […]
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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