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Dave Mathews Band, Crowded House, Patti Smith And Her Band, and others have been announced in Bluesfest’s first line-up announcement for 2020. The 31st annual Byron Bay Bluesfest is taking place from 9th – […]
Saint Asonia – featuring vocalist Adam Gontier, guitarist Mike Mushok, bassist Cale Gontier, and drummer Sal Giancarelli – have just dropped “The Hunted,” the first single from their forthcoming second album and Spinefarm Records debut […]
Emerging in the early 1980’s in Los Angeles, an American Heavy Metal legendary lead guitarist named CHRIS HOLMES was spawned in the iconic W.A.S.P.! and is finally making his debut appearance in Australia in […]
Crossover thrash unit TOXIC HOLOCAUST will release its long-awaited new full-length, Primal Future: 2019, on October 4th via new label home, Entertainment One (“eOne”). The band Terrorizer called, “a whirlwind of booze, denim jackets […]
The Butterfly Effect return! Clint, Kurt, Ben and Glenn have not released new music together for 10 years – since the release of their 2008 album Final Conversation of Kings. Earlier in 2019 – […]
Puddle of Mudd rise from the ashes with their sixth studio album in nearly a decade, entitled Welcome to Galvania. Formed in 1991, Puddle of Mudd has sold over seven million albums and has […]
Iconic shock rocker and Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famer Alice Cooper has announced he’s returning to Australia in February 2020 with his all-new “Ol’ Black Eyes Is Back” show. Special guests with Alice Cooper on the Australian leg of […]
Two of Australia’s greatest rock bands, The Angels and Baby Animals will hit the road together this November and December for a string of shows nationally, ‘They Who Rock 2019’. Fronted by Dave Gleeson and Suze […]
On the heels of the recently announced new album and headline tour, California’s greatest export and relationship experts Steel Panther are back with another music video from their upcoming album, Heavy Metal Rules. “Always […]
Dutch metal titans EPICA have launched a lyric video for ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ which is taken from the band’s upcoming re-release of »Design Your Universe« – Gold Edition. Mark Jansen comments: “’Kingdom of Heaven’ […]
Nuclear Blast Records is proud to welcome the worldwide signing of AS I LAY DYING. The band’s seventh album, »Shaped By Fire«, will be released on September 20th via Nuclear Blast. AS I LAY […]
MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST second single and video ‘Sleeping With The Light On’, KADAVAR release epic western music video for first single off For The Dead Travel Fast, DESTRUCTION release music video for “Inspired by […]
After two very successful releases with PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS and countless live shows with rock giants like GUNS N’ ROSES among others, legendary long-time MOTÖRHEAD guitarist Phil Campbell has finalized work […]
British heavy metal icons DIAMOND HEAD are pleased to unveil a lyric video for “The Sleeper.” The tune comes by way of the band’s critically-lauded The Coffin Train full-length, released earlier this year via […]
‘White Wedding’, ‘Dancing With Myself’, ‘Rebel Yell’, ‘Flesh For Fantasy’, ‘Eyes Without A Face’… with a huge list of global hit singles to his name including 8 x US Top 20 hits, rock icon Billy Idol needs little introduction to […]
Clem Burke, Blondie’s original drummer joins Bootleg Blondie to celebrate the classic Parallel Lines album (Heart of Glass, One Way Or Another, Sunday Girl, Hanging on the Telephone, Picture This) They will play the […]
Celebrating thirty years of music, Thunder will release a 28 track album entitled simply ‘The Greatest Hits’ on 27 September 2019 through BMG. Featuring tracks from each of their 12 studio albums, it is […]
Pack your bags, swags and comfy gladrags, because Western Australia’s beloved springtime musical adventure, Blues at Bridgetown, returns for 2019 with a weekend’s worth of melodic gifts and new memories to make from Friday-Sunday, […]
Longtime Uriah Heep keyboardist Phil Lanzon‘s second-ever solo album, ‘48 Seconds,’ will be released on Friday, August 9, 2019, via PLD (Phil Lanzon Ditties). Distributed by Cargo Records, the album will be available on […]
Tool have released the first track from the recently announced new album “Fear Inoculum“, the fifth studio album which arrives on August 30 via RCA Records. Stream the album’s title track, Fear Inoculum, now […]
Rock, Blues & Metal media publication The Rockpit is celebrating it’s 10 year anniversary in 2019! The rock media company recently announced the first event in Perth for September and now continue the celebrations […]
“Catfish Kate” is the first radio single From Pixie‘s upcoming album, Beneath The Eyrie. The animated new music video ventures deep into the imagination of the band’s main lyricists Black Francis. The clip weaves […]
The Darkness have released their brand new single Rock And Roll Deserves To Die, accompanied by a brilliantly entertaining video. It’s the first taste of their jaw-droppingly ambitious new album Easter Is Cancelled, out […]
The inaugural MEGACRUISE hosted by metal pioneers, MEGADETH, has announced the final lineup with the addition of GRAMMY®-nominated heavyweight metal band, Lamb of God. Departing out of Los Angeles aboard the Norwegian Jewel, this […]
On September 27th, DragonForce will unleash their 8th full-length album Extreme Power Metal, worldwide. Produced in Los Angeles, California by Damien Rainaud at Mix Unlimited, Extreme Power Metal was also recorded, in part, on […]
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