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HAMMERFALL has shared today the lyric video for “(We Make) Sweden Rock” following the world premiere on the big screens at Sweden Rock Festival prior to the band’s performance over the weekend. The track is […]
The Tea Party have announced details of their new single Way Way Down, just ahead of their anticipated Black River tour of Australia later this month. Way Way Down is available at all DSPs […]
In what has become a highly anticipated event for Australian music fans, Richard Clapton is excited to announce his yearly Sydney party, a show packed to the rafters with hit after hit. Aptly titled […]
With several shows on the upcoming Wisconsin Death Trip 20th Anniversary Tour already sold-out, STATIC-X has announced additional dates for this fall. The tour will feature the same lineup of co-headliners DevilDriver and support […]
Neurot Recordings is proud to reissue the landmark collaboration NEUROSIS & JARBOE, which was originally released in 2003. This latest version, which is fully remastered and features entirely new artwork from Aaron Turner, will […]
Clutch announce the release of “Evil.” The single is the first in a series of new studio recordings that will comprise the newly launched Weathermaker Vault Series and the first new official music Clutch […]
1989. Bob Hawke is still Prime Minister, Canberra and Hawthorn are NRL and VFL Premiers, the Berlin Wall came down and Bart Simpson became a TV superstar. Tim Burton’s Batman was released, the 14th […]
Perth groove metal act Bayview Suspect have had a stellar year in 2019 so far, first supporting the legendary Phil Anselmo & The Illegals alongside King Parrot at this year’s sold out Slayfest and […]
Turilli / Lione RHAPSODY unveil lyric video for new digital single ‘D.N.A., MAJESTICA release music video for “Above The Sky” title track, NORTHTALE release digital single & lyric video ‘Higher’ & “Welcome To Paradise”, […]
San Diego, California-based metal outfit CARNIFEX are proud to announce their 7th studio album, »World War X«, will be released on August 2nd via Nuclear Blast. Today, the band releases the first single, ‘No […]
Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Zakk Wylde, Nuno Bettencourt, and Tosin Abasi, collectively Generation Axe, will release The Guitars That Destroyed The World (Live in China) via earMUSIC / Edel on June 28. Today, Guitar […]
In advance of next week’s launch of YES‘ much-anticipated North American “The Royal Affair Tour,” the prog rock pioneers and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees have released online a nearly 40-minute documentary, […]
Nordic Noise was established in 2013 and is considered one of the most important Heavy Rock festivals in Scandinavia. In 2019 the festival is expanding to the UK for the first time and Nordic […]
Thy Art Is Murder have delivered another master lesson in brutality via their new single/video “Death Squad Anthem”. A champion for the youth who are fed up with the current political system, “Death Squad […]
Amon Amarth released their 11th full-length, Berserker, last month to critical acclaim via Sony Music Australia, and recently concluded their North American trek with Slayer, Lamb of God, and Cannibal Corpse. Mjolner, Hammer Of […]
Bass Drum of Death are heading back to Australia for the first time in over four years this October to bring their primordial garage quicksand to Yours & Owls Festival in Wollongong, along with […]
Sometimes you’ve just got to tell it like it is and make the best of a bad situation. Tyla, it seems is one of the many artists and fans to be ‘done over’ by Pledge […]
After recently completing a US tour with Whitechapel and Dying Fetus, REVOCATION will embark upon a North American co-headlining with Voivod. The month-long trek will see REVOCATION play their latest album, The Outer Ones, […]
GRAND MAGUS release video clip for “Untamed”, THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA announce brand new song, MEMORIAM release official lyric video for ‘Undefeated’. Two months ago, Swedish riff lords GRAND MAGUS have released […]
Following on from the release of their successful debut album Resurrection, MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST have completed the recordings for their second studio album, which is now scheduled to be released on (attention, new date:) […]
From a Sydney garage to Abbey Road Studios in London, Australian dream rock band, Crystal Cities, have come a long way in just over 2 years. In March of 2017 Crystal Cities released their critically […]
Ohio rockers Beartooth have today coupled the release of their slick new music video ‘Afterall’ with the reveal of two epic supports for their upcoming Australian Disease Tour in July, of which the Melbourne leg […]
Visceral, musically cinematic, otherworldly but strangely familiar and a bit unsettling, welcome to Pixies‘ brand-new studio album, Beneath the Eyrie, where tales of witches, Daniel Boone, misfits and other characters fit utterly into the […]
New York death metal giants IMMOLATION are proud to release the music video for ‘The Distorting Light’ off their latest release “Atonement”. The video was created and directed by Robert Vigna while Angelo Damanti handled the camera work […]
After announcing an interstate expansion last week, the hotly anticipated line up for SCENE & HEARD has landed. Hitting three locations including Cairns, Brisbane and Newcastle this October and November, festival organisers have locked […]
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