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On January 25th, King Diamond will release a new DVD/Blu-ray, Songs For The Dead Live, via Metal Blade Records. There is only one King Diamond, and for more than thirty years the great Dane […]
JINJER Premiere New Single & Video For “Dreadful Moments”, CANDLEMASS New Album The Door To Doom out February 2019, OOMPH Premiere First Single “Kein Liebeslied”, PADDY AND THE RATS Release New Song Celebrating The […]
Nordic Noise Rock Festival can proudly announce the Swedish legends CANDLEMASS as the headliner of the 2019 program. ”Finally! We have been trying to get Candlemass to play Nordic Noise for the last couple […]
The December edition of Perth’s newest metal club HORNOGRAPHY is here! Embracing the festival season with an extra heavy embrace, metal fans will party amongst comrades and celebrate the music that we love. This […]
THE NEAL MORSE BAND—Neal Morse (lead vocals, guitars, keyboards), Mike Portnoy (drums, vocals), Randy George (bass), Bill Hubauer (keyboards, vocals), Eric Gillette (guitars, vocals)—world premiered the first song and Christian Rios-directed lyric video, “Welcome […]
Australia’s foremost Kings of progressive, extreme heavy music, Ne Obliviscaris have put together an incredible touring line up that will dominate the nation in May, 2019! Since the release of the bands critically acclaimed […]
With Judas Priest‘s latest studio album, “Firepower“, confirmed as one of the most successful of the band’s entire career — landing in the Top 5 of 17 countries (including th eband’s highest chart placement […]
The soaring success of “Bohemian Rhapsody” — the Freddie Mercury/QUEEN movie that is set to become the biggest grossing music biopic of all time — has proven that the public’s love for QUEEN remains […]
The legendary Sevendust returns to Australia and New Zealand in April 2019 – presented by MJR Presents and 24/7 Metal and Rock station/app The Faction! Sevendust are coming to celebrate their 2018 Rise Records […]
The Hamburg-based musician, Frank Us, has created a debut album that lovingly plays tribute to a golden era of progressive rock, while looking forward with his own vision. Centered around Us’ Gilmour-ish vocals are […]
Long is the time since billboards across the country have lit up with the name Divinyls. A brand synonymous with raw, exciting, and above all uncompromising rock ‘n’ roll. A band that won the […]
High On Fire have announced the Electric Messiah tour 2019 in continued support of their new LP released earlier this year. These dates will be the first time the band has played live since […]
GOTTHARD release new live single ‘Feel What I Feel’ , TERROR release ‘In Spite Of These Times/One More Enemy’ music video, BEAST IN BLACK unleash new single & music video ‘Sweet True Lies’ […]
DOWNFALL OF GAIA Announces New Album, ‘Ethic Of Radical Finitude’, HATE Death/black metallers from Poland enter the studio, VOMITORY ‘Raped In Their Own Blood’ and ‘Redemption’ re-issue, VISIONS OF ATLANTIS New Live Album Out […]
The Ocean‘s highly anticipated 8th studio album Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic is out now via Wild Thing Records. The band are heading to Australia in January as part of the epic Progfest 2019! As a […]
NIGHTWISH present a monumental live video for the song “Ghost Love Score” taken from their upcoming »End Of An Era« re-issue October 21st 2005 is a historic date for every NIGHTWISH fan – many […]
Metallica is set to release an LP titled Helping Hands: Live & Acoustic at the Masonic on Feb. 1 consisting of songs performed at their acoustic benefit concert in San Francisco earlier this month. […]
On 18th January 2019, Mascot Records will be reissuing Torque’s 1996 stand-alone self-titled album which features former Machine Head/Vio-lence guitarist Phil Demmel. The album includes 4 bonus tracks and as well as CD, will […]
After warming you up with our first announcement in September, it’s time to break out the big guns. Today we’re adding 16 killer bands to DESERTFEST LONDON, including the lineup for 2019’s Old Empire […]
Good news, Slaves fans! The punk duo, already announced to perform at Download Festival in Melbourne and Sydney will be playing their debut headline shows at Amplifer Bar in Perth and The Brightside in […]
After selling out shows in Auckland plus Brisbane, Melbourne and now Sydney, seminal American rock band Eagles have now added additional shows to each sold out city. The best-selling American band of the 70s […]
Cradle of Filth keyboardist and female vocalist LINDSAY SCHOOLCRAFT is embarking on her first ever solo tour, and has chosen the far-flung and haunted shores of Australia for a round of DJ sets in […]
Buckcherry will release their new studio album, Warpaint, on March 8, 2019. The 12 song album, featuring 11 new Buckcherry songs along with their cover of the Nine Inch Nails track Head like a […]
Things will get a whole lot darker and more sinister in December as Sydney and Melbourne play host to MICHALE GRAVES for 2 nights of pure Horror Madness and a set list Heavy with […]
Legendary New Jersey thrashers OVERKILL will unleash their 19th studio record, »The Wings Of War« , on February 22nd, 2019 via Nuclear Blast . Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth comments: “It was a blast making The […]
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