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EARTH SHIP Resonant Sun Out Today – Streaming In Full, SÂVER Sign To Pelagic Records! Debut Album “They Came With Sunlight“ To Be Released In Early 2019, SET AND SETTING Stream New Album Tabula […]
GWAR Releases Video For Viking Death Machine, MOTHER FEATHER Streams New Single, Snakebite, HAMFERD Releases Live Video Of Stygd, ARTILLERY Reveals Details For New Album, ‘The Face Of Fear’ GWAR is pleased […]
What an anniversary! After uncountable releases, TOP 1 chart entries in the international album charts as well as an gold award, it’s time to celebrate 25 years of rock and metal! Or to put […]
Danish band Hexis are back, bringing their blood-soaked blackened hardcore to us for 20 dates around Australia with special guests Break Through (Mosh Metal from Hobart). “Think of the most oppressive, putrid, and harrowing music […]
Ryan Hamilton and the Harlequin Ghosts have just signed to Wicked Cool Records and they have been working with the legendary Stevie Van Zandt. The band are proud to announce the first single with the new label Bottoms Up (Here’s […]
OZZY OSBOURNE’s Saturday, October 6 show at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA has being postponed due to illness. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy®-winning singer and songwriter is being […]
“There were two bands in Australia that everyone called ‘the boys’,” says Rose Tattoo frontman Angry Anderson. “There was AC/DC, and there was the Tatts.” Homegrown heroes of the highest order, Rose Tattoo formed […]
Papa Roach has released two new songs from their forthcoming [as yet untitled] 10th studio album, “Renegade Music” and “Who Do You Trust?”, plus the official music video for the first single “Who Do […]
West coast metal veterans METAL CHURCH will release their 12th full length studio album Damned If You Do via Nuclear Blast Records on December 7, 2018 (Rat Pak Records/America & King Records/Japan). The latest release is […]
The arrival of Creedence Clearwater Revival‘s 50th anniversary brings an unprecedented celebration of everything the band contributed in their short but startlingly epochal time together (1968 – 1972). To commemorate this milestone, Craft Recordings […]
Following their brand new studio album “Repulsion For Humanity”, death metal super group Sinsaenum are premiering their brand new single for “Hooch”. Despite their latest album having earned endless praise from the metal community, […]
Teutonic power metallers, Primal Fear are returning in November to rip Australia apart, just as they did in 2016! With their new album, Apocalypse being released on August 10th 2018 via Frontier Records, Primal […]
Legendary singer-songwriter and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Steve Perry makes his long-awaited return with Traces, his first new album in nearly a quarter century, released Friday October 5 on Fantasy/Concord/Universal Music […]
To coincide with the release of Bad Touch’s new album “Shake A Leg” on Friday 5th October, the band will launch the official music video for their new single “Lift Your Head Up” same day. […]
Bad Touch release their new studio album ‘Shake A Leg’ TODAY via Marshall Records. Watch the official music video for ‘Lift Your Head Up’ HERE. The new album is released on CD, limited edition gold […]
Multi-platinum, chart-topping rock band, NICKELBACK, has announced their massive Feed The Machine Tour will land in Australia this summer, bringing their biggest production yet for three shows only. Touring in support of their ARIA #3 album, Feed […]
On the heels of their massive, sprawling ‘Permian,’ The Ocean Collective have unleashed another piece of their highly anticipated upcoming album: ‘Devonian: Nascent‘ Proving again why they are one of the most respected groups […]
Active Hard Rock favourites TRAPT return down under to Play Highlights from their self-titled classic album ‘Trapt’ including Headstrong, Echo, Still Frame, These Walls, Made of Glass Plus they will perform a selection of […]
HIGH ON FIRE has released “Spewn From The Earth,” another new single from their upcoming LP, Electric Messiah, exclusively via ADULT SWIM. This is the second and final song the band will release from […]
Swedish heavy metal band LIV SIN, featuring ex. Sister Sin singer Liv Jagrell, has entered the studio to record the successor to their 2017 debut album ‘Follow Me.’ For the upcoming second album the Swedish […]
Frontier Touring are delighted to confirm that seminal American rock band Eagles will bring their critically-acclaimed Eagles World Tour to Australia and New Zealand in February and March. The best-selling American band of the […]
Filter was thrust upon the musical landscape in 1995 not with a whimper, but with an inimitable scream of musical ferocity and intent… and now in 2018 it’s back. For the first time in […]
Dream Theater’s extraordinary keyboard wizard announces solo shows. Voted “Best Keyboardist of All Time” (Music Radar Magazine), virtuoso musician/composer Jordan Rudess, will embark on an Australian & New Zealand tour this November performing his […]
The full lineup for the exciting Southern Rock Cruise 2019 has been announced, and over 80 live performances by two dozen acts are scheduled on the Ultimate Tailgate at Sea. The Norwegian Pearl Jewel […]
Architects, who recently announced the release of their eighth album, Holy Hell (Nov. 9, Epitaph Records), have unveiled the second video from the 11-song album: “Royal Beggars”. The Lewis Cater-directed video is the second […]
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