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UNBEATABLE A very special summer season, not only due to the tropical heat, is slowly coming to an end: Festivals have been rocked so hard that we would’ve been sweating even if mercury hadn’t […]
BUTCH WALKER is a singer, songwriter, and producer whose skills run from radio-friendly pop to high-attitude hard rock. Walker launched his public career with the band SOUTHGANG, who inked a contract with Virgin Records. […]
Steve Vai has announced he will host and serve as the musical director for “The Big Mama Jama Jam-a-thon” — an open, improvisational music/art event where the music doesn’t stop for 52 hours — […]
2017 marked SAGA’s 40th (!) anniversary. The band that has combined hard rock, progressive rock and pop like no other celebrated their anniversary with a tour around the globe, saying thank you and farewell […]
While the release of Once Human’s first ever live album “Stage Of Evolution” is just around the corner (September 28th/earMUSIC), the band surprises their fans with a treat and releases a studio cover version […]
There is no other true American rock band quite like Lynyrd Skynyrd. The iconic Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees are one of the most influential rock and roll legends of our time. […]
Stratovarius, one of the greatest melodic power metal acts ever, are back with a new album – with some fresh and some very rare material! “ENIGMA: Intermission 2” features three brand new songs as […]
Shvpes (pronounced ‘Shapes’) have released a brand-new single ‘Calloused Hands’ from their forthcoming album, Greater Than. “This is the first song we wrote together after coming back from our first European tour,” says Shvpes vocalist, […]
Four albums into their career, Amaranthe have racked up north of 118 million YouTube views and half-a-billion song streams, have landed at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart three times, and possess a panoply […]
UNIFY Gathering are proud to announce the addition of four new acts to the already stacked 2019 lineup! Following the removal of I Killed The Prom Queen, UNIFY have added Every Time I Die […]
Tickets for a day on the green’s Hunter Valley concert with JOHN FARNHAM have now sold out with approximately 10,000 fans set to attend on December 1. This will be John’s first performance at […]
Peter Murphy first made his mark fronting influential UK group Bauhaus, who this year celebrate their 40th anniversary. Bauhaus appeared out of the London post-punk scene in 1978 and with their darkly romantic image and […]
He is one of the most recognisable and notorious frontmen of all time and DEE SNIDER ascended to hard rock royalty in the early 1980s as the lead singer for New York-based heavy rockers, […]
UK hard rock band, BIGFOOT, have announced European & UK ‘Consider Yourself Invited‘ tour dates in September and October 2018 in support of their self-titled debut album. BIGFOOT are one of the new crop of […]
MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST reveal new video “Take Me To The Church”, KADAVAR announce Live in Copenhagen, ‘You Found The Best In Me’ music video, RIOT V announce ‘Live At Keep It True Festival 2015’ […]
Southern Californian groove metal kings DEVILDRIVER are set to reissue revamped editions of their first five albums via BMG on CD on September 28, 2018. Limited edition LP versions will be available as part […]
GAMA BOMB release their blistering single ‘666teen‘ today, the first track to be taken from their upcoming album ‘Speed Between The Lines‘ which is due for release on October 12th. Irish thrashers GAMA BOMB […]
Have you got your NOWBHM fix lately? Veteran rockers Tygers Of Pan Tang have released a new single with an accompanying video for the track ‘Devil You Know‘, taken from the 2016 comeback album […]
Rock super group Motor Sister – featuring Jim Wilson (Mother Superior), Scott Ian (Anthrax), Pearl Aday (solo), Joey Vera (Armored Saint, Fates Warning), and John Tempesta (The Cult) – will have a new album […]
Swedish progressive metal legends OPETH will release “Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater” on November 2nd via Moderbolaget Records / Nuclear Blast Entertainment. This historic event was captured for the DVD, Blu-Ray and Vinyl formats during […]
Bayside has announced that they will be releasing Acoustic Volume 2, a follow up to 2006’s Acoustic on September 28th, 2018 via Hopeless Records. The record features one brand new track, “It Don’t Exist,” […]
“The band isn’t just a way of life, its been much more than that. To us, as a family, writing music of such honesty, and reaching people who feel it similarly, is as profound […]
GRAMMY® Award-nominated multi-platinum hard rock leaders Disturbed will unleash their seventh full-length album, Evolution, via Reprise Records on October 19. The album is available to pre-order now. Disturbed said: “It is with tremendous pride, […]
Influential Cleveland, Ohio-based metal pioneers MUSHROOMHEAD will release their highly-anticipated upcoming DVD, VOLUME III – a follow up to the widely-acclaimed DVD’s Volume 1 (2005) and Volume 2 (2008) – August 17, 2018. The […]
Without question, AC/DC are one of the greatest rock bands in history. Their mammoth power chord roar became one of the most influential hard rock sounds of the ’70s and is synonymous to rock […]
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