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The latest track to be made available from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds highly-anticipated new album ‘Who Built the Moon?’ is ‘It’s A Beautiful World’. The track is available immediately on iTunes with pre-orders […]
The Sepulnation is alive and well! Following their crushingly successful 2014 Australian Tour, Brazilian Metal Icons SEPULTURA unleash a heavy metal hurricane upon the Sepulnation in May 2018. Armed with their finest album in […]
A roundup of the latest news from Nuclear Blast including updates on In Flames, Tax The Heat, Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons and Almanac. Gothenburg-based metal heavyweights IN FLAMES surprise fans with […]
It is with deepest sorrow that we inform you of the death of Malcolm Young, beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother. Malcolm had been suffering from Dementia for several years and passed away peacefully on […]
Aerosmith‘s Joe Perry will release Sweetzerland Manifesto, his first non-holiday solo album in eight years, on January 19. “Sweetzerland Manifesto” marks Perry‘s sixth solo album and is comprised of 10 new tracks. The project features collaborations with Robin Zander of Cheap Trick, as […]
“I didn’t get into music because I wanted to be a big success…I originally went after music because I simply loved it. There wasn’t anything else for me. Nothing moved me like music did, and […]
THRASH ATTACK! If head snapping riffs, mosh stomping beats & loud, drunken, rowdy shows whet your metal appetite, then this banger is for you. LICH KING (USA) tour our region for the first time […]
San Francisco Bay Area metal titans MACHINE HEAD, will release their highly anticipated new album Catharsis on January 26 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Today, the band has released a brand-new track from the album entitled “Beyond The […]
Grimm Jack’s latest video “Sex Drive” Which includes the hard rock staples of Hot Girls, A Cool Car And Fried Chicken! is out now- enjoy!
Venom Inc. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AUSTRALIA! The formidable Abaddon, Mantas and Demolition Man descend on Aussie shores for their Avé Australis Tour in February 2018. Formed as Venom in 1979 in Newcastle […]
Perth cerebral prog metal act Nucleust have released video footage from their recent extensive tour around Australia in support of their latest album “Terra Cerebral” where the band hit all regions across the country […]
Dashboard Confessional has announced details of their long awaited new album, Crooked Shadows, to be released February 9th on Fueled By Ramen. Crooked Shadows marks Dashboard Confessional’s first new album in over eight years and […]
Gilby Clarke needs no introduction to rock fans. He played in both Guns N’ Roses and the MC5. Who else can claim membership in two of the most life-altering rock ’n’ roll outfits to ever […]
At a private show Tuesday night in Los Angeles, Stone Temple Pilots made its triumphant return to the stage at the Troubadour where the Grammy®-winning group welcomed Jeff Gutt as their new lead singer. […]
2018 is set to kick off in the most sensational way. Brand new summer festival, Under the Southern Stars is bringing together the best of Aussie Rock with an international touch. Headlined by the […]
Producing dark and retrofuturistic music with a strong 80’s feeling, Perturbator is the spearhead of the new synthwave revival. Supports for his first Australian tour next week have just been announced! Nov 21 Melbourne […]
Freedom Is Mine is the barnstorming new single from Grammy winning Australian rock lords Wolfmother. Released independently and produced by Wolfmother main man Andrew Stockdale in his Byron Bay studio, the track evokes the […]
Marilyn Manson teamed up with director Bill Yukich to film the video for “KILL4ME” from his new album Heaven Upside Down, which critics are calling career defining. The video, which stars Marilyn Manson, Johnny Depp […]
As the dust settles from the huge launch of Sydney’s newest one-day festival Sydney City Limits, the inevitable question of sideshows was bound to arise. It’s an understandable query, as the team behind Splendour […]
the church share trippy live video for ‘I Don’t Know How I Don’t Know Why’, the third single from their acclaimed 26th album Man Woman Life Death Infinity, out now. Premiering via Tone Deaf, […]
California-based heavy rock trio AVON (with ex-Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age drummer Alfredo Hernandez) unveil all details about their upcoming sophomore album on HPS Records in February 2018. AVON is heavy rock trio formed in California […]
Prophets of the rampant 90’s Modern Rock movement SALIVA will be bringing their show to Australian stages for the first time ever. Fans can expect a crushing cross-section of the bands entire catalogue guaranteed […]
Metal United World Wide (MUWW) is a project which brings together metal bands, fans, show organisers, media and other supporters for one big event. The idea is to have metal shows all over the […]
Britain’s rocking roots trio Kitty, Daisy & Lewis are bringing their infectious energy and nostalgia-soaked fusion of rockabilly, vintage country and first-generation rhythm and blues to Sydney and Melbourne in February 2018. Delivering their […]
EXCALIBUR IV is the widely anticipated fourth NEW STUDIO ALBUM in the Celtic Rock Opera series, following on from the GOLD and PLATINUM selling original trilogy. EXCALIBUR IV was played live in its entirety […]
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