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DESERTFEST LONDON are thrilled to reveal the next 8 acts for the 2018 edition of the festival, who will be joining the likes of MONSTER MAGNET, EYEHATEGOD, NEBULA & JEX THOTH to bring a battering ram […]
Whenever CORROSION OF CONFORMITY releases a new album, folks take notice. But their latest is a true event. It’s been a dozen years since CORROSION OF CONFORMITY recorded new material with vocalist/guitarist Pepper Keenan […]
LA-based multiplatinum hard rock band, Five Finger Death Punch, have released their latest single Trouble late last month with great success. Trouble has reached #1 on iTunes Rock and Metal charts around the globe and has […]
After months of anticipation from fans worldwide, 21st century hard rock leaders Of Mice & Men—vocalist/bassist Aaron Pauley, guitarist Alan Ashby, drummer Valentino Arteaga, and guitarist Phil Manansala—announce their new album Defy, arriving in […]
Tonight Alive is excited to share that their upcoming album, Underworld, will feature vocal performances from Lynn Gunn (PVRIS) on the track “Disappear” and Corey Taylor (Slipknot and Stone Sour) on the track “My […]
King Crimson’s “Earthbound – 40th Anniversary Edition” expanded CD & DVD is now available for pre-order and will be released on November 17, 2017! “Earthbound,” originally released in 1972, was one of the earliest […]
Baltimore indie post-hardcore band Pianos Become the Teeth announce their new album Wait For Love, to be released on February 16, 2018 on Epitaph. Pre-orders for Wait For Love are available HERE. Pianos Become […]
Seminal Glaswegian rock heavyweights MOGWAI announce their return to Australia, playing Sydney and Melbourne headline shows through March, alongside appearances at Perth Festival and Golden Plains. Staggeringly prolific musicians, Mogwai have over the past […]
Nuclear Blast Entertainment are pleased to announce the release of the new single from TAX THE HEAT, ‘Money In The Bank’, on the 8th November, 2017. The single is the first track to be […]
The world’s premiere rock and metal event is set to hit Australia for the first time with a tsunami of international and local acts flooding Melbourne this coming March. Fifteen mammoth years in Donington UK, […]
Dutch symphonic metal giants EPICA are proud to announce the launch of their brand new live video for ‘Consign To Oblivion’. The video was captured during EPICA‘s sold out show at the Zénith in […]
Newly signed to Eleven Seven Music, BAD WOLVES (managed by Zoltan Bathory of Five Finger Death Punch) reveal new single, Toast To The Ghost. Toast To The Ghost is available HERE. Toast To The Ghost is the first song revealed […]
Escape the Fate have announced that their sixth full length album, I Am Human, to be released via Better Noise Records/Sony Music Australia on 16 February, 2018. The new track, Empire is available HERE. Empire is what guitarist Kevin Thrasher describes […]
Destroy All Lines & Chugg Entertainment are touring innovative metal juggernaut The Acacia Strain throughout Australia with Kublai Khan this December, so say your Prayers! For a tour that killyourstereo.com has already hyped punters […]
Iconic dream-pop/post-punk outfit THE CHAMELEONS (UK) have announced their First Ever Australian headline dates. Fronted by founding member, vocalist and bassist Mark Burgess, the tour will showcase the band’s genre-defining body of work, instigated […]
The 2018 line up of Progfest will be the strongest yet with Norway’s LEPROUS confirmed to headline all 3 Progfest festivals, plus headline their own sideshows in Perth and Adelaide! Some of Australia’s finest […]
Handsome Tours proudly presents enigmatic post-rock outfit Godspeed You! Black Emperor, returning to Sydney in January 2018, to perform at The Metro Theatre. The tour follows the release of their sixth album ‘Luciferian Towers’. Godspeed You! Black […]
Tonight Alive have released “Without You”: the third single from Spawn (Again): A Tribute To Silverchair, set for release on November 17 via UNFD. Created with the blessing of Silverchair’s team, Tonight Alive join acts like The Amity Affliction, […]
SAXON isn’t wasting any time in 2018. Following the critically acclaimed release of Battering Ram in 2015, the heavy metal giants are set to release their latest studio album, Thunderbolt, on February 2, 2018 […]
International rock superstars PARAMORE are making their highly anticipated return to Australia for their first headline shows in four years, bringing Tour Four to Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena, Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena and Brisbane’s […]
A roundup of the latest news from Nuclear Blast including updates on Forever Still, Kataklysm and Beast In Black. The day has finally arrived: »Berserker« has been unleashed! International heavy metal group BEAST […]
A roundup of the latest news from EarMusic including news on Loudness, Deep Purple, Thunder and Trust. Since its inception in 1981, Loudness have led the Japanese heavy metal scene and embarked on […]
A roundup of the latest news from Napalm Records including updates from Stalker, Alestorm, Audrey Horne, Lord Of The Lost, Heidevolk and Rumahoy. You certainly can’t ask for more! Hailing from New Zealand, […]
A roundup of the latest news from Metal Blade Records including updates on Cannibal Corpse, Dimebag Darrell’s Dimevision, Cattle Decapitation, Ram and Mother Feather. Cannibal Corpse have just released their 14th full-length, Red […]
On his upcoming farewell world tour, OZZY OSBOURNE–Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy® winning singer and songwriter–will celebrate more than five decades as a performer (both as a solo artist and as […]
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