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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 Australia for the first time belting out […]
New Zealand Teenage thrash metal band Alien Weaponry shock and surprise audiences on a number of levels. Their songwriting is complex, developed and highly political. Their live performance energy is startling, with just two fifteen-year […]
Austin, Texas experimental rock majesties THE BLACK ANGELS will return to our shores next March. They’ve announced just two intimate headline dates to complement their appearance at the Golden Plains Festival. Much loved locally […]
American rock band POP EVIL have announced a brand new single and music video for a track called “Waking Lions” today, exclusively through VEVO. As previously heard on SiriusXM Octane channel, “Waking Lions” is […]
ONLINE METAL PROMO (United States), BREATH FRESHER webzine (Japan) and MARIC MEDIA (Australia) have joined forces to offer a free online digital download promotional music compilation titled “Hello Tokyo…OMP, Are You Ready To Rock?” featuring […]
From his third album as Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, the record’s first sequenced track, ‘Fort Knox’, is revealed alongside a psychedelic new lyric video. ‘Who Built The Moon?’ is set for release on November 24 via Sour Mash […]
The raging inferno that is FRANK CARTER & THE RATTLESNAKES will be returning to Australia in February 2018. Having spent over a decade honing his craft, FRANK CARTER has solidified himself as one of […]
A roundup of the latest news from Nuclear Blast including updates on Doro, Blind Guardian, Eluveittie and Destruction. Metal queen DORO has released her first German album titled Für Immer, via her own […]
ANNIHILATOR will release their highly-anticipated 16th studio album, For The Demented, on November 3, 2017 via Neverland Music/Silver Lining Music. The album will be available in a Limited Edition Digipack with Lenticular cover, a […]
German icons the Scorpions have announced the release of a compilation album that features new music and re-imagined classics along with the best of their ballad output. Born to Touch Your Feelings features 17 tracks […]
Drum legend & producer extraordinaire Simon Phillips will be releasing “Protocol 4” on October 27th on Phantom Recordings, distributed by AMPED™. Simon Phillips is by far one of the world’s most renowned and respected […]
It gives all of us here at ‘The Rockpit’ great pleasure in officially welcoming to our Artist Management and Representation roster, Western Australia’s very own ‘Killer Quartet’- ‘The Mighty’, ‘The Purveyors of Front-Bar Notoriety’, ‘The […]
Last month, metal fusion juggernauts Twelve Foot Ninja announced that they are returning to Australia with their international Monsoon Tour for one night only at Melbourne’s 170 Russell on 12th January 2018. Today they […]
VIMIC, the acclaimed heavy rock band founded by GRAMMY Award®-winning Slipknot co-founder and heavy music luminary Joey Jordison, has signed a global deal with Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) and T-Boy Records, UMe’s label partnership (Via […]
PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS, led by the legendary long time MOTÖRHEAD guitarist, have announced the details for the band’s upcoming debut album. Their first full-length studio effort will be entitled The Age Of Absurdity […]
Founding Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell will release his new solo album ‘Standing At A Bus Stop‘ on December 1st, via Of The Edge Productions/Cargo Records UK. ‘Standing at a Bus Stop‘ is legendary guitarist, […]
WARRIOR SOUL, the band fronted by legendary singer Kory Clarke, will release their new studio album, entitled ‘Back On The Lash‘ on December 1st, via Livewire/Cargo Records UK. Warrior Soul are back with profane […]
Following the release of their latest studio album BCCIV, Black Country Communion released the music video for their third single The Last Song For My Resting Place. The song is inspired by Wallace Hartley (the […]
The latest news from napalm Records including updates from Hoobastank, Moonspell, Serenity, Amberian Dawn and Kobra & The Lotus. 2017 marks another chapter in the career of exceptional rock act, HOOBASTANK, by signing […]
Hands Like Houses have today dropped “Ana’s Song (Open Fire)”: the second single from Spawn (Again): A Tribute To Silverchair, set for release on November 17 via UNFD. The band have also announced they will be playing […]
The Used has released “Rise Up Lights” the second track from their forthcoming album, The Canyon, set for release this friday. The noisy super charged song picks up right away with singer Bert McCracken’s undeniable vocals […]
People of Earth! Avatar Country is blessing you by opening its borders to the world! Glory to our King! It is with great pride and joy that we here at Avatar Country’s Department of […]
DRW Entertainment welcomes kings of cathartic and anthemic alt-punk, Cloud Nothings, back to Australia this coming February. Fresh from a huge European and US tour with heavyweight rock-revival favourites, Japandroids, in-demand Cloud Nothings are […]
The 2018 Zoo Twilights is on sale now and selling fast, with The Cat Empire, Ben Folds and Neil & Liam Finn selling out their performances in record time and announcing second shows. Remaining Zoo Twilights […]
Formed in 1977 in Belfast, Ireland STIFF LITTLE FINGERS were at the forefront of the Punk movement. With Sold Out shows on their last Australian Tour, SLF return in February to celebrate their 40th […]
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