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Hands Like Houses have dropped their brand new single “Drift” and have announced they will be taking it out for a spin around the country. Returning home in October, the Drift Australian Tour will be […]
“Let’s ROCK those beautiful arenas JUST ONE MORE TIME!” says Brian May. Legendary superstar band QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT will visit Australia this August. This is the first QUEEN tour of Australia since 1985. The […]
STARSET’S musical vision is only understood by entering the psyche of founding member and multi instrumental vocalist, Dustin Bates. Bates – a graduate with a Masters degree in electrical engineering, who taught at the […]
Sydney is joining in the party as well with the Metro Theatre show now completely sold out. Melbourne your second and final Corner Hotel show only has 60 tickets left! For Sydney fans hoping […]
Just in time for their summer headlining tour, Brooklyn-turned-Philly residents Worriers have released a new song entitled Future Me. The song is taken from their forthcoming SideOneDummy Records debut due later this year, and serves as the follow-up to […]
Following their First Ever Australian Tour in 2014, German Metal Legends ACCEPT return this September for one show only in Melbourne. With multiple Sold Out shows on their last visit, ACCEPT reward fans with […]
Diamond-certified, global award winning rock band, Nickelback, released the music video for their new single “Song on Fire.” “Song on Fire” is taken from their ninth studio album Feed the Machine which will be released […]
A roundup of the latest news from Nuclear Blast artists including updates on Anthrax, Venom Inc, Blind Guardian, Testament and Comeback Kid. Legendary New York thrashers ANTHRAX will return to European shores later […]
A roundup of the latest news in the rock music scene. Updates include Burn River Burn, Kevlar, Jaw Bones, Elder Abuse, Fathom Farewell, Mars Red Sky, Artificial Agent and The Black Cape. San […]
A roundup of the latest news in the metal underground scene. Updates include Catharsis, Eshtadur, Torqued, Nuclear Warfare, Incantation and Siberian. Párodos, Progressive Avantgarde Black Metal from Salerno (Italy), proudly present the first […]
The new PRONG-Album “Zero Days” is another monster of an album, another step towards refining the perfect PRONG-Sound and another album that lacks any filler or lacklustre moment. Musically, it hits home from the […]
Alice Cooper has released his new single”Paranoiac Personality”, can be streamed below. The song is taken from his new album, “Paranormal”, which will be released on July 28 via earMUSIC. As previously announced, “Paranormal” features […]
WOLVES (Virgin Records), the new album from Rise Against, is out today and available everywhere. Visit https://EMIMusicAus.lnk.to/RiseAgainstWolvesMO. Recorded with GRAMMY®-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Alice in Chains, Deftones), WOLVES is the follow-up to 2014’s The Black Market, which hit No. 1 on […]
Adelaide punk-cum-rock-cum-hardcore outfit Grenadiers have announced they’ll be joining Atlanta’s ’68 on the road this July for an Australian tour. Individually, Jesse, Phil and Jimmy are rooted deep within the history and mythology of […]
Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher, aka British rock band Royal Blood, have released the hypnotic official video for their new track I Only Lie When I Love You, the latest instant grat from their […]
Spread Eagle will embark on their first overseas tour. The trek will include performances at Hair Metal Heaven festival, Hard Rock Hell Sleaze festival, plus shows with Junkyard, Vain and Babylon A.D. Fans have the […]
Icelandic rockers Sigur Rós have sent a message to Australian fans ahead of their upcoming 2 date east coast tour at Splendour In The Grass with a special tribute shirt to be sold at […]
The world’s leading independent metal label, Nuclear Blast Records, will celebrate its 30th anniversary at Summer Breeze Open Air, Dinkelsbühl, Germany this year! Due to this special event, the Nuclear Blast Label Night won’t […]
With less than a month til the release of their highly-anticipated new album Precious Art on June 23 via SideOneDummy/Cooking Vinyl Australia, West Virginia’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band Rozwell Kid have released a brand new single called Wendy’s Trash Can. […]
Issue #2 of the newly launched UK based Rock Candy Magazine features an exclusive hard hitting, no holds barred candid interview with guitarist John Sykes who clarifies all of the setbacks and re-visits all of […]
A roundup of news from Nuclear Blast artists including updates on Tankard, Paradise Lost, Rings Of Saturn, Death Angel, Kataklysm, Then Comes Silence and Belphegor, Bay Area technical death core metallers, RINGS OF SATURN, arrive […]
Long Beach, California indie alt duo This Wild Life have shared a new song and video Break Me today. Singer Kevin Jordan explains, “We wrote the song ‘Break Me’ during the ‘Low Tides’ sessions, and […]
With the four members of THE DIVES hailing from both sides of the country and the middle, it might seem unlikely that these musicians would ever even meet, let alone form a band – […]
Norway’s Sløtface have unveiled another searing slice of their full-length debut with new single ‘Nancy Drew’, one of the band’s most hard-hitting releases to date. Premiering via Noisey, the band have also released the track’s accompanying visuals, […]
Bernard Fanning’s new studio album Brutal Dawn debuted at #2 on the ARIA charts this week, joining it’s companion LP Civil Dusk, in the #2 spot week of release. With second and third shows […]
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