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The incomparable Cardiff-based outfit will bring their new LP to Australia next January. On their fifth tour of Australia, Future of the Left will forge a deluge of tense, confrontational and bloody furious rock […]
For the past few months, rumors have been circulating about a new secret project including former Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian. Now, the time has come to make the grand and […]
Get your denim and run for cover: they are rolling again! Two and a half years after their infamous wake-up call »Send Them All To Hell«, heavy metal saviours PÄNZER have returned to the […]
Trivium has returned with a new track titled, The Sin And The Sentence, the first new music from the group since their celebrated 2015 LP, Silence The Snow. The Sin And The Sentence is […]
US Post-Hardcore pioneers, Hawthorne Heights will return to Australia for shows across August and September! This time around they will be playing their landmark first two albums, 2004’s The Silence in Black and White […]
Alaska’s 36 CRAZYFISTS will release their deeply personal new album Lanterns on September 29 through Spinefarm Records / Caroline Australia. It is their second release for the label and the follow up to 2015’s […]
With New Found Glory scheduled to touch down in Australia next week for their upcoming 20 Years of Pop Punk Anniversary tour, the band have announced up-and-comers Stand Atlantic will join them on the road for […]
American alternative rockers FUEL finally return to Australia this December as part of the “The Sunburn 20th Celebration Tour”. And for the first time ever FUEL perform an exclusive show in New Zealand. Renowned for […]
Dan Reed Network are pleased to confirm they will be special guest on EXTREME’s December 2017 UK tour. The O2 Pre-sale starts Wednesday, 2 August at 9am, followed by a Live Nation Pre-sale on Thursday […]
A roundup of the latest news from Napalm Records including updates from Cavalera Conspiracy, Alter Bridge, Brant Bjork and Lords Of The Lost. CAVALERA CONSPIRACY led by brothers and founding SEPULTURA members Max […]
A roundup of the latest news from Metal Blade Records including updates from Amon Amarth, Ensiferum, Tombs, Cripper, Byzantine, Crimfall and the release of “For the Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records”. […]
One of the most defining albums in punk rock history is without a doubt ‘Full Circle’ by PENNYWISE. 2017 sees the 20th anniversary of the exhilarating, inspiring and brilliant album that helped define a […]
To announce Japan’s electrocore metal band CROSSFAITH’s upcoming “Freedom” EP available on August 2nd in Japan and August 4th worldwide with the first single ‘DIAVOLOS’, the band introduces a one-of-a-kind promo, by engaging with […]
A roundup of the latest news from Nuclear Blast including updates from Tankard, Light The Torch, Devilment, Eluveitte, Kataklysm, Rage and Korpliklaani Two months ago, the German thrash metal legends TANKARD played the Eintracht […]
EUROPE are pleased to announce the release of a new studio album, Walk The Earth, out October 20, 2017. If EUROPE‘s 2015 album, War Of Kings, was the album that made the rock world realize […]
Heavy Pettin’, The Quireboys, Syteria, and Rock Goddess added to 2017 line Up The organisers of WinterStorm 2017 in Troon, Ayrshire on the west coast of Scotland have unveiled the remainder of the line up for […]
Prophets Of Rage: Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, Brad Wilk, Chuck D, B-Real and DJ Lord have released the video for Living On The 110, the lead single from their forthcoming, self-titled debut LP which is set for release September […]
Twenty years after their debut Word Gets Around and six UK #1 albums later, Stereophonics are set to release their new album Scream Above The Sounds on November 3rd on Parlophone Records. Their tenth […]
Melbourne metal monsters KING PARROT have revealed yet another corker video for brand spanking new track ‘TEN POUNDS OF SHIT IN A FIVE POUND BAG‘ alongside details of their forthcoming third LP ‘UGLY PRODUCE’. ‘Ugly […]
On the heels of their well-received 2016 album ‘Kentucky, US rockers Black Stone Cherry issue their long awaited 6-song EP, Black To Blues – a collection of blues classics and obscurities reimagined with the meaty […]
August Burns Red is back with the announcement of new album Phantom Anthem, the follow-up to 2015’s Found In Far Away Places that took the band to new heights and earned them a GRAMMY nomination. The Lancaster, PA […]
With three albums released so far the wait is over. Coldspell are ready to strike again with the brand new album titled “A New World Arise”. This is stunning recording that features 12 new songs […]
The Butterfly Effect have announced an extensive Australia tour which will feature the classic lineup. The group are to perform seven shows in March of 2018, with frontman Clint Boge who had previously left the […]
Perth progressive metallers and current Rockpit Records artist Nucleust today release their debut album Terra Cerebral via Rockpit Records / Firestarter Music. Terra Cerebral was produced by the bands guitarist, Max Palizban and recorded […]
Aaron Lewis and Blackberry Smoke will team up for the “Sinners and Sanctified Tour” this fall. The extensive co-headlining tour will kick-off on October 12 at Shreveport’s Municipal Auditorium and includes stops at Houston’s […]
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