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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 […]
Los Angeles, CA’s heavy rock five-piece Volumes has released a new song, titled “Waves Control,” from their forthcoming Fearless Records / Caroline Australia debut Different Animals, set to release June 9. Different Animals are available now, which include instant […]
WEDNESDAY 13‘s new album Condolences is out today via Nuclear Blast. The Duke of Spook also dropped the video for the title track, which features a faux funeral — his own. Watch it here: […]
American rock act CKY (Chad I Ginsburg, Jess Margera and Matt Deis) have debuted another brand new single today titled “Replaceable” exclusively via LOUDWIRE. This the second new song we’ve seen from the band. The band released […]
Multi-platinum selling artist Rex Brown has debuted an all new single and music video for the track “Train Song,” exclusively via Loudwire.com. This is the second single behind “Crossing Lines” that was released back in April. […]
In February 1992, a bunch of German kids set out from the middle of nowhere and founded a band that would conquer the hearts of a whole new generation of fans around the globe! […]
Heavy metal pioneers ACCEPT are back in the game with a new studio album! The record entitled »The Rise Of Chaos«, will be unleashed on August 4th, 2017. The band’s 4th studio release through Nuclear Blast will continue the […]
The Cavalera brothers are back! Max and Iggor Cavalera, who created some of the most influential metal records in music history with SEPULTURA and inspiring the heavy and extreme music scene over decades, are currently […]
Goatwhore will release their anticipated Vengeful Ascension full-length worldwide on June 23rd via Metal Blade Records. Watch the official lyric video for the song Chaos Arcane here Listen to the albums title track Vengeful […]
A roundup of the latest news in the underground rock scene including updates on Tropical Fuck Storm, Willamena, Lane Change and Crystal Cities. Tropical Fuck Storm (or TFS for short) is the new […]
A roundup of the latest news in the underground metal scene including updates on Monstrath, Fall Of Man, Violent Life Violent Death and Seven Spires. Brazilian technical death metallers MONSTRATH have published a […]
Inspired by Alter Bridge, Alice In Chains, Metallica, Judas Priest, Godsmack and Kings X, ABANDONED SOULS’ sound is powerful, heavy, rhythmic, melodic, and personal. Unleashing their fifth release and latest EP “Make It Last” […]
Coming off a successful Australian tour supporting Airbourne and the release of their first cover for David Bowie’s “Lazarus” in early 2017, The Ugly Kings are finally ready to launch the first original single, […]
Coming off their most-successful world tour to date, ALTER BRIDGE announces the release of a new live album and rarities collection. Live at the O2 Arena + Rarities is scheduled for worldwide release on […]
Dept. Of Gloom have a musical pedigree and backstory that would take hours to dissect. The sum of their collective parts reads like a short history of Australian rock! Their members coming from bands […]
Performing last night at the Sydney Opera House for Vivid Live, The Preatures revealed to the sold out crowd their highly anticipated second album, titled GIRLHOOD, will be released Friday August 11th. Available to […]
Ozzy Osbourne featuring Zakk Wylde, Prophets of Rage, Five Finger Death Punch, Rob Zombie and Incubus top the bill for the fourth annual Louder Than Life destination festival, Saturday, September 30 and Sunday, October […]
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