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Lucas Stone is a part of the landscape of the Gold Coast and Queensland heavy music scene and has been for what has been the better part of 20 years. His turns as part […]
Casey’s debut album ‘Love Is Not Enough’ was released via Hassle Records in the latter half of 2016, and it’s now getting a brand new pressing in blood red and Australian Release on Friday […]
SEETHER, (Shaun Morgan, vocals/guitar; Dale Stewart, bass/vocals; John Humphrey, drums) have shared a new track called “Nothing Left” from their upcoming album Poison the Parish, due out May 12th, 2017 through Morgan’s new Canine […]
Early last year At The Drive In fans were delivered the news they had been longing for… the band had reunited, announcing plans to release new music and a tour the globe. They blew […]
It was March 1977 when Alice Cooper, the architect of shock-rock, undertook his first ever concert tour of Australia – and broke attendance records. 40 years on and this revered entertainer continues to surprise […]
Don’t cry because THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN are calling it a day; smile because they’ve somehow managed to stay alive this long and that you’ll get one last chance to witness them live. After […]
Terry Ilous, lead singer for the band Great White, and founder of 80’s metal band XYZ is premiering his third solo venture, Gypsy Dreams, on Friday, April 28th, 2017. A video trailer for the album […]
New Found Glory has released a new song and music video for “Party on Apocalypse” via Hopeless Records’ YouTube Channel. Coming off a string of sold-out shows, including a stop in NYC with visits to […]
Iconic Aussie rockers, Grinspoon have sparked a ticketing frenzy, selling out Sydney’s Enmore Theatre, Brisbane’s Tivoli Theatre, Melbourne’s Village Green Hotel, Tasmania’s Granada Tavern, WA’s Dunsborough Tavern, Newcastle’s The Cambridge Hotel, Redland Bay’s Redland […]
To say that Crystal Ignite is excited about having returned to Australia to tour would be a total understatement. Crystal is bloody ecstatic! Backed by a stellar new group, the five piece outfit have embarked on an eleven […]
The ultimate guitar maestro ALLAN HOLDSWORTH left this world on April 16, 2017. Holdsworth, born in Bradford, England in 1946, embarked on a solo career as composer and bandleader exclusively in 1979. From 1982 through […]
Heavy metal pioneers ACCEPT just finished an extensive European tour – and they are immediately back in the game with a new studio album! The record entitled The Rise Of Chaos, will be unleashed […]
MISS MAY I have partnered with Loudwire to exclusively debut their much-anticipated first track and official music video for ‘Lost In The Grey‘, which comes off their new album, Shadows Inside, on June 2nd. […]
Bluesfest to collect money at the festival and patrons have also been giving generously as they enter the festival. All the proceeds from ‘Rise above the Flood’ will be donated to these local community […]
A roundup of the latest news from the underground metal scene around the world. Artists include Drachenfeur, M8L8th, Pyramaze, Say Bok Gwai, Legacy Of Emptiness, Slagduster, Cadaver Disposal, Theocracy, Incontinence, Eli van Pike, DVT and […]
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METALOCALYPSTICK FEST, the Western Canadian outdoor festival that just doesn’t celebrate heavy metal, but embraces the power of women in metal announce their 2017 line up for Canada Day weekend July 1st and 2nd in Valemount, BC. This […]
New York death metal pioneers SUFFOCATION will release their new album …Of The Dark Light on June 9 via Nuclear Blast Records. The band has released the first single, ‘Your Last Breaths’, in the form […]
Chasing Ghosts in conjunction with Hysteria Magazine and Young Henrys are pleased to unveil a staggering run of 21 shows in Melbourne and her surrounding suburbs throughout May, a unyielding reminder that there is […]
After becoming the biggest breaking British rock band with their self-titled 2014 debut album, Royal Blood’s eagerly anticipated second album How Did We Get So Dark? will be released on June 16. The album’s […]
What happens when you have two visionary modern artistes merging their talents? Well, when you are talking about rock photographer Mark Weiss and painter/artiste David Banegas, you wind up with a breath-taking, larger-than-life image of […]
Principal Entertainment & David Roy Williams present the return of legendary riff lords Helmet on their 2017 Australian tour, playing the classic Betty album from start to finish, along with fan favourites and selections […]
Melbourne’s heavy experimental creatives Orsome Welles will be releasing their long awaited new EP titled Rise on May 26. Pre orders are now available through orsomewelles.com/pre-order Orsome Welles will touring nationally across June and […]
Melbourne’s Branch Arterial are returning to the fore today to bring their brand new music to the world. New music that has come literally from ‘Beyond the Border’ of life and death. In 2013, […]
Brisbane prog-metallers THE STRANGER are dropping a new cut from their forthcoming self-titled album, due for release on April 21. Solomon’s Son is the latest taste from the record, an epic prog-metal track from […]
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