Album Announcements

Suicide Silence will release ‘You Can’t Stop Me’ – their first album to feature new vocalist Eddie Hermida, following the tragic death of singer Mitch Lucker – on July 14 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. ‘You Can’t Stop Me’was produced and mixed by Steve Evetts (Sepultura, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Warbringer) and features artwork (pictured right) by Tim …

 American-Swedish-French blues rockers Blues Pills are to release their self-titled debut album on July 28 via Nuclear Blast. Produced by Don Alsterberg (Graveyard), ‘Blues Pills’ features vintage cover art (pictured right) by Marijke Koger-Dunham.  The band said of the latter: “[Marijke] painted it sometime in the late ’60s, and because we were looking for some ’60s inspired artwork, we thought …

Rising Northern Ireland sludge-doomsters Astralnaut release their new EP, ‘Thieves, Beggars and Swine’ on May 14. The band have today published the artwork for said offering, by the renowned cover illustrator W. Ralph Walters (https://www.facebook.com/pages/W-Ralph-Walters-illustrator/234062876699984). Astralnaut also have the following lives dates lined up: May 17 – Armagh, Platform 1 …

On May 1st “Atoma” will be released! It’s S Y K’s first album (formed by Stefano Ferrian on guitar, Federico De Bernardi di Valserra from Psychofagist on drums, Dalila Kayros on vocals and Luca Pissavini on bass). The album has been recoded and mixed in January/February by Stefano Ferrian. It …

New Southern, the debut album by Native Oklahoman quintet and saviors of southern-infused hard rock ANTI-MORTEM, is exclusively available for streaming in its entirety at Loudwire.com: http://smarturl.it/NewSouthernAlbum   Produced, recorded, and mixed by the esteemed Bob Marlette (BLACK STONE CHERRY, LYNYRD SKYNYRD, SHINEDOWN, ROB ZOMBIE), the album will be released on April 29th in North America and features …

**THE QUIREBOYS CELEBRATE THREE DECADES WITH STUNNING HAT-TRICK** Black Eyed Sons – THE BRAND NEW ALBUM KICKS OFF 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS TOP VALUE PACKAGE INCLUDES LIVE CD AND LIVE DVD RELEASED MONDAY JUNE 16, 2014 The year is 1984. The miners’ strike is in full swing. Apple sells its first …

15 years-career (or almost), several singles, albums, a huge amount of gigs all around the world, The Lords of Altamont have just taken… Altamont with a brand new album unleashed a few days ago through Gearhead Records (Electric Eel Shock, The Hellacopters, The Riverboat Gamblers, The Wildhearts…). Fourth full length record from the …

Relapse Records are to re-issue God Macabre‘s long deleted Swedish death metal classic ‘The Winterlong’ this June. Originally released in 1993,’The Winterlong’ was recorded at Stockholm’s legendary Sunlight Studios in 1991 and engineered by Tomas Skogsberg (Amorphis, At The Gates, Entombed).  Now fully remastered and available for the first time in more …

Metal Blade is proud to announce to have inked a license deal with CNR Records for the brand new CHANNEL ZERO album “Kill All Kings”. The album will be released by Metal Blade worldwide (except for the Benelux territories) the 23rd of June as a digipack cd and digital download. Head over to www.metalblade.com/channelzero to …

First Three Albums Newly Remastered By Jimmy Page, Each With An Additional Disc Of Previously Unreleased Companion Audio Multiple CD, Vinyl, And Digital Formats, Including Limited Edition Super Deluxe Boxed Set, Available June 2 John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant came together in 1968 as Led …

Captain Christopher Bowes and his pirate crew of ALESTORM have just unveiled the title, track listing and release dates of their upcoming album! Sunset on the Golden Age (Napalm Records), is the title of their brand new masterpiece and will be available on August 5th in North America, August 4th …

German Epic Metal pioneers EQUILIBRIUM have just released the first trailer for their upcoming new masterpiece Erdentempel. Check it out here:     Erdentempel will be released on June 10, 2014 via Nuclear Blast! Pre-Order the album here: http://media.nuclearblast.de/shoplanding/2014/equilibrium/erdentempel.html   Guitarist, composer and lyricist René Berthiaume spent almost four years …

Hampshire, UK based metallers BURY TOMORROW will release their eagerly-anticipated new album, Runes, via Nuclear Blaston May 27, 2014 in North America. Pre-orderRuneshere via Nuclear Blast Records, and make sure to check out the exclusive North American pre-order bundle which includes a Runes t-shirt and CD (while supplies last).   …

The year 2014 started strong for the new VICIOUS RUMORS line-up with two crushing, completely different sets in January at the prestigious 70.000 Tons of Metal festival cruise sailing from Miami to Mexico via Bahamas. In June the Heavy Metal institution is back on the road in Europe with a …

American guitar virtuoso PAUL GILBERT (Mr. Big, Racer X, solo) has announced the title and some details for his 13th solo studio album. Cleverly titled Stone Pushing Uphill Man, the record features several original tracks alongside a rich assortment of cover songs. WHD (Victor) Entertainment released Gilbert’s latest opus on June 25, 2014 …

Heavy music’s most anticipated new band,  Nightmares, have announced their debut record, Suspiria, out today June 2nd, 2014, via Rise Records. The band have also released new music, the magnificently brutal track “Cujo,” from their forthcoming album. Nightmares will hit the road on Rise Records and Friends tour this spring. …

Veteran US rockers Kix are to release their first album in nearly 20 years in July. The as-yet-untitled album – which features the band’s original line-up of Steve Whiteman (lead vocals), Jimmy Chalfant (drums, vocals), Ronnie Younkins (guitars), Brian Forsythe (guitars), plus Mark Schenker (bass) – will be issued on …

Roadrunner recording group The Amity Affliction has announced details of their eagerly awaited new album. Titled ‘Let The Ocean Take Me’, the Australian metalcore masters’ fourth full-length record will be released on June 9. Named by Alternative Press as one of 2014’s “Most Anticipated” albums, ‘Let The Ocean Take Me’ …

Slough-based thrashers Divine Chaos are set to release their debut album, ‘A New Dawn In The Age Of War’, on May 29 via the Irish Evil EyE Records label. ‘A New Dawn In The Age Of War’ was produced by Scott Atkins and features James Stewart of Vader on drums. The album also features guest performances from …

May 5th sees a cornucopia of delights released from  Killing Joke – Killing Joke : ‘In Dub’ triple CD and ‘Down By The River‘ double live album,  along with Jaz Colemans’ first book ‘Letters From Cytheria’  and Symphony No.2 ‘The Island’.    KILLING JOKE : IN DUB Youth has created …