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All Hail The Yeti Unveil ‘Before The Flames’ Video and Concept Album Southern-fried metal outfit, ALL HAIL THE YETI release their new album, ‘Screams From A Black Wilderness’ on 13th May in the UK via minus HEAD Records.  The album concept features classic ’round the campfire’ horror stories, presenting a different …

Chris Gillen speaks about his new role in Tokyo Blade as one of the two vocalists who will perform live with the band. Tokyo Blade recently announced that they will perform with two vocalists, Chris Gillen for shows in Canada and The Americas and the returning Vick Wright for classic …

Oxford melodic metal chiefs ‘Reveller’ are primed to etch a prominent name for themselves within the UK metal scene.  Serving up an ear-shattering sound that marks their intention and throws down their manifesto, the driven quintet are ready to hurl themselves into the national arena, and have the perfect bait …

Bridgwater post hardcore 5 piece Cardinal Bay have announced the first details of their second EP. Recorded at Bandit Studios with Jonny Renshaw (Devil Sold His Soul), ‘Answers‘ will be unleashed on the 13th of May 2016. Hell bent on impressing with their live experience, Cardinal Bay have been compared …

Los Angeles-based prog-metal outfit Redemption – featuring Nick van Dyk, Ray Alder (Fates Warning, Engine), Sean Andrews, and Chris Quirarte (as well as guitarist Bernie Versailles, who is presently on an indefinite medical hiatus) – recently released their sixth full-length, The Art of Loss, via Metal Blade Records worldwide. For their efforts, The Art …

Massachusetts-based extreme metal outfit Abnormality has announced the details for their upcoming sophomore album, Mechanisms of Omniscience! Due out April 29th worldwide via Metal Blade Records, Mechanisms of Omniscience marries the ceaseless brutality coming out of New York and New England to the hyper-blasting intensity endemic to Quebecois death metal; as unrelenting as it is …

CRIMINAL releases new album “Fear Itself” this Friday! Anglo-Chileans Thrashers CRIMINAL have announced their new album “Fear Itself” for release this Friday through Metal Blade Records. Today CRIMINAL streams the album in it’s entirety via their landing page at metalblade.com/criminal! At the same location you can surf the pre-order section. “Fear Itself” will be released …

Tailz Maniacs, we give you BLAST To pre-order please visit the Tigertailz Merch page here This is the first full Tailz studio album in nearly 10 years. And we are extremely excited and very proud of it.  It’s going to blow your crazy minds. We wanted to make it as special …

Acknowledging both their roots (their 1979 debut ‘The Soundhouse Tapes’ was Iron Maiden’s first official release on vinyl) and reputation for bringing history to life, IRON MAIDEN will release their longest ever song, with a duration of over eighteen minutes: ‘Empire Of The Clouds’  as a limited edition 12” picture …

London’s indestructible masters of metal, Orange Goblin, are proud to be a part of the Spinefarm Records family following Spinefarm’s recent acquisition of Candlelight Records. Not just the UK’s reigning champions of balls-out, party-starting, booze-fuelled metal, but one of the very best live rock bands of recent times, the mighty Goblin have been a permanent and universally …

Announce London Headline Show The Islington 14th April 2016. Album: “Fed To The Lions” Drops 8th April 2016   These guys are easily the best new band I have heard in years!” – Scott Gorham, Black Star Riders/Thin Lizzy So the music business has taken a bit of a tumble but there …

The Survival Code are a London based Trio with a passion for energy, booming guitars and rhythms. Catalyst is the fifth single from taken the debut album MMXV which was released in July 2015 through the label IRL. The track is filled with chinky strings, beautiful melodies and big dynamic …

Swedish Alternative Metal upstarts We Are The Catalyst will release their second studio album, “Elevation”, on September 2nd via Ferocity Records. “Elevation is darker, heavier and more emotional than anything we´ve ever done before” says co founder Kenny Boufadene. “It´s been an awesome and intense year for us, touring China …

  Melbourne, Australia’s Teramaze release new video ‘For The Innocent’ Taken from the album ‘Her Halo’ Out Now via Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group “One of the finest prog metal releases of recent years. Exceptional” Prog Magazine “Soaring solo-tastic Australian progressive metal” Metal Hammer Taken from their “exceptional” recent album …

Canadian label Test Your Metal Records is proud to announce it will be releasing internationally known Brazilian singer and composer EDU FALASCHI’s (ALMAH, ex-ANGRA) solo debut album ‘Moonlight’ on May 20th for North America. The first solo album by the ex-ANGRA front man currently of ALMAH is a celebration of his 25 year career with sixteen records released worldwide, a …

NJ/NY Crossover Thrashers ZAMBONI will release their rowdy self-titled debut album on April 15. Featuring the bombastic bass and booming vocals of Chris Butera, and the RAMONES-esque buzzsaw riffing guitars of Robert Orr, the album can be pre-ordered and a new song (“The Greater Evil”) streamed at the link below: https://zamboni.bandcamp.com/album/zamboni The album …

Kent-based progressive doom unit OHHMS is fully embracing the festival season, as the band has been confirmed to play several festivals in the UK this spring, as well as Sound Bay Fest in Lisbon, Portugal. The five-piece released their latest and well-acclaimed EP “Cold” on Holy Roar Records last June, including their …

Israeli Metallers FERIUM have released an official music video for the song “Revelation” from upcoming sophomore album Behind the Black Eyes. Behind the Black Eyes, the highly anticipated follow-up to 2014 debut Reflections, will be released April 21 and pre-orders are being taken now at: http://ferium.bigcartel.com/ Behind The Black Eyes was produced and mixed by …

SAVAGE MESSIAH are heading into the studio in America next week to record their forth as yet untitled album at J Street Recorders in Sacramento, CA with Executive Producer BRIAN WHEAT, founder of multi-platinum US rock band TESLA. The band will then head into the ledgendary Rockfield Studios with long-time producer SCOTT ATKINS (Sylosis, Cradle …

Monomyth Album: “Exo” Release date: 22nd April 2016 Band confirmed for Desertfest London 2016 Saturday 30th April 2016 Mainstage Electric Ballroom, London, UK Monomyth: the hero’s journey. An epic journey with unknown conclusion. Monomyth stands for thrilling instrumental soundscapes, a rollercoaster ride in which the listener can lose him- or …