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Coldspell to support Michael Schenker’s Temple Of Rock Swedish hard rockers ColdSpell are confirmed to support Michael Schenker’s Temple of Rock for the Nordic leg of their Spirit on a Mission world tour dates. Michael Schenker is a true legend and, to many, the greatest guitar player around. Winning awards, getting rave reviews for his albums and when touring the …

2015 has been an intense year for Bristol’s rising stars Tax The Heat. Following the release of two critically acclaimed singles “Fed To The Lions” and “Highway Home” (both of which were playlisted across rock radio – A listed on Planet Rock) the band have cemented their live reputation by …

Suomi-Metal-Heroes NIGHTWISH based their eighth studio album Endless Forms Most Beautiful on a quotation by Charles Darwin, as well as drawing inspiration from other famous scientists like Richard Dawkins and Carl Sagan. The album comprises of eleven epic, immensely diverse compositions and was released back in March of this year. Having delivered the band’s highest UK chart …

British metallers Absolva have released a second music video from their forthcoming album ‘Never A Good Day To Die’. The song this time is the title track from the album, which is set for release via Rocksector Records on 12th October 2015. The album is co-written by brothers Chris Appleton …

Legendary British hard rockers to release their 13th studio album on November 13th. No superstitution here!  They’re loud, they’re hard, they’re tough, they’re uncompromising. Girlschool, the London-based-band, are proud to announce their 13th studio album, Guilty As Sin, to be released on November 13th in red colored vinyl gatefold, album …

Planet Rock Presents BLACK STAR RIDERS UK Christmas Shows December 2015 Black Star Riders are set to cap a hugely successful 2015 with two headline shows in the UK in December 2015. These shows are in addition their guest slot on the fast selling Def Leppard/Whitesnake double bill in the same month. …

PINKISH BLACK: Premiere second single from the Great Tyrents Final Recording; Announce additional US dates “With each scuzzy opus pumped from the billows of their industrial warehouse headspace, the Fort Worth, TX-based duo Pinkish Black continue to erase the boundaries between the metal, post-punk, and doom traditions.” – Tiny Mix …

The Red Sect marks a crossroads for the band; the straightforward aggression of their debut blends with a seething, menacing atmosphere-further enhanced by the mixing and mastering skills of TOXIC HOLOCAUST main man Joel Grind, creating an album that is dark, vicious, and compelling. The record’s ten tracks weave a frightful …

New Zealand’s Villainy, after dominating their home country for the past month and a half with sold-out tours and now with a New Zealand #4 album, now has Australian audiences in their sight. Their album ‘Dead Sight’, which features single ‘Syria’, will be released Friday November 6th through MGM Distribution …

In a world where punk rock does not have as much bite as it did when Millencolin andRefused first hit the scene in the 1990s, a group of five friends from Southampton are trying to change that. Five Miles North Of Nowhere have been making music that makes you want to …

Award-winning Finnish blues guitarist and vocalist Erja Lyytinen will embark on a 12-date UK tour starting in Darlington Blues Club on Friday October 2.  Tickets are available from the venues and the official Erja Lyytinen website. Erja was recently voted the Number 1 Solo Artist and Number 1 Live Album …

Progressive collective Earthside, (New England- USA) has launched a cinematic trailer for A Dream in Static, its debut album due out October 23rd, on  The band commented: “One of our many ambitions as a cinematic rock band is to score films and video games. With this project, we had the unique challenge …

The Finnish pagan metal band VORNA will release their second full length album ”Ei valo minua seuraa” (transl. ”No Light Follows Me”) on 4th December 2015. The album will be released through Inverse Records. The album has been mixed by Tuomas Kokko from Electric Fox Studios (e.g. Swallow the Sun, …

Italy’s finest purveyors of Black/Doom Metal, FORGOTTEN TOMB, are about to receive a re-release of their classic thrid album, “Love’s Burial Ground”, in CD, digital formats, and for the first time LP, on Agonia Records. The remastered and remixed version, including re-vamped layout (and original cover, censored back in 2004), …

One of the true founding fathers of occult metal, HELL are very pleased to announce that they will be performing as special guests alongside German metal legends ACCEPT at their highly anticipated upcoming London show. HELL guitarist Andy Sneap declared the following: “Hell are delighted to announce that we have …

Swedish duo DEAD SOUL will release their upcoming album, ‘The Sheltering Sky’, on October 23rd via Century Media Records (World excl. North America & Nordic) and Razzia Notes (Nordic)! Every once in a while it becomes very obvious what’s needed to create something new and exciting is a collision of …

Theory of a Deadman Announce UK Tour in Early 2016 Canadian rockers, THEORY OF A DEADMAN have announced their return to UK shores in early 2016. The boys enthuse; “Hiya United Kingdom!  We’re pumped to announce that we’re coming back across the pond for a crackin’ good time this coming …

London metalcore quintet COUNTING DAYS will release their debut album Liberated Sounds on October 16, 2015 via Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group (Volbeat, Shaman’s Harvest, Black Label Society, Gojira, Joe Bonamassa). Check out a brand new music video for the track “Die Alone”, directed by Jordan Green and featuring the Parallax …

Mortiis will be returning with his ninth studio album entitled ‘The Great Deceiver’ which is penned for release on 29th January 2016 via Omnipresence.   ‘The Great Deceiver’, which has remained in a torturous state of constant evolution until just recently, led the band through the darkest of places and …

French black/death metallers, TEMPLE OF BAAL, have released an advance stream of their new album, “Mysterium”, exclusively on Ultimate-Guitar.com! Set to be oficially released on October 2nd via Agonia Records, “Mysterium” is available for streaming right now at this link: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/ug_exclusive_stream_the_new_temple_of_baal_album_mysterium.html In their over 15 years-long career, marked by four full-lengths and …