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London based New Zealand progressive rockers Agent are returning home to New Zealand for the first time in six years to perform for Kiwi fans during a special four-date tour in November. Playing their latest album ‘Kingdom Of Fear‘ to Kiwi fans, the tour kicks off at Bodega in Wellington …

Teutonic Heavy Metal trio The German PANZER is comprised of three undisputed genre legends: vocalist & bass player Schmier, best known as frontman of DESTRUCTION and HEADHUNTER, guitarist Herman Frank (ACCEPT, VICTORY) and drummer Stefan Schwarzmann (ACCEPT). The band are set to release their debut album Send Them All To …

Over the last two years since 2013, Wacken Metal Battle Canada has seen Canada’s top metal bands battle each other for one to rule them all and perform at the world’s largest metal festival Wacken Open Air in Wacken, Germany. Toronto’s Crimson Shadows 2013 winners and Montreal’s Mutank 2014 winners have …

Veteran Folk-Rockers the Levellers have teamed up multi-BBC Folk Award winners Bellowhead, to record a fantastic new version of their cautionary tale of all things alcoholic, Just The One. As part of their recent Greatest Hits Collaborations project, Levellers offered Bellowhead completely free reign to rearrange their 1995 hit in …

Mancunian slam crew INGESTED have built a reputation as one of the most savage death metal acts to come out of the UK for a long time. Punishing beat-downs, epic riffage, guttural vocals and blistering speed are just some of the weapons in Ingested’s musical arsenal. 2015 now sees Ingested …

Spinefarm Records is pleased to announce the signing of AT THE HOLLOW to the label’s already formidable roster of bands. The Finnish trio has spent recent months working on its label debut, which was recorded at Sound Supreme Studio in its native Finland with producer Janne Saksa (Mokoma, Turisas, Stamina …

Phoenix-based Sludge/Stoner metal band TWINGIANT have made their upcoming album Devil Down available for preorder on Bandcamp. You can reserve your copy of Devil Down here: https://twingiant.bandcamp.com/album/devil-down The album’s bewitching single “Daisy Cutter” is currently available to stream on the TWINGIANT Bandcamp. This track showcases why the band has been generating …

Swedish rock group Europe have signed with German-based UDR Records for the release of their as-yet-untitled forthcoming album in early 2015. The recording commences this month in Stockholm. Europe’s front man Joey Tempest “We’re really excited to be working with the people at UDR.  A very credible label and I …

Following the announcement earlier this year, the entire vinyl collection of Iron Maiden’s 1980s albums – which are being issued in brand new heavyweight 180g black vinyl pressings – will be completed on the 24th November, with the final two albums, ‘Somewhere In Time‘ and ‘Seventh Son Of A Seventh …

Norwegian hardcore band Barren Womb has debuted a new video for their song “Only Rain Man doesn’t change” from their recent album, The sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken.  The record is available now on limited edition vinyl via Spartan Records and digitally at iTunes.   Watch Barren Womb’s new video …

Ascension Lost is set to be the third album from Munich’s THULCANDRA, whose reputation as independent and especially melancholic-melodic Black metallers is excellent as ever. The brand new, masterpiece will be released on February 2nd in the UK & February, 10th US/CAN on Napalm Records. It will enthrall with darkly …

Eighteen years. Twelve albums. Two Gold Records. Thirty-plus transatlantic treks. Fifteen Top 40 singles. Arena tours across 11 countries with Guns N Roses. A video trilogy starring Elijah Wood and Ralph Macchio. A feature- length documentary. An oral-history biography. Personal invites from Lemmy to join Motörhead on the road (and …

“A band from Manchester stole my heart over the last weekend. You may well have seen them, outside the “Grote Markt” between Vindicat and the Grand Theatre? This band grabbed my attention when I was unable to enter the festival due to the crowds. The band is called Shoshin and …

SYLOSIS are set to release their fourth studio album Dormant Heart on the 12th of January 2015 and in anticipation of the release, frontman Josh Middleton decided to give fans an insight into the band’s new offering by recording a teaser clip. The clip includes music, lyrics, studio footage and more info about the recording of the new …

Toronto, ON alternative metal band BLIND RACE have posted a new lyric video for ‘Truth or Dare’. The track, which was also a Revolver Mag song of the day last week, is off their upcoming EP ‘Come And Get It’ due out on November 18, 2014. The EP was produced by Mike Langford whom has worked with upcoming and established artists …

Australian black metal cult Pestilential Shadows stream the entirety of their new album, Ephemeral – out now on Seance Records – at Zero Tolerance magazine’s website. One of Australian black metal’s longest-running and most revered forces in the underground, Ephemeral retains Pestilential Shadows’ signature poetic heaviness and melody but twists the dagger deeper into the soul. …

Indian metal veterans Demonic Resurrection who recently released a brand new music video for ‘Death, Desolation and Despair’ (watch below) have released another single from their latest album ‘The Demon King’.   Listen to it here: https://soundcloud.com/demonicresurrection/the-promise-of-never   The album was released worldwide on July 15th on Candlelight Records and Universal …

Contemporary Extreme Metal trio Forsaken World presents now the first single extracted from their new LP “Fragments”.The elected track is entitled “Our Own Society” and has been chosen by the band to represent the album.   Listen to “Our Own Society” below: https://soundcloud.com/artgatesrecords/forsaken-world-our-own-society    In words of Forsaken World: “It’s a powerful song, single sized, …

From their musical birth as metalcore teenagers in Sheffield to gaining a global fanbase, Bring Me The Horizon have never been a predictable entity. Their recent collaboration with BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe on the re-score of Drive and their upcoming sell out headline show at Wembley Arena on December …

Milton Keynes-based tech-metal-grime-rock hybrid HACKTIVIST have released their brand new single and video, ‘DECEIVE & DEFY’. Check out the video here:   Released as a download on their own Wake To Reality label, ‘Deceive & Defy’ follows the ‘False Idols’ single released this summer to coincide with their main stage …