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Hopeless Records is thrilled to announce the signing of Nagoya, Japan rock band, coldrain. Fans can now watch the music video for their song ‘The Revelation’ on the official Hopeless Records YouTube channel here:   The song can also be purchased now on iTUNES here: http://smarturl.it/therevelationsingle   Formed in 2007 …

Israeli metallers FERIUM release their debut album “Reflections’ this week via Transcend Music and are streaming it on metalmouth.net! Check it out here: http://metalmouth.net/2014/04/exclusive-album-premiere-stream-progressive-death-metallers-ferium-reflections   The band have also released a narrated video telling the album’s story:     The band explain: “We felt like this lyric video story would be the perfect alternative interpretation …

RECKLESS LOVE, the flamboyant Finnish rockers who burst spectacularly onto the UK scene in 2010, have joined forces with hard-charging home-grown rock ‘n’ rollers, The Treatment, to release a limited 4-track split EP, pressed onto 12” orange vinyl, via Spinefarm Records. This one-off run of 500 copies – produced specifically …

After the success of 2012’s ‘Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow,’ which saw We Are The Ocean storming the BBC Radio 1 playlist, with an addition to the A list for their track ‘Young Heart’, the Essex quartet now prepare to release new music and announce their first full UK headline tour …

The release date of the MEDUSA’S CHILD album “Empty Sky” on CD is May 16th, 2014. The preorder phase will start on May 2nd, 2014. Since 1999 the Swiss band MEDUSA’S CHILD created Melodic Power/Heavy Metal with clean, but still powerful vocals. After the re-release of the 2010 album “Damnatio …

THE OCEAN have announced a run of UK and Irish dates in the lead up to their UK Tech-Fest 2014 appearance. A handful of shows have been confirmed for July. Those dates can be seen below.   ROBIN STAPS is eager to get back: “We only hit London and Damnation Fest …

“The Crowded Room”, the new videoclip of modern thrash metal act Sawthis is finally available in worldwide premiere on BlankTV! Check the clip here:   “The human mind is a huge universe where anything can be created and everything can be destroyed. There are cases where in one mind, one …

In anticipation of their forthcoming EP “The Undivided”, Portugal’s Annihilation have teamed up with Terrorizer for an exclusive stream of their new song “The Great Cycle”.   Band founder Fabio Da Silva had the following to say about the song: “The song describes the way that human beings are connected/linked with the …

Ah, the days of pure, raucous, outspoken, and aggressive rock n’ roll often seem to have passed. But while this sound has almost entirely evaded the mainstream, at least one up and coming band in Los Angeles is poised to bring it back, while proving that truly honest and outstanding …

Last week, Clifton, New Jersey-based melodic metal outfit JULIUS SEIZURE released their new single ‘Sixth and Falling’ along with a B-side, ‘Second Coming’, via MetalInsider.net. The tracks are cut from their August 2013 release, Trials. Today, the band has teamed up with Shakefire to unleash the official music video for …

INSOMNIUM has launched a video for the first single “While We Sleep” of their upcoming album “Shadows Of The Dying Sun”, out April 28th in Europe and April 29th in North America via Century Media Records. The glamorous clip, which was directed by Dariusz Szermanowicz (produced by grupa13.com – Behemoth, …

Following the release of Norma Jean’s 6th album Wrongdoers, the band is now embarking upon a 5-date UK tour.  The new album showed expanded categories for their life and music and received a mass of gleaming reviews. Wrongdoers came together amidst many setbacks, frustrations and creative tensions but the resulting …

Swedish progressive titans OPETH unleash their hugely anticipated eleventh studio album, ‘Pale Communion‘ via Roadrunner Records on 16th June. ‘Pale Communion’, which follows the band’s 2011 critically lauded prog masterpiece ‘Heritage’, was produced by OPETH’s own Mikael Åkerfeldt and mixed by longtime friend and collaborator, Porcupine Tree visionary Steven Wilson.  …

Swedish Death Metal masters Diabolical premiere their new video ‘Oracle’ exclusively with Terrorizer. Watch ‘Oracle’ Here. Guitarist Carl Stjärnlöv comments, “The concept of the ‘Oracle’ song and the Oracle chapter of the Book of Neogenesis is very special. It has a deep meaning to the concept of Neogenesis and it …

20 years ago today, The Offspring released their breakout album ‘Smash’ on Epitaph Records and made history. To celebrate the band will begin playing the album in its entirety on tour in Europe this May, June and early July before finishing out the Summer with soon to be announced US …

Bay Area metal titans, MACHINE HEAD return to the UK this summer with an unexpected move set to delight their rabid ‘Head Case’ fanbase. The band are set to play a short run of five super-special underplays, in much smaller clubs than they usually play. Frontman Robb Flynn explains the …

London metallers SAVAGE MESSIAH have been nominated for an award at this year’s Metal Hammer Golden Gods. The band have been nominated in the “Best New Band” category, following the release of their new album, THE FATEFUL DARK, which has proven to be a hit amongst critics and fans alike. …

Today, SVART RECORDS sets May 30th as the release date for OPIUM WARLORDS’ Taste My Sword Of Understanding. Set to be release on CD and double-LP formats, Taste My Sword Of Understanding is the third offering of OPIUM WARLORDS, the final project of Sami Albert Hynninen (REVEREND BIZARRE, THE PURITAN, …

Montreal, QC’s MIRE performed on Global TV Montreal’s Morning Show on April 7th. Watch the video below of their interview and acoustic song performance of ‘Limitless Pt. 2’. Metal Monday – http://globalnews.ca/video/1254567/metal-monday   MIRE officially released their new album ‘Inward/Outward’ on March 18th to follow up their 2010 self titled …

2014 has seen UK death/thrash outfit Flayed Disciple back in the studio recording a new EP and follow up to the 2012 debut album ‘Death Hammer’. Chuck Creese, who produced the ‘Ejaculate While Killing’ EP in 2010, was back at the helm recording the new record. Guitarist Jon Whitfield comments, …