The Fallen State – Announce UK Headline Tour

ANNOUNCE UK HEADLINE TOUR IN OCTOBER 2019 New Studio Album ‘A Deadset Endeavour’ Out Now “Beefy, brooding shot of hard rock, with that Shinedown-meets-Alter Bridge” – (Classic Rock) British rising stars The Fallen State are thrilled to announce their headline UK tour in October 2019. The Fallen State is one of …

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New Metal Project SHAPED IN DREAMS Launched

SHAPED IN DREAMS is a musical project of composer/multi instrumentalist Martin Matiasovic featuring international, renowned guest artists from Black Crown Initiate, Obscura, Obscurity, Alkaloid and more. The main motivation behind the project was establishing a creative outlet for the artist’s restless urge to compose and thereby also present his eclectic, multi genre vision of music mainly drawing inspiration …

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COLDSPELL To Tour Spain Again And To Release New Music!

COLDSPELL, the melodic metal band from the land of ice and snow up in the north of Sweden will be returning to Spain in November/December 2019. And celebrating 10 years from the first album release the band is currently recording a new version of the title track Infinite Stargaze. This will be followed …

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CRO-MAGS – Limited 7″ EP ‘Don’t Give In’ Available Now!

CRO-MAGS Limited 7″ EP Vinyl ‘Don’t Give In’ Available Now New York hardcore punk legends CRO-MAGS have just released limited 7″ vinyl for their EP »Don’t Give In« available in three different colours via Arising Empire! Save your limited 7″ EP-vinyl »Don’t Give In« here: https://Cro-Mags.lnk.to/DontGiveIn Harley Flanagan: “In late 2018 I went in to the studio to …

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Graham Bonnet Band – Live In Tokyo 2017.

Graham Bonnet, still kicking out the jams at the ripe old age of 71, point proven on this very impressive Live In Tokyo 2017 album, released on Frontiers Music S.R.L. Out of its sixteen tracks, it weighs heavily on Down To Earth, the album Graham made with Rainbow. It divided …

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The Dead Daisies – Locked and loaded

Billed as “The covers album”, locked and loaded is exactly what the cover says – a collection of cover versions. Excluding their debut album the band’s subsequent releases have all come with a couple of cover versions included, and this release takes those 6 covers and adds 4 more. So …

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Mystica – Oratorio

Bulgaria holds great memories for me. I go there most years to Sunny Beach for my holiday, and I know that there is some great talent over there. So when a review request came through for Mystica, I jumped at the chance. Amazingly, Mystica have been around for some twenty …

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INFECTED RAIN premieres blistering new track!

Moldova’s Extreme Metal unit Infected Rain have released a new track from their upcoming album ‘Endorphin’, coming in late 2019 through Napalm Records. Watch ‘Lure‘  on the link above. Links: Official Website   Facebook   Twitter   Napalm Records

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The Final Countdown to BLOODSTOCK 2019

There are only 7 days left ‘til you and your metal brethren descend on to Catton Park’s hallowed turf for the UK’s biggest metal weekender! Hangin’ on ‘til the last minute to buy your ticket?  You can do so right up to and during the festival weekend.  However, tickets purchased …

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Ramblin Man 2019 – Sunday

The first band of the day for me was Sweet Crisis, opening proceedings on the Blues stage. It’s only a quick visit before I had to head off to see another band, but what I heard sounded very good with a mix of classic and modern influences. Definitely a band …

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Ramblin Man 2019 – Saturday

For me, Saturday at Ramblin Man started with a quick trip to the VIP area to see Bad Touch doing an acoustic session for the VIP ticket holders. They’d got a big crowd and their short set sounded great. Over on the Prog stage, Israeli band Scardust were the first …

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Monte Pittman launches video for “Changing Of The Guard”

Monte Pittman launches video for “Changing Of The Guard”; Jamplay online guitar instruction course now available After releasing two solo albums – Better Or Worse and Between The Space – last year to critical acclaim, Monte Pittman is now launching a video for Between The Space‘s track “Changing Of The Guard”. Filmed by Rokker Dave and featuring Jimmy …

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Destroy Planets – Interview

Brit noisemakers DESTROY PLANETS! are set to rise with the release of their new EP, Mass X Gravity, out on Friday 23rd August. The band have also just dropped a new single, Absolution – https://youtu.be/n5rdF-onGb4 , which is out now. We chatted to the fivesome about their beginning and more…. …

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Floorboards – Interview

UK Emo crew FLOORBOARDS are primed to make their mark on proceedings. The ferocious foursome have just dropped their explosive new single, Low. We asked the guys to introduce themselves: What is the full band line-up, who sings and who plays which instrument? Jay Mansfield – Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar …

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LINDSAY SCHOOLCRAFT RELEASES “SEE THE LIGHT”

Cradle of Filth keyboardist and vocalist LINDSAY SCHOOLCRAFT, has just released her track “See The Light”. The song is from her upcoming album Martyr which will be released in October and features a guest appearance from Xenoyr of  Ne Obliviscaris.  The album was co-written with  former Evanescence drummer Rocky Gray. Lindsay commented “I knew I wanted to have a …

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Michael Monroe Announces New Album One Man Gang

MICHAEL MONROE ANNOUNCES  DIRTY AND DANGEROUS NEW ALBUM  ONE MAN GANG  OUT 18TH OCTOBER 2019 VIA SILVER LINING MUSIC PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE FROM AUGUST 9TH AND RELEASES VIDEO FOR TITLE TRACK A genuine rock star since birth, Michael Monroe innately knows exactly how to sing, swagger and walk the most glamorous and colourful of …

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AIRBOURNE: 14 HEADLINE UK TOUR DATES

AIRBOURNE 14 HEADLINE UK TOUR DATES ADDED TO AUTUMN EUROPEAN TOUR FOLLOWING SUMMER FESTIVAL DATES TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN TO GUEST ON ALL SHOWS Fresh from a riotous main-stage appearance at Ramblin’ Man Fair in the UK, Airbourne have confirmed their return to these shores with a seismic bang – 14 …

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Dig Lazarus – Figured It Out EP.

Currently available from the band and major streaming sites, this tasty four track EP titled Figured It Out should have you not taking too much time to figure out why it is well worth £5 by Nuneaton based trio Dig Lazarus! Opening track immediately sets a high standard with the …

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Reaper – Death Games.

My first impression of Liverpool based metallers Reaper was definitely not a grim one as they tear into current single ‘Death Games’ available now from their bandcamp page. To be honest, my thought when I heard this game, it would be a video slots, a kind of money game and …

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