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PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS Announce exclusive Record Store Day 7″ vinyl single!    PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS, led by the legendary former MOTÖRHEAD guitarist, have announced that they will release an exclusive 7″ vinyl single for Record Store Day on April 21st 2018. ‘Silver Machine’ will contain the band’s rendition of the …

DISSONANCE PRODUCTIONS presents: BRITISH STEEL II Live on stage: GRIM REAPER, DESOLATION ANGEL, SALEM, ELIMINATOR, SEVEN SISTERS and others! May 25/26, 2018, The Underwold, Camden Town, London Day one tickets: www.theunderworldcamden.co.uk/events/2018-05-25-british-steel-ii-the-underworld Day two tickets: www.theunderworldcamden.co.uk/events/2018-05-26-british-steel-ii-the-underworld   Facebook event page: www.facebook.com/events/148205282537288/

Motörhead To Celebrate Record Store Day 2018 With Special Collector’s Vinyl On April 21st – aka Record Store Day – Motörhead will be issuing a 7″ picture disc of their runaway hit cover version of David Bowie’s “Heroes”, with the art featuring a new “sketch” take on the classic war-pig. The flip-side features “Heroes (the Wacken Family …

Blackberry Smoke Announce Dublin Show BLACKBERRY SMOKE have announced a show at Dublin’s National Stadium on the 7th of November as part of their UK tour. Tickets are on sale NOW via ticketmaster; http://bit.ly/2FAxbHo PlanetMosh has teamed up with MCD Productions to offer one lucky winner a pair of tickets for …

SHINEDOWN has announced the release of sixth studio album, Attention Attention on 4th May via Atlantic Records.  The lead single Devil is out today along with the track’s accompanying video –   Directed by Bill Yukich (Beyoncé, Marilyn Manson, Wiz Khalifa), the visual for Devil is a dramatic and visceral …

Hard rock juggernaut HALESTORM are delighted to announce plans for their 6-week UK & European headline tour, kicking off in Moscow on 14th Sep and wrapping up in Madrid on 25th Oct. Widely acknowledged as one of modern hard rock’s most dynamite live acts, the trek includes 8 UK/Irish dates, …

BLACKBERRY SMOKE have announced a UK tour for November.   The Atlanta-based southern rockers are set to play the following dates in support of sixth studio album, ‘Find A Light’, which is set for release on 6th April via Earache. Frontman/guitarist Charlie Starr tells us, “We can’t wait to get back to …

Vocalist/guitarist & songwriter, RYAN ROXIE, is best known as ALICE COOPER’S long-time lead guitarist and collaborator. He has also worked with Slash & Gilby Clarke and been a member of Classic Rock Award nominated band, Casablanca. Roxie has had an impressive ride so far! His forthcoming album, ‘Imagine Your Reality’ …

The night kicked off with Italian band Klogr. It’s heavy alt-rock/metal and sounds pretty damn good as they play a set that includes material from their first two albums as well as their latest one. “Pride before the fall” in particular sounded great. It’s just a shame that the early …

Born to Destruct (BTD) a four piece Punk band from the University City of Cambridge released their ninth studio album God Of Destruction via Punkbob Recordz on 1st February 2018.  This follows 2016 release Devasteight With Destruction. Read a detailed bio here. I like the way they cleverly work the word destruction into many of …

Rhino’s Revenge unveil new video to celebrate their Save The Rhino Tour & they will be donating money to the ‘Save The Rhino International charity’ from the proceeds of the tour. In a rare break from his day job as the bass player with Status Quo, John ‘Rhino’ Edwards releases a rockin’ …

Amplified Festival finalise line-up with a UK Festival exclusive earlier than scheduled. In what had been scheduled for announcement on Friday 9th March, festival organisers have decided that following the last week’s weather they’d say “F*ck the Snow” and give fans a little something to warm up with, making a …

Code Orange have shared “only1(the hard way),” which is streaming now via The FADER. “only1(the hard way)” is a remix of Code Orange’s “Only One Way,” which was released earlier this month as part of Adult Swim’s Singles Series. Code Orange guitarist and vocalist Shade, who helmed the remix, explained …

US riff champions Trivium have released a video recapping the Autumn 2017 leg of ‘The Sin and The Sentence Tour’, featuring Arch Enemy. A big success for the band, it notched up some of the largest North American attendance tallies in Trivium’s history. In the six-minute clip, singer/guitarist Matt Heafy …

Florida metal crew TREMONTI, the band comprised of Mark Tremonti on vocals/guitars, Eric Friedman on guitars, and Garrett Whitlock on drums, have announced a new set of UK & European tour dates. Already confirmed to support Iron Maiden for a number of dates in mainland Europe, the new shows are …

During the height of a sub-zero blizzard today, a rare sighting of ‘The Beast from The East (Midlands)’ was caught on camera and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Download Festival dog. Download Festival takes place at Donington Park, Leicestershire on 8-10 June. Headlined by: Avenged Sevenfold, Guns N’ Roses …

Sunday’s main stage lineup kicked off with Fire red empress. More rock than metal they’re still more than heavy enough to be on the bill here and singer Jennifer Diehl does a good job of waking up the slightly sleepy and hungover members of the audience with her powerful vocal …

Ahead of their world tour, Nightwish are releasing a compilation album, Decades. Existing Nightwish fans are likely to have all their albums, which begs the question – who is going to buy this album? Existing fans who are completists and have to have everything the band has ever released will …

Twenty-four years into their career and still with all original members, US heavy rockers Sevendust are set to release their 12th studio album, ‘All I See Is War’, on May 11 via a newly-inked deal with Rise Records.  Recorded last autumn at Studio Barbarosa in Florida, the new album was produced by …

Has Rick Springfield gone all snake on us, meandering his followers down his blues infused rocky road of life? The intro to the opening track “In the land of the blind”, seems to have a familiar sound, maybe this as on purpose but there’s definitely a similarity to Bon Jovi’s …