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Sweden’s DARK TRANQUILLITY are in the studio recording their 11th full-length album ‘Atoma’, set to be released on November 4, 2016 through Century Media Records. The band says: “That’s right! We’re more than halfway done with the recording of the upcoming album, and it’s shaping up to be a diverse and challenging affair …

Legendary rock torchbearers Gov’t Mule will release a new archival album entitled The Tel-Star Sessions on August 5, 2016 via Provogue/Mascot Label Group. The album consists of the band’s very first, and never-before-released, demos made in June 1994 at Tel-Star Studios in Bradenton, Florida. These newly mixed and mastered recordings …

GILLAN VINYL BOXSET TO BE RELEASED Demon Records has announced the release of a new must-have Gillan vinyl boxset on 7th October. ‘The Vinyl Collection 1979-1982’ will feature 5 chart albums – 7 LPs in total – including Mr Universe (1979), Glory Road (1980, 2 LPs, with bonus disc ‘For …

ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM “TWISTED LOVE” RELEASE DATE: 2ND SEPTEMBER 2016   FOUR TRACK EP “TWISTED LOVE EP” OUT ON 19TH AUGUST 2016 The summer of 2016 is the time to fall in love all over again as The Quireboys rediscover their passion for quintessential British rock and roll. Produced by The Quireboys and Martin Ekelund, the …

PERIPHERY, are set to release their fifth album, ‘Periphery III: Select Difficulty’, on July 22 via Century Media Records. The band has launched an amazing video clip for the track ‘Marigold’, which was directed by Wes Richardson, who previously did the videos for ‘Scarlet’ and ‘Alpha’. If you preorder a digital version …

Sinister UK metallers VANITY DRAWS BLOOD have unveiled their latest video ‘Anxiety’, taken from their upcoming EP Perspective / Dread, which is set for release on 15 July. Featuring ex Thy Art is Murder front-man CJ McMahon on guest vocals, check out ‘Anxiety’ below: The band have also announced the …

Irish members of the BFS Army, get the Guinness ready! Bowling For Soup are returning to the Emerald Isle this October for their first headline show in Ireland since 2012. As previously announced to the delight of their army of UK fans, Bowling For Soup will return to the UK …

Barb Wire Dolls are pleased to announce the release of their new album “Desperate” on 22ndJuly, via Motörhead Music. Recorded at Sonic Ranch (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ministry, Gogol Bordello) and NRG (Motörhead, Foo Fighters, No Doubt) studios, Barb Wire Doll’s sophomore album Desperate was produced and mixed by Grammy award-winning …

Welsh post-hardcore quintet BREATHE IN THE SILENCE are thrilled to announce that they’ll be releasing their brand new EP Hold My Heart on the 2nd September 2016 via Crooked Noise Records. To coincide with the announcement the band have revealed the video for the EP title-track, check out ‘Hold My …

RUSSELL HOWARD AND BILL BAILEY MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE, KATHERINE RYAN, LEE NELSON, RUSSELL KANE, SARA PASCOE, JOEL DOMMETT, HOLLY WALSH, OWEN JONES AND MORE TO APPEAR ACROSS THE WEEKEND GRANDMASTER FLASH TO MAKE EXCLUSIVE APPEARANCE AT LEEDS FESTIVAL 5 HEADLINERS ACROSS 3 DAYS AND OVER 250 ACTS ANNOUNCED Reading & Leeds Festival …

Beginning July 16, music fans can experience the final performance from iconic rock band Mötley Crüe during a month-long online run of “Mötley Crüe: The End.” The once-in-a-lifetime event – held at the sold-out Staples Center in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve 2015. Fans around the world will be …

Under the name ‘The Rollin’ Stones’, the boys did their first show at the Marquee Club, 165 Oxford Street London on 12 July 1962. Out of luck they were offered a slot on BBC Radio’s Jazz Club programme, so the Marquee’s owner, Harold Pendleton booked this new four-piece band to …

Sony Music is proud to announce the coming together of two influential gents within their own fields of the arts. Acclaimed poet Dr John Cooper Clarke and esteemed singer / songwriter (and founding member of The Stranglers) Hugh Cornwell have teamed up to release their first album, This Time It’s …

Let me start by giving you a small introduction to the deadly Nervosa: originating from Sao Paulo, Brazil, they began forming in 2010 and finally became the line up we love in 2013 with the arrival of Prika Ferraz on drums.  This created this unit of metal awesomeness, and they began …

I was so excited on hearing that Opeth were putting ‘Lamentations’ out on vinyl; I still can’t quite believe that iconic show was thirteen years ago at Shepherd’s Bush Empire.  This is a really special one for me to revisit; fifteen year old me was handed ‘Blackwater Park’ by a friend and …

The Dead Daisies and The Answer, two of rocks most celebrated, dynamic and utterly consummate bands to have emerged in recent years, have teamed up to play a ten date UK co-headline tour in November. Dates are:- November 12th    ABERDEEN                 Lemon Tree November 13th    GLASGOW                  Classic Grand November 14th    SHEFFIELD                 …

A campaign has started to get Beholder frontman and Bloodstock Metal 2 The Masses organiser Simon Hall to do a forward roll on stage at Bloodstock this year in order to raise funds for the Sophie Lancaster foundation.  This is your chance to see Simon Hall make a tit of himself and …

Syren City express a sound that takes from edgy alt-rock pitched with boundary challenging concepts. With an affection for Taking Back Sunday and Alter Bridge, through to Refused and My Chemical Romance, the angular alternative crew cunningly bond genres, and in doing so, have crafted something that is inventive, progressive and cinematic. The band …

Veteran Danish Power Metallers IRON FIRE will release their 8th full-length albumAmong the Dead September 26 on Crime Records. The album will be available on CD, cassette, and vinyl LP formats. Check out the Among the Dead Preview Video below. Want to Headbang like it’s 1999? Then Among the Dead should be your obvious …

Polish death metal legends Vader recently announced a special single as part of an EP release, taken from their upcoming album ‘The Empire’. The full EP is titled ‘Iron Times’ and will include the following songs: Side A 01. Parabellum 02. Prayer To The God Of War Side B 01. Piesc …