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BRAND NEW HEADLINE SHOW LONDON ELECTRIC BALLROOM – JUNE 1ST New single ‘We Could Be’ passes 1.5 million video views #15 on Spotify UK Viral Top 50 #22 on iTunes Alt Chart **THREE SOLD OUT LONDON SHOWS**  BOSTON MUSIC ROOMS – 2nd, 3rd & 4th March “Where is the next band …

California’s power shred act Exmortus would have fit right in on Mike Varney‘s Shrapnel Records in the late 1980s, if not for the band’s double bass drum and extreme metal vocal styling. On 2016’s Ride Forth, the band proves there is beauty in all sorts of precision: the hyper-realist creates …

  Seminal prog pioneers YES has announced an extensive UK and European tour for April 2016. The band will be performing 1971’s ‘Fragile’ and 1980’s ‘Drama’ in their entirety, the latter for the very first time, plus other seminal tracks including ‘Owner of a Lonely Heart’ and ‘Starship Trooper’.   …

                    What with all the turmoil and heartache billowing around the music world over the last few weeks, I was hoping to stumble upon a suitable gem to kick 2016 off with, and with this 24 carat offering I feel as …

Belgian classic metal band Wizz Wizzard have released a free single, Wonders Of The World’, taken from their forthcoming second album ‘Where The River Runs Cold’. ‘Wonders Of The World’ is a full metal version of a song originally released on the acoustic album ‘Restless’ by Chris Appleton (Absolva / …

Four-piece folk/rock/indie/punk outfit from Brest, France, Mohawk released a few weeks ago its brand new full-length record called ‘a.la.li’ still available for CD on Bandcamp / digital on the main legal platforms such as iTunes, Deezer, Amazon…; and just announced an LP release coming out in spring through Bandcamp. In the meantime, the album is available …

Madison, WI Death Metallers CASKET ROBBERY will release its full-length debut album Evolution of Evil March 4 on Mortal Music. CASKET ROBBERY is an up and coming death metal band created by the minds of Cory Scheider (LUNA MORTIS, EPICUREAN, ECHOTERRA) and Dustin Foesch. New Noise Magazine has premiered the official …

Fish Announces April Headline Tour Due to Phenomenal Demand Iconic Scottish singer, songwriter and ex-Marillion frontman FISH has announced new tour dates in April, as part of a re-scheduled series of European shows. These dates come straight off the back of a hugely successful sold-out run of the UK with …

In 2014, after four highly successful fan funded album album campaigns (555%, Hey! Hello!, Mutation and Albion) Ginger Wildheart looked at what could be the next step in fan connectivity and the answer was G*A*S*S (Ginger Associated Secret Society) an immersive subscription, digitally based fanclub platform that saw Ginger delivering a new 3 …

Life of Agony is one of the most influential bands with one of the most distinctive sounds of the 90’s era. A whole decade has gone by since their last album but now, LIFE OF AGONY are finally back! Brooklyn’s hard rock legends LIFE OF AGONY have signed a worldwide …

Finland’s heaviest festival, Tuska is really upping the ante this year by adding some serious talent to its 2016 Artist roster. FROM THRASH TILL DEATH There can never be enough thrash metal in the line-up and the legendary Anthrax is here to up the ante. One of the Big Four, …

We all know the feeling.  Your favourite band announces a new album and you really look forward to hearing it.  Sometimes it’s just quiet anticipation, sometimes we can’t wait and count the minutes.  With this one, I’ve been watching the clock for the last year.  A year past in December I …

Well known Bowie aficionado Joe Elliott has given a statement on the news of David Bowie’s tragic death. Joe was a huge fan of Bowie – he had a Bowie/Mick Ronson tribute act The Cybernauts Joe says: “I heard the news today oh boy …. And I can’t believe what …

DEVILSKIN Announce New Single START A REVOLUTION & Debut UK HEADLINE February Tour Supported by SKARLETT RIOT‏ Devilskin, a phenomenon in their native New Zealand, release the new single Start A Revolution on February 26th to celebrate their first ever UK tour. The anthemic Start A Revolution from their debut album We Rise is a “call to …

Exorcism to Re-Release “I Am God” New Artwork and Tracklist Revealed Doom heavy metallers EXORCISM will re-release their debut effort, “I AM GOD”, on  February 13 2016 via Dream Records. The cover artwork for the CD was created by Gragoth and Zvekan.   Recordings: All drums by Garry King recorded …

  Hordes Of Belial Announce Lifer and Others for 2016   On October the 1st (a change from the usual last Saturday in September), the Beat Generator Live! venue, which has played host to Hordes since its early days, will be yet again invaded by a host of rising talent …

                  Mike Peters and his Welsh alternative rock band, played their first gig in 1981 as The Alarm. After changing their name from Seventeen to Alarm Alarm, the former having toured extensively, the latter only doing one gig before they became The …

INGLORIOUS have released a lyric video for their new song “High Flying Gypsy”.  The video can be seen HERE. The song is taken from the UK outfit’s self-titled debut album, out on February 19 via Frontiers Music Srl. The album can be preordered on iTunes: http://radi.al/Inglorious and on Amazon: http://radi.al/IngloriousAmazon now, with those …

Ahoy, groove worshippers! Here is Oregon’s best kept secret and soon-to-be iconic rockers HOLY GROVE, led by one of the greatest female voices in the doom/heavy rock game. The band recently unveiled the artwork as well as two goosebump-inducing tracks for their upcoming debut “Holy Grove”, due out March 18th on …

After they won their spurs at last year’s Duna Jam festival, Italian doom and gloom merchants DEADSMOKE are set to release their tenebrous, thunderous self-titled debut LP on Heavy Psych Sounds. Click here to watch new track Liar Behind Me  DEADSMOKE is a new yet promising Italian sludge outfit who sound like …