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The Early November are pleased to announce You Blew It and A Great Big Pile Of Leaves as support on their spring tour.  The dates, which include appearances at the UKs Hit The Deck Festival and Groezrock in Belgium mark the bands first ever headlining UK & EU club tour. …

Evil Scarecrow’s irreverent, ingenious and always hugely entertaining live show of blistering metal & catchy anthems has been, in the main, the driving force of the band’s success, endearing them to an ever increasing and totally devoted group of fans.   If you haven’t already been privy to the crazy …

All That Remains will release their much-anticipated new studio album, The Order Of Things, on February 23rd 2015 via Razor & Tie.  The new album is the band’s seventh studio album to date and their follow up to 2012’s A War You Cannot Win. To promote the release of the …

Rocklahoma 2015 to feature performances from Linkin Park, Tesla, Godsmack, Slayer, Volbeat, Breaking Benjamin, Papa Roach, Halestorm, Queensryche, and many more for America’s biggest Memorial Day Weekend Party in Pryor, Oklahoma After a record-breaking 2014 with over 60,000 fans in attendance, Rocklahoma–presented by Bud Light–returns to “Catch the Fever” Festival Grounds …

Chris Appleton is perhaps best known to PM readers as the lead vocalist with his band Absolva, as well as the lead guitarist with former Wolfsbane/Iron Maiden frontman Blaze Bayley’s touring band.  To others, he might just be familiar as the brother of Iced Earth’s Luke Appleton.  He’s also part …

Enter Shikari released their 4th studio album ‘The Mindsweep’ at the start of this week. The album is currently sat at #3 in the UK Official Album Chart, battling it out with the likes of Mark Ronson, Ed Sheeran and co and on-track for the highest first-week album sales of …

Multi award-winning, British blues rock band King King will release their third studio album, “Reaching For The Light”, in the UK on Tuesday 5th May. Released by Manhaton Records, the album features 9 tracks of new material and a stellar line-up, featuring Alan Nimmo (vocals/guitar), Lindsay Coulson (bass), Wayne Proctor …

The latest cd I received via the postman was from a Glaswegian three piece rock band who I had never heard of before, however a quick look on their Facebook page gives me enough clues that this should be good, 4000 plus likes must mean they are doing something right. …

Legendary death metal drummer George Kollias from the band Nile has just announced that he will be playing drums on the new Demonstealer album. Sahil Makhija, the frontman of Indian metal band Demonic Resurrection who writes his solo material under the moniker ‘Demonstealer’ is gearing up to release his sophomore …

Guitar legend ULI JON ROTH will release Scorpions Revisited, a highly-anticipated brand new double album of 19 re-invented Scorpions tracks, on January 26 (digital) / March 10 (physical) via UDR Music.   Today, LA Weekly is hosting the exclusive premiere of ULI JON ROTH’s re-working of the classic Scorpions track …

Chicago, IL hard rockers ROMANTIC REBEL are on tour right now with Seasons After (with select one-off dates added with Buckcherry) promoting their new self-titled album and single “Believe”. The band has added a few more dates to their winter touring schedule, including select shows with Red, Islander, and 3 …

Satan’s Host are one of those rare bands that the much over-used musical terminologies “cult” and “underground” most definitely can be applied – and liberally! After forming around the nucleus of guitarist Patrick Evil and vocalist Leviathan Thisiren (otherwise known by his real name of Harry Conklin, frontman of Jag …

The Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund, founded in memory of the voice of Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio, is planning a weekend of activities in Los Angeles to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the singer’s untimely death from gastric cancer on May 16, 2010. The weekend …

Brighton based Drum and Bass / Rock fusion act The Qemists have been confirmed as main support on the upcoming Korn European tour. Leon from The Qemists Said. “If it wasn’tt for bands like Korn we wouldn’t be doing what we do. To have been asked to support Korn is …

Ridgefest 2015, A New Rock Festival With A New Vision. Over the years we have seen many small festivals come and go, we believe that is because the band line ups are always similar to each others. We Intend To Change This ! Ridgefest will include some new unsigned acts …

For extreme metal, anno 2015 is off to a good start, with Johansson & Speckmann‘s second studio effort, Mask of the Treacherous, being released through Vic Records. This nine-song album features Ribspreader‘s Rogga Johansson, teamed up with Master‘s Paul Speckmann. The studio-only collaboration showcases the musical and songwriting acumen of …

Akasava, new faces to the occult-psych metal scene, will release their début ritual EP Strange Aeons in the late spring of 2015. The French have a pedigree in music almost as notable as their taste in film. So when one draws from the other, you can be sure the atmosphere …

ABYSMAL DAWN released their new album Obsolescence last fall via Relapse Records.  Met with critical acclaim and some of the band’s best reviews yet, Obsolescence is a veritable beast of a record and the perfect example of what 21st century death metal should sound like.   In support of Obsolescence, …

As announced earlier this month, UDR Music will release a fantastic compilation of cover tracks, featuring an amazing all-star line-up, honoring the late, great Randy Rhoads – heralded as the legendary lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. Immortal Randy Rhoads – The Ultimate Tribute and accompanying bonus DVD …

Richmond, Virginia’s IRON REAGAN released their Relapse Records debut The Tyranny of Will in the fall of 2015 This 24 song-wrecking ball of hardcore- punk/thrash fury was recorded with guitarist Phil Hall at Blaze of Torment Studios in Richmond, VA and self-produced plus it was mixed by Converge’s Kurt Ballou.   …