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Lots of metal heads were waiting for this year’s Damnation festival, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Ten years and this year’s installment was totally sold out.  Leeds was full of black and camouflaged creatures, ready for what was supposed to be a really good event for sure. Loads of …

Mariachi El Bronx, the alter ego of acclaimed Los Angeles punk outfit The Bronx – have shared a psychedelic lyric video for ‘New Beat‘, taken from their new album, Mariachi El Bronx (III), which came out this week via ATO Records. Watch it below… The band will also be touring …

‘Beyond The Red Mirror’ is the title of the highly-anticipated tenth studio album by Germany’s favorite sons and metal’s most epic storytellers BLIND GUARDIAN.  Prepare to have your senses overwhelmed. Four-and-a-half years in the making, the follow-up to 2010’s ‘At The Edge Of Time’ (which debuted at #2 on the …

Swedish heavy-metal veterans SABATON, are set to return to the UK and Ireland for a killer 10 date tour in November & December. After the huge release of their latest record ‘Heroes’, this will be the perfect time for the mighty warriors to hit our shores and show us what …

After taking a trip back in time with the “Tragic Illusion 25 (The Rarities)” album and the last studio album “Tragic Idol” (2012) which entered the charts in over 10 European countries– most notably #2 in UK Rock Charts, #6 in Germany, #15 in Austria, #30 in France and #32 …

Hot on the heels of their recent record release and tour with the Rockstar Uproar Festival, the Platinum selling Los Angeles rock band Buckcherry has announced they have released an exclusive line of adult products called Crazy Bitch Toys. In addition to promoting their new F#CK EP, which is available …

Crammed as tight as canned sardines, people forgot about the cold and miserable weather outside. They intended to generate a lot of heat and energy at tonight’s sell-out show in Southampton’s 260 capacity venue ‘The Talking Heads’. The night kicked off to an impressive start as Navene Koperweis – the …

Guitarist Jimmy Lundqvist from the death metal band Entrails, takes the time out to fill in our email interview about the bands style, their new release, the death metal scene and more! Hey there! How’s it all going? Before we start the interview, for our readers who don’t know, can …

RIVAL SONS are due to kick off a headlining European tour this Sunday, November 9th in Frankfurt, Germany. The hotly-tipped tour follows the band’s phenomenal performance at the star-studded Classic Rock Roll of Honour awards in LA earlier this week, as well as recent TV appearances on the Late Show …

Portland, Oregon’s LORD DYING have completed recording their much anticipated sophomore album and are currently on a West Coast tour with stoner/sludge trio Castle.  The new record, entitled Poisoned Altars, was recorded with Toxic Holocaust’s Joel Grind (Black Tusk) at Audiosiege Studios in Portland and will be released January 27, 2015 (1/26 …

Fusion guitar guru ANDY WOOD is recognized for joining an unusual mixture of piercing electric guitars with barn-burning bluegrass – accomplishing a genre of his own creation. Wood’s growing recognition, in addition to his credit as the multi-talented lead guitarist for Scott Stapp (founding frontman of multi-platinum rockers Creed), has …

Thomas Giles, the solo project from Between the Buried and Me front man, Tommy Rogers, has released the first studio video from the recording sessions for “Modern Noise.” The video highlights drummer Will Goodyear and his approach to the album, working with Tommy Rogers and Jamie King, and more. Watch …

This is first-class Heavy Metal coming from Canada out to you! STRIKERbsound can be compared to modern metal music, but they still keep that old school feel. The new album City Of Gold was released this year via Napalm Records. The brand new video for the track ‘Start Again‘ will …

JUPERIAN proudly present their new clip ‘Procession Towards the Monolith‘. It’s the new music video for their debut album ‘Archaic‘, released in July 2014. Jupiterian are a Sludge, Death/Doom Metal band from Brazil. They was born in november 2013. After some line-up changes, in april of this year they started …

Wovenwar will be embarking on their next North American tour in January of 2015. The band will be supporting Periphery, along with Nothing More, and Thank You Scientist. The tour is scheduled to begin on Jan. 10, kicking off a five-week North American tour at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, N.C. …

German progressive metalcorers NEBERU are delighted to announce their new video and single ‘The Art of Being Lost‘, featuring Eskimo Callboy’s vocalist Sushi. Watch the video here, streaming via Metal Hammer. ‘The Art of Being Lost’ is a perfect introduction to this exciting young band – claustrophobic, hammering technicality combined …

Only two more days until the European release of DOWNFALL OF GAIA’s new album “Aeon Unveils The Thrones Of Decay”! Please surf over to the landing page at metalblade.com/downfallofgaia to stream the album in its entirety and to pre-order your copy, either on Digi-CD or Gatefold-LP! DOWNFALL OF GAIA: “Excited …

London Alternative Rock four piece Fur Cough released their self-titled debut EP, Fur Cough, via Baby Baboon Records on 29th October 2014. Formed in April 2013 by brothers Aaron and Hayd Brown and joined by Karen Jones on drums and Debbie Ahakpo on bass. The brothers share lead vocals and …

Ready, set, go! The Icelandic Viking Metal band SKÀLMÖLD will release their new album Með vættum on November 24th US/CAN and December 1st in the UK on Napalm Records. Together with ARKONA and ELUVEITIE, SKÀLMÖLD are hitting the road for an extensive tour through Europe till mid December! Get ready …

When Atreyu emerged from their hiatus in 2014, the band was met with fevered excitement from fans and the metal community. The band played a sold-out-in-minutes warm-up show in its native Orange County, were a featured main stage attraction at both AFTERSHOCK and KNOTFEST, released a new song “So Others …