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New wave of British heavy metal and thrash legends RAVEN have are currently on the road in North America on the “North American Extermination Tour 2014”. The band kicked off this tour following their special guest appearances alongside Accept. .  Fans can expect to hear RAVEN classics and new songs that the …

The UK’s finest new rock band, THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT, have released a 2 Disc Deluxe Edition of their debut album featuring brand new bonus live tracks. Originally released in September 2013, THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT’s self-titled debut went straight into the UK charts at number 12, receiving universal praise from critics …

Bristol-based alt-rockers – TURBOWOLF – return this autumn in a blaze of glory. After a short burst of headline shows in April and a glorious series of summer performances including Hyde Park Rocks and Download Festival, the four-piece head out on the road again later this month as special guests …

What better way to banish the winter blues than with another red hot Wildfire announcement, fresh off the press here at Les-Fest HQ. Occasionally a band comes out of nowhere and just blows you away. After catching a show stealing performance in the summer, Empire rocketed pretty much straight to …

Canadian Black/Goat Metal band Necroholocaust have now delivered a full length after an 11 year existence and a myriad of 7” split releases. They continue the tradition of Christ bashing violence as laid down by forefathers such as Blasphemy and Conqueror. From the beginning this is utter chaos, riffs bashed …

When blackness casts a veil over the lands and death and bane reach out for the defenceless mortals’ souls with claws cold as ice, the end is near… or rather the beginning of Dark Metal’s pitch-black triumphal march through Europe, led by the vanguards of their genre and flagship of …

Somewhat of an underground super-group featuring King Fowley (Deceased) and Jim Hunter (Twisted Tower Dire, While Heaven Wept). Both these guys have been associated with many classic underground recordings such as Deceased “Fearless Undead Machines”, While Heaven Wept “Of Empires Forlorn” and Twisted Tower Dire “The Isle of Hydra” which …

The Treatment today embark on the second leg of their ‘Running With The Dogs’ UK headline tour in support of the album of the same name, available now via Spinefarm Records. The band are also confirmed for the Soundwave Festival run in February / March 2015 – this will be …

Following on from their raging 4 track EP The Erebus and the Terror, Brighton based Jonestown follow it up with their next release ‘Cut Throat Lane’ and have recently strengthened their line up with the addition of new bassist Tony Hardwick. The song was originally planned to be on the …

Bay Area thrash metal provocateurs EXODUS are set to unleash their new album Blood In, Blood Out on October 13th via Nuclear Blast. Until then, the band are whetting fan’s appetite by revealing a series of trailers about the making of the new album. The fourth trailer is now online and features bassist …

Full disclosure: these were the very first band that I ever saw live. They supported Sum 41 in Dublin and I’ve had a huge soft spot for them ever since. Their brand of sugary sweet pop-punk is a refreshing throwback to the early 2000’s and holds up along with the …

It has been two years since I saw Virgil and the Accelerators live and they have used them wisely, honing their talent, which is on full technicolour display for tonight’s audience. The ten song set lasted approximately 105 minutes and was an amalgamation of new and old with, as singer/guitarist Virgil McMahon …

Catching up at last with the guys of ‘The Texas Flood‘ for a quick interview at a local two day festival in Nottingham. I asked them about their recent dis-closer of signing a two album deal with Off Yerr Rocker Recordings! During the interview Leeds based band ‘Faith In Violence’ …

Dublin retro metal crew Stereo Nasty played their first ever live gigs this weekend, when they opened for Darkest Era on the latter’s first homesoil headline gigs for more than two years… talk about a baptism of fire! PM grabbed a quick chat with the band following the second of …

Back To The Bone (Best Of The Bootlegs) contains 9 tracks recorded during the 1984 Slide it in tour, and If I remember correctly, this was the third time I had seen Whitesnake, though the first with new guitarist John Sykes. Opening with the trademark shout of “are you ready” …

What is post black metal really mean? It is a tag that provides a convenient and lazy description for music which deserves much more analysis and respect. This is what has been said about this band, it is far from the reality. As far as taking your time to put …

Finch have released their new studio album, Back to Oblivion, this week via Spinefarm Records and you can now listen to a stream here. Back to Oblivion marks the return of Finch with the band’s first full length album in over nine years. The Southern California band has undeniably created …

In November 2012, with a team of 3D cameras rolling, the legendary, multi-platinum selling rock band Guns N’ Roses took the desert by storm, performing a blistering set at The Joint in the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas. Clocking in at just under three hours, the band’s explosive set …

HAND OF MERCY will release their new album Resolve on the 3rd November via UNFD. Resolve is the first album to feature the vocals of Nick Bellringer, who replaced original vocalist Scott Bird in June. Fans can hear Nick’s incredible vocals for the first time via the new music video …

Set for release this Saturday through Infected Records, “Symphonies From The City”, the debut full-length album of Portuguese sleazy punk-rockers JACKIE D is now streaming in its entirety via Pure Grain Audio. Check out the full release here. Formed in 2013 by members of Grankapo, Custom Circus and Barafunda Total, …