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Chicagoland’s melodic death metallers, STARKILL, have announced the release for their sophomore album “Virus of the Mind” on the following dates: USA, Canada: October 14th, 2914 Europe, Australia/NZ: October 20th, 2014   Once again enlisting the services of engineer and producer Chuck Macak (Oceano, letlive.), “Virus of the Mind” will …

.@louplanetmosh @planetmosh reviews Snakebite by .@silentjackband Snakebite by Birmingham based Hard Rock band Silent Jack was released late last year. I liked it immediately. Here’s a bite-size taster! From start to finish this seven track album was packed with great songs and screaming riffs. Brand New Start had a bit …

Purest of Pain are the Dutch winners of this year’s Wacken Metal Battle. They play at Wacken along with all the other Metal Battle winners from all over the world to compete for the Over All Metal Battle Champion! Can you give the readers a quick introduction to the band. …

JOHN GARCIA is set to release his solo album John Garcia on August 4th in the UK on Napalm Records!   Today the track “Her Bullets Energy” is receiving its exclusive premiere courtesy of Classic Rock.   Check it out here: http://classicrock.teamrock.com/news/2014-07-21/john-garcia-featuring-robbie-krieger   With VISTA CHINO, GARCIA makes music very …

After the successful release of  The Human Contradiction in April and a grand tour with Within Temptation throughout Europe, DELAIN were able to convince completely fans and critics with their great live show, Charlotte’s power voice and bombastic symphonic metal anthems. Now the sympathetic Dutch are confirmed as special guest …

Revered punk-rock four-piece Four Year Strong has debuted a video for their new song and title track “Go Down In History”.  The video which premiered at AltPres.com can be viewed HERE.     The track is featured on the band’s new EP, Go Down In History, which is out today …

Chicago XXXVI: Now is the first album of completely new material from the band for eight years.  As it’s the 23rd album over the course of 47 years from the soft-rock giants (36th if you include live albums and compilations), then it’s safe to say that nobody is expecting anything …

AMBUSH REALITY has existed as a record label since 2006 solely as an outlet for the recorded works of ENTER SHIKARI. “Solely” more by accident than design, though, with time constraints and ‘nothing really jumping out and grabbing anyone’ being the main factors in the label’s singular approach to releasing …

The second trailer for (r)Evolution, the ninth studio album by Swedish heavy metallers HAMMERFALL, is now available for viewing on the Nuclear Blast YouTube channel:     Watch the guys describe how they achieved the ‘old HAMMERFALL sound’ to make this album ‘smell a little bit like the old days’ …

Crescent are the Egyptian winners of this year’s Wacken Metal Battle. They play at Wacken along with all the other Metal Battle winners from all over the world to compete for the Over All Metal Battle Champion! Can you give the readers a quick introduction to the band. We are Crescent …

Room of the Mad Robots - Pre Fest Interview Wacken 2014

NYHC legends Madball have just announced a UK-wide Tour kicking off at Birmingham’s The Oobleck Friday September 26th.   The band will be bringing new tracks from their recently released album ‘Hardcore Lives’ with shows across England as well as Glasgow’s ‘Ivory Blacks’ and ending the tour with two dates in Ireland, playing both …

Nottingham based Punk Rock band Trioxin Cherry released their debut album Let’s Take Off and Nuke the Site From Space via STP Records on 18th April 2014.  The album opens with a 16 second spoken introduction to the song Baka Manko, both introduction and song are in Japanese. I don’t speak a word …

THE BRIDESMAID is a brand new musical endeavour that draws inspiration from post-rock, shoegaze, post-metal, grunge and black metal.   Those behind the project have chosen to remain anonymous and currently have no plans to play live. This is less to do with creating hype or mystique, and more to …

AEONS OF ASHES – “We are excited and proud to have signed with Noiseheadrecords, a label of international reputation and home of great bands like Darkfall, Before The Fall or GodHateCode. We are totally looking forward to this cooperation which we’re sure will be successful for both parts. For us, …

Platinum selling rockers American Hi-Fi are back and have announced plans to release ‘Blood & Lemonade’, their first album in 5 years, this September via Rude Records. ‘Golden State’ is the second single to come from the album and closely follows the single ‘Allison’ which kicked things off earlier this …

Emerging from the darkness of Scandinavia comes one­woman black metal project, MYRKUR. Combining the rawness of second wave black metal bands like Ulver and Darkthrone with a natural sonic, ethereal beauty, MYRKUR has created a wholly unique perspective on the genre. Hailing from Denmark, MYRKUR signed to Relapse Records earlier this year and will release …

Agni Kai are from Macedonia and are representing Former Yugoslav Republic at this year’s Wacken Metal Battle. They play at Wacken along with all the other Metal Battle winners from all over the world to compete for the Over All Metal Battle Champion! Can you give the readers a quick …

Crying Steel are the Italian winners of this year’s Wacken Metal Battle. They play at Wacken along with all the other Metal Battle winners from all over the world to compete for the Over All Metal Battle Champion! Can you give the readers a quick introduction to the band? To …

Blind Channel are the Finnish winners of this years Wacken Metal Battle. They play at Wacken along with all the other Metal Battle winners from all over the world to compete for the Over All Metal Battle Champion! Can you give the readers a quick introduction to the band. Blind …