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US riff champions Trivium have released a video recapping the Autumn 2017 leg of ‘The Sin and The Sentence Tour’, featuring Arch Enemy. A big success for the band, it notched up some of the largest North American attendance tallies in Trivium’s history. In the six-minute clip, singer/guitarist Matt Heafy …

Florida metal crew TREMONTI, the band comprised of Mark Tremonti on vocals/guitars, Eric Friedman on guitars, and Garrett Whitlock on drums, have announced a new set of UK & European tour dates. Already confirmed to support Iron Maiden for a number of dates in mainland Europe, the new shows are …

During the height of a sub-zero blizzard today, a rare sighting of ‘The Beast from The East (Midlands)’ was caught on camera and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Download Festival dog. Download Festival takes place at Donington Park, Leicestershire on 8-10 June. Headlined by: Avenged Sevenfold, Guns N’ Roses …

Sunday’s main stage lineup kicked off with Fire red empress. More rock than metal they’re still more than heavy enough to be on the bill here and singer Jennifer Diehl does a good job of waking up the slightly sleepy and hungover members of the audience with her powerful vocal …

Ahead of their world tour, Nightwish are releasing a compilation album, Decades. Existing Nightwish fans are likely to have all their albums, which begs the question – who is going to buy this album? Existing fans who are completists and have to have everything the band has ever released will …

Twenty-four years into their career and still with all original members, US heavy rockers Sevendust are set to release their 12th studio album, ‘All I See Is War’, on May 11 via a newly-inked deal with Rise Records.  Recorded last autumn at Studio Barbarosa in Florida, the new album was produced by …

Has Rick Springfield gone all snake on us, meandering his followers down his blues infused rocky road of life? The intro to the opening track “In the land of the blind”, seems to have a familiar sound, maybe this as on purpose but there’s definitely a similarity to Bon Jovi’s …

We had caught up with UK Emo Alt-Rockers, ELESSAR who release their new EP, Is This All We Are, on Friday 27th April. …….   What is the full band line-up, who plays what? Ricky Powell – Vocals / Guitar, Alex Evans – Guitar / Vocals, Dan James – Drums, …

This year’s HRH Metal took place at the weekend in Birmingham. It’s the second year of the event, and the lineup was definitely appealing. The festival appeals to a lot of the same people as Hammerfest but for many people Birmingham is just easier to get to. With three stages …

Carousel Vertigo Announce March UK Tour & New Video Rock is dead, long live rock! It’s been said before and will be said again. The truth is that rock music is and always will be here to stay, especially when a band like Carousel Vertigo creates, feels and plays it …

 Children’s Hospital gets International Support from American Rock Stars KISS Legendary rock band KISS is supporting Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital by donating an incredible, money-can’t-buy prize to help raise valuable funds for the hospital’s Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. Following the tragic event at the Manchester Arena last year, the Children’s …

And another one ! A few weeks after the official release of their debut full-length album ‘Rock’N’Brawl’ and then unveilling the music video of the song “Snap It” on YouTube, French Hardrock’n’roll/Groovy/Punk rebels Full Throttle Baby (with two members of BUKOWSKI) just premiered a brand new clip illustrating the song “Loud Punch”. In other news : ” is still available for CD (Golden …

NEW EP ‘MEMENTO MORI’ OUT NOW! Cumbrian band ‘Heartbreak Remedy’ are back as a trio, after a minor line-up change and are ready to do what they do best. Their latest blend of Cumbrian Rock is available in the shape of their latest release ‘Memento Mori’, out 14th February 2018. …

Costsowlds based Amplified Festival are proud to announce that closing out this years event is none other than Northern Ireland’s Multi Million album selling THERAPY? Bursting on to the scene in the early 90’s, their short, sharp blasts of metal were given an alternative slant by merging it with a …

BLOODSTOCK is excited to announce four more bands for August’s best heavy metal weekender!  Tickets are moving fast for 2018 and we expect another advance sell-out, so don’t delay in picking up yours! There’s also only 6 days left to sign up to the deposit scheme… We welcome pirate metal’s …

HRH have added a new string to their bow: HRH C.R.O.W.S. – Country Rock, Outlaw, Western & Southern Rock. It’ll bring whole new areas of music into the tribes of the HRH nation, and five more bands have been added to the line-up for the festival’s debut weekend at the …

Falling Red are back with their latest album, Lost Souls. Once again they’ve funed it with a successful pledge campaign, but have recorded differently to their previous releases, working with different studios and producers. While they may be referred to as a Sleaze band, Falling red are far more than …

Sometimes it’s a really bad idea to read a press release before listening to an album. The one for this album starts with “Hard rock harmonica hero”. My immediate reaction was “What the f**k? Harmonica? I’m not feeling optimistic about this one”. It’s also a covers album, so I was …

Tonight’s sold out show saw fans queueing well before doors opened, and by the time the doors opened the queue stretched a long way. Thankfully the security team did a good job getting people in quickly and by the time the first band, Tribulation came on stage the place was …

To say the least, Attrition is a major step forward for Hull based NWOBHM band Salem! Released on Dissonance Productions on February 23rd, this could be their Pyromania such is the quality of songwriting on display here. Kicking off with the title track ‘Attrition’, its hard hitting riffs from guitarists …