March 14th 2016 – This weekend Jägermeister accomplished a world first by producing a thrilling continuous gig on air, sea and land, featuring Matt Tuck – lead singer of multi-award winning British heavy metal band, Bullet for My Valentine. The adrenalin-filled gig, which marked the fifth and most extreme chapter …
Read More »Ben Poole – Time Has Come
The new album from Ben Poole opens with the hard hitting “Lying To Me” a big, powerful, rocking number with a steady, hard bluesy riff and serious soloing which certainly grabs your attention. “I Think I Love You Too Much” slows things down a notch or two, and on this …
Read More »Ruthless And Hexx To Join Forces For The First Release In The TYRANTS OF STEEL Series
Ruthless And Hexx To Join Forces For The First Release In The TYRANTS OF STEEL Series Two legendary US Metal acts, HEXX and RUTHLESS, joined forces for the “TYRANTS OF STEEL” 7″ vinyl single, which will be released this summer on High Roller Records. The single, which is the first …
Read More »Discharge Digital Single ‘Hatebomb’ Out Now
New digital single ‘Hatebomb’ out now UK-based crust legends Discharge announced their signing to Nuclear Blast late last year. After the release of their ‘New World Order’ EP, the time has arrived to finally unleash a new studio album (their first in over 8 years) on an unsuspecting world. The …
Read More »AUTOKRATOR Reveal Details On Forthcoming Album And New Track Posted.
French AUTOKRATOR have completed the work on their second full-length album entitled ‘The Obedience To Authority‘, scheduled to be released on 22 April 2016. The new album contains eight premiere tracks that continue and develop the style presented on their debut. Intense, uncompromising conglomerate of suffocating death metal with industrial …
Read More »Boss Keloid – Herb Your Enthusiasm
Boss Keloid are fast becoming a strong contender in the sludge/stoner/doom community throughout the UK. Having shared stages with the likes of Gurt, Slabdragger and Raging Speedhorn, they are on their way to changing the shape of the sludge sound with intelligent writing and impressive vocals. Boss Keloid begin with a huge slab of sludge in …
Read More »All Hail The Yeti Unveil ‘Before The Flames’ Video and Concept Album
All Hail The Yeti Unveil ‘Before The Flames’ Video and Concept Album Southern-fried metal outfit, ALL HAIL THE YETI release their new album, ‘Screams From A Black Wilderness’ on 13th May in the UK via minus HEAD Records. The album concept features classic ’round the campfire’ horror stories, presenting a different …
Read More »Chris Gillen speaks about his new role in Tokyo Blade as one of the two vocalists who will perform live with the band.
Chris Gillen speaks about his new role in Tokyo Blade as one of the two vocalists who will perform live with the band. Tokyo Blade recently announced that they will perform with two vocalists, Chris Gillen for shows in Canada and The Americas and the returning Vick Wright for classic …
Read More »REVELLER will unleash their new video single for ‘Drown’, on Friday 8th April.
Oxford melodic metal chiefs ‘Reveller’ are primed to etch a prominent name for themselves within the UK metal scene. Serving up an ear-shattering sound that marks their intention and throws down their manifesto, the driven quintet are ready to hurl themselves into the national arena, and have the perfect bait …
Read More »Cardinal Bay announce new EP ‘Answers’ UK Release 13th of May 2016
Bridgwater post hardcore 5 piece Cardinal Bay have announced the first details of their second EP. Recorded at Bandit Studios with Jonny Renshaw (Devil Sold His Soul), ‘Answers‘ will be unleashed on the 13th of May 2016. Hell bent on impressing with their live experience, Cardinal Bay have been compared …
Read More »Redemption debuts on Billboard charts for new album, ‘The Art of Loss’
Los Angeles-based prog-metal outfit Redemption – featuring Nick van Dyk, Ray Alder (Fates Warning, Engine), Sean Andrews, and Chris Quirarte (as well as guitarist Bernie Versailles, who is presently on an indefinite medical hiatus) – recently released their sixth full-length, The Art of Loss, via Metal Blade Records worldwide. For their efforts, The Art …
Read More »Abnormality reveals artwork and details for new album, ‘Mechanisms of Omniscience’
Massachusetts-based extreme metal outfit Abnormality has announced the details for their upcoming sophomore album, Mechanisms of Omniscience! Due out April 29th worldwide via Metal Blade Records, Mechanisms of Omniscience marries the ceaseless brutality coming out of New York and New England to the hyper-blasting intensity endemic to Quebecois death metal; as unrelenting as it is …
Read More »Metal Blade news – Criminal.
CRIMINAL releases new album “Fear Itself” this Friday! Anglo-Chileans Thrashers CRIMINAL have announced their new album “Fear Itself” for release this Friday through Metal Blade Records. Today CRIMINAL streams the album in it’s entirety via their landing page at metalblade.com/criminal! At the same location you can surf the pre-order section. “Fear Itself” will be released …
Read More »Tigertailz Blast – New album release
Tailz Maniacs, we give you BLAST To pre-order please visit the Tigertailz Merch page here This is the first full Tailz studio album in nearly 10 years. And we are extremely excited and very proud of it. It’s going to blow your crazy minds. We wanted to make it as special …
Read More »Iron Maiden reveal limited edition release for Record Store Day 2016
Acknowledging both their roots (their 1979 debut ‘The Soundhouse Tapes’ was Iron Maiden’s first official release on vinyl) and reputation for bringing history to life, IRON MAIDEN will release their longest ever song, with a duration of over eighteen minutes: ‘Empire Of The Clouds’ as a limited edition 12” picture …
Read More »Reckless Love – The Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton: 5th March 2016
For the first time in my life I actually got off the train at Wolverhampton rather than just passing through on the way back from Birmingham! The violent hailstorm and grey miserable skies did little to dampen my spirits as I was there to see two Finnish rock bands Reckless …
Read More »Mastiff – Wrank
Sometimes, just now and again, an album comes by that makes you want to do bad stuff. With ‘Wrank’, Mastiff have achieved that status It has been said that Edvard Munch played this album on his iPod shuffle as he created and painted ‘The Scream’ in …
Read More »Avantasia – Forum, London – 8th March 2016
Tonight’s gig was the first full Avantasia gig in the UK. It’s hard to believe it’s taken so long – the band have been going for 15 years and recently released their seventh album, but apart from a set at Bloodstock festival a couple of years ago they haven’t played …
Read More »ORANGE GOBLIN announce UK Headline Sept/Oct Tour
London’s indestructible masters of metal, Orange Goblin, are proud to be a part of the Spinefarm Records family following Spinefarm’s recent acquisition of Candlelight Records. Not just the UK’s reigning champions of balls-out, party-starting, booze-fuelled metal, but one of the very best live rock bands of recent times, the mighty Goblin have been a permanent and universally …
Read More »Tax The Heat – Announce London Show and UK Summer Festival Shows
Announce London Headline Show The Islington 14th April 2016. Album: “Fed To The Lions” Drops 8th April 2016 These guys are easily the best new band I have heard in years!” – Scott Gorham, Black Star Riders/Thin Lizzy So the music business has taken a bit of a tumble but there …
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