Revocation Launches “The Blackest Reaches” Lyric Video Revocation launches “The Blackest Reaches” lyric videoHeadline tour begins in one month!Revocation continue their series of lyric videos with fellow guitarist and director/animator Nick Hipa. The latest, “The Blackest Reaches“, is live now at metalblade.com/revocation. The previously released lyric videos, “Scorched Earth Policy,” “Madness Opus” …
Read More »Kagoule: Debut Album ‘Urth’ Available Now in Select UK Indie Stores
‘Urth’, the highly-anticipated debut album from Nottingham alt-rock trio Kagoule, is available now from select independent record stores in the UK. The band have teamed up with Rough Trade, Rise Records and Music Exchange for a special pre-release of their phenomenal debut album, which features two bonus tracks exclusively available …
Read More »1st Wildfire Festival Announcement
Wildfire are pleased to announce the first group of bands to be playing at next years festival. Full details and early bird tickets from facebook.com/events/wildfire http://www.wildfirefestival.co.uk/ http://www.wildfirefestival.co.uk/ Apriori-Fire https://youtu.be/mos29X1rURk Serpentine-Season Of The Witch Sky Valley Mistress-Dirty Blonde Blues https://youtu.be/8SXw5aUjH-o Soldier- https://www.facebook.com/soldiernwobhm/videos/178070445675523/ Winterstorm-Sail The Unknown Sea
Read More »Act Of Defiance – Debut “Legion of Lies” Official Music Video
Act Of Defiance – Debut “Legion of Lies” Official Music Video ACT OF DEFIANCE Partner With Yahoo Music To Exclusively Debut “Legion of Lies” Official Music VideoDebut Album Release On 21st August 2015ACT OF DEFIANCE have partnered with Yahoo! Music to exclusively debut their official new music video for the scathing …
Read More »One Machine Unveils “The Final Cull” Cover Art & Track Listing
One Machine Unveils “The Final Cull” Cover Art & Track Listing One Machine, the brainchild of acclaimed guitarist/songwriter Steve Smyth (Testament, Nevermore, Forbidden, Dragonlord, Vicious Rumors), recently announced the impending release of their second full-length album, The Final Cull, out on September 18th worldwide via Scarlet Records. Today, the band …
Read More »Reds’Cool – ‘Press Hard’
Name me a Russian hard rock band. Go on. Gorky Park. OK, there’s one. Try another. Try counting them off on the fingers of one hand. Tough, isn’t it? While evil western rock ‘n’ roll music was banned under the communist regime, even in the post-Glasnost era very few bands …
Read More »Trivium interview at Bloodstock 2015
Was there ever any doubt that Trivium would do anything else but triumph at Bloodstock? Of course not, with new material, a new stage set, all debuted at this years festival, this was a headline set not to be missed. I had a chat with Corey prior to the show, …
Read More »Nitrovolt – Dirty Wings
German Speed Rockers Nitrovolt released their third album Dirty Wings via Mausoleum Records earlier this year. Formed in 2004 by vocalist Tom “Voltage” Krämer and bass player Luciano “Louis” Vanini, they started out as a three piece called ‘Hi Octane Rockers’ with Micha on drums completing the threesome. In 2009 long …
Read More »Demolition Train – Unleash The Hordes
Described as ‘Dirty Speed/Thrash Metal with Rock & Roll and NWOBHM influences’ Demolition Train formed in Athens Greece in 2009, making their first live appearance in 2010. They released their first EP ‘Kill Your Boss’ in 2011. When Vasilis and Michalis had to leave the band for a while, Witchkiller …
Read More »Aesthetic Perfection – Audio, Glasgow – 05/08/2015
Many bands love Glasgow. Aesthetic Perfection is no exception. Last year they were rocking The Classic Grand together with Faderhead, and they were back again, this year – to the Audio club. While people were slowly gathering in Audio, the first opening act, a local band called Advance started their …
Read More »Steve ‘N’ Seagulls Confirm UK Tour Dates for October 2015
Steve ‘N’ Seagulls Confirm UK Tour Dates for October 2015 Steve ‘N’ Seagulls have confirmed ‘The Seagull Has Landed’ UK tour for October following their sold out tour May UK tour. Steve ’N’ Seagulls exclaimed their “Last UK tour was a blast. We were thrilled by the audience every night. It over-exceeded our expectations. Next time …
Read More »Diatessaron at Bloodstock 2015
I caught up with the guys post set at this years Bloodstock festival. We chat about the set and the forthcoming album amongst other things. A great band in my opinion,with a really bright future ahead of them Click on the video link below to hear the full interview …
Read More »Venom – First Band Announced for Bloodstock Open Air 2016
Venom – First Band Announced for Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2016 British Heavy Metal band Venom are the first band announced for Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2016. The video announcement was aired at Bloodstock Open Air Festival today and can be seen on Bloodstock’s Facebook Page here and also on Metal …
Read More »Prowler – ‘From The Shadows’
Everything about this debut full-length album from South Carolina’s Prowler – not to be confused with the now defunct NWOBHMers or the nascent German thrashers or the half a dozen or so US bands of the same name – points to an Eighties B-list thrash re-issue, from the horror movie-inspired …
Read More »Thundermother – ‘Road Fever’
Swedish-based Thundermother – they draw their members from Ireland and Italy as well as Scandinavia – draw on a heritage of all-female rock ‘n’ roll bands that traces its lineage back to The Runaways, through Girlschool, L7 and Rock Goddess to likes of their modern-day counterparts The Amorettes. They are …
Read More »New releases on way from Napalm Records
Napalm Records have confirmed the details of some upcoming new releases. First out of the traps will be Australian duo Jackson Firebird, whose second album, ‘Shake The Breakdown’, will be released on September 4. Next up will be ‘Innuendo’, from Finnish symphonic metallers Amberian Dawn, on October 23, followed by ‘Sovran’, …
Read More »Shinedown to prove ‘Threat To Survival’ in September
Shinedown will release their new album, ‘Threat To Survival‘, via Atlantic Records on September 18. Shinedown are currently touring the USA and will bring the previously-announced ‘Carnival of Madness’ tour, with Black Stone Cherry and Halestorm to the UK in early 2016: Thursday January 28 – Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena Friday January 29 – …
Read More »Chantel McGregor returns to with new album “Lose Control”
Guitarist and singer-songwriter Chantel McGregor is proud to announce the release of her highly anticipated new album, “Lose Control”, on Friday 9th October 2015 on her independent boutique label Tis Rock Music – her first studio album since her critically acclaimed 2011 debut, “Like No Other”. After four years of …
Read More »The Sword – ‘High Country’
‘High Country’ could, quite possibly, be described as The Sword‘s “happy album”. And that’s no mere throwaway descriptive on our part, but a summarization of frontman John Cronise’s take on the opus: as he explains, when he started to write the songs for ‘High Country’, he found himself at something of …
Read More »Oncology – ‘The Metastasis’ EP
Oncology is the branch of medicine that deals with the treatment of tumours – and particularly cancerous ones – while a metastasis is a secondary growth of a malignant tumour, separate from the primary one. However, PM is a music website not a medical one, and therefore the particular branch …
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