Chicago metal trio DIAMOND PLATE have announced two very special shows with thrash metal legends MEGADETH. DIAMOND PLATE will be supporting MEGADETH at Artpark in Lewiston, New York on July 15th, and at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana on July 18th. DIAMOND PLATE have also revealed that they …
Read More »PAIN OF SALVATION Announce North American Tour
PAIN OF SALVATION is ready to return to North America for a full continental tour beginning September 10th in Atlanta, GA. The band will cover a good portion of the United States and also play a couple of shows in Canada and Mexico. Oklahoma-based VANGOUGH has been chosen as direct …
Read More »DISPARAGER Announce New NYC Date July 27th & Opening For Sworn Enemy July 12th
Post rock metal band DISPARAGER whom unleashed their new lyric video ‘RIP Bill Hicks’ off their recently released debut EP ‘Timeless, Ageless’ produced by Jay Maas (Defeater, Bane, H2O, American Nightmare, Polar Bear Club) are proud to announce they will be performing another local date in Brooklyn, NY on July 27th …
Read More »DARK TRANQUILLITY Announce “UNIFORMITY” European Tour
Sweden’s DARK TRANQUILLITY are thrilled to announce the “Uniformity” tour, set to take place in Europe in November 2014. The band comments: “The trek, which also features Amoral, Acyl and Lehmann, will take us to some places that we didn’t reach during the previous European tour as well as …
Read More »GOATWHORE Confirmed As Main Support On DYING FETUS European Tour
New Orleans extreme Metal force GOATWHORE – who just released their critically acclaimed new album “Constricting Rage Of The Merciless” – have confirmed a full European tour as main support for Dying Fetus! DYING FETUS + GOATWHORE + MALEVOLENCE + FALLUJAH 08.11.14 Belgium Liege @ Fonck 09.11.14 Germany Essen @ Turock …
Read More »AIRBOURNE Announce Rare Club Dates In August
Following their jaw-dropping set at Sonisphere last weekend, stage clambering Australian scamps AIRBOURNE are pleased to announce a clutch of rare club shows in August. The intimate dates prelude their return this Autumn for arena shows with Black Stone Cherry. Bound to be a beer-swillin’, roof-raisin’ shindig, tickets go …
Read More »IRON REAGAN Release First Song From ‘The Tyranny of Will’
IRON REAGAN’s Relapse debut The Tyranny Of Will is a 24 song wrecking ball of hardcore- punk/thrash fury. The album was recorded with guitarist Phil Hall at Blaze of Torment Studios in Richmond, VA and self-produced plus it was mixed by Converge’s Kurt Ballou. The album will be released September 16th …
Read More »DISMEMBERMENT Announce Summer/Fall Shows
Ohio’s Dismemberment are pleased to announce several shows that will take place over the summer and fall of 2014. The shows are in support of their acclaimed album Embrace the Dark which was recently released on CD and cassette. The album can be streamed in full at this location Guitarist/Vocalist Luke …
Read More »MALEFICE Announce September Shows Playing New Road Festival ‘Light The Fuse’
UK metallers MALEFICE have been announced as part of the inaugural Light The Fuse Festival following their triumphant return to a packed-out Jägermeister stage at Sonisphere 2014. Playing alongside Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, He Is Legend, Empires Fade and more, MALEFICE are set bring their brutal sound to venues …
Read More »THE HAUNTED Launch First Song Off New Album ‘Exit Wounds’; Special Guest Appearances Revealed
Swedish Metal institution THE HAUNTED have recently announced ‘Exit Wounds’ as the title to their upcoming, much anticipated studio album release. The album, which sees the band return their classic deadly thrash metal sound, was again recorded with producer Tue Madsen at Antfarm Studio (Dark Tranquillity; Heaven Shall Burn, Sick Of It All, etc.) …
Read More »ENSIFERUM Scheduled To Record Sixth Studio Album This Fall
Finland’s Ensiferum have spent the summer of 2014 on tour through Europe, and will also perform in Japan this winter. In the midst of bringing their melodic folk-infused attack to stages worldwide, the band has been crafting songs for their sixth studio album (their Metal Blade Records debut), and the writing process …
Read More »THE AGONIST Premiere Studio Update #2
Montreal’s THE AGONIST will release their new album ‘Eye Of Providence’ on November 10 in Europe and on November 11 in North America. ‘Eye Of Providence’ is the follow up to THE AGONIST’s 2012’s album ‘Prisoners’ and will be the debut of new vocalist Vicky Psarakis. The lead vocalist change …
Read More »DARK FORTRESS Launch First Song From Their Upcoming Album
“The sun is rising. Over a tortured and scarred landscape, the sun crawls over the horizon with a feverish scarlet glow. Its sick corona of expanding light makes the air glimmer like a tangible plague, which sickens all living things directly exposed to its light…” And so it begins… …
Read More »STOLEN BABIES: Writing New Music & New International Performances Announced
On the heels of the recent cancellation of their Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin tour (originally set to begin next week – cancelled by Goblin due to contractual issues), experimental band STOLEN BABIES have a few new things to announce to their devoted fans! On August 22nd, the band will take …
Read More »REBELLIOUS SPIRT to Release New Album ‘Obsession’ in September
For hard rock newcomers Rebellious Spirit from Southern Germany, this year will be as hot as (hopefully) the summer. The four musicians have ensconced themselves in the Cubeaudio studios in Göttingen, where they are busy working on their second album Obsession, scheduled for release on 19 September 2014 in Germany, …
Read More »WOLF Unveil ‘Making Of Devil Seed – The Studio Diary’
Sweden’s pack of Heavy Metal stalwarts, WOLF, return with their seventh studio album entitled ‘Devil Seed’. This time around, the wolves have teamed up with Jens Bogren (Kreator, Paradise Lost, Opeth) over at Fascination Street Studios and have delivered not only a heavy sounding release but also one chock full …
Read More »Mordred Announce New Single And UK Tour
San Francisco based ExperiMetal Thrash band Mordred are back to tour the UK (and Ireland) this summer. Its 22 years ago since the band braced our shores and the band are thrilled to announce these dates and will be releasing their new single ‘The Baroness’ along with their back catalogue and …
Read More »OF MICE & MEN Support Linkin Park Arena Tour Autumn 2014; Headlining ‘The Pit’ At Reading & Leeds Festival
Southern California rock band Of Mice & Men are proud to announce they will be main support for the Arena tour in UK & Europe to non other than Linkin Park this November. “We are thrilled to announce our tour this fall with Linkin Park, a band that has been a major trailblazer for …
Read More »DESTRUCTION Announce UK/IRE tour with LOST SOCIETY in October
German thrash titans DESTRUCTION have announced a run of live dates throughout the UK and Ireland in October under the banner ‘Thrash United 2014′. Joining them on this wing of their European tour will be UK thrash stalwarts Shrapnel, Belgian speed metal maniacs Evil Invaders and Finnish label brothers LOST SOCIETY. …
Read More »Crucified Barbara: To Release Brand New Album ‘In The Red’
Since their debut album “In Distortion We Trust” (2005), Crucified Barbara has earned its reputation as one hell of a live band through constant hard work; from the biggest festival stages to the dirtiest rock clubs, both on their own and as support to the likes of In Flames, Sepultura, Motörhead and Backyard Babies. …
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