Skunk Anansie to rock INmusic Festival  – UK rockers join Croatia’s biggest open-air music festival – Wider line-up includes headliners Florence + the Machine and PJ Harvey 2nd February 2016 :- British rock band Skunk Anansie are the latest name to join the 11th edition of INmusic Festival. They follow …

The Hunna announce UK & European tour + debut US show **THREE SOLD OUT LONDON SHOWS**  BOSTON MUSIC ROOMS – 2nd, 3rd & 4th March LONDON ELECTRIC BALLROOM – JUNE 1ST New single ‘We Could Be’ passes 2 million video views Spins from Zane Lowe (Beats 1) and Huw Stephens …

Doom metallers AVATARIUM has been added to the Stockholm Rocks Festival 2016 bill, set to take place May 7, 2016 at Debaser Medis in Stockholm, Sweden. This is the first live show ever in Stockholm for them – joining Inglorious and Grand Magus, more names to be announced soon. AVATARIUM deliver a special blend of heavy adventurous music. Think about Jethro Tull, Blue Oyster Cult, Sabbath and Rainbow. It’s all there together with …

   COUNTING DAYS announce Feb/Mar support tour with HACKTIVIST & CROSSFAITH “Crushing” – Daniel P Carter, BBC Radio 1 Rock Show   “Your new favourite band” ­ Metal Hammer “Counting Days do big, belligerent metal. They do it better than you, us and pretty much everyone out there” Rock Sound …

London based metallers KARYBDIS yesterday premiered the new video for their jaw-shattering melo-death track Avarice exclusively on Metal Hammer. The track is the second to be taken from their forthcoming sophomore album ‘Samsara‘ which is set for release on February 19th 2016.  Watch the official video for Avarice here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQxQHWKLTrM Modern metal needs new heroes. As …

In October 2015 Beseech signed a new world wide record deal with Swedish label Despotz Records. After a decade out of the spotlight, the Swedish goth metallers will return with a new album. The band’s new album, ‘My Darkness, Darkness’ is set to be released 4th March 2016 and Beseech …

Norwegian noise-rock veterans Arabrot revealed their new song and video, ‘Rebekka (Tragoedie)’ taken from upcoming LP The Gospel (February 26 via Fysisk Format). Directed by Olle Lundin with effects by Tor Edvin Eliassen, the video is a direct reflection of the band’s distinct and dark sound. Staring into the camera but masked entirely by …

Ugly Kid Joe, Ratt, Glenn Hughes and Living Colour head the vanguard for this year’s 10th anniversary at Hard Rock Hell festival. HRH X is pleased to announce its first batch is spearheaded by Californian Rockers Ugly Kid Joe & the legendary Ratt. Joining them will be a whole horde …

  Ahead of their February 2016 headline show at London’s Alexandra Palace that closes their UK tour, Enter Shikari went into the venue in December 2015 to visit the site and to record a short acoustic set for a small audience of friends and competition winners. Rather than use the 10,000 capacity …

GHOST RIDING NEW ALBUM Released March 4th via Dine Alone Records Lead Track: ‘STRAY’ WATCH THE VIDEO HERE RNDM (the side-project of Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament, singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur and The Fastbacks/War Babies drummer Richard Stuverud) have announced their second album Ghost Riding, due for release on March 4th through …

New Album “Cradle The Rage” 11th March 2016, UK Tour “Cradle The Rage Tour” March 2016 BBC Documentary “True Grit” feat. James Toseland – Spring 2016 The brand new Toseland album, “Cradle The Rage”, will be released worldwide on the 11th March 2016. The band are setting out on a 10 …

UK NUMBER 1 – MUSIC DVD CHART ‘ALL YOU CAN EAT’ TOPS OFFICIAL UK CHART IN JUST TWO DAYS! UK arena dates – February 2016 including London Wembley Arena 3 limited edition 12” vinyl albums – out Feb 19th Following the critically acclaimed UK Top 10 album ‘Wonder Days’ last year, UK …

After having played a first show of this year in Tokyo / Japan, Norwegian prog metallers LEPROUS are kicking off a tour of Australia today in support of their newest studio album “The Congregation”, which was released worldwide via InsideOutMusic last May. More shows have now been confirmed for the …

Dark Alternative Rockers, Antimatter, are bringing ‘The Judas Tour’ to  The Castle Hotel, Manchester, on the 26th of March and to Bristol’s Exchange on the 27th of March in support of the newly released 6th album ‘The Judas Table’ released in October by Prophecy Productions. (5/5 examiner, 9.5/10 empirezone, 9.5/10 maximumvolumemusic, 93/100 lordsofmetal, 9/10 progressivemusicplanet). ‘’The …

For the 30th Anniversary / 30years live on stage they present the long desired double-album „PEARLS“ (UDR-Music / Home of the Legends www.udr-music.com ) on 03/18/2016- it’s the first CD of that kind since the foundation of the band in 1986. All “classics” are recorded right now in Milano (Italy) and arranged in a completely new way, as a …

The Qemists have been confirmed as main support for the upcoming UK Crossfaith tour. The band will miss the first 5 shows due to the fact that they are already on tour with Enter Shikari in Europe but are extremely excited to be joining Crossfaith on their UK run, especially …

Hardcore mob Lock & Key are ready to tear 2016 a new one with their debut full-length release, Peaceless, to be released on April 08 via Crooked Noise. The band have also dropped the first video for the album, ‘Unclear State of Mind’. First premiered by Metal Hammer, you can …

Northern Germany’s infernal extreme metal duo Mantar have revealed the cover artwork and tracklist for the band’s forthcoming album, ‘Ode To The Flame’. You can view the artwork below.   The tracklist for ‘Ode To The Flame’ reads as follows:    Carnal Rising  Praise The Plague  Era Borealis  The Hint  Born Reversed  Oz  I, Omen …

HEVY FEST 2016 is very excited to announce its first wave of bands, continuing the reinvigoration of one of the UK’s most exciting festivals. With both headliners still to come, announced today are: punk titans REFUSED, technical metal frontrunners SIKTH, metalcore heavyweights WHILE SHE SLEEPS and instrumental legendsANIMALS AS LEADERS. They join …

Southern California’s rising underground alternative-rock band Silver Snakes will make their much anticipated return in 2016 with the release of their third studio album, Saboteur, via Evil Ink Records (U.S.) and Pelagic Records (Europe) on February 12th.   Vocalist/guitarist Alex Estrada comments, ‘Glass’ was one of the first songs written for ‘Saboteur.’ It’s was the light …