USA based progressive outfit, Earthside, has teamed up with European partner METAL HAMMER GERMANY to premiere a new track, “Crater,” from its upcoming debut album, A Dream in Static. Featuring guest vocals from Björn Strid(Soilwork), “Crater” can be watched below. Drummer Ben Shanbrom commented: “There is a side to the pursuit of dreams …

Guitar god fulfils promise! JOE BONAMASSA performs a special one off FREE concert at MR. KYPS in Poole, Dorset. Guitar legend Joe Bonamassa fulfils a promise that he made 10 years ago and performs a special UK concert, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of his first-ever UK show. On November 1st 2015, Joe will …

This albums biggest stumbling block to the casual listener,  is also the albums biggest asset, and that is Violin player Jean Luc Ponty. Once you accept that there is no lead guitar on this album, just Jon’s exquisite singing and Jean virtuoso violin playing, then you are in for an …

2015 has been an intense year for Bristol’s rising stars Tax The Heat. Following the release of two critically acclaimed singles “Fed To The Lions” and “Highway Home” (both of which were playlisted across rock radio – A listed on Planet Rock) the band have cemented their live reputation by …

Suomi-Metal-Heroes NIGHTWISH based their eighth studio album Endless Forms Most Beautiful on a quotation by Charles Darwin, as well as drawing inspiration from other famous scientists like Richard Dawkins and Carl Sagan. The album comprises of eleven epic, immensely diverse compositions and was released back in March of this year. Having delivered the band’s highest UK chart …

British metallers Absolva have released a second music video from their forthcoming album ‘Never A Good Day To Die’. The song this time is the title track from the album, which is set for release via Rocksector Records on 12th October 2015. The album is co-written by brothers Chris Appleton …

Legendary British hard rockers to release their 13th studio album on November 13th. No superstitution here!  They’re loud, they’re hard, they’re tough, they’re uncompromising. Girlschool, the London-based-band, are proud to announce their 13th studio album, Guilty As Sin, to be released on November 13th in red colored vinyl gatefold, album …

Planet Rock Presents BLACK STAR RIDERS UK Christmas Shows December 2015 Black Star Riders are set to cap a hugely successful 2015 with two headline shows in the UK in December 2015. These shows are in addition their guest slot on the fast selling Def Leppard/Whitesnake double bill in the same month. …

PINKISH BLACK: Premiere second single from the Great Tyrents Final Recording; Announce additional US dates “With each scuzzy opus pumped from the billows of their industrial warehouse headspace, the Fort Worth, TX-based duo Pinkish Black continue to erase the boundaries between the metal, post-punk, and doom traditions.” – Tiny Mix …

The Red Sect marks a crossroads for the band; the straightforward aggression of their debut blends with a seething, menacing atmosphere-further enhanced by the mixing and mastering skills of TOXIC HOLOCAUST main man Joel Grind, creating an album that is dark, vicious, and compelling. The record’s ten tracks weave a frightful …

New Zealand’s Villainy, after dominating their home country for the past month and a half with sold-out tours and now with a New Zealand #4 album, now has Australian audiences in their sight. Their album ‘Dead Sight’, which features single ‘Syria’, will be released Friday November 6th through MGM Distribution …

In a world where punk rock does not have as much bite as it did when Millencolin andRefused first hit the scene in the 1990s, a group of five friends from Southampton are trying to change that. Five Miles North Of Nowhere have been making music that makes you want to …

Award-winning Finnish blues guitarist and vocalist Erja Lyytinen will embark on a 12-date UK tour starting in Darlington Blues Club on Friday October 2.  Tickets are available from the venues and the official Erja Lyytinen website. Erja was recently voted the Number 1 Solo Artist and Number 1 Live Album …

Progressive collective Earthside, (New England- USA) has launched a cinematic trailer for A Dream in Static, its debut album due out October 23rd, on  The band commented: “One of our many ambitions as a cinematic rock band is to score films and video games. With this project, we had the unique challenge …

The Finnish pagan metal band VORNA will release their second full length album ”Ei valo minua seuraa” (transl. ”No Light Follows Me”) on 4th December 2015. The album will be released through Inverse Records. The album has been mixed by Tuomas Kokko from Electric Fox Studios (e.g. Swallow the Sun, …

Italy’s finest purveyors of Black/Doom Metal, FORGOTTEN TOMB, are about to receive a re-release of their classic thrid album, “Love’s Burial Ground”, in CD, digital formats, and for the first time LP, on Agonia Records. The remastered and remixed version, including re-vamped layout (and original cover, censored back in 2004), …

One of the true founding fathers of occult metal, HELL are very pleased to announce that they will be performing as special guests alongside German metal legends ACCEPT at their highly anticipated upcoming London show. HELL guitarist Andy Sneap declared the following: “Hell are delighted to announce that we have …

Swedish duo DEAD SOUL will release their upcoming album, ‘The Sheltering Sky’, on October 23rd via Century Media Records (World excl. North America & Nordic) and Razzia Notes (Nordic)! Every once in a while it becomes very obvious what’s needed to create something new and exciting is a collision of …

RAVEN ***Seminal NWOBHM Rockers’ October UK Tour Confirmed Following Rave Reviews Of New Studio Album ‘ExtermiNation’ ***   “The NENWOBHM (North East New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) veterans have unleashed a superpowered album of pure crackshot heavy metal, a listening experience akin to being hit square in the face …

Fresh from their mammoth American Tour as one of the Vans Warped Tour headliners, and ahead of their UK Warped headline slot and UK headline tour,  ASKING ALEXANDRIA have unveiled the official video for current single ‘I Won’t Give In’. “SURPRISE!!! We spent the summer collecting footage for our new music video …