The debut album from New York based experimental/doom project INSECT ARK is released in Europe today, as the band prepares to embark on a US tour. Portal/Well is the result of a full year of work in composer/multi-instrumentalist Dana Schechter‘s Brooklyn studio. Having already premiered their single The Collector via Roadburn.com, and …

Following the worldwide acclaim of their fourth album, Apocryphon, The Sword announce today that they will release their new album, High Country, worldwide through Razor & Tie on August 21st and in France on September 4th.  Recorded in Austin, Texas, the album was produced by Adrian Quesada and mixed by …

Time for a little desk mosh by way of Oxfordshire’s up and coming, no-holds-barred metallers A Trust Unclean, who are proud to present their brutal new EP Reality Relinquished due August 07. Fronted by beautifully disturbing artwork from France’s Headsplit Design (Arch Enemy, Whitechapel, Cryptopsy, etc), Reality Relinquished is as engrossing …

UK TECH-FEST announces grime-metallers HACKTIVIST, prog-metallers Monuments and Mathcore band Rolo Tomassi plus 17 more bands. With one more headliner to announce plus workshops, after parties and gear demos, Techfest 2015 is shaping up to be its biggest year yet. Also announced are Nexilva, No Consequence, Carcer City, Red Seas Fire, …

The Exploding Eyes Orchestra who include 5 members of Jess & The Ancient Ones release their debut album ‘I’ next week on Svart Records. But before then you can watch the animated video for new track ‘Two-Zero 13’. The video was created by artist Costin Chioreanu who has worked with …

Celebrated British blues rock guitarist and singer-songwriter Joanne Shaw Taylor has just been added to this year’s Planet Rockstock Festival line-up alongside The Darkness, DanPatlansky, Danko Jones. Crobot, Heaven’s Basement, Scorpion Child, and many more. Rockstock takes place from December 4-6 in Trecco Bay, Wales. For more information, visit: www.planetrock.com/rockstock. …

Perfect Crimes formed in early 2011. The four members each bring diverse influences to create a compelling mixture of electrifying riffs, thrilling breakdowns and captivating choruses; while striving to write unique hard rock songs that translate well onstage. PC have gigged heavily around the Sheffield area, playing the popular local …

Guitarist Andrew Matthews will take part in the 161 mile charity bike ride from London to Download Festival with the Heavy Metal Truants in aid of Nordoff Robbins, Childline andTeenage Cancer Trust. You can visit his Just Giving page HERE  “New Age of Old Ways brims with moments of exhilarating …

Brazilian metal icons Sepultura are very proud to announce that their 30th Anniversary Tour will now include a visit to the UK. After touring Russia from West to far East in 17 epic performances and taking the celebration of their 30 years to North America (including the first-ever Rock in …

“The Graveltones live are a phenomenal experience. Watching them bulldozes any presumption of a new White Stripes or Black Keys thanks to their Bonham-esque thunder drumming and cocooning vocals.”  The Graveltones released their brand new album ‘Love Lies Dying’ in May 2015, through Lagoon Dog Records. To promote this great …

Music fans who enter will have a one-in-ten chance to win a free  GIBSON LES PAUL ELECTRIC GUITAR. (NASHVILLE, TN) – Gibson, the producer of the world’s most iconic electric guitar model, the “Les Paul,” will celebrate the 100th birthday of musician and inventor Les Paul (June 9, 1915 – …

Your new favourite rapper has arrived! Attila frontman Fronz will release his long-gestating and much-anticipated rap album Party People’s Anthem on 30th June via Artery Recordings/Razor & Tie. As a rapper, Fronzilla is best described as the Eazy-E of the Tumblr generation, mixed with the recklessness of Schoolboy Q and the fashion-forward freshness of …

World-renowned power trio HIGH ON FIRE will release its highly-anticipated new album, Luminiferous, on June 22 via Century Media Records in Europe. Recorded at Salem, Massachusetts’ GodCity Studios with producer Kurt Ballou, the record is the follow-up to the group’s 2012 release, De Vermis Mysteriis, an album hailed as “not …

Blackened Grind Crust outfit Chronocide are returning with a new album, ‘Meditations’ is coming out on 14th August via Human Jigsaw Records. Formed in 2008 with the sole intention of creating harsh, abrasive music without category or limitation, the UK based duo spat out an album of non-stop of blast …

June 2, 2015 – Los Angeles, CA – Los Angeles’ notorious, multi-platinum-selling rock band, Buckcherry, will release their 7th studio album, Rock ‘n’ Roll, on August 21st via F-Bomb Records/Caroline. In anticipation for the upcoming record, the band will premiere a new track/video for their first single, “Bring It On Back,”Pre-order Rock ‘n’ Roll now at …

6 UK dates in October will tie in with launch of 6th album Riverside have confirmed six UK dates as part of a European run to support the launch of their sixth album. The follow-up to Shrine Of New Generation Slaves is entitled Love, Fear And The Time Machine, and …

Atlanta southern rockers BLACKBERRY SMOKE are due to kick off a European tour tonight in Copenhagen, Denmark. The tour features a number of headlining club shows as well as a few festival appearances, including a main stage slot at the UK’s legendary Download festival alongside the likes ofKISS, MÖTLEY CRÜE …

Recorded on November 7th 2012 at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, this captures the original line up of Asia as they toured in support of the “XXX” album. Geoff Downes, Steve Howe, Carl Palmer and John Wetton truly make this a night to remember as the set list features …

This year’s lineup expands with acts including:  Mariachi El Bronx, The Bronx, Shura, Young Thug, No Devotion, Sunset Sons, Bo Ningen, Baroness Twin Peaks and many more! With a huge bill topped by festival headliners Metallica, Mumford & Sons and The Libertines plus a supporting cast of some of the world’s biggest names in music …

MICHAEL MONROE – hugely influential front-man, force of nature, multi-instrumentalist and revered rock ‘n’ roll icon – releases new studio album, ‘Blackout States’, on October 16th 2015 via Spinefarm Records; this 13 track outing, produced by Chips Kiesbye (Hellacopters, Nomads, etc.) in Gothenburg, Sweden, and mixed by Petri Majuri in Helsinki, Finland, is the follow-up to ‘Horns And Halos’ – a Finnish chart-topper in 2013. With ‘Blackout States’, Monroe’s current touring and …