Madhouse Music Events brings Preston’s first ever metal day festival this October. Voyage of the Damned festival will feature 9 acts including RedRum, Ward XVI and Footprints In The Custard to name a few. This day event will be held at 53 Degrees, Preston on Saturday 26th October. Tickets are …

Melodic metal band – Victim Of Myself – from Stuttgart, Germany release their first official music video of Signed Destiny. Check it out below  

VOLBEAT TO RELEASE LIVE ALBUM AND CONCERT FILM, LET’S BOOGIE! LIVE FROM TELIA PARKEN, ON DECEMBER 14 VIA UNIVERSAL MUSIC FEATURES GUEST APPEARANCES BY LARS ULRICH, MILLE PETROZZA, MARK “BARNEY” GREENWAY, DANKO JONES & MORE FILMED AND RECORDED AT RECORD BREAKING COPENHAGEN SHOW IN FRONT OF NEARLY 50,000 FANS INCLUDES …

Judas Priest has announced this morning via their FaceBook page that guitarist, Glenn Tipton, has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s. The statement reads: “Ten years ago Glenn was diagnosed to have the onset of the early stages of Parkinson’s – from then until recently Glenn has lived his life as the …

Maryland-based rockers Lionize have announced their forthcoming full-length studio album, titled Nuclear Soul, is set for release September 8 in digital, CD, and LP formats. The first single ‘Blindness To Danger’ premiered on Friday with Classic Rock and the song is now available for download and streaming. The single release coincides with the …

Upon the release of his new album – ‘Condolences’ – WEDNESDAY tells how David Bowie’s passing was the inspiration for the title track; “[Condolences] is one of the first songs I wrote for the record.  The title came from when David Bowie passed away; I kept seeing ‘Condolences, sorry for …

STONE SOUR are streaming a brand new song, ‘Taipei Person/Allah Tea’ over at the band’s official YouTube channel ‘Taipei Person/Allah Tea’ is taken from STONE SOUR’s long awaited sixth studio album, ‘Hydrograd’ which is set for release on 30th June via Roadrunner Records.   Recorded at Sphere Studios in North …

Heavy metal pioneers ACCEPT are back in the game with a new studio album! The record entitled ‘The Rise Of Chaos’ will be unleashed on August 4th 2017. The band’s 4th studio release through Nuclear Blast will continue the tradition of its three predecessors – ‘Blood Of The Nations’, ‘Stalingrad’, and ‘Blind Rage’ – with grandeur and precision. The title …

Dropkick Murphys today announced that their ninth studio album 11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory will be released on January 6th through their label Born & Bred Records. The album is available for pre-order now and the band has shared an incredible lyric video for the song from the album “Blood”. Ted Hutt, who has previously …

German thrash titans KREATOR have revealed the cover artwork and release details for their upcoming album, ‘Gods Of Violence’. The 14th KREATOR album is set to be released on January 27th, 2017 worldwide via Nuclear Blast Records. The cover artwork was created by renowned artist Jan Meininghaus, who also made …

AVENGED SEVENFOLD has “surprise-released” THE STAGE, becoming the first-ever rock band to drop an unannounced album in both digital and physical form. THE STAGE, is the band’s 7th studio album and first for Capitol Records. The Stage is available to purchase now via Amazon The Southern California-based quintet (vocalist M. …

EHT Promotions in association with PlanetMosh is proud to present THE UNLEASHED FESTIVAL 2016. The 4th installment of The Unleashed Festival will feature an array of talent from across Ireland and is sure to be a night to remember at the end of this Summer. First up, the venue will be obliterated by skull …

Often album art goes unappreciated and sometimes unnoticed in this digital era where albums can be downloaded as files in place of a physical purchase. This weekend it was a privilege to not only see some of the amazing work that binds the covers of albums, but to also see …

What made you tackle the Tolkien subjects and did work from the likes of Alan Lee inspire you? I had my own gallery in the late 70’s exhibiting some notable artists.  It was then I decided to embark on my journey with Tolkien. My first large Tolkien inspired canvas was …

As Gojira walked onto the stage there was still a roadie drilling screws into the stage in a frantic hurry. Gojira have been touring on the back of L’Enfant Sauvage for almost two solid years and they were tighter than a ducks arse. Crushing riffs, brutal vocals and pummelling backbeats, …

Day two of the festival kicked off a little earlier than the previous day at 11am with Tesseract on the main stage. Alestorm, however, were the real treat of the morning opening the Saturn stage with ‘The Quest’ and continued their infectious jitterbug set with the likes of ‘The Drunken …

  Sonisphere 2014 marked the 40th year of festivals held at Knebworth and what better way to celebrate than to bring 60,000 music fans together for a hot, sunny and lightly showered weekend of metal dominance! A late starting Friday meant that fans were able to arrive in good time …

Hellfest are happy to announce the final additions to the 2014 lineup. The final bands are as follows: FRIDAY: LYNCH MOB, KVELERTAK, ORDER OF APOLLYON, ROTTING OUT SATURDAY: WALKING PAPERS, AGAINST ME, NEFARIUM Unfortunately QUEENSRYCHE, DEFEATER and 7 SECONDS have cancelled their appearances at Hellfest 2014. Stay tuned for the …