Vocalist/guitarist & songwriter, RYAN ROXIE, is best known as ALICE COOPER’S long-time lead guitarist and collaborator. He has also worked with Slash & Gilby Clarke and been a member of Classic Rock Award nominated band, Casablanca. Roxie has had an impressive ride so far! His forthcoming album, ‘Imagine Your Reality’ …

The night kicked off with Italian band Klogr. It’s heavy alt-rock/metal and sounds pretty damn good as they play a set that includes material from their first two albums as well as their latest one. “Pride before the fall” in particular sounded great. It’s just a shame that the early …

Amplified Festival finalise line-up with a UK Festival exclusive earlier than scheduled. In what had been scheduled for announcement on Friday 9th March, festival organisers have decided that following the last week’s weather they’d say “F*ck the Snow” and give fans a little something to warm up with, making a …

Code Orange have shared “only1(the hard way),” which is streaming now via The FADER. “only1(the hard way)” is a remix of Code Orange’s “Only One Way,” which was released earlier this month as part of Adult Swim’s Singles Series. Code Orange guitarist and vocalist Shade, who helmed the remix, explained …

US riff champions Trivium have released a video recapping the Autumn 2017 leg of ‘The Sin and The Sentence Tour’, featuring Arch Enemy. A big success for the band, it notched up some of the largest North American attendance tallies in Trivium’s history. In the six-minute clip, singer/guitarist Matt Heafy …

Florida metal crew TREMONTI, the band comprised of Mark Tremonti on vocals/guitars, Eric Friedman on guitars, and Garrett Whitlock on drums, have announced a new set of UK & European tour dates. Already confirmed to support Iron Maiden for a number of dates in mainland Europe, the new shows are …

During the height of a sub-zero blizzard today, a rare sighting of ‘The Beast from The East (Midlands)’ was caught on camera and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Download Festival dog. Download Festival takes place at Donington Park, Leicestershire on 8-10 June. Headlined by: Avenged Sevenfold, Guns N’ Roses …

Sunday’s main stage lineup kicked off with Fire red empress. More rock than metal they’re still more than heavy enough to be on the bill here and singer Jennifer Diehl does a good job of waking up the slightly sleepy and hungover members of the audience with her powerful vocal …

Ahead of their world tour, Nightwish are releasing a compilation album, Decades. Existing Nightwish fans are likely to have all their albums, which begs the question – who is going to buy this album? Existing fans who are completists and have to have everything the band has ever released will …

Twenty-four years into their career and still with all original members, US heavy rockers Sevendust are set to release their 12th studio album, ‘All I See Is War’, on May 11 via a newly-inked deal with Rise Records.  Recorded last autumn at Studio Barbarosa in Florida, the new album was produced by …

This year’s HRH Metal took place at the weekend in Birmingham. It’s the second year of the event, and the lineup was definitely appealing. The festival appeals to a lot of the same people as Hammerfest but for many people Birmingham is just easier to get to. With three stages …

Costsowlds based Amplified Festival are proud to announce that closing out this years event is none other than Northern Ireland’s Multi Million album selling THERAPY? Bursting on to the scene in the early 90’s, their short, sharp blasts of metal were given an alternative slant by merging it with a …

BLOODSTOCK is excited to announce four more bands for August’s best heavy metal weekender!  Tickets are moving fast for 2018 and we expect another advance sell-out, so don’t delay in picking up yours! There’s also only 6 days left to sign up to the deposit scheme… We welcome pirate metal’s …

HRH have added a new string to their bow: HRH C.R.O.W.S. – Country Rock, Outlaw, Western & Southern Rock. It’ll bring whole new areas of music into the tribes of the HRH nation, and five more bands have been added to the line-up for the festival’s debut weekend at the …

Falling Red are back with their latest album, Lost Souls. Once again they’ve funed it with a successful pledge campaign, but have recorded differently to their previous releases, working with different studios and producers. While they may be referred to as a Sleaze band, Falling red are far more than …

Sometimes it’s a really bad idea to read a press release before listening to an album. The one for this album starts with “Hard rock harmonica hero”. My immediate reaction was “What the f**k? Harmonica? I’m not feeling optimistic about this one”. It’s also a covers album, so I was …

Tonight’s sold out show saw fans queueing well before doors opened, and by the time the doors opened the queue stretched a long way. Thankfully the security team did a good job getting people in quickly and by the time the first band, Tribulation came on stage the place was …

German thrash legends Kreator are reissuing four of their albums that were originally released in the 90s. The albums being reissued are 1990’s “Coma Of Souls”, 1992’s “Renewal”, 1995’s “Cause For Conflict” and 1997’s “Outcast”. Each of the albums has been remastered by Andy Pearce (Black Sabbath, Voivod, Motorhead, Anthrax) …

Guitarist and producer Michael Landau has over the years had a very impressive career. As a solo musician he’s released a number of albums as well as more with various bands, but as a session musician he’s worked with a string of artists. The list of artists he’s worked with …

We sell the dead is a new band whose members are Niclas Engelin (In flames, Engel), Jonas Slattung (Dromriket), Gas Lipstick (HIM) and Apollo Papathanasio (Firewind, Spiritual beggars). The album transports listeners to a Victorian world. It opens with background sounds that fit that time period and then you get …