Album Announcements

In 2006, VAN CANTO surprised the world of metal with a revolutionary idea: to perform metal music with vocals and drums only. Nine years later, after five top 20 releases in Germany, sold out headlining tours throughout Europe and festival performances taking the band from Wacken to Australia, Van Canto …

Finnish thrashers Lost Society have released the third and final track-by-track trailer for their forthcoming new album, ‘Braindead’, being released on Nuclear Blast next Friday (12 February). In this episode, frontman Samy Eblanna discusses the tracks ‘Only (My) Death Is Certain’, ‘P.S.T.88’ and the bonus ‘Terror Hungry (Californian Easy Listening Version)’: …

BURY THE MACHINES TO RELEASE SELF-TITLED FULL-LENGTH ALBUM AS DIGITAL DOWNLOAD February 27th , 2016    “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” – Friedrich Nietzsche  Bury The Machines releases its self-titled full length album at www.burythemachines.com as a digital download. Bury The Machines, brainchild of …

Almost precisely 20 years after the Swedish masters of black metal released their debut and landmark album, „The Secrets of The Black Arts“, and six years after the release of their last full-length studio album, DARK FUNERAL are finally entering the studio again to create another blasphemous masterpiece!“ Lord Ahriman …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A phenomenon like no other, one of the world’s biggest rock acts-Over 10 Million albums sold, performing for over 12 Million fans, includes the single “FORGET ABOUT THE BLAME (MOON VERSION)” withHALESTORM front woman LZZY HALE Unthinkable in the beginning Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) has become one of the most unlikely success …

 THE ENID ANNOUNCE FINAL TRILOGY ALBUM ‘DUST’ Prog pioneers The Enid have announced the release of new album ‘Dust’, the third and final chapter of their trilogy started in 2010 with ‘Journey’s End’ and followed by ‘Invicta’ in 2012. ‘Dust’, The Enid’s 14th studio record, is out on 1st April on …

Corby Bruisers Begin Recording First Album In Nine Years Following on from a hectic two years of touring and festival appearances, Sludge overlords Raging Speedhorn are set to enter the studio with acclaimed producer Russ Russell (Napalm Death, Dimmu Borgir, The Wildhearts) on January 18th in Kettering to begin work …

Saxon Release a Video Trailer for EAGLES AND DRAGONS their Exclusive 9LP Box set of all studio albums between 1991 – 2009 Demon Records has announced the release of an extraordinary Saxon Box Set containing vinyl LPs of the band’s nine studio albums recorded between 1991 and 2009. “Eagles and …

Following a single and a sold-out UK headline tour in December 2015, Tax The Heat are pleased to announce the release of their full length Nuclear Blast Entertainment debut, “Fed To The Lions”.   The album shows why there is so much excitement at the release of this record. Previous …

Lords Of Black have released a video for ‘Everything You’re Not’, the first song to be taken from their forthcoming new album, ‘II’. Lords Of Black singer Ronnie Romero will be fronting Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow on their forthcoming dates, which include a sold-out show at Birmingham’s Genting Arena on 25 …

“:KTONIK:”, the new album from prog band VOTUM will be released on February 26th in Europe and North America through Inner Wound Recordings. The album was mixed by David Castillo at Ghost Ward [Katatonia, Opeth, Bloodbath] and mastered by Tony Lindgren at Fascination Street Studios [Paradise Lost, Kreator, Leprous]. VOTUM …

Finland’s ‘merry metallers’ Reckless Love will be releasing their fourth studio album, ‘InVader’, on March 4th 2016 via Spinefarm Records – the follow-up to the colourful quartet’s previous album, ‘Spirit’ (2013). Produced by Ilkka Wirtanen, ‘InVader’ features all new, original material, and sees the musicians exploring fresh sounds as well …

Seminal Canadian Heavy Metallers Anvil are set to release their rousing, fist-pumping new studio album ‘Anvil Is Anvil’ on Steamhammer / SPV on February 26thas a Digipak CD, (containing a bonus track and poster), as a high class double gatefold clear vinyl LP (with CD in paper sleeve), plus download. …

France’s most galvanizing heavy rock foursome THE TEXAS CHAINSAW DUST LOVERS are back this spring with their debut album “Me And The Devil”, a trash and groovy rock’n’roll statement set to see the day on March 28th via Besta Records.   Sexy sweaty rock anthems topped off by a deathly rock’n’roll crooning, …

BRAND NEW ALBUM BANG ZOOM CRAZY… HELLO RELEASED APRIL 1st‘NO DIRECTION HOME’ NEW SINGLE OUT NOW2016 ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HALL OF FAME ‘ROCK HALL THREE FOR ALL’ U.S. TOUR HEART/JOAN JETT/CHEAP TRICK Legendary power-pop collective Cheap Trick have released ‘No Direction Home’, the first single to be taken from the band’s upcoming album …