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Tygers of Pan Tang are a heavy metal band, part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement. They formed in 1978 in Whitley Bay, England, and were active until 1987. The band reformed in 1999 and continue to record and perform. The name is derived from Pan Tang, …

Swiss Frontal Rock Outfit ‘We Are Interview’ Unleash New Music Video A few days after a great appearance at Montreux Jazz Festival and some weeks after the reissue of its double digital singles “Tokyo” and then “Reykjavik” still available on Bandcamp, Swiss frontal-rock outfit We Are Interview (formerly INTRVIEW) unleash an official music video illustrating the …

FIVE HUGE HEADLINE PERFORMANCES FROM FOALS, DISCLOSURE, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, FALL OUT BOY AND BIFFY CLYRO TOP BIGGEST LINE-UP TO DATE. 170,000 ATTENDEES ACROSS RICHFIELD AVENUE AND BRAMHAM PARK With an unprecedented five headliners on this year’s line-up, Reading & Leeds 2016 saw 170,000 festival fans treated to unforgettable …

Desert rock legends FATSO JETSON return with new album “Idle Hands” this October on Heavy Psych Sounds. Palm Desert’s stoner rock initiators FATSO JETSON are returning this fall with their seventh full-length “Idle Hands” on Heavy Psych Sounds, which will be followed by a full European tour.  Following on from 2010’s “Archaic …

Journey “Live In Manila” Eagle Rock Entertainment are proud to announce the release of ‘Live In Manila’ from Journey on 9 September 2016.  Originally released on DVD in 2009, Journey ‘Live In Manila’ is now being reissued on DVD, Blu-ray and as a DVD+2CD set. This is the first time …

11 August 2016 – Following 9 months of touring in support of the critically acclaimed album, “High Country”, The Sword returned to the studio to experiment with a stripped down acoustic presentation of the “High Country” songs. The result, produced by bassist Bryan Richie and mixed by J. Robbins, is …

The brand new Toseland album, “Cradle The Rage”, was released worldwide in March 2016 and following its success, the band are setting out on a 14 date tour running through September and October of this year. Toseland just released the new video “We’ll Stop At Nothing”, taken from the new …

Orange Goblin, Raging Speedhorn, The Broken Chords, Willie & The Bandits, King Kurt and Urban Voodoo Machine have all been confirmed to perform live at the 12th London Tattoo Convention, taking place over the weekend of September 23/24/25th at Tobacco Dock, 50 Porters Walk, London E1W 2SF.  Having already announced …

Enter Shikari today announce the November 4th release of ‘Live at Alexandra Palace’. The album takes the band’s ‘Bootleg Series’ to its sixth release, and will be available via Ambush Reality / Play It Again Sam as download/stream from all online outlets, plus in limited edition 2xCD and splatter-coloured-vinyl 2xLP formats. ‘Live …

London blues rockers Dirty Thrills have just announced their first UK headline tour. The ‘HEAVY LIVING’ tour will begin on the 21st of October 2016 at The Firebug in Leicester and end with a special free show in London at The Big Red on 3rd of November. Bass player Aaron …

THIS A CALL TO ALL BANDS/LABELS/MAGAZINES etc to send MAMMOTHFEST some prizes they can raffle off to help raise as much money as possible.    The Mammothfest team in Brighton have been deeply moved by the passing of Tom Searle of Architects recently. He spent his last days being cared …

Death is coming nearer with the release of the long awaited new studio album by Dutch Doom Death Metal division ASPHYX on September 30th, 2016 worldwide via Century Media Records. Consequently, it’s about time to launch a first song off ‘Incoming Death’, check out the relentless title track below: https://youtu.be/AYNkQh6VDNk The …

Psychedelic doom rockers, MOTOROWL, have released their highly acclaimed debut album ‘Om Generator’ today! Created with pure passion and incredible, mature song-writing skills, ‘Om Generator’, was co-produced by Fabian Hildebrandt (of label mates DESERTED FEAR) and the mighty Dan Swanö took over mix and mastering duties. You can get your …

30 years on we are happy to announce that we have decided to record a modern-day version of our classic debut album INDISCREET. We have been asked many times if we would consider re-recording some of these tracks using today’s modern technology and recording techniques and giving the songs the …

THE ANSWER NEW ALBUM: ‘SOLAS’ OUT OCTOBER 28TH THROUGH NAPALM RECORDS BRAND NEW TRACK: ‘BEAUTIFUL WORLD’ Available to download with all physical album pre-orders LISTEN HERE The Answer have announced the release of their eagerly anticipated new album Solas via Napalm Records on October 28th. The first track to be taken …

London trio Cortes have unveiled the video for their second track ‘Towers’, out now via Ignition 45s. The track is the follow up track to their critically acclaimed and BBC Radio 1 playlisted debut ‘Close To Nowhere’ which dropped in May 2016 and saw the band storm their way to …

“In one breath illustr8ors is a metamorphosis and a stubborn stride towards a place where the core components of rock’n’roll exist in a relative and contemporary time. In another breath illustr8ors is just a contemporary rock band giving a f*** about what it means to be alive in music now. Not …

Vital British classic hard rockers The Jokers perform as Special Guests of Status Quo at Parc Y Scarlets Stadium, Llanelli on Saturday August 27th. The band state that “We are thrilled to be opening for the legendary Status Quo at the Parc Y Scarlets Stadium. Being from a Rock ‘n’ …

Korn Unveil ‘Insane’ Video KORN have today unveiled a strange, fascinating video for new song, ‘Insane’.  Directed by Ryan Valdez, it’s a ghastly take on post-mortem photography or ‘momento mori,’ the practice of preserving loved ones after death with images. Watch the video on YouTube: ‘Insane’ is available at all …

‘FOLLOW ALONE’ Official video revealed Debut single taken from their newly announced album Breathe Released October 28th  Live at Dingwalls – August 21st (with Agent Fresco, Zoax, Press To Meco & No Consequence) ALSO APPEARING AT EUROBLAST FESTIVAL October 2nd – Cologne, Germany “The songwriting clarity and melodic strength of …