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 SANGUINE share new video for latest single ‘Empty’ (ft. Jesper Stromblad), and hit the road with Mushroomhead from March 18th  Fast-rising female fronted alt. metallers Sanguine have shared a new video for their latest single, ‘Empty’, which is released on March 18th, to coincide with the start of a 15 …

EUROPE ANNOUNCE SPECIAL FINAL COUNTDOWN 30th ANNIVERSARY SHOWS & LIMITED EDITION VINYL RELEASE In 1986, Sweden’s biggest Hard Rock act EUROPE released their milestone album The Final Countdown.  The album went on to worldwide success and continues to be a mainstay in playlists all over the world.  2016 sees this …

Robert John Godfrey to Stand Down From Live Performance With The Enid   Founder and keyboardist with The Enid, Robert John Godfrey will play his last live UK show with the band on 2nd April at The Cadogan Hall, London.   Godfrey was diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer’s in 2014 …

Throw away your preconceptions of what great music sounds like. One Last Run are here to induct you into the new breed of UK hard rock. The Manchester based rockers have unleashed a brand new single called ‘Unbreakable‘ from their forthcoming debut album of the same name which is out …

Metal/hardcore newcomers BAILER have announced that they’ll be releasing their Shaped By The Landscape EP on the 29th April 2016. Shaped By The Landscape was recorded, mixed and mastered by Aidan Cunningham of Irish outfitMurdock and will be released in both physical and digital formats, the physical release limited to …

British Metalcore sensations ASKING ALEXANDRIA have announced two intimate shows ahead of their scheduled appearances at READING & LEEDSfestivals this summer. The band will give die hard fans the chance to see them up close and personal at two shows in Southampton and London on 15th and 16th August. Guitarist …

March 14th 2016 – This weekend Jägermeister accomplished a world first by producing a thrilling continuous gig on air, sea and land, featuring Matt Tuck – lead singer of multi-award winning British heavy metal band, Bullet for My Valentine. The adrenalin-filled gig, which marked the fifth and most extreme chapter …

Ruthless And Hexx To Join Forces For The First Release In The TYRANTS OF STEEL Series Two legendary US Metal acts, HEXX and RUTHLESS, joined forces for the “TYRANTS OF STEEL” 7″ vinyl single, which will be released this summer on High Roller Records. The single, which is the first …

New digital single ‘Hatebomb’ out now UK-based crust legends Discharge announced their signing to Nuclear Blast late last year. After the release of their ‘New World Order’ EP, the time has arrived to finally unleash a new studio album (their first in over  8 years) on an unsuspecting world. The …

French AUTOKRATOR have completed the work on their second full-length album entitled ‘The Obedience To Authority‘, scheduled to be released on 22 April 2016. The new album contains eight premiere tracks that continue and develop the style presented on their debut. Intense, uncompromising conglomerate of suffocating death metal with industrial …

All Hail The Yeti Unveil ‘Before The Flames’ Video and Concept Album Southern-fried metal outfit, ALL HAIL THE YETI release their new album, ‘Screams From A Black Wilderness’ on 13th May in the UK via minus HEAD Records.  The album concept features classic ’round the campfire’ horror stories, presenting a different …

Chris Gillen speaks about his new role in Tokyo Blade as one of the two vocalists who will perform live with the band. Tokyo Blade recently announced that they will perform with two vocalists, Chris Gillen for shows in Canada and The Americas and the returning Vick Wright for classic …

Oxford melodic metal chiefs ‘Reveller’ are primed to etch a prominent name for themselves within the UK metal scene.  Serving up an ear-shattering sound that marks their intention and throws down their manifesto, the driven quintet are ready to hurl themselves into the national arena, and have the perfect bait …

Bridgwater post hardcore 5 piece Cardinal Bay have announced the first details of their second EP. Recorded at Bandit Studios with Jonny Renshaw (Devil Sold His Soul), ‘Answers‘ will be unleashed on the 13th of May 2016. Hell bent on impressing with their live experience, Cardinal Bay have been compared …

Los Angeles-based prog-metal outfit Redemption – featuring Nick van Dyk, Ray Alder (Fates Warning, Engine), Sean Andrews, and Chris Quirarte (as well as guitarist Bernie Versailles, who is presently on an indefinite medical hiatus) – recently released their sixth full-length, The Art of Loss, via Metal Blade Records worldwide. For their efforts, The Art …

Massachusetts-based extreme metal outfit Abnormality has announced the details for their upcoming sophomore album, Mechanisms of Omniscience! Due out April 29th worldwide via Metal Blade Records, Mechanisms of Omniscience marries the ceaseless brutality coming out of New York and New England to the hyper-blasting intensity endemic to Quebecois death metal; as unrelenting as it is …

CRIMINAL releases new album “Fear Itself” this Friday! Anglo-Chileans Thrashers CRIMINAL have announced their new album “Fear Itself” for release this Friday through Metal Blade Records. Today CRIMINAL streams the album in it’s entirety via their landing page at metalblade.com/criminal! At the same location you can surf the pre-order section. “Fear Itself” will be released …

Tailz Maniacs, we give you BLAST To pre-order please visit the Tigertailz Merch page here This is the first full Tailz studio album in nearly 10 years. And we are extremely excited and very proud of it.  It’s going to blow your crazy minds. We wanted to make it as special …

Acknowledging both their roots (their 1979 debut ‘The Soundhouse Tapes’ was Iron Maiden’s first official release on vinyl) and reputation for bringing history to life, IRON MAIDEN will release their longest ever song, with a duration of over eighteen minutes: ‘Empire Of The Clouds’  as a limited edition 12” picture …

London’s indestructible masters of metal, Orange Goblin, are proud to be a part of the Spinefarm Records family following Spinefarm’s recent acquisition of Candlelight Records. Not just the UK’s reigning champions of balls-out, party-starting, booze-fuelled metal, but one of the very best live rock bands of recent times, the mighty Goblin have been a permanent and universally …