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London based five piece, FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS have released their first video from their forthcoming album, entitled ‘Neon In The Dance Halls’.   Watch the video here   The song features guest vocals and an appearance in the video from William Control who also recorded and produced the bands forthcoming album.   Click …

Wovenwar is streaming their debut self-titled album now on metalblade.com! The album, which Revolver Magazine heralded as “more multifaceted than anything by As I Lay Dying”, and Decibel Magazine added that “Wovenwar sounds confident, vital, and even liberated on this splendid debut, will released in the UK on Monday, August …

Award winning Australian powercore-metal pioneers, A BREACH OF SILENCE have just premiered a new documentary video through Digital Tour Bus. The video was filmed during the band’s performance headlining Never Silent festival while on tour in Auckland, New Zealand. The documentary contains candid interviews with each band member about tour …

1349, Norway´s masters of blackened sonic evil, are back with a new full-length album and pre-ordering starts today!   Four years after the release of the great “Demonoir” and 1349 return with a deadly vengeance. On the 29th of September “Massive Cauldron of Chaos” is set to be released through Indie …

Montreal’s THE AGONIST will release their new album “Eye of Providence” on November 10th in Europe and November 11th. “Eye of Providence” is the follow up to THE AGONIST’s 2012 album “Prisoners” and will be the debut of new vocalist Vicky Psarakis. The lead vocalist change happened in the early part of this year when previous singer …

Seattle, WA based death/grind newcomers, Theories, has signed with Metal Blade Records! The band, which features former members of Book of Black Earth, Skarp, and Samothrace, has been performing across the US since their inception in late 2010. They’ve earned slots on tours with Goatwhore, Fallujah, Toxic Holocaust, King Parrot, and …

Swedish doom act, Below, have released a new video for “Bid You Farewell” from their critically-lauded Metal Blade Records debut album, “Across the Dark River”. The video was filmed by Emil Björkroth (www.pemil.se) and edited by Vince Edwards from Metal Blade Records. This is the band’s first ever music video and …

Northern cult rockers SERVERS new music video ‘Claustrophobia’ is premiering now on Metal Hammer.   The video was directed by Jagermeister Music’s official photographer Mark Latham and is debuted ahead of their upcoming EP which is due for release via Undergroove Records on September 15th.   Check out the video …

Sweden’s pack of Heavy Metal stalwarts, WOLF, are returning with their seventh studio album entitled “Devil Seed”. The album will be released on August 25th in Europe and on September 2nd in North America via Century Media Records.   The band is premiering their first music video for the track …

Australian five piece Electric Mary are back to spread Rock ‘n’ Roll’s genuine flavour to Europe, releasing a brand new mini album “The Last Great Hope” on 3rd November 2014. The band support the release with European dates including a full UK tour and festival performance through November 2014.   It’d …

No Bragging Rights has premiered a new song titled “Outdated” from their upcoming album The Concrete Flower here. Pre-orders for The Concrete Flower are also now available where fans can hear the new song. The Concrete Flower was engineered and produced by Will Putney (The Amity Affliction, For Today, Stray …

Dear Monster Fans, Thank you so much for your support of the Monsters of Rock Cruise…you guys are very special to us and it is an honor to have you in our Monster family.  We are on the verge of the fastest sellout in history for our 2015 cruise and …

Relapse Records is proud to announce the signing of Virginia hard rock riff worshippers VALKYRIE. Formed in 2002, VALKYRIE consists of brothers Jake and Pete Adams (Baroness, Samhain) on guitar and vocals, Alan Fary (Earthling) on bass and Warren Hawkins on drums. Drawing heavily from the classic eras of hard …

FINCH are back!  Nine years since they released their last album, the band have announced that they’ll be releasing their third studio album “Back to Oblivion” on 29th September via Spinefarm records in the UK.   Finch will be headlining HEVY festival on Friday 15 August and prior to that …

Fresh from support to Reef’s 20th Anniversary Tour as well as a host of headline dates (including a sold out Islington Academy in Dec 2013) and 2014 dates with Status Quo, Toseland have announced the release of their debut album “Renegade”.   “Renegade” is an album packed with powerful rock …

UK progressive rock stalwarts Threshold have announced two live dates for November this year. The band will be performing at O2 Islington Academy in London on Thursday 20th November and The Live Rooms in Chester on Friday 21st November. Tickets for the London show go on sale Monday at 9am whilst tickets for …

Commemorating the 25-year anniversary since the recording of their first EP, Sweden’s extreme musical deviants MESHUGGAH have announced the artwork and the track listing to their upcoming live DVD / 2-CD release The Ophidian Trek, released 29th September on DVD and also available in Blu-ray.   With visual footage shot …

Electric Wizard have announced a UK headline show for October 23rd at The Ritz in Manchester.   Tickets are available here: http://po.st/KSpIv5   A full supporting bill will be announced in due course.   The Manchester show will be preceded by the release of ‘TIME TO DIE’ on September 29th via …

Devin Townsend is proud to present to you the 2nd official promo video for Casualties of Cool’s ‘Flight’. This beautifully haunting video was shot, directed and edited, at his own initiative, by Konrad Palkeiwicz who is one of Devin’s dearest friends.   Devin comments: ‘Casualties Of Cool is one of my favourite things, if …

Long Beach, CA hard rockers SUNFLOWER DEAD recently announced their tour with headliners Powerman 5000 and (Hed) PE, which kicks off tomorrow in Sauget, IL! The tour visits 27 U.S. cities throughout the month of August, coming to a close in Grand Rapids, MI on August 30th. The tour also …