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Philadelphia’s Modern Baseball have announced a headline UK/Ireland tour off the back of recent dates with Real Friends and Slam Dunk Festival. Sept 17th Victoria Inn, Derby* Sept 18th Undertone, Cardiff* Sept 19th Asylum, Birmingham* Sept 21st Fibber Magees, Dublin Ireland # Sept 22nd Voodoo, Belfast Ireland # Sept 23rd …

THE SKULL – the heavy doom-rock band featuring original TROUBLE members vocalist Eric Wagner and drummer Jeff “Oly” Olson, alongside longtime former TROUBLE bassist Ron Holzner and guitarists Lothar Keller (DIVINITY COMPROMISED) and Matt Goldsborough (PENTAGRAM) – recently entered the studio in Chicago, Illinois to begin recording their debut album …

In the latest edition of the bands unique release schedule, Chronographs have unveiled the new single, Porcelain. The track relates to vocalist, Jon Sinfield’s feelings and thoughts at this current time, with a family member suffering from cancer. “The song is about my Grandfather’s battle with cancer and the effect it has on …

Southern hard rockers ANTI-MORTEM are pleased to announce that they will perform at Monster Energy’s AFTERSHOCK this summer, taking place at Discovery Park in Sacramento, CA. The band will perform on Sunday, September 13th. Festival headliners that day include Weezer, The Offspring, and Limp Bizkit. ANTI-MORTEM joins the ranks of …

The Legendary Heavy Metal band from the glorious 80’s GRAVE DIGGER released a new lyric video for the track Season Of The Witch. The upcoming album Return Of The Reaper will be released on July 14th 2014 in the UK & July 15th USA/CAN via Napalm Records. This new album …

In the year that Metallica are announced as headlining the iconic Glastonbury Festival, in addition to Sonisphere (the 40th anniversary of gigs at Knebworth) Universal Music is celebrating 30 years of Thrash music by re-issuing seminal albums from the founding fathers of this sub-genre for the ThrashBack campaign. Thrash music …

Metal Blade is happy to announce the signing of Dutch death metal act DICTATED! The furious female guitar tandem Yessica Otten and Sonja Schuringa stumbled upon Michiel vd Plicht and Henri Sattler during a heavy drinking session. While Henri was hustling to sell the girls one of his custom-made SK Guitars, …

The Treatment have revealed an official video for ‘Running With The Dogs’ – the band’s forthcoming digital single; set for release on June 9th, the single also includes three bonus acoustic tracks, previously unreleased. Check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYAtPnO_nQY   The clip in question was filmed by SikTh frontman …

California rock giants HIGH ON FIRE have begin work on their new, as-yet-untitled studio album. The globally-celebrated group — guitarist/vocalist Matt Pike, drummer Des Kensel and bassist Jeff Matz — have convened for strategic writing sessions in both New Orleans, LA and Oakland with early reports indicating the band’s new material to be both “epic” and “sonically …

The hard hitting ‘To Kill A Man’ is taken from the Swedish quartet’s forthcoming album ‘In The Red’ (released August 20th via Despotz Records). Check out ‘To Kill A Man’ here:   The band has this to say about the track’s thought provoking subject matter; “We, and many of us, feel …

As previously announced L-G Petrov, Nico Elgstrand, Victor Brandt and Olle Dahlstedt will continue under the name ENTOMBED A.D. to release the album “Back To The Front”. Now it’s time to let the music do the talking. Check out the first single “Bedlam Attack” of the upcoming album “Back To …

HELLS HEADBANGERS sets August 19th as the international release date for SACROCURSE‘s Unholier Master, set to be released on CD format worldwide and vinyl LP in North America (IRON BONEHEAD PRODUCTIONS is handling the European vinyl pressing). Hot on the heels of their internationally acclaimed Sulphur Blessing demo, black/death barbarians …

OVERDRIVE signed a worldwide deal with PURE ROCK RECORDS/PURE STEEL RECORDS OVERDRIVE (England) have signed a worldwide deal with PURE ROCK RECORDS, a sublabel of PURE STEEL RECORDS! More news coming soon. LINE-UP: Ian Hamilton – bass, vocals Tracey Abbott – guitars David Poulter – vocals Ian “Scratch” Padgett – …

After taking a creative break last year, Swedish Heavy Metal pioneers HAMMERFALL are fully recharged and back with a vengeance. The next chapter of the HAMMERFALL success story, ‘(r)Evolution‘, will be released September 1st via Nuclear Blast. ‘(r)Evolution’ sees the band return to their roots by working with past producer Fredrik Nordström, who …

VISTA CHINO the band formed by John Garcia and Brant Bjork (formerly of Kyuss) will premiere their brand new video for “BARCELONIAN” from their highly praised ‘Peace’ album which was released via Napalm Records. See it here: ‘PEACE’ was released on Napalm Records on September 2, 2013 in the UK. …

ALESTORM are back with their outstanding new album “Sunset On The Golden Age”. Release date is set for the 1st August 2014. Join the band as they cross the ocean on a vessel packed to the gunwales with their trademark catchy songs, fuelled by the bands on going love of …

British metal bands Iron Knights and Def Con One team up for three shows in the UK this summer to promote their respective new albums ‘Iron Knights‘ and ‘II‘. Def Con One is an established band founded over 10 years ago by guitarist Johnny Hunter and ex-Venom drummer Antton Lant. …

Epic Heavy Metal combo Sovengar unveils the cover artwork for their long awaited debut album, entitled “Vindicta et Gloria”.   The artwork has been designed by AMC Designs.   “Vindicta et Gloria” tracklist is composed by the following tracks: 1.Call to the battle 2.Battle of Asgard 3.Thor’s Legacy 4.Fight or die 5.Master of wind ft. …

SLASH and his bandmates Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators will release their new album WORLD ON FIRE onSeptember 15 via SLASH’s own label Dik Hayd International distributed through Roadrunner Records (Europe, Middle East, Africa, & Latin America). The group revealed the cover artwork for WORLD ON FIRE designed by American contemporary artist Ron English today. Featuring the blazing title track as the first single …

On June 30, 2014 the post-prog metallers Hybrid Circle will release the successor of the successful “Before History”,  published in 2012 by Nadir Music/Buil2Kill. The new album called “A Matter of Faith” will be available for free on the band’s website and some other stores that will be announced very …