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THE OATH is a band forged around the fizzing, feral chemistry between Swedish guitarist Linnea Olsson and German vocalist Johanna Sadonis, THE OATH represent the wild magic that erupts when two blazing souls collide and fate is sent veering off course by sheer strength of the human will. This is …

The Canadian Wacken Battle Champions CRIMSON SHADOWS have signed a deal with the Austrian record label Napalm Records. In the frozen reaches of Canada the band have assembled to live with heroic power and death metal and are now ready to take the world by the throat.   While the …

Post-metallers ECHOES and melodic hardcore five-piece ACRES join forces for a UK co-headline tour this May.    Presented by Bring The Noise, ECHOES are touring in support of their debut album, ‘The Pursuit’, a 10-track opus of emotionally charged soundscapes. Newcomers ACRES will be showcasing tracks of their powerful debut EP, ‘Solace’.   Bring The Noise …

EDGUY are set to release their new album Space Police – Defenders Of The Crown on 21st April 2014 via Nuclear Blast and in anticipation of the release, the band have revealed a hilarious animated video for the track ‘Love Tyger’ over on YouTube. The band commented on the video saying it’s …

With 4 full-length albums under their belt and shows throughout North America, Europe and Asia with the likes of DEVIN TOWNSEND, CHILDREN OF BODOM, SOILWORK, NIGHTWISH, EPICA and ORPHANED LAND, the five-piece from Oceania is now firmly entrenched in its international repute as “the band who doesn’t sound like anyone …

LOST SOCIETY unleashed their new album ‘Terror Hungry’ upon the UK this Monday, the 7th of April and in celebration of the release, we sat the cheeky chaps in front of a camera and asked them how the album came about. Check out that interview, here:      LOST SOCIETY’s …

Dutch heavy rock quartet ¡PENDEJO! today premiered a brand new music video for “Amor y Pereza” on PureGrainAudio.com.   Directed by Antonio Villar and vocalist El Pastuso, “Amor y Pereza” is taken from the band’s forthcoming second full-length album “Atacames”, which is set for release on April 25th via Graviton …

Hopeless Records is thrilled to announce the signing of Nagoya, Japan rock band, coldrain. Fans can now watch the music video for their song ‘The Revelation’ on the official Hopeless Records YouTube channel here:   The song can also be purchased now on iTUNES here: http://smarturl.it/therevelationsingle   Formed in 2007 …

Israeli metallers FERIUM release their debut album “Reflections’ this week via Transcend Music and are streaming it on metalmouth.net! Check it out here: http://metalmouth.net/2014/04/exclusive-album-premiere-stream-progressive-death-metallers-ferium-reflections   The band have also released a narrated video telling the album’s story:     The band explain: “We felt like this lyric video story would be the perfect alternative interpretation …

RECKLESS LOVE, the flamboyant Finnish rockers who burst spectacularly onto the UK scene in 2010, have joined forces with hard-charging home-grown rock ‘n’ rollers, The Treatment, to release a limited 4-track split EP, pressed onto 12” orange vinyl, via Spinefarm Records. This one-off run of 500 copies – produced specifically …

After the success of 2012’s ‘Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow,’ which saw We Are The Ocean storming the BBC Radio 1 playlist, with an addition to the A list for their track ‘Young Heart’, the Essex quartet now prepare to release new music and announce their first full UK headline tour …

The release date of the MEDUSA’S CHILD album “Empty Sky” on CD is May 16th, 2014. The preorder phase will start on May 2nd, 2014. Since 1999 the Swiss band MEDUSA’S CHILD created Melodic Power/Heavy Metal with clean, but still powerful vocals. After the re-release of the 2010 album “Damnatio …

THE OCEAN have announced a run of UK and Irish dates in the lead up to their UK Tech-Fest 2014 appearance. A handful of shows have been confirmed for July. Those dates can be seen below.   ROBIN STAPS is eager to get back: “We only hit London and Damnation Fest …

“The Crowded Room”, the new videoclip of modern thrash metal act Sawthis is finally available in worldwide premiere on BlankTV! Check the clip here:   “The human mind is a huge universe where anything can be created and everything can be destroyed. There are cases where in one mind, one …

In anticipation of their forthcoming EP “The Undivided”, Portugal’s Annihilation have teamed up with Terrorizer for an exclusive stream of their new song “The Great Cycle”.   Band founder Fabio Da Silva had the following to say about the song: “The song describes the way that human beings are connected/linked with the …

Ah, the days of pure, raucous, outspoken, and aggressive rock n’ roll often seem to have passed. But while this sound has almost entirely evaded the mainstream, at least one up and coming band in Los Angeles is poised to bring it back, while proving that truly honest and outstanding …

Last week, Clifton, New Jersey-based melodic metal outfit JULIUS SEIZURE released their new single ‘Sixth and Falling’ along with a B-side, ‘Second Coming’, via MetalInsider.net. The tracks are cut from their August 2013 release, Trials. Today, the band has teamed up with Shakefire to unleash the official music video for …

INSOMNIUM has launched a video for the first single “While We Sleep” of their upcoming album “Shadows Of The Dying Sun”, out April 28th in Europe and April 29th in North America via Century Media Records. The glamorous clip, which was directed by Dariusz Szermanowicz (produced by grupa13.com – Behemoth, …

Following the release of Norma Jean’s 6th album Wrongdoers, the band is now embarking upon a 5-date UK tour.  The new album showed expanded categories for their life and music and received a mass of gleaming reviews. Wrongdoers came together amidst many setbacks, frustrations and creative tensions but the resulting …

Swedish progressive titans OPETH unleash their hugely anticipated eleventh studio album, ‘Pale Communion‘ via Roadrunner Records on 16th June. ‘Pale Communion’, which follows the band’s 2011 critically lauded prog masterpiece ‘Heritage’, was produced by OPETH’s own Mikael Åkerfeldt and mixed by longtime friend and collaborator, Porcupine Tree visionary Steven Wilson.  …