Spotlights, the ethereal-meets-heavy rock trio who continue Ipecac Recordings’ legacy of championing unique and artistically captivating rock bands, will join post-hardcore heavyweights Quicksand and Glassjaw for a two-week U.S. trek before rounding out the month with doom outfit, Pallbearer. … Read More ›
Formed by childhood friends Philipp Michel and René Hofmann, Glanville is a brand new heavy rock band from Germany. Having played in groups like Wight, Foh, The Earwix and Milking the Goatmachine, Hofmann and Michel are experienced musicians and quickly… Read More ›
Death Metal icons Deicide announce the release of their 12th studio album, “Overtures Of Blasphemy”, their first album after 2013’s critically acclaimed “In The Minds Of Evil”.
Relapse Records is excited to announce the return of the Relapse Contamination Tour headlined by death metal heavyweights DYING FETUS with support from label-mates INCANTATION, GATECREEPER and GENOCIDE PACT! The tour will kick off September 19th in Flint, MI and travel through 35 cities across North… Read More ›
Newly formed, unique musical collective ASHRR, made up of Singer – Songwriter Steven Davis and Artist / Producers Ethan Allen and Josh Charles, is slowly creeping onto the music scene with a huge history and incredibly polished avant-garde aesthetic in the… Read More ›
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Los Angeles, CA based heavy metal rock band VOID VATOR has announced their SOUTHWEST 2018 TOUR. Launching July 19th in Las Vegas, the tour will wind through Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico before winding down Phoenix on July 28th. The band has also… Read More ›
Cosmic Blues, the impending new full-length from Italian psychedelic fuzz/heavy rock troupe BLACK ELEPHANT, will see release next month via Small Stone. In advance of its release, One would be hard-pressed to come up with a better descriptor for BLACK ELEPHANT‘s Cosmic… Read More ›
“Vincent Paul Abbott aka Vinnie Paul has passed away. Paul is best known for his work as the drummer in the bands Pantera and Hellyeah.” … Read More ›
Heavy metal purveyors INCITE are thrilled to announce their upcoming North American “Burn & Shred” headline tour, featuring support from Aethere (8/10-9/8) and Lody Kong (9/14-9/28). The two-leg tour will begin on August 10 in Austin, TX and visit several… Read More ›
The prolific heavy negative wizard metal warlock REBEL WIZARD returns with another brew of fuzzed out black metal and classic NWOBHM. On the forthcoming new album titled Voluptuous Worship of Rapture and Response, REBEL WIZARD masterfully captures fantasy and ferocity,… Read More ›
In the video below Matt Harvey of GRUESOME talks new Solo movie, clubs versus festivals, gear and Death with Hayden Johnson of Capital Chaos TV. Less than four short years into their career, death metal defenders of the old GRUESOME — featuring… Read More ›
Heavy Rock band QUOR has released the official lyric video for “Raising The Dead,” off of their January 25th released EP, The Way We Are. With art and animation by Svitlana Reinish, “Raising The Dead” originally premiered on Loudwire. The concept for the track… Read More ›
This special edition bust depicting a zombie-like GG Allin post-death is the first of its kind by Aggronautix.
In the video below, Eric “A.K.” Knutson & Michael Gilbert of Flotsam and Jetsam talk metal, favorite thrash songs, new Flotsam and Jetsam music, surviving the 80’s, what lead to Michael Gilbert joining the band and more with Zoran Theodorovic… Read More ›
The Artisan Era recently announced the upcoming July 13th release of Mordant Rapture’s debut EP, The Abnegation. The Abnegation is a five-song whirlwind of symphonic and blackened technical death metal influenced by the grandiose nature of film scores and also… Read More ›
Helion Prime and their mascot – the mighty Saibot – return with their sophomore effort ‘Terror Of The Cybernetic Space Monster’. The album consists of nine brand new tracks – with the seventeen minute monster title song marking a stunning finale…. Read More ›
MR. BIG have launched a new live video for the song, “Colorado Bulldog” taken from their upcoming release “Live From Milan”. Watch the video below. Following the release of their 2017 album, “Defying Gravity”, MR. BIG set out on a trek that took them all… Read More ›
GHOST’S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM PREQUELLE LANDS AT #3 ON BILLBOARD’S TOP 200 ALBUMS CHAR THE BAND’S FASTEST SELLING, HIGHEST CHARTING ALBUM #2 ON THE TOP CURRENT ALBUMS CHART #1 ON THE ROCK CHART TOP 5 IN 10 COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD… Read More ›
The Loudwire Gen X Summer Tour, which features Buckcherry, POD, Lit, and Alien Ant Farm, have partnered with events company, Anrgirl Powered by vVents Music Entertainment, to broadcast the July 3rd show in Miramar, Florida as an exclusive live stream pay per view event. The show… Read More ›
In the video below Railgun perform a full set set of tongue in cheek thrash metal live in Sacramento, California June, 7th, 2018 @ Cafe Colonial. Railgun is a hard hitting, Thrash/Power Metal band hailing from Long Beach CA. Their relentless speed… Read More ›
LostPray is a Traditional Heavy / Thrash / Progressive Metal Band, formed by two Turkish and two Ukrainian musicians, based in one of the most artistic spots on the planet; Odessa / Ukraine. It was the summer time of 2013,… Read More ›
Rise Records and American rock quintet Dance Gavin Dance are excited to present the music video for “Count Bassy,” the fourth track to be released from its highly anticipated, forthcoming studio album titled Artificial Selection. Helmed by director and animator… Read More ›
France’s Igorrr have confirmed that they will embark on a support tour of North America in late 2018 in support of their latest album and Metal Blade Records debut, ‘Savage Sinusoid‘. The shows will be headlined by American industrial juggernaut Ministry with additional support… Read More ›
Glass Lungs are set to release their debut, “Impermanence” independently on June 29th. The album was recorded alongside producers Mike Watts and Frank Mitaritonna (The Dear Hunter, Glassjaw, Hail The Sun).
Sacramento’s favorite doom practitioners CHRCH will kick off a short run of live dates next week. Set to commence on June 11th in Fullerton, California and run through June 21st in Reno, Nevada, the journey includes performances with Body Void,… Read More ›
Sacramento’s Anarchy Lace’s music is a cross between the raw, angry honesty of garage punk, throw in some melodic guitar leads and a little Southern rock! Guitarist James Cundiff plays lays down the rhythm guitar licks like a man on… Read More ›
Maximum violence has been JUNGLE ROT‘s battle-cry since their inception and it’s proven again on ‘Fearmonger,’ the lead track from their tenth and most vicious album to date, the self-titled Jungle Rot, set for release on July 20, 2018. “Expect a beatdown… Read More ›
American death/black metallers with a Swedish touch, CAST THE STONE, premiere the first single “As The Dead Lie”, taken from their recently announced six-track EP “Empyrean Atrophy”, which is due for release on Agonia Records on August 31st. The track comes with a lyric video designed by Scott Rudd Film (Opeth, Rings… Read More ›
Trivium will continue their wildly successful The Sin and The Sentence World Tour with another leg of North American dates this fall. The band will hit the road on a headline run this October. The bill will feature very special guest Avatar and Light the Torch. The… Read More ›
This September/October, Revocation will head out on the road for their first North American headlining tour in several years, with Exhumed, Rivers Of Nihil, and Yautja as support. See below for all dates!
Australian hardcore act EARTH CALLER has announced tour dates that will bring them to the U.S. for the first time. The band will support The Summer of Screams Tour, Scream Factory & Dread Central, featuring MUSHROOMHEAD and POWERMAN 5000 from… Read More ›
In he video below Denver death metal trio OF FEATHER AND BONE perform a full live set of dual guttural onslaught atop an ever flowing stream of grime-caked riffs and PW’s whirlwind of blasts and d-beats, in Sacramento, California June, 3rd, 2018… Read More ›
Teenage Te Reo metal band Alien Weaponry are New Zealand’s rising musical stars. With a career that started when the band members were just 10 and 12 years old, they supported hard rock icons Devilskin when they were 12 and… Read More ›
