Category: News

Dan Rock Žena (Women’s Rock Day) is the festival which supports all-female bands in Europe and further. Sisters Sasha and Sonja Zagorc, the founders of the first all-female metal group in Slovenia, Hellcats, had an idea back in 2015 to invite female artists and make a festival in their home town Ljubljana unlike all the others in the region. Usually metal scene in Slovenia is male-dominated so Hellcats, as the first all-female metal group in Slovenia and ex-Yugoslavia, had to deal with a lot of unargumented criticism and lived through harder times than their male colleagues back in the 2003… Continue reading

With their first single ‘Missteria’, GOTTHARD have showcased their experimental side, fusing hard rock with an oriental influence. Now, the Swiss rockers are presenting their new single ‘Bad News’, a high energy track that has been released today alongside a lyric video. ‘Bad News’ is not only the opening track of the new album; it’s also exactly what fans and critics alike have grown to love about the band – white-hot rock´n´roll with the finest songwriting, AKA classic GOTTHARD at their best. ‘Bad News’ sees Nic at his most direct, showcasing his most vibrant and exhilarating characteristics. Empowered by wild, screaming guitars and thundering drums, his… Continue reading

FM formed in 1984 when singer Steve Overland and his brother, guitarist Chris (both formerly of Wildlife), teamed up with drummer Pete Jupp (ex-Wildlife and Samson) and bassist Merv Goldsworthy (ex-Diamond Head and Samson). They were soon joined by Didge Digital on keyboards and by December of that year had secured a record deal with CBS/Portrait and headed to Germany for a run of dates with Meat Loaf. Further tours with Tina Turner, Foreigner and Gary Moore built their momentum and in September 1986 FM released their debut album ‘Indiscreet’ (featuring the hugely popular single ‘Frozen Heart’) to great critical acclaim. The year also… Continue reading

After re-defining themselves together with the approach of a new decade, German band DUST BOLT continues their persistent experimental march through new musical territories. As a part of this major decade-long transformation, underlined by the announced line-up changes and promised shift of musical course, the band recently joined Unearth and Prong on their European tour, ready to impress the audience with a special gift, prepared explicitly with the thought of the upcoming live dates. In the first months of this year, the band delivers on their promise made in January, foretelling an equally challenging as captivating outbreak of fresh and… Continue reading

Cleveland’s metallic hardcore legends RINGWORM announce Spring US headline tour dates. Select dates with All Out War, High Command & labelmates Genocide Pact are available below. RINGWORM is touring in support of their 8th studio album Death Becomes My Voice, out now on CD/LP/Digital. Physical packages are available via Relapse.com . Digital Downloads / Streaming Services are available . RINGWORM Tour Dates: Mar 19-22 w/ All Out War & Genocide Pact / Mar 12-Apr 1 w/ High Command Mar 19 Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus Mar 20 Trenton, NJ @ Championship Bar Mar 21 Providence, RI @ Dusk Mar 22… Continue reading

Just days away from kicking off their US tour with Overkill, thrash metal legends Exhorder have debuted a brand new single, ‘The Man That Never Was.’ The groove-laden, face-melter was recorded during the sessions for their recently released record, Mourn The Southern Skies, their first in nearly 3 decades. Fans can stream the track now! Folk catching them live in the US can also pick-up a limited edition 7” vinyl at the shows, featuring a b-side, live version of ‘Legions of Death’ recorded live from Saint Vitus in New York. With a crushing, mid-tempo attack and a spitting vocal assault,… Continue reading

The Neal Morse Band are set to release their new live album – ‘The Great Adventour – Live in BRNO 2019’ on the 6th March 2020. Today they launch a third clip from the release, and you can watch the band performing ‘Fighting With Destiny (Live in Brno 2019)’ here. Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Randy George, Bill Hubauer & Eric Gillette, released their latest album ‘The Great Adventure’ at the beginning of 2019. This was the follow-up to their acclaimed 2016 concept album ‘The Similitude Of A Dream’, and shortly after the band embarked on a European headline tour. ‘The… Continue reading

Finnish heavy melodic death metal unit WOLFHEART are back with their most commanding offering yet. The four-piece Nordic machine returns with their highly-anticipated new full-length masterpiece, Wolves Of Karelia, set for release on April 10, 2020 via Napalm Records. The album is available to pre-order beginning today. Just as wildlife itself maintains harmony with a violent clash of beauty and unpredictability, Wolves of Karelia explores the band’s previously coined genre of “winter metal” – smoothly bridging a traditional approach of extreme genres with tracks like the breakneck epic “Reaper”, while maintaining atmospheric and acoustic elements on songs such as the bludgeoning wall-of-sound “The Hammer” and… Continue reading

Iron Lamb releases a new Music Video for the song “Erase/Rewind”, taken from the band’s third full-length album “Blue Haze” released by The Sign Records in 2018. This is the third and last video from this album. The video is done by Jimmy Johansson of Super Lino Puro, and is premiered on Deaf Forever today. The band states that they are currently working on songs for the next album. ‘Blue Haze’ is the third album from Iron Lamb, released in 2018 on The Sign Records. With the release, the band turned the fusion of metal and punk into their own… Continue reading

Bay Area natives AENIMUS are proud to release the music video for ‘Between Iron And Silver’ off the band’s most recent offering, Dreamcatcher. Watch the video for ‘Between Iron And Silver’ here Seth Stone comments,”We are happy to premiere our music video for ‘Between Iron And Silver’. The idea behind the video was to create a dance that showed passion, struggle and intensity between two dancers to metaphorically represent the relationship between Dr. Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling from the novel and hit movie Hannibal. The lyrical concept of ‘Between Iron And Silver’ is a letter from Dr. Lecter to… Continue reading