KillRockStar BigDog Entertainment Presents: Buckcherry, Richie Ramone & The Art THURSDAY 18 APRIL, THE ESPY MELBOURNE !!!ON SALE NOW!!! KillRockStar BigDog Entertainment present for one night only in Melbourne Buckcherry, Richie Ramone & The Art. In a one-off show that offers salvation for all Melbourne disciples of rock, Buckcherry, Richie Ramone and The Art team up for a triple bill that […]

Enslaved ‘Australian Winter Rite Tour 2013’ With special guests Rise of Avernus Thursday 13th  June: Rosemount Hotel – Perth WA Friday 14th  June: The Hi-Fi – Melbourne VIC Saturday 15th  June: The Manning Bar – Sydney NSW Sunday 16th  June: The Hi-Fi – Brisbane QLD After spending over two decades amassing a striking collection of releases, Norwegian progressive black metal […]

Having never visited our shores before, the announcement of a KAMELOT Australian tour is bound to excite hordes of melodic metal fans across the country! KAMELOT’s style has been described as a blend of melodic, progressive and gothic metal interwoven with classical elements that defines a genre all their own.  With a new album ‘Silverthorn’ released late last year and […]

Principal Entertainment presents the return of Texas psychobilly legends The Reverend Horton Heat, live in Australia in 2013. The Reverend returns with his white hot band to deliver the good word from the bible of high-octane rock ‘n’ roll for his Australian disciples this May. Long held as the last true masters of country punk laden rockabilly, The Reverend Horton […]

Hot on the heels of his one-off performance at the Stone Festival as part of super group ‘Kings of Chaos’, legendary voice of rock Glenn Hughes will be performing 3 special solo shows up and down the East Coast in late April. Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane audiences will have the fortune of seeing Glenn perform a spectacular 2 set career […]

Slave New World Group & Fetch Agency present HEROES FOR HIRE With Guests Nine Sons Of Dan & Forever Ends Here Sydney’s Heroes For Hire are hitting the road this May for a series of all ages shows with good friends Nine Sons Of Dan and Forever Ends Here along the east coast. These shows will be among the first […]

THY ART IS MURDER AND CATTLE DECAPITATION AUSTRALIAN TOUR ANNOUNCED! Hot on the heels of their nomination in the Best New Band category at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards in the UK, Western Sydney’s Thy Art Is Murder are proud to bring the hate home for their much anticipated headline tour in support of last year’s boundary smashing full […]

Emerging from Sing Sing Studios, with ARIA-nominated producer Forrester Savell at the helm to record their new album, INSIDE/OUT, Sleep Parade are back with their new track Dancing With The Enemy.  After the success of their 2008 debut, Things Can Always Change, their extensive tours throughout Australia in support of the likes of Karnivool, Cog, Dead Letter Circus, The Butterfly […]

The USA, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, England and Scotland are amongst a list of first-world countries that can expect a visit this year from the kings of totalitarian beard-rock: The Beards.  ‘The First World Tour’ will take in a series of relatively well-off countries, including a run of shows in the group’s homeland, Australia. “People living in developed countries […]

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of one of the longest running large scale Led Zeppelin homage concerts and the 40th anniversary of the ground breaking album Houses of the Holy, CCEntertainment brings you the WHOLE LOTTA LOVE Led Zeppelin Celebration. Rocking Australia this April and May, WHOLE LOTTA LOVE is set to deliver an epic musical event, recreating the magic and […]

SOILWORK:  RETURN TO AUSTRALIA THIS OCTOBER “Soilwork assaulted the crowds with their merciless metallic wall of noise, wringing every last ounce of energy out of the black-shirted masses” (the AU review) Sweden’s SOILWORK have long been regarded by many as pioneers of melodic death metal. Alongside fellow Swedish acts such as In Flames and Dark Tranquillity, the band’s unique blend […]

SECOND MELBOURNE SHOW ADDED AND BRISBANE SOLD OUT! Due to an unprecedented demand from rabid THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM fans, a second and definitely final Melbourne show has now been added! Tickets for the Tuesday 14 May show go on sale Thursday 14 March, 9am. With Brisbane now sold out as well, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth fans be warned that only […]

Blue Oyster Cult may be the ultimate ‘cult’ band. Revered by punks, metal heads, sci-fi geeks and horror movie fans alike, B.O.C. have carved out a 40-year career via a string of complex hard rock albums and killer live shows. The author Steven King adores them and so does Dave Graney. Their best known track Don’t Fear The Reaper, was a U.S. top […]

BLACK SABBATH With Special Guests SHIHAD – CITY OF CHURCHES – PREPARE FOR THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS!! – ONE SHOW ONLY! BLACK SABBATH– the band credited with creating heavy metal and one of the most influential bands of all time – has heeded South Australian pleas, confirming that their first Australian tour in nearly 40 years will now include Adelaide […]

DIRTY YORK ‘Feed The Fiction’ Album Launch, Saturday 2nd March www.dirtyyork.com Dirty York have earned a reputation in recent years as a hardworking, charismatic, unpretentious, old school rock ‘n’ roll band. Melbourne’s favourite sons have not only impressed local audiences with their swaggerin’, no holds barred, sweat-soaked performances, but European punters have also taken the lads to heart after they wowed thousands […]

April’s about to get a whole lot louder with the news that Aerosmith are returning to Australia for the first time in 24 years! McManus Entertainment is excited to announce that legendary rockers Aerosmith will play shows in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in April and May. A stellar line-up of special guests, including Wolfmother, Grinspoon, Spiderbait, The Dead Daisies, Kingswood […]

In July 2012, The Tea Party made a triumphant return to the stage in Australia with a series of sold out shows across all major capital cities after being apart for almost 8 years. The band made a promise to the fans each night that they would return with new music and they are about to make good on this […]

PUSCIFER ANNOUNCED ON SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL IN SYDNEY AND ADELAIDE! Soundwave Fans in Sydney and Adelaide are in for an extra special treat as PUSCIFER join the already massive lineup! A PUSCIFER live show leads their audience through laughter, tears and reflective enlightenment throughout one night’s performance. It’s a musically driven evening that merges technology, quirky characters and comedy in what […]

KillRockStar BigDog Entertainment by arrangement with X-Ray Touring present:  CRADLE OF FILTH, Australian Tour 2013 With special guests: TBA  KillRockStar BigDog Entertainment present UK gothic black metal legends Cradle Of Filth live in Australia in 2013. Cradle of Filth formed in Suffolk in 1991 and after a string of demo recordings released their debut album, ‘The Principle of Evil Made Flesh’ […]

STONE Music Festival is coming to Sydney in April! Only Australian performances from Billy Joel, Van Halen and Kings of Chaos Billy Joel (Sunday 21 April) and Van Halen (Saturday, 20 April) have been confirmed to headline the inaugural STONE Music Festival to be held over two days at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium. STONE Music Festival will be an EPIC once-in-a-lifetime Aussie celebration […]

We are thrilled to announce that KATATONIA will be joining OPETH for their Australian tour this March! Since forming in 1991, KATATONIA have become one of the most revered and cherished of all bands in the modern heavy music firmament.  With a steady stream of classic albums, Sweden’s masters of melancholy have spread their baleful gospel across the globe, refining […]

THE GHOST INSIDE DEBUT NEW VIDEO First Australian Headline Tour Announced Los Angeles based melodic hardcore band The Ghost Inside are gearing up to embark on their first headlining tour of Australia. The band will be joined by Emmure, Antagaonist AD and Hand Of Mercy. The “Destroy Music Tour” will begin May 23rd in Perth and wrap up June 2nd […]

SUPPORT ACT LTD and SPITFIRE MUSIC PRESENT ROCK FOR DOC The incomparable Doc Neeson is the enigmatic frontman who won The Angels legions of fans from the bands’ very beginning. For generations, Doc’s onstage theatrics have lured in many loving fans and sold millions of records worldwide.  Since co-founding the Keystone Angels in Adelaide in 1974, Doc has now racked […]

No matter what people say, bigger is always better – especially when we’re talking about heavy metal. And heavy metal doesn’t get much bigger than FOZZY. FOZZY, the band featuring WWE Wrestling Superstar CHRIS JERICHO and Stuck Mojo mastermind RICH ‘The Duke’ WARD will be joining DUFF McKAGAN’S LOADED and DANKO JONES in Sydney only. There is no doubt that […]

TENACIOUS D RETURN TO AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND THIS MAY! The Frontier Touring Company are delighted to confirm that the comic rock brilliance of Tenacious D will be returning to our shores again this May for an extensive run of headline theatre shows. Bringing it all back to the classic lineup that originally birthed their genius, Jack Black and Kyle […]

Steve Stevens is one of the most gifted and original guitarists to emerge from the 80s music scene. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Stevens first picked up the guitar at age seven. Immersing himself in the great early 70s Brit guitar heroes like Beck, Page and Clapton, Steve would eventually became an avid prog rock fan. Post his graduation from […]

EVERMORE ANNOUNCES ‘HERO’ TOUR Presented by Today Network, Radar Radio, Channel V & MOG Band to take in more than 30 tour dates across Australia Tickets on sale 10am today Evermore have their music bus packed and are ready to roll out one of the biggest tours of their career – a troubadour’s journey around Australia to perform the songs […]

COUNTING CROWS ANNOUNCING SPECIAL GUEST JACKSON McLAREN TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2013 – Multi-platinum American rock band  COUNTING CROWS head Down Under for a national tour this autumn, following the 2012 release of their first album in more than four years, ‘Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation)’. Joining Counting Crows on all Australian dates will be Melbourne’s own  JACKSON McLAREN.  Jackson […]

An evening of stories from 30 years of metal, wrestling…and drinking!   Two of Rock’s absolute royalty are teaming up for one unforgettable evening! SCOTT IAN (Anthrax) and CHRIS JERICHO (Fozzy) will be sharing stories from 30 years of metal, wrestling and drinking! In a no holds barred Q and A session absolutely nothing will be off limits. SCOTT IAN […]

Fuelled by a burning desire to rage harder, play louder, and have more fun than any other band, CANCER BATS are used to turning venues into rolling pits of punk rock hell and will no doubt “have the pit moving, and long-time fans thanking the musical gods that a band of this design continues to exist.” – Killyourstereo. Ferocious front […]