GARY CLARK JR ANNOUNCES AUSTRALIAN TOUR Texan Blues Singer-Songwriter & Guitarist to perform for the first time in  Sydney & Melbourne this September 2012] “Owing as much to Kurt Cobain and the Ramones as Buddy Guy and John Lee Hooker, indebted to hip-hop and psychedelia…. [Clark] is grounded in tradition while standing on the brink of change.”  – Rolling Stone […]

4ARM Confirmed For Hammerfest V  4ARM have been invited back to the UK for Hammerfest V 2013. The band will be performing on the second stage on Saturday, 16th of March to join a line-up of bands such as Napalm Death, Candlemass and Enslaved with loads more to be announced. The festival as always will run three stages and have over 50 bands performing. Drummer Michael Vafiotis had […]

METALCORE HEROES THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA SET TO RELEASE DEAD & ALIVE, LIVE CD/DVD ON OCTOBER 12 The Devil Wears Prada have announced the upcoming release of their first live CD/DVD, entitled DEAD&ALIVE, due for release on October 12 through Roadrunner Records.  The track “Vengeance” had its world première on FEARnet here:http://bit.ly/MuY789 Following a tour of Latin America, the band has spent its […]

 Ahead of their almost sold out Australian tour HANSON have announced their 5th studio album Shout It Out will be released digitally in Australia on the 7th of September 2012, preceded by the first single “Give A Little”, which will be released to Radio and TV on the 20th of August 2012. Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson are household names in […]

The city of Melbourne has well and truly shown its love and loyalty for hometown heroesTHE LIVING END. Tickets to the band’s RETROSPECTIVE TOUR shows at The Corner Hotel in December have now all completely SOLD OUT smashing the venue’s previous record of five sold out shows, which was held by both Megan Washington and Matt Corby. THE LIVING END will now play a record of NINE […]

You’d be forgiven if you didn’t see this one coming. In an abrupt strike, Twelve Foot Ninja have unleashed an epic 12-week assault in celebration of their debut album ‘SILENT MACHINE’. And it all starts today. Dubbing their campaign ‘Project 12’, Twelve Foot Ninja will release 1 digital track along with 1 digital comic every week for 12 weeks in the lead […]

Destroy All Lines and Australian Guitar Magazine present…Between the Buried and Me Australian Tour Metal heroes Between The Buried And Me have confirmed an Australian tour, kicking off this November in support of their forthcoming seventh studio album. The North Carolina five-piece will come straight off some serious US and European touring to make their first trip to Oz since 2010. They’ll […]

October 2012 marks the highly anticipated return of MATCHBOX TWENTY, heading south for their first Australian dates since 2008, following the release of their fourth full-length studio album ‘North’. In their sixth Australian tour, Matchbox Twenty headline arenas around the country, as well as playing a special open air show at Hope Estate in the Hunter Valley. Be there to sing along […]

HIM CELEBRATES THEIR 20-YEAR CAREER BY RELEASING COMPILATION ALBUM XX –  TWO DECADES OF LOVE METAL ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26TH  This year HIM, one of Finland’s most successful bands at home and abroad celebrate 20 years by releasing a compilation album XX – Two Decades of Love Metal. This is the first compilation by the band that covers their whole career. The […]

“An utterly furious assault of gritty doom riffs and whisky-addled power, chugging, twisting and thundering with an energy the band have not found in years.” – Q Magazine Underground thrash-sludge messiahs HIGH ON FIRE have set a new standard in doom metal. Boasting apocalyptic riffage and gravel-gargling vocals, their latest opus ‘Snakes for the Devil’ solidifies HIGH ON FIRE as […]

Ahead of their October 2012 Australian tour, Everclear have announced they will giving up and coming bands from across the country the chance to open for the power pop legends at their shows in Coolangatta, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. This is the chance for your band to play on a big stage in front of a huge crowd through […]

Official Press release: “Sound Mountain Sessions” is a straight forward, gritty, well-polished American hard rock offering from legendary LYNCH MOB, that truly captures the magic of their genre. It’s got bite, it’s got soul, and lyrically, Oni Logan holds nothing back on this one! Recorded in the traditional “old school” way, the band locked themselves into Sound Mountain Studios for a […]

In the category of ´cult bands` ROSE TATTOO has been at the top of the pile for years. The band can take a punch and are full of vitality; they put every kick in the face behind them and still have the energy to carry on and deliver both live and on record. Their latest album, ‘Blood Brothers’, is a […]

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH HITS #1 WITH “COMING DOWN” Marks Tenth Straight Top Ten Track at Active Rock THE METAL HAMMER PRESENTED TRESPASS AMERICA FESTIVAL CONTINUES TO RECEIVE RAVES FROM MEDIA AND FANS ALIKE  Five Finger Death Punch has hit #1 with the band’s current single “Coming Down.”  The track is the tenth consecutive Top 10 hit at the Active […]

Destroy All Lines and Killyourstereo present – THE SWELLERS – WITH ENDLESS HEIGHTS AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2012    Blue-collar, punk rock has seen a rise to prominence in recent years and at the forefront is Flint, Michigan’s The Swellers. And now, the quartet are set to return to Australia for the second time this October, coinciding with the 10 year anniversary […]

1927 Announce New Support Acts for Generation-i Tour Sydney, Australia – Tuesday, 14 August,  2012: Due to unforseen commitments in the US it is with great regret that The Rembrandts will no longer be joining 1927 on their Generation-i Tour later this month. We are pleased to announce that joining 1927 for their August 24 show at The Palms at Crown in Melbourne will be Dale Ryder Band. […]

PETER GABRIEL – SO (Classic Album) DVD & BLURAY On 21 September 2012, Shock & Eagle Rock Entertainment release “Classic Albums: ‘So’”, the next installment in the Classic Albums series on DVD and Blu-ray.  This release tells the story behind the making of his 1986 album “So”. It was Gabriel’s fifth solo album and the first one to have a title […]

Bad habits. We’ve all got ‘em. Some are more public and less healthy than others. As far as Australian rock bands go, Grinspoon are more readily associated with that phrase than most. It’s fitting, then, that they’ve chosen to name their seventh album after Cockney slang for bad habits: Black Rabbits. Grinspoon is one of Australia’s most loved rock bands […]

THE AMITY AFFLICTION INVITE FANS TO UNLOCK NEW VIDEO FOR CHASING GHOSTS The Australian hard-partying, mischief makers have taken a different approach to premiere their new video for ‘Chasing Ghosts’, by allowing their fans to decide when they get to see it by helping to ‘unlock’ it, simply by tweeting #ChasingGhosts The more tweets containing the #ChasingGhosts hashtag it receives, […]

ALEXISONFIRE REUNITE FOR A 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY FAREWELL TOUR Alexisonfire has always taken pride in keeping promises to fans. Exactly one year after the members of Alexisonfire announced they were going their separate ways, the band has announced a 10th Anniversary Farewell Tour.  Spanning the month of December 2012, beginning in London UK and ending in Toronto ON, the tour […]

NAT COL & THE KINGS Announce New Single ‘Coming Home’ & Accompanying Clip and Tour In 1996 Nathan Cavaleri performed at the Presidential White House in Washington DC, sharing the stage with Etta James, Bonnie Rait, Steve Cropper, Dr John, and Joe Lewis Walker. He was there as one of one of a few select guests personally invited to attend […]

JOURNEY’s Neal Schon to release a new solo instrumental album in October on Frontiers Records The Calling will be released on October 19 in Europe and October 23 in North America Taking a detour from his main job as lead guitarist for Journey, the multi-talented Neal Schon has put the finishing touches on his latest solo album, The Calling, which will be released by Frontiers Records on […]

In anticipation of their first ever Australian tour, Apocalyptica have revealed which local acts will accompany them on their string of East Coast shows this August/September. Brisbane’s Awoken Solace will lend their blend of orchestral power metal, medieval baroque and fantasy soundtracks to the August 30th show, while Sydney’s progressive doom five-piece Rise Of Avernus  will accompany them on August 31. Finally, Melbourne’s Be’lakor will return from their […]

In yet another win for the crowd funding model, COSMIC PSYCHOS : BLOKES YOU CAN TRUST reached 100% of its $28,000 goal with Australian crowd funding site pozible.com. For what had been initially a self-financed project, Director Matt Weston thought he’d give the crowd funding model a shot to try and raise half of the funds required to complete the project, […]

THE ANGELS – NEW ALBUM ‘TAKE IT TO THE STREETS’ OUT 31 AUGUST FEATURING NEW SINGLE ‘WAITING FOR THE SUN’ OUT AUGUST 13 What do we do now? That was the hard question Rick and John Brewster of The Angels had been chewing over in early 2011. Their singer Doc Neeson had set off to pursue a solo career a […]

Metal forerunners DOWN will release Down IV Part I – The Purple EP, their first body of new material in five years, on September 14, 2012 via Roadrunner Records.  First single from Down IV Part I – The Purple EP is Witchtripper, with Rolling Stone calling it a “typically aggressive Anselmo vocal against a twisting, grinding musical backdrop.” The six song EP is the first in […]

Press release via www.nastyidols.com Nasty Idols – Kalifornia / New Album Out August 28th One of Scandinavia’s premier glam/sleaze bands returns.  Ever since their first savage and youthful rise back in the late 80’s the swedish rockers Nasty Idols have delivered their own brand of straight forward sleazy metal rock. The new album Kalifornia contains 11 original tracks featuring:  Kalifornia, 1969 […]

First Installment, ‘The Afterman: Ascension’ to be released October 12 Modern progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria’s upcoming sixth studio album will be a double concept album entitled, ‘The Afterman’,and will be released in two separate full-length volumes. The band made the announcement this week via a cinematic video trailer, a 90-second black and white classic film-noir style short, from director Robert Schober online now […]

Swedish heavy metal band SISTER SIN has released “End Of The Line”, the first single from their forthcoming album “Now and Forever“. Make sure to be one of the first to hear one of this year’s best heavy metal songs, now available digitally. Since 2002, SISTER SIN has worked hard to earn their position as one of the hardest working bands in metal. Amongst the hundreds […]

KIX was founded in 1978 in Hagerstown, Maryland. They were considered one of Maryland’s top cover bands prior to their signing with Atlantic Records in 1981, when they debuted with their self-titled album “KIX”. With this album, the tongue-in-cheek rock & roll style of KIX was established. Their 1983 follow-up, “Cool Kids” showcased a slightly more commercial side of the […]