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 […]

”A real fucking group… they also make fucking records. They don’t just go and twiddle around on stage to make a bunch of fucking money” – Iggy Pop Better 40 years later than never: The follow-up to the first record ever to bear the Iggy and the Stooges logo–the immortal proto-punk masterpiece Raw Power–will finally be out April 26, when Warner Music Australia and […]

STRYPER today released “Bleeding From the Inside Out“, the first digital single off the forthcoming album “Second Coming” due for release on Frontiers Records on March 26th in North America.  The song is one of the 2 original tracks which can be found on this new release (with the other being “Blackened”). The other 14 songs making out the new album are brand […]

OLD SCHOOL ROCKERS THE GLORIA STORY ARE BACK! – New album, Born to Lose, out April 5! Where bands like Graveyard or Rival Sons explore the heavier stuff from the 70’s, old school rockers The Gloria Story focuses on, and reinvents the more party-oriented sounds of that same decade. The Gloria Story is a mashup of punk rock attitude with hard rock energy […]

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 […]

Europe’s lead guitarist John Norum has signed a record deal with Gain/Sony Music. He will shortly enter the studio and record his new solo album, due to be released in September. John Norum released his first solo album ”Total control” in 1987 and has made eight solo albums in total since then. The latest album “Play Yard Blues” came out […]

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 […]

Whitesnake NEW DVD/LIVE CD PACKAGE: “MADE IN JAPAN” Multi-platinum rock band Whitesnake to release new DVD/live cd package: “Made in Japan” due out in April on Frontiers Records Frontiers Records is pleased to announce the release of legendary rock band Whitesnake’s new DVD/live CD package, MADE IN JAPAN. MADE IN JAPAN is set for release on April 19th in Europe (22nd in the UK) and April […]

Alice In Chains have announced a May 2013 release for their highly anticipated new album, THE DEVIL PUT DINOSAURS HERE. Fueling excitement is the first track “Hollow,” which was initially released as a lyric video but has taken on a life of its own, hitting No. 1 on the US Mainstream Rock radio chart and closing in on No. 1 on […]

The trailblazing band, whose creative energy and unwavering artistic commitment has reverberated through underground subculture and in tastemaker circles alike since the late 1990s, return with renewed passion and unrivalled skill with their fifth full-length album. One of Us is the Killer is set to be released through the band’s own Party Smasher Inc., in partnership with Remote Control (Radiohead, Vampire […]

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 […]

PLEDGEMUSIC TEAMS UP WITH SONY MUSIC AUSTRALIA, BRING ME THE HORIZON AND RAW POWER MANAGEMENT GROUNDBREAKING DIRECT-TO-FAN PRE-SALE CAMPAIGN FOR BRING ME THE HORIZON’S SEMPITERNAL ALBUM RELEASE PledgeMusic has teamed up with Sony Music Entertainment Australia, RCA Records, Bring Me The Horizon and Raw Power Management to launch a unique, direct-to-fan pre-sale campaign for what is tipped to be one […]

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 […]

EMI are proud to announce the highly anticipated release of the Double Disc DVD MAIDEN ENGLAND ‘88 on 25 March. Now available for the very first time on DVD, this live show was filmed across two sold-out nights at Birmingham N.E.C Arena, UK in November 1988 during the band’s “Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son World Tour”. Disc one contains […]

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 […]

Australia’s Airbourne will release Black Dog Barking on Roadrunner Records, May 17, 2013.  Produced by award winning producer Brian Howes, this is Airbourne’s third album and the follow up to No Guts. No Glory which was released in 2010.  Inspired by the likes of Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC and Motörhead, Airbourne has been winning fans since 2003 with their high energy, whiplash-inducing, working man’s rock ‘n’ […]

NEIL YOUNG and CRAZY HORSE PERFORMING INTIMATE SHOW AT THE PLENARY, MELBOURNE The announcement that Neil Young and Crazy Horse would be gracing both Australia and New Zealand with their phenomenal live show left fans thrilled and quick to grab tickets to see the legendary performers in concert. In addition to the arena and winery performances already announced on their tour, […]

Melbourne based HATCHET DAWN will be recording the bands next release to follow up from the REBIRTH LP with Logan Mader (ex Machine Head/Soulfly) in Los Angles USA at Dirty Icon Productions where Logan Mader has produced past releases with Fear Factory, Gojira, Soulfly, Devildriver, Caverlera Conspiracy, Divine Heresy & Five Finger Death Punch. Original founding member Howsie Noise will carry on the HATCHET DAWN legacy with continuing REBIRTH […]

Highly-acclaimed British fantasy artist Rodney Matthews (Thin Lizzy, Asia, Nazareth, Magnum) is the talent behind AVANTASIA’s album artwork for The Mystery Of Time. States AVANTASIA mastermind Tobias Sammet: “It is a great honor for me to have Rodney create the artwork . . . Since the new album is a conceptual album and its story has a magical and enchanting atmosphere, there […]