CRADLE OF FILTH RETURN TO SUPREME INFERNAL DECADENCE WITH NEW MASTERWORK THE MANTICORE AND OTHER HORRORS ON NOVEMBER 2, 2012 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’ in 1994. The band have gone on to become one of the UK’s most successful metal acts, known […]

Northern Music Company & InsideOutMusic in association with Live Music Stage proudly presents: Devin Townsend’s sold out Retinal Circus extravaganza can be viewed live online at LiveMusicStage.com JOIN THE EVENT HERE – http://www.facebook.com/events/371121462965878/?context=create  On October 27th, renowned multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, producer and now ringleader, Devin Townsend is gearing up for one of his biggest accomplishments to date: The Retinal Circus. Set to take place […]

JEFF LOOMIS is proud to present the brand-new song “A Liar’s Chain” recorded with his touring line-up consisting of the young talents Joe Nurre (Guitar and Vocals), Anup Sastry (Drums) and Greg Macklin (Bass). Jeff comments: “A Liar’s Chain is the first of three songs that I recorded with my band to officially debut online. We started playing it live on […]

BEVERLY MCCLELLAN ALBUM RELEASE & UK TOUR WITH STEVE VAI ‘Fear Nothing’ [Tour Edition} December 1 Blues rock powerhouse vocalist Beverly McClellan from smash hit TV show “The Voice” USA  is set to release her album “Fear Nothing” in the UK & Europe through Favored Nations on Dec 1 before embarking on the UK leg of her world tour with guitar […]

Legendary progressive rock veterans FOCUS are set to release their new studio album FOCUS X on November 5 via Eastworld Recordings. With their unique progressive rock Focus manifested themselves at the start of the seventies as the most successful and the most appreciated of all the Dutch pop-rock exports. The band is fronted by founder and musical genius Thijs van […]

Against Me! Announce 2013 BDO Side Show You asked for it, now here it is! Punk rockers Against Me! have announced sideshows in Sydney and Melbourne on top of their appearances at Big Day Out 2013. Dubbed by Spin Magazine as one of the 25 greatest live bands, you can’t miss their explosive live set as they play classics and tracks off their sixth studio […]

Ben Gillies’ Bento. The countdown to ‘Diamond Days’ album release begins! Fans have the chance to attend the album launch party! The sparkling debut album by Bento, DIAMOND DAYS, marks a new musical creation from Ben Gillies, drummer and co-founder of Silverchair. The first single Diamond Days has been embraced by fans at home and abroad. The catchy chorus along with […]

ANBERLIN return with their sixth studio album “Vital” out on October 12. Their new single, “Someone, Anyone”, out now on iTunes and other digital retailers, evokes a myriad of emotions with its warm guitar rapture and vocalist Stephen Christian’s inimitable and infectious cadence. The track’s music video will make its debut on VEVO soon. Driven by uncontainable youthful spirit, the […]

LOST ANGELS, the super-group featuring singer John Corabi (MÖTLEY CRÜE, THE SCREAM, UNION, RATT), guitarist Eric Dover (SLASH’S SNAKEPIT, SEXTUS, ALICE COOPER, JELLYFISH), drummer Troy Patrick Farrell (WHITE LION, GILBY CLARKE, PRETTY BOY FLOYD), bassist Eric Brittingham of CINDERELLA are visiting Australia in December 2012 to play special intimate shows in selected cities only! LOST ANGELS was formed as a […]

It’s just over a month until THE LIVING END kick off their massive 39 DATE RETROSPECTIVE TOUR and the band are now ready to reveal the huge list of special guest bands and DJs who be joining them on the road. In all, 18 BANDS & 7 SPECIAL GUEST DJs ranging from Australian Rock Royalty, iconic 90s punk legends and the next crop of Australian music […]

KISS have released two tracks from upcoming album Monster. Listen to Long Way Down and All For the Love of Rock & Roll below. Fans are expecting great things after the success of 2009’s Sonic Boom – the record they made after spending years insisting they wouldn’t return to the studio. Gene Simmons says it’s all down to the band’s […]

Consistently throwing one of the most exciting, energetic live rock shows you’ll ever witness, REEL BIG FISH, GOLDFINGER and ZEBRAHEAD are teaming up for a killer Australian tour this Summer. This is the kind of tour that these titans of rock thrive upon; twisted flesh, flailing limbs and a sea of swarming bodies…this will be one for the ages! Armed […]

Torpedohead’s new album “Greetings From Heartbreak Key”‘, is being released on October 26 via Woodhouse Records, contains 12 original tracks and features the new single “Gasoline”. Imagine a 70’s stadium rock n’ roll tape coming through a trashy 90s pop-punk stereo, digitally remastered today for speeding down the autobahn ! Combining a riff oriented sound, melodic supercatchy choruses and some tasty […]

Newcastle’s favourite adopted Melburnian JAMIE HAY has been dedicated to music for a vast portion of his life.  From house shows, to huge festivals, international tours and regional youth centres, Jamie Hay has seen it all. Now the Conation/A Death In The Family/Fear Like Us vocalist opens a new chapter., with debut solo album KING OF THE SUN (out November 2) and a tour to accompany […]

Serpent Sermon 2013 tour: Marduk / Portal / Order of Orias Tickets onsale NOW! Sweden’s kings of unholy black metal chaos MARDUK will be invading our shores, headlining the Serpent Sermon tour this summer. Joining them on the crusade will be Australia’s own curators of the abyss PORTAL, and Melbourne’s blackened horde ORDER OF ORIAS. Tickets are onsale now, and […]

As the national tour from recently reformed Swedish death metal legends At The Gates approaches, Destroy All Lines and Blue Murder are excited to announce the support acts that will make these bills even more brutal and thrilling.  Supports have been crafted carefully for each of the four lucky cities to host the band. Brisbane scores The Fevered and In Death, Sydney Katabasis and As Silence Breaks, Melbourne Be’Lakor and Eye […]

SHANNON NOLL will be releasing his biography ‘Shannon Noll So Far…’ on Monday October 1. Published by New Holland, the book is written by Shannon with Alan Whiticker, a Sydney writer. Shannon will also release a brand new single ‘Man I Can Trust’ on the same day. ‘Shannon Noll: So Far…’ tells the whole story … brother, son, husband, father […]

The best way to experience the almighty Machine Head is in the live setting. The Northern California band has established itself as one of the best live acts in the hard rock and metal world, bringing venues and crowds to their knees with flawless onstage execution of their songs. Few, if any, of their peers can deliver the type of sweat-soaked, utterly […]

Live Nation has announced that P!NK will make her hugely anticipated return to this country for what will be the hottest tour of the year – The Truth About Love Tour 2013. Renowned around the world as one of the most dynamic live performers of her generation – and by far the most successful female touring and recording artist ever […]

In an ingenious move often reserved for film, The Cult has announced they will be releasing a ‘prequel’ to accompany their latest critically acclaimed album, Choice of Weapon. The digital-only release Weapon of Choice reveals the songs at a stage of development that will be of interest to The Cult’s fans and followers. Weapon of Choice is a document of a work in progress and offers a unique opportunity to hear The Cult’s process. The material has not been previously released, […]

TSAR were formed in Los Angeles in 1998 and quickly planted their flag in the name of a new kind of rock at the center of the, then, exploding Silverlake music scene. Garage rockers, punks and glam babies alike flocked to eastside clubs to catch TSAR’s bombastic live performances and catchy power-pop/punk songwriting. A bidding war resulted in a major label […]

Paul Dianno and Blaze Bayley Australian Tour  Legendary ex-vocalists of Iron Maiden Hardline Media proudly presents Paul Dianno and Blaze Bayley – former vocalists of Iron Maiden – performing together for the first time ever in Australia and New Zealand. In a world exclusive, for their co-headlining sets both singers will be belting out only Iron Maiden songs – classic […]

The Rolling Stones ‘Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965’ out November 2nd from ABKCO – Super Deluxe Box Set/Blu-ray and DVD Details Revealed ABKCO Films is proud to join in the celebration of the Rolling Stones 50th Anniversary by announcing exclusive details of the release of the legendary, but never before officially released film, The Rolling Stones ‘Charlie Is […]

Thanks to our friends at Universal Music Australia, we have five copies of the cracking new Grinspoon album ‘Black Rabbits’ to give away to five of our lucky readers.  First single ‘Passerby’ has given us a taste of a newer Grinners sound and we dig it!  Want to hear what else they’ve come up with? Well you can by simply […]

Destroy All Lines and Killyourstereo.com present HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS WITH SIENNA SKIES AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2012 HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS are set to make their well anticipated return to Australia in December this year to celebrate the 2nd release in their EP trilogy – Hope. The Ohio quartet have been working solidly since they last hit our shores in 2006, releasing Fragile Future in mid 2008 and then their 4th studio album Skeletons hit shelves […]

From November 7 The Tea Party: Live in Australia will be available for lovers of epic rock on Blu-ray and DVD. Since the Canadian three piece exploded onto the scene in the early-‘90s the Tea Party has pursued a singular epic sound melding middle-eastern influences with cacophonous power for what has become widely dubbed as Moroccan Roll. After a brief breakup […]

THE SCRIPT ANNOUNCES NATIONAL ARENA TOUR! With smash hit album #3 (out now through Sony Music) tearing up charts and hearts across the globe, Frontier Touring Company is delighted  to confirm that The Script will return to Australia in 2013 with their biggest national tour to date! The Dublin natives make this announcement whilst in Australia for a sell out […]

English melodic rockers FM have issued the following update via their Facebook/Website: “Here in FM land we love our traditions and in the run-up to the release of our seventh studio album we couldn’t resist one particular FM tradition – on 26th November 2012 we will be releasing ONLY FOOLIN’ EP. We’ve had a great reaction to our EPs over the […]

Frontiers Records have issued the following update on upcoming 2013 releases for Snakecharmer, Cannatta, Seventh Key, Work of Art and James Christian! WORK OF ART Swedish AOR stars WORK OF ART have started laying down tracks for the anticipated third album which the band plans to title “Piece of Work” as a completion of the trilogy of album titles that […]

September 24th, 2012  – Adler, the new band led by former Guns N Roses drummer Steven Adler will be releasing their debut album “Back From The Dead” November 26th via New Ocean Media in North America. “Back From The Dead” was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Jeff Pilson (Foreigner, Dokken) and mixed by Jay Ruston (Anthrax, Stone Sour). The album consists of 11 tracks ranging from adrenaline pumping rockers […]