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Crossfaith unveil video for ‘We Are The Future’

Crossfaith unveil video for ‘We Are The Future’

Japan’s groundbreaking electro-mosh masters CROSSFAITH have unleashed a video for new single ‘We Are the Future’, ripped last week from the body of their crushing new album ‘Apocalyze’, out September 6. Unique and captivating, Crossfaith seamlessly combine metal, hardcore, samples and electronica to forge a musical formula that truly transcends genre. Their 2009 debut album ‘The Artificial Theory For The Dramatic […]

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Awaken Solace announce East-Coast Tour & National Distribution Deal

Awaken Solace announce East-Coast Tour & National Distribution Deal

In a final celebration for their debut album ‘In Nightfall’s Embrace’, Brisbane female fronted, symphonic metallers Awaken Solace announce a string of live shows across Australia’s east-coast throughout August and September presented by Metal Evilution. In conjunction with the tour, the band is also celebrating a national distribution deal with Green Media | MGM Distribution. Awaken Solace may be reasonably […]

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Super Best Friends Announce 1,2,3 Tour

Super Best Friends Announce 1,2,3 Tour

In between recording their next shout-a-long anthem and rubbing shoulders with the country’s leaders, Canberra’s finest slacker punk trio Super Best Friends have found time to squeeze in a series of pre-season training shows as they gear up for the release of a new single and music video. The 1,2,3! Tour will see the band play shows in Canberra, Sydney […]

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Vans Warped Tour Australia lineup announced!

Vans Warped Tour Australia lineup announced!

VANS WARPED TOUR IS COMING TO AUSTRALIA…NEED WE SAY ANYMORE!!! So without further ado… THE OFFSPRING PARKWAY DRIVE SIMPLE PLAN NEW FOUND GLORY THE USED HATEBREED TONIGHT ALIVE H2O THE SUMMER SET KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES WE CAME AS ROMANS MAN OVERBOARD CROWN THE EMPIRE THE DANGEROUS SUMMER FOR ALL THOSE SLEEPING VEARA ANARBOR MALLORY KNOX RDGLDGRN Tickets on sale […]

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The Butterfly Effect Unleash “Brutally Honest” Doco and Live DVD Set

The Butterfly Effect Unleash “Brutally Honest” Doco and Live DVD Set

A twelve year career, 200,000 record sales and over 500 shows would be an epic dream for any young band. For The Butterfly Effect it was their reality, but behind the music, festival shows, international tours and the gold records, holding it all together was a challenge far greater than any band photo or press release could convey. Twelve months […]

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Sameer Bhattacharya of Flyleaf

Sameer Bhattacharya of Flyleaf

“The word that keeps coming up is rejuvenation, it’s just fresh and feels like something, it is new, she’s not Lacey, but there is this freshness and rejuvenation in the music and in her voice and really enchants you and it’s an amazing experience.” From tour release: Flyleaf’s style of hard rock is reminiscent of Deftones, Evanescence and Chevelle. Heavy […]

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H.E.A.T guitarist Dave Dalone leaves the band.

H.E.A.T guitarist Dave Dalone leaves the band.

From H.E.A.T’s official website: Our brother and guitar player Dave Dalone has decided to leave the band to pursue new musical challenges. It’s been seven years of nothing but good times with Dave, a fantastic guitar player, songwriter and friend. We wish him all the best in his plans for the future. As for now H.E.A.T will continue as a […]

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Dead Letter Circus ‘The Catalyst Fire’ Tour

Dead Letter Circus ‘The Catalyst Fire’ Tour

With their second album landing August 9 via UNFD, New World Artists announce Dead Letter Circus (DLC) are embarking on ‘The Catalyst Fire’ Australian tour to debut their highly anticipated new material. The Catalyst Fire is the follow up to Dead Letter Circus’ hit debut album This Is The Warning. This Is The Warning peaked at #2 on the ARIA Charts, recently achieved Gold sales, was nominated […]

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Black Cherry Heats Up The Factory Theatre in Sydney on July 20th

Black Cherry Heats Up The Factory Theatre in Sydney on July 20th

Sydney’s flagship band, burlesque and DJ spectacular, BLACK CHERRY, returns on Saturday 20th July with its trademark thrills and debauchery! With more live music than ever before, BLACK CHERRY invades the many stages of The Factory Theatre with a theatre of raunch and resonance in the most scintillating winter warmer you’ll ever get your hands on! Leading the live music […]

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Gilby Clarke – Hermanns Bar, Sydney – July 6, 2013

Gilby Clarke – Hermanns Bar, Sydney – July 6, 2013

Guns N’ Roses are one of those bands that has cult status back in the day and as each member formed their own personality within the band, a guy like Gilby Clarke had his perfect place within the band and has gone on to still be prominent in the industry even almost twenty years after leaving GnR. He was only […]

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Dream On, Dreamer

Dream On, Dreamer

“So we recorded the album, had written the album and done the artwork for the album ourselves, and that’s something we’d never done before, and it was just like a really, really awesome experience to do that.” When we last spoke with Dream On, Dreamer back in 2011 and then proclaimed them as one of our Best Things You’ve Never […]

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Massimo Morante of Goblin

Massimo Morante of Goblin

“You never stop to doing new things, we still have a lot to say musically…….. exams never end!!!!!” From tour release: Across the course of a career that has spanned three decades Goblin have been providing the spine tingling soundtrack to the celluloid nightmares of a generation of horror movie lovers. The Italian ensemble have become masters of a musical […]

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Baby Animals are back with a brand new National Tour in 2013 “Feed The Birds”

Baby Animals are back with a brand new National Tour in 2013 “Feed The Birds”

Hot off the success of their first studio album release in 20 years, This Is Not The End, and its Top 20 ARIA Album Chart debut, iconic Aussie rockers Baby Animals are thrilled to announce a new national Australian tour in 2013. Presented by Social Family Records and The Harbour Agency, the “Feed The Birds” tour will begin in Newcastle […]

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Sevendust’s Lajon Witherspoon & Clint Lowery to guest on The Infinite Staircase’s new EP

Sevendust’s Lajon Witherspoon & Clint Lowery to guest on The Infinite Staircase’s new EP

On the heels of the recently announced collaboration with Savatage and Trans-Siberian Orchestra guitar virtuoso Chris Caffery, New York-based outfit, The Infinite Staircase (comprised of brothers Lenny and Jeff Cerzosie), have added a few more recognizable names in the hard rock and heavy metal community to their already “rock star-studded” forthcoming Ep; this time in the form of the album’s […]

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WIN a copy of the new DIVINE FITS double A-side vinyl single (CLOSED)

WIN a copy of the new DIVINE FITS double A-side vinyl single (CLOSED)

Thanks to our good friends at Jaden Social, we have two copies of the new Divine Fits double A-side vinyl single to give away. These two new tracks from Divine Fits, “Ain’t That The Way” (written by Britt Daniel) and “Chained To Love” (written by Dan Boeckner) were produced by the multi Grammy Award winning producer Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, […]

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Jason Aalon Butler of letlive.

Jason Aalon Butler of letlive.

“It took about six months to finish this record and we felt like in the end the fact that people wanted a record from us the way they did, and also the fact that they deserved a good record is kind of how this record culminated and how it all came to fruition.” From press release: It’s been awhile since […]

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The Smashing Pumpkins release vinyl box set of album “The Aeroplane Flies High”

The Smashing Pumpkins release vinyl box set of album “The Aeroplane Flies High”

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS TO RELEASE 6-CD BOX SET, 5-LP VINYL AND TWO DIGITAL VERSIONS OF “THE AEROPLANE FLIES HIGH’ – Available on July 23rd As part of the continuing series of reissues of THE SMASHING PUMPKINS’ acclaimed catalog via Virgin/UMe, the iconic alternative band is set to release four separate versions, all fully remastered, of their platinum-selling 1996 box set […]

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ASHES OF ARES – reveal album title, cover art, tracklist & release date!

ASHES OF ARES – reveal album title, cover art, tracklist & release date!

Today, ASHES OF ARES are happy to reveal details on their upcoming debut album. The self-titled record »Ashes Of Ares« will be released via Nuclear Blast Records on September 6 as a limited CD in Digipak incl. a bonus track as well as in two different 2LP versions. The tracklist reads as follows: 01. The Messenger 02. Move the Chains […]

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KREATOR – Roskilde show to be streamed live!

KREATOR – Roskilde show to be streamed live!

German thrash titans KREATOR will play a this years Roskilde Festival in Denmark on Friday, July 5 at 11.00pm CET. The entire show will be available as live stream at www.roskilde-festival.dk – check it out! KREATOR recently announced to release a brand new live DVD called »Dying Alive« on August 30, 2013. A first video trailer can be viewed below: The DVD/Blu Ray features the band’s sold out homecoming show […]

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Avenged Sevenfold to release sixth studio album ‘Hail To The King’ on August 23

Avenged Sevenfold to release sixth studio album ‘Hail To The King’ on August 23

AVENGED SEVENFOLD TO RELEASE SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM ‘HAIL TO THE KING’ ON AUGUST 23 “Avenged Sevenfold are THE sound and face of hard rock and metal in the new millennium.” – REVOLVER Avenged Sevenfold have officially announced Hail To The King, their sixth studio album, will be released in Australia on August 23, 2013. Produced by Mike Elizondo, Hail To […]

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CITY AND COLOUR announces intimate Australian shows

CITY AND COLOUR announces intimate Australian shows

Dallas Green – better known by his moniker City and Colour – will be paying his dedicated Australian fan base a visit this month, for two very special shows in Sydney and Melbourne to promote the release of his new album The Hurry and The Harm. Green has also promised to drop into the triple j studios to reveal details […]

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Simon Meli & The Widowbirds

Simon Meli & The Widowbirds

No stranger to the Australian music scene, you may have seen Simon Meli perform before without even knowing it. Now that he’s been on TV he may be a lot easier to recognize, but his talent and his voice has been killing it for years around the live traps both supporting huge international artists as well as playing his own […]

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Crossfaith Reveal First Track From Upcoming Album

Crossfaith Reveal First Track From Upcoming Album

CROSSFAITH REVEAL FIRST TRACK ‘WE ARE THE FUTURE’ FROM UPCOMING ALBUM APOCALYZE RELEASE DATE CHANGE TO SEPTEMBER 6 Japan’s Crossfaith today unveil the first taste of their upcoming studio album, Apocalyze. Originally slated for release on August 16, the album is now set to be unleashed upon the masses on September 6 via Halfcut Records. Lead track We Are The […]

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CHRIS SHIFLETT & THE DEAD PEASANTS release new track ‘Guitar Pickin’ Man’! Taken from All Hat and No Cattle out August 2, 2013

CHRIS SHIFLETT & THE DEAD PEASANTS release new track ‘Guitar Pickin’ Man’! Taken from All Hat and No Cattle out August 2, 2013

‘Guitar Pickin’ Man’ is the first single taken from  CHRIS SHIFLETT & THE DEAD PEASANTS sophomore album All Hat and No Cattle, set for release on August 2, 2013 via Sideonedummy/Shock. All Hat and No Cattle follows the band’s 2010 self-titled debut which introduced the veteran Foo Fighter Shiflett’s skill for writing understated, infectious Americana-influenced rock songs. Inspired by CHRIS […]

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JIMMY BARNES Welcome to the Pleasure House tour

JIMMY BARNES Welcome to the Pleasure House tour

JIMMY BARNES – WELCOME TO THE PLEASURE HOUSE TOUR Frontier Touring Company and Premier Artists are very pleased to announce that rock and roll legend JIMMY BARNES is set to hit the road this August/September on a run of exclusive shows for his WELCOME TO THE PLEASURE HOUSE national tour. Australia’s favourite and most prolific artist will storm the stage […]

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STEREOPHONICS: Announcing final MELB show & PERTH change of date

STEREOPHONICS: Announcing final MELB show & PERTH change of date

Tickets for STEREOPHONICS’  first East Coast shows in nearly three years have  been long sold-out, leaving many fans ticketless and disappointed. Now due to a change to the band’s tour  itinerary, it has become possible to add a second Melbourne show. Tickets for this final Melbourne show, at The Palace on Tuesday July 23, will go on sale at midday […]

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JOHN WAITE new album “LIVE ALL ACCESS” out now

JOHN WAITE new album “LIVE ALL ACCESS” out now

Live: All Access is the new live album from John Waite. The album was released on iTunes June 11th and is a sparkling collection of live recordings of songs from the ‘Rough and Tumble’ album, from the solo albums ‘Ignition’ and ‘No Brakes’ and from The Babys era. Waite’s trademark vocals are crystal clear and every bit as powerful as […]

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The Amenta

The Amenta

From tour release: For the past eleven years, the institution known as The Amenta has steadfastly refused to do anything by the book. With a strong desire for experimentation and the avant-garde, and a sadistic pre-occupation with all things ugly, decayed and rotten, the band have consistently released challenging and ground breaking material beginning with Occasus, through to nOn, the […]

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Electrik Dynamite “Showgirls / Steel of Fortune” 7″ vinyl launch

Electrik Dynamite “Showgirls / Steel of Fortune” 7″ vinyl launch

Following on from the epic release “Hair.Denim.Sex.Metal” (New Justice Records, 2011), the mighty Electrik Dynamite are on the eve of releasing their brand new double A-side 7” vinyl “Showgirls / Steel of Fortune”. The 7” is the first recordings since Dan Brittan took over vocal duties for the band, and will introduce the listener to a harder edged clean vocal […]

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Klaus Eichstadt of Ugly Kid Joe

Klaus Eichstadt of Ugly Kid Joe

“Up until maybe 2009 I thought it would probably never happen, but, I always made sure I kept a Marshall half-stack around in case it did, so maybe subconsciously I always thought that it would happen some day.” Cast your mind back to 1992 when this band hated everything about you, wanted us to be their Neighbour and a cover […]

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