COUNTING CROWS IN THEIR FIRST AUSTRALIAN HEADLINE TOUR IN NINE YEARS DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND – 2ND MELBOURNE SHOW ADDED! FRIDAY JANUARY 25, 2013 COUNTING CROWS, the multi-platinum American rock band, have confirmed a second and final Melbourne show due to overwhelming demand.  The seven-piece head Down Under for what will be their first national headline tour since 2004, following the April […]

A grimly glamorous ghoul who first slithered from the cobwebbed shadows of Charlotte, North Carolina, in the early 90s, WEDNESDAY 13 has firmly established himself as the world’s premier purveyor of balls-out horror punk insanity.  With a vivid and vile imagination that has endeared him to countless fans of riff-driven macabre over the last two decades, he has been one […]

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY has begun writing material for their next album, the follow-up to the well-received self-titled record released via Candlelight Records late February 2012, the reissue of their Eye For An Eye debut, and recently released Scion A/V EP Megalodon. The album, untitled at this time, will again feature the trio of vocalist/bassist Mike Dean, guitarist Woodroe Weatherman, and […]

(New York, NY) – Iconic rock vocalist Sebastian Bach‘s brand new CD/DVD package ABachalypse Now has now been set for a March 26th North American release via Frontiers Records.  The ABachalypse Now Ultimate CD/DVD Edition includes never-before-seen footage from this year’s GrasPop Festival in Belgium, the full never-before-seen Hellfest set from France and the fully-remixed and remastered Nokia show from Los Angeles (originally broadcast on AXS […]

I think I can sum this album up in three words ‘Holy Fucking Shit’.  Let me explain how I see this band and this album; to me there’s a perfect balance of everything here, to compare and bear with me here, it’s like when Mr Burns had all those diseases but, as they were all there and he had everything […]

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND THIRD & FINAL SYDNEY SHOW JUST ANNOUNCED NO FURTHER SHOWS TO BE ADDED TO AUSTRALIAN TOUR! After selling out numerous shows across the country, it seems that Australia just can’t get enough Bruce!  A third and definitely final Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band concert will take place at Sydney’s Allphones Arena […]

Engaging musicianship, reaching far beyond the repetitive droning of most of the genre, has made THE WONDER YEARS a critical darling even before their legion of fans began to take notice. The band’s current success can largely be traced to ‘Suburbia I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing’ “which deservedly launched The Wonder Years into a new stratosphere of […]

The four-headed and many-limbed beast that is MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE has woken up after a three year slumber to fuck up Australia with their ever unique brand of musical mayhem and stage-destroying live performances. Sweeping away fans and critics like a class of Satan High School kids on a field trip, and with parents across the globe absolutely hating them, […]

Every generation of Metal bands has its pioneers – groups that re-define the genre musically and take it to a new level. SYLOSIS is one such band! It’s not for nothing that the quartet from Reading, England has been considered as UK’s greatest Metal export. Now the boys return with their new album ‘Monolith’. “Beautifully innovative and covertly stylish, this […]

GALLOWS will bring a genuine slab of working class anarchy to Soundwave this February and we are stoked to announce they will be performing two sidewaves with very special guests SHAI HULUD, CONFESSION and MILESTONES. GALLOWS are finally ready to unleash the next phase of their punk rock attack on the world with the highly-anticipated release of their follow-up to […]

FUCKED UP have the most perfect name for any band in rock history. In two words it bluntly states the truth that lies at the heart of the white noise maelstrom – things are different from what you expect. Despite having toured the world over for nearly a decade, FUCKED UP keep to intimate venues to give fans the chance […]

In a few short years, New Jersey quartet THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM have gone from punk rock bruisers to one of the most celebrated & prolific rock acts in the world today. Wearing their influences as badges of honour, it was the release of ‘The 59 Sound’ that saw them create a monster that would go down as “one of the […]

The new album “Cobblestone Street” is a departure from the sound that most people would expect from a singer, that has been around since White Lion crashed on to the Hard Rock scene in the 80’s. Rock fans have gotten to know Mike Tramp as a legit rock singer and frontman that looked like he was born to be just […]

AVANTASIA: SONG TITLES AND MORE GUESTS ANNOUNCED! 2013-01-21 00:00 – After Biff Byford (Saxon), Eric Martin (Mr. Big), Michael Kiske (ex-Helloween, Unisonic), Bruce Kulick (ex-KISS, ex-Meat Loaf), Ronnie Atkins (Pretty Maids) and Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon, ex-Vengeance) another guest star has been revealed: legendary former Deep Purple, Rainbow and Yngwie Malmsteen vocalist Joe Lynn Turner will appear on the new AVANTASIA […]

LORD announces release date and album teaser for ‘DIGITAL LIES’. Australian melodic metallers LORD have set the Australian release date of their forthcoming album ‘Digital Lies‘ as February 22. Dates for New Zealand and Japan to follow, along with announcements for distribution partners for the rest of the world.Stated LORD mainman LT: “Finally! It seems like a lifetime since we started this album until this […]

Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be – The Story of Bon Scott By Andrew Barker © On Tuesday 19 February the Corner Hotel will honour the 33rd anniversary of the passing of Bon Scott, who died at age 33 on this date, with the first ever non-theatre performance of ‘The Story of Bon Scott – Hell Ain’t A bad Place […]

Swedish heavy metal rockers SISTER SIN have released an exciting new music video for “Hearts of Cold,” the second single from their recent album Now and Forever (10/22/12). Front woman Liv Jagrell goes balls to the wall and showcases her superb acting skills. Watch the video premiere now through VEVO. You can check out the video below, as well as a bunch of exclusive to […]

It’s been 16 long years since Weezer have graced Australian shores, so tonight already has its first win as there are many eager fans who I know have been waiting since 1996 to see the band again or in some aspects for the first time, and tonight will see the band perform not only a greatest hits / B-sides set […]

“Some say we are the poison, I say we are the cure” – CRASHDÏET are indeed the cure for those of you (like me) who are repulsed by the highly manufactured, disposable and predictable music acts that abound the airwaves in this day and age, CRASHDÏET bring back that unbridled danger and rebellion essentially absent these days from the world […]

Today, the word isn’t bird, it isn’t even Grease, it’s HEAT. It is a scorcher in Sydney today and as I sit here on this magnificent air conditioned train on my journey towards Olympic Park I sit and wonder how I’m going to make it through this tipped to be 40+ degree day? Will I ever get to see the […]

FRONTIERS RECORDS TO RELEASE JOURNEY’S ECLIPSE ON VINYL IN NORTH AMERICA JANUARY 22ND  (New York, NY) – Frontiers Records will release a special gatefold double-vinyl edition of iconic rock group Journey‘s latest studio album, ECLIPSE; the vinyl album will be available for purchase at all physical and online outlets in North America beginning January 22nd, 2013.  Please see below for the track listing and click here to preorder […]

Danish Dynamite Rockers PRETTY MAIDS to release their new album “MOTHERLAND” on Frontiers in March ! Frontiers Records is excited to announce the release of PRETTY MAIDS anticipated new album entitled “Motherland” on March 22nd in Europe and March 26th in North America. After their successful and highly acclaimed 2010 album “Pandemonium”, Danish melodic Hard Rockers, Pretty Maids celebrated their 30th anniversary with their debut visual […]

Date: Tuesday 15 January 2013 Support band: Black Majesty, Nightwish Venue: Palace Theatre, Melbourne, Australia Photos by: Lens Of Rock (www.lensofrock.com) Here’s a selection of photos, check out the full live gallery by clicking this link…

In 25 words or less: “One of 2012’s greatest surprises packets which slays anything ever released by any of his former GNR cohorts.” One of the surprise rock albums released in recent months would have to undoubtedbly be Back From The Dead from Adler, featuring drummer Steven Adler, of course of Guns N Roses and Adlers Appetite fame.  Enlisting frontman […]

GUNS N ROSES WITH SPECIAL GUESTS ZZ TOP AND ROSE TATTOO McManus Entertainment is thrilled to announce the return to Australia of one of the world’s greatest rock bands, Guns N’ Roses in March 2013. Joining Guns N’ Roses will be special guests ZZ Top and Australian rock legends Rose Tattoo. A VIP McManus pre sale will start at 12 […]

OPETH have spent over two decades steadily amassing a body of work that can only be described as epic and iconic; inventing and reinventing the rules as they go along. OPETH’s transcendent live shows have gone down in music folklore. On their upcoming March tour fans can expect a career defining set featuring songs from across their expansive catalogue. Their […]

TV has soap operas, literature has Shakespeare, and metal – well, metal has ANTHRAX. ANTHRAX are that fire-breathing, thrash-spitting, multi-headed beast of a band that – 30 years since the day Scott Ian and then-bassist Danny Lilker searched a biology textbook for the disease that would become their moniker – smiles back at you with a monstrous, upturned middle finger […]

In just a few short years, PERIPHERY have blazed a trail of originality that has sent a shockwave throughout the metal world. Exploring the complex uncharacteristic rhythms and technical precision of math rock with the brutality of progressive metal, PERIPHERY have defied the boundaries of conventionality. Breathing life into the metal scene, Absolutepunk.net proclaims “From beginning to end, Periphery’s self-titled […]

KillRockStar Big Dog Entertainment  present: THE HAPPY MONDAYS Bez | Gary Whelan | Mark Day | Paul Ryder | Rowetta | Shaun Ryder KillRockStar Big Dog Entertainment are thrilled to present Happy Mondays for the first time in Australia- the definitive original line-up! Fusing the euphoric elements of acid house and rave with joyous indie guitar pop, Manchester’s Happy Mondays […]

SEVENDUST FIRST SINGLE, “DECAY,” PREMIERES ONLINE; NINTH STUDIO ALBUM, “BLACK OUT THE SUN’ DUE OUT MARCH 26; ADDS MORE TOUR DATES WITH LACUNA COIL AND CO-HEADLINING RUN WITH COAL CHAMBER January 15, 2013 — Hot on the heels of last week’s Billboard.com premiere of the first single, “Decay,” from their forthcoming album, BLACK OUT THE SUN, SEVENDUST has added a slew of new tour dates to their previously-announced […]