APOCALYPTIC LOVE FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS OUT MAY 18, 2012 SLASH–the iconic, Grammy-winning rock guitarist and songwriter—has revealed the cover artwork and album title for his second studio album Apocalyptic Love featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators due out May 18 onSLASH’s own label Dik Hayd International via Sony Music Australia. Apocalyptic Love will follow his 2010 debut album Slash and his November 2011 first-ever live  solo album, the two-CD/DVD set Made In Stoke 24/7/11. The Slash album debuted on […]

SLAM MAKE HISTORY WITH OVER 100 VENUES REGISTERED FOR NATIONAL SLAM DAY FEBRUARY 23  More than 100 music venues from around the country will celebrate Australia’s thriving live music scene at National Slam Day on February 23rd 2012. “We are so excited to see over 100 venues already signed up, from Tennant Creek to Hobart, Gosford to Melbourne, Fremantle to Adelaide, artists […]

  AVATAR “BLACK WALTZ” FULL ALBUM STREAM AVAILABLE AT AOL MUSIC (New York, NY) – AVATAR have made their new record “Black Waltz” available for full album streaming at AOL Music today. Click HERE to listen. The band will release their newest record, “Black Waltz” tomorrow Feb 14, 2012 via eOne Music. You can preview or pre-order the record via […]

Swedish Sleaze Rock Masters CRAZY LIXX ready to rock again with “Riot Avenue” Frontiers Records is excited to announce the release date of CRAZY LIXX anticipated third studio album entitled “Riot Avenue” on April 20th in Europe and April 24th in North America. Almost an exact decade after vocalist Danny Rexon and ex-guitarist Vic Zino (now in Hardcore Superstar) started playing together under the name Crazy Lixx, the band is […]

The five finnish ladys from INDICA are currently working on their follow up to their successful “A Way Away“ record, which is yet untitled and scheduled to be released in autumn 2012. Vocalist Jonsu, gives an update from the studio recordings: „We are happy to tell you that we´ve now started to record the next album in „Petrax Studios“. The […]

WIG WAM RETURNS WITH WORLD-WIDE RELEASE ”WALL STREET” Wig Wam is due to release the new single ”Wall Street” February 24th ,2012 on Frontiers Records. “Wall Street” is taken from the forthcoming album with the same title, which will be released this spring. “Wall Street” is the story of a musician who trade his guitar for a company brand to make his […]

Taproot will release their sixth full length album, The Episodes, on April 10th. The forthcoming effort is produced by Tim Palatan who previously worked with the band on 2010’s highly successful Plead the Fifth. The Episodes, nearly six years in the making, is a complexly developed concept album. Bassist Phil Lipscomb spoke on the band’s creative process for this record, “I […]

LETLIVE. RELEASE NEW VIDEO Band in Australia next week for Soundwave Festival Heavy music’s breakout stars letlive. have just released a brand new video for their song “Muther” from the band’s Epitaph-Records debut album Fake History. The video was filmed in Los Angeles and offers a cathartic interpretation of romantic jealousy, featuring singer Jason Aalon Butler, who Kerrang! Magazine recently […]

“You know, all we’ve ever really done as a band is approach each show like it was the last show we were ever going to play.” From Bio:  Staind is a band that has sold 15 million albums worldwide, had eight top ten singles across multiple formats with three songs hitting number one, and wrote the most-played rock song of […]

In 25 words or less: Heavy. Heavy. Heavy. Awesome. Lamb Of God are back in a big way. This new album Resolution is so good that it’s hard to put into words. This is the heavy album I know I’ve been waiting for and although I got to hear it in November it was refreshing to hear it again in […]

“HEAVEN SHALL BURN are a phenomenon.  Instead of roaming distant shores in order to seek for innovations the five-piece from Saalfeld/Weimar, Germany is rather heading for well known territories in order to shed their collective skin.  For years they have been drawing creative impulses from the long-term friendship between the individual members.  Despite releasing new studio albums regularly they are […]

METROPOLIS TOURING, CENTURY MEDIA AND VENOM PRESENT: ARCH ENEMY: AUSTRALIAN KHAOS TOUR 2012 Metal Hammer Magazine calls them ‘Swedish melodic death metal heavy weights’ We call them a force of nature. With nine albums under their belts, the guys and girl are masters of their craft. They have never been a band to do anything without 110% commitment and their […]

              SOEN, Featuring Former Members Of OPETH & TESTAMENT, To Release Debut Album Cognitive on March 16 SOEN – the new four-strong ensemble featuring Swedish drummer Martin Lopez (ex-Opeth, Amon Amarth), bassist Steve DiGiorgio (Sadus, Testament, Death, Iced Earth), Stockholm-born vocalist Joel Ekelöf (Willowtree), and guitarist Kim Platbarzdis- have inked a deal with Spinefarm Records. […]

SLIPKNOT IN AUSTRALIA FOR SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL AND SIDEWAVE SHOWS LEAD SINGER COREY TAYLOR ANNOUNCES SYDNEY BOOK SIGNING SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor will be in the country performing with SLIPKNOT at the national Soundwave Festival, as well as SLIPKNOT headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne. Taylor has announced that he will be signing copies and reading from his international best-selling book ‘Seven Deadly Sins: Settling The Argument Between […]

“We’re probably not going to get back together…  Alter Bridge probably won’t get back together until I’d say November of this year, so it’s something else we can put out there that keeps the fans interested and keeps it alive.” Four years after their last visit to Australia, Alter Bridge are finally returning for the Soundwave Festival as well as […]

“I mean I’d say it’s very much a modern album, there’s some real rockin’ up tempo stuff, more doomy stuff but it’s all very guitar orientated but it’s very now, that’s for sure.” Over twenty years into their career, Gothic Metal pioneers Paradise Lost are just about to release a new album this April, their thirteenth, titled ‘Tragic Idol’ which […]

“We have so many different variations of how we like to describe ourselves.  First we have action rock, then there was energy rock, now we call it Chuck Norris rock, it’s like a karate kick to the face (laughs)!” Hailing from Malmö, Sweden, Royal Republic are loud, funky and whilst some bands need a little time to work their way […]

“We’ve never really fit into any sort of genre, we’ve always stuck out like a sore thumb.  We carved our own little path for ourselves and it’s been really great because we’ve been able to adapt to pretty much any tour we’ve been on, from playing Black Sabbath, to doing shows with 311, or The Roots…” Nearly 6 years since […]

“This time we thought it would be cool to have the title represent the way we feel the album sounds like, it is a denser album, it’s a heavier album, it’s groovier and it’s like a ‘colossus’.” Whilst Soundwave Festival this year features a plethora of heaviness, as far as intense live performances go, few bands are likely to top […]

“We kept going back and writing new songs and throwing them out and writing new songs and throwing those out and writing new one and working on the ones we had.  It was really a work in progress; we had four or five actual recording sessions where we went in at different times to record tracks for the album.” Seether […]

PRIMAL ROCK REBELLION – THE NEW STUDIO PROJECT FEATURING IRON MAIDEN GUITARIST ADRIAN SMITH & FORMER SIKTH FRONT-MAN MIKEE GOODMAN – CONFIRMS RELEASE OF NEW SINGLE / VIDEO, ‘NO PLACE LIKE HOME’  PRIMAL ROCK REBELLION have released their debut single, ‘No Place Like Home’. The single has been released as a strictly Limited Edition black 10” vinyl exclusive from What […]

  ONE NIGHT ONLY 3D HD CONCERT PERFORMANCE SCREENING ON MARCH 7 IN SELECTED CINEMAS AROUND AUSTRALIA  CinemaLive is proud to announce the Australian premiere of Satchurated: Live in Montreal– a concert film featuring the amazing talents of world- renowned guitar virtuoso, Joe Satriani in 3D with 7.1 Dolby Digital sound.The concert was filmed live in Montreal, Canada in December of 2010 during Satriani’s The Wormhole Tour, […]

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE ANNOUNCE NEW SINGER: JESSE LEACH WHO SERVED AS BAND’S ORIGINAL SINGER ON LANDMARK ALBUM ALIVE OR JUST BREATHING  Killswitch Engage are pleased to announce that they have filled the singer vacancy in the band and they have done so with a familiar face: original vocalist Jesse Leach. Leach sang on the band’s first self-titled album, which came out in 2000, and on […]

STORM CORROSION  OPETH’S MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT &  PORCUPINE TREE’S STEVEN WILSON TEAM UP FOR STORM CORROSION Roadrunner Records is pleased to announce the signing of Storm Corrosion. Storm Corrosion is the long-discussed and highly anticipated collaboration between two of the modern progressive rock scene’s most innovative and multi-talented artists: Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth. The pair will release Storm Corrosion on April 20. Wilson […]

ICONIC SINGER/SONGWRITER JACK BLADES TO RELEASE NEW SOLO ALBUM: “ROCK N’ ROLL RIDE” Much-beloved singer/songwriter/bass player extraordinaire Jack Blades is slated to release his brand new solo album, ROCK N’ ROLL RIDE, on March 23rd in Europe and March 27th in North America via Frontiers Records. The new album marks Blades’ second solo release for the label. The new record marks Blades’ second solo release […]

Take a few minutes to check out Sarah McLeod’s smokin’ hot 3-piece girl band Screaming Bikini’s new music video “Dirty Beats Disco Bass”. The song tells the true story of when Sarah was living in London and a label executive told her that girls with guitars generally don’t sell records. The video takes the band on a journey putting them […]

SUGAR ARMY REVEAL FIRST TRACK FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM ‘HOOKS FOR HANDS’ AVAILABLE NOW FOR FREE DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD HERE 2009’s debut album The Parallels Amongst Ourselves established the Perth quartet as a unique and engaging force on the vast Australian music landscape. Fast forward to 2012 and the band is now ready to reveal a taste of what they’ve spent their lengthy hiatus working on. Hooks […]

TRAIN SET TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM – CALIFORNIA 37 – ON APRIL 13 FOLLOW UP TO 2009’S PLATINUM – SAVE ME, SAN FRANCISCO Grammy Award Winning band Train is set to release CALIFORNIA 37 on April 13 in Australia.  The new record is the follow-up to the band’s platinum 2009 release SAVE ME, SAN FRANCISCO which featured one of the […]

What an incredible year 2011 was for Perth Prog Metal masters VOYAGER. Huge national support tours, overseas festival appearances, and the release of their highly anticipated fourth full length album  ‘The Meaning of I’, which has been receiving phenomenal reviews worldwide.   In 2012, VOYAGER are set to launch themselves to even greater success and want you to be part of it!  VOYAGER needs YOU to star in their video for ‘Seize […]

“Everyone’s got that album that they like to put on before going out, I know I do, you know to get yourself ready before a big night, we wanted to create that album for everyone and I think we have.” When The Smoking Hearts release their rambunctious collection of rock n roll that make up their new album Victory!, indeed […]