“…we remember that we’re doing it for ourselves and not to put money in other people’s pockets or to please other people. If they were paying us a lot better we might do it for the machine, but at our level it’s strictly for the love of music.” From release: The Sword’s impact continues to expand. 2012’s Apocryphon debuted at […]

“…I’m enjoying this, I enjoy working with Adam, I’m very proud of the record we made and I think it’s only the beginning of what we’ll be able to do. There was two very hard decisions that we’ve had to make as a band, one was deciding on the name and figuring out what that was going to be, and […]

“I met a bunch of people along the way that really excited me and inspired me in a new way towards creating and I think about after a year or so of kind of time away from making music for myself, I jumped in and started writing songs and gearing up to start the Wilderness project.” ANDREW MCMAHON needs no introduction […]

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, FIRST ACT CONFIRMED TO APPEAR AT SOUNDWAVE 2016 & RELEASES NEW ALBUM VENOM OUT TODAY, AUGUST 14TH VIA SONY MUSIC AUSTRALIA/RCA RECORDS Welsh metal titans Bullet For My Valentine today release their brand new album VENOM, available in stores everywhere via Sony Music Australia/RCA. The band released this week a live performance video for the track, […]

Australian rock band Hands Like Houses are proud to announce a worldwide headline tour in support of their upcoming and third studio album, Dissonants, which will be released this spring through Rise Records. The tour will kick off in Australia on Oct 9th, followed by a U.S. run Oct 23rd-Nov 27, and UK dates Nov 30th-Dec 11th. “We are unbelievably excited to announce our […]

Silversun Pickups will herald their much-anticipated fourth studio album with an array of high profile activity. Better Nature will be released September 25 via the band’s own New Machine Recordings. Better Nature is preceded by the incandescent new single, Nightlight, accompanied by a hallucinatory music film, written and directed by legendary filmmaker Mark Pellington (Foo Fighters, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam). The extended video – produced by Braxton Pope […]

With a career spanning over 35 years it’s hard to believe that there are any “firsts” left to achieve for one of the country’s most loved and highly accomplished bands, but with the announcement today that icons of the Australian Music Industry, ICEHOUSE, will be releasing their very first Live album, ICEHOUSE: In Concert the band has proven once again that their reputation […]

ARIA award winning and rock resurrect, THE SUPERJESUS, are hitting the road again this November as they embark on The Setting Sun tour, unleashing their super strength rock show on Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Adelaide.Topping off 2015 with a tour in support of their latest single, The Setting Sun, THE SUPERJESUS have had a memorable year including co-headlining with Baby Animals for the inaugural She Who […]

Having just completed a massive sold out tour of the USA, REEL BIG FISH and LESS THAN JAKE will be bringing their kickass co-headline tour to Australia this October! Their shows in cities across the US rapidly sold out and now it’s Australia’s turn to see REEL BIG FISH and LESS THAN JAKE performing full headline sets encompassing their entire […]

“Whereas now we just do what we do, we haven’t really changed our formula, we haven’t done anything too extremely different, we are who we are and that’s really all I can say about that *laughs*, obviously as technology evolves it helps us create records a little more easier and faster.” From release: With Genexus, FEAR FACTORY forges a new hyper-alloy of sound, […]

The Dead Daisies are proud to announce the Australian release of their new album, Revolución on September 18, 2015. The Daisies will head out on tour in October to promote their brand new album, when they join rock legends and ARIA Hall of Famers, KISS on ther 40th Anniversary tour. A full list of tour dates can be found below. The Daisies are currently touring […]

Pulled Apart By Horses announce their return to Australia in October with East Coast shows in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne Well known as a tight-knit rock band who make music that thrills and menaces. They formed in 2008 out of the ashes of various bands in Leeds. Since then they have existed in their own chaotic ecosystem, embarking on relentless tours […]

Straight off the bat I have to say how much I dig Frank Turner, there’s just something about his music, his attitude and his all-round being that makes him what he is, that being an artist you should all listen to if you have no idea who he is, plus with my musical hero Butch Walker at the producer helm and […]

THE DARKNESS, multi award winning, multi-million selling megaband formed in 2000 by The Brothers Hawkins, Frankie Poullain and (now departed) Ed Graham have had good years and bad. And some years where they didn’t actually do anything. This year is a good’un, because THE DARKNESS are back with their brand new fourth album Last of Our Kind, released in June […]

BURNING BRIDGES PRE-ORDER IS LIVE NOW WITH FIRST TWO INSTANT GRAT TRACKS: “WE DON’T RUN” AND “SATURDAY NIGHT GAVE ME SUNDAY MORNING” New Jersey rock icons and Grammy award winning band Bon Jovi will release a special album for their fans, BurningBridges, August 21st via Mercury Records, in conjunction with the band’s international tour kicking off in September.  Pre-orders for the release launched HERE  with two instant […]

Since their late 90’s inception, Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society, formed by guitar legend Zakk Wylde, have been at the forefront of their genre. Their taste for hard riffs and blazing solos has resulted in a slew of hugely successful albums and a reputation as one of the most powerful live bands of their generation. Fuelled by fiercely loyal fans and signature […]

BLIND MELON – THEIR FIRST AUSTRALIAN TOUR – OCTOBER 2015 In recent years, the tale of Blind Melon has taken a dramatic turn from an abrupt and tragic end, to a rebirth and reconnection with their legions of dedicated fans. No matter how you slice it, the group was responsible for some of the most memorable and pure sounding rock […]

“…it’s hard to keep the ship floating in the right direction when you’ve got some people that are trying to lean it off to the side. So once we were able to get rid of the people that were the problem, everything really fell in line with myself, Tom and Chad, we’ve always been on the same page and we […]

Keith Richards will release his eagerly anticipated CROSSEYED HEART, his third solo album and his first in over 20 years out September 18th on Virgin EMI. CROSSEYED HEART, a fifteen track masterclass encompassing everything that makes Keith Richards one of the 20th century’s most celebrated talents, is a 5* musical journey that takes in reggae, rock, country and the blues. The first taste of […]

After a massive Halloween show last year paying homage to the Bat Out OfHell album, iconic Aussie band Chocolate Starfish are hitting the road with the same show for a special run of tour dates. The enigmatic rockers were inundated by requests for a repeat performance of their Meat Loaf inspired show so added a small run of four dates throughout […]

All girl indie punk rockers and one of our ‘Best Things You’ve Never Heard’ BANDINTEXAS (Aka The Texans) are hitting the road to celebrate the release of their first single for 2015 “The Scientist”. Still coming down from the high of supporting Aussie icons BABY ANIMALS & The Superjesus at a sold out Sydney Metro as part of the She Who […]

To celebrate the release of HIGH TENSION’S ripper 2nd album Bully out this Friday, they’ve decided to share their powerful tough as nails video called Bully. The video features a female fight club with powerful, emotionally charged women. Check out the video for Bully HERE. Karina Utomo, the front woman of High Tension, says this about the video: ?“T?he underlying […]

SYDNEY ROCKERS EMBARK ON FIRST NATIONAL TOUR IN 18 MONTHS! ‘LOVE LETTERS’ – Single + Video Out Now ‘BUSINESS’ – Album Released 4 September  Sydney blues-rockers The Snowdroppers today announce a huge national headline tour, which will kick off in Canberra on 4 September and continue through October and into November. The band’s forthcoming album ‘BUSINESS’ will be released on the same day through FOUR | FOUR. The […]

UNFD are extremely proud to announce their newest signing to the label, Japan’s Crossfaith for Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the United Kingdom. The band will release their UNFD debutXeno on September 18. Pre-orders are available now at 24Hundred. Crossfaith are no strangers to Australian shores, having played Soundwave Festival in 2013 and 2015, as well as a massive tour with Bring Me The Horizon and Of Mice […]

When it comes to faultless reputations, the band everyone thinks of is The Dillinger Escape Plan. With a slew of brilliant albums behind them, the titans of envelope-pushing, ground-breaking heavy music have become one of the most formidable acts on the planet. Their newest album, ‘One of Us is the Killer’, is the band’s defining work with critics salivating and […]

At long last, Grammy Award-winning American hard rock band HALESTORM have confirmed their debut visit to Australian shores. In celebration of their third studio album, Into The Wild Life, Halestorm will take their electrifying live show on an extensive summer tour this December including Newcastle and Canberra shows. Tickets for all shows go on sale at midday this Thursday, July […]

The mid 90’s were the zenith of the US led punk rock explosion. Pennywise were at the forefront of the charge and in 1995 released About Time an album that refined and defined the So-Cal melodic hardcore sound that spawned a movement and a thousand copy cats. About Time had the double touch of world renowned producer, Jerry Finn (Rancid, Green Day, Blink 182) and Epitaph/Bad […]

Jim Adkins, lead-singer of multi-platinum rock band Jimmy Eat World, is excited to announce a series solo tour dates in Europe and a string of digital singles to be released this summer, beginning with ‘I Will Go’this Friday, July 10. Every Friday between now and August 14, Adkins will release a new digital single, with all of the singles being released as a set […]

“Our interpretation of that was obviously the opposite, putting the hammer in the witches hands so they have the power, it’s about retribution, revolution, revenge I guess… because we’re not particularly a Christian band so we can entertain that notion.” From Release: Unquestionably one of the greatest and most influential British metal bands of all time, CRADLE OF FILTH have cast a […]

Rising metal giants Miss May I have debuted their first new single, I.H.E., from their upcoming, fifth studio album, Deathless, which will be released on August 7th via Rise Records. Fans can now pre-order Deathless will receive an instant download of I.H.E.  Fans can get their first taste of I.H.E. by clicking here! Produced by Joey Sturgis (Of Mice & Men) and Nick Sampson (Asking Alexandria), Deathless is a return to the heavy, […]