UK’s MONUMENTS bring new life to the progressive metal scene. They push the envelope with complex instrumental metal grooves and are the fourth band to be announced on the Soundwave Festival 2015 line-up. Now with Chris Barretto (ex-Periphery, Ever Forthright) on vocals, they have forged their own path staying ahead of the pack with their mind-bendingly progressive tech-metal artisanship. From […]

Australian CANNIBAL CORPSE fans, we have massively exciting and exclusive news just for you. Become the very first fans in the world to own and listen to the brand new album, ‘A Skeletal Domain’ from the hugest death metal band to have pummelled this planet! With the album scheduled for release worldwide on September 16th, Australia distributors Rocket have managed […]

Melbourne’s Antiskeptic have announced a huge national tour to accompany the release of their third album Stare Down The Ocean. True to the form of hard-working, old-pro road dogs, these guys aren’t doing things in half measures. The tour takes on Sydney, Newcastle, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne and will see the four-piece stir up ALL of the feelings with their carefully crafted alt-rock […]

Hailing from the City Of Angels, BUTCHER BABIES offer redemption from the overplayed underground, exorcising internal demons with a visceral sound matched only in scope by their explosive stage show. BUTCHER BABIES are set to bring their high-energy live show to Australia as we welcome them as the third band added to the Soundwave Festival 2015 line-up. Frontwomen Heidi Shepherd […]

Pop-punk icons New Found Glory have announced their new album, Resurrection, which will be released on Friday 10 October in Australia and New Zealandvia Unified/Hopeless Records. In addition, fans can watch the music video for the first track, ‘Selfless’: http://youtu.be/akCQa-yKqxA. Australian Exclusive Resurrection Pre-order bundles, which include CD, vinyl, poster and t-shirts are all available for pre-order at the 24Hundred store. For more information, visitNewFoundGlory.com. New Found Glory walked into the studio to record Resurrection with […]

PATENT PENDING is an acrobatic gang of musical misfits from Long Island, New York. With a never-say-die attitude and enough live energy to power Times Square, we are proud to announce them as the second band to be added to the Soundwave Festival 2015 line-up. Growing in size from basements to amphitheaters, from VFW Halls to sell out headlining shows […]

Nagoya rockers COLDRAIN have already made their mark in becoming a household name in their home country Japan and after building their international footprint with their blistering live show, we are thrilled to announce COLDRAIN on the Soundwave Festival 2015 line-up ahead of their debut international album, The Revelation out August 8. After already conquering Japan, COLDRAIN have set their […]

Former My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way will release his debut solo album, entitled Hesitant Alien, on September 26th via Warner Bros. Records.  The first track from the new album – Action Cat has already been doing the rounds with another No Shows expected mid-August. Working with producer Doug McKean, Way knew immediately what he wanted Hesitant Alien to sound like. “I wanted to make the small things sound big,” he says. “My intention was to […]

DARKNESS BROUGHT ME HERE SINGLE & TOUR After dominating the stage of Soundwave Festival Dream On Dreamer (DOD) are pleased to announce a new single called ‘’Darkness Brought Me Here’’ and supporting tour dates. ‘’Darkness Brought Me Here’’ will be release digitally everywhere this Friday 8th August and is DOD’s first release since the arrival of the latest recruit, Chris Shaw (ex House Vs Hurricane). This track showcases the bands new found spark of […]

“For us, I guess the thing that’s crucial the most is melody. We tend to riff out and jam a lot and that’s great fun and serves as the balls of the track, but what brings the song from being a blueprint of a potential track to an actual “song” is the melody. Lyrics will then follow in-toe and we […]

Iconic Australian rockers Thirsty Merc mark a 10-year milestone since the release of their self-titled double platinum debut LP with the announcement of their Acoustic Anniversary Album. Dubbed AAA the album is a collection of acoustic interpretations of fan favourites including ‘20 Good Reasons’, ‘In The Summertime’, ‘Someday Someday’, and ‘Mousetrap Heart’. These new recordings showcase the band’s exemplary level of musicianship and hearing […]

COMEBACK KID are an undeniable staple of the hardcore community. It’s been 11 years since their debut album and with the release of their fifth record, Die Knowing, earlier in 2014, the Canadian quintet are gearing up to bring their new stuff back to Australia this October for their ever growing legion of fans. Taking influence from their contemporaries in […]

The Dead Daisies Face I Love EP cover The EP cover art was created via the bands own innovative Face I Love App, which had fans uploading images of “faces they love” to help complete a photo-mosaic portrait of the band’s daisy-skull logo. The Dead Daisies much-anticipated new EP, Face I Love, is out today across Australia, as the band gets ready to […]

Commemorating the 25-year anniversary since the recording of their first EP, Sweden’s extreme musical deviants MESHUGGAH have announced the artwork and the track listing to their upcoming live DVD / 2-CD release ‘The Ophidian Trek’, due out worldwide this fall and also available in Blu-ray. With visual footage shot in the U.S. & Europe during ‘’The Ophidian Trek’’ tour and festival footage from Wacken Open […]

Sydney Alternative Rockers The Dead Love have just released their debut album ‘Transitions’, and are kitting up to bring their outstanding live show to venues across Australia. After two years in the making, The Dead Love successfully released first single ‘This is a War’, which received airplay on Triple J’s ‘Home & Hosed’, followed by second single ‘The Desert Sun’, which gained airplay on Triple J Unearthed Radio. The […]

THE MADDEN BROTHERS have taken Australia by storm with their platinum certified smash single ‘We Are Done’, from their debut album Greetings From California to be released on September 12.  Joel and Benji Madden will bring the live experience of their album straight to Australian fans when The Madden Brothers tour nationally in Australia kicking off in Melbourne on October 31, 2014.Joel and […]

THE TEA PARTY – THE OCEAN AT THE END – AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TOUR OCTOBER 2014 Canadian purveyors of rock THE TEA PARTY will return to Australia for a National Tour this October.  The Ocean At The End Tour marks The Tea Party’s fourteenth Australian visit and coincides with the release of the beast, that is, The Ocean At The End – the trio’s first studio album in ten […]

“I just want to keep playing music and keep having a good vibe in the band and that we’re still in ten years from now or twenty years from now that we still love playing with each other and writing songs and there’s fire…” From Bio: It’s been a long, hard and winding road for mankind, but in December 2011 […]

Nagoya, Japan rock band coldrain, have announced their upcoming full-length album THE REVELATION, will be released on August 8 Sony Music Entertainment Australia/VAP. Australian fans will be treated to an exclusive 16 track Australian Deluxe Edition of the album. Produced by the award winning David Bendeth (Paramore, Bring Me The Horizon, A Day To Remember), THE REVELATION, is the band’s debut international album. “It’s hard to put in words […]

If there’s one band that unfortunately isn’t well known enough in Australia, it’s Theory of a Deadman, and what’s annoying is they should be all over the place. So it’s great to have their new album ‘Savages’ getting a run down here and fingers crossed that it leads to some airplay or god forbid a possible tour!! Opener ‘Drown’ is […]

Thanks to our very good friends at Universal Music Australia, we have FIVE CD copies of the awesome new John Mellencamp release to give away to five of our lucky readers. This is a live recording from July 31, 2003 and is a must for any fan of Mr Mellencamp. So if you want to win one of the five copies, […]

There’s just a vibe about this new Fozzy album, like that they feel they still have something to try and prove, and that may not be the case at all, as they’ve really come into their own over the last few years as they’ve made just kick ass rock and roll music, and this album is absolutely no exception to […]

This October, the career of rock icon OZZY OSBOURNE will be celebrated with the Epic Records/Legacy Recordings MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN collections released in Australia through Sony Music Entertainment. Due out October 10, MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN (CD) serves as a career spanning audio release, featuring 17 of OZZY’s greatest hit singles compiled in one place for the first time in his career and will be available in a single […]

Like, Metal Down Under. This book captures the past, present and future of the Australian metal scene and condenses it into 400 pages riveting, essential reading. The Encyclopedia of Australian Heavy Metal is an attempt to chronicle the history of heavy music in Australia. From the heady psychedelic early days of Buffalo and bruising boogie of AC/DC and Rose Tattoo […]

The Dead Daisies are flawless as they show North America that new classic rock is well and truly alive With rave reviews pouring in, The Dead Daisies are impressing even the staunchest of classic rock fans with their lives shows, as they wrap up their support tour with Bad Company & Lynyrd Skynyrd, before heading off to join the juggernaut summer tour that […]

GODSMACK to release their new album ‘1000hp’ via Spinefarm / Caroline Australia on Friday August 29th, 2014 Few bands have so consistently and successfully championed the cause of hard rock as Godsmack. Since the release of their self-titled debut (1998), the Boston quartet have notched up a remarkable set of facts ‘n’ stats in the US and beyond: these include 4 Grammy […]

Sony Music is proud to support ‘The Making Of Midnight Oil’ exhibition at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum. After a triumphant opening on Friday June 20th the gallery has gone on to welcome thousands of visitors from right across Australia and internationally, and has now announced the following special events: SPECIAL FILM SCREENING EVENT: THE MAKING OF 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Wednesday 6th August, 6:30PM […]

Nonpoint are set to release their eighth studio album, “The Return,” In Australia on September 29 via Metal Blade/Rocket. After 17 years in the game, the Florida quintet sustains the same energy that sparked its foundation back in 1997. The riffs crack with intensity, the bass and drums forge an unmatched groove, and the vocals rapidly recount stories of pain and […]

US metal favourites PRONG will tour Australia for the first time ever this coming November for Nightmare Music. Founded by singer/guitarist Tommy Victor in 1986, the band has never made it to Australian shores at any point in their 28-year career. But all that is about to change… Tommy Victor: “PRONG has never been to Australia. In all the years of it’s existence. I personally haven’t been […]

THEY’RE BACK! RUSSO & JAMIESON TEAM UP FOR CHRISTMAS SHOWS They joined forces earlier this year for two SOLD OUT shows in Sydney and Melbourne, and now the rest of Australia will get the chance to experience Phil Jamieson and Scott Russo’s live show. The two front men will be giving fans an early Christmas present as they hit the […]