Sydney originated 5 piece GANG OF YOUTHS have been creating a stir over the past few months with their formidable live performances, touring throughout LA, NYC and playing SXSW with a review from NME declaring, “The band from down under easily won the prize for the most raucous show of the day”. Having relocated to the U.S at the end of last year […]

At the Revolver Golden Gods Awards held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles,SLAYER surprised the capacity crowd with an unannounced performance, kicking off the show with a three-song set that included the global premiere of “Implode,” the band’s first new studio recording in five years. Recorded earlier this month at Henson Studios in Los Angeles and produced by Terry Date and co-produced by Greg Fidelman, “Implode” is now available as a […]

First Time Ever in Australia “German Heavy Metal Legends” (Metal Hammer) Classic heavy metal was shaped essentially by three highly influential bands: Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and ACCEPT. Two of these legendary acts have graced our shores several times but now finally Australia gets to witness the might of the “Teutonic Terror” themselves for the very first time as ACCEPT are set to arrive in November 2014. […]

SUICIDE SILENCE will release ‘You Can’t Stop Me’, their first album to feature new vocalist Eddie Hermida (ex-ALL SHALL PERISH) and their first since the tragic loss of singer Mitch Lucker, on July 11th via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. ‘You Can’t Stop Me’ was produced and mixed by Steve Evetts (SEPULTURA, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, WARBRINGER), who worked with the band not only on ‘The Black Crown’, but also on some instrumental demos just […]

What is punk? Goddamn that’s a question that causes some fights eh!? For some, its the clothes you wear. For others, the clothes you avoid wearing. Straight Edge, Hardcore, Crust, the dreaded Pop Punk – who gives a fuck! For me it was always and will always be about living life. Seeing your country and weird lands that abound overseas.  It […]

Custom-Made Touring and The Music are over the moon to announce THE live music odyssey of 2014: the triumphant return of the mighty, the fearless THE BRONX, all the way from Los Angeles, California. Brandishing their ability to kill it, to slay it, to turn it up like absolutely no other rock’n’roll band on the face of the planet is capable […]

Australia’s Rick Springfield, the Grammy award-winning musician, actor and New York Times best selling author is returning to rock Oz in October, with a national tour opening in Perth on 7 October. It has been a while since Australian audiences have seen Rick Springfield in concert with his own band, although he was the headliner for the Countdown Spectacular tour of 2007 and […]

Melbourne four-piece rockers, My Echo has announced a national tour to launch their upcoming release and follow-up Self-Titled EP, which will be out on Friday May 2, 2014 through Ten To Two Records. Exclusive physical pre-order packages including limited 7” double A-side vinyl, and iTunes pre-orders (with instant downloads of the first single ‘Black Water Blues’ and brand new single ‘Lonesome City’) will be available from Friday 18th April at MyEcho.TenTwoTwoRecords.com. All shows are 18+ […]

Roadrunner recording group The Amity Affliction has announced details of their eagerly awaited new album. Let The Ocean Take Me – the Australian metalcore masters’ fourth full-length release – arrives on Friday 6 June. Named by Alternative Press as one of 2014’s “Most Anticipated” albums, Let The Ocean Take Me features the powerful first single, Pittsburgh. The companion video has premiered exclusively at www.theamityaffliction.net and the band’s official YouTube […]

The Rolling Stones today confirmed the rescheduled dates and venues for the postponed Australian and New Zealand leg of their ’14 On Fire’ Tour. The rescheduling of the tour to October/November has also allowed for two additional concerts to be added to the tour – one at Perth Arena on Saturday 1 November 2014 and the other at Hope Estate […]

“We take the songs that we have played in the past that do really well, we usually put those in there and then we just take depending on what type of crowd we’re playing for, with more metal shows we try to get some of our most faster paced stuff in there and then if we’re playing more of a […]

WARNING: This redefines the term “Not Safe For Work” This could also be classed as “Not For The Easily Offended” / “Not For Early Mornings” / “Not Before You’ve Eaten” / “Not For Those With Weakened Gag Reflexes” / “Not Near Your Nan” The new video from Steel Panther is here friends, and it’s everything you feared it might be! This contains […]

“…we survived the first tier of it in our early twenties when we blew the fuck up around that world and that was a lot to survive and to negotiate from a lot of different angles, so now for me personally I know what to celebrate and I know what to let go of…” From tour release: UGLY KID JOE’s […]

Would you like to see Skid Row and Ugly Kid Joe at one of their shows in Australia? Well, thanks to our amazing friends at Riothouse PR we have a double passes (tickets to the show only) to give away for each of the below shows for their upcoming Australian tour.  So all you need to do is shoot us an […]

Taking Back Sunday are back with their newest album and I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while, as their self-titled album in 2011 was a monster, so will this be in the same category? Let’s see… as ‘Preface’ string us in to lead single ‘Flicker, Fade’ my answer is YES! If the rest of the album is […]

“…It even brings back the hunger days of when Pantera started for me, so that being said, it’s all about you’re only as good as your last gig and you’ve got to get out there and kick some fuckin’ ass man, that’s what I’m known for and I’m not going to fuckin’ let you down now… no way.” From Bio: […]

Melbourne based progressive rock outfit LeBelle have just released their brand new single ‘When You Wake Up’, and are gearing up to take their mesmerizing live show to venues across the East Coast. Since their humble beginnings, LeBelle have consistently developed their effortless, yet powerfully heartfelt sound that is expressed so gracefully in their latest offering. No strangers to relative success, LeBelle have watched their proverbial empire […]

Candlelight Records today confirms June 24th as the North American release date of IX, the new album from CORROSION OF CONFORMITY. Produced by the band and long-time comrade John Custer, the album and lead single “On Your Way” will be available for preorders via iTunes, Amazon, and other popular outlets beginning May 13th. Blabbermouth has been reporting on the recording […]

One of Australia’s most well respected and hardworking entities, British India are not unaccustomed to the draw of the darkness. Having toured relentlessly since inception in over ten years ago, the band have loaded in via the darkest alleyways of the country’s dingiest pubs. They’ve slaved through the night to produce some of the most well-recognised Aussie rock hooks of the past […]

It would appear that over 7 months after releasing their third studio album Hungry Ghost, the steam train that is Violent Soho is still not showing any signs of slowing down…in fact the engine is perhaps chugging at its highest rate to date. Last Friday Mansfield’s (4122 represent) favourite sons put tickets on sale for their biggest headline to date and while […]

20 years ago today, The Offspring released their breakout album Smash on Epitaph Records and made history. To celebrate the band will begin playing the album in its entirety on tour in Europe this May, June and early July before finishing with soon to be announced US Smash dates. . This August, Epitaph will also commemorate the anniversary with a […]

Carving out a name for themselves in Sydney’s beer-soaked, lipstick-smeared rock n’ roll scene are Bonney Read, a powerhouse (almost) all-girl quartet hailing from Sydney’s inner-west. Recently featured in the The Sydney Morning Herald around the discussions on saving Sydney’s live music scene, and fresh-off exceeding their target in their recent Pozible campaign, Bonney Read have released their latest single “Runaway” (available for free download HERE), taken from their […]

New Jersey thrash metal veterans OVERKILL will release their new album, ‘White Devil Armory’, on July 18, 2014 via Nuclear Blast. The effort was tracked at Gear Recording and will be mixed by Greg Reely, who also worked on 2012’s ‘The Electric Age’. The track listing of ‘White Devil Armory’ will be as follows: 01. Freedom Rings 02. Where There’s Smoke… 03. Pig 04. Amorist 05. Down […]

Hardly any other band has influenced the Heavy Metal genre as much as German legends ACCEPT! Classics albums such as ‘Restless And Wild’ (1982), ‘Balls To The Wall’ (1983) and ‘Metal Heart’ (1985), have inspired generations of new bands, and this has continued since their reunion in 2009. Both ‘Blood Of The Nations’ (2010) and ‘Stalingrad’ (2012) entered the charts globally ( #6 in Germany, #81 in the USA) and underline […]

Germany’s HELLOWEEN have been one of the most influential and internationally most successful acts of the global Heavy Metal scene and this year the Hamburg-based quintet, founded in 1984, celebrates their 30th anniversary. Their latest studio album ‘Straight Out Of Hell’, charted at a sensational #4, their highest German chart entry to date, holding this position for five long weeks. Additionally they made another […]

Grammy winning Minnesotan singer-songwriter DAN WILSON releases his brand new solo album ‘LOVE WITHOUT FEAR’ via Kobalt Music on April 11th 2014. Recorded in Minneapolis and Los Angeles over the past 3 years, the album was produced by Wilson and includes guest vocalists Missy Higgins, Sara Bareilles, Natalie Maines (Dixie Chicks),  Lissie and Sara Watkins.  You can listen to the track featuring Missy Higgins, `Even The Stars Are Sleeping`, here. A man […]

“It’ll be a rocker. It’ll be a mover. It’ll have people playing instruments. It will have lots of beautiful singing. It will sound great. It’ll make you look better and feel smarter.” From Bio: 2014 signals the birth of Melbourne’s newest band, THE SPIRIT. A four piece with an addiction to classic sounds and the human elements of hand crafted music. […]

ROCK LEGEND ACE FREHLEY SIGNS WORLDWIDE MULTI ALBUM DEAL WITH ENTERTAINMENT ONE MUSIC “SPACE INVADER,” FIRST NEW ALBUM IN FIVE YEARS, AVAILABLE ON 24/06/14 FREHLEY TO BE INDUCTED INTO ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND TO APPEAR AT THE REVOLVER GOLDEN GODS AWARDS IN APRIL (New York, NY) – 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee  ACE FREHLEY […]

Within a proverbial blink of an eye, the legendary punk / pop / metal / psych hybrid Sydney band the Hard-ons turns 30 in 2014. To be precise, on the 21st of July 2014 the middle-aged yet brilliant trio will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their inaugural public appearance. In 1984, on that day, the multiracial band of bare-chested teenage misfits climbed onto a […]

Instantly rockin’ and instantly sleazy, ‘Going To Hell’ opens with the ballsy rocker ‘Follow Me Down’ and to open the bands second album with anything less than this would’ve been a disaster, but if you need to set the scene for an album, consider it set. Its bluesy parts and soulful breakdown show a side to the band that is […]