“There’s a lot of shitty music out there and “New Southern” has a lot of work behind it. We have spent our whole career up until this point writing it and getting it captured on CD. If you’re a fan of blues/rock/metal you should check us out because it’s a perfect blend. “ From Bio: What the American hard rock and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“We’re all really excited to play these new songs for the first time as Australia is actually the first stop on our tour, so we cannot wait to stop and see how this album will reflect live and I know we’ve already been practising and it sounds awesome, and I cannot wait to come to Australia and kick your ass […]

“… it was time to capture that and just showing where Testament is today in our career. I see a new fan base of new metal heads out there and I thought it would be more appropriate to where we are today, more of the style we’re writing today. So it just made sense that it was time to do […]

“In coming together it will always sound like Soilwork, but there’s always something, so for that it’s really exciting for me. So I’m grateful that I’m still excited about creating music and having to make that same damn album over again to be able to stay above the surface.” From Tour Release: Sweden’s SOILWORK have long been regarded by many […]

“I noticed that I couldn’t write just one lyric about the subject which is my burn-out. And so I wrote three lyrics that look at it from different angles. I connected them by the title even though musically they’re not connected.” Floor Jansen’s voice is already known for its wide range and variety, you may know her from After Forever, […]

From Bio: Ashes of Ares is a band which represents the culmination of experiences, trials and tribulations of founding members Matt Barlow, Van Williams and Freddie Vidales. Within months of their departures from the iconic metal bands ICED EARTH and NEVERMORE, the trio came together with a renewed drive to create a sound which is a true collaboration of their […]

Legendary Brazilian thrashers SEPULTURA have announced the title of the band’s forthcoming album: ‘The mediator between the head and hands must be the heart’ Although being inspired by Fritz Lang‘s classic 1927 movie “Metropolis”, the album is not set out to be a concept album or a soundtrack like it’s predecessors ‘Dante XXI’ (“The Divine Comedy”) and ‘A-Lex’ (“A Clockwork Orange”). ‘The mediator […]

Legendary Brazilian extreme metallers SOULFLY have announced the title of the band’s forthcoming studio effort. The 9th SOULFLY album will be entitled »Savages« and is set for release on October 4, 2013 via Nuclear Blast / Universal Music Australia. Produced, engineered and mixed by renowned sound guru Terry Date (PANTERA, DEFTONES, WHITE ZOMBIE), »Savages« will be released as a limited edition digpack CD, 2LP vinyl and digital download. Guest vocal […]

Dutch metallers REVAMP featuring FLOOR JANSEN (After Forever, Nightwish etc.) will release their second album »Wild Card« on August 23 via Nuclear Blast. The opening track `The Anatomy Of A Nervous Breakdown: On The Sideline´ has been released as a digital single. Get it on iTunes here: The tracklist of »Wild Card« reads as follows: 01. ‘The Anatomy Of A […]

Today, ASHES OF ARES are happy to reveal details on their upcoming debut album. The self-titled record »Ashes Of Ares« will be released via Nuclear Blast Records on September 6 as a limited CD in Digipak incl. a bonus track as well as in two different 2LP versions. The tracklist reads as follows: 01. The Messenger 02. Move the Chains […]

German thrash titans KREATOR will play a this years Roskilde Festival in Denmark on Friday, July 5 at 11.00pm CET. The entire show will be available as live stream at www.roskilde-festival.dk – check it out! KREATOR recently announced to release a brand new live DVD called »Dying Alive« on August 30, 2013. A first video trailer can be viewed below: The DVD/Blu Ray features the band’s sold out homecoming show […]

“I’ve heard some things about the crowds, for example Floor Jansen from Nightwish said on their recent tour that the crowds were really wild, crazy and amazing and that we will have a great time over there. So that definitely raised my expectations, so I really look forward to the shows.” The last 12 months or so, sure have seen […]

2013-03-20 01:00 – BLACK STAR RIDERS, the new band featuring THIN LIZZY members Ricky Warwick, Damon Johnson, Scott Gorham and Marco Mendoza together with drummer Jimmy DeGrasso (Alice Cooper, Megadeth), have announced All Hell Breaks Loose as the title of their debut album on Nuclear Blast Entertainment, which will be released in Europe on the 24th May 2013. You can […]

2013-03-18 22:00 – Finnish metal superstars CHILDREN OF BODOM have named their 8th studio album “Halo Of Blood” and have unveiled the album artwork.  Coverart was created this time by Sami Saramäki (Follow The Reaper, Are You Dead Yet?, Hate Crew Deathroll). Mastermind Alexi Laiho commented: “Halo Of Blood is the 8th studio album from Children Of Bodom and believe it […]

BLACK STAR RIDERS, the new band featuring THIN LIZZY members Ricky Warwick, Damon Johnson, Scott Gorham and Marco Mendoza together with drummer Jimmy DeGrasso (Alice Cooper, Megadeth), have announced All Hell Breaks Loose as the title of their debut album on Nuclear Blast Entertainment, which will be released worldwide on the following dates: May 21st – Japan May 22nd – […]

“I really think this is probably one of the best albums I’ve ever been on… I went there OK? *laughs* It’s just the way we wrote the songs, the arrangements, Ricky’s phrasing, his lyrics, Damon’s playing some kick ass guitar in there, Jimmy DeGrasso is like a fresh face in there, the whole deal. Lighting a fire is kind of […]

Thrash metal legends ANTHRAX have posted a viral video for their version of THIN LIZZY’s, ‘Jailbreak“ online, which you can check out below… Surf to http://youtu.be/lu3wHBW0GdI and feel free to like, share, embed the video!   ‘Jailbreak’ is taken from the upcoming special edition of the band’s successful last album, Worship Music. The special edition will contain both the regular album as […]

From www.nuclearblast.de 2013-01-24  – Finnish metal superstars CHILDREN OF BODOM, who are currently busy in their own studio in Helsinki, recording ten new tracks for the upcoming 8th album release, now report from the recording desk to give an update on the sessions. Bassist Henkka Seppälä comments: “Last night I finished my parts in making the record. We listened to […]

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 […]

In March the new Avantasia album “The Mystery Of Time” will be released.  The list of featured artists who have been confirmed for the album reads like a who-is-who in Rock and Metal: Biff Byford (Saxon), Ronnie Atkins (Pretty Maids), Michael Kiske (Unisonic, ex-Helloween), Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon, ex-Vengeance), Bruce Kulick (GFR, ex-Meat Loaf, ex-Kiss) have been confirmed so far, others […]

Swedish street metallers HARDCORE SUPERSTAR are happy to present the album cover of their recently announced new studio album “C’mon Take On Me” that will be released as a CD in slipcase, digital download, black vinyl and strictly limited pink vinyl (only available at the Nuclear Blast mail order) via Nuclear Blast on the 1st of March 2013! With a […]

“We mix all the influences like AC/DC and Rose Tattoo and Judas Priest and Saxon and we make the music we like and all the influences should be in there.  It’s not that difficult, we never talked about how we should sound like, it’s just obvious.  It has to be that kind of style.” Doing the rounds of the Swedish […]

2012-11-30 02:00 – HARDCORE SUPERSTAR – Swedish inventors of what is known and loved today as “Street Metal” – are happy to announce the release of a new album via Nuclear Blast in early 2013! The record is entitled “C’mon Take On Me”, was produced by the band, mixed by no less a figure than Randy Staub (METALLICA, MÖTLEY CRÜE, […]

The undisputed queen of metal, Doro, marks her arrival on new record label Nuclear Blast with the release of new album, Raise Your Fist, which sees her close in on nearly 20 album releases in around 30 years, whether that be as Warlock or Doro. Title track Raise Your Fist can be best described as a fist-pumping anthem, basically, I […]

News via www.nuclearblast.de  – Tobias is currently in the studio working with a legion of guest instrumentalists and vocalists on a new AVANTASIA album to be released in spring 2013. The album will once again be a Rock Opera based on a conceptual story very similar to the early AVANTASIA albums. Nevertheless, Tobias explains that the album is not a […]