The Amity Affliction have continued to chalk up impressive, history making milestones as they claim their third consecutive #1 ARIA chart debut this week with their new album This Could Be Heartbreak (out on Roadrunner Records)! They are the first local heavy band to ever achieve so many #1 debuts and join a very short list of Australian artists to accomplish the distinguished feat, among them Silverchair, John Farnham, Hilltop Hoods […]

LEAD SINGLE I AIN’T GOIN BACK AGAIN STREAMING NOW WITH OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO KING 810 have announced details of their new album, La Petite Mort Or A Conversation With God.  The Flint, Michigan based band’s follow up to their provocative and acclaimed debut LP Memoirs Of A Murderer will arrive on September 16th and is available to pre-order now. All digital […]

ALBUM IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER TODAY Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and Grammy Award-winning rock band Green Day will release their 12th studio album, entitled Revolution Radio, on October 7th via Reprise Records. The album is available for pre-order now. Those who pre-order will receive an instant download of the first single Bang Bang, which is now available. […]

“…a lot of bands with that amount of time keep making the same record over and over and over, but we don’t, we want people to think, we want people to move forward with us, and we definitely want to evolve because that’s what art is all about. You don’t paint the same picture twice. Ever.” From release: Dark clouds […]

Grammy® Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Red Hot Chili Peppers return with new single Dark Necessities, which was released around the world today via all digital retailers. The track is the first song to be released from the Los Angeles-based band’s upcoming 11th studio album, The Getaway, due from Warner Bros. Records on June 17th. Fans who […]

Periphery, the D.C.-based prog innovators, will return with their new album Periphery III: Select Difficulty on July 22nd. Periphery’s most recent releases, the Juggernaut albums (Alpha and Omega), debuted at #15 and #16 on Billboard’s Top Album chart and #22 and #25 on the ARIA chart.  The conceptual releases were hailed by outlets for their modern take on prog; Rolling […]

“…there’s no formula, so what works for us is just putting us together in a room and just building a bunch of songs which kind of just come from where we are at the moment, at the time and this record is no different.” From release: Since Deftones’ inception, the multiplatinum, Grammy-Winning alternative rock band from Sacramento, CA have quietly […]

DVD/CD/Vinyl UDR/Motörhead Music & Warner Music Australia Released: May 27  2016 They were the Kings of the Road. They lived on it. They loved it and the fans loved them! Never was the spirit of Motörhead more alive than when they were on tour, shake, rattle and rolling audiences to within an inch of their lives thanks to that indomitable cocktail […]

Biffy Clyro follow 2013’s critically acclaimed #1 UK double-album Opposites with their seventh studio album Ellipsis which will be released on July 8th on Warner Bros. Records / 14th Floor Recordings. Pre-orders for the album are available now with the first single Wolves of Winter now streaming and available as an instant grat track. As is tradition, writing sessions for […]

Kvelertak have announced details of their new LP Nattesferd out on Roadrunner May 13. The follow up album to 2013’s widely acclaimed Meir, Nattesferd is heralded by the new single 1985 which is out now.  Pre-orders will be available April 8th. Frontman Erlend Hjelvik commented, “We are finally getting ready to release our third album Nattesferd on the world and […]

“I guess we just know each other’s strengths and weaknesses, we’re one of those bands that hasn’t gone through too many member changes and the guys that we’ve got are really trustworthy and we know our parts in the band and we rely on each other a lot, which is great that you have that sort of backup and support […]

“Really we just play a rock and roll show, there’s no tracks or trickery, we don’t even use a click track, we just kind of plug in play and what you see is what you get. We like it, we get to ride the wave of the audience…” From Release: Pennsylvania-natives Halestorm have left an indelible impression on the hard […]

“…we pretty much just went in and we never deviated from it we never thought we had to appease someone that might like screaming, someone that might like singing, we just purely stayed true to what we wanted to do and very, very excited for people to hear it, so there’s a lot of cool stuff on the record.” From […]

“…all we know is we’re only going to return when we’re all ready to commit for the long haul, when we’re ready to give it back to the fans the way they deserve it and we’re not gonna half ass it, we’re gonna come back stronger than ever and we have to make a statement and we have to make […]

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 […]

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, […]

The Devil Wears Prada’s first official release since 2013, the conceptual Space EP, will be in-stores on August 21 (Rise Records), and is available to pre-order now. The Space EP is comprised of six songs and is a wholly-collaborative effort, with all band members – Mike Hranica (vocals), Jeremy DePoyster (rhythm guitar, clean vocals), Andy Trick (bass), Daniel Williams (drums), and touring musicians Jonathan Gering (keyboards), and Kyle Sipress (lead guitar) – […]

“…the album really tells our story from breaking up to getting back together and beyond, and I look at each song like  a page ripped out of an old notebook, we’ve really looked at our past and studied it, and tried to get to the essence of what broke us up and why we couldn’t stay together as a band…” […]

After a four year hiatus, Grammy Award-nominated, multiplatinum hard rock titans Disturbed have announced their return with their sixth studio album, entitled Immortalized, to be released August 21 through Reprise Records and is available for pre-order everywhere today . Lead single The Vengeful One is out now, along with the accompanying animated video from award-winning filmmaker Phil Mucci. The upcoming […]

Iron Maiden’s eagerly awaited new studio album The Book Of Souls will be released globally on September 4 through Parlophone Records. It was recorded in Paris with their longstanding producer Kevin “Caveman” Shirley in late 2014, with the finishing touches added earlier this year.  However, the band decided to delay its release so that vocalist Bruce Dickinson, who was recently given the all-clear from a […]

For anyone who proudly head banged through Seether, who pogoed along to Volcano Girls, who picked up a Les Paul guitar after seeing the band’s epically fierce live show – this one’s for you.  #thebitchisback Veruca Salt – original members Nina Gordon (guitar/vocals), Louise Post (guitar/vocals), Steve Lack (bass), Jim Shapiro (drums) – will release their first full-length album of new material written and recorded together since 1996.  The album, entitled Ghost […]

The Amity Affliction has announced they will release their first documentary DVD Seems Like Forever on July 10, 2015.  A film spanning their extraordinary story thus far Seems Like Forever will be available to pre-order via 24hundred.net on Thursday 14 May. An access all areas look at the band’s history, including footage from their early days through to last year’s epic Let The Ocean Take MeWorld Tour.  Seems Like Forever not only […]

Acclaimed rockers Stone Sour have released Meanwhile In Burbank… EP digitally. The release was previously as a Record Store Day exclusive and features five covers of legendary artists including Black Sabbath, Metallica, KISS, Judas Priest and Alice In Chains, and was recorded live at Room 237 in Burbank, CA. Stone Sour guitarist Josh Rand commented on the EP, “Back in […]

Refused are fucking alive. There’s no escape. The Iconic Swedish hardcore band is releasing Freedom, their first new album in 17 years on June 26 via Epitaph.  Listen to the first new song Elektra at Pitchfork now. In 1998 Refused released their iconic album The Shape of Punk to Come. It was also the year that the band broke up and declared “Refused Are Fucking Dead“. Fourteen years later, the […]

Thanks to our very good friends at Warner Music Australia, we have FIVE copies of the new Halestorm album ‘Into The Wild Life’ to give away to five of our lucky readers. It’s an absolute rocker, we loved it and you can read what we thought about it HERE – So if you want win one of the five copies, simply send […]

“Instead of thinking about that we just went in and had a great time *laughs* and made some music that got us excited and put it together, so it was a different mindset, again I think that the only rules in place were we’re not going to record the record in the same way that we did the last two, […]

OK, so I fell in love with Halestorm (and Lzzy Hale mind you) within seconds of hearing the cowbell intro to ‘It’s Not You’ back in 2009, since then I have spread the word, shared the love about this killer band and watched them make a name for themselves out there in this big world. I wasn’t sure how it […]

Van Halen’s First Six Albums to be Remastered Directly from the ANALOGUE Master Recordings WITH VAN HALEN AND 1984 – SET FOR APRIL 3 RELEASE Van Halen will release its first-ever live albumto feature original singer David Lee Roth. Recorded on June 21, 2013 at the famed Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo Dome Live In Concert includes 23 songs, […]

Kid Rock has come a long way from his days of a flat topped rapper and thank god for that… his last few albums to me have been perfect, so when we get a chance to check out ‘First Kiss’ before anyone else, there is a little bit of excitement. I’m also going to review this on first listen too, […]

Symphonic metallers Nightwish will release their new album, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, on March 27 via Roadrunner Records. Endless Forms Most Beautiful is the first Nightwish studio album to feature Dutch singer Floor Jansen (Revamp, ex-After Forever) – the splendid chanteuse has been a full-time member since Oct 2012. On drums there is also a new face: On account of […]