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 […]

“So as a whole it’s something that we can all listen to and enjoy each other’s musical contributions to the album which is something that only seems to have added colour and variety and richness to the sound in my opinion anyway, so it’s something we’re all very proud of…” We at MTRBWY have had the chance to speak to […]

Halestorm has announced details of their massively anticipated new album. Into The Wild Life will be released on April 3, 2015. Into The Wild Life marks the GRAMMY® Award-winning hard rock band’s long awaited third studio album and follow-up to 2012’s The Strange Case Of… Recorded last year in Nashville with GRAMMY®-nominated producer Jay Joyce (Cage The Elephant, Eric Church) […]

Listen now at www.fallinginreverse.com Band To Tour Australia For The First Time, Appearing On Soundwave 2015 Falling In Reverse has released a new song God If You Are Above available for streaming at www.fallinginreverse.com. God If You Are Above is the first new song from the band since their 2013 release Fashionably Late. Australia, be prepared! Ronnie Radke and co. […]

AFI lead vocalist Davey Havok and guitarist Jade Puget have announced November 21 as the release date for XTRMST,the self-titled debut album from the duo’s new straight-edge hardcore band. The first single from the album,Conformist is out now and you can listen to 4 other tracks via the band’s Soundcloud. “Jade and I have been talking about starting a straight edge […]

LA based hard rockers In This Moment have announced that their eagerly awaited new album Black Widow will arrive in Australia on November 14 via Atlantic Records. Produced by longtime collaborator – and multiple GRAMMY® Award nominee – Kevin Churko (Five Finger Death Punch, Ozzy Osbourne), Black Widow will be available for pre-order on October 7th. The first single, Sick Like Me is available now. “Black Widow is definitely […]

After their amazing run in February for Soundwave, Biffy Clyro have returned to our shores twice in one year to give those that may have missed them then the chance to marvel at one of the most amazing live bands I’ve ever witnessed. Calling All Cars get the job of warming up the crowd tonight and doing their best to […]

Venue: The Enmore Theatre, Sydney Presented By: XIII Touring Support: Calling All Cars Photos by: Annette Geneva Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY Check out our review of the show HERE          

Hot on the heels of their inclusion as a headliner on the 2015 Soundwave line-up, Slipknot has announced the next phase of their uncompromising history – the release of .5: The Gray Chapter. Their fifth studio album, .5: The Gray Chapter will be released in Australia on October 17th. Slipknot unleashed The Negative One earlier this month, marking the ground-breaking band’s first new music in more than six years. The song immediately […]

“…it’s funny having a guy like Brian in the band and a lyricist like that, I’m just like anybody that listens to Gaslight at home when I hear these lyrics you know? So I rarely even ever ask Brian where it’s coming from because I start to think about where I think it’s coming from and the way that the […]

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 […]

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 […]

Shihad have announced the release of their brand new album, FVEY (pronounced, Five Eyes), on Friday, August 15. Recorded in December last year at Auckland’s legendary York Street Studio with Killing Joke frontman, Jaz Coleman at the production helm, FVEY sounds unlike anything Shihad have done before. When frontman Jon Toogood, drummer Tom Larkin, bass payer Karl Kippenberger and guitarist Phil Knight reconvened in Melbourne during the winter of 2013 for a lock down writing session it was a natural move to conjure […]

triple j’s Short.Fast.Loud, Blunt Mag, Monster Energy & Impericon present THE RISE OF BROTALITY TOUR- I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN + THE GHOST INSIDE (US) with In Hearts Wake, Bury Tomorrow (UK) + Hellions Synonymous with the forefront of punk rock for decades, Epitaph records is now home to the heavyweights of hardcore and this September they’re deploying two of […]

“Well, it’s like a metaphor but it’s also very straight forward as well. I live near the ocean and it’s a very calming place for me and a place where I find great escape from any sort of problems in my life…” From Press Release: Urgent, aggressive, and remarkably cathartic, Let The Ocean Take Me is The Amity Affliction at their most […]

Opeth has announced the release of their hugely anticipated eleventh studio album, Pale Communion which has been re-slated on August 22nd . “Many of you have heard the rumours already and we can now confirm that the album release has indeed been pushed back to late August,” commented Opeth frontman, Mikael Åkerfeldt. “Several circumstances prevented the band from delivering essential basic tools to Roadrunner in time which are needed […]

ONCE MORE ‘ROUND THE SUN OUT FRIDAY 20 JUNE Heavy rock icons Mastodon, has announced details about their upcoming new album, their first since 2011’s The Hunter. The band’s sixth album will be called Once More ‘Round The Sun and will bereleased on June 20th. It was recorded in Nashville with Grammy Award-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz, who is known for his work with Rush, Deftones, Foo Fighters, and Alice In […]

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 […]

Metal legends Down will release their new EP Down IV – Part Two on May 9, 2014 via Down Records/Roadrunner Records. Tracked at Nodferatu’s Lair – iconic vocalist Philip H. Anselmo‘s home studio – and produced by Michael Thompson, Anselmo and Down, the new EP is the eagerly anticipated sequel to Down IV – Part One. The new offering from Down is packed with the quintet’s signature gargantuan riffs, swamp blues leads, crashing […]

Black Stone Cherry has announced the release of their eagerly awaited new album, Magic Mountain which will be released in Australia on Friday 9 May. Produced by Joe Barresi (Queens of the Stone Age, Soundgarden), Magic Mountain will be heralded by the first single, Me and Mary Jane. Black Stone Cherry commented on the making of Magic Mountain stating, “Not […]

“It’s a monster in the way that you have to face your own being and face your own fears and a lot of songs are about go for your dreams, don’t be afraid because life is too short but in getting there you can face your fears and go ahead and go for it. So that’s what also lies behind […]

REPRISE RECORDS TO RELEASE GREATEST HITS ALBUM FROM MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE MAY DEATH NEVER STOP YOU DUE MARCH 21, 2014, ONE YEAR SINCE PLATINUM-SELLING BAND SPLIT COLLECTION INCLUDES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SONG, FAKE YOUR DEATH, THREE DEMOS, AND DVD FEATURING OUTTAKES FROM BAND’S OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEOS Reprise Records will release a greatest hits album from platinum-selling modern rock band My Chemical […]

“With this album we really wanted to take the time, we took almost nine months of the year out from touring to really put emphasis on this record, and this was the first time that we’d had this amount of time, so getting all our ideas together, and wanting to do something different was definitely at the top of our […]

Thanks to our friends at Warner Music Australia, we have five copies of the new tour edition album of KID ROCK’s ‘Rebel Soul’ to give away to five of our lucky readers, check out what it’s all aboutHERE.  Kid Rock is in Australia for the first time on tour with Bon Jovi and has released this edition just for Australia.  Would […]

Periphery represents the vanguard of addictive, chaotic, challenging and cathartically inviting heavy music for the modern era. Their triple-guitar attack and rhythmic dexterity has won them devoted adherents across underground subcultures, regardless of whether those fans were weaned on the passion-fuelled sounds of progressive rock from bands like Dream Theater or Rush or modern avant-garde rock bands like Deftones. The new experimental recording, Clear, represents […]

“…we’re going to challenge ourselves, there’s a lot of songs already there, but we don’t have a record yet, so it could go in to a lot of different directions. I think the intention is to just push the boundaries of what we think Simple Plan is and what our fans want, and still at the same time keep our […]

“Where I’m going’s where I’m at.” So says Kid Rock on the title track of his ninth studio album. And considering everywhere Rock has gone during the past 22 years, we can have faith that we’re headed for another fascinating, galvanizing, eyebrow-raising, endlessly surprising, at the very least interesting trip when he lands in December for his very first tour […]