ANTHRAX will release their long-awaited new album, »For All Kings«, on February 26, 2016 via Nuclear Blast.
Says ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante: "The cover art for this record is again done by Alex Ross, who is probably one of the greatest artists living. And he did our previous covers.
He continues: "My idea for this one was to show this hall and these huge statues of these kings - who,...
Finnish metal superstars CHILDREN OF BODOM and their label mates SYLOSIS will continue their European tour, after LAMB OF GOD have canceled all of their remaining dates.
COB commented: “Lamb of God have chosen to leave the tour due to security concerns in Europe. Our team has been working very hard to make all of the remaining shows happen. We want to continue on the road and play the rest...
BLACK STAR RIDERS frontman RICKY WARWICK has announced that he will release not one but TWO new solo albums next year. »When Patsy Cline Was Crazy (And Guy Mitchell Sang The Blues)« and the beautifully acoustic »Hearts On Trees« will be released as a double CD on 26th February 2016 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment.
RICKY explains, “I really wanted these songs to come out. The album’s been a long time...
Swedish symphonic metal troop THERION is set to kick-off a European headline tour in January 2016. On this run the band will be playing a very special, best of set list. These rare shows are not to be missed!
Support will come from occult rockers LUCIFERIAN LIGHT ORCHESTRA, Mongolian nomadic metallers EGO FALL and last but not least from Russian symphonic metal force IMPERIAL AGE.
METAL ALLEGIANCE are back with an all new lyric video for another song from the critically-acclaimed, self-titled debut that was released in September via Nuclear Blast. The lyric video for 'Scars' premiered on Billboard.com and is now live on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DrdZaRGmA1I
The song features LACUNA COIL’s Cristina Scabbia and DEATH ANGEL’s Mark Osegueda on vocals, TESTAMENT’s Alex Skolnick on guitars, MEGADETH’s David Ellefson on bass and THE WINERY DOGS’...
Italian symphonic-death metal masters FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, have revealed the cover artwork to their upcoming album »King«. This stunning visualization was created by acclaimed contemporary artist Eliran Kantor (TESTAMENT, ICED EARTH, KATAKLYSM, HATEBREED).
Comments the band: "This work of art is nothing more than the picture of an old world coming to an end.The author, Eliran Kantor, perfectly interpreted the concept behind the album.The King represents the last stand of integrity...
British progressive metal protagonists THRESHOLD's new live album »European Journey« was recorded during the November 2014 »For The Journey« tour and consists of 15 live tracks (out: November 13th via Nuclear Blast). In celebration of the release, Prog Magazine took keyboardist Richard West on a journey through the band's ten studio albums, from »Wounded Land« to »For The Journey«. Watch the two part video interview here: http://prog.teamrock.com/news/2015-11-17/threshold-recall-headbangers-ball-near-miss.
AVANTASIA's outstanding 7th album, »Ghostlights«, will be released worldwide on January 29th, 2016 via Nuclear Blast. Today, Tobias Sammet proudly presents the cover and announces the tracklists as well as the various formats, in which the upcoming record will be available.
The opus features guest appearances of Dee Snider, Geoff Tate, Marco Hietala, Sharon Den Adel, Michael Kiske, Ronnie Atkins, Bob Catley, Jorn Lande, Bruce Kulick, Robert Mason, Herbie Langhans,...
After 15 years and 10 CDs as guitarist, producer and composer for the German heavy metal institution RAGE, and with hits penned by him like 'Down', 'Soundchaser', 'War Of Worlds', 'Straight To Hell' (well-known from the German blockbuster movie »Manitou’s Shoe«), 'Carved In Stone', 'Forever Dead', 'Empty Hollow' and 'Cleansed By Fire', Victor Smolski now continues his musical career with his new group ALMANAC. The guitar virtuoso’s composition 'Suite Lingua...
It has been four years in the making but for fans of retro-infused melodic groovers GENTLEMANS PISTOLS, the wait is now over! The band released its new album »Hustler's Row« a few days ago and in celebration of the new release, we spoke to main man James Atkinson and asked him to talk us through each of the tracks and how they came about. Watch James discussing 'Dazzle Drizzler', 'Coz...
