Seminal NYC hardcore veterans AGNOSTIC FRONT, have changed the face of music throughout their 35-year long career and were partially responsible for the creation of the hardcore genre itself. These rarely confronted and always respected leaders of hardcore were established as one of the meanest-sounding bands in the emerging punk genre, helping to initiate the term "hardcore," and placing an entire uproar on the New York map by association. From...
VOLBEAT has announced the support artists, hand selected by the band, as special guests on their European tour, planned for late-summer to early-fall. Finnish masters of melancholic progressive metal, AMORPHIS, have been chosen as special guest on the entire tour as opener.
"The VOLBEAT guys are good friends of us and we’ve been talking for years, how nice it would be to tour together", says Esa Holopainen. "Mike is also...
Progressive death metal masters FALLUJAH, recently wrapped up the first leg of their extensive North American tour with CARNIFEX. After a very short break, the band begins a string of dates today in New Zealand and Australia with KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, before returning to the US to finish the run. To celebrate, FALLUJAH has a released a play-through video of guitarist Brian James performing the song 'Adrenaline', here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw4nDikH3ew
For 27 years, MY DYING BRIDE from West Yorkshire have been the voice of the hopeless and broken, combining haunting sounds with crushing misery and melancholy. With their signature sound they've shaped the doom metal scene like barely any other act and integrated both soft violin melodies and violent death metal growls into their music, whilst always staying strictly loyal to themselves. And since the early Nineties, the band's masterminds...
Today, Finnish epic melodic death metal masters WINTERSUN launch their crowdfunding campagn to raise funds for their own headquarter studio. You will have time until March 31st to pre-order the “Forest Package” for 50,- € directly from the band, which includes the digital high quality files of the new album »The Forest Seasons« as well as the instrumental version of the release, a version with isolated tracks and both their...
BRUJERIA, the Mexican murderous deathgrind outfit shrouded in mystery, have announced that they will be infiltrating our European shores in April and May - as support to legendary grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH. This large European tour will take the bands across 12 countries and 24 cities in four weeks. Support will also be coming from Texan crossover thrashers POWER TRIP and satanic deathgrinders LOCK UP.
After their debut attack »Send Them All To Hell« in 2014, it became a little quiet around the heavy metal supergroup PÄNZER. But the soldiers around DESTRUCTION frontman Schmier never sleep and now they announced that they are working on new songs again - with their new line-up! After the departure of Herman Frank (ACCEPT), PÄNZER recruited Pontus Norgren of HAMMERFALL to help out their warfare, as well as V.O....
In March, ALMANAC, the symphonic metal cavaliers led by ex-RAGE-guitarist Victor Smolski, unleashed their highly acclaimed debut album »Tsar« - but this emperor has only just started to rise - and in early 2017, ALMANAC will climb onto their horses for their first headline tour ever.
"Hello, dear metal friends!", states bandleader Victor Smolski. "I am happy to be able to invite you to our first headline tour of ALMANAC...
Jump into NIGHTWISH's capturing »Vehicle Of Spirit« and see the band's brand new concert DVD in an exclusive advance showing on the big screen! In cooperation with CineStar, fans will have the opportunity to witness the legendary Wembley show tomorrow, on November 24th, three weeks before its official release date on December 16th! In one of the following 18 German CineStar-theatres you will be able to revive the thrilling Suomi...
Brazilian heavy metal icons, SEPULTURA, will unleash their upcoming studio album, »Machine Messiah«, on January 13th through Nuclear Blast. Today, the fifth studio episode which gives an insight in the bass recording process has been launched. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0SveiuE_AY
