Ukrainian metal act Jinjer has been making waves in the metal scene in recent times ever since they gained prominence by winning the Best Ukrainian Metal act award of 2013 and the award-winning music video of, I Speak Astonomy from 2016’s King of [...]

The beginning of 2019 marks the release of a new record from American prog-metal/djent frontrunners Born of Osiris entitled ‘The Simulation’. With the group’s previous full-length studio album ‘Soul Sphere’ having been [...]

First and foremost, “flying witch puppet” vocals abound! The aptly applied phrase coined by my wife to describe falsetto metal shrieks (derived from the vampire puppet musical in the Judd Apatow comedy ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’) [...]

Death and thrash metal go together like peanut butter and jelly. Few bands capture the essence of a riff-driven thrash sound with sheer death-like anger so well like Dutch masters Legion of the Damned, who managed to successfully make a name for [...]

Altarage, a blackened death metal band, or chaotic death metal band, or kind of death-doom? Who knows? But that does not matter. Altarage did some ritualistic, dark stuff in the past and this was always a matter of taste. I like their unique style of [...]

Founded in 1985, this band would go on to become known as the legendary heavy metal band Iced Earth followed and loved many millions with some great records like Burnt Offerings and The Dark Saga. Guitarist and founder Jon Schaffer revealed earlier this [...]

The great Stephen Hawking said “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” Stephen Hawking and Jason Becker share many things in common. They are incredibly intelligent and gifted individuals who when presented with a debilitating [...]

Son of a bitch this album hits hard. Plague Years takes the fear and loathing pulsing from the open wound of today’s society and turns it into rage fueled music. The vital and life-giving music we know and love as heavy metal. Their new album called [...]

Three years since their last London show, Nightwish returned to Wembley Arena with their ‘DECADES: WORLD TOUR 2018’ to take us a trip down memory lane featuring rarely heard material from the earlier era, such as “Come Cover Me” [...]

While the past few years has seen a rapid increase in the amount of bands touring Australia off their own back, the real highlight of the Australian music scene has always been the festival. While it has taken a few years to fill the voids left by the [...]

On a cold winter’s night, one marked with goodbyes and farewells, the crowd formed lines outside Dublin’s Tivoli Theatre spanning the length of the street and then some. Each person there to give themselves entirely to the final date on a tour [...]

Fretboard wizards Angel Vivaldi and Nita Strauss used their mind-blowing creativity and artistry to dazzle the crowd with guitar pyrotechnics at the Loving Touch in Ferndale on November 25th. Tonight’s show is an early stop on this year’s run [...]

  Three years since their last London show, Nightwish returned to Wembley Arena with their ‘DECADES: WORLD TOUR 2018’ to take us a trip down memory lane featuring rarely heard material from the earlier era, such as “Come Cover [...]

  At the end of the day Good Things helped prove one thing — that Australia still loves an alternative music festival and that there is still very much a market for the alternative scene in Australia. With plans already underway for next [...]

  As thrash metal enthusiasts queued hours ahead of show time on December 6th 2018 for a sold out show as American Thrash Legends Exodus along with German thrash wizards Sodom, Death Angel and Suicidal Angels took on London’s Electric Ballroom. [...]

  Symphonic metal wizards Kamelot used their mind-blowing creativity and artistry to dazzle the crowd at Max Watts in Melbourne, Australia. Support bands were Damnations Day (Melbourne) and Valhalore (Brisbane). Here are some of the killer moments of [...]

  DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL returns this March, 2019. With some of the biggest  names in heavy music already confirmed to play festival dates in Sydney and Melbourne, today we can reveal official sideshows [...]

  After a record-breaking year in 2018 that welcomed a sold-out crowd of 90,000 over an expanded three-day weekend, Welcome To Rockville returns even bigger in 2019. The ninth annual edition of Florida’s Biggest Rock [...]

  Premier independent U.S. music festival producer Danny Wimmer Presents has announced the highly anticipated music and comedy lineup for their new destination event, Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival, which debuts at MAPFRE [...]

  Stonedeaf 2019 a one day, one stage, hard rock festival. Cited as one of the UK’s friendliest rock festivals, come and experience it for yourself! In only it’s second year Stonedeaf is rapidly achieving a great reputation based on solid [...]