On March 9, 2020 Pearl Jam was the first major artist to pull the plug and postpone their Spring 2020 tour dates due to Covid-19 concerns. A few weeks later, the band’s new album Gigaton was released to critical acclaim but empty venues. Nearly two years later, Pearl Jam can finally hit the road with their 2020 North American tour dates officially rescheduled for May and September 2022. The updated routing also includes four additional concert dates in Fresno, Sacramento, Las Vegas, and Camden.  

Swedish black metal legends DARK FUNERAL have shared a new track from their highly anticipated seventh studio album. The new song, “Leviathan”, is the third single off the upcoming record “We Are The Apocalypse”, which will be released March 18th via Century Media Records.  

“It is with immense pleasure that we announce our signing to Metal Blade Records!,” says COGNITIVE guitarist Rob Wharton. Formed in New Jersey in 2011, COGNITIVE‘s intent on creating bone-shattering death metal, devastating everything in its path with abstract dissonant melodies and time signatures, is the definitive metal statement needed for 2022.  

Surviving a career spanning four decades, ARMORED SAINT has delivered their brand of uncompromising and passionate metal with charging guitar leads and a propulsive rhythm section with valiance. Today, the Los Angeles veterans have announced plans to release three of their out-of-print classic titles – 1984’s March Of The Saint, 1985’s Delirious Nomad, and 1987’s Raising Fear (which includes the previously unreleased track “Crisis Of Life” for the first time on vinyl).  

Frontiers Music Srl is pleased to present “Complicated”, the eighth official studio album from veteran hard rock vocalist Jeff Scott Soto. “Complicated” will be released on May 6, 2022 on CD, Color LP, and Digital formats. Today, fans can get their first taste of new music from the album with the release of the single and video ‘Love Is The Revolution’.  

Human Scum! In support of their forthcoming opus, “The New Dark Ages” our Lords and Masters GWAR will return to the road in North America this Spring! The first leg of “The Black Death Rager World Tour,” kicks off May 19th in Ft. Wayne, IN and runs through June 17th in Reading, PA. Support on the run will come from Crowbar, The Native Howl and Nekrogoblikon. A complete list of dates can be found below. Tickets go on sale to fan club members this Thursday March 3rd and to the general public this Friday March 4th.  

Today, UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER reveals the first single from his upcoming new album My Way with a rendition of the Queen classic “We Will Rock You.” DIRKSCHNEIDER’s version has been personally approved by Brian May who described it as one of the strongest Queen cover versions he has ever heard.  

As part of thier ongoing collaboration with Z2 COMICS, Aggronautix proudly present the PANTERA Resin Punching Statue figure to be sold along the upcoming graphic novel Vulgar Display Of Power.  

The eagerly-awaited vinyl version of TOOL’s critically-acclaimed fifth album, Fear Inoculum, arrives on April 8 via RCA Records, with the GRAMMY®-Award winning release spread over 5 LPs and paired with new, extensive artwork.  

Adding another dimension to his critically acclaimed solo catalog, GRAMMY® Award-winning singer / songwriter, actor, and New York Times Best-Selling Author, Corey Taylor has released his new EP CMFB…Sides which is available today on all streaming platforms with physical copies / merch bundles available at store.thecoreytaylor.com. To herald its release, he has also shared a lyric video for his stripped back take on “Lunatic Fringe,” the 1981 classic originally performed by Red Rider CMFB…Sides comprises nine unreleased B-sides, covers of tunes that inspired the band, acoustic renditions, and live versions. Taylor preserves the windows-down and arena-ready spirit of “On The Dark Side” made famous by... 

German thrash metal icons DESTRUCTION celebrate their 40th anniversary with their hard-hitting new full-length, Diabolical, out April 8, 2022 via Napalm Records! Today, the relentless legends reveal their new single, “No Faith In Humanity”, raging uncompromisingly with non-stop headbanging action! As one of the most legendary existing German thrash metal bands, DESTRUCTION grace the wall of fame with greats like Kreator,Sodom and Tankard – still going strong after four decades of Thrash Metal! Prepare for neck breaking energy!  

Z2 Comics reaches “a new level” in 2022 with the release of an ambitious graphic anthology paying tribute to one of the biggest bands in the history of heavy metal, whose innovative fusion of groove and hardcore served as one of the defining sounds of the 1990s: Pantera!