Multi-platinum band GODSMACK has exploded onto the album charts with WHEN LEGENDS RISE (via BMG), the band’s seventh studio album and their first in four years. The 11-song collection, fueled by the Top 5 rock song and video “Bulletproof” plus the title track “When Legends Rise,” has entered the Billboard Top 200 album chart in the top ten (#8), with four #1 placements on other charts: Top Rock Albums, Top Hard Music Albums, Top Independent Albums and Top Alternative Albums. WHEN LEGENDS RISE is available on CD, LP and Digital.  Purchase or stream it here. In other news,iHeart Media presents iHeartRadio LIVE with Godsmack at the iHeartRadio Theater in New York City tonight... 

Marvel is excited to celebrate CAPAIN AMERICA #1 from Ta-Nehisi Coates and Leinil Yu with a new variant cover from superstar artist Joe Jusko!  

It was about four years ago when Clawing Into Black Sun was coming out that I stumbled on Wolvhammer. Perhaps it was through Abigail Williams or their split with Krieg they did prior, but I remember buying the album on Bandcamp instantly and being absorbed into the blackness that was the band’s blackened sludge sound. With tasteful songwriting and a unique sound, Wolvhammer was something special I found in my college dorm, and Clawing quickly became an album that I found myself listening to casually, rather in a burst of hype. Flash forward four years and the band has resurfaced with The Monuments of Ash & Bone, and it quickly becomes a matter of whether or not I’d be blinded by nostalgia or be let down because... 

As Hoobastank gear up for the release of PUSH PULL, their sixth studio album out May 25, the group have premiered the title track and lyric video.  

Legendary TWISTED SISTER frontman DEE SNIDER has inked a deal with NAPALM RECORDS for his upcoming solo album! This opus is entitled “FOR THE LOVE OF METAL” and will deliver what its name promises: pure world class metal!  

THE DEAD DAISIES are returning to North America! After a Sold-Out Tour across the UK & Europe, the band are looking forward to rocking out with their US & Canadian fans! Their current single “RISE UP” is climbing the US-Active Rock Charts and being used extensively in NASCAR promotional campaigns across the country. The guys are also happy to announce that an old friend of the Daisies, Dizzy Reed, is bringing his band HOOKERS & BLOW along as the Tour’s Special Guest.  

Legendary death metal unit MORBID ANGEL today unveils the unsettling new video for “Garden Of Disdain” from the band’s recently-issued Kingdoms Disdained full-length.  

Janet Gardner, best known as the lead vocalist of the legendary all-female rock group Vixen, has just announced a string of UK dates in support of her critically acclaimed self-titled debut solo album.  

Armed with two top 10 Active Rock hits, Fozzy is continuing the headlining “Judas Rising Tour” this summer/fall with Adelitas Way, Stone Broken and The Stir. The run kicks off in Atlanta on August 24, hitting major markets like Minneapolis, Cincinnati and St. Louis along the way.  

Germany’s progressive death metal masters OBSCURA complete their long-running, four-album conceptual circle with the release of Diluvium (defined as a great oceanic flood), their most evocative, diverse and vibrant release to date. Diluvium is due out July 13th on CD/LP/Digital via Relapse Records. Watch the official video for “Diluvium” via YouTube HERE and all digital streaming services AT THIS LOCATION. “Diluvium” was directed by Mirko Witzki (Kreator, Blind Guardian, Caliban) and further explores the album’s celestial themes. The band commented further on the concept:  

You probably wouldn’t watch anything Morbid Angel at work, but their new video is definitely not something you want your co-workers to see you watching in your cubicle.  

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That’s essentially Unleashed, veteran Swedish death metal band, in a nutshell. For 30 years the band have been playing tried and true death metal, offerring some of hte finest, most consistent albums in any band’s career, and that looks to be staying the same as the band heads into the studio this month. Taking to Facebook this weekend, the band offered some news for fans to tell them what’s to come for the band in 2018: