20 years ago, SATYRICON released their groundbreaking fourth studio album, Rebel Extravaganza – an album that marked the start of a Black Metal evolution and has influenced the genre ever since. The album will now be available as a remastered reissue on December 13th via Napalm Records.  

“Fear Inoculum,” the title track from Tool’s recently released album, has reached #1 on the Active Rock radio chart, giving the band its fourth career #1 radio single as well as the outfit’s first chart topper in 13 years.  

Rising Maltese metal force ALIGN THE TIDE has unleashed a pummeling new single titled “Blacklist” today from their annihilating new album, Dead Religion, that’s out on October 18th from Cleopatra Records.<  

It’s no secret that a lot of fans measure the artistic value of a rock band mainly by the quality of a group’s live performance. The Allman Brothers without their legendary concerts? Unthinkable! Lynyrd Skynyrd as just another anemic studio project? Impossible to imagine! The same goes for Molly Hatchet as another legendary force among these protagonists of the longstanding history of Southern rock that, alongside lots of outstanding studio recordings, the band’s full potential comes into effect live on stage. Again and again, the musicians surrounding guitarist Bobby Ingram have reinforced their reputation as an awesome live act in brilliant live “battles”, so it comes as no surprise that requests by their... 

Legendary Comics, in partnership with the Lugosi Estate and Kerry Gammill, announced Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a new graphic novel starring iconic film and stage actor Bela Lugosi, with art by El Garing, set for release in late 2020.  

Having just wrapped up a European headlining tour, CRO-MAGS have delivered a punishing new track of unchecked aggression, “From The Grave.” Led by Harley Flanagan, the new song features guitar duties by legendary slinger Phil Campbell (Motorhead, Phil Campbell and The Bastards), showcasing his work on lead and slide guitar.  

New location, new line-up, new formula but still the same metal feast! Metalmania Opener Air 2020 will happen on August, 29th in Warsaw (Summer Stage at Progresja Club)! Mayhem, Candlemass and At The Gates are the first bands confirmed for Metalmania Open Air 2020! Tickets are on sale NOW!  

THE KILLING HORIZON is the explosive new sci-fi vision from Jamie McKelvie, co-creator of the bestselling, award-winning THE WICKED + THE DIVINE, and Eisner Award winning colorist Matthew Wilson (THE WICKED + THE DIVINE, PAPER GIRLS), launching from Image Comics in Summer 2020.  

American black metal pioneers PROFANATICA are now streaming their entire upcoming album, ‘Rotting Incarnation of God,’ which will be released tomorrow, October 11. The full album can be heard below…  

Profound Lore Records presents Disgorged From Psychotic Depths, the debut LP from Pacific Northwestern US-based MORTIFERUM. One of the most goring, savage, doom-drenched death metal records of the year, the album is now available to be streamed in its entirety on the eve of its official release.  

A name that should need no introduction in the metal world, ANNIHILATOR was forged in Canada in late 1984. Since then, the band has been touring and releasing records, selling millions of albums to date, nonstop, for over thirty years. January 24th, 2020 marks the release of their seventeenth studio album, Ballistic, Sadistic.  

POWER TRIP’s festival, Evil Beat returns! Vol. 2 is confirmed for Saturday, January 11, 2020 in Dallas, TX at South Side Ballroom. 2020’s monolithic lineup includes: Carcass, Vio-lence, Razor, Deafheaven, Sheer Mag, Drab Majesty, Prurient, Warthog, Torche, Wiccans, Red Death, True Widow, Special Interest, Mil Spec, Dress Code and Power Trip. There will also be a kick-off show Friday, January 10 — more details to come.</