For the better part of the past five years, top-charting masked metal machine MUSHROOMHEAD have been crafting the epic follow up to their monumental 2014 full-length album, The Righteous & The Butterfly – waiting ever-so-patiently to drop their next collection of anthems. The Cleveland collective make their prodigious return with the new full-length oeuvre, A Wonderful Life – the eighth release of their benchmark career – out June 19, 2020 via Napalm Records.
There are always a lot of questions asked about California rock legends and effects pedal entrepreneurs Steel Panther. Are they sure heavy metal rules? Do they really play their instruments? Could they be my father? While the answer to all of these questions is YES, another question is what would have happened if Steel Panther chose a different genre of music?
Today Bombs of Hades are releasing their EP “Phantom Bell” via Black Lodge Records & Moondawn. Four tracks strong, crusty death metal to enjoy on CD, vinyl and online! Does death metal without the notorious HM2-pedal even exist? It does in the form of Bombs Of Hades. Not your typical Swedish death metal band, but instead adding a progressive and crusty twist to the genre. On their new EP, creative mastermind Jonas Stålhammar (At The Gates, The Lurking Fear, God Macabre) and his band mates release four new tracks (two of them being covers of Flower Travellin’ Band and Townes Van Zandt) as a taster before the next album is recorded. Purchase or stream the EP HERE. For More Info Visit: https://www.facebook.com/bombsofhades/ https://www.facebook.com/blacklodgerecords
International modern metal upstarts INFECTED RAIN have been busy re-organizing their schedule for the remainder of 2020/2021, preparing to bring their devoted North American fans two tours to make up for lost time! Coming in on the heels of their recently announced fall tour with headliners Eluveitie and Insomnium, the band is thrilled to announce the official rescheduled dates for their previously-announced tour with headliners Swallow The Sun! The tour has been moved to 2021 and will begin in West Palm Beach, FL on March 5, visiting a slew of cities in over a month’s-time before ending in Dallas, TX on April 15.
IDW Publishing (OTCQX: IDWM) and SEGA® of America, Inc. today announced that Sonic The Hedgehog™ comic book fans will get a double dose of fun this summer, as fan-favorite Sonic illustrator Evan Stanley will be taking over as both artist AND writer beginning with Sonic The Hedgehog #33, while a dastardly delicious spin-off miniseries, Sonic: Bad Guys, will debut from writer Ian Flynn and artist Jack Lawrence.
Whitechapel has launched a new digital single for the acoustic version of “Hickory Creek”. The studio version of the track originally appeared on the critically acclaimed album, The Valley, released last year via Metal Blade Records. Vocalist Phil Bozeman comments: “If any song could have an acoustic version, it would be ‘Hickory Creek’. This was enjoyable on so many levels for us to make, and we hope you share that same joy during these hard times.”
SoCal thrash metal force WARBRINGER will release their highly anticipated full-length follow up to 2017’s acclaimed Woe To The Vanquished, entitled Weapons of Tomorrow, on April 24 via Napalm Records. Today, the band has unleashed a new video for the grandiose album closer track “Glorious End”, which in theme with the album’s concept, presents itself as a war epic narrated by an exchange between two close heroes – father and son.
