Hide your women, children and your pets!!! California’s greatest export and medical marvels Steel Panther are heading out on a national headline tour of the United States. The tour, called the Heavy Metal Rules Tour, kicks off in early October and runs through mid-December. The tour will be in support of the band’s recently announced 5th studio album Heavy Metal Rules. The 27-date trek will make stops in markets such as Orlando, FL; Boston, MA; New York, NY; Detroit, MI; and Chicago, IL to name a few. Steel Panther live is always the ultimate party and has developed them a loyal fanbase around the globe. Public on sale for all shows is July 19th and more information on all shows can be found at: https://www.steelpantherrocks.com/pages/tour.     The... 

Death metal is a hard act to sell and I cannot for the life of me pin down what it is that makes the genre such of a wide spectrum of quality. You’d think tremolo picking, growls, wails, blast beats, and gore-centric lyrics would do it, right? Alongside thrash and black metal, there’s probably the most disposable amount of music being thrown into the genre. Boring riffs, derivative writing, and the robotic drumming of some of these musicians drown what might be diamonds in the rough in a sea of mediocrity. That’s why 20 Buck Spin is probably one of the best labels around today: they do the hard mining and find those diamond to make sure they get their time to shine.  

Norwegian guitar sensation, Rocky Kramer, is truly a modern-day Viking, poised to take no prisoners as he conquers the hearts, minds and souls of rockers around the world! Armed with a guitar, this graduate of Metal 101 constitutes a triple threat as a composer, vocalist and formidable musician.  

Building upon the success of their 2014 self-titled debut and 2017’s Scatterbrain, KXM returns with their third studio release, Circle Of Dolls. The new album is scheduled for release on September 13th  via Rat Pak Records and will also be available via Frontiers Music SRL in Europe.  

‘Open up, drink it in, don’t ask too many questions’ – a fitting beginning to ‘The Violence’, the brand new track from British rock outfit, Asking Alexandria released today along with an accompanying 7 minute short film written and directed by Jensen Noen and presented by Scissor Films and Sumerian Films. Watch ‘The Violence’ short film here.  

Fresh off the release of his spellbinding collection of covers CANDY last month, post-punk band , featuring the iconic Lord of Lard himself RAYMOND WATTS, has announced a string of live dates in support of that album. What separates this run from his recent North American tours is that this sees the triumphant return of previous band members to the pen.  

Metal Blade Records is proud to welcome Intronaut to its worldwide roster! Currently working on the follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Direction of Last Things (2015), Intronaut plans to release their new album – and Metal Blade Records debut – in 2020.  

Buckcherry announces today the final 16 shows of their North American portion of the 2019 Warpaint Tour. The tour, which started on March 5th, will total 118 North American cities once it concludes on September 26th. Following the U.S shows, Buckcherry will perform shows in Australia, Japan, and the UK. Supporting Buckcherry on the final 8 shows of the U.S tour will be Blacktop Mojo, who will be touring in support of their 3rd album Under The Sun.  

Atlanta, GA’s metal quartet CLOAK will be supporting KHEMMIS on their upcoming North American Desolation 2019 tour. The run will kick off TOMORROW, July 11 in Memphis, TN and will conclude on July 28 in Bloomington, IL. After this run, the band will return in August for two dates in support of label-mates 1349. The full itinerary and ticket links can be found below.  

Philly’s raw entity DEVIL MASTER announce their first Mexico headline tour throughout August! The tour begins following the band’s performance at Psycho Las Vegas 2019. Additionally, DEVIL MASTER will tour with death metal legends and labelmates Obituary this Fall throughout late-September/October.  

On Saturday, November 2, 2019,  Slayer – Tom Araya/bass and vocals, Kerry King/guitars, Gary Holt/guitars, and Paul Bostaph/drums – will set off on The Final Campaign, the seventh and final leg of its farewell world tour.  This last hurrah will start at the ExploreAsheville Arena in Asheville, NC, and see the band taking its goodbye bow at the Los Angeles Forum on Saturday, November 30.  

– Continuing the fan frenzy they created last week when they released their mysterious video for brand new track ‘F***ing With My Head’, Palaye Royale have released the video for another brand new track ‘Nervous Breakdown’. Watch the video…