It is announced today that Grammy-winning, Swedish rock band Ghost will be Special Guest on all four European legs of Metallica’s 2019 “Worldwired” Stadium Tour that begins on May 1 at the Estadio do Restelo in Lisbon, Portugal.  Ghost has shared festival stages with Metallica before, but this is the band’s first  invitation to join Metallica on tour.  

Like ripping bolts of lightning from the sky, REVEREND HORTON HEAT unleash smoldering electricity with “Whole New Life,” the lead single and music video from their new album, aptly titled Whole New Life. The album will be available everywhere via Victory Records on November 30, 2018.  

Andy Diggle (THIEF OF THIEVES, Losers) and Alessandro Vitti (Secret Warriors) team up to bring Robert Kirkman and Marc Silvestri’s sci-fi/action series HARDCORE to life—coming this December from Image/Skybound. The series will feature cover art by award-winning artist Dan Panosian (SLOTS, Conan/Red Sonja).  

Vandenderg’s MoonKings and Mascot Records / Mascot Label Group will release Rugged and Unplugged globally on November 23. The album is a beautifully stripped back acoustic album which features songs from across Adrian Vandenberg’s career. From his first band Teaser as a 20 year old he has always used an acoustic guitar in his recordings, which along with the electric guitar creates the light and shade dynamic that is the cornerstone to all of his records.  

Relapse Records is proud to announce the signing of Philadelphia’s DEVIL MASTER. DEVIL MASTER have been spitting in the face of convention since forming in 2016 with their raw, twisted brand of death rock meets black metal punk mayhem.  

Armed with three Swedish Grammis Awards, a U.S. Grammy, and 75-million global streams of its latest album Prequelle, Ghost announces the European leg of its “A Pale Tour Named Death” world tour, the band’s first set of 2019 concert dates, that will start on February 3 in Lyon, France.  

Eddie Spaghetti, frontman of the self-proclaimed “Greatest Rock n’ Roll Band in the World” The SUPERSUCKERS, has been given the great honor of Throbblehead-ization. The figure is limited to just 500 hand-numbered units, stands at 7.5″ tall, and is made of a high quality polyresin.  

“‘Rockin’ With The Best’ is direct, raw and in-your-face, unapologetic sound that has been pioneered by P.O.D. The only question is whether or not you know how to get down with it.” – Sonny Sandoval / P.O.D.  

British Classic Rock Icons Uriah Heep have released their 25thstudio album “Living the Dream” today via Frontiers Music Srl.  For this album the band teamed up with famed Canadian producer Jay Ruston.   The band is beyond excited with the new album, which includes some epic additions to the band’s huge catalog of rock staples and looks forward to sharing it with their fans around the world.  

Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment are pleased to reveal the first “Heavy Metal” variant cover for Daniel Warren Johnson’s MURDER FALCON. Each issue of the head-banging action series will feature a “Heavy Metal” variant cover that pays tribute to a different classic heavy metal album cover. A variety of brutally talented artists will contribute to this variant cover line, kicking off with series artist Daniel Warren Johnson on MURDER FALCON #1 Cover B.  

I guess I’ll eat my own words this time. I’m a vocal fan of Omnium Gatherum, one of Finland’s more seasoned and refined melodic death metal bands. Last I saw them, they were opening for Sonata Arctica in New Jersey, and flash forward nearly two years later and they’re opening up a hell of a line-up: Other than themselves, they shared a stage with Moonspell, Dark Tranquillity, and Amorphis. They worked perfectly with Sonata Arctica last time, and the likes of Omnium being paired up with Dark Tranquillity isn’t unheard of. But Moonspell and Amorphis? A dream line-up if I’ve ever seen it.  

Life of Agony kicks off the 2ndleg of their successful ‘Rise of the Underground’ Tour with Silvertomb as direct support (featuring Kenny Hickey and Johnny Kelly of Type O Negative).