“Payback” comes from BWR’s new album, Electrified. Electrified promises to be more riff-heavy than BWR’s previous albums, featuring hooks and catchy choruses to pull you in, all while retaining a musical identity of its own. The album is available via Pavement Entertainment and can be found in digital and retail outlets everywhere.  

#1 New York Times bestselling cartoonist Johnnie Christmas (Angel Catbird, SHELTERED) and superstar colorist Tamra Bonvillain (Doom Patrol, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur) will release a trade paperback collection of FIREBUG, the explosive mythological tale that first debuted in ISLAND.  

Metallica’s album Hardwired…To Self-Destruct received two Grammy® awards nominations this morning in the Best Rock Album category for the heralded, global chart-topping album and Best Rock Song for the song “Atlas Rise.”  Their albums have won a total of nine Grammy® Awards with 21 nominations.  

David Ellefson of Megadeth, via his label EMP LABEL GROUP, has announced the relaunch of COMBAT RECORDS, the seminal Punk/Thrash label that started Megadeth’s career.  

I have no quarrel with Blabbermouth.net, but something has to be said site of their comments section. Whenever they post an artist people don’t immediately know it quickly becomes a game of “Who?” and other unoriginal comments that are (still) painfully unfunny nearing the end of 2017, which  says quite a lot that people aren’t willing to read or, most importantly, listen to bands they aren’t familiar with.  

German Thrash legends Accu§er will release their new album, The Mastery, on January 26th via Metal Blade Records! Accu§er comments: “2017 has been quite busy for us, as we wanted to come back with a bang and to present you a more than decent follow up to ‘The Forlorn Divide’.  

I don’t really get Thrice. I’m speaking of their versatility, that is. The band has proven time and time again that they cannot be pigeon-holed into a genre, and while their core sound is distinguishable, it’s their experimentation and risks that truly stand out. So what don’t I get? It’s simple, really: how does the band continue to impress so seemingly effortlessly?  

Nothing More celebrate massive success at radio today with “Go To War” taking the top spot at Active Rock and becoming the #1 Rock Song in the USA!  

DESPYRE joins BOBAFLEX on a tour of the East Coast this November and December.  

Iconic King’s X guitarist Ty Tabor will release his all new solo effort, Alien Beans, on January 12, 2018 via Rat Pak Records. Alien Beans is a double-disc album that features 10 all new studio tracks and a “best of” compilation disc. The “best of” disc is comprised of 11 re-mixed and re-mastered tracks personally selected by Tabor from his previous releases.  

ARKAIK will kick off a near month-long US tour supporting the gore metal miscreants in Exhumed tonight. The journey will commence in San Diego, California and run through December 8th in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. See all confirmed dates below. ARKAIK will be touring in support of their Nemethia full-length, out now and streaming via Unique Leader. Their most ambitious studio album to date was produced, engineered, and mixed by Zack Ohren (Immolation, Fallujah, Suffocation, Decrepit Birth et al.) at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, California, and features guest appearances by Joe Haley of Psycroptic, Arde Ostowari formerly of Burning The Masses, Stephen Paulson of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and former ARKAIK... 

A Perfect Circle, who recently released “The Doomed,” the first new music to be heard from the band’s expected 2018 album, return with an accompanying video for the “apocalyptic” (Rolling Stone) track: