Today global rock icon Nikki Sixx announces plans to step down as host of and end his nationally-syndicated Premiere Networks / iHeartRadio rock Radio programs, Sixx Sense with Nikki Sixx, The Side Show Countdown with Nikki Sixx and The Side Show Classic with Nikki Sixx at the end of this year. His final broadcast will be December 31, 2017. Launched at the beginning of 2010, his flagship radio program Sixx Sense quickly became the biggest syndicated rock show in America, distributed to more than 130 stations nationwide and boasting nearly 3 Million global weekly listeners. Sixx has welcomed an influential array of prominent musicians, celebrities, and noteworthy personalities as guests on the show. During his tenure... 

Building on the success of their critically acclaimed and commercially successful release Unleashed, Skillet is back with a new deluxe edition of the album. Unleashed Beyond is slated for release on November 17th via Atlantic Records.  

Gore metal maniacs EXHUMED announce headline US tour dates for the end of Fall with Arkaik. The tour commences November 15 in San Diego, CA and ends December 8 in Oklahoma City, OK. A full list of confirmed tour dates is available below.  

It’s a very small list of bands that can claim they’ve had their own comic book published and now Hollywood Undead can add their name to that list.  On December 6th, Hollywood Undead will partner with Heavy Metal Magazine to star in their own comic: “Undead Origins.”  

Swedish blackened thrash metallers’ WITCHERY are now launching a second single and video for the track, “Of Blackened Wing”, off their upcoming album, “I Am Legion”,  due out on November 10, 2017 via CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS.  

British heavy metal act, SAVAGE MESSIAH, have just released a video for their brand new single, “Wing And A Prayer”, which is taken off their upcoming album, “Hands Of Fate”!  

Today HELLYEAH announce UNDEN!ABLE Deluxe Edition out 10/27 on Eleven Seven Music as a CD/DVD Best Buy Exclusive and CD & Live Audio Digital Deluxe. The physical package contains the fan-shot Live Concert DVD We’re All In This Together. The digital package contains the live audio from the DVD. UNDEN!ABLE features three top ten US Active Rock singles, including “Human”, “I Don’t Care Anymore”, and “Love Falls” – currently at its highest position at #7.  

Polish experimental black metallers THAW premiere the first single from their recently announced fourth studio album, “Grains”, set to be released on December 8th via Agonia Records. “The Brigand” is the openeing song of the album, which arrives three years after its acclaimed predecessor, “Earth Ground”.   

Relapse Records is proud to announce the signing of esoteric synth-pop duo, MIRACLE. Formed in 2010, MIRACLE consists of Steve Moore, one half of the progressive post-rock duo Zombi, composer of contemporary horror soundtracks including The Guest and The Mind’s Eye and solo producer of masterful synthesizer music plus vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Daniel O’Sullivan, known for his work with a myriad of art rock luminaries including Ulver, Grumbling Fur, Æthenor, Sunn O))), Guapo, Mothlite and This Is Not This Heat.  

Southern California’s reverends of rock ‘n’ roll Fireball Ministry have released their 5th studio album,  Remember The Story, today via Cleopatra Records.  

Junkyard’s third full length studio album, High Water (released April 21, 2017) made huge waves upon release, selling out of initial pressings and cracking Billboard’s Top 25 Hard Rock Album Sales Chart. Fans and critic’s agree the album, the band’s first in full length 26 years, is among the strongest rock records released in 2017. Just as Festival and club dates in the UK and US wrapped in August, Little Steven’s Underground Garage snagged the first single, “Faded” as the Coolest Song in the World (week of Sept. 17).  

Prepare for Swedish Black Metal violence courtesy of WATAIN on Halloween as October 31 marks the international release date for the band’s savage new single, “Nuclear Alchemy”, taken from their new album set for release on January 5, 2018.