Today, Symphonic Metal giants EPICA are launching a stunning after movie of their recent show in Montreal. The band is currently touring across North America and now you can catch a glimpse of how the band is nailing it night after night! The video is filled with head thrashing, hair twirling fun with live clips of all the bands on tour and a good old fashioned wall of death, Montreal style!
Los Angeles-based Hard Rock outfit GEMINI SYNDROME have announced their final tour before the group shifts focus towards the writing and recording of their third studio album (to be produced by Matt Hyde: Deftones, Slayer), which will conclude the three part trilogy started with ‘Lux’ and continued on their latest record, ‘Memento Mori’.
Currently celebrating the 30th anniversary of their classic album, Ignorance, Arizona thrashers SACRED REICH will kick off the North American leg of their 30 Years Of Ignorance tour tomorrow! The trek runs through October 7th. Support will be provided by labelmates BYZANTINE. See below for all dates! SACRED REICH w/ BYZANTINE: 9/14/2017 The Observatory – Santa Ana, CA w/ Hirax, Yidhra 9/15/2017 The Roxy Theatre – Los Angeles, CA w/ Hirax, Yidhra 9/16/2017 Slim’s – San Francisco, CA w/ Yidhra 9/18/2017 Marquis Theater – Denver, CO 9/19/2017 The Riot Room – Kansas, MO 9/20/2017 Reggie’s – Chicago, IL 9/21/2017 Opera House – Toronto, ON 9/22/2017 Les Foufounes Electriques...
The countdown is on as GWAR gets ready to release their bone-crushing, corpse-grinding new opus The Blood of Gods out October 20th via Metal Blade Records. As the world continues hurtling through space towards a great conflagration of death and destruction, your alien overlords have dropped “El Presidente,” the second single from the album. Hopefully this will speed things along! Head over to metalblade.com/gwar to listen to the track and pre-order your copy of The Blood Of Gods. Digital pre-orders come with instant downloads of both “Fuck This Place” and “El Presidente.”
Having a legacy is important to an artist’s longevity. More importantly, though, creating that legacy requires classic music and for it to have a live show to back it up, as well. A band can be great in the studio, but once it comes to a live show they can’t mean all that much if they’re just standing there in place for 30 minutes. Obviously stage presence is just the basic of the basics, but it’s a good place to start, and be it wild or stylish ultimately depends on factors being interwoven into it. Danzig himself, along with has band, is currently in the midst of bringing Corrosion of Conformity and Mutoid Man along the east coast, and with it are some high expectations. Everyone knows to expect a big show...
Relapse Records is excited to announce the vinyl reissue of DEATH’s legendary, fifth album Individual Thought Patterns! The reissue will be available as a standard single LP and a limited edition deluxe 2xLP boxset. The deluxe version has been packaged into a limited edition (500), one time pressing deluxe vinyl box set containing DEATH’s Individual Thought Patterns remastered on the first LP plus a bonus 2nd LP featuring select tracks from their legendary Live in Germany – April 13th 1993 performance and the studio outtake track “The Exorcist” (both on vinyl for the first time ever).
Celebrating 50 years in rock (1966-2016) Gene Simmons, multi-hyphenate entrepreneur, co-founder and front man of KISS, America’s number one gold record award-winning group of all time in all categories (RIAA), and one of the most recognized performers in the world, today announced the unprecedented release of GENE SIMMONS: THE VAULT EXPERIENCEin partnership with Rhino Entertainment. GENE SIMMONS: THE VAULT EXPERIENCE commemorates and celebrates Simmons’ notorious five-decade journey as a rock icon, offering fans around the world a limited-edition collectible ‘VAULT’ with contents that offer a unique look into The Demon’s colorful life, including never-before-released songs, photos, stories and collectible...
As just announced at ProgPower USA 2017 this past weekend (September 8th), Redemption is confirmed to headline next year’s edition of the festival, with new vocalist Tom Englund (Evergrey)! This new line-up including Englund, Nick van Dyk (guitars and keyboards), Sean Andrews (bass) and Chris Quirarte (drums) has finished recording Redemption‘s seventh full-length album, Long Night’s Journey into Day – the first to be produced with Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Primal Fear, Amaranthe, Doro, etc.).
