Rock luminaries, Dj Ashba (Guitar), James Michael (Lead Vocals) and Nikki Sixx (Bass), collectively known as SIXX:A.M, today have unleashed the first single, “Rise,” from the first volume of their upcoming double album, Prayers For The Damned, which drops April 29 via Eleven Seven Music. Fans can stream the rock anthem via iHeartRadio here now.
UK metal band Bullet For My Valentine will return to the U.S. for a second invasion in May in support of their recently released album, VENOM. Special guests will include Asking Alexandria and Cane Hill on select dates. The tour will start in Jacksonville, FL on April 30th at Welcome To Rockville festival and will wrap up in San Antonio on May 29th at River City Rockfest.
Sweden-based melodic doom/death metal outfit, OCTOBER TIDE, premiere a new song entitled “Sleepless Sun” that can be experienced in a form of a lyric video. It is the first song to be revealed from the band’s 5th full-length album “Winged Waltz”, which will be released on April 22nd via Agonia Records.
The Ohio-based blackened metal quintet SKELETONWITCH will premiere a new song, “Well of Despair,” exclusively via Sirius XM Liquid Metal (Ch. 40) next Monday, March 7. Tune in at 1:00 p.m. (PST) / 4:00 p.m. (EST) as host Jose Mangin introduces the track, the group’s first with new vocalist Adam Clemans (Wolvhammer). “Well of Despair” was recorded earlier this year at Baltimore’s Developing Nations with producer Kevin Bernsten (Mutilation Rites, Noisem), along with several additional tracks that will be released as an EP this summer. More information will be unveiled in the coming weeks. On March 17, SKELETONWITCH will kick off the Decibel Magazine Tour alongside Abbath, High...
“Stressed Out,” the blockbuster single from Fueled By Ramen recording group Twenty One Pilots, has ascended to #1 at Mediabase Top 40 and Hot AC radio outlets nationwide – the band’s first time topping the formats. “Stressed Out” has also exploded into the #2 position on Billboard’s “Hot 100” having recently reached #1 on both the “Alternative Songs” and “Hot Rock Songs” tallies.
California Groove Metallers DEVILDRIVER will be touring non-stop this year in support of their new release Trust No One. In addition to their already announced tour alongside Hatebreed, The Devil You Know and Act of Defiance, DEVILDRIVER has confirmed a string of North American headline dates. The first run starts prior to the Hatebreed tour and kicks off April 27th in Las Vegas, NV and wraps up May 11th in Grand Rapids, MI.
ALRIGHT, it’s indeed been a minute, and a few things of note have happened, most notably a very stupid act by the illustrious Phillip H. Anselmo (Pantera, Down, Superjoint Ritual/Superjoint) involving racism and public intoxication. Here are my thoughts, not the thought of MM, but the words I wish to portray in this sad, stupid incident, after the fact.
U.S. Metal Super Group THEM have inked a deal with Belgium’s Empire Records. First up is at the release of a limited edition tour CD called Fear Them, which contains three tracks (“Forever Burns,” “Dead of Night,” and “Blood from Blood” from upcoming debut album Sweet Hollow. The limited edition CD will be available on THEM‘s U.S./Canadian Tour supporting Power Metal giants HELLOWEEN and can also be purchased at
Guitar icon ZAKK WYLDE today has debuted an all new single titled “Sleeping Dogs” from his forthcoming solo LP. Artwork, created by Wylde and longtime collaborator John Irwin, is being revealed today along with 14-song tracklisting. “Sleeping Dogs” will also be available as an iTunes instant gratification track, meaning fans who pre order the album on iTunes will get the single immediately.
AUTHOR & PUNISHER, led by one-man industrial doom enigma, Tristan Shone, will haul its steel through the motorways of North America this Spring as direct support for Weedeater. Shone’s latest excursion commences with the previously announced dates which run from March 14th and through April 3rdand include a performance at this year’s edition of SXSW in Austin.
