Eleven Seven Music Group (ESMG) announces the launch of the “WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER TOUR 2016,” headlined by rock super-group HELLYEAH (ESMG) and featuring special guests Escape The Fate (ESMG), New Years Day (Another Century Records) and From Ashes To New (Better Noise Records). The 18-date tour across the U.S. will kick off on May 2nd in Baltimore, MD and end June 5th in Las Vegas, NV.
BABYMETAL—2015‘s breakout all-girl-fronted Japanese heavy metal/teen-pop hybrid group–revealed the cover art and track listing for their sophomore album METAL RESISTANCE, set for release April 1 via RAL/Sony Music Entertainment (in the U.S.). The first single from the album, “KARATE,” will premiere and be available as an instant grat track on February 25. METAL RESISTANCE is available now to pre-order via their official webstore as a standalone CD and special pre-order bundles.
Winter Thrice, the 10th studio album from Norway’s very own progressive / epic Black Metal pioneers, BORKNAGAR has already been available worldwide from Century Media Records for coming up on one month and where the “buzz” would normally subside, the critical acclaim from both the media and the fans continues rolling in with no end in sight! Winter Thrice, which also culminates BORKNAGAR’s 20th year of existence, also managed to enter sales charts throughout the world within its first week of release. In the United States, Winter Thrice hit # 17 on the Billboard Heatseekers and #15 on the Billboard Hard Rock chart. In Germany the album reached #62, in Switzerland # 90, and in...
Swedish death metal battalion DEMONICAL has joined forces with fellow countrymen, label-mates and melodic doom/death metal masters in one, OCTOBER TIDE, for a tour of Europe starting in September, 2016. The co-headlining run will be supported by Finland’s cold black metallers, Author. List of shows is available below.
Today, the Ohio-based blackened metal quintet SKELETONWITCH – who will join Abbath, High On Fire and Tribulation on this year’s Decibel Magazine Tour, which kicks off March 17 – officially welcomes Adam Clemans (Wolvhammer) as their new vocalist. Last month, the group recorded a new EP, due to be released this summer, with Clemans at Baltimore’s Developing Nations with producer Kevin Bernsten (Magrudergrind, Noisem, Mutilation Rites). A brief teaser of new music can be heard in the below video, in which Clemans discusses how he came to join the band.
PROSTHETIC RECORDS will be releasing legendary progressive metallers WATCHTOWER‘s recent digital-only tracks on LP and CD. The four tracks will be combined with one brand new song, creating the EP “Concepts of Math: Book One” and will be released on limited edition vinyl and digipack CD later this year. Comments vocalist Alan Tecchio: “I am so stoked to be a part of this legendary jazz-metal-prog group once again! Right now we are close to finishing the tracking for the additional 10 minute song that we are adding to the other four tunes. This will complete the EP that Prosthetic plans to release later this year. I can tell you that the new song is especially super cool and has that...
Bullet For My Valentine, the multi-platinum selling UK rock band, announces the launch of their interactive smartphone App today, through the industry-leading provider of direct-to-fan mobile Apps – Disciple Media. The App will launch during the band’s biggest US tour to date, in support of their #1 charting album VENOM, promising fans a unique glimpse of the life on the road.
