April 2015 will see the return of the HATEFEST Tour. The unholy billing will be headlined by SIX FEET UNDER and includes also Marduk, Vader and Hate! Special guests on all weekend-dates will be Eisregen and Debauchery. Tickets for this exceptional Death/Black Metal tour are available at www.hardticket.eu. Comments SIX FEET UNDER singer Chris Barnes: “We are very proud to announce our first tour dates of 2015 headlining the HateFest Tour in Europe this April! It’s gonna be fucking brutal!! It’s a great package with some real heavy hitters! And don’t forget to come check us out on our upcoming shows next month in Germany on our annual Xmas in Hell Tour of Germany it’s gonna get bloody!” Hatefest...
Canadian punk rockers Billy Talent are excited to announce the release of their greatest hits album, aptly titled HITS in the US via The End Records, CLICK HERE to download on iTunes. The 14 song collection will include all the band’s biggest hits along with two new songs – “Kingdom of Zod” and “Chasing the Sun”.
Following their mammothly successful tour through Europe alongside Saint Vitus, UK stoner metal icons, ORANGE GOBLIN, will bring their heavy grooves Stateside next month for a two-week bout of live takeovers supporting Down. Slated to embark December 1st in San Antonio, the trek will run through fifteen cities, coming to a close on December 21st in Houston. Additional support will come from Bl’ast and King Parrot.
Papa Roach is back! With a new album titled F.E.A.R. (Face Everything and Rise) which is scheduled to be released on January 27th, 2015. Metal Machine got the chance to discuss the new album with guitarist Jerry Horton, along with the past history of the band. Although the album marks 22 years of Papa Roach, Horton insists the band views it more as “acknowledging 15 years of Infest.” With the album being a celebration of the success Papa Roach has found in the last 15 years, we wanted to take a road down memory lane with Jerry.
Northern Irish Rockers THE ANSWER are pleased to announce that they have re-signed with Napalm Records. The band released their last album New Horizon in September 2013 to critical acclaim and has just finished work on their new follow up record entitled Raise a Little Hell. The album will be released on March 6th (GSA/Benelux), March 9th (UK and Europe) and March 10th in North America. Hot on the heels of the new album announcement, THE ANSWER are set to perform a couple of UK festival shows this winter at which they will be featuring new material from the forthcoming album. In March 2015 they will hit the road again on a comprehensive UK headline tour which will be followed by a soon to be announced European...
Recently, I was lucky enough to find myself privy to a few super low number releases through a boutique, handmade, small business label, STB Records. Steve Macioci, who I have had a few extremely cool emails with, is a one man wonderfactory behind the limited editions, and has handled such giants as: the newest Geezer album Gage, Curse the Son’s Psychache, Red Wizard, Lightsabres, Goya, and a slew of other well known and underground bands. He creates vinyl works of art through the wax medium, brings the essence of the artist’s expression to life with the packaging and attitude with which he approaches every release. Tonight, I have the pleasure of reviewing, before any streaming services or official releases,...
“Sun Eater” is the fourth full-length album from Job for a Cowboy, and was released last week via Metal Blade Records worldwide. The response has been overwhelmingly positive, with Decibel Magazine conceding and saying “Fuck it, I can admit when I’m wrong… Turns out that, while I was busy pointedly not paying attention to them, these deathcore progenitors actually became a pretty damn good band.” Alternative Press Magazine also declared in their 4.5/5 star review that “they’ve become a full-on progressive death metal band…the songs have progressive sweep and epic power, at times recalling Opeth’s heavier work…Sun Eater is one of 2014’s best metal albums, period.”...
