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... 

Not wasting any time, Lucasfilm has confirmed that JJ Abrams will be returning to a galaxy far, far away to direct and write the untitled Episode IX of the Sequel Trilogy.  

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.).  

Primitive Man are without a doubt one of the darkest, most punishingly brutal bands working today. Taking a no-filtered, straight to the point approach to noisy doom-inspired metal, Primitive Man are back again with a new offering and a forthcoming release to commemorate it.  

When it comes to metal, who do you go to for straight up blood and guts? Cannibal Corpse, obviously.  

Everyone’s worst fear of a demonic clown comes true this weekend as It and the titular Pennywise are set to take over the box office this weekend.  

I was one of the percentage who was happy for Colin Trevorrow to leave the untitled Episode IX. Since Lucasfilm announced him being tied to the project, I was cautious to say the least. Jurassic World was by no means a bad movie, but it was a Blockbuster in its purest form. While nostalgia played a huge part in bringing that movie to life, at the end of the day it’s just a fine movie. Trevorrow is not a bad director, however, and I’m not here to bash him, but instead help everyone understand he wasn’t the best choice for a trilogy-closing movie of this magnitude. And there’s a lot of other people out there, too, who are very much like that: good directors that aren’t suitable for a mainline Star Wars film.... 

On February 9th, Good Tiger will release their sophomore full-length, We Will All Be Gone, via Blacklight Media/Metal Blade Records. For a preview of the album, the first single, “The Devil Thinks I’m Sinking”, can be heard at: metalblade.com/goodtiger – where the record can be pre-ordered in the following formats:  

It has been 15 years since Frontiers Music Srl first partnered with Jeff Scott Soto for a release. Now, in celebration of that anniversary, Frontiers Music srl will release another new album from Jeff, entitled “Retribution” on November 10th! Co-written and produced with JSS alumni Howie Simon, fans of the storied vocalist can expect a hard rockin’ melodic album in the style that they’ve come to know and love from Jeff Scott Soto! Today, Jeff has released the first track from “Retribution”. “Breakout”. Listen to it HERE! Order the album here: http://radi.al/Retribution or at the links below: Frontiers: http://www.frontiers.shop (CD & VINYL) Amazon: http://radi.al/RetributionAmazon iTunes:... 

U.S. death metal band ORIGIN premiere a new music video for the track “Infinitesimal To The Infinite”, taken from their recently released new album “Unparalleled Universe”, available via Agonia Records in Europe / ROW and Nuclear Blast Records in North America.  

“The End of The End” chronicles the final tour from the band that spawned the metal genre–BLACK SABBATH. On February, 4 2017, BLACK SABBATH stormed the stage in e U.K. in their hometown of Birmingham, to play the 81st and final triumphant gig of “The End” tour. This monumental show brought down the curtain on a career that spanned almost half a century.  

PAIN, the Swedish industrial-metal force led by multi-instrumentalist and producer Peter Tägtgren (HYPOCRISY, LINDEMANN), will make their first ever North American appearance this upcoming September. Comments Tägtgren: “Painheads of America and Canada! We’re happy to finally be doing a North American tour together with Orphaned Land. Be there or be square. It might be the only chance to see Pain on this continent!” The band will be touring in support of their latest record, Coming Home, which was released last year via Nuclear Blast. Confirmed tour dates, which includes a performance at the Prog Power festival, are as follows: PAIN 09/09/17              Atlanta, GA        ...