Swedish progressive rock/metal innovators Pain of Salvation have released their newest studio album “In the Passing Light of Day” via longtime label InsideOutMusic last week. The much anticipated album is now entering the national sales charts in various countries, reaching the highest entries in the band’s history as follows:  

Wyoming-based metalcore stalwarts RIGHTEOUS VENDETTA are proud to announce the release of their forthcoming studio record, Cursed, on March 17th via Century Media Records. The new album was produced by Mitch Marlow (In This Moment, Stitched Up Heart) and is preceded by the band’s 2014 EP ‘Defiance’.  

It’s funny how an offhanded comment can make a dream come true, but that’s exactly what happened with thrash icons Anthrax.  

The multi-dimensional, progressive-rock band, Coheed and Cambria announced today that they will be touring the US this spring, performing their landmark third album, “Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness”, in its entirety. The tour, entitled NEVERENDER GAIBSIV, will take the band across North America commencing on April 11, and ending May 20, and including stops at the Hollywood Palladium; Aragon Theater in Chicago; and the Blues Hill Bank Pavilion in Boston.  

Red Fang have announced a new round of U.S. tour dates in support of their recently released album, Only Ghosts.  

Sweden’s musical alchemists, OPETH have debuted a new video for their song “Era” today. The video’s track is featured on the band’s critically praised, 12th studio album, Sorceress, which is available for purchase at www.opeth.com/stores from Moderbolaget Records/Nuclear Blast Entertainment.  

Anti-Flag is leading the charge of political punk rock in 2017, which is when this country needs it the most! The Pittsburgh punk band will be increasingly visible and vocal in 2017. With the follow up to 2015’s American Spring (Spinefarm) on the horizon later this year, the band continues to fight for justice and equality and fearlessly make their voices heard, especially in this changing (and increasingly terrifying) government landscape. Put simply, A-F can’t and won’t back down. Anti-Flag’s Justin Sane spoke to Billboard, sharing the band’s views on our new president and the band was featured in an in-depth and eye-opening profile over at CLRVYNT. Watch the live video for “Death... 

IRON MAIDEN’s hugely successful The Book Of Souls World Tour will return to North America for an extensive series of arena and amphitheater shows in summer 2017. The mammoth tour opened in Florida last February playing fourteen sold-out shows in the U.S.A and Canada along with a further 58 concerts in 34 other countries around the globe.  

POWER TRIP strike again with their second single “Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe)” which lyricist Riley Gale explains was written in relation to “Christian European countries where it was common for the person sentenced to death to have a chance to repent. If they did, they were given a bag of coins, silver or alike. For if they were particularly vile or the executioner felt lazy, it may take more than one swing of that axe to get that person’s head off and that kind of death is certainly one you’d want to be as painless as possible.” “Hence, the Executioner’s Tax to ensure a strong, lights out kinda death. It’s more subtly an allegory about that being... 

After a 9-year hiatus, the biggest indoor metal festival in Eastern Europe – Metalmania, comes back to life! The 23rd edition of this iconic festival will be held on April, 22nd 2017 in Spodek Hall, Katowice (Poland).  

New York City’s BLACK ANVIL has shared a full stream of the ‘As Was’ full-length prior to release this Friday.  

Following the announcement of their forthcoming performance at Coachella, New Order reveals a handful of special US shows, including headline dates in Santa Barbara, Berkeley, and New York.