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
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.
Sirens is the forthcoming new full-length from long-running Stockholm hardcore crust troopers, VICTIMS. Set for official detonation on April 15th via Tankcrimes Records, the band’s first full-length since 2011’s acclaimed A Dissident LP was tracked at Studio Gutterview by Fred Estby (Dismember, At The Gates, Refused), mastered at Audiosiege by Brad Boatright (Iron Reagan, Nails, Integrity), and features the expected white-knuckled surges of angst as well as some more expansive elements throughout the album, all enshrouded in a barbed-wire vocal delivery, packed with unstoppable gang-chants and inescapable hooks.
Technical death metal icons ORIGIN have announced a new European tour that will be taking place throughout May, 2016. The event will be a treat for extreme metal fans, with a broad spectrum of heavy acts on board: fellow countrymen and partners in crime Immolation, headliner and black metal pioneers Marduk, as well as thrash metal sensation Bio-Cancer closing the line-up. Check below for the full 18-date routing, including nine countries!
Formed from the poetic marrow of creative intercourse, OTEP is more than a band. OTEP is an Art Movement, a Revolution; Breaking ground. Breaking rules. Breaking barriers. Articulate. Aggressive. Pure Adrenaline. ARTcore of Heavy Mental Rock.” This is how mastermind/vocalist OTEP Shamaya and her band have been described and this album proves this truth!
POP EVIL have announced a handful of new tour dates this week continuing their blitzkrieg in North America in support of their latest album UP. The band will be heading back on the road mid March on batch of headline dates with special guests DEVOUR THE DAY. Kicking off in Lincoln, NE at The Bourbon Theater, that will take them out to Fresno, CA on March 24th wrapping things up at Fulton 55.
Proving the age-old adage that hard work and dillegence pay off in the end, Los Angeles heavy metallists’ HOLY GRAIL are reaping in the benefits as their third album, “Times of Pride and Peril”, has debuted at #9 on Billboard’s New Artists chart, #14 on the Hard Music Chart and #35 on Independent Artists chart while scanning over 1500 copies within it’s first week of release. Receiving notoriety from LA Weekly for “keeping the art of shred alive and well” while comparing the band to some of the genre’s most reputable acts: Anthrax, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, HOLY GRAIL are waving the flag of heavy metal wide and loud without any inhibitions on their new release....
Detroit-based progressive rock outfit, TILES, has released the first single from their ambitious, Laser’s Edge-bound Pretending 2 Run 2xCD through an exclusive premiere. Featuring Canadian icon Kim Mitchell on lead guitar, “Shelter in Place” is the first full song released from Pretending 2 Run; a vivid and richly crafted song cycle that spins the tale of a man blindsided and disillusioned by betrayal.
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.
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...
