Finland’s avant-garde metal masters Oranssi Pazuzu has announced their new album, their fifth dubbed Mestarin kynsi, (“The Master’s Claw”), will release on April 17th via their new label, Nuclear Blast Records. Watch their new album teaser trailer now! Continue reading
Static-X has shared a brand new single, “Hollow”, out now on all streaming DSPs. The song is from the highly anticipated new album, Project Regeneration, featuring the last recordings of the band’s late frontman Wayne Static, which is due on May 29. The groups founding line-up of bassist Tony Campos, drummer Ken Jay, and guitarist Koichi Fukuda will also be featured on the album and in the music videos. The track is great and it’s amazing to hear Wayne’s trademark vocals and writing style on the song. Jam it out right now! Continue reading
Smashing Pumpkins will open for Guns N Roses at select shows for their highly anticipated 2020 North American tour. All dates are listed below and tickets go on sale to the general public for North American dates starting Friday, February 7 at 12 p.m. local time at the link below. The Pumpkins are at present recording their new album in Nashville for a late 2020 release. The new disc will be the follow-up to 2018’s Shiny And Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun., which was their first in over eighteen years to feature founding members Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, and James Iha, along with longtime guitarist Jeff Schroeder. Corgan released his latest solo album, Cotillions, in November via his own Martha’s Music label. Like 2017’s Ogilala, the disc was issued under his full name, William Patrick Corgan.Continue reading
Ozzy Osbourne will celebrate the release if his new album Ordinary Man (Epic Records) with a global listening party held in 50 cities around the world will host celebrations for the largest global tattoo sale and album listening event in history. This will be followed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy®-winning singer and songwriter appearing at an in-store signing at Amoeba Records in Hollywood, CA on release day (February 21). Ozzy will host his first in-store in 10 years, set to take place at Amoeba Records in Hollywood, CA at 5:00 PM. To attend: purchase ORDINARY MAN (available on CD, LP or picture disc) in-store at Amoeba Hollywood on February 21. Please note: signing space is limited; line to purchase will form on Sunset Blvd. on February 21, before store opens at 10:30 AM. There is a limit of two copies of Ordinary Man per person for signing. No additional items will be signed at this event and no photos with the artist will be possible. Watch this teaser for the event now!Continue reading
Due to overwhelming demand, a second stadium show has been added to the System of A Down, Korn, Faith No More, Helmet, and Russian Circlesconcert of “Galactic Proportions”. The concerts will take place at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles, May 22nd and 23rd. The presale is live now and the public on-sale takes place for both this Friday on February 7th. Watch the teaser now!
Due to overwhelming demand, we’re taking over Banc of California Stadium both Friday, 5/22 and Saturday, 5/23. General on-sale for each night: Tomorrow, 2/7, at 10AM PT. https://t.co/HeUhiLu71K. pic.twitter.com/xPj7WkjvUb
— System Of A Down (@systemofadown) February 6, 2020
Buy tickets here: https://systemofadown.com/tour
San Diego Thrash metallers Beekeeper are streaming their debut music video today, here at Ghost Cult! The clip for their track ‘Vargas’ is a comedic romp that shows off track and will remind you of the hilarious 1990s videos Beastie Boys made with Spike Jones and the kind of videos Exodus would make is Paul Baloff were still alive, Satan rest his soul! ‘Vargas’ was directed by Luc Hollywood, edited by Luc Hollywood and Adam Wollach, and comes off of their 2017 album Slaves To The Nothing. Watch the clip now! Continue reading
One of the things holding musicians in bands trying to further their careers is a lack of learning resources to help themselves. Episode #321 is streaming now and its an interview with Andrew Apanov of Dotted Music and Music Growth Talks! Dumb and Dumbest is hosted by Matt Bacon (Dropout Media, Ripple Music, Prophecy Productions) and Publicist Curtis Dewar (Dewar PR), in addition to the podcast, Matt and Curtis host The Music Marketing Challenges, low-cost, super high-value private training to bands and artists. Get hands-on practical experience to market your band like a pro today! DM Matt or Curtis at the links below for detailsContinue reading
Proggy post-Black Metal band Karg is back with a new full-length album Traktat, out this Friday, February 7th, 2020, via AOP Records. The evocative, inspirational project started out in 2006 as a solo endeavor from J.J. of Harakiri For The Sky in Salzburg Austria but is now more of a fleshed-out, full-band project. Fans of atmospheric Black Metal, post-Metal, Blackgaze, prog, and drone styles will love the emotional ebb and flow of Traktat with all the gravitas of the greats of the genre. The band will celebrate the release with a European tour, kicking off tomorrow night in Oberhausen, Germany at Helvete. You can stream the entire new album, right here at Ghost Cult, right now! Continue reading
Mr. Bungle performed their first show in almost twenty years last night in Los Angeles at the historic Fonda Theater in Hollywood. Watch fan-filmed footage of the band performing their debut EP The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny, a brutal brand new song dubbed ‘Meth”, some inventive covers (Slayer, S.O.D., Siege, Seals and Croft, The Exploited), and more! Continue reading
Lamb of God has unveiled its highly-anticipated new single and video, ‘Checkmate’. The track is the first new song from the band in five years and the first from their upcoming self-titled new album, due out on May 8th via Epic Records (USA) and Nuclear Blast (Europe) the track is a savage metal anthem in the style of the bands earliest, angriest work. ‘Check out the clip here!Continue reading