Lamb of God and Kreator will tour Europe together next year in spring of 2020 in the “State of Unrest” tour. Direct support on every show will come from Power Trip! Continue reading
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HELLYEAH Shares New Album Cover and Backstory in Behind The Scenes Video
HELLYEAH has revealed their new album cover for their album Welcome Home, due out on September 27th, via Eleven Seven Music Group. The news comes in a behind the scenes video with singer Chad Gray. HELLYEAH has just canceled their upcoming tour dates following Tom Maxwell worsening “Trigger Finger” condition that calls for surgery soon. Continue reading
Dumb and Dumbest #232: Talking Twitter with Tankcrimes
Some social networks are so big, you can’t get the most out of them or even enjoy them properly sometimes, especially if one of your posts goes viral. Dumb and Dumbest Podcast number #232 is streaming now and it’s all about Talking Twitter with Tankcrimes. 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 Challenge, a low-cost, super high-value private training to bands and artists. Get hands-on practical experience to market your band like a pro today! Message them at the links below. Continue reading
Daughters, Zeal & Ardor, Alcest, Pelican, Deafheaven and More Booked for AMFest 2019
One of Europe’s most respected instrumental/experimental post-rock and metal music festivals returns in 2019, with AMFest in Barcelona this October. Returning for its eighth edition returns AMFest takes place 10-13 October 2019, Fabra I Coats, Barcelona. Headlining the festivals are Daughters and includes Foscor, Zeal & Ardor, Alcest, Pelican, Deafheaven, Tides From Nebula, Brutus, Portrayal of Guilt, The Album Leaf, Cocaine Piss and many more! Ticket links and other info can be found below. Continue reading
Watch Vocal Teacher Beth Roars Analyze Green Day’s “Basket Case (Live)”
YouTuber, Podcaster, and Vocal Teacher Beth Roars is back again with another video, analyzing singers. Watch her break down Billy Joe Armstrong and Green Day performing their 1990s Pop Punk classic ‘Basket Case’! Continue reading
Mötley Crüe to Release 30th Anniversary Reissue of “Dr. Feelgood”
Mötley Crüe celebrated the 30th anniversary of their Dr. Deelgood album yesterday and will release a deluxe edition with a new CD and Vinyl packaging and different merch bundles via their current label, Eleven Seven Music Group. Pre-orders are live at the link below. The huge hit album is widely considered The Crue’s best album, and Ghost Cult shared a retrospective on the release yesterday. With charting hit singles including “Dr. Feelgood,” “Kickstart My Heart,” “Without You,” “Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)” and “Same Ol’ Situation (S.O.S.),” Dr. Feelgood has been the band’s biggest album to date. The record has sold more than six million copies in the U.S. alone going 6x platinum, is certified 3x platinum in Canada, Gold in the UK and in Switzerland and spent 109 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at #1. The band also earned Grammy nominations for “Dr. Feelgood” (1990) and “Kickstart My Heart”(1991) in the Best Rock Performance category and won Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal album for the record at the American Music Awards (1991). Continue reading
Lamassu Releases Their Debut Album – “Into The Empty” Today!
Australian Heavy Rock band Lamassu has released their debut album today! Into The Empty rocks with modern riff-centric Stoner Doom vibes, but the heaviness and songwriting of great acts of yesterday such as Soundgarden, Kyuss, or Alice In Chains! This collective of musicians features members of Motherslug, Field, Borrachero, and Olmeg, all stalwarts of the Melbourne stoner/doom scene. They recorded Into the Empty in late 2018 with producer/engineer/musician Mike Deslandes (High Tension / YLVA) at The Black Lodge Studios in Brunswick, Melbourne. Their debut is self-released, with 12” vinyl and CD formats to follow. You can stream and purchase the album from the link below! Continue reading
Riley McShane Guests on the New Brutally Delicious Podcast
Brutally Delicious Podcast, from filmmaker, YouTuber, and metal chef Bruce Moore and co-hosted by Kris Siegers has just released episode 18. The new guest on the pod is Riley McShane, vocalist of Allegaeon, whose new album Apoptosis is out now on Metal Blade Records. They discussed being on the 70,000 Tons of Metal Cruise, where Riley filled in on vocals for Cattle Decapitation, his side band Continuum, a lesson on guttural vocals and more! Continue reading
Prophets of Rage (RATM, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill) to Release a New Song This Week
In a new interview with Mary Anne Hobbs of BBC Radio 6 Music, Tom Morello says there will be a new Prophets of Rage (RATM, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill) song released this week. This follows the recent stand-alone single ‘Made With Hate’, which released in June. More details about the bands’ new album, their third will be announced soon as well. “In light of the recent gun violence, we’ve got a very timely song that we’re gonna put out hopefully in the next couple of days,” he said. “Then beyond that, I think for PROPHETS OF RAGE, this will be our third studio record and really the one where I think we have to define who we are in 2019 and beyond, rather than just sort of a coming together of groups with notable catalogs, to really find our own sound and to continue to grow.”Continue reading
Green Carnation to Enter The Studio, New Album Due in 2020
Progressive stoner metal band Green Carnation will enter the studio this month to make their first new album since 2006’s The Acoustic Verses and first new music since The Quiet Offspring in 2005. The music will be released in 2020. The band will be recording what they describe as “a tribute to Green Carnation’s past, present and future”, consisting of three brand new songs, one remake of a song from their debut album and one cover song. The sessions also mark a reunion with Endre Kirkesola (Abbath, In Vain, Solefald), the producer of the band’s legendary Light of Day, Day of Darkness, in DUB Studios in Kristiansand, Norway.Continue reading