Metalcore veterans Being As An Ocean have developed a career of strong albums nad great live performances. Having left their relationship with Equal Vision Records, the band is planning an independent release, Waiting For Morning To Come, this fall. You can hear the first of two new singles, ‘Thorns,’ below.Continue reading
Queens Of The Stone Age’s new album Villains just dropped last week via Matador Records. As part of their press tour promoting the release, they performed live and unplugged in the studio on BBC Radio 6. You can watch the three tracks they played, ‘The Way You Used To Do’, ‘Domesticated Animals’, and ‘River In The Road’ below.Continue reading
Ten Bands One Cause are teaming up with artists such as Metallica, Mastodon, GWAR and others to reissue their music on pink vinyl for the fourth annual event. The initiative has raised over $144,000 for Gilda’s Club NYC, an organization that provides community support for both those diagnosed with cancer and their caretakers. Continue reading
Rockers Emarosa is releasing a new EP dubbed 131 Reimagined via Hopeless Records on September 15th. Their EP will contain reworked versions of tracks from their beloved 131 album. You can hear the first track ‘Helpless’ now.Continue reading
Bay Area punk legends Rancid performed on Conan this week. They played their track ‘Ghost Of A Chance’, from their recent album Trouble Maker (Hellcat/Epitaph), which you can watch below. They co-headline today’s It’s Not Dead Fest 2 at Glen Helen Festival Grounds in San Bernardino, CA. Continue reading
For the first time ever annual charity event and concert Ride For Dime takes place in New Jersey as The East Coast Tri-State chapter taking place at Starland Ballroom on Saturday, August 26th. Among the bands playing Thy Will Be Done, Silvertomb, Frost Coalition, Black Water Rising, IKILLYA, Alekhine’s Gun, Hammerfight, Lethal Affection, Negative Sky, Common Wealth, Throwdown Syndicate, Kalopsia, Whiskey Time Machine, Palaceburn, Apparition and Enigma Machine. More details below: Continue reading
Angel Vivaldi and Andy James are teaming up for a must see European tour in September and October. During the trek, the two guitarists will be holding joint VIP guitar clinics, which include a Q&A, meet + greet, and much more. To help get fans more excited for the upcoming dates, the shredtastic duo has premiered their new video for ‘Wave Of Synergy’ online today. Continue reading
We’ve known for a while now that Dimmu Borgir has been working on a new album, and we have an exciting new update from guitarist Silenoz. Continue reading
The remaining members of Motörhead will be releasing a collection of their best covers on September 1st, which includes the previously unreleased version of David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ that we premiered earlier this month. Today they’ve shared their Grammy-winning cover of ‘Whiplash’ by Metallica online, along with this statement from Mikkey Dee to Metal Hammer, “As you know we love Metallica and they love us, and this is one of the songs we liked a lot and covered it back then. The snare, the riffs – all that fit in with Motorhead.” Continue reading
Avenged Sevenfold‘s evolving concept for their latest record, The Stage, continues on today. Continue reading