END OF YEAR GUEST POST: Chained Saint’s Top Ten Albums of 2024


Wrapping up all the business of 2024 with some fun End of Year Guest Posts from bands, friends, music industry pals, label types, and assorted good fiends! Check out this list from the guys in Chained Saint!Continue reading


GHOST CULT MAGAZINE TOP 75 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2024

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Last-minute slinky Norwegian jesters aside, our dedicated and awesome team of writers, photographers, editors, contributors, alumni, designers and what have you, have come together to work through our regular collaborative and demographic confirmation of those albums that tickled our collective pickle in 2024.Continue reading


PODCAST: The Weekly Ritual Rock and Metal News Show Live 12-12-24


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Killswitch Engage Shares a New Single “Forever Aligned” – New Album “This Consequence” Due Out in Early 2025


Killswitch Engage has confirmed their ninth studio album, This Consequence, set for release on February 21st via Metal Blade Records. You can already pre-order the new album below! The new single, “Forever Aligned,” premiered earlier this week on SiriusXM’s Liquid Metal before hitting streaming services. Check it out! Continue reading


Killswitch Engage Announce Spring 2025 Headline Tour with Kublai Khan Tx, Fit For A King, and Frozen Soul


Three-time Grammy-nominated hard rock heavyweights and platinum-selling band Killswitch Engage are returning to the road this winter and spring. Fresh off a 25th anniversary performance headlining the vaunted New England Metal & Hardcore Fest last month, the band will embark on a headline run in March. It’s their first tour of North America since late 2022, as the band has been busy working on new material.Continue reading


NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: New Rock and Metal Releases for 9-20-24


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PREVIEW: New Music Friday – Rock and Metal Releases for 9-20-24


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Bloodstock Open Air 2025 Books Trivium, Machine Head, Gojira, Emperor, Lacuna Coil, Lord of Lost, The Black Dahlia Murder, 3 Inches of Blood, and More


With 2024’s event underway and already laying claim as one of the biggest and best Bloodstock’s ever, festival HQ have set the wheels in motion of 2025’s heavy metal juggernaut by announcing not one, not five, but nineteen bands for its hottest summer yet, including all headliners. Bloodstock 2025 will take place at Catton Park, Derbyshire on 7th-10th August.Continue reading


Kublai Khan TX Shares a New Single and Video “Supreme Ruler” – New Album “Exhibition Of Prowess” Incoming


Texan titans Kublai Khan TX are back with a vengeance in announcing their much-anticipated forthcoming album Exhibition Of Prowess, out 20th September 2024 (via Rise Records). With an established reputation for delivering intense, earth-shattering bangers full of punishing breakdowns, vicious vocals and skull-splitting riffs, Exhibition Of Prowess is a testament to the band’s relentless drive and promises to be their most compelling work yet. Pre-orders are live at the link below. In celebration of the news, Kublai Khan TX has dropped their latest rager “Supreme Ruler” and the official music video. The track is self is a short blast of raw, and powerful metalcore and hardcore metal! Watch it now!

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Lamb of God Share a New Version of “Laid To Rest” – Remixed by HEALTH


With their groundbreaking album, Ashes of the Wake, turning 20 this August, Lamb of God have dropped a new version of the track “Laid To Rest,” remixed by industrial metallers HEALTH.  The deluxe, 20th anniversary edition of the album is coming August 30th, via Epic Records and Legacy Recordings. Besdies HEALTH, the re-release will feature new mixes by Justin K Broadrick (Godflesh/Jesu), as well as demo and live versions of the album’s classic songs. Lamb Of God, who launch their Ashes of Leviathan co-headlining tour with Mastodon tomorrow in Austin, Texas.  
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