Bloodstock 2018 has announced a slew of new bands including drunken pirate metallers Alestorm, doom purveyors Pallbearer and more! Tickets are selling fast and a sell-out is expected. The fests ever-popular payment plan ticket option has only 6 days left as well. Full line-up and ticket details below. Continue reading
Bloodstock Open Air 2018 has announced four more bands for this years’ edition, including At The Gates and Exhorder. Joining the two metal legends will be Weight of the Tide and Sangre. BOA 2018 will take place at Catton Park, Derbyshire on 9th-12th August 2018 and is expected to sell out. Continue reading
Four more bands have been added to Bloodstock Open Air 2018! Suicidal Tendencies, Wednesday 13, Kamelot, and Mr. Big! Both Suicidal and Wednesday 13 will be making their BOA debuts.Continue reading
Progressive metal supergroup Sons Of Apollo featuring ex-Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (ex-Guns N’ Roses), Billy Sheehan (The Winery Dogs, Mr. Big, David Lee Roth) and Jeff Scott Soto (ex-Journey, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force) will start 2018 with the first dates of their debut wold-tour. They begin in Tampa, FL on February 3 as part of the Cruise To The Edge prog rock music cruise, which will be sailing to Belize and Costa Maya. Next, they will play Miami, FL on February 9 as part of the Monsters Of Rock Cruise Pre-Show party. Tickets for the upcoming tour dates go on sale this Friday, December 1 at 12pm local time. Psychotic Symphony is out now via InsideOut Music. Continue reading
According to common knowledge, Glam Metal died in 1991, somewhere between the releases of Warrant’s Cherry Pie (CBS) and Poison’s Flesh and Blood (Capitol) to Pearl Jam’s Ten (Epic/Sony) and Nirvana’s Nevermind (Geffen). It appears this memo did not make it to Finland, as since their debut album five years ago Santa Cruz have been churning out Hard Tock straight from the pages of Skid Row and Guns n’ Roses, like their equally glammed up compatriots Reckless Love.Bad Blood Rising (M-Theory Audio) is their third album, and the continuation of their modern Glam Metal influenced rock. Continue reading
Psychotic Symphony is the long-awaited, highly anticipated release from what most people are calling the next new super group known as Sons of Apollo. I think the more fitting term is something more than human. For context Apollo (son of Zeus) was recognized as a god of music, truth, poetry, healing, the sun and the light so it would only be befitting to call these “Sons” the demigods of music; if that seems to be overboard for us mere mortals. Then there is this all-star cast of musicians just being super in what they do. Continue reading
Progressive metal supergroup Sons of Apollo have released a music video for the track ‘Coming Home’. You can see the video below.Continue reading
Sons Of Apollo, a new progressive rock and metal supergroup featuring former Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (ex-Guns N’ Roses), Billy Sheehan (The Winery Dogs, Mr. Big, David Lee Roth) and Jeff Scott Soto (ex-Journey, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force) have announced their début album, Psychotic Symphony, due for release on October 20 via InsideOutMusic/Sony. You can hear the first track, ‘Signs Of The Time’ below.Continue reading
To celebrate their twenty year anniversary, the latest release from Brazilian Power Metallers Hibria possesses the fairly self-explanatory title of XX (Test Your Metal Records), a seven track EP featuring three brand new songs and four live recordings. Continue reading
When word spread about a new band featuring Mike Portnoy (ex-Dream Theater) on drums, Billy Sheehan on bass and Richie Kotzen on guitar and vocals, many knew something special was about to happen. Sheehan and Kotzen had previously played together in Mr. Big, and now with Portnoy joining the duo, they pieced together some driving rock music that came together quickly as their debut self-titled release. Sheehan spoke to Ghost Cult about how the band came together, their old school approach at writing and performing music and their upcoming touring plans.Continue reading