Riding high on their new album Berserker (Metal Blade/Columbia), Amon Amarth has booked a tour of Europe later this year. For exclusive shows booked for the UK, Arch Enemy and Hypocrisy will act as direct support. Other openers will be named soon for other countries. All dates for the tour can be seen below. Tickets for all shows can be purchased at the link below from 10am local time on Tuesday 18th June. A variety of VIP bundles will also be available once ticket sales begin.Continue reading
Fresh off of their North American tour with Slayer, Amon Amarth has shared a new music video. The video for ‘Mjolner’ is the final chapter in the trilogy of videos that included ‘Raven’s Flight’ and ‘Crack the Sky’ all directed by Roboshobo, and have launched their recent album Berserker, out now via Sony/Metal Blade Records. The band continues to support the release and will appear at Download Festival 2019 on the main stage, on Sunday 16th of June. Watch the video now!
Rockers New Years Day are releasing their new album Unbreakable next week, on April 26th via RED Music. The band just released a lyric video for their new single ‘Shut Up’, which you can see below! Continue reading
Long-running Heavy Metal legends Queensrÿche recently released their excellent new album The Verdict on Century Media Records. We caught up with founding member Michael “Whip” Wilton at their sold-out show at Irving Plaza in New York City and talked about the new album, the loyalty of their fans, working with Chris “Zeuss” Harris, the bands’ approach to music videos, their tour plans for the rest of 2019, some key upcoming milestone album anniversaries in their career, and much more. Interview by Keefy and videography by Omar Cordy of OJC Photography.Continue reading
The new trailer for Spider Man: Far From Home just dropped and once again Queens, New York legends The Ramones are being repped by the movie. Spider-Man’s character is actually from Forrest Hills, the same neighborhood as The Ramones, and the iconic Punks are synonymous with New York attitude and style. ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’ can be heard at the top of the trailer, much like ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ was used in the trailers and the movie Spider-Man: Homecoming. The trailer always has an orchestral version of the popular original Spider-Man Cartoon theme song from the 1960s. Spider-Man Far From Home releases on July 5th 2019 from Sony Pictures. Continue reading
Metalcore lords Bring Me The Horizon have shared their new mind-blowing video for the track ‘Medicine’. The song comes from their upcoming new album Amo, dropping on January 25th via Sony/Columbia. Amo already has one bonafide hit in the Grammy-nominated ‘Mantra’ (26.5 million Spotify streams and 13 million YouTube views and is a Top 10 hit at Active Rock Radio). Watch the video below!Continue reading
Bring Me the Horizon is looking forward to 2019 with big hearts and big riffs. The bands’ new album Amo (RCA/Columbia/Sony) is releasing on 25th of January and is one of the most anticipated records of 2019. They just teased a new video for their possible next single, “Medicine”, which you can see below. Continue reading
Sons of Apollo, the prog metal supergroup made up of members of Dream Theater, The Winery Dogs, and Journey and more band have canceled all of their summer festival tour dates. The band released a statement to the fans apologizing. Their stunning debut album Psychotic Symphony, came out last October via InsideOut Music.Continue reading
German metal is going through something of a renaissance in recent times, with an inventive and all-embracing attitude exuding all manner of influences. Step forward the enigmatically named Time, The Valuator, adding a post-hardcore feel to the powerful prog metal of the likes of Karnivool and Periphery with debut album How Fleeting, How Fragile (Longbranch).Continue reading
To Djent or not to djent, that is the question. In the brief decade since the rise of the style named for the onomatopoeia of Meshuggah’s guitar tone became the genre du- jour for while in heavy music and folded back into prog again. We still don’t know the answer. In the meantime, prog heads are content to jam their favorites and occasionally take note of supreme new talent on the scene. Right now, the new hot, super awesome talent is Al Joseph, and his project is Hyvmnie.Continue reading