British doom metal legends Electric Wizard have announced a very special one off show at The Forum in Kentish Town, London to be held on March 31st 2012. This is going to be a very special evening that promises a unique soundtrack and appearances from friends of the band. It’s also a chance for fans…
The Black Dahlia Murder, no stranger to the UK shores, have announced a massive nationwide tour for January 2012. Joining them on the tour are fellow Americans and extreme metallers Skeletonwitch. Rounding out the tour will be Fleshgod Apocalypse. Tickets for the tour go onsale on Friday 16th September. The Black Dahlia Murder / Skeletonwitch…
American arena rock band 3 Doors Down are returning to the UK for a short tour in March 2012 after the success of their shows here last year. Teaming up with 3 Doors Down are South African hard rock/grunge band Seether. The tour dates are as follows: Mar 9th – Edinburgh HMV Picture House Mar…
Trails a Guildford 4 piece currently making a stink in every huge publication and website in the uk are set to release their debut EP on 10th October. To give their fans something to sink their teeth into, their releasing their new single new single Before I Begin as a free download over on their Facebook page www.facebook.com/trailsofficial…
Since the first time round that we ran this competition there were a bunch of other Rise To Remain competitions on the Internet, ours got a bit lost. So we’re running it again as we’re just dying to give away these exclusive prizes! It’s time for another competition! Rocksins has teamed up with one of…
Prog metal titans Dream Theater have announced their first full European Tour in support of their new album A Dramatic Turn Of Events appropriately titled “A Dramatic Tour of Events”. The tour will hit the UK in February 2012 and will be Mike Mangini’s first full UK tour since joining the band and follows their…
The first Dream Theater album without Mike Portnoy was always going to be a very interesting experience. After the band’s long and well publicised search for his replacement, they found a most capable drummer in Mike Mangini, no less than the fastest drummer in the world. With Mike on board the band set about carving…
Yellowcard will release new single ‘Hang You Up’ on 31st October. The band will be playing a full band acoustic set at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire on 6th September prior to a co-headline run with Saves The Day in the UK in Nov/Dec. These dates will be Yellowcard’s first full headline dates on these shores…
Porcupine Tree main man Steven Wilson has put another video live, taken from his forthcoming solo album ‘Grace For Drowning’ which is released on KScope on September 26th. Following the video for‘Track One’, comes the video for ‘Index’, directed once again by Lasse Hoile. Enjoy! [youtube id=”dte3-sSkWic” width=”600″ height=”350″]
Before the last night of their recent UK tour, I was able to catch up with Fozzy co-founder Rich Ward who was kind enough to give me a large amount of his time. We talked about a lot of different things, but the first thing on the agenda was that a few days prior to…
