This week sees the return to the UK of one of rock’s most iconic figures. Slash, along with his pals Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy and their band The Conspirators are back in Blighty for two shows as part of Slash’s 2013 European tour. On the 28th of February Slash & co will be playing…
Familiar visitors to UK shores over the last few years, Yellowcard’s latest jaunt across the British Isles is kicking off today (February 25th 2013). Yellowcard, who come armed with new album Southern Air, will playing eight shows, including a double header at Kingston’s Peel venue (matinee show and evening show). Several dates on the tour…
If you are a fan of championing home grown talent and absurdly heavy, remorseless brutality, then whet your lips in anticipation. Brotherhood Of The Lake are about to make you very happy indeed. Although this is the only happiness that you will find in conjunction with this band, for what we have here is eight…
In a shocking turn of events (not the first one to occur this week in the world of metal), Machine Head have in the last couple of hours announced that band co-founder and bassist Adam Duce will be leaving the Californian metal four piece. The following announcement was posted on Machine Head’s official website: Machine…
Bullet For My Valentine are always a band that are going to divide, and have done since debut album ‘The Poison’ propelled them to mainstream success. Last album, Fever delivered punchy and hard hitting metal songs that held a distinct appeal for the mainstream. However, it often feels as though Bullet have taken the formula…
In this faced paced, digital, modern world there would appear to be little use for an artist like Steven Wilson. It’s all about instant gratification within three minutes these days, a click on your iTunes here, a flick through your Spotify there. No room for albums, let alone conceptual albums featuring multi-instrumentation epics and a…
It seems that Andy Copping and The Powers That Be at Castle Donington & Live Nation HQ are just determined to continuously outdo themselves this year. Well, this most recent bit of news for Download 2013 is gonna go down in the history of Download as one of the most impressive announcements ever. Not content…
Fresh from their recent very successful run of UK headline shows with Devil Sold His Soul, and their biggest US tour to date at the end of 2012 with metal heavyweights Lamb of God and In Flames, Sylosis have announced their highest profile shows to date. Josh, Carl, Rob and Bailey have just been confirmed…
In another sign of the growing success of rock and metal acts amongst the UK’s music buying public, we have two more chart success stories to report. Two weeks after Biffy Clyro took the number one spot on the album chart with their latest offering Opposites, and a week after Fall Out Boy’s comeback single…
After we brought you the news of Paramore’s brand new single “Now” at the start of the month (see the original story here), the Paramore trio have now followed this up by releasing the official music video for the song. Watch the “Now” video below: Now is the first single from Paramore’s first new studio…
