New Opeth is coming! The Swedish prog metal maestros have announced the follow up to their 2016 album Sorceress. Titled In Cauda Venenum, the album will be released through Moderbolaget / Nuclear Blast Records. The exact release date of the album, as well as details of various pre-order bundles, will follow in the future. In…
Slam Dunk Festival 2019 is now just a handful of days away (seriously, how did it get so close so quickly?!) and we cannot wait. To help get you all in the mood for Slam Dunk, we’ve got a playlist for you all to spin. Featuring twenty six epic songs you might well hear across…
The partnership between the Download Festival and Zippo has been very well established for many years now. The very successful relationship continues for another year in 2019, and as they have done for the past several years, Download and Zippo have teamed up on a set of limited edition Download Festival branded Zippo lighters. Just…
Opening with minimalist bass and guitar and tom driven percussion that builds to bursting point is a smart way to kick off a release, and such is the beginning of the new Pleiades album. It sets the mood by sonically establishing the variety of heaviness set to unfold, in this case a face melting composite…
New Slipknot is here! Both in terms of a brand new single, and more details about their long awaited sixth album, which had already been confirmed to be released in August 2019. Slipknot’s sixth album has the (somewhat already suspected) title We Are Not Your Kind will be released on the 9th of August through…
Gearing up for the release of their new EP, I Can’t Sleep, later this month, Scottish alt-rock trio OHNOVA have unveiled a blistering, rifftastic second single from the EP. Easy Way Out is the track in question, and is a highly infectious bit of rock n’roll with a killer main riff. We think you should…
Having amassed over 30 million views of their unique covers of the likes of Rage Against The Machine, Black Sabbath and Audioslave on YouTube, New Yorkers Brass Against are set for their biggest stage to date by far. The rock infused brass collective have been invited to support rock icon Lenny Kravitz at his show…
With exactly one month to go before the first day of bands at the 2019 Download Festival, the Download team have one more line up announcement for everyone. Finishing off the line up of bands for 2019 are six more acts, headed by Dutch symphonic metal maestros Epica! The world’s first Nirvana covers band fronted…
A new Amon Amarth album is always an event in the metal world. Our resident metal minstrels of the tales of the vikings have been steadily growing in popularity ever since their big breakthrough almost fifteen years ago courtesy of With Oden On Our Side. Their latest album, Beserker, seems set to propel them to…
What a video of the week contest we had last time! Swedish rockers Port Noir eventually came out on top, but it was a titanic battle for them to get there. With the best part of 3000 votes cast, Port Noir and last years’ video of the year winners Not Ur Girlfrenz traded places several…
