Everyone likes to have a bit of fun at Christmas, especially those of a rock & metal persuasion and if there’s one band in the rock & metal world that equates to fun, its our friends in Bowling For Soup! As a Christmas present check out the always awesome Jaret Reddick, BFS frontman, being interviewed…
Fresh from the announcement of their first UK tour for 2013 with Halestorm (read details of that here), welsh metal four piece Bullet For My Valentine have released the first music video from their forthcoming fourth studio album Temper Temper. The video is for the album’s title track and features a unique take on anger…
Purveyors of deathcore across the world over the last six and a bit years, NYC natives Emmure are proud to announce that on this coming Saturday (17th of November) in London England they will chalk up their 1000th live show. They’ll be doing it in some style too, playing as support to the mighty Parkway…
Straight from the lineup of the latest installment of alternative musics most popular compilation series, Punk Goes Pop Volume 5, Michigan metalcore band We Came As Romans have turned their hand to covering one of pop’s most popular boy bands. For the latest release of Punk Goes Pop they’ve covered UK boy band The Wanted’s…
‘The Very Beast of Dio – Volume Two’ is a compilation of the late Ronnie James Dio’s work from the second half of his solo career. The better known section of his solo work is, indisputably contained in the first volume. This then, makes Volume Two an interesting listen as it lacks the familiarity of…
The UK is a breeding ground for hot, new, unsigned talent right now in the world of metal and rock – Exitum are just one such unsigned band, having gained a substantial following – principally through online means and not by playing shows (although they managed to bag a support slot for Malefice on…
Hot on the heels of the announcement that one of the biggest alternative metal bands of the last decade would be returning to the UK for a tour in February 2013, there’s some more Deftones news for our readers. Ahead of the release of their brand new album Koi No Yokan, the band have released…
Papa Roach first rose to prominence in the early 2000’s ‘nu-metal explosion’ with smash hit ‘Last Resort’ – a song that’s still played in rock clubs everywhere and, seven albums later Papa Roach are still penning huge, bouncy and fun rock songs, this time introducing electronic elements to the more traditional rock sound that the…
Cradle of Filth have released a video for Frost On Her Pillow taken from their new album The Manticore & Other Horrors due to be released next week [youtube id=”RmDfSc9ADuk” width=”600″ height=”350″] Lead Guitarist Paul Allender will also be hosting a live web chat at 8pm (GMT) this Friday, 26th October. The live web chat with…
It’s been over four years since bay area thrash legends Testament released one of the best albums of their career so far, The Formation of Damnation. They have now returned with The Dark Roots Of Earth, released on the awesome Nuclear Blast Records, and expectations for this album were very high indeed. The opening song…