Month: April 2023

Medevil is a heavy metal band from Canada formed in 2014, releasing two albums to date – ‘Conductor Of Storms’ (2016) and ‘Mirror In The Darkness’ (2023). With a darker mood than the band’s debut […]

Lordi is a hard rock/heavy metal band from Finland formed in 1992, releasing an incredible eighteen albums over a three-decade monster costume-wearing career – with the band’s eighteenth album ‘Screem Writers Guild’ (released in 2023), […]

Vanish are a power metal band from Germany formed in 2000, releasing four albums to date – ‘Separated From Today’ (2006), ‘Come To Wither’ (2014), ‘The Insanity Abstract’ (2017), and ‘A Hint Of Solace’ released […]

GRAMMY® Award-nominated SEVENDUST are back with the announcement of their 14th studio album Truth Killer, slated for worldwide release via the band’s new label, Napalm Records. Truth Killer is the follow-up to the band’s 2020 critically acclaimed release Blood & Stone that saw the band […]

Avaland is a symphonic power metal band from France formed in 2018, releasing their debut album ‘Theater Of Sorcery’ in 2021, and sophomore album ‘The Legend Of The Storyteller’ in 2023. Led by author, composer, […]

German death metal outfit Atrocity has been around since 1985 and has released 10 albums in that time, their 10th and latest album being ‘OKKULT III’.  It is the third and final instalment in the […]

Dedicated to the Musical Legacy of Morbid Angel. I AM MORBID, the band featuring former MORBID ANGEL members David Vincent (bass, vocals) and Pedro “Pete” Sandoval (drums) will Host  its “Morbidfest”   Australia Only Shows  in […]

The Southern River Band have well-earned their reputation as the future of modern Australian Rock ‘n’ Roll. Between electrifying passion in their nationally touring live show, a 2022 W.A.M. Rock Band of the Year award, loveable larrikin personalities […]

Oryad let their intentions known as a musical force with their debut release ‘’ Hymns of Exile & Decay’’ in 2021. the outfit from the Appalachians and Rocky Mountains in the USA has delivered a […]

Barbagia (Inner Sardinia) based black metal band trio KRE’U release their debut album in honour of the bandits and mighty outlaws of their homeland. Kre’u’s inotation of black metal is unique that is heavily influenced […]

American shoegaze-meets-black-metal trailblazers DEAFHEAVEN have announced their most extensive Australian & New Zealand headline tour to date, scheduled for May & June 2023. Their first visit in over 4 years will see them play in […]

April 28, 2023 will see dark and extreme metal masters, GRAVEWORM, return with their brand new album, entitled Killing Innocence, through AFM Records. It’s the band’s first studio album in eight long years! Following previously-released first singles, “Dead […]

Chart-storming power metal warriors GLORYHAMMER are back and proudly announcing their highly anticipated upcoming fourth album, Return to the Kingdom of Fife, out June 2, 2023 via Napalm Records! Wasting no time, the band has released the epic […]

One of the most captivating bands in pagan metal, the adherents of heathen temple ARKONA, have finally announced the upcoming release of their eerie, captivating ninth studio album, Kob‘, out June 16, 2023 via Napalm Records. After […]

Aussie blackened sludge veterans Lo! have returned in 2023 bigger and better than ever. To celebrate the release of their highly anticipated new album The Gleaners out now via Pelagic Records, they announce a string of headline shows in June and July for The […]

LA-founded hard-rock hellraisers, L7 perform their landmark album ‘Bricks are Heavy’ in Full (Pretend We’re Dead, Shitlist, Wargasm, Everglade, Slide etc) L7 debut album came through Epitaph, run by Bad Religion’s Brett Gurewitz. Their second album Smell the Magic […]

Groove metal kings DEVILDRIVER recently made their triumphant return with part two of their Dealing With Demons saga, their 10th full-length, Dealing With Demons Vol. II, out May 12, 2023 via Napalm Records. Once again produced and engineered by Steve Evetts with additional engineering […]

Australian fans of Texan prodigies Polyphia have made their presence known. The band’s upcoming tour in June has resulted in SOLD OUT shows in Sydney and Melbourne in little over a week and Brisbane is not too […]

The end is only beginning for Australia’s VOID OF VISION, announcing their Das Ende Australian Tour set to celebrate their completed CHONICLES EP series live in action this August with special guests LIKE MOTHS TO FLAMES (USA), VARIALS (USA) and ANNALYNN (THAI). Kicking off at […]

A project that has been lurking in the underground of Bergen, Norway, since the late 1990s, Nattverd unleashed’’ Vi vet god Er En Løgner’’ in 2017. Their music is tough brutal pure black metal that […]

Tymo is a thrash metal band from Canada formed in 2014, releasing their debut album ‘Purge & Reset’ in 2017. The band’s sophomore album, ‘The Art Of A Maniac’, emerged in 2022… …and is harder, […]

LIGHT THE MATCH! Setting the scene ablaze, the rough and rowdy OVERKILL have reappeared to bludgeon your ears with their twentieth, that’s right, twentieth studio album: SCORCHED. For over 3 and a half decades their bottom line crazy […]

Fresh off winning Best Rock Album of the Year at the iHeart Radio Music Awards, Ghost announces the coming of PHANTOMIME, a five-song covers EP intended from the start to follow last year’s international chart-topping opus IMPERA. A diverse […]

Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records follows Brian Slagel’s critically acclaimed 2017 book, For the Sake of Heaviness, which delivered a compelling inside look at how a metal-obsessed California teen built […]