rock/metal news
News: The Haunted release details on upcoming release “Exit Wounds”
Sweden’s The Haunted are set to release their latest album dubbed “Exit Wounds” August 25 via Century Media. The band’s longtime producer Tue Madsen once again oversaw the recording at Denmark’s Antfarm Studio. This release features the return of vocalist Marco Aro after the departure of former vocalist Peter Dolving during a tumultuous time for …
See: Courtney Love. Releases new video, ‘You Know My Name’, plus Tour details
Unless you’ve been hiding under the covers, locked in a cupboard or in some kind of coma for the past few weeks you’ll be aware that a certain Ms.Love is coming to town. Not only that but she’s got some new solo material, her first since 2004’s ‘America’s Sweetheart’. Ignore the tabloid bullshit and the …
News: Lawnmower Deth plan to re-release Ooh Crikey It’s, plus Download apprearance
It’s not fair to say legendary thrash metallers Lawnmower Deth are back, because technically they reformed in 2008, after three and a half albums worth of injecting humour into the genre, and continuing in the tradition of unlikely covers, taking on the likes of Kim Wilde, Squeeze, The Osmonds and Fleetwood Mac between 1987 and …
See: Five Finger Death Punch release video for “House of the Rising Sun”, plus US dates
Let’s get this straight from the start, firstly – yes it is. Secondly – it is nothing like any version you’ve (probably) ever heard. The folk song, famously a hit for The Animals in 1964, but recorded before that by the likes of Josh White and Leadbelly, is given a complete reworking, moved into …
News: The Temperance Movement announce spring European Tour
London-based blues rockers The Temperance Movement are off on tour. Nothing new there, they played over a hundred gigs last year, and have already built a reputation for their live show here in e UK especially. This time though, the boys are off to peddle their considerable wares around the concert Halls of Europe first, …
See: J. Roddy Walston & The Business UK Dates, plus new video
We got all enthusiastic about the rather addictive Southern rock of J Roddy Walston & The Business before, with its low slung riffs and scuffed up basslines, and Roddy himself, hollering (did I spell / say that right? I feel a bit of a fraud sat here in Yorkshire) out with his Southern blues rock …
News: Surrey rock outfit Arcane Roots Spring European and UK Tour news
Oh, we’re getting a shiver of excitement about Surrey’s new rock heroes Arcane Roots. Not just because they’ve announced a whole host of new tour dates across both the UK and Europe, but because they’re in serious danger of exploding into being one of the biggest rock bands in the country. Their album, Blood & …
News: Canadian metal band Cauldron announce European Tour
It’s been a while since we heard anything from Canadian heavy/thrash metal trio Cauldron, nothing in fact since their fourth album, 2012’s Tomorrow’s Lost, but that was enough to convince many of their qualities – good old fashioned Heavy Metal, with plenty of pretension and no little amount of theatrics. So, if any persuasion were …
Track: Kagoule make Adjust the Way available on free download, plus tour dates
In a world where more and more seems to be coming neatly packaged and conforming to an accepted norm, it is nice to find that there are still people out there prepared to steer away from the mainstream flow. Nottingham trio Kagoule have been around a few years now. Early demo’s ‘Monarchy’ & ‘Made of …
News: Morbid Angel reissue Covenant, plus US tour dates
I once read a review of some music that claimed that it was ‘a crass monster, a hideously writhing wounded dragon, which refuses to expire, and though bleeding in the Finale, furiously beats about with its tail erect.’ It illustrates two things, it shows that not everybody understands or likes new music, but also it …