After 27 years of waiting, fans can rejoice as New Orleans’ face-melting thrash legends EXHORDER will be releasing their forever-awaited third studio album later this year. The band has officially wrapped recording of their first record since the long celebrated ’92 classic The Law. Exhorder will celebrate their return with a festival date in Europe and a North American tour with Kataklysm in September. Dates are coming soon.

Commenting on the long journey to recording their third record, the band’s founding guitarist Vinnie La Bella says, “27 years? Man, that’s a big number! A lot has transpired over the course of such an extended amount of time, and this record touches on it all...

After pulling out all the stops on an exhaustive two year long independent death investigation that I’ve conducted on behalf of Chris Cornell and the people, I have reached an official conclusion in the matter.

At the same time I am currently holding a 24 hour long online vigil on this 2 year anniversary of his tragic death, where fans can respectfully honor his memory and incredible rock music legacy, as well as share their thoughts and opinions as it relates to my groundbreaking reporting.

As the world’s most widely published journalist, I accomplished many amazing feats battling against the corruption of the New World Order over the past 24 months...

CROWBAR frontman Kirk Windstein has announced that writing sessions for the band’s twelfth studio album commenced today, May 17th. Recent months have found Windstein in the studio working on a new solo album, which he described as being “mellow, dark music.” Release details for both albums have yet to be disclosed.

Crowbar is an American Sludge Metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, characterized by their extremely slow, low-keyed, hardcore and brooding songs.

Starting in 1989 and taking its name from the Crowbar group in NOLA (New Orleans), Kirk Windstein went on to pioneer slow and heavy music with a unique vocal style. Their first album, Obedience Thru Suffering was released in 1991, but failed to achieve notoriety...

Washington/Detroit-based outfit WIZARD RIFLE premiere a new song entitled “Rocket to Hell”, taken from their upcoming new self-titled album, which is out August 30 on Svart Records.

Check out now “Rocket to Hell” above.

Wizard Rifle formed in Portland, Oregon in 2009. Teaming with Nanotear Booking, guitarist/vocalist Max Dameron and drummer/vocalist Sam Ford have performed extensively across the US and Canada, including appearances at Psycho Las Vegas, Hopscotch, Crucial Fest, MusicFest NW and SXSW, and tours with Bongzila, Buzzov*en, Black Cobra, Church of Misery, Saviors, Arabrot, Cutthroats 9 and NAAM.

Their powerful live shows and two full-length releases, 2014’s “Here in the Deadlight” and 2012’s “Speak Loud Say Nothing” have drawn great praise and kept critics and audie...

POWER TRIP have canceled their scheduled performance at the ‘Dark Lord Day’ festival tomorrow (May 18) in Indiana, as an unidentified member of the band was injured this week in a bicycle accident. Power Trip have issued the following statement:

“We’re stunned and sad to announce that we’ve been forced to cancel our set tomorrow at Dark Lord Day. One of us was in a serious bicycle accident two days ago, but even after still wanting to play the show, was told by doctors this morning that he is not cleared to fly and requires immediate surgery. He’s going to be alright but we do not know much more than that...

Doom/sludge metal veterans SAINT VITUS are now streaming their eponymous new album in full. The record is released worldwide today, May 17. You can have a listen above.

Saint Vitus. One of the first doom metal bands. Influenced by Black Sabbath.

Saint Vitus were formed in 1978 under the name Tyrant. They briefly reunited for a few shows in 2003 and when Debris Inc. and The Hidden Hand were both put on ice for good by 2008, Saint Vitus decided to stay reunited full-time. They released their eighth studio album in 2012 with Wino on vocals.

In autumn 2014, they toured Europe for their 35th anniversary, performing their Born Too Late in full...

The daily set times have been announced for this rapidly approaching ‘Rocklahoma‘ festival, which is due to take place from May 24th-26th at Pryor Creek Music Festival Grounds in Pryor, OK. This year’s event will be held across three stages with a bonus pre-party to be held on Thursday, May 23rd. Here’s how the current schedule runs:

Thursday, May 23rd:

Roadhouse Pre-Party:
10:50 PM – Slaughter
9:20 PM – Strutter
8:05 PM – Rocket Science
7:00 PM – Poster Child

Friday, May 24th:

Bud Light Stage:
10:40 PM – Shinedown
8:50 PM – Seether
7:15 PM – Buckcherry
5:55 PM – Pop Evil
4:30 PM – Fever 333
3:30 PM – The Glorious Sons

ZYN Stage:
9:55 PM – Steel Panther
8:15 PM – Gwar
6:35 PM – Corrosion Of Conformity
4:00 PM – Alien Weaponry
3:00 PM ...

Paranoid Beast Promotions presents the 2nd annual Monolith Festival.
The all day indoor Metal festival takes place Saturday, August 3, 2019 at the prestigious venue Cypress Avenue right in the centre of Cork City, Ireland.

This unique all-day festival features a diverse range of Irish and international bands reanimating the Cork Metal Scene since the glorious days of the An Crúiscín Lán venue.

From fast and fierce internationally established Greek extreme metal band ROTTING CHRIST, Welsh Death Metal band SODOMIZED CADAVER, UK Blackened Thrashers DAMIM and Austrian Death Metal veterans Schirenc Plays PUNGENT STENCH to slow, sludgdy Doom-induced acts like zhOra, FROM THE BOGS OF AUGHISKA, HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN, MALTHUSIAN, KING WITCH, GRAVE SERMON, VOW, TERZIJ DE HORDE, RAUM KIG...

SLIPKNOT have officially disclosed details regarding their new studio album. The outing has been titled We Are Not Your Kind and will be released on August 9 through Roadrunner Records.

The band have premiered the album’s first single, “Unsainted,” via the following M. Shawn Crahan-directed video, seen above.

Guitarist Jim Root noted, “This is most time we’ve had to write a record, and work stuff out together. One of my inspirations this time around was those artists that recorded full length albums – not just songs. While the industry is moving toward singles, Slipknot wanted to make an album experience, front to back.”

“These days the art we are making comes with the highest reward, because it’s taken the most time,” added Crahan...

Death Metal heavy weights AD PATRES have just unleashed a (NSFW) music video for the song “Mechanical Enlightenment“, opening track of brand new album, “A Brief Introduction to Human Experiments” released on February 8th through XENOKORP.

After the lyrics video for the song “Spellbound“ and the recent live music video for “Led by Flesh“, AD PATRES are releasing their third instrument of visual mind-dissection with “Mechanical Enlightenment”, which can be found on either YouTube here or Facebook here for sharing / embedding.

Promo material for the successful and critically-acclaimed new album, “A Brief Introduction to Human Experiments” is now being shared to the U.S...