Kentucky rockers BLACK STONE CHERRY will embark on a U.S. co-headline tour with THE LACS in the fall. Says BLACK STONE CHERRY: "We are stoked to hit the road with THE LACS this October and November for a Southern-fried co-headline throwdown! We look forward to getting back to some great places we haven't been to ...
A 20th-anniversary edition of FILTER's platinum-selling sophomore album, "Title Of Record", will be made available on August 9 via Craft Recordings. This expanded set includes four bonus tracks: "(Can't You) Trip Like I Do" (originally recorded for the cult-classic soundtrack "Spawn The Album"), "Jurassitol" (previously released on "The Crow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"), plus remixes ...
Philip H. Anselmo's EN MINOR will release its debut seven-inch this August via Housecore Records. A project inadvertently in the making since Anselmo's earliest days as a child in the French Quarter, the band features Stephen Taylor (SUPERJOINT, PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS, WOVEN HAND, 16 HORSE POWER), Kevin Bond (SUPERJOINT, CHRIST INVERSION, ARTIMUS ...
Michael Sweet, singer, guitarist and primary songwriter of the openly Christian hard rock band STRYPER, says that he doesn't know if there has been a resurgence in the "Christian metal" scene in the last few years. "I'll be honest — I don't really keep tabs on the Christian metal scene," he told Sonic ...
What do you get when you combine an international rock star, Mikkey Dee of MOTÖRHEAD and SCORPIONS, with a lawnmower powered by Briggs & Stratton? Well, we know the answer. A hell of a lawnmower, that's for sure. On a cold winter day in 2019, Mikkey Dee met with the Briggs & Stratton top-notch team ...
Massachusetts metallers KILLSWITCH ENGAGE will release their new single, "Unleashed", on June 25. The song is taken from the band's upcoming album, which will arrive this fall via Metal Blade Records in the U.S. and Sony Music Entertainment in the rest of the world. KILLSWITCH ENGAGE frontman Jesse Leach recently said that he "wouldn't change ...
Texas metalcore outfit CROWN THE EMPIRE will release its new album, "Sudden Sky", on July 19 via Rise Records. The animated video for the disc's latest single, "MZRY", can be seen below. "Our new album, 'Sudden Sky', is a digital representation of who we are at this moment in time," CROWN THE EMPIRE stated. "It ...
New Wave Of British Heavy Metal pioneers DIAMOND HEAD have explained the end of their working relationship with MEGADETH's Dave Mustaine. It was announced in December 2017 that DIAMOND HEAD had inked a management deal with Thrashville Management, the company founded by Dave and his son Justis Mustaine. Several months later, the affiliation came to ...
The upcoming album by Norway's avant-garde metallers BORKNAGAR, titled "True North", will be released on September 27 via Century Media. The follow-up to 2016's "Winter Thrice" was once again been mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden. BORKNAGAR founder and guitarist Øystein G. Brun comments: "This has indeed been a ...
British heavy metal legends SAXON have commenced the songwriting process for the follow-up to their 2018 album "Thunderbolt". Vocalist Biff Byford spoke about SAXON's upcoming activities during an interview with 4Sound at this month's Sweden Rock Festival. He said (see video below): "We've got a 40th-anniversary album coming out, a live album. And it's got ...
