Garage Rock duo, THE DODIES, have released their imaginative new animated video for single "Alien" off of their debut album It’s One Hell of a Ride. "Alien" Stream/Download link: smarturl.it/TheDodiesAlien It's One Hell of a Ride Stream/Download link: smarturl.it/TheDodiesIOHOAR Please get in touch if you would like to interview the band! The Dodies - "Alien" video can be seen by clicking on the image below:
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ELLEFSON the eponymous solo band of Grammy-Winning Megadeth bassist/co-founder David Ellefson has announced the tentative tracklisting for NO COVER, out 10/2 on Combat Records, featuring 17+ cover songs including classic tracks from Motorhead, WASP, Def Leppard, Cheap Trick, Queen, Judas Priest, Twisted Sister, Fastway, Fight, Dead Kennedys, and more, with cover art by Melody Myers (Ellefson, Altitudes and Attitude, Escape The Fate), an homage to the legendary Def Leppard debut On Through
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Former NEW CREATURES/JOHNATHAN CHRISTIAN co-founder Johnathan Mooney and MACHINERY OF DESIRE’s Adrian Auchrome have teamed up to form the new project THE FUNHOUSE COLLECTIVE. The duo has announced the release of their cover of Golden Earring's classic song, "Twilight Zone." The original song was written by Golden Earring guitarist George Kooymans who got inspiration fromRobert Ludlum book, "The Bourne Identity." Produced by Johnathan Mooney
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Haulix.com, in partnership with Heartsupport and the Global Recovery Initiatives Foundation, has released HIGH NOTES, a podcast about addiction and recovery in the music industry. The full 8-episode first season debuts today on all podcast platforms. https://linktr.ee/highnotes "We believe that it's time for the music industry to de-stigmatize addiction and mental health struggles," host and series creator James Shotwell says.
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Founding KISS guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame member Ace Frehley announces the release of Origins Vol. 2, his highly-anticipated second collection of eleven rock 'n' roll covers, due out on September 18, 2020. Today, he also releases the first single, a flawless cover of Deep Purple's 1972 hit, "Space Truckin'" available now on all streaming platforms, and as
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Today, PRIMAL FEAR are releasing their highly anticipated 13th studio album, Metal Commando. The title of the album is self-explanatory - Metal Commando contains 110% PRIMAL FEAR and is full to the brim with their signature power and energy. In celebration of the release, they also release the new single and video "Hear Me Calling". Watch the clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99wZJjZWYho&feature=youtu.be Matt Sinner comments: "The special thing about 'Hear Me Calling' is, that we
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“BAD DECISIONS” CLIMBING TOP 10 AT ALT RADIO FIRST ALBUM IN SEVEN YEARS THE NEW ABNORMAL OUT NOW VIA CULT/RCA TO CRITICAL ACCLAIM Today, The Strokes debut a new music video for “Ode To The Mets” directed by Warren Fu, a close friend and longtime collaborator who first worked with the band in 2006. Watch/share HERE. The track is from the band’s
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Whether it be on the banks of the Mississippi River or deep in the heart of the English countryside, rock ‘n’ roll lives, breathes, and burns on the outskirts. Hailing from Rome, GA at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, The Georgia Thunderbolts rise up with a scorching signature style steeped in soulful southern swagger, blistering blues, and raw rock.
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Italian gothic metal superstars LACUNA COIL announce "Black Anima: Live From The Apocalypse", an exclusive live stream featuring a full performance of Black Anima for the very first time. The once in a lifetime event will air on Friday, September 11th at 3PM EST on A-Live from the Alcatraz Club in Milan and will include songs never performed live, plus special backstage/off camera moments and more. After the success of their acclaimed 20th anniversary show
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DORO Pesch is the world's first female rock-musician to rock drive-in cinemas together with her fans. In June, the Metal Queen’s first drive-in cinema show in Worms created enthusiastic fan reactions and was followed by over 600,000 people worldwide via video stream. After another successful show in Stuttgart, DORO invites her fans to Bühl on August 1st to her third and (for now) last drive-in cinema show. There, DORO will
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In celebration of the 40th anniversary of AC/DC’s Back In Black album (July 25), today a rare live performance video, “You Shook Me All Night Long,” from the band’s Back In Black Tour in Tokyo in February 1981, and aired on a Japanese television program was delivered to the band’s official YouTube Channel. The video was included in the band’s
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Upon its release in 1980, the Ace Of Spades album was nothing short of a gamechanger for all forms of hard rock. Like lightning in a bottle, it perfectly captured everything great about hard rock, heavy metal, and punk, amped it all up to 11, and came racing out of the gates at what felt like a million miles an hour,
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For the first time in its 50-year history San Diego Comic Convention (SDCC), the annual pop-culture celebration, is giving people around the globe free online access to prestigious exclusives and panels that bring over 130,000 people to San Diego, California every July with the first-ever Comic-Con@Home 2020! Today marks the start of Comic-Con@Home 2020! as well as our 15th year as an exhibitor. Join us
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Lily Cornell Silver debuted her IGTV series Mind Wide Open today, Monday, July 20, 2020 in honor of her late father's birthday. The Soundgarden/Audioslave icon, Chris Cornell, would have been 56. For the premiere episode, Lily talks with Laura van Dernoot Lipsky who is a trauma expert/ author and is the Founder and Director of the Trauma Stewardship Institute. (https://traumastewardship.com). The
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Queen Radio Channel Launched By SiriusXM The Queen Channel will be available on the SiriusXM app in the Rock category. Channel 27 will become The Queen Channel from July 15 at 12:00 pm ET through July 21 The Queen Channel will encompass the legendary band’s sterling song craft, virtuoso musicality, outrageous glamour, and colossal spectacle, by showcasing over 40 years of musical material. The
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Rochester, NY band OVTLIER has premiered their official music video for single "Who We Are" on Alternative Press Magazine today! The video can be seen here: https://www.altpress.com/features/ovtlier-who-we-are-music-video/ "Who We Are" is about accepting the individuality of ourselves and others. Understanding that trauma, especially stemming back to childhood plays a vital role in the years to come of ones life. We
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ANTHRAX TAKES YOU ONE STEP FURTHER BEHIND THE SCENES WITH A BRAND NEW EPISODE FROM ITS SIX-EPISODE VIDEO SERIES FOR THE UPCOMING PERSISTENCE OF TIME 30TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION During the recording of Persistence of Time, Scott Ian suggested the band - all big Public Enemy fans - record a cover of Public Enemy's "Bring The Noise." He loved the idea of recording a metal version
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Iconic Testament vocalist Chuck Billy, who graciously penned the foreword to Megaforce Records founder Jon Zazula’s Heavy Tales: The Metal. The Music. The Madness. As Lived by Jon Zazula, also lends his voice to the upcoming Audible edition’s foreword, available today in as exclusive preview. Listen to Billy’s excerpt from Heavy Tales today via Consequence of Sound’s Heavy Consequence at https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/07/chuck-billy-foreword-audible-jon-zazula-heavy-tales/
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Canadian progressive sci-fi metal innovators VOIVOD release a new 3-track 12” Vinyl and Digital EP entitled “The End Of Dormancy” today worldwide via Century Media Records. VOIVOD drummer Michel “Away” Langevin checked in with the following comment about the release but also gave a status update on all other current band activities and upcoming projects: “It’s always a
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BLUES PILLS will release their new album "Holy Moly!" on August, 21st via Nuclear Blast. Today, the band reveals a video for their third and new single 'Kiss My Past Goodbye' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC4VQpX0rSY Get the single digitally here: http://nblast.de/BP-KissMyPastGoodbye Guitarist Zack Anderson comments: "'Kiss My Past Goodbye' is a song full of raw power, funky riffs, and wild drumming. It's
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Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy & Randy George are returning to their Cover To Cover series of albums with ‘Cov3r To Cov3r’, the brand new third installment. Featuring their renditions of classic tracks by the likes of King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Gerry Rafferty, David Bowie & more (including their cover of ‘No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed’ featuring vocals from Yes
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Knotfest.com has revealed the next two installments of it's weekly Concert Streaming Series. First up will be progressive, groove metal wrecking machine, Jinjer, who will be streaming their show from Melboune in 2020 on Thursday, July 9th at 2pm PT / 5pm ET / 10pm BST / 11 pm CET. Following this, on Friday July 17th, will be none other
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Check out the appropriately titled 'The Dukes Return' from their upcoming sophomore album, "Freakshow" (August 7, 2020). Who's looking forward to this album? For those who don't know, Dukes of the Orient features John Payne and Erik Norlander and is melodic rock with touches of progressive rock. Certainly recommended for fans of Original Asia and sonically similar acts. Listen to the song on YT:
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ASKING ALEXANDRIA, one of the most successful rock bands of their generation, have today announced the release of 'Antisocialist (Unplugged)'. This track is featured on the band's sixth full-length studio album, Like A House On Fire via Sumerian Records and the full band version of the song is currently sitting at #4 at Active Rock Radio and hit #1 on
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On a day meant to celebrate America, in a time most aren’t feeling most patriotic, FIRE FROM THE GODS is proud to present the JULY 4TH VIRTUAL BBQ as a reminder that United We Stand and Divided we will fall. Join us as we raise funds for social justice organization, UNTIL FREEDOM, with performances and messages from some of our
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Neal Morse is pleased to announce the release of ‘Sola Gratia’, his new solo progressive rock concept album, on September 11th, 2020. Originating from a seed planted in his mind about writing a record based on the apostle Paul, ‘Sola Gratia’ quickly came together at the beginning of 2020. The album sees Neal working with long-time collaborators Mike Portnoy, Randy
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Top-charting dark groove metal originators DEVILDRIVER recently announced the highly-anticipated release of their upcoming double album, Dealing With Demons. The first volume – entitled Dealing With Demons I – drops on October 9, 2020 via Napalm Records and marks the band’s first release of new, original material since 2016’s acclaimed Trust No One. Representing the onset of a final purging of the themes that have long possessed frontman Dez Fafara and DEVILDRIVER’s music, each track
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In Motive have released an acoustic version of track 'Subtle Mistakes' today with an accompanying music video. The band announced in September of last year the addition of their new vocalist David Escamilla (formerly of Crown The Empire 2010 - 2017) who lends his distinctively powerful vocals to the track. Watch the acoustic music video for 'Subtle Mistakes' below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_m4XLaLvlE&feature=youtu.be
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Seattle-based rockers AVOID are paying tribute to one of their favorite bands and biggest influences; hometown heroes Foo Fighters. In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the grunge outfit's self-titled debut (released July 4th 1995) the rising newcomers have covered the track "Weenie Beenie" from the record. Today, the band premiered the track and accompanying music video, filmed in each member's homes
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STYX drummer TODD SUCHERMAN released his highly anticipated debut solo album, LAST FLIGHT HOME, on May 2 (his 51st birthday) via Aqua Pulse Records. CDs, high-resolution audio WAV downloads, and limited-edition signed and numbered 180-gram vinyl LPs are available now on all digital outlets as well as his official website. Today, he released the fourth video from the album for
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On this week's ‘Sepulquarta’ session SEPULTURA welcomes Phil Rind (SACRED REICH) who will take part in the Q&A session and perform "Inner Self" together with the band. Andreas Kisser comments: “Another brother will be with us on the next SepulQuarta talking about our friendship and the history SACRED REICH and SEPULTURA share together. He is the reason I tried out for Metallica in 1992, we have lots
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Ryan And Pony is a brand-new project from two indie-rockers who have been kicking around the much-vaunted Minneapolis music scene for years. Their debut album Moshi Moshi was recorded at a variety of Minneapolis studios including Flight Simulator, Flowers, Master Mix, and The Kill Room with Ryan producing. John Fields mixed and Greg Reierson mastered the album. Moshi Moshi will be available
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GIBSON TV, the iconic, American-made guitar maker’s original, worldwide online network--features original series from the world’s best storytellers. GIBSON TV’s new series titled “THE PROCESS” is a landmark series which offers viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the physical process of guitar-making. A captivating exploration into Gibson’s crown jewel--the main Gibson USA Factory in Nashville, TN--“THE PROCESS” features in depth interviews
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“Greatest Misses: Deep Cuts and Forgotten Songs from the Shadows of Classic Rock,” a 25,000-word ebook celebrating lesser-known classic rock songs and artists, has been updated and expanded in a second edition that is now available online. The original was published in 2014. The book is written by award-winning journalist and rock music enthusiast Darren Barakat, who lives in Phoenix,
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New York’s blackened, death metal juggernaut ALEKHINE’S GUN returns to the forefront of the underground metal scene with the release of an annihilating new single titled, “21,” which debuted yesterday at ConsequenceOfSound.net and is streaming now on YouTube. The song is the band’s first new material in six years, since the release of their 2014 heralded breakout EP, ...And Kings Will Fall, and will be
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Hard work and dedication is being recognized by members of KISS, STYX, Cheap Trick, Ringo Starr Band, Alice Cooper Band, Blue Oyster Cult, Queensryche, Mountain, Manowar, Ace Frehley Band, Warrant, Sponge, Cavo and Ted Nugent, to name just a few. These rock talents along with other music legends, entertainment industry professionals and NHL players joined in to create a congratulatory
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Enuff Z'nuff are set to release their new album "Brainwashed Generation," on July 10th. Enuff Z’nuff are the living, breathing example of what a rock ‘n roll group should be. Now centered around bass player and vocalist Chip Z’nuff, Enuff Z’nuff are still delivering the band’s patented power pop melded with hard rock stylings. Their new album, “Brainwashed Generation”
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On this week's ‘Sepulquarta’ session SEPULTURA welcomes Roy Mayorga (STONE SOUR, HELLYEAH, SOULFLY and SEPULTURA) who will take part in the Q&A session, together with his longtime friend Derrick Green. Derrick comments: "It will be a great pleasure to be doing a Q&A with our brother and old friend Roy Mayorga. I’ve known Roy from back in the day from living in the LES ( Lower East Side) N.Y.C. We share
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Today, symphonic metal outfit BEYOND THE BLACK presents their new single, “Humans”, off their new album, Hørizøns - out now via Napalm Records. “Human” features an almost daunting glimpse at the future, but also symbolizes the sophistication of another modern and equally gloomy melodic rock piece. Their new singleis a flagship example of bittersweet yet strong melodies merging with dystopian narratives. Delicate guitar lines blend
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You don’t need to be a die-hard '80s metal fan to know that the fruits of an artistic alliance between Danger Danger singer Ted Poley and guitarist/producer Steve Brown of Trixter was going to make melodic rock fans rejoice! And in fact, when the Self-Titled debut album hit the market, that’s when the fun really started to happen! The contagious
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SHIPPING SOON! ORDER NOW Limited to 1000 hand-numbered figures We expect RANCID Skeletim V2 to arrive in just a few days and there are still some left, but not many! This version is limited to just 1000 hand-numbered units, stands at 7" tall, and is made of a high quality polyresin. Skeletim is rocking a studded denim jacket, black docs with white laces,
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Silvertung released their music video for "World Gone Mad". It is the second music video to be released from their (But, At What Cost??!) album recently released through Thermal Entertainment. The music video can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twqelrrcGZI Speed Vincent notes “World Gone Mad” came to life in 2019. The song was written about coming together as one, instead of being separated. It wasn’t written nor
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Iced Earth founder, songwriter, guitarist and producer Jon Schaffer announces the release of his first ever book, Wicked Words and Epic Tales. The book is the debut release from Schaffer and his new publishing company Wicked Words, LLC and is the first of many original concepts planned for future release by Schaffer. Wicked Words and Epic Tales is a collection
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Ohio hard rock favorites Along Came A Spider debut "American Beauty", the next single off their upcoming third album. The wait for experiencing the latest Along Came a Spider’s video, “American Beauty” is finally over! The band has been promoting and teasing bits of this video for months. The mastermind behind the video, including drone shots is Vince Lundi of
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Now Streaming & Available For Pre-Order on Limited Edition Cassette; Watch "The Streets" Music Video Spartan Records has announced the release of a 2 song EP from influential midwestern emo greats Giants Chair. The two tracks "The Streets and "Featureless Horizon" were originally recorded in 2017, a few years before their recent 'PREFABYLON' LP was released last December. The EP
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In 2005, after traveling the world, GRAMMY Award winning rock band SWITCHFOOT dreamed up an idea to give back to their home- town that supported them as surfers and musicians. They wanted to rally their great community encouraging everyone to "Play Your Part" by in- vesting in local kids who need a hand up. Sixteen years later, their idea has
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Enjoy Tokyo Motor Fist's 'Around Midnight' from the band's upcoming new album, "Lions" (July 10th). Pre-order / save and get t-shirt bundles here: https://orcd.co/lions TMF is the band featuring Ted Poley (Danger Danger), Steve Brown (TRIXTER), Greg Smith (Ted Nugent), and Chuck Burgi (Billy Joel). "Lions" is the follow up to their self-titled debut. Watch the video for “Around Midnight”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V12BfIIKGEc&feature=youtu.be ABOUT FRONTIERS MUSIC
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This week’s “Quarantine Sessions” video from Canadian all-star modern metal band IMONOLITH, “The Reign,” is now available. Watch the latest clip today, exclusively via Skulls N Bones at https://skullsnbones.com/imonolith-the-reign-premiere-from-their-self-quarantine-series-the-quarantine-sessions/. IMONOLITH’s “Quarantine Sessions” videos are released every Monday, and with “The Reign,” IMONOLITH has released playthroughs for more than half of their debut album, State of Being Each “Quarantine Session” is
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