Asking Alexandria have spent the past 15 years paving their way to the top league of international rock acts, garnering two #1 albums, four RIAA Gold-certified singles and a #1 Active Rock radio-charting single amongst several Top 10 landing hits. Their explosive energy has captivated fans across the globe where the band has appeared on several of the largest rock and metal festivals and on sold-out headlining arena and club shows, earning more than 8 million followers across their social media platforms. Asking Alexandria continue to raise the bar on their anticipated eighth full-length studio album WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? due August 25 via Better Noise Music.
The 11-track album was produced and mixed by Matt Good (Hollywood Undead, From First To Last), and mastered by Howie Weinberg (Deftones, Metallica) and Will Borza. The album is a culmination of the band's career, melding their flagship sound with experimental electronics while its lyrics cover the band's trademark themes of disenchantment, loss, anxiety, and dejection. (continue)
Better Lovers, the newly formed band featuring Jordan Buckley, Clayton "Goose" Holyoak, Stephen Micciche, Greg Puciato, and Will Putney, have released God Made Me An Animal, a four-song EP, via SharpTone Records.
"Surprise! Our debut EP, God Made Me An Animal, is out now," the band shared, collectively. "Four eclectic and wildly fun songs we've been kicking around for what feels like forever, it's great to finally have these out in the world. Let it happen to you. Hear all this and more on tour all Summer. The engine is turned on." (continue)
Queen have premiered the latest episode of their ongoing video series, The Greatest Live. This week looks back at the live evolution of their classic hit "Crazy Little Thing Called Love".
Famously conceived by Freddie Mercury in 1979 amidst the bubbles of his bathtub at Munich's Bayerischer Hof hotel, "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" has always been one of the most playful songs in the Queen catalogue. But as we see in this week's live archive footage from Japan '82, the song evolved on the stage to include an outro jam that found the band flexing their musical muscles. (continue)
Southern California-based roots rockers Robert Jon & The Wreck have shared their uplifting new single "Don't Look Down," along with an accompanying music video.
The song the offer fans a powerful encouragement to keep their eyes on the prize and focus on the positive. Featured on the band's upcoming full-length album Ride Into The Light, out August 4th via Joe Bonamassa's Journeyman Records, the band's new material finds them reaching a new level of musicianship and songwriting prowess, delivering a fresh take on Rock & Roll while evoking classic artists like The Allman Brothers Band, Eagles, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. (continue)
Blue October is sharing "Down Here Waiting," the first single from Spinning the Truth Around Part 2, the next chapter in the band's three-part opus. The band will be touring the US this fall, following their big return to Europe. Frontman Justin Furstenfeld will also lead the immersive workshop Write Your Own Song August 14-18 in Big Indian, NY with a run of solo Open Book shows, including August 20 and 21 at City Winery in New York. Tickets are on sale now.
Recorded during Furstenfeld's creative streak at his own Up / Down Studios in San Marcos, TX, the Spinning the Truth Around series is "bringing back the transportive experience of the old-school album journey," writes Spin, and "marks a significant turning point in the band's decades-long canon."
The platinum-certified band-Justin Furstenfeld [vocals, guitar, songwriter], Jeremy Furstenfeld [drums], Ryan Delahoussaye [violin, mandolin, piano], Steve Schlitz [guitar], and Matt Noveskey [bass]-consistently evolves with an outlier perspective. Since 1998's The Answers, Blue October has been touring the world with a boundless approach, generating north of one billion total streams and charting 18 hits. (continue)
NYC modern rock outfit Tempt are set to release their self-titled debut album on August 25 via BETTER NOISE MUSIC. The album was co-produced and mixed by Grammy Award-winner Chris Lord-Alge (Harry Styles, Foo Fighters, Muse) and Marcello at Sticky Audio Labs in NYC.
The quartet have also Today, July 7, the quartet have released a new single-the sparkling melodic rock anthem "Burn Me Down"-from the upcoming debut. (continue)
(hennemusic) The Rolling Stones are streaming a new lyric video for their 1976 hit, "Fool To Cry." The song was the lead single from the band's "Black And Blue" album, which topped the charts in several countries around the world.
"Fool To Cry" is among the tracks featured on the upcoming reissue of the group's 2002 collection, "Forty Licks". The project - which gathered together fully three dozen of the most enduring and anthemic songs from the group's peerless career and added four then-new tracks to their story - was initially released to celebrate the Stones' 40th anniversary and to mark the beginning of their massive Licks tour, which became the second highest-grossing tour in history up to that time. (continue)
Swedish industrial metal emperor Skold Claims his crown with brand new single "Rat King". A rat king is one of the most genuinely disturbing phenomena of the animal world. It occurs when a group of rats become intertwined at the tail, forming a knot at the center. As the rats try to escape, the knot tightens, trapping them together as they become an entirely new creature of voracious appetite and destructiveness. Industrial metal magnate Tim Skold has been twisting together keyboard patch cables, shredded guitar strings and cacophonous vocals to fuse his own uniquely vicious musical creations, and today marks the release of his newest beast, the superb single "Rat King."
The lead off track from his brand new album, Seven Heads, "Rat King" sets the tone for the album with bass-heavy, distorted synths and layered guitar riffs that underline Skold's caustic vocal delivery. Lyrically, the song is a poignant commentary on society's deadly sins of emotional dissociation, lack of motivation, and denial. Check it out on all digital platforms now! (continue)
Cleveland extreme metal legends Ringworm have delivered another brutal taste of their highly-anticipated, 9th full-length album, Seeing Through Fire, that's out August 18th from Nuclear Blast Records.
Today, the band has released, 'Thought Crimes,' a track of epic brutality and relentless aggression. Commenting on the song, vocalist Human Furnace says: "'Thought Crimes.' Speed. Aggression. Attack. All the things that come to mind, sonically, when I think of this song. It's a manic song. It makes you move. (continue)
Lord Of The Lost have revealed a new official music video for the track "Reset The Preset", cut from their #1 charting latest album, 'Blood & Glitter'! After representing Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest in May, the band is more successful than ever: the last shows of their second support tour for Iron Maiden are closing in, and the band's busy live schedule also includes great slots at the main European summer festivals, including Wacken in August and Rockharz Open Air this weekend, while headline shows and their very own LORDFEST festival are selling out fast.
"In line with the song title 'Reset The Preset', we did everything the way we NEVER do it for this video. We put every creative decision of the music video - whether it was clothing, lighting, colors, content, whatever... - into other hands. Namely, into the hands of our tour photographer and cameraman Lennard Schmitt, who has an incredible knack for visually absurd art. So, with Lennard as director, we set every LOTL preset to reset and let ourselves be surprised with this video from start to finish. The result is definitely the most shrill and weirdest piece of visual art we've ever released."
Lord Of The Lost also comment on Eurovision Song Contest: "Thank you, everyone, for this amazing experience! We loved every second of it! So, we're going back to our old lives now and we are looking forward to a most amazing festival summer, many sold out shows and a second tour with IRON MAIDEN! (continue)
VII, the incinerating seventh LP from Sacramento, California's long-running dark hardcore quintet Will Haven, is out today and streaming everywhere through Minus Head Records.
Arguably the heaviest and darkest material from WILL HAVEN to date, the ten songs on VII take longtime fans back to their earliest records, while expanding on the atmospheric and immersive qualities of their output. VII was recorded at Pus Cavern Studios in Sacramento, engineered by Joe Johnston (Deftones, Dance Gavin Dance, Hoods), produced and mixed by Joe Johnston and Will Haven, and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music. The record also features guest vocals and additional lyrics on "Evolution Of A Man" by Reykjavik Osburn Bigfeather, and the final note of "La Ultima Nota" was played by Will Haven fans. (continue)
Epitaph Records is pleased to welcome rock band Sleep Theory - vocalist Cullen Moore, guitarist Daniel Pruitt bassist Paolo Vergara, and drummer Ben Pruitt - to its global roster.
"We knew the moment we first met with Epitaph that it was the place we were meant to be," the band exclaims. "Their vision for the band perfectly aligned with ours, and their enthusiasm was second to none. We are beyond excited to be part of the Epitaph family, and call this place our new home." (continue)
Australia's Windwaker - vocalist Liam Guinane, guitarist Jesse Crofts, bassist Indey Salvestro, drummer Chris Lalic, and synths/samples specialist Connor Robins - have dropped the video for their brand new single "SIRENS."
"SIRENS" is like a sonic grenade - the musical tension, urgency, riffs, and beats build quickly and explode with a delirious fury! Shifting from clean vocals to earth-shattering screams amid a firestorm of guitars and synths, the Australian band will hurl you headfirst into the mosh pit with their latest track. The pre-choruses are utterly fierce, while the choruses themselves invite plenty of crowd singalongs. "SIRENS" is most certainly Windwaker at their most anthemic. Stick around for the breakdown that erupts towards the end of the song... if you dare! (continue)
Lightning strikes twice in multiple realms of the world of Ghost today, Friday July 7: With the release of their cover of Shakespears Sister's 1992 Brit Award-winning single "Stay" (featuring Patrick Wilson), Sweden's foremost theatrical rock purveyors not only mark their second outing scoring the grand finale of a major motion picture (the first being "Hunter's Moon" in 2021's Halloween Kills), but also their latest single to feature a once in a lifetime duet between Tobias Forge and a very special guest (following the release of "Spillways" featuring Joe Elliott of Def Leppard earlier this year).
As for exactly how Ghost's "Stay (featuring Patrick Wilson)" came into being, the story begins with actor, director and Tony-nominated singer Wilson's avowed Ghost fandom. Having seen the band live twice in 2022 alone, he met up with Forge while at work on his directorial debut, Insidious: The Red Door, and already contemplating ways to involve Ghost in the film. Additionally inspired by the Joe Elliott version of "Spillways" from Ghost's international #1 album IMPERA (Loma Vista recordings), Wilson reached back out to Forge. As fate would have it, Forge had been working on a version of Shakespears Sister's "Stay" - a #1 hit in 1992 in his native Sweden - and the rest is history: Wilson's classically trained Broadway bona fides proved a perfect foil for Forge's sweetly sinister performance, resulting in a stunning duet and the perfect haunting ballad to close Insidious: The Red Door. (continue)
(hennemusic) Black Sabbath will release a limited edition 8-LP picture disc box set, "Hand Of Doom 1970-1978", on August 18. The package delivers the pioneering metal band's studio albums from the era, including their self-titled debut (1970), as well as the multi-platinum "Paranoid" (1970), the platinum albums "Master Of Reality" (1971), "Vol. 4" (1972), and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" (1973), the gold-certified "Sabotage" (1975), alongside "Technical Ecstasy" (1976) and "Never Say Die!" (1978).
The boxed set includes each album's artwork printed on Side A. The self-titled debut, "Vol. 4", "Technical Ecstasy", and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" feature the original back album artwork on Side B. "Paranoid", "Master of Reality", and "Sabotage" features an album-era photo of the band. (continue)
Third Man Records (in conjunction with Sony Music Entertainment) is humbled to present Syd Barrett's solo albums - The Madcap Laughs, Barrett, and Opel - as the 57th installment of the Vault subscription series. Individually out of print for almost ten years, and never previously available together on vinyl, Barrett's complete solo works are featured in this set on stunning 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man Pressing in Detroit and packaged together in a custom slipcase with new exclusive artwork.
As an added bonus that is sure to entice any Pink Floyd completist, the set includes a 7-inch single by David Gilmour covering two Barrett compositions, "Dominoes'' and "Dark Globe." Sign up is open now through July 31 at midnight CST (continue)
Crosses - the duo made up of Deftones' Chino Moreno and producer/multi-instrumentalist Shaun Lopez - unleash their newly reinvented PERMANENT.RADIANT.REMIXED EP.
Boasting remixes from electronic innovators such as Hudson Mohawke, Suicideyear, Machinedrum and AWAY, this bold new take on the EP elevates the project to new heights.
Sensation," the EP opener, gets a makeover courtesy of suicideyear, "Vivien," booming original is dismantled by AWAY. On "Day One," Machinedrum converts the original into sparkling drum & bass euphoria. Also included is Street Fever's remix of "Holier," Hudson Mohawke's thrilling twist of "Procession," and DJ Tony G and Ern "Dogg" Medina In a Daize Mix reimagine "Cadavre Exquis." (continue)
(hennemusic) Def Leppard is sharing on stage video from its July 1 concert at London's Wembley Stadium. Fans can watch the band members performing their 1987 smash, "Hysteria", during the headlining appearance with tour mates Motley Crue.
The title track also served as the fourth single from Def Leppard's fourth album, which topped the charts in several countries - including the US and UK - and went on to become the group's best-selling effort with more than 20 million copies sold worldwide. (continue)
Singer songwriter guitarist John Dorsch will be releasing his debut album "ELEVATiON" next week. To celebrate we asked john to tell us about the latest single from the effort "Faith In Me". Here is the story:
I am very proud to announce ELEVATiON is my first commercial album release. It is a collection of 15 original songs that are inspirational and moving. Over the last 2 years this has truly been a labour of love. The songs range in style, mood and intensity. The listener will enjoy lush acoustic and electric guitars, captivating rhythms and harmonies. Songs on ELEVATiON feature my fingerstyle, pop, rock and folk influences which are many. (continue)
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