Fifteen years after his last solo release, Tommyland: The Ride, back in 2005, Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee is unleashing his latest blending of rap, hip hop and R & B, Andro, on October 16. Never one to conform to life’s – let alone musical – expectations, Lee has spent the last couple of years crafting a body of work that highlights perfectly the musical enigma that gives him voice. Continue reading TOMMY LEE Goes It Alone at HEAVY Magazine - Rock, Punk, Metal Music ...
King Parrot today unleash their first new music since 2017, with “Banished, Flawed Then Docile” being lifted from the upcoming four-track E.P Holed Up In The Lair. It is a typical dose of frenetic madness from King Parrot and one is sure to creep into the live setlist when touring life kicks back into gear. “All of the tracks on the E.P were written a few years ago,” revealed frontman Matt Young. Continue reading KING PARROT Release New Track And Announce E.P at ...
Following the massive reception to debut single ‘I Can’t Close My Eyes’, Faith In Lies have announced the follow-up effort, ‘Burn Me’, to be released via Black Mountain Music and MGM Distribution on October 2. ‘Burn Me’ marks a significant development for Faith In Lies, with Path Of Victory vocalist James Greig initially being drafted as guest vocalist for the track before the Hand of Metal intervened with other plans. Continue reading FAITH IN ...
Progressive music titans Dream Theatre have regretfully decided to push the Australian leg of their Evening With tour forward to next year with new dates in the same venues to be announced. “Due to the current restrictions on international travel, Dream Theater’s November 2020 tour is being rescheduled until 2021. MJR TEG & Dream Theater are working together to secure new dates at the current venues to minimise impact on customers while keeping original seating and tickets ...
Norwegian blackened avant-gardists Enslaved are set to release their 15th studio album, Utgard, on October 2 via Nuclear Blast. In a new trailer released guitarist Ivar Bjørnson discusses the artwork for Utgard and what it was like working with Truls Espedal again. Watch the announcement below: Continue reading ENSLAVED Discuss Artwork Of Utgard And The Themes Explored On The Album at HEAVY Magazine - Rock, Punk, Metal Music & Beyond.
With the imminent release of No Eternity In Gold, Like Moths To Flames are pleased to release yet another single, “YOTM”. “Over the last few years, you might’ve seen Moths posting around YOTM, shared frontman Chris Roetter. “We’ve been no stranger to hardships throughout the bands’ career and YOTM kinda became the motto and driving force for the band to better itself. Year of the Moth is about giving one more glimpse into those struggles and ...
Late last year Australian audiences were introduced to U.K tribute band Chop Suey, performing, of course, songs made famous by System of a Down. It heralded a new era in this country, with fans flocking to each show and possibly finally putting to rest the public indifference to international tribute acts. “That tour was fantastic,” enthused drummer and founding member Andre Joyzi. “I’m so grateful we got to bring a tribute band across the world to play in ...
After their sold-out run of shows in Australia earlier this year, Ukrainian heavyweights Jinjer have announced the impending release of the official audio recordings from one of the last metal shows played worldwide before COVID-19 decimated the live music industry. Alive in Melbourne features 17 ferocious tracks that showcase Jinjer at their finest and will be released through Napalm Records on November 20. Watch “Teacher, Teacher” below Pre-Orders Available Now HERE Continue ...
Featuring longtime Napalm Death member Mitch Harris and Megadeth drummer Dirk Verbeuren, Brave The Cold are set to unleash Scarcity on October 2. An eleven-track ferocious onslaught of metal, Scarcity was produced by the legendary Logan Mader (Machine Head, Soulfly) and promises to be a beacon of light in an otherwise forgettable year in metal history. Continue reading Members Of NAPALM DEATH And MEGADETH Form New Band at HEAVY Magazine - Rock, Punk, Metal Music & Beyond.
New Zealander rockers Devilskin have released another single from their recent album Red called “Sweet Release”. The song focuses on the tragic death of 21-year-old Nicky Autumn Stevens in Hamilton during 2015, told through the eyes of the parents and family left struggling to make sense of it. To further awareness and speak out about suicide prevention, Devilskin have released the song in conjunction with Lifeline Aotearoa. Continue reading DEVILSKIN Release New Single ...
L.A post-hardcore band Touché Amoré will release their fifth studio album, Lament, on October 9 and have released the single “I’ll Be Your Host” through Epitaph Records. The song explores the complexities and mounting uneasiness that comes from people looking to vocalist Jeremy Bolm to find catharsis in their own loss while he is still processing and dealing with his grief. “’I’ll Be Your Host’ is a song about the overwhelming nervousness I get when someone approaches me ...
Marilyn Manson has announced the release of his eleventh studio album We Are Chaos, to be released September 11 via Loma Vista Recordings. Written, recorded and completed before the current pandemic which has crippled the music industry, We Are Chaos is the follow up to 2017’s Heaven Upside Down and features ten new songs from the enigmatic vocalist. “When I listen to We Are Chaos now, it seems like just yesterday or as if the world repeated itself, as it always does, making the ...
Four weeks after the release of their 21st studio album Whoosh!, Deep Purple continue on the path of the new album by releasing an official music video for their third single ‘Nothing At All’. The lyrics for ‘Nothing At All’ are an observation of what we humans have done to Mother Earth in our short time of existence. After exploring the subject of time and space with the first single ‘Throw My Bones’ and following the concerned look into the future with ...
Thrash metal legends HEATHEN return for their first album in a decade and their first with Nuclear Blast Records. HEAVY Magazine recently sat down and chatted with the frontman DAVID WHITE to find out what fans can expect from the album. Empire Of The Blind is out on September 18th but you can take a listen to the interview right here: Continue reading The Return Of HEATHEN at HEAVY Magazine - Rock, Punk, Metal Music & Beyond.
Dying Wish is the Portland-based blistering hardcore five-piece whose passionate music fuses New Wave of American Heavy Metal and chaos-driven punk noises. Recently they announced their signing to SharpTone Records. In support of the announcement, the band has released a new single, ‘Innate Thirst.’ Additionally, the band has announced the release of a 7-inch due out November 13. It will feature both ‘Innate Thirst,’ as well as a new version of ‘Enemies in Red’ featuring Bryan Garris of ...
Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons are back in town. The hard rock powerhouse from Wales announce their new album We’re The Bastards to be released on November 13 via Nuclear Blast. Singer Neil Starr on the new album: “It’s definitely great to know that we have an audience now. We know there are people that want to hear it, but the truth is that we just had fun with it. Continue reading PHIL CAMPBELL Announces New Album We’re The Bastards at HEAVY Magazine - Rock, Punk, ...
Killer Be Killed – Max Cavalera (Soulfly/ex-Sepultura), Ben Koller (Converge/Mutoid Man), Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan/The Black Queen) and Troy Sanders (Mastodon/Gone Is Gone) – announce one of the year’s most anticipated heavy releases, confirming the November 20 arrival of the all-star band’s sophomore album, Reluctant Hero through Nuclear Blast Records. Continue reading KILLER BE KILLED Return With New Album Announcement And Single at HEAVY Magazine - Rock, Punk, ...
Norwegian death metal horde Insidious Disease, featuring current/former members from Dimmu Borgir, Morgoth, Nile, Susperia and Napalm Death, will release their first album in a decade, After Death, on October 30 with Nuclear Blast. The band has revealed a new trailer in which they discuss the album’s artwork created by Dan Seagrave (Entombed, Gorguts). Continue reading INSIDIOUS DISEASE Discuss Artwork For After Death In New Trailer at HEAVY Magazine - Rock, Punk, Metal Music & ...
Hard rock duo Janet Gardner and Justin James premiere their latest music video for ‘Rise Up’. The track comes from the recently released Synergy album, available via Pavement Entertainment. ‘Rise Up’ is a blues-infused rocker with empowering vocals and a greasy guitar groove. Janet and Justin produced the entire video on their own during the pandemic. Justin says, “We turned our living room into a giant green screen, and Janet edited the video on our computer ...
Canadian melodic death metal heavyweights Kataklysm will unleash their 14th full-length studio album, Unconquered, on September 25 via Nuclear Blast Records. Recently, Steph discussed the impact of Covid-19 on touring. Maurizio Iacono comments, “’Underneath the Scars’ is a bulldozer of a track that will surely ignite the world’s metalheads into straight headbanging madness. We look forward to bringing this beast live when the time comes. Continue reading KATAKLYSM Discuss ...
Come one! Come all, to the demented, heinous bloodbath of a murder metal circus that declares Macabre’s return Carnival Of Killers. As the band’s first full-length album in almost 10 years and just in time for their 35th anniversary as a band, Carnival Of Killers will be released on November 13 via Nuclear Blast Records. Macabre’s Corporate Death comments, “‘The Lake Of Fire’ is about the hidden bunker that Leonard Lake and Charles Ng had where they tortured ...
“I don’t have a mission statement. I just do what feels exciting to me.” That’s Greg Puciato talking about his solo debut, Child Soldier: Creator Of God. But it’s also where he’s at creatively after 16 years in the trenches with The Dillinger Escape Plan and a few more years making a completely different type of music with The Black Queen. On Child Soldier, Puciato integrates the unhinged aggression of DEP with the electronic textures of TBQ while simultaneously branching out into a ...
Death Dealer lead by Ross The Boss have returned for another heavy metal attack with their third record Conquered Lands to be released worldwide on November 13 through Steel Cartel. Death Dealer have an all-star heavy metal roster featuring the aforementioned Ross The Boss (ex-Manowar) Sean Peck, vocals (Cage, The Three Tremors, Denner/Shermann), Australian Stu Marshall, guitar (Dungeon, Night Legion), Steve Bolognese, drums (Ross The Boss Band, Into Eternity), and newly added bass player ...
Another prized jewel in the Rolling Stones’ unmatched catalogue, 1973 classic Goats Head Soup, restored to its full glory and more, is out now on multi-format and deluxe editions. The album is available in multiple configurations, including four-disc CD and vinyl box set editions with a treasure trove of unreleased studio and live material, as well as across all streaming and download services. The reissue follows the unveiling of never before released ‘Criss Cross’ on July 09 and the ...
I’ll admit that I came a little bit late to the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus party. Yes, they were a band I had heard about but I never really sat down to listen to their music until I saw how many of my colleagues were excited about the fact they were touring Australia at one time. When I asked them why they felt that way the response seemed to be an over-whelming “this is one of the greatest live bands that you will ever see.” As it turns out they are not just one of the best live bands going ...
Imagination! It is probably something so many of us needs in 2020 as we try to escape a reality that for many of us has been something a lot harsher than we would ever have expected. That imagination is also something that fuels the creativity behind Unleash The Archers brand new album Abyss. Once again the album sees the listener carried to the world of the Matriarch and the Immortal, the world that we were first introduced to on the band’s previous album – Apex. Continue reading UNLEASH ...
Motiva is an album that is twelve years in the making. It is not that Finnish Gothic metal outfit Silentium were dormant during that time, they didn’t even take a hiatus. That time not only saw the band tour, find a new member to replace Toni Lathinen but the band was also writing new material all the time – the result is Motiva an album that not only delivers a more mature sound but also feels like a time capsule that truly captures the twelve years between album. Continue reading ...
To capture how an artist can utilise negativity as a catalyst for their creativity it is best entrusted to an artist themselves; acclaimed actor, musician and stage director Michael Arden once said: “Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity”. This simple statement is a very befitting epigraph to In Hearts Wake’s fifth album Kaliyuga – a record which was in part inspired by the bush fires which ravaged our nation, the connection and humanity that arose from the devastation and ...
