ANTHRAX announce 40th anniversary celebrations inc. career spanning live stream + video testimonial series feat. distinguished musicians


One of The Big Four turns the big 4-0 this year, and are celebrating with a number of special activities and events to honour the landmark anniversary. Formed by guitarist Scott Ian and bassist Dan Lilker in Queens, NY on July 18th 1981, Anthrax were one of the first thrash metal bands to emerge from the East Coast and quickly became regarded as a leader in the genre alongside MetallicaSlayer, and Megadeth

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Emily Lazar (September Mourning) Teams up with Jesse Meester and Griffin Carlson to Create “Thinking of You”


On May 2nd, Emily Lazar of September Mourning (the first female rock/ metal front person to create and sell an NFT ), Jesse Meester (Actor, Entrepreneur with 1.8 million social media followers) and Griffin Carlson (Digital and NFT artist under the moniker romanticappeal) will be revealing their combined efforts to create a unique NFT collection, “Thinking of You”. All three artists met through the NFT community and decided to combine their similar aesthetics and different strengths to create art and benefit two charities they are passionate about. Equal profit share from the sale of this NFT collection will be donated to both The World Wildlife Federation and The American Foundation For Suicide Prevention.

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Download Festival UK Announces 70+ Bands FOR 2022


Download Festival isn’t taking place this year but they have just announced 70+ bands for 2022.  The next wave of artists joining previously announced headliners: KISS, Iron Maiden and Biffy Clyro.

New artists JUST added, and bringing the mosh to #DL2022, include:
DeftonesKorn, Megadeth, The Pretty Reckless, Steel PantherThe Ghost Inside, Funeral For A Friend, Descendents, Electric Wizard, Sepultura.

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THE OFFSPRING LAND THEIR HIGHEST UK CHARTING ALBUM WITH ‘LET THE BAD TIMES ROLL’ IN AT NUMBER 3


THE OFFSPRING and their brand new album ‘Let The Bad Times Roll’ have crashed into the UK official album charts top 5, with an all time personal best position for the band at number 3! Beating out their previous efforts, including ‘Smash’ (number 21 in 1994), ‘Americana’ (number 10 in 1998) and ‘Conspiracy Of One’ (number 12 in 2000), this new benchmark chart placing will no doubt fuel the excitement levels for the bands upcoming UK arena tour in November 2021.  

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Darkthrone announce new studio album ‘Eternal Hails’


As John Peel once said of The Fall, “Always different, always the same,” so too one could say the same of Darkthrone. Things change, times change, people change, and yet even when sounding fresh and new and delivering just five tracks in 45 minutes on their 19th album, Eternal Hails, the Norwegian black metal legends remain defiantly and eternally Darkthrone.

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Metal Frontrunners TETRARCH Reveal Chilling New Single “Addicted”


This Friday, April 30 marks the highly-anticipated release of Unstable, the groundbreaking sophomore full-length release by Los Angeles based breakout metal stars TETRARCH!

In celebration, the band is following up on their three huge singles “I’m Not Right”“You Never Listen” and “Negative Noise” with their fourth and final pre-album release single, “Addicted”. The truly massive, spine-tingling endeavor showcases the captivatingly brooding and introspective side of TETRARCH, rounding out a dynamic group of hits.

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