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Pirate Metal Heroes ALESTORM Announce Eighth Studio Album


Hoist the sails, sharpen your cutlasses, and fill your tankards—ALESTORM is back with their brand-new album, The Thunderfist Chronicles, set for release on June 20, 2025 via Napalm Records! The Scottish party pirates return with their eight album, containing eight new anthems packed with blistering riffs, wild shanty-driven riffs, and utterly ridiculous lyrics—taking the high seas of metal to new depths.

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GHOST Reveal New Album, ‘SKELETÁ’, Out April 25


GHOST has confirmed the release of its feverishly awaited new album: SKELETÁ, the GRAMMY-winning Swedish theatrical rock icons’ first full length offering of new material since 2022’s international #1 charting IMPERA, will manifest April 25 via Loma Vista Recordings.

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SLAYER announce return to the UK with European exclusive shows


For more than four decades, SLAYER has defined thrash metal – shaping the genre, inspiring others, destroying stages across the world, and forging an untouchable legacy of unrelenting speed, aggression, and power. Now, as they celebrate more than 40 years of chaos, they’re making history once again, announcing two massive headline shows, the biggest they’ve ever done in the U.K. and  the only headline shows SLAYER will play in Europe this year.

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100 Days To Go Until Download XXII


Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, is now only 100 days away. With the countdown now truly on, celebrate this year’s festival with our round up of Download By Numbers. This year’s festival will take place on 13-15 June 2025 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. Tickets are available now at www.downloadfestival.co.uk.

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8 BANDS READY FOR COPENHELL’S BONEYARD CONTAINER STAGE


Today, COPENHELL announces eight bands that will perform on the festival’s new Boneyard container stage this summer. Boneyard was introduced at last year’s festival as an area that focuses on bands from the massive, dark Danish underground that give concerts straight out of a container, directly into the peoples’ faces, and it was a hugely popular initiative among the COPENHELL audience. 

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COREY TAYLOR and BAD OMENS collaborate to cover Kansas classic ‘Dust In The Wind’ which is featured on soundtrack of ‘Queen Of The Ring’


As excitement builds for the March 7th theatrical release of Queen of the Ring—the highly anticipated biopic chronicling the trailblazing journey of wrestling icon Mildred Burke, written and directed by Ash Avildsen and starring Emily Bett Rickards — Sumerian Records are thrilled to release a very special collaboration between the inimitable COREY TAYLOR and BAD OMENS. The track, produced, mixed and mastered by Aaron Gilhuis, is haunting cover of the Kansas classic ‘Dust in the Wind‘ and is featured on the official motion picture soundtrack of Queen Of The Ring (releasing via Sumerian Records on 7th March).

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