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Highly Suspect have announced a 2023 US headlining tour with support from Dead Poet Society. The outing kicks off February 3rd in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and runs through March 3rd in Indianapolis.… Read more on Consequence.net

Canadian prog-metal trio Spiritbox have announced their first full-scale North American headlining tour, which is set for spring 2023. The “Eternal Blue Tour” kicks off April 10th in Vancouver and r… Read more on Consequence.net

As 2022 winds down, the 2023 tour season is starting to fill up, and one of early 2023’s top touring bills figures to be the co-headlining trek featuring Theory of a Deadman and Skillet. The two vete… Read more on Loudwire

The Offspring are ringing in the holiday season — quite literally — with a cover of Charles Brown’s 1960 tune “Please Come Home for Christmas” under the title “Bells Will Be Ringing (Please Come Home… Read more on Consequence.net

Bring Me The Horizon keyboardist Jordan Fish has made it clear the band is working on more “emo and screamo”-type material instead of the “metal and nü-metal sounds” found on their latest EP Survival… Read more on Metal+Injection.net

Asking Alexandria is now streaming the deluxe version of their 2021 album . The deluxe version features “New Devil” with In This Moment vocalist Maria Brink, “Miles Away,” “Faded Out” featuring Withi… Read more on Metal+Injection.net

Fever 333 have canceled all of their upcoming tour dates, with plans to resume performing in the spring. Following the departures of Stephen Harrison and Aric Improta last month, frontman Jason Aalon… Read more on Loudwire

Skindred will release their eighth studio album, Smile, on August 4, 2023 via Earache Records, with whom they signed with last year. To mark the news, Benji Webbe and co. have shared new ragga-metal… Read more on Louder

The 2023 lineup has been revealed for the UK’s massive Download Festival, which will be headlined by Metallica, Slipknot, and Bring Me the Horizon. The four-day fest is set for June 8th-11th at Donin… Read more on Consequence.net

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (LEX 18) Kentucky native Chris Stapleton won Male Vocalist of the Year last night at the CMA Awards, an award he’s now won six times. According to CMA, Stapleton leads this categor… Read more on LEX18+Lexington+KY+News

The string of Shinedown hits is plentiful, and the list of meaningful songs goes even deeper than that. But during a recent feature with Metal Hammer recounting his life through 10 songs, frontman Br… Read more on Loudwire

Godsmack have been teasing that their upcoming new album could potentially be their last one, and with that, that it’s their best work so far. A lot of bands say that, but they just dropped a new son… Read more on Loudwire

The Offspring have released a Christmas single based on Charles Brown’s 1960 holiday classic Please Come Home For Christmas. Bells Will Be Ringing (Please Come Home For Christmas) is The Offspring’s… Read more on Louder

Within the last year, the Red Hot Chili Peppers released two albums that charted no. 1 in the rock category, ending a 17 year drought in rock music since the last time that happened. The last time a… Read more on The+Daily+Caller

Iggy Pop has shared a new single, Frenzy, featuring a heavyweight rhythm section: Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. The single was produced by Ozzy Osb… Read more on Louder

Along with the recent announcements of the Adjacent Festival in New Jersey and the online iVoted Festival, there is now the unveiling of the fifth Innings Festival in Tempe, Arizona. It will take pla… Read more on UPROXX

Five Finger Death Punch frontman Ivan Moody has announced that he is “retiring from heavy metal” after one more FFDP album. The singer made his surprise proclamation onstage at a gig at the Ball Are… Read more on Louder

“Nobody wants to die, but they know they’re gonna have to,” Rival Sons singer Jay Buchanan howls in the band’s first new music since 2019’s Feral Roots. “Nobody Wants to Die” arrives with a cinematic… Read more on Rolling+Stone

Adding to the long list of memorable guests which recently includes Elon Musk, Kanye West, and Mark Zuckerberg, the latest to make an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience is the music legend, Rick … Read more on HYPEBEAST

Five Finger Death Punch are a band that still values the artistic expression of the music video, and today they’ve returned with not one, but two new videos, that are part of an overarching storyline… Read more on Loudwire

French drinks maker Pernod Ricard SA will launch a new brand of sotol liquor backed by rock star Lenny Kravitz to target rising demand for Mexican spirits. Pernod said the product, to be made in c… Read more on Bloomberg

At this year’s Louder Than Life festival, we caught up with Cherry Bombs performer Alicia Taylor to talk about her rock and metal dance troupe, how she discovered cabaret, the ideas she bounces off C… Read more on Loudwire

Weeks ahead of its 2022 edition, which happens over three days this month, Las Vegas festival When We Were Young has announced its return in 2023, on Saturday, October 21, 2023 at Las Vegas Festival … Read more on Brooklyn+Vegan

Wicked Opossum Records will release a Kinks tribute comp. It’s called Starstruck: A Tribute to The Kinks and it has covers of Kinks tracks by Wheatus, The Operation MD (Cone McCaslin, Todd Morse) Riv… Read more on Punknews.org

For Jay Buchanan – born into a musical family, and a solo artist before joining Rival Sons in 2009 – singing isn’t just a thing he does. The pandemic, he tells us, has confirmed that. “Being able to … Read more on Louder

Madonna said ‘Russia’s Pointless and Greed Driven Invasion Of the Ukraine MUST be stopped’ on InstagramAFP / Ben STANSALL KEY POINTS Madonna uploaded a new video on Instagram, and many sa… Read more on International+Business+Times

In a new video posted to Instagram, Godsmack singer Sully Erna explained his long absence from social media. In short, he says he felt like everyone on social media had become on the coronavirus, whi… Read more on MetalSucks

If you think about big music acts like major sports stars, Slipknot have got to be one of the biggest free agents on the market today. Having just finished their last record for Roadrunner Records wi… Read more on MetalSucks

Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Oliver Sykes and Matt Nicholls of Bring Me the Horizon join Kyle Meredith backs… Read more on Consequence.net

Former Red Hot Chillies guitarist Josh Klinghoffer has opened up about his 10 years performing with the rock band, claiming that the experience was enormously stifling. Klinghoffer first joined the … Read more on Independent

The work of a good samaritan is never truly done, and now thanks to some heavy metal legends, the lifesaving efforts of Kitten Rescue in Los Angeles will continue on valiantly. Rob Halford (Judas Pri… Read more on Metal+Injection.net

Musical giants took centre stage at a sold-out Massey Hall on Sept. 24 to celebrate the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. The gala, hosted by Quebec singer Marie-Mai, saw presenters such as Olivia R… Read more on Toronto+Star

Rob Zombie was joined on stage by original guitarist Mike Riggs for his Aftershock Festival set, telling the crowd Riggs had returned “after a 20-year absence.” Zombie didn’t say anything else about … Read more on Metal+Injection.net

Rising blues rockers Larkin Poe – made up of sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell –have released a new single, Strike Gold. It’s the fourth track to be taken from the pair’s upcoming sixth studio album B… Read more on Louder

It’s been quite the love fest for Sevendust after Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger praised the band’s live performances. We caught up with Sevendust’s Lajon Witherspoon at Louder Than Life 2022 to ge… Read more on Loudwire

Though being one of rock’s most explosive live bands, it appears as though things might have been a little combustible inside Fever 333 as well. Two of the band’s three members – Stephen Harrison and… Read more on Loudwire

A Day to Remember have announced a fall 2022 US acoustic tour with support from Wage War. The “Reassembled: Acoustic Theater Tour” will kick off following A Day to Remember’s current headlining tour… Read more on Consequence.net

Phil Collins and his Genesis bandmates Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford have agreed to sell their publishing copyrights and “a mix of recorded music-income streams” to Concord Music Group, the company … Read more on Variety

Muse have announced 2023 North American dates for their Will of the People tour, hitting Chicago, Minneapolis, Austin, Columbus, Toronto, Montreal, NYC, Philly, Denver, L.A., Vegas, Portland, Seattle… Read more on Brooklyn+Vegan

Corey Taylor has announced the special livestream event, Half Sold Out: CMFT Live At The Palladium, in aid of his own charity The Taylor Foundation. The organisation, which was launched earlier this… Read more on Louder

Many of music’s biggest lights came out to shine in the name of Taylor Hawkins. On Monday night, the late drummer’s Foo Fighter bandmates held another memorial concert in Los Angeles, featuring perf… Read more on ETCanada.com

Rock and metal social media is awash with reactions from the lucky few thousand fans who were present for last night’s epic Taylor Hawkins tribute concert in LA. Taking place mere weeks after London’… Read more on Louder

Godsmack have returned with powerful new single, Surrender. The track serves as the first glimpse of the band’s forthcoming eighth studio album, which does not yet have a title or official release da… Read more on Louder

Tenacious D, Pearl Jam, and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizardare among the many artists featured on the Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All compilation, which is a fundraiser album avai… Read more on Metal+Injection.net

Shakeups in a band’s lineup are nothing new, but they’re usually met with things like a press release and a statement from people involved, but at last night’s Aftershock Festival in Sacramento, Cali… Read more on MetalSucks

Evanescence vocalist Amy Lee joined the legendary Tenacious D on stage at the Louder Than Life festival for both “Kyle Quit The Band” and the appropriately-named “Lee.” Given their collective talents… Read more on Metal+Injection.net

Riot Fest 2022 proved to be a joyful musical party, featuring all your misfit friends and a bill stacked with nearly 100 of your favorite punk, rock, industrial, indie, and hip hop artists. The festi… Read more on Consequence.net

The year is 1992 and Trent Reznor is refusing to put out new music. His band Nine Inch Nails is under contract with TVT Records, who are pushing for a follow up to his massively successful 1989 debut… Read more on Louder

NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo has a fan base that extends well beyond the Milwaukee city limits. As it turns out, actor and comedian Jack Black is a big supporter, and he made a song for the tw… Read more on CBS+Sports

“Eddie” is the latest song from the forthcoming Red Hot Chili Peppers album Return of the Dream Canteen, their second full length of 2022, and it’s a tribute to the late legend Eddie Van Halen. “Som… Read more on Loudwire