• Rise Against Releases Two New Songs Ahead of Their Fall Tour

    Rise Against releases two new singles, “Katy Bar the Door” and “Living Undercover”, which lines up with their recent announcement of a fall tour.  The Chicago punk quartet has released two songs that have a strong message.  The first song ” Katy Bar the Door” as explained by the vocalist Tim McIIrath, “Katy Bar the Door” takes its name from an…

  • K-rock Sensation Silica Gel Releases Their Third album release Ballad of You

    Silica Gel fans will be excited they have announced the release of their next album; it has been three years since their last album release. Ballad of You was released August 20, 2026 and can be found on all of Silica Gel social media.  The keyword running through the album is “Spiral Molting”. It is a concept Silica Gel…

  • Upon A Burning Body Comes to Alien Country with Southern Domination Tour

    Alan Higgins Upon A Burning Body along with Norma Jean stopped into the alien capital Roswell New Mexico bring their rock to shake things up with the Southern Domination Tour. They were joined by two well-known local bands, Fragment and Mission 7 all performing at the legendary The Liberty, a ballroom turned music venue with fancy chandeliers and tablecloths.  Fragment opened the night; they are a 4-member metal band with lots of energy from the Roswell area, and they had a solid local fan base that joined them…

  • Canadian Band ENCASEMENT Releases New Self-titled Album a Solo Project by James Thompson

    Canadian black metal ENCASEMENT is a solo project of James Thompson has just announced the release of his self-titled album, ENCASEMENT that began as a simple creative exercise and evolved into something far more personal. Songs arrived in bursts and gradually assembled into a record rooted in grief, reflection, and emotional release. While the earliest material emerged spontaneously, the remainder of the album was shaped with greater…

  • PSYCROPTIC Release New Single and New Album, Heading on Tour Soon

    Photo by Rae Chatten Psycroptic  this last week releases new album along with the single “Ashes Of A New Dawn” The new track and video comes out just as the new album The Pulse of Annihilation drops on July 17, 2026. Prior to this single release they had already released “Gathering a Venomous Herd” and “No Blade Of Grass”  Bassist Todd Stern comments on “Ashes Of A New Dawn”, “Loooooove this song. It’s the type of song that gives you…

  • The Pretty Reckless Dear God Tour underway crossing North America now

    At the end of June, the recorded breaking rock band The Pretty Reckless released their fifth album and in record time they have announced by the second week in July the album “Dear God” has become the highest selling album since the debut album back in 2011. It is the #1 selling album in independent stores in the UK and top 20 on main charts in 8…

  • XCOMM Releases New Album, Time To Burn and Have An Active Fall Planned

    XCOMM has announced their debut album Time To Burn along with a new single “Purity” off the new album. This Venice Beach hardcore punk band has just come off the Vans Warped Tour and recently was on The Travis Mills Show with an interview with the band and to announce some of their future plans.  Some of those plans like more festivals like Bumbershoot Festival, main support to Guns N’ Roses at the final North American date of their 2026…

  • Taking Back Sunday Announces Release of a 20th Anniversary Deluxe Louder Now Album

    Taking Back Sunday is getting ready to release a 20th anniversary Louder Now deluxe edition. Their 2006 release of Louder Now was such a breakthrough album for them; they felt it needed a dusting off enhanced new feel to the masterpiece. So, October 16 via Craft Recordings, the new deluxe with the same tracks and…

  • SCATTER Releases Debut EP- Tech Hell Cyber Thrash

    SCATTER Releases Debut EP- Tech Hell Cyber Thrash

    Tech Hell Cyber Thrash debut album of SCATTER has been released and already blazing the Thrash metal scene like a wildfire. This album brings a crazy mix of classic death metal brutality to throwback speed metal harmonized leads, wrapped up in a paranoid, blood soaked thrash metal treatise on the interconnected hell world we call Earth. Speed death metal…

  • Paul Di’Anno Battlezone re-release Fighting Back on its 40th Anniversary

    Paul Di’Anno Battlezone re-release Fighting Back on its 40th Anniversary

    The late great original singer of Iron Maiden Paul Di’Anno who later formed the band Battlezone.  They released their debut album, Fighting Back in 1986, that laid the groundwork for future heavy metal bands. Now 40 years later Battlezone has re-released the blockbuster album.   Chipster PR and Consulting reports that four decades later, Fighting Back remains an essential document of 1980s heavy metal and to celebrate this 40th Anniversary Deko Entertainment has remastered and repackaged this landmark release from the former Iron Maiden frontman.  It…