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  There is no stopping electro-metalcore crew PREMIER JESTER who continue their rapid ascent and are primed to unleash their irresistibly charged debut album, 'Turn You On', due out Friday 24th April. The energetic five-piece have also just dropped their belting new track, ‘Pac’d Out’. Watch the video here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqkzWxtMvXU  or see below: With the band on the rise, we exclusively asked the dynamic metalcorers for the songs that have greatly influenced their sound: Limp Bizkit – Rollin "I grew up on Limp Bizkit and it didn’t matter what mood you were in, they lifted you up and got you moving. They were aggressive without being too serious and were (for me) one of the first main cross-genre bands who really pushed musical boundaries, all whilst having a lot of fun! I feel this is a BIG influence on the style PJ adopts" – Jimmy Martin (Harsh vocals) Scooter - Posse "Scooter is one of my biggest influences. I’m a huge fan of techno a...

  SCRATCH ONE GRUB hail from the valleys of South Wales and are set to deliver their debut album 'One', arriving 27 February. The record blends progressive ambition, with alt-metal grit. We exclusively caught up with Lewis Griffiths (Drums/Vocals) and Sean Barry aka The Grub Man (Samples/Vocals) from the band, and asked them to talk about five songs that have greatly influenced their sound: Slipknot - Eyeless "The chaotic nature of this song captures everything that we love about metal. The musical technicality especially the drums and blood curdling vocals, sonically projects an unfathomable level of hatred and aggression. The random lyrics in the chorus are unorthodox yet very catchy, which ensures us that it's possible to go down a similar path creatively, as it has worked well for others." Children Of Bodom - Living Dead Beat "Alexi Laiho was a creative and technical genius, especially when it comes to the music theory he applied to his endless catalo...

  A brand-new BLEED FROM WITHIN anthem is out today, 'Hands Of Sin'. Two years on from the release of their last album, the critically lauded Shrine. This monumental new single arrives just in time for the band's intense summer of European festival shows, and teases what is next during their Winter across European arenas as special guest support to Slipknot. Watch the video for 'Hands Of Sin' now at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-aixHbS1NM Stream 'Hands Of Sin' on all platforms now at: https://bleedfromwithin.bfan.link/hands-of-sin.ema Ali Richardson comments: “Hands Of Sin marks a new chapter for Bleed From Within. We’ve worked incredibly hard on this material and pushed ourselves as songwriters. The result is one of the best songs we’ve ever written and we’re incredibly proud to share it with the world. Can not wait to play this on the festivals stages this Summer. Play it loud!” 2024 FESTIVAL RUN 12.06 - CZ - Rock For People Festival 15.06 - UK - Down...

  Bleed From Within have had an extraordinary couple of years. In April they'll be hitting the road for a month-long USA and Canada tour with The Ghost Inside, Paleface and Great American Ghost, and are also looking ahead to a string of summer festival appearances including their Hellfest debut, Download Festival and Graspop, plus a couple of German shows with Shadow Of Intent, The Acacia Strain and Fuming Mouth. Not to mention that they'll be capping off this year in the finest way by playing as special guests to Slipknot across the UK and Europe, for Slipknot's 'Here Comes The Pain' tour celebrating the Iowan's 25th anniversary. Today, Bleed From Within have released an immense, high-energy video for their track 'Killing Time' made up of some touring highlights from the past few months. 'Killing Time' has become a set-list favourite throughout their recent runs, the track coming from their latest studio album Shrine. Watch the video for 'Ki...

  Bleed From Within have had an extraordinary year. They recently stepped off of the Lamb Of God Headbangers Boat cruise, following on from a colossal summer run which took in both headline shows, performances with Heaven Shall Burn and festival appearances at the likes of Brutal Assault (Czech Republic), Summer Breeze (Germany) and Alcatraz (Belgium), finishing up with a 13-date tour supporting Trivium across the UK. This was all on top of a hugely successful debut American tour earlier this year with August Burns Red and The Devil Wears Prada. Now today, Bleed From Within are pleased to announce that 2024 will be another extraordinary year. They have been announced as special guests to Slipknot on their upcoming UK and European tour, set to take place across December 2024. The run has been dubbed the 'Here Comes The Pain' tour, celebrating Slipknot's 25th anniversary. Bleed From Within stated: "Slipknot are a band that we all grew up listening to so when we got the c...

  Download Festival’s 20th anniversary has become a double celebration, as today the festival sells out, marking 2023 as the fastest-selling year of all time. Day, weekend and camping tickets have been snapped up by fans eager to celebrate an incredible 20 years for the legendary festival. The special anniversary edition, taking place for the first time over four days on 8-11 June 2023 at Donington Park, will feature headliners Bring Me The Horizon, Slipknot and Metallica, who will perform two headline sets with no repeat songs. The incredible line-up continues with Alter Bridge, Five Finger Death Punch, Architects, Evanescence, Disturbed, Placebo, Alexisonfire, Parkway Drive, Ghost and recently announced Bad Religion, Cancer Bats, Casey, Hundred Reasons, Puscifer and State Champs offering those lucky fans with tickets the ultimate rock and metal celebration. Facebook: DownloadFest Twitter: @DownloadFest Instagram: @DownloadFest TikTok: @DownloadUK Twitch: @DownloadFest

  Download Festival is witnessing its fastest-ever selling year, with Early Bird tickets and the much sought-after RIP packages selling out in record time, following the launch party on Monday at London’s NoMad hotel. Celebrating an incredible 20 years, the special 20th anniversary edition, taking place for the first time over 4 days on 8-11 June 2023, will feature headliners Bring Me The Horizon, Slipknot and Metallica, who will perform two headline sets with no repeat songs. Also announced were over 60 bands including the likes of Evanescence, Placebo, Parkway Drive, The Distillers, Within Temptation, Ghost, Disturbed, an exclusive reunion from The Blackout and many more. Book tickets now and be part of this historical event: https://downloadfestival.co.uk/tickets .

  Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, is back to celebrate its epic 20 year legacy with four headline sets for the first time ever. Announced today are headliners Slipknot, Bring Me The Horizon and Metallica, who will deliver two massive no-repeat performances. This year the festival will take place over four days on 8-11 June 2023 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. General tickets are onsale at 10am on Thursday 10 November at www.downloadfestival.co.uk . Also joining the 20th anniversary party are UK and international heavyweights Evanescence, Parkway Drive, Disturbed, Pendulum, Architects, Ghost, The Distillers, Placebo, Alexisonfire, Asking Alexandria, Motionless In White, I Prevail, The Blackout (reunion), Fever 333, Stray From The Path, Lorna Shore, Nova Twins, Municipal Waste and many more. The headliners and other acts announced today highlight the multi-generational appeal of the festival, which has seen over 2...

  The engaging, enchanting, cutting, yet beautiful Swedish metal supergroup Soen release the mesmerizing video for their interpretation of Slipknot classic, “Snuff”. The track is taken from the forthcoming release ATLANTIS, out via Silver Lining Music on November 18th, 2022. Founding members Martin Lopez and Joel Ekelöf explain their selection of Slipknot’s deeply dark meditation on darkness rejecting love “Snuff”:“We wanted to do something extra special during the ATLANTIS concert. The obvious path would have been to pick an epic progressive song from the likes of Genesis, Pink Floyd etc. Instead, we went for the opposite with ‘Snuff’, a scaled down and brutally honest song that we all love in its powerful sincerity.” ATLANTIS is a special concert film featuring thirteen of the group’s most popular compositions reinterpreted with live orchestral accompaniment. ATLANTIS was created within the mystic and magical confines of Atlantis Grammofon Studio in Stockholm, Sweden, which ha...

Having released their most gripping album to date I Loved You At Your Darkest, BEHEMOTH return once again spread the word of the unholy. On January 24th, the band will release the I Loved You At Your Darkest Tour Edition - an obsidian gem in their discography, including the I Loved You At Your Darkest track listing with brand new, alternate artwork by Nicola Samori; plus an exclusive BBC Radio 1 session and unreleased documentary Thou Darkest Art taken from the band's career affirming art gallery exhibition in London last year. Pre-order the I Loved You At The Darkest Tour Edition here: https://nblast.de/Behemoth-ILYAYD-TE The band have released an official music video for Rom 5:8. The band comments: ‘‘To celebrate the monumental start of the SLIPKNOT European tour - we proudly present the official video for Rom 5:8. Ready your voices Legions, we shall need them!" Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/Uz5hTiDY48E I Loved You At Your Darkest marked a milest...

Slipknot amongst the many to release new albums this year! As its the start of a new year, time to look ahead to some the upcoming metal and rock album releases that Mad About Rock is particularly looking forward to throughout the year... Within Temptation new album 'Resist' is out 1st February 2019 and will mark the Dutch symphonic metallers seventh album. The band have already graced us with some massive and hard-hitting singles featuring brilliant guests with singer Jacoby Shaddix (Papa Roach) and Anders Fridén (In Flames), leaving us very eager to hear more in what sounds like some of their best and most dynamic songs yet. Children Of Bodom  upcoming 'Hexed' album will be the melodic death metallers tenth album due for release March 8th via Nuclear Blast. New single 'Under Grass and Clover' is a good sign of what is to come, being extremely catchy and memorable. Slipknot unleased the crushing new single 'All Out War' in 2018 and...

ANTI-CLONE GO DEEP AND DARK IN DEBUT ALBUM! To open we have the title track, which acts as the atmospheric build up prologue, before demonic drawn out vocals take over and alarming effects, showcasing their industrial sonic nu-metal madness in all its glory... Deracinated flows well following the opener, with intriguing clean vocals, until the technical franticness consumes once again, in this stomping release that will have an unconformable grip on you! Mechanical Heart chuggs away with dark down tempo memorable riffs and guitars. The subject matter, highlights the strong digital influence in the modern world we live in, where everything becomes cold and lifeless, reliant on machines. A very thought provoking number! Astaroth is simply mental, and highly reminiscent of Korn and Slipknot, which isn’t surprising as produced by Matt Hyde (Slipknot 'All Hope Is Gone' - Machine Head 'The Blackening') . With agitated fast guitars, pounding drums and crazed ...

Anti-Clone announced for Mushroomhead UK shows - New song 'Astaroth' now streaming online - Debut album produced by Matt Hyde (Slipknot) Art by Mister Sam (Rob Zombie) - Out 29.4.2016 via Phd "Likely to be one of the year’s most distinctive debuts" #HOTNEWBAND METAL HAMMER #281 - http://metalhammer.teamrock.com/features/2016-03-01/why-anti-clone-are-bringing-nu-metal-back New song 'Astaroth' now streaming: https://soundcloud.com/anti-clone/astaroth Anti-Clone live with Mushroomhead and Sanguine: 24th March - BIRMINGHAM - O2 Academy Birmingham 25th March - CHESTER - The Live Rooms One of the UK's best breaking bands is preparing to make their mark in 2016 with the release of their highly anticipated debut album. Notoriously named as 'murder capital of Britain', the sleepy town of Boston, Lincolnshire is home to apocolyptic nu-metal mob ANTI-CLONE. Since bursting onto the scene in 2013, the five piece have wasted no time in grabbing audiences by ...

So everyone loves a good Zombie film, program or game! With the return of the biggest Zombie TV show, the  majorly successful   The Walking Dead I thought this would be a good opportunity to look at some of the best zombie inspired/themed rock offerings to 'get your teeth into'! Not all songs are strictly about zombies in this post, and in the extended playlist below, but they are related/associated in some way and can easily be linked to them!  Get yourself in a zombie state of mind below!! To get things in motion in a crazy fast fashion, it has to be what I think is one of the best Zombie inspired songs by one of the biggest metal bands from the US! This song featured on the movie soundtrack for the first Resident Evil film, which is inspired by the popular Capcom games. Be prepared to lose your shit!! Slipknot - My Plague It would be offensive to not feature this next song/artist as they embody the very essence of the living ...