Mad About Rock

  Blacktop Mojo and Shaman's Harvest will be coming to the UK on a very eagerly anticipated and long awaited CO - HEADLINE tour and have announced additional tour dates! Following the success of 'Burn The Ships' in 2017 and their cover of the Aerosmith classic 'Dream On' (which has reached 31 million views) and the hit singles “Where the Wind Blows”, “Underneath” and “It Won’t Last”; Blacktop Mojo will be touring their new album “Pollen” featuring the singles “As The Light Fades”, “Like Wild Horses”, and “Red Enough”. "Playing the UK has always been a bucket list goal for our band. To be able to cross that goal off of our list with our good friends in Shaman's Harvest there too, is like being told that not only did you win a brand-new car, but there is a big suitcase full of money in the back seat." - Matt James, Blacktop Mojo Shaman’s Harvest first hit single 'Dragonfly' released in 2009 reached #16 on Billboard. In early 2010, Shaman's Ha...

  Metal band FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY has today unleashed their brand new single 'Lower Purpose'. Along with the blistering track comes a new music video, which fans can watch here: https://youtu.be/WhTsUqTCpys . 'Lower Purpose' serves as a follow up to previous releases ' Savior Of None / Ashes Of All ' and ' Hostage ' – all of which can be found on the band’s forthcoming album The Nothing That Is. The new album is set to be released on October 25th via Nuclear Blast. Pre-order/pre-save it now at https://ffaa.bfan.link/the-nothing-that-is On the new track, the band shares: "You work, you pay taxes, and you expect the people in positions of power and government to serve your needs and the needs of other citizens, when in reality they serve their own agendas. Greed, war, corruption, it’s almost impossible to free yourself from this cycle. You inevitably serve a lower purpose." Stream the new single here: https://ffaa.bfan.link/lower-purpose Watch th...

  Alien Ant Farm have announced an EU/UK tour for October/November 2024 which they will co-headline with CKY. The tour announcement follows the release of their new album ~mAntras~ which was released on April 26th on highly acclaimed label Metalforce Records. In exciting news, Alien Ant Farm & CKY support Music Venue Trust by becoming the first American bands to add an optional £1 donation to support Grassroots Music Venues on the UK dates. Music Venue Trust will distribute donations to small, local, grassroots music venues across the country to ensure the music ecosystem continues to support new and developing artists. “We’ve always loved our UK tours! For over 20 years we have been able to play shows all around our “home away from home” and we’re excited to see old friends and fans on this run. We’ve watched CKY as fans through the years but have never had the pleasure to meet and tour with them. We think this is a proper nice fit.” says Alien Ant Farm frontman Dryden Mitc...

  On the 40th anniversary of their formation, the mighty Los Angeles-born guitar-driven heavy metal icons ALCATRAZZ are set to team up once again with British longest running all-female rock band Girlschool for a co-headline UK tour in February 2023. Both bands successfully completed an incendiary full European co-headline tour in 2022 and will bring their electrifying and foot-stomping performances to eight cities across the UK. Jimmy Waldo (ALCATRAZZ) comments: “The band just keeps getting better every show! Across Europe last year we had a fantastic response and enthusiastic fans nightly! Us touring with Girlschool really brings the METAL to town and we are looking forward to bringing it to the UK... THE home of Heavy Metal! Black Sabbath, Saxon, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, are we excited?... Are you kidding me?!” Denise Dufort (Girlschool) adds: “We are looking forward to once again performing for all of you and sharing the stage with our friends Alcatrazz, we had such a grea...

Two of the UK’s most enduring and influential bands have announced a joint headline tour of North America for November. Suede (known as 'The London Suede' In North America) and Manic Street Preachers both rose to prominence in the early 90s on the back of indisputably brilliant debut albums - 1992’s Generation Terrorists and 1993’s Suede - and electrifying live shows. Over the course of the next several years they would grow from punk rock youthquakers to arena-filing rock stars, earning their positions as national treasures in the pantheon of British music. Their first ever co-headlining tour kicks off in Vancouver, Canada on November 3rd. Beloved by music fans on both sides of the Atlantic, Suede took a hiatus to work on other projects between 2002 and 2013, returning with the acclaimed Bloodsports album, while Manic Street Preachers continued to record together, releasing a string of hit albums, but rarely visiting the USA and Canada. Recognized as two of the most iconic b...

LOATHE & HOLDING ABSENCE ANNOUNCE SPLIT EP  PLUS CO-HEADLINE UK TOUR! Heavy experimental collective of five Loathe and Cardiff ascending post-hardcore group Holding Absence are pleased to announce an exciting new collaborative project. Each band will be contributing 2 brand new studio tracks to a split EP titled ‘This Is As One’ out February 16th via SharpTone Records. Pre-orders for the ‘This Is As One’ EP are available now: 10" Splatter vinyl: http://nblast.de/ThisIsAsOneVINYL Digital: http://nblast.de/ThisIsAsOneDIGI www.thisisasone.com Both bands are today premiering videos for new EP tracks! Make sure you check those out at the locations below: Loathe ‘White Hot’ Holding Absence ‘Saint Cecilia’ Loathe and Holding Absence first officially met when they toured the UK together in April of this year with Blood Youth, bonding over their shared common principals as well as a respect for each other’s music and vision. Despite what some might see as fairly big sonic dif...

Blameshift Announce Co-Headlining Tour Dates with The Nearly Deads  Long Island, NY Hard Rock band Blameshift have announced they will co-headline a tour this fall with The Nearly Deads that will be sponsored by Strüng. The tour will kick off on October 12 in Stanhope, NJ and then conclude on November 2 in Nashville, TN. Blameshift premiered the music video for their single "Monster" through VEVO earlier this year. The video directed by Eric Schneider coined the hashtag #iamamonster, showing the dirty path of a dollar bill, making a monster out of everyone it encounters. The video now has over 121,450 views on YouTube. The band released Heart of Stone in mid 2016 while touring with New Years Day, Sylar and My Enemies and I. Before that Blameshift had been touring straight for nearly 8 years, logging over 1 million miles on the road, playing everything from the Vans Warped Tour to American Airlines Arena. As an independent band Blameshift has accomplished more than t...

Swedish Doom Trio Monolord , who have just completed a headline European tour will join UK Doom Trio Conan on a gargantuan co-headline 21 date roll over the Continent. Starting at the Soulcrusher Festival in Nijmegen, Holland on October 7, 2017 it takes in France, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland and Italy before winding up twenty-one days later in Siegen, Germany. MONOLORD + CONAN 07.10.17 NL - Nijmegen / Soulcrusher Festival 08.10.17 FR - Paris / Le Glazart 09.10.17 FR - Nantes / La Scene Michelet 10.10.17 FR - Bordeaux / Le Void 11.10.17 ES - Barcelona / Razz 3 12.10.17 ES - San Sebastian / Dabadaba 13.10.17 FR - Lyon / Jack Jack 14.10.17 FR - Audincourt / Le Molodo 15.10.17 BE - Antwerp / Desertfest 16.10.17 DK - Aarhus / Atlas 17.10.17 DE - Hamburg / Bambi Galore 18.10.17 DE - Berlin / Musik & Frieden 20.10.17 DE - Dresden / Morbus Maximus 21.10.17 DE - Munich / Keep It Low Festival 22.10.17 CZ - Brno / Kabinet Muz 23.10.17 AT - Vienna / Das...