Mad About Rock

  Michigan Hard Rock favorites TAPROOT have released the first single “VIP {V\CT\M \ PLAY) from their upcoming 7th studio album SC\SSRS, to all digital outlets Worldwide. Produced by guitarist/vocalist Stephen Richards at The Loft in Saline, MI, the album, fully written and recorded by Richards, will be the band’s first studio release since 2012’s The Episodes (Victory), set to hit stores September 29th via THC MUSIC/Amplified Distribution. View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Az-0btbAXuA SC\SSRS is available for pre-order now from taprootmerch.com . Also on digital outlets today, Best of Besides, an 18-track collection of remastered demos and rarities, mastered by Richard Easterling (Tantric, Zen From Mars) in stores on CD 5/19. Pre-order on LP at taprootmerch.com . Taproot has also added additional dates to their string of upcoming headlining shows, marking the band’s first shows in over six years, and their first tour in over a decade, set to feature special guests September Mo...

  Corners of Sanctuary (COS), Philly's premier traditional Heavy Metal band, have announced show dates for their upcoming October 4x4 Tour, which is being presented by the Virginia-based group, The Gathering Productions. See schedule below. The run of dates, which is in conjunction with promoting the band's new best of compilation, "Metal Never Dies," has COS performing four shows, in four states, in four days. "We are excited to be back on the road," said COS guitarist Mick Michaels. "It's great to do what we love to do and what a band is designed to do; playing live." Amidst the upcoming tour, and recording a new EP and full-length album, COS is also scheduled to open for TRAPT, on their 20th anniversary tour, this November in Delaware. Following this past summer's acclaimed reception of their unique version of "Bringing on the Heartbreak" from the “Defying” EP, COS' recent mega heavy cover of Def Leppard's classic, ...

After a triumphant live set at Saint Vitus Bar that was streamed across Kerrang! Magazine's social media, ascending Arkansas progressive doom quartet Pallbearer have released a sublime cover of the Pink Floyd classic, 'Run Like Hell'. The track is part of a compilation in tribute to the iconic album, The Wall. Compiled by Magnetic Eye, the collection is called THE WALL [REDUX] and joining Pallbearer areMelvins, Mark Lanegan, Ruby the Hatchet and Mars Red Sky to name a few. Listen to the track, over on Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/6SBDtPZIxl4aqkKYPUE2fu Purchase the compilation, here: reduxrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-wall-redux-3 The band recently teamed up with Audiotree to record a special live video for new track, 'Dropout', which can be viewed online, here: https://youtu.be/Qq1pWl-ObjE Order 'Dropout' digitally, here: https://apple.co/2K9lVDW Pallbearer's latest album HEARTLESS was released in March 2017. Order your copy below: C...