Hell’s Heroes Festival announce 2025 lineup: Saxon, Abbath, Primordial, etc.

The Hell's Heroes Festival has unveiled its full lineup for the 2025 edition, set to take place on March 20th through the 22nd at Houston's White Oak Music Hall. Reaching its seventh year, headliners will include Saxon (performing a set centered on 1982's The Eagle...

Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley denies rumors of being the new Linkin Park vocalist

Rumors of a new Linkin Park singer have been circulating, hinting at a potential 2025 reunion tour. Earlier this year, Orgy vocalist Jay Gordon suggested that a female singer might replace the late Chester Bennington, though he later retracted the statement, turning...

Queens of the Stone Age cancel remaining 2024 tour dates

Queens of the Stone Age were forced to cancel their remaining tour dates for 2024 due to vocalist Josh Homme to "receive essential medical care through the remainder of the year."  The band issued the following statement: "QOTSA regret to announce the...

Slipknot’s Sid Wilson hospitalized after suffering serious burns, vows to return to tour

Slipknot's DJ Sid Wilson has been hospitalized after suffering serious burns to his face and arms due to an explosion. Wilson shared a few video updates on Instagram from the hospital, where he detailed his injuries, including burns to his face, arms, and blistered...
U.D.O. postpone North American tour to 2024

U.D.O. postpone North American tour to 2024

  U.D.O., led by former Accept singer Udo Dirkschneider,were forced to postpone their North American tour, initially scheduled to kick off as early as this Friday (3rd).  The trek will now take place in 2024.   U.D.O. issued the following statement: "It...

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New & Noteworthy, January 29th – The Bigger Picture

New & Noteworthy, January 29th – The Bigger Picture

We can officially say that the new year in music is off to a great start, as the final two weeks of January have given us more big-name releases than we normally get in the entire month of January. I'm hoping that the rest of the release calendar is this good in 2016,...

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New & Noteworthy, January 22nd – Don’t Turn Your Back

This is not normal. January is supposed to be a month with few, if any, big-name releases. Yet here we are, three weeks into the release calendar, and several extremely significant albums are all hitting shelves this week. The game is changing, it would seem, since...

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