Stonecutters to Embark on Headlining Tour!!!

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One of Kentucky’s best metal bands is about to showcase their talents all over the East Coast. Stonecutters are touring in support of their recent album “Blood Moon” which made our Top 25 albums of 2015. If you are anywhere near any of their stops on tour you will want to make sure to get your ass out there and see them live. Buy a shirt, get the album and raise hell in the pit. Coming to a town near you…

Blood Moon Rising Tour March 2016

3/11-Indianapolis, IN~Fifth Quarter
3/12-Lansing, MI~Macs
3/13-Detroit,MI~Painted Lady
3/14-Ft. Wayne, IN~Skeletunes
3/15-Cincinnati, OH~Northside Yacht Club
3/16-Charleston, WV~Empty Glass
3/17-Winston-Salem, NC~The Garage
3/18-Asheville, NC~Odditorium
3/19-Richmond, VA~Wonderland
3/20-Raleigh, NC~Slim’s
3/21-Jacksonville, FL~Shantytown Pub
3/23-Orlando, FL~Uncle Lou’s
3/24-Cape Coral, FL~Rackem Billiards
3/25-Tampa, FL~Brass Mug
3/26-Knoxville, TN~The Concourse

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Whitechapel Announces Headlining US Tour…

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Tennessee natives Whitechapel are currently finishing up work on their upcoming sixth full-length, (Yes, 6th.) They will head back out on the road next month for their final headlining tour in support of their latest album, Our Endless War. The seventeen-date journey will kick off May 4th in Fayetteville, Arkansas and wrap up on May 22nd in Wilmington, North Carolina. Support will be provided Fit For A King, The Plot In You, and Enterprise Earth.

WHITECHAPEL w/ Fit For A King, The Plot In You, Enterprise Earth:

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State Of The Art: Vegas Rockers SIN CITY SINNERS

*This is part of our State Of The Art series showcasing bands every Monday from the featured state*

This month’s State is Nevada!

Nevada_Road_Sign You can’t think about Nevada without thinking about Sin City. Now these days you can’t think about Sin City without thinking about the SIN CITY SINNERS! Formed in 2007 the SIN CITY SINNERS started as a just for fun jam band but quickly turned into something much bigger. Now in 2015 they are Las Vegas’s top drawing rock act. Their reputation has grown so much that rock legends will not visit Vegas without catching a performance from the rockers, very often joining them on stage. In fact, Hundreds of rock stars have jammed with the “Sinners” including members of iconic bands like Guns N’ Roses, KISS, Motley Crue, Journey, Motorhead and Pantera to name just a few. The band claims that if you took every artist who has performed on stage with them and added their record sells together, the total sells would eclipse 500 Million albums sold worldwide. Continue reading

Welcome To Rockville: Meet The Bands Day 1!

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Jacksonville’s premiere music festival is slowly approaching. A mere 70 days or so away. Once again the promoters have amassed a slew of amazing bands from varying genres. Rockvillans like myself anxiously wait all year long for the gates to open and the first note to be struck. If you haven’t made plans to attend you are doing yourself a great injustice. Be there. Continue reading

Sourvein Reveals Details For New Album, ‘Aquatic Occult’. [Streaming First Single]

T.Roy Medlin (Photo Credit: D. Randall Blythe)

T.Roy Medlin (Photo Credit: D. Randall Blythe)

Sourvein reveals details for new album, ‘Aquatic Occult’; launches first single “Ocypuss”, featuring Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe and Corrosion of Conformity’s Mike Dean and Reed Mullin.  Continue reading

Chicago Open Air Festival. July 15th-17th!

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Chicago Open Air has announced Rammstein as one of the headlining acts for the 3-day music, craft beer and Gourmet Man Food festival held July 15, 16 and 17 at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, IL, just outside Chicago. This marks Rammstein’s only 2016 U.S. performance and first Chicago show since 2012. Additional festival headliners will be announced on February 16. Continue reading

Black Sabbath The End… with Rival Sons – United Center – Chicago, IL. 1/22/16

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Freezing temperatures couldn’t keep things from heating up in Chicago Friday night as Black Sabbath brought show 2 of their final tour, appropriately titled “The End”, to the United Center. The 23,000 Plus arena was sold out and filled to the brim by the time the metal masters took the stage. But first Long Beach, California rockers Rival Sons took the stage to get the crowd warmed up from the cold outside.

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Review: Lord Almighty – “Paths” [Stream]

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Sometimes music can be so addictive, but luckily you can’t overdose on metal (Or I would have perished many years ago). A new addiction of mine is the killer genre bending band Lord Almighty. They are a band that doesn’t set boundaries and really can’t be caged into one style. The band sounds like have spent decades together honing their sound, but the truth is they formed just a few years ago in 2013. The founders of the band Goose (lead guitar) and Keenan (rhythm and vocals) began writing material almost immediately which would become their debut EP released in April of 2013. They don’t waste much time as they followed up that EP pretty quickly with their newest release “Paths”. Continue reading