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EXHORDER To Launch U.S. Headlining “Unforeseen Circumstances” Tour Later This Month

New Orleans thrash metal veterans EXHORDER have announced a U.S. headlining run set to kick off later this month. The “Unforeseen Circumstances Tour 2026” winter trek launches January 29 in Lafayette, Louisiana and runs...

LAMB OF GOD Announce New Album Into Oblivion, Drop Title Track And Video

LAMB OF GOD Announce New Album Into Oblivion, Drop Title Track And Video Richmond, Virginia metal heavyweights LAMB OF GOD have announced the release of their tenth studio album, Into Oblivion, due out March 13 via Epic Records. The record marks the band’s first...

Cavalera Brings Chaos A.D. to Anaheim

Cavalera Conspiracy, shortened to Cavalera on Sepultura-related re-recordings and tours, brought the Chaos A.D. tour to the House of Blues Anaheim on Tuesday, October 7. The lineup was stacked with LA metal band Thrown into Exhile, Relapse Records’ DC death metal band...

Death Angel Ends Act III Tour in Los Angeles

Death Angel brought a heavy lineup stacked with many of their Bay Area thrash brothers to The Belasco to close out the final night of the 35th anniversary Act III U.S. tour. Opening the show was Chicago thrash band Misfire. While this band isn’t from the Bay Area,...

Senses Fail and Story of the Year Bring Scream Team Tour to Anaheim

Story of the Year and Senses Fail brought their co-headliner Scream Team Tour 2025 to the House of Blues Anaheim for a sold-out show on Friday, December 12 before wrapping it up the the next night in Riverside. This was the first time touring together for the bands,...

Dying Wish Brings Flesh Stays Together Tour to Los Angeles

Dying Wish Dying Wish brought a stacked lineup to the sold-out Flesh Stays Together tour stop at the Regent Theater in Los Angeles on December 9, 2025. Opening the show was fellow Portland band Boltcutter. Playing their self-proclaimed "NW Idiotic Brutal Slamming...

TODAY IS THE DAY Joins Primitive Man on Tour in Los Angeles

Primitive Man brought an eclectic lineup ranging from experimental noise to the heaviest doom metal to the Lodge Room in Highland Park/Los Angeles on December 1, 2025. Opening the show was post-metal supergroup Guiltless. They hit on all the elements of the lineup...

Shai Hulud Returns to Los Angeles

After more than a decade, Shai Hulud brought their live show back to Los Angeles on Thursday, November 13, 2025. The OG metalcore band brought OC hardcore favorites Taken and Tacoma's Denial of Life along to fill out the lineup at 1720 Warehouse. Denial of Life...

My Ticket Home to release first new album in 8 years next Friday

To the surprise and delight of many, Nu Metal/Alt Metal/Puke Rock quartet My Ticket Home announced today that they will be dropping a new record titled Pure To A Fault on Friday November 21st. The album will begin streaming at midnight next Thursday.Pure To A Fault...

JACK WHITE Urges Young Artists: “Drop the Screens and Get Your Hands Dirty”

This past weekend, The White Stripes were officially inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and frontman Jack White used his moment at the podium to deliver more than just a thank-you speech — he gave a rallying cry for the next...

Death Angel Ends Act III Tour in Los Angeles

Death Angel brought a heavy lineup stacked with many of their Bay Area thrash brothers to The Belasco to close out the final night of the 35th anniversary Act III U.S. tour. Opening the show was Chicago thrash band Misfire. While this band isn’t from the Bay Area,...

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Dying Wish Brings Flesh Stays Together Tour to Los Angeles

Dying Wish Dying Wish brought a stacked lineup to the sold-out Flesh Stays Together tour stop at the Regent Theater in Los Angeles on December 9, 2025. Opening the show was fellow Portland band Boltcutter. Playing their self-proclaimed "NW Idiotic Brutal Slamming...

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