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90s Britpop giants The Stone Roses have announced that they have inked label deals for their upcoming sutdio album, their first since their 1994 release, 'The Second Coming'. The recently reformed band has signed with Columbia Records for the American release of the album, and with Universal Records for everywhere else. Stay tuned for more details concerning the album release.

Having performed "The '59 Sound" with their musical hero Bruce Springsteen at Hard Rock Calling in London in 2009, the band were again joined by Springsteen to play "American Slang" at a show in their home state of New Jersey on Friday.

Lamb Of God is fuelling the evolution of heavy metal in the new millennium! Hitting with the force of an invading apocalyptic army, LAMB OF GOD are back to inject Australia with a crippling dose of pure metal. With a reputation as one of the most savage live acts to ever grace the stage, fans can prepare for the onslaught for two headline sidewaves in Brisbane and Canberra. Pioneers of melodic death metal, Swedish metal giants IN FLAMES have paved an enviable career spanning more than 20 years filled with millions of album sales and a slew of bone-crushing albums. Their 10th album ‘Sounds Of A Playground Fading’ is their most ambitious offering to date, heralding a new chapter in the bands history with Rocksound declaring IN FLAMES a band ‘”In their prime”. Paving a path of destruction, terrorizing audiences throughout the world with their unbridled passionate live shows THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER deliver a barrage of brutal breakdowns and technical death metal with knife like precis...

Enter Shikari are performing 2 headline shows only on the back of their Soundwave 2012 appearances and Australian fans will be amongst the first in the world to hear new tracks from the bands forthcoming album ‘A Flash Flood Of Colour”. They will be teaming up with letlive and Your Demise for the shows.

 “All hail Machine fucking Head.” – Metal Hammer Forget what you know about heavy metal. Masters of their craft, MACHINE HEAD have been redefining the genre for the better part of 15 years since their breakthrough classic ‘ Burn My Eyes’ blazed a path for all to follow. In 2007 they created a masterpiece of modern metal, ‘The Blackening’ and delivered the knockout blow to the rest of the metal world. Critics and fans alike agreed that this was one of the purest, finest, most powerful expressions of modern heavy metal released. Four years since the epic success of "The Blackening", the MACHINE HEAD studio album "Unto The Locust" was released in September this year. It is simply their most innovative and ambitious offering to date displaying punishing brutality with Metal Hammer declaring ‘the album is a storm of complex arrangements and riffs, compiled by musicians who have gained absolute command of their vision. It’s breathtaking work.” MACHINE HEAD will be playing two headline...