The world has just stopped. Whilst chaos reigns all around, German heavyweight legends Rammstein have released this new single and it’s possibly the best thing they’ve ever done.

Following up from their 2020 album 'Fracture', Scottish group Bleed From Within have announced their new and upcoming album 'Shrine', due for release on the 3rd of June via Nuclear Blast.

Swedish lords of all Vikings, Amon Amarth have resurfaced for the first time since their brilliant 2019 album release, 'Berserker', working hard in preparations for new material which is potentially scheduled for release this summer.

Well this is a rush. A blast of irresistible sugar rush sounds that pour out of your speakers like the best party you've ever been to, 'Fill Me Up' may well become one of the anthems of the year.

Thunder once sang “You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down” and the same has to be said of a good band, no, great band, in fact, by now I think it’s safe to say legendary band that have taken us all by surprise and announced the release of a brand new 16 track, double album.

A blistering salvo from their forthcoming 'Deceivers' album, 'Handshake With Hell' delivers all you could ask for and more from the Swedish melodic death metal crew.

Following a six year silence, the Los Angeles rockers are back and as fine and funky as ever on this, the first single from soon to be released twelfth studio album 'Unlimited Love'.

The world might be in turmoil at the moment but, despite the naysayers, music has not only been helping us through but has seen a resurgence into our lives the like of which hasn’t been seen in many a year.

Best known for his classic rock musicals Vampires Rock and Anything For Love, featuring the music of Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman, Steve Steinman is poised to release his latest single, ‘Everything They Said Was True’.

Geordie bruisers Fallen Mafia have been making some big waves since forming in Newcastle a decade ago, their own take on hard rock nirvana catching the imagination of the nations metalheads.

What would Christmas be without a ghostly tale around a roaring fire, the chilling feeling that creeps into your mind being battled by the heat of the burning wood.

It takes balls to tackle one of the biggest anthems by one of the biggest bands on the planet, but Edge of Paradise’s take on The Who’s classic brings things to new epic heights.

There’s so much love in this version of Muddy Waters’ feisty classic, the masterful Mr Marsden sprinkling his own magic on this prime cut from his recent ‘Chess’ album.

It seems like the plans of world domination by HAWXX are unstoppable, their freight train momentum carrying them out of this year and into the stratosphere for 2022.

Huge hooks, big guitars and heroic vocals will never go out of fashion, their ability to thrill and make us sing along never diminished.

Whilst Italy is normally musically associated with opera, Violet Blend have gleefully blown that out of the water, the Florence based band bringing a raucous edge and grit that would have probably made Puccini smile broadly.