Portland heavy metal/goth act IDLE HANDS is premiering their debut album Mana exclusively on Stereogum ahead of its May 10 release date via Eisenwald. Stereogum says the album contains a “retro pulse” and that if we lived in “an alternative reality where the ’80s dalliance with both [traditional heavy metal and goth rock] took hold into future decades, nearly every song…

Award-Winning Melodic Death Metallers KAVARA Releasing Full-Length Debut ‘Weathered & Lost’ May 31   London (ON) – Fresh off the Forest City London Music Awards’ bestowal of “Best Metal Act of 2019,” Canadian Melodic Death Metal quintet KAVARA are proud to announce the May 31 release of full-length debut album Weathered & Lost. The album’s first single, “Scarecrow,”…

This Friday the four Swedes, who continue to race at full throttle on the dusty asphalt of the Rock ’n’ Roll Highway, reach their next destination and release their third album “Lucifer” with just the right sound between the 90s’ dirty rough Rock ’n’ Roll and the up to date Death ’n’ Roll mace through…

Classic Metal Meets Scandinavian Black Metal on Forthcoming LUNAR SHADOW Album ‘The Smokeless Fires’ (June 21) Epic classic metal goes head-to-head with blazing Scandinavian black metal on Lunar Shadow’s firebrand sophomore effort, The Smokeless Fires. The album will be released June 21 on Cruz Del Sur Music. Album track “Hawk of the Hills” is now streaming.  …