When it came to the list of five bands nominated for the Best Metal Performance category at the Grammy Awards 2024, one name stuck out among usual suspects like Metallica ...
Metal titans Avenged Sevenfold are back in the UK Top 10 in the midweeks with their latest album Life Is But A Dream…, out now via Warner Records.
It’s ...
Music For Nations label head Julie Weir has told Music Week about her long-term plans for developing rising British metal stars The Raven Age.
In December, 2022, the Sony label ...
Earache Records, the home of metal acts including Napalm Death, Godflesh and, more recently, for numerous UK blues-rock acts, is offering a new digital music distribution service: Earache Digital Distribution. ...
Architects singer Sam Carter has told Music Week that his band’s first ever No.1 album shows the strength of the UK’s heavy music scene.
The band topped the charts ...
Twenty years ago, Warner Records released Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory, a seismic debut that is now the biggest-selling rock album of the 21st century. To mark its anniversary, the major’s ...
There are a great many lingering assumptions about rock music that are grating. While the classic ‘rock is dead’ theory is the most commonly cited (not to mention the most ...
Universal Music Germany label Vertigo has signed Dutch symphonic metal six-piece Within Temptation. The Berlin-based major label is set to represent the Dutch band exclusively worldwide (excluding Japan).
Since forming ...
This weekend, the UK’s premier rock/metal event, Download Festival, returns to Donington Park boasting highly-anticipated headline sets from Guns N’Roses, Ozzy Osbourne and Avenged Sevenfold.
To mark the occasion, ...
The latest streaming stats for rock music don’t make great reading for anyone who still loves and believes in the genre.
The figures are growing (up 29.75% on this time ...
