IMMINENT SONIC DESTRUCTION and EDENSONG are pleased to welcome progressive rockers NEXT TO NONE (featuring Mike Portnoy’s son, Max Portnoy), DISTRICT 97, and HALF PAST FOUR as the local support in select […]

Airbag co-founder, songwriter and lead guitarist, Björn Riis will release his second solo album, Forever Comes to an End, on May 19th 2017 through Norwegian label Karisma Records. The album is the follow-up […]

UK band ABBFINOOSTY were active in the 1980’s and 90’s, and managed to release two albums before breaking up. “Out of Abbfinoosty Comes the Storm” was the second and last of these, and was released through the […]

Australian composer and musician Ben CRAVEN first appeared back in 2005, initially releasing music as the one man band Tunisia, but subsequently opting to release future albums under his own name. He has four […]

Norwegian psych/rock trio Junk Machine is set to release their debut album ‘Inner Child Labour’ through Apollon Records on June 9 2017.

With their manifesto to reignite the forgotten flames of rock ‘n’ […]

The Bergen-based band Knekklectric have finally come up with six tracks for their new album, ready for release in June 2017. The album was recorded in the summer of 2015 in Ocean Sounds Recordings off the […]

Watch the new video for “Crystal Teeth” courtesy of Heavy Blog is Heavy HERE.

With the second single, “Crystal Teeth”, we dive deeper into Uneven Structure’s world of “La Partition”. “Crystal Teeth belongs […]

Out of the savaged suburbs of Oslo comes the brainchild of Trond Gjellum – drummer from the legendary Norwegian prog rock band Panzerpappa. Suburban Savages consists of members from Panzerpappa, Ghost K […]

TROJKA from Bergen , Norway are ready with their excellent debutalbum – I speilvendthet.

The album was studio-recorded by Njål Paulsberg (Young Dreams, Advanced Language, Put Your Hands Up For Neo-Tokyo) […]

UK prog metal quintet SynaptiK unleashed their sophomore studio album, Justify & Reason, on March 10th through Defox Records (digital download), and via Divebomb Records in the US in a CD format. On April 10th […]

L-R: Camille Delage (Keys), Nico Damoulianos (Bass), Olivier Allard (Violin), Alexandre Dagenais (Drums), Kevin Paquet (Guitars)

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When instrumental prog metal meets violin, the outcome is truly a […]

Like anything worth a damn, heavy music only thrives when it aims to keep moving. Whether growing through crazy acts of evolution or simply by letting the cultural winds drive countless small, incremental […]

Disciples of the heavy metal code don’t just love our music, we need it: to maintain our cultural, personal and – perhaps most importantly – cosmic equilibrium. As a result, there is nothing more essential to […]

“We’ve always been compared to folk rock bands, but we haven’t always fitted into the genre exactly,” says Galley Beggar vocalist Maria O’Donnell. “We’ve gone to folk festivals, but because we’re electri […]

Field Recordings, the new live mini-album from London-based four-piece instrumental rock band The Fierce And The Dead, will be released through Bad Elephant Music on 28th April 2017.

Taken from the band’s i […]

Guitar virtuoso Matt Chanway has made a name for himself with well-regarded Canadian death/thrash metal band Assimilation.

Last December, Chanway unleashed his self-titled solo debut album: a sonic […]

Syncage is an amazing italian art-rock/prog quartet. They are not metal. They are not progressive. They are not alternative. They reject genre, and let Western and non-Western, fusion and art-rock, progressive […]

The long overdue new Magenta album ‘We Are Legend’ will be released on April 20th 2017 through Tigermoth Records. Rob Reed says: “It was time to try something new, musically and lyrically. I’ve always kept to […]

Quirky Musings is the second album from renowned Welsh instrumental band Kinky Wizzards, and was released through UK label White Knight Records on March 31st 2017.

The Kinky Wizzards are one of the most […]