Hammerfest III is nearly here, and we’ve got a great competition, with the chance for you and three of your mates to go the event, which is at Pontin’s in Prestatyn. (more…)

This week, there’s the return of two German metal giants, the debut of a new Anglo-American supergroup, the reunion of Swedish stoners, a multi-national band’s first live album, plus some Yank and Brit prog and alt. metal. (more…)

On May 26, Accept returned to London for their first show in Britain for 24 years. Xavier Russell was on hand for the occasion, and now compares this gig to one of the band’s earliest performances in the city, at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1984 – when a couple of whippersnapper wannabe metal musicians were caught headbanging at the front! (more…)

The new Accept line-up made their live debut at the Gramercy Theatre in New York on Saturday, May 8 – and yes, they even played their semi-legendary song London Leatherboys! (more…)

This week we look at a classic Judas Priest reissue, Taylor Hawkins going out on his own, and the return of The Haunted and Annihilator. Plus there’s yet another Rush compilation. And we get a taste of the new Accept record. (more…)

The first track from the new Accept album is now being streamed. (more…)

German metal heroes Accept have announced a one-off show in London. (more…)

Accept are to call their new album Blood Of The Nations. (more…)

If the Noughties taught us anything, it was that what a band actually mean when they ’split up’ is that, ‘We’ll be back when nostalgia makes you miss us’. So, here are 10 of the reunions that fired– or should that be ‘failed to fire’?! – our imaginations during the last decade. This is in no particular order. (more…)

New Accept singer Mark Tornillo isn’t going to be an Udo Dirkschneider clone. (more…)