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…)

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…)

To celebrate Thor’s return to the UK, after an absence of over 25 years, we thought we’d try to prod a few others in that direction. So, here are 10 bands who really have left it way too long before coming back over here. (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…)

U.D.O are coming to the UK to play three shows next month. (more…)

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

U.D.O. and Exciter have been added to the bill for the Sweden Rock Cruise, which sets sail from Turku on October 8, returning the next day.

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Come inside to listen to a brand new slab of monumentally Germanic metal from the band fronted by legendary ex-Accept grunter Udo Dirkschneider.

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Accept have announced their official reunion. But (sob, blubber, croak) Udo Dirkschneider isn’t going to be their vocalist. Neither is Rob Armitage, for that matter. Come on in to find out who the new frontman is…
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