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This is not a drill. Roger Waters farewell tour set for 2023

Roger Waters' This Is Not A Drill European tour will be held over the Spring/Summer of 2023. Waters will play 40 shows across 14 European countries, starting in Lisbon on 17 March 17 2023 at the Altice Arena. @rogerwaters

The Dead Daisies joined by FM and Graham Bonnet on Radiance UK Winter Tour

The Dead Daisies eight-date UK Winter Tour will begin on 3 December in Nottingham, running to 13 December in Bristol. Support from FM and the Graham Bonnet Band. @thedeaddaisies Photo: @rock_pixs

CJ Wildheart / Plenty more in the tank from a real rock ‘n’ roll legend

CJ Wildheart has not been idle following the The Wildhearts hiatus. With Lives, released on 9 September, he has provided more than a standard 'best of' album.

Erra / Destroying Europe in early 2023 with Silent Planet and Invent Animate

Progressive Metal band Erra will hit mainland Europe in February 2023, with the first of six UK dates to be held at Stylus in Leeds. Support on tour comes from label mates Silent Planet and Invent Animate, as well as Sentinels. @erraband @silentplanetband @sentinelsnj

Metallica to host The Helping Hands concert and auction

Metallica will host The Helping Hands concert and auction on 16 December 2022 at The Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The previous show was live-streamed on 14 November 2020 and raised more than $1.8 million.

Wendy Dio / “Ronnie loved the Black Sabbath camaraderie”

Dio: Dreamers Never Die. MetalTalk spoke with Wendy Dio, widow of the Heavy Metal legend Ronnie James Dio. In part two, they cover Rainbow and Black Sabbath. @_ronniejamesdio

Guns N’ Roses 97-track Use Your Illusion boxset released this November

Guns N' Roses The ultimate box set of their 1991 multi-platinum releases Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, will be released on 11 November 2022.

Wendy Dio / “We wanted to portray Ronnie James Dio throughout his life”

One Night In The City of London, next week, the emotional new Ronnie James Dio film, Dio: Dreamers Never Die, will hit the cinemas. @_ronniejamesdio

Why Listening To Metal Music While Playing Casino Is A Good Idea?

Everyone is aware of how important music is to express emotions in today's society. Even in the most gloomy situations, music may evoke excitement, joy, and other pleasant feelings in the listener....

Death To False AOR – Night Flight Orchestra club shows to honour David Andersson

The Night Flight Orchestra will honour the memory of guitarist David Andersson in Death To False AOR, a mini European club tour in November. Andersson died this week, aged 47. @nightflightorchestra Photo: @rock_pixs

Steven Adler to celebrate Appetite For Destruction in Thunder Valley

The Thunder Valley Rally in Cottonwood, Arizona, will be headlined this year by Slaughter and Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame drummer Steven Adler, who originally burst to fame as one of...

Motörhead / Listening to Iron Fist today is a joy

Iron Fist. A seminal Motörhead album or the runt of the litter from the classic line-up? 40th Anniversary set. One of Heavy Metal's finest bands at their peak. @officialmotorhead

Soilwork and Night Flight Orchestra guitarist David Andersson dies aged 47

Soilwork and Night Flight Orchestra guitarist David Andersson has died aged 47. Andersson has played with Soilwork since 2012, including the band's latest album, Ă–vergivenheten, released only last month.

Haken joined by Between The Buried And Me for European tour

Haken will embark on a co-headline European tour in 2023 with Between The Buried And Me, which will be the progressive rocker's first European dates since December 2019. Support is from Cryptodira.The...

Tribulation join Watain, Abbath and Bölzer on European tour

Watain and Abbath will co-headline the Chariots of Fire European Tour 2022, along with special guests Tribulation and Bölzer and will hit London on 30 September. @tribulation_official @watainofficial @abbath_official @bolzerband

Paul Di’Anno / Successful operation means Brazil tour announced

The leg operation for former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di'Anno was successfully conducted yesterday at the Traumatology Clinic of the Sisters of Mercy Clinical Hospital Center in Zagreb.

The Hunna / New album due during almost sold out UK tour

The Hunna release their self-titled album on 28 October 2022 via Believe. Their headline UK tour starts on the 18 October at the Tramshed, in Cardiff. Already, most of the dates are sold out.

The complex, haunting, and beautiful worlds of Dreadnought

To give you a perfect example of how heavily populated the whole stoner rock/psychedelic/doom scene is, I was only introduced to Dreadnought earlier this month. @dreadnoughtdenver Words: @mathematicaljester
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