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Steelhouse Festival / Michael Schenker is the Sunday Special Guest

Michael Schenker, who is celebrating 50 years in Metal, will take the Sunday Special Guest slot at this year's Steelhouse festival.Cardinal Black, King Herd and Mother Vulture have also been added to the bill.@michaelschenkerrocks

Metal Blade Records to celebrate 40 years of Heavy Metal

Metal Blade Records re-release Metal Massacre Volume One on limited edition vinyl.This is part of the celebrations of the independent record label's 40th anniversary.@metalbladerecords @metallica

Stone Broken / UK Tour rescheduled to April 2022

Stone Broken will release their new album Revelation on 15 April 2022. Five days later, the rescheduled UK tour kicks off in Glasgow, with new date in Bradford. @stonebroken

Crown Lands to play Londons Omeara in May

The amazing Crown Lands will play their first UK show at Omeara in London on 16 May 2022.The duo will also perform at Brighton's Great Escape Festival.@crownlandsmusic

Halestorm / Video for The Steeple released as tour is almost sold out

Halestorm, who kick off their 'Evening With...' UK tour this Sunday. The band have released a new video for their single The Steeple. Back From The Dead, out on 6 May.@halestormrocks

GWAR / “A rock and roll orgy in the ruins of the world”

GWAR bring The Black Death Rager World Tour to Europe. New album The New Dark Ages to be released on 3 June 2022 with graphic novel In The Duoverse of Absurdity.@gwar

Reef / April tour includes up-and-coming bands in support slots

Reef will tour the UK in April 2022 in support of new album Shoot Me You Ace.The band will be supported by A, plus up-and-coming opening acts on selected dates.@reef

Kris Barras Band / Who Needs Enemies released as four support slots offered

Kris Barras Band have released the video for Who Needs Enemies, taken from their new album Death Valley Paradise due 4 March 2022.Kris Barras is offering four opening slots on his biggest UK tour to date.@krisbarrasband @mascotlabelgroup

Nervosa and Burning Witches prepare extensive European tour

Nervosa, who released their Thrash Metal powerhouse of an album Perpetual Chaos on 22 January 2022 on Napalm Records, will be joined by Burning Witches on a full European tour.@burningwitchesofficial @nervosathrash

Thunder / New double album Dopamine and arena tour announced

Iconic British rockers Thunder will release the double album Dopamine on 29 April 2022.A five date UK arena tour to follow in May.@thunderonline

Tribute / Leslie Wests legacy is rightly celebrated by the great and good of the business

If American rock music had its own Mount Rushmore, it would be carved from Mountain, and Leslie West would be a prominent face on its hallowed façade.@reallesliewest @provogue_records @pmonkhouse1

Frost* / Craig Blundell rejoins as tour moved to late 2022

Frost* have been forced to move their April 2022 shows to later in the year."Darby Todd is no longer able to do the shows with us in April," Frost* said, "due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict."@here_be_frost

Tears For Fears / ‘Far from your usual run of the mill pop artists’

Legendary English pop/prog duo Tears For Fears are releasing The Tipping Point, their first new album in over seven years on 25 February 2022."To be in this position was a big breath of fresh air for us," Roland Orzabal says.@tearsforfearsmusic @concordrecords

Royal Albert Hall / Devin Townsend to play The Greatest Sets Of My Life

Devin Townsend will playThe Greatest Sets Of My Life over two shows at London's Royal Albert Hall in April 2022.Also dates in Dublin and Glasgow.@dvntownsend

W.A.S.P / European Tour postponed to 2023. Blackie Lawless is “pissed off”

W.A.S.P have been forced to postpone their 40th Anniversary tour of Europe, with the dates now moved to spring 2023."I'm sad, mad, tired and pissed off," Blackie Lawless says.@waspnationofficial

Rock legends Nazareth to release new album in April

The legendary Scottish rock band Nazareth will release their new album Surviving The Law on 14 April 2022, through Frontiers Music Srl.Today, the band have released their new single Strange Days.@nazarethband @frontiersmusicsrl

Marshall Amplification launches new music learning platform

Marshall Amplification and the Music Learning Collective have joined forces and created a unique RSL accredited online educational platform. The program offers vocational qualifications, diplomas and instrument accreditation.@marshallamps_uk @musiclearningcollective

Eric Gales adds six new dates to UK Tour

Eric Gales has added six new dates to his 2022 UK Tour.The dates added are in Leamington, Chester, York, Newcastle, Bury and Basingstoke for early June.@ericgalesband
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