Primal Fear return with a brand new song and video for “I Am The Primal Fear” Watch the video below: The partly renewed German metal commandos PRIMAL FEAR return with a terrific new album: 13 songs strong (plus 1...
Bobby Caughron
Bobby Caughron is a music journalist and Editor-In-Chief for XS ROCK. He began a life-long fan of hard rock and metal music after hearing KISS as a kid. He is still an avid fan of the 80s metal scene and continues to discover and write about new music in all rock genres today.
Icon of Coil is a Norwegian futurepop/EBM band formed in 1997 by musician and producer Andy LaPlegua (who later went on to create Combichrist). Initially started as a solo project, it quickly grew into a full band with the...
STEELHEART, led by the powerhouse voice of Miljenko Matijevic, has re-released the passionate and cinematic “Lips of Rain” from the newly remastered Through Worlds of Stardust, now available worldwide on Steelheart Records via The Orchard. Originally featured on the...
After eleven long years, German speed heavy metal pioneers WARRANT return with their long-awaited new studio album, “The Speed Of Metal”, set for release on October 10, 2025 via Massacre Records. The legendary band – originally formed in 1983...
“No one gets away this easy…I will kill for you,” sings Larissa Vale, the indomitable frontwoman of BLACK SATELLITE on the sonically intense and lyrically unflinching “Kill For You” from their self-released second full-length album AFTERMATH Coming off their...
Finland’s power metal force BATTLE BEAST present their fourth single, ‘Angel Of Midnight’, taken from their highly anticipated upcoming album Steelbound, due for release on October 17th, 2025. The single arrives with a brand-new, visually striking music video.Built on...
‘All The $ In The World’ has been issued today as the third single from a new album by Skold, the solo project of the versatile Swedish musician, producer and multi-instrumentalist Tim Skold. “Can money buy happiness? Thousands of...
Today, the heavy metal collective, N.Y.C., featuring Tommy Bolan (Warlock), Stet Howland (W.A.S.P., Metal Church), and Steve Unger (Metal Church), are thrilled to announce their debut album ‘Built To Destroy,’ an unfiltered blast of New York City attitude, due...
Right before taking Nordic Gothic to their first ever US show at ProgPower US and braving the Latin American heat for a short tour, Cemetery Skyline are releasing “Nothing From This World”. Markus Vanhala (guitar) comments: “This is an...
RICK HUGHES DELIVERS A SPECTACULAR SOLO ALBUM WITH ‘REDEMPTION,’ REUNITES MEMBERS OF ONE OF OZZY’S BEST LINE-UPS FOR COVER OF THE WHO’S “THE REAL ME” Canadian-born Rick Hughes is renowned for his powerful and rangey voice as the lead...
