Black Cross Hotel, the Chicago-based industrial quintet featuring members of The Atlas Moth and Stabbing Westward, unleash “Eyes From Nowhere,” the opening track from their forthcoming album, Songs for Switches. “’Eyes From Nowhere’ started with me channeling a raw,...
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.
Formed by two seasoned musicians with deep roots in the UK music scene, The Zaltan Peppers bring a rich and timeless sound to the stage. Fronted by Jay Pepper of glam metal legends Tigertailz and Lizzie Prendergast, former Blue...
Bay Area thrash metal icons TESTAMENT return with their fourteenth studio album, Para Bellum, which is out today via Nuclear Blast Records. The album stands as both a battle cry and an observation of humanity’s uneasy alliance with its...
On ASHES AND DIAMONDS’ slinky new single “ON,” vocalist/guitarist Daniel Ash (Bauhaus/Love And Rockets/Tones on Tail) sings “When you’re on, you’re on.” From the media praise being lavished on the new band and their upcoming debut album ASHES AND...
Limp Bizkit has posted the following on their official Instagram account regarding the death of Sam Rivers: In Loving Memory of Our Brother, Sam Rivers 💔 Today we lost our brother.Our bandmate.Our heartbeat. Sam Rivers wasn’t just our bass...
KILLED BY DEAF: A PUNK TRIBUTE TO MOTÖRHEAD FEATURING THE DAMNED, RANCID, PENNYWISE, FEAR & MORE ARRIVES OCTOBER 31 A final preview of Killed By Deaf – A Punk Tribute to Motörhead (Oct. 31, BMG Recordings) arrives today with...
British heavy metal band Venger, founded by SAXON’s guitarist Doug Scarratt and by James Fogarty (of Old Forest, formerly of In The Woods) to release debut studio album, Times of Legend, on January 9th 2026 via Silver Lining Music....
30th anniversary celebration of the band’s third album “amorica “includes the hits “Wiser Time,” “Gone,” and “A Conspiracy” plus songs never played live before from the band’s unreleased Tallest album sessions. With “amorica”, brothers Chris and Rich Robinson stayed...
Zinny Zan & Harry Cody, two original members of Shotgun Messiah, reunite! Los Angeles U.S. / Stockholm, Sweden Legendary frontman Zinny Zan is joining forces again with groundbreaking virtuoso guitarist Harry Cody! Legendary frontman Zinny Zan, former singer of...
Dressed To Kill celebrates 50 years with a specially tailored Super Deluxe 5-CD + Blu-ray Audio box rocking 107 total tracks with 78 unreleased tracks. The original album is newly remastered by Bernie Grundman from the 1975 stereo analog master...
