Following the stomping debut single “Heavy As Hell” from their upcoming album ‘Built To Destroy,’ due out on November 14th, New York steamrollers N.Y.C. kick down the doors of the virtual Heaven ‘n’ Hell Bar once again, this time...
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.
The lead singers, Miljenko Matijević of SteelHeart and Jeff Keith of Tesla, have combined forces to deliver a brand new cover song of the Foghat classic “I Just Wanna Make Love To You.” Listen to the song below: Bristling...
Today, in rock music news, rock duo Girl Tones release their guitar-driven, combustible new single “Burnout” via Parallel Vision x Big Loud Rock. Starting the song asking “Can you hear me now,” the band already knows everyone is hanging...
Swedish melodeath torchbearers FIMBUL WINTER rise from the ashes with the release of their debut single “Mounds Of Stones,” the first taste of their forthcoming EP What Once Was, due out November 14. Carrying the weight of history and...
MEGADETH have unveiled “Tipping Point” as the first single and video from their forthcoming self-titled final album due out in 2026 via DAVE MUSTAINE’s Tradecraft imprint in partnership with Frontiers Label Group’s new BLKIIBLK label. The sonically explosive and...
On October 24, 1995, The Smashing Pumpkins released what would become one of the most iconic works of the decade: the sprawling double album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness. Now, thirty years later, the band is returning with...
There is true magic glittering in the second single taken from the forthcoming MER Redux Series release “The Downward Spiral Redux”. Avant-garde metal outfit DREADNOUGHT from Denver, Colorado present their astonishing and unique take on the NINE INCH NAILS...
Lamb of God return with “Sepsis,” a visceral, menacing new single out now via Epic Records, marking the GRAMMY® Award-nominated band’s first new original music since 2022’s critically revered album, Omens. Produced by longtime collaborator Josh Wilbur, the three-and-a-half-minute...
After years in the making, author Jeff Wagner has announced the imminent publication of Always Moving: The Strange Multiverse of Voïvod on November 17, 2025. Always Moving celebrates the 40+ year career arc of Canada’s cosmic metal mutants. Between 2020 and 2024, Wagner interviewed...
Norwegian Rock outfit LEPROUS are launching a second single/video outtake from their upcoming live release entitled “An Evening Of Atonement”, which is being released October 24th, 2025 worldwide via InsideOutMusic. While “Atonement (Live In Tilburg 2025)” can now be streamed via the DSP...
