The all-star hard rock collective BLACK SWAN – featuring Robin McAuley (McAuley Schenker Group), Reb Beach (Winger, Whitesnake), Jeff Pilson (Foreigner, The End Machine, ex-Dokken), and Matt Starr (Ace Frehley, Mr. Big) – are pleased to unveil their new...
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.
Legendary Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose has teamed up with Sumerian to launch a brand-new multi-volume graphic novel series, Axl Rose: Appetite for Destruction. Pre-orders are now live exclusively at sumeriancomics.com “Axl Rose: Appetite for Destruction is a...
Montreal-based rock/metal powerhouse Deadly Apples has returned with their brand-new single “Sacrifice”, now available on all major streaming platforms. Alongside the release, the band has unveiled their music video that matches the song’s epic and dark energy. The track...
Metal Titans KREATOR have announced that their sixteenth studio album, KRUSHERS OF THE WORLD, will be released on January 16th, 2026 via Nuclear Blast Records. Following the recent releases of the KREATOR documentary film Hate & Hope as well...
The Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band The Legendary Pink Dots begin a North American tour today (25th September) in Salt Lake City, UT to promote their current album ‘So Lonely In Heaven’. The full 28 date itinerary and ticket info...
Legendary former King Crimson members Adrian Belew and Tony Levin banded together with guitar virtuoso Steve Vai and explosive Tool drummer Danny Carey to create BEAT, a creative reinterpretation of the three iconic 80s King Crimson albums – ‘Discipline,’...
Philip Sayce is a modern guitar hero whose sound fuses blistering electric blues, hard rock energy, and soulful psychedelia into a style all his own. Born in Aberystwyth, Wales, raised in Toronto, Canada, and now based in Los Angeles,...
The brainchild of US drummer/multi-instrumentalist SINE Releases The Electronic Boom With New Single “Succumb To Me”, SINE has released a new single entitled ‘Succumb To Me’ STREAM | BANDCAMP on Metropolis Records today. Co-produced by Rougeheart with Curse Mackey (Pigface) and mastered...
Arizona, extreme metal trailblazers SOULFLY will deliver their tribally fueled thirteenth album CHAMA on October 24th 2025 via Nuclear Blast Records. Once again, a remarkable testament to the Brazilian songwriter’s natural affinity for slamming yet rhythmic riffs that defined his signature sound...
GRAMMY® Award-winning bassist David Ellefson (ex-Megadeth) and acclaimed metal vocalist Jeff Scott Soto have unleashed the official music video for their hard-hitting single “SOAB”, taken from the band’s sophomore album Unbreakable, out now via Rat Pak Records. “This song...
