Every Tuesday–the day that new music comes out–we will be listing the hard-rock and metal releases that hit stores, and every Wednesday we will be offering you, the fans, the chance to pick the Album of the Week. Below, check out the albums, EPs, singles, and DVDs that came out this week; pick your favorite, and feel free to vote as many times as you want. Voting ends on Monday, October 1, at noon, when the results will be announced.
UPDATE: The poll is closed. Thanks for your vote. To view the results, click here.
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It’s Tuesday–the day that music comes out–and this one sees shit from As I Lay Dying, Green Day, Gojira, Steve Harris of Iron Maiden, and more hitting stores. Check out the list of releases below and let us know which ones you have already or are planning to pick up.
- As I Lay Dying – Awakened
- Before the Dawn – Rise Of The Phoenix
- Behexen – Nightside Emanations
- Black September – Into The Darkness Into The Void
- Blut Aus Nord – 777 – Cosmosophy
- Bullet – Full Pull
- Car Bomb – w^w^^w^w
- Caspian – Waking Season
- The Casualties – Resistance
- Deception Of A Ghost – Life Right Now
- Dokken – Broken Bones
- Ektomorf – Black Flag
- Eluveitie – The Early Years
- Elvenking – Era
- Empty Flowers – Six
- Encrust – From Birth To Soil
- Engel – Blood Of Saints
- Evershine – Renewal
- Execration – The Acceptance of Zero Existence
- Fight Amp – Birth Control
- The Gathering – Disclosure
- Gojira – The Link Alive
- Green Day – ¡Uno!
- Heaven’s Cry – Wheels Of Impermanence
- Hellwell – Beyond The Boundaries Of Sin
- Hollow Haze – Poison In Black
- Hooded Menace – Effigies Of Evil
- Hotel Diablo – The Return To Psycho, California
- In Dying Arms – Boundaries
- Kix – Live In Baltimore
- Magnum – On The 13th Day
- Manetheren – Time
- Midnight – Complete and Total Hell
- Millions – Failure Tactics
- Mongrel – Reclamation
- Monuments – Gnosis
- NettleCarrier – NettleCarrier
- Noisear – Turbulent Resurgence
- Oak Pantheon – From a Whisper
- Pathology – The Time Of Great Purification
- Posthum – Lights Out
- Pro-Pain – Straight To The Dome
- Revocation – Teratogenesis EP
- Satan’s Wrath – Galloping Blasphemy
- Silencer – The Great Bear
- Steve Harris – British Lion
- Therapy? – A Brief Crack of Light
- This or the Apocalypse – Dead Years
- Thy Majestie – ShiHuangDi
- Thy Will Be Done – Temple EP
- Various Artists – Re-Machined – A Tribute To Deep Purple’s Machine Head
- Vehement Serenade – Refuse The Lie 7″
- Winterfylleth – The Threnody Of Triumph
- Witchcraft – Legend
Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong abruptly cut short Green Day’s set at this past weekend’s iHeart Music Festival in Las Vegas after the band’s set was allegedly cut short my the show’s producers.
In the video below, Armstrong can be seen cutting short the classic track “Basket Case” in order to play a new song, before seeing a prompter with “1 Minutes” on it facing the stage. The singer then launched into a verbal tirade.
“Let me tell you something, I’ve been around since 19-fucking-88,” he yelled. “And you’re gonna give me one fucking minute? You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me! You’re fucking kidding me. What the fuck! I’m not fucking Justin Bieber, you motherfuckers.”
Armstrong then smashed his guitar, flipped off the camera and told the crowd, “God love you all, you’ll see us again,” before exiting the stage.
It has since come out that Armstrong has checked himself into rehab for undisclosed reasons, and the band have issued an official statement clarifying the events at the festival.
“We would like everyone to know that our set was not cut short by Clear Channel and to apologize to those we offended at the iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas,” the band said in a statement. “We regretfully must postpone some of our upcoming promotional appearances.”
Uno!, the first of three upcoming albums from Green Day, is out tomorrow.
For the full story on Green Day’s upcoming trilogy of albums, check out and exclusive cover story with Billie Joe Armstrong in the November issue of Guitar World.
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Washington, D.C., quartet the Relapse Symphony have signed to Standby Records. The group cites influences ranging from ’90s power punk bands like Green Day to modern metal acts such as Black Veil Brides.
“It’s rare that I find a band that is the perfect match for the Rock N’ Roll 2.0 movement,” states Standby Records owner Neil Sheehan. “I study bands to not only understand their sound today, but their reach and vision toward the future. In the Relapse Symphony, I see the appeal of today’s heavy-rock bands with the charm and influences of so many bands throughout all eras of hard rock and metal.”
The Relapse Symphony are currently meeting with producers to produce their debut Standby release, slated for early 2013. Below, check out the lyric video for the song, “Make Your Move,” which will be featured on their forthcoming EP.
]]>This past weekend saw the 20th anniversary of Guns N’ Roses landmark Use Your Illusion albums. But 1991 was also the year that many other landmark releases in hard rock and metal came out, including Metallica’s “Black Album,” Nirvana’s Nevermind, Ozzy Osbourne’s No More Tears, and many, many more. Below, we want you to weigh in and tell us what the best heavy release of 1991 was. Horns up!