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Idols Are Dead - Mean (SPV/Riot)

Italian rockers Idols Are Dead are lucky that I tend to ignore the promo stickers on album covers. Mentioning, amongst others, Metallica, Exodus and Megadeth, the band was definitely being set up for a fall; but luckily for them, their brand of metal hits hard and fast. More importantly, it has a real sense of rhythm and pace.

Mean, the debut album for Idols Are Dead, is short and sharp - just nine songs.

Annihilator - Live At Masters Of Rock DVD (SPV/Riot)

Arguably being one of the biggest metal bands from Canada, Annihilator and founding mainman Jeff Waters have had a long, 25+ year career, with 12 studio albums, 2 live albums and a slew of other releases. One item that has been noticeably absent in their back catalogue is the release of a live DVD. Well, wait no longer.

Filmed at the 2008 Masters of Rock Festival in the Czech Republic, whilst Annihilator were on tour promoting their latest release Metal, this DVD shows the band playing to

Annihilator - Live at Masters of Rock CD (SPV/Riot)

Ageing Canuck thrashers welcome you to your death... again.

Canadian thrash metal exponents Annihilator

Dave Wyndorf wants to invite you into his bedroom

To look at his record collection, that is...

It’s July, and Monster Magnet’s Australian tour has just been announced.

Axel Rudi Pell - Best Of (Anniversary Edition) (SPV/Riot)

Released to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the current ARP line-up, and the twentieth anniversary of ARP’s first album, this twelve track retrospective covers tracks from 98’s Oceans of Time right up to last year’s Tales Of The Crown, showcasing some sterling and classy classic Euro rock as well as a couple of intriguing cover tunes. Well, okay one good, one shocker: but we’ll get to them.

Opening song Edge Of The World from the 2002 album Shadow Zone showcases perfectly what Axel Rudi Pell is all about.  The European classic metal sound, Axel&

Magnum – Into The Valley Of The Moonking (SPV/Riot)

The cover might look prog rock, the title might have you thinking of Yes, but this is an album that is steeped in 80s stadium rock, lighters waving, girls swaying and a t-shirt purchase on the way out. The latest from this legendary UK rock/AOR band is nothing short of great.

Magnum guitarist Tony Clarkin and vocalist Bob Catley have been together since 1972, so it’s no surprise that they fit so well together.&nbs

Kreator Australian Tour 2009

Scorpion Entertainment & Riot! Entertainment presents the world’s most influential and successful European thrash band in the history of heavy metal, Kreator!
Tour Dates: 
23/09/2009 - 29/09/2009
Venues: 
Billboard The Venue (Melbourne)
The Hi-Fi Brisbane
HQ (Adelaide)
The Metro (Sydney)

Kreator return to Australia this September!

Scorpion Entertainment & Riot! Entertainment presents the world’s most influential and successful European thrash band in the history of heavy metal, Kreator!

 

Tim "Ripper" Owens - Play My Game (SPV/Riot)

With a cavalcade of special guests and some hard rocking tunes, legendary metal vocalist Tim "Ripper" Owens's first solo effort announces it's time to Play My Game.

For such a talented vocalist, Tim "Ripper" Owens has had some good breaks and some bad breaks; the good being his joining Judas Priest & Iced Earth

Eureka – Shackleton’s Voyage (SPV/Riot)

Crikey, just when you think you’ve seen it all - I mean, pirate core, Christian black metal, Stryper’s return, Judas Priest doing gay leather cabaret - along comes Eureka’s concept album about an Antarctic Voyage across the ice!!

German multi-talented bastard Frank Bossert is the man behind this, the fourth album under the Eureka moniker.