Sydney’s Utopia Records Plans Midnight Opening For Record Store Day

Finnish metal powerhouse Battle Beast have returned with their seventh studio album, Steelbound, an audacious and high-energy record that stakes a claim for sheer theatricality and headbanging euphoria. Released as the band embark on a European run, the 38 minute album fuses power metal muscle with pop hooks and party-ready anthems, showcasing a group that have turned resilience into their signature sound.

Multi-million streaming phenomenon PRESIDENT have dropped their long-awaited debut EP King of Terrors - a brooding, cinematic and heavy-hitting body of work that cements their place as one of the most exciting new names in global heavy music. The release coincides with the announcement that PRESIDENT will make their Australian debut this December, joining British giants Architects on their national tour.

Slipknot’s self-titled debut album landed on 29 June 1999 like a pipe bomb in the middle of the metal world. Twenty-five years later, that same record – the one that introduced nine masked maniacs from Des Moines, Iowa to the world – has been reimagined in a definitive deluxe edition, Slipknot (25th Anniversary Edition), out now via Roadrunner Records.

Australian metal titans Parkway Drive will mark two decades of chaos, fire and stadium-sized riffs with a very different kind of show. On 17 September 2025, the band will play a one-off warm-up gig at Berlin’s legendary Metropol.

Slayer will return to the stage this September for a rare headline show on the U.S. east coast, confirming a massive one-night-only concert at Hersheypark Stadium, Pennsylvania, on September 20, 2025.

Brent Hinds, founder and former frontman for Mastodon, has died in a motorcycle accident at the age of 51.

Ian Gillan, the iconic vocalist of Deep Purple, celebrates his 80th birthday (19 August 2025). Still blessed with a powerful, wide-ranging voice—even into his eighth decade—Gillan has traversed the peaks and troughs of rock history with a rare grace and tenacity.