The Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival—returning July 19 to 21, 2024, to the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, for its sixth year—will feature headliners Shinedown, Godsmack and Breaking Benjamin. With bands performing on three stages, the music lineup also includes The Offspring, Bad Omens, Halestorm, Parkway Drive, I Prevail, Chevelle, Dropkick Murphys, Sleeping with Sirens, Killswitch Engage, Hollywood Undead,... Continue Reading →
Local brewery releasing New England Metal & Hardcore Festival-inspired beer
Tin Bridge Brewing is releasing a special beer inspired by the New England Metal & Hardcore Festival, which is returning in 2023 after a five-year break. "Tin Bridge Brewing is extremely excited to be partnering again with Mr. Scott Lee and the New England Metal & Hardcore fest this year," said owner (and Within the Ruins guitarist) Joe... Continue Reading →
Lamb of God, Parkway Drive to headline returning New England Metal & Hardcore Festival
New England Metal & Hardcore Festival will return Sept. 15 and 16, 2023, at the Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts, with headliners Lamb of God and Parkway Drive. The festival launched in 1999 and ran through 2018, often held over two or three days, with multiple stages and top-tier acts such as Megadeth, Manowar, DragonForce, Opeth, Between the Buried &... Continue Reading →
Parkway Drive to headline fall 2023 U.S. ‘Monsters of Oz’ tour
Australian metal band Parkway Drive will return to the United States for a fall 2023 headline tour and appear at several festivals, including Louder Than Life and Aftershock. The "Monsters of Oz" tour, which follows Parkway Drive's sold-out winter 2023 run, will maek Parkway Drive's 20th anniversary as a band. The trek will feature an all-Aussie... Continue Reading →
2023 Louder Than Life to feature Foo Fighters, Green Day, Tool, Avenged Sevenfold, Godsmack, Pantera and more
Louder Than Life will return Sept. 21 to 24, 2023, to Highland Festival Grounds at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky, with a lineup including Foo Fighters, Green Day, Tool, Avenged Sevenfold, Godsmack, Pantera, Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer, Limp Bizkit, Megadeth, Turnstile, Rancid, Falling in Reverse, 311, Pierce the Veil, Run the Jewels, Corey Taylor,... Continue Reading →
2023 Blue Ridge Rock Festival: The lineup so far (Dec. 23)
The Blue Ridge Rock Festival, set for Sept. 7 to 10, 2023 at the Virginia International Raceway in Alton, Virginia, is releasing its 2023 lineup one act a time. Forty-three of 144 acts have been announced as of Dec. 23, 2022. The following bands have been announced since our last update (in alphabetical order): 10 Years... Continue Reading →
‘I’ll salt the earth in a crimson blaze’ … Live Metal’s best of 2022
By Greg Maki And just like that, we’ve come to the end of another year. And as always—if you know where to look and keep an open mind—2022 was filled with plenty of good to great releases in metal and hard rock. Here are the best of what made it to my ears in the... Continue Reading →
HeartSupport Fest adds more bands, announces daily lineups
Underoath, Four Year Strong and Currents have been added to the bill of the first-ever HeartSupport Fest, the two-day event created by August Burns Red vocalist Jake Lurs and his nonprofit HeartSupport foundation. The festival, headlined by Rise Against and Parkway Drive, will take place Feb. 18 and 19, 2023, at the Central Florida Fairgrounds in Orlando, Florida.... Continue Reading →
Parkway Drive announces winter 2023 U.S. headline tour
Australian metal band Parkway Drive will return to the United States for a headline tour in early 2023. It will be the band's first U.S. tour in support of its seventh album, "Darker Still" (Epitaph Records), and its first time touring the U.S. since April 2019. Memphis May Fire and Currents also will appear. Tickets... Continue Reading →
Rise Against, Parkway Drive to headline two-day HeartSupport Fest in February 2023
August Burns Red frontman Jake Luhrs and his nonprofit HeartSupport foundation have announced the first-ever HeartSupport Fest. The two-day event is scheduled for Feb. 18 and 19, 2023, at the Central Florida Fairgrounds in Orlando, Florida. Rise Against and Parkway Drive will headline a lineup that includes The Ghost Inside, Dance Gavin Dance, Spiritbox, August Burns Red, Silverstein, Memphis May Fire, The Devil Wears Prada, Hawthorne Heights, Comeback Kid, The... Continue Reading →