It's now ten years since our favourite homegrown rockers formed and released debut album Ready To Rock.The boys from Warnambool have uploaded a trio of playlists to their Spotify including

Last weekend, I was lucky enough to attend not 1 but 2 Tool shows! I have a good friend in the lighting team and was given a pass to both shows, which allowed me to sit at Front of House in the Sound/Lighting/Visual area which was the most mind-blowing experience.

Theres musicians and then theres rockstars, its without a doubt that Ronnie Radke is the latter.

American heavy rockers Alter Bridge have acolossal box set release on the way, including sixteen discs, never before seen interview footage, exclusive photos and more! Check out the teaser for it below or visit the countdown website here.

Official Soundwave photographer Kane Hibberd recently released his first book, titled Kanye Lens Vs Soundwave Volume 1which features photostaken from Soundwave Festival 2008 - 2012.

Check out the video below to get a page-by-page sneak peak at the amazing photos contained within and a short commentary from Kane.

Quite literally the world’s ‘heaviest metal’ band. Compressorhead are the robot rockers designed and created by a technical artist in Berlin. The robotic band consisting of a four-armed drummer, 'Stickboy’, guitarist 'Fingers’ and bassist 'Bones’ rocked out with Motorhead’s 'Ace of Spades’ at the Frankfurt Music Trade Fair earlier this month.

A UK study has shown that a blast of Heavy Metal can help plants ability to bloom and survive disease! The horticultural students conducting the experiment had four greenhouses, one subjected to no music, one playing classical, one blasting Black Sabbath and the last playing Cliff Richard. They found that the Black Sabbath greenhouse produced the smallest yet best flowers and were the most resistant to pest and disease.

Those that listened to Cliff Richard all died.