Diary Of A Rock Photographer

MESHUGGAH premiere a new video for their song ‘Broken Cog’ on YouTube. It’s the opening track on the band’s critically praised new record, Immutable, released now by Atomic Fire and available now on all streaming platforms and for purchase: https://meshuggah.afr.link/immutable  Watch MESHUGGAH’s video / for “Broken Cog” here: https://youtu.be/OyWbQwK65Qc Mavericks. Pioneers. Unique. Immutable.  This year’s most significant lesson has been to expect the unexpected, which also applied to the release of the long-awaited MESHUGGAH album as the most anticipated album of 2022.   MESHUGGAH have always been way ahead of the game and plainly without peer.   Six years on from the band’s most recent full-length, The Violent Sleep Of Reason, 2022…

With concerts finally returning, the time has come for AMORPHIS and ELUVEITIE to team up for an extensive European Co-Headline Tour kicking off in November 2022. For more than thirty years, Finnish dark metallers AMORPHIS have done their best to carve their very own niche in heartfelt yet aggressive, melancholic yet soothing tunes. On their latest studio release Halo, which once again hit the Finnish album charts on #1 and German charts on#3, the combo underline their trailblazing status as one of the most original, culturally relevant and rewarding acts ever to emerge from the land of the thousand lakes. With uncounted global tours under their belt and fourteen albums…

After more than a year under lockdown, acclaimed singer-songwriter MEG MYERS is making her highly-anticipated return to music with an electrifying 5D rock anthem titled “HTIS (Hiding That I’m Sexual)” featuring Luna Shadows & Carmen Vandenberg (member of Grammy Nominated rock band Bones UK), which premiered today on all digital platforms. “HTIS” is a genre-mashing rock anthem that embraces the Los Angeles-based multiinstrumentalists’ powerful writing and rich vocals.  LISTEN TO “HTIS” HERE “HTIS was inspired by becoming more acquainted with my subconscious mind. It’s about taking off the mask, exposing the insecurities and imperfections, and allowing it all to be ok. HTIS is an acceptance of my inner child and…

There’s no rest for the wicked: After celebrating the huge international success of their latest masterpiece The War To End All Wars, Sweden’s war chroniclers prepare for the next step in their remarkable career: On May 6th, SABATON will release The Symphony To End All Wars, presenting a new interpretation of their #1 album, as a beautiful and monumental epic soundtrack version. Preorder your copy here: https://sabat.one/TWTEAWAlbum The Symphony To End All Wars will be available in 2 vinyl formats: Black Single LP in Gatefold and Winter Wind Single LP in Gatefold [Ltd. to 1500 units]. The album will also be available on all digital music platforms. The tracklist reads…

  20 years after the release of their first EP, “Let The Transmitting Begin”, legendary British Prog-Metallers SikTh reunite the original line up for two exclusive shows. Dual vocalists Mikee Goodman and Justin Hill, guitarists Dan Weller and Graham Pinney, bassist James Leach and drummer/percussionist Dan Foord reunite for the first time in over five years.   “Excited to be back with Justin onstage.” Says Mikee. “Also with Pin being back, this is the line up everyone knows. We want these shows to be our best ever. We plan to play songs we’ve never played before too.”   “Sikth has always been a huge part of my life, I’m so…

MISERY INDEX LAUNCH NEW SINGLE ‘THE EATERS AND THE EATEN’ + PRE-ORDER FOR UPCOMING NEW ALBUM ‘COMPLETE CONTROL’ STARTS TODAY! VIA CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS Two decades into their venerable careers, Baltimore Death Metal savants MISERY INDEX are back with their new record, “Complete Control”, to be released worldwide via Century Media Records on May 13th, 2022. Today, MISERY INDEX are launching a first single off “Complete Control” with the track “The Eaters and the Eaten”. Check it out in a video-clip directed, filmed and edited by J.T. Ibanez here: https://youtu.be/gB9KcSTJtoE MISERY INDEX commented about the song as follows: “The Eaters and the Eaten” is the most straight- forward, blasting track on the album. It’s utterly relentless and…

WATCH  (credit: Cameron Nunez)   Platinum-certified Los Angeles quintet, Hollywood Undead return with their blazing new single “CHAOS,” produced by WZRD BLD (Lil Wayne, Bullet For My Valentine, Lil Peep). The track is among the heaviest to ever be released by the group, yet still combines dynamic elements of rap, hard rock, & alternative, in a way that is authentically Undead. The track offers the first glimpse of the band’s yet to be announced forthcoming album.   “‘Chaos’ is about getting to the end of the road, thinking you can finally rest, and realizing it’s not only more chaos, but that’s all there is ever gonna be. No rest for…