NWOBHM

South Yorkshire’s biggest outdoor rock festival, Rockin the Bowl, welcomes you back for 2022.

With 3 days, 2 stages and no clashes, we are ecstatic to announce that on Friday party favourites The Quireboys will headline with special guests Mason Hill.

On Saturday the incredible Orange Goblin will headline with support from the legendary Diamond Head.

After their triumph at the Metal Hammer Paradise festival in Germany a few weeks ago, Swedish Heavy Metal invaders RAM have just announced their return to European stages for May of 2022!

Frontiers Music Srl is excited to announce the release of the newest studio album, “Katharsis” from long-running UK hard rockers Praying Mantis on January 28th, 2022. This will be their 12th studio album and sees the band steadily progressing from the sonic signatures of their last release, “Gravity”.

Fans can get their first taste of new music from the band with the release of the single and video for “Cry for the Nations”. Watch the video below.

Life hath no fury like a legend in full roar... and on February 4th, 2022, Saxon will show just that to the world when they release their 23rd studio album, “Carpe Diem”, through Silver Lining Music, serving notice to anyone who ever felt otherwise that they remain both vanguards and masters of British Metal.

Nova Scotia based Heavy Metal act Hogtooth have signed with Wormholedeath Records a licensing deal for their EP “You Can’t Handle the Tooth”, due for release on December 10th, 2021.

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Richmond, Indiana’s Wolftooth launched onto the scene in 2017, swiftly grabbing the attention of fans, tastemakers and industry alike. Now, building upon the subterranean success of their lauded previous albums (2018’s “Wolftooth” and 2020’s “Valhalla”), the band unveils their colossal full-length Napalm Records debut, “Blood & Iron”, out December 3rd, 2021.
 

In the 1970s Vardis’ relentless touring of the working mens clubs of Northern England took them to support slots with Hawkwind, Slade, Motörhead and Saxon, emerging with a reputation for a unique heavy rock attack and high energy technical brilliance.

Primitai are putting on a special night to celebrate the release of their acclaimed new album “Violence of the Skies”, which sees them push their heavy metal roots to the boundary with power and progressive metal.

U.S. Heavy Metal band Entierro have announced the June 18th, 2021, release of long awaited follow-up to their 2018 self-titled full-length.

Entitled “El Camazotz”, after the Mayan bat god associated with night, death and sacrifice, the five-song EP represents a new chapter in the story of the band.

Stream EP track “The Tower” here or below.