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Hailing from Gothenburg and inspired by the great arena Rock bands of the 1980s, Smoking Snakes are steadily carving out their place in the Sleaze Metal scene with a sound that blends attitude, melody and raw energy, and today the quartet release their new twelve-track studio album, 'All Lights On', via Frontiers Music Srl, of which the album track 'Trick Or Treat' is one of today's six of the best 'New Releases Friday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further similarly timed albums released today by Deardarkhead, Electric Mob, The Devil Wears Nada, Pride Of Lions and If These Trees Could Talk.

Today's very latest The Zach Moonshine Show Podcast Of The Day features an exclusive interview with West Tennessee Doom heavyweights Burnt Witch, plus there's music from Another Demon featuring James Murphy, Soul Of Sheol, Rage of Justice, Heidbekka, Mistress, The Pixars, Ozzy Osbourne, Eaten By Sharks, Thy Antichrist, Thunderchief, MTC, Mothertomb, NinjaWitch, Summoner's Circle, Solystalgia, Dimension Of The Abandoned, Narcotic Wasteland, Frequency Overload, Frank Palangi, The Spectre Beneath and Cayne featuring Ambre Vourvahis.

Bonnie Tyler MBE, the 1980s Rock legend best known for her distinctive husky voice, sadly died on Wednesday at the age of 75, so in tribute, today's Video Of The Day of 'Holding Out for a Hero', written by Jim Steinman, is dedicated to the Welsh singer and songwriter.

2024 WRC award-winning Pete Feenstra has spent the last forty years or so listening to, writing about, talking about, and promoting Rock music, with a particular interest in the Blues, and Pete's latest Rock & Blues show is today's Podcast Of The Day, featuring Paul Rose, Roosevelt Collier, Niacin, Del Bromham Blues Devils, Meaza Joy, The Bevis Frond, Black Diamond Heavies, The Western Front (pictured), Selwyn Birchwood, Frank Migliorelli & The Dirt Nappers, Seth James, plus many more.

This year's 2024 WRC Award winning A New Day Festival takes place next month over the long weekend of 21st to 23rd August at Faversham's Mt Ephraim in Kent, celebrating its tenth anniversary with yet another eclectic mix of Prog Rock, New Wave, Rock, Folk, Blues, World Music and all spaces in between, so today's 'A New Day 2026 Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day feature just six of the many bands taking part, namely Hawkwind, Sweet, Brave Rival, Martin Turner ex Wishbone Ash, Flor De Loto and The Mentulls.

London’s Metasoma have shed their Hard-Rock veneer to emerge as a lethal, technical Heavy Metal machine, with their new self-released five-track EP, 'Core', due out on Sunday 2nd August, marking the first statement from a solidified international unit, pitting British rhythmic weight against the uncompromising Metal heritage of the Polish and Romanian underground, such their EP track 'Omen', which is today's Video Of The Day. With the quintet also playing the Northants Rocks Festival on Saturday 25th July, 'Core' was tracked to ensure every rhythmic blow landed with maximum commitment, capturing a band operating at a new level of surgical precision, forging a sound that fuses Alter Bridge’s melodic craftsmanship with the unyielding, rhythmic brutality and groove of Pantera.

Ahead of their biggest headline tour to date across Europe and the UK from October, and following the release earlier this year of 'Empire Of Lies', Swedish Metal band Eleine offer another glimpse into their upcoming fifth studio album, 'The Water Taste of Blood', due out in December, with their latest single 'We March', that's today's visualiser Video Of The Day. Driven by heavy riffing, a strong 90s groove and a message of perseverance and survival, carrying our scars and finding the strength to move forward, the song reflects the same spirit of strength, unity and resilience that has become a hallmark of Eleine's music.

Following the success of 'Where The Colours Meet' (2024), which became the Welsh rockers second consecutive UK Top 20 album, on Friday 13th November Scarlet Rebels return with 'Flawed By Design', a collection of 11 songs via Earache Records that showcase a band at the very top of their game, of which their new single, ‘This Is Happening Now’, inspired by the uncertainty and division of modern life, is also one of today's six of the best 'Wednesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Long Earth, Shakra featuring Seraina Telli, Aaron Lee Tasjan, The Spongetones and Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree.

Jerry Warden joins today's The Zach Moonshine Show Podcast Of The Day for an in-depth conversation about the early Dallas/Fort Worth Metal scene, the origins of Warlock Texas and the mission behind the Heavy Metal Hall of Fame, plus there's music from Another Demon featuring James Murphy, Soul Of Sheol, Rage of Justice, Heidbekka, Mistress, Onus Vitae, Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie, Lord Gryphus, Mothertomb, Lost Relics, Far From Your Sun, Symphony of Destiny, Hexjakt, Doomherre, VHS, Solystalgia, Pradhe, False Messiah, Riftpatrol, Barrage and Nocturnal Ceremony.

Built on razor-sharp riffs, relentless grooves and pure stage-driven energy, Belgian Heavy Rock/Alternative Hardcore trio Virgin Prozak recently unleashed their blistering debut full-length album 'Sinecure' - an eight-track visceral collision between raw 90s Grunge urgency, Hard Rock power and Punk-Rock attitude, of which the album opener, 'Magic Powder', is today's Video Of The Day. Balancing the abrasive tension of Alternative Rock with the aggression of modern Heavy music, Virgin Prozak channel influences ranging from Jane’s Addiction and Queens of the Stone Age to the chaotic intensity of Every Time I Die, while carving out an identity entirely their own, so prepare for a loud, sweat-soaked and unapologetic sonic detonation.

In 2024, acclaimed instrumental Post-Rock quartet If These Trees Could Talk released a single, 'Trail of Whispering' Giants', the band’s first new music in eight years. And this Friday the Akron, Ohio-based outfit release via Metal Blade Records, 'The Hidden Hand', a full album of nine stellar, provocative songs, of which the album track 'Blurry Creatures', that embodies the raw nature of the ITTCT via unrelenting riffs with epic highs and lows, ambient syncopated delays and a battle chant that stimulates the senses, is also one of today's six of the best 'Tuesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Gipsy Fiorucci, Downturn, i-Atlas, Cambrian and Fernando Molinari.

Today's very latest Blues On The Radio Podcast Of The Day features music from Ben Poole (pictured), Ray Beadle, Dana Fuchs, Ross Harding, All Night Boogie Band, GA-20 with Charlie Musselwhite, Hollie Rogers, Backwater Roll Blues Band, Giles Robson, Bad Influence and Gemma Dorsett.