We are back for another year of our list of what to get the music lover that already has everything? Find out with our handy 2023 Black Friday and Holiday Gift guide For Rockers and Metalheads. Check out all the links below to support bands, labels, festivals, record stores, and other small and local businesses this year for Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. And don’t forget to donate to some worthwhile charities on Giving Tuesday!
Charity-driven, platinum-selling, Progressive Rock and Christmas Music group Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) today announced its highly-anticipated 2023 winter tour, “The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve: The Best Of TSO And More”. This year TSO brings a completely updated presentation of the unforgettable, multi-generational holiday tradition, which will hit 62 cities and deliver 104 performances in both matinee and evening sets. A product of the imagination of late Trans-Siberian Orchestra mastermind Paul O’Neill and his wife Desi, and based on TSO’s 1999 multi-platinum CD and TV special “The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve” rock opera and holiday album. Tickets for the 2023 holiday tour will go on sale on Friday, September 15 at 10 a.m. local time. Watch a trailer for the tour now! Continue reading
Theatrical metallers Avatar rolling into the holiday season with a new single and lyric video with a Christmas metal flair – “Construction of Souls!” The track is to be released together with a children’s book portraying the ‘not-very child-friendly everyday life’ in Santa’s workshop in the parallel universe of Avatar. Avatar also previously announced they signed to Thirty Tigers and have launched their own Black Waltz Records imprint. This is their third recent single from their upcoming new album, due in 2022! Watch the lyric video right now!Continue reading
What to get the music fan that has everything? Find out with our handy 2021 Black Friday and Holiday Gift guide For Rockers and Metalheads. Check out all the links below to support bands, labels, festivals, record stores, and other small businesses this year.
Nightwish singer Floor Jansen has uploaded another cover to her popular YouTube channel. Watch her cover the holiday classic and religious-spiritual “Ave Maria”, written by German composer Franz Schubert.
From the frosty Northern woods of Whitehorse, Yukon comes Progressive Metal artist Rick Massie. Rick and his daughter Aila Massie are here to spread some holiday cheer with the Christmas classic song “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear.” The song is a prog-metal Christmas re-imagining of “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”. Officially be released tomorrow, Friday, December 11th via Bandcamp, but you can hear it here at Ghost Cult first!!
We know the holiday can be a sucky time for a lot of people and some heavy music fans don’t love classic Christmas music on infinite repeat. Ghost Cult has just the thing to help you get through the holidays, our new Spotify playlist! Featuring a plethora of Rock, Thrash, Punk, Indie, Pop and even some Extreme Metal bands, hearing these fresh takes on this old music makes your Aunt’s umpteenth terrible fruitcake or your touchy drunk uncle more manageable. Enjoy! Continue reading
Steve Perry, the iconic former lead singer of Journey returned with force in 2018, with new music via a new album, his first in more than two decades. Traces was released on October 5 via Fantasy Records (a division of Concord Records/UMG). Now as a thank you to fans, Perry has released a cover of the Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane penned Christmas Classic, “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”. The song was made famous by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St. Louis.Continue reading
In case Lars Ulrich reading “Stick Man” wasn’t enough to get you in the holiday spirit, Zakk Wylde reading “Twas The Night Before Christmas” surely will. Continue reading
Following in the footsteps of last year’s reading of “The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas“, Lars Ulrich was invited back to the BBC to spread more holiday cheer by telling the children’s classic “Stick Man” by Julia Donaldson earlier this week. Continue reading