RANDY RHOADS Dies In Aeroplane Accident Aged 25 (Mar. 19th, 1982) The Ozzy Osbourne guitarist had performed the previous evening on March 18th at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum in Knoxville, Tennessee. Read More…

RAVEN Release 13th Studio Album ‘ExtermiNation’ (Apr. 22nd, 2015) The Newcastle, England-born metal group launched a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign to finance recording, raising more than $27,000. Read More…

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RABID BITCH OF THE NORTH Support PORTRAIT On Jan-Feb 2015 UK / Ireland Tour (January 30th, 2015)

RADIATION ROMEOS To Release Self-Titled Debut Studio Album (April 27th, 2017)

RADIO MOSCOW To Release Fifth Studio Album ‘New Beginnings’ (July 22nd, 2017)

RAGE: Former Guitarist Victor Smolski Forms ALMANAC (April 2nd, 2015)

RAGE Announce 2015 Line-Up (June 18th, 2015)

RAGE Release 22nd Studio Album ‘The Devil Strikes Again’ (June 10th, 2016)

RAGE Release 23rd Studio Album ‘Seasons Of The Black’ (July 28th, 2017)

RAGE Release 24th Studio Album ‘Wings Of Rage’ (January 10th, 2020)

RAGE Release ‘The Price Of War 2.0’ Single (June 12th, 2020)

RAGE Release 25th Studio Album ‘Resurrection Day’ (September 17th, 2021)

RAGE Release Six-Track EP ‘Spreading The Plague’ (September 30th, 2022)

RAGE OF LIGHT Sign Album Contract With Napalm Records (May 30th, 2018)

RAGE OF LIGHT To Release Debut Studio Album ‘Imploder’ (January 10th, 2019)

RAGING DEAD To Release Debut Studio Album ‘When The Night Falls’ (May 10th, 2017)

RAGING SPEEDHORN To Tour UK In November And December 2015 (July 22nd, 2015)

RAGING SPEEDHORN To Release Fifth Studio Album ‘Lost Ritual’ (March 8th, 2016)

RAGING SPEEDHORN To Tour United Kingdom In July 2016 (April 25th, 2016)

RAINBOW: Former Vocalist Ronnie James Dio Dies Of Stomach Cancer Aged 67 (May 16th, 2010)

RAINBOW: Former Bassist Craig Gruber Dies Aged 63 (May 5th, 2015)

RAINBOW: Former Bassist Jimmy Bain Dies Of Lung Cancer Aged 68 (January 23rd, 2016)

RAINTIMES Sign Album Contract With Frontiers Music Srl (April 13th, 2016)

RAINTIMES To Release Self-Titled Debut Studio Album (October 9th, 2017)

RAM To Release Fifth Studio Album ‘Rod’ (October 14th, 2017)

RAMMSTEIN Release Concert Film DVD / Blu-Ray ‘Rammstein: Paris’ (May 19th, 2017)

RAMMSTEIN To Undertake European Stadium Tour From May To August 2019 (November 2nd, 2018)

RANCID To Release Ninth Studio Album ‘Trouble Maker’ (May 3rd, 2017)

RAVE IN FIRE To Release Debut Studio Album ‘Sons Of A Lie’ (March 3rd, 2022)

RAVEN Release 13th Studio Album ‘ExtermiNation’ (April 22nd, 2015)

RAVEN Tour North America In August And September 2015 (August 27th, 2015)

RAVEN Release Live Album ‘Screaming Murder Death From Above: Live In Aalborg’ (January 18th, 2019)

RAVEN Release 14th Studio Album ‘Metal City’ (September 18th, 2020)

RAVEN To Release 15th Studio Album ‘All Hell’s Breaking Loose’ (March 29th, 2023)

THE RAVEN AGE To Release Debut Studio Album ‘Darkness Will Rise’ (August 4th, 2016)

THE RAVEN AGE To Support ANTHRAX On Early 2017 European Tour (December 8th, 2016)

RAVENCULT Sign Album Contract With Metal Blade Records (September 1st, 2015)

RAVENCULT Release Third Studio Album ‘Force Of Profanation’ (November 11th, 2016)

RAVENIA To Release Debut Studio Album ‘Beyond The Walls Of Death’ (March 30th, 2016)

RAW SILK To Release Second Studio Album ‘The Borders Of Light’ (March 16th, 2017)

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REACH Release Second Studio Album ‘The Great Divine’ (February 22nd, 2018)

REACTORY To Release Second Studio Album ‘Heavy’ (June 25th, 2016)

READY, SET, FALL! Release Debut Studio Album ‘Memento’ (February 21st, 2014)

REAPING ASMODEIA Provide Support On April-May 2015 BORIS THE BLADE / ABIOTIC Co-Headlining North American Tour (April 12th, 2015)

REAPING ASMODEIA To Support ABIOTIC On September 2015 North American Tour (August 17th, 2015)

REASONS BEHIND To Release Third Studio Album ‘Architecture Of An Ego’ (March 8th, 2023)

REBEL COLLECTIVE To Release ‘Middle Age Famous’ Album (April 18th, 2015)

REBEL WIZARD To Release Four-Track EP ‘The Warning Of One’ (August 6th, 2017)

REBELLION Release Seventh Studio Album ‘Wyrd Bið Ful Aræd – The History Of The Saxons’ (September 25th, 2015)

REBELLION Release ‘- X – Live In Iberia’ Album (May 19th, 2023)

RED DRAGON CARTEL Release Self-Titled Debut Album (January 24th, 2014)

RED DRAGON CARTEL Part Ways With Vocalist, Reveal Replacement (March 19th, 2015)

RED DRAGON CARTEL Part Ways With Bassist Greg Chaisson (March 27th, 2015)

RED DRAGON CARTEL Release Second Studio Album ‘Patina’ (November 9th, 2018)

RED ELEVEN Release Third Studio Album ‘Collect Your Scars’ (March 18th, 2016)

RED ELEVEN Release ‘Fueled By Fire’ EP (March 23rd, 2018)

RED ELEVEN Release Fourth Studio Album ‘Handled With Chaos’ (April 23rd, 2021)

RED FANG Perform On ‘The Late Show With David Letterman’ (January 10th, 2014)

RED FANG To Tour United States In October 2015 (July 23rd, 2015)

RED FANG To Release Fourth Studio Album ‘Only Ghosts’ (October 6th, 2016)

RED FANG To Support BLACK LABEL SOCIETY On Select Dates Of Late 2017-Early 2018 North American Tour (October 14th, 2017)

RED RUM Release Second Studio Album ‘Book Of Legends’ (April 14th, 2023)

RED SUN RISING To Support NOTHING MORE On May-June 2015 US Tour (May 4th, 2015)

REDEMPTION Sign Album Contract With Metal Blade Records (July 22nd, 2015)

REDEMPTION To Release Sixth Studio Album ‘The Art Of Loss’ (February 19th, 2016)

REDEMPTION Part Ways With FATES WARNING Frontman Ray Alder And Recruit EVERGREY Vocalist Tom S. Englund (September 11th, 2017)

REDLINE To Release Third Studio Album ‘Gods And Monsters’ (September 26th, 2019)

DAVID REECE Signs Solo Album Contract With Mighty Music (January 11th, 2018)

DAVID REECE Releases Third Solo Studio Album ‘Resilient Heart’ (November 9th, 2018)

DAVID REECE To Release Fourth Solo Studio Album ‘Cacophony Of Souls’ (January 6th, 2020)

REFUGE Sign Album Contract With Frontiers Music Srl (August 2nd, 2016)

REFUGE To Release Debut Studio Album ‘Solitary Men’ (April 22nd, 2018)

REFUSED To Release Fourth Studio Album ‘Freedom’ (April 27th, 2015)

REIGN To Release Debut Studio Album (March 9th, 2017)

RELICS OF HUMANITY Release Six-Track EP ‘Obscuration’ (February 22nd, 2019)

REO SPEEDWAGON To Support DEF LEPPARD On May-October 2016 North American Tour (March 6th, 2016)

REPLACIRE To Release Second Studio Album ‘Do Not Deviate’ (December 26th, 2016)

REPULSIVE VISION To Release Second Studio Album ‘Necrovictology’ (August 15th, 2020)

REPULSUR To Support WEDNESDAY 13 On September And October 2017 North American Tour (July 17th, 2017)

THE RESISTANCE To Release Second Studio Album ‘Coup De Grâce’ (December 13th, 2015)

THE RESISTANCE Part Ways With Guitarist Jesper Strömblad (March 1st, 2016)

RESURRECTION KINGS To Release Self-Titled Debut Album (November 6th, 2015)

REV THEORY Sign Album Contract With Another Century (February 3rd, 2016)

REV THEORY Release Fourth Studio Album ‘The Revelation’ (September 9th, 2016)

REVERBER Release Third Studio Album ‘Sect Of Faceless’ (May 8th, 2020)

REVEREND Vocalist David Wayne Dies Following Car Accident Aged 47 (May 10th, 2005)

REVERTIGO To Release Self-Titled Debut Studio Album (February 5th, 2018)

REVOCATION Release Fifth Studio Album ‘Deathless’ (May 30th, 2015)

REVOCATION Part Ways With Drummer Phil Dubois (June 16th, 2015)

REVOCATION Recruit 3 INCHES OF BLOOD Drummer Ash Pearson (June 26th, 2015)

REVOCATION To Tour North America In September And October 2015 (July 2nd, 2015)

REVOCATION Release Sixth Studio Album ‘Great Is Our Sin’ (July 22nd, 2016)

REVOCATION To Support MORBID ANGEL On May-June 2017 US Tour (January 14th, 2017)

REVOCATION Release Seventh Studio Album ‘The Outer Ones’ (September 28th, 2018)

REVOCATION To Tour North America In Autumn 2018 (June 6th, 2018)

REVOLUTION SAINTS Release Second Studio Album ‘Light In The Dark’ (October 13th, 2017)

REVOLUTION SAINTS Release Third Studio Album ‘Rise’ (January 24th, 2020)

REVOLUTION SAINTS To Release Fourth Studio Album ‘Eagle Flight’ (April 19th, 2023)

REX SHACHATH Release ‘Revocation Of The Blood Elect’ EP (November 20th, 2015)

REXORIA To Support BULLET On May 2018 European Tour (February 13th, 2018)

REZET To Release Third Studio Album ‘Reality Is A Lie’ (May 24th, 2016)

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RHAPSODY OF FIRE To Release 11th Studio Album ‘Into The Legend’ (November 18th, 2015)

RHAPSODY OF FIRE To Release Re-Records Album ‘Legendary Years’ (January 23rd, 2017)

RHAPSODY OF FIRE To Release 12th Studio Album ‘The Eighth Mountain’ (December 2nd, 2018)

RHIN To Release Third Studio Album ‘Passenger’ (April 17th, 2016)

RHINO BUCKET To Release Seventh Studio Album ‘The Last Real Rock N’ Roll’ (February 22nd, 2017)

RANDY RHOADS Dies In Aeroplane Accident Aged 25 (March 19th, 1982)

RIGHTEOUS VENDETTA Release Fourth Studio Album ‘Cursed’ (March 17th, 2018)

RIMFROST To Release Self-Titled Third Studio Album (February 18th, 2016)

RINGWORM Release Sixth Studio Album ‘Hammer Of The Witch’ (March 14th, 2014)

RINGWORM To Tour East Coast Of United States In August (July 23rd, 2015)

RINGWORM To Support GOATWHORE On June-July 2015 North American Tour (April 8th, 2015)

RINGWORM To Release Seventh Studio Album ‘Snake Church’ (June 3rd, 2016)

RIOT: Former Guitarist Lou A. Kouvaris Dies Aged 65 (March 28th, 2020)

RIOT V Sign Album Contract With Nuclear Blast Records (September 27th, 2017)

RIOT V To Release Second Studio Album ‘Armor Of Light’ (January 29th, 2018)

RIPPED TO SHREDS To Release Third Studio Album ‘劇變’ (‘Jubian’) (August 16th, 2022)

RISING To Release Third Studio Album ‘Oceans Into Their Graves’ (April 1st, 2016)

RITUALIZATION To Release Debut Studio Album ‘Sacraments To The Sons Of The Abyss’ (December 1st, 2016)

RIVAL SONS To Support BLACK SABBATH On Early 2016 Australian Dates (November 4th, 2015)

RIVAL SONS To Release Fifth Studio Album ‘Hollow Bones’ (March 4th, 2016)

RIVAL SONS To Release Sixth Studio Album ‘Feral Roots’ (November 3rd, 2018)

RIVER BLACK To Release Self-Titled Debut Studio Album (April 12th, 2017)

RIVERDOGS To Release Fifth Studio Album ‘California’ (March 23rd, 2017)

RIVERS OF NIHIL To Release Second Studio Album ‘Monarchy’ (June 10th, 2015)

RIVERS OF NIHIL Release Third Studio Album ‘Where Owls Know My Name’ (March 16th, 2018)

RIVERS OF NIHIL To Support REVOCATION On Autumn 2018 North American Tour (June 6th, 2018)

RIVERS OF NIHIL To Release Fourth Studio Album ‘The Work’ (July 27th, 2021)

RIVERSIDE Release Sixth Studio Album ‘Love, Fear And The Time Machine’ (September 4th, 2015)

RIVERSIDE Guitarist Piotr Grudziński Dies Aged 40 (February 21st, 2016)

RIVERSIDE Re-Sign With InsideOut Music (May 29th, 2018)

RIVERSIDE Release Seventh Studio Album ‘Wasteland’ (September 28th, 2018)

RIZON To Release Fifth Studio Album ‘Prime Time’ (January 21st, 2022)

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ROADWOLF Sign Worldwide Deal With Napalm Records (November 23rd, 2021)

ROADWOLF To Release Second Studio Album ‘Midnight Lightning’ (March 23rd, 2023)

KANE ROBERTS: Former ALICE COOPER Guitarist Signs Solo Album Contract With Frontiers Music Srl (September 13th, 2016)

KANE ROBERTS: Former ALICE COOPER Guitarist To Release Fifth Solo Studio Album ‘The New Normal’ (October 28th, 2018)

ANDY ROCK: WILD ROSE Guitarist To Release Second Solo Studio Album ‘This Time’ (November 1st, 2016)

ROCK GODDESS To Release ‘It’s More Than Rock And Roll’ EP (April 24th, 2017)

ROCK WOLVES To Release Self-Titled Debut Studio Album (September 9th, 2016)

THE RODS Sign Album Contract With Steamhammer / SPV (March 9th, 2017)

THE RODS To Release Eighth Studio Album ‘Brotherhood Of Metal’ (April 9th, 2019)

MICHAEL ROMEO: SYMPHONY X Guitarist Releases Debut Solo Studio Album ‘War Of The Worlds // Pt. 1’ (July 17th, 2018)

MICHAEL ROMEO: SYMPHONY X Guitarist To Release Second Solo Studio Album ‘War Of The Worlds // Pt. 2’ (October 18th, 2021)

ROMEO’S DAUGHTER To Release Fourth Studio Album ‘Spin’ (March 25th, 2015)

ROOT To Release Tenth Studio Album ‘Kärgeräs – Return From Oblivion’ (October 12th, 2016)

ROSS THE BOSS To Release Third Solo Studio Album ‘By Blood Sworn’ (March 21st, 2018)

ULI JON ROTH To Embark On Early 2016 North American Headlining Tour (December 26th, 2015)

ROTTEN SOUND Release Seventh Studio Album ‘Abuse To Suffer’ (March 25th, 2016)

ROTTEN SOUND Release Four-Track EP ‘Suffer To Abuse’ (April 13th, 2018)

ROTTEN SOUND To Release Eighth Studio Album ‘Apocalypse’ (March 7th, 2023)

ROTTING CHRIST To Release Live Double-Album ‘Lucifer Over Athens’ (July 6th, 2015)

ROTTING CHRIST To Release 12th Studio Album ‘Rituals’ (December 11th, 2015)

ROTTING CHRIST To Release 13th Studio Album (June 1st, 2018)

ROTTING CHRIST Release ‘Under Our Black Cult’ Five-CD, 72-Page Book Set (July 6th, 2018)

ROXANNE Release Second Studio Album ‘Radio Silence’ (October 26th, 2018)

ROXIN’ PALACE Release Second Studio Album ‘Freaks Of Society’ (October 31st, 2016)

ROXY BLUE To Release Self-Titled Second Studio Album (May 29th, 2019)

ROYAL HUNT Release 13th Studio Album ‘Devil’s Dozen’ (August 21st, 2015)

ROYAL HUNT Release Live Album ‘Cargo’ (March 18th, 2016)

ROYAL HUNT To Release Live 2CD / DVD Set ‘2016’ (April 5th, 2017)

ROYAL HUNT To Release 14th Studio Album ‘Cast In Stone’ (February 7th, 2018)

ROYAL REPUBLIC Sign Album Contract With Nuclear Blast Records (February 28th, 2019)

ROYAL THUNDER Release Second Album ‘Crooked Doors’ (April 3rd, 2015)

RUACH RAAH To Release Debut Album ‘Hate Fanaticism’ (August 30th, 2015)

JORDAN RUDESS: DREAM THEATER Keyboardist Embarks On Spring 2018 Solo Tour (March 7th, 2018)

JORDAN RUDESS: DREAM THEATER Keyboardist Signs Solo Album Contract With Mascot Label Group (May 9th, 2018)

KARI RUESLÅTTEN Releases Fifth Studio Album ‘Time To Tell’ (March 7th, 2014)

RUFFIANS: Former Vocalist Carl Albert Dies Following Car Accident Aged 32 (April 22nd, 1995)

RUÏM To Release Debut Studio Album ‘Black Royal Spiritism – I – O Sino da Igreja’ (March 30th, 2023)

THE RUINS OF BEVERAST Release Fifth Studio Album ‘Exuvia’ (May 5th, 2017)

RUNNING WILD Release 16th Studio Album ‘Rapid Foray’ (August 26th, 2016)

RUNNING WILD To Release 17th Studio Album ‘Blood On Blood’ (July 30th, 2021)

RUSSIAN CIRCLES To Support MASTODON On April-May 2017 North American Tour (January 15th, 2017)

R.U.S.T.X Release Third Studio Album ‘Center Of The Universe’ (November 15th, 2019)