Month: August 2016

Want to Headbang like it’s 1999!? Then IRON FIRE’s Among the Dead should be your obvious choice. The new offering from IRON FIRE is as old school as it gets 16 years into the millennium. The 90s spawned a lot of power metal classics, and Among the Dead is made in the spirit of those. Albums like Black in Mind (Rage), The Dark Saga (Iced Earth) and Better Than Raw (Helloween) were all blueprints for the making of Among the Dead.

Recorded in Death Island Studio with engineer Marco A

‘Witness’ has been described as an adrenaline bomb charged up with great rock/metal tunes and plenty of attitude. The album features a very special guest appearance by Motörhead legend Phil Campbell on the song ‘Mad Fall’. Also charismatic singer Damna (Elvenking/Hell In The Club) guests in one song.

1. Out Of Gear
2. Mad Fall
3. So Now…
4. Sail
5. The City’s Burning
6. Silence
7. I’m a Fake
8. Go (Chemical Brother’s cover)
9. Could You Bid Me Farewell
10. Prayers on Fire
11. Witness

It was mixed and mastered by the one and only Daniel Bergstrand (Meshuggah, In Flames, Devin Townsend/SYL etc. etc.) at Dugout Productions, Sweden. Danne did a great job with our material, we can’t wait for you to hear it!

1. Esotericism
2. Thanatos
3. Penumbra
4. Untrue
5. Hidden
6. Skylines
7. Unknown
9. Will

‘Coming Home’, is the 8th studio release of the Industrial institution PAIN. Take a deep breath, before you jump into this sea of Industrial Metal, thunderous orchestra arrangements and thrilling conspiracy theories – and Swedes, who are just designed to piss you off, in their most elegant way.

1. Designed To Piss You Off
2. Call Me
3. A Wannabe
4. Pain In The Ass
5. Black Knight Satellite
6. Coming Home
7. Absinthe Phoenix Rising
8. Final Crusade
9. Natural Born Idiot
10. Starseed

The EP and Album are currently being recorded with Jim Morris (Iced Earth, Savatage, Death) and Phil Pluskota (Sonic Assault Studios, Abiotic, King Conquer) at North Avenue Studios and Morrisound Recording and plan to wrap sometime in July. The EP will be mastered at Morrisound Recording while the full Length album will be mastered by Jacob Hansen (Avantasia, Evergrey, Volbeat, Pretty Maids, Amaranthe, Doro).

1. In The Walls
2. Undying
3. The Bloody Meadow
(Brothers Of The Night, Re-Recorded)
4. Stormborn

Texas heavy metal veterans HELSTAR have signed with MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson’s EMP Label Group. The band’s new album, “Vampiro”, is due later in the year. A single, “Black Cathedral”, will precede the full-length effort on April 9.

1. Awaken Unto Darkness
2. Blood Lust
3. To Dust You Will Become
4. Off With His Head
5. From The Pulpit To The Pit
6. To Their Death Beds They Fell
7. Malediction
8. Repent In Fire
9. Abolish The Sun
10. Bla

DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, the band led by Canadian musician/producer Devin Townsend, will release its new album, “Transcendence”, on September 2.

1. Truth
2. Stormbending
3. Failure
4. Secret Sciences
5. Higher
6. Stars
7. Transcendence
8. Offer Your Light
9. From the Heart
10. Transdermal Celebration

FRANKLIN ZOO – Red Skies
CD, LP, Digital Download/Stream
Release Wordwide: 26th of August 2016

“Elektradrive’s debut full length album, “Over the space” was finally ready and released in 1986 with Discotto Records .followed by a national tour.

1. Intro Beginning
2. Secret Of The Holy Grave
3. Time Machine
4. Lord Of The Rings
5. Fortune Teller
6. Snake (Slip on…)
7. Against The Stream
8. Take Off
9. …Over The Space
10. Song Fr Feeling
11. Clash Of Titans
12. Midnight Passage
Bonus Tracks:
1. Let it Survive 1984
2. Brian Storm 1984
3

Dutch symphonic metallers DELAIN will release their fifth studio album, titled “Moonbathers”, on August 26 via Napalm Records.

1. Hands of gold
2. The glory and the scum
3. Suckerpunch
4. The hurricane
5. Chrysalis – The last breath
6. Fire with fire
7. Pendulum
8. Danse Macabre
9. Scandal
10. Turn the lights out
11. The monarch

Today we are extremely proud to introduce you to one of the greatest original cover artwork ever featured on a Cruz Del Sur Music release… Upcoming Dark Forest “Beyond the Veil” (release date Aug 26) features the amazing artwork provided by Duncan Storr, the English Artist that has made the history of metal providing amazing paintings for Skyclad and Rage.

Dark Forest has recently finished the recordings of “Beyond The Veil” at HellFire Studio, and own studio’s mastermind Ajeet Gill is actually in the process of mixing and mastering. The album is almo

The debut album “Chapter One” is written with the same energetic approach to rock music – but the band has matured and garnered valuable live experience in the past 2 years (at Royal Metal Fest 2016 at Voxhall/Atlas in Aarhus, a.o.), and (other than the power rock songs) this has made room for more calm, thoughtful songs and passages on the 11 track album.

With this album, the band brings all of their musical inspirations to the table to make the most diverse record possible –

On 19th August Universal Music Catalogue will release 4CD and 4LP sets of Sex Pistols – Live ’76. The collection comprises four revolutionary live recordings – all officially sanctioned by the Sex Pistols and professionally mastered at Abbey Rd Studios and released in full for the first time.

Vocals: John Rotten
Guitar: Steve Jones
Drums: Paul Cook
Bass: Glen Matlock

Sex Pistols – Live ’76 tracklists:

CD1
4th June – 1976: Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester
1. Did You No Wrong
2. No Lip
3. Seventeen
4. Stepping Stone
5. New York
6. Whatcha Gonna Do About It
7. Submission
8. Satellite
9. No Feelings
10. No Fun
11. Substitute
12. Pretty Vacant
13. Problems

CD2

The band, self-described as “Funk Punk ghetto underground,” is built from parts of Fishbone, Dokken/Lynch Mob, Endangered Species and WAR. Fishbone front-man Angelo Moore directs the quartet, which also features guitarist George Lynch, bassist Pancho Tomaselli and drummer Chris Moore.

Track Listing:
1. Project Blackout
2. Army of Jesus
3. Exposure Fi’ Pay
4. Landslide Salvation
5. Corazon of Doubt
6. I Wanna Be White (But I Can’t)
7. Deprivation of Independence
8. Anchor B

Italy’s prog mastermind and the man behind TWINSPIRITS and COSMICS, and the instrumental solo album “Eleven Mysteries” returns with his classical music debut, a Piano Concerto !This is music that will satisfy listeners of prog, soundtracks, all kinds of melodic instrumental music as well as true classical music fans.

1. Movement n.1: An Innocent Challenge
(Moderato con moto)
2. Movement n.2: Childhood fading away
(Andante)
3. Movement n.3: Meditation
(Adagio)
4. Movement n.4: Complete consciousness
(Moderato con brio)