Month: September 2016

Rising Steel is a band from Grenoble (France) whose reputation among the French heavy metal landscape has been growing since its creation in 2012. Largely influenced by the 80’s NWOBHM scene, the band delivers a solid and powerful metal music, legacy of the great Priest’s and Maiden’s spirits. Heavy metal is the Law !

01. Breaking The Silence
02. Monster
03. The Watcher
04. Dead Or Alive
05. Straight To Hell
06. Evil Master
07. Rising Steel
08. People Of The Moon
09. Never Give Up
10. Hell’s Control

French heavy metal pioneers Nightmare, with brand new line-up, will release their new album, “Dead Sun”, on November 25th, 2016, via AFM Records.

01. Infected
02. Of Sleepless mind
03. Tangled In The Roots
04. Red Marble & Gold
05. Ikarus
06. Indifference
07. Dead Sun
08. Seeds Of Agony
09. Inner Sanctum
10. Serpentine
11. Starry Skies Gone Black

The new Nightmare band made its live debut with new singer Maggy Luyten and new drummer Olivier Casula on June 19th 2016

Light & Shade is a new, young supergroup whose members have already acquired extensive live and studio experience having being part or shared the stage with renowned acts such as Nightwish, Dream Theater, Amaranthe, Sonata Arctica, Rhapsody, Within Temptation, Arch Enemy, Slipknot, Fleshgod Apocalypse and many more, and having received recognition and awards from the Lollapalooza Festival and the International Portuguese Music Awards among others for their expertise in rock/metal.

Featuring vocalist

HERMAN FRANK is a German metal legend. A guitarist and songwriter supreme, Frank was a member of both Accept and Victory. In 2009, his first ‘solo’ album ‘Loyal To None’ was released, followed by ‘Right In The Guts’ three years later. After re-issues of both ‘Loyal To None’ and ‘Right In The Guts’ by their new label AFM Records, HERMAN FRANK and his band are back with a brand new offering now! Titled ‘The Devil Rides Out’, this crushing piece of German metal will make fans cry out in joy. It combines Frank’s masterful

Norwegian-based symphonic gothic metal veterans SIRENIA have set “Dim Days Of Dolor” as the title of their upcoming album. Due on November 11, it consists of eleven brand new songs plus one bonus track. The artwork was once again created by Gyula Havancsák from Hjules Illustration And Design. All recordings have been completed and the album is currently being mixed at Hansen Studios in Denmark.

1. Goddess of the Sea
2. Dim Days of Dolor
3. The 12th Hour
4. Treasure n’ Treason
5. Cloud Nine
6. Veil of Winter
7. Ashes to Ashes
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The new Civil War album will be entitled “The Last Full Measure” and will be released by Napalm Records on November 4th! Crystal CD editions, Digipak and Vinyl will be available (the latter two with traditional bonus tracks).

1. Road To Victory
2. Deliverance
3. Savannah
4. Tombstone
5. America
6. A Tale That Should Never Be Told
7. Gangs Of New York
8. Gladiator
9. People Of The Abyss
10. The Last Full Measure
11. Strike Hard Strike Sure
12. After

Produced by longtime collaborator Kato Khandwala, “Who You Selling For” is an arresting collection of rock tunes that expand the band’s sound to encompass soulful, bluesy undertones, written by frontwoman Taylor Momsen and guitarist Ben Phillips. This raucous 12-track collection puts Momsen’s dark lyrics and raw, charismatic vocals on full display while the band delivers at full intensity with a level of musicianship that raises the bar.

1.The Walls Are Closing In (Han

‘Aquostic II – That’s A Fact!’ is the follow up to the phenomenally successful ‘Aquostic (Stripped Bare)’ album of 2014 which was a Gold-certified UK Top 5 hit, giving the band their highest chart placing for 18 years. Additionally, Quo will perform a very special one-off ‘Aquostic’ show in Hyde Park at BBC Radio 2’s ‘Festival In A Day’ on 11th September 2016. NB the album has been re-titled from the previously announced ‘Aquostic II – One More For The Road’.

Aquostic II – That’s A Fact!’ offers a generous helping of Quo classics that are immediately recognisable, and yet demonstrably re-engineered; this is the sound of a band living in the present, embracing the future, whilst cherishing their past

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The new studio album “Angels Cast Shadows” leads the Swiss epic/symphonic metal band MIRACLE FLAIR in a new direction . Produced by Tommy Vetterli & Miracle Flair – Mix by Tommy Vetterli (Coroner, 69 Chambers, Eluveitie) . Mastering by Dan Suter (Echochamber) . Cover artwork by Colin Marks (Reykjavic, Iceland).

1. Angels Cast Shadows
2. Embracing The End
3. Alive
4. The Unfulfilled
5. Blessing And A Curse
6. I Am Your Truth
7. Soul Witness
8. Challenge My Faith
9. The Whole
10. Stil

On 21 th October release singer Dee Snider (Twisted Sister) solo album “We Are The Ones” by the company Red River Records.Produced by Grammy®, Emmy® and Oscar® winning song writer, Damon Ranger, WE ARE THE ONES crackles with modern energy, from the call-to-arms manifesto of “Rule the World,” to the anthemic bonding of “So What” (complete with, yes, a string section) to the intensely synth driven “Close to You,” to the thematically soaring “Superhero” (a song tailor-made for running over the end credits of the next Marvel or DC movie blockbuster if ever there was one).

German Heavy Metal veterans SACRED STEEL announce the release of their new album “Heavy Metal Sacrifice” on October 14 2016. The album was recorded at Music Factory Studio Kempten (Germany) and produced by Sacred Steel and Christian Schmid.

With the release of “Heavy Metal Sacrifice”, the band celebrates its first 20 years, providing one of their most convincing albums ever. With highlights such as “Heavy Metal Sacrifice”, “Let There Be Steel” , “Hail The Godz Of War” and “Children Of The Sky” SACRED STEE

ANCIIENTS return with their long-awaited sophomore album ‘Voice of the Void’. A heavier and harder-hitting album than their debut, ‘Voice of the Void’ raises their game with mind-melting, frenetic guitar work and a more explosive percussive attack.

Tracks such “Serpents”, “Pentacle”, “Incantations”, and more are prismatic; bursting with heavy riffs in every shade and color without sacrificing the quartets heavy rock roots. ANCIIENTS are the archety

Nightfall Symphony was written in the winter 2015/16 in Berlin, and in Helsinki, Finland and recorded with producer Bernd Wendlandt (Silvermoon, Faun, Silly) in the Valicon Studios as well as the studios in Berlin Funkhaus Nalepastraße.

Guests will find the choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and other members of the high-caliber of musicians that set the appropriate musical setting for the great themes of the Dark Tenor: love, loss, sorrow, but also hope and the prospect of salvation. Personal experiences that are now found in his lyrics again. “The time of song

Conceived in the same kingdom that brewed IRON MAIDEN and NAPALM DEATH, SikTh blended the former’s gradiosity and progressive edge with the latter’s abrasivenesses and hectic shifts. But from the first listen, SikTh’s “Death of a Dead Day” sounds like it came from a universe where matchcore bands gave their hooks room to breathe, progressive bands didn’t get bogged down with proficiency and death metal bands focused on clean, melodic songs more than speed. Sure, all of that happens sometimes, but how often do you hear it all on the same record?
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