Day: February 13, 2017

Nova Collective began in 2014 when bassist Dan Briggs (BTBAM, Trioscapes) and guitarist Richard Henshall (Haken) began exchanging emails about music in general and before long a few demos were being exchanged and fleshed out into full arrangements.

Drummer Matt Lynch (Trioscapes, Cynic) and keyboardist Pete Jones (ex-Haken) came on board shortly after to finish writing the album. The Further Side was written on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, with Briggs and Lynch in America and Henshall and Jones in England, sharing session files until the group

‘Off The Grid’ was mixed and mastered by Peter Rutcho at Damage Studios (Havok, Revocation, Vomitron, Armory) in Southbridge, MA with artwork created by Colin Marks at Rain Song Design.

1. Sole Survivors
2. Break Heresy
3. Shadowfold
4. Wake up the Tyrant
5. Off the Grid
6. Swallow Your Pride
7. Shimmering Status
8. Good Enough
9. This Means War
10. Running Riot

Inspired by symphonic and folk Metal, but also by film soundtracks and the beautiful nature in Northern Finland and Norway, LOST IN GREY succeeded in creating a breathtaking work of art that keeps listeners under its spell from first to last second.

01. Waltz Of Lillian
02. Road To Styx
03. Dark Skies
04. Revelation
05. The Order
06. New Horizon
07. The Grey Realms
08. Silence Falls

British heavy metal vocalist Blaze Bayley (IRON MAIDEN, WOLFSBANE) will release his ninth solo album, “Endure And Survive (Infinite Entanglement Part II)”, on March 3, 2017 via Blaze Bayley Recording. The record is an exciting and enthralling sequel to his 2016 release “Infinite Entanglement”, which was the first of a trilogy of releases following a sci-fi concept and storyline.

1. Endure and Survive
2. Escape Velocity
3. Blood
4. Eating Lies
5. Destroyer
6. Dawn of the Dead Son
7. Remember
8. Fight Back
9. The World Is Turning the Wrong Way
10. Toget

After Thobbe Englund announced his departure at the Swedish Power Metal formation Sabaton, the disappointment was very big for all fans. But no cause for concern, Englund will blow us his ears with his solo album “Sold my soul” this year!

1. Sold My Soul
2. Annihilation
3. I Am
4. The Glow
5. It Burns
6. Steel & Thunder
7. Trgen Vinner
8. The Flame
9. Break the Chains
10. Wounded Knee
11. Farewell

Almost four years have passed since Persefone unleashed to their highly acclaimed album “Spiritual Migration”. An impressive album that took both the press and the listeners by storm (1,2 million clicks on Youtube!). When the calendar shows February 24, 2017 it´s finally time to experience the evolution of Persefone with their new album “Aathma”!

1. An Infinitesimal Spark
2. One of Many…
3. Prison Skin
4. Spirals Within Thy Being
5. Cosmic Walkers
6. No Faced Mindless
7. Living Waves (feat. Paul Masvidal from Cynic)

Two years after their first EP ‘Triumphator’ (Demo Of The Month on German ROCK HARD magazine) LUNAR SHADOW have returned. Chariots are being prepared for war. Women and children are fearful. ‘Far From Light’ delivers eight brand new songs of epic, melodic, thoughtful and proudly regressive Metal. For Fans of Solstice, Atlantean Kodex, Dark Forest, old Manowar, Bathory, Dissection and Slough Feg.

1. Hadrian Carrying Stones
2. They That Walk The Night
3. Frozen Goddess
4. Gone Astray
5. The Hour Of Dying
6. The Kraken

Following his departure from UK metalcore pioneers Asking Alexandria, Danny Worsnop’s musical direction could not have been more different, with the rock ‘n’ roll swagger of We Are Harlot being reminiscent of hard rock’s heyday. Now with his debut solo album being released on Earache Records, home to bluesy-rock bands such as Rival Sons, one of music’s busiest talents shows off another side to his repertoire, with a refreshing approach to country and blues that perhaps only he could deliver.

1. Prozac
2. Mexico
3. I Feel Like

Pride & Joy Music is happy to announce the signing of Italian modern hard rock band Starsick System for the release of their second album “Lies, Hopes & Other Stories”.

Marco Sandron (v, g)
David Donati (g)
Valeria Battain (b)
Ivan Moni Bidin (d)

Black Diamonds, formed in 2004, is a hard rock band based in the Rhine Valley in eastern Switzerland. Musically and stylistically the guys orientate on 80s rock music, which they pack into an energetic stage performance.

Michael Kehl (v, g)
Andreas Rohner (lg)
Andi Fässler (b)
Manuel Peng (d)

“Both Mike Stobbie (keys) and Scott Higham (drums) join me throughout, with Jeff Green and Tina Booth returning to contibute their own special magic. I’m also honoured to be joined by Claude Leonetti of Lazuli on leode, along with a certain Steve Hackett on harmonica.

Track listing

1. My Sunlit Room
2. Razor
3. Cross My Palm
4. Leaving
5. The Other Side Of Morning
6. The Covenanter
7. Used To Be Someone
8. Northern Light

We are proud to announce that we are the exclusive worldwide distributor for the second solo CD by Citizen Cain’s keyboard player Stewart Bell. The album, called “The Antechamber Of Being (Part 2)” is released on 27/02/2017 and is a prog rock opera featuring contributions from five vocalists; Simone Rossetti (The Watch), Arjen Anthony Lucassen (Ayreon), Phil Allen (Citizen Cain), Bekah Mhairi Comrie and Stewart Bell himself. Each of the vocalists play a different character in the story.

Track listing

1.Early Day

Following a long period of radio silence, I’m happy to inform you that following two years of intensive composition and writing lyrics on my part and constant parallel recording sessions with all the musicians, the production for the first of two albums of “The Vision, The Sword And The Pyre” will be released on March 24, 2017.

Fank Bornemann (v, g)
Hannes Folberth (k)
Michael Gerlach (k)
Klaus-Peter Matziol (b)
Bodo Schopf (d)

Germany’s most real rock ‘n’ roll band Double Crush Syndrome released the music video for their brand-new single, “On Top Of Mt. Whateverest”. The song comes off the band’s upcoming debut album “Die For Rock N’ Roll”, which will be released on 17th March 2017 via Arising Empire. The band also revealed the cover artwork and the track listing of their upcoming debut and announced their headline run for March & April 2017.

1. Gimme Everything
2. Die For Rock N‘ Roll
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Explosive … red hot … and with a burning ambition built to last, on new album “Flames”, Bonafide are having a blast. Never before have the hard gigging Swedes sounded so much like rock and roll’s real deal. It’s raw, it’s honest and it’s from the heart.

1. Back In Flames
2. Smoke & Fire
3. Power Down
4. Bottle Of Jack
5. Written In Stone
6. Like It Now
7. Keep A Safe Distance
8. Gotta Go
9. Flipside Groovin
10. Under Your Spell

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