Day: May 1, 2017

Stone Sour’s hotly anticipated new album, “Hydrograd” is set for release on June 30th, 2017, via Roadrunner Records.

Recorded at Sphere Studios in North Hollywood, CA with producer Jay Ruston, “Hydrograd” features the lead tracks, “Fabuless” and “Song #3”.

1. YSIF
2. Taipei Person/Allah Tea
3. Knievel Has Landed
4. Hydrograd
5. Song #3
6. Fabuless
7. The Witness Trees
8. Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb & So Am I)
9. Thanks God It’s Over
10. St. Marie

Now some two decades and seven albums into their career – with eighth “Jake Leg Boogie”, set to drop late this June on Small Stone – Five Horse Johnson has dug out a niche of their own, a genuine love and respect for traditional blues and classic rock leading them to likewise become one of the most loved and respected bands in the heavy rock underground. Always a freight train live, they’ve toured the US (with Clutch and Halfway To Gone) and Europe extensively (including the festival circuit), gathering fans, friends, and drinki

Walpyrgus – a supergroup of US metal – will release its debut album “Walpyrgus Nights” on June 9th, 2017, via Cruz Del Sur.

When these veterans of Twisted Tower Dire, While Heaven Wept, Daylight Dies, and Viper (amongst a long list of many others) broached this subject, it actually came to fruition with a very real mutual ambition and respect for both each others’ talents and the musical influences that made them who they are. When you hear those passages recalling the aforementioned Maiden, Lizzy, Priest, Fate, etc&#8

Laser’s Edge division Sensory Records announces the re-emergence of UK-based Prospekt, as the band completes their textured second album, “The Illuminated Sky”.

Closing a four-year void since the release of their lauded “The Colourless Sunrise” debut, the follow-up will see release this July.

1. Ex Nihilo
2. The Illuminated Sky
3. Titan
4. Distant Anamnesis
5. Beneath Enriya
6. In The Shadows of the Earth
7. Alien Makers of Discord
8. Cosmic Emissary
9. Akaibara
10. W

“Seasons of the Black” was recorded in February / March 2017 at Megafon Studios (Burscheid, Germany) and at Soundchaser Studios (Zandhoven, Belgium). Its production was handled by Rage, whilst the renowned Dan Swanö (Marduk, Opeth, Katatonia, etc.) took care of the mix and mastering at Unisound Studios (Grefrath, Germany).