Day: November 26, 2017

THE HEAT and humidity of Houston, Texas has nurtured many fine acts, not least of course ZZ Top. But scrape beneath the surface and you’ll find many more bands that ought to have made it big, including a religious leaning stable of acts led by the impressive and trail blazing power trio Kings X.

1 Joyride
2 Justice
3 Achilles’ Heel
4 I Know Better
5 All Fall Down
6 War Drum
7 Blackness
8 December
9 This Side Of The Rainbow
10 New Dreams

\Founding Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell will release his new solo album “Standing at a Bus Stop” on December 1st, 2017, via Of The Edge Productions/Cargo Records UK.“Standing at a Bus Stop” is legendary guitarist, musician and songwriter Eric Bell’s second album for Of The Edge Productions.

1. Back Door Man (cover: Howlin Wolf)
2. Changing Room
3. In Memory of Django
4. Frustration
5. Golden Days
6. Mystery Train (cover: Elvis Presley)
7. One Day Too Early
8. Pavements Paved With Gold

Oriental metal pioneers, Orphaned Land, will release their new studio album “Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs” on January 26th, 2018, via Century Media Records.
Jens Bogren once again took over mixing and mastering duties of what turned out to be the band’s best and biggest production so far.

1. The Cave
2. We Do Not Resist
3. In Propaganda
4. All Knowing Eye
5. Yedidi
6. Chains Fall to Gravity
7. Like Orpheus
8. Poets of Prophetic Messianis

No, this is not just another pirate metal band, this is Rumahoy ye landlubbers!Rumahoy’s music mixes bustling Pagan Metal-riffing mixed with exotic ancient instrumentation, producing melodies that run like the swell of stormy seas!

1. AHOY!
2. Quest for Heritage
3. Forest Party
4. The Haitian Slam
5. Huffman, the Pirate King
6. Kill the Trolls
7. Netflix and Yarr
8. Pirateship
9. The Triumph of Piracy

All Souls, the Los Angeles-based band featuring former members of Totimoshi (Meg Castellanos and Tony Aguilar) and The Desert Sessions (Tony Tornay), release their self-titled debut album on February 9th, 2018.

01. Party Night
02. Never Know
03. Money Man
04. Silence
05. Rename the Room
06. The Ghost is Flying Home
07. Sadist/Servant
08. Reveille
09. Time Bomb

Line-up:
Erik Trammell – Guitars
Antonio Aguilar – Guitar and vocals
Meg Castellanos – Bass and vocals
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South African singer-songwriter and guitarist, Dan Patlansky, is set to the release his new studio album “Perfection Kills” in the UK on February 2nd, 2018.The album is the follow up to 2016’s critically acclaimed “Introvertigo”, which was voted #1 Blues Rock Album 2016 by Blues Rock Review.

1. Johnny
2. Never Long Enough
3. Mayday
4. Too Far Gone
5. Judge A Man
6. Junket Man
7. iEyes
8. Shake the Cage
9. My Dear Boy
10. Dog Day

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Absolutely not to be missed if you like Orange Goblin, 7Zuma7, Monster Magnet, but most of all good music! Watch the video trailer below.“Colossus” will be released on CD/DD by Argonauta Records and available from January 12th, 2018.

01. Lost in the swamp
02. Forgive
03. Ignorant Song
04. Colossus
05. So Distant
06. Mankind’s Glory
07. The Spectator
08. Solitude
09. Pitchy Mantra
10. The Angry Man
11. The Escape
12. Oracle

Black Foxxes will release their second studio album, “REIðI” on March 16th, 2018, via Search & Destroy Records; “REIðI” will follow the bands critically acclaimed debut, “I’m Not Well”.

Midlands based hard rock band, The Bad Flowers, are set to release their debut studio album “Starting Gun” on February 16th, 2018.The album is a follow up to 2016’s self-titled EP and shows the great progression of song writing and musicianship of The Bad Flowers over the past two years.

1. Thunder Child (3:59)
2. Lions Blood (3:49)
3. Secrets (3:44)
4. Rich Man (3:14)
5. I Hope (3:24)
6. Let’s Misbehave (5:40)
7. Who Needs A Soul (3:17)
8. Be Your Man (2:56)
9. Hurricane (3:44)

Some of these new jams sound like could’ve easily been on “Wiseblood” or “Deliverance”, two of Corrosion Of Conformity’s most revered records. On “No Cross No Crown”, beefy Southern stompers like “The Luddite”, “Little Man”, and “Forgive Me” are interspersed with melancholy guitar interludes like “No Cross”, “Matre’s Diem”, and “Sacred Isolation” – just like Sabbath used to do in the ’70s.

01. Novus Deus
02. The Luddite
03. Cast t

Nuclear Blast Entertainment are pleased to announce the release of the new album from Tax The Heat, “Change Your Position”, on March 9th, 2018. The album will be available as CD, digital, and vinyl.

01. Money in the Bank
02. Change Your Position
03. Playing with Fire
04. All That Medicine
05. On the Run
06. The Last Time
07. Taking the Hit
08. My Headspace
09. We Are Consumers
10. Cut Your Chains
11. Wearing A Disguise
12. The Symphony Has Begun