Day: December 5, 2017

Animal Drive is a young and driven hard rock act founded in Zagreb, Croatia in 2012 by singer Dino Jelusic, who is the primary writer and driving force behind the band’s sound. Dino was chosen by the late, great Paul O’Neill to be a featured vocalist on Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s 2016 US tour. Animal Drive’s line-up is completed by the guitarists Ivan Keller and Alen Luke (who unleash a ferocious twin guitar attack on the listener), Damjan Milekovic on bass and Adrian Boric on drums. Influenced by legendary bands such as White

Pride & Joy Music is proud to announce the signing of female fronted symphonic metal band Alcyona from Minsk, Belarus! The band around keyboard player and songwriter Natalia Malei was founded in 2012 and is now ready to release their debut album “Trailblazer”!

With “The Deep & The Dark”, Visions Of Atlantis once more set sail to oceanic myths and the eternal dream of the sunken continent.The varied and fascinating voice of Clémentine Delauney provides for hauntingly beautiful duets with Siegfried Samer’s classic power metal infusions, embodying the symphonic metal cake.

1. The Deep & The Dark
2. Return To Lemuria
3. Ritual Night
4. The Silent Mutiny
5. Book Of Nature
6. The Last Home
7. The Grand Illusion
8. Dead Reckoning

Rebellion’s new album “A Tragedy In Steel Part II: Shakespeare’s King Lear” will be released via Massacre Records.The cover artwork has been created by Killustrations. Oliver Geibig is responsible for the album’s mix and mastering.

1. A Fool’s Tale
2. Dowerless Daughter
3. Thankless Child
4. Stand Up For Bastards
5. Storm And Tempest
6. Demons Of Madness
7. The Mad Shall Lead The Blind
8. Black Is The World
9. Battle Song
10. Blood Against Blood

Frontiers Records are pleased to announce the release of the new album from Mike LePond’s Silent Assassins, “Pawn And Prophecy”. Lepond is extremely excited for the release of his band’s sophomore effort, which he describes as a “a collection of epic tales told with the power of heavy metal music. The classic head-banging riffs and kick ass vocals will get your horns and fists in the air. It is an album made FOR metalheads, BY metalheads.”

1. Masters Of The Hall
2. Black Legend
3. Antichri

Labÿrinth, Italy’s finest purveryors of power/prog metal, held their first reunion show at Frontiers Metal Festival in Trezzo Sull’Adda on October 30, 2016. The renewed line-up played “Return To Heaven Denied” in its entirety, for only the second time ever, their most popular record (so far). The landmark album was originally released by Metal Blade in 1998 and is considered by many to be one of the highlights of the power metal genre in the late 90s.

1. Moonlight
2. New Horizons
3. The Night Of Drea

German metallers Mystic Prophecy will release a covers album, “Monuments Uncovered”, on January 12, 2018 via Massacre Records.Singer Roberto Dimitri Liapakis comments: “This album is like a love letter to the music that accompanied so many of us, myself included, in the 70s, 80s and 90s, and believe me, you have not heard the songs like this before! I’m also really excited to show you a new and different side of Mystic Prophecy!”

1. You Keep Me Hangin’ On (Kim Wilde/The Supremes)
2. Hot Stuff (D

On February 16, Neal Morse (Transatlantic, Flying Colors) releases the new solo album “Life & Times” via the company Radiant Records.