Month: December 2017

W.E.T., the Swedish/American melodic rock project created around vocalist Jeff Scott Soto, guitarist Erik Mårtensson and keyboard player Robert Säll, issues its third full-length studio album “Earthrage” on March 23, 2018 through Frontiers Music Srl.

1. Watch The Fire
2. Burn
3. Kings On Thunder Road
4. Elegantly Wasted
5. Urgent
6. Dangerous
7. Calling Out Your Name
8. Heart Is On The Line
9. I Don’t Wanna Play That Game
10. The Burning Pain Of Love
11. The

Dukes Of The Orient is the masterful pairing of vocalist John Payne (ex-Asia, GPS) with keyboardist Erik Norlander (Last in Line, Lana Lane, Rocket Scientists) who now present their eponymous debut album, ten years in the making. Payne’s powerful arena seasoned vocals carry soaring melodies and lush harmonies over the sea of classic synthesizers and keyboards artfully painted with Norlander’s signature sonic palette.

1. Brother In Arms
2. Strange Days
3. Amor Vincit Omnia
4. Time Waits For No One
5. A

Three years after the release of “Change of Time”, Secret Illusion announced their collaboration with Lion Music and return with a new studio album entitled “Awake Before the Dawn”, which will be released on February 1st, 2018.

1. Curtain Falls
2. Neverland
3. Fall Of Human Kind
4. Sailing The Open Sea
5. Hope Is Lost
6. Kings And Pawns (Napoleon)
7. Winds Of Tomorrow
8. Falling
9. Eerie
10. Awake Before The Dawn

How to progress and yet keep the identity which took over 25 years to establish? How to create the ever evolving – and at times rather complicated – musical compositions and wrap it up in an accessible format with that recognizable sound? Royal Hunt does it with ease and now – with their 14th studio album – proves once again that creativity and staying true to yourself can work hand in hand and produce some astonishing results: will you please welcome the ultimate proof of that – “Cast In Stone” – the album you’ll be lis

12 tracks of classic 80s heavy metal best described as a hybrid of Iron Maiden & Judas Priest, 6 tracks featuring the talent of Ralf Scheepers (Primal Fear, ex-Gamma Ray), Including the voice actors Jamieson Price & Danny Webb,2 cover tracks featuring members of Aria, Russia’s premier heavy metal band, Mixed by Roy Z (Bruce Dickinson, Halford & Judas Priest), Mastered by Colin Davis (Imperial Mastering).

1. Within The World Of Dreams
2. Descent
3. Through Shuttered Eyes
4. A Voice Unheard
5. Outl

Are you ready for Jurassic power metal? Victorius’ new EP, “Dinosaur Warfare – Legend Of The Power Saurus”, will be released on January 26, 2018 via Massacre Records! You’ll find all of Victorius’ trademarks on this EP: catchy and varied songwriting, the unique voice of frontman David Baßin and a plethora of up-tempo power metal smashers.

Phil Collen, lead guitarist of British rock band Def Leppard & alternative roots/rock band Manraze, started Delta Deep as an extreme blues project. The band has been likened to “Aretha Franklin & Chaka Khan performing with Led Zeppelin”.

CD
1. Black Dog (opener)
2. Bang The Lid
3. Miss Me
4. Treat Her Like Candy
5. Black Coffee
6. Burnt Sally/Rock Me Baby (medley)
7. Whiskey
8. Shuffle Sweet
9. Private Number
10. Bless These Blues
11. Mistreated
12. Fo

For the first time the two voices of the Rhapsody universe, Fabio Lione & Alessandro Conti, have joined together for a new project: Lione/Conti. Written and produced by DGM guitarist Simone Mularoni.

1. Ascension
2. Outcome
3. You’re Falling
4. Somebody Else
5. Misbeliever
6. Destruction Show
7. Glories
8. Truth
9. Gravity
10. Crosswinds

Rexoria, a female-fronted melodic metal band with folk influences from Sweden, was formed in 2016. The quartet spread around the word fast and toured for two weeks in eight countries with Bloodbound, Thobbe Englund (former Sabaton guitarist) & Polish metal band Crystal Viper and played 35 shows in total within the first year after its founding with bands such as Hardcore Superstar, Raubtier, Electric Boys, Slade, Backyard Babies.

1. The Land In Between
2. Stranded
3. Queen Of Light
4. Voice Of Heaven
5. Way

Finnish metal band Random Eyes will release its fourth album “Grieve No More” via Rock ‘N’ Growl Records. The album includes ten tracks and was produced by Christian Palin (Panorama, ex-Adagio) and mixed/mastered by Angelo Buccolieri.

1. Trail Of Tears
2. Myopathy
3. Grieve No More
4. Fates Loves The Fearless
5. 2 Worlds Collide
6. Damnation
7. Do What Thou Wilt
8. Never Too Late
9. Scar
10. The Final Quest

On March 3, the Danish singer Michael Kratz releases the new album “Live Your Life” via the company Art Of Melody Music / Burning Minds Music Group. Participating in the upcoming album names Steve Lukather (Toto), Michael Landau, Dom Brown (Duran Duran), David Garfield, Christian Warburg (Paul Young) and Alessandro Del Vecchio (Revolution Saints, Hardline).

01. We All Live In This Nation
02. Live Your Life
03. This Town Is Lost Without You
04. What Did I ..?
05. Nev

On March 2nd, the bassist / singer Marco Mendoza (Whitesnake, The Dead Daisies) shows the solo album “Viva La Rock” through the company Mighty Music. The album will contain the following songs:

“Viva La Rock”
“Sue Is On The Run”
“Rocketman”
“Sweetest Emotion”
“Chinatown”
“Burned”
“Love 2 U”
“Leah”
“Hey Baby”
“Let It Flow”