Month: June 2020

Shred guitar pioneer Michael Angelo Batio will release his 12th studio album “More Machine Than Man” on June 12th, 2020, via Rat Pak Records. With heavy rhythm riffs, blazing guitar solos and rock-solid grooves “More Machine Than Man” delivers all the power and punch that one would expect from this high-level player

Tracklist:
1. Laser Guided
2. The Badlands
3 Put All Fear Aside
4. More Machine Than Man
5. Dreamin’ of 1986
6. Beyond the Outer Limits
7. The Two Sirens
8. AVTD
9. The Countdown is On
10. Rhythm Reprise (I Pray the Lord)
11. 21st Century Beck [Bonus Track (CD & Digital versions)]
12. Charlie Went to Chicago [Bonus Track (CD & Digital versions)]
13. No Bac

Rumahoy set sail with their new release “Time II: Party”, out on July 17th, 2020 via Napalm Records! The track is a classic pirate metal homage to its namesake whose death caused great controversy all over the world.

Tracklist:
1. Cowboys of the Sea
2. Time to Party
3. Treasure Gun
4. The Legend of Captain Yarrface
5. Harambe, the Pirate Gorilla
6. Poop Deck Party
7. The Beer From My Town Is Better Than Yours
8. 1000 Years of Dust
9. Full Mast
10. Stolen Treasure

Line-up:
Captain Yarrface – Vocals
Bootsman Walktheplank – Guitars
Cabinboy Treasurequest – Bass
Swashbuckling Pete – Drums

on June 19th, 2020, via The Label Group/INgrooves. The group consists of lead vocalist Chris Taylor Brown, bassist Peter “Pete” Charell, guitarist Brendan Hengle and drummer Adam Prentice.

Tracklist:
1. Make It Out Alive
2. I Want To Want What I Want
3. Tell me how you really feel
4. Too little too late
5. Far enough away
6. Turn Me Around Again
7. Trying Too Hard
8. Let Me Down Slowly
9. Too Far Away
10. Get You Back
11. Hold and Be Held

On June 26th, 2020, Sweden’s Falconer will release their new album, “From a Dying Ember”, via Metal Blade Records. Mixed and mastered by Andy LaRocque, “From a Dying Ember” was also recorded at LaRocque’s Sonic Train Studio.

Tracklist:
1. Kings and Queens
2. Desert Dreams
3. Redeem and Repent
4. Bland Sump Och Dy
5. Fool’s Crusade
6. Garnets and a Gilded Rose
7. In Regal Attire
8. Rejoice the Adorned
9. Testify
10. Thrust the Dagger Deep
11. Rapture
12. The Cauldron (Digipak Bonus Track)
13. Portals of Light (Acoustic Version – Digipak Bonus Track)
14. Long Gone By (Acoustic Version – Digipak Bonus Track)

Line-up:
Mathias Blad: Vocals
Stefan Weine

Swiss-Italian progressive metal masters Virtual Symmetry will release their sophomore full-length album “Exoverse” on June 30th, 2020.

Tracklist:
01. Entropia
02. XI
03. Odyssey
04. Vortex
05. Exodus
06. Remember
07. Safe
08. Exoverse suite

The full list of special guests is below:
Thomas Lang – Drums
Jordan Rudess – Keyboards (tracks 1, 8 and “secret track”)
Tom S. Englund – Vocals (track 5)
Simone Campete – Orchestra (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8)
Sinfonietta Consonus – Symphonic Orchestra (tracks 3, 6, 8)
Ruben Paganelli – Sax (track 6)
Jennifer Vargas – Soprano (track 6)
The Nuvoices Project – Gospel chorus (track 8)

Line-up:
Marco Pastorino

“Black Soul Vendetta” features 13 new songs, including the hit-singles, “Dream Evil” and “Chasing the Pain”, the latter a collaboration with former Slash and Alice Cooper vocalist, Eric Dover.

Tracklist:
1. Cruelest Animal
2. Chasing The Pain
3. Live A Lie
4. Vendetta
5. Dead Man Walking
6. Dream Evil
7. Justify
8. Sell My Soul
9. You’re Gonna Break My Heart
10. What You Pay For
11. Black Soul Bones
12. Decadence
13. Wasn’t It Love

Alex Cooper – Vocals
Baz Blackett – Guitars
Kieran Topp – Guitars
Jamie Downes – Bass
Lars Wickett – Drums

Avatar reunited with producer Jay Ruston (Stone Sour, Slipknot, Anthrax) at Sphere Studios in Los Angeles, California, where the foundation for each song on “Hunter Gatherer” was laid with the band performing altogether, as they’d done only once before, on “Hail the Apocalypse” (2014).

Tracklist:
1. Silence in the Age of Apes
2. Colossus
3. A Secret Door
4. God of Sick Dreams
5. Scream Until You Wake
6. Child
7. Justice
8. Gun
9. When All but Force Has Failed
10. Wormhole

Line-up:
Johannes Eckerström – Vocals
John Alfredsson – Drums
Henrik Sandelin – Bass
The King – Guitars
Tim Öhrström – Guitars

The first volume of the double offering – entitled “Dealing with Demons I” – is set for release on October, 9th, 2020, via Napalm Records and will be available in several formats.

1. Keep Away From Me
2. Vengeance Is Clear
3. Nest Of Vipers
4. Iona
5. Wishing
6. You Give Me a Reason to Drink (feat. Simon Blade Fafara)
7. Witches
8. Dealing with Demons
9. The Damned Don’t Cry
10. Scars Me Forever

Line-up:
Dez Fafara – Vocals
Mike Spreitzer – Guitar
Neal Tiemann – Guitar
Diego Ibarra – Bass
Austin D’Amond – Drums