Month: September 2021

By recruiting Seattle based guitar shredder Michael David (TKO), virtuoso drummer Marco Bicca (Pamela Moore, The Element, A Dying Planet) and Las Vegas based vocalist Freddy Krumins (James Byrd’s Atlantis Rising), the band was finally set. The new album, produced and mastered by Bart Gabriel (Crystal Viper, Jack Starr, Jag Panzer) and mixed by Cederick Forsberg (Blazon Stone), is a tour de force in melodic US molten metal, featuring heavy riffs, melodic choruses, a thunderous rhythm section and ripping dual guitar solos.

Memoria Avenue is a new melodic rock/AOR band from Norway showcasing an artistic union between guitarist Tor Talle and the awesome new singer Jan Le’Brandt. Tor is a skilled and well-known musician, best known for the Northern Light project. He has also worked, either writing songs and/or performing with, on records from melodic rock giants such as Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow, Deep Purple), Fergie Frederiksen (ex-Toto), Rob Moratti (ex-Saga), Steve Overland (FM) and the late Tony Mills (TNT, Shy)..

1. Stuck
2. Stranded
3. Can’t Blame It On The Rain
4. The Air That Breath
5. Waiting Forever
6. Nathalia
7. Sometimes
8. Run With Me
9. If You Fall
10. Someday
11. High As A Kite
12. Picket Fence

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The goal was to mix their solid metal background with some AOR influences. Mission accomplished, thanks to a subtle use of the synths and the massive choirs powered by some very special guests as Simone Bertozzi (Ancient Bards), Simone Mularoni (DGM) and Alessio Lucatti (Vision Divine, Deathless Legacy).

1. Intro
2. Holding On
3. Outatime
4. The Pinheads
5. 2204
6. Enchant Me
7. We Don’t Need Roads (The Great Scott Madness)
8. Pleasure Paradise (Oh La-La)
9. The 4th Dimensional Legacy
10. Eastwood Ravine
11. Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry cover)
12. No Landing Zone (bonus JP edition)

Glass Hammer returns to the world of the Dreaming City with the follow-up album “Skallagrim – Into The Breach”, continuing the tale of the thief with the screaming sword, a ‘desperate man’ who lost his lover and his memory. New lead vocalist Hannah Pryor joins with Steve Babb, Fred Schendel, Aaron Raulston and GH session guitarists, Reese Boyd and Brian Brewer in a 75-minute long onslaught of heavy prog!

The new record, “Armageddon”, is a high energy, in-your-face salute to the music that inspired Manimal’s formation over 20 years ago. “Armageddon” showcases Manimal as a band unafraid to unleash an own brand of power metal on the world. The songwriting has become tighter, stronger & bolder and – as musicians – the members have improved by leaps and bounds.

1. Burn In Hell
2. Armageddon
3. Slaves Of Babylon
4. Forged In Metal
5. Chains Of Fury
6. Evil Soul
7. Path To The Unknown
8. Master Of Pain
9. Insanity
10. The Inevitable End