Touch of Ego – World Closing In – 2023


Touch of Ego is an aggressive, in your face, band. Fast and powerful grooves, loud ‘crusty’ guitars, and a lot of screaming mixed with catchy melodies. They combine critical thinking with satire and sarcasm. Anger and humour with depression and delight. Anxiety and angst with a snarky tongue-in-cheek attitude. A mess of emotional distress!

01 – World Closing In
02 – Last Piece
03 – Lay It Down
04 – Stardust Wasted
05 – Fool’s Paradise
06 – Falling Down
07 – Wake Up

09 – Slurp

Dante’s View – Happiness Is a War – 2023


Dante’s View is a collaboration between JL “Pepe” Espada, a multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Northern California, and Stacy James, a guitarist and songwriter based in Southern California.

The collaboration was born from mutual respect and admiration and a shared love for the desert, which is in one form or another an aesthetic platform for the music. Dante’s View defines itself as Cog Rock, short for Cognizant Rock, a hard rock subgenre that has stylistic and aesthetic foundation on the Desert Rock scene of Southern California, the lyrical awareness of Seattle&#8217

THE CHURCH – The Hypnogogue (2023) Digi Pack


Australian ’80s icons THE CHURCH is releasing their new studio album ‘The Hypnogogue‘ today. The band is best known for world-wide for their 1988 single “Under the Milky Way,” a dreamy acoustic ballad which topped out at No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song was the soundtrack for a generation of goth teens applying excessive eyeliner and hairspray. Along with The Cure, The Smiths and Love and Rockets, The Church’s brooding intensity provided music to sway to.
”Hypnogogue”, the band’s 26th(!) album, continues to bear the signature sound of founding member, sin

Chastain – The Reign of Leather II (2023)


Release year: 2023
Genre: Heavy Metal / Female Vocal
Country: USA

Tracklist:
01. The Wicked Are Restless (Alternate Version) (04:57)
02. Share Yourself with Me (03:50)
03. Soldiers of the Flame (03:10)
04. Not Much Breathing (04:00)
05. I Am the Rain (03:31)
06. The Mountain Whispers (04:24)
07. Once Before (06:16)
08. I Am Sin (04:35)
09. Bleed Through Me (Alternate Version) (03:56)
10. Secrets (05:59)
11. Catastrophic Heaven (Live) (03:14)

Westing – Future (2023)


Listening to Future opener “Back in the Twenties,” the message comes through clear (and loud) that however much Westing’s foundations might be in ‘70s styles, the moment that matters is now. It’s the future we’re living in, not the future that was.

01. Back In The Twenties (03:52)
02. Nothing New (06:08)
03. Lost Riders Intro (02:12)
04. Lost Riders (05:17)
05. Big Trouble (In The City Of Love) (03:42)
06. Artemisia Coming Down (06:01)
07. Silent Shout (03:31)
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The Resonance Project – Ad Astra (2023)


Release year: 2023
Genre: Progressive Metal / Jazz Rock / Fusion / Instrumental
Country: USA

Tracklist:
01. Ad Astra (feat. Joshua De La Victoria) (08:18)
02. Gem (feat. Hadrien Feraud) (05:21)
03. Prophecy (feat. Aaron Janik) (07:10)
04. Void (03:26)
05. Macrocosm (feat. Colin Cook & Joey Izzo) (06:56)
06. Dawn (feat. Mateus Asato) (06:13)
07. Lux Aeterna (02:27)
08. End of Time (feat. Dino Jelusick) (08:05)

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Sortilège – Apocalypso 2023


The mighty Sortilège are true pioneers of French heavy metal. From their 1980 inception, and the prolific six-year run that followed, the quintet paved the way for a generation of French bands and labels to follow. ‘Apocalypso’, their first album of new material in over 30 years, flies the flag of heavy metal loudly and proudly.

Led by cult vocalist Christian “Zouille” Augustin, the new incarnation of Sortilège steps back into the limelight with metal as timeless as it is classic.First pressing features the bonus disc ‘Phoenix’, with re-recordings of the

Harlem Lake – Volition Live (2023)


Harlem Lake, the Dutch winner of the European Blues Challenge 2022, releases live album called ”Volition Live” and invites all fans to the release show on March 3, 2023 in Culemborg!

On February 24, 1.5 years after their debut album (‘A Fool’s Paradise vol. 1’), Harlem Lake surprises the fans with a new record. ‘Volition Live’ contains 6 tracks from ‘A Fool’s Paradise vol. 1’, 6 covers and 1 new original, all recorded live. The band recorded two of their big

Broken Fate – Fighters & Dreamers (2023)


Country: Switzerland
Genre: Thrash Metal
Year: 2023

Tracklist:
01. Fighters & Dreamers (04:33)
02. Devil on Earth (03:59)
03. White Line (04:06)
04. When Does It Come (04:29)
05. Fight for That (04:57)
06. The Quiet Memories (04:52)
07. Eileen (03:32)
08. Hater (05:04)
09. Feel and Live That (04:46)
10. Always the Same (04:40)
11. What You Want (05:45)
12. Your Legend (02:40)
13. The Day Has Come (11:06)

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