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French heavy/power metal band Manigance are ready to mark their 30th anniversary in style with the release of their new album, L’Âme de Fond, scheduled for 2025 via the Verycords label.
Since their debut in 1995 with the first chords of “Sans fard” and “Signe de vie”, Manigance has enriched the metal scene with eight studio albums and one live album. Today, the group revisits its classics to offer them in a new light.

Manigance writes on its social networks: “2025 will mark the group’s 30th anniversary! This is the perfect opportunity to introduce you to L’ÂME DE FOND! New Album from MANIGANCE bringing together the most notable hits from the group’s career. All songs are completely re-recorded and revisited by Carine and modernized by the cu

French AOR group, HEART LINE, will release their new and 3rd album, Falling Heaven, on March 21 via Pride & Joy Music, with beautiful art work by Stan W Decker revealed below. As a preview, the first single Fire in the Sky will be released on January 31.

The album follows Rock’n’Roll Queen released in 2023.The first opus, Back In The Game, was released in 2021. As a reminder, Heart Line is the Melodic Rock/AOR project of French guitarist and producer Yvan Guillevic (YGAS, PYG, United Guitars, Empty Spaces). Yvan is surrounded by a fantastic team made up of sin

Steven Wilson will release his eighth studio album, The Overview, in March. The two-track, 42-minute​ album is inspired by the “overview effect” experienced by astronauts looking back at the Earth from space and sees Wilson return to expansive, progressive music, a genre he helped redefine and repopularise with both his solo and Porcupine Tree releases.

The two lengthy, ambitious tracks are each made up of distinctive musical sections that flow from one to the other, playing out as unique and continuous pieces incorporating everything from glistening electronic

DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to release LADY BEAST’s highly anticipated fifth album, The Inner Alchemist, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Since 2009, LADY BEAST have been flying the flag for refined HEAVY METAL. The band hail from the Steel City of Pittsburgh, forming with firm influences ranging from Motörhead, Dio, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Mercyful Fate.

From there, LADY BEAST have weaved their own unique style of metal with silky-yet-sharp harmonizing guitars and the soaring, rally-the-warriors vocals of frontwoman Deborah Levine. All the while, they’ve retained their

With “Rhapsody Of Life”, the new album of the symphonic metal band WORLDS BEYOND will be released on January 31, 2025. After “Symphony of Dawn” (2020), it is the second album by the Begliers from Ghent.

01. Familiar Skies
02. Unwind Our Story
03. Sleepless Dreams
04. Breaking Free
05. The Calling
06. Beyond Reality
07. The Spark
08. Enchantment
09. The Moment
10. One With The Stars
11. Rhapsody Of Life

VALERIE DE KEMPE: Vocals
TIJMEN MATTHYS: Guitar
EWOUD DEKONINC

When darkness descends, NITE flies high with blackened heavy metal.