Category: Coming Soon

On June 6, 2025, the Canadian rock band Triumph will be honored with a tribute album titled Magic Power: All Star Tribute to Triumph, via Round Hill Records, featuring Dorothy, Sebastian Bach, Nancy Wilson, Joey Belladonna, Slash and Jeff Keith covering Triumph songs.

The 15-track album includes drummers Kenny Aronoff and Tommy Aldridge, and guitarists Bumblefoot, Paul Gilbert and Nita Strauss. The project was conceived by producer Mike Clink, who has produced classic recordings for Guns N’ Roses, Motley Crue and Whitesnake.

01. 24 Hours a Day (Sebastian Bach)

Finnish heavy rock juggernauts Leverage are utmost pleased to announce the release of their upcoming new album “Gravity”, out on June 20th, 2025, via Frontiers Music Srl.

Leverage’s future seemed uncertain after the untimely passing of singer’s Kimmo Blom in the summer of 2022. However, founding member and main songwriter Tuomas Heikkinen decided the final hour for the band was not in sight yet. Outstanding singer Paolo Ribaldini (Delain, ex-Skiltron) and violinist Lotta-Maria Heiskanen joined with the precise task to renew and refresh the sound of the band.

The re

The immense guitarist PATRICK RONDAT will release his new album, Escape From Shadows, on May 30, 2025 via Verycords. It marks a return to his progressive hard rock roots!

Surrounded by his faithful musicians – Patrice Guers (bass), Dirk Bruinenberg (drums), and Manu Martin (keyboards) – he offers an album rich in orchestrations and soaring atmospheres. With an organic and natural production by Markus Teske (Vanden Plas), this album follows in the footsteps of Amphibia and An Ephemeral World, with an even more orchestral and immersive app

With previously-released singles “Feel the Pain” and “Candy Cain Murder”, Sweden-based Curse Of Cain have already teased some first harbingers from their sophomore studio album and the follow-up to their notable, critically-acclaimed debut in 2023.

Now, the extraordinary metal collective has finally revealed new details about its successor: “Achtung!” will be released on CD, Vinyl and Digital formats on September 26th, 2025, through ROAR (Grave Digger, Mystic Circle, Crematory a.o.).

01. Mirror Mirror
02. Feel The Pain
03. Starry Eyes

The mighty Warkings return from Valhalla with a battle cry for the end times! Their new studio album, “Armageddon”, is set for release on July 4th, 2025, via Napalm Records.

1. To Lindisfarne…
2. Armageddon
3. Genghis Khan (feat. Orden Ogan)
4. Kingdom Come
5. Morgana’s incantation
6. Circle of Witches
7. Kings of Ragnarök
8. Call to Arms
9. Troops of Immortality
10. Nightfall
11. Hangman’s Night (feat. Dominum)
12. Varangoi
13. Here Comes the Rain
14. Stahl auf Stahl (feat. Subway to Sally)<

We all know that good music is always also a question of sound. To this end, the human factor is crucial – along with the right equipment, of course – after all it’s about authenticity and individual personality. With that in mind, German thrash metal band Sodom have come to a logical conclusion: To enable the most natural production possible, the drum parts on their new studio album “The Arsonist” were recorded using a 24-track analogue tape machine.

No studio tricks, no digital overdubs, or, to quote frontman Tom Angelripper: “No plastic! The difference in sound compared to to

French symphonic power metal band Fairyland are thrilled to announce the release of their new studio album “The Story Remains”, scheduled for June 13th, 2025, via Frontiers Music Srl.

1. Downfall
2. To Stars and Beyond
3. Karma
4. A New Dawn
5. We Shall Hunt the Sun
6. Hopeless Still
7. Samsara
8. Unity
9. Council of the Gods
10. The Chosen Ones
11. Unbreakable
12. Postscript
13. Suffering Ages (Feat. Elisa C. Martin)

Archie Caine – Vocals
Willdric Lievin – Guitars, bass, backing vocal

Swedish grandeurs of melancholic heaviness, Katatonia, return with their new studio album “Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State”, set for release on June 6th, 2025, via Napalm Records.

1. Thrice
2. The Liquid Eye
3. Wind of no Change
4. Lilac
5. Temporal
6. Departure Trails
7. Warden
8. The Light Which I Bleed
9. Efter Solen
10. In the Event of

Jonas Renkse – Vocals
Niklas Sandin – Bass
Daniel Moilanen – Drums
Nico Elgstrand – Guitar
Sebastian Svalland – Guitar

Acclaimed British hard rock band Inglorious are thrilled to announce the release of their highly anticipated new studio album, “V”, out on June 6th, 2025, via Frontiers Music Srl.

1. Testify
2. Eat You Alive
3. Devil Inside
4. Say What You Wanna Say
5. Believe
6. Stand
7. In Your Eyes
8. Silent
9. End of the Road
10. Power of Truth

Nathan James – Vocals, backing vocals
Colin Parkinson – Bass guitar, /acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keys, percussion
Richard Shaw – Electric guitars
Henr

HANS AND VALTER are a Symphonic Power Metal band from Linkoping, Sweden. They were formed only last year and have already released a few singles for this very first album of theirs. Hans and Valter are our two main protagonists of the story of deep lore and fantasy, will our noble heroes be able to survive this quest? Let’s see what happens next! First of all you have to watch those music videos they released for this album, they are downright funny and campy and fun!

It’s like a low-budget Fantasy movie brought to life. I see they don’t take themselves too seri

METAL FORTH is the upcoming fourth studio album by BABYMETAL, scheduled for release on June 13, 2025. This album marks a significant milestone in the band’s 15-year career, showcasing collaborative tracks with artists the band has connected with from around the world.

01. from me to u (feat. Poppy)
02. RATATATA (BABYMETAL x Electric Callboy)
03. Song 3 (BABYMETAL x Slaughter To Prevail)
04. Kon! Kon! (feat. Bloodywood)
05. KxAxWxAxIxI
06. Sunset Kiss (feat. Polyphia)
07. My Queen (feat. Spiritbox)
08. Algorism
09. METALI!! (f

On August 29th, the melodic rock band Black Jack will release their new album ”XXI” via the company Lions Pride Music.

Italian guitarist and songwriter Marco Mattei and 7D Media / Third Star Records have announced the release of his highly anticipated second solo album, “Age of Fragility”, an innovative fusion of worldbeat, progressive rock, and art rock on May 16th, 2025.

1. Just Tired
2. You Don’t Deserve It
3. Human Again
4. Wrong
5. Insomnia
6. A Trick of the Mind
7. Watermark in My Heart
8. So Fragile
9. End of the Line
10. Just Tired (Extended Version)

Marco Mattei

Southern California rockers Robert Jon & The Wreck have officially announced the release of their ninth studio album, “Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes”, due out on August 22nd, 2025, via Journeyman Records. Produced by the legendary Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Rival Sons), the new album finds the band firing on all cylinders — raw, reflective, and tighter than ever.

1. Sittin’ Pretty
2. Ashes in the Snow
3. Highway
4. Old Man
5. Dark Angel
6. Long Gone
7. Better of Me
8. I Wanna

Legendary southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd has announced the upcoming release of “Celebrating 50 Years – Live at The Ryman” (Frontiers Music SRL) – a live album and DVD capturing Lynyrd Skynyrd’s historic 50th-anniversary concert at Nashville’s legendary venue in 2022.

This special release holds profound significance as it features the final performance of founding member Gary Rossington, who passed the following year. The new release will be available everywhere on June 27th, 2025.

1. What’s Your Name
2. Workin’ for MCA (feat. Joh

Cleveland’s favorite filth metal practitioners, Midnight, will unleash “Steel, Rust and Disgust” on May 23rd, 2025, via Metal Blade Records.

01. Cleveland Metal
02. Iron Beast (Kratos cover)
03. I’m Insane (Synastryche cover)
04. Final Solution (Rocket From The Tombs cover)
05. Frenzy (Screamin’ Jay Hawkins cover)
06. Child Eaters (Rubber City Rebels cover)
07. 3rd Generation Nation (Dead Boys cover)
08. Rock N’ Roll Fever (David Allan Coe cover)
09. Carrions Keep (False Hope cover)
10. Black Leather Rock (Electric