Category: Coming Soon

Slash Puppet frontman Mif was recently interviewed by Mark St. John for BallBuster Music. Mif was promoting Slash Puppet‘s recently released compilation album Studs & Gems. Slash Puppet previously released the EPs, The Demo (1993) and Slash Puppet (1993), as well as the album No Strings Attached (2007). Studs & Gems can be ordered via Mif Entertainment.

Track List for Studs & Gems:
01. When The Whip Comes Down
02. Rippin’ On A Wishbone
03. Eyes of A Child
04. Evil Woman
05. Hard On Love
06. Stop Tellin’ Me Lies
07. Hitch A Ride (On A Train)
08. Slow Down
09. Squeeze It In
10. Overload
11. Stranger Danger (Live)

On February 25, 2022, Reckless Love will release their new album “Turborider” via the company AFM Records. The album will consist of the following songs:

Turborider
Eyes of a Maniac
Outrun
Kids of the Arcade
Bark at the Moon
Prelude (Flight of the Cobra)
Like a Cobra
For the Love of Good Times
’89 Sparkle
Future Lover Boy
Prodigal Sons

A good 20 years after the release of the highly acclaimed fourth Edguy album “Savage Poetry” (originally released in 2000), a new version is now available – as a digipak including a demo version and for the first time as vinyl (in different colors). For fans of Edguy, Avantasia, Helloween, Gamma Ray.

01 Hallowed
02 Misguiding Your Life
03 Key To My Fate
04 Sands Of Time
05 Sacred Hell
06 Eyes Of The Tyrant
07 Frozen Candle
08 Roses To No One
09 Power And Majesty
01 Key To My Fate (demo Version)
02 Hallowed (demo Version)
03 Misguiding Your Life (demo Version)
04 Sands Of Time (demo Version)
05 Sacred Hell (demo Version)
06 Eyes Of The Tyrant (demo V

Swedish AOR / melodic rock climbers Perfect Plan have soared since their debut single in 2018. With two studio albums and a cover EP, the band has proven itself to be a musician and songwriter of the highest quality.

01 Time For A Miracle
02 Every Time We Cry
03 Heart To Stone
04 That Was Yesterday
05 What About Love
06 Fighting To Win
07 Better Walk Alone
08 Never Surrender
09 In And Out Of Love
10 Stay (acoustic Version)
11 Heaven In Your Eyes (acoustic Version)
12 Nobody’s Fool (acoustic Version)
13 Don’t Leave Me Here Alone (acoustic Version)

Nine years after founding Ashes Of Ares, Matt Barlow (vocals, ex-Iced Earth) and Freddie Vidales (guitar, ex-Iced Earth) return with their third album “Emperors And Fools”. On this album, the duo take the darkness and aggression of their previous album “Well of Souls” to the next level. The writing process began immediately after “Well of Souls” was released.

01 A City In Decay (intro)
02 I Am The Night
03 Our Last Sunrise
04 Primed
05 Where God Fears To Go
06 Emperors And Fools
07 By My Blade
08 What Tomorrow Will Bring
09 The Iron Throne
10 Gone
11 Throne Of Iniquity (cd Exclusive Track)
12 Monster’s Lament

It’s hard to avoid a line-up that includes some of the best metal musicians from bands like Symphony X, Death Dealer, and Dungeon. Epic Metal is unleashed! With a force that draws strength from the works of bands such as Manowar, Black Sabbath, Candlemass and Helloween.

01 Ascension Of The Fallen
02 Tree Of Witches
03 Lord Impaler
04 The Arkenstone

Watch out for the BEAST! “EXTRAVAGANZA” is the name of the debut album by the hard rock-grunge trio BAD BONE BEAST. This album turns water into wine and shows the frog where his curls are! It pops out of the boxes powerful, dynamic and self-confident. Doubt? No, this is not existing! With “EXTRAVAGANZA” BAD BONE BEAST serve a debut album that should not be missing in any record collection. And you can be sure: this is just the beginning!

01 Bonehead
02 Lost And Found
03 Breaking All Cages
04 Me, U And I
05 Truth Or Dare
06 Old Man
07 Naw (new Age Western)
08 Back In The Game
09 Fade
10 Moving Doll
11 One Last Time
12 Sunday Afternoon
13 When The World Goes Down

On December 17, the album “The Historic Collection Of Graham Bonnet” will be released via the company The Store For Music, which will contain the following material:

CD1:
01 – Something About You
02 – Here Comes the Night
03 – Long Time Gone
04 – Only One Woman
05 – Please Call Me
06 – A Change Is Gonna Come
07 – I’ll Go Crazy
08 – I Go To Sleep
09 – Look Don’t Touch
10 – Eyes of a Child
11 – Don’t
12 – What She Says, You Hear It Means

CD2:
01 – Night Of The Shooting Star
02 – Too Young To Die, Too Drunk To Live
03 – All Night Long
04 – Night Games
05 – Stand In Line
06 – SOS

On January 21, 2022, the melodic rock band Lionheart re-releases the 2017 album “Second Nature” via the company Metalville. The “new” record will feature the “Mary Did You Know” and “Paperback Writer” bonus tracks.

A comprehensive 6 CD boxed set gathering together 81 tracks of musical highlights from over 50 years of the legendary Hawkwind

• The first ever compilation to gather together all eras of the band’s history
• Includes a lavishly illustrated book with new essay and exclusive interview with Dave Brock and a poster

Hawkwind are one of the most legendary British bands who emerged at the dawn of 1970s. Formed in the Notting Hill area of London in 1969 and always helmed by their visionary leader Dave Brock, Hawkwind truly bridged the genres of psychedelic rock, hard rock and art rock to create a sound of their own.

DISC ONE:
1 Bring it On Home (Dave Brock 1968)
2 Sweet Mistress Of Pain (Hawkwind Zoo 1969)
3

ALL NEWLY REMASTERED WITH A FURTHER 23 BONUS TRACKS TAKEN FROM BBC RADIO JOHN PEEL SESSIONS, SINGLES AND STUDIO OUT-TAKES, WITH AN ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET

Esoteric Recordings is pleased to announce the release of ‘Rollin’’, a new box set featuring all of the albums recorded by The Steve Gibbons Band released between 1976 and 1978. This legendary rock band was formed in the mid 1970s and comprised some of the finest musicians on the Birmingham rock scene.

DISC ONE:
ANY ROAD UP (REMASTERED)
1 Take Me Home
2 Johnny Cool
3 Rollin’
4 Spark Of Love
5 Standing On The Bridge
6 Natural Thing
7 Speed Kills
8 Strange World
9 Sweetheart
Bonus tracks
10 Back Street Cat

Forming in Hollywood, California in 1985, and taking their name from Russ Meyer’s 1965 exploitation trash classic, Faster! Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Taime Downe (lead vocals), Greg Steele (guitar), Brent Muscat (guitar), Eric Stacy (bass) and Mark Michals (drums) were in the right place at the right time with their brand of sleaze rock and glam metal.

Signing to legendary record label Elektra, they released their self-titled debut on 7th July 1987 (two weeks ahead of Guns N’ Roses’ debut, ‘Appetite For Destruction’).

Track Listing:

CD1: FASTER PUSSYCAT
Don’t Change That Song
Bathroom Wall
No Room For Emotion
Cathouse
Babylon
Smash Alley
Shooting You Down
Ci

Here you can see the cover of the classic Praying Manti’s new album “Katharsis”, which will be released on January 28, 2022 via the company Frontiers Records.

In January 2022, the classic AOR band Giant will release their fifth album “Shifting Time” via the company Frontiers Records. Here you can now, among other things, check out covers and song list.

GIANT, the powerhouse rock quartet, are set to unleash their highly anticipated fifth studio album, “Shifting Time” on January 21, 2022.
”We have worked so hard and we are very happy and proud of this record, along with Dann”, says David Huff.
Truly the production, songwriting, and performances shine throughout ”Shifting Time”.
More details to come.

1. Shifting Time
2. Let Our Love Win
3. Never Die Young
4. Don’t Say A Word
5. My Breath Away
6. Highway Of Love
7. It’s Not