Category: Coming Soon

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The album was recorded ‘virtually’ in April 2020 at the height of the Coronavirus lockdown with long term collaborators Mike Portnoy (drums) and Randy George (bass):
“It’s the first album we have ever made remotely: I sent them the basic tracks and asked if they wanted to rearrange things, but they just said ‘No, it’s great!’, so they just played to it and sent their parts back over. It wasn’t an easy way to make an album, but creating always has its challenges, no matter how you do it.” Sola Gratia will be available as a Limited CD+DVD Digipak (including making of documentary), Gatefold 2LP + CD, Standard CD Jewelcase.

01 Preface
02 Overture
03 In The Name Of The Lord
04 Ballyhoo (the

Metal City with its humorous cover artwork (“it’s a comic book inspired theme, we are all lunatics and we figured we all wanna be superheroes, so we went for it”) was recorded at production legend Michael Wagener’s studio in Nashville. “The album was produced by us, Mike Heller engineered his drums and Michael Wagner engineered everything else. We then turned the tracks over to a guy called Zeuss who did a great job mixing and mastering it. So it’s been a departure for us process-wise. We kinda got dragged into the 21st century kicking and screaming…but the new tools are great as long as you use them, and they aren’t using you.”

01 The Power
02 Top Of The Mountain
03 Human Race
04 Metal City
05 Battlescarred
06 Cy

Heaven Below frontman Patrick Kennison (Lita Ford) and guitarist Nikki Stringfield (The Iron Maidens) were recently interviewed by long-time Sleaze Roxx contributor Ruben Mosqueda for KNAC. Heaven Below recently released a double disc covers album titled Rest In Pieces: A Tribute To The Departed.

Track List for Rest In Pieces: A Tribute To The Departed:

Disc I — Rest In Pieces:
01. We Will Rock You – Queen
02. Touch Too Much – AC/DC
03. Revolution Is My Name – Pantera
04. Down In A Hole – Alice In Chains
05. Motor Medley – Mötorhead
06. Ain’t No Grave _ Johnny Cash
07. Like A Stone – Audioslave
08. Hungry For Heaven – Dio
09. Crawling – Linkin Park
10. Somebody Put Some

Genre: Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
YearL 2020
Country: Portugal

1.The Contract 05:09
2.Make Your Choice
3.Renegade
4.The Revenge Of The Sailor King
5.Hills Of Sadness
6.Headbanger
7.Devil’s Crossroad
8.O Condestavel
9.Running

Label: ROAR! Rock Of Angels Records

Attick Demons are:
Artur Almeida (Vocals)
Joao Clemente (Bass)
Dário Antunes (Guitars)
Nuno Martins (Guitars)
Ricardo Oliveira (Drums)

Greek Power-Prog Metal band, Fortress Under Siege, have announced the release of their new album ‘Atlantis’ on 9th October 2020 in physical and digital format via ROAR! Rock Of Angels Records under exclusive licence from Metal Mad Music.

1.Love Enforcer
2.Lords Of Death
3.Atlantis
4.Holding A Breath
5.Silence Of Our Words
6.Vengeance
7.Seventh Son
8.Lethe
9.Spartacus
10.Hector’s Last Fight
11.Time For Rage
12.The Road Unknown

Label: ROAR! Rock Of Angels Records

Fortress Under Siege are:
Tasos Lazaris (Vocals)
Fotis Sotiropoulos (Guitars)
Themis Gourlis (Guitars)
George Georgiou (Keyboards)
Alexandros Stavrakas (Bass)
Dimitris Kapoukakis (Drums)

The release date of the of the album „King Of The Sea“ by the Sweden Heavy Metal Band JACKWAVE as CD is August 21st, 2020. The pre-order phase will start on August 7th, 2020 in our webshop. The album will be released in a limited Edition of 500 copies (handnumbered), certificate and hologram.

The swedish band JACKWAVE was active only in a short three year period beginning in 1985. A changing of bandmembers ended the career from these young hopefuls fast. Two bands playing a similar Heavy Metal style are much more well known today: IRONCROSS from Finland and…. HEAVY LOAD…the domestic competitors.

The songwriting was on the same high level and even the vocals were powerful and high class! But JACKWAVE made only two 7inchs and two demo tapes spreading over the world only in self

On Friday the 4th of December, the project band Magic Dance will release their new studio album “Remnants” via the company Frontiers Records. In 2018, they released their latest album “New Eyes”.

On October 9, the AOR band Stardust will release their debut album “Highway To Heartbreak” via the company Frontiers Records. The album will contain the following songs:

1. Runaway
2. Heartbreaker
3. Bullet To My Heart
4. Perfect Obsession
5. 2nd Hand Love
6. Shout It Out
7. Can’t Stop Loving You
8. Eye To Eye
9. Hey Mother
10. Blue Jeans Eyes (Bonus Track)
11. The River Is Rollin’

Western Canadian rockers Dirtbag Republic consisting of frontman Sandy Hazard, guitarists Mick Wood and Mike Federici, drummer Ed Nijjer and bassist Dave Worden have unveiled the cover and track list for their third upcoming studio album Tear Down Your Idols.

The following message was posted on Dirtbag Republic‘s Facebook page earlier today:

“Here’s the album cover for the upcoming record “Tear Down Your Idols” Ole O’Brian did an outstanding job on the artwork for this.

Mixed By Tim Neuhaus
Produced by Hazard/Wood
Mastered by Harry Hess

Stay tuned in the coming months for more announcements!

TEAR DOWN YOUR IDOLS

1. Main Objective
2. Skinny
3. Wannabees
4. Days Are Gone
5. Don’t Answer

Kentucky, USA based southern rockers Black Stone Cherry consisting of frontman Chris Robertson, guitarist Ben Wells, bassist Jon Lawhon and drummer John Fred Young will be releasing their new studio album The Human Condition via Mascot Records on October 30, 2020.

01. Ringin’ In My Head
02. Again
03. Push Down And Turn
04. When Angels Learn To Fly
05. Live This Way
06. In Love With The Pain
07. The Chain
08. Ride
09. If My Heart Had Wings
10. Don’t Bring Me Down
11. Some Stories
12. The Devil In Your Eyes
13. Keep On Keepin On

Babylon A.D.‘s debut self-titled album, which was first released via Arista Records in September 1989, has been reissued by Bad Reputation Records with seven bonus tracks.

Track List for reissued Babylon A.D.:
01. Bang Go The Bells
02. Hammer Swings Down
03. Caught Up In The Crossfire
04. Desperate
05. The Kid Goes Wild
06. Shot O’Love
07. Maryanne
08. Back In Babylon
09. Sweet Temptation
10. Sally Danced
Bonus Tracks:
11. Bang Go The Bells (Live)
12. Desperate (Live)
13. Sally Danced (Live)
14. The Kid Goes Wild (Robo Mix)
15. The Kid Goes Wild (Think It Over Mix)
16. Bang Go The Bells (Friction Mix)
17. Bang Go The Bells (Fat-Bottom Mix)

Ellefson featuring Megadeth bassist David Ellefson have released their cover of Judas Priest‘s classic “Freewheel Burning.” The musicians playing on the cover track are Ellefson on bass; Jason McMaster (Dangerous Toys) and Thom Hazaert on lead vocals; Gus G (ex-Ozzy Osbourne, Firewind), Andy James and Andy Martongelli on guitar; and, Dave McClain on drums.

The track will appear on Ellefson‘s covers album titled No Cover, which will be released via Combat Records on October 2, 2020.

Track List for No Cover (as per KNAC):
01. Freewheel Burning (Judas Priest) ft. Jason McMaster, Gus G, Andy James, Dave McClain
02. Tear It Loose (Twisted Sister) ft. Eddie Ojeda, Dave McClain
03. Love Me Like A Reptile (Mötorhead) ft. Doro Pesch, G

After three years of gigging and writing new material, the band is now ready to kick maximum ass with their next album, “Fight Them All”, which is due for release on Frontiers Records on September 4, 2020. If you are looking for explosive riffing, crushing rhythms, and a band that will make you bang your head, then just take a listen to Rising Steel’s upcoming record, “Fight Them All”.

01 Mystic Voices
02 Fight Them All
03 Steel Hammer
04 Blackheart
05 Savage
06 Gloomy World
07 Malefice
08 Metal Nation
09 Pssy
10 Led By Judas
11 Master Control

Respected metal vocalist Mark Boals will release a two-album ‘best of’ collection, “All The Best!”, Covering his work as both a solo artist and with his band Ring Of Fire on October 9, 2020.

Doug Aldrich, Tony MacAlpine, Jeff Kollman, Neil Citron, Vitalij Kuprij, Vinny Appice, Virgil Donati, Erik Norlander, Chris Brooks, and Steve Weingart make up the list of musicians who have recorded with him over the years.

CD1 – Mark Boals
1. Jane 2.
Broken Heart
3. I’m Sorry
4. My Turn
5. Find Our Way
6. Ring Of Fire
7. Death Row
8. Keeper Of The Flame
9. Alone
10. Battle Of The Titans
11. Betrayed
12. Lady Babylon
13. Between Two Mirrors
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