The Dead Daisies – Lookin’ for Trouble 2025

The Dead Daisies are stepping into blues history with the release of “Crossroads”, the first single from their upcoming covers album “Lookin’ for Trouble”, out on May 30th, 2025, via Fame / Malaco Records.

1. I’m Ready (Muddy Waters)
2. Going Down (Freddy King)
3. Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker)
4. Black Betty (Lead Belly)
5. The Thrill Is Gone (B.B. King)
6. Born Under A Bad Sign (Albert King)
7. Crossroads (Robert Johnson)
8. Sweet Home Chicago (Robert Johnson)
9. Walking the Dog (Rufus Thomas)

The Flower Kings – LOVE 2025


Get ready to experience the magic of “LOVE”, the stunning new studio album from Swedish prog-rock legends The Flower Kings! It marks their 17th studio album in an extraordinary career spanning over 30 years. When The Flower Kings played their very first show on August 20th, 1993, in Sweden, they likely had no idea they were about to make progressive rock history. With 17 studio albums, countless live records, worldwide tours, and festival appearances, the band has built a legacy matched by few – proving themselves pioneers in the rebirth of prog rock.

Tarja – Circus Life 2025


Former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen will release a new live album and Blu-ray, “Circus Life”, on May 16 via earMUSIC. Recorded in January 2020, in Bucharest, Romania, the “Circus Life” show was one of a kind when Tarja performed in this very special “in the round” format.

The concert consisted of two hours of powerful music, featuring a setlist that spans Tarja’s career, including all of her greatest hits such as “I Walk Alone”, “Until My Last Breath” and “Innocence”, as well as fan favorites like “Victim Of Ritu

Russ Ballard – Songs From the Warehouse / The Hits Rewired 2025

Renowned rock singer Russ Ballard is thrilled to announce the release of his upcoming double album “Songs From The Warehouse / The Hits Rewired”, out on April 18th, 2025, via Frontiers Music Srl.

CD1:
1. Resurrection
2. Courageous
3. Journey Man
4. The One Who Breathes Me
5. The Wild
6. Charlatan
7. Soul Music
8. Sleepwalking
9. Last Man Standing
10. Make Believe World
11. The Family Way
12. Fearless
13. The Last Amen

CD2:
1. Since You’ve Been Gone
2. Winning
3

Nightsteel – Nightsteel 2025

Cosmic Fire Records is pleased to announce the signing of Greek heavy/power metal band Nightsteel for the release of their self-titled debut album. Nightsteel is the first band to join the label‘s roster, with more announcements to be made in the coming days.

Nightsteel is a new Greek metal band formed in 2022 by songwriter and bassist Bill Sam. After laying down some demos, he asked his best friend and drummer Mike Foudotos to join. They started working on Bill‘s songs with local vocalists before Bill decided to take the next big step and ask some well-known artists to

Skunk Anansie – The Painful Truth 2025

British rock icons Skunk Anansie have announced their hugely anticipated new studio album “The Painful Truth”. The new album, their seventh studio collection and first in nine years, will be released on May 23rd, 2025, via FLG Records.

1. An Artist is an Artist
2. This is Not Your Life
3. Shame
4. Lost and Found
5. Cheers
6. Shoulda Been You
7. Animal
8. Fell in Love With A Girl
9. My Greatest Moment
10. Meltdown

Feuerschwanz – Knightclub 2025

 

Top charting modern folk metal leaders Feuerschwanz are set to release their twelfth studio album, “Knightclub”, on July 25th, 2025, via Napalm Records.

1. Knightclub (feat. Dag/SDP)
2. Tanz der Teufel
3. Avalon
4. Drunken Dragon
5. Eisenfaust
6. Name der Rose
7. Valhalla (feat. Doro Pesch & Miracle of Sound)
8. The Tale of Sam The Brave
9. Testament
10. Lords of Fyre (feat. Lord Of The Lost)
11. Gangnam Style

Johanna – Violin, hurdy-gurdy
Hauptmann – Vocals, guitar

Cosmic Cathedral – Deep Water 2025


COSMIC CATHEDRAL – the union of Neal Morse, Chester Thompson, Phil Keaggy & Byron House – announce debut album ‘Deep Water’ Cosmic Cathedral – the union of Neal Morse (Transatlantic), Chester Thompson (Genesis), Phil Keaggy (Glass Harp) & Byron House (session player with Robert Plant, Dolly Parton etc) – are pleased to announce the release of their debut album ‘Deep Water’ on the 25th April 2025 via InsideOutMusic.

1. The Heart Of Life
2. Time To Fly
3. I Won’t Make It
4. Walking In Daylight
5. Deep Water

CIRCU5 – Clockwork Tulpa 2025


UK prog rockers, CIRCU5, have announced that their second album, Clockwork Tulpa, will be released on March 7, 2025. Clockwork Tulpa is CIRCU5’s first album release as a full band, with Tin Spirits frontman Mark Kilminster and drummer Lee Moulding joining founder Steve Tilling. “With Mark and Lee in the band, CIRCU5 can now establish its own unique identity,” says Steve. “I’m excited about where we can take the band next.”

The 10-track album comes nearly eight years after CIRCU5’s eponymous 2017 debut. The extended gap was due to Steve contracting Long Covid and committing

Ryoji Shinomoto – Children of Bushido 2025


Napalm Records is proud to announce the signing of guitar virtuoso Ryoji Shinomoto, best known for his work with Japanese Samurai Metal band Ryujin. This marks the exciting lead-up to the release of his debut solo album and collection of Children of Bodom covers, “Children of Bushido”, out on April 8th, 2025. In tribute to late metal legend Alexi Laiho, the exclusively digital album will be released on what would have been his 46th birthday, and fulfills a lifelong musical dream for Shinomoto.

1. Lake Bodom
2. Living Dead Beat
3. Mask of Sanity<

Atan – Metamorphic 2025


“Tragicomedy of existence” from the Polish hope of prog metal. What do we already know? Operating since 2020 ATAN was hailed as one of the greatest hopes of the Polish prog metal scene. The leader of the band is a guitarist and composer Andrzej Czaplewskiaccompanied by a singer and songwriter from Bolivia Claudia Moscoso. The composition is supplemented Jarosław Sadowski (drums) i Marcin Pallider (bass).

Having released an album “Ugly Monster” (2022) and an EP “Abnormal Load” The band became known to a wider audience during their performances at Metal Hammer Festival 2023 in Łód

TOWER – Let There Be Dark 2025


New York City’s own return with its darkest, heaviest offering to date! The long-awaited new studio album from New York City’s Tower finds the band digging into its pure metallic roots for a dark, powerful journey across ten songs!

Tower’s “Under the Chapel” single precedes the release of the band’s third studio album, Let There Be Dark. Its main riff popped up sometime in 2022 and immediately caught the ear of frontwoman Sarabeth Linden for its Eastern feel. The song—inspired by a Yiddish lullaby Linden’s grandmother used to sing to her—evokes a nightmarish landscape that perha

Of The Muses – Underheavens — Of Blood, Ghosts and Saltwater 2025


Of The Muses’ sophomore studio album, very evocatively titled “Underheavens — Of Blood, Ghosts and Saltwater”, begins to take shape in its most complete and intimate essence. Cristina Rombi, mind and soul of the project, has recorded this second creature at Opus Magnum Studio, ran by famed producer and musician Déhà (Slow, Silver Knife, Wolvennest, former Dropdead Chaos among others). His skill impressively shaped the sound of the Italian artist’s newest endeavor.

If with “Senhal” Cristina Rombi ushered us into a world of poetry, anger and melancholy, for “Un