Category: Coming Soon

Sure it’s cool how trends come and go. Different styles in music, fashion, hairdresser yes everything between heaven and earth. One day it’s super hot for the next to be completely out. Right now I’m reminded of several discs about how my father once digged (headbanging was not yet invented) to the 70’s hardest band. Not only that legendary Deep Purple is still releasing new discs. Or that the Rainbow is still touring. The very best group Alice Cooper is about to reunite to go on tour and lira all the hits from the Great Times.

01. Disillu

With the release of “Ambition Rocks”, their first album in 25 years, and with a new line-up, AOR/melodic rock band Da Vinci returns with brand-new songs. The band was formed in Norway back in 1986, and after a short round with demos, they got a record deal with PolyGram Norway and released their debut album the following year.

Erling Ellingsen (v)
Gunnar Westlie (g)
Dag Selboskar (k)
Roy Funner (b)
Bjørn Olav Lauvdal (d)

MelodicRock Records is excited to announce the signing of new hard rock project Fiction Syxx.Fiction Syxx is the brainchild of songwriter, vocalist & guitarist Mark Allen Lanoue.

But like all ideas, including musical ones, it is not just about the writing, it is about the delivery. So, after writing the first song called “Welcome To My Nightmare” for this new musical journey, Mark started talking with friend and multi-talented musician, songwriter & producer JK Northrup (King Kobra, XYZ) about starting a project that would

Tipping their hats to everyone from Rush, Dream Theater and Dio to Queen, Twisted Illusion reveal their enticing double-album “Insight to the Mind of a Million Faces”, on September 22nd, 2017.

01. Reflections
02. Worlds Apart
03. The Problem with Eternity
04. I Wish I was There
05. Textbook Tyranny
06. Social Paradox
07. Three Strangers
08. Nobody’s Child
09. Different Light
10. Insight to the Mind of a Million

Over six years in the making, Plan Three will follow up their 2009 debut album “Screaming our Sins” and 2011 EP “The Signal – Part One” with their much-anticipated sophomore full length “Wish I was Stormborne”.

1. Welcome to the Edge
2. The Otherside
3. Echo
4. Carl Sagan
5. Photograph
6. Wish I aas Stormborne
7. Unveil the Unknown
8. Where Do We Go From Here
9. Oblivion
10. Burn
11. When Everything Comes to an End

On the 26th of August, the singer Jan Åkesson (Stonelake, S.A.Y) and his new project band releases the album “Ascension” via the company MelodicRock Records. The disc will contain the following songs:

01. I Can’t Tell You No
02. The Promised Land
03. City Of Light
04. Into The Fire
05. Sound Of A Broken Heart
06. A Sound For Death
07. After The Love Is Gone
08. Cross The Universe
09. Love On The Run
10. Fool For Your Loving

Four musicians from four different countries with four entirely different biographies, yet all stemming from the world of Rock, now united in one band: Exit Eden!The all-female four piece ensemble unites all attributes ascribed to the new millennium: cosmopolitan, self-confident-independent and ready to do their very own thing! Despite their diversity, the four singers Amanda Somerville, Clémentine Delauney, Marina La Torraca and Anna Brunner blend together personally as superbly as they do vocally with their very diverse vocal tones and techniques

For the second album “Descending: A Devilish Comedy”, the sextet from Ferrara succeeded in optimizing the exciting, pretty progressive overall sound.The new compositions shoot themselves liquid-virtuosic as also metallic-cheering in varied wise into the ears.

And there is no lack of punctual pressure, high-rising epic, or skillfully elaborated melody. For the latter, all sorts of inspirations from the Classical world were given free access to the radiant sound cosmos of ALTAIR.

TRACK LISTING
1. Descending
2. Path Of Worms
3. Limbo
4. Seven
5. Godless
6. Seed Of Violence

They’re back – and this time around they’ve really gone the whole hog. “Zwei Fäuste für Rock’n’Roll” is the title of Ohrenfeindt’s seventh studio album, produced by the tried and tested Roggenrohl team, a.k.a. Olman Viper and Chris Laut.

As always, the rock act from Hamburg’s St. Pauli district keeps its promises: this phat rock’n’roll recording goes maximum overdrive from the start. No velvet gloves here – Ohrenfeindt really go for it full throttle until their listeners can’t help but bang their heads with big, cheesy grins on their faces. The opener “Deine Mutter singt bei Lordi&

Mythology, reality, illusion, disillusion, dreaming & abandonment in an album inspired by one of Greece’s most magical and influential places: Arcadia.Chrysilia is a soundtrack / symphonic / folk metal band based in Athens, Greece. Initially a concept child by musical actress & rock performer Chryso and composer/keyboardist Elias Pero (ex-Sovereign), this quickly evolved to the formation of a band consisting of ambitious as well as experienced members.

1. By The Gates Of Ypsus
2. The Menalon Trail
3. Desperate Wings
4. Arcadia
5. Et in Arcadia ego
6. Chrysilia
7. Altar Of Sile

MelodicRock Records is once again tapping into the magic that is Sweden’s reservoir of talent to bring you a monster debut album from one of the country’s best young bands. We’re very excited to announce the signing of Rian, a melodic hard rock trio from Stockholm. Rian’s melodic hard rock sound is a unique combination of 80s AOR with a modern American rock sound.

The guys have spent the last year working on their debut album “Out Of The Darkness” with producer Daniel Flores (Mind’s Eye, Find Me, The Murder of My Sw

Caligula’s Horse, a band at the forefront of Australia’s progressive rock scene, have announced the release of their forthcoming fourth studio album “In Contact”.
As with the band’s acclaimed album “Bloom” before it, “In Contact” sees vocalist Jim Grey and lead guitarist Sam Vallen collaborating closely on the music and lyrics. Vallen comments: “In our creative process every idea is scrutinized, deconstructed, and rebuilt in a way that one of us, alone, could never achieve.

1. Dream The

On September 8th, the metal band releases the Gods Of Silence debut album “Neverland”, where you worked together with Dennis Ward (Pink Cream 69, Unisonic). The album will consist of the following songs:

01. Gods of Silence (Intro)
02. Army of Liars
03. Against the Wall
04. Neverland
05. Full Moon
06. The Phoenix
07. Demons
08. Wonderful Years
09. Alone
10. You Mean Nothing More To Me
11. All My Life

GUN will release its 7th album on September 15th and it’s title FAVORITE PLEASURES. On the program the best of GUN and of this style so precise that offers us album after album the Scots. Highly output.

She Knows
Here’s Where I Am
Favourite Pleasures
Take Me Down
Silent Lovers
Black Heart
Without You In My Life
Tragic Heroes
Go To Hell
The Boy Who Fooled The World

In February 2018, Toto released its new product “40 Trips Around The Sun” via Sony Music. Here’s how to read in a press release:

New Album To Be Released On Sony Music’s Legacy Recordings Worldwide In February Of 2018 Will Contain Classic Remastered Hits Alongside Brand New Tracks

Los Angeles, CA — TOTO is pleased to announce the first set of shows in support of the band’s 40th Anniversary beginning in 2018. The 40 Trips Around The Sun Tour will begin in February 201

Featuring the formidable lineup of musicians Axel Sjöberg (ex-Graveyard) on drums, guitarist John Hoyles (Spiders, ex-Witchcraft) on bass (!!) and vocalist / guitarist Pontus Westman from Swedish garage outfit Lady Banana, BIG KIZZ has arrived to chew bubblegum, kick out the jams and take names. And they’re all out of bubblegum!
This classic power trio plays good time Rock ‘n’ Roll energized with elements of power pop, garage rock and punk that will have toes tappin’, ears ringin’ and mouths singin’ from the moment the needle hits the wax. BIG KIZZ’s