Category: Coming Soon

UK-based prog band RETURNED TO THE EARTH are pleased to announce the new album Stalagmite Steeple due out on June 14th via Giant Electic Pea.

1. Dark Morality
2. The Final Time
3. Stalagmite Steeple
4. Meaningless To Worth
5. Die For Me
6. The Raging Sea

The Cyberiam release their 3rd studio album “Unobtainium” on May 22nd, 2024. This highly anticipated music will be the band’s first ever vinyl release and the band’s 7th product since their founding in 2017.

With the songs wide ranging lengths and styles, this album will cater to every prog listener. The Cyberiam have a sound and a style that is their own unique brand of hard/heavy progressive rock.

1. Are You There?
2. Long Lived The Queen
3. Trolls
4. Double X
5. Ghost In The Machine
6. Mind The Gap
7. Unobtainium
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Emerging West Australian outfit Ammify has announced that they have signed with Italian-based metal label, Wormholedeath, who will oversee global marketing and digital distribution for their forthcoming debut album, Lost, Not Hiding.

Featuring the musical pairing of Ammy Phoenix (vocals/lyrics) and Pete Renzullo (music/production) Lost, Not Hiding makes its way through the heavier genres. Still, the duo has themselves described it best as CineMetal.RELEASE: 14-06-2024…

01. Homesick
02. Coward’s Way Out
03. The Truth Will Set You Free
04. Favourite
05. Hey

Genre: Occult Symphonic Metal
Country: France
Released: 16-05-2024

01. Rites Of The Damned
02. The Masque Of The Red Death
03. Haunting Curse
04. Seance Of Shadows
05. Unholy Verses
06. Danse Macabre
07. Spectral Dominion
08. Bloodmoon Invocation
09. Litanies Of Darkness
10. Ethereal Necropolis

VICTORIA HOVE: Vocals
SILVER CROZE: Guitar
FLORIAN BESTION: Bass
CLEMENT JOST: Drums

Ten years Serious Black, ten years of melodic power metal, with the license to create anthems! Since their founding in 2014 the band enthuses their fans not only with five studio albums to date (while their last offering, “Vengeance is Mine”, charted at a phenomenal #16 in Germany),

but also at frenetically acclaimed concerts and festival appearances around the globe.To celebrate their decadal birthday in glorious style, Serious Black have announced the release of a brand new studio album, entitled “Rise of Akhenaton”, to arrive on September 27th, 2024, via AFM Records!

01. Open Your Eyes

GUNS N’ ROSES bassist Duff McKagan is celebrating the fifth anniversary of his acclaimed second solo album, “Tenderness”, with “Tenderness Live From Los Angeles”, a brand new double-live collection arriving everywhere on Friday, May 31.

Recorded June 13, 2019 at Los Angeles’ historic El Rey Theatre just days following “Tenderness”‘s May 2019 release, “Tenderness Live From Los Angeles” sees McKagan taking an intimate journey through his own canon of songs along with a few deeply personal cover versions, backed b

The original Queens of Metal, Kittie have finally announced their highly-anticipated and long-awaited new studio album, “Fire” today. The upcoming release is the band’s first full-length in over 13 years and is set for release on Friday, June 21st, 2024, via Sumerian Records.

1. Fire
2. I Still Wear This Crown
3. Falter
4. Vultures
5. We Are Shadows
6. Wound
7. One Foot in the Grave
8. Are You Entertained
9. Grime
10. Eyes Wide Open

Morgan Lander – Vox/guitar
Mercedes Lander – Drums/backing vox
Tara McLeod – G

Genre: Dark Cinematic Metal
Country: United States
Released: 09-09-2024

01. Where Gods Fear To Speak
02. Run From The Light
03. Don’t Come Back From Hell Empty Handed
04. Wish
05. Poem Of Ecstasy
06. The Given Dream
07. I Will Break The Pride Of Your Will
08. Prayer
09. The Impermanence Of Fate
10. Wicked Game

CAMMIE BEVERLY: Vocals
ALEX DAVIS: Guitar
CHRIS KRITIKOS: Guitar
SEMIR ÖZERKAN: Bass

Innuendo’s Jigsaw Sunset will be one of the best melodic hard rock AOR album releases of 2024. Variations of this statement are made ALL the time, but in this case, it’s true. Jigsaw Sunset is a 14-song, 52+ minute album and is Innuendo’s 10th release. on XLR8 Records since 1995.

Release date: July 1, 2024

1. Just Like This
2. Chasing Yesterday
3. Cross That Line
4. Hard To Pretend
5. Different Highways
6. Misunderstood
7. Sometimes I Forget
8. Frequent Flyer
9. Where The Sky Meets The Ocean
10. Trying Not To Look
11. The Weakest Man Alive
12. The World We Left Behind
13. Uncharted Territory
14. Until We Meet Again

Now with more playfulness and melodic craziness. It’s a new approach to power metal that Mad Hatter has never done before but still keeping closer to the spirit of the debut album (s/t 2018). An energetic joyride!Release date: May 24, 2024

1. Oneironautics
2. Lord Of Dragons
3. Death In Wonderland
4. I Will Find My Way
5. The Witches Of Blue Hill
6. Our Fears In Towe
7. Lost In Wonder
8. The Kings Guide
9. Temple Of Time
10. Fire In My Heart

Petter Hjerpe – Vocals, Guitars
Peter Larsson – Guitars
Sam

For almost two decades, Sweden’s Portrait has delivered their brand of heavy metal darkness to the masses. Following 2021’s critically acclaimed “At One With None”, the band returns with their sixth studio album “The Host”, their first ever concept album, set for release on June 21st, 2024, through Metal Blade Records.

1. Hoc Est Corpus Meum (Intro)
2. The Blood Covenant
3. The Sacrament
4. Oneiric Visions
5. One Last Kiss
6. Treachery
7. Sound the Horn
8. Dweller of the Threshold
9. Die in My Heart
10. Voice of the Outsid

Mr. Big have set to release their new studio album “Ten” on July 12th, 2024, via Frontiers Music srl.
The tenth studio album from Mr. Big features 11 new original tracks written by Eric Martin, Paul Gilbert, Andre Pessis and Tony Fanucchi.

As a tribute to their late drummer Pat Torpey, Martin, Gilbert and bassist Billy Sheehan enlisted the help of drummer Nick D’Virgilio. The album was produced by Jay Ruston and Mr. Big. The Hybrid Stereo SACD comes with a special designed guitar pick and bass pick (1 each).

01. Good Luck Trying
02. I Am You
03. Right Outta Here
04.

The Heavy Metal band Knightsune is thrilled to unveil the details of their forthcoming studio album, “Fearless”, which will be available worldwide on October 11th, 2024, through Art Gates Records!

1. Fearless
2. A Sky Full of Ghosts
3. Twilight of the Heroes
4. Under One Sound
5. The Pain I Leave (feat. Memphis Jiménez)
6. Forever (feat. Elisa C. Martín)
7. Pistols at Dawn
8. Purple & Green
9. The Island
10. Not Over (feat. Herbie Langhans)

Voice return with an album that will make every metal fan’s heart beat faster! After their successful comeback in 2017 with the album “The Storm”, they now return to their roots and present a multi-faceted new studio album, in which each song seamlessly flows into the next, while the arc of suspense is continuously maintained.

This work undoubtedly belongs in the collection of every metalhead who appreciates catchy hook-lines, a well thought-out musical concept and an impressive production! “Holy or Damned” will be unleashed on July 12th, 2024, via Massacre Records.

1. Nevermore
2

Simone Simons Vermillion coverSimone Simons has been a pioneering force within the world of metal for over two decades as part of Epica. Now, alongside her musical partner and longtime collaborator, Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon), she embarks on the journey of her debut solo album, “Vermillion”.

Arjen is no stranger to Simone’s soaring operatic voice, one that can stir even a gargoyle’s stone heart to tears. Together they have crafted a sonic universe that befits the influential figure she is. “Vermillion” emerges as a gargantuan go

Spirit of Unicorn Music are pleased to announce the forthcoming release of “Focus 12”, the brand new studio album from Focus, on July 5th 2024. Founded by Thijs van Leer, Focus have been at the forefront of the progressive music movement since 1969, yet they still continue to deliver engaging, innovative and skillfully crafted music.

“Focus 12” exemplifies this and proves why they are still a firm fan favourite, the world over. For Thijs van Leer (75) and Pierre van der Linden (78), age is nothing more than a number. Both continue to contribute to Focus with a passion. Thijs, who has written