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Formed in 2011 as Gyze, “Samurai Metal” band RYUJIN deftly deliver heavy metal from Japan to the international masses with their self-titled Napalm Records debut, RYUJIN, out January 12, 2024! Blending both Japanese and English lyricism and featuring production and several guest features by Matthew Kiichi Heafy (Trivium),

the band’s high speed riffs and breakneck guitar descents pair with traditional Japanese elements, delivering a sound influenced by everything from ancient orchestral Gagaku to even modern anime themes.

1. Hajimari
2. Gekokujo
3. Dragon, Fly Free
4. Ra

Cult heavy metal outfit Cirith Ungol will unleash their sixth full-length album, “Dark Parade”, on October 20th, 2023, via Metal Blade Records.

1. Velocity (S.E.P.)
2. Relentless
3. Sailor on the Seas of Fate
4. Sacrifice
5. Looking Glass
6. Dark Parade
7. Distant Shadows
8. Down Below

Boundary-pushing German progressive metal quartet Unprocessed have returned with an intense new single, ‘Thrash’, along with the announcement of their third studio album, “…and everything in between”, due out on December 1st…

I Hell
II Lore
III Thrash
VI Blackbone
V Die on the Cross of the Martyr (featuring Tim Henson and Scott LePage of Polyphia)
VI Glass
VII Abysm
VII I Wish I Wasn’t
IX Purgatory

Guitars & Vocals engineered & recorded by Manuel Gardner Fernandes
Drums engineered & recorded by Leon P

Power metal voice Christian Eriksson (ex-Twilight Force, ex-NorthTale) is back with his new band Final Strike’s debut album, “Finding Pieces”, offering everything fans of the genre could wish for.

The album was created with the premise that it should sound exactly like what the seventeen-year-old selves of the Swedes would have liked to have bought.Freely based on the psychological-philosophical motto “Perfection lies in imperfection”, the quintet has pursued the original objective. “Finding Pieces” comes across in a relaxed, lighthearted an

Belgian prog rockers Fish On Friday, who also feature Nick Beggs on bass, have announced that they will release their brand new album 8mm through Cherry Red on October 27. The new album, Fish On Friday’s sixth studio release, is the band’s first since 2020’s Black Rain,

and again sees the quartet led by vocalist, keyboardist and guitarist Frank Van Bogaert alongside Beggs, drummer Marcus Waymaere and guitarist Marty Townsend. The band have released a video for the tracks Overture To Flame and Flame, from 8mm, which was originally recorded by 70s UK glam/art rock band Metro and fe

Norwegian proggers 35 Tapes have hit their peak with their new album “Fabric Of Time”. Combining time-honoured sounds like the Mellotron and analogue synths with modern sensibilities, the album is a cinematic journey through moods, times and places.

At times evoking the symphonic grandeur of early King Crimson and Genesis, the group also touches on the melancholy art-rock of groups like Talk Talk or an artist like David Sylvian. Since several members of the band also have backgrounds in audio engineering, it goes without saying that the album is remarkably audiophile in its presenta

Originally starting as a Lockdown project, the third album from Dovorian is being released. The album features 12 tracks written and performed by Dover based Adam Sayer and again featuring the vocal talents and writing of Evergrey’s Tom S.Englund.

Evergrey’s Jonas Ekdhal returns with the drum programming, additional production, mixing and mastering. The album also features appearances by Evergrey’s Johan Niemann and Redemption/Silent Skies’ Vikram Shankar.Release date: September 29, 2023

1. Hole In My Heart
2. Weapon Of Choice
3. Hunters
4. Awake
5. Miracles
6. Seeds
7. Too Little Too Late
8. The Final Paper
9. Heathens
10. Dreaming
11. Someone Like You
12. Never Out Of Sight

SECRET RULE was founded in 2014 by lead vocalist Angela Di Vincenzo, guitarist/producer Andy Menario & former bass player Michele Raspanti. The following year SECRET RULE released their debut album “Transposed Emotions”.

The music of SECRET RULE is a blend of heavy guitar riffs, electronic elements, symphonic keyboard parts, and very powerful yet catchy vocal lines. Their sound is unique and intriguing…

01. Disorder
02. Equilibrium
03. Shards Of Time
04. Gravity On Us
05. UNInVERSE
06. I Am
07. Time Zero
08. Multip

New album byick Clicked Asy Lum to be released on September 29 on Ad Noctem Records; The recording sessions were held at the TwLight Studio in Senago under the expert guidance of Davide Tavecchia.

The artor ork of the single, as for the record, is by bassist Chiara Mascetti. Kintsugi is only the first step of a journey inside one’s darkness and suffering, sensations enclosed in each of the 12 tracks that make up the album; a journey in which one witnesses alone and helpless to the crumbling of the soul and its decay.

01. Kintsugi
02. Crystallised
03. Lacerate
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Luxembourg band Arduinna’s Dawn has been preparing for the release of the album “Reflections”, scheduled for the month of October. Within this process, they presented at the beginning of this month of July their newest single, entitled “Ghost Inside”, where they mix in a well-balanced way elements of Symphonic Metal and Gothic Metal,

having all the elements to conquer the fans of the styles in question. Highlights for the great vocal lines, for the good arrangements and melodies, as well as guitar riffs that show strength.RELEASE: 07-10-2023

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Freakstorm was founded as a tribute project in 2016. The first song the band recorded was a cover of US band Halestorm. The goal to hand this track over to their idols personally (which indeed happened), gave Sinah and Olli the motivation to record their own songs.

After the self-released EP “We Got The Fire” (2018) and the EP “From Zero” (2019), a new era for Freakstorm began when they started to work with producer Dennis Ward (Pink Cream 69/Helloween). He supported the band to develop a rich rock sound – a strong fundament for Sinah&#8217

The Debut album from Finnish band Graven Sin is a modern classic of godly, Doom-laden Heavy Metal. Veil of The Gods is etched in granite via Svart Records on November 2023. Release date: November 3, 2023

1. The Morrigan
2. From The Shadows
3. Bloodbones
4. She Who Rules Niflheim
5. I Am Samael
6. Cult Of Nergal
7. The Scarlet Night
8. Beyond Mesopotamia
9. The Jackal God
10. Wand Of Orcus
11. As The Erinyes Emerge

Ville Pystynen – guitar, bass
Nicholas Leptos – vocals
Ville Markkanen &#8211

TOWER HILL debut full-length “Deathstalker” to be released by No Remorse Records in 2023. Exact release date and pre-order TBA; Premiere of the first song “Deathstalker”. TOWER HILL is a traditional heavy metal band from the Canadian Prairies.

Founded initially as a one-man project in 2020 by vocalist R.F. Traynor, TOWER HILL surged into a five-man, stage-ready heavy metal force soon after the release of their “Fighting Spirits” demo tape in early 2021. Inspired by old school heavy and power metal bands like RIOT, RUNNING WILD, JUDAS PRIEST, HELLOWEEN,

Album release Riders of the Ancient Storm on October 6th, 2023.The band that started the Swedish wave of heavy metal is back: HEAVY LOAD! Four decades have passed since HEAVY LOAD released their latest album: Stronger than Evil (1983).

Years before the rest of the northern world, their songs ventured into Viking themes and existential lyrics, spearheading a movement way ahead of its time. The compositions are dramatic and render a great variety of moods, while passionate innovation and creative fervor are always shining bright in every song on the album – pioneering 101!

HEAVY LO

Supporting their forthcoming »Halo European Tour 2023« (w/ SÓLSTAFIR & LOST SOCIETY), Finnish metal legends AMORPHIS will present their fans with a new live recording titled »Queen Of Time (Live At Tavastia 2021),« which is due out on October 13, 2023 via Atomic Fire.

01. Northwards
02. On The Dark Waters
03. The Moon
04. Windmane
05. A New Land
06. When The Gods Came
07. Seven Roads Come Together
08. War
09. Halo
10. The Wolf
11. My Name Is Night

Tomi Joutsen – Vocals
Esa Holopainen – Guitars
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An international collective Silent Angel, an Italian / Malaysian-based band that has its foundations deeply rooted in power and symphonic metal with a mix of progressive along with Japanese metal influence. “Unyielding, Unrelenting” offers a lot of pleasant vintage vibes, magnificent guitar solos, and hammering drums,

but also sentimental and quiet moments and unique melody lines with its soaring duo vocals and energetic rock singing from Claudia Beltrame, frontwoman for Italian symphonic prog band, Degrees Of Truth and Gracie Shona, well known from the Malaysian club scene. Recommended f