Category: Coming Soon

The Canadian Melodic Rock/Metal band FATAL VISION will release a new album entitled ‘Twice’ on June 23, 2023 via PRIDE & JOY Music. Featuring lead singer Simon Marwood, who co-founded the band in 1988, guitarist Juan Miguel Gomez Montant, keyboard player Scottie Irving,

drummer Alex Wickham and bassist Andrew Burns, Twice shows Fatal Vision continuing to delve into a rich tapestry of sounds both familiar and modern. The thirteen tracks nod to Fatal Vision’s key influences, including Survivor, Bad English, Loverboy, Night Ranger and REO Speedwagon.

1. Dominoe

The Canadian Heavy Metal band WITHERING SCORN will release a new album entitled ‘Prophets Of Demise’ on July 07, 2023 via FRONTIERS Records. Withering Scorn is a monstrous new heavy metal machine featuring guitarist Glen Drover (ex-Megadeth, King Diamond), drummer Shawn Drover (Act Of Defiance, ex-Megadeth), bassist Joe DiBiase (ex-Fates Warning), and vocalist Henning Basse (Metalium).

1. Prophets Of Demise
2. The Vision
3. Pick Up The Pieces
4. Ancient Desire
5. Dark Reflection
6. Dethroned
7. Never Again
8. Eter

The Italian Power Metal band GREAT MASTER will release a new album entitled ‘Montecristo’ on September 21, 2023 via Underground Symphony. The disc is a concept album made up of 13 songs that will take the listener through the epic story of the protagonist of the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas “The Count of Monte Cristo”.

1. Le Pharaon
2. Back Home
3. The Left Hand Joke
4. Where The Shame Lives
5. I Am The Master
6. Your Fall Will Come
7. Nest Of Stone
8. My Name
9. Man From The East
10. The Weak Poi

The American Symphonic Metal band EDGE OF PARADISE will release a new album entitled ‘Hologram’ on July 14, 2023 via FRONTIERS Records. “Hologram” builds upon where their two previous releases, “The Unknown” and “Universe” left off, seeing Edge Of Paradise’s sound take a huge leap in songwriting prowess and defining their sonic combination of symphonic and industrial metal tinged with electro-metal influences.

Gigantic hooks paired with monolithic riffs in a spacious sea of melodies will immediately entice listeners and whisk them aw

The Italian Symphonic Metal band WINTERAGE will release a new album entitled ‘Nekyia’ on July 7, 2023 via SCARLET Records.

1. Apertio Ad Profundum
2. Simurgh The Firebird
3. The Cult Of Hecate
4. Numen
5. Nekyia
6. La Fonte d’Essenza
7. Dark Enchantment
8. White Leviathan
9. Metamorphosis, A Macabre Ritual
10. Resurrectio Ad Mundum

Tony Mitchell releases his 4th official solo album “Radio Heartbeat” via Pride & Joy Music! Release date: July 21, 2023.

1. Blue Lightning
2. Keep The Love Alive
3. Radio Heartbeat
4. Rockin’ In A Hard Place
5. Top Of The World
6. Another Beat Of My Heart
7. Darkness Remains
8. This Side Of Midnight
9. Borderline
10. Sunflower Girl
11. Find A Way
12. Phoenix Rising

Tony Mitchell (lv, g, k)

Miles Meakin (lg, bv)
Nigel Bailey (b, bv)
Eddy Antony (d, bv)

Norwegian progressive rock group AVKRVST are pleased to reveal details on their debut album titled “The Approbation”, set to be released on June 16th, 2023. At the young age of 7 years old, Martin and Simon made a pact that they would form a band when they got older.

Now, 22 years later they’ve done just that. An album is ready – 55 minutes of music inspired by everything they grew up listening to – everything from Mew, Anekdoten and Porcupine Tree to Opeth, Neal Morse and King Crimson. All the music has been written at a small cabin, deep into the Norwegian forests (Alvdal, Norway). Sim

The glam / speed metal band LEATHÜRBITCH has announced a new album with “Shattered Vanity”. It is the second album by the US-Americans from Portland after “Into the Night” (2019) and will be released on June 22, 2023 via Shadow Kingdom Records.

LEATHÜRBITCH are singer Joel Starr, guitarists Patrick Sandiford and Alex Ponder, bassist Stephen Weber and drummer David Brownett.

01. The Dark Mirror
02. Shattered Vanity
03. Betrayal
04. Shadow Mistress
05. Graveyard Eyes
06. The Invitation
07. Nasty Reputation
08. Morphina
09. Horr

Solo debut album of Boulevard singer David Forbes, co-written and produced by Steve Newman. Out June 22 on AOR Blvd Records.

Rockshots Records is proud to announce their signing of Walk With Titans for the release of their debut album “Olympian Dystopia” on May 26th, 2023. Based in Montreal, Canada, the band’s goal is to bring all the epic elements you’d expect from a power metal band with a twist of Greek Mythology. On “Olympian Dystopia” the quintet showcases their writing and technical skills.

Efficient, epic, well executed, heavy, and mythical, this is what power metal fans will discover during 50 minutes of “Olympian Dystopia” brought forth by Nikko Cyr (drums), Nick Maug

Nazareth singer Carl Sentance and guitarist Dario Mollo return with their new band Twilight Road.
“Trapped” is a no-compromise album including eleven original tracks plus their version of Deep Purple’s “Perfect Strangers”.

Dario Mollo is an Italian guitarist/producer with a career which started in 1981, with the heavy metal band Crossbones, followed by albums with musical giants Tony Martin (Black Sabbath), Graham Bonnet (Rainbow, MSG), Don Airey (Rainbow, Ozzy, Deep Purple) and Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple).

Not all that long ago in a galaxy not all that far away… A band the likes of which the universe had never seen was formed for one purpose – to create an unstoppable musical “force” known as Galactic Empire.

By reinterpreting classic selections from legendary composer John Williams’ iconic scores from the Star Wars saga into guitar driven heavy metal, Galactic Empire has created a musical juggernaut feared in many systems. Comprised of some of the most infamous and feared villains in the galaxy – lead guitarist Dark Vader, drummer Boba Set

The British Hard Rock band GIRLSCHOOL will release a new album entitled ‘Wtfortyfive?’ on July 28, 2023 via Silver Lining.Forty-five years young, British hard rock royalty GIRLSCHOOL comes out swinging with its fourteenth studio album, “WTFortyfive?”, a deliciously dirty declaration that age is a number that shows how much real raw attitude you have when it really counts.

Kim McAuliffe (guitar/vocals),Denise Dufort (drums),Jackie Chambers (guitar/backing vocals) and Tracey Lamb (bass) leave the grit under their finger nails and the scuzz on their crusty leather boo

The American Hard FM & AOR band HIT THE GROUND RUNNIN’ will release a new album entitled ‘Control Yourself (Re-Issue)’ on May 19, 2023 via PRIDE & JOY Music.

1. Control Yourself
2. Back Again
3. Shanghaid
4. Lost, Still Life Lover
5. Born To Be With You
6. Pain
7. Holding You
8. I.C.U.
9. Dirty Girl
10. Surrounded By Fire
Bonus Tracks:
11. Melva Devine (Previously unreleased)
12. Pain (Alternate Version)
13. Back Again (Lead Guitar

The International Various band VARIOUS ARTISTS will release a new album entitled ‘Steel Bars – A Rock Tribute To Michael Bolton’ on July 7, 2023 via FRONTIERS Records.Specifically, this tribute album focuses on Bolton’s earlier career, when he was known as a rock singer and features appearances by members of The Big Deal, About Us, Stormwarning, Girish And The Chronicles, Find Me, FM, and more.

The idea for “Steel Bars – A Tribute To Michael Bolton” came about when Serafino Perugino,