The Night Flight Orchestra – Give Us the Moon 2025

Acclaimed AOR force The Night Flight Orchestra announce their highly anticipated seventh studio album! The band’s most cinematic offering to date, “Give Us the Moon”, is set for release on January 31st, 2025, via Napalm Records.

Founded in 2007 by members of high-profile bands such as Soilwork, Arch Enemy and Mean Streak, The Night Flight Orchestra have been nominated three times for the Swedish Grammis, gathering millions of streams with their hits. Having won over international live audiences with their incredibly entertaining performances on multiple tours and at enormous f

Until I Wake – Renovate 2024


Buffalo quartet Until I Wake — new vocalist Justin Smith, alongside bassist Ryan Ridley, guitarists August Geitner and Niko Karras, and drummer Alex Curtin — are pleased to announce their new studio album “Renovate”. It arrives on December 6th, 2024, via Fearless Records.

On “Renovate”, the band has upped the ante, cranking all knobs to 11. Pummeling verses collide with soaring, arena-ready choruses, all of which are backed with percussion so immediate it could replace your own heartbeat and a relentless barrage of neck snapping riffs — the kind that hard rock f

We Are Bodies – The Love Was All We Had 2024


We Are Bodies are Robin Foster & Dave Pen. A collaboration of two minds expressing the light and dark in thoughts and reflection of the modern world and the unknown future. Their music expresses thoughtful lyrics, soundscape guitars and electronic emelents of the past and present.

“The Love Was All We Had” will be released on December 6th, 2024.

1 World is Out
2 Lost
3 Shallow Time
4 Runaway
5 Lose the Fear
6 Before the Blackout
7 Dancing in the Midnight Howl
8 The Things We Can’t Control
9 As We Implode

Helloween – Live at Budokan 2024


Get ready to dive headfirst into the electrifying world of Helloween with their new live album “Live at Budokan”, a colossal release that immortalizes their iconic performance at Tokyo’s legendary Nippon Budokan!

Dropping on December 13th, 2024, through Reigning Phoenix Music (RPM), this release will be available in a plethora of formats: 2CD-digipak and 3LP vinyl in trifold with the first print run of both coming as “deluxe edition” including embossed cover artwork, as well as Blu-ray, DVD and digital…

01. Orbit
02. Skyfall
03. Eagle Fly Free

Steve Perry – The Season 3 (2024)

Former JOURNEY singer Steve Perry’s holiday album, “The Season”, will be re-released as “The Season 3” for the 2024 holiday season with six additional songs. Due on November 8, 2024 via Dark Horse Records.

01. What A Wonderful World
02. The Christmas Song
03. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
04. This Christmas
05. Jingle Bell Rock
06. Call Me Irresponsible
07. What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve
08. Auld Lang Syne
09. Silver Bells
10. I’ll Be Home For Christmas
11. Let It Snow

Stone Horses – Redemption Chronicles 2024

Maryland quartet Stone Horses will release its new album “Redemption Chronicles” digitally on Oct. 25, 2024, with the physical release following on Nov. 22. Stone Horses has shared stages with like-minded acts such as Slash, Brother Cane, Greta Van Fleet and Rival Sons, and scored top honors at the 2024 Maryland Music Awards.

1.Free (Remix)
2.Gasoline
3.FAFO
4.Crosses to Bear
5.Come Back to Me
6.30 Days in the Hole
7.Reckless Ways
8.Broken Hearts Broken Bones
9.Good Ol’ Days
10.Die Young
11.When I Get Paid

MC5 – Heavy Lifting 2024


Emerging from the gritty streets of Detroit in the mid-1960s, MC5 revolutionized rock and roll with their blistering fusion of garage rock, blues, soul, free jazz, and proto-punk. Infamous for incendiary live performances and a radical left-wing stance, their status as pioneers of punk and protest rock has

inspired many musicians like RAMONES, THE CLASH, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, THE WHITE STRIPES, Slash and countless others and continues to shape the sound of punk and alternative rock for generations to come.

earMUSIC will release the first new music from MC5

Within Silence – The Eclipse Of Worlds 2024


Since their inception, Within Silence has established a formidable presence in the power metal scene with the release of their debut album, “Gallery of Life” (2015) and its follow-up, “Return from the Shadows” (2017), both released on the Swedish label Ulterium Records. The two albums received enthusiastic feedback from fans worldwide, contributing to the band’s steadily growing following.

Over the years, the band has played many shows in Slovakia and around Europe, including festivals in Germany, Norway, the Netherlands and Switzerland. In 2016 they supported Theocracy

Ricky Warwick – Blood Ties 2025


The journey from Belfast to Los Angeles, entwined with a lifetime spent at the coalface of bona fide rock n’ roll, has made for a heady cocktail of creativity and popularity. Ricky Warwick, founder of The Almighty, Black Star Riders, The Fighting Hearts,

acclaimed and respectful frontman of Thin Lizzy since 2011, remains unstoppable. This time he’s on a solo run with the release of his new solo album “Blood Ties” out on March 14th, 2025, via Earache Records.

1. Angels of Desolation
2. Rise and Grind (feat. Charlie Starr)
3. Don’t Leave Me in the Dark (feat. Lita Ford)

Dream Theater – Parasomnia 2025

Dream Theater Parasomnia coverAn album announcement that is fifteen years in the making, GRAMMY®-winning, progressive music titans Dream Theater return with their sixteenth studio album, “Parasomnia”.

The album marks the first album featuring the iconic lineup of vocalist James LaBrie, guitarist John Petrucci, bassist John Myung, keyboardist Jordan Rudess, and drummer Mike Portnoy since 2009’s “Black Clouds & Silver Linings”. The news on this latest album comes hot on the heels of the recent announcement of the tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of the band, which kicks off in

Powell-Payne – Voilà 2024


Welsh melodic rock band Powell-Payne are excited to announce the release of their debut album “Voilà”, out on December 6th, 2024, via Frontiers Music Srl. Vocalist Adam Payne describes the album as “a collection of powerful tracks mixed with some good old fashioned melodic rock with a tip of the hat to 80s giants”.

Discussing the track “Better Days”, Payne adds: “With this single we tried to capture a new AOR sound whilst keeping true to our writing methods and influences”. Formed in 2022 by Mark “Penfold” Powell (ex-drummer of Psycho Kiss) and Adam Payne (former vocalist of

Vipërwitch – Witch Hunt: Road To Vengeance 2024

 

New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal. Post-apocolyptic roadwarrior music out of Denver, Colorado. Set to release their new album “Witch Hunt – Road to Vengeance” on October 31, 2024

01. Road To Vengence: Descendents Of The Gods
02. Legend Of The Midnight Rider: Saxon Killer
03. Hellbound (feat. Devin Reiche & Nick Daggers)
04. The Ritual: Infinite Nocturn Rises
05. The Viperwitch
06. Bathory
07. Vapor City: Blood & Steel Upon The Silver Tower
08. The Huntress
09. Blood Moon
10. She Wolves Of The Wast

Nine Stones Close – Adventures In Anhedonia 2024


The second album to be released by Nine Stones Close in 2024 is ‘Adventures In Anhedonia’. It is a very personal album, lyrically, and reflects on the mental state and wellbeing of us all, based on the personal experiences and traumas of Adrian Jones’ recent past.

Adrian says, “…it really reflects what’s been happening to me over the past years, the effect it’s had on me and how I have tried to deal with some of it…” The music is very distinct from that of the Diurnal album, reflecting the lyrical themes and feelings that inspired the songs, while still retaining the unique Nine Stones Close sound.

From the soaring opening track ‘Beach Walker’ to the epic finale of ‘Plastic Animals’ the album takes you on a ride t

Dominum – The Dead Don’t Die 2024


Zombie metal sensation DOMINUM is set to unleash the undead on their second album, entitled The Dead Don’t Die, out December 27, 2024 via Napalm Records! DOMINUM entered the scene in 2023 with a blast and hit the top 20 of the Official German Album Charts immediately with their debut album, Hey Living People, while gaining a slew of fans with their horror-inspired lyrics, powerful compositions and theatrical performances.

On the new offering, mastermind Felix Held aka Dr Dead and his Zombies introduce heavier metal influences, contributing to an even more bombastic and darker sound than on the

Ad Infinitum – Abyss 2024 Digi WEB


Band from: Switzerland
Genre: symphonic metal, power metal, heavy metal
Year: 2024

1. My Halo
2. Follow me Down
3. Outer Space
4. Aftermath
5. Euphoria
6. Surrender
7. Anthem for the Broken
8. The one you’ll hold on to
9. Parasite
10. Dead End
11. My Halo (Orchestral Version)*
* (Earbook only)

Melissa Bonny – Vocals
Adrian Thessenvitz – Guitars
Korbinian Benedict – Bass
Niklas Müller – Drums

Dug Pinnick – Thingamajigger 2024


Acclaimed KING’S X bassist, songwriter and co-vocalist Doug “dUg” Pinnick will release a new solo album, “Thingamajigger”, on October 25 via Rat Pak Records. The LP features 11 brand new songs and follows his successful 2021 release “Joy Bomb”.

From the opening chords of “Climbing Up the Mountain”, it is clear that Pinnick’s trademark tone lays the bedrock for his latest solo release “Thingamijigger”. Doug tackles a wide array of emotions and topics with layered harmonies, hooky rhythmic sensibilities, and t