Category: Coming Soon

In 2022 I’LL BE DAMNED is at it again. Armed with a constant flow of inspiration from a world gone mad, the Danish band is pissed off about politics, religion, the media and society in general.

The new album, “Culture”, is more well-structured than the prior albums regarding both riffing and overall songwriting. And, with brilliant production value – courtesy of the producer Tue Madsen and his Antfarm Studios – the Nordic five-piece has finally reached the potential they promised in their previous two albums and explosive live appearances.

The German Melodic Rock/Metal band MAGICAL HEART will release a new album entitled ‘Heartsonic’ on October 14, 2022 via FASTBALL Music

1. Bad Habits
2. Heartsonic
3. My Own Way
4. Waiting For So Long
5. Daydream
6. Magical Star
7. How Will The Story End
8. Free Of Pain
9. It Could Go On (Forever)
10. Take Your Time
11. Raise

The British Hard FM & AOR band WHITE SKIES will release a new album entitled ‘Black Tide’ on November 04, 2022 via PRIDE & JOY Music. White Skies is a UK based AOR band formed by former Samson/First Strike vocalist Mick White, former Ya Ya guitarist Ray Callcut and former Double Cross/Dante Fox keyboard player Pete Lakin.

Just prior to the start of the pandemic in 2020, Mick and Ray (who were old friends from the eighties) had discussed the idea of writing a pure AOR album very much in the style of the giants of the genre like Journey, Foreigner and Toto.

1. What You Know About Love?
2.

On Friday the 23rd of September, the project band Decoy will release the new album “Without Warning” via the company Perris Records. Included in this project are, among others, Peter Sundell and Torben Enevoldsen. Here below you can now take part in tastings.

1. Broken Pride
2. In and Out of Love
3. Fire’s Gone
4. All or Nothing
5. How Was I to Know
6. Never Easy
7. Midnight Show
8. Now or Never
9. Reach Out
10. We Live, We Learn
11. Without Warning

Genre: Hard Rock/Glam
Year: 2022
Country: USA

01. United
02. Stop Preventing That You Love Me
03. Fallen From Grace
04. One Love Affair
05. The Wait It Is
06. Ready Aim Rock
07. Take On The World
08. Love Is Endless
09. Roll The Dice
10. Afterlife

Genre: Hard Rock
Year: 2022
Country: France

1.2049
2.Strangers In The Mirrors
3.No Miracle
4.Eternal Eclipse 04:25
5.Thirty More Seconds
6.Passage En Force
7.Into Madness
8.Fast ‘N’ Lethal
9.Something To Believe In
10.Edge Of Tomorrow

On October 21st, the melodious rock band Grand will release a self-titled debut album in 2022 year.

Frontiers Music Srl is pleased to announce the release of the upcoming self-titled debut album from Sweden’s Grand.
Grand was formed in 2020 in the southern outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden. Vocalist Mattias Olofsson had always nurtured a dream of releasing his own AOR project one day. Working for almost two decades as a professional singer and songwriter, he kept experimenting with ideas and writing songs, just waiting for the right moment.

Delivering a tasteful blend of old-school doom/death-laden metal and dark, gothic rock, Denmark’s EMPIRE DROWNS is finally ready with the release of their debut album following the 2013 EP “Bridges”.

On “Nothing” the band has aimed for a heavier approach to their doom metal, and Marco Angioni at Angioni Studios (Tygers Of Pan Tang, Detest, Thorium etc.) was told to capture a sound close to the early nineties where The Academy Studio in the UK was the place where bands in this genre would prefer to record. Albums that have inspired the sound on

On October 28, singer Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow, Deep Purple) will release the new album “Belly Of The Beast”.

The American Hard Rock band KILLER KINGS will release a new album entitled ‘Burn For Love’ on October 14, 2022 via FRONTIERS Records. Killer Kings first came about when Frontiers Records President Serafino Perugino thought of bringing Gregory Lynn Hall, the former singer of 101 South,

an AOR band who released three albums between 2000 and 2009, and Tristan Avakian, a very gifted guitarist who made his name in the ’90s with the Melodic Hard Rock band Red Dawn, together. Musically, Killer Kings mixes the AOR approach of both Red Dawn and 101 South with some interesting twists.

1. Burn For Love

The German Hard Rock band JADED HEART will release a new album entitled ‘Heart Attack’ on October 14, 2022 via MASSACRE Records.

1. Blood Red Skies
2. Sweet Sensation
3. Heart Attack
4. Harvester Unknown
5. Lady Spider
6. Descent
7. Remnants Of Before
8. Right Now
9. It’s About Time
10. Bridges Are Burning
11. Midnight Stalker

Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson and Sons of Apollo frontman Jeff Scott Soto have joined forces to release the album Vacation In The Underworld under the name Ellefson-Soto via Rat Pak Records on October 7, 2022.

Track List for Vacation In The Underworld:
01. Vacation In The Underworld
02. Like A Bullet
03. Sharpen The Sword
04. The Reason
05. S.T.N.
06. The Revolution
07. Celebrity Trash
08. Live To Die Another Day
09. The Day Before Tomorrow
10. Hercules
11. Rise To Win
Bonus Tracks:
12. Out of The Blue
13. Lone Star
14. Writing On The Wall

On Friday the 7th of October, the Swedish AOR band C.O.P. his new studio album “Chapter II – Enemy” via the company Pride & Joy Music. The disc will contain the following songs:

1. The Enemy
2. For You
3. Fighting Your Ghost
4. Too Late
5. The One
6. Til The End
7. The Gods
8. Higher
9. Rise Up
10. Proud And Alive
11. Glorious

Denmark has a thing or two to say about traditional heavy metal and hard rock. As the nation that gave birth to bands such as Mercyful Fate, Artillery and Pretty Maids, the steel seems to be strong in the country’s soil. Steel Inferno is one of the latest offerings in this line of succession. The raging speed metal-machinery from Copenhagen has been, in the last decade, among the local frontrunners in the new resurging wave of traditional heavy metal.

And now the band’s third full length album “Evil Reign”, is ready to be unleashed. It features a