SNOWY WHITE
"UNFINISHED BUSINESS"
Blues/ Classic Rock
Year:14.06.2024
(SOULFOOD MUSIC)

The British guitar legend SNOWY WHITE releases a brand new album with "Unfinished Business". In 2022 he achieved the first German chart position in his career with "Driving on the 44" (#27 in the official German album charts). With his previous albums, 'The Situation' and 'Driving On The 44', the former Thin Lizzy guitarist and Pink Floyd and Roger Waters touring guitarist has shown that he is one of the greats when it comes to soulful, nuanced Blues Rock. On the nine tracks of his new album we once again experience the blues master in great shape. The lively opener and namesake of the album offers a promising invitation, and also makes it clear that Snowy White has once again done a great job - contrary to what the title suggests. In his inimitably reserved "understate...

POWERWOLF
"WAKE UP THE WICKED"
Power Heavy Metal
Year:26.07.2024
(NAPALM RECORDS)

POWERWOLF – a band that fills the hearts of every heavy metal fan with joy – will release their highly-anticipated new studio album,  Wake Up The Wicked, on July 26, 2024 via Napalm Records! With several #1 chart entries and multiple gold and platinum records, POWERWOLF is undoubtedly one of  the most successful current heavy metal bands worldwide. Headline and premium slots at premier rock and metal festivals like Wacken, Hellfest or Graspop, as well as massive sold-out arena shows have further solidified the Wolfpack’s standing at the very top of the scene. POWERWOLF’s high quality  releases are steadily praised by critics and fans alike, building upon the successful reach of their songs and  impressive  official  music  videos,&...

MY DYING BRIDE
"A MORTAL BINDING"
Doom Death Metal
Year:19.01.2024
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

The flower withers once more on My Dying Bride’s A Mortal Binding …

British doom/death metal legends My Dying Bride are primed to unfurl their 15th album, A Mortal Binding, via Nuclear Blast. The much-anticipated follow-up to The Ghost of Orion (2019) finds the Yorkshire-based quintet featuring a revamped lineup of now-permanent guitarist Neil Blanchett and the return of drummer Dan Mullins delighting in anxiety, loss, and toil to resplendent effect.

CD/ 2LP:

1 Her Dominion
2 Thornwyck Hymn
3 The 2nd of Three Bells
4 Unthroned Creed

5 The Apocalyptist
6 A Starving Heart
7 Crushed Embers

LINE UP:

Vocals: Aaron Stainthorpe
Guitar: Andrew Craighan
Drums: Dan Mullins
Bass: Lena Abe
Guitar: Neil Blanchett
Violin/Keyboards: Shaun McGowan

KORPIKLAANI
"RANKARUMPU"
Folk Metal/ Humpa
Year:05.04.2024
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

“Rankarumpu” is the 12th studio album by KORPIKLAANI offering a perfect mix of old school up-tempo catchiness, brilliant folk elements by Olli Vänskä (violin) and Sami Perttula (accordion), Jonne Järvelä’s impeccable hooks and lyrics, resulting in refreshing, feel-good songs about going to the sauna, Finland’s blue skies and snowy fields, and the band themselves in the title song.

Supported by massive touring, 2024 is going to be a triumph for KORPIKLAANI.

CD/ LP:

1. Kotomaa
2. Tapa sen kun kerkeet
3. Aita
4. Saunaan
5. Mettään
6. Kalmisto

7. Rankarumpu
8. No perkele
9. Viikatelintu
10. Nouse
11. Oraakkelit
12. Harhainen höyhen

BALLANCE OF POWER
"FRESH FROM THE ABYSS"
Progressive Metal
Year:19.04.2024
(MASSACRE RECORDS)

BALANCE OF POWER are back with new band members and a brand-new album!

Founding members Tony Ritchie (bass) and Lionel Hicks (drums) are joined the band's new lead vocalist Hazel Jade as well as guitarists Chris Young and Adam Wardle, who have since taken over the reins from guitarists Chris Masimore and Stoney Wagner, with whom the band worked on and recorded the upcoming album "Fresh From The Abyss".

Largely about life and death, "Fresh From The Abyss" is a collection of songs that either stops the clock and points to a moment in time or stands back and encompasses the vastness of time and space, and living and dying.

CD/ LP:

1. Last Man Down
2. Never Be Here Again
3. Monster
4. Rage Of Ages

5. Abyss
6. Velocity
7. Deadlands
8. One More Time Around The Sun

BLOODBOUND
"THE TALES OF NOSFERATU - 2 DECADES OF BLOOD"
Power Heavy Metal
Year:19.04.2024
(AFM RECORDS)

The Swedish power metal band BLOODBOUND is celebrating its birthday! Twenty years of band existence and twenty years packed with studio albums and a lot of big festival appearances and tours. Now it's time to pay homage to the band with a live album, which with songs like "Battle in the Sky", "The Warlock's Trail" or "Drink with the Gods" has earned them an unthinkable place on the power metal throne and a standing as a great live band. "The Tales of Nosferatu - Two Decades of Blood" is the band's second live album and the package is packed full. In addition to the 2LP version in the matching Blood Splatter design, there will be a CD Earbook, which includes an extra Blu-Ray with various live performances and all the music videos. Both configurations will include a comic, whi...

ATTIC
"RETURN OF THE WITCHFINDER"
Dark Heavy Metal
Year:05.04.2024
(SOULFOOD MUSIC)

"Attic are back with their furious third album entitled 'Return Of The Witchfinder". The german five piece presents dark and sinister heavy metal with a slight black metal influence - fierce and evil as it can possibly get. "This album is both back to the roots and also more extreme compared to 'The Invocation' and 'Sanctimonious'", vocalist Meister Cagliostro states. "It's the traditional Attic sound meeting some new and even heavier elements." Follow the Witchfinder's call or burn at the stake!"

CD/ LP:

1. The Covenant
2. Darkest Rites
3. Hailstorm And Tempest
4. The Thief's Candle
5. Return Of The Witchfinder
6. Offerings To Baalberith
7. Azrael
8. Up In The Castle
9. The Baleful Baron
10. Synodus Horrenda

JINJER
"LIVE IN LOS ANGELES"
Female Heavy Metal/ Metalcore
Year:17.05.2024
(NAPALM RECORDS)

Experience JINJER live in Los Angeles with their first official live DVD/BluRay!Ukraine’s JINJER are inarguably one of modern metal's hottest and most exciting bands active today. Through their relentless hard work, matchless talent and non-stop touring, the four-piece has manifested its standing as one of the best live acts to date, gaining them a fiercely loyal, rabid fanbase and audience of millions of people at the biggest festivals worldwide - such as Hellfest, Rock am Ring, Graspop Metal Meeting, Download Festival and Rocklahoma USA, plus sold out headline shows across Europe and North America. Bringing their intense stage show and trademark sound to the masses, JINJER will drop their first official live album, Live in Los Angeles, on May 17, 2024.Live in Los Angeles was r...

BAT
"UNDER THE CROOKED CLAW"
Thrash Metal
Year:17.05.2024
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Metal-punk trio BAT have been delivering their own blood-spattered horror since ascending from the underground a decade ago. The brainchild of MUNICIPAL WASTE guitarist Ryan Waste, BAT is the horror-themed cousin of his aforementioned band, with dashes of Motörhead and Venom. BAT pushes the boundaries between heavy metal, punk and rock ‘n’ roll; dynamically all coagulating together into one cohesive dirty sound. Our attraction to horror is visceral and undeniable. So is our love of BAT.

CD/ LP:

01. Una Torcia Illumina Il Ciel
02. Vampyre Lore
03. Rite For Exorcism
04. Streetbanger
05. Just Buried
06. Warshock
07. Horror Vision
08. Battered
09. Revenge of the Wolf
10. Marauders of Doom
11. Electric Warning
12. Bastardized Force
13. Final Strike

MANIC EDEN
"MANIC EDEN 30 ANNIVERS. EDIT."
Hard Rock
Year:12.04.2024
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

    Former Whitesnake members Adrian Vandenberg, Rudy Sarzo, and Tommy Aldridge released Manic Eden album in 1994.    30th anniversary release of Manic Eden release.    Manic Eden album is release on vinyl for the first time!      30 years ago Manic Eden released their first and only album.Manic Eden were a short-lived hard rock band consisting of former members of Whitesnake and Little Caesar. Following David Coverdale's decision to place Whitesnake on indefinite hiatus in the early 1990s, Manic Eden was founded in 1993 and had 3 members of Whitesnake from the Slip of the Tongue- era, Adrian Vandenberg (guitar), Rudy Sarzo (bass) and Tommy Aldridge (drums). Little Caesar vocalist Ron Young was the final piece of th...

DARKNESS
"BLOOD ON CANVAS"
Thrash/ Speed Metal
Year:26.04.2024
(MASSACRE RECORDS)

"Blood On Canvas" is the most ferocious album to date from the thrashers DARKNESS from Essen, Germany. The songs are more aggressive and heavier than anything else in the DARKNESS discography to date.Although it is not a concept album, "Blood On Canvas" is not a mere collection of nine songs created in one period, but a multi-faceted sound painting, painted with the colors of wrath.Musically, DARKNESS deliver the uncompromising and fast thrash metal they have been known for since their debut album "Death Squad" (1987). However, the compositions on this album are more complex and detailed than usual, without losing any of the aggression, heaviness and authenticity.The lyrics are no longer just a description of the madness that determines the course of this world, but get to the heart of the...

CEDRIC BURNSIDE
"HILL COUNTRY LOVE"
Blues
Year:05.04.2024
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

Cedric Burnside previous album, ‘I Be Trying’ from 2022, won a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album!Provogue Records is proud to announce the latest studio album from Grammy-Award Winning Bluesman, Cedric Burnside, entitled ‘Hill Country Love’.To Cedric Burnside, ‘Hill Country Love’ is a culmination of a career that’s already seen astonishing accomplishments and only keeps growing. When Cedric Burnside prepared to record ‘Hill Country Love’, the follow-up to his 2021 Grammy-winning album ‘I Be Trying’, he set up shop in a former legal office located in a row of structures in the seat of Tippah County, a town with 5,000 residents that’s known as the birthplace of the Hill Country Blues style. The fourteen songs on th...

FEUERSCHWANZ
"WARRIORS"
Folk Metal/ Viking Metal
Year:19.04.2024
(NAPALM RECORDS)

"For the first time in English! Celebrating their 20th anniversary, Feuerschwanz releases 2 brand-new English songs and 10 hits rearranged in English".CD/ LP:01    Highlander (English Version)02    The Unholy Grail (feat. Dominum, Orden Ogan)03    The Forgotten Commandment    04    Memento Mori (English Version, feat. Lord of the Lost, Chris Harms) 05    Death on the Dragonship    06    Wardwarf (feat. Francesco Cavalieri)07    Circlepit of Hell    08    Song of Ice and Fire (feat. Patty Gurdy)09    Purgatory    10    Bastard of Asgard    11    SGFRD Dra...

SARCASM
"MOURNINGHOUL"
Thrash/ Death Metal
Year:12.04.2024
(NAPALM RECORDS)

Sarcasm delivers a furious and energetic trip to the early days! Multifaceted entertainment for sophisticated Death Metal freaks!Sarcasm has had a storied career. Originally formed in Sweden in 1987, Sarcasm would release blistering Death Metal throughout the early and mid 90’s. After a shortlived reunion in 1997, they would come back into the fold in 2015 with a new re-designed version of their lineup. Now they return with their new full-length album “Mourninghoul”.“Mourninghoul” is Sarcasm’s fifth album, it was recorded during six months of the last year. Mixed and mastered by Lawrence Mackrory at Rorysound. With the new drummer Jesper Ojala the band has recorded their most dynamic and innovative album to date, while the band keeps evolving and raises ...

DEAD HEAD
"SHADOW SOUL"
Thrash/ Death Metal
Year:29.03.2024
(HAMMERHEART RECORDS)

Über Thrash Metal that might cause serious damage to body, mind & soul. Dead Head celebrates 35th anniversary with “Shadow Soul”!

• 35th anniversary release, proving Dead Head is stronger than ever!
• Recorded by Erwin Hermsen at Toneshed Studio (Trouble, Pestilence, Malevolent Creation) resulting in a crushing Thrash attack.
• Killer artwork by Vladimir Chebakov (Katalepsy, Hidious Divinity).

For fans of: Slayer, Kreator, Sadus, Dark Angel...

CD/ LP:

1. Litany of the Weak
2. Serpents of Fame
3. Caverns of Fate
4. Defiance
5. The Age of Hype
6. The Run
7. Opulent Disruption
8. Dark Emptiness