MORBID SAINT
"SWALLOWED BY HELL"
Thrash/ Death Metal
Year:09.02.2024
(High Roller Records)

It's quite a sensation that another MORBID SAINT album is being released these days, more than 30 years after their second LP "Destruction System" was recorded but not finished until its official release recently. However, the prospect of writing new music in their unique death/thrash metal style was one of the main reasons why the core members reunited in 2010 in the first place. During their first active phase from 1984 to '94, the band was far from realizing their potential, especially with regard to their groundbreaking first record "Spectrum of Death" (1990). The new work was the result of a long-distance creative exchange, with all members bouncing ideas off each other to fire off a barrage of ten extreme metal tracks the likes of which are rarely heard today - a...

OMEN
"ESCAPE TO NOWHERE 35TH ANNIVERS. EDIT."
True Heavy Metal
Year:26.01.2024
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

Escape to Nowhere" by Omen was released in 1988 under the Metal Blade Records banner and was the band's fourth studio album.The album features Omen's signature heavy metal sound, blending elements of hard rock into a distinctive musical experience. Widely recognized for its musicianship, "Escape to Nowhere" received positive reviews and solidified Omen's presence in the thriving metal scene of the 1980s. "Escape to Nowhere" remains a central landmark in Omen's discography and contributes to the band's lasting influence on the landscape of 1980s heavy metal.To mark the album's 35th anniversary, it is being re-released in a variety of formats, including CD with 2 bonus tracks and limited edition colored vinyl, so that fans can continue to enjoy Omen's contr...

MONKEY3
"WELCOME TO THE MACHINE"
Instrumental Psych Rock
Year:23.02.2024
(NAPALM RECORDS)

Instrumental psych rock frontrunners MONKEY3 herald 2024 with a true album highlight of the new year. Following Live at Freak Valley (2017) and their latest album, Sphere (2019), February 23, 2024 will see the Lausanne-based four-piece return with their cosmic new studio offering, entitled Welcome To The Machine, via Napalm Records.Welcome To The Machine’s musical themes are inspired by movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Matrix, Sunshine, Solaris and 1984, while unveiling an intense mankind vs. machines story that instantly launches the listener into deep space. Right from its first tones, the album immediately emerges as a perfect soundtrack to a journey into the unknown. Tracks such as the official album single ""Rackman"" perfectly showcase how MONKEY3, who forme...

LUCIFER
"V"
Doom Heavy Metal
Year:26.01.2024
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Sweden based heavy rockers LUCIFER return with their magnificent fifth album "Lucifer V" which blends influences from Blue Öyster Cult and Black Sabbath with the melodic and enticing voice of singer Johanna Sadonis. After hundreds of shows, including select dates with Ghost in '23, here comes one of 2024's finest pieces of hard rock!

CD/ LP:

1. Fallen Angel
2. At The Mortuary
3. Riding Reaper
4. Slow Dance In A Crypt

5. A Coffin Has No Silver Lining
6. Maculate Heart
7. The Dead Don't Speak
8. Strange Sister
9. Nothing Left To Lose But My Life

SAXON
"HELL, FIRE AND DAMNATION"
Heavy Metal
Year:19.01.2024
(SILVER LINING)

SAXON UNLEASH HELL, FIRE AND DAMNATION Saxon proudly release their latest album Hell, Fire And Damnation on January 19th 2024, and when internationally-renowned actor Brian Blessed OBE delivers a proclamation for opening track, “The Prophecy”, expectations are automatically high. Have no fear and make no mistake, Saxon meet and exceed them on their 24th studio release, creating a superlative British Heavy Metal classic which strides the perfect line between confident, current power, and gloriously irreverent flexing of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal muscle which Saxon co-created. There is supreme confidence in every performance. Biff Byford delivers his richest vocals in years, Nigel Glockler and Nibbs Carter on drums and bass respectively lay down the rhythmic law with th...

ROBBY KRIEGER
"ROBBY KRIEGER AND THE SOUL SAVAGES"
Blues/ Jazz
Year:19.01.2024
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

    Robby Krieger is the legendary guitarist and songwriter of The Doors and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.    Since the 1970s, Robby has emerged a successful jazz-fusion guitarist with a well-received catalog of solo albums, including the Grammy-nominated record, Singularity and this first with his new band Robby Krieger And The Soul Savages!Robby Krieger knows that when you assemble the right bunch of musicians, and trust in the creative process, magic happens. As a founding member of The Doors, the guitarist intuitively understands the beauty of free-flowing collaboration and telepathic group interplay. This is evident on Robby’s self-titled debut release from his new band, Robby Krieger And The Soul Savages, out January 19th through The Players Club/ Ma...

METALITE
"EXPEDITION ONE"
Female Heavy Metal
Year:19.01.2024
(AFM RECORDS)

The Swedish melodic power metal act Metalite is back with their fourth album ‘Expedition One’ which is the theme of a fictitious story about life on our planet in the year 2055. The ‘transparent citizen’ has become a bitter reality, with physical and mental health conditions increasingly determining our lives. Headed by five ‘commanders’, a renegade team consisting of former intelligence service and military personnel plus breakaway tech company executives is planning a survival expedition to distant planets. Their mission: to transport mankind from our ruined planet to a new world, in the hope that new life will develop. 'Expedition One' will be released on Jan. 19, 2024 as an elegantly colored Ltd. double vinyl, as CD-digipak as well as digit...

THE RODS
"RATTLE THE CAGE"
Heavy Metal
Year:19.01.2024
(MASSACRE RECORDS)

Heavy, dark, deep, insightful, and maybe even a bit more "inciteful" than ever before: "Rattle The Cage" is THE RODS at their incendiary best!Lyrically, they've taken a cue from David "Rock" Feinstein's cousin, Ronnie James Dio, with songs like "Now And Forever", "Cry Out Loud", "Play It Loud" as well as the title track, providing the listener with a similar sense of hope and resiliency in the face of an ever-changing world. Musically, the band is tighter than ever!Founding members David "Rock" Feinstein (vocals, guitars) and Carl Canedy (drums) are joined by new bassist Freddy Villano (Quiet Riot, Widowmaker), and the results are simply sublime. The songs are rhythmically tighter, yet more musically unbound, the grooves heavier, and the melodies more dynamic.Mixed and mastered b...

SCANNER
"THE COSMIC RACE"
Thrash/ Speed Metal
Year:12.01.2024
(SOULFOOD MUSIC)

The time has come for a new Scanner album after almost a decade. As the previous dictography almost imperatively demands, "The Cosmic Race" has become a concept album: survival on Earth has become increasingly difficult, natural disasters are becoming more frequent and military conflicts have reached their peak, large parts of the continents are nuclear-contaminated. Life is concentrated in a few large cities, and the confinement and heat in them has become unbearable. The Scanner (a mix of human and android) fetches some of the humans to take them to a habitable planet called Terrion in another galaxy. The long journey ends successfully. But even in the new world, humans have to defend themselves against aliens and invaders from other planets and start all over again. They want...

CIRITH UNGOL
"DARK PARADE"
Heavy Metal
Year:20.10.2023
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

- “Cirith Ungol stand for heavy metal with soul and depth, its class is unique, and they are considered as pioneers of the scene and inspiration for armies of bands.” – BRAVEWORDS- “The vocals of Tim Baker are right up there with Dickinson and Halford..." - PURE GRAIN AUDIOFew bands in the history of the heavy metal underground have a story as remarkable, improbable, or uplifting as that of CIRITH UNGOL. Formed in Ventura, California in the early 1970s, CIRITH UNGOL created a sound the world had never experienced before. Rather than passively channelling their influences, the band was driven to forge an altogether heavier, darker, more apocalyptic sound. It was obscure and arcane, mysterious and eccentric, epic and expansive, but most of all, unfailingly, bone-crush...

EARTHSIDE
"LET THE TRUTH SPEAK"
Symphonic Progressive Rock/ Metal
Year:17.11.2023
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

   Earthside - Let The Truth Speak is 80 minutes of music extravaganza from heavy post- rock instrumentals to cinematic orchestral pieces and everything in between    Let The Truth Speak features a lot of international guests, such as Daniel Tompkins of TesseracT, Baard Kolstad of Leprous, AJ Channer of Fire From The Gods, Sandbox Percussion, Keturah, VikKe & Duo Scorpio, Gennady Tkachenko-Papizh and Pritam Adhikary of Aarlon.If truth is so important—so hallowed that we hold it as perhaps our most sacred tenet—then why do we go to such great lengths to deny it the moment it makes us uncomfortable or goes against our narrative?     In 2015 four young and irresponsibly ambitious musicians released their heartfelt understanding of t...

DIMMU BORGIR
"INSPIRATO PROFANUS"
Black Metal
Year:08.12.2023
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

After their last two successful albums Abrahadabra and Eonian and the remixed version of Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, DIMMU BORGIR herald their 30-year legacy by releasing, together for the first time, a collection of their cover songs. Inspiratio Profanus features a cover of Black Metal (VENOM), the genre-defining Perfect Strangers (DEEP PURPLE), fan favourite Burn In Hell (TWISTED SISTER), and electrifying renditions from the legendary CELTIC FROST, as well as other immensely influential artists!

CD/ LP:

1 Black Metal
2 Satan My Master
3 Dead Men Don’t Rape
4 Nocturnal Fear

5 Burn In Hell
6 Perfect Strangers
7 Metal Heart
8 Nocturnal Fear (Celtically Processed)

LINE UP:

Shagrath / Vocals
Silenoz / Rhythm Guitar
Galder / Lead Guitar
Daray / Drums
Gerlioz / Keyboard

EXIT EDEN
"FEMMES FATALE"
Symphonic Female Heavy Metal
Year:12.01.2024
(NAPALM RECORDS)

When Clémentine Delauney (Visions of Atlantis), Anna Brunner (League of Distortion), Marina La Torraca (Phantom Elite) and Amanda Somerville came together to form EXIT EDEN, topped by the release of their first album, Rhapsodies in Black, in summer 2017, it became immediately clear that this combination would be powerful and magical alike! With their debut entering the German album charts at #15 and rocking the stage at the legendary Wacken Open Air, these four outstanding and independent female vocalists proved how symphonic heaviness can go hand in hand with pop music - dressing well-known classics in a yet unheard soundscape, evoking more than just a cover album! Now, more than six years later, EXIT EDEN are back to mesmerize audiences with their second offering, illustrating str...

THERION
"LEVIATHAN III"
Symphonic Heavy Metal
Year:15.12.2023
(NAPALM RECORDS)

A perfect collision of Metal and Classical Music!Swedish symphonic metal legends THERION have returned to deliver another masterpiece - fulfilling the Leviathan trilogy. With more than 35 years under their belts, the band around mastermind Christofer Johnsson was one of the first to combine metal with symphonic and orchestral elements back in the 90s, and are considered one of the most style-defining founders of symphonic metal today. Now, the band continues their legacy by releasing the third installment of the Leviathan trilogy, Leviathan III, out December 15, 2023 via Napalm Records. The band continues with their versatile and style-combining musical journey, which is also formed by the fundamental line of its predecessors Leviathan and Leviathan II.Overall, the compositions lean toward...

SHYLMAGOGHNAR
"CONVERGENCE"
Black Metal
Year:10.11.2023
(NAPALM RECORDS)

Atmospheric black metal one-man-show SHYLMAGOGHNAR establishes itself as one of the most enthralling acts in extreme music!Convergence is a stirring, emotional and deep journey - never afraid of genre borders and always balanced between the light and dark, the beauty and horror, life and death. Some bands need countless records and members to create a masterpiece, while Shylmagoghnar already unleashes it with album number three, and one that will ultimately establish this one-man-show as one of the most enthralling acts in extreme music!CD/ 2LP:1 – I Hear the Mountain Weep2 – Follow the River3 – Threshold4 – Strata5 – Gardens of the Erased6 – Egregore7 – Infinion8 – Convergence9 – The Sea10 – BecomingLINE-UP::Nimblkorg: Guitars, d...