VISIONS OF ATLANTIS
"PIRATES II – ARMADA" Symphonic Female Heavy Metal
Year:05.07.2024 (NAPALM RECORDS)
The pirates of VISIONS OF ATLANTIS are about to take listeners on their heaviest symphonic adventure yet with their new studio album, titled "Pirates II – Armada", set for release on July 5, 2024 via Napalm Records. The new successor to their high-charting previous release, "Pirates" (2022),is set as high as the waves cresting the Jolly Roger — taking everything that has been achieved to date to another level. With the second chapter of the pirates' saga, VISIONS OF ATLANTIS prove that they are more than ready to claim the crown of symphonic metal.CD:01 To Those Who Choose to Fight02 The Land of the Free03 Monsters04 Tonight I’m Alive05 Armada06 The Dead of the...
EMBRYONIC AUTOPSY
"ORIGINS OF THE DEFORMED" Death Metal
Year:14.06.2024 (MASSACRE RECORDS)
"Origins Of The Deformed" by EMBRYONIC AUTOPSY is an album for fans of brutal death metal the way it is meant to be: Sick, heavy, and relentless! Guest musicians on the album include James Murphy (ex-Death, ex-Obituary, ex-Testament), Jack Owen (Six Feet Under, ex-Cannibal Corpse, ex-Deicide), and Terrance Hobbs (Suffocation).Guest-musicians:- James Murphy (ex-Death, ex-Obituary, ex-Testament): Guest guitar solos on "Orgies Of The Inseminated", "Cleopatra's Spawn" and "Carnivorous Abortion"- Jack Owen (Six Feet Under, ex-Cannibal Corpse, ex-Deicide): Guest guitar solos on "Dissolving In Acidic Afterbirth" and "Dripping In The Vaginal Nectar"- Terrance Hobbs (Suffocation): Guest guitar solo on "Carnivorous Abortion".CD/ LP:1. Dripping In The Vaginal Nectar2. Orgies Of The Inseminated3....
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
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 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...