BROTHERS OF METAL
"EMBLAS SAGA"
Power Heavy Metal
Year:10.01.2020
(AFM RECORDS)

- Exceptional Swedish power/heavy metal newcommers Brothers Of Metal return with their second album. 25 million song streams of their debut album "Prophecy of Ragnarök" made Brothers Of Metal instantly one of the most successful European metal acts.-Tthe unique eight-member line up guarantees the perfect blend of Heavy Metal with a Pagan/Viking- and Folk-Touch. Absolute unique characteristic: Brothers Of Metal consist of three singers (among them singer Ylva Eriksson), three guitarists, bassist and drummer ...  for fans of Sabaton, Powerwolf, Manowar.The Gods have finally answered the call of true metal! A new Brothers Of Metal album is on the horizon. Every song on the album is a heavy metal hymn and will thrill new fans and...

MY DYING BRIDE
"THE GHOST OF ORION"
Doom Metal
Year:06.03.2020
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

AND THE STORY CONTINUES...MY DYING BRIDE‘s three decades of misery almost came to an end several years ago. Following 2015’s universally lauded »Feel the Misery« album, vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe’s daughter, just five years old at the time, was diagnosed with cancer. Shocked and heartbroken, Stainthorpe put all band activities on hold while he, his immediate family, and MY DYING BRIDE put their collective energies into eradicating what Stainthorpe called, “the cruellest of God's bitter and loveless creations.” The high hurdles, however, didn’t stop with cancer. In 2018, returning original member and guitarist Calvin Robertshaw texted his departure, effective immediately. No reason was given or explanation provided to anyon...

SHAKRA
"MAD WORLD"
Melodic Heavy Metal/ AOR
Year:28.02.2020
(AFM RECORDS)

SHAKRA - 25 YEARS!For a quarter of a century SHAKRA has been part of the music circus. Only someone who's been in a band before, knows how fragile und exhausting this kind of social fabric is. 25 years is a very long time and only a few acts can make this distance. SHAKRA made it and it doesn't look like they'll give up sometime soon. Quite the contrary!Guitarist, Thom Blunier, points out: "I'm extremely proud and thankful, that this band is stil existing after 25 years of Rock'n'Roll. [...] I am ready for the next 25 years!"The band has experienced several highs and lows together, survived turbulences and they also kept their eyes dead on target. This is also reflected in their multiple and regular chart entries in Germany (e.g. #53, #69,...

BURZUM
"THULEAN MYSTERIES"
Atmospheric Black Metal
Year:13.03.2020
(PLASTIC HEAD DISTRIBUTION)

- New album from the legendary and notorious BURZUM. Soundtrack to Burzum mastermind Varg Vikernes’ own fantasy role playing game MYRAROG."Thulêan Mysteries was made passively, in the sense that I never intended to make a new album; I just made music every now and then and at one point realized that I actually had enough to release it all on an album. When asked to do so I figured: why not? It was a good idea. The music is a little bit of this and a little bit of that, transcending any genre, and perhaps belonging to many different genres. The intention with it was always to create a certain atmosphere, often related to an idea or a situation. Since my true passion has never been music, but actually tabletop role-playing games, I figured I should...

MAGNUM
"THE SERPENT RINGS"
Hard Rock/ AOR
Year:17.01.2020
(SPV)

Magnum guitarist Tony Clarkin is a man who seems to never stop working. He is responsible for writing all the material released by the band, and on top of that he produces their albums from the very first demo to the final mix. “As soon as an album is finished, I start to collect new ideas,” he explains. “That’s how I’ve worked since the early seventies, for me that’s the ideal method.” On their latest album The Serpent Rings (available on Steamhammer/SPV from 17 January 2020 on CD, double vinyl LP, limited box set and for digital download), Clarkin and Magnum’s other original member, vocalist Bob Catley, prove all over again just how perfectly this established system works. The new album, The Serpent Rings, presents Magnum the...

DEADRISEN
"DEADRISEN"
Melodic Power Progressive Metal
Year:13.03.2020
(AFM RECORDS)

- Debut album by American progressive power metal band DeadRisen combines classic power and progressive metal sound with bluesy and latin-flamenco tones. Lineup features renowned Symphony X bassist Mike LePond.
"DeadRisen is an explosive cocktail of older musicians with young new school guys. Together they create a metal sound that can go from blues, to classical, to thrash and beyond. The band also incorporates unique kinds of music such as Latin-flamenco overtones, but without losing heaviness. DeadRisen is the brainchild of the respected Rivera/Bomma guitarist Rod Rivera and the renowned Symphony X bassist Mike LePond who played on some of the most important albums in metal history. The lineup is completed with some of today’s finest musicia...

THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA
"AEROMANTIC"
Hard Rock/ AOR
Year:28.02.2020
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA are ready to take it even further with the release of their new album »Aeromantic« on 28th February 2020. This time, they’ve gone back to earth, or at least to somewhere 10,000 ft. above the earth, with an airborne soap opera about the inevitable heartbreak, the endless longing, the futile nostalgia and the occasional moments of euphoria you experience when you’re always leaving where you should have been going, traveling to where you should have been.»Aeromantic« is a decadent, melancholic but life affirming assault on all of your senses. THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA has expanded their sound, and »Aeromantic« is an album that contains all your guilty pleasures, everything from mind-melting hard rock, s...

WISHBONE ASH
"COAT OF ARMS"
Hard Rock
Year:28.02.2020
(SPV)

- WISHBONE ASH celebrates this year their 50th anniversary!!! The band released legendary albums like “Argus”, “There’s The Rub” and “Live Dates”. The band, still led by original member Andy Powell, was a huge influence for Iron Maiden’s bass player Steve Harris. The new album is back to the roots and the first one since 2014.
Their latest release Coat Of Arms forges an arc to all these offerings, featuring Wishbone Ash’s characteristic twin lead guitar parts, their haunting melodies and diverse stylistic facets, while at the same time imbuing the scene with a breath of fresh air. Coat Of Arms will be available on Steamhammer/SPV from 28 February 2020 on CD, vinyl double LP and for digital downloa...

SERIOUS BLACK
"SUITE 226"
Power Heavy Metal
Year:31.01.2020
(AFM RECORDS)

- Highly anticipated studioalbum no. 4 of German-American super band. The members have earned their stripes in bands like Firewind, Rhapsody, Tad Morose, Eedenbridge, Vision Of Atlantis und Dreamscape.- Ruthless riffs meets catchy melodies, driven by a manic rhythm section, and Urban Breed´s top-rated unleashed vocals add the necessary amount of insanity. Mastering by Mika Jussila / Finnvox (Delain, Stratovarious, Children Of Bodom).For eighteen months it was really quiet about SERIOUS BLACK, a comparatively long time for a band that, since its inception in 2015, let a maximum of one year pass until the release of a new album. After three successful predecessors and more than 120 shows worldwide, they used their well-deserved tim...

RAGE
"WINGS OF RAGE"
Power Heavy Metal
Year:10.01.2020
(SPV)

Wings Of Rage, the latest offering by the three-piece, consists of all this and much more. Peavy and his colleagues Marcos Rodriguez (guitar) and Vassilios Maniatopoulos (drums) have succeeded in summarising the diversity and experience of almost 37 years of band history in twelve topical songs, starting a new chapter at the same time. “The material on Wings Of Rage is as colourful as Rage’s history,” confirms Peavy, “Although it’s always connected with the distinct evolvement of our strengths, in other words: with a contemporary style of playing and an ultramodern sound.” Wings Of Rage will be available from 10 January 2020 on Steamhammer/SPV on Digipak CD and double vinyl LP, in a limited box set and as digital stream/download. 18 October 2019 will ...

ME AND THAT MAN
"NEW MAN, NEW SONGS, SAME SHIT, VOL.1"
Dark Gothic Folk Blues
Year:27.03.2020
(NAPALM RECORDS)

Three years after their initial debut, ME AND THAT MAN – Nergal’s dark folk/blues solo project – have returned with their sophomore release, New Man, New Songs, Same Shit Vol. 1, set to be released on March 27, 2020 via Napalm Records. Upon release, ME AND THAT MAN’s debut album, Songs of Love and Death, cast a spell on the world. Now, the mysterious collective has surpassed themselves with their bewitching new offer – consisting of menacing lyrics atop unfiltered blues, gothic-laced folk, outlaw country and Americana-influenced anthems.The enthralling album visits a completely new spectrum of dark desert vibes and sees noteable heavy music icons such as Corey Taylor (Slipknot), Brent Hinds (Mastodon), Matt Heafy (Trivium) and Siver Høyem...

DIABULUS IN MUSICA
"EUPHONIC ENTROPY"
Symphonic Melodic Female Metal
Year:14.02.2020
(NAPALM RECORDS)

Power ballads, beautiful melodies and a lot of emotions – Symphonic Metal that will hit you close to the heart!Sometimes life itself can be the most beautiful inspiration for an artist. DIABULUS IN MUSICA singer Zuberoa Aznárez and her husband, keyboardist Gorka Elso, decided to fill their new album Euphonic Entropy with all the wonderful, yet chaotic emotions a new life brings. DIABULUS IN MUSICA’s fifth and fully self-produced album mirrors the changes and blossoming beauty in the lives of the two band leaders after the birth of their second child and melts everything into thunderous and highly passionate symphonic metal. The album is bursting with power ballads, beautiful melodies and emotions. Songs like the infectious and ultra-melodic “Otoi&rdq...

CREMATORY
"UNBROKEN"
Melodic Death Metal/ Gothic
Year:06.03.2020
(NAPALM RECORDS)

CREMATORY remains Unbroken – a somber ode to transience, love and pain!Welcome to the Panopticon of darkness! With Unbroken, the German pioneers of European Gothic Metal, CREMATORY, dare to perform a tightrope act in the somber void. 15 energetic tracks within brutal riffs, deep growls and tight drum grooves prove the band’s diversity — even after almost 30 years in business. The concise influences of Neue Deutsche Härte turn Unbroken into a bravura-piece in an industrial guise. The opening track of the album takes the listener into a darkly-nuanced soundscape, appeals to the strength and self-determination of the band and their fans, and allures with a certain kind of hymn character. The most contemplative CREMATORY album to date closes with the final...

ANVIL
"LEGAL AT LAST"
Heavy Metal
Year:14.02.2020
(AFM RECORDS)

- 'Legal At Last' is the impressive new statement of a band that stands for the same values in 2020 as they did when it was founded in autumn 1978. Anvil enjoy cult status since four+ decades and have been heavily influential to legendary acts such das Metallica and Guns'n'Roses. Everybody in the metal scene knows Anvil, at the latest from their documentary 'The Story Of Anvil' (2009).- "Legal At Last" was produced by Martin ‚Mattes’ Pfeiffer (e.g. U.D.O.). Mixed and mastered by Jörg Uken (Soundlodge Studio, e.g. Stormwarrior, Dew-Scented).When it comes to virtues such as endurance, unconditional commitment and a thoroughly down-to-earth attitude, Anvil are the measure of all things. Like ...

SUICIDE SILENCE
"BECOME THE HUNTER"
Death Metal
Year:14.02.2020
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

The impact of southern CA’s SUICIDE SILENCE on extreme metal is undeniable. Since the band’s inception in 2004 and the subsequent release of genre defining tracks like “You Only Live Once”, “Unanswered” and “You Can’t Stop Me” SUICIDE SILENCE took deathcore to enormous crowds selling hundreds of thousands of records and playing enormous stages around the world. Nuclear Blast is excited to announce the release of the upcoming SUICIDE SILENCE record “Become the Hunter” on Feb 14, 2020!“Become The Hunter” was produced by Steve Evetts (THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, SEPULTURA, HATEBREED) at The Omen Room and mixed by Josh Wilbur (TRIVIUM, LAMB OF GOD, GOJIRA). Ted Jensen (PANTERA, DEFTONES, SLIPKNOT) maste...