VANDENBERG
"2020"
Hard Rock/ AOR
Year:29.05.2020
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

 - Vandenberg is famous for being a member of Whitesnake, Vandenberg and Manic Eden. 2020 is an album filled with melody, drive, power and class. All-star line-up incl. the new voice of Hard-Rock Ronnie Romero (RAINBOW), Rudy Sarzo (Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake) on bass, Brian Tichy (Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, Foreigner) on drums.Vandenberg. A name with an illustrious past. Led by master guitarist Adrian Vandenberg, the Dutch foursome released three quality albums during the early to mid-'80s, namely, the self-titled 1982 debut, 'Heading For A Storm' ('83) and 'Alibi' ('85). They achieved commercial success and earned much acclaim. The band toured the US, Japan and Europe playing with the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, KISS, Ru...

THE SLEEP EAZYs JOE BONAMASSA
"EASY TO BUY, HARD TO SELL"
Evergreen/ Blues/ Country
Year:10.04.2020
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

 -     The SLeep EAZYs features a line-up of world-class players: Joe Bonamassa, Anton Fig, Michael Rhodes, Reese Wynans and John Jorgenson. Joe Bonamassa pays tribute to some of the great players that influenced him as a young guitarist!On April 10, 2020, Provogue Records will release the first album by The SLeep EAZYs, a band with Joe Bonamassa, Anton Fig, Michael Rhodes, Reese Wynans and John Jorgenson with special guests popping in and out throughout the album.On "Easy To Buy, Hard To Sell", Joe digs deep into the history of country, rock & roll and jazz, to pay tribute to some of the great players that influenced him as a young guitarist, like Hank Garland, Jimmy Bryant, Link Wray, Tony Joe White, King Curtis, an...

DEE SNIDER
"FOR THE LOVE OF METAL - LIVE!"
Heavy Metal
Year:31.07.2020
(NAPALM RECORDS)

For The Love Of Metal Live isn’t your average live performance DVD/Blu-Ray collection – legendary heavy metal frontman, actor and radio personality DEE SNIDER has combined behind-the-scenes footage, interview clips, insightful personal commentary and electrifying live performances to create an entertaining experience that every heavy metal fan needs in their collection! The DVD/Blu-Ray and accompanying live album (available in various formats) features audio captured from several DEE SNIDER festival performances worldwide – from the United States to Europe, Australia and beyond! Featuring tracks from Snider’s solo catalog like “I Am The Hurricane” and “For The Love Of Metal”, Twisted Sister favorites such as “I Wanna Rock” and ...

PARADISE LOST
"OBSIDIAN"
Doom/ Gothic Metal
Year:15.05.2020
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

DEFINETLY A JEWEL IN THEIR MUSICAL HISTORY!Obsidian… dark, reflective and black: it’s a pretty decent description of the music that PARADISE LOST have been making over the last 32 years, even though this most resilient of British metal bands have stoically refused to be pinned down to one easily defined formula. Powered by a lust for creativity and a stout devotion to haunting heaviness, PARADISE LOST have defied the odds by coming back stronger than ever over the past decade.“We’re doing really well right now,” says guitarist and co-founder Greg Mackintosh. “The last few albums have gone down well and we’ve gradually moved back up the festival bills. But for me, I think about it more in terms of being relaxed and conten...

GRAVE DIGGER
"FIELDS OF BLOOD"
Power Heavy Metal
Year:29.05.2020
(NAPALM RECORDS)

With metal anthems like 'Heavy Metal Breakdown', GRAVE DIGGER are one of the most influential and pioneering bands of the German heavy metal scene since the early 80s, and 2020 will celebrate the 40th anniversary of these Teutonic metal masters!  The ethos of the band has not changed, and yet GRAVE DIGGER sound modern and timeless like never before. On their 20th studio album, the band around frontman Chris Boltendahl continues their epic Highlands story. Fields of Blood is the logic consequence of a legendary trilogy and an auditory battle of unique traditional metal! Drifting riff masterpieces such as the stoic “All For The Kingdom”, or the epic anthem “Lions Of The Sea”, promise earworm and neck muscle training, while Fields Of Blood takes us in...

ALESTORM
"CURSE OF THE CRYSTAL COCONUT"
Pirate Heavy Metal
Year:29.05.2020
(NAPALM RECORDS)

The “Pirate Metal Drinking Crew” is back to show all the filthy landlubbers what they’re made of. ALESTORM’s sixth long-player, Curse Of The Crystal Coconut, will be released on May 29, 2020, via Napalm Records! Eleven tracks presented in ALESTORM’s typical unadulterated, chaotic fashion will pull the rug out from under your feet. Adding to that are guest performances from musical greats like Ally Storch of Subway to Sally (violin on the entire album) and Captain Yarrface of Rumahoy! A must-have, riff-laden anthem at any party, “Treasure Chest Party Quest” takes the listener onto a journey into the depths of Tortugas darkest taverns and Christopher Bowes’ unique sense of humor. The smashing, lively track “Chomp Chomp”, featurin...

VOODOO GODS
"THE DIVINITY OF BLOOD"
Thrash/ Death Metal
Year:15.05.2020
(NAPALM RECORDS)

When death metal icons like George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher, guitar virtuoso Viktor Smolski, bass titan Jean Baudin and guitar god Jacek Hiro join together to form a death metal band, it reads like the membership list of the Metal Hall of Fame. This is the case with VOODOO GODS and therefore this band can be called a Death Metal Supergroup without exaggeration. After their first EP "Shrunken Head" (2008) - at that time still with Nergal (Behemoth) on the mic - and the debut album "Anticipation for Blood Leveled in Darkness", the second studio album "The Divinity Of Blood" of this all-star band (which attaches great importance not to be called a side project) will be released on May 15th, 2020 via Reaper Entertainment. The album was produced by KING DIAMOND's Andy La Rocqu...

BENIGHTED
"OBSCENE REPRESSED"
Death Metal/ Grind
Year:10.04.2020
(SEASON OF MIST)

 - Ninth album by the French leader of Brutal Death Metal BENIGHTED. Featuring special guests such as Jamey Jasta (HATEBREED) on “Implore The Negative", Sebastian Grihm (CYTOTOXIN) on “The Starving Beast” and Karsten Jäger (DISBELIEF) on “Mom, I Love You The Wrong Way”. Recorded mixed at Kohlekeller Studios by Kristian “Kohle” Kohlmannslehner (ABORTED, POWERWOLF, CREMATORY...). Mastered by Tom Porcell (MIKE OLDFIELD, DYMYTRY). Artwork by Grindesign (ABORTED, KREATOR, GWAR, METALLICA).Madness reigns yet again! BENIGHTED deliver a new radical soundtrack to these savage times. With 'Obscene Repressed', the band is ready to continue their razor-sharp journey, again revolving around the human psyche, s...

WARBRINGER
"WEAPONS OF TOMORROW"
Thrash Metal
Year:24.04.2020
(NAPALM RECORDS)

Tremendous riffs and deadly grooves, the unmistakable WARBRINGER sound! Weapons of Tomoorrow – Thrash Metal in a class of its own!Weapons of Tomorrow is poised to be a new-age metal standard, thundering forward with modern influences while staying true to the unmistakable sound of WARBRINGER! The sixth studio album by the Californian thrash metal overlords will stir up the heavy metal scene with an impressive the ultimate headbanger anthem. Weapons of Tomorrow is thrash metal in a class of its own!balancing act between power, heavy and the finest thrash metal. With insanely fast and brutal riffs, as soon as the dynamic, energetic opening track "Firepower Kills” begins, the listener is given a perfect impression as to where this beast of an album will lead them &m...

DESTRUCTION
"BORN THO THRASH - LIVE IN GERMANY"
Thrash Metal
Year:17.07.2020
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Legendary German Thrash Metal band DESTRUCTION serve us with the first live album of the strongest line up they ever had. It was the release show for their last studio album „Born To Perish“ at Parti.San festival Germany 2019. Definitely an atmospheric highlight from Party.San festival just an raw and authentic piece of pure Thrash Metal.DIGI:01. Curse The Gods (Live in Germany)02. Nailed To The Cross (Live in Germany)03. Born To Perish (Live in Germany)04. Mad Butcher (Live in Germany)05. Life Without Sense (Live in Germany)06. Betrayal (Live in Germany)07. Total Desaster (Live in Germany)08. The Butcher Strikes Back (Live in Germany)09. Thrash Till Death (Live in Germany)10. Bestial Invasion (Liv...

CRO-MAGS
"IN THE BEGINNING"
NY Hardcore
Year:19.06.2020
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

After nearly two decades, 2019 saw the triumphant return of the CRO-MAGS and new music with the release of two back-to-back EPs - »Don’t Give In« and »From The Grave«. Today, the band delivers “a thrashing new single”, as described by Consequence of Sound, with ‘The Final Test’.The track is just a taste of what’s to come from the band’s upcoming full-length album, »In The Beginning«, available worldwide on the 19th of June 2020 via Arising Empire/ NB.DIGI:01. Don’t Give In02. Drag You Under03. No One’s Victim04. From The Grave05. No One’s Coming06. PTSD07. The Final Test08. One Bad Decision09. Two Hours1...

AVERSIONS CROWN
"HELL WILL COME FOR US ALL"
Death Metal
Year:12.06.2020
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

PULVERIZING NEW ALBUM FROM AUSTR-ALIEN DEATHCORE CRUSHERS AVERSIONS CROWN!

Like a cataclysmic storm making landfall, the brand new album Hell Will Come For Us All from crushing Brisbane outfit Aversions Crown is here to destroy everything in its path.

CD:

01. The Soil
02. Born In The Gutter
03. Paradigm
04. Caught In The System
05. Hell Will Come For Us All
06. Scourge Of Violence
07. Hymn Of Annihilation
08. Sorrow Never Sleeps
09. The Final Judgement

LINE-UP:

MARK POIDA | vocals
CHRIS COUGAN |guitar
JAYDEN MASON | drums
MICK JEFFERY | guitar

POWERWOLF
"BEST OF THE BLESSED"
Power Heavy Metal
Year:03.07.2020
(NAPALM RECORDS)

“Preachers of the Night“ (2013) chartete auf #01 der DE “Blessed & Possessed“ (2015) chartete auf #03 der DE “The Metal Mass - Live“ (2016) chartete auf #04 der DE “The Sacrament Of Sin” (2018) chartete auf #01 der DE2019 marked the 15th anniversary of the currently most successful modern heavy metal band in Germany: 15 years of POWERWOLF, 15 years of the one and only metal mass! Of course, the ultimate high priests of heavy metal are celebrating their triumphant history in glorious style. Best Of The Blessed isn't just another Best Of album. Featuring 16 metal anthems the band is known and loved for, Best Of The Blessed will include several brand new versions of hits such as We Drink Your Blood, Were...

NIGHTWISH
"HUMAN. :II: NATURE."
Symphonic/ Folk Metal
Year:10.04.2020
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

When Finnish sextet NIGHTWISH announce a new studio album people tend to take notice. They know that something special is brewing. Band leader Tuomas Holopainen once said that whenever he creates a new record he has the intention of capturing something rare and unique, a monument and a true album experience. In 2020 he’s certain to achieve his objective once again. NIGHTWISH have completed the recordings for their 9th studio album and are proud to announce the title, artwork (above) and tracklisting. ‘HUMAN. :II: NATURE.’ will be released on 10th April 2020. The long-awaited record, following 2015’s critically-acclaimed ‘Endless Forms Most Beautiful’, will be a double album containing 9 tracks on the main CD and one long track, divided into eight chap...

ENSIFERUM
"THALASSIC"
Viking Folk Metal
Year:10.07.2020
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

Ensiferum are a true powerhouse when it comes to folk-inspired melodic death metal, something they hammer home more resolutely than ever with eighth full-length Thalassic. The title translating from ancient Greek as "of or relating to seas", it's a suitably huge and wide-ranging collection that incorporates orchestrations and traditional folk instrumentation alongside the roaring guitars, bass, and drums. "I think we managed to take another step ahead musically and we also utilized the best parts of our old sound," states bassist/vocalist Sami Hinkka. "There are lots of Ensiferum's trademarks: beautiful folkish melodies, ass-kicking riffs, a nice mix of different vocals and great singalong choruses." The addition of new keyboard player/lead clean vocalist Pekka Montin also "re...