AVANTASIA
"A PARANORMAL EVENING WITH THE MOONFLOWER SOCIETY"
Melodic Power Heavy Metal
Year:21.10.2022
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Darkness descends over the hall, the curtain rises. Dear audience, welcome to the wondrous otherworld of AVANTASIA!Tobias Sammet is back , with passion, magnificient energy and a musical monument of epic proportions. “A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society” marks AVANTASIA’s ninth album and will be released on October 21st, 2022. Expect eleven magical and powerful songs featuring numerous prestigious guest stars on one consistent adventurous opus that offers fast-paced heavy metal, powerful ballads, bombastic rock, and sophisticated arrangements. “I have been personally involved so deeply in every little aspect and detail of this album, that you can’t get an album any more personal or closer to my vision than this one.” Tobias Sa...

SODOM
"40 YEARS AT WAR - THE GREATEST HELL OF SODOM"
Thrash Metal
Year:28.20.2022
(SPV)

- The 40th Anniversary album – the fans are waiting for that!- 17 classic and rare Sodom songs new recorded - Thrash Metal at it`s best!- Artwork by Eliran Kantor (Kreator, Testament, Gwar).40 years of Sodom, 40 years of ruthless thrash metal ‘Made in Germany’. What came into being in 1982 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer has lost nothing of its authenticity and rawness, not even four decades later. Tom Angelripper and his men still belong to the spearhead of a music style that draws its energy from pure determination, intransigence and relentlessness. What’s more, Sodom never fail to surprise their fans all over the world. They managed especially well with ‘40 Years At War – The Greatest Hell Of Sodom’, a more than worthy anniversa...

BEHEMOTH
"OPVS CONTRA NATVRAL"
Blackened/ Death Metal
Year:16.09.2022
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Now world-renowned and yet exuberantly underground in their convictions, BEHEMOTH are perhaps the unlikeliest of success stories, but if their stratospheric ascent and hard-won commercial achievement can be attributed to anything, it’s a cast-iron unwillingness to compromise. As „Opvs Contra Natvram“, their 12th studio release heralds from the rooftops –their longevity is down to a resolute commitment to find new ways to enthrall and inspire their ever-growing legion of latter-day heretics, a determination which shows no signs of erosion. It’s changing times and new battles to fight to which Nergal attributes BEHEMOTH’s unique ability to sound fresh despite their incredible tenure.TRACKLIST CD:1. Post-God Nirvana2. Malari...

LOST SOCIETY
"IF SKY CAME DOWN"
Heavy Metal
Year:30.09.2022
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Pounding riffs weighing several tons? Check! Catchy choruses and symphonic flashes? Check! Relentless eruptions of utterly chaotic, yet catchy modern metal? Check! Passionate performances by elaborate musicians? Check!You got it right: over the last twelve adrenaline-filled years, braindead™ Finnish cannonball squad LOST SOCIETY has been fearlessly exploring the lights and shadows of the world of heavy metal. Still, despite the dirty deeds of the past years and the praise of legendary colleagues such as Kreator's Mille Petrozza and Sepultura's Andreas Kisser, it now feels like the band's rocket is just about to take off."Our new full-length recording ‚If The Sky Came Down‘ would not have become like this had it not been for the un...

VENOM INC.
"THERE’S ONLY BLACK"
Black Metal
Year:30.09.2022
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Extreme Metal pioneers VENOM INC. are proud to announce their sophomore album "There’s Only Black," which will be released on September 23rd, 2022 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS. Almost 40 years after their inception, the revitalized 1989 - 1992 Venom line-up of guitarist Jeff “Mantas” Dunn and vocalist/bassist Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan and the new addition of drummer Jeramie 'Warmachine' Kling have returned with one hell of a follow-up to their acclaimed debut, "Avé," and show no signs of slowing down.

TRACKLIST CD:

1. How Many Can Die
2. Infinitum
3. Come To Me
4. There's Only Black
5. Tyrant
6. Don't Feed Me Your Lies
7. Man As God
8. Burn Liar Burn
9. Nine
10. Rampant
11. The Dance
12. Inferno

EPICA
"LIVE AT PARADISO"
Symphonic Female Heavy Metal
Year:02.09.2022
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Perfect for the 20th anniversary of the band: The EPICA live classic "Live At Paradiso" will be released as a 2CD+BluRay in a Digipak.“Live At Paradiso” - Initially recorded in 2006 at the beautiful “Paradiso” venue in Amsterdam, the performance has become shrouded in legend; often scheduled for release, this will be the first time it’s seen the light of day. The recording allows fans to relive the memories of a young band who had just freshly released their two first albums, and features a number of their evergreen hits like ‘Cry For The Moon’ or ‘Solitary Ground’. Now, after being hidden away in a dark drawer for more than 16 years, “Live At Paradiso” is finally available on 2CD and BluRay/DVD - specifically...

EPICA
"WE STILL TAKE YOU WITH US - THE EARLY YEARS"
Symphonic Female Heavy Metal
Year:02.09.2022
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Perfect for the 20th anniversary of the band: The EPICA highlight "We Still Take You With Us - The Early Years" will be released as a CD Boxset, incl. "The Phantom Agony", "We Will Take You With Us", "Consign To Oblivion" and "The Score 2.0" on a total of 4CDs and on a total of 11 black LPs.2022 marks the 20th anniversary of Symphonic Metal titans EPICA. After nearly 1 million albums sold worldwide and over 300 million combined streams on all digital platforms, the Dutch band has manifested their talent to combine metal with unique operatic vocals and has gained a huge international fanbase in the process. Through their career EPICA have played over 1,000 shows in more than 60 countries across all continents.With their latest musical output “Omega”, t...

DAVID PAICH
"FORGOTTEN TOYS"
AOR/ Classic Rock
Year:19.08.2022
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

    Forgotten Toys is the debut solo album of TOTO co-founder David Paich    TOTO is touring big in 2022 https: https://TOTOofficial.com/events/    The album features fellow TOTO members Steve Lukather and Joseph Williams and a cast of all-star musicians like Brian Eno, Michael McDonald, Ray Parker Jr., Don Felder, and Steve Jordan of The Rolling Stones    Winner of 6 Grammy® Awards, an Emmy Award and is inducted into the Musicians Hall Of Fame in 2009.The Player’s Club, a division of Mascot Label Group, is proud to announce the debut solo album from TOTO co-founder, David Paich, entitled, ‘Forgotten Toys’- available everywhere August 19th, 2022.If you’ve lis...

THE DEAD DAISIES
"RADIANCE"
Hard Rock
Year:30.09.2022
(SPV)

‘RADIANCE’ is ten tracks of pure unadulterated brilliant rock.  The power of Doug Aldrich and David Lowy’s dual guitars provide a wall of sonic nectar.  Front man Glenn Hughes rock solid bass grooves and unmatched vocal intensity, still among the greatest rock singers of all time and the matrix of Brian Tichy’s drums set the engine room on fire!“The new album ‘RADIANCE’ is our 2nd album with Ben Grosse producing from top to bottom. We had a great time composing and recording the record and I’m very excited for you all to hear what we put together. Definitely a heavy album but with some cool twists and turns! Hope you all like it.” – Doug Aldrich‘RADIANCE’ is the second instalment Th...

BLIND GUARDIAN
"THE GOD MACHINE"
Melodic Power Heavy Metal
Year:02.09.2022
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Seven years after "Beyond The Red Mirror", Krefeld metal kings BLIND GUARDIAN make a brilliant return and compensate for the waiting time with their new studio album "The God Machine". Offering anthems like "Blood Of The Elves", "Secrets Of The American Gods" and "Violent Shadows", the album proves to be a modern masterpiece that transports the trademarks of the classic "Imaginations From The Other Side" into the here and now. Hansi Kürsch explains: "We didn't want to rehash our style from 1995, but on the other hand we didn't want to have to continue on our current path forever. "The God Machine" is a new beginning for us. We're putting everything back to square one and return to certain patterns that we neglected a bit on previous releases." Look forward to an albu...

AMON AMARTH
"THE GREAT HEATHEN ARMY"
Viking Black Metal
Year:05.08.2022
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

 - Amon Amarth reached #1 on German album charts with both Jomsviking and Berserker.  - Jomsviking has gone on to earn gold certification in Germany! - Amon Amarth returns with their twelfth studio album, The Great Heathen Army!  - The Great Heathen Army was produced, mixed, and mastered by Andy Sneap @ Backstage Productions  - Features striking artwork by longtime collaborator Tom Theil, who also created iconic cover art for prior Amon Amarth releases; The Crusher, Twilight of the Thunder God, Surtur Rising, Deceiver of the Gods, and Jomsviking! - Guest artist: Biff Byford (Saxon) on “Saxons and Vikings”.Undisputed kings of Viking heavy metal, Amon Amarth, have announced their twelfth studio album, The ...

THE HALO EFFECT
"DAYS OF THE LOST"
Melodic Death Metal
Year:12.08.2022
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

EX-IN FLAMES Bandmembers: Jesper Strömblad, Peter Iwers, Niclas Engelin, Daniel Svensson. - As singer: Michael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity). - Guest at one song Matt Heavy of Trivium.2020. The year of the corona-pandemic, when the world was forced into a standstill, five old friends put in motion an old idea that had been lingering -and what eventually was to become a new band: THE HALO EFFECT.The members of THE HALO EFFECT are masters of their domain, pioneers of the Gothenburg melodeath scene. Lead guitarists and melodic death-slingers Niclas Engelin and Jesper Strömblad, lead singer and lyricist Mikael Stanne, supported by the solid backbone and foundation of bassist Peter Iwers, and his partner in crime for twenty plus years, har...

REVOCATION
"NETHERHEAVEN"
Death/ Thrash Metal
Year:09.09.2022
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

 - Mixed and Mastered by Jens Bogren (Sepultura, At The Gates, Kreator, Dimmu Borgir, Amorphis). - Featuring guest vocals on “Re-Crucified” by Trevor Strnad (THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER) & George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher (CANNIBAL CORPSE, CORPSEGRINGER).Four years in the making, the Billboard-charting trio that is Revocation - Dave Davidson (vocals/guitars), Ash Pearson (drums), and Brett Bamberger (bass) - meticulously explore the allegorical and literal aspects of Hell as they dig deeper into the darker, more diabolical side of death metal. In short, where the previous album, The Outer Ones (2018), jettison Revocation into the horrific maw of the cosmos, Netherheaven bores deftly through the nine rings of Hell to directly confront Luci...

LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE
"HOW TO SHROUD YOURSELF WITH NIGHT"
Dark Gothic Metal
Year:26.08.2022
(SPV)

It’s often the most difficult challenges that force a musician to grow artistically. For Lacrimas Profundere, one of the most innovative and successful German dark metal bands of our time, their latest studio album ‘How To Shroud Yourself With Night’ (scheduled for release on Steamhammer/SPV on 26 August 2022) was primarily about the implicit burden imposed by their 2019 hit record ‘Bleeding The Stars’, whose success had indirectly raised huge expectations: “Album of the Month” in magazines such as Metal Hammer, Orkus and Dead Rhetoric, top 10 positions in other important publications, plus a chart entry and the group’s most successful headlining tour to date. Who wouldn’t be tempted to flirt with a sequel of that success story? &ldq...

A-Z
"A-Z"
Progressive Metal
Year:12.08.2022
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

- Album artwork by legendary Hugh Syme (Iron Maiden, Dream Theater, Megadeth, Rush, Fates Warning).- A-Z reunites Fates Warning vocalist Ray Alder with Warlord and former Fates Warning drummer Mark Zonder.When Mark Zonder, famed former Fates Warning and Warlord drummer, started working on material in early 2020 he  had a very clear vision for the band he wanted to put together. The result was A-Z, and while Zonder is adamant it is  not a supergroup that is doing a ‘one and done’ record it has a stellar lineup, reuniting him with Fates Warning vocalist  Ray Alder, Warlord/Steve Vai/Ring of Fire bassist Philip Bynoe, guitarist Joop Wolters and keyboardist Vivien Lalu, the  combination of these players stirring up a very specific kind of ma...