SIX FEET UNDER
"NIGHTMARES OF THE DECOMPOSED"
Death Metal
Year:02.10.2020
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

Comprised of twelve tracks, Nightmares Of The Decomposed is a defining statement, making it very clear that more than twenty-five years into their career, Six Feet Under remain at the forefront of the genre. Dynamic, heavy as hell, catchy, and uncompromising, it is everything that the band's longtime faithful have come to expect from the deadly unit, and is clearly the product of a lot of hard work by vocalist Chris Barnes, guitarists Jack Owen and Ray Suhy, bassist Jeff Hughell and drummer Marco Pitruzzella.Tracked at various studios including Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida, which over the years has played host to the likes of AC/DC, Black Sabbath, and Aerosmith amongst others, it was produced, engineered and mixed by Chris Carroll, who has given it a full and chun...

WALTER TROUT
"ORDINAY MADNESS"
Rock/ Blues
Year:28.08.2020
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

    Walter is touring the world non-stop, doing over 150 shows a year. Walter has mesmerized guitar fans around the globe with his masterful phrases and unique style.    Walter Trout is a three-time winner of the Overseas Artist Of The Year title at the British Blues Awards, and a three-time Blues Music Awards nominee.    In 2015, he won the Sena European Guitar Award and also earned him the #6 slot in BBC Radio 1’s Top 20 Guitarist listeners’ poll.    In 2018 he won the Blues Music Award for Best Blues Rock Album with We’re All In This Together (2017).For Walter Trout, there is no ‘us’ and ‘them’. Across his five-decade career, the great US bluesman’...

NIGHTMARE
"AETERNAM"
Heavy Metal
Year:02.10.2020
(AFM RECORDS)

- “Aeternam” - catchy refrains with smooth-running melodies, stomping riffs and modern hard-hitting sound - Mixed and mastered by Simone Mularoni (DGM, Elvenking), at Domination Studio, Italy - “Aeternam” features guest vocals by Mick Caesare (Destinity) and Caleb Bingham (Athanasia, ex- Five Finger Death Punch).
 
2020 sees NIGHTMARE back, unbowed, unbreakable and inspired, ready to take their music to a whole new level. They return with hugely talented female vocalist, Madie (Faith In Agony) on the mic, and have recorded their most ambitious album to date, "Aeternam", set for release on 2nd October 2020.Melding hard hitting riffs and pounding, insistent drums from the start, "Aeternam" blends perfectly the raw edged,...

ACE FREHLEY
"ORIGINS VOL.2"
Hard Rock
Year:18.09.2020
(SPV)

 - Further guest stars on the album: Robin Zander (Cheap Trick), Lita Ford, John 5 (Rob Zombie) and Bruce Kulick (Kiss, Union). - High class DigiPak and 2LP version incl. KISS bonus track.As the second volume focusing on his musical origins, Ace has also grown since "Origins, Vol. 1" was released in April 2016. That album hit #23 on the Billboard Top-200 charts becoming his 4th top-40 and second highest charting solo album — and there's no questioning Ace's productivity with this album being his fifth recorded work in a decade! Ace chuckles, "Since I had one covers album under my belt, the process of doing 'Origins, Vol. 2' was easier because I had put together a formula, picking guest stars and so-on." The challenge for him was to p...

MICHAEL LANDAU
"LIQUID QUARTET LIVE"
Blues/ Jazz
Year:21.08.2020
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

Michael Landau will be releasing his brand new album ‘Liquid Quartet Live’ on 21st August via The Players Club, a division of the Mascot Label Group.First album released through The Player’s Club, and 7th solo album release. The album features Landau’s Liquid Quartet, which is comprised of drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. (Paul McCartney), bassist Jimmy Johnson (Allan Holdsworth), and  David Frazee (Burning Water) on guitar and vocals. Landau has been featured on albums by Steve Lukather, Boz Scaggs, Minoru, Rod Stewart, Seal, Tim McGraw, Barry Manilow, Michael Jackson, James Taylor, Steve Perry, Pink Floyd, Phil Collins, Stevie Nicks, and more.The album was recorded live at the world-famous Baked Potato Jazz Club in Los Angeles in November l...

REDEMPTION
"ALIVE IN COLOR"
Progressive Metal
Year:28.08.2020
(AFM RECORDS)

- High quality live recording & footage of one of the pioneering bands of US Prog Metal, recorded at the legendary ProgPower Festival USA 2018- The latest studio album entered the charts in Germany on # 69- DVD/BluRay and 2-CD have a combined playing time of over three hours- the concert features the best songs written by the band in their nearly 20year career- guest appearances by the likes of Ray Alder (Fates Warning) and Chris Poland (Ex-Megadeth)- Behind the scenes and other features as bonus content for DVD and BluRay- For fans of: Fates Warning, Evergrey, Dream Theater, Kamelot, Riverside.Co-headlining the legendary ProgPower Festival, Redemption's "Alive In Color" captions the perfect musicianship of all members in the band...

VICIOUS RUMOURS
"CELEBRATION DECAY"
Heavy Metal
Year:21.08.2020
(SPV)

 - The awesome successor of 2016 “Concussion Protocol”. 11 brand new songs – US Metal at it`s best. First studio album with the brilliant new singer Nick Courtney. Produced by Juan Uteaga (Testament).Celebration Decay will be available from 21 August 2020; the first single ‘Death Eternal’ (including video) will see the light of day on 3 July 2020, followed by the second single ‘Pulse Of The Dead’ on 7 August 2020. Thorpe: “Look for a three part mini documentary of the making of Celebration Decay. The first episode airs 26 June.” The album was recorded and mixed between November 2019 and February 2020 at the Trident Studios in Pacheco, California, by Geoff Thorpe and Juan Urteaga. “There’s no other Vicious...

MESSIAH
"FRACMONT"
Thrash Metal
Year:11.09.2020
(SOULFOOD MUSIC)

With acts such as Hellhammer/Celtic Frost and Coroner but also more obscure outfits such as Fear Of God, Excruciation or Infected Switzerland has always been a fertile breeding ground for Extreme Metal. Messiah were formed in 1984 and issued two truly ground breaking records on Chainsaw Murder Records, "Hymn To Abramelin" in 1986 and "Extreme Cold Weather" a year later. In the early 1990s Messiah signed to Karl Walterbach's Noise Records label and issued three more full-length albums: "Choir Of Horrors" (1991), "Rotten Perish" (1992) and "Underground" (1994). The songwriting for the new album after 26 years in 2020 called "Fracmont" (the ancient name of mount Pilatus near Luzern in Switzerland) was according to guitarist Brögi a very open process: "We had no master plan about ...

RAVEN
"METAL CITY"
Heavy Metal
Year:18.09.2020
(SPV)

- RAVEN is one of the most well known and influential bands in the heavy metal genre
- METALLICA and ANTHRAX were their support bands in the 80s
- 10 brand new RAVEN studio tracks…raw, fast and heavy
- Engineered by Michael Wagener (Metallica, Skid Row, Dokken, Accept)
- First studio album since 2015…..the fans are waiting for that!!!
- The first studio album with new drummer Mike Heller.

TRACKLIST CD/ LP:

1. The Power 3:55
2. Top of the Mountain 3:36
3. Human Race 3:59
4. Metal City 3:27
5. Battlescarred 4:45

6. Cybertron 3:24
7. Motorheadin’ 2:42
8. Not So Easy 3:09
9. Break 3:39
10. When Worlds Collide 6:15

LINE-UP:

John Gallagher (bass, vocals)
Mark Gallagher (guitars)
Mike Heller (drums)

MAD MAX
"STORMCHILD RISING"
Melodic Heavy Metal
Year:21.08.2020
(SPV)

 - Fourth studio album since 2010. 3 Original members, produced by Michael Voss (Vengeance, Michael Schenker,Gary Barden) . Guest musicians: Paul Shortino (Rough Cutt), Oz Fox (Stryper). Cover Artwork by Kai Brockschmidt (Royal Hunt, Pretty Maids, Pink Cream 69 etc..)The term experience almost inevitably raises the question: What’s the significance of the album title? After all, the name Stormchild has come up before: 1985 saw the arrival of Mad Max’s album Stormchild, which has fuelled their fans’ requests to resurrect this character ever since. “Stormchild is our warrior who battles for everything good in the world, not with weapons but with rock songs. We had Kai Brockschmidt (Pretty Maids, Pink Cream 69, among others) update ...

ANAAL NATHRAKH
"ENDARKENMENT"
Death Metal/ Grindcore
Year:02.10.2020
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

Extremity has been Anaal Nathrakh's stock in trade for more than two decades, and with Endarkenment, they maintain their legacy of aural devastation. However, for all the furor they stir up, the duo have never been a twodimensional entity, with a great deal of depth involved in everything that they do, and on many levels the new record is distinguished from its predecessors. The evolution since 2018's towering A New Kind Of Horror has been personal and profound, and is very much in line with that experienced by many of their listeners. One thing that was very clear to the band was the album's title and how prescient it is in current times, standing as he opposite of the Enlightenment, a movement that went against superstition and ignorance.The music was tracke...

THEM
"RETURN TO HEMMERSMOOR"
Heavy Metal
Year:30.10.2020
(SPV)

- 3rd  studio album by one of USA/Germany`s best Heavy Metal bands. Mixed by Dave Otero (Khemmis, Act Of Defiance). Backing vocals by Paul Sabu. Artwork by Mario Lopez (Evil Invaders, Toxik). Incl. the singles “Free” and “Battle Blood”.Thrash metal meets horror/fantasy story, part III: their latest album Return To Hemmersmoor sees German-American act Them present the third part of a trilogy that was launched back in 2016 on Sweet Hollow and continued in 2018 with Manor Of The Se7en Gables. Return To Hemmersmoor takes up where the thematic thread of its two predecessors left off and brings the story to a gripping finale, documenting at the same time the band’s unmistakable musical evolvement. “Possibly the new material...

HEXX
"ENTAGLED IN SIN"
Thrash/ Speed Metal
Year:25.09.2020
(SOULFOOD MUSIC)

The infamous Bay Area has a long and extensive metal history. Responsible for many truly groundbreaking acts (just think of Exodus, Testament, Forbidden, Heathen or Blind Illusion) for over three decades now, the city by the bay has spawned some of the most innovative and exceptional talent there is. Hexx, one of the third-generation power metal bands emerging from San Franciso, were originally formed in late 1984. Hexx were signed by Century Media Records. The following album, 1991's "Morbid Reality", marked Hexx's evolution from a more or less traditional speed/power metal band to a brutal, technically-inclined thrash/death metal outfit. Now in 21st Century the Mark III incarnation of Hexx is returning with a brand new studio album entitled "Entangled In Sin" that is much cl...

SOLSTAFIR
"ENDLESS TWILIGHT OF CODEPENDENT LOVE"
Viking Pagan Metal
Year:06.11.2020
(SEASON OF MIST)

 - Seventh full-length album by the biggest Icelandic metal / rock band. - Recorded at the renowned Icelandic studio Sundlaugin (SIGUR ROS, KONTINUUM, YANN TIERSEN) as per the 3 previous albums. - Mixed and mastered by Birgir Jón Birgirsson (SIGUR ROS, ALCEST, AUDN). - Cover from the famous painting ‘The Lady of the Mountain’ (1864) by Johann Baptist Zwecker.Music will always be inspired by the environment in which it is created. With its incredible array of highly diverse landscapes ranging from white glaciers via volcanic bizarreness, moss-green bubble-fields, deep fjords, and frost-cracked mountains to black beaches, Iceland has shaped a host of astonishingly original in SÓLSTAFIR. More than ever, SÓLS...

BLUES PILLS
"HOLY MOLY!"
Hard Rock/ Blues
Year:21.08.2020
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

The history of BLUES PILLS can seem simple. The rock quartet formed in the Midwest in late 2011 by the bands songwriters Zack Anderson and Elin Larsson went straight from playing at dirty, crowded bars to play at some of the biggest festivals such as Download, Rock am Ring and Wacken Open Air. A true success story. Or? Not really. Under the layers of heavy psychedelic blues rock and Elin Larsson's soulful and powerful voice, the core of BLUES PILLS has always been the restless search for change. Change in the human mind and the musical influences they embraced themselves with, from blackened soul to the trippy rides through 60s garage rock music and the devils blues. During their break BLUES PILLS has been through some kind of reincarnation. A reincarnation that lead to a new self ...