BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT
"PAINT THE SKY WITH BLOOD"
Melodic Death Metal
Year:23.04.2021
(NAPALM RECORDS)

Paint The Sky With Blood was recorded in Finland back in 2020 and was meant to be the beginning of an exciting new chapter that sadly ended far too soon. The three-track offering is an impressive, overwhelming sonic tribute to an absolute legend of the metal scene – matchless late guitarist/vocalist Alexi Laiho – and at the same time, a modern homage to the genre itself.A storm of raging guitars and blaring drums merge with Laiho’s versatile vocal power, leading into a heavy attack – title track “Paint The Sky With Blood” – opening the 14 minute EP. The track is strikingly reminiscent of early-CHILDREN OF BODOM elements, while also adding exciting modern influences into the fold. Second stunner “Payback’s a Bitch” a...

MEMORIAM
"TO THE END"
Death Metal
Year:26.03.2021
(NAPALM RECORDS)

It is the beginning of a new era. Since early October 2020, smoke is laying over Northampton near London. The machinery is well-oiled, the plan excellent - MEMORIAM have recorded their fourth studio album! The speed the British machinery has been working at since their early days is just enormous and equally amazing. Only back in 2016 the band inaugurated the public about their existence. Since those days the machines never stood still. The British Death Lead Commando caused a big rumble shortly after the first rumors about where the journey would go. "The Hellfire Demos" hit the worldwide scene with their old school Death Metal and left speechlessly torn open mouths which are still raving about the enthusiasm of this achievement today. When "For The Fallen", the debut album...

JOE BONAMASSA
"NOW SERVING: ROYAL TEA LIVE FROM THE RYMAN"
Blues/ Rock
Year:11.06.2021
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

    Now Serving: Royal Tea Live From The Ryman is an incredible live concert, his final show of 2020, at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee    Joe Bonamassa has sold well over 3 million records worldwide and has 17 #1 Billboard Blues Albums    This special show includes the critically acclaimed songs from his latest solo studio album “Royal Tea”    Joe Bonamassa has been featured on the cover of virtually every guitar magazine multiple times. His name is notorious among guitarists not only for being a virtuoso, but also for his incredible collection of vintage guitars, gear and memorabilia.Blues Rock Superstar Joe Bonamassa set out to perform his brand-new music for ...

GREENLEAF
"ECHOES FROM MASS"
Stoner Doom Metal/ Hard Rock
Year:26.03.2021
(NAPALM RECORDS)

Like clockwork, Swedish stoner rockers GREENLEAF spread their concentrated sludgy energy to disciples of the genre by releasing Echoes From A Mass in 2021, the successor to their 2018 epic, Hear The Rivers.The album opener, “Tides”, immediately draws the listener into a swirl of guitar driven soundscapes, while Arvid Hällagård’s remarkable voice merges with hypnotizing background vocals, ceremonially inviting the listener into a heavy reverie. Floating hypnotic grooves set the stage for the compelling yet chilling “Needle In My Eye” — with its incisive, driving drums and roaring riffs, the record’s third song accumulates piece by piece into a modern rock standout, taking the mind by storm. “Love Undone” breaks ...

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM
"BLOOD IN THE WATER"
Thrash Metal
Year:04.06.2021
(AFM RECORDS)

- Flotzilla strikes back!
- Album no. 14 of this US-Thrash institution from Arizona.
-Their last album reached postion 19 in the official german charts, the most succesful album of the band to date.
- Mix & mastering done by Jacob Hansen (Volbeat. Amaranthe, Powerwolf, U.D.O. etc.).
-Available as CD-Digipak, Ltd. Edition Boxset and various Vinyl Editions.

Legends in Thrash - crushing, rolling and knocking you down with their new album "Blood In The Water". Delivering finest fast and hard metal for new- and oldschool thrasher alike!

TRACKLIST CD/ LP:

1. Blood In The Water
2. Burn The Sky
3. Brace For Impact
4. A Place To Die
5. The Walls
6. Cry For The Dead
7. The Wicked Hour
8. Too Many Lives
9. Grey Dragon
10. Reaggression
11. Undone
12. Seven Seconds 'Til The End Of The World

SUBWAY TO SALLY
"EISHEILIGE NACHT - BACK TO LINDENPARK"
Gothic Metal
Year:18.06.2021
(NAPALM RECORDS)

Chart-breaking German folk rock institution SUBWAY TO SALLY have carved a unique live experience in stone with their upcoming release, Eisheilige Nacht: Back To Lindenpark, out on BluRay/DVD/CD on June 18, 2021 via Napalm Records. Since their foundation in the early ‘90s, SUBWAY TO SALLY have established themselves at the top of the scene. Having released thirteen studio records so far, the seven-piece featuring the remarkable Eric Fish on vocal duties never fails in surprising their devotees with an ingenious symbiosis of folk, heavy metal and rock. In the course of time, it became a tradition to celebrate every year with numerous fans and a final live show on December 30. What started as Eisheilige Nacht - with sold out solo-gigs in the band's hometown of Potsdam at the ven...

CRYPTA
"ECHOES OF THE SOUL"
Thrash Metal
Year:11.06.2021
(NAPALM RECORDS)

Just signed with Napalm Records, CRYPTA offer a raging sonic monster in a class of its own: the newly staffed Brazilian/Dutch death metal unit is set to drop jaws with their long awaited debut offering - Echoes of the Soul. Formed in June 2019, the four-piece line up consists of vocalist and bassist Fernanda Lira and guitarist Luana Dametto, both former members thrash metal frontrunners NERVOSA, plus supremely talented guitarist Sonia Anubis (Cobra Spell, Ex-Burning Witches) and Tainá Bergamschi on drums (Ex-Hagbard). These four powerful women enforce a heightened level of potency and experience from their successful past and current projects, enhancing influences from both classic and modern death metal genres, plus elements of thrash and black metal, to create a sou...

TOTO
"WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS"
AOR/ Classic Rock
Year:25.06.2021
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

TOTO - With A Little Help From My Friends is set to be released globally on June 25. The performance captures one special night on November 21, 2020 when Steve Lukather, Joseph Williams and David Paich appeared with the new line-up of Toto for a global event originating from Los Angeles, CA.  Joining Lukather, Williams and Paich for this next chapter in their indelible history are new band members bassist John Pierce (Huey Lewis and The News), drummer Robert “Sput” Searight (Ghost-Note / Snarky Puppy), and keyboardist / background vocalist Steve Maggiora (Robert Jon & The Wreck). Keyboardist Dominique “Xavier” Taplin (Prince, Ghost-Note) and multi-instrumentalist / vocalist Warren Ham (Ringo Starr) segued over continuing their tenure in the ensemble. Thi...

CANNIBAL CORPSE
"VIOLENCE UNIMAGINED"
Death Metal
Year:16.04.2021
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

Comprised of eleven tracks, Violence Unimagined is state of the art death metal played with passion and breathless precision, making for another flawless addition to what is inarguably one of the premier catalogues the genre has thrown up. "It really follows the path we've been going down for a few years now," states bassist and founding member Alex Webster. "I think we approach the writing in a similar way most every time: each of us try to write the heaviest, most memorable songs we can. We want each song to have its own identifiable character. Showing my age, I like to say you can 'drop the needle' on any point of one of our albums and quickly tell which song you're listening to."While they continue to do what they do with aplomb, the one substantial c...

HAMMER KING
"HAMMER KING"
True Heavy Metal
Year:11.06.2021
(NAPALM RECORDS)

In the name of thy majesty - heavy metal powerhouse HAMMER KING has arrived!In the spirit of old school power metal, Germany’s up-and-comers HAMMER KING have gathered to set fire on their new album Hammer King (out June 11 via Napalm Records)! Ever since HAMMER KING burst onto the scene in 2015, they have proven themselves as an unstoppable force. Hand-picked by thy majesty, the Hammer King himself, the band consists of former ROSS THE BOSS vocalist Titan Fox V and former SALTATIO MORTIS drummer Dolph A. Macallan, alongside Gladius Thundersword on bass and Kleveland's most timeless lead guitarist: Gino Wilde. HAMMER KING keeps it heavy with speedy riffs, energic grooves and fist-pumping choruses, devoting their existence to the one and only myth of the godly Hamme...

VULTURE
"DEALIN DEATH"
Death Metal
Year:21.05.2021
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

When it comes to contemporary thrash, there are few bands that can stand toe-to-toe with Germany's Vulture. Establishing their status with 2016's Victim To The Blade EP and 2017's The Guillotine, then cementing their reputation with 2019's Ghastly Waves And Battered Graves, they now return with the mighty Dealin' Death, one of the most ruthless records the genre has seen. "Take all our key elements - fierce riffing, halftone-shifts, aggressive vocals, huge toms, changing dynamics, horror-synths and classical twin guitar harmonies and cast it in a mould, then you have 'Dealin' Death'," says guitarist Stefan Castevet. "The result sounds a little 'back to the EP-ish' to my ears, yet it contains new approaches that we've never included ...

GO AHEAD AND DIE
"GO AHEAD AND DIE"
Thrash/ Proto-Death Metal
Year:11.06.2021
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Max and Igor Cavalera, raw & brutal!GO AHEAD AND DIE is a raw, urgent, unrelenting, thrillingly shocking, and vibrant new band. It was born from the mind of creative writer and musician Igor Amadeus Cavalera and the bond of blood and music he shares with his dad, extreme metal icon, and Soulfly band leader Max Cavalera. Its tempos are wild, its contempt for modern social ills palpable, its riffs monstrous and captivating. They make angry, spiteful, utterly engaging, spirited extreme music for increasingly extreme times.The self-titled debut sees Max and Igor splitting guitar and vocalist duties, with utter madman style drumming from Zach Coleman of the blistering Black Curse and critically-acclaimed Khemmis. It sounds like a relic from the glory days of thras...

ENDSEEKER
"MOUNT CARCASS"
Death Metal
Year:16.04.2021
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

Having become one of the premier German death metal bands ‐ and rapidly rising the ranks of the genre as a whole ‐ Endseeker storm back into the fray with Mount Carcass. Building on the groundwork laid down on 2017's Flesh Hammer Prophecy and having the difficult task of besting 2019's stunning The Harvest, they have returned with a streamlined, powerful collection that further raises the bar.Like both of its predecessors, Mount Carcass was recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by Eike Freese at Chameleon Studios in Hamburg, Germany. Going into the record, Endseeker knew they wanted something rawer and more organic than The Harvest, and while Covid was causing global havoc, the band embraced the time they would have otherwise spent touring, using it t...

THE CROWN
"ROYAL DESTROYER"
Death Metal
Year:12.03.2021
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

With 2018's Cobra Speed Venom, the band reached the same lofty heights as their 2002 landmark release, Crowned In Terror, but they were primed and ready to write its successor. "It surely set the bar up high for a follow up," Olsfelt explains.Having celebrated their thirtieth anniversary in 2020 [their first eight years spent as Crown Of Thorns], The Crown have proven themselves one of the most enduring forces in death metal. In 2021, they further up the ante with Royal Destroyer, a record that sets a new standard for the genre.Together with legendary producer Fredrik Nordström, the band tracked the resulting 10 songs at Gothenburg's Studio Fredman. "We push ourselves to the limit, really trying to make everything as good as it can get, trying to m...

ARTILLERY
"X"
Thrash Metal
Year:07.05.2021
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

In the mid-1980s, Denmark's Artillery established themselves as being at the cutting edge of the thrash movement, and nearly forty years later, they continue to destroy. Returning with their tenth - and aptly titled - full-length X, they prove once again that they have not missed a step, delivering a record that's ruthlessly heavy, catchy and pure molten metal."We wanted to have the typical Artillery trademarks, like the riffs and hook lines in the usual combination together with aggression and melody. We always try to combine melodic thrash metal with elements from the heavy sounds of the 70s and the 80s, and this time with new elements in some of the songs," says guitarist Michael Stützer. "We don't have to push ourselves hard when we're writing a ...