VANDENBERGs MOONKINGS
"RUGGED AND UNPLUGGED"
Hard Rock/ AOR
Year:2018
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

Rugged and Unplugged’ is a beautifully stripped back acoustic album which features songs from across Adrian Vandenberg’s career.  It strips down the big orchestral arrangements on songs such as ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’ and ‘Breathing’ to just Vandenberg on acoustic guitar and the voice of Jan Hoving. It features a Whitesnake song ‘Sailing Ships, which Vandenberg co-wrote along with his hit ‘Burning Heart’ and other MoonKings favourites. It’s warm, intimate and anthemic all at the same time. ‘Rugged and Unplugged’ is Vandenberg and Hoving doing what they do best, playing music straight from the heart.TRACKLIST CD/ LP:1 What Doesn’t Kill You2 Sailing Ships3 Out of Re...

JASON BECKER
"TRIUMPHANT HEARTS"
Heavy Metal/ Shred
Year:2018
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

•             Featuring: Steve Vai, Joe Bonamassa, Paul Gilbert, Neal Schon, Marty Friedman, Greg Howe, Richie Kotzen, Matt Bissonette, Gregg Bissonette, Joe Satriani, Trevor Rabin and many more…•             Jason has had a lot of publicity by raising more than $100.000 through a crowdfund campaign to produce this album•             Jason is famous for being a member of Cacophony and David Lee Roth’s band.•             Cacophony, his band wit...

EVERGREY
"ATLANTIC"
Dark Power Progressive Heavy Metal
Year:25 January
(AFM RECORDS)

- “The Atlantic” is the band’s eager anticipated 11th studio album. Пredecessor "The Sorm Within" was the most successfull album in EVERGREY's history to date, reaching chart entries in several countries (DE #39, SE #29, CH#32, FI #48);- "The Atlantic" closes off the conceptual construct of "Hymns For The Broken" and "The Storm Within" and is their most melancholic and heaviest album yet;- Cover Artwork by Giannis Nakos / Remedy Art Design (Whiplash). Mixed and mastered by Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Pretty Maids, Amaranthe, Primal Fear) [!]EVERGREY’s Tom S. Englund states (Gothenburg 16th of October):“Guys! This is album number 11! Isn't that just sick?! It&rs...

SOILWORK
"VERKLIGHETEN"
Melodic Death Metal
Year:2019
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

- SOILWORKS REALITY IN THEIR MELODIC WAY WILL LEAVE AN UNFORGETTABLE IMPRESSION!“»Verkligheten« will surprise and stir you!”LEGACY | Patricia LangSOILWORK is a band that has been through a lot. We don’t have to try and tidy things up by using clichés like personal and/or musical differences. It has been hell. We have lost loved ones and significant others have fallen ill. We are not young anymore, and our reality these days is the hellhounds on our tails, the ghosts in our subconscious and the coldness of existence that starts eating at your soul the very day that you leave the womb. We can no longer escape the fact that we’re vulnerable to the shortcomings o...

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM
"THE END OF CHAOS"
Thrash Metal
Year:2019
(AFM RECORDS)

- 13th album by the Thrash veterans from Arizona! Excellent songwriting – heavier, more catchy and memorable choruses and hooks, extremely convincing vocal performance. FLOTZILLA returns with tremendous strenght - 12 songs and a brilliant voice that will blow your head off [!]The veterans from Arizona are about to release their 13th studio album - assisted by their respectable mascot „Flotzilla“, returning with a big bang to the cover for the first time since 1986 (on the album cover of „Doomsday For The Deceiver“).A lot of effort and sweat has been put to the songwriting-sessions, resulting in 12 inimitable powerful and thrashy songs, whose hooks and melodies get stuck in your head easily. The line-up just completed...

THE NEAL MORSE BAND
"THE GREAT ADVENTURE"
Progressive Rock
Year:2019
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

The successor of the album "The Similitude Of A Dream", celebrated by critics as a masterpiece in 2016, will be the ninth studio album with Morse, Portnoy and George and the third album as a real collaboration in this current constellation. Morse and Portnoy have formed four bands together, but the group that has survived the longest and therefore produced the greatest musical return is The Neal Morse Band.The final line of "The Similitude Of A Dream" - "Let the great adventure now begin..." - has curiously turned out to be a prophecy. Because the new album is just that: a perfect counterpart to TSOAD!The The Neal Morse Band, takes their fans on a big adventure with their latest double concept album "The Great Adventure", which is scheduled for release on January...

SUZI QUATRO
"NO CONTROL"
Hard Rock/ Classic Rock
Year:29.03.2019
(SPV)

- The first new studio album since 8 years!!! 11 brandnew songs by the “Queen Of Rock N’ Roll”. First time collaboration with her son Richard Tuckey. Mastering by Christian Wright at Abbey Road Studios UK [!]29 March 2019 will see the arrival of Suzi’s latest studio album, simply entitled No Control in line with her need for artistic freedom, on SPV/Steamhammer. Almost simultaneously, the singer/musician is set to embark on an extensive European tour. No doubt about it: 2019 will be another Suzi year! Suzi Quatro presents eleven new songs (plus two bonus tracks) on No Control. The majority of the material consists of collaborations with her son from her first marriage, Richard Tuckey. Suzi explains: “This ...

NAILED TO OBSCURITY
"BLACK FROST"
Progressive Death Metal
Year:2019
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

A MUST-HAVE FOR PROG-DEATH LISTENERS!Esens, Germany. Nestled at whatever-end of Lower Saxony, where the East Frisian Islands form a barrier against the wailing North Sea, the town of 7,000 has slept the years away. Most people haven’t heard of Esens, once home to Baroque composer Philipp Heinrich Erlebach. But if they have, they’ve often confused it with Essen, Germany’s ninth largest city. Well, that’s about to change. Not the confusing part, but the fact that rising death metal stars NAILED TO OBSCURITY are about to put Esens on the proverbial map with new album, »Black Frost«, their first for Nuclear Blast Records.TRACKLIST DIGI:01. Black Frost02. Tears Of The Eyeless03. The Aberrant Host04. Fea...

THUNDER
"PLEASE REMAIN SEATED"
Hard Rock/ AOR
Year:18 January
(ADA - Alternative Distribution Alliance)

In celebration of their 30th anniversary, British rockers THUNDER revisit and reinterpret their finest songs in a way you've not heard before. Released in North America on Friday, January 18 via BMG, "Please Remain Seated" is the sound of a band taking a strange journey into their own music, but also distilling thirty years of playing together in order to create something truly compelling, taking in flavors of rock, blues, jazz and soul along the way.CD/ 2LP:1. Bigger Than Both Of Us2. Future Train3. Girl's Going Out Of Her Head4. I'm Dreaming Again5. Fly On The Wall6. Just Another Suicide7. Empty City8. Miracle Man9. Blown Away10. Loser11. She's So Fine12. Low Life In High Plac...

METAL CHURCH
"DAMNED IF YOU DO"
Heavy Metal/ Thrash
Year:2018
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

“»Blessing In Disguise« meets the mellower insider tip »Hanging In The Balance«. Still an unrivalled band, metal to the core without using typecast song writing or clichés.”
ROCK HARD (D) / LEGACY (D), Andreas Schiffmann

Unbelievably powerful - METAL CHURCH’s 2nd strike with returning vocalist Mike Howe!

WOULD YOU LIKE MORE REAL 80’S METAL? THEN BE PREPARED FOR THIS!

CD:

01. Damned If You Do
02. The Black Things
03. By The Numbers
04. Revolution Underway
05. Guillotine
06. Rot Away
07. Into The Fold
08. Monkey Finger
09. Out Of Balance
10. The War Electric


LINE-UP:

Mike Howe | vocals
Kurdt Vanderhoof | guitars
Stet Howland | drums
Steve Unger | bass
Rick Van Zandt | guitars

HAMMERFALL
"LEGACY OF KINGS 20 YEAR ANNIV. EDIT."
Heavy Metal
Year:1998/ 2018
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

20 year anniversary reissue of the second HAMMERFALL album!The swedish Heavy Metal Templars, HAMMERFALL, announce the 20 year anniversary reissue of their second album “Legacy Of Kings” as boxset, out on December, 7th on Nuclear Blast. The boxset contains a 2CD, a bonus DVD and an extended booklet!„The all-important second album. After the immediate success of Glory To The Brave, the pressure was on us to deliver. But we weren’t worried, we had a vision of the perfect Heavy Metal band and were intent on following through on it“, explains guitarist Oscar Dronjak.CD1 (album, remastered 2018):01. Heeding The Call02. Legacy Of Kings03. Let The Hammer Fall04. Dreamland05. Remember Yesterday...

GOTTHARD
"DEFROSTED 2"
Hard Rock/ AOR
Year:2018
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

YOU MISSED GOTTHARD? DON’T WORRY, THE DEFROSTED 2 ALBUM WILL MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE THERE!»Defrosted« released in 1997- was GOTTHARD’s very first live album. The extremely popular acoustic version was only the fourth album release from the Lugano based hard rockers and within three months it reached double-platinum status in Switzerland. Still to this day it’s seen as a cult-milestone within the bands career that helped establish their reputation as the most successful band from Switzerland. For more than 25 years, GOTTHARD have thrived in the global spotlight thanks to their outstanding songwriting and spectacular live shows; with a career that includes 16 No.1-albums, over three million records sold, multiple awards and over 2000 shows all...

ARTILLERY
"THE FACE OF FEAR"
Thrash Metal
Year:2018
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

'The Face Of Fear' is the band's 9th studio album and the third with the current line-up. The record contains nine brand new, straight-to-your-face songs.The lyrics are ARTILLERY as you know them, with subjects concerning the destruction of mankind, double standards, abuse and the looming worst-case scenario. 'The Face Of Fear' was recorded with long-time producer Søren Andersen at Medley Studios. It's Søren's fifth time at the helm and once again he manages to deliver a monster production. Sören Andersen on 'The Face Of Fear': "Pure and raw! Some of the material of this albumwas originally written in the early 80's and that inspired us to go old school this time. Not too many layers, just classic Art...

THE OCEAN
"PHANEROZOIC I: PALAEOZOIC"
Progressive Metal
Year:2018
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

Expansive, all-encompassing, reaching extraordinary depths…all can be said about both the dark abyss that forms the vast majority of our planet, and the band from which it takes its name. Today, The Ocean Collective announces their massive two-part return, four years in the making. This November, Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic will be released, with Phanerozoic II to follow in 2020.After 5 years of touring on Pelagial, the band started recording their 8th studio album in February 2018, split into two volumes to be separately released in 2018 and 2020 respectively, titled Phanerozoic. The Phanerozoic eon succeeded the Precambrian supereon, spanning a 500 million-year period leading to the present day, and it has witnessed the evolution and diversification of plant and...

ACE FREHLEY
"SPACEMAN"
Hard Rock/ AOR
Year:2018
(SPV)

- The first studio album since 4 years! Guitar World ranked Ace as the 14th Greatest Guitarist of all time! Inducted into the Rock N´Roll Hall Of Fame 2014. KISS bass player Gene Simmons wrote several songs for the album [!]And Ace is on a roll. He’s ready to embark on his next musical journey with Spaceman , his third solo outing in four years. Of all Ace’s post-KISS recorded output, Spaceman might be the closest link to his widely acclaimed 1978 solo record, both in spirit and execution. First off, Frehley played all of the guitar parts on Spaceman , as well as bass on all but two songs. Longtime drummer Anton Fig, whose friendship with Ace began in that 1978 record, also appears on “Off My Back” and “Pursuit of Ro...