GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT
"THE BEGINNING OF THE END"
Progressive/ Post Metal
Year:15.07.2022
(NAPALM RECORDS)

Post-rock masters GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT transform their superb debut after 20 years, live in studio!In 2022, with 20 years and a strong collection of masterful, acclaimed albums to their name, Irish post-rock maestros GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT come full circle with their live studio output, The Beginning Of The End. Recorded at Windmill Lane Recording Studio in Dublin, Ireland on October 3, 2021, the album features modern transformations of all of the songs from their debut album, 2002’s The End Of The Beginning, encompassing each track’s evolutionary changes throughout the band’s years of live performances while allowing the original melodies and songwriting to shine through.GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT’s upcoming release, The Beginning Of The End, provid...

CROBOT
"FEEL THIS"
Hard Rock/ Stoner
Year:10.06.2022
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

Pennsylvanian riff-monsters Crobot conjures up the kind of rock 'n' roll that has grooves so powerful they throw you around the room and hooks high enough to shake the heavens. They take the sweet-sounding nectar of the gods and pour it down your throat until you're wailing along like a banshee.Feel This is the follow-up to 2019s Top 10 Heatseekers album Motherbrain – whose cumulative streams have surpassed 29 million. 20 million of which were for the goliath single "Low Life" - a US Top 10 hit at the Mainstream Rock radio with a 29-week run on the Billboard charts."This is the record we've been wanting to do ever since we started," exclaims Brandon. "We've always thought of ourselves as a live act," he continues. "When Jay Ruston d...

DARKANE
"INHUMAN SPIRITS"
Melodic Death/ Thrash Metal
Year:24.06.2022
(MASSACRE RECORDS)

DARKANE are back!
The long-awaited seventh studio album "Inhuman Spirits" is finally here, and it is packed with intense, brutal, groovy and catchy melodic death/thrash metal!
The album features ten haunting tracks that will get your mind moving and melting! Get ready for fast, energetic and heavily grinding songs!
The high-quality musicianship, a trademark of DARKANE, was taken to the next level with a production by Lawrence Mackrory.

TRACKLIST CD/ LP:

1. Inhuman Spirits
2. Awakening
3. Embrace The Flames
4. Conspiracies Of The Flesh
5. Inhaling Mental Chaos

6. Mansion Of Torture
7. The Quintessence Of Evil
8. A Spiral To Nothing
9. The Great Deceiver
10. Vålnader

FOZZY
"BOOMBOX"
Heavy Metal
Year:06.05.2022
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

Powerhouse rockers Fozzy have announced their new album BOOMBOX – their first album in five years - which will be released on 6th May via Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group (ex-NA). The album, which includes the US top 10 singles, “Nowhere to Run and “Sane”, was once again produced by Johnny AndrewsTalking about the album, FOZZY frontman Chris Jericho says; “Judas…both the album and the song was a HUGE breakthrough for FOZZY.  It took us to the next level and positioned us as legit players at rock radio and as a live draw. As a result, we knew that we had to follow up with the album of a lifetime. BOOMBOX is that album!!  You’ve already heard the top ten singles “Nowhere To Run” and “Sane”- kick ass,...

BLEED FROM WITNIN
"SCHRINE"
Metalcore/ Death Metal
Year:03.06.2022
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

BLEED FROM WITHIN - set for world metal domination.Scottish fire-brands BLEED FROM WITHIN have reached a career tipping point. Rising above the multitude of challenges the pandemic spewed up, the metal 5-piece have transformed themselves over the past two years, in a story of sheer resilience. Reaching their strongest career position yet, momentum has been snowballing since the release of 2020’s critically acclaimed record Fracture, bolstered by recent significant successes in both touring and digital streaming.2021 saw the band dominate the UK live scene, selling out their largest ever headline tour in November, capturing hearts as support on Bullet For My Valentine’s arena tour (several critics stating they shone brightest on the line-up), slaying a...

MALEVOLENCE
"MALICIOUS INTENT"
Death Metal
Year:20.05.2022
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

In early 2020 came the highly anticipated EP release, The Other Side, introducing a brand-new side of MALEVOLENCE. Although only three tracks, each song showcased a depth and diversity that is uncommon in modern metal. Heart-wrenching ballads are blended perfectly with technical shredding and crushing breakdowns, effortlessly showcasing the band's talent as genuine songwriters. Despite the hard-fought success, MALEVOLENCE remains an autonomous crew. Operating from their Sheffield-based HQ, a previously derelict warehouse the band transformed themselves, MALEVOLENCE handles as much of their in-house operations as they possibly can. Including the formation and operation of MALEVOLENCE’s own label, MLVLTD Music. It was through this label that the band self-released The Other Sid...

SINNER
"BROTHERHOOD"
Melodic Heavy Metal/ Hard Rock
Year:15.07.2022
(ATOMIC FIRE)

Hard 'n' heavy icons SINNER ‐ uniting the scene with their 18th studio album!The heavy metal world has produced quite a few legends. But none is like Mat Sinner. So much conviction, lifeblood and self‐sacrifice, so much pure heavy metal spirit, so much dedication is usually not found bundled in a single person. Since 1982 he fronts the band named after him, with which he now triumphantly returns in the form of "Brotherhood": a massive album, whose title is as self‐explanatory as the mission of its creator. Self‐produced and mixed and mastered by Jacob Hansen (VOLBEAT, among others), it is a record that carries the band's internal brotherhood under its heart as much as the brotherhood of the worldwide heavy metal following. "We belong to...

TOXIK
"DIS MORTA"
Thrash Metal
Year:05.08.2022
(MASSACRE RECORDS)

This album is the heaviest TOXIK release yet! While the group has a long lineage in a traditional thrash mold, this record expands on what's been and shows where they can go, both musically and subjectively.10 piledriving tracks that range from staggering breakneck BPMs to grinding odd time signatures and raspy dissonances, the character of the album reflects perfectly the band's message and mindset."Dis Morta" is the 3rd full-length release and picks up where "Think This", the band's second album, leaves off. It is a conceptual work in that the art on the cover parallels the subjects in the songs but it's not bogged down with heavy-handed traditional concept album plaque. It's clean, focused, and approachable without knowing the co...

BLACK STONE CHERRY
"LIVE FROM THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL… Y ALL!"
Blues/ Rock
Year:24.06.2022
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

Black Stone Cherry returns with a new live album, ‘Live From The Royal Albert Hall... Y'All!’, available June 24th, 2022 via Mascot Records. Taken from their sold out performance at London’s world famous Royal Albert Hall on September 21st, 2021, this release marks a new milestone for the band, and serves as a celebration of their 20 year career. Featuring songs from Black Stone Cherry’s entire catalog, ‘Live From Royal Albert Hall... Y'All!’ has something for every BSC fan.Available on a limited 2LP 140 Gram Black vinyl, as well as a 2CD+BR variant.TRACKLIST 2CD/ BRD:1 Me and Mary Jane2 Burnin'3 Again4 Yeah Man5 In My Blood/Island Jam6 Ringin' In My Head7 Like...

SUPERSONIC BLUES MACHINE
"VOODOO NATION"
Blues/ Rock
Year:24.06.2022
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

    Supersonic Blues Machine is the magic combination of drum legend Kenny Aronoff, bassist/producer Fabrizio Grossi & singer Kris Barras.    Voodoo Nation features guest performances by Sonny Landreth, Eric Gales, Charlie Starr (Blackberry Smoke), Ana Popovic amongst others.Voodoo Nation is the band’s third studio album and fourth in total following West of Flushing, South of Frisco (2016), Californisoul (2017), live album Road Chronicles: Live (2019) and will be released on 24 June via Provogue /Mascot Label Group.The album starts with the track "Money", which is about greed.  "Greed alone is not the problem, it's greed and the lack of respect for everybody else", he explains. The 8-minute "Devil at the Do...

MSG
"UNIVERSAL"
Melodic Heavy Metal/ Hard Rock
Year:27.05.2022
(ATOMIC FIRE)

The new MSG album "Universal", from the german guitar legend Michael Schenker, with 11 new tracks featuring Ronnie Romero (RAINBOW) as main vocalist, plus the guests singers Michael Kiske (HELLOWEEN), Ralf Scheepers (PRIMAL FEAR) & Gary Barden. A heavy Hard Rock masterpiece!There are few rock guitarists on this planet who have had such a lasting influence on so many renowned musicians as Michael Schenker. With his outstandingly fluid style, inexhaustible wealth of ideas and instinctive feel for hooks and melodies, Michael Schenker is a living legend who, despite his longstanding and distinguished history, still impresses with his unflagging energy and drive. The blond axeman from Sarstedt began his international career in the early 1970s with the SCORPIONS, achieved worl...

KARDASHEV
"KIMINAL RITE"
Deathgaze
Year:10.06.2022
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

· Progressive Deathgaze pioneers Kardashev returns with a new full-length album!· Featuring saxophonist Christoph Clöser (Bohren, Der Club Of Gore), artwork by Faith Veloro· Kardashev (Car-duh-shev) is a self described “Deathgaze” group blending themes of Death Metal with Shoegaze. Their mission statement could be described as, “Attempting to create the most beautiful, heavy music through themes of love, loss and altruism in the Metal spectrum.”· “something for fans of Ahab or even Deafheaven.”Forged in 2012, KARDASHEV’s mission statement could best be described as, “Attempting to create the most beautiful, heavy music through themes of love, loss, and altruism in the metal spe...

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE
"EARTH INFERNAL - LIVE AT THE PALLADIUM"
Metalcore/ Death Metal
Year:10.06.2022
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

On August 6, 2021, three-time Grammy-nominated hard rock heavyweights and platinum-selling band Killswitch Engage unleashed a streaming event that took fans by storm. The event took place at The Palladium in Worcester in the band's native Massachusetts, which has been the site of many iconic KsE shows throughout the band's history. The performance setlist consists of 2019's Atonement in full, along with their 2000-released, self-titled debut album in full - with some fun and unexpected surprises along the way! This special event was directed by David Brodsky and Allison Woest for MyGoodEye.2CD/ BRD/ 2LP:01. Unleashed02. The Signal Fire03. Us Against the World04. The Crownless King05. I Am Broken Too06. As Sure as the S...

AFTER FOREVER
"AFTER FOREVER 15 ANNIVERSARY EDIT."
Symphonic Female Heavy Metal
Year:27.05.2022
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Right in time for the 15th anniversary the reissue of AFTER FOREVER‘s self titled album will be released as a jewel case CD incl. a rare bonus track and liner notes by all band members added to the booklet.

TRACKLIST CD:

1. Discord
2. Evoke
3. Transitory
4. Energize Me
5. Equally Destructive
6. Withering Time
7. De-Energized
8. Cry With A Smile
9. Envision
10. Who I Am
11. Dreamflight
12. Empty Memories
13. Lonely (Bonus Track)

SEPTICFLESH
"MODERN PRIMITIVE"
Blackened/ Death Metal
Year:06.05.2022
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

“Modern Primitive” is the new album by SEPTICFLESH who present a stunning combination of symphonic and cinematic music with aggressive yet catchy Death Metal. Picking up on the group’s sonic evolution in the past decades, “Modern Primitive” proves to be more emotional, epic and heavy than ever.Now, SEPTICFLESH has joined forces with Nuclear Blast Records and initiates the next phase in the band’s history, with a new album to be released in May 2022. Once again Jens Bogren is responsible for the bombastic mix and sound whereas Seth Siro Anton - who is also in charge for the visual aesthetics of the band and worked for artists like Nile, Paradise Lost or Moonspell - has crafted a really intense cover and over-the-top artwork for this release...