SARCASM
"STELLAR STREAM OBSCURED"
Death Metal
Year:21.01.2022
(HAMMERHEART RECORDS)

•  One of the oldest still active extreme Metal bands from Sweden, with a huge Cult following worldwide.•  Fits right in with other Cult bands as Necrophobic, Unanimated, Dawn, Eucharist and Dissection.•  Go bang your head to this one if you like dissection, unanimated, dawn and Necrophobic.Sarcasm is back! A return to the roots attack that takes their blazing Cosmic Death Metal unto a concept-based next level of insanity!Sarcasm has had a storied career. Originally formed in Sweden in 1987, Sarcasm would release blistering Death Metal throughout the early and mid-90’s. After a short-lived reunion in 1997, they would come back into the fold in 2015 with a new re-designed version of their lineup.Now they ...

ERIC GALES
"CROWN"
Blues/ Rock
Year:28.01.2022
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

    ‘Crown’ was produced by Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith, and features contributions from ace songwriters Keb Mo, Tom Hambridge and James House.    Eric Gales’ most recent album, 2019’s ‘The Bookends’, debuted #1 on the Billboard Blues Album chart and that year Eric won a Blues Music Award for Blues Rock Artist Of The Year.Eric Gales is a blues firebrand. Over 30 years and 18 albums, his passion for the music and his boundless desire to keep it vital has never waned, even when his own light dimmed due to his substance struggles. Throughout it all, he continued to reinvigorate the art form with personal revelation in his lyrics and bold stylistic twists in his guitar playing and songwriting.Fi...

EARTHLESS
"NIGHT PARADE OF ONE HUNDRED DEMONS"
Progressive Rock/ Hard Rock/ Stoner/ Rock
Year:28.01.2022
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

There’s an ancient Japanese legend in which a horde of demons, ghosts and other terrifying ghouls descend upon the sleeping villages once a year. Known as Hyakki Yagyo, or the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, one version of the tale states that anyone who witnesses this otherworldly procession will die instantly—or be carried off by the creatures of the night. As a result, the villagers hide in their homes, lest they become victims of these supernatural invaders. Such is the inspiration for the latest album from EARTHLESS. “My son is really into mythical creatures and old folk stories about monsters and ghosts,” bassist Mike Eginton explains. “We came across the ‘Night Parade of One Hundred Demons’ in a book of traditional Japanes...

CYNIC
"ASCENSION CODES"
Technical Death/ Progressive Metal
Year:26.11.2021
(SEASON OF MIST)

3 years after their latest single 'Humanoid', American progressive metal pioneers CYNIC are releasing their long awaited new album "Ascension Codes". As frontman Paul Masvidal comments: "'Ascension Codes' is a portrait of contrasts, like those between struggle and stillness, or the immediate against the limitless.”  For fans of Atheist, Opeth, Death ...TRACKLIST CD/ 2LP:1. Mu-54* (0:32)2. The Winged Ones (5:08)3. A'-va432 (0:28)4. Elements and their Inhabitants (3:09)5. Ha-144 (0:30)6. Mythical Serpents (6:24)7. Sha48* (0:19)8. 6th Dimensional Archetype (4:07)9. DNA Activation Template (5:25)10. Shar-216 (0:23)11. Architects of Consciousness (6:20)12....

EPICA
"OMEGA ALIVE"
Symphonic Female Heavy Metal
Year:03.12.2021
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

For many years now, the comparative of epic has simply been EPICA. Since their formation in 2002 and their quick ascension to stalwarts of symphonic metal noblesse with trailblazing masterpieces “The Divine Conspiracy” (2007) or “Requiem for the Indifferent” (2012), Dutch metal titans only knew one way: Up. Especially with their last three releases “The Quantum Enigma”, “The Holographic Principle” and this years’ “Omega”, forming a metaphysical trilogy that’s both alpha and omega of all things symphonic metal, EPICA became rightful monarchs of a genre they themselves helped made become a global phenomenon.Yet, as every other band, EPICA couldn’t take their latest installment of breathtaking cinemat...

CRYSTAL BALL
"CRYSTERIA"
Hard Rock/ AOR
Year:28.01.2022
(MASSACRE RECORDS)

The album "CRYSTERIA" opens a new chapter in CRYSTAL BALL's history. In their 3rd decade, the band is far from just repeating itself, and you can find new, fresh, and energetic elements in their music.CRYSTAL BALL took its time during the pandemic-related break to write lots of new material, so they could choose from over 30 Songs for the "CRYSTERIA" album. CRYSTAL BALL's new guitar player Peter Berger also contributed many songs and ideas to this album. He was a very refreshing and motivating input. The production of "CRYSTERIA", that was taken care of by Stefan Kaufmann, improved even further and reflects the bands live energy perfectly. The album features the vocal duet "Call Of The Wild" with Ronnie Romero (Rainbow, MSG) whom the band got to know at a festival ...

OPERA DIABOLICUS
"DEATH ON A PALE HORSE"
Epic Black Metal
Year:26.11.2021
(SEASON OF MIST)

Listen everybody, bring out OPERA DIABOLICUS! The Swedish horror outfit have created the perfect horror musical with a little help from their friends Mats Levén (Candlemass, Therion, Skyblood), Snowy Shaw (King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, Therion, Notre Dame), Andy La Rocque (King Diamond) and Michael Denner (King Diamond, Mercyful Fate)! With ‘Death on a Pale Horse’, the Swedes bring you the epic tale witchcraft, the black death and revenge!For fans of KING DIAMOND, MERCYFUL FATE, CANDLEMASS ...TRACKLIST CD/ 2LP:1. Listen everybody (2:49)2. Bring Out Your Dead (5:24)3. Second Coming (9:51)4. Siren’s Call (7:54)5. Darkest Doom on the Brightest of Days (7:34)6. A song of Detestation &n...

CELESTE
"ASSASSINE(S)"
Sludge/ Doom/ Death Metal
Year:28.01.2022
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

CELESTE have been breaking the outer boundaries of heavy music for over fifteen years. When they first evolved from the Lyon hardcore punk scene, they were absolutely brutal and entirely unique, delivering extremity on their own terms that they pushed further and further with each successive album. “We just wanted to get darker and more violent,” says drummer Antoine Royer, until 2017’s Infidèle(s) saw the incorporation of a more melodic streak. Their most focussed record yet, it was tremendously received, critically adored, and backed with the band’s biggest shows to date.CD-DIGI:01. Des torrents de coups02. De tes yeux bleus perlés03. Nonchalantes de beauté04. Draguée tout au fond05. (A...

DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT
"NOKTVRN"
Black Metal
Year:19.11.2021
(SEASON OF MIST)

Black metal formation DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT have never stopped smashing through the boundaries of the genre they’ve called home. With the release of their fifth album, Noktvrn, the Germans are looking to expand the minds and perspectives of their ever-increasing fanbase, similar to how they pushed themselves in every element of the new album’s creation. Noktvrn, the title is based on classical composer Frédéric Chopin’s Nocturnes (night pieces), embraces all aspects of the night: darkness, dreams, the obscure state of mind between being awake and asleep, and not least, the dawning of a new day.  TRACKLIST CD/ 2LP:1. Finisterre II (01:52)2. Monument (06:46)3. Am Rande der Dunkelheit (08:18)4. Immortal (06:50)...

ARCHSPIRE
"BLEED THE FUTURE"
Technical Death Metal
Year:29.10.2021
(13TH PLANET)

Following up their mind-bending 2017 album, ‘Relentless Mutation,’ ARCHSPIRE unleash their new full-length, 'Bleed the Future,' another unforgiving masterpiece that serves up technical death metal at its most extreme and intricate.The G-force levels of velocity and dizzying technical proficiency reach seemingly impossible heights, defying the laws of physics and pushing human boundaries to the outer limits.‘Bleed the Future’ sits at the apex of technical and extreme metal, certifying ARCHSPIRE’s place among the genre’s masters.For fans of Beyond Creation, Necrophagist, The Faceless.TRACKLIST CD/ LP:1. Drone Corpse Aviator    (3:46)2. Golden Mouth of Ruin (4:05)...

KREATOR
"ENDORAMA ULTIMATE EDIT. "
Thrash Metal
Year:17.12.2021
(AFM RECORDS)

- The 9th studio album by Thrash Metal legends KREATOR- remastered by Jens Bogren (Arch Enemy, Sepultura, Amon Amarth, Paradise Lost a.m.m.)- For the first time as official label Vinyl release as a Ltd. Gtf. 2LPThe legendary "Endorama" Album by KREATOR - finally in it's Ultimate and remastered Edition with lots of bonus material!Kreator surely need no introduction to anyone at this point. The Germans were among the distinctive bands who helped to shape and fashion the emerging thrash style in the 1980s. And through such landmark albums as 'Pleasure To Kill' (1986), 'Terrible Certainty' ('87) and 'Coma Of Souls ('90), they had stamped their own hallmark of quality, passion and aggression, in the process pro...

RHAPSODY OF FIRE
"GLORY FOR SALVATION"
Melodic Symphonic Power Metal
Year:26.11.2021
(AFM RECORDS)

- Excellent new studio album by Italian symphonic metal-kings RHAPSODY OF FIRE- This new epic material is stylistically close to their late 90s' / early 2000s' masterpieces without marking that time- "Glory For Salvation" is the second album of a story concept that will stretch over three records- Coverartwork by Alex Charleux (Rhapsody Of Fire, Ubisoft)- Mix and Mastering by Sebastian "Seeb" Leevermann (Orden Ogan, Almanac)Rhapsody Of Fire return with the next part of their saga "Glory For Salvation". Pathetic and fast-paced, the band around Alex Staropoli presents a masterpiece of metal symphony. The opus of modern melodic power metal will be released on 26.11.2021.The Italian band Rhapsody of Fire returns with the next part of...

FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY
"OH WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS"
Death Metal
Year:14.01.2022
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Survival depends on evolution. As conditions change and tides turn, we must change with them in order to stay one step ahead of the coming challenges. It’s clear that Fit For An Autopsy have embraced that mantra as they continue to perpetually evolve with each subsequent body of work. Notjust blurring, but eradicating the lines between technical metal virtuosity, death metal menace, hardcore intensity, melodic insidiousness, and abstract approaches, the New Jersey band embody an uncompromising vision of their own.The six-piece—Joseph Badolato [vocals], Patrick Sheridan [guitar], Timothy Howley [guitar], Will Putney [guitar], Peter Blue Spinazola [bass], and Josean Orta Martinez [drums]— perfect this approach on their sixth full-length offering, Oh Wha...

HYPOCRISY
"WORSHIP"
Death Metal
Year:26.11.2021
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

With governments finally admitting that UFOs do in fact exist, and humanity attempting to heal from a state of recent crisis, the timing couldn’t be more appropriate for the newest addition to the HYPOCRISY catalog: WORSHIP. Aptly titled, the album cover shows a mass of humans reaching up mindlessly to the sky as glowing spaceships shaped like the HYPOCRISY crosses sigil beam down to descend upon earthen civilizations and Mayan temples. Designed by artist Blake Armstrong (Kataklysm, In Flames, Carnifex, etc.), WORSHIP’s artwork speaks to the history of the relationship between humanity and extraterrestrials. “They’re coming back to collect,” explains founder and HYPOCRISY mastermind Peter Tägtgren.It has been 8 long years since the last rec...

IRON SAVIOR
"THE LANDING 10 ANNIV. REMIXED/ REMASTERED"
Melodic Power Heavy Metal
Year:19.11.2021
(AFM RECORDS)

· Rerelease of the 7th album, full of haunting melodies and powerful hymns! - Remixed & Remastered· Produced by Piet Sielck in his own Powerhouse Studios (Stormwarrior)· Atmospheric cover artwork by Felipe Machado (Blind Guardian, Rhapsody Of Fire)· Album comes with the unpublished Japanbonustrack "Underneath The Radar"With "The Landing" one of the most popular German metal bands finally returns back to the scene: IRON SAVIOR!Their performance is impressive: "The Landing" is full of haunting melodies and power - all in the typical Savior sound. Hymns like "Heavy Metal Never Dies" and "Hall Of The Heroes" posses an almost unreal power of persuasion, with "Starlight" melodic speed to perfection is represented, the beautif...