WINTERSTORM
"EVERFROST"
Melodic Power Heavy Metal
Year:14.07.2023
(AFM RECORDS)

After twelve years of band history by now, it's time to take the new power metal hope WINTERSTORM to a new level. Their fifth album "Everfrost" is their debut on AFM Records and rightly shows that the German band is compared to groups like Blind Guardian and Rhapsody Of Fire. This is mainly due to the melody, which is clearly in the foreground with WINTERSTORM and is reflected in earworm-heavy choruses and many polyphonic vocals. Thereby striking elements of different metal styles merge with each other and get a completely new impression. "Winter" stands for Nordic Viking and Folk Metal, "Storm" for fast Power Metal, which together with epic and orchestral Metal shine in a new splendor. "Everfrost" is a versatile and powerful album, which does not have to hide behind proved...

PRIMAL FEAR
"CODE RED"
Power Heavy Metal
Year:01.09.2023
(ATOMIC FIRE)

The German Metal Commando is back: PRIMAL FEAR’s new album!PRIMAL FEAR, the heroes of power metal, proudly and loudly announce the arrival of their new album “Code red” for September 1st, 2023. Following the huge success of their latest album “Metal commando” (which became the band’s highest charting ever with several top 10 chart entries in 2020), it's a new milestone and basically offers everything you love PRIMAL FEAR for: The soaring, unmistakable vocals of Ralf Scheepers, powerful rhythm section, great melodies, catchy choruses and the huge wall of sound (again mixed by Jacob Hansen) make “Code red” a winner and future classic right away.CD:1. Another Hero2. The Flood3. Deep In The Night4. Cancel Culture5. Play A Song6.The World Is ...

SOEN
"MEMORIAL"
Progressive Metal
Year:01.09.2023
(SILVER LINING)

Soen have announced the release of their new album Memorial, which will be coming out September 1st via Silver Lining Music. The band have also released the hard-hitting first single ‘Unbreakable’.  The new album has a potent drive and sees the band channel the ills of current society with a crisp, riff heavy ferocity but at the same time still showcasing Soen’s unique blend of progression, aggression, and beauty. Memorial is drenched in melody with face-crushing guitars and rhythms from start to finish. Album opener ‘Sincere’ starts off with relentless propulsion, whilst the sheer power of the title track is enriched with a solid groove, underlying the weighty tones and evocative vocals of Joel Ekelöf. Finishing with the beautiful, tragic, Pink Floy...

RINGWORM
"SEEING THROUGH FIRE"
Death Metal
Year:08.09.2023
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

On the rarest of occasions, there comes along a band that latches on and annihilates your ears with such a unique combination of sounds, you find yourself dislodged from the monotony of every-day music, and rooted firmly in the terrain of admiration. Cleveland Ohio’s RINGWORM are no strangers to this concept, and have been fascinating metalheads with their unorthodox melodies for over 30 years. Now recently signed to Nuclear Blast Records, the guys are preparing to unleash their 9th studio album: SEEING THROUGH FIRE.“We wanted to go with a slightly different approach and look than the previous records, it’s a new era for us,” explains vocalist and founder James Bulloch, also known as the Human Furnace. “It’s a little bit of a return to our roots, you hav...

CRYPTOPSY
"AS GOMORRAH BURNS"
Death Metal
Year:08.09.2023
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Death metal juggernaut CRYPTOPSY return to pummel our collective senses anew with their new album, "As Gomorrah Burns". Their first for Nuclear Blast, the Montreal - based quartet — featuring founding member/drummer Flo Mounier, guitarist Christian Donaldson, vocalist Matt McGachy, and bassist Olivier “Oli” Pinard — advance their signature Northern power as they celebrate 30-plus years of extremity. The merciless blasts of “Lascivious Undivine” and “Flayed the Swine” offer Cryptopsy at their most intense and maniacal, while “In Abeyance” and “The Righteous Lost” groove savagely. "As Gomorrah Burns" underscores the animus of fan-favorite "None So Vile" (1996) and the meticulous technicality of "And Then You’ll Beg...

SYLOSIS
"A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME"
Technical Death Metal
Year:08.09.2023
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

The tides swell as the next wave of British metal continues to build momentum, led by genre pioneers, SYLOSIS and their brand-new opus, A Sign Of Things To Come.From the fiery modern thrash of 2008 debut Conclusion Of An Age and its epic follow-ups, Edge Of The Earth (2011) and Monolith (2012), to the direct, holistic savagery of 2015’s Dormant Heart and 2020’s much-acclaimed Cycle Of Suffering, Sylosis have proudly flown the flag for fiercely sophisticated but defiantly uncompromising metal. Now armed with new music, Sylosis is to make a mighty reintroduction into the international metal world!The sixth full-length in the Sylosis catalogue, A Sign Of Things To Come is instantly recognisable as the most potent and powerful of the band’s career. Comprising ten concise and ...

TILL THE DIRT
"OUTSIDE THE SPIRAL"
Progressive Death Metal
Year:25.08.2023
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

New band from Kelly Schafer (Atheist) featuring Steve DiGiorgio (Death, Testament), produced by Scott Burns (Obituary, Deicide).Kelly Shaefer is doing it again. With his new band TILL THE DIRT and their debut album „OutsideThe Spiral“, the legendary Floridian death metal revolutionary is set to inject a much-needed dose of fresh blood into this aging, saturated and self-referential thing that the style has morphed into over the decades.Now that „Outside The Spiral“ has arrived, crank up the volume and let TILL THE DIRT take you on a surprise-filled tour de force that will redefine the extreme metal genre in at least as many ways as ATHEIST did more than 30 years ago. Don't take our word for it, trust your ears!CD/ LP:1. Starring Role2. Outside The Spiral3. Priv...

U.D.O.
"TOUCHDOWN"
Heavy Metal
Year:25.08.2023
(ATOMIC FIRE)

With their 19th album “Touchdown”, German heavy metal titans U.D.O. score again!He is one of the epitomes of international heavy metal: With his unique voice, Udo Dirkschneider has been shaping legendary rock anthems since the ‘80s. Spending five decades on stages globally, Dirkschneider is a true icon of the metal scene.Despite his long history and the many ups and downs that rock’n’roll life entails, Udo Dirkschneider continues to write his own story and never ceases to amaze. This year is no exception.His band U.D.O.'s new album "Touchdown" will be released on August 25th, and once again the name says it all. Just as the "touchdown" in American football describes an important goal for players and teams, the same applies to the album and Udo Dirkschneid...

MATTEO MANCUSO
"THE JOURNEY"
Blues/ Jazz
Year:21.07.2023
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

    Guitar virtuoso, Matteo Mancuso is a long-time YouTube sensation, his channel is now at 148k subscribers with thousands of comments from all over the world. A full-on Yamaha guitars endorsee and priority artist.    Many of the world's most iconic, ground-breaking and legendary guitar players speak about Matteo’s talent and technique: - Steve Vai: The evolution of guitar is firmly secure in the hands of these kind of players… it's just a new level, the tone, the touch, the notes!" - Al Di Meola: "An absolute talent; his improvisational ability is light years ahead. It would take two or three lifetimes. It was like when Jacko (Pastorius) came on the scene…how did he get so good and so fast?" - Joe Bonamassa: "All t...

CYHRA
"THE VERTIGO TRIGGER"
Melodic Death Metal
Year:18.08.2023
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Swedish modern melodic metal torchbearers, CYHRA, featuring ex-AMARANTHE singer Jake E. and guitar hero Jesper Strömblad (ex-IN FLAMES, THE HALO EFFECT) are back with 11 brand new tracks filled to the brim soothing melodies, anthemic vocals and hard hitting riffs! "The Vertigo Trigger" will be the perfect successor to the band's extremely successful previous album, "No Halos In Hell" (2019).

CD/ LP:

1 Ready To Rumble
2 Let's Have My Story Told
3 Live A Little
4 Fahrenheit
5 Buried Alive
6 The Voice You Need To Hear

7 Life Is A Hurricane
8 If I
9 Fear Of Missing Out
10 Ashlight
11 Too Old For Fairy Tales

EDWARD REEKERS
"THE LYBERTY PROJECT"
Progressive Metal
Year:04.08.2023
(MASCOT LABEL GROUP)

    Fourth solo album from Dutch singer-songwriter. Most known as the lead singer for Dutch prog band, Kayak, as well as his appearances on Ayreon projects. 7 Ayreon albums and 10 Kayak albums    Featured artists are: Steve Hackett, Damian Wilson, Arjen Lucassen/ Ayreon, Harry Sacksioni, Mark Lennon/Venice and more...History repeats itself. Haven’t we heard that one before? (Which actually proves that the statement is true.) It’s not only a frequently heard comment, it also happens to be the main theme of a new double album by Edward Reekers entitled ‘The Liberty Project’. So what is it? A rock opera, a musical, a concept album? A combo of all 3? Yes.“I wanted to create a story within a story, so I introduced Thomas and Catherine,...

SATYRICON
"SATYRICON & MUNCH"
Black Metal
Year:25.08.2023
(NAPALM RECORDS)

A fusion of art of the highest standard – Satyricon & Munch!Satyricon & Munch showcases two of the most known Norwegian artists, Edvard Munch and SATYRICON, combined in one groundbreaking piece of art, breaking the boundaries between high culture and black metal music. The new music, created by SATYRICON mastermind Satyr, is written in the shape of a so-called musical work, it is 56 minutes long and transcends any genre barriers. Although the music was written for the art exhibition, it clearly has the emotional depth to take on any environment outside the exhibition room. The new, astonishing and critically acclaimed art exhibition of the same title is on display at the MUNCH museum in Oslo until August 28, 2022. The musical work is available in album format on Ju...

ALKALOID
"NUMEN"
Technical Death Metal
Year:15.09.2023
(SEASON OF MIST)

Numen is ALKALOID’s third album and it’s got some of the band’s most intricate, thought-provoking and batshit insane ideas yet. The album is narrated from the god-like perspective of an ancient alien, who can reshape the entire galaxy with its demonic grunts. ALKALOID are still bonded together by their love of death metal. After all, this is a supergroup assembled from foundational members of OBSCURA, DARK FORTRESS and SPAWN OF POSESSION. The fiery, finger-tapped solo that squiggles loose about halfway through “Clusterfuck” is crushed like an ant beneath a Drop D mallet storm. But Numen finds the Bavarian band playing around with all kinds of genre experiments. “The Cambrian Explosion” flips tech-death on its horned head with seductive flurries of ...

SILENT SKIES
"DORMANT"
Progressive Metal
Year:01.09.2023
(NAPALM RECORDS)

"Whenever EVERGREY’s Tom S. Englund and acclaimed US-based pianist/composer Vikram Shankar (Redemption, Lux Terminus) come together to merge their creativity, the result is magic. Now arrives the next product of this fateful encounter, as the Swedish-American cinematic-pop duo releases its third album, Dormant, on September 1, 2023 via Napalm Records. Continuing on the atmospheric path of Scandinavian melancholy charted on their previous full-lengths, Nectar (2022) and Satellites (2020), the brainchild of Englund and Shankar features stunning piano melodies, atmospheric keyboards, lush and expansive soundscapes, and hauntingly beautiful and intense vocals on 10 original compositions, accompanied by bonus tracks, covers of well-known classics by Iron Maiden, Linkin Park, and more, dre...

MARC HUDSON
"STARBOUND STORIES"
Power Heavy Metal
Year:25.08.2023
(NAPALM RECORDS)

"After 12 years with DragonForce, vocalist Marc Hudson presents his first solo album, entitled Starbound Stories, set for release via Napalm Records on August 25, 2023! Starbound Stories is a sparkling, anime-inspired power metal ride, heavily influenced by both Japanese music and video game soundtracks, and featuring a horde of notable guests. Instrumental album opener “As The Twilight Met The Sea” acts as an introduction to the soundscapes of the album and features samurai metal master Ryoji Shinomoto (RYUJIN, previously known as Gyze) on traditional Japanese instruments. Shinomoto also lends his vocals on the following track, “Freedom Heart”, which also features a solo by guitar virtuoso Syu (Galneryus). Explosive power metal anthem “Dracula X&rd...