GHOST WALKER: BREWDOG & LAMB OF GOD RELEASE WORLD’S FIRST NON-ALCOHOLIC COLLABORATION BEER WITH VIDEO PREMIERE! Independent craft brewer and global heavy metal band launch “Ghost Walker,” an alcohol-free beer that brings quality craft to non-drinkers, with a live video of the song that inspired it Scottish craft brewer BrewDog and American …
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Leatherjacks – Extremely Dangerous Leatherjacks, a new band to me but what a band, albeit a one man band founded in 2015 in Sao Paulo by Mauro Cordeiro. So he could be Brazil’s answer to Tom Scholz! New album Extremely Dangerous is the follow up to the 2017 debut release …
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EVIL SCARECROW new video The Ballad Of Brother Pain When we discovered that Brother Pain and Princess Luxury had sadly decided to leave Evil Scarecrow we thought we’d better get a move on with a project that we’d had in mind for some time; a video for The Ballad of …
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The Sourheads – An Elder’s Son – new video single The Sourheads are soon to release their second album and have filmed the video for the new single An Elder’s Son whilst on lockdown. They filmed it in isolation using Whats App, incense smoke and Marcel the cat. Taking influence …
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Hammerheart – Distant Skies (single) (featuring Blaze Bayley) Hammerheart, formed in 1994 in Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia have released Distant Skies as a single from their upcoming album Beyond The Farthest Point. It’s a seven minute chest beating adrenaline rush of heavy metal and very Iron Maiden influenced, so the obvious …
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Kaine – Reforge The Steel Notwithstanding founder member Rage Sadler of Kaine, this is a completely new line up to me and after one listen to current album Reforge The Steel, it sums up their current position perfectly! Since their formation in 2009 there has always been a sheer bloody …
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Wisconsin’s most brutal deathgrind band from one man wonder Koth Dolgomoru pile drive this stunning, funny and pulsating album straight into your faces with no mercy whatsoever. An effort full of insane song titles and even more insane hard-driven riffs, it’s an album that will make anyone who hears it …
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Black Roze – Spiritual Hell This is a cocksure debut album to say the least from Kent based Black Roze as Spiritual Hell swaggers not staggers! They open up with the throbbing bass guitar heavy ‘Obscenity’ that adds funk to militaristic snare drums, wiry guitar lines and a piercing solo …
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In response to the COVID-19 situation, Pitch Black Records has issued a statement encouraging fans to, instead of buying from the label, consider buying from bands and underground festival organisers who have been affected by COVID-19. For those that do purchase from the label, 100% of all sales between April …
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Next month APF Records is releasing a t-shirt, double CD and digital download under the title APF Records: The Sound of Heavy 2020. All profits from it’s sale will be donated to their chosen charity for 2020: South Liverpool Food Bank here in the UK. The download is pay what …
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Devils Henchmen – Built By Hate (EP) Before I had even heard anything by Liverpool based trio the Devils Henchmen, I saw them play at a festival in Wakefield and talking to them after their set I was astonished by their playing and songwriting at the age of 14. Fast …
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Swedish band Dictator Ship have signed to Sign Records and are set to release their debut album Your Favorites on the 17th April 2020. It is a short and fast slab of 21st Century Scandinavian Rock n Roll with more than a few nods to early 70’s American garage. The …
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I’ve always felt there is something Tolkienesque about Nightwish. With their blend of operatic, folk, power and Celtic metal. The vocals from Floor Jansen are as close to an angelic angel as can exist in this mortal realm. That is not to say her style is always heavenly, more a …
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Topeka, Kansas brutal death metal horde UNMERCIFUL and Sick Drummer Magazine have posted a drum play-through video for the title track off of their upcoming new album, ‘Wrath Encompassed ‘. The video features UNMERCIFUL drummer Trynt Kelly showcasing his intense, rapid-fire performance on ‘Wrath Encompassed ‘. Kelly also gives insight …
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New Fearless Records signing KILL THE LIGHTS, which features former members of Bullet For My Valentine and Throw the Fight, have shared the video for anthemic new song ‘Plagues ‘. The song boasts a fierce combination of thunderous rhythm, militaristic percussion, blistering solos, a pummelling breakdown, and a real earworm …
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UK hard rock band, RYDERS CREED, have released their new lyric video for ‘Cut Me Down‘, the second single from the highly anticipated 2nd album ‘Lost Souls‘, which will be released May 8th via Off Yer Rocka Recordings. The video can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/ArkNBHqJgN8 “Cut Me Down”, follows hot on the heels of first …
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Bad Touch – I Get High (single) Welcome back Bad Touch and what a return with a new single called ‘I Get High‘ taken from the forthcoming album Kiss The Sky. They tap into a winning formula of feisty funk-rock as tight but loose riffs writhe like snakes over a …
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I last saw Samantha Fish in May last year at the Stables in Milton Keynes. I thought at the time that it wouldn’t be long before she was playing bigger venues in the UK, and I was right as this tour saw her playing and selling out the Islington Assembly …
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Dynazty – The Dark Delight Dynazty, a new band to me (even though they formed in Stockholm, Sweden in 2008). I first thought they would be another dodgy 80’s glam rock band who spelt their name wrong to get attention but I could not be any further from the truth …
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FRONTIERS MUSIC 20 SONGS FOR 2020 FREE DIGITAL SAMPLER TO DOWNLOAD OR STREAM CONTAINS TRACKS FROM CURRENT AND UPCOMING RELEASES 10th April 2020 was supposed to be an exciting release day for Frontiers Music Srl, with new albums by One Desire, Dennis DeYoung, Pretty Maids, FM and Her Chariot Awaits …
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