Revocation Launches “The Blackest Reaches” Lyric Video

Revocation Launches “The Blackest Reaches” Lyric Video Revocation launches “The Blackest Reaches” lyric videoHeadline tour begins in one month!Revocation continue their series of lyric videos with fellow guitarist and director/animator Nick Hipa. The latest, “The Blackest Reaches“, is live now at metalblade.com/revocation. The previously released lyric videos, “Scorched Earth Policy,” “Madness Opus” …

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1st Wildfire Festival Announcement

Wildfire are pleased to announce the first group of bands to be playing at next years festival.   Full details and early bird tickets from facebook.com/events/wildfire http://www.wildfirefestival.co.uk/ http://www.wildfirefestival.co.uk/ Apriori-Fire https://youtu.be/mos29X1rURk   Serpentine-Season Of The Witch Sky Valley Mistress-Dirty Blonde Blues https://youtu.be/8SXw5aUjH-o   Soldier- https://www.facebook.com/soldiernwobhm/videos/178070445675523/   Winterstorm-Sail The Unknown Sea  

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Reds’Cool – ‘Press Hard’

Name me a Russian hard rock band.  Go on.  Gorky Park.  OK, there’s one.  Try another.  Try counting them off on the fingers of one hand.  Tough, isn’t it?  While evil western rock ‘n’ roll music was banned under the communist regime, even in the post-Glasnost era very few bands …

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Trivium interview at Bloodstock 2015

Was there ever any doubt that Trivium would do anything else but triumph at Bloodstock? Of course not, with new material, a new stage set, all debuted at this years festival, this was a headline set not to be missed. I had a chat with Corey prior to the show, …

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Nitrovolt – Dirty Wings

German Speed Rockers Nitrovolt released their third album Dirty Wings via Mausoleum Records earlier this year. Formed in 2004 by vocalist Tom “Voltage” Krämer and bass player Luciano “Louis” Vanini, they started out as a three piece called ‘Hi Octane Rockers’ with Micha on drums completing the threesome. In 2009 long …

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Demolition Train – Unleash The Hordes

Described as ‘Dirty Speed/Thrash Metal with Rock & Roll and NWOBHM influences’ Demolition Train formed in Athens Greece in 2009, making their first live appearance in 2010. They released their first EP ‘Kill Your Boss’ in 2011. When Vasilis and Michalis had to leave the band for a while, Witchkiller …

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Aesthetic Perfection – Audio, Glasgow – 05/08/2015

Many bands love Glasgow. Aesthetic Perfection is no exception. Last year they were rocking The Classic Grand together with Faderhead, and they were back again, this year – to the Audio club. While people were slowly gathering in Audio, the first opening act, a local band called Advance started their …

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Steve ‘N’ Seagulls Confirm UK Tour Dates for October 2015

Steve ‘N’ Seagulls Confirm UK Tour Dates for October 2015 Steve ‘N’ Seagulls have confirmed ‘The Seagull Has Landed’ UK tour for October following their sold out tour May UK tour.    Steve ’N’ Seagulls exclaimed their “Last UK tour was a blast. We were thrilled by the audience every night. It  over-exceeded our expectations. Next time …

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Diatessaron at Bloodstock 2015

I caught up with the guys post set at this years Bloodstock festival. We chat about the set and the forthcoming album amongst other things. A great band in my opinion,with a really bright future ahead of them Click on the video link below to hear the full interview   …

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Prowler – ‘From The Shadows’

Everything about this debut full-length album from South Carolina’s Prowler – not to be confused with the now defunct NWOBHMers or the nascent German thrashers or the half a dozen or so US bands of the same name – points to an Eighties B-list thrash re-issue, from the horror movie-inspired …

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Thundermother – ‘Road Fever’

Swedish-based Thundermother – they draw their members from Ireland and Italy as well as Scandinavia – draw on a heritage of all-female rock ‘n’ roll bands that traces its lineage back to The Runaways, through Girlschool, L7 and Rock Goddess to likes of their modern-day counterparts The Amorettes.  They are …

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New releases on way from Napalm Records

Napalm Records have confirmed the details of some upcoming new releases. First out of the traps will be Australian duo Jackson Firebird, whose second album, ‘Shake The Breakdown’, will be released on September 4. Next up will be ‘Innuendo’, from Finnish symphonic metallers Amberian Dawn, on October 23, followed by ‘Sovran’, …

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Shinedown to prove ‘Threat To Survival’ in September

Shinedown will release their new album, ‘Threat To Survival‘, via Atlantic Records on September 18.   Shinedown are currently touring the USA and will bring the previously-announced ‘Carnival of Madness’ tour, with Black Stone Cherry and Halestorm to the UK in early 2016: Thursday January 28 – Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena Friday January 29 – …

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The Sword – ‘High Country’

‘High Country’ could, quite possibly, be described as The Sword‘s “happy album”.  And that’s no mere throwaway descriptive on our part, but a summarization of frontman John Cronise’s take on the opus:  as he explains, when he started to write the songs for ‘High Country’, he found himself at something of …

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Oncology – ‘The Metastasis’ EP

Oncology is the branch of medicine that deals with the treatment of tumours – and particularly cancerous ones – while a metastasis is a secondary growth of a malignant tumour, separate from the primary one.  However, PM is a music website not a medical one, and therefore the particular branch …

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