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Heavy metal quintet U.D.O. - fronted by legendary singer Udo Dirkschneider and officially completed by former Accept bassist Peter Baltes in April - recently announced their new studio album, Touchdown, due out on August 25 via Atomic Fire Records.
It features 13 tracks which cement the fact that the group surely belongs to the all-star team of the scene.
Power metal entity Dragonheart announce the release of The Dragonheart's Tale, their fifth studio album, on August 25th via Rockshots Records.
Marking the return of the band's original vocalist Eduardo Marquesm, it also features guest vocals from Henning Basse on "Ghost Of The Storm" and was mixed and mastered by Fredrik Nordström along with the cover artwork by Andreas Marschall.
American thrash metal legends and genre originators, Exodus, are thrilled to announce that they have officially signed a worldwide contract with Austrian rock and metal empire Napalm Records.
Recently commanding the metal world with their 11th studio album, Persona Non Grata (2021) - which debuted in the US at #1 on the Current Hard Music Albums chart, #9 on the Billboard 200 with Hard Rock Genre chart and #20 on the Current Album Sales chart, among others
In a new interview with The Meista - Brews & Tunes, guitarist Wiley Arnett of SACRED REICH spoke about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the follow-up to 2019's "Awakening" album.
He said: "It's been an amazing process. We didn't do a record for a long time for several reasons, but one of the biggest is the well had kind of run dry.
In a new interview with Rock History Music, THE SWEET guitarist Andy Scott confirmed that Ronnie James Dio was in consideration to join the band after original lead singer Brian Connolly left THE SWEET in 1979. Andy said: "People have said to me, that moment when Brian had left the band and we were starting to pick the bones out of the record that he should have been on, the 'Cut Above The Rest' album where we ended up being a three-piece band…
It’s the melodic grandeur, that clearly marks the foreground of Winterstorm, reflected in heavily catchy choruses and colossal, polyphonic vocals.
Striking elements of different metal styles merge with each other and get a completely new impression, that Winterstorm’s forthcoming record may be their most versatile and powerful album to date; one that does not have to hide behind proven genre colleagues such as Blind Guardian or Rhapsody Of Fire.
On June 17th, German power metallers Powerwolf performed at the Hellfest in Clisson, France. Pro-shot video of the entire show courtesy of ARTE Concert can be viewed below.
There is no way around the most successful German band in modern heavy metal. Only a few days before the release of the special album Interludium on April 7, and shortly after the overwhelming first North American tour in the band's history
In celebration of their 40th anniversary last year, British thrash metal pioneers, Onslaught, reissued their latest three studio albums - Sounds Of Violence (2011), VI (2013) and Generation Antichrist (2020)
as red 180 gram vinyl editions in gatefold sleeve and a special anniversary edition of Sounds Of Violence as a 2CD digipak including a bonus CD.
German heavy metal band, Turbokill, have released a video for their new single, "Time To Wake", featured on the band's forthcoming debut album, Vice World.
In an enlightened world, it must be allowed to ask how the musical succession to metal legends like Judas Priest or Iron Maiden is to be realized. Or is the change of guards already under way? Following in the footsteps of the metal giants of our era will by no means be an easy feat.