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Emerging epic metal heroes Blazon Rite will release their second album, Wild Rites and Ancient Songs, April 14 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats via Gates Of Hell Records.
Recorded in May 2022 with Kevin Bernsten at Developing Nations Studios, Wild Rites And Ancient Songs is the highly anticipated follow-up to Blazon Rite’s masterful 2021 debut, Endless Halls Of Golden Totem.
Transatlantic - the prog supergroup of Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Roine Stolt & Pete Trewavas - will release of a new concert set entitled The Final Flight: Live At L’Olympia on February 17. It was recorded and filmed in France on the last stop of a tour to promote the band’s fifth and most audacious album to date, The Absolute Universe.
This was the multinational group’s first outing in eight years.
Scorpions have shared professionally-filmed footage of their performance of "Blackout" from the 2012 edition of Germany's Wacken Open Air festival.
Scorpions french fan club, Crazyscorps, has released a new interview with frontman Klaus Meine. During the chat, Klaus talks about writing songs for the band's Rock Believer album, the current political situation in Europe...
AFM Records have checked in with the following update:
"Legendary guitar player Ross The Boss and his band are going to release a 'vinyl only' Best Of compilation, titled Legacy Of Blood, Fire & Steel, on April 28th. It consists of 12 songs taken from the four Ross The Boss studio albums.
Danish / American bashers Pyramaze have released "Broken Arrow", the first single from their forthcoming seventh album.
Melancholy Beast, the classic debut album from Pyramaze, was released on vinyl for the first time on November 11th, 2022 via Inner Wound Recordings. The album was originally released in 2004.
2023 will mark the final chapter in the long history of Germany’s legendary thrash metal act, Holy Moses, celebrated with the bands upcoming new studio album Invisible Queen (available April 14) and a last run of live shows.
Today, Holy Moses release their first single and music video for the title track, "Invisible Queen", which says it all. Sabina Classen is the first and longest standing female thrash vocalist...
True-as-steel Spaniards, Iron Curtain, are streaming the new track, "Metal Gladiator".
The track is the second to be revealed from the band's brand-new mini-album, Metal Gladiator, set for international release on February 24 via Dying Victims Productions. Listen to the track below.
The first embers sparked in the frosty Canadian Tundra of Newfoundland, Canada in 2011 when Category VI released their “Vinland” demo. This swiftly ignited their path and their debut album Fireborn (2013) was unleashed in a blaze of burning metal.
Those coals were never quenched, and Category VI added fuel to the fire with their 2017 follow-up Inferno “War Is Hell”.
Twisted Sister frontman, Dee Snider, spoke to eonmusic about his thoughts on the band’s future plans, following their one-off on stage reunion at the Metal Hall Of Fame in Agoura Hills, California. The singer was speaking ahead of the New York band’s induction at the event, which took place at The Canyon Club on Thursday night.
Officially retired, Twisted Sister last performed in 2016.
For four decades, Overkill have been the trailblazers in producing some of the most signature moments in the world of metal. On April 14, the New Jersey thrash legends will bludgeon your ears with their twentieth studio album, entitled Scorched, via Nuclear Blast Records.
Today, the band offers fans the first taste of the album with the single, "The Surgeon". Listeners will enjoy a crash course in Overkill 101 featuring blistering vocals, surgically shreddy riffs, galloping drums, and the dirty low-end bass that fans come out of the gutter for. A visualizer for “The Surgeon”