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Judas Priest were the Sunday headliner at Bloodstock Open Air 2021, which took place at Catton Park, Walton-on-Trent, England this past weekend. Fan-filmed video from their set is available below.
The setlist on the night was as follows:
"One Shot At Glory" (live debut)
"Lightning Strike"
Swedish metallers SABATON have announced their new album "The War To End All Wars".
The band stated about the upcoming disc: "For almost two decades we have been singing about historical battles and wars from all over the world.
"Two years have passed since the release of our latest album 'The Great War', a concept album telling stories from World War I.
Former H.E.A.T. vocalist Erik Grönwall, who won the Swedish Idol reality television run in 2009, recorded four albums with the band between 2021 and 2020. He has been sharing an assortment of covers on YouTube and has checked in with his latest clip. CHeck it out below.
Grönwall: "This song was basically the starting point of my professional career as an artist
During Rob Halford’s 11 year break from Judas Priest in the '90s and early 2000s, the heavy metal legend formed the new band Halford, and Resurrection was their mighty debut. Marking Halford’s metal homecoming after years of soul-searching in other genres, the record was a return to form that even boasted a duet with Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson on "The One You Love To Hate".
Fan-filmed video footage of Yngwie Malmsteen's July 31 performance at Warehouse Live in Houston, Texas can be seen below.
Yngwie's new album, "Parabellum", was released on July 23 via Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group. Only four of the songs on the LP feature vocals. The album title is Latin, translating as "Prepare For War".
Progressive music titans DREAM THEATER have released an animated music video for their new single, "The Alien". Check it out below. The track is taken from DREAM THEATER's 15th studio album, "A View From The Top Of The World", which is due on October 22.
Guitarist John Petrucci states: "It's the first one we wrote together. It gives people a window into what it was like when we initially met up after all of those months off. It has the adventure,
Veteran German metallers RUNNING WILD will release their new album, "Blood On Blood", on October 29 via Steamhammer/SPV. The official lyric video for the LP's first single, "Diamonds & Pearls", can be seen below and will be followed by the second single, "The Shellback", on September 24.
RUNNING WILD leader Rolf "Rock N' Rolf" Kasparek states about "Blood On Blood": "We all know the difficulties the cultural sector was faced with during the lockdown.
Hamburg, Germany's GAMMA RAY has delivered impressive statements of its own musical philosophy to the worldwide heavy metal community for more than 30 years now. Founded and fronted by Kai Hansen after his departure from the famous German power metal band HELLOWEEN, GAMMA RAY recorded 11 studio albums between 1989 and 2015.
The Finnish folk metallers KORPIKLAANI let their fans participate in their technical skills and are now presenting their third video with the playthrough of a song from their current album “Jylhä”.
This time it's drummer Samuli Mikkonen, who demonstrates his drumming skills in the song “Kiuru”. The percussionist said: “As far as the drums are concerned,‘ Kiuru ’is not a typical KORPIKLAANI song.