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Last night (Wednesday, February 22), Accept, along with tour openers The Iron Maidens, wrapped up the Too Mean To Die European tour in Saarbrücken, Germany.
To commemorate the final tour date, Accept frontman Mark Tornillo joined the Iron Maiden tribute act for a cover of Maiden's classic, "Wrathchild".
On March 17, Ventura, California's heavy metal institution, Night Demon, return with their third full-length, Outsider, via Century Media Records. For a preview of Outsider, the video for the new single, "Escape From Beyond" (filmed by Julian Weigand and edited by Dave Minall), can be viewed below.
Vandenberg and Mascot Records / Mascot Label Group have premiered the lead video from the band’s upcoming new studio album, SIN. Watch the clip below.
Adrian Vandenberg shares, “Like every other band or artist we were forced to ‘hold our horses’ when we found ourselves playing our part in one of those Hollywood ‘Outbreak’ style movies these past Covid years.
Mexican metal rockers Agora have announced the upcoming release of their latest single “Empire” via Golden Robot Records. This enticing and hard hitting track is the first for the band under the powerhouse label and comes in the wake of a tour announcement with Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard.
"Empire" is a track intended to empower the listener with a sense of going forward. It is both epic and powerful - the vocal melodies embrace the guitar riffs, thunderous drums beat with pounding bass and hymn like keyboards, somehow finding the perfect balance throughout.
Formed in 2018 in the rusted Bible Belt city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Blind Oath creates epic-scale traditional metal that erupts with the kind of old-school energy that harkens back to power metal’s glory days. The band’s lyrical lore is expertly distilled into concentrated Sword & Sorcery tales channeling the hermetic, gnostic, and alchemical, historical accounts of witchery, and epic gothic poems of old. Blind Oath’s self-titled debut, recorded with producer -- and Night Demon guitarist -- Armand John Anthony, is set for a March 17 release via Tulsa non-profit Horton Records.
May 5, 2023 will see heavy speed metal giants Savage Grace return with a brand new studio album, entitled Sign Of The Cross, through Massacre Records.
On their forthcoming album, Savage Grace are not only introducing their new vocalist Gabriel Colon – who is described as a blend of the early Rob Halford and the young Ian Gillian – but creating and moving into a new dimension of metal while keeping true to their authentic roots. Guitarist Christian Logue assembled the most incredible musicians...
Iron Allies, featuring former Accept members Herman Frank & David Reece, along with Victory members Malte Burkert and Mike Pesin, and former U.D.O. drummer Francesco Jovino, have announced their first live dates.
Dates:
March
10 - Silvercube Lounge & Hardrock Lounge - Dielsdorf, Switzerland...
Metallica have released behind the scenes footage for the Tim Saccenti-directed music video for "Screaming Suicide", featured on the band's upcoming 72 Seasons album.
Metallica’s 12th studio album, 72 Seasons, will arrive on April 14 on the band’s own Blackened Recordings. Produced by Greg Fidelman with James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich and clocking in at over 77 minutes, the 12-track album is the band’s first full-length collection of new material since 2016’s Hardwired…To Self-Destruct.
During a September 2022 interview on Detroit radio station WRIF's Meltdown program, Megadeth frontman / founder Dave Mustaine revealed the band had recorded a Judas Priest cover for an upcoming Amazon project.
He later revealed on BBC's The Rock Show With Johnnie Walker, for the program's Rock God segment, the Judas Priest song in question was "Delivering The Goods" from the Killing Machine / Hell Bent For Leather album, released in 1978.