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A lyric video for "Where Is The Joke", the second single from Frenzy's new album, Of Hoods And Masks, has just been issued by the band, and can be seen below.
Frenzy will release Of Hoods And Masks on April 20, 2023 via Fighter Records in CD, LP, and Digital formats.
German metal commandos, Primal Fear, celebrated their 25th band anniversary with select events last year, including live shows and re-issuing their iconic self-titled debut album. The time was also spent preparing a huge sonic assault named Code Red that will be unleashed on September 1 through Atomic Fire.
Produced by bass player Mat Sinner and co-produced by vocalist Ralf Scheepers as well as guitarist Tom Naumann...
Swedish heavy metallers, Enforcer, have announced that their sixth studio album, Nostalgia, will be released on May 5 via Nuclear Blast Records. To celebrate, they've released a video for the album's first single, "Coming Alive". Watch the video below, and stream the song here.
Olof Wikstrand comments: "We’re super happy to announce the first new music in four years! Heavy metal is ‘Coming Alive’.
Norwegian rockers TNT have shared on social media they are in at Studio Nyhagen laying the first basic tracks for new music. This is the first set of new music since vocalist Tony Harnell announced his return to the band in November 2022.
Harnell’s last studio album with TNT was 2005’s All The Way To Sun, released on MTM Records. TNT’s most recent album was XIII – issued in 2013 on Frontiers Records.
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...