TEN Release New Lyric Video “La Luna Dra-Cu-La” From New Album “Gothica”

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British Melodic Hard Rockers, TEN, have released the second single from their forthcoming 13th studio album entitled “Gothica”, which will be released on the 7th of July, 2017 via Frontiers Records.

The brand new track entitled “La Luna Dra-Cu-La”, the lyric video is a fast rocker, based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which describes, according to band leader Gary Hughes, “the moment when guests approach Dracula’s castle for the first time, with the full moon illuminating an otherwise obscure and disturbing scene. The Dracula Moon, as the Transylvanian people call it.”

“Gothica” was produced by Gary Hughes and mixed/mastered by Dennis Ward, a longstanding professional association which has been ongoing since Dennis mixed TEN’s 2011 album, “Stormwarning”.

Additionally, the album features stunning original artwork by Stan W. Decker, while the atmospheric sleeve photography is once again provided by the remarkably talented Adrian Ashworth.

You can preorder “GOTHICA” NOW: http://radi.al/Gothica

Frontiers: http://www.frontiers.shop
Amazon: http://radi.al/GothicaAmazon
iTunes: http://radi.al/GothicaiTunes
Google Play: http://radi.al/GothicaGooglePlay

Listen to TEN on Spotify: http://radi.al/GothicaSpotify

Tracklisting:

1. The Grail
2. Jekyll And Hyde
3. Travellers
4. Man For All Seasons
5. In My Dreams
6. The Wild King Of Winter
7. Paragon
8. Welcome To The Freak Show
9. La Luna Dra-cu-la
10. Into Darkness

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TEN is:

Gary Hughes – Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitar, Bass and Programming
Dann Rosingana – Guitar
Steve Grocott – Guitar
John Halliwell – Guitar
Steve McKenna – Bass Guitar
Darrel Treece-Birch – Keyboards
Max Yates – Drums and Percussion

Additional Backing Vocals – Karen Fell

More information at http://www.tenofficial.com – https://www.facebook.com/TenOfficial

MR. JACK Signs With Makulata Anima Records, To Release New Album “Deep Side Of The Lake”

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Salvatore V.‘s solo project MR. JACK has signed a deal with Makulata Anima Records, for the release of his new album “Deep Side Of The Lake”, out August 4th, in digital format via the various channels.

The album includes 12 tracks exuding tension with all the features you would expect from a horror soundtrack!

Furthermore the label, alongside the artist, is organizing something special for the “physical” product, and at the same time also different from the work you will find online.

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WIDOW To Release “Carved In Stone” On Limited Vinyl Edition On June 30th, Cover And Tracklist Revealed

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Raleigh, NC Heavy Metallers WIDOW will release their new album “Carved In Stone“ on limited vinyl edition on June 30th, 2017, via Pure Steel Records.

North Carolina’s beauties WIDOW present a album that will leave no one indifferent. Carved In Stone is a fifth album released over the last thirteen years. This album marks the arrival of a new drummer, who joined the already established singers/guitarists John E. Wooten IV and Cristof Bennett. The band still plays a wonderful mix of traditional American-rooted hard rock and fine old-school metal. When listening to the songs, one cannot help but notice the qualities one would traditionally find in classics like OZZY OSBOURNE, ALICE COOPER, VAN HALEN or even hints of LION, in a metal style that the band fully masters and even brings to new grounds. WIDOW will dazzle the listener with strong titles like “Another Time and Place” or “And We Are One”. Headbanging and fist pumping tracks like “Wisdom” and “Of the Blood We bind” could even awake a dead body from its torpor. Then, like a rollercoaster, WIDOW slows the pace down with “Time On Your Side”, but soon sets all engines on again with songs like “Borrowed Time” and “Live by the Flame”. This album is definitely a must.

After the CD release in June 2016 follows the album “Craved In Stone” in a limited edition of 300 black copies with insert on vinyl.

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TRACKLIST:
Side A
1. Burning Star
2. Carved In Stone
3. Another Time and Place
4. Wisdom
5. Time on Your Side
6. Borrowed Time
Side B
1. And We Are One
2. Anomaly
3. Live By The Flame
4. Of The Blood, We Bind
5. Nighttime Turn
6. Let It Burn
Total Playing Time: 49:53 min

LINE-UP:
John E. Wooten IV – lead vocals, bass
Chris Bennett – lead guitars, bass
Robbie Mercer – drums

More information at http://www.widowusa.com

GRAVE PLEASURES Ink Worldwide Deal With Century Media Records

Posted by tarjavirmakari on June 24, 2017
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GRAVE PLEASURES have finished the recording of their eagerly awaited second studio album, “Motherblood”, recorded at Orgone Studios in the UK (Ghost, Paradise Lost, Ulver). It has been scheduled to a worldwide release for late September/early October 2017 on Century Media Records worldwide.

Risen from the ashes of Beastmilk, GRAVE PLEASURES features the writing talents of Mat McNerney (Hexvessel, Beastmilk, Code, DHG) and Juho Vanhanen (Oranssi Pazuzu, Atomikylä). Their new record embraces their apocalyptic roots while taking their raw sound and songwriting to fierce new heights.

“Motherblood” features stunningly fresh artwork by Finnish artist Tekla Vály. Their visual language is every bit as strong as the musical essence of GRAVE PLEASURES, underlining their obsessively bold and independent aesthetics.

Mat McNerney comments on the signing:
“Jens came out to see our show in Sweden at the end of last year and enjoyed it so much he made it clear that he wanted to work with us. For me that’s the greatest way to work with a label, to hang out with the people involved, to be friends and to enjoy good music together. That way it’s much more than a business relationship to us. It becomes part of the experience of why we do this. It’s very comforting to know that we will have the best, most hard-working and friendliest team working on our record. We’re proud to be a part of their family with Grave Pleasures.”

Century Media’s A&R Jens Prueter says:
“It’s a pleasure to welcome Grave Pleasures on Century Media. There are not too many artists who have enough talent and visions for being involved in very different bands such as Hexvessel, Oranssi Pazuzu and Grave Pleasures. And it’s always great to work with a group of friends and like-minded spirits. Thanks to the entire band and their manager Andy Farrow!”

Mat McNerney comments on the albums concept and music:

“Like the great sacrament of ancient times that was the blood sacrifice of the mother, we too have laid down our most holy flesh at your feet. This record, which is a bold re-definition of death-rock and our totemic challenge to our pretenders, shall be our most grand and sordid testament. If you have never danced with the skeletons, then this album is your gateway drug to all the nihilistic pleasures of the grave. Apocalyptic post-punk never sounded so desperately bleak and wild yet never grinned so maniacally and writhed so fervently with tongues that whip the tombs. The Kali figure of our cover is the eternal icon of nuclear fear. She presides over the religion of an apocalyptic future. A desolate future we proudly celebrate with caustic music of the most furious punk. Come imbibe and wash your mind in our Motherblood. We’re dancing in the lion’s mouth. The elevator only goes down.”

GRAVE PLEASURES line-up:
Mat McNerney – Vocals
Juho Vanhanen – Guitars
Aleksi Kiiskilä – Guitars
Valtteri Arino – Bass
Rainer Tuomikanto – Drums

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THE HAUNTED Reveal Details On New Album ‘Strength In Numbers’, Debut Single “Brute Force” Video

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Swedish Thrash Metallers THE HAUNTED are geared up to kick off the promotional campaign for their upcoming ninth studio album effort entitled ‘Strength In Numbers’. Recorded at Parlour Studios in the UK with producer Russ Russell (Napalm Death, Dimmu Borgir, The Exploited), the album will be released worldwide via Century Media Records on August 25, 2017 and it’s finally time to reveal the first details about the release…

The album’s debut single for the merciless and in-your-face track “Brute Force” is out today, check out the music video produced by Oscar Dziedziela / OD Visual below. The track is also available streaming via Spotify at http://bit.ly/BRUTEFORCE

THE HAUNTED checked in to comment on the track as follows:
“We’re very excited to finally be able to air our first single from the new album “Strength In Numbers” and let it set the tone for the brutality of the album. “Brute Force” is one of those songs written in the early stage of making the album and shows our hunger to make new music, uncompromising, unforgiving and just to the point.”

The artwork for ‘Strength In Numbers’ was once again created by THE HAUNTED’s longtime designer Andreas Pettersson. The tracklisting reads as follows:

THE HAUNTED – “Strength In Numbers”:
1. Fill The Darkness With Black
2. Brute Force
3. Spark
4. Preachers Of Death
5. Strength In Numbers
6. Tighten The Noose
7. This Is The End
8. The Fall
9. Means To An End
10. Monuments

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The album’s limited edition Mediabook CD version will additionally include the bonus tracks “Illusions” and “Sinister”, 3 stickers and expanded layouts. “Strength In Numbers” will also be available on 180-gram vinyl in various editions: Black LP, Limited Silver LP (200 copies / Sweden only) and Limited Clear LP (300 Copies / USA only).

Last but not least, an extremely limited Deluxe LP package will be available from CM Distro / CM Webshop in Europe ONLY. This very special edition is limited to 500 copies on transparent red vinyl and comes with a printed guitar tablature book, a poster, a set of 3 guitar picks and the entire album on CD as a bonus. Grab it before it’s too late!

Pre-order the album in its various physical formats from CM Distro here: https://smarturl.it/BruteForceCMDistro

EPICA Announce EP “The Solace System”, Release Music Video

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With their latest masterpiece, EPICA set new standards. 2016’s “The Holographic Principle” is the most epochal, multi-layered, courageous and successful record of the band, reaching top 10 chart position entries in the German, Dutch and Swiss album charts. Accordingly, all the tracks written for the album process are high-quality, but not all songs have been put on the album. “This is only based on the fact that the record should not exceed 76 minutes,” explains Mark. Since the band didn’t like the idea of a double CD, they finally decided to release an EP with six brand-new numbers, which were created during the creative phase of “The Holographic Principle”.

Said and done. Now, EPICA proudly announce their upcoming long-awaited EP, “The Solace System”! It is scheduled to be released on September 1st, 2017 via Nuclear Blast.

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Mark tells about the songs: “The listeners can expect a high-quality EP – with songs that are far too good to use them only as bonus tracks. We wanted to publish these songs together in a context. It is always hard to decide at the end of a recording process which songs will be on the album, because this means that you have to miss some songs with best quality, just because they do not fit quite well into the overall flow of the record or because there are other songs that are more suited to the lyrics”.

So much the better then that EPICA have chosen to publish those songs in an EP. Due to this EP, no one has to miss these damn strong songs that, just like the album, consist from a contrasting versatility, equally opulent, bombastic moments, as well as filigree emotionality!

This is proven in the new music video to the title track ‘The Solace System’, which you can see here:

“The Solace System” was recorded, mixed & mastered by team Joost van den Broek and Jacob Hansen. The video clip was produced by anime-master Davide Cilloni. The splendid artwork is once again by the hand of Stefan Heilemann.

Simone Simons (vocalist) comments on the EP:
“During the early writing process of »The Holographic Principle« we found out that we were blessed with a huge amount of songs. The songs that didn’t fit on our album are now available for you on this special EP! I hope you guys will enjoy these songs as much as we do!”

And if that wasn’t enough, you’ll be also able to purchase the new EP “The Solace System” together with the CD of their recent studio album “The Holographic Principle” as a box set!

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It will be called “The Holographic Principle – The Ultimate Edition”.

The box set “The Holographic Principle – The Ultimate Edition” as well as the EP »The Solace System« are now available for pre-order.
Get your physical copy here: http://nblast.de/EpicaSolaceSystem
Or through the EPICA Webshop: http://smarturl.it/thesolacesystem
Or get the digital version and get the title track ‘The Solace System’ instantly: http://nblast.de/EpicaDigital

And there are some more good news! Nuclear Blast is going to re-release two ancient albums of EPICA, »Design Your Universe« and »The Devine Conspiracy«, on vinyl on August 18th. Each album is available in two different colours, the pre-order has already started last week.

Get those two albums on vinyl, here: http://nblast.de/EpicaSolaceSystem
EPICA webshop: http://smarturl.it/thesolacesystem