Australian rockers BAD MOON BORN are back and ready to rock with a new video for the single ‘Alive?’.
“Alive?” was produced at Eldorado Studios LA by the late and incredibly inspiring Kato Khandwala (The Pretty Reckless, Pop Evil, My Chemical Romance, Paramore), engineered by the legendary Phil English (The Pretty Reckless), and mastered at Sterling Sound (NYC) by the phenomenal Ted Jensen (The Eagles, Billy Joel, Green Day, Nora Jones), this is first single off the new band’s EP due October 2018.
Kato Khandwala played an integral part in its development, not only as a producer and mentor but as the band’s biggest supporter over in the States. He has produced some of rock’s best-selling albums by artists such as Blondie, Paramore, My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, Pretty Reckless and many more.
Watch the video below:
With symphonic guitar solos, piercing vocals and infectiously melodic hooks, BAD MOON BORN’s “Alive?” will invigorate your senses.
“The song is about how the media, establishment, religion and industry seek to feed people with lies, fear and systematic belief systems in order to control them and to own their thoughts. Are we Alive?”, stated the band.
The new song is available on iTunes, Google Play and Spotify.
Finnish melancholic progressive metallers AMORPHIS released their enormously successful new album »Queen Of Time«, on May 18th, 2018 through Nuclear Blast. To present their new hymns live on stage, the band is pleased to announce that they will join forces with visionary Swedish metallers SOILWORK for a European co-headline run in early 2019. The band is currently working hard on the follow-up to 2015’s hit album »The Ride Majestic« (Nuclear Blast). The trek will mark SOILWORK‘s first tour in support of their new record. As if this package wasn’t great enough, these headliners will be supported by Ukrainian modern metal outfit JINJER plus German melodic death/doom metallers NAILED TO OBSCURITY, who are working on their Nuclear Blast debut.
AMORPHIS guitarist Esa Holopainen commented, “We can’t wait to hit the European roads and take the AMORPHIS live production to the next level with the »Queen Of Time« tour. We are really happy to bring the mighty SOILWORK, JINJER and NAILED TO OBSCURITY to this tour as well. Get your tickets now, it’s gonna be a blast from the past!”
Added SOILWORK vocalist Björn “Speed” Strid, “We are very excited about touring with AMORPHIS, as the first tour for our upcoming album. AMORPHIS have been my favorite Finnish band since I was a teenager, when »Tales From The Thousand Lakes« was my daily soundtrack. Both of the bands’ unique take on metal, will create an epic cocktail, as we roll through Europe on tour together. It’s about time, I can’t wait!”
JINJER stated, “We are absolutely thrilled and honored to tour alongside two metal giants such as AMORPHIS and SOILWORK, it’s almost too good to be true! We’ll be bringing our A game and playing some new material as well. Europe, get ready because 2019 is going to get loud!”
NTO guitarist Jan-Ole Lamberti said, “We can’t wait to get back on the road again and we are very excited to be a part of this killer tour package. We are looking forward to seeing familiar faces at cities and venues that we’ve already played in the past, but also to meeting lots of new people at places and even countries we haven’t been to yet. This is going to be great!”
German heavy metal legends ACCEPT are experiencing more success than ever, and have hit their stride creatively! In the 10th year since the band’s reunion, the quintet can look back on four top 10 albums in Germany, including an unbelievable #1 with »Blind Rage« (2014) and a brilliant #3 with their latest album »The Rise Of Chaos« (2017).
Six months after the success that was »The Rise Of Chaos« world tour, ACCEPT will start their festival season on the 22th of June at Rockfels Open Air, and will play headline shows at legendary Bang Your Head!!! in Balingen as well as at Rock am Stück festival and at Rock am Härtsfeldsee. They will finish the tour leg on July 28th as special guests to the legendary JUDAS PRIEST in Vienna.
Over the past few months, the German band has been anything but passive, instead they‘ve been finalising their latest project, their upcoming live release »Symphonic Terror – Live at Wacken 2017«, which will be released on November 23rd via Nuclear Blast!
Fans can expect a unique, 2 hour ACCEPT show, shot on August 3rd, 2017 at the legendary W:O:A, where the band played the biggest and most extraordinary show of their career in front of 80.000 live fans at the festival, on top of thousands more fans watching via the live stream! The show was divided into three parts, showing the full creative power of ACCEPT: The first part hosted the premiere of new tracks ‘Die By The Sword’ and ‘Koolaid’, as well as some of their most popular songs, such as ‘Restless And Wild’ and ‘Pandemic’. The middle part hosted guitarist Wolf Hoffmann accompanied by a symphony orchestra, presenting the best-of from his recent solo album »Headbangers Symphony«, which includes metal versions of some of the world‘s biggest classical compositions (e.g. from Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi,…). And in the last but not least part, fans were able to bang their heads to ACCEPT anthems (also accompanied by the orchestra), such as ‘Princess Of The Dawn’, ‘Breaker’, ‘Fast As A Shark’ and ‘Metal Heart’, as well as to new songs like ‘Stalingrad’, ‘Shadow Soldiers’ or ‘Teutonic Terror’. The finale could be nothing less than an 8 minute version of their eminent hit ‘Balls To The Wall’!
“This was a mash-up of intensity and precision,” Wolf Hoffmann says about the fusion of Heavy Metal and classical music. “The fans are extremely open-minded,” continues Wolf happy, “but I was nervous ’till the last minute before the show anyway. After all it’s still a metal festival! But I think that, after many years of ACCEPT combining both worlds, fans have started to really accept this concept.”
By the way: What started as a world premiere in Wacken and caused quite a stir worldwide (thanks to the live streams) will be continued in early 2019. This means: ACCEPT are planning to tour across Europe with an orchestra in spring 2019! “I really hope we will be able to fulfill our dream – we are working hard on it!” tells Wolf Hoffmann with eager anticipation. “What I can already say now is that there will be lots of optical and musical surprises, that fans of ACCEPT have never experienced before. We want to multiply what we have achieved in Wacken and are happy about every bit of support we get. One thing is for sure: 2019 will be exciting!”
ALPHA OMEGA Management is thrilled to announce the signing of UK’s heavy rockers I, ASSASSIN!
I, ASSASSIN are a high-energy, dynamic and exciting 4-piece heavy rock weapon forged in the darkest corner of Shropshire, UK. Formed out of the ashes of two ill-fated bands, I, ASSASSIN is a coming together of 4 distinctly different individuals unified under a single vision; – create and perform outstanding and infectious original rock music, playing whenever and wherever they can until the wheels fall off or they achieve world domination. I, ASSASSIN is a sonic juggernaut of sound, with a focus on big riffs, bigger soaring choruses and a fist-pumping drive. With a disciple of old-school classic rock on guitar, a hair-metal bassist, a pop-punk drummer, a metalcore singer, and a collective list of influences so broad and diverse, it’s almost impossible to define their sound…the only guarantee they give is it will be loud, it will be fast, and it will leave you with a grin from ear to ear. After spending almost a year developing their signature sound, they made their live debut in March 2017 to instant praise and acclaim. A strong debut year followed; performing as finalists in both Metallum & Soundwaves music competitions, and unleashing numerous blistering headline shows across the West Midlands.Their self titled EP, is now available on all major music platforms!
Stated the band: “We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with Alpha Omega Management, and are humbled to be the first band from the UK to be added to their impressive roster. For a while now we’ve known we have the potential and drive to take our careers to the next level, and we’re beyond grateful that Alpha Omega saw the potential in us and we look forward to beginning this next step with them. Special thanks to Roberto, for taking the time and patience to walk us through this scary but exciting process, and Damian Gibbs from Deadfall for recommending us to the AO team!”
ALPHA OMEGA Management adds: “We’re especially glad to welcome I, ASSASSIN to our roster family! These guys are hungry and are at their best on stage, delivering a tremendous sonic sound, with particular attention to great riffs, to choirs that stand out from what you’ve heard so far! Stay tuned for much more to come!”
Furthermore I, ASSASSIN will play their first show in London at the start of July, as well as two main support slots in Birmingham in the following month of August.
Bill Hudson‘s Swedish/American power metal band, NORTHTALE– who are currently in the studio, working for debut EP – has unveiled the band logo and launched their official FB page: https://www.facebook.com/NorthtaleOfficial
Furthermore the band has revealed “We are NorthTale” teaser video, watch it here.
Los Angeles-based guitarist/songwriter Bill Hudson (NORTHTALE, I AM MORBID, former DIRKSCHNEIDER, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA, Circle II Circle, Jon Oliva’s Pain and more) has become a very sought after name in the hard rock world in recent years. Whether he is in Germany headlining the biggest heavy metal festival in the world or in the studio recording guitars for a video game soundtrack, there’s never a dull moment in the life of the Brazilian musician. In the summer of 2015, he made history in Germany, headlining Wacken Open Air, performing in front of 80,000 fans with the TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA. Hudson joined the TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA also for their winter tour in 2015, performing 52 shows in 6 weeks throughout the US and Canada for an average of 15,000 fans a day. From April 2017 to April 2018 Bill Hudson made part of the DIRKSCHNEIDER line-up, touring widely both America and Europe. In February 2018 Bill launched his new power metal band, NORTHTALE. Watch Bill Hudson – E.G.O:
Please Note, BILL HUDSON is available for studio sessions and guitar clinics. For further information, please contact via email: alexalphaomega@gmail.com – robertoalphaomega@gmail.com.
Berlin based alternative dark rock act VLAD IN TEARS– who just recently concluded their European Tour 2018, Pt II – have announce the 3rd part of the tour, kicking off on July 21st at Green Valley Rock Festival in Berlin (Germany). The tour includes both festival- and club shows, check out the details below.
July 21 – Green Valley Rock Festival – Berlin (Germany)
August 4 – Berliner Gothic Treffen – Berlin (Germany)
September 7 – NCN Festival, Leipzig (Germany)
September 8 – Rock 4 Peace Festival, Flengsburg (Germany)
October 20 – Benefitz-Festival 6.0, Oberhausen (Germany)
November 9 – Psycho Sound Festival, Bucharest (Romania)
November 10 – Club Manufactura, Timisoara (Romania)
November 17 – L.A. Cham, Cham (Germany)
More shows TBA.
Watch the full concert video footage from Thessaloniki, shot during the band’s European Tour 2018, Pt. 2:
Berlin based alternative dark rock act VLAD IN TEARS was formed in 2007. During the last years they toured all over Europe, as headliner and also together with bands like Crematory, Combichrist, Xandria and The 69 Eyes. Quite soon after the release of “Unbroken” in 2016 the band entered the studio to work on their upcoming sixth full-length “Souls on Sale” which came out worldwide on December 15th, 2017 via Eternal Sound Records. On Halloween 2017 was unleashed the video for “The Devil Won’t Take Me Home” and only a few weeks later “Bleed Me Dry” – an artwork masterpiece. From spring 2018 on VLAD IN TEARS have been hitting the stages as headliner all over Europe.
