KING KING are proud to announce their new album “Reaching For The Light,” will be released on 180 gram vinyl on Friday 4th September. The vinyl was manufactured at The Vinyl Factory in London on the classic EMI 1400 press and the original EMI pressing plant.
Mastered specifically for vinyl production by the legendary Ray Staff (Led Zeppelin, Genesis) at Air Studios, the vinyl edition of “Reaching For The Light” is now available for pre-order from Manhaton Records.
The news of the vinyl release follows hot on the heels of King King’s forthcoming October – November UK tour. Tickets are available from thegigcartel.com or 0844 478 0898.
2015 UK TOUR
BURTON UPON TRENT, BREWHOUSE Wednesday October 21
BURY ST. EDMUNDS, THE APEX Thursday October 22
HARPENDEN, PUBLIC HALLS Friday October 23
TAVISTOCK, THE WHARF Saturday October 24
COVENTRY, THE COPPER ROOMS Sunday October 25
CARLISLE, THE OLD FIRE STATION Tuesday October 27
HOLMFIRTH PICTUREDROME Thursday October 29
CLITHEROE, THE GRAND Friday October 30
GLENROTHES, ROTHES HALL Saturday October 31
YORK, FIBBERS Sunday November 1
CHESTERFIELD, REAL TIME LIVE Tuesday November 3
HULL, FRUIT Wednesday November 4
FROME, CHEESE AND GRAIN Friday November 6
SHOREHAM, ROPETACKLE ARTS Saturday November 7
LONDON, ISLINGTON O2 ACADEMY Wednesday November 11
UK Sludge legends RAGING SPEEDHORN are set to embark on a six date UK tour in late November, in support of their upcoming, as yet untitled, new record. Their first release since 2007’s “Before The Sea Was Built”, and their first to feature new guitarist Jim Palmer.
The dates for the tour are:
Thu, 26 Nov 2015 – The Globe, Cardiff
Fri, 27 Nov 2015 – The Underworld, London
Sat, 28 Nov 2015 – Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton
Sun, 29 Nov 2015 – The Corporation, Sheffield
Mon, 30 Nov 2015 – Star & Garter, Manchester
Tue, 1 Dec 2015 – The Exchange, Bristol
The band, who launched a Pledge campaign earlier this year for their new record, have recently announced that fans participating in the Pledge will received a free live EP as a thank you.
Drummer Gordon Morison had this to say on the upcoming dates:
“We’re really happy to announce that we’re hitting road for 6 shows at the end off the year finishing of with a hometown show in Corby. we’ll be trying out some new tracks from our forth coming record and smashing out some banging old tracks too. So go grab yourself a ticket and come and party with the RSH crew.”
Fans wanting to contribute to the Pledge can do so here – pledgemusic.com/projects/raging-speedhorn
Raging Speedhorn formed in 1998 and went on to release four records, the most successful being their second release “We Will Be Dead Tomorrow”, recorded by Billy Graziadei and Danny Schuler of Biohazard fame. The band achieved chart success with ‘The Gush’ in 2001, toured continuously with acts like Slipknot, Ill Nino, Rammstein and Will Haven, and performed at countless festivals across the globe, including main stage at the inaugural Download Festival in 2004. They split in 2008 following the release of their last record “Before The Sea Was Built” and a subsequent tour of Japan.
More dates have been added to SOTO‘s upcoming European headlining tour ‘Live In The Vertigo’, featuring the legendary hard rock vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, TALISMAN, JOURNEY) beginning middle of September, in support of the new album “Inside The Vertigo”. SOTO will be performing selections from JSS classic past. More details on the tour, special guest, support band, will be made available soon.
Upcoming SOTO ‘Live In The Vertigo’ tour dates:
16.9. Sala Boveda, Barcelona, Spain
17.9. Sala Lemon, Madrid, Spain
18.9. Sala Custom, Seville, Spain
19.9. Festival, Alicante, Spain
20.9. Centro Civico Delicias, Zaragoza, Spain
23.9. Backstage, Budapest, Hungary
24.9. Garage Deluxe, Munich, Germany
25.9. Hall of Fame, Wetzikon, Switzerland
26.9. Rock In Park/Legend Club, Milan, Italy
28.9. Melodka, Brno, Czech Republic
29.9. Nova Chmelnice, Prague, Czech Republic
More dates to be announced soon.
Jeff Scott Soto is one of today’s premier rock frontmen and vocalists and a union of hotshot young musicians: Jorge Salan (lead guitar), BJ (keyboards, guitars), David Z (bass) and Edu Cominato (drums), bring you a slamming blend of melody and muscle in some of the freshest power metal to surface in years present. Together they are SOTO.
SOTO recently released a music video for the track ‘Break’, featured on the new album, Inside The Vertigo. The video, directed by Thiago Kiss, can be seen here:
Heavy metal is more than a genre, more than an attitude and certainly more than whatever cheap epithets are dismissively thrown at it by clueless critics. At its best, metal is a lifestyle, a community, a tribe uniting people across cultural, economic and philosophical divides with the primal pulse of bombastic and majestic expression.
Never before has one entity encapsulated so many components of the heavy metal community’s continued vibrancy and dedication to the lifestyle than the collective fittingly called METAL ALLEGIANCE.
METAL ALLEGIANCE will release their debut self-titled album on September 18th via Nuclear Blast, but until then, the collective is teasing fans with videos from their sessions in the studio. The third trailer is now online and covers the recording of the fourth track, ‘Dying Song’ (feat. Phil Anselmo (PANTERA, DOWN). Watch the clip here:
The release show for “METAL ALLEGIANCE” will take place at Best Buy Theater in New York City on September 17th, 2015.
The band’s forthcoming new album includes appearances by Philip H. Anselmo, Charlie Benante, Chuck Billy, Randy Blythe, Rex Brown, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, Phil Demmel, Alissa White-Gluz, Matt Heafy, Gary Holt, Jamey Jasta, Chris Jericho, Andreas Kisser, Misha Mansoor, Mark Osegueda, Tim “Ripper” Owens, Doug Pinnick, Troy Sanders, Cristina Scabbia, Steve “Zetro“ Souza and Ben Weinman, in addition to Ellefson, Menghi, Portnoy and Skolnick.
The album contains nine original songs, with the digipak edition including a cover of ‘We Rock’ as a tribute to the late and great Ronnie James Dio.
“METAL ALLEGIANCE” Tracklist:
01. Gift Of Pain (feat. Randy Blythe, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Gary Holt)
02. Let Darkness Fall (feat. Troy Sanders, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Mark Menghi, Rex Brown, Randy Blythe)
03. Can’t Kill The Devil (feat. Chuck Billy, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Phil Demmel, Andreas Kisser)
04. Dying Song (feat. Phil Anselmo, Alex Skolnick, Mark Menghi, Mike Portnoy)
05. Scars (feat. Mark Osegueda, Cristina Scabbia, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy)
06. Destination: Nowhere (feat. Matthew K Heafy, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy)
07. Wait Until Tomorrow (feat. Doug Pinnick, Jamey Jasta, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy)
08. Triangulum (feat. Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Misha Mansoor, Ben Weinman, Charlie Benante, Phil Demmel, Matthew K. Heafy, Ron “Bumblefoot“ Thal)
09. Pledge Of Allegiance (feat. Mark Osegueda, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Charlie Benante, Gary Holt, Andreas Kisser)
Bonus track:
10. We Rock (feat. Mark Osegueda, Chris Jericho, Tim “Ripper“ Owens, Alissa White-Gluz, Chuck Billy, Steve “Zetro“ Souza, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Andreas Kisser, Phil Demmel, Gary Holt)
Dave Wyndorf and his henchmen seemingly had the time of their lives when they completely rearranged and boosted “Last Patrol 2014” and christened it “Milking the Stars: A Re-imagining of Last Patrol”!
Now MONSTER MAGNET go back even further to 2010 and their “Mastermind” album. Even if you know the album inside and out you won`t be prepared in the slightest for the trip that is “Cobras and Fire (The Mastermind Redux)”: just think of the beast Apocalypse Now turned into in its Redux form. Familiar elements drift by and are swallowed whole by thundering psych orgies – Wyndorf often focuses on a singular song fragment and turns it into his ride to total Nirvana. Go look for your daily dose of average rock elsewhere: this is the mindfuck of the year!
The first song from “Cobras and Fire (The Mastermind Redux)”, ‘Mastermind ‘69’ is receiving its exclusive premiere courtesy of Brooklyn Vegan. Check out the song here.
Frontman Dave Wyndorf on the new album:
“Hey, hey! I’m pleased to announce the release of Cobras And Fire: The Mastermind Redux. It’s a re-imagining of material from 2010’s Mastermind album as an alternative listening experience that I think stands on its own. With Cobras And Fire I wanted to present these songs in a much stranger and dirtier atmosphere. Less “classic rock” and more…well, I’d guess I’d call it a deranged fusion of Garage-Psych, Fuzz Punk and Movie Soundtrack music. It’s almost completely re-recorded (with the bulk of the guitar and bass playing by co-producer Phil Caivano) and as in Milking The Stars I’ve added organ, piano, sitars and more to flesh out a completely new sound for these tunes. There’s also a Hawkwind/Pink Fairies inspired cover version of The Temptations 1969 classic “Ball Of Confusion” with background vocals by MONSTER MAGNET co-founder and Rib Eye Bros. frontman Tim Cronin. Plus an 8 minute, tripped out sonic adventure entitled “I Live Behind The Paradise Machine” specially created by mixer extraordinaire Evil Joe Barresi. Joe is at his best here, seamlessly integrating elements from several MAGNET songs into a new, stand alone composition. All in all I call this the weirdest MONSTER MAGNET yet, and that’s a good thing! I hope you like it! Rock on!”
“Cobras and Fire (The Mastermind Redux)” will be released on Napalm Records October 9th.
The album is available for pre-order via the Napalm Records Webstore HERE!
“Cobras and Fire (The Mastermind Redux)” Track Listing:
She Digs That Hole
Watch Me Fade
Mastermind ‘69
Hallucination Bomb
Gods and Punks
The Titan
When The Planes Fall From the Sky
Ball of Confusion
Time Machine
I live Behind the Paradise Machine Evil Joe Barresi’s Magnet Mash Vol.1
The bostonglobe have reported that ‘Ghostbusters’ is filming a big concert scene at the Wang Theater next week, and the movie’s casting director is looking for extras. Billy Dowd Casting says it’s looking for people 35 and under — as well as older people who look like metal heads — to play the audience at a heavy metal concert in a scene that films from July 28 to 30. Dowd warns that the job doesn’t pay big bucks — but parking and lunch are included, and perhaps you’ll see some ghost-busting in action. To apply, send a clear and recent photo with your name, age, and number to heavymetalcasting2015@gmail.com.
The new movie is set for release on 29th July 2016.
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