HELLPROOF are fresh blood in the metal music scene. Combination of old-school and modern metal with a mix of clean and screaming vocals. Several years of practice and making material resulted in the first longplay album Supernova, set to release on January 27th, 2023. Now it’s time to show their music to the world. Artur Matwiejczuk (drums), Patryk Kowalewski (guitar), Kamil Jakubowski (guitar, vocals) and Janek Jaskólski (bass and vocals) wanted to create their debut strong and recognisable. Listening to Supernova you will hear Hellproof’s unique style.
Supernova album tracklisting and cover art are as follows: 01 – Intro 02 – Flame In You 03 – Sky Wide Open 04 – Burn Alive 05 – Prepare The Way 06 – Supernova 07 – Bloody Game 08 – The Colors 09 – Perfect Gift 10 – Outro 11 – Koniec (bonus track)
New Zealand Crossover/Thrash Metal band 3000AD have premiered their official music video for “Cells”, taken from the debut full-length studio album “The Void”. Watch it below.
Guitarist Sam Pryor, bassist Scott Austin and drummer Hellmore Bones formed the band to fuse their passion for Thrash Metal, 80’s Punk Rock and bleak, dystopian, futuristic imagery.
“The Void”, the band’s debut album, was recorded in studios in Hollywood, California and Auckland, New Zealand. Award winning engineer and producer Clint Murphy mixed the album, and it was mastered at the iconic Sterling Sound in New York City.
In the short time, 3000AD toured across New Zealand and gained airplay on several major radio stations.
At March 27, 2020, the album was officially released by Total Metal Records. It was supported by Total Metal Over Europe Tour – X, together with legendary German Necronomicon.
Long running Australian extreme metal group PSYCROPTIC have today announced that they’ll be touring Europe and the UK in March 2023 in support of Archspire, with Benighted and Entheos. The Tech Trek tour will be PSYCROPTIC’s first set of European shows since the release of their acclaimed eighth studio, Divine Council, this August.
Speaking on the tour announcement, Todd Stern (bass) comments: “Coming off of our record release and the subsequent US headliner that immediately followed, we couldn’t be more excited to join this killer package as a way to kick off our 2023 tour cycle!
“The entire bill features stellar musicians from front to back, and we really look forward to delivering an evening of masterful brutality to the lovely citizens of Europe. Additionally, we of course look forward to a solid month of hard laughs, as the bands on this bill are equally as proficient at having fun as they are at their respective instruments. We couldn’t be more stoked!”
Brothers Dave Haley (drums) and Joe Haley (guitar) have steered PSYCROPTIC through different shades of death metal, from the technical to the experimental, with longtime vocalist and lyricist Jason Peppiatt and bassist Todd Stern further embellishing the sound of the band to create something that is distinctively PSYCROPTIC.
Origin vocalist Jason Keyser has long been considered a part of PSYCROPTIC’s extended family, and on Divine Council he contributes vocals to the album tracks. As Peppiatt wrote the lyrics and vocal patterns, the group were able to utilise an extended palette of styles to further enhance his sound, courtesy of Keyser and additional vocals from Amy Wiles, hitting upon a collective approach to complement the Haleys.
With writing and recording punctuated by a pandemic and subsequent strict lockdowns, Divine Council was recorded in various locations across Australia and North America. Drums were tracked at Anubis Studios by Chris Thelemco, bass was captured by Justin Spaeth at Cave Bound Studio, and guitars, vocals and synths were recorded by the band’s own Joe Haley at his Crawlspace Studios before he mixed and mastered the albums nine tracks.The suffocating atmosphere carries through to the lyrics that detail the myriad ways that human beings waste, destroy or devalue what’s in front of them – captured in the evocative album artwork, courtesy of the prolific Eliran Kantor. With narrative threads that throw back to tracks on both their self-titled album and As The Kingdom Drowns, PSYCROPTIC have found yet more new ways to explore human’s inherent inability to see the bigger picture – or change track before a miserable demise becomes a crushing inevitability.
Divine Council is an album that oozes confidence, maturity and a relaxed self assurance befitting of a band with a rich legacy behind them and an unconstrained future ahead of them.
PSYCROPTIC is: Jason Peppiatt -Vocals Jason Keyser -Vocals (Recording only) Joe Haley -Guitar Todd Stern -Bass Dave Haley -Drums
Mighty Music proudly announces the signing of NIGHTHAWK. The Swedish band started out as a solo project by Robert Majd (bass player in Metalite & Captain Black Beard), with the idea of just having some fun, playing guitar, and writing some energetic rock´n´roll. The debut album featured a bunch of different singers. After that first album release in the summer of 2021, Robert got an itch to do more.
However, this time the stakes would be higher. With the world-famous Abbey Road Studios booked, a band and, a collection of songs, and a label needed to match the caliber of the studio. Björn Strid (NFO, Soilwork & Donna Cannone) joined on lead vocals, Magnus Ulfstedt (Ginevra) on drums, John Lönnmyr (The Night Flight Orchestra) on keyboards and Christan Ek (Captain Black Beard) on bass. Nine original tunes together with two covers were recorded live in the studio in just two days. And the deal was set with Mighty Music for its release.
“An album I made just for the fun experience of doing it, working with new people and trying something different, turned out great!“, Rob Majd says. “The fact that the good people at Mighty Music want to release it is a great testament to that and makes me even more proud of this project. Can’t wait to let people hear these songs!“.
Nighthawk’s sophomore album will be released in the first half of 2023.
NIGHTHAWK is: Robert Majd – guitar Björn Strid – vocals Magnus Ulfstedt – drums John Lönnmyr – keyboards Christian Ek – bass/backing vocals
Canada’s The Metal Voice spoke to Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee for Judas Priest Drummer Les Binks.
In the chat Les Binks spoke about his current tour plans with Les Binks’ Priesthood, getting inducted in the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame and the extent of his participation in KK’s Priest potential tour.
When asked his future touring plans “I’m waiting to see about KK’s band might (tour) and there might be some guest spots for me, I haven’t had any tour dates yet but I’m waiting to see what develops. ”
When asked if he was part of the upcoming KK’s Priest Studio album “I chatted to him (K.K. Downing ) about this and I think there was problems regarding getting (KK’s) management sorted out and getting tour dates set up so he just decided to press on with (KK’s Priest) album Number Two. Now the thing is that there’s another drummer involved in the band. So I presume he’s played on this album as well. The only time that I would be involved (KK’s Priest) would be through a live situation as a guest performer. So as I say until there’s some dates that are like actually confirmed I’ll have to wait and see what develops there.”
Binks joined the up-and-coming Judas Priest in March 1977 for their world tour. Binks remained with the band for two and a half years, until July 1979, recording the studio albums Stained Class and Killing Machine and the live album Unleashed in the East. Binks received a writing credit for the song “Beyond the Realms of Death” from the album Stained Class.
In 2022, Binks was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Judas Priest via the Award for Musical Excellence.
DOCKER’S GUILD have released their eighth video and sixth single from the new album “The Mystic Technocracy – Season 2: The Age of Entropy”. ‘Le Chemin’ is episode 2.9 of the saga, a cover by space rock legend The Rockets. It is a sort of unofficial bonus video, as it was already released in the winter of 2020 in its demo version at the beginning of the pandemic, when tensions between France and Italy were pretty high. Now we’re back at it with the migrants crisis. Hopefully a message of peace in these troubled times.
MUSICIANS: Elisa Montin (drums), Roby Salvai Ensemble (bass), Antonino Urzì (guitars), Douglas R. Docker (keyboards, vocals)
Metal Shock Finland (World Assault ) 