Mastord is a Finnish progressively rocking project that has released two albums Trail Of Consequence 2019 and To Whom Bow Even The Trees 2021. The upcoming album, Lemmon Lintu, will be released on February 14, 2025, exactly six years after the debut album.
A lot has changed since the last release. The singing language has changed from English to Finnish, the soundscape has become lighter and new people have brought their strong expertise to the music.
The single called Villi is song no. 5 of the story-wise conceptual album. The theme of the album consists of an encounter between a human and a raven in the context of mythology related to the raven.
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, Youtube, Deezer, Tidal etc:) https://push.fm/fl/mastord-villi
Composer: Kari Syvelä
Lyrics: Markku Pihlaja
Enjoyably heavy listening moments and have a good trip, wherever this album takes you!
Markku Pihlaja, vocals and lyrics Jenni Roslakka, backing vocals Jarmo Pikka, drums Antti Huopainen, pianos, electric pianos and Hammonds Pasi Hakuli, bass frequencies Kari Syvelä, guitars and synthesizers
Atlanta-based American guitarist Eddie 9V is pleased to announce the release of his new single “The Road To Nowhere” on Friday November 8th. The single is available to pre-save on all streaming platforms HERE, and also available to stream on YouTube HERE.
“The Road To Nowhere” is taken from Eddie 9V’s forthcoming album Saratoga released by Ruf Records on Friday 22nd November 2024. The album is available to pre-order HERE.
The new album dovetails Eddie’s November and December UK Tour where he will support Robert Jon & The Wreck at Oxford, Academy 2 (Nov 30) and Nottingham, Rock City (Dec 1), followed by headline concerts at Newcastle, Cluny 2 (Dec 2), Edinburgh, The Caves (Dec 3), London, Black Heart (Dec 4), and Manchester, Retro Bar (Dec 5).
Eddie 9V has an endless stockpile of cool stories – and you’ll find twelve of them on new studio album Saratoga. It’s a record that will thrill both newcomers and fans who have trailed Eddie since the start, showcasing his fresh, fiery spin on Southern soul, blues, rock and funk, with his signature wit and sharp observations of modern America placing him squarely in the here-and-now. “I do think it’s a wonderful road trip album,” he nods.
Eddie 9V has powered up. From the day he first slung a guitar on a local stage, the Georgia-born bandleader announced himself as an artist to watch. But in the last few meteoric years, Eddie’s music has crossed oceans and airwaves, transcending his cult-hero status to become a beacon for fans of real music everywhere. “Eddie 9V is something else,” wrote the UK’s Classic Rock magazine – “A man who genuinely inhabits golden-era American roots, playing the most instinctive blues you’ll hear all year.”
Check out the gig listings and you’ll find this rising star playing a bigger club every time he blows through town. Scan the charts and you’ll find his most recent album, 2022’s Capricorn, locking horns with the giants of rock ‘n’ roll. “Capricorn debuted at #1 and that was a cool feeling for a week, until Bonnie Raitt kicked us off,” reflects Eddie with a smile. “But hey, that’s a cool story to be able to say…”
We’ve rode shotgun with Eddie for a couple of decades now. Born Brooks Mason in June 1996, he was playing guitar by the age of six (“One of those with the speaker in it – the most bang for your buck, y’know?”). Even then, manufactured pop music held nothing for him, and his years at Union Grove High School were instead soundtracked by local heroes like Sean Costello, alongside his studies of “older cats” like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Freddie King and Rory Gallagher.
“I wanted to see what made them groove and tick,” he explains. “I’ve been making up lyrics on the spot for years. I believe that came from my Uncle Brian at our family fish fries – he taught me about what made people laugh and what kept the audience’s attention.”
Coming up on his home state’s live circuit – first with covers band The Smokin’ Frogs, then with highly rated blues-rockers The Georgia Flood – Mason soon turned heads, even representing the Atlanta Blues Society at the 2013 International Blues Challenge in Memphis. But his true birth as an artist came when he buried his birth name and adopted that striking solo moniker. “A lot of people wanted me to be the Brooks Mason Blues Band, but that’s been done,” he reasons. “I wanted to start from scratch – and I ain’t never heard of no bluesman named Eddie 9V.”
From the start, Eddie’s output pricked up ears, with 2019’s “Left My Soul In Memphis” dubbed “fresh and life-affirming” by Rock and Blues Muse and the chaotic free-for-all of 2021’s “Little Black Flies” praised by Classic Rock Magazine as “like having all your best mates in the speakers”. In 2023, he got his best reviews yet for Capricorn, a record tracked at the near-mythical Macon studio of the same name, that led Classic Rock’s Henry Yates to declare: “As an artist, he sounds fully charged.”
But the great artists evolve, and in both its songcraft and execution, Saratogafinds Eddie painting with more colours from his palette. “I was shooting for a more Americana-type album this time, less blues songs and solos and more focusing on the songwriting,” he explains of the eleven originals co-written with his brother, the much-respected Southern musician, Lane Kelly. Unlike the anarchy of earlier albums, meanwhile, the sessions mostly saw the multi-instrumentalist siblings hunkered down at their own Echo Deco Studio in Atlanta, self-producing the new tracks with Patrick Meese and inviting guest players to supply horns, fiddle and lap steel.
“It was definitely more me and my brother in our home studio recording everything. There’s a lot of guests, for sure, but it was mainly overdubbing. We did the songs “Saratoga,” “Delta,” and “Halo” at Crown Lanes Studio in Denver, Colorado, and it was nice to take a break, walk outside, see the mountains, feel the fresh air. At our studio, it’s just muggy with mosquitoes. But sometimes it’s good to not have distractions.”
Likewise, the new songs of Saratoga deserve nothing less than your full attention. Eddie’s latest album announces his new groove with the crisp, purposeful beats of the opening title track, an instant favourite that gets under your skin with its almost disco-style harmonies and joust of horns and slide guitar. As Eddie says: “That song is about being in a lonely tiny town that feels impossible to escape.”
“Halo” struts from the speakers on Eddie’s falsetto howl, before the lush yearning of “Cry Like A River” and “Love Moves So Slow” (co-written by Spencer Pope) brings vintage soul into the modern age. The brittle riffs and spacey vocal of Delta mark another gearshift, flowing into “Red River’s” reflective-yet-kinetic groove. “Wasp Weather” speaks to Eddie’s love of rapid-fire streams of consciousness. “That’s my favourite lyrically ’cos I like spewing words that don’t make sense into songs. ‘I got a big mud house that I can’t keep clean, it’s useless’ – I love that line.”
The album plays out in style with the trilling alt-folk of “Truckee.” “We got high and did shrooms and camped on the Truckee river in California,” he explains of the inspiration – the wistful “Tides” and “Love You All The Way Down.” Eddie even slips in a brass-blasting take on Mac DeMarco’s “Chamber Of Reflection,” before bringing the record home with “The Road To Nowhere’s” shuddering, tremolo-drenched country lament, his trademark twang utterly transformed into a vintage croon.
Eddie 9V is right: this latest album takes us all over the musical and emotional map, while announcing that his recent career peaks are just the start. “Capricorn was a big jump for us,” he reflects. “But I’m already writing new songs, y’know?”
Album Track Listing
1. Saratoga (3:34) 2. Halo (3:03) 3. Love Moves Slow (3:29) 4. Tides (3:13) 5. Cry Like The River (3:20) 6. Red River (3:04) 7. Delta (4:10) 8. Wasp Weather (2:26) 9. Truckee (3:01) 10. Love You All The Way Down (5:39) 11. Chamber Of Reflection (3:08) 12. The Road To Nowhere (3:12)
Production Credits
Recorded at Echo Deco Studio in Atlanta, Georgia (Jan 23 – July 24, 2022) and Crown Lanes Studio in Denver, Colorado (November 2022) Produced by Lane Kelly, Eddie 9V and Patrick Meese Engineered by Mark Anderson and Lane Kelly, except “Love You All The Way Down” (produced, recorded & engineered by Damon Moon at StandardElectric Recorders in Scottdale, Georgia, May 2024) Executive Producer: Thomas Ruf Mixing by Lane Kelly at Echo Deco Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, except “Halo” and “Saratoga” (by Gerardo Ordonez at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas) Mastered by Pauler Acoustics Cover design by Lane Kelly
French heavy metal veterans MYSTERY BLUE are gearing up for the release of their new studio album, “Night Demon”, due out on December 6, 2024 through Massacre Records. Coming on CD Digipak and Digital formats, the album pre-sale is available at:https://lnk.to/nightdemon
A music video for the band’s latest single, “Human Again” is now premiering below, get the song on all digital streaming services at this location: https://mysteryblue.bfan.link/humanagain
About the new single, vocalist Nathalie Geyer comments and remembers: “In the dark period of Covid, images of walking dead in paralyzed cities cross the memories and hopes of our happy days.”
MYSTERY BLUE‘s forthcoming rager “Night Demon” offers 12 new and pure heavy metal tracks as well as a cover version of Accept‘s classic “Restless And Wild”. The band’s ninth studio offering was mixed and mastered by Vince Koehler at V.I.P. Studios, the cover art was designed by Jean Linhoff.
Alongside a guest feature from Andreas “Buschi” Babuschkin of label mates PARAGON, MYSTERY BLUE, who formed back in the 80’s, invites you to travel from song to song, carried by the passion and energy which transpires through this incredibly rich album. Get ready for a blend of sheer power and melodic parts!
“Night Demon” Track Listing:
End Of The World
Colours Of Life
Burning Souls
Night Demon
Human Again
Pandemic Metal Virus
Rebel At Heart
Undertakers (feat. Andreas “Buschi” Babuschkin)
Skulls From Hell
Where Metal Rules
Wild Fire
Forever Hand In Hand
Restless And Wild
MYSTERY BLUE Live:
08.11.2024 DE Bochum – Trompete * 09.11.2024 DE Kassel – Goldgrube * 10.11.2024 DE Frankfurt – Nachtleben * 14.11.2024 DE Osnabrück – Bastard Club * 15.11.2024 DE Hamburg – Bambi Galore * 16.11.2024 NL Arnhem – Willemeen * 17.11.2024 NL Zoetermeer – Poppodium Boerderij * *supporting Witherfall
MYSTERY BLUE is: Nathalie Geyer – Vocals Frenzy Philippon – Guitars Erik Lothaire – Guitars Julien “Ted” Weibel – Bass Vince Koehler – Drums
Hailing from Dublin and now based in London, Tayne have announced the release of their debut album LOVE on 31st January via MNRK / Inside Job. They have also unveiled ‘Fear’, a big and aggressive track channelling a Nine Inch Nails / Boy Harsher vibe, featuring one of the most important UK heavy bands of their generation and labelmates, Rolo Tomassi.
“Sonically speaking it’s a track that purely felt like we were serving the song” explains Tayne frontman Matt Sutton. “Fear is self-explanatory. It deals with being afraid, letting fear dominate our choices in life, being consumed by it or letting it win”.
Rolo Tomassi’s James Spence adds: “After my first time seeing and feeling the energy of Tayne’s live show I was immediately a fan. The band combines what I love about heavy and electronic music with visceral, heavy beat driven songs that are still laden with hooks. I was thrilled to be asked to be a part of this track”.
As part of the launch, Tayne will be offering 20 Tayne tattoos to fans to be tattooed by the bands frontman who’s a resident at Kings Cross’ acclaimed tattoo shop Sacred Gold. There will also be an album release party at Camden’s The Black Heart, on Wednesday 5th February.
‘Fear’ is the final video in a trilogy leading the visual narrative throughout the music directed by Leif Johnson, a member of London based video collective NEWD.
Sutton adds, “Act 3 is simple and to the point, empowerment, acceptance and celebration. Fear is such a Big Question song, it pokes the beast but never offers a resolution.
“We just wanted people to embrace themselves “be free” as gaga says and be strong, powerful with no f*cks given to anyone. Thematically I always thought this song could be interpreted as a negative one so I’m really glad the video delivers a more positive answer to the hard question of the track. In this case and very much in my dads case “No” we won’t be consumed by Fear”.
‘Fear’ is co-produced by Tayne and longtime collaborator Wayne Adams (Green Lung, Pet Brick), one of a number of collaborations with artists as diverse as Jesu, Cage Fight, Mastiff, Katie Kim & Poisonous Birds with Tayne supporting the likes of HEALTH, Author & Punisher and The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Greg Puciato.
Tayne have been announced for ArcTanGent Festival, the most popular British summer festival for math rock, post rock, progressive metal and experimental music alongside Rolo Tomassi, The Melvins, Between The Buried And Me, The Fall of Troy & more.
Catch Tayne live: Nov 24: UK, London, Victoria – Portals Festival Dec 13: UK, Brighton, Dust with El Moono Dec 14: UK, Kingston, Fighting Cocks with El Moono Feb 05: UK, London, The Black Heart (album launch party) July 09-12: UK, Cheltenham, 2000trees Festival Aug 13-16: UK, Bristol, Arctangent Festival
Tayne are: Matthew Sutton (vocals / bass) Tom Hancock (guitar) Paul Traveller (drums)
Finnish Folk Metal Superstars KORPIKLAANI have released a video for the song ‘Sauna‘, which is an English version of the first single from their latest album, Rankarumpu.
KORPIKLAANI‘s twelfth studio album Rankarumpu is classic folk metal – fast, energetic and dynamic, showing once again they are the leaders in this genre. The fast paced, violin-driven and playful folk metal tune ‘Sauna‘ is one of the finest examples of KORPIKLAANI‘s staggering virtuosity. With its irresistable lead melody and a chorus for the ages, ‘Sauna‘ should fill any fan of the genre with pure delight.
Samuli Mikkonen (drums) commented: “We’ve have played ‘Saunaan’ on every show after it was released and it has become a banger! Now it was about time to make an English version so everybody can understand our tribute to Finnish sauna culture. The message is simple: ‘Sauna! To party is not a crime Your worries will burn like a pine!’“
EUROPEAN WINTER TOUR 2024 w/ In Extremo & Rauhbein
15.11. DE Saarbrücken – Garage – SOLD OUT! 16.11. CH Pratteln – Z7 – SOLD OUT! 22.11. DE Rostock – Moya – SOLD OUT! 29.11. DE Berlin – Columbiahalle 30.11. DE Bremen – Pier 2 06.12. DE Nürnberg – KIA Metropol Arena 07.12. AT Wien – Gasometer – SOLD OUT! 12.12. DE Bielefeld – Lokschuppen 13.12. DE Hannover – Swiss Life Hall 14.12. DE Dresden – Alter Schlachthof – SOLD OUT! 20.12. DE Leipzig – Haus Auensee 21.12. DE Stuttgart – Porsche Arena 27.12. DE München – Zenith 28.12. DE Wiesbaden – Schlachthof 29.12. DE Erfurt – Messehalle 30.12. DE Köln – Palladium
FINLAND SHOWS w/ SPECIAL GUESTS + Valkeat, Jonne 16.1.2025 FI Tampere – Olympia-kortteli 17.1.2025 FI Turku – Teatro, Logomo 18.1.2025 FI Helsinki – Tavastia-klubi
FOLKFEST OF THE NORTH NORTH AMERICAN CO-HEADLINE TOUR 2025 KORPIKLAANI | ENSIFERUM TROLLFEST & NiNi
02/27/25 Boston MA – Brighton Music Hall 02/28/25 Quebec City QC - Salle Montaigne – SOLD OUT! 03/01/25 Montreal QC – Beanfield – SOLD OUT! 03/02/25 Ottawa ON – Overflow 03/03/25 Toronto ON – The Concert Hall 03/04/25 Columbus OH – King of Clubs 03/05/25 Pontiac MI – Crofoot 03/06/25 Chicago IL – Outset 03/07/25 Minneapolis MN – Skyway Theatre 03/08/25 Des Moines IA – Wooly’s 03/09/25 Denver CO – Gothic Theatre 03/11/25 Salt Lake City UT – Metro Music Hall 03/13/25 Sacramento CA – Goldfield Roseville 03/14/25 San Francisco CA – Great American Music Hall 03/15/25 Los Angeles CA – Regent Theater 03/16/25 San Diego CA – House of Blues 03/17/25 Phoenix AZ – Nile 03/18/25 Albuquerque NM – Sunshine 03/20/25 Oklahoma City OK – Beer City Music Hall 03/21/25 Dallas TX – Granada 03/22/25 Austin TX – Come and Take It Live 03/23/25 Houston – TX Warehouse Live 03/25/25 Tampa FL – Orpheum 03/26/25 Atlanta GA – Masquerade Heaven 03/27/25 Greensboro NC – Hangar 1819 03/28/25 Baltimore MD – Baltimore Soundstage 03/29/25 Mechanicsburg PA – Lovedraft’s 03/30/25 Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn Monarch
CONFIRMED FESTIVALS 2025
24.-26.4.2025 DE Lichtenfels, Ragnarök Festival 26.-28.6.2025 DE Brande-Hörnerkirchen, Hörnerfest 27.-29.6.2025 FI Helsinki, Tuska Festival
Yanez De Gomera may not be a familiar name to everyone. He’s a character born from the creativity of Emilio Salgari, a Portuguese pirate who follows the infamous Sandokan in his pirate adventures as a brotherly friend. The progressive band METRONIMIA has dedicated their new single to this character, now available on all streaming platforms through Volcano Records & Promotion, and on YouTube with a unique and intriguing concept video.
Formed in 2018 as a tribute band to Jethro Tull, Metronimia delivers a highly personal musical offering, infused with old-school progressive elements revisited with an original touch. In “Yanez”, they maintain their distinctive style with a four-minute track that, through a solid melodic-harmonic structure, appeals both to those who seek constant surprise and shifts in progressive rock and to a broader rock audience with its catchy chorus. Choosing Italian for the lyrics does not hinder the project’s international potential; rather, it opens up opportunities to explore vibrant foreign markets, following in the footsteps of great Italian progressive rock bands from the ‘70s that influenced the evolution of the genre worldwide.
As for “Yanez”, the song makes a strong impression, showing a maturity that belies the youth of the band’s members and promising even greater things from Metronimia in the future.
THE ROCK ALCHEMIST – Italian Rock Band from Turin with a strong sonic identity that blends modern rock with progressive, hard, alternative, and pop elements!
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s SARCOFAGUS return with a Historic 2010 Concert Video Premiere on YouTube! Click image to watch the video
