Rising Irish electronic/metal crossover force, RESTIVE NATION have released new ’T.O.L.’ visualiser/single. Taken from their gripping self-titled LP, Dublin-based Restive Nation continue to show their many sides with their seventh single, which is accompanied by a striking visualiser, created by Very Metal Art [Judas Priest/Mordred/Bloodstock Open Air Festival].
‘TOL’ (or “Tunnel Of Love”) showcases the industrial side of Restive Nation, with elements of steampunk and electronica. Vocalist Atmahead takes on the vocal rein where he explores the theme of the journey of death, acceptance, and what’s on the other side. ‘TOL’ is dedicated to Atmaheads brother, Tony, who sadly left us in 2019. Atmahead: “Before he flew off I told him he was going to go through a tunnel and on a kind of train journey. I called it the ‘Tunnel of Love’.”
The track is featured on the bands recently released debut self-titled LP, and is the final single to be taken from the albums collection of tracks.
Their self-titled new album is out now [on all good streaming sites] and is also available for pre-order if you’re a fan of vinyl. This will be Restive Nation’s debut vinyl pressing, and to celebrate the release, a small batch of pressing will come with a random limited art print [designed by Mainstagedesign taken from a selection of designs that reflect each track on the album.
You can order your copy here. Stream the full album on Spotify here.
In case you missed the previous singles, you can catch up with the links below: ‘Revolt/Reanimate’ here ‘Act III’ here ‘Red Mist’ here ‘White Ural’ here ‘Counterfeit’ here ‘The Marionettist’ here
One of the biggest names in the glam metal/sleaze rock scene, CRASHDÏET, have today released their new album, Automaton, which is available now on digital platforms and CD via Crusader Records/Golden Robot Records. The limited-edition coloured vinyl is due for release on September 9.
To celebrate the release of Automaton, CRASHDÏET have also released a video clip for the track ‘Powerline’ featuring the one and only Michael Starr, vocalist of Steel Panther!
The first ever featured guest appearance on a CRASHDÏET album, this anthem tune gives you a soaring duet between vocalist Gabriel Keyes and the infamous Michael Starr. A powerful call to the wild.
Just like a gigantic robotic machine with pre-determined instructions, failure was never an option…
No matter what obstacles may have come their way in the past, CRASHDÏET have always marched forward, delivering their own style of Sleaze Metal they have become so well known for. Automaton contains 12 powerful sing-along anthems with massive drums, guitars, bass, and powering vocals.
AUTOMATON TRACK LISTING
01. Automaton 02. Together Whatever 03. Shine On 04. No Man’s Land 05. Darker Minds 06. Dead Crusade 07. Powerline (feat. Michael Starr) 08. Resurrection Of The Damned 09. We Die Hard 10. Shell Shock 11. Unbroken 12. I Can’t Move On (Without You)
Order the CD and/or vinyl from the GRR Store HERE – Stream/buy ‘Automaton’ (digital album)HERE
ALBUM TRACK BY TRACK
Automaton An atmospheric introduction to what is about to come. Includes a live sound bite from the band’s original vocalist the late Dave Lepard, pulling on the memories for the hard-core fans.
Together Whatever A true party anthem! ‘Together Whatever’ explodes into raging guitars and scorching vocals, this is a tribute to the decadent good old days and the bands early roots.
Shine On In this all or nothing, going to the top, driving wall of sound. With this song the band sets its album mission. There are no compromises.
No Man’s Land It’s a story about looking inwards and a hard charge moving forward, no matter what the cost. Sung with powerful and precise vocals, surrounded by thick driving bass, heavy guitar chops and rock-solid drums.
Darker Minds A powerful rock ballad, thick with layered vocal harmonies and driving rhythms. A song about feeling that something is not right and questioning if change is on the way.
Dead Crusade One of the heavier tunes from the album. The chugging wall of guitars make you want to levitate while a brilliantly performed, syncopated drum-track keeps you totally grounded. A dark song about the afterlife.
Powerline (feat. Michael Starr) The first ever featured guest appearance on a Crashdïet album, this anthem gives you a soaring duet between vocalist Gabriel Keyes and the infamous Steel Panther vocalist Michael Starr. A powerful call to the wild.
Resurrection of the Damned A heavy blaster, direct from the veins of classic heavy metal and drawing from the bands early influences circa 1989. When you’ve been pushed around for most of your life, you probably have a lot to say about it (and it’s not going to be nice). You’re going to scream for it to stop and resurrect the damned.
We Die Hard The notorious ways of the never-ending road which is the life we choose. A contagious mid-tempo rock anthem. A tribute to all the vagabond wanderers.
Shell Shock A slow-driving powerful rock chugger full of dynamic vocals, guitars and gang-chorus shout-outs. A song about what happens when your temptations have taken over.
Unbroken A fast-tempo punch rocker with guitar driven melodies, powerful vocal ranges and some surprise feel changes that will keep you on your feet. Defiant and never looking back.
I Can’t Move On (Without You) An airy 12-stringed acoustic guitar sets the feel of this classic rock ballad, featuring an astounding vocal performance complete with fat orchestral arrangements. A beautifully sensitive song, building up to a massively powerful ending.
CRASHDÏET are set to hit the road for a run of shows to promote the new album, with new live drummer Lacu (ex-Hanoi Rocks).
CRASHDÏETTOUR DATES
04.05.2022 Stockholm Sweden Debaser strand 06.05.2022 Oslo Norway John Dee 08.05.2022 Copenhagen Denmark Pumpehuset 09.05.2022 Gothenburg Sweden Pustervik 12.05.2022 Blizen Belgium South Of Heaven 13.05.2022 De Verlichte Geest Belgium Roeselare 14.05.2022 Rotterdam Netherlands L Baroeg 15.05.2022 Breda Netherlands Bel Air 17.05.2022 Leeds U.K. Key Club 19.05.2022 Wolverhampton U.K. Robin 2 20.05.2022 Machynlleth U.K. Lion 21.05.2022 Call of the Wild festival Lincoln U.K. 22.05.2022 Edinburgh U.K. Bannermans 25.05.2022 Madrid Spain Story live 26.05.2022 Barcelona Spain Bóveda 28.05.2022 Milan Italy Legend club (only local support) 30.05.2022 Munich Germany Backstage 31.05.2022 Cologne Germany Helios 02.06.2022 Hamburg Germany headcrash 03.06.2022 Berlin Germany Badehaus 04.06.2022 Lichtenfels Germany Paunchy Cats
BLACKMENT was founded 2014 in Hyvinkää and they are ready to release their debut album Plains of Oblivion on September 9th this year. As a sample from their upcoming album, they now present their strong new single, Maw of the Dread. Previously the band has released couple of small releases that gave a glimpse of the band’s sound that combines catchy melodies, striking riffs and a tight rhythm base, atmospheric synths, and a distinctive versatile vocal approach. The same elements are also present in the new single.
”Maw of the Dread is an energetic and heavy song that starts like a thunder” guitarist Allan Välimaa explains.”We’ve played this track on our rehearsal room since summer 2016 so this is one of our oldest tracks on the album. The structure of the song is still pretty much the same as back then, except for a couple of changes along the way.”
The vocals lead the listener through a heavy, somber, emotional, and melodic atmosphere. Lyrical theme has a twist of horror that deals with the subject of taking the easy way, in some sense with a hint of satire.
”It’s about people trying to manage things taking the easy way, usually with someone else’s expense. Writing lyrics is kind of a way to cheer myself up and most of the subjects has been created by my own challenges and mistakes in life. So basically, it’s also me looking myself in the mirror, even to this day” Allan Välimaa tells.
German heavy power metal act IRON SAVIOR has released another jewel and a blast of the past, a re-recorded version of “The Battle”! The song was originally issued on the band’s second, 1999- studio album Unification.
The Hamburg-based metal veterans seem to be gearing up for a new album, entitled “Reforged II – Ironbound”, which will be coming out during 2022 with AFM Records. Earlier in March, they have already shared a new lyric video for their classic “Heavy Metal Never Dies”. To shorten your wait for IRON SAVIOR‘s upcoming album, you can now enjoy some real pearls of the band’s impressive history in a brand new shape! Says frontman Piet Sielck: “Hey Folks! For our second single we have selected another track, this time from the UNIFICATION album. Follow us into “The Battle” with it’s mighty riffs, epic melodies massive choruses and yet another Kai/Piet solo duel . If you think Reforged Vol 1 – RIDING ON FIRE was good we can promise that Vol 2 – IRONBOUND is even better! Heavy Metal Never Dies!”
2021 seen IRON SAVIOR celebrate the 10th anniversary of one of their most successful records to date, The Landing. The special anniversary edition is now also available on Vinyl at THIS LOCATION!
The Landing became one of the most successful albums of the Hamburg-based band and was heralding a kind of resurgence for IRON SAVIOR back then. It contains several classic tracks such as “Starlight”, “Hall Of The Heroes” and – of course – the metal hymn par excellence, “Heavy Metal Never Dies” – a song which was streamed way more than 10.000.000 times until this day.
The anniversary album not only includes 3 bonus tracks, but was also remixed and remastered by Piet himself and comes with a revised artwork by Felipe Machado Franco.
IRON SAVIOR Live:
30.04.22 Herne, Flottman-Hallen (D) 06.05.22 Selb, Rockclub Nordbayern (D) 07.05.22 Metaleros Vol 2, Unterschleissheim, Gleis 1 (D) 17/18.06.22 Metal Capital Festival, Oulu (Finnland) 30.06.22 Big Gun Festival, Moscow (Russia) 30.07.22 RhönRockOpenAir (D) 07.08.22 Hanerau- Hademarschen, Hademarscher Hof (D) 28.08.22 Metalieros Festival, Milagre (Portugal) 10.09.22 Metal Embrace Festival, Barleben (D) Summer ’22 Barcia Metal Fest, Torreperogil (Spain) 05.12.22 Barcelona tba (Spain) – special guest: Airborn 07.12.22 Murcia tba (Spain) – special guest: Airborn 08.12.22 Madrid, Sala Rockville (Spain) – special guest: Airborn 09.12.22 Oviedo, Sala Gong (Spain) – special guest: Airborn 10.12.22 Vitoria, Gasteiz In Metal (Spain) – special guest: Airborn 11.12.22 Valencia, Paberse Club (Spain) – special guest: Airborn
MICHAEL MONROE’s latest single/video ‘Can’t Stop Falling Apart’ is OUT NOW! The track is taken from the upcoming album I Live Too Fast To Die Young, set for release by Silver Lining Music on June 10th, 2022.
“It’s an ode to our wives and loved ones who have stuck by our sides through years of playing music and touring the world,” offers Monroe on the new single. “But this can also apply to any person working hard, away from home a lot of the time, who is lucky enough to have a loved one sticking by their side through thick and thin. So, it’s a celebratory song to our nearest and dearest who are always there for us.”
“It’s a big, 1970’s Slade-inspired glam stomper,” adds Rich Jones, “It celebrates our loved ones who support us through the ups and downs of being a touring musician”.
“Try to focus on the positive,” furthers Monroe “Because what you focus on usually tends to multiply…”
Michael Monroe, the gargantuan, gregarious, glamorous rock ‘n’ roll God who struts and fronts it with the same power and panache he first thrust our way leading Hanoi Rocks all those years ago, does not try to be a philosopher, but goddamn, he projects like one.
Throughout his latest (and greatest) venture I Live Too Fast To Die Young, Monroe tells tales of glory and observed stories, some pretty, some shitty, but all through a lens of eventual optimism, hope and a sense of dirty, cheeky late-night fun. Monroe’s lens has always been directed towards the upside, even after the greatest downs a man can suffer, and the sheer power of his positive energy infuses everything he comes into contact with.
The eleven lean, mean, raw power rock ‘n’ roll songs which make up I Live Too Fast To Die Young see Monroe swagger the streets like a rock-punk poet, a storyteller who’s seen it all from the hellholes of Helsinki to the late-nights in London’s St. Moritz with some trashy times in Tokyo to boot. Warm, funny, occasionally sad but ultimately upbeat, I Live Too Fast To Die Young brings the listener into the heart and soul of its creator.
The title track, ‘I Live Too Fast To Die Young’, is quintessential Monroe, playing with words and concepts in a playfully irreverent way and wrapping it all up in some proper ‘fuck you’ rock ‘n’ roll. A close friend of Monroe’s, Slash from Guns N’ Roses, throws down some lead guitar on the track.
Recorded at Inkfish Studios in Helsinki, Finland between November and December 2021 and produced by the band with engineer Erno Laitinen, the album features Monroe on lead vocals and harmonica, Steve Conte (guitars and vocals), Rich Jones (guitar, vocals), Karl Rockfist (drums) and Sami Yaffa (bass/vocals/guitar).
With I Live Too Fast To Die Young, it is clear Michael Monroe is striding into the summer with a triumphant -and perhaps most importantly, defiant- roar to offer you a chance to let your hair down (or up!) and to once again enjoy the freedom of joyous celebration and expression.
We’re entertaining, we all want people to have a good time, but you don’t have to switch your brain off to dance and have a good time,” concludes Monroe, “Fight boredom, fight normalcy, fight against what you’re told, what you’re supposed to do, be, or say. It’s about letting yourself be yourself and no apologies, about having no regrets.” The legend has spoken; it’d be rude not to listen.
The band is due to appear at a string of summer festival shows and will be touring in support of the album on the following dates:
04 Jun – ROCK HARD FESTIVAL, Gelsenkirchen (DE)
06 Jun – K.B. Hallen, Copenhagen (DK)*
9-11 Jun – SAARISTO OPEN AIR, Kaarina (FI)
10 Jun – ROCK IN THE CITY, Kuopio (FI)
11 Jun – SWEDEN ROCK, Sölvesborg (SE)
15 Jun – Dolina Charlotty, Charlotta (PL)*
17 Jun – Stadthalle, Zwickau (DE) *
18 Jun – AZKENA FESTIVAL, Vitoria-Gasteiz (ES)
21 Jun – Mitsubishi Electric Halle, Dusseldorf (DE)*
I Live Too Fast To Die Young will be available on CD Digipak, 12” Red Vinyl, Signed Limited Edition 12” Vinyl with Alternative Artwork, Digital Download, Streaming and special D2C bundles. Available to pre-order now at this location.
Listen to the recently released ‘Murder The Summer Of Love’ here.
I LIVE TOO FAST TO DIE YOUNG TRACK LISTING:
01 – Murder the Summer of Love
02 – Young Drunks & Old Alcoholics
03 – Derelict Palace
04 – All Fighter
05 – Everybody’s Nobody
06 – Antisocialite
07 – Can’t Stop Falling Apart
08 – Pagan Prayer
09 – No Guilt
10 – I Live Too Fast to Die Young
11 – Dearly Departed
BAND LINE-UP:
Michael Monroe – lead vocals, harmonica
Steve Conte – guitars, vocals
Rich Jones – guitars, vocals
Karl Rockfist – drums
Sami Yaffa – bass, vocals, guitar
Recorded and mixed by Erno “Error” Laitinen at Inkfish Studios, Helsinki, Finland
Produced by Erno “Error” Laitinen, Michael Monroe, Rich Jones, Sami Yafa, Steve Conte & Karl Rockfist
Mastered by Svante Forsbäck at Chartmakers
ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS:
Slash – guitar solo & additional guitars on “I Live Too Fast To Die Young”
Lenni-Kalle Taipale – Piano on “Antisocialite” & “Can’t Stop Falling Apart”
Suvi Aalto & Astrid Nicole – Additional backing vocals on “Can’t Stop Falling Apart” & “Murder The Summer Of Love”
Neil Leyton – Additional backing vocals on “Everybody’s Nobody”, “Murder The Summer Of Love” & “All Fighter”
Italian legendary Speed/thrash metallers CELTIC HILLS unleashed their highly anticipated new album “Huldufólk” on April 1st, via Elevate Records, which is receiving praising reviews from worldwide media, and only in a couple of weeks it had gained more than 600,000 listeners on Number1 Music!
Today the band has released a new official lyric video ‘Metal Message‘ from “Huldufólk”, watch it below. The video was created by Dime – who has worked for Sabaton, Powerwolf, Sodom – of Instagoodpromotion.
“Huldufolk” collects and relaunches the excellent reviews obtained from the previous work. “Huldufolk” is a record with a lot of melody but characterized by the speed that distinguishes Celtic Hills. The album was produced by Michele Guaitoli, singer of Temperance and Vision of Atlantis in the studios of the Groove Factory in Udine and for the realization of the cover again the talented Sheila Franco.
Band’s singer and guitarist Jonathan Vanderbilt on “Huldufólk”: “Again this time we will talk about Friuli, and the theory is at work that the location of the American Air Force Base Aviano is used to control an ancient access to the underground world, which has been used by the pagan gods since ancient times. The magical rites of the inhabitants of the mountains and the places where elves, fairies and gnomes once lived among the people are revealed. There are already definitive titles such as The Sound of the Earth in F sharp minor. A text tells how you can use the beneficial energy of the trees at dawn to strengthen your energies, but there will be no lack of historical events that accompany every CELTIC HILLS album.”
Jonathan on the album cover artwork: “The cover was again entrusted to Sheila Franco with the input of drawing a brighter cover, with the predominant green between the green that characterizes the MATRIX movie and the green of uncontaminated nature. A record in the balance between the enchanted world of legends, heroic deeds performed by people who wanted a better world. A record that looks to the past, projecting itself into a future to be built. A passing disc that wants to take past history with it to go further …to draw.”
The tracklisting reads the following: 1 – The Secret of the Grail 2 – Metal Message 3 – After The Eartquake 4 – Hidden Folk 5 – Green Forest 6 – Gate Of Hollow Earth 7 – Living Out Of The Egg 8 – The Sound Of Earth 9 – The Hammer Of Thor 10 – Villacher Kirktag Bonus tracks Words In Out (remix 2022) Living Out Of The Egg sings by Simone Cescutti
CELTIC HILLS were born in 2010, in 2020 they sign a recording contract with Elevate Records with which they released the album “Blood over Intents” and the EP “Schrage Musik” both in 2020. In 2021 another album is out “Mystai Keltoy” produced and recorded by Michele Guaitoli singer of Temperance, Vision of Atlantis and Era. The style played is difficult to place in a single vein of metal, as there are many influences ranging from death to power, with sound elements that can also recall a certain type of 90’s thrash. The singing is quite varied, and for some listeners it may seem unusual in a metal band. power, speed and good melodic lines distinguish the band from others. Between 2010 and 2020 they released “Horns helmet fighters” and for the Slovak Music Globalliance they came out on international compilations on volumes 2,3,4. CELTIC HILLS’ new album “Huldufólk” was released on April 1st, 2022 via Elevate Records.
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