Classic Heavy Metal soldiers, CORNERS OF SANCTUARY (COS), announce upcoming show dates with Tantric and the Iron Maidens as well as a planned Def Leppard tribute EP titled “Defying,” looking to release this summer.
COS will be performing with Tantric on April 10th in New Jersey and will be appearing with the world renowned Iron Maidens on May 10th at the Sellersville Theater in PA. See show Schedule below.
“We are excited to be performing again with both Tantric and the Maidens,” said COS guitarist Mick Michaels. “They are an amazing ensemble of talent…plus members from each group are originally from the Philadelphia area…they’re gonna be some great shows.”
Following the success of the band’s first ever cover, a powerful version of Def Leppard’s “Mirror, Mirror,” which was released this past January, COS has decided to make available a three-track Def Leppard tribute EP this summer with the release of “Defying.” The EP will contain cover versions of the aforementioned “Mirror, Mirror,” “Rock of Ages,” which will also appear on an upcoming FnA Records tribute compilation later this year, and a uniquely piano-infused take on the classic track, “Bringing on the Heartbreak.”
“After “Mirror, Mirror,” we had no intent to do another cover song anytime soon, let alone another Def Leppard tune, but sometimes, this is how these sorts of things go. The feedback from “Mirror, Mirror” was very inspirational and it created just enough momentum to get the ball rolling for us,” said Michaels.
Subsequently, COS is also working on new material for their next full-length, “Vengeance of the Fallen,” a second best of installment and will be releasing more show dates as the year continues.
Show Schedule: April 10th Dingbatz w/ Tantric Clifton, NJ
April 16th Jabber Jaws Allentown, PA
April 23rd Halftime Sports Bar & Grille Newark, DE
May 10th Sellersville Theater w/ the Iron Maidens Sellersville, PA
Colorado metal force ALLEGAEON are pleased to announce their long-awaited Terrestrial Takeover US headlining tour. The journey begins June 1st in Los Angeles, California and runs through July 1st in Fresno, California. Support will be provided by Arkaik, Aenimus, and Summoning The Lich.
Comments the band, “After the unfortunate cancellation of the Terrestrial Takeover Tour in 2020 we are thrilled to announce that we will be headlining the US under the same banner with our friends in Arkaik, Aenimus, and Summoning The Lich. We will be playing a set list featuring tracks from our entire discography with a heavy emphasis on our new album DAMNUM. This will be a performance to remember and we can’t wait to see you all there.“
ALLEGAEON w/ Arkaik, Aenimus, Summoning The Lich: 6/01/2022 1720 – Los Angeles, CA* 6/04/2022 Doll Hut – Anaheim, CA 6/05/2022 Nile Underground – Mesa, AZ 6/06/2022 Tumbleroot Brewing – Santa Fe, NM 6/07/2022 Amplified Live – Dallas, TX 6/08/2022 Come And Take It Live – Austin, TX 6/09/2022 White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX 6/10/2022 Onyx Theater – Baton Rouge, LA 6/11/2022 Boggs Social – Atlanta, GA 6/12/2022 The Haven – Orlando, FL 6/14/2022 The Blind Tiger – Greensboro, NC 6/15/2022 Metro Gallery – Baltimore, MD 6/16/2022 Dingbatz – Clifton, NJ 6/17/2022 The Meadows – Brooklyn, NY 6/18/2022 Jewel Nightclub – Manchester, NH 6/19/2022 The Crafthouse – Pittsburgh, PA 6/20/2022 The Sanctuary – Detroit, MI 6/21/2022 Reggies – Chicago, IL 6/22/2022 Amsterdam Bar & Hall – St. Paul, MN 6/23/2022 Wildwood – Iowa City, IA 6/24/2022 The Royal Grove – Lincoln, NE 6/25/2022 Marquis Theater – Denver, CO 6/26/2022 Metro Music Hall – Salt Lake City, UT 6/28/2022 El Corazon – Seattle, WA 6/29/2022 Dante’s – Portland, OR 6/30/2022 The X Bar – Cupertino, CA 7/01/2022 Full Circle Brewing District – Fresno, CA * ALLEGAEON only
ALLEGAEON released their sixth studio album, DAMNUM, last month via Metal Blade Records. The band has built themselves a unique place in the musical landscape, forcing both technicality and melody to the forefront as they create tumultuous and riveting death metal. With DAMNUM, they push everything further into the extreme, and in the process deliver the definitive ALLEGAEON record. Preview and purchase DAMNUM at: metalblade.com/allegaeon
“ALLEGAEON’s metamorphosis from mechanical tech-deathheads to progressive wayfarers has been as smooth as it was unpredictable. They’ve avoided the period of stagnation that brings down so many great tech bands. We should have all guessed from those Rush and Yes covers which way the wind was blowing, but few would have predicted just how impressive DAMNUM would be.” – Metal Injection
MICHAEL MONROE’s latest slice of raw rock ‘n’ roll heaven “I Live Too Fast To Die Young” is to be released by Silver Lining Music worldwide on June 10th, 2022.
“I live too fast to die young, it ain’t nothing when your head’s screwed on,” roars the Crown Prince of exciting, electric frontmen Michael Monroe, on his second album for Silver Lining Music. I Live Too Fast To Die Young, and let that be a victory cry of truth. In an era where pandemics and war are seamless bookends to a continually crazy society, Monroe & co decided to get together in December 2021 to follow up 2019’s critically acclaimed One Man Gang with 11 street-walking’, jive talking’, strutting ‘n’ swaggering procklamations that double down and deliver on that title.
At a time when fun has been hard to feel, I Live Too Fast To Die Young is lean, mean, raw power rock ‘n’ roll music, with cracking cuts such as “Young Drunks & Old Alcoholics”, “All Fighter” and the punky fun of “Murder The Summer Of Love” showing crisp electricity and melodies which wrap their shimmering selves around some razor sharp riffs. There are also expansive, Stones-tinged saunters such as “Can’t Stop Falling Apart” and “Everybody’s Nobody”, while the title track takes aim between your eyes off a driving back-beat with a defiant chorus dripping with Monroe’s irrepressible attitude.
“This album has a great combination and balance of songs, and the collection tells a great overall story,” says Monroe, who became internationally famous as frontman of the enormously influential Hanoi Rocks in the early ‘80s, “it has a lot of colour and energy, and of course it is rock ’n’ roll, but punk is also always going to be a part of who we are, that will never die.”
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) as well as enjoying several guests including Guns N’ Roses guitar legend Slash, who solos and provides additional guitars on the title track.
With I Live Too Fast To Die Young, it is clear Michael Monroe is striding into the summer with a triumphant roar to offer you the real rock ‘n’ roll escape of 2022.
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.
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, Finlandr Produced by Erno “Error” Laitinen, Michael Monroe, Rich Jones, Sammi Yafa, Steve Conte & Karl Rockfistr Mastered by Svante Forsbäck at Chartmakersr Additional recording by Bobby Nieminen at Raymond’s Barnr Piano recorded at Sonic Pump Studios, recording assistant Tommi Saarinenr Slash’s guitars engineered by John Ewingr
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”
“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
The band is due to appear on a string of summer festival shows and will be touring in support of the album on the following dates:
08 Apr – House of Rock Bar, Kouvola (FI)
14 Apr – Möysän Musaklubi, Lahti (FI)
15 Apr – Hyvinkääsali, Hyvinkää (FI)
16 Apr – Olympia, Tampere (FI)
21 Apr – Tavastia Club, Helsinki (FI)
22 Apr – Ikaalinen Spa, Ikaalinen (FI)
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)*
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Finnish progressive metal act ODDLAND will embark on a European tour in May/June 2022, as special guest act for the Danish prog/thrash act Manticora, supporting ODDLAND’s newly released and incredibly well-reviewed album “Vermillion”.
The tour is visiting most of western Europe and will see the band, return to a wide array of cities, some of which they have played before and some, which are new to their amazing prog-metal.
Tour routing: 20.05: Turock, Essen, Germany 21.05: Podium Duycker, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands 22.05: Hedon, Zwolle, The Netherlands 24.05: South Of Heaven, Bilzen, Belgium 25.05: Fabrik, Coesfeld, Germany 26.05: Z7, Pratteln, Switzerland 27.05: Secret Place, Montpellier, France 28.05: Rock ‘n Eat, Lyon, France 29.05: 7’er Club, Mannheim, Germany 30.05: La Boule Noire, Paris, France 31.05: Backstage, Munich, Germany 01.06: Tba 02.06: Gladhouse, Cottbus, Germany 03.06: Escape Metal Corner, Vienna, Austria 10.06: Hellsinki Metal Horizons Fest, Helsinki, Finland 11.06: Apollo, Turku, Finland
Sakari Ojanen (vocals/guitars) comments: “For us, playing live is the consummation of making new music and releasing an album, so we are thrilled to announce our return to the stages of Europe. We are excited to show how the band and the songs have grown and matured. Also thrilled to be doing it in the great company of Manticora and Oversense.”
ODDLAND have spent the Corona-lockdown, writing their first album in 5 years, excelling in a deeper and deeper internal insight about how to expand their impressively unique sound. A hybrid between bands like Tool, Leprous, Pain Of Salvation and Soen, but with their own trademark-sound that makes ODDLAND stand out.
ODDLAND have previously released two critically acclaimed albums, “The Treachery Of Senses” from 2012, released on Century Media records and “Origin“, released in 2016 through Sensory Records.
The new single of the Esoteric/Mediterranean Metal project from Italy DRAMANDUHR has now been unveiled. “TÀHN STUN KARRÀH“, third one of a long series that anticipates the release of Dramanduhr’s debut full-length.
“TÀHN STUN KARRÀH” it’s rhythmic and atmospheric, recalling particular mediterranean sonorities and scenarios, opening itself to precious sonic excursions.
“At 3.46 am of December 25th 2020, inexplicably, a champagne chalice fell on the ground from a rung in the garden, breaking in thousand pieces right under my sight….” /// “…The songs of Dramanduhr are sung in Dahrmonium, an evocative language of pure glossolalia, which aims at emanating the archetypical vibrations to communicate with the Absolute.”
Italian old school heavy metallers GENGIS KHAN have just signed a deal with the U.S. label Stormspell Records which will release the band’s third full-length album “Possessed By The Moon” on May 27th 2022.
GENGIS KHAN have just unveiled the first single taken from the upcoming record. The song titled “Possessed By The Wolf” is a catchy and epic track where horror vibes and speed perfectly match.
“This single introduces the change of our sound. Songs like ‘Possessed By The Wolf’, ‘The Wall Of Death’ and the ballad, ‘Eternal Flame’, will surprise our listeners. There will be more melody and the keyboards sound huge!”, explains the band’s mastermind Frank Leone.
The album was born in the band’s home studio, while the keyboards, drums and solo guitars were recorded by Simone Mularoni (DGM, ELVENKING, LABYRINTH, ANCIENT BARDS, and many more) at Domination Studio in San Marino. The album artwork is by Alan Lathwell.
GENGIS KHAN are: Frank Leone – Vocals, Bass Mike Petrone – Lead Guitars Neil Grotti – Guitars Gianni Lorenzini – Drums Lee Under – Keyboards
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