Italian legendary metallers PERPETUAL FIRE have announced the release of their new single + video ‘Never Fall’, coming out on March 2nd, via Wanikiya Record/Promotion. The single, taken from the band’s upcoming album, will be available on all the best music stores, on the official store of the label and on the label’s official store in Japan!
The band has unveiled a teaser video for ‘Never Fall’, watch below.
LINE-UP: Roby Beccalli – Vocals Steve Volta – Guitars Mark Zampetti – Bass Mauro Maffioli – Keyboards Sergio Serz Gasparini – Drums
“The World has changed. I see it in the Water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the Air.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
Four years have passed since the release of IMPERIAL AGE‘s latest album “The Legacy of Atlantis”, a concept album and a metal opera about Atlantis – the ancient advanced civilisation, and Magic – the legacy of that civilisation.
Since then many things have changed in ourselves and in the world around us, and this is also reflected in the new music.
While built upon the foundation of its predecessor musically and lyrically, “New World” is faster, heavier and focuses on such concepts as Development, Evolution, Path (Dao), Freedom, Exploration and Knowledge. If “Legacy of Atlantis” was element Water, “New World” is element Air.
The cover art is once again symbolic (using the same language as the symbols in Tarot decks), and contains a cipher which closely follows the lyrics. Can you de-cipher it?
Despite being faster and heavier than the previous album, “New World” retains all the signature features of Imperial Age symphonic metal style: punchy guitars & drums, symphonic orchestra (this is the first time we actually recorded live orchestral instruments on all songs), symphonic choir, anthem-style choruses and 3 different lead singers: Aor, Jane and Kiara.
The album contains 7 regular tracks and one enormous 18-minute-long metal symphony called “Call of the Towers” that is stylistically a bit different from the other songs – darker, a bit tragic but at the same time elevated and spiritual, sometimes a bit resembling “Turn the Sun Off!”. It even has a 3-minute-long church organ solo.
Tracklist:
Windborn [03:40]
Legend of the Free [04:17]
The Way is the Aim [04:01]
Shackles of Gold [04:02]
The Wheel [04:14]
To the Edge of the Known [03:40]
Distant Shores [04:44]
Call of the Towers [18:12] Total play time: 46 minutes 48 seconds
The album will be released worldwide on 05th August 2022, in the following formats: Digital, CD, Digipack, Double-CD Earbook and Vinyl.
4 singles will be released ahead of the album in Digital and CD formats, accompanied by 5 music videos and 8 live videos from the “Live New World” online concert with choir and orchestra.
The ‘New World’ album & music videos have been 100% crowdfunded by our fans during the campaign of July-August 2021. All Crowdfunder Bundles will be shipped and emailed by 05 July 2022. All singles will also be emailed in digital format to all Crowdfunders two weeks before their respective release dates.
Pre-order for everyone else will open soon, so stay tuned!
CROSSPLANE – the hellhounds – have released the first single / video “All Hell Is Breaking Loose” from the upcoming new album “Fastlane” to be released on April 22, 2022 vie El Puerto Records.
Watch the video below, premiering today, February 17, 2022 – 12:00 (GMT+0100).
Fact is: Crossplane is really excited about the release of the video and the new album “A fireball of rock ‘n’ roll is rushing towards you. Hotter than hell and more explosive than a volcano. If it gets you, there’s no escape!”
So hold on tight when CROSSPLANE turn up the amps!
Since their founding in 2009, CROSSPLANE have been on all available stages from club tours to Wacken. FASTLANE will be the fourth album by Heavy Rock’n’Roller and will be released on April 22nd, 2022.
The pre-sale of the new album is today. “FASTLANE” will be released as a CD and a limited collector’s fan box.
01 – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head 02 – Make Beer Not War 03 – All Hell Is Breaking Loose 04 – Rock Out 05 – Fastlane 06 – Rock’n’Roll Will Never Die 07 – Search And Destroy 08 – Fields Of Bone 09 – Epidemic 10 – Life Is A Monster 11 – Black Is My Blue Sky
Line-Up: Marcel ‚Celli’ Mönnig – Vocals / Guitar Alexander ‚Alex’ Störmer / Guitar Andrew Barrett – Bass Guitar Mark ‚Bridgeman’ Brückmann – Drums
NYC/New Jersey metal collective TOMBS and Atlanta blackened heavy metal outfit CLOAK will be embarking on a run of co-headlining live shows throughout the East Coast this spring, in which they will be supported by RESTLESS SPIRIT! The trek will kick off on April 5 in Providence, RI and will conclude in CLOAK‘s hometown of Atlanta, GA on April 10. TOMBS will then return to Brooklyn, NY for a homecoming show on April 16 along with EVOKEN and RESTLESS SPIRIT. The full run of dates and ticket links can be found below!
CLOAK will be supporting 2019’s ‘The Burning Dawn,’ which was named one of the Best Albums of the year by Metal Insider (#6), A&P Reacts (#8), Treble Zine (#11), and many others. The album streamed, downloaded, and ordered HERE.
TOMBS/CLOAK U.S. Dates (w/ Restless Spirit): 04/05: Providence, RI @ Dusk 04/06: Philadelphia, PA @ Silk City [TICKETS] 04/07: Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery [TICKETS] 04/08: Winston Salem, NC @ Break Time [TICKETS] 04/09: Greenville, SC @ Radio Room [TICKETS] 04/10: Atlanta, GA @ Boggs [TICKETS] 04/16: Brooklyn, NY @ Kingsland* *Tombs only, no Cloak
Originally slated for a release on February 25, Finnish sleaze and glam rock act RECKLESS LOVE have to postpone their new, much awaited album Turborider for another month. The album will now be available as CD, LP, special box set (incl. a videogame!) and Digital formats on March 25, 2022 through AFM Records. Vocalist Olli Herman states:
“February has been a busy month for Reckless Love and it seems like our come back has taken off like a rocket. The only things still holding us from soaring above the clouds to a full glide, are the unfortunate effects corona has had on the business. First, we were forced to postpone our UK/European tour until September – and now, we face the decicion to postpone the release of our record by a month. This is all due to the difficulties the record distributers have with shipments world wide. We did not want the people who have already ordered our record, to have to wait for a month while the album would be out already online and in some parts of the world. We wanted fairplay and the decicion was made together with our record company.”
Following their latest, 2016-album Invader and a 4-year hiatus, RECKLESS LOVE‘s upcoming Turborider sees the Kuopio-based band diving deep into the game world and movie moods of the genre and glory era of the 80’s. High-energy, synth wave-infused rock meets an undeniable 80’s touch, that will make you forget the world around you with its infectious hooks!
Just recently, the band released a video for the album title track, watch the clip for Turborider here:
Now set to be released on March 25, 2022 through AFM Records – and besides Digipak and colored Vinyl, the band is offering something very special to their fans: The limited box set will include the Digipak CD, an autograph card and a handheld videogame! Turborider was produced by Joonas Parkkonen (Apocalyptica, Lost Society) and mastered by Svante Forsbäck (Rammstein, Lordi, Volbeat), the pre-sale is available at THIS LOCATION!
But to shorten your wait for the postponed album release, RECKLESS LOVE have announced an exclusive, worldwide radio gig hosted by Radio Rock in Finland! The band will be playing a bunch of the new album tracks live on February 24, 2022 – airing at 7pm CET only on www.supla.fi/radiorock!
“We were determined not to let this minor setback hold us down at all, so we came up with the idea of playing an exclusive world wide radio show on Radio Rock Finland where we’re gonna play some of the new songs to offer our listeners a sneak peek on the new material before the actual album is even released. We are extremely confident, that the new material will take us further than ever before.” Olli also reveals: “Furthermore, we are already planning for the spring of 2023 and we are beyond excited, stoked, to tell you that Reckless Love will be a part of the line-up on the legendary Monsters of Rock Cruise in Caribbean, in May 2023. Stay tuned for more!! We are going to make sure that you’ll hear more from us sooner than later.”
Psychedelic stoner rock trio SOMALI YACHT CLUB will be releasing their third full-length, ‘The Space,’ on April 22 via Season of Mist, making it the band’s debut to the label! The album art, tracklisting, and details can be found below. The band is now sharing the first new single, “Silver,” which can be heard at THIS LOCATION.
‘The Space’ can be pre-saved via all digital streaming platforms HEREand pre-ordered HERE.
SOMALI YACHT CLUB is a moniker designed to represent dichotomy and variance. Named after the real-life pirates who attack vessels off the Somalian coast and the peaceful leisure of those with time to kill and money to burn, SOMALI YACHT CLUB musically embodies the boundless, wide-open, quiet/loud spaces that atmospheric post-rock and metal occupy. After over a decade of mesmerizing audiences in their Ukrainian home base and Eastern Europe, SOMALI YACHT CLUB inked a deal with Season of Mist in 2021 to reissue their back catalogue and release their third full-length, The Space.
The band’s story began in 2010 when guitarist/vocalist Ihor sent drummer Lesyk a random message on a Ukrainian musician’s forum to play a hybrid of math rock, post-hardcore, stoner and post-metal. Intrigued, Lesyk called bassist Artur to create the band’s first (and only) lineup. The initial jam sessions went so well that the trio decided to move forward on a permanent basis. Relying on albums such as Moccasin’s The Last Leaf, Ahkmed’s early EPs, Mars Red Sky’s self-titled, the entire Sungrazer discography and the legendary Isis duo of Oceanic and Panopticon, as well as Down, Electric Wizard, Queens of the Stone Age and now-labelmates Weedeater, the SOMALI YACHT CLUB sound was formulated.
“It was a very naive and simple time,” comments the band. “Ihor, as always, was full of energy and it was not enough for him for the bands in which he played at the time. We just started to jam and found the blend that fits all of us. Also, we always loved bands and particular songs that are eclectic — we get a lot of inspiration from such things. They are fun to play and hopefully fun to listen to.”
However broad and varied their influences may be, SOMALI YACHT CLUB started to forge their own path via their self-released 2011 Sandsongs and 2013 Desert Walls EP. The pair laid the groundwork for their formidable full-length debut, The Sun, which channeled spaced-out, psychedelic jams with churning stoner doom metal. Their amalgamation of all-things stoner continued through the 2015 Sun’s Eyes EP and 2018 The Sea full-length, the latter noted by The Sludgelord that it “succeeds in taking the listener on that well-known ride of warm tones and meandering melodies” and MetalStorm.net stating, “SOMALI YACHT CLUB offers up a fresh spin on a rich but well-explored genre and in doing so deliver one of the early highlights of 2018.”
The new year brings forth The Space. The album was tracked at various points throughout 2021 at Jenny Records near Lviv, Ukraine, with mixing and mastering courtesy of Yaroslav Tseluiko at Jaro Sound in the Czech Republic. The cover depicts a supernova and was handled by Dasha Pliska, who was also responsible for The Sun and The Sea artwork. The Space also completes the trilogy that began with The Sun and The Sea, but, according to the band, there is no unifying theme.
“It’s a bit hard to tell a real story in our music because, let’s be honest — it’s still more instrumental-focused. The Space is very loosely connected to a single concept as it has even more abstract and personal lyrical themes. Also, the song ‘Pulsar’ was the first written and named song for this album, so it set a path for the title.”
The Space finds SOMALI YACHT CLUB now in full expanse of their sonic elements, delivering six cuts of atmospheric post-rock/metal with dashes of melancholy and introspection. Ihor’s relaxed, if not smooth delivery runs parallel to his driving, fuzzed-out riffs that are dotted with traces of melody. The rhythm section of Artur and Lesyk is the undisputed anchor, maintaining a careful ebb and flow that embellishes songs that demand room to breathe and require texture and thoughtfulness — notably the 12-minute-plus closer, “Momentum,” which features one of the band’s finest jams to date. Such numbers resulted from SOMALI YACHT CLUB’s regular practice sessions that bore more than enough new material.
“We wrote The Space pretty much the same way as the previous two,” says the band. “We brought an idea or a riff to rehearsal, play and jam it a lot of times to see if it doesn’t go stale, record demos, listen, think, re-think, change everything and so on. This time we went to the studio with more than enough material — some even didn’t get a proper recording as we understood it needed even more time to mature and be reconsidered. Some ideas became an outtake; some songs were created right in the studio.”
Like their name serving a dual purpose, so does SOMALI YACHT CLUB’s output on The Space. The album contains a regular balancing act between heaviness and soft, clean guitar moments that will place SOMALI YACHT CLUB into the echelons of bands who have previously mastered the timeless art of dynamics. The Space is the perfect elixir in a time rife with uncertainty, menace and chaos. Alas, the new age of stoner has arrived.
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