Swedish heavy metal band LION’S SHARE has made a new song, ‘Live Forever’, available on streaming services and digital service providers.
LION’S SHARE singer Nils Patrik Johansson commented: “This song is truly about how you can stand up for yourself while still being someone who cares for others. It’s something we should all think about in this crazy world.”
LION’S SHARE guitarist LarsChriss adds: “Classic LION’S SHARE heavy metal, blending bone-crushing riffs, powerful vocals, blistering solos, and an anthemic chorus. The song is crafted with endless love for classic heavy metal. Just the way we like it!”
In late 2018, LION’S SHARE released a new five-track EP, plus its complete catalog – remastered with new artwork – on streaming services and digital service providers for the first time. The band have since released several more digital singles, some of which will and some of which won’t end up on the forthcoming full-length album.
Both Johansson and Chriss remark that they have always worked very well together, and at this point it feels the most natural to keep LION’S SHARE as a duo, with friends helping out wherever needed.
The LION’S SHARE catalog features appearances by members and ex-members of KISS, MEGADETH, KING DIAMOND, HAMMERFALL, SYMPHONY X, CHIMAIRA, THERION, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, CANDLEMASS, etc.
Mixers include top engineers such as Jens Bogren (ARCH ENEMY, OPETH, SYMPHONY X, AMON AMARTH) – Niklas Flyckt (one-time Grammy Award winner and four-time nominee) and Ronny Lahti (ROXETTE, EUROPE, Glenn Hughes).
LION’S SHARE has toured with bands like MOTÖRHEAD, MANOWAR, DIO, SAXON, ICED EARTH, NEVERMORE, U.D.O. (ex-ACCEPT), Dee Snider (TWISTED SISTER) and has played many of the major rock and metal festivals.
Line-up: Nils Patrik Johansson – vocals Lars Chriss – guitar Andy Loos – bass Nils Fredrik Johansson – drums Anuviel – keyboard
One year after the release of “The Showdown” EP, Italian metallic hardcore institution BROWBEAT are back with their brand new album “Unbreakable”, which will be released on March 22nd 2024 via Time To Kill Records.
Whilst fans wait for its release, the band has today debuted the second single taken from the album. Stream “Empire on Fire” at THIS LOCATION.
The first single “The Real Face” is still available HERE.
Tracklist:
01. The Misers 02. The Real Face 03. Empire On Fire 04. Condemned To Fear 05. Loud Voices 06. The Slothful 07. The Call Of Falldown 08. Disconnection 09. Hold It Down (Madball Cover)
Based in a small town near Modena (Italy),BROWBEAT formed in early 1998 from the ashes of local hardcore and metal bands with the intention to create the most intense music possible fusing angst, heaviness and aggressive vocals.
Just after few months the band signs with top independent Italian label Vacation House Records and in May 1999 BROWBEAT starts the recording sessions for the debut album “No Salvation” (VH041) – out in April 2000. “A monument engraved on marble..” (Rumore Magazine), “..every sonorous portion is a hammer blow on the listener back causing multiple breaks..” (Psycho! Magazine). The record is unleashed to unanimous critical acclaim by the Italian press and the band is announced as one of the best acts in Italy. But it’s on the stage, when BROWBEAT starts touring all over Italy playing several headlining runs, where the band conquers the audience with powerful and enraged performances involving people in fearsome energy shows.
With the band writing new stuff, BROWBEAT gets in touch with British top-grade producer Dave Chang (Stampin’ Ground, Earthtone9) and in August 2002 the band heads into the studio to start the recordings of the second album “Audioviolence” (CSK017). The record is the synthesis of the band evolution blending haunting melodies, raged rapped vocal parts, throatripping growls, edged new school guitar riffs, paying also attention to the modern sounds of New Metal scene without loosing the sight of BROWBEAT roots. Chang captures the feelings and the attitude of the band and the result is due not only to the recording process but to Chang emotional involvement as well.
In late 2002 British Casket Music/Copro Records gets in touch with BROWBEAT and in January 2003 the band flies to UK to ink a worldwide deal for the second album release “Audioviolence” (CSK017) out in April 2003. BROWBEAT toured Europe extensively both headlining and as support, like the UK tour with Skindred. They also supported with 50+ shows and countless other appearances with hardcore legends RAW POWER. In 2017, BROWBEAT announced their return after disbanding 10 years earlier, releasing the new album “Remove the Control”. After the reunion the band played with Slapshot, First Blood, Sheer Terror, and in other headlining shows.
During the pandemic, the band begins writing new material and enters the studio to record “The Showdown”, a self-produced five-track EP released in January 2022.
ROAR! Rock of Angels Records in collaboration with Pottmortem Records proudly announces the reissue of SCANNER’s second full-length album “Terminal Earth” on limited to 400 copies blue transparent vinyl! A long overdue reissue of this timeless classic, a vinyl version that coincides with the album’s 35th anniversary of its original release back in 1989! A real fan edition! With the last reissue on vinyl having been released back in 2016, this long out-of-print masterpiece finally available on vinyl again!
Emerging from the fertile Spanish extreme music scene, corrosive Death Metal duo PESTILENGTH have been a distinctive presence since they formed in 2018. The band’s third opus, “Solar Clorex,” is a subterranean listening experience of deep, dark and devastating grandeur. The album is now officially available and can be streamed across all digital platforms.
Discover it below:
Mastermind M. describes “Solar Clorex” and its artistic concept:
“We are guided by certain rituals or perspectives on how to craft such an album. “Basom Gryphos” was monstruous yet tamed at times. “Solar Clorex” shows different behaviors but they entangle vividly. We are not an easy listening band. We, ourselves, are also listeners and we focus on albums we like concerning their expressions and utterance. I personally always look at the global frame of the album, it’s totality. In this way, an album makes sense. You could isolate songs but that does not work with my comprehension of Art, craft, and effort.“
The metal press has awarded “Solar Clorex” with praise:
““Solar Clorex” takes chances […]. Any time a band writes an album that makes you think it is haunted by chaos then you know they are onto something great.” (Ghost Cult Mag)
““Solar Clorex” is an oppressive monster of grim ugliness. Its atmospheric brutality is matched only by its murderous delivery, scouring the listener with caustic daemonic sounds and feelings.” (Wonderboxmetal)
“[…] yield to the mind-flaying “corrosive Death Metal” swinging lower than a boss-eyed pugilist.” (Invisible Oranges)
“It’s energetic, thunderously heavy, and maddeningly caustic, with more brutal and human elements adding to the fray.” (Angry Metal Guy)
“Solar Clorex” is released via CD, vinyl and digital formats – alongside merchandising – via Debemur Morti Productions. Orders are possible via the label’s EU, US (no merch) and Bandcamp shops.
In early 2018 the anonymous duo PESTILENGTH emerged from the Basque Country with a twisted, contemporary-yet-classic style of extremity which they called ‘corrosive Death Metal’.
After a well-received series of demos and singles, in 2020 the band released first full-length, “Eilatik”, described by No Clean Singing webzine as: “…absolutely vicious at all times. It rips and tears in a frenzy, and pounds without mercy or remorse.”
By the end of 2020, the band had received worldwide attention among labels, blogs, and musicians. Additional EP “Apore Flesh” was enthusiastically praised by LEVIATHAN’s Jef Whitehead for reaching “… far beyond the world of copycats of the ‘underground'” in “khaotick shards of thought-provoking metalz of dementia”. A split with Mexican band REVERENCE TO PAROXYSM had followed soon afterwards the same year.
In August 2021, PESTILENGTH’s monstrous sophomore album “Basom Gryphos” was unleashed to widespread critical acclaim. The album contained eight new songs whose cerebral slithering brutality was mirrored in the striking cover art by Namurian Visions.
In 2023 the band inked a deal with Debemur Morti Productions for the release of their new next-level third album “Solar Clorex”.
Iconic U.S. rock band High on Fire will release their new full-length Cometh the Storm on the 19th of April via MNRK Heavy. The lead track, ‘Burning Down’, which comes in the form of a haunting, fever dream video, is now available.
Pre-order/save High on Fire‘s Cometh the Stormhere
“’Burning Down’ kicks off with a classic Pike riff,” says Jeff Matz. “I think this song harkens back to the early High on Fire sound, but infused with fresh, new elements. It has a killer groove that you can really sink into. The body of the song took shape in our PNW rehearsal space, and we came up with the bridge/solo section and finalized the arrangement while we were at GodCity. Kurt Ballou’s input as a producer was also hugely helpful. His keen ears and fresh perspective were invaluable in making this album.”
The GRAMMY Award-winning group, celebrating their 25th anniversary, recorded Cometh the Storm at GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts with producer Kurt Ballou. The 11-song effort – the band’s ninth studio album – marks the release of the first new High on Fire music since 2018’s Electric Messiah and the first to feature drummer Coady Willis (Big Business, Murder City Devils), alongside bassist Jeff Matz, and guitarist/vocalist Matt Pike.
It has been more than five years since the band’s revered Electric Messiah earned High on Fire ‘Best Metal Performance’ at the 2018 GRAMMY Awards, placing the unit among the ranks of groups such as Black Sabbath, Motörhead, and Metallica as winners of the prestigious award. “Being nominated for a Grammy was pretty mind blowing, but winning one was truly surreal,” says bassist Jeff Matz. “A Grammy win was certainly not something we were aiming for, but it’s quite an honor to be recognized in that way, and we are grateful. In terms of how it’s affected us, it has definitely opened some new doors—we’ve gained some new fans and wider recognition, but it hasn’t changed how we approach our craft. We’ve always tried to create uncompromising music that feels good to us, and is in line with what we would want to listen to.”
Track-list: 1. Lambsbread (5:45) 2. Burning Down (6:13) [WATCH] 3. Trismegistus (5:36) 4. Cometh The Storm (6:12) 5. Karanlık Yol (3:46) 6. Sol’s Golden Curse (4:52) 7. The Beating (2:29) 8. Tough Guy (3:44) 9. Lightning Beard (3:33) 10. Hunting Shadows (5:40) 11. Darker Fleece (9:59)
In the half decade since the band’s Grammy nod, the world has seismically shifted and is a different place. The same can be said for High on Fire. The band’s musical archetype has been modded, morphed, and evolved; its blast radius widened. Bassist Jeff Matz joined Mutoid Man and traveled abroad to study and learn the techniques of Middle Eastern folk music and the plucked string instrument, the bağlama (or saz), Matt Pike formed a solo band, released an LP, and toured the U.S., and world-renowned percussionist, Coady Willis, he of Melvins, Big Business, and Murder City Devils united with Pike and Matz to breathe new life into the group a quarter century into their captivating career.
The lead track on High on Fire’s new album, Cometh the Storm, is the invigorating ‘Burning Down’, a vigorous barrage which exemplifies the prowess the unification of the three professional musicians owns.
Universally recognized as one of the most potent acts in music today, High on Fire creates dynamic metal that merges primal fury and aggression, hesher bombast and hall of fame heaviness. Described as “a supersonic exercise in conquest by volume,” High on Fire has rewritten the hard rock rule book since their formation in 1998, forging a style and sound that is both critically celebrated and unique. The group features vocalist and cult guitar hero Matt Pike (also a founding member of the famed underground band SLEEP) singular bassist Jeff Matz, and powerhouse drummer Coady Willis.
High on Fire recently announced new EU and UK tour dates this Summer.
Jun 04: CZ Brno Kabinet MUZ Jun 10: DE Hamburg Bahnhof Pauli Jun 11: DE Cologne Gebäude 9 Jun 12: NL Nijmegen Doornroosje Jun 14: UK London Islington Assembly Hall Jun 15: UK Manchester Rebellion Jun 16: UK Glasgow Slay Jun 17: UK Leeds Brudenell Social Club Jun 18: UK Bristol Thekla Jun 20: FR Wasquehal The Black Lab Jun 25: FR Toulouse Le Metronum Jun 26: ES Bilbao Kafe Antzokia Jul 02: DE Aschaffenburg Colos Saal Jul 03: CH Dudingen Bad Bonn Jul 04: IT Torino Ziggy Jul 06: AT Vienna Arena
High on Fire are: Matt Pike: guitar, vocals Jeff Matz: bass, guitar, bağlama, mellotron, percussion Coady Willis: drums, percussion, vocals
Joanne Shaw Taylor, the chart-topping British blues-rock guitarist, is set to enchant the music world with her latest studio album, Heavy Soul, produced by Kevin Shirley (Black Crowes, Journey, Aerosmith). Heavy Soul is set to release on June 7th through Joe Bonamassa’s Journeyman Records.
In anticipation, Joanne unveils her poignant new single, “Heavy Soul,” a compelling track that explores the weight of emotional burdens with profound depth. The single is now available to stream HERE. Watch the official music video for the “Heavy Soul” single HERE.
Joanne Shaw Taylor, recognized for her exceptional guitar skills and powerful songwriting, continues her ascent in the music world with this new release. Her journey, which began at the age of 16 when discovered by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, has seen her garner accolades from music icons like Stevie Wonder and Annie Lennox. Following the success of albums like Reckless Heart, The Blues Album, and Nobody’s Fool, Joanne’s Heavy Soul is poised to be another landmark in her illustrious career.
Heavy Soul emerges from Joanne’s creative vision of bridging the gap between her previous album Nobody’s Fool and her blues origins. The album promises a fusion of contemporary soul-pop with traditional blues roots. The album features an array of accomplished musicians, including Anton Fig, Alison Presswood, and Rob McNelley blending their unique talents to create an unforgettable musical experience.
Reflecting on the creation of Heavy Soul, Joanne shares, “For me, it was about connecting the dots from ‘Nobody’s Fool’ back into the blues… It’s a mix of contemporary soul-pop and roots music.”
“Heavy Soul,” the title track, resonates with Joanne’s emotive vocals and rich guitar riffs. The single showcases her skill in blending traditional blues with dynamic rhythms and melodies.
CD Track Listing
1. Sweet ‘Lil Lies 2. All The Way From America 3. Black Magic 4. Drowning In A Sea Of Love 5. A Good Goodbye 6. Heavy Soul 7. Wild Love 8. Someone Like You 9. Devil In Me 10. Change Of Heart
Fans can also look forward to Joanne’s Spring U.S. 2024 Tour, where she will treat audiences to her latest hits and classic anthems. The tour, spanning across the East Coast and Southeast, starts in Virginia Beach, VA, on March 29th, and concludes in Skokie, IL, on May 3rd.
For more information about the new album, single, and tour dates, visit joanneshawtaylor.com.
Sunday, February 18 – Queen Margaret Union – Glasgow Monday, February 19 – City Varieties Music Hall – Leeds Wednesday, February 21 – The Fire Station – Sunderland Thursday, February 22 – Indigo at The O2 – London Friday, February 23 – The Wulfrun – Wolverhampton Sunday, February 25 – The Waterfront – Norwich Monday, February 26 – De La Warr Pavilion – Bexhill Wednesday, February 28 – The Apex – Bury St Edmunds Thursday, February 29 – Palace Theatre – Southend
Friday, March 29 – Virginia Beach, VA – The Sandler Center Saturday, March 30 – Greenville, SC – Peace Center Monday, April 1 – Franklin, TN – The Franklin Theatre Thursday, April 4 – Montgomery, AL – Montgomery Performing Arts Centre Friday, April 5 – Macon, GA – Capitol Theatre Tuesday, April 9 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – The Parker Thursday, April 11 – Cornelius, NC – Cain Center for the Arts Friday, April 12 – Annapolis, MD – Rams Head On Stage Saturday, April 13 – Riverhead, NY – The Suffolk Monday, April 15 – Homer, NY – Center for the Arts of Homer Tuesday, April 16 – Old Saybrook, CT – The Kate Thursday, April 18 – Portsmouth, NH – Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club Friday, April 19 – Great Barrington, MA – Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Saturday, April 20 – Sellersville, PA – Sellersville Theater Tuesday, April 23 – Red Bank, NJ – The Vogel Thursday, April 25 – State College, PA – The State Theatre Friday, April 26 – Hagerstown, MD – The Maryland Theatre Sunday, April 28 – Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre Monday, April 29 – Kent, OH – The Kent Stage Wednesday, May 1 – Pittsburgh, PA – Byham Theater Thursday, May 2 – Frankfort, KY – The Grand Theatre Friday, May 3 – Skokie, IL – North Shore Center in Skokie
ABOUT JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR
Joanne Shaw Taylor, discovered at 16 by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, quickly ascended as one of the world’s leading rock guitarists. Championed by legends like Stevie Wonder, Annie Lennox, and Joe Bonamassa, her powerful songwriting, and distinct vocals first captivated audiences with her 2009 debut, White Sugar. Over the years, Joanne has released numerous acclaimed albums, including the UK Top 20 hit Reckless Heart and the #1 Billboard Blues Chart toppers The Blues Album and Blues From The Heart Live. Her most recent studio album, Nobody’s Fool, launched under Bonamassa’s Journeyman Records in 2022, showcases collaborations with industry icons and highlights her continually evolving artistry. Currently on tour, Joanne remains an influential force in blues rock, eagerly anticipating her next album release.
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
