BLACK STONE CHERRY Announce New Album & Reveal Video ‘Nervous’

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BLACK STONE CHERRY are thrilled to announce their eighth studio album, ‘Screamin’ At The Sky’, set for release on Friday 29th September via Mascot Records.  The opus will be available on White Solid Vinyl, Limited Edition Vinyl Boxset, CD and Digitally. Pre-order now over at https://lnk.to/BSC-MLG 

Today, the band reveal another new track, ‘Nervous’, together with an accompanying official music video, to coincide with album pre-orders going live.  Earlier this year, BLACK STONE CHERRY released the album’s lead single, ‘Out of Pocket’, which went on to be a crowd favourite on the band’s recent shows.

The Kentucky-based band, featuring Chris Robertson (lead vox/guitar), Ben Wells (guitar/bkg vox) and drummer John-Fred Young (drums/bkg vox), are joined for the first time on an album recording by ‘new’ bassist, Steve Jewell Jr. (ex-Otis).  The band’s fanbase will be more than familiar with Steve, as he joined BLACK STONE CHERRY in 2021.
 
Discussing the new video, the boys tell us:
 
“Filming the video for ‘Nervous’ was an amazing experience.  Like being on a movie set!  We spent the day in an old paint factory-turned-production studio that had all of these amazing sets for TV and movies. The actor, Mateo Palmitier, did an AMAZING job as the lead character and it was such a cool experience seeing all of these visions come to life thanks to our director, Kyle Loftus and his incredible team.  We love how the video will go between our performance, a great story line, and some killer visuals!”

With regard to the new album, BLACK STONE CHERRY continue:
 
“Every band that puts out a new record will tell you they are excited – as they should be. However, we may take the award for being the most excited about releasing a new album into the world! We can guarantee that it’ll move you in one way or another. We had a lot to say lyrically, musically, and sonically. We pushed ourselves to create not only something relevant, but also pushing the envelope to bend the trend. We are truly proud of this collection of songs and we hope you’ll celebrate it with us.”
 
‘Screamin’ At The Sky’ features all-new material written collaboratively while on tour, but when it came time to record, BSC decided to try something it’s always dreamed of doing: tracking an album at The Plaza Theater in Glasgow, Kentucky – a legendary 1020-seat venue built in 1934 that boasts meticulous acoustics. “Every time we played the Plaza we wondered what it would sound like to record drums there. We finally decided to put all our eggs in one basket,” Chris says.  In June of 2022, the band rented the whole place, brought in all its recording equipment and its trusty engineer, Jordan Westfall.  They set up the basement as the control room and the stage as the live drum room.  Time between recording sessions and incredible room ambience have resulted in a career high watermark for BSC.

BLACK STONE CHERRY’s last album, ‘The Human Condition’, released in October 2020 was their sixth consecutive No. 1 debut on the UK Rock Albums chart.  The album’s lead single, ‘Again’ was the band’s biggest single in over 10 years in America, peaking at #15, and their highest charting record ever in Canada, landing in the Top 15. The album racked-up 50 million streams worldwide. Over the years, BSC has both headlined and rocked 12,000-cap arena shows and shared the stage with a wide range of superstars, including Alter Bridge, Def Leppard, Gov’t Mule, Nickelback, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bad Company, Mötorhead, Halestorm, Stone Temple Pilots, The Darkness, and ZZ Top.  In 2018, BSC performed in front of 100,000 people at the Download Festival as main support to Guns N’ Roses and in 2021, the band played the venerated Royal Albert Hall, immortalized on 2022’s live DVD ‘Live From The Royal Albert Hall…Y’All’.

Plans are afoot for more dates later this year.  Stay tuned.

Track list

  1. Out Of Pocket
  2. Screamin’ At The Sky
  3. Nervous
  4. When The Pain Comes
  5. Show Me What It Feels Like
  6. R.O.A.R.
  7. Smile, World
  8. The Mess You Made
  9. Who Are You Today?
  10. Not Afraid
  11. Here’s To The Hopeless
  12. You Can Have It All

DEVILDRIVER Reveal Aggressive New Single + Music Video ‘This Relationship, Broken’

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After much anticipation from fans, groove metal kings DEVILDRIVER will finally drop their 10th album and part two of their Dealing With Demons saga, Dealing With Demons Vol. II, this Friday, May 12 via Napalm Records!

Today, in celebration of this week’s release, the band has revealed the album’s unrelenting final pre-release single, entitled “This Relationship, Broken”. The riff-laden album closer hits as one of the record’s most breakneck-paced anthems – with erratic drums, aggressive riffs and a charged performance from celebrated frontman Dez Fafara. 

DEVILDRIVER frontman Dez Fafara says about “This Relationship, Broken”:
“‘This Relationship, Broken’ explores the severance that happens between two long time partners when they leave each other after years of turmoil.” 

As DEVILDRIVER enter their third decade with nine full-length albums, countless international tours and worldwide renown, they prove more resilient than ever. As the world was upended in 2020, iconic groove metal leaders DEVILDRIVER didn’t pause, releasing the highly-acclaimed first installment of their two-part Dealing With Demons saga, Dealing With Demons I. Now, as society emerges more hardened and determined than before, so does Dealing With Demons Vol. II. 

The new album represents celebrated frontman Dez Fafara’s psyche and the final purging of his demons that have long haunted the band’s music. Once again produced and engineered by Steve Evetts with additional engineering from guitarist Mike Spreitzer, Dealing With Demons Vol. II is inarguably heavier and relentlessly harsher than its predecessor.

International media mainstays like Revolver, Metal Hammer, Kerrang and Consequence lauded Dealing With Demons I, which debuted at #4 on the US Current Hard Music Albums Chart. Blabbermouth stated, “If the second half of this mammoth endeavor matches the first, this will be remembered as a pivotal moment in the DEVILDRIVER story.” If there is any question as to whether DEVILDRIVER is slowing down any time soon, Dealing With Demons Vol. II proves that 20 years into their career, even with their demons in tow – they move forward at the forefront of metal.

Pre-Order Dealing With Demons Vol. II HERE

Track one, “I Have no Pity”, instantly keeps fans guessing with its contrasting, marching rhythmic groove and Dez Fafara’s icy, earworm warnings. The album’s standout production immediately shines, with the track’s thick riffs, haunting leads, room-filling drums and Fafara’s vocal prowess leading the way. Eerie, insistent “Mantra” drops a wave of melodic aggression on the listener, instantly inducing headbanging with its breakneck pace and occult lyricism. Dynamic tracks like “Nothing Lasts Forever” and “Summoning” cascade with alternating passages of sinister riffage and memorable chants, while extraordinary highlights like devastatingly grim “Through The Depths” – with its black metal-esque passages, deft guitar play and menacing lyricism – showcase the evolution of DEVILDRIVER in the new decade. “Bloodbath” is as brutal as its name suggests, ominously bending and pummeling with immediate aggression, as “It’s a Hard Truth” continues the onslaught, cautioning against delusion amid balanced melodic leads. Closer anthems “If Blood is Life” and “This Relationship, Broken” are the blood-soaked cherries atop Dealing With Demons Vol. II, bringing together all of the elements that make DEVILDRIVER the best at their craft.

Dealing With Demons Vol. II track listing:
1. I Have no Pity
2. Mantra
3. Nothing Lasts Forever
4. Summoning
5. Through the Depths
6. Bloodbath
7. It’s a Hard Truth
8. If Blood is Life
9. This Relationship, Broken

DEVILDRIVER is:
Dez Fafara – Vocals
Mike Spreitzer – Guitar
Jon Miller – Bass
Alex Lee – Guitar
Davier Pérez – Drums

DEVILDRIVER online:
WEBSITE
FACEBOOK
INSTAGRAM
TWITTER
NAPALM RECORDS

Pagan Metal Unit ARKONA Unveil Second Single + Animated Video ‘Mor’

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Today, pagan metal unit ARKONA unveils their ominous second single, “Mor”, taken from their upcoming ninth studio album, Kob’, out June 16, 2023 via Napalm Records! After five years of silence, the band presents their darkest creation to date. Based on current events of our time, each problem of mankind is indicated in the album in the order of its inevitable emergence.

Forming the epic hymn, “Mor” (ENG: plague), merges the energy of raw black metal and the spirituality of pagan metal. Injecting both darkness and hopelessness into her vocal delivery, the impressive vocal range of mastermind Masha “Scream” is underlined by soothing acoustic guitar elements, unsettling wind instruments and relentless drums. Followed by a spiritual animated video, ARKONA delves deep into the realities of epidemics, diseases and the main plague of our time: the human existence.

ARKONA on “Mor”:
“This track, “Mor”, represents the fourth step of the immersion of all of mankind into the abyss. This song is about epidemics, diseases, and multiple deaths that have been haunting mankind through centuries, but subsequently, man himself artificially created the main plague of our time, which has become his next step on the road to hell.

The indescribable gloomy images in the video, which were created by the skilled hands of Cybermind Abyss using neural network technology, will help the listener immerse themselves most deeply in the dark atmosphere of the track, by drawing their terrible pictures through the absorbing abyss of our time, thereby predicting the approach of the inevitable apocalypse.”

Preparing listeners for the first step into the abyss, the album opener “Izrechenie. Nachalo” (ENG: The Speech. The Beginning) gently takes the listener’s hand, leading them into trancelike realms of ominous whispers and murmuring voices – a recurring motif on the album. Dominated by rhythmic synths and a catchy bassline, “Ugasaya” (ENG: Fadin’ Away) represents the modern era of ARKONA’s pagan roots, as well as the great diversity in their music. Not only articulating through lyrics, Masha also sets the tone with her keyboard solo on the emotional “Razryvaya plot’ ot bezyskhodnosti bytiya” (ENG: Tearing the flesh owing to the despair of being). While society digs its own grave through wars, religious beliefs and environmental problems, pensive wind instruments and acoustic guitar interludes transform the aggression of deep low growls and fast-paced guitar shredding. Closing the album with the world’s absolute apocalypse on “Izrechenie. Iskhod” (ENG: The Speech. The Conclusion), Kob’ is deeply rooted in pagan metal stylings of the old days, but offers a modern spirit via its production and variety alike.

Get Your Copy of Kob’ HERE

Kob’ Tracklisting:
1. Izrechenie. Nachalo
2. Kob’
3. Ydi
4. Ugasaya
5. Mor
6. Na zakate bagrovogo solntsa
7. Razryvaya plot’ ot bezyskhodnosti bytiya
8. Izrechenie. Iskhod

ARKONA are:
Masha “Scream” – Vocals, Keyboards, Percussion
Sergei “Lazar” – Guitars
Ruslan “Kniaz” – Bass
Vladimir “Volk” – Wind Instruments
Alexander Smirnov – Drums

ARKONA online:
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Facebook
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Twitter
Napalm Records

DAVID REECE to Release New Bangalore Choir “Center Mass” Album on July 7th

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DAVID REECE is set to release the new Bangalore Choir “Center Mass” Album on July 7th via Global Rock Records.

Fronted by former Accept and Bonfire vocalist David Reece, Bangalore Choir emerged in 1991 at the tail end of the 1980s melodic metal movement, instantly impressing the rock press with big choruses, melodic guitar playing and songwriting contributions by Jon Bon Jovi, Aldo Nova and Autograph’s Steve Plunkett!

The new album ‘Center Mass’ released via Global Rock Records via Cherry Red on July 7th is a direct sequel in style to the classic debut ‘On Target’,and is sure to excite fans of the debut album and of the melodic heavy rock genre in general.

David Reece explains:

“I am very happy with this brand new Bangalore Choir record, we really went for everything that made the debut the great album that it was, that being loads of harmony vocals, big hooks, and great guitar solos. We also worked really hard on the songs making sure we had only the very best set of tunes for this album.”

The initial pressing comes with an 8 song live CD recorded in Germany in 2022.

The album is released via Global Rock Records via Cherry Red on July 7th and can be pre-ordered directly here.

Tracklist:

Bangalore Choir – Center Mass

CD 1

01 Spirit Rider
02 Back To Life
03 I Just Wanna Love You
04 Heat Of The Night
05 Wind At My Back
06 Blame It On Me
07 Back 2 U
08 Downtime With The Devil
09 Without You
10 While Bullets Fly
11 If The Good Die Young Part 2
12 Love Hurts

CD 2

01 Just One Night (Live In Hamburg)
02 Loaded Gun (Live In Hamburg)
03 Slippin’ Away (Live In Hamburg)
04 Victim Of The Night (Live In Hamburg)
05 If The Good Die Young (Live In Hamburg)
06 Freight Train Rollin’ (Live In Hamburg)
07 Angel In Black (Live In Hamburg)
08 All Or Nothing (Live In Hamburg)

More information at https://www.davidreeceofficial.info/home

Adrian Vandenberg Had to Endure Six Lawsuits from Ex Members Claiming Band Name

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For Canada’s The Metal Voice Neil Turbin spoke to guitarist Adrian Vandenberg at this years ‘Rock for Ronnie concert in the park on May 7, 2023 at Los Encinos park for the Ronnie James Dio Stand up and shout Cancer fund.

Vandenberg spoke about the bands new album as well as the past lawsuits against him in regards to former band mates using his name. 

When asked if he would ever reunite with his former singer Bert Heerink 
“I never want to see this guy again because he and the former bass player ( Dick Kemper) started six lawsuits against me and they lost them all. They claimed my name, my band name (Vandenberg). They said they were a part of it and so they wanted to have that name and I said no no no. I had to defend myself. It was six lawsuits, cost a lot of money and a lot of negative energy. Otherwise we could have done some reunion shows and we didn’t. It is embarrassing and also because you think you are friends. Then 30 years later after I was in Whitesnake for 12 years and toured all over the world and all the stadiums you name it. They (Bert and Dick) think oh wait a minute there’s money to be made so they wanted to tour without me like a Vandenberg without Vandenberg so to speak. They had the Illusions they could win so I never need to see those guys again because there was so much lying going on and those lawsuits. It’s sad, yeah it’s not gonna happen. “

When asked about the new Vandenberg album
“Right now I’ve got a great band together since two years. We have a single out called ‘House on fire’ with Mats (Leven vocalist), in three weeks there will be a second single and the album is going to come out  August 2023 . The album is called ‘Sin’.  The second single name is called SIN and then there’s a third one called ‘Light it up’ that’s going to come out probably in about a month and a half or something. “

MOTÖRHEAD Release New Animated Video for Grammy Nominated Cover of Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’

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There has always been a strong link between the pioneering Motörhead and mighty Metallica. A unique bond of friendship between the two has stood over the decades, with Metallica even playing Lemmy’s 50th birthday in 1995 all dressed up as the great man himself, under the moniker of The Lemmy’s. In turn, Motörhead have paid homage to some of Metallica’s finest compositions, even winning a Grammy for their cover of ‘Whiplash’ in 2004. However their cover of one of the most iconic hard rock classics of all time, “Enter Sandman”, has been largely overlooked until now. Originally recorded for an ECW Wrestling compilation in 1998 (which was also nominated for a Grammy), the song has been unavailable outside said – CD until now….

In this incredible new animated video, take a horrifying nocturnal journey through the nightmares of a child who is haunted by the evil sandman in his dreams, and is ultimately saved by the powers of the inimitable Motörhead ‘Warpig’. The video was produced by Mulberry Creative.

Motörhead, Enter Sandman is also available on all streaming platforms now, including Dolby Atmos on Apple Music and 360 Spatial Audio on Amazon. There’s also an exclusive, limited edition 7” single with etched Warpig B-side with exclusive merch and bundles, available in the official Motörhead store while stocks last!