Italian prog alt rockers MAYBE LATER have released their new single ‘Boulevardier’, available now on all the major streaming platforms.
MAYBE LATER is a Progressive Alternative Rock trio from Rome born in 2018, the lineup consists of Federico Raponi (guitar and vocals), Davide Betterini (bass and backing vocals) and Gilberto Goracci (drums). The sounds of the group are inspired by influential artists of the modern rock scene such as Foo Fighters and Alter Bridge, with several contaminations from progressive rock (Rush, Dream Theater, Tool). After a self-produced demo in 2019 in collaboration with Rome music school Viva Musica and maestro Fabio Tullio, the band is back in the studio recording its first album, due out in fall 2023.
Superstar Joe Bonamassa has unveiled “Lazy Poker Blues,” the latest single from his forthcoming album Blues Deluxe Vol. 2. This rejuvenated classic, originally performed by Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac, showcases Bonamassa’s deep reverence for the titans of British blues. “Now, again, there are two Fleetwood Macs, there’s the one my Mom really loved that had Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham in it, and then there’s the one that my Dad really loved, which had Peter Green in it,” Bonamassa quips. “It’s kind of where I cut my teeth, how I learned how to play the blues, how I learned how to play guitar…Those were my gateways to the masters.”
Blues Deluxe Vol. 2 is Bonamassa’s heartfelt tribute to the roots of his musical journey, breathing fresh life into classic tracks and encapsulating the blues genre’s evolution. Out October 6th via J&R Adventures, the album features two new originals and eight new covers spanning some of the most important names in the blues – from Bobby “Blue” Bland to Albert King. Also available for pre-order is the Platinum Edition Box Set (limited to 500 units worldwide), which includes the CD and Vinyl versions for both Vol. 2 and Blues Deluxe Remastered along with exclusive items.
Pre-order ‘Blues Deluxe Vol. 2’ and Limited-Edition Box Set HERE Watch The Official Music Video NOW Stream/Listen To The New Single
“Part of my approach to these new recordings was that I wanted to see if I had matured musically over the years, and if I had gotten better as a player,” Bonamassa says. “I’m happy to say that I am a much better singer than I was 20 years ago – though I still don’t really consider myself to be a legit ‘singer,’ I can now carry a tune a little better than I could back then.”
The release of “Lazy Poker Blues” follows two standout singles from Blues Deluxe Vol. 2. “Twenty-Four Hour Blues,” a fiery reinterpretation of Bobby “Blue” Bland’s iconic track from the Dreamer album, boasts one of Bonamassa’s most potent vocal and guitar performances to date. The second single, “Well, I Done Got Over It,” pays tribute to Guitar Slim’s 1953 release. Introduced to Slim’s work by his father during childhood, Bonamassa was instantly captivated by his velvety voice and unique delivery. The new version fuses the styles of the Blues Breakers and Guitar Slim, creating a unique blend that Bonamassa masterfully delivers.
Featuring Reese Wynans (keys), Calvin Turner (bass), Lamar Carter (drums), Kirk Fletcher (guitar), and Josh Smith (guitar), additional highlights from Blues Deluxe Vol. 2 include “I Want To Shout About It,” originally performed by Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, “It’s Hard But It’s Fair” by Bobby Parker, and “Is It Safe To Go Home,” a new track written for Joe by Josh Smith. “I knew I wanted to push him really hard vocally,” Smith adds. “I’d heard him sing things just messing around or when we’d be producing for other artists that I’d never heard him do on record. So the songs were both chosen and written with that in mind. If you listen to the vocals on “Twenty-Four Hour Blues” and “Is It Safe To Go Home,” you’ll hear Joe really going for it.”
Bonamassa’s 2023 summer run included his debut appearance at Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday, August 9th. The exclusive, one-night-only concert experience alongside an orchestra was recorded for his next live concert film. The summer tour ends this weekend with “Keeping the Blues Alive presents: Joe Bonamassa & Friends,” featuring special guests Styx and Don Felder, formerly of the Eagles. The special two-night performance run will stop at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater on Saturday, August 12th and Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on Sunday, August 13th. Then, the hardest working bluesman in show business will begin his U.S. Fall Tour on October 23rd at The Cannon Center in Memphis, TN, before crisscrossing the country and capping the year at the guitar-shaped Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, FL on December 2nd.
Bonamassa’s spring 2024 tour will include performances in historic venues like the Count Basie Center For The Arts in Red Bank, NJ on February 23rd and the Saenger Theatre in Pensacola, FL on March 7th, before culminating with Keeping the Blues Alive at Sea IX, set for March 18-24, departing from Miami, Florida to Cozumel, Mexico. The festival line-up includes Grace Potter, The Marshall Tucker Band, John Oates, Jimmy Vivino, King King, and a special performance by Black Country Communion, Bonamassa’s supergroup with Glenn Hughes (DEEP PURPLE, BLACK SABBATH), Jason Bonham (LED ZEPPELIN) and Derek Sherinian (DREAM THEATER, ALICE COOPER, BILLY IDOL). KTBA at Sea is one of the largest fundraisers for Bonamassa’s Keeping The Blues Alive Foundation, aiding in its mission to promote music education by providing grants and resources to schools and musicians in need.
Cited by Guitar World as “arguably the world’s biggest blues guitarist,” Bonamassa is known for taking risks and venturing into uncharted territory throughout his wide-ranging career. His last recent full-length Time Clocks marked his most raw, rocking studio album yet, with American Songwriter sharing, “Bonamassa pushes into fresh territory while staying within a blues-based framework,” and “there is more than enough proof in this sprawling set that Bonamassa doesn’t intend to rest on his laurels or take his star status in the blues-rock genre for granted.”
Blues Deluxe Vol. 2 by Joe Bonamassa 1. Twenty-Four Hour Blues (originally performed by Bobby “Blue” Bland) 2. It’s Hard But It’s Fair (originally performed by Bobby Parker) 3. Well, I Done Got Over It (originally performed by Guitar Slim) 4. I Want to Shout About It (originally performed by Ronnie Earle & The Broadcasters) 5. Win-O (originally performed by Pee Wee Crayton) 6. Hope You Realize It (Goodbye Again) *original song written by Joe Bonamassa & Tom Hambridge 7. Lazy Poker Blues (originally performed by Fleetwood Mac) 8. You Sure Drive a Hard Bargain (originally performed by Albert King) 9. The Truth Hurts Feat Kirk Fletcher and Josh Smith (originally performed by Kenny Neal) 10. Is It Safe To Go Home *original song written by Josh Smith
Blues Deluxe Remastered by Joe Bonamassa 1. You Upset Me Baby 2. Burning Hell 3. Blues Deluxe 4. Man Of Many Words 5. Woke Up Dreaming 6. I Don’t Live Any Where 7. Wild About You Baby 8. Long Distance Blues 9. Pack It Up 10. Left Overs 11. Walking Blues 12. Mumbling Word
Summer 2023 U.S. Tour August 12 – Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater – Wantagh, NY** August 13 – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts – Bethel, NY**
**Keeping the Blues Alive presents: Joe Bonamassa & Friends: Styx and Don Felder, formerly of the Eagles
Fall 2023 U.S. Tour October 23 – Memphis, TN – The Cannon Center October 25 – Shreveport, LA – Shreveport Municipal Auditorium October 27 – San Antonio, TX – Majestic Theatre October 28 – Sugar Land, TX – Smart Financial Centre At Sugar Land October 29 – Austin, TX – ACL Live November 1 – Fayetteville, AR – Walton Arts Center November 3 – Little Rock, AR – Robinson Performance Hall November 4 – Grand Prairie, TX – Texas Trust CU Theatre November 5 – Oklahoma City, OK – Civic Center Music Hall November 8 – Tulsa, OK – Tulsa Theater November 10 – Kansas City, MO – The Midland Theatre November 11 – St. Louis, MO – The Fabulous Fox November 12 – Cedar Rapids, IA – Paramount Theatre November 14 – Rochester, MN – Mayo Civic Center November 15 – Rockford, IL – Coronado Performing Arts Center November 17 – Fort Wayne, IN – Embassy Theatre November 18 – Detroit, MI – Fox Theatre November 19 – Columbus, OH – Palace Theatre November 21 – Reading, PA – The Santander Performing Arts Center November 22 – Providence, RI – Providence Performance Arts Center November 24 – Springfield, MA – Symphony Hall November 25 – Baltimore, MD – The Lyric November 28 – Savannah, GA – Johnny Mercer Theatre November 30 – Sarasota, FL – Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall December 1 – Estero, FL – Hertz Arena December 2 – Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock Live
Spring 2024 U.S. Tour February 19 – Louisville, KY – The Louisville Palace February 21 – Youngstown, OH – Covelli Centre February 23 – Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Center For The Arts February 24 – Oxon Hill, MD – The Theater at MGM National Harbor February 25 – Durham, NC – DPAC February 27 – Columbia, SC – Township Auditorium February 29 – Virginia Beach, VA – The Sandler Center March 1 – Roanoke, VA – Berglund Center March 2 – Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theatre March 4 – Richmond, VA – Altria Theater March 5 – Knoxville, TN – Knoxville Civic Auditorium March 7 – Pensacola, FL – Saenger Theatre March 8 – Biloxi, MS – Beau Rivage March 9 – Biloxi, MS – Beau Rivage March 11 – Huntsville, AL – VBC Mark C. Smith Concert Hall March 12 – Greenville, SC – Peace Center March 14 – Macon, GA – Macon City Auditorium March 15 – Orlando, FL – Dr. Phillips Center March 16 – Clearwater, FL – The Sound March 18-24 – Keeping the Blues Alive at Sea IX – Miami, FL to Cozumel, Mexico
As Summer Breeze 2023 is approaching, THE PROPHECY 23 is celebrating the release of their colossal live album, Live At Summer Breeze! Out now on Massacre Records, the album was recorded at last year’s Summer Breeze by Julian Ruppel, and was mixed and mastered by Kai Stahlenberg at Kohlekeller Studio. Aside CD and digital formats, the available limited box set contains a bunch of cool festival gadgets such as flag, terry sweat wristbands, stickers, signed autograph card and official Summer Breeze merch. You can now order Live At Summer Breeze at THIS LOCATION!
To celebrate their live release in style, THE PROPHECY 23 have not only shared a new video clip for their final single “Mammon”, but also streaming the show in its entirety! Live At Summer Breeze contains songs from the band’s latest, chart-breaking album, “Fresh Metal”, as well as a best of from the band’s history. With combining thrash metal with death metal and punk elements, THE PROPHECY 23 gave birth to a new genre that describes their sound perfectly: Fresh Metal.
They played more than 300 club and festival shows all over Europe, including Wacken Open Air, since their formation in 2002, and left the audience both out of breath and happy. Get into the perfect festival summer mood, and watch the new THE PROPHECY 23 live clips below!
Live At Summer Breeze track listing:
Intro: Tough, Cool And Here To Mosh
Brutal Thrash Maniacs
From The Basement To The Pit
We Love Fresh Metal
Home Is Where You Shred
No Deep Talks – Just Drinks
Mammon
Green Machine Laser Beam
Party Like It’s ’84
I Wish I Could Skate
Watch the full show, hosted by Summer Breeze, here:
THE PROPHECY 23 Live: 26.08.2023 DE Wiernsheim – Riedler Open Air 07.10.2023 DE Waldbronn – Soundcheck One Festival 11.11.2023 DE Ludwigshafen – Dome 02.12.2023 DE Crailsheim – Metal im Hangar 23.12.2023 DE Rottenburg – Klause
THE PROPHECY 23 is: Hannes – Vocals, Guitar Luca – Death Vocals Phil – Guitar Jackson – Bass Theo – Drums
German thrashers SKELETON PIT are back with a brand new single just in time for their appearance at this year’s Summer Breeze next week. “Phantom Fire”, the title of the song for all thrash-addicted moshers, is about the undefined power that grabs you when you are driven by inner turmoil. Sooner or later a fire, like an inner funeral pyre, is lit that you can’t escape.
“Phantom Fire” is now available on all common download and streaming platforms. In addition, there is an solid video for the song on the MDD YouTube channel! Ignite the Phantom Fire, check out the song and mosh with the guys at the Summer Breeze Open Air.
Photographer credit: Rob Brens (Black Cow Productions)
Australia’s angriest, WEREWOLVES have today released their fourth album, My Enemies Look and Sound Like Me, via Prosthetic Records. The death metal trio’s latest full-length is an uncompromising slab of extreme metal brutality, featuring songs that rage against the metal scene, themselves, nuclear destruction and abuses of power. WEREWOLVES continue their foray into the live circuit in October, on the Tech Trek Australia tour – with more details below.
Speaking on the album release, bassist/vocalist Sam Bean (also of The Antichrist Imperium, The Berzerker) comments: “EAT BLASTBEATS YOU FUCKING SKIDMARKS. WEREWOLVES triumphantly crawls up your urinary tract to hatch our fourth album, My Enemies Look and Sound Like Me, in your bladder.”
Contemplating the release, Bean continues: “Sorry, that came out wrong. We’re overjoyed to humbly offer our fourth release for your enjoyment. We trust that you’ll find that we’ve continued the run of growth and quality that we’ve become known for, and won’t disappoint any of you. We hope that you find this album a refreshing and enlightening listen that brings you endless joy. The satisfaction of our fans is paramount. We love you. We love all of you.”
Finally adding: “…shitcunts.”
My Enemies Look And Sound Like Me is the mature effort of a band approaching the midpoint of both their career and their lives, fine-tuning audio violence and desperate to leave nothing on the table before the hormones fade and dementia kicks in. Opener Under The Ground is an apoplectic death metal middle finger to the genre and all involved within it. Title track My Enemies Look And Sound Like Me demonstrates that the band have absolutely no intention of slowing down at all, while Destroyer Of Worlds is a slow creepfest that makes a lie of the previous sentence. Elsewhere, songs like Brace For Impact and Neanderhell demonstrate that WEREWOLVES are only getting more rabid with age – the BPM is appropriately crazed WEREWOLVES fare.
Mixing and mastering was handled, as always, by Joe Haley (Psycroptic), and the artwork is a remarkable simulacrum of modern social media discourse by long time collaborator Mitchell Nolte, and depicts two frenzied opposing groups of people massacring each other and themselves in a screaming horrified rage.
My Enemies Look and Sound Like Me tracklist: 1. Under the Ground 2. My Enemies Look and Sound Like Me 3. Bring To Me The Kill 4. Brace For Impact 5. Destroyer of Worlds 6. Neanderhell 7. I Hate Therefore I Am 8. I Knew Nothing Then and I Know Less Now 9. Do Not Hold Me Back
Upcoming WEREWOLVES tour dates:
Tech Trek Australia w/ Archspire and Ingested 11 October – The Zoo – Brisbane, Australia 12 October – The Basement – Canberra, Australia 13 October – Factory Theater – Sydney, Australia 14 October – The Corner – Melbourne, Australia 15 October – Lions Arts Factory – Adelaide, Australia
Death/thrash metal band KHIRAL from Helsinki, Finland releases their new single “Versions Of Reality” after a few years of silence. They released their second full-length album “Shards” on August 6, 2021. On that album the band took huge leaps forward in terms of composition, melodies and even lyrics compared to their debut album “Chained”. Despite the quiet life the band has not rested on its laurels. They have been working on new music and the lineup has found its shape for live shows.
“The band is doing currently quite well. We have been concentrated on making new music and we plan to release more new stuff this autumn. It’s been a few years since the last album, so it’s about time. The line-up is now in its final form with the addition of our new drummer Teemu Hass!” – Tuomo Vänskä, vocalist
“Versions Of Reality” is completely recognizable Khiral -song. Although the song’s arrangement and lyrics are more straightforward than before. The new normal in world today is different versions of the truth that Tuomo Vänskä handle in his lyrics.
The intention was to go in a slightly different direction in terms of composition than our previous albums. Without forgetting the certain type of weight and melodiousness of Khiral, that is familiar from our previous albums. On the riffs, I aimed to a certain kind of majesty and grandiosity. But at the same time a certain kind of flow and hard pounding” – Sami Lehtonen, guitar
“Versions Of Reality is a story of a person who is in the middle of a change. It is told from the point of view of the individual and not from a general point of view. For this person the change is terrifying. It is actually worse than death. The change leads to different versions of reality. And each version is equally real to the person experiencing it” – Tuomo Vänskä, vocalist
Khiral’s goal is to bring their music to a larger audience by playing concerts and releasing new material. If Children of Bodom, Amorphis, The Halo Effect, and Hypocrisy crash, then Khiral will likely crash as well
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Kimmo Kuusniemi’s SARCOFAGUS return with a Historic 2010 Concert Video Premiere on YouTube! Click image to watch the video
Metal Shock Finland (World Assault ) 