WARKINGS Release Cover of Powerwolf’s ‘Armata Strigoi’ + Lyric Video

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WARKINGS Warriors beware – from the depths of Valhalla, the mighty kings rise once again! This time, they pay tribute to the high priests of heavy metal, POWERWOLF – who they performed with on their biggest support tour so far in autumn 2022 – by releasing a lyric video for their cover of the classic “Armate Strigoi”, taken from the 2015 POWERWOLF album, Blessed & Possessed.

The freshly crowned Top 10 charting band is ready to conquer new battlefields with the warriors and shieldmaidens of Germany’s hottest folk metal band to date, FEUERSCHWANZ, on their almost completely sold out April/May tour of Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Prepare for huge battles!

WARKINGS on “Armata Strigoi”:
“This is our tribute to the mighty wolfpack of Powerwolf. We honor these great warriors with our version of this epic hymn. Ah-Hu!!!”

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WARKINGS live:
Memento Mori Tour 2023
w/ Feuerschwanz
* + Angus McSix
** + The Dark Side Of The Moon
12.04.23 AT – Linz / Posthof
13.04.23 AT – Vienna / Simm City – SOLD OUT!
14.04.23 AT – Graz / Orpheum
15.04.23 DE – Munich / Backstage – SOLD OUT!
19.04.23 CH – Pratteln / Z7*
20.04.23 DE – Frankfurt / Batschkapp* – SOLD OUT!
21.04.23 DE – Saarbrücken / Garage*
22.04.23 DE – Stuttgart / Im Wizemann* – SOLD OUT!
23.04.23 DE – Heidelberg / Halle 02*
27.04.23 DE – Hamburg / Markthalle – SOLD OUT!
28.04.23 DE – Hamburg / Markthalle – SOLD OUT!
29.04.23 DE – Oberhausen / Turbinenhalle – SOLD OUT!
30.04.23 DE – Nuremberg / Löwensaal – SOLD OUT!
05.05.23 DE – Leipzig / Felsenkeller – SOLD OUT!
06.05.23 DE – Berlin / Huxleys – SOLD OUT!
11.05.23 DE – Bremen / Aladin**
12.05.23 DE – Hanover / Capitol** – SOLD OUT!
13.05.23 DE – Cologne / Carlswerk** – SOLD OUT!
14.05.23 DE – Oberhausen / Turbinenhalle** – ADDITIONAL SHOW!

WARKINGS are:
Tribune – War Chant
Crusader – Steelwing
Spartan – War Drums
Viking – Battle Axe
Morgana le Fay – Unholy Evocations

EXITIUM to Release Debut Album “Imperitous March For Abysmal Glory” in May

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Italian death-black metallers EXITIUM will be releasing their debut album, “Imperitous March For Abysmal Glory”, on May 12th 2023 via Time To Kill Records.

The band is now sharing the lyric video for the first single “The Sinister Sedition”. Watch/listen at THIS LOCATION.

“Imperitous March For Abysmal Glory” sees the mysterious Italian band unleashing ten intense and unfaltering tracks of their black-laced death metal which promise to pummel the listener into submission. The band’s sound displays a great sense of urgency and is constantly revived with extra layers of ominous soundscapes ingeniously suggesting an atmosphere of suspence and horror.

EXITIUM‘s sound embodies the perfect combination of face-melting aggression and electrifying atmosphere, with song structures remaining unpredictable and yet strangely coherent.

With its ambitious lyrical concept about an obscure civilization located under the earth’s crust and malicious external entities, the album is propelling EXITIUM to the forefront of the current black-death metal movement with an original and brilliant artistic overhaul.

Pre-order here.

Tracklist:

01. Incomb (Intro) – 1:47
02. Rooted in Blackened Soil – 5:44
03. Abyss Wolf – 4:11
04. Hammering The Walls of Grace – 5:26
05. Ephemeral (Instr.) – 4:15
06. The Sinister Sedition – 5:02
07. Led by a Scornful Hand – 5:51
08. Ab Aeterno – 2:20
09. Spoils of Defilement – 4:47
10. Dieu El Veut! – 6:21

Line-up:

T. – Vocals
N. – Bass
M. – Guitar
G. – Drums

More information at
https://www.instagram.com/exitium_metal/
https://www.facebook.com/exitium.metal

SASS JORDAN Honors TAYLOR HAWKINS with Release of ‘High Road Easy’ from Forthcoming Album “Live in New York Ninety-Four”

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SASS JORDAN‘s breakthrough album, Racine, was released in 1992 and yielded the Canadian hit singles “Make You a Believer,” “I Want to Believe”–both ranked on Billboard magazine’s Mainstream Rock chart–“You Don’t Have to Remind Me,” and “Goin’ Back Again.” In 1994, Jordan released Rats, which yielded  her first song on the Billboard Hot 100 with the single “Sun’s Gonna Rise,” and also featured “High Road Easy.”

Now Jordan has teamed up with Deko Entertainment to take a look back at the Rats tour with the upcoming release of Live in New York Ninety-Four, which was recorded at the South Street Seaport in NYC during that 1994 tour. The band at that time, along with Jordan, consisted of Tony Reyes (bass, vocals), Taylor Hawkins (drums, vocals), Nick Lashley (guitar), and Stevie Salas (guitar). The full album will drop digitally on April 28, to be followed up by a limited-edition vinyl release with preorders going on sale April 15.

The first single off the album is “High Road Easy,” which Jordan shares, is a celebration of the early days in the career of Hawkins, future Foo Fighters drummer. Jordan says, “As we hit the milestone that marks one year since Taylor left us, I wanted to do something to honor his memory–a recognition and appreciation for his glorious, big, beautiful energy–which lives on through this recording and in all of our hearts. That’s why we offer this now …. This particular song, ‘High Road Easy,’ was in its infancy in those days–you can really hear it in the way the band attacks and tears it to pieces–rampaging through its whole length like the pack of road dogs that we were…”

Listen to “High Road Easy”: http://ada.lnk.to/HighRoadEasyLive

Deko Entertainment president, Bruce Pucciarello, comments on the label’s involvement, “Sass is one of my all-time favorites, so I am thrilled we get to share this never released live performance with everyone.  Everything about this record is perfect!”

You can pre-save Live In New York Ninety-Four here: ADA.lnk.to/LiveInNewYork94

Tracklist
“Intro”
“Damaged”
“Make You a Believer”
“Moonage Daydream”
“Head”
“Sun’s Gonna Rise”
“You Don’t Have to Remind Me”
“High Road Easy”
“Pissin’ Down”
“Ugly”

Canadian Tour Dates:
24 JUN 2023: SHERWOOD PARK, AB – BROADMOOR LAKE PARK
07 JUL 2023: PICTOU, NS – CN GROUNDS
22 JUL 2023: KITCHENER, ON – KITCHENER CITY HALL
12 AUG 2023: MAPLE RIDGE, BC – ALBION FAIRGROUNDS
13 AUG 2023: PRINCE GEORGE, BC – EXHIBITION PARK

FROZEN CROWN Kick Off European Tour with NANOWAR OF STEEL

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FROZEN CROWN is about to kick off a tour across Europe as special guests of the mighty NANOWAR OF STEEL. See the tour dates below.

01.04.23 CH – Aarburg / Musigburg
02.04.23 DE – Munich / Backstage Club
03.04.23 AT – Vienna / Viper Room
04.04.23 HU – Budapest / Analog Music Hall
05.04.23 PL – Krakow / Zaścianek
06.04.23 PL – Warsaw / Hydrozagadka
08.04.23 DE – Hannover / Cafe Glocksee
09.04.23 DE – Hamburg / Logo
10.04.23 DK – Copenhagen / Stengade
12.04.23 NL – Rotterdam / Baroeg
13.04.23 DE – Frankfurt / Nachtleben
14.04.23 DE – Essen / Turock
15.04.23 DE – Trier / Mergener Hof
16.04.23 BE – Vorselaar / De Dreef 

FROZEN CROWN released their new album “Call of the North” on March 10th 2023 via Scarlet Records.

‘Call of the North’ is the fourth Frozen Crown album, consolidating their sound while bringing at the same time unseen features on the table (like acoustic ballads and epic choirs), where Power Metal meets old-school Speed and classic Heavy Metal in a modern fashion, with a bombastic production highlighting opulent orchestrations and harmonies. 

The Italian band comes back stronger than ever, with the most thoughtful yet the catchiest of their works, bringing along memorable refrains, heavy downtuned guitar riffs and intricate symphonic parts, tied together by a tense and epic battlefield atmosphere. 

Being Frozen Crown’s most mature album, ‘Call of the North’ is the ideal soundtrack to a long journey in a frozen, forgotten land, through battle chants and war hymns, and defines the sound pushing all their trademark elements to a new level of complexity, without forgetting the easy to remember hooks the fans are used to.

FROZEN CROWN is:
Giada “Jade” Etro – vocals
Federico Mondelli – guitar and vocals
Fabiola “Sheena” Bellomo – guitar
Francesco “Ikki” Zof – bass
Niso Tomasini – drums

WINTERSTORM Release Music Video for Epic, New Album Single ‘Future Times’

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July 14, 2023 will see power metal act WINTERSTORM release their upcoming, fifth studio album entitled “Everfrost”. It’s their first offering since 2016, and their debut with powerhouse label AFM Records.

“Winter” stands for nordic viking and folk metal, the “Storm” for fast-paced power metal, combined with epic and orchestral metal facettes, WINTERSTORM shines in a new splendor as first single releases prove. Following the previously-shared, first album appetizer “To The End Of All Known”, now, the five-piece has released a music video for “Future Times”! The comments:

“Future Times is about focusing on the changeable future instead of wasting time on the unchangeable past. 

Whether it’s the small things everyday or big ones like the destruction of our planet — it’s always worth getting the focus right.”

It’s the melodic grandeur, that clearly marks the foreground of WINTERSTORM, reflected in heavily catchy choruses and colossal, polyphonic vocals. Striking elements of different metal styles merge with each other and get a completely new impression, that WINTERSTORM’s forthcoming record may be their most versatile and powerful album to date; one that does not have to hide behind proved genre colleagues such as Blind Guardian or Rhapsody Of Fire.

“Everfrost“ will be out as CD Digipak, limited clear blue Vinyl and Boxset on July 14, 2023 through AFM Records, the pre-sale is available online at THIS LOCATION!

“Everfrost” track listing:

  1. Origin
  2. To The End Of All Known
  3. The Phoenix Died (Remember)
  4. Circle Of Greed
  5. Future Times
  6. Everfrost
  7. Final Journey
  8. Fate Of The Atlanteans
  9. Crusade
  10. Overcome The Fear
  11. Silence

For More Info Visit:
http://www.winterstormarea.com
http://www.facebook.com/acomingstorm
http://www.instagram.com/winterstorm_official

Finnish RATBREED Release New Single ‘Under Fire’

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Finnish heavy metal band RATBREED has released their second single “Under Fire,” accompanied by a lyric video via Wormholedeath Records. The band’s new album is set to be released soon, which will be the follow-up to their debut album “Evoke The Blaze” which was released back in 2018.

Ratbreed is known for its unique heavy metal sound, and “Under Fire” is no exception. Produced and recorded by the band themselves, the mixing and mastering were taken care of by Juho Räihä (Swallow The Sun, Wolfheart, etc.) at Soundspiral Audio. The band’s first single “Master Of Deception” was released in September 2022, and it was an instant hit among their fans.

The new single “Under Fire” is a perfect example of Ratbreed’s musical prowess, and it features the powerful vocals of Jasmin Anglén, accompanied by the skilled guitar work of Mikko Kaipainen and Fabio de Oliveira. Tatu Nyman on bass and Mikko Toivonen on drums provide a solid backbone to the band’s heavy sound, making for an unforgettable musical experience.

The band has also released a lyric video for “Under Fire,” which perfectly captures the intensity of the music and showcases the band’s lyrical prowess. The single cover art was created by Petri Lampela, and the band photo was taken by Mike Sirén.

“Under Fire” is now available for streaming and purchase on all major music platforms. Don’t miss your chance to experience the unique heavy metal sound of Ratbreed.

Buy/Stream HERE