WARBRINGER Reveal ‘Unraveling’ Music Video + Kick Off European Tour Today

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Just in time to celebrate today’s launch of their European tour with Evil Invaders, Schizophrenia and Mason, SoCal modern thrash metal frontrunners WARBRINGER have revealed a brand new music video for the Weapons of Tomorrow burner “Unraveling”! See below for a full listing of the band’s upcoming European and UK tour dates and bang your head to this action-packed, gritty new visual, filmed, produced and edited by Juan Rodriguez with Roberto Maqueos.

Drummer Carlos Cruz states:

“Road Warriors! We’re excited to release this new music video for ‘Unraveling’, capturing the chaos of all of you Heavy Metal maniacs going OFF at a WARBRINGER show! Thank you to Juan and Roberto for once again joining the madness to collaborate on another killer video, and a major thanks to all of YOU for thrashing with us!

The anarchy continues overseas on our ‘Ravaging Europe 2023’ tour with Evil Invaders, Schizophrenia and Mason! Check the dates, spread the word and we’ll see you in the circle pit!”

WARBRINGER 2023 European Dates w/ Evil Invaders, Schizophrenia and Mason:
24/03/2023 BE Aalst – Oilsjt Omploft
25/03/2023 DE Essen – Turock
26/03/2023 FR Colmar – Le Grillen
27/03/2023 BE Namur – Le Belvédère
28/03/2023 DE Kassel – Goldgrube
29/03/2023 DE Mannheim – 7er Club
30/03/2023 DE Leipzig – Hellraiser
31/03/2023 DE Hamburg – BHF Pauli
01/04/2023 DK Copenhagen- BETA
02/04/2023 DE Berlin – Cassiopeia
03/04/2023 PL Warsaw – Hydrozagadka
04/04/2023 PL Krakow – Kamienna12
05/04/2023 DE Munich – Backstage Halle
06/04/2023 CZ Prague – Modra Vopice
07/04/2023 HU Budapest – Barba Negra
08/04/2023 CH Sursee – Kulturwerk 118
09/04/2023 AT Dornbirn – Schlachthaus
10/04/2023 AT Vienna – Viper Room
11/04/2023 CH Martigny – Cave Du Manoir
13/04/2023 FR Lyon – Rock n Eat
14/04/2023 FR Pau – L’Ampli
15/04/2023 ES Barcelona – La Nau
16/04/2023 ES Madrid – Nazca
17/04/2023 ES Mos Pontreveda – Sala Rebullón
18/04/2023 ES Granada – Sala El Tren
19/04/2023 ES Zaragoza – Sala Lo Intento
20/04/2023 FR Nantes – Le Ferrailleur
21/04/2023 FR Paris – Backstage By The Mill
22/04/2023 NL Arnhem – Willemeen
23/04/2023 NL Helmond – Cacaofabriek
24/04/2023 DE Hannover – Cafe Glocksee

UK Dates w/ Hellripper as support only:
26/04/23 – Birmingham, UK – Asylum
27/04/23 – Manchester, UK – The Bread Shed
28/04/23 – Glasgow, UK – Classic Grand*
29/04/23 – London, UK – Boston Music Room

30/04/2023 NL Rotterdam – Baroeg (with Evil Invaders)

Order WARBRINGER’s latest full-length album, Weapons of Tomorrow, HERE!

With Weapons of Tomorrow, WARBRINGER have not only proven a true mastery of their craft, but have spurred the forward shift of an entire genre – transporting thrash metal into a brand-new era. Building upon their internationally-acclaimed blistering attack, Weapons of Tomorrow showcases a refreshed technical approach and a heightened focus on unique lyrical and vocal style. The record takes the promise of the band’s previous release, Woe to the Vanquished, and carries it onward, presenting WARBRINGER at their absolute best to date – over 10 years into their careers.

WARBRINGER is:
John Kevill – Vocals
Adam Carroll – Guitar
Carlos Cruz – Drums
Chase Becker – Guitar
Chase Bryant – Bass

WARBRINGER online:
FACEBOOK
INSTAGRAM
TWITTER
NAPALM RECORDS

HOST Release Sprawling Ambient Remix of ‘Hiding From Tomorrow’ by LUSTMORD

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Contemporary dark wave project HOST, launched by Nick Holmes and Greg Mackintoshof PARADISE LOST, have released a sprawling ambient remix of ‘Hiding From Tomorrow’ by LUSTMORD. The remix follows the recent release of the bands debut album IX.

Greg Mackintosh comments:
“Lustmord has taken this track from electro goth into a whole new territory. I love it when a remix drifts far and wide from it’s source material and he has certainly done that. He has created a sprawling, emotive, cinematic soundscape”

Stream ‘Hiding From Tomorrow (Lustmord Remix)’ on all platforms now at this location.

Purchase IX on various formats now from: https://bfan.link/host-ix.ema

IX Tracklist
1. Wretched Soul
2. Tomorrow’s Sky
3. Divine Emotion
4. Hiding From Tomorrow
5. A Troubled Mind
6. My Only Escape
7. Years of Suspicion
8. Inquistion
9. Instinct

IX Digipack Tracklist
1. Wretched Soul
2. Tomorrow’s Sky
3. Divine Emotion
4. Hiding From Tomorrow
5. A Troubled Mind
6. My Only Escape
7. Years of Suspicion
8. Inquistion
9. Instinct
10. I Ran (A Flock Of Seagulls cover)
11. Hiding From Tomorrow (Lustmord Remix)
12. Tomorrow’s Sky (GosT Remix)

About HOST

The origins of HOST do not trace back to the 1999 PARADISE LOST album bearing the same name but instead to the West Yorkshire music clubs of the mid-to-late 1980s. While Holmes and Mackintosh were already certified heavy metal fanatics (“metal thrashing mad” as Holmes equates), they were equally drawn to the New Wave and Goth music scenes. The pounding rhythms, sublime melodies and undercurrent of darkness drew them in, creating immediate earworms and a desire to delve further.

Mackintosh finally put plans into motion during the pandemic for a venture that would merge his penchant for sound design with the moods and atmosphere of 1980s dance-pop and Goth. The project was originally a solo pursuit until he asked Holmes, his longtime PARADISE LOST songwriting partner, to join. HOST was selected as the name as a tip of the hat to the aforementioned album that found PARADISE LOST in an unprecedented period of experimentation that eschewed their metal roots and also challenged their fanbase in ways like never before.

“We always stood by Host as an album,” says Mackintosh. “This project is not totally connected to that album, but some of the ideas are extrapolated. We’re taking the basic premise and trying it out now. And, really, it was something fun and interesting for us to do. We’ve been doing PARADISE LOST for a long time and got an itch to try something different from where PL is now. I could take PL down this route again. Who knows? It may happen if we live long enough, but I thought, ‘Why not now?’ I had the time to do it.”

HOST is:
Nick Holmes – Vocals
Greg Mackintosh – Guitars, Synths & Programming

THE REVENANTS Release New Single + Video ‘If We Dance’

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With the third single “If We Dance” from the upcoming album “Ghosts” THE REVENANTS show a complete another side of their versatile album.  Casual, cool and chill, the only thing missing is the right car and the sunset!

The trio around “End Of Green”-vocalist Michelle Darkness is releasing a song that the fans will surely cheer about.

The album “Ghosts” will be released on 04/21/2023 as a DOUBLE CD DIGIPACK with 20 songs and is already on presale. Pre-orderers of the album can look forward to a few extras!
therevenants.epr.rocks
save-it.cc/epr/if-we-dance

Spring 2018. No big intro, no fanfare and no sensational announcment.

The two longtime soulbrothers, italian-rooted guitar wizard Fabiano Arganese and
Marc Ayerle, guitarist, producer and live sound engineer for decades, started to jam around in Marcs own klangmanufaktur studios. There was no plan, no concept, nor any rules or genre typical limitations.
The guiding light was the music itself, the song was taking control over the path which shall be followed.
After the first weekend session, four songs were written and completely recorded. A great glimpse of delight, which led to further deliberations. So Marc decided to ask one of his best and nearest friends, Michelle Darkness, well-known voice of Southern German Gloomsters “End of Green”
(Marc is doing their live sound engineering for nearly 20 years now), to try some vocals on those.
It was a perfect match. The Songs began to breath and it all started to gain contour. The rest seemed really to be predictable. The songwriting and production went like a breeze. 20 songs were finished and …
The Revenants was born!

Tracklist:
Disc I:
01 Ghosts
02 Into The Fire
03 Emeraldmine
04 Redemption
05 Leeches & Whores
06 If We Dance
07 Karma Kills
08 Who Knows
09 Disclosures
10 The End Is Black

Disc II:
01 Los Angeles
02 Ain’t No Wine
03 Me And The Sea
04 Mountain
05 Freestreet
06 Roofless
07 Good Men Gone Bad
08 Slippin’ Away
09 Vendetta
10 Worlds Collide

Line-up:
Michelle Darkness | Vocals
Fabiano Arganese | Guitars, Keys
Marc Ayerle | Guitars, Keys, Bass, Drums

HANGING GARDEN Stream New Album “The Garden”, Out Today

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Photo credit: Kalle Pyyhtinen

The new album from Finland’s death/doom metallers HANGING GARDEN is available for streaming in its entirety, released today March 24th on Agonia Records. Listen to “The Garden” at this location.

HANGING GARDEN formed in 2004, starting out as a heavy, doom-oriented project. Roughly two decades, seven albums and a couple of line-up shuffles later, the band shifted to a more melodic, contemporary sound, surrounded by a veil of melancholy.

The compositions are dark, atmospheric & emotional, and concomitantly lean towards open-minded and playful musicality. While entrenched in metal’s doom, gothic and melodeath branches, HANGING GARDEN displays a versatile, many-layered style of playing, packs female & male vocals, and draws influence & inspiration from music and art, far and wide.

The new album – “The Garden” – dives deep into atmospheres both “tender and harsh, devilish and serene” and “embarks upon a journey to mankind’s spiritual roots, contemplating the fragility of our technological society” – as poetically described by the band. “There is a kind of energy in the songs that there wasn’t before,” introspects Toni Hatakka of HANGING GARDEN. “A feel of hope to contrast our old friend the despair, a strong notion of action against the familiar melancholy, or maybe a light amidst the comfortable gloom…” Read Toni‘s full comment below.

“After almost two decades of dwelling in the musical and lyrical thematics of despair, loss and melancholy, I had the feeling that our next release could have some room for hope and light as well – of course not forgetting our trademark-ish somber aesthetic. The approach we decided to take was to weave a story of how humanity would still thrive, still find meaning, after the world as we know it has finally met its end.”

“Exploring the rituals, belief systems, connection to nature, finding purpose in just being and surviving were the cornerstones of how The Garden came to be. Another strong theme is that of dreams; since childhood, I’ve had this recurring dream world with a silent feel of stagnation, colossal constructs of rust, the action of journeying to the unknown, and lush nature. This is where I also draw a lot of what ended up on the album. The lyrics written by Riikka also amalgamated into this aesthetic perfectly. Even the name was given to me in a dream. Back in spring, I had a dream where our keyboardist Nino and I had a talk about this being our Magnum Opus and that we should call it The Garden. Such a powerful notion could not be left unheeded, and so the album had its name. The Garden is at the same time familiar and atypical for us. There is a kind of energy in the songs that there wasn’t before, a feel of hope to contrast our old friend the despair, a strong notion of action against the familiar melancholy, or maybe a light amidst the comfortable gloom. But in the end, this is us.”

Tracklisting:
1. The Garden
2. The Four Winds
3. The Construct
4. The Song of Spring
5. The Fire at First Dawn
6. The Nightfall
7. The Stolen Fire
8. The Journey
9. The Derelict Bay
10. The Fireside
11. The Resolute

“The Garden”, the follow-up to “Skeleton Lake” (2021), was produced by Jussi Hämäläinen (vocals, guitars) and Jarno Hänninen. The album was mixed and mastered by the latter at D-studio (Beherit, Shape of Despair). Cover artwork and new band photos are by Finnish artist Kalle Pyyhtinen. “The Garden” marks the return of new-old drummer Antti Ruokola, last seen in HANGING GARDEN seven years ago.

HANGING GARDEN may appeal to fans of Swallow the Sun, Ghost Brigade, October Tide, Katatonia and Type 0 Negative.

Line-up:
Mikko Kolari – guitars
Jussi Hämäläinen – guitars, vocals
Toni Hatakka – vocals
Riikka Hatakka – vocals
Nino Hynninen – keyboards
Jussi Kirves – bass
Antti Ruokola – drums

SCARLET AURA Release First Romanian Single, True Heavy Metal Anthem ‘Rock în Sange și Voință’

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SCARLET AURA have been on the forefront of the heavy metal scene, consistently delivering high-energy performances, and pushing the boundaries of the genre with their unique sound., power and performance. Their upcoming single “Rock în Sange și Voință” is no exception. With its powerful lyrics, driving beats, and soaring vocals, the track promises to be a headbanging anthem that will resonate with metalheads around the world.

The song’s message is particularly timely in today’s world, as it calls for unity, trust, and support among musicians, artists, and the wider community of metalheads and tattoo lovers. It emphasizes the importance of having an iron will, taking responsibility for one’s actions, and working hard to achieve excellence in one’s chosen field, making success as part of your own print, of your own body under the form of a tattoo or just of will.

Scarlet Aura’s new single is not just a song, but a representation of the band’s journey and what they stand for. The band’s latest release promises to inspire and uplift fans with its message of perseverance, unity, and hope and will for sure impress both long-time fans and new listeners.

The single was written in 2021 and first released on MusinkForHumanity CD compilation by “Asociația Tattoo & Piercing România” (Next Level Tattoos by Costi Azoiței) last year and eventually became a title track for band’s first album fully written in Romanian. Costi Azoitei, known also as one of the best tattoo artists in Europe and beyond is also guilty for the artwork of the album.

Mihai Danciulescu shares: “Rock in Blood and Will” is not just a song, but represents entirely who we are today. It’s been almost 20 years of music and searches for each of us, members of the Scarlet Aura band. Music is not something we do, it’s something we are, and so today, through our self-education in music, we are shaped by rock and willpower. You can only reach excellence if you have an iron will, if you take responsibility for what you have chosen to do, and especially if you want to evolve, to become better, to be ambitious and have faith in the day to come, in the colleagues next to you on stage, or in the audience for whom you write, sing, and live music. It’s amazing how we found each other with Costi Azoitei that inspired us in making a song about metal and tattoos and how this became the start of our future album and also an amazingly beautiful collaboration with him that ended with him making especially for us this extraordinary album artwork. We are a community, we artists and musicians, and today, through this song, we are happy to bring added value to it by singing out loud about our world, about tattoo artists and tattoos. Unity, trust, and being there for each other is the message that our song wants to convey, a message that is so much needed today, everywhere in the world, but especially in our world of music and fine arts.”

Scarlet Aura’s new single is available on all major music platforms today, March 24th, 2023. The full album “Rock in Sange si Vointa”, featuring 11 songs, will be released on May 5th 2023 via Universal Music Romania and Silver City Records.

Listen to the single here: https://scarletaura.lnk.to/RockInSangeSiVointa

Scarlet Aura Discography:

“The Rock Chick” (as “AURA”), Universal Music Romania 2014
“Tomboy”, digital single, Universal Music Romania 2014
“Falling Sky”, Pure Rock Records 2016
“The Beast Within Me” (EP), Outlanders Productions 2017
“Memories”, Outlanders Productions 2017
“Scarlet Aura Live in concert”, CD/DVD Outlanders Productions 2018
“Jingle Bell Rock” (Single), Universal Music/Silver City Records 2020
“Falling Sky – 5th Anniversary”, Universal Music/Silver City Records 2021

The Book of Scarlet Trilogy:

  • “Hot’n’Heavy”, Silver City Records 2019
  • “Stormbreaker”, Silver City Records 2020
  • “Genesis of Time”, Universal Music/Silver City Records 2021

“The Book of Scarlet ” Books (by Aura Danciulescu):
“The Book of Scarlet. Vol. I – Ignition”. ISBN: 978-3964439796. 170 p; 2018, 2019
“The Book of Scarlet. Vol. II – Scarlets United”. ISBN: 978-6060670247. 130 p; 2021

“Under My Skin” – 2CD, Universal Music/Silver City Records 2022

SCARLET AURA are:

Lead Vocals: Aura Danciulescu
Lead guitar & Vocals: Mihai Danciulescu
Bass guitar & Vocals: Rene Nistor
Drums: Spas Markov

Japan’s MAJUSTICE Release Lyric Video for ‘Infinite Visions’, Feat. Michael Vescera

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MAJUSTICE‘s debut album Ancestral Recall is now out via Marquee/Avalon in Japan and digitally worldwide (outside Japan) via FC Metal. Four songs written by Timo Tolkki appear on the album: “Sonata Black”, “Dangerous”, “Infinite Visions”, and “You Rock My World”; originally slated to appear on an album by Timo’s now-defunct band INFINITE VISIONS, these songs were acquired by MAJUSTICE and given new life. “Infinite Visions” has a special guest performance from legendary vocalist Mike Vescera (ex-LOUDNESS/ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) who delivers incendiary lead vocals on this standout track.

The “Infinite Visions” lyric video can be viewed here:

MAJUSTICE is a Japan-based multinational power metal band formed in 2021 by guitarist Jien Takahashi (STORMHEART), who was heavily influenced by Timo Tolkki’s composition skills (during the “classic” STRATOVARIUS period), as well as the guitar wizardry of Marty Friedman and Yngwie Malmsteen.

MAJUSTICE features the powerful vocals of Iuri Sanson (ETERNITY’S END), the genius of keyboardist Vitalij Kuprij (RING OF FIRE), and the fretboard pyrotechnics of guitarist Kelly Simonz (KELLY SIMONZ’s BLIND FAITH). The lineup is rounded out by bassist Kaz Nakamura and drummer Yosuke Ibuki.

Ancestral Recall features the tracks “Ancestral Recall”, “Tears Of The Sky”, and ”Temple Of The Divided World”. Ancestral Recall is available on all major streaming platforms including Spotify.