LORD OF THE LOST Release New Video for ‘Absolute Attitude’

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In 2023, German genre-fusing visionaries LORD OF THE LOST are jumping from one highlight to the next! The year began with the band’s first-ever #1 debut on the Official German Album Charts with their new album, Blood & Glitter, followed by a nomination for Germany’s Eurovision Song Contest preliminaries. LORD OF THE LOST can be voted to enter the ESC with “Blood & Glitter”HERE! The voting is geo-targeted from Germany and is limited to one vote per device (Mobile Phone, Tablet, Laptop, etc). They played a completely sold-out club tour throughout Germany, and will continue on to support Iron Maiden again on their upcoming European tour. LORD OF THE LOST will also appear at several major festivals throughout Europe through the rest of the year and recently announced further shows.

With no time to rest, the band has just released a fourth video from their successful new album for the song “Absolute Attitude”. This time the band explores new genres and delivers a short film showing them in the Finnish underworld between drugs and glitter.

LORD OF THE LOST on “Absolute Attitude”:
“As big advocates of the importance of self-irony and as fans of mockumentary or improv formats like The Office, it was time to produce a musical short film in this genre ourselves. Especially for a band like us, with a visually special album like “Blood & Glitter”, in an Instagram filter world, we feel it is important to consciously show courage for ugliness and to put humor above cramped realness. And Gas Lipstick in the role of a drug dealer should be nominated for an Oscar!”

LORD OF THE LOST have been nominated to compete to present Germany in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with the title track of their recent surprise album release, “Blood & Glitter”, which hit #1 on Official German Album Charts.

Chris Harms on the nomination:
“We are a band that has never consciously adapted to anyone or anything. No trend, no scene, no expectation. We have always done what we like ourselves – at all times. That we are now being considered for the biggest music show in the world with our weird genre mix, as authentic and unbowed as we are, is a great honor and we are extremely looking forward to being able to make the ESC pre-selection a little more colorful in many ways. A song like “Blood & Glitter” is very hard for the German TV and radio landscape – it will polarize. And since we love contrasts, it makes it all the more exciting for us. Friends, it’s going to get loud on German television on March 3!”

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When conjuring the concept of Blood & Glitter, the band was inspired by the eponymous work of legendary music photographer Mick Rock, known for taking a large majority of the most famous photos of musicians in the 70s glam rock era. LORD OF THE LOST visually immerse themselves in the lifestyle of that era and combine it with the new wave and pop sound of the 80s, building on their own familiar dark metal foundation. The result: a glamorous party with critical and direct messages.

Get Your Copy of Blood & Glitter HERE

Blood & Glitter Tracklist:

  1. Blood & Glitter
  2. Leave Your Hate In The Comments
  3. Absolute Attitude
  4. The Future Of A Past Life (feat. Marcus Bischoff)
  5. No Respect For Disrespect
  6. Reset The Preset (feat. Andy LaPlegua)
  7. Destruction Manual
  8. Dead End
  9. Leaving The Planet Earth
  10. Forever Lost
  11. Save Our Souls (feat. Ally Storch)
  12. One Last Song
  13. The Look (Roxette Cover) (feat. Blümchen)

Contrasts run like a thread throughout the album, once again proving different in comparison to their previous work. In addition to Chameleon Studios in Hamburg, Blood & Glitter was produced and recorded at the Sonic Pump Studios in Helsinki. The album goes all the way from start to finish – thus completely bypassing ballads. The hard-hitting dancefloor track “Leave Your Hate In The Comments” makes a strong statement by addressing the increasing hate culture in social media. Furthermore, the eighth studio album features a variety of very special guests such as Heaven Shall Burn singer Marcus Bischoff on “The Future Of A Past Life”, Andy LaPlegua of Combichrist on “Reset The Preset” and Subway To Sally‘s Ally Storch on violin for “Save Our Souls”. Wrapping up the record with “One Last Song”, Chris Harms states on the track: “I was wondering what song I would want to sing last before I die and realized that song didn’t exist yet. So here it is. Probably the most important song I’ve ever written.” A bonus track, a remarkable cover of Roxette’s “The Look”, features none other than German 90s popstar Blümchen as a duet partner. The band once again goes its own way and releases, without much advance, an album that defies all clichés, prejudices, genre norms and conventions, and makes strong statements in terms of content! So to say: Blood & Glitter is 100% LORD OF THE LOST.

LORD OF THE LOST live 2023:
After a full year of touring, including a support tour for Iron Maiden, a headline tour, an acoustic tour, several festival appearances and the band’s own Lordfest, LORD OF THE LOST were once again invited by the legendary Iron Maiden to be direct support on their European tour in 2023, beyond major festival and club appearances.

03.03.23 DE – Eurovision Song Contest Preliminaries – Live on German National TV

BLOOD & GLITTER SHOWS 2023:
25.04.23 AR – Buenos Aires
27.04.23 CL – Santiago
01.06.23 SE – Stockholm
09.06.23 DE – Zwickau
17.06.23 DE – Saarbrücken
31.07.23 DE – Aschaffenburg
02.08.23 DE – Karlsruhe
23.09.23 UK – London
24.09.23 UK – Bristol
26.09.23 UK – Southampton
27.09.23 UK – Nottingham
28.09.23 UK – Wolverhampton
29.09.23 UK – Manchester
11.10.23 FR – Lille
12.10.23 FR – Savigny-le-Temple
13.10.23 FR – La Roche-sur-Yon

The Future Past Tour 2023 with IRON MAIDEN:
03.06.23 FI – Tampere
24.06.23 IE – Dublin
26.06.23 UK – Glasgow
28.06.23 UK – Leeds
30.06.23 UK – Manchester
03.07.23 UK – Nottingham
04.07.23 UK – Birmingham
07.07.23 UK – London
26.07.23 DE – Dortmund
01.08.23 DE – Munich

Festivals 2023:
29.-30.04.23 BR – Sao Paulo / Summer Breeze Brazil
07.-10.06.23 PL – Gdansk / Mystic Festival
07.-10.06.23 AT – Nickelsdorf / Nova Rock
15.-18.06.23 FR – Clisson / Hellfest
05.-08.07.23 DE – Ballenstedt / Rockharz
13.-16.07.23 CZ – Zlin / Masters Of Rock
20.-22.07.23 FI – Laukaa / John Smith Rock Festival
29.-30.07.23 DE – Cologne / Amphi Festival
02.-05.08.23 DE – Wacken / Wacken Open Air
29.-30.09.23 UK – Sheffield / HRH Goth 2
14.10.23 DE – Cologne / Unter Schwarzer Flagge
17.-18.11.23 DE – Leipzig / Gothic Meets Classic

LORDFEST 2023:
09.12.23 DE – Hamburg (not on pre-sale yet)
Tickets available here: http://tour.lordofthelost.de

LORD OF THE LOST are:
Chris Harms – Vocals, Guitar
Pi Stoffers – Guitar
Class Grenayde – Bass
Gared Dirge – Piano, Synths, Percussion, Guitar
Niklas Kahl – Drums

Canadian PURVEYOR OF CHAOS Sign with Wormholedeath, Release New Album on March 24th

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Toronto-based all-original Heavy Metal/Hard Rockers PURVEYOR OF CHAOS are proud to announce the release of their self-titled album “Purveyor of Chaos” on March 24, 2023, via WormholeDeath Records.

Formed in 2007, Purveyor of Chaos features former members of Full Give and Penetrator, delivering raw heavy metal power fronted by Maxel Black, with driving rhythm from Fast Eddie Coulson and Tenbears, and electrifying guitar riffs from Bulldog Bess Ross. The band’s music is a combination of classic heavy metal and hard rock, inspired by current events and personal experiences, with each tune having its own distinct signature.

Band Statement:

The signing went fantastic. We were in correspondence with some great people at WormHoleDeath who walked us through the process. (Carlo, Jacopo and Naty). We were really happy with the fact that we are able to retain control and the rights to our tunes. We really like this label.
We are really happy with our new album. Before we went into the studio we were already super tight with all of the tunes, so the recording went very smoothly and quickly with a minimal amount of takes. That saves money! Of course, we had a couple of parts in the tunes that we had to rewrite on the fly, but it all worked out well. Our recording engineer is a good friend of ours and he came up with some incredible ideas which we incorporated into the tunes which made them sound even better. He has a great ear and really did a bang-up job on the production and recording quality of our album.
We believe our tunes are a combination of classic heavy metal and hard rock. I think that’s the best way to describe them. Not to mention, Maxel’s killer voice gives the album a very melodic yet heavy sound. The songs are inspired by everyday things like current events and various experiences that we’ve personally lived through.
Each of the tunes on our album seems to have a distinct signature musically, yet they have enough coherence so that the album doesn’t feel like a compilation of various artists and diverse styles. We really couldn’t be happier with the final mix and production of this project.
We recorded the album at Phase One Studios in the east end of Toronto. Our sound engineer is a talented dude and friend by the name of Darius Szczepaniak who did a great job in producing us. Kudos brother!

Tracklist

  1. Four Point Harness
  2. Bitter
  3. Man Of The Cloth
  4. Without A Master
  5. Purveyor Of Chaos
  6. 12 Pound Sledge
  7. Burning Desire
  8. Fake News
  9. Lies In My Bed
  10. Dead Men Don’t Tour
  11. Juggernaut

Band Members:
Bulldog Bess Ross (Lead Guitar)
Tenbears (Bass, Keyboards, Vocals)
Maxel Black (Lead Vocals, Guitar)
Fast Eddie (Drums)

SCARLET AURA Unleash New Video + Single ‘Fire All Weapons’, Feat. Ralf Scheepers

Posted by tarjavirmakari on February 24, 2023
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Today, February 24th SCARLET AURA present their new video and digital single “Fire All Weapons” featuring one of the most recognizable voices of power metal – Ralf Scheepers from Primal Fear.

The filming took place at the very special place full of history near Bucharest, Romania and continued for 16 hours, right before rehearsals for the Rock United event made by Scarlet Aura, in which Ralf and Doro Pesch were invited guests to play together with the Romanian power metallers.

Scarlet Aura comments: “ ”Fire All Weapons” is by far one of our greatest songs Mihai Danciulescu wrote for Scarlet Aura and having Ralf with us gives to it an even more importance and charm. It’s a powerful song we made with the intention to show how serious we are on the heavy metal stage and how we’ll continue fighting for our right to be here, to sing, and to make people happy with our music.

Ralf is such an impressive artist, he is also a good friend that we’ve got to cherish, love and respect him very much, one of the few that got our backs and that forever can rely on ours. Hopefully you’ll enjoy the song and the video as much as we do, a video that we’ve made with our talented friends Laurentiu Tomoroga, Roberto Stan and Paul Decu.”

The video and single are available here via Universal Music and Silver City Records: https://ScarletAura.lnk.to/FireAllWeapons

LANKESTER MERRIN Release ‘We Ride The Storm’ Single + Lyric Video

Posted by tarjavirmakari on February 24, 2023
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“Dark Mother Rises”, the new album by the female fronted melodic/power metallers LANKESTER MERRIN from Lower Saxony, will be released on 24 March. A first taster of the album, “We Ride The Storm”, is now available! The song, which is also the album’s opener, will be released as a single on all digital platforms, as well as a lyric video on Youtube.

The single and the album are recommended to all fans of melodic metal who, despite the attribute “female fronted”, do not expect symphonic metal, but simply powerful, modern metal of the highest order. The final tracklist of the album, which is already available in many shops as a pre-order, can be found below!

  1. We Ride The Storm
  2. Bone Thomahawk
  3. My Journey
  4. Medusa
  5. The Heathen
  6. Perfect Illusion
  7. Stranger
  8. Sweet Lizzie
  9. Evil lives here

We Ride The Storm Single
▶ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4o8WvSHD9QcK8gZw3V2XAt
▶ Apple: https://music.apple.com/album/we-ride-the-storm-single/1670782284fa
▶ Amazon: https://www.amazon.de/music/player/albums/B0BV9CXM8M
▶ Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/de/album/405633567

Album (pre)Orders
▶ MDD: http://mdd-records.de/lankester
▶ AMAZON: https://amzn.to/3jOGvO3
▶ Nuclear Blast: https://www.nuclearblast.de/lankester-merrin-dark-mother-rises-cd-1062834
▶ SATURN: https://www.saturn.de/de/product/_lankester-merrin-dark-mother-rises-cd-2849479.html

More information at
▶ https://www.instagram.com/lankestermerrin_official/
▶ https://www.facebook.com/LankesterMerrinBand/

Sweden’s dEMOTIONAL Premiere New Music Video for ‘Bärsärk’

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Following their worldwide signing with Hamburg-based powerhouse label AFM Records, Swedish modern melodic metal outfit dEMOTIONAL has unleashed a brand new music video for “Bärsärk”, taken of the band’s latest masterpiece Scandinavian Aftermath!

The quintet from Gothenburg, that already became an anchor in the Swedish metal scene, has caused a stir with the release of their much-acclaimed debut album, STATE: IN DENIAL, in 2013. And they have not been slowing down since. Their second album TARASSIS got them a spot as main support on DEAD BY APRIL’s European tour and also their own headline shows around the world.

With four albums under their belt, they are currently gearing up to release new music via AFM Records soon – but a first move will be to empower and present their self-released 2021-offering, Scandinavian Aftermath, with the tools of a label to a global audience. With over 15 million streams on Spotify alone and a constant listener base of 100k, various live shows, tours and radio airplays, dEMOTIONAL have aready proved to be one of the most exciting, up-and-coming bands of their genre, now they are ready more than ever to conquer the world!

About the re-release of “Bärsärk”, vocalist Nils-Petter Nilsson comments: “We are very excited to get this song the spread that it deserves! We feel that it is raw and honest at its core and to be frank, the best damn work-out song we´ve made in a longe time. (laughs)

We are extremely happy to be working with AFM Records and have prepared lots of surprises in store that we can´t wait to share with all our lovely listeners, new and old.”

OMEGA INFINITY Stream New Album “The Anticurrent” in Full

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Void metal outfit OMEGA INFINITY, the project of Xenoyr (NE OBLIVISCARIS) and Tentakel P. (TODTGELICHTER), is now inviting fans to enter the void and submerge themselves into the fathomless depths of its new album, ‘The Anticurrent! The record is released today, February 24, and can be streamed in its entirety at THIS LOCATION.

OMEGA INFINITY comments: “The time is here – ‘The Anticurrent’ is upon you all! Listen to it in its full glory, from the beginning to the end. Enjoy in darkness, with a good wine (or whatever your poison is) and embrace The Void that was channeled through us. This chapter is closed for us and now to be presented to you, dear disciple of The Void. But Omega Infinity will be back!”

ICYMI: The band previously revealed a mind-boggling 360° VR music video for the first single, “Iron Age,” which can be found HERE.

Order the album HERE.

The cover art was created by Adrien Bousson.

Track List:
1. The Alpha (07:40)
2. Creation (05:11)
3. Iron Age (07:11) feat. Adrienne Cowan [WATCH HERE]
4. Banish Us From Eden (04:42)
5. To The Stars (05:16) [LISTEN HERE]
6. Death Rays (06:18) feat. Lindsay Schoolcraft [LISTEN HERE]
7. Voices From The End Of Time (12:19) feat. András Nagy
Bonus
8. Night Journey (Sear Bliss cover) (Bonus) feat. András Nagy
9. Ye Entrancemperium (Emperor cover) (Bonus) feat. MJ Braun

Line-up:
Xenoyr
Tentakel P.

Recording line-up:
Xenoyr (NE OBLIVISCARIS, ANTIQVA, SPIINE): Vocals
Tentakel P (TODTGELICHTER, ENMERKAR a.m.m.) :  Everything else

Guest musicians:

Adrienne Cowan (SEVEN SPIRES) – Clean vocals and screams on „Iron Age“
Lindsay Schoolcraft (ANTIQVA, ex-CRADLE OF FILTH a.m.m.)– speech and screams on „Death Rays“
András Nagy (SEAR BLISS) – screams on „Voices From The End Of Time“ and „Night Journey“
Marta J. Braun (TODTGELICHTER, VYRE) – clean vocals and screams on „Ye Entranceemperium“

Recording studio: Deep Void Studio

Producer / Mixing engineer: Tentakel P. (Deep Void Studio)
Vocal Engineering For Xen By Xenoyr And Tentakel P. (Deep Void Studio)
Vocal Recordings By Adrienne Cowan herself
Adrienne Cowan Appears Courtesy Of Frontiers Music
Vocal Recordings For Lindsay Schoolcraft By Tyler Williams (Monolithic Prod.)
Vocal Recordings For András Nagy By Viktor Scheer (Intercellar Studio)
Vocal Recordings For Marta J. Braun By Tentakel P. (Deep Void Studio)
All Other Recordings, Engineering And Mix By Tentakel P. (Deep Void Studio)

Mastering studio and engineer: Markus Stock At Klangschmiede Studio E. Mellrichstadt