FIGHT THE FIGHT are the soundtrack to punch your inner demons.
But furthermore, Fight The Fight are one of the most-interesting alternative metal groups out there always pushing to evolve their soundscape and challenge their listeners.
June 16th the band finally returned with the brand-new single Monarch, their first new music since their critically acclaimed sophomore album Deliverance from 2020.
Monarch marks the return of Fight the Fight to their metal thrones – with an epic new and powerful blend of intoxicating metal, and a new line-up, their music hit harder than ever before.
Fight the Fight comment: After a few years of searching to find our path, we have found a direction that seems right for us. When our former vocalist, Lars Vegas, quit the band, the remaining of us sat down and discussed our future. We decided to come back stronger than ever and dig even deeper into our musical inspirations.”
And this track truly is something different. Through enticing melody lines – and brand new, compelling, and authoritative vocals, Monarch has Fight the Fight venturing into a metalcore soundscape, colored by deathcore vocals, and empowered by prog metal elements.
It’s catchy, new, and magnificent – not what you expected, but what you never knew you missed.
Fight the Fight are Tord Statle Larsen – Guitar, backing vocals Fredrik Teig Bergstrøm – Guitar, main vocals Hans-Magnus Endestad Hermansen – Bass, backing vocals Baard Kolstad – Drums
Solingen-based pagan/black/death metallers HELGRINDUR have just finished work on a new album and signed with MDD Records for its release! The album is planned for autumn this year.
Founded back in 2010, the metal smithy has gathered a growing fan base through their live presence (a.o. Aaargh Festival, Mahlstrom Open Air and this year’s Ragnarök Festival), who are eagerly awaiting a follow-up to their 2017 debut “Von Einst”.
The new album, which was recorded and produced in the 4CN studio, will (once again) revolve around fairy tales, myths, legends and their own stories and will contain 10 songs, which stylistically dressed in a Pagan-heavy death and black metal guise. More info soon, stay tuned!
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#1Active Rock radio-charting British rock outfit ASKING ALEXANDRIA have established themselves as one of the most important rock bands of this generation through years of hard touring, four RIAA Gold-certified singles, two #1 albums and several Top 10 hits. The band—Ben Bruce (lead guitar), Danny Worsnop (vocals), Cameron Liddell (rhythm guitar), Sam Bettley (bass) and James Cassells (drums)—will release their anticipated eighth full-length studio album WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? this fall via Better Noise Music. The album’s debut track “Dark Void” was released in May and saw the band return to their metalcore beginnings has already amassed 5 million streams and 1 million video views to date. ASKING ALEXANDRIA have today (June 16) shared the album’s electrified first official radio single “Psycho” along with releasing the vindictive, heavy-hitting track “Bad Blood across digital platforms. Stream both tracks HERE. Watch the “Psycho” music video below or directly via YouTubeHERE.
“‘Psycho’ is one of those songs that is talking about when you feel trapped inside your own head, trapped by your own vices and your own downfalls,” explains BRUCE. “Whether it’s being stuck in a relationship that doesn’t work for you, or feeling like you can’t stop drinking or doing drugs, or maybe you’re stuck in a job that you hate, and you’re just battling yourself in your own head wondering ‘why am I still here? Why do I keep doing these things?’. Ultimately, at the end of the day we all feel a little bit crazy…a little bit like a Psycho. It’s just a fun song that we can all relate to, and stylistically we thought to ourselves ‘how do we make a song that sounds like it could live on the ‘Like A House On Fire’ album, but also like it could live on the ‘From Death to Destiny’ album?’. So musically, from a writing standpoint, it was a really enjoyable experience to meld those two eras of Asking Alexandria together and see what that might look like.”
Earlier this week ASKING ALEXANDRIA announced a co-headlining tour with THE HU, theacclaimed Mongolian rock sensation and Better Noise Music labelmates. The “Psycho Thunder” tour will kick off this fall and also includes labelmates Bad Wolves and opening act Zero 9:36. Tickets are on sale now at https://www.askingalexandria.com. The UK-based rockers will make their way overseas in July for three festival appearances—Rock Fest (WI), Inkcarceration Festival (OH) and Louder Than Life (KY)—before the co-headlining tour commences August 30 in San Antonio, TX. Throughout the trek, which ends October 8 in Los Angeles, ASKING ALEXANDRIA will appear on additional festival dates including Rocklahoma (OK), Blue Ridge Rock Festival (VA), and Louder Than Life (KY). See full dates listed below.
ASKING ALEXANDRIA Tour Dates, remaining shows:
6/19 Bochum, DE – Zeche Bochum 6/20 Leipzig, DE – Taubchenthal 6/22 Oslo, NO – Tons of Rock 6/24 Nummijarvi, FI – Nummirock * 6/26 Tallinn, ES – Helitehas 6/27 Riga, LT – Palladium Riga 6/28 Vilnius, LI – Loftas 6/30 Warsaw, PL – Progresja 7/2 Budapest, HU – Budapest Park 7/4 Bucuresti, RO – Quantic Club 7/8 Malakasa, GR – Rockwave Festival * 7/14 Cadott, WI – Rock Fest * 7/15 Mansfield, OH – Inkcarceration Festival * 7/21 Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life * 8/30 San Antonio, TX – Boeing Center at Tech Port # 9/1 Dallas, TX – The Factory In Deep Ellum # 9/2 Pryor, OK – Rocklahoma * 9/3 Houston, TX – 713 Music Hall # 9/5 Atlanta, GA – The Eastern # 9/7 Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live # 9/8 Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall # 9/9 Alton, VA – Blue Ridge Rock Festival * 9/11 New York, NY – Terminal 5 # 9/12 Boston, MA – House of Blues # 9/13 Bethlehem, PA – The Wind Creek Event Center # 9/15 Harrisburg, PA – Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center # 9/16 Johnstown, PA – 1st Summit Arena at Cambria County War Memorial # 9/17 Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom # 9/19 Cleveland, OH – TempleLive # 9/20 Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit # 9/22 Ft Wayne, IN – Piere’s Entertainment Center # 9/23 Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life * 9/25 Chesterfield, MO – The Factory # 9/26 Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre # 9/27 Ashwaubenon, WI – EPIC Event Center # 9/29 Milwaukee, WI – The Rave/ Eagles Club # 10/1 Council Bluffs, IA – Harrah’s Council Bluffs – Stir Cove Event & Concert Venue 10/3 Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium # 10/4 Salt Lake City, UT – The Union # 10/7 Las Vegas, NV – The Industrial Sound # 10/8 Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern #
#“Psycho Thunder Tour” with The HU, Bad Wolves and Zero 9:36 *Festival Date
Alternative metal band based in Gothenburg DREAM DROP, has truly come out on top, since the live scene made a comeback after the pandemic restrictions. They opened three shows for Blood Command in Copenhagen, Helsinki and Stockholm and just got back from a long period of touring together with Smash Into Pieces and STARSET. With a constant presence on social media, and a close contact with their own community, the band shows a clear creative thinking that is required to get the attention of the outside world.
The alternative metal and emo band have also been busy in the studio finalizing their 3rd studio album ‘ACNE SUPERSTAR’, set to be released in November this year. The album is a tribute to the teenage years and today the band releases the second chapter called ‘Bomb Your Place of Work’. Dream Drop’s new single mixes alternative metal and emo with beautiful and emotional lyrics, something that has become the band’s hallmark.
”The song is not something we encourage others to do, it’s more of an outlet for all the anger you might not express openly or act upon. We don’t want people to bomb their workplaces, we just want to put the feeling of hating your jon into words.” – Dream Drop
Rockshots Records announces the signing of Brazilian fantasy power metallers DRAGONHEART for the release of their fifth studio album “The Dragon Heart’s Tale” due out this coming August 2023.
Dragonheart members are long-time friends that play songs with medieval and fantasy atmospheres. Some members are fans of RPGs, movies, and video games. As well as medieval music, renascence music, sailors songs, Celtic songs, 80s heavy metal, and German power metal. Their new album “The Dragonheart’s Tale” is 52 minutes of power metal music of their own fantasy stories divided into 3 acts. The first talks about sea and pirates, the second about blood battles, and the third about magic and fire.
The album features 10 tracks covering many styles of power metal, with acoustic tavern music and an orchestrated track, voiceovers, and, sound effects stitching together the narrative of the fantasy world created by the band. The work is rich in instrumentals and vocal arrangements worthy of a band with 26 years on the road. It also features guest vocals from Henning Basse (Metalium, Fire Wind) on “Ghost of The Storm” and was mixed and mastered by Fredrik Nordström (Dream Evil, Hammerfall) along with the album cover artwork by Andreas Marschall (Kreator, King Diamond, Blind Guardian).
The album also marks the return of the band’s original vocalist, Eduardo Marques, the band explains:
“On our last album (Battle Sanctuary) we went towards a darker path, and now with “The Dragonheart´s Tale” we wanted to return to our original roots. This is an epic power metal record with medieval influences capable to put our fans to enjoy the fantasy stories. They are songs that old bards used to play telling legends in taverns of the olden days.”
Vocalist Eduardo Marques also adds:
“This new album is my Ph.D. in heavy metal. It was 19 years of waiting to return to Dragonheart and put all these musical stories together. It’s the highlight of our 26-year career and we hope we’ve made another power metal classic. We cover all varieties and influences in style. I believe that Dragonheart’s Tale has the capacity to make the fan dream again and live our sagas once more.”
Today, the band unveils their first story and the opening song “Dragonheart’s Tale”, which announces the coming of the general and which is a metaphor for the return of the initial lineup of the band. As an introduction to the tales to come and the name of the album.
“This song was composed as soon as Eduardo Marques returned to the band 19 years later. It’s like an anthem and its lyrics are a metaphor. Only when the group is united does the band have strength with their fans. Dragonheart is a hero of album stories and it’s like he’s been reborn and become strong again to tell of his deeds. That’s why it’s the title track of the album. It would be like bards gathered around a campfire reminiscing about the past and planning future battles. This song has perfect bridges and choruses for fans to sing along. In the instrumental parts, there is a lot of influence from classical music. It is the most melodic song on the album.” adds the band.
Recommended for fans of Iron Maiden, Blind Guardian, and Helloween, “The Dragonheart’s Tale” is due out on August 25, 2023, and is available for pre-order at https://bit.ly/DragonheartCD
Track Listing: 1 – The Hangman Willy´s Tavern – 1:04 2 – DRAGONHEART’S TALE – 5:35 3 – Act 1: Sea, Waves and Gunpowder – 0:10 4 – UNDER THE BLACK FLAG – 5:11 5 – GHOST OF THE STORM – 6:42 ft. Henning Basse 6 – BARBARIAN ARMADA – 4:24 7 – Act 2: Battle, Honor and Blood 0:09 8 – ERIC, THE RED – 5:22 9 – WESTGATE BATTLEFIELD – 4:58 10 – Act 3: Magic, Anvil and Fire – 0:12 11 – THE DEVIL IS BY MY SIDE – 5:57 12 – PLAGUE MAKER – 4:51 13 – Finale: The Bard 0:27 14 – THE BALLAD OF JOHN CURSED – 3:38 15 – EARLY DAYS – 3:53 Album Length: 52:39
Album Credits (music, cover/art, production): – Composition: Eduardo Marques/Marco Caporasso/Thiago Mussi – Produced by DRAGONHEART and Maiko Thomé – Mixed and Mastered by Frederick Nordstrom – Cover art concept by Marco Caporasso and Eduardo Marques – Cover art made by Andreas Marshall
– Drums, Bass, Guitars, Flutes, Percussion, FX and Voices recorded by Maiko Thomé in Sonata Prima Studio, Curitiba, Brazil. – Eduardo Marques: Voices, Backing Vocals, Electric Guitar, Guitar, Voice Over. – Marco Caporasso: Voices, Backing Vocals, Electric Guitar, Voice Over. – Thiago Mussi: ExtraDrum, Backing Vocals. – Maiko Thomé: Backing Vocals, Voice Overs, Flutes, Percussion. – Vanessa Rafaelly: Backing and Main Vocals in Plague Maker and Eric, the Red – Henning Basse: Lead Vocals in Ghost of the Storm. – Bass: Filipe Mata – Orchestra: Reinaldo Sniker Jr.
About: The band Dragonheart started its activities on July 10, 1997, in Curitiba, in the south of Brazil. The original line-up had the brothers Marco Caporasso (guitar and vocals), Marcelo Caporasso (drums), Eduardo Marques (guitar and vocals), and Mauricio Taborda (bass and vocals). Soon the band was signed by a label and released their first album, Underdark. The album had excellent acceptance by the public and press.
With a good reception, they released their second album, “Throne of the Alliance”, the first part of a trilogy, and started to appear in 2002 as one of the main Brazilian power metal bands. The album has been mixed and mastered in Finnvox Studio in Finland and the cover art was by Andreas Marschall. And it was elected as one of the best live bands, album, and song of the year by the public and specialized vehicles in Brazil alongside Sepultura and Angra. In April, Eduardo Marques (guitar and vocals) left the band for personal reasons. At the beginning of September 2002, the entry of André Mendes (guitar and vocals) was announced.
In February 2005, the album Vengeance in Black was released, the second chapter of the trilogy, produced by the band and mixed and mastered by renowned producer Tommy Hansen (Helloween, Pretty Maids). The art was again in charge of the German artist Andreas Marschall. The album also left its mark on all the major media of the style and features the participation of German vocalist Olaf Senkbeil. And it yielded a tour in Brazil with the German band Grave Digger and 2 shows with the band Hammerfall and played with Nightwish, U.D.O, Epica, and many other great names of Worldwide Metal.
In 2010, drummer Marcelo Caporasso leaves the band. Then Thiago Mussi is cast on drums.
In 2015, the band ends the trilogy with its fifth album called: The Sanctuary Battle, produced by guitarist André Mendes, mixed and mastered at the Avant-Garde studio by the great Maiko Thome de Araujo. The cover was designed by Dusan Markovic. Pitch Black Records made a worldwide release with great repercussions in Brazil and abroad.
In 2019, the band invited one of the founders of Dragonheart, vocalist, and guitarist Eduardo Marques, to return to the lineup. After almost 20 years, he accepted the invitation and the challenge of composing an album that resumed the identity of the first two works.
Marco Caporasso (Vocals and Guitars), Eduardo Marques (Vocals and Guitars / Lead Guitars) e Thiago Mussi (Drums).
Finally, in 2022, the result of this journey comes true and the album “The Dragonheart’s Tale” is recorded and planned to be released on Rockshots Records in August 2023.
(photo: Leon De Backer – Artwork by Sofia Hjortberg)
Following a first sneak peak and teaser, Weite, the new prog-psych/krautrock band featuring Nicholas DiSalvo (Elder, Delving), Michael Risberg (Elder), Ingwer Boysen (High Fighter) and Ben Lubin (Lawns), is finally unleashing a single from the album today! With its almost 10 minute-long sonic trip, “Neuland” marks the band’s opening track on their much-awaited full-length debut titled “Assemblage”. The album will be available on all digital platforms on June 30, 2023, with a vinyl and CD release to follow on July 14th through Stickman Records. You can now pre-order your copy at THIS LOCATION!
“Neuland was the last song we wrote on this short and intense session, finalized on the day before we started recording,” the band reveals. “It captures the atmosphere and the energy of a week of experimentation that started with us having no idea what lies ahead. Neuland sounds like a dream from which you wake up and are unsure whether you are awake or still dreaming.”
Weite was initially conceived as a one-off winter project by Boysen, who contacted DiSalvo and Risberg with the idea to write and record a record within a week. Having played together in DiSalvo’s live band for his project Delving, a certain musical chemistry was already apparent. The three recruited Berlin-based English guitarist Lubin to round out the quartet and proceeded to bunker in for a week of intense songwriting.
Sharing their diverse musical interests and swapping instruments frequently, a body of songs was quickly created that channeled a collective love for 60’s and 70’s psychedelic music, krautrock, jazz and listening to one motorik beat for 20 minutes straight. The troupe set off to record in a short session at Big Snuff Studio with frequent collaborator Richard Behrens and within a few days “Assemblage” was born. Recording live, Behrens captured the essence of the session, at times mellow and times intense, with the five together then embellishing the raw recordings with a hearty dollop of experimental overdubs.
After many banal discussions and almost a year after the project was finished, Weite was officially born as the group decided to continue the project as a proper band. “We didn’t intend to start a band, but it kinda happened“, the band said. “It turned out pretty cool, too cool to let it be a one-off, so we decided to keep it going. WEITE was officially born; the word means “expanse” “vastness” or “width”, a few adjectives we’d use to describe our sound.“
“Assemblage” track listing:
Neuland
Entzündet
Rope
Murmuration
In support of their upcoming debut, Weite will be playing a handful of exclusive album release shows, make sure to catch them live at the following dates:
13.07.23 – DE – Berlin | Kantine am Berghain (w/ ZAHN and Perilymph) 14.07.23 – DE – Erfurt – Stoned from the Underground – Festival 15.07.23 – DE – Hamburg | Hafenklang (w/ Dunya) 16.07.23 – PL – Pleszew – Red Smoke Festival
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