Cork, Ireland’s GOD ALONE have today announced April UK tour dates in support of their recently released sophomore album, ETC, via Prosthetic Records. Tickets to the math / noise rock group’s upcoming tour will be on sale this Wednesday (December 14) at 10am GMT.
Speaking on the tour announcement, the band comments: “We can’t wait to begin what is going to be our longest tour yet. We’re so excited to see all the places that we’ve never played before and revisit some of our favourite cities. This is also going to be the first tour we’ve ever done that isn’t through public transport!
“We’re currently working some new unreleased material into our set which is a further evolution of the sounds on our last album but still very different, so come a long and see all of that!”
GOD ALONE UK tour dates: 04 April – Prince Albert – Brighton 05 April – Shacklewell Arms – London 07 April – Forum Basement – Tunbridge Wells 08 April – Crofters Rights – Bristol 10 April – Hug & Pint – Glasgow 11 April – Rough Trade – Nottingham 12 April – Record Junkee – Sheffield 13 April – Adelphi – Hull 14 April – Parish – Huddersfield 15 April – Strangeforms Fest – Brudenell Social Club – Leeds
The five musicians behind GOD ALONE are quite literally students of their craft; ETC – their second full length album – was recorded at MTU Cork School of Music which they all attend. ETC was produced by the band and Christopher Hockey, and mastered by Jaime Gomez Arellano (Witch Fever, GGGOLDDD, Ghost). The origins of the band lie in a heavier, post-metal sound, but the intervening years and an influx of new and stimulating influences has seen them broaden their palette, expand their horizons and hone a distinctive sound.
Whilst embracing all that the Irish music scene has to offer, GOD ALONE are constantly pushing to make their way out of Ireland and further afield. Cutting their teeth in an eclectic and enthusiastic local scene helped them to refine their live chops, giving their performance increased weight and attention as they progressed. Now when they write, the live iteration of their music is always at the forefront of their minds.
GOD ALONE‘s approach traverses through mathrock, dance, avant-garde, post-punk and more on its way to its final destination. Citing the Talking Heads as a big influence, GOD ALONE embrace absurdism at every turn – in particular the absurdity of nothingness; the art of existing without meaning or context.
Minimalist album art courtesy of Ian McInerney highlights the repetition of things that have no clear beginning or end – the endless loop of everything and nothing all at once.
Symphonic black metal formation …AND OCEANS is now premiering a brand new single, “Within Fire and Crystal,” along with a music video! The song is taken from the band’s upcoming full-length album, ‘As in Gardens, so in Tombs,’ which will be released on January 27, 2023 via Season of Mist. The video can be found at THIS LOCATION.
…AND OCEANS comments: “A journey through tongues of fire, towards the crystal walls. And to return with the Key from the Observer.”
The album can be pre-ordered HERE and pre-saved HERE.
The cover artwork was created by Adrien Bousson.
Tracklist: 1. As in Gardens, so in Tombs (4:17) 2. The Collector and His Construct (4:36) [WATCH] 3. Within Fire and Crystal (5:52) [WATCH] 4. Carried on Lead Wings (5:14) 5. Likt Törnen Genom Kött (5:10) [LISTEN] 6. Cloud Heads (4:19) [WATCH] 7. Wine into Water (3:57) 8. Inverse Magnification Matrix (4:50) 9. The Earth Canvas (4:11) 10. Ambivalent God (7:44) Bonus: 11. Samlarens Valv (3:49) 12. Third Eye Catalyst (4:28) Total: 58:27
TEN are proud to present to you with their new single – the track “Look For The Rose” -from their upcoming studio album “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, which will be released on January 20, 2023, via Frontiers Records.
UK hard rock stalwarts TEN used the downtime during the worldwide pandemic to work on not one, but two new albums. The first album to be released, “Here Be Monsters”, landed on February 18, 2022 via Frontiers Music Srl. And now, the label is pleased to announce the second album of the two, “Something Wicked This Way Comes” on January 20, 2023.
Following the success of the recent string of albums, from “Albion” to “Illuminati”, Hughes was joined once again by guitarists Dann Rosingana and Steve Grocott along with bass player Steve McKenna, keyboard maestro Darrel Treece-Birch and drummer Markus Kullman (Sinner, Glenn Hughes, Voodoo Circle) for the recording of “Something Wicked This Way Comes”. TEN continues to raise the musical bar higher for themselves, a goal they push on every release. Stunning guitar work, rich keyboards, excellent bass and drum interplay along with Hughes’ rich vocals are the order of the day here, as they were on this album’s immediate predecessor, “Here Be Monsters”.
“Something Wicked This Way Comes” was produced by Gary Hughes and mixed and mastered by Dennis Ward. TEN’s longstanding professional association with Dennis has been ongoing since he mixed their 2011 album, “Stormwarning” and has always guaranteed albums with stunning sound and production.
Fans should note that there are no ties between “Something Wicked This Way Comes” and “Here Be Monsters” or anything of this nature. The band simply crafted two high quality releases and decided to put them out separately, in a fashion not too dissimilar to what happened with their amazing first two records which were recorded one after the other in a very short period of time.
British hard rockers TEN have an outstanding history of releases in their storied and revered catalog. Starting out as a sort of solo project built around singer and songwriter Gary Hughes, TEN found their audience playing a hard rock sound influenced by such giants as UFO, Thin Lizzy, Magnum, Giant, and Whitesnake in a time when playing this particular sound was considered commericial suicide. The band’s early records such as “The Name Of The Rose”, “The Robe”, “Spellbound“, and “Babylon” established the band as mainstays in the melodic hard rock genre, which has continued throughout their now 26 year career over the course of 15 studio albums.
“Something This Wicked Way Comes” Tracklisting: 1. Look For The Rose 2. Brave New Lie 3. The Tidal Wave 4. Parabellum 5. Something Wicked This Way Comes 6. The Fire And The Rain 7. New Found Hope 8. The Only Way Out 9. When The Darkness Comes 10. The Greatest Show On Earth
Line-Up: Gary Hughes – Vocals, Guitar, Backing Vocals Dann Rosingana – Guitars Steve Grocott – Guitars Darrel Treece-Birch – Keyboards Steve McKenna – Bass Markus Kullman – Drums
Seven long years since their latest studio album, “Ascending Hate“, dark and extreme metal force GRAVEWORM strikes back with a brand new song!
“Dead Words is the first song we did after the release of our latest album“, vocalist Stefano Fiori comments. “Mid-tempo riffing with a new drummer and a new killer sound. This song will definitely be a fix part of our upcoming live set, prepare your neck!”
Watch the new GRAVEWORM lyric video for “Dead Words” here:
Formed in 1997, with nine studio records and countless tours with bands such as Kataklysm, Vader and Destruction to name just a few, GRAVEWORM belongs to one of the most influential acts the dark and extreme metal scene has to offer. “Dead Words” delivers the grinding intensity the Italian band is known and loved for, and already marks an exciting harbinger of a new album to come in the Spring of 2023 on AFM Records!
JUNE 1974 Project, led by Federico Romano, has released a video trailer for their “Please Destroy Me” album, out on 3rd January 2023 by Visionaire Records. Stream the trailer video below.
Tracklist and guests:
“The World Destroyer” feat. Rick Rozz (Death) “Incognito” feat. Steve Smyth (Forbidden/Testament/Nevermore) “Abstract” feat. Danny White (Mordred) “Omero” feat. Tommy Talamanca (Sadist) “Rhapsody” feat. Dave Young (The Devin Townsend Project) “Valhalla” feat. Lust Kilman (God Seed/Gaahls Wyrd) “Mind Assassin’s Eyes” feat. Francesco Montesanti (Antropofagus) “Epitaph” feat. Terrance Hobbs (Suffocation) “Theorema” feat. Bobby Koelble (Death) “Wanderlust” feat. Christian Vidal (Therion) “Stargazer” feat. Patrick Mameli (Pestilence) “The Claw Of The Iron Mask” feat. Richard Shaw (Cradle Of Filth)
KANSAS, America’s legendary progressive rock band, will celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2023. To commemorate this landmark occasion, current label InsideOutMusic are pleased to announce Another Fork In The Road – 50 Years Of Kansas for release on the 9th December 2022 in Europe & 16th December 2022 in North America. A career-spanning collection, it features carefully-selected tracks from across the bands sizable discography, as well as a new version of ‘Can I Tell You’. Originally recorded and released on their 1974 debut, the song is updated by the current line-up. It provides a full-circle perspective on the band’s long and continuing history that has seen them release 16 studio albums and sell in excess of 30 million albums worldwide.
Today you can also now listen to the brand new version of ‘Can I Tell You’ on streaming services. Listen now here:
“The song ‘Can I Tell You’ may not have been our biggest ‘hit,’ but it is one of the most important songs in the career of the band KANSAS.” says original member and guitarist Richard Williams. “‘Can I Tell You’ was the first song on the demo reel we sent to Don Kirshner. Hearing that demo is what led to KANSAS getting a record deal. It felt appropriate, after fifty years, to come full circle and record it with the current lineup.”
Phil Ehart comments: “We are really honored by the commitment that InsideOut Music has put into ‘Another Fork in the Road.’ This is far more than just another greatest hits album. ‘Another Fork in the Road’ is an in-depth representation of the evolving and winding musical journey of the band KANSAS that’s been 50 years in the making.”
Another Fork In The Road – 50 Years Of Kansas arrives as a 3CD Digipak collection, including extensive liner notes by journalist Jeff Wagner, as well as pictures of rarely-seen memorabilia and archive material, all overseen by founding member Phil Ehart. Pre-order now here: https://kansas.lnk.to/AnotherForkInTheRoad-50YearsOfKansas
The full track-listing is below. Please note, due to licensing restrictions there are minor differences between the European & North American release.
Disc 1:
Can I Tell You (new 2022 version)
The Absence of Presence (The Absence of Presence, 2020)
Throwing Mountains (The Absence of Presence, 2020)
Crowded Isolation (The Prelude Implicit, 2016)
Summer (The Prelude Implicit, 2016)
The Voyage of Eight Eighteen (The Prelude Implicit, 2016)
Icarus II (Somewhere to Elsewhere, 2000)
The Coming Dawn (Thanatopsis) (Somewhere to Elsewhere, 2000)
Distant Vision (Somewhere to Elsewhere, 2000)
The Wall (Always Never the Same, 1998)
Dust in the Wind (Always Never the Same, 1998)
Desperate Times (Freaks of Nature, 1995)
Under The Knife (Freaks of Nature, 1995)
North America Version – Disc 2:
Fight Fire With Fire (Drastic Measures, 1983)
End of the Age (Drastic Measures, 1983)
Incident on a Bridge (Drastic Measures, 1983)
Play the Game Tonight (Vinyl Confessions, 1982)
Crossfire (Vinyl Confessions, 1982)
Windows (Vinyl Confessions, 1982)
Hold On (Audio-Visions, 1980)
Loner (Audio-Visions, 1980)
Curtain of Iron (Audio-Visions, 1980)
No One Together (Audio-Visions, 1980)
On The Other Side (Monolith, 1979)
Angels Have Fallen (Monolith, 1979)
How My Soul Cries Out For You (Monolith, 1979)
EU Version Disc 2:
House on Fire (In the Spirit of Things, 1988)
Rainmaker (In the Spirit of Things, 1988)
Silhouettes in Disguise (Power, 1986)
Secret Service (Power, 1986)
Three Pretenders (Power, 1986)
End of the Age (Drastic Measures, 1983)
Incident on a Bridge (Drastic Measures, 1983)
Play the Game Tonight (Vinyl Confessions, 1982)
Crossfire (Vinyl Confessions, 1982)
Windows (Vinyl Confessions, 1982)
Hold On (Audio-Visions, 1980)
Loner (Audio-Visions, 1980)
No One Together (Audio-Visions, 1980)
On The Other Side (Monolith, 1979)
How My Soul Cries Out For You (Monolith, 1979)
Disc 3:
Carry On Wayward Son (Two for the Show, 1978)
Portrait (He Knew) (Point of Know Return, 1977)
Sparks of the Tempest (Point of Know Return, 1977)
Miracles Out of Nowhere (Leftoverture, 1976)
Magnum Opus (Leftoverture, 1976)
Icarus – Borne On Wings of Steel (Masque, 1975)
Child of Innocence (Mas que, 1975)
Down The Road (Song for America, 1975)
Song For America (Song for America, 1975)
The Devil Game (Song for America, 1975)
Death of Mother Nature Suite (Kansas, 1974)
Belexes (Kansas, 1974)
Journey From Mariabronn (Kansas, 1974)
Kansas will celebrate their 50th anniversary with extensive touring in North America in 2023. The band is currently comprised of original drummer Phil Ehart, bassist/vocalist Billy Greer, vocalist/keyboardist Ronnie Platt, violinist/guitarist David Ragsdale, keyboardist/vocalist Tom Brislin, and original guitarist Richard Williams.
With a legendary career spanning five decades, KANSAS has firmly established itself as one of America’s iconic classic rock bands. This “garage band” from Topeka released their debut album in 1974 after being discovered by Wally Gold, who worked for Don Kirshner, and have gone on to sell more than 30 million albums worldwide.
Composing a catalogue that includes sixteen studio albums and five live albums, KANSAS has produced eight gold albums, three sextuple-Platinum albums (Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, Best of KANSAS), one platinum live album (Two for the Show), one quadruple-Platinum single ‘Carry On Wayward Son,’ and another triple-Platinum single ‘Dust in the Wind.’ KANSAS appeared on the Billboard charts for over 200 weeks throughout the ‘70’s and ‘80’s and played to sold-out arenas and stadiums throughout North America, Europe and Japan. ‘Carry On Wayward Son’ continues to be one of the top five most played songs on classic rock radio, and ‘Dust In the Wind’ has been played on the radio more than three million times!
The summer of 2020 marked the release of The Absence of Presence, KANSAS’s sixteenth studio album, which debuted at #10 on Billboard’s Top Current Albums chart. The wide-ranging progressive rock album, released by InsideOut Music, follows-up 2016’s The Prelude Implicit, which debuted at #14 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart.
THE ROCK ALCHEMIST – Italian Rock Band from Turin with a strong sonic identity that blends modern rock with progressive, hard, alternative, and pop elements!
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 ) 