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LORD OF THE LOST Release New Lyric Video for ‘noituLOVEr’

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Roughly three weeks after their great experience at the Eurovision Song Contest, LORD OF THE LOST have since returned to their “normal” life. Following their first festivals and concerts after the event, they are gearing up to play the first of their ten concerts with Iron Maiden in 2023 this Saturday in Finland. In addition, there will be multiple headline and festival shows, as well as concerts with Powerwolf and Amon Amarth, and their very own LORDFEST festival in Hamburg.

Today, the Germans have released the official lyric video for “noituLOVEr”. The song, influenced by the new wave and synth pop sound of the 80s, was released shortly before the ESC as part of the Earbook and Digital Deluxe Edition of the band’s #1-charting album, Blood & Glitter. Shortly after the release, Blood & Glitter entered the Official German Album Charts again at #2.

Chris Harms says:
“Lyric videos are not really our thing at all. But for a song like “noituLoVEr”, or “LOVE Revolution” as it is pronounced, where the lyrics are undeniably the most important thing, a lyric video was the only thing that made sense. “LOVE Revolution” is a song for all those who, even nowadays, still feel like they don’t quite fit in, in the prefabricated open puzzle pieces that our society leaves for us. Such as me. It’s equally a song for all those who are responsible for this problem. As long as any diversity in love is not as natural and accepted as breathing, it is important to stand up for the uniqueness of it – and to release songs like these.”

On the band’s eighth album, LORD OF THE LOST enter a new era of exciting 70s glam rock visuals, and add a blend of 80s new wave and pop influences as well as gothic and electronic elements to their own, relevant modern metal style, impressing both fans and critics.

Get Your Copy of Blood & Glitter NOW

Blood & Glitter 2CD Earbook & Digital Deluxe Tracklist:
CD 1 – Blood & Glitter

Blood & Glitter
Leave Your Hate In The Comments
Absolute Attitude
The Future Of A Past Life (feat. Marcus Bischoff)
No Respect For Disrespect
Reset The Preset (feat. Andy LaPlegua)
Destruction Manual
Dead End
Leaving The Planet Earth
Forever Lost
Save Our Souls (feat. Ally Storch)
One Last Song
The Look (Roxette Cover)

Bonus CD – More Blood & More Glitter

The Curtain Falls
Blood & Glitter (Extended Version feat. Jennifer Batten/Guitarist Michael Jackson)
We Are Immortal (feat. Tribune)
The Sound Of Violence (feat. Aesthetic Perfection)
I Of The Storm (feat. Adrienne Cowan)
See Me Fall (feat. FLYKS)
noituLOVEr
Not My Enemy
Destruction Manual (Family Friendly Version)
Schwarz Tot Gold (feat. SWISS & Die Andern)
One Last Song (Piano Demo – Live at Chameleon Studios)
Blood & Glitter (Piano Version – Live at Sonic Pump Studios)
Not My Enemy (Piano Version – Live at Sonic Pump Studios)
Leaving The Planet Earth (Piano Version – Live at Sonic Pump Studios)
Blood & Glitter (Extended Action Movie Version)

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 special guest on their European tour in 2023, beyond major festival and club appearances both as headliners and as support to bands such as Powerwolf and Amon Amarth.

BLOOD & GLITTER Shows:
09.06.23 DE – Zwickau SOLD OUT
11.06.23 DE – Munich SOLD OUT
17.06.23 DE – Saarbrücken
21.06.23 UK – Leeds SOLD OUT
22.06.23 UK – Chester
01.07.23 UK – Edinburgh
13.07.23 DE – Berlin SOLD OUT
28.07.23 DE – Wolfsburg
31.07.23 DE – Aschaffenburg SOLD OUT
02.08.23 DE – Karlsruhe SOLD OUT
23.09.23 UK – London
24.09.23 UK – Bristol SOLD OUT
26.09.23 UK – Southampton
27.09.23 UK – Nottingham
28.09.23 UK – Wolverhampton
29.09.23 UK – Manchester
30.09.23 UK – Glasgow
06.10.23 AM – Yerevan
07.10.23 GA – Tbilisi
11.10.23 FR – Lille
12.10.23 FR – Savigny-le-Temple
13.10.23 FR – La Roche-sur-Yon
01.11.23 NL – Tilburg
04.11.23 BE – Ittre

Special Guest for 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

Special Guest for AMON AMARTH:
11.07.23 DE – Rostock

Special Guest for POWERWOLF:
31.10.23 DE – Düsseldorf
02.11.23 DE – Ravensburg
03.11.23 DE – Bamberg

Festivals:
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
12.-13.08.23 DE – Oldenburg / TabulaRaaza Festival
14.10.23 DE – Cologne / Unter Schwarzer Flagge
17.+18.11.23 DE – Leipzig / Gothic Meets Classic

LORDFEST 2023:
09.12.23 DE – Hamburg

15 Years Of LORD OF THE LOST Tour 2024:
22.03.24 DE – Nuremberg
23.03.24 DE – Munich
24.03.24 IT – Trezzo sull’Adda
26.03.24 CH – Pratteln
27.03.24 FR – Grenoble
29.03.24 ES – Barcelona
30.03.24 ES – Madrid
02.04.24 FR – Paris
03.04.24 LU – Luxembourg
04.04.24 DE – Frankfurt
05.04.24 DE – Cologne
06.04.24 NL – Amsterdam
18.04.24 HU – Budapest
19.04.24 AT – Vienna
20.04.24 DE – Stuttgart
24.04.24 DE – Berlin
25.04.24 PL – Warsaw
26.04.24 PL – Krakow
27.04.24 DE – Leipzig

More dates tba

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

LORD OF THE LOST online:
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INSTAGRAM
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NECROFIER Premiere New Album “Burning Shadows in the Southern Night”, Out Today

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NECROFIER are streaming ‘Burning Shadows in the Southern Night’ in full over on Black Metal Promotion. Bask in the dark and fiery glory of all ten tracks HERE.

‘Burning Shadows in the Southern Night’ makes strides where second albums often stumble. It doubles down on the heavy metal guitar workouts that made this scorching black metal band’s first album unique. But while these Texans still honor the malignant virtues of black metal, this time around, they switched things up by taking an old-school approach to the studio. Their new album was produced by GRAMMY nominee Joel Hamilton, whose nimble hand makes these songs sound lean and thunderous.

“Joel is one of the world’s best engineers” says Christian “Bakka” Larson, the band’s vocalist and guitarist. “He wanted to record something heavy, so we made the trip to New York City to record at legendary Studio G.”

“With a full vintage Neve front end and a host of Telefunken and Neumann microphones, we tracked the record the old way”, adds drummer Dobber Beverly.

With its sweltering melodic leads, lead single “Burnt by the Sacred Flame” already showed what separates NECROFIER from their contemporaries. But the album packs plenty more heat. It opens with ominous piano and mournful, operatic vocals before plummeting into the raging void of “Total Southern Darkness”. “Whispers That Burn in the Dark” is whipped along by blast beats that pound the air like a horde of bats, while the merciless climb of “Destroying Angels” is spearheaded by Bakka’s demonic roar.

“Texas has a style all of its own,” Bakka says. “We are always trying to outdo the rest of the world”.

‘Burning Shadows in the Southern Night” is out today, June 2, 2023. The album can be ordered through the Season of Mist website HERE.

Burning Shadows in the Southern Night -tracklisting:
01. The Fall from Heaven (03:24)
02. Total Southern Darkness (05:43)
03. To the Wolves (03:54) [WATCH]
04. Forbidden Light of the Black Moon (05:20) [WATCH]
05. Destroying Angels (05:09)
06. Whispers That Burn in the Dark (04:40)
07. The All Seeing shadows (04:44)
08. On Wings of Death We Burn the Sky (03:50)
09. Call to the Beyond (04:29)
10. Burnt by the Sacred Flame (06:00) [WATCH]
Total Running Time- 00:47:12

Lineup:
Bakka – Vocals, Guitar
Semir Ozerkan – Guitars
Dobber Beverly – Drums
Mat Valentine – Bass

Guest Musicians:
Cammie Beverly (Oceans of Slumber) – Vocals on “The All Seeing Shadows” and “The Fall From Heaven”

NECROFIER are celebrating the release of ‘Burning Shadows in the Southern Night’ while out on tour with MIDNIGHT and EARLY MOODS. They’re hitting several cities in the western part of the United States, with stops in Vancouver and Idaho.

Tour Dates, remaining shows
June 4 Vancouver, BC @ The Red Room [TICKETS]
June 5 Portland, OR @ Dante’s [TICKETS]
June 6 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon [TICKETS]
June 7 Boise, ID @ The Shredder [TICKETS]
June 9 Reno, NV @ The Cypress [TICKETS]
June 10 Sacramento, CA @ Cafe Colonial [SOLD OUT]
June 11 Oakland, CA @ Eli’s Mile High Club [TICKETS]
June 13 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst [TICKETS]
June 14 Bakersfield, CA @ Temblor Brew [TICKETS]
June 15 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar [TICKETS]
June 16 Tuscon, AZ @ The Rock [TICKETS]

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ENDSEEKER Announce German Tour for October, Enter Studio to Record New Album

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ENDSEEKER will return to the Autobahn in October for a full week of live dates in a double headliner run with Décembre Noir. Please see below for full routing.

ENDSEEKER + Décembre Noir
Presented by Metal Hammer and Metal.de
18.10.23 DE – Frankfurt – Nachtleben
19.10.23 DE – Nürnberg – Der Cult
20.10.23 DE – Weiher – Live Music Hall
21.10.23 DE – Würzburg – Bahnhof
26.10.23 DE – Leipzig – Hellraiser
27.10.23 DE – Bochum – Turock Fest @ Ruhr Congress
28.10.23 DE – Hamburg – Bahnhof Pauli

Comments ENDSEEKER: “We’re starting to record our next album today and are stoked to announce that we will be on tour with our friends from Décembre Noir who will release a new record as well later this year. We can’t wait to bring some brand new songs on stage for all you guys!“

Further ENDSEEKER live dates:
02.08.23 SI – Velenje – Metaldays Festival
03.08.23 AT – Salzburg – Rockhouse
04.08.23 DE – Dortmund – Deathfest @ Junkyard
11.08.23 DE – Schlotheim – Party.San Open Air
18.08.23 DE – Dinkelsbühl – Summer Breeze Open Air
15.09.23 DE – Hannover – Subkultur

In April 2021, ENDSEEKER released their latest full-length, Mount Carcass, via Metal Blade Records – which debuted at #22 on the German charts! Purchase and stream Mount Carcass at: metalblade.com/endseeker

ENDSEEKER line-up:
Lenny – vocals
Jury – guitars
Ben – guitars
Eggert – bass
Kummer – drums

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ALL FOR METAL Present Epic Album Ballad ‘Legends Never Die’

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This summer, on July 7, 2023, heavy metal sensation ALL FOR METAL will unleash their hotly-anticipated, first full-length album, entitled Legends, via AFM Records. Following previously-released songs such as “Born In Valhalla”, “Raise Your Hammer”, “Fury of the Gods, the thunderous “Mountain Of Power” or the aptly-titled track “All For Metal”, today, the up-and coming metal force presents their epic metal ballad of the record, the album closing track “Legends Never Die”!

Says ALL FOR METAL singer, Antonio, about the haunting anthem: “The first ballad of a metal band is always the most difficult to write and to perform. We gave all of us for this song, it’s gonna be just pure emotion!” His band mate, vocalist Tetzel agrees: “Legends Never Die – pure emotion and raw power…Watch the video and dive with us into our world!”

Watch the new ALL FOR METAL video clip, goosebumps guaranteed, HERE:

With eleven irresistible, compact and catchy songs, the band’s colossal debut unleashes anthemic, straightforward metal that has international class. Under the banner of ALL FOR METAL, metal enthusiasts Tim “Tetzel” Schmidt (also known as the singer of Asenblut as well as a strength athlete and fitness influencer) and Antonio Calanna (singer of the hard rock band DeVicious) joined forces for the perfect metal match. Both are united by their love for classic heavy metal sounds and the common vision to bring them to a new generation of music fans.

“We grew up with bands like Manowar, at whose concerts the audience is overwhelmed by the energy,” Tetzel recently revealed. “That’s where strangers are in each other’s arms and fervently belting out the songs. This invisible bond, this connection, is created through the music alone.” His vocal counterpart Antonio adds, “I’ve only experienced such a sense of community in the metal scene. With ALL FOR METAL, we want to help pass this on and let as many music fans as possible share in it.”

Perfect in time for a heavy summer festival season, with much-awaited, high-voltage live appearances at such as Metalfest Plzen, Rockharz, Wacken Open Air or an upcoming Fall tour with WINDROSE, ALL FOR METAL’s debut Legends will be released on July 7, 2023 through AFM Records. The album was recorded and produced at the Elephant Studios, you can now pre-order your copy of this must-have metal record at THIS LOCATION!

Legends track listing:

All for Metal
Goddess of War
Born in Valhalla
Raise Your Hammer
Hear the Drum
Run
Prophecy of Hope
Mountain of Power
Fury of the Gods
The Day of Hammerfall
Legends Never Die

ALL FOR METAL Live:

02.06.2023 (CZ) Pilsen Metalfest Pilsen
07.07.2023 (DE) Rockharz Festival
02.08.2023 (DE) Wacken Wacken Open Air
15.12.2023 (DE) Rock Out Festival
16.12.2023 (DE) Knock Out Festival

On Tour with WINDROSE:
20.9.2023 (DE) Munich – Backstage
21.9.2023 (AT) Vienna – Szene
22.9.2023 (CZ) Zlin – Masters of Rock Cafe
23.9.2023( HU) Budapest – Analog Music Hall
24.9.2023 (PL) Krakow – Kwadrat
26.9.2023 (DE) Frankfurt – Batschkapp
27.9.2023 (DE) Berlin – Orwo Haus
28.9.2023 (DE) Hamburg – Markthalle
29.9.2023 (DE) Geiselwind – MusicHall
30.9.2023 (DE) Leipzig – Hellraiser
01.10.2023 (DE) Bochum – Zeche
02.10.2023 (DE) Stuttgart – Im Wizemann
03.10.2023 (CH) Zurich – Dynamo
04.10.2023 (FR) Paris – Glazart
05.10.2023 (GB) London – 229
06.10.2023 (BE) Antwerp – Kavka
07.10.2023 (NL) Amstelveen – P60

ALL FOR METAL is:
Tetzel – Vocals
Antonio Calanna – Vocals
Ursula Zanichelli – Guitar
Jasmin Pabst – Guitar
Florian Toma – Bass Guitar
Leif Jensen – Drums

For More Info Visit:

http://www.instagram.com/allformetal
http://www.facebook.com/allformetalofficial
http://www.afm-records.de

FOLLOWING THE SIGNS Release New Single ‘This Day Is Mine’, New Album “Conflictions” Out June 30th

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In keeping with the rich explosive underground Metal scene in Ireland, Cork natives, FOLLOWING THE SIGNS present their first slice of music with single/video for ‘This Day is Mine’, taken from the bands debut album, ‘Conflictions’, due for release on June 30th.

Describing themselves as ‘Groove Metal’ fused with a cacophony of blistering Metalcore breakdowns, and riffs that draw from the likes of Korn, Motionless in White, Black Sabbath, to Lamb of God, Slipknot and Deftones.

Speaking of the new single, the bands says, “The album starts with this track because we thought that would be a great idea to start with a song that sounds really like us. This day is mine has groovy and punchy riffs, while the vocals are really catchy. This is all what we tried to make that album from. If you liked This day is mine, you should give a try to the whole album then.”

Featuring twelve tracks, ‘Conflictions’ will be released independently on June 30th and will feature three more video/singles in the coming months. “We wanted to really show our diversity from anything we had done before and bring a new era of the band to life and worked hard to do that” says the band.

‘Conflictions’ is full of a modern groove and metalcore combined with all of us finding our inspiration from our influences individually and bringing it all together to create our own sound.

From start to finish we aimed to catch people’s attention right off the bat, whether it was the first notes played on the guitars, or the velocity of the vocals accompanying. We definitely aimed for a darker theme lyrically, talking across a range of emotions and thoughts people could really get behind while the instruments set the vibe for everything to fall into place.

Pre-save for ‘Conflictions’ can be found here.

Dan Hayes (Vocals)
Noel Crowley (Guitars)
Vincent Renoux (Guitars)
Rory Taylor (bass)

https://www.facebook.com/FollowingTheSignsCork
https://www.instagram.com/followingthesignscork/

Viral Sensation ROCKIN’1000 Release First Original Track ‘How We Roll’

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Rockin’1000 – The Biggest Rock Band on Earth assembled 1,000 musicians to play Learn To Fly together in a field in Cesena to convince Foo Fighters in 2015 to come to play a show in Italy. The video went viral – hitting 62m views. Foo Fighters’ attention was firmly grabbed, and the band said yes. Hearts we captured worldwide as the story spread across the globe. International stadium tours have followed for people to witness the phenomenon of 1000 musicians together making the most glorious sound.

Now, the band have teamed up with Mascot Label Group and is set to release their first original song, HOW WE ROLL, featuring vocals by Chris Robertson of US hard-rock heavyweights and arena-shakers Black Stone Cherry and 100 musicians performing on the song.

Tomorrow, June 3, in Madrid, the song will be played for the first time by 1,000 musicians during the opening date of the HUMANS WORLD TOUR 2023. It will, after that, be performed in Bogota with more shows on the way.

Pre-order / stream here: https://lnk.to/R1000

Watch the music video for ‘How We Roll’ here:

Via their ‘Mission S000ngwriting’ challenge – where the streets of Milan, Rome, New York, Paris and Mexico City were distributed with flyers with the words “Wanted Songwriters” and a phone number – Rockin’1000 invited its community of more than 65,000 musicians from all over the world to create the biggest work of musical co-creation ever attempted: the first song composed by 1,000 authors to be performed by 1,000 musicians.

After a lengthy study, the team of experts led by Fabio Zaffagnini, formed by the Australian Nic Cester – singer-songwriter, guitarist, and frontman of Jet; the Italians Giulio Nenna – producer, musician, and composer and Andrea DB Debernardi, sound engineer, and producer, and the Brazilian Daniel Plentz of Selton, musician, music director, and producer – last October convened about 100 musicians (including vocals, guitars, basses, and drums) at the Teatro Verdi in Cesena, Italy set up for the occasion as a recording studio. An extraordinary two days of rehearsals followed.

On being involved Chris Robertson says, “I’ve been a big fan of Rockin’1000 since the first video went viral, so to sing their first original song is a huge honour for me. I can’t wait for you all to check it out.”

Shows have shaken foundations at the likes of Allianz Parque Arena, São Paulo – Brazil, Stade de France, Paris, Venice, Turin, Frankfurt, and Milan and were joined in Florence, Italy by special guest Courtney Love. Dave Grohl has spoken about how he felt about the band’s invitation in a video HERE.

“After creating the first draft, which included a topline with guitar accompaniment, we asked the community to arrange it and write the lyrics. We collected over 1,000 proposals, in which there was everything: punk, folk,
metal, and prog versions,” declares Fabio Zaffagnini, founder of Rockin’1000. ”Gathering materials from so many people and putting them together was long, demanding, and very interesting. Listening to hundreds of versions allowed us to understand what worked and what didn’t. The feature of Black Stone Cherry is, for us, a confirmation of the quality of the song. We are delighted. Such a result was not taken for granted when we started with this yet another crazy idea!”

Chris Robertson is the singer-guitarist of Kentucky rockers Black Stone Cherry. The band have released seven studio albums to date, toured the globe several times over, and had multiple #1 radio hits worldwide since their debut album was released in 2006. They’ve rocked 12,000-cap arena shows and shared the stage with a diverse roster of superstars, including Alter Bridge, Theory of a Deadman, Def Leppard, Gov’t Mule, Nickelback, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bad Company, Mötorhead, Halestorm, Stone Temple Pilots, The Darkness, and ZZ Top. In 2018, they performed in front of 100,000 people at the Download Festival, UK, as main support to Guns N’ Roses and in 2021, the band fulfilled a lifetime’s ambition when they played at the UK’s venerated Royal Albert Hall, London. They have over half a million followers and more than a million monthly listeners on Spotify alone, it’s a force to be reckoned with.

After 7 years of covers that have marked the History of Rock, Rockin’1000 is proud to include a revolutionary song that conceals a world without geographical boundaries, cultural barriers, or differences in age, genre, or musical background.

ROCKIN’1000 is the Biggest Rock Band on Earth, and it has one big goal: to allow every person who can sing or play music to live every musician’s dream together – to travel all over the world to perform in big stadiums! It all started in 2015 when, for the first time, 1,000 musicians played together in a field in Cesena to convince Foo Fighters to come to Italy. The video went viral, the band said yes, and the rest is history. Today, with more than 65,000 musicians coming from all over the world, the band Rockin’1000 is traveling globally, performing in stadiums in France, Germany, Brazil, and Italy. 1,000 people perform and play in unison, creating incredible and indelible experiences for musicians and audiences. Info: www.rockin1000.com