Following their latest, critically acclaimed masterpiece, the Emblas Saga (2020), Swedish power metal collective BROTHERS OF METAL has shared a brand new song alongside a music video!
While the Emblas Saga invited the dedicated listener on an epic trip into the realms of Northern Mytholgy and Viking adventures, today, the Falun-based metal warriors fronted by the voice of the Valkyries, Ylva Eriksson, suprised with a blistering new track entitled “Berserkir”. Says the band:
“Berserkir is here! The most badass song we ever made, it gives you the perfect feeling to go into the upcoming Yule-tide! We hope you like it, cheers! Brothers of Metal.”
BROTHERS OF METAL were formed in 2012, with just two records under their belt, they took the heavy music scene by storm. Countless and frenetically acclaimed shows and more than 100 million(!) streams to date, one must have lived under a rock if haven’t heard of the extraordinary 8-piece yet. Stay tuned for more news to follow soon!
BROTHERS OF METAL are: Ylva Eriksson – Voice of the Valkyries Joakim Lindbäck Eriksson – Battle Cries Mats Nilsson – Tongue of the Gods Dawid Grahn – Guitar Pähr Nilsson – Guitar Mikael Fehrm – Guitar Emil Wärmedal – Bass Johan Johansson – Anvil and War Drums
JUDAS PRIEST have been presented with a special plaque commemorating an incredible 50 years in music and over 50 million album sales worldwide. The presentation was made on the eve of the band’s induction in to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Los Angeles last month.
Pictured with the band, left to right are: Jo Kalli (Sony Music UK), Scott Carter (Sony Music US), Jayne Andrews (Manager), Michael Closter and Scott Rubin (Reach Music Publishing).
JUDAS PRIEST Over the past 50 Years Judas Priest’s music has come to define the metal genre with benchmark albums that have sold in their millions globally and sold out tours that have seen them headline the world’s biggest stadiums. With their evolving music and live performances also came a powerful unique identity – a look which has both defined the group and influenced future generations of metal bands.
Today BEYOND THE BLACK release their fourth and last single ‘Dancing In The Dark’, before the album drops on January 13th. With ‘Dancing In The Dark’, the band delivers the perfect anthem to leave the past behind and welcome new things in your life.
Jennifer Haben comments: “Dancing In The Dark is about taking the choice to not give in when it‘s getting tough, and to fight for yourself! The song shows yet another musical dimension of the upcoming album and comes with memories of an amazing European tour, where it became a fan favourite!“
German Symphonic Metal ascending stars BEYOND THE BLACK can already look back across a stratospherically successful career, despite their youthful years. Upon release, their 2015 debut album hit like a bomb in their home country. Songs Of Love And Deathbesieged the German Top 15 for weeks, which led to the band being awarded the Metal Hammer Award for “Best Debut” in 2015. Its successor Lost In Forever (2016) entered the German charts at #4 and paved the way for a huge tour throughout Germany, and across countries like the UK, Russia and Japan. Since the band’s live debut in 2014 they have played some of the world’s biggest Metal festival like Wacken Open Air (several times) and have toured as support to heavy weights such as AEROSMITH, KORN, SCORPIONS, SAXON and WITHIN TEMPTATION. During the campaign for their third record Heart Of the Hurricane(2018), BEYOND THE BLACK landed their first ever European headline tour, which took them across 10 countries, with most dates selling out.
Before they’d even finished the Heart Of the Hurricane touring cycle, BEYOND THE BLACKhad already gone back to the studio to write and record album number four. The result was Horizons,released in June 2020, which entered the German album charts at #3 (CH #6, AT #16, BE #53) marking the band’s most successful album release to date.
Now, two years later, BEYOND THE BLACK are back to launch a new chapter. Following the release of recently highly acclaimed tracks ‘Reincarnation‘, ‘Is There Anybody Out There‘ and ‘Winter Is Coming’, the band release their new, fifth studio album – the self-titled Beyond the Black on January 13th 2023!
Beyond The Black Tracklisting:
Is There Anybody Out There
Reincarnation
Free Me
Winter Is Coming
Into The Light
Wide Awake
Dancing In The Dark
Raise Your Head
Not In Our Name
I Remember Dying
Bonus Tracks:
I Remember Dying (Stranger Reprise)
Wide Awake (Piano Version)
Raise Your Head (String Version)
Also check out the latest releases from BEYOND THE BLACK:
Following their recent, worldwide signing with label powerhouse AFM Records and a previously-released, first music video for aptly-titled track “All For Metal” ( with more than a half million views on Youtube yet ), up-and-coming metal warriors ALL FOR METAL, featuring Asenblut vocalist Tetzel, have just released a brand new video clip for the true vikings’ hymn, “Born In Valhalla”!
“We are really hyped about our second single which ist going to be even more epic than the first.” Tetzel promises. “If you love heavy metal you can’t go around “Born in Valhalla”!
We have more in the pipeline so stay tuned. All For Metal is just starting!” Vocalist Antonio adds: “We were born in Valhalla, now it’s time to show the world that we came here for a reason!”
Get the song now on all digital platforms at THIS LOCATION!
About the new band and its sound, Tetzel continues: “All For Metal is stylistically completely different from what I usually do – and that’s what makes it so appealing to me. The songs are enormously catchy and it’s huge fun to play them. Antonio and I are on the same wavelength. With pride and great joy I say, “Let’s conquer the world with Metal, all For Metal and Metal for all.”
TARJA has chosen this moment in her life to release her first-ever “Best Of: Living The Dream”.
Looking back on 15 extremely successful years of the Finnish singer’s solo career, the Best Of contains not only Tarja’s most well-known tracks, many of them newly remastered at “Sterling Sound”, and personal favorites from all six studio albums – ‘My Winter Storm’, ‘What Lies Beneath’, ‘Colours in the Dark’, ‘The Brightest Void’, ‘The Shadow Self’ and ‘In the Raw’ – but also the never-before-heard song “Eye Of The Storm”.
“After all these years, I still really can’t believe it’s time for me to release a proper Best Of album,” Tarja says. “So many beautiful moments, unbelievable. It has been a dream to put together this collection. And I really hope that you will enjoy this as much as I did while making it.”
The compilation hand-picked by Tarja herself, is released today, December 2nd, 2022 on earMUSIC in a wide variety of formats. Each featuring exclusive rarities and/or the previously unreleased 2 hour “Circus Life” concert, eagerly awaited by fans, as well as upgraded versions of Tarja’s music videos. Rounded out by high-quality artwork, deluxe liner notes and many formats to choose from, this collection is a delight for casual fans as well as superfans.
MOTÖRHEAD, the iconic Godfathers of heavy metal, released their 23rd (and final) studio album Bad Magic in 2015. Instantly hailed as one of the best the beloved trio had recorded in many years, Bad Magic: SERIOUSLY BAD MAGIC enjoys a bonus-packed refresh, adding two previously unreleased tracks from those furious sessions:
“Bullet in Your Brain” and “Greedy Bastards” as well as a snarling, fangs-out live performance from that subsequent tour at the giant Mt Fuji Festival in Japan in 2015. Fans will also get “War, Love, Death and Injustice”, an audio interview with Lemmy conducted by Motörhead expert Robert Kiewik during the tour, and should the desire to have a chat with Lem or anyone beyond this mortal coil arise, the box-set will exclusively contain a MURDER ONE ouija board (complete with the Ace of Spades planchette to spell out the conversation).
A new video for “Bullet In Your Brain”, featuring exclusive, never before seen footage of Motörhead in the studio for the Bad Magic sessions, is available right now. A foot-down, fist-pumping, Lemmy-bass-driven stomper with a deliciously dirty Campbell riff, and Dee-driven dynamics, both the song and footage are a tremendous treat for fans who have craved new Motörmaterial.
At the time of its release back in 2015, Bad Magic arrived as a massive kick in the teeth for anyone who believed Motörhead were going to amble along into a peaceful little pasture containing fluffy little lambs, folk music and perhaps the odd medieval lute here and there. Big-rig head crushers such as “Thunder & Lightning” and “Teach Them How To Bleed” brought such people to their knees begging for forgiveness, as the album unfurled into their toughest, leanest, meanest and most uncompromising album in aeons. Much of this came down to long-time producer Cameron Webb getting the band to record live at NRG North Hollywood, Maple Studios and Grandmaster in California together for the first time in the Kilmister/Campbell/Dee era, and from the crackling punk energy of “Electricity” to Brian May of Queen’s scintillating guest-appearance on “The Devil”, a vast wealth of aggression, attitude, and excellent songwriting was cultivated in that furious working environment. Phil Campbell didn’t just record possibly his finest guitars, he threw down most certainly his best solos for decades, while Mikkey Dee’s drumming found new tribal resonance with the Motörhead sound he had helped nurture. There was also one of Lemmy‘s rawest lyrical life reflections on “Till The End”, and a cover of The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy For The Devil” which made the song feel like one of their own. One of the hidden gold-dust additions to Bad Magic: SERIOUSLY BAD MAGIC, is Motörhead’s famous, and internationally acclaimed, version of David Bowie’s classic “Heroes”. Originally slated for inclusion on the last release only to be withdrawn at the last minute, it was a cover version which Lemmy had a great affection for, and as such its inclusion here is both fitting and just.
MOTÖRHEAD BAD MAGIC: SERIOUSLY BAD MAGIC TO BE RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 24TH 2023
November 30th, 2022
BAD MAGIC: SERIOUSLY BAD MAGIC TO BE RELEASED BY
SILVER LINING MUSIC ON FEBRUARY 24th 2023
NEW UNRELEASED TRACK “BULLET IN YOUR BRAIN” AND EXCLUSIVE VIDEO OUT NOW
PRE-ORDERS FOR BUMPER RE-ISSUE CONTAINING EXCLUSIVE NEW TRACKS BEGIN ON NOVEMBER 30th 2022
Motörhead, the iconic Godfathers of heavy metal, released their 23rd (and final) studio album Bad Magic in 2015. Instantly hailed as one of the best the beloved trio had recorded in many years, Bad Magic: SERIOUSLY BAD MAGIC enjoys a bonus-packed refresh, adding two previously unreleased tracks from those furious sessions:
“Bullet in Your Brain” and “Greedy Bastards” as well as a snarling, fangs-out live performance from that subsequent tour at the giant Mt Fuji Festival in Japan in 2015. Fans will also get “War, Love, Death and Injustice”, an audio interview with Lemmy conducted by Motörhead expert Robert Kiewik during the tour, and should the desire to have a chat with Lem or anyone beyond this mortal coil arise, the box-set will exclusively contain a MURDER ONE ouija board (complete with the Ace of Spades planchette to spell out the conversation).
A new video for “Bullet In Your Brain”, featuring exclusive, never before seen footage of Motörhead in the studio for the Bad Magic sessions, is available right now. A foot-down, fist-pumping, Lemmy-bass-driven stomper with a deliciously dirty Campbell riff, and Dee-driven dynamics, both the song and footage are a tremendous treat for fans who have craved new Motörmaterial.
At the time of its release back in 2015, Bad Magic arrived as a massive kick in the teeth for anyone who believed Motörhead were going to amble along into a peaceful little pasture containing fluffy little lambs, folk music and perhaps the odd medieval lute here and there. Big-rig head crushers such as “Thunder & Lightning” and “Teach Them How To Bleed” brought such people to their knees begging for forgiveness, as the album unfurled into their toughest, leanest, meanest and most uncompromising album in aeons. Much of this came down to long-time producer Cameron Webb getting the band to record live at NRG North Hollywood, Maple Studios and Grandmaster in California together for the first time in the Kilmister/Campbell/Dee era, and from the crackling punk energy of “Electricity” to Brian May of Queen’s scintillating guest-appearance on “The Devil”, a vast wealth of aggression, attitude, and excellent songwriting was cultivated in that furious working environment. Phil Campbell didn’t just record possibly his finest guitars, he threw down most certainly his best solos for decades, while Mikkey Dee’s drumming found new tribal resonance with the Motörhead sound he had helped nurture. There was also one of Lemmy‘s rawest lyrical life reflections on “Till The End”, and a cover of The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy For The Devil” which made the song feel like one of their own. One of the hidden gold-dust additions to Bad Magic: SERIOUSLY BAD MAGIC, is Motörhead’s famous, and internationally acclaimed, version of David Bowie’s classic “Heroes”. Originally slated for inclusion on the last release only to be withdrawn at the last minute, it was a cover version which Lemmy had a great affection for, and as such its inclusion here is both fitting and just.
As the title says, this is Motörhead delivering some SERIOUSLY BAD MAGIC.
Bad Magic: SERIOUSLY BAD MAGIC will be released on Double 12” Vinyl, CD Digipak with Bonus Disc, Limited Edition Boxset, Digital Download and Streaming. The Limited Edition Boxset will contain the CD Digipak with Bonus Disc, Double 12” Vinyl, exclusive Lemmy War, Love, Death and Injustice audio interview on 12” vinyl and exclusive edition Motörhead – MURDER ONE Ouija Board and Planchette. Pre-order all formats at this location
Bad Magic: SERIOUSLY BAD MAGIC Track List:
Victory Or Die
Thunder & Lightning
Fire Storm Hotel
Shoot Out All of Your Lights
The Devil
Electricity
Evil Eye
Teach Them How To Bleed
Till The End
Tell Me Who To Kill
Choking On Your Screams
When The Sky Comes Looking For You
Sympathy For The Devil
Heroes
Bullet In Your Brain
Greedy Bastards
Live at Mt Fuji Rock Festival 2015 – Sayonara Folks! Track List:
We Are Motörhead
Damage Case
Stay Clean
Metropolis
Over the Top
String Theory
The Chase is Better Than the Catch
Rock It
Lost Woman Blues
Doctor Rock
Just ‘Cos You Got the Power
Going to Brazil
Ace of Spades
Overkill
Motörhead: Lemmy Kilmister – Vocals/Bass Phil Campbell – Guitars Mikkey Dee – Drums
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