NOCTEM have announced their appearance at summer festivals throughout Europe in 2023, presenting their latest album “Cerdo Certe Ne Cras” – released via MNRK Heavy (Black Label Society / Judas Priest / Sodom / Avatar).
The band will perform at 11 festivals, including the likes of Graspop Metal Meeting, Summer Breeze, MetalDays and more, passing through 7 different countries, expanding their furious Black Metal.
In the words of Beleth (vocalist). “Hail brothers and sisters, the drums of war once again sound in the distance, ready make way for drowned screams. In April we will begin this unholy campaign to lash the stages with blood and fire.”
Noctem will present their new album on their upcoming European tour this summer:
28/04/23 – Black Hole Fest, Aarburg, CH 29/04/23 – La Berguedana De Thrash, Berga, ES 05/05/23 – ARM Festival, Aalborg, DK 20/05/23 – Undersound Fest, Soria, ES 09/06/23 – Z! Live Rock Fest, Zamora, ES 17/06/23 – Graspop Metal Meeting, Dessel, BE 21/07/23 – Kanekas Metal Fest, Cangas Do Morrazo, ES 31/07/23 – Metaldays, Velenje, SV 11/08/23 – Leyendas del Rock, Villena, ES 18/08/23 – Summer Breeze, Dinkelsbuhl, DE 01/09/23 – Siekiera Metal Fest, Wroclaw, PL
More dates to be announced.
“Cerdo Certe Ne Cras” was released by MNRK Heavy in October 2022.
Something odd is bubbling on Vaasa Finland. Tero Hautamäki (Hellyysagrrressio, Marraskuun Lapset, Wasteland, Pastorin Jämät) the multitalented indie musician has started a new project. This time distorted guitars are left in the background when he dives deep to the music of his youth. The new band is called Dreadsunshine and the first single Heart of the Night is released by Inverse Records‘ sister label Secret Entertainment.
“Dreadsunshine” is Hautamäki’s new project that takes inspiration from the 80’s synth pop. Main idea is to use lots of featuring indie artists and try out borders of Hautamäki’s talent. In “Heart of the Night” vocals are done by highly talented Satu Guru (Hellyysagrrressio and Super Tsunami).
Dreadsunshine – Heart of the Night Satu Guru: Vocals Tero Hautamäki: Guitars Heikki Kinnunen: Bass Sami Pulkkinen: Backing vocals, Guitars & Keyboards
Italy’s FORMALIST is the latest band to join the Brucia Records roster.
“We Inherit a World at the Seams” is the sophomore release by the Doom / Sludge / Drone outft, and it will be released on May 25th, 2023 on digital and 6 panels Digipack CD. No Clean Singing is now premiering the song “Monuments”. Stream it HERE.
FORMALIST is a supergroup featuring members of some Italian heavyweights bands such as FORGOTTEN TOMB [Ferdinando “HM” Marchisio – vocals], MALASANGRE [Riccardo Rossi – drums] and VISCERA/// [Michele Basso – guitars]
After the critically acclaimed “No One Will Shine Anymore” (2018), FORMALIST are now back and their aim is still one and the same: opening new gates of total sonic horrors.
“We Inherit a World at the Seams” is a monumentally nihilistic record – a low-tuned nightmare combining the most vicious forms of Black Metal, Doom, Sludge and Drone, and taking their fear inducing and menacing sound literally to the extremes.
The FORMALIST unit handles their weapons of sonic destruction with purpose and sadistic intent, here delivering some of the heaviest, most cacophonic and gloomiest Doom / Sludge Metal around, and featuring layers upon layers of rumbling noise, shrieking guitar feedback and desperate howls singing the end of a dying world.
The lyrics are a first person account tackling themes such as darkness, despair and social unrest, and narrating the world’s downfall with an hallucinatory and yet detached style.
Terrifyingly suffocating and massively obscure slow music for the disenchanted.
FFO: Khanate, Corrupted, Teeth of Lions Rule The Divine, Grief
The FORMALIST unit was founded in 2014 when long-time associated individuals from the Italian heavyweights FORGOTTEN TOMB [Ferdinando “HM” Marchisio – vocals], MALASANGRE [Nicola Casella, Riccardo Rossi – bass & drums] and VISCERA/// [Michele Basso – guitars] joined forces with the aim to open new gates of total sonic horrors.
Excelling in the art of low-tuned sickness, the band members managed to forge together their unique sound and proceeded to write and record their first full-length titled “No One Will Shine Anymore” (released in March 2018 as a co-production between Wooaaargh, Toten Schwan Records and Third I Rex).
Meanwhile, the band manifested itself through selected live appearances. 2019-2022 saw the unit losing bassist Nicola Casella, replaced by Marcello Groppi [THE GREAT SAUNITES] and a new chapter in the band’s existence was written.
The second album “We Inherit a World at the Seams” sees FORMALIST exploring darkness, despair and social unrest in even more extreme ways – if possible – both musically and lyrically. The album will be released in May 2023 via Brucia Records.
The Metal Voice recently interviewed singer bassist Kip Winger of Winger. In the chat Kip talks about the bands upcoming studio album SEVEN and the ups and downs of the bands career.
‘Seven’ will be released on May 5, 2023 via Frontiers Music Srl a 12-track album produced by winger frontman Kip Winger.
When asked why it took nine years to release a new Winger album “Time got away from us. Reb (Beach) was working heavily in Whitesnake, I did a lot of other projects, classical music and the Get Jack (musical) and quite a few solo shows. I wrote a lot of solo music that has yet to be released. I was super busy and time just got away from us. We actually started this album in 2019 but then Covid hit and kind of wiped everybody out. So it might have been out a little earlier but basically because we were both too busy to get it together.”
When asked what they did differently on the new album compared to last studio album “This is the only album that every member of Winger played on every single song. So it’s actually the definitive Winger album because Paul Taylor played on every song and actually Paul has a solo on this album for the first time in our history. He played the solo on Broken Glass. The main difference is that it’s all original guys playing on every song, so it’s really the ingredients of our whole history on every track on the album. I tried to grab the inspiration from the first album and then combine it with the depth of the stuff that followed.”
When Kip Winger spoke about the band’s early image and sound “We’re a very misunderstood band. In the early 90s stuff didn’t help us at all when all that kind of stuff went down with grunge and Beavis and Butthead. It really was kind of a nail in the coffin for a lot of people to just keep an open mind about who we actually are. Part of it’s our fault because. I was not Savvy about marketing. When Reb and I were writing the first album we watched MTV and there’s Bon Jovi and Whitesnake and Poison and Def Leppard. So we thought what are we gonna wear? Well, let’s just do that kind of thing .We were so focused on the music, if the solo is cool, if the Riff is cool. We didn’t like to go, well wait a minute, let’s not dress up that much.”
When asked how Bevis and Butthead hurt their career early on “For example we’ll take White Zombie, Beavis and Butthead were like oh White Zombie’s cool and then White Zombie went triple platinum, like overnight. It was the biggest show in MTV history so a lot of people benefited from Beavis and Butthead but we were like the on the shirt of the geeky guy who represented it sucked. There’s a lot of other bands that might have been better suited for that role. I did speak to Mike Judge (creator) through email at one point and he was just kind of like It just happened to stick. I think it hurt a lot of the bands like us and you have to also add in the aspect of Metallica throwing darts at my poster. So that came first and I think it inadvertently chose us because of that. Mike Judge said it was just luck of the draw, bad timing. As far as the 80s goes, I don’t think that the 80s would have survived much longer anyway. 80s music had run its course and we came a little too late. I tell this story a lot. I moved out to New Mexico, we lost our record deal,our publishing, everything was gone. Then my first wife passed away in a car wreck and I was totally in Oblivion and that’s when I decided to write and to start studying classical music for real. I’d always wanted to write orchestral music and never felt like it was within my reach and I thought you know what, I’m just gonna go for it and I had the time because I couldn’t get arrested. I mean there were no gigs to be had, for years. The only gig that I did during that time on my first solo record was Porter’s bookstore at 4: 00 p.m in the afternoon playing to 10 people after a year before headlining to 8 000- 10 000 people.”
Winger ‘Seven’ Track Listing 1. “Proud Desperado” 2. “Heaven’s Falling” 3. “Tears Of Blood” 4. “Resurrect Me” 5. “Voodoo Fire” 6. “Broken Glass” 7. “It’s Okay” 8. “Stick The Knife In And Twist” 9. “One Light To Burn” 10. “Do Or Die” 11. “Time Bomb” 12. “It All Comes Back Around”
Rocker Andrew Hagar will appear alongside his father, Sammy Hagar, on the music docuseries, FAMILY LEGACY, now available to stream exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and Canada. Produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and Glass Entertainment Group, the new series will feature interviews with the children of legendary musicians.
The series will also premiere internationally on Wednesday, April 26 in the U.K., Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, LATAM and Brazil, and on Saturday, April 29 in Australia. An official trailer for the series was also released.
Watch the trailer below.
Andrew Hagar’s single “Redlight Appetite” will be featured on the show along with the music video. “It’s an honor and a pleasure to have my music featured on MTV, after spending so many years having my tiny mind blown by countless music videos and amazing artists. Thanks to Rocki and the tremendous production team at Glass Entertainment Group for doing such an incredible job!”
In addition, Andrew will be a featured Ultimate Sinner guest DJ on SiriusXM’s Ozzy’s Boneyard. The premiere is on Wednesday April 26th at 12 PM EST. Encores are on Sunday April 30th at 11 PM EST and Monday May 1st at 6 PM EST. You will be able to find it on the SiriusXM App and web player on Wednesday afternoon. Search Sinner!
Andrew will release his next single “Systematic Minds” on May 5, 2023.
Experience molds and shapes the stories we tell. Andrew Hagar’s often unbelievable, always fascinating life informs his smoky rock ‘n’ roll with a hint of rootsy mystique and a heavy dose of Americana-style reality. If Nick Cave came up in Seattle circa 1990, it might sound something like this! Thus far, his journey has twisted and turned from underground MMA fights in college and a stint as a trainer to cutting his teeth live by sharing the stage with none other than the legendary Kris Kristofferson. After earning acclaim courtesy of Consequence of Sound and more, all of these experiences bleed into his 2023 independent debut EP, Limited Edition Psycho.
“I’ve had an incredibly crazy and unique life, and I hope you can hear it in what I’m writing,” he muses. “I pull from all of those experiences. A lot of people are just chasing pleasure. For me, it goes back to the martial arts mentality: you continue to challenge yourself and grow. My goal is to convey the lessons I’ve learned in life through the songs.”
Andrew was quite literally born into music. As the son of Sammy Hagar, his earliest memories included birthdays on the tour bus and dad carrying him out on stage to the roar of the crowd. However, it would take a while for music to become his personal focal point—he had to live first. Instead, he first gravitated to martial arts.
Inspired by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, he begged mom and dad for karate classes. “It never stopped,” he smiles. He studied Muay Thai and Brazilian jiu-jitsu at just 15-years-old. While in the middle of college, he fought in a series of amateur fights known as “smokers.” A potentially career ending knee injury, stacked class schedule, and full-time corporate job derailed his burgeoning fight career through.
However, he never strayed too far from combat sports, covering UFC as a journalist for Sherdog and eventually landing a job as a Muay Thai trainer at Werdum Fight Team in Venice Beach under former UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum. For the next decade, he also trained actors from television shows such as The Americans, as well as Vida Guerra and more.
Along the way, he eventually traded Guitar Hero for the real thing, teaching himself how to play on YouTube before fronting a short-lived two-man punk band. Not long after, he launched a folk duo with Kelly Kristofersson and toured Scotland with her father Kris.
“When I stepped off stage for the first time, the feeling was indescribable,” he admits. “I thought it was something I could do for the rest of my life. I had never considered music would make me so happy. As much as loved fighting, it didn’t give me the same feeling that playing live did. I decided to do everything I could to make that feeling a reality in my life.” Teaming up with Trev Lukather behind the board as producer and co-writer, he assembled Limited Edition Psycho over the course of 2021. Nodding to influences such as Alice In Chains, Nine Inch Nails, and Stone Temple Pilots, as well as, classic folk, he infuses eloquent lyricism into grunge-inflected grooves.
“I did a lot of my formative growing outside of the public lens,” he notes. “I’m bringing something more confident and fully formulated to the table as an artist, because I waited until the right time to do this.”
Following singles such as “Judgement Day” and “Cold Knife Karma,” he paved the way for the EP with “Redlight Appetite.”Consequence of Sound hailed the latter as “a glammed-out rocker that unabashedly aims for a massive stadium sound.” Elsewhere, “Slave To Your Name” builds from airy verses into a disarmingly catchy refrain, “Dancing with a ball and chain, high on cheap cocaine, nothing’s changed, I’m a slave to your name.”
“It’s one of the more personal songs,” he states.
Then, there’s “Systematic Minds.” Ethereal guitars glide over a robust beat as his voice rings out on another magnetically massive melodic chant.
“More than ever, people’s opinions are not their own,” he notes. “A lot of people won’t even post something online unless they know everyone else will agree. They’re not living their lives for themselves; they’re living their lives for others. It’s worse than it’s ever been. The song is about how we’re all brainwashed into a certain style of thinking. We’re capable of controlling our own thoughts though. You have to master your mind, or else you become a slave to it.”
As the project stares down addiction, isolation, depression, and darkness, the title perfectly hints at Andrew’s headspace.
‘Limited Edition Psycho’ means we all think we’re special even though we are all for the most part truly alike,”__ he goes on. “Everyone has the same issues, so these are mine.”_
In the end, Andrew’s story remains relatable through and through, because it’s real.
“When you listen to my music, I hope you walk away with a different perspective,” he leaves off. “I also want you to feel a sense of belonging. I’m just a guy who’s working really hard to embody all of the values I appreciate in the world. I try to be 1% better every day. I want to be able express myself in the songs and bring them to anybody who wants to hear what I have to say.”
Award-winning blues rock duo WHEN RIVERS MEET are pleased to announce the release of “Perfect Stranger” the second single taken from their forthcoming highly anticipated third album “Aces Are High” released later this summer. The new single is released Friday 28 April and is available to pre-save HERE.
The new single coincides with WRM’s “Breaker of Chains” UK headline tour which kicks off on Friday 28 April with a sold-out hometown concert at the Colchester Arts Centre. Tickets for the 14-date UK tour are available from www.whenriversmeet.co.uk/tour.
“We wanted to write a song about our relationship and how we first met,” says WRM’s lead singer and mandolin player Grace Bond. “Our relationship is intense and creative. We wanted to write a song that reflects that tension throughout.”
Regarding the forthcoming album the duo say, “As our music is progressing, we’re finding our sound even more. When we went in the studio this time, we’ve never been so sure on what we wanted to create—we had a really clear vision and have stuck to it.”
“Before we held back on being too rocky, but this time we allowed ourselves to create what we wanted to hear, without restricting ourselves. We also allowed ourselves to express the different colours to our music with tracks like ‘Golden’ and ‘By Your Side’, so this album has more extremes. We still call upon our influences from all the years but remain true to ourselves to create music we love.”
Album Cover by Rob Blackham
Since their formation in 2019, the husband-and-wife duo Grace Bond (vocals, mandolin, violin) and Aaron Bond (vocals, guitar) have been quick to prove themselves one of the most exciting names in British blues rock. Blending Americana, folk, blues, and rock in a distinctly unique manner, they have been showered with many awards and accolades.
Their forthcoming album “Aces Are High” follows two critically acclaimed records: “We Fly Free” (2020), which reached No.1 in the iTunes Blues Album Chart, and “Saving Grace” (2021), which charted at No.2 in the UK Official Jazz & Blues Albums Chart, No.5 UK Official Album Downloads Chart, and No.6 UK Official Independent Albums Chart. These were based purely on chart reporting digital sales and didn’t include physical sales.
When Rivers Meet were the first band to win four awards at the UK Blues Awards 2021 and another three awards in 2022, including Blues Band Of The Year on both occasions. In 2023, WRM won Blues Band Of The Year, making them the only band to win this category three years in a row, and the only band to be inducted into the UK Blues Awards Hall Of Fame for this category.
In 2021 When Rivers Meet were voted Best New Band at Planet Rock’s The Rocks Awards, and in 2022 won Planet Rock’s Blues Power Award and Album Of The Year Award with “Saving Grace.”
“Aces Are High” finds the duo returning with a more powerful sound than ever before. Aaron’s gnarled riffs hit harder alongside his deep vocal tones, while Grace’s vocals range wider with tantalising bite as they effortlessly climb scales like her striking slide mandolin which accompanies the likes of “Trail To Avalon.”
The immediacy of the new record is showcased from the off with the hard-hitting opener “Infected,” while no punches are pulled on the kick-out-time anthem “5 Minutes Until Midnight.” Nevertheless, its contrasting sides find delicate moments such as the reflective acoustic song “Golden” and the shimmering Americana of “By Your Side.”
ACES ARE HIGH – TRACK LISITING
1. Infected 2. Seen It All Before 3. Play My Game 4. Golden 5. Aces Are High 6. Trail To Avalon 7. Perfect Stranger 8. The Secret 9. By Your Side 10. 5 Minutes Until Midnight
When Rivers Meet developed a powerful live reputation and with their first headline tour last year, which they played to capacity crowds across the country.
They will be hitting the road again throughout April and May 2023 on a UK headline tour, with special guest Arielle, and includes a date at London’s Lafayette on 6 May.
WRM just finished supporting REEF on their UK tour. This summer, the band have been announced to play a number of festivals.
WRM will also perform on Joe Bonamassa’s Keeping The Blues Alive Mediterranean III Cruise which departs Athens on 17 August. Cabins are available from www.bluesaliveatseaeurope.com. The cruise also features Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, and Blackberry Smoke.
WHEN RIVERS MEET “BREAKER OF CHAINS” UK TOUR 2023 WITH SPECIAL GUEST “ARIELLE”
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM WWW.WHENRIVERSMEET.CO.UK/TOUR
Colchester, Arts Centre (Sold Out) Friday 28 April 2023
Norwich, Waterfront Saturday 29 April 2023
Brighton, Komedia Thursday 4 May 2023
London, Lafayette Saturday 6 May 2023
Bristol Fleece Thursday 11 May 2023
Birmingham, Asylum Friday 12 May 2023
Southampton, 1865 Saturday 13 May 2023
Tavistock, Wharf Sunday 14 May 2023
Barnard Castle, The Witham (Last Few) Friday 19 May 2023
Glasgow, The Garage Saturday 20th May 2023
Newcastle, University Students Union Sunday 21 May 2023
Nottingham, Rescue Rooms (Last Few) Thursday 25 May 2023
Bradford, Nightrain Friday 26 May 2023
Manchester, Academy 3 Saturday 27 May 2023
FESTIVALS
May 28th – Festival In The Gardens, Braintree
June 3rd – Motofest, Coventry 30th – KK’s Steel Mill, Wolverhampton (Special Guest for *Reef) – Rescheduled
July 1st – Linton Festival, Ross-On-Wye 2nd – Alford Rock and Blues Festival, Alford 7th – Bures Music Festival, Bures 28th – Steelhouse Festival, Ebbw Vale 29th – Hilltop Jam, Napton on the Hill
August 4th – Cambridge Rock Festival, Horseheath 11th – Firestorm (Manchester) Rock Festival, Stockport 17th/22nd – Keeping Blues Alive At Sea III, Athens
October 6th – Cornwall Rocks Festival, Looe
November 12th – Whitby Blues, Rhythm & Rock, Whitby
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
