John Norum is set to release his 9th solo album titled ‘Gone To Stay’ in October later this year. Mostly known as the founder and lead guitarist from the rock band Europe that quickly took the name as Sweden’s biggest rock export with the songs ‘The Final Countdown’, ‘Carrie’ and ‘Rock The Night’, and has sold over 10 million albums worldwide.
Furthermore, Norum has collaborated with many known musicians such as Don Dokken, Marcel Jacob and Glenn Hughes to name a few.
The first single ‘Sail On‘ started the journey towards his new album when it was released a month ago, and its music video has already been viewed over 100 000 times on YouTube.
Now, the albums second single ‘Voices OfSilence‘ will also be released. A song filled with hard hitting riffs and heavily influenced by John Norum’s characteristic song writing, guitar playing and singing voice. This single will also be accompanied by a music video packed with pyrotechnics and raw live emotion, once again directed by award winning director Patric Ullaeus from Revolver Film Company.
‘Voices Of Silence‘ will be released this Friday, July 1st.
SUPERSONIC BLUES MACHINE have revealed an official video for “Too Late”, taken from the new album “Voodoo Nation”, released last Friday, June 24th via Provogue / Mascot Label Group. The new album features special guests Charlie Starr (Blackberry Smoke), Eric Gales, Joe Louis Walker, Ana Popovic, Kirk Fletcher, King Solomon Hicks, Josh Smith & Sonny Landreth
At the core of the band is producer/bass player Fabrizio Grossi (Steve Vai, Alice Cooper, George Clinton, Slash) and drummer Kenny Aronoff (John Mellencamp, Meat Loaf, Brandon Flowers, John Fogerty, Red Hot Chili Peppers) with British rocker Kris Barras replacing Lance Lopez as singer-guitarist. Barras has a recent UK Top 30 album chart hit in March himself, and he is leading the pack of the British hard rock revival with several A-list singles, BBC Radio appearances and sell-out shows.
Talking about the song Kris Barras says, “’Too Late’ originally started life as a potential Kris Barras Band track, but as I was writing more and more towards the Heavy Rock direction, I felt that this song might be more suitable for Supersonic Blues Machine. I sent it over to Fab to see what he thought, and he loved it. He put his own spin on it, I call that “supersonicify-ing’, adding a funkier bassline, soulful BVs and of course, Kenny laying down a fat groove. So, although I wrote the bare bones to the song, it really came to life once everyone had put their own spin on it. The lyrical meaning behind the song is a story of not being able to change the past and not wanting to forgive someone that has done wrong by you. The video kind of takes this story a bit further, showing that maybe holding grudges and not forgiving someone, can ultimately lead to regret. The video was produced in a mixture of places. The band scenes were shot in a Californian desert, the acting scenes were filmed in Serbia and the video was actually edited and colour graded by myself in sunny old England!”
Voodoo Nation is the band’s third studio album. On their evolution, Fabrizio says, “Kris comes from this British school of hard rock and blues. This is a different sound to Kenny and me with the Allman Brothers, Sly Stone & The Family & Mountain. On Californisoul (2017), we were going more West Coast Funkadelic 60s and overall jam vibe. Blues but with more of a hippy flower power.” “With Kris, we wanted his footprint there, so that’s why you hear Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Gary Moore. Kind of a Union Jack imprint over a Star-Spangled Banner.”
The lyrical front on Voodoo Nation is less forgiving than everything in the past. “I’m not saying fuck flower power because that’s always the message,” Grossi says. “But there are very introspective things and a lot of the theatrics that we are dealing with on this record which I would say are fairly common in the blues but are dealt with a twist. There is a lot of Devil’s stuff in this record.”
Track list Money Too Late Coming thru You And Me (feat. King Solomon Hicks) Get It Done (feat. Josh Smith) 8 Ball Lucy (feat. Sonny Landreth) Devil At The Doorstep (feat. Eric Gales) Is It All (feat. Joe Louis Walker) Do It Again (feat. Ana Popovic) I Will Let Go (feat. Kirk Fletcher) Voodoo Nation All Our Love (feat. Charlie Starr)
On Wednesday 29 September 2021 – the year of the band’s 20th Anniversary – Kentucky’s favourite sons, BLACK STONE CHERRY, realized their childhood dream of playing at the legendary Royal Albert Hall, London. Sat on the stage at the iconic Victorian building, singer-guitarist Chris Robertson pauses, looks around and says, “When you’re a kid, and you see your heroes’ playing places, and then all of a sudden you find yourself sitting on the stage, it’s pretty emotional. But we’re gonna royally rock it this evening. You better believe that.”
Watch “Blame It On The Boom Boom (Live from the Royal Albert Hall)” below, taken From Live From The Royal Albert Hall… Y’All OUT TODAY Via Mascot Records / Mascot Label Group.
Throughout the set they tear through an impressive back catalogue, playing songs from their most recent studio album ‘The Human Condition – “In Love with the Pain,” ” and the previously released live tracks “Again” and“Ringin’ in My Head” – through to their biggest hits and fan favourites. “Blind Man,” “Hell and High Water,” “Blame it on the Boom Boom,” and “White Trash Millionaire” rock the building alongside moments of tenderness such as the touching rendition and emotional performance of “Things My Father Said.”
Talking about playing the Royal Albert Hall, drummer John-Fred Young said, “To be honest, I was terrified. It was heavy walking in there. You think about how many great acts have played this place. The prestige behind it. We’ve wanted to play the Royal Albert Hall since the first UK tour in 2007.” He continues, “Dudes from the middle of the country in Kentucky to go out here and have built an amazing group of people that we care about and come to our shows and support us. To know that with all that hard work and dedication we have put into Black Stone Cherry, we’ve accomplished something here. Walking in that place, it’s just breath-taking. You walk on that stage, and you say, we did it, and it’s a feeling that I will cherish for the rest of my life.”
On the Blu-Ray, the live footage is dotted with behind-the-scenes interviews, fly on the wall footage and archival insights into the band as kids first starting out, snippets of their first ever UK tour and heartfelt moments of reflection. But ultimately Live From The Royal Albert Hall… Y’All was about bringing rock ‘n’ roll to London, Kentucky style, and they tore the roof off that mother.
Track list
Me and Mary Jane (Live)
Burnin’ (Live)
Again (Live)
Yeah Man (Live)
In My Blood/Island Jam (Live)
Ringin’ In My Head (Live)
Like I Roll (Live)
Cheaper To Drink Alone (Live)
Hell and High Water (Live)
Soulcreek (Live)
Devil’s Queen (Live)
Drum Solo (Live)
Things My Father Said (Live)
In Love With The Pain (Live)
Blind Man (Live)
Blame It On The Boom Boom (Live)
White Trash Millionaire (Live)
Lonely Train (Live)
Peace Is Free (Live)
2022 European headline tour dates (w/ The Georgia Thunderbolts) 12 Sep E-Werk, Cologne – Germany 13 Sep Q Factory, Amsterdam – Netherlands 14 Sep Markethalle, Hamburg – Germany 17 Sep Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo – Norway 18 Sep Debaser Hornstulls Strand, Stockholm – Sweden 19 Sep Amager Bio, Copenhagen – Denmark 21 Sep Metropol, Berlin – Germany 22 Sep Arena Wien, Vienna – Austria 23 Sep Barba Negra, Budapest – Hungary 24 Sep Tonhalle, Munich – Germany 26 Sep Alcatraz, Milan – Italy 27 Sep Xtra, Zurich – Switzerland 28 Sep LKA Longhorn, Stuttgart – Germany 30 Sep Santana 27, Bilbao – Spain 01 Oct Razzmatazz, Barcelona – Spain 02 Oct La Riviera, Madrid – Spain 04 Oct Rocher De Palmer, Bordeaux – France 05 Oct Trianon, Paris – France
German power metal masters Iron Savior have been active for a quarter of a century now. Consistency and high quality delivery have earned the band around Piet Sielck a large and loyal fanbase.
In 2017, the band started a special project: Their first five studio albums were no longer available at that time (but the band could not simply re-release them for legal reasons), so they decided to re-record some highlight tracks of the Noise Records years. The result, “Reforged – Riding On Fire”, was received positively throughout and made the fans ask for more.
The history of Iron Savior is full of highlights, and there are many more gems that were not selected for a re-recording at that time due to capacity reasons. Thus it quickly became clear: “Reforged” goes into the second round, and Reforged – Ironbound (Vol. 2) will be coming out on August 26, 2022 via AFM Records! Today, Iron Savior has shared a video for the re-recorded version of “Solar Wings”, watch the new clip right here:
“This time we picked 23 songs, which is significantly more than the first “Reforged” part had”, says bandleader Piet Sielck. “The very positive response to “Reforged – Riding On Fire” made us consider a second part. Through direct fan feedback, we then also became aware of how many songs were still slumbering there, which deserved to be suggested for a remake.”
The 23 tracks of the new double album Reforged – Ironbound (Vol. 2) represent a real bastion, both quantitatively and qualitatively. “I am very satisfied with the result,” Sielck states. “It’s always up to the fans out there to evaluate something like this, but in my opinion our second part of “Reforged” surpasses its predecessor. It was great fun to approach the songs again.” Piet adds with a smile: “I’m especially happy that both Jan and Piesel as well as Kai (Hansen) were able to play or sing their original parts. And with the guest solo by my godson Tim Hansen, the whole thing has somehow become a cross-generational family album.”
Reforged – Ironbound (Vol. 2) was again produced by Piet Sielck himself in his Powerhouse Studio, the pre-sale has just started at THIS LOCATION!
On September 30th, 2022, experience the legendary (and award-winning) ‘Live From The Astroturf’.
ALICE COOPER is a living legend and one of the most successful and revered solo artists of all time. His live shows are spectacular and a genre unto themselves.
However, in 2015 the original ‘Alice Cooper’ group, including members: Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith and current ‘Alice’ guitarist Ryan Roxie, performed in the most intimate of settings: a record store for a completely unsuspecting audience.
Thrash metal veteran Christian “Speesy” Giesler (formerly Kreator) joins forces with supergroup BONDED.
Bernemann Kost (Sodom, Bonded) adds:
“We’ve been talking about making music together since the “Hell comes to your town” tour in 2001/2002. It just took us a little longer to realize our plans than usual hahaha…..we were both so involved with our jobs at Kreator and Sodom that we never found the time, but we always stayed in touch over the years. If Speesy hadn’t still been with Kreator in January 2018, he would have been our first choice for Bonded, but due to the intensive Kreator tours it was out of the question. That’s why we were very happy about his collaboration on the song “Rest in Violence” together with Bobby Ellsworth. When the situation suddenly arose a few weeks ago and we broke up with our bass player, it was only logical for me to call Speesy first, and he didn’t really think long about an answer hahaha…. now we finally want to hit the gas pedal together.”
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