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IBRIDOMA Reveal Title + Coverart of Upcoming Full-Length Album

Posted by tarjavirmakari on April 19, 2022

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Italian heavy/power metallers IBRIDOMA have revealed the title and coverart of their upcoming album “Norimberga 2.0”, coming out soon on Punishment 18 Records. The artist behind the stunning album coverart is Gustavo Sazes (Cynic, Angra, Arch Enemy, British Lion, Sinheresy, Old Man’s Child).

“Norimberga 2.0” was mixed and mastered in 2021 at Domination Studio by Simone Mularoni (DGM, Elvenking, Injury, Bulldozer, Labÿrinth).

More information at
– Ibridoma –
http://www.facebook.com/ibridomaofficial
– Punishment 18 Records –
http://www.punishment18records.com
http://www.facebook.com/punishment18records

LIV SIN to Release Digital Single ‘The Process’ on April 29th

Posted by tarjavirmakari on April 18, 2022

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In 2016 singer Liv Jagrell, worldwide known for her vocal duties in Sister Sin, let the world know that she had formed a new band, LIV SIN, a band driven of massive guitar riffs and a heavy modern metal sound. In 2017 the debut album “Follow Me” was released, and the second album ”Burning Sermons” was edited in 2019.

Fast forward to 2022.

Liv SiN, completely recharged by a two-year down confinement period and a revamped line-up, is now ready to hit the stages again. And also the record shops’ racks, with a new album. The first advance of the record is called “The Process”.

”The main riff in this song got me from the very beginning with it’s really cool groove, but the verse has a bit of a softer and slower side to it”, Liv states. “So I thought, let’s not do whatever comes into the mind at first, which might have been a soft and nice vocal part, but instead I tried out a growling sort of vocals and that just gave another feel to the whole song, a darker and anguished feeling”, the singer concludes.

As for the lyrical part, “The Process” reflects a lot of Jagrell’s inner work during the Covid period but also before that. “I started out a more yogic life path a couple of years ago. Through that, I have really learned that if we want to grow, we have to go through what hurts us the most. You have to work with the pain, instead of against it if you want to move on. It doesn’t matter what sort of pain or path you are on, it is a constant process just to live”.

“And to really know that all of this is a part of this process we call life sometimes actually makes it a tiny bit easier”.

“The Process” will be released as a digital single via Mighty Music on April 29th, 2022. A new Liv Sin album is expected to be released in 2022.

Line-up:
Per Bjevoluk – drums
Patrick Ankermark – guitars
Liv Jagrell – vocals
Daniel Skoglund – bass
Jay Matharu – lead guitar

Get the Digital single at https://livsin.lnk.to/process

UNBOWED Unleash Ferocious New Single ‘Fire Of Wode’, New Album Out May 20th

Posted by tarjavirmakari on April 18, 2022

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Canadian extreme metallers UNBOWED have revealed another crushing new song today, “Fire of Wode,” from the band’s forthcoming, 3rd full-length album, “Colour The Soul,” that’s coming May 20th. Debuted at MetalSucks.net, the new track melds dark soaring synths, crushing blackened, death riffs and diabolical vocals for beastly yet accessible sound. “‘Epic’ and ‘enjoyable’ are often put at opposite poles of the spectrum, but on this track, they meet perfectly” (MetalSucks.net).

Commenting on the new single, UNBOWED states:

“From Old English wōd (“mad, raging, enraged, insane, senseless, blasphemous”), from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz.

‘Wode’ can be understood as an uncontrollable inspiration; a burning passion. This is also a hint as to the meaning of the name ‘Odin’ or ‘Wodin/Wodanaz’, god of death, war, art, and eldritch wisdom. Essentially this root of his name is placing him as an infallible force upon the natural order of the world. It creates a rather formless, yet artistically manifested rationalization for a god’s potential existence within any age of man. It goes beyond the idea of a bearded man in the sky, in other words.

Humanity might mimic the gods in this way, or simply become them. When possessed by this overwhelming force we might call inspiration that grows bigger and bigger through its connection to the breath of life or ‘athem’. The fire of wode is furious in its expanse and unstoppable given the proper breath of life.”

STREAM “FIRE OF WODE”:
Apple Music – https://apple.co/3EeGGYH
Spotify – https://spoti.fi/3M5L0Mp

PRE-ORDER “COLOUR THE SOUL”: https://bit.ly/3KNybWL

Watch the video for the band’s previous single “Hero Lux“: https://youtu.be/qie4I4HdL6A

“Colour The Soul” Tracklisting:

Hero Lux
Eigi Einhamr
Fire of Wode
Stream of Life Flow of Death
The Holy Momentum (Ft. Frederik Jensen)
As I Step Mountains Sway (Ft. Joel Violette)
Home
The Athem of I
Umbra Cruciata (Ft. Mathias “Vreth” Lillmåns)
The Mourning Shade

UNBOWED is a melodic death/black metal band formed in Guelph, ON, Canada in 2011 and consists of Ioan Tetlow (Vocals), Steven Rowlands (Guitars), Aiden Watkinson (Bass), Alex Snape (Guitars) and Cory Hofing (Drums). The band has to date released two full-length albums, two EPs, and two singles and is now gearing up to release their third full-length album and strongest effort to date, the 10 song LP “Colour the Soul.”

“Colour the Soul” features artwork by illustrator Marta Sokołowska, who is also created the art for their debut self-titled EP released in 2013. The album was written and recorded by UNBOWED at Nomadic Arts Studios in Guelph, ON, Canada, mixed and mastered by Alex Snape and features guest appearances from Joel Violette (Thrawsunblat, Woods of Ypres), Mathias “Vreth” Lillmåns (Finntroll, And Oceans, Dispyt) and Frederik Jensen (Mother Of All, Plained).

HUGH CORNWELL Announces “Moments Of Madness” Album + November 2022 UK Tour

Posted by tarjavirmakari on April 18, 2022

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Hugh Cornwell returns with his sensational and highly anticipated tenth solo album Moments of Madness with ten outstanding tracks that are set to stun. The album is released on Friday October 7, 2022. The album is available to pre-order from 10am on Tuesday April 19th from www.hughcornwell.com.

Pre-save new song Red Rose at https://lnk.to/HC-RedRose

To dovetail with the new album, Hugh will embark on a 21-date nationwide UK tour from November 4 to December 3, 2022. A 48-hour ticket pre-sale will start at 10am on Tuesday April 19 via www.hughcornwell.com and www.thegigcartel.com. Tickets will then go on general sale on at 10am on Thursday April 21 via www.hughcornwell.com and www.thegigcartel.com.

Widely regarded as the poet laureate of the punk era (from his early career fronting the Stranglers to his transition as a solo artist), Hugh Cornwell has built a substantial and singular body of impressive solo albums. His tenth solo opus, Moments of Madness, continues his illustrious output by experimenting with musical genres as his enviable reputation as a wordsmith resounds across this album’s songs.

Self-produced, and playing all of the instruments himself, Moments of Madness’ ten incredible tracks finds Hugh flexing his musical muscles with a stripped down, offbeat, reverberating sixties vibe ringing from the seductive melodies and lyrically distinctive perceptions that are indelibly stamped with Hugh’s trademark imagination. Vocally and lyrically a career-best, Hugh has never sounded so good on his tenth solo album.

A high watermark and a modern-day masterpiece, Moments of Madness is being tipped as the most significant album of Hugh’s career.

Four years since his previous remarkable solo album Monster, the opener, and first single, Coming Out of the Wilderness surfs an edgy and explosive sixties sound with a heavy Duane Eddy guitar twang as Hugh declares, “I’m coming out of the wilderness, learnt how to throw a bowie knife. Ran into fair-haired maiden’s out there but didn’t take no wife.”

On the new album, there is no mistaking Hugh’s distinctive vocals and lyrical mastery as the consummate storyteller. He returns with his inimitable observations on the art of survival in these challenging and turbulent times.

Says Hugh, “It’s like I’ve got a stew pot of sounds where I’ve put in a bit of Joe Meek, a bit of Lou Reed, a flavour of The Doors, a bit of this, a bit of that and I mix it all up and it tastes good. I’m like a cook when I make records in that I don’t follow any recipe.”

“I don’t mind different types of jewellery, show it to me, just feel free’, could be I’m missing the artistry” opines Hugh on Red Rose – a song about the bewildering trend for tattoos revealing a record of many gleaming lyrical gems.

Hugh’s ecological message on Too Much Trash also resonates loudly on another irritating topic close to his heart as he eviscerates the thoughtless actions of the devil may care consumer society who needlessly drop litter everywhere. “We’re heading for a crash. We got too much trash.”

The surreal carousel of psychedelic motifs spinning from this sixties stew of sonic moments (of madness) echo down the years as Cornwell delivers his unique humour in the pithy lyrics for a safe port in the storm close relationship on I WannaHideInsideAya.

Looking for You reveals a Jim Morrison inspired vocal over this song’s spooky atmospherics, and the semi-autobiographical and upbeat When I Was a Young Man opens a can of insightful, wistful emotions “As years go by and friends, they die they leave me living slow,” Hugh sombrely sings as he reflects upon his family and friends.

Hugh explains his motivation to the monumental title track Moments of Madness that musically adventures in mixing a dash of dub as he strums a lockdown rhythm to this devilish groove. ” The Clash did reggae so what’s wrong with me doing it? I loved playing the bass on this track.” On the album’s title track, Hugh’s lyrics again have a finger on the pulse of our times. “Looking like the fog’s gonna finally clear. Switch on all the lights at the end of the pier. Tidy up your makeup and shampoo your hair. Have a little party but nobody’s there.”

Moments of Madness is multi-layered with serious messages, acute analysis, and witty observations in fun-filled lyrical and musical eccentricity. On Lasagna Hugh tells the story about his Italian friends who live in Mexico and make the best lasagne he has ever tasted. As always, Cornwell communicates with a biting humour in all the right places.

Hugh’s cautionary tales about matters of the heart are revealed in his inimitable coded style on Beware of the Doll. “You think you’re listening to love. You’re sinking from a foot above.” And the more personal album closer Heartbreak at Seven which was the first song that Hugh recorded for this album. Illustrious, multi-talented and a legend, with Moments of Madness, Hugh Cornwell has produced a timely and thought-provoking masterpiece for our times.

TRACK LISTINGCOMING OUT OF THE WILDERNESS
RED ROSE
I WANNAHIDEINSIDEYA
LOOKING FOR YOU
WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MAN
MOMENTS OF MADNESS
BEWARE OF THE DOLL
TOO MUCH TRASH
LASAGNA
HEARTBREAK AT SEVEN

HUGH CORNWELL
NOVEMBER 2022 UK TOUR
48 HOUR TICKET PRE-SALE STARTS
TUESDAY 19 APRIL 2022 AT 10AM FROM: https://hughcornwell.tmstor.es
TICKETS ON GENERAL SALE THURSDAY 21 APRIL FROM
WWW.THEGIGCARTEL.COM & WWW.HUGHCORNWELL.COM

MILTON KEYNES, STABLES
FRIDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2022

HULL, TOWER BALLROOM
SATURDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2022

EXETER, PHOENIX
WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2022

SOUTHAMPTON, THE 1865
THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2022

CARDIFF, Y PLAS
FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2022

BRIGHTON, CONCORDE 2
SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2022

BRISTOL, THE FLEECE
SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2022

LINCOLN, PLATFORM
WEDNESDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2022

BURY ST EDMUNDS, THE APEX
THURSDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2022

NEWCASTLE, WYLAM BREWERY
FRIDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2022

LEEDS, BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB
SATURDAY 19 NOVEMEBER 2022

CHESTER, LIVE ROOMS
SUNDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2022

SOUTHEND, CHINNERY’S
WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2022

ISLINGTON, ASSEMBLEY HALL
THURSDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2022

BILSTON, THE ROBIN
FRIDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2022

MANCHESTER, GORILLA
SATURDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2022

THE VENUE, DERBY
SUNDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2022

CARLISLE, THE OLD FIRE STATION
WEDNESDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2022

EDINBURGH, LA BELLE ANGELE
THURSDAY 1 DECEMBER 2022

GLASGOW, THE GARAGE
FRIDAY 2 DECEMBER 2022

LEMON TREE, ABERDEEN
SATURDAY 3 DECEMBER 2022

LOVE AND WAR Sign with Animated Insanity Records /No Dust Records for Re-Issue of Back Catalog CDs

Posted by tarjavirmakari on April 18, 2022

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Houston, Texas based melodic hard rockers LOVE AND WAR have signed with the Netherlands NO DUST RECORDS (NDR) and Upstate New York ANIMATED INSANITY RECORDS (AIR).

Both labels will be distributing the re-issue of Love and War’s 2012 debut cd “Up The Annie” and their 2020 sophomore cd “Edge of the World” in Europe and North America as a dual 2 in 1 cd release.

Love and War has provided the following comment:

“All of us in Love and War are excited and proud to announce our upcoming distribution venture. Though we have hoped for something like this to happen finally, we believe our hard work and perseverance has helped create this opportunity. Much respect to Animated Insanity Records and No Dust Records in believing in us and being willing to spread our music to the North America and European rock community. Thanks Joe and Henk in believing in our music and for this opportunity.”

NDR and AIR have provided the following comment:

“No Dust Records and Animated Insanity Records are very pleased to team up once again. We are very happy with the signing of Love And War, an amazing band from Houston, Texas, USA and we look forward to helping them get their music distributed to fans worldwide.”

Love and War recently announced the addition of former Houston, Texas prog-metal band Z-LOT-Z guitarist/producer Gregg Gill to the band guitar lineup.

HANGARVAIN Announce New Single ‘The Sinner’, New Producer + Tour

Posted by tarjavirmakari on April 17, 2022

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Italian rock blues explorers HANGARVAIN have revealed a wrap of amazing news, which are coming back with a new single called ‘The Sinner’ on April 22nd with the precious cooperation behind the mix desk of the well known US-based producer Fabrizio Grossi.

Also, the band will come back on the road soon with a bunch of shows, including headliner sets in selected Italian cities, festival appearances and an incredible run in Dec in support of the legendary MOLLY HATCHET.