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ALLEGAEON Announce Terrestrial Takeover US Headlining Tour with Arkaik, Aenimus and Summoning the Lich

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 30, 2022
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Colorado metal force ALLEGAEON are pleased to announce their long-awaited Terrestrial Takeover US headlining tour. The journey begins June 1st in Los Angeles, California and runs through July 1st in Fresno, California. Support will be provided by Arkaik, Aenimus, and Summoning The Lich.

Comments the band, “After the unfortunate cancellation of the Terrestrial Takeover Tour in 2020 we are thrilled to announce that we will be headlining the US under the same banner with our friends in Arkaik, Aenimus, and Summoning The Lich. We will be playing a set list featuring tracks from our entire discography with a heavy emphasis on our new album DAMNUM. This will be a performance to remember and we can’t wait to see you all there.“

ALLEGAEON w/ Arkaik, Aenimus, Summoning The Lich:
6/01/2022 1720 – Los Angeles, CA*
6/04/2022 Doll Hut – Anaheim, CA
6/05/2022 Nile Underground – Mesa, AZ
6/06/2022 Tumbleroot Brewing – Santa Fe, NM
6/07/2022 Amplified Live – Dallas, TX
6/08/2022 Come And Take It Live – Austin, TX
6/09/2022 White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX
6/10/2022 Onyx Theater – Baton Rouge, LA
6/11/2022 Boggs Social – Atlanta, GA
6/12/2022 The Haven – Orlando, FL
6/14/2022 The Blind Tiger – Greensboro, NC
6/15/2022 Metro Gallery – Baltimore, MD
6/16/2022 Dingbatz – Clifton, NJ
6/17/2022 The Meadows – Brooklyn, NY
6/18/2022 Jewel Nightclub – Manchester, NH
6/19/2022 The Crafthouse – Pittsburgh, PA
6/20/2022 The Sanctuary – Detroit, MI
6/21/2022 Reggies – Chicago, IL
6/22/2022 Amsterdam Bar & Hall – St. Paul, MN
6/23/2022 Wildwood – Iowa City, IA
6/24/2022 The Royal Grove – Lincoln, NE
6/25/2022 Marquis Theater – Denver, CO
6/26/2022 Metro Music Hall – Salt Lake City, UT
6/28/2022 El Corazon – Seattle, WA
6/29/2022 Dante’s – Portland, OR
6/30/2022 The X Bar – Cupertino, CA
7/01/2022 Full Circle Brewing District – Fresno, CA
* ALLEGAEON only

ALLEGAEON released their sixth studio album, DAMNUM, last month via Metal Blade Records. The band has built themselves a unique place in the musical landscape, forcing both technicality and melody to the forefront as they create tumultuous and riveting death metal. With DAMNUM, they push everything further into the extreme, and in the process deliver the definitive ALLEGAEON record. Preview and purchase DAMNUM at: metalblade.com/allegaeon

“ALLEGAEON’s metamorphosis from mechanical tech-deathheads to progressive wayfarers has been as smooth as it was unpredictable. They’ve avoided the period of stagnation that brings down so many great tech bands. We should have all guessed from those Rush and Yes covers which way the wind was blowing, but few would have predicted just how impressive DAMNUM would be.” – Metal Injection

MICHAEL MONROE Release New Album “I Live Too Fast To Die Young” on June 10th, New Single Out Now

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 30, 2022
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MICHAEL MONROE’s latest slice of raw rock ‘n’ roll heaven “I Live Too Fast To Die Young” is to be released by Silver Lining Music worldwide on June 10th, 2022.

“I live too fast to die young, it ain’t nothing when your head’s screwed on,” roars the Crown Prince of exciting, electric frontmen Michael Monroe, on his second album for Silver Lining Music. I Live Too Fast To Die Young, and let that be a victory cry of truth. In an era where pandemics and war are seamless bookends to a continually crazy society, Monroe & co decided to get together in December 2021 to follow up 2019’s critically acclaimed One Man Gang with 11 street-walking’, jive talking’, strutting ‘n’ swaggering procklamations that double down and deliver on that title.

At a time when fun has been hard to feel, I Live Too Fast To Die Young is lean, mean, raw power rock ‘n’ roll music, with cracking cuts such as “Young Drunks & Old Alcoholics”, “All Fighter” and the punky fun of “Murder The Summer Of Love” showing crisp electricity and melodies which wrap their shimmering selves around some razor sharp riffs. There are also expansive, Stones-tinged saunters such as “Can’t Stop Falling Apart” and “Everybody’s Nobody”, while the title track takes aim between your eyes off a driving back-beat with a defiant chorus dripping with Monroe’s irrepressible attitude.

“This album has a great combination and balance of songs, and the collection tells a great overall story,” says Monroe, who became internationally famous as frontman of the enormously influential Hanoi Rocks in the early ‘80s, “it has a lot of colour and energy, and of course it is rock ’n’ roll, but punk is also always going to be a part of who we are, that will never die.”

Recorded at Inkfish Studios in Helsinki, Finland between November and December 2021 and produced by the band with engineer Erno Laitinen, the album features Monroe on lead vocals and harmonica, Steve Conte (guitars and vocals), Rich Jones (guitar, vocals), Karl Rockfist (drums) and Sami Yaffa (bass/vocals/guitar) as well as enjoying several guests including Guns N’ Roses guitar legend Slash, who solos and provides additional guitars on the title track.

With I Live Too Fast To Die Young, it is clear Michael Monroe is striding into the summer with a triumphant roar to offer you the real rock ‘n’ roll escape of 2022.

I Live Too Fast To Die Young will be available on CD Digipak, 12” Red Vinyl, Signed Limited Edition 12” Vinyl with Alternative Artwork, Digital Download, Streaming and special D2C bundles. Available to pre-order now at this location.

BAND LINE-UP:
Michael Monroe – lead vocals, harmonica
Steve Conte – guitars, vocals
Rich Jones – guitars, vocals
Karl Rockfist – drums
Sami Yaffa – bass, vocals, guitar

Recorded and mixed by Erno “Error” Laitinen at Inkfish Studios, Helsinki, Finlandr
Produced by Erno “Error” Laitinen, Michael Monroe, Rich Jones, Sammi Yafa, Steve Conte & Karl Rockfistr
Mastered by Svante Forsbäck at Chartmakersr
Additional recording by Bobby Nieminen at Raymond’s Barnr
Piano recorded at Sonic Pump Studios, recording assistant Tommi Saarinenr
Slash’s guitars engineered by John Ewingr

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS:
Slash – guitar solo & additional guitars on “I Live Too Fast To Die Young”
Lenni-Kalle Taipale – Piano on “Antisocialite” & “Can’t Stop Falling Apart”
Suvi Aalto & Astrid Nicole – Additional backing vocals on “Can’t Stop Falling Apart” & “Murder The Summer Of Love”
Neil Leyton – Additional backing vocals on “Everybody’s Nobody”, “Murder The Summer Of Love” & “All Fighter”

“I Live Too Fast To Die Young” track listing:

01 – Murder the Summer of Love
02 – Young Drunks & Old Alcoholics
03 – Derelict Palace
04 – All Fighter
05 – Everybody’s Nobody
06 – Antisocialite
07 – Can’t Stop Falling Apart
08 – Pagan Prayer
09 – No Guilt
10 – I Live Too Fast to Die Young
11 – Dearly Departed

The band is due to appear on a string of summer festival shows and will be touring in support of the album on the following dates:

08 Apr – House of Rock Bar, Kouvola (FI)
14 Apr – Möysän Musaklubi, Lahti (FI)
15 Apr – Hyvinkääsali, Hyvinkää (FI)
16 Apr – Olympia, Tampere (FI)
21 Apr – Tavastia Club, Helsinki (FI)
22 Apr – Ikaalinen Spa, Ikaalinen (FI)
04 Jun – ROCK HARD FESTIVAL, Gelsenkirchen (DE)
06 Jun – K.B. Hallen, Copenhagen (DK)*
9-11 Jun – SAARISTO OPEN AIR, Kaarina (FI)
10 Jun – ROCK IN THE CITY, Kuopio (FI)
11 Jun – SWEDEN ROCK, Sölvesborg (SE)
15 Jun – Dolina Charlotty, Charlotta (PL)*
17 Jun – Stadthalle, Zwickau (DE) *
18 Jun – AZKENA FESTIVAL, Vitoria-Gasteiz (ES)
21 Jun – Mitsubishi Electric Halle, Dusseldorf (DE)*
22 Jun – Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt (DE)*
25 Jun – HELLFEST, Clisson (FR)
29 Jun – Ippodromo San Siro, Milan (IT)*
07 Jul – SAUNA OPEN AIR, Tampere (FI)
08 Jul – ROCK IN THE CITY, Oulu (FI)
14-17 Jul – VAUHTIAJOT, Seinäjoki (FI)
16 Jul – ROCK IN THE CITY, Rovaniemi (FI)
29-30 Jul – SKOGSROJET FESTIVAL, Rejmyre (SE)
04-06 Aug – WACKEN OPEN AIR, Wacken (DE)
04-06 Aug – VAASA FESTIVAL, Vaasa (FI)
27 Aug – HRH Sleaze, Sheffield (UK)

*Supporting Alice Cooper

For tickets and more information please visit: www.michaelmonroe.com/web/

Finnish Proggers ODDLAND Announce European Tour in May/June

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 30, 2022
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Finnish progressive metal act ODDLAND will embark on a European tour in May/June 2022, as special guest act for the Danish prog/thrash act Manticora, supporting ODDLAND’s newly released and incredibly well-reviewed album “Vermillion”.

The tour is visiting most of western Europe and will see the band, return to a wide array of cities, some of which they have played before and some, which are new to their amazing prog-metal.

Tour routing:
20.05: Turock, Essen, Germany
21.05: Podium Duycker, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
22.05: Hedon, Zwolle, The Netherlands
24.05: South Of Heaven, Bilzen, Belgium
25.05: Fabrik, Coesfeld, Germany
26.05: Z7, Pratteln, Switzerland
27.05: Secret Place, Montpellier, France
28.05: Rock ‘n Eat, Lyon, France
29.05: 7’er Club, Mannheim, Germany
30.05: La Boule Noire, Paris, France
31.05: Backstage, Munich, Germany
01.06: Tba
02.06: Gladhouse, Cottbus, Germany
03.06: Escape Metal Corner, Vienna, Austria
10.06: Hellsinki Metal Horizons Fest, Helsinki, Finland
11.06: Apollo, Turku, Finland

Find TICKETS for the shows here: http://www.manticora.dk/tour-dates

Sakari Ojanen (vocals/guitars) comments: “For us, playing live is the consummation of making new music and releasing an album, so we are thrilled to announce our return to the stages of Europe. We are excited to show how the band and the songs have grown and matured. Also thrilled to be doing it in the great company of Manticora and Oversense.”

ODDLAND have spent the Corona-lockdown, writing their first album in 5 years, excelling in a deeper and deeper internal insight about how to expand their impressively unique sound. A hybrid between bands like Tool, Leprous, Pain Of Salvation and Soen, but with their own trademark-sound that makes ODDLAND stand out.

ODDLAND have previously released two critically acclaimed albums, “The Treachery Of Senses” from 2012, released on Century Media records and “Origin“, released in 2016 through Sensory Records.

DRAMANDUHR Release Third Single ‘Tàhn Stun Karràh’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 30, 2022
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The new single of the Esoteric/Mediterranean Metal project from Italy DRAMANDUHR has now been unveiled. “TÀHN STUN KARRÀH“, third one of a long series that anticipates the release of Dramanduhr’s debut full-length. 

“TÀHN STUN KARRÀH” it’s rhythmic and atmospheric, recalling particular mediterranean sonorities and scenarios, opening itself to precious sonic excursions.

“At 3.46 am of December 25th 2020, inexplicably, a champagne chalice fell on the ground from a rung in the garden, breaking in thousand pieces right under my sight….” /// “…The songs of Dramanduhr are sung in Dahrmonium, an evocative language of pure glossolalia, which aims at emanating the archetypical vibrations to communicate with the Absolute.”

More information at
Website – http://www.dramanduhr.com/
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/dramanduhr

GENGIS KHAN Unveil Single ‘Possessed By The Wolf’, New Album “Possessed By The Moon” Out May 27th

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 30, 2022
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Italian old school heavy metallers GENGIS KHAN have just signed a deal with the U.S. label Stormspell Records which will release the band’s third full-length album “Possessed By The Moon” on May 27th 2022.

GENGIS KHAN have just unveiled the first single taken from the upcoming record. The song titled “Possessed By The Wolf” is a catchy and epic track where horror vibes and speed perfectly match.

LISTEN TO “Possessed By The Wolf” HERE: https://gengiskhan1.bandcamp.com/track/possessed-by-the-wolf

“This single introduces the change of our sound. Songs like ‘Possessed By The Wolf’, ‘The Wall Of Death’ and the ballad, ‘Eternal Flame’, will surprise our listeners. There will be more melody and the keyboards sound huge!”, explains the band’s mastermind Frank Leone.
 
The album was born in the band’s home studio, while the keyboards, drums and solo guitars were recorded by Simone Mularoni (DGM, ELVENKING, LABYRINTH, ANCIENT BARDS, and many more) at Domination Studio in San Marino. The album artwork is by Alan Lathwell.

“Possessed By The Moon” will be released as CD digipak and digital. The pre-orders are available HERE: https://gengiskhan1.bandcamp.com/ | http://www.stormspell.com/

The track listing reads as follows:

  1. Possessed By The Wolf
  2. In The Name Of Glory
  3. Extreme Power
  4. Eternal Flame
  5. Possessed By The Moon
  6. Sandman
  7. The Wall Of Death
  8. Long Live The Rebels
  9. Gengis Khan – Bonus track

Upcoming shows:
https://www.facebook.com/events/321005906642614/
https://www.facebook.com/events/660521025367758

GENGIS KHAN are:
Frank Leone – Vocals, Bass
Mike Petrone – Lead Guitars
Neil Grotti – Guitars
Gianni Lorenzini – Drums
Lee Under – Keyboards

Greek SPEKTRVM Sign with Sliptrick Records, Debut Album Coming in 2022

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 30, 2022
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Greek Heavy Metallers SPEKTRVM have signed a deal with Sliptrick Records.

The music of Greek metal group Spektrvm (pronounced ‘Spectrum’) spreads wide across chromatic, political, religious and many other themes. The group was formed at 2016, by Michael Pouliezos and George Zikas in their mid/late teens and have changed various members over time before finalizing their line-up in the fall of 2018. Spektrvm have made numerous appearances have been made at music festivals and shows around Greece.

The general musical style of their upcoming debut album Blood For Heaven could be considered as heavy metal with influences from progressive, folk, nu, thrash and doom metal, but no one can be sure where the endless well of musical ideas and interactions within the Spektrvm cannon are going to lead.

The Blood For Heaven album will be published in 2022 in collaboration with Sliptrick Records.

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