STINGER have released a new official video for their second single “Roller Coaster”! The track is taken from the band’s upcoming album “Expect The Unexpected” that will be released on May 13, 2022 via ROAR! Rock Of Angels Records!
Digital single of “Roller Coaster” is now available across all digital and streaming platforms! Pre-save the album, here: https://bfan.link/expect-the-unexpected
Produced by Matthew Sting & Claudio Jans Recorded at Stingray Studios Germany Mixed & Mastered by Claudio Jans at Crownjam Studios https://www.crownjamstudios.com/ Video editing by Daniel Streng / LowkezMedia www.lowkezmedia.com
DREAMFERNO‘s new song is a reverence to songwriters’ close relative who passed away after a long struggle with terminal illness. Hagne is all about purity and virtue. One can only hope that everyone has at least one person in their life, who passes on the idea of good morals and kindness for the next generation.
The song starts off with a beautiful Disney -style intro wich transforms into a vibrant symphonic rock interpretation accompanied with vocals by Enni Rautiainen and Samuli Rimmi. Krzysztof Dobosiewicz is responsible for the exquisite arranging of the orchestrations. Composing and lyrics are from the pen of Samuli.
Vocals: Enni Rautiainen & Samuli Rimmi Guitar & Keyboards: Samuli Rimmi Orchestrations: Krzysztof Dobosiewicz Guitar: Tuomas Uuksulainen Bass: Juha Pärnänen Drums: Teemu Karppinen
Extreme Metal pioneers VENOM INC. are proud to announce their sophomore album “There’s Only Black”, which will be released on September 23rd via Nuclear Blast Records.
Almost 40 years after their inception, the revitalized 1989 – 1992 VENOM line-up of guitarist Jeff “Mantas” Dunn and vocalist / bassist Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan, and the new addition of drummer Jeramie ‘Warmachine’ Kling have returned with one hell of a follow-up to their acclaimed debut, “Avé”, and show no signs of slowing down.
Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan comments: “Following ‘Wacken’ in 2019, our live season closed giving us time where I could have my hip replacement surgery and we could take the recovery time to work on a new album… Little did anyone know we’d be hit by a pandemic that would pause the whole world. We began our work at a pace then being locked down with no prospect of live shows I decided there was no need to rush it along but utilize the time to create without the pressure of live work looming.
“So we began recording our songs .. and after producing twice the amount required we began editing, touching, improving, and polishing until we had until we finally had what we decided was THE correct album along with the label and here we can finally present to you… a pure ball of furious… VENOM INC power that left us feeling proud and excited at the same time…THIS album is now yours!!! And as the world runs through its evolution of its colors remember… when the sun goes out… THERE’S ONLY BLACK!!!!! AVE!”
Watch the lyric video for the opening track “How Many Can Die” below.
Bulgaria’s ODD CREW have released a music video accompanying their grinding new track ‘Wasted Days’. This is the fourth single from their upcoming album Dark Matters (Part I), due out on May 27, 2022 via Drakkar Entertainment. The video continues the black and white emotionally shattering concept of the new direction in which the band intends to grow in the future.
Shortly before the release of the single, the band announced that there would be four albums entitled ‘Dark Matters’, and also that a feature film for the first part will be released.
Guitarist Vasil Parvanovski comments: “For me, ‘Wasted Days’ is one of the tracks on the album with the most cyclical and darkest feeling. I remember when we worked on the idea, everyone in the band fell in love with this simple and heavy riff. It also led the overall concept we wanted to have in the song to keep that gloomy feeling. We made videos for all the songs off the album, and the video for this song was the first finished one we watched. After seeing it we said to ourselves that this is exactly the emotion we wanted to keep for them all.”
Following five much acclaimed studio records, two DVDs and countless live shows over more than two decades, Dark Matters (Part 1) sees ODD CREW reach their musical maturity on a new level, and one that doubles down on the band’s songwriting skills and exceptional talent. ODD CREW may have stepped out as one of Bulgaria’s best kept heavy rock and metal secrets long ago, but their new album will make them indispensable for the global heavy music scene.
Dark Matters (Part 1) was recorded, mixed and mastered by ODD CREW in their own “ButcherHouse Studio”. The album pre-sale has just started at THIS LOCATION!
Praised by fans and critics alike for their outstanding debut album “Agora”, Germany’s CREDIC have unleashed the hotly anticipated & worthy successor, titled “Vermillion Oceans“. Featuring ten brand new tracks, with their second full-length record CREDIC deliver a furious and ferocious, yet emotional metal Iliad. An epic brand of melodic death metal that is, despite upholding the very DNA of the genre, free and bold, charging with vigour and embellished by a monumental aura of longing not unlike the feeling you get when you gaze at the starlit sky in wonder and terror. Imagine a cross between Gothenburg metal and the score to “Stranger Things”, “Vermillion Oceans” sounds like a massive, zeitgeisty metal album taking a stroll through Hawkins, Indiana. To celebrate the release in glorious style, CREDIC have unleashed a brand new music video for the track “The Path”.
CREDIC comments:
THE PATH… to cross all given limits. Just like the lyrics, the music has also no limits. A Heaven Shall Burn verse, a Parkway Drive chorus, a Machine Head breakdown and, of course, an Amon Amarth tremolo-double bass interlude. All combined to a bulldozer of a song and an absolute live show maniac. Turn up the volume and tear down those barriers of yours.
Furthermore the band has announced new live dates, supporting the mighty Debauchery in the fall of 2022! So make sure to catch CREDIC on tour on one of their upcoming shows!
Norwegian hard rockers CONCEPTION have released the much-expanded deluxe version of their State of Deception album digitally. The CD version will be made available the following week. The album features a host of brand new recordings, including exclusive new songs, a number of live performances and re-recordings of some of the most popular tracks from their back catalogue. The campaign will be led by the release of a video for Silent Crying 2.0.
The deluxe version of State of Deception is an acknowledgement from the band to address the fans’ call for making more material available, and has been financed exclusively via the band’s unique direct-to-fan relationship over the course of the last twelve months. “We’ve been lucky enough to have such loyal fans,” vocalist Roy Khan observes. “They have been incredibly generous in supporting us, and we’ve tried really hard to acknowledge that with this album.”
Speaking of the brand new version of Silent Crying 2.0 guitarist Tore Østby revealed “this was originally written to be performed with a music class I was teaching in elementary school! Then we got a record deal first time around, and my brother persuaded me to play it to the band. Roy loved it and completed it with his personal touch”. Roy explains further: “When you revisit and analyze old songs there’s often something you would have done differently, but this collection of words came out the way it was supposed to the first time around. I know this track means a lot to many people and it is also a favorite of mine, showing how light and beauty can be found even in the darkest place.”
In Deception / 02. Of Raven And Pigs / 03. Waywardly Broken / 04. No Rewind / 05. The Mansion (featuring Elize Ryd) /06. By The Blues / 07. Anybody Out There / 08. She Dragoon / 09. Feather Moves (remastered)
CD2:
Roll The Fire 2.0 / 02. Silent Crying 2.0 / 03. Monument In Time / 04. Your Own Lullaby (For Matilda) / 05. Cry (live) / 06. Gethsemane (live) / 07. A Virtual Lovestory (live) / 08. Reach Out (live) / 09. A Million Gods (live) / 10. Flow (live) / 11. Roll The Fire (original demo)
CD3: Instrumental versions of tracks featured on CD1
Conception will also be returning to live performance once again:
APRIL 23 2022 – STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN ; FRYSHUSET APRIL 29 2022 – OSLO, NORWAY ; ROCKEFELLER JUNE 3 2022 – US, ATLANTA ; PROGPOWER XXI FESTIVAL OCTOBER 28 2022 – BREKSTAD, NORWAY ; ØRLAND ROCK FESTIVAL MARCH 26 2023 – ANTWERP, BELGIUM ; THUNDER MUSIC FESTIVAL APRIL 20 2023 – AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND ; MELKWEG OZ APRIL 21 2023 – ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE, LUXEMBOURG ; ROCKHAL APRIL 22 2023 – PARIS, FRANCE ; LA MAROQUINERIE APRIL 27 2023 – BARCELONA, SPAIN ; SALAMANDRA APRIL 28 2023 – MADRID, SPAIN ; SHOKO APRIL 29 2023 – LISBON, PORTUGAL ; LISBOA AO VIVO
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