MADMAN’S LULLABY Release New Music Video for Single ‘Love Don’t Come Easy’

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MADMAN’S LULLABY have released the video for their new single “Love Don’t Come Easy”, taken from their EP “Nocturnal Overdrive Part 1” that was released worldwide on MR Records. The music video was recently world premiered on SleazeRoxx.com and is now available for everyone to view below.

“Love Don’t Come Easy” shows how amazingly effective Madman’s Lullaby is when delivering a masterclass power ballad. – Highwire Daze Magazine

Mr. Brett, from Madman’s Lullaby, recently discussed the new single, “Love Don’t Come Easy is a great tune. We thought the lyrics in the song offered some interesting possibilities for a video. This made it a logical choice.”

“In Your Mind” the first single from “Nocturnal Overdrive Part 1” recently hit #1 on the SpiderwebRadio Top 25.

“Nocturnal Overdrive Part 2” the follow up EP will be released this Spring.

You can stream and purchase the EP “Nocturnal Overdrive Part 1” at: https://smarturl.it/madmanslullaby

Track Listing:
1. Love Rain Down
2. Next Show
3. Drive Me Crazy
4. Love Don’t Come Easy
5. In Your Mind
6. Never Too Late

You can stream and purchase the “In Your Mind” single and the EP “Nocturnal Overdrive Part 1” at: https://smarturl.it/madmanslullaby

Band Members:
Chris Michaels – Lead Vocals
Mr. Brett – Lead Guitar
Luis Barillas – Bass/Vocals
Eric Arbizu – Drums/Vocals

MADMAN’S LULLABY hails from San Jose, Ca, rocking the Bay Area since 2007. 2007 also saw the first release “Unchain My Soul”. Mr. Brett – Lead Guitar is the founding member of the band, he and Eric Arbizu – Drums/Vocals have been together since 2008. In 2010 the band released “New Beginning”. 2013 saw the release of “Unhinged”, this album received glowing reviews from all over. The band was called a cross between Lynch Mob/Badlands with a touch of Black Label Society. In 2013 the band also won San Francisco radio station 107.7 ‘The Bone’s Local Licks’ contest and played the Shoreline Amphitheatre with Bad Company, Lynard Skynard and Night Ranger. 2015 MADMAN’S LULLABY played at Vasby Rock Festival in Stockholm, Sweden with the likes of WASP, Michael Schenker, Danger Danger, HEAT and more. In late 2016, after a few line-up changes, Chris Michaels – Lead vocalist and Luis Barillas – Bassist/Vocalist joined the band. 2017 the band release their 4th album “Sins Of Greed”.

MADMAN’S LULLABY has supported amongst others, Michael Schenker, Wasp, Lynch Mob, Lita Ford, Winger, LA Guns, Pat Travers, Faster Pussycat, Jake E Lee’s Red Dragon Cartel, Great White, Frank Hannon Band (Tesla), Tony MacAlpine, Richie Kotzen (Winery Dogs). MADMAN’S LULLABY has played from California SF Bay Area to Hollywood, Chicago, IL, and all the way to Stockholm, Sweden and the UK.

MADMAN’S LULLABY plays Heavy Blues/Hard Rock, with Melodic Hook Driving Rhythms, Soulful Vocals, Searing Guitar Leads and Thunderous Drums.

WHEN RIVERS MEET, DOM MARTIN, KING KING + BRAVE RIVAL Receive Nominations at UK Blues Awards 2022

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Dom Martin, When Rivers Meet, King King and Brave Rival are just a few of the UK’s leading blues artists who have received nominations at the UK Blues Awards 2022.

If you haven’t voted yet, cast here: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/2022UKBluesAwards.  Voting closes at 23.45 on Tuesday February 15th. 

Dom Martin is nominated in five categories including “Blues Instrumentalist Of The Year”, “Best Acoustic Blues Act Of The Year”, “Blues Band Of The Year”, “Blues Vocalist Of The Year” and “Blues Album Of The Year”. Based in Belfast, guitarist and singer-songwriter is being hailed as Ireland’s biggest music export since the great Rory Gallagher. His new album “A Savage Life” will be released April 8th. Dom is the UK representative at this year’s International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee from May 3-9th. Click here for more info.

When Rivers Meet, comprising husband and wife Aaron and Grace Bond, who swept the UK Blues Awards in 2021 by being the first act to win four awards, are back this year with three nominations including “Blues Vocalist Of The Year”, “Blues Band Of The Year” and “Blues Album Of The Year”. WRM are currently riding high with their sophomore album “Saving Grace” which features their forthcoming single “He’ll Drive You Crazy”. The band start their 17-date UK headline tour with special guest Troy Redfern on April 21st. Click here for more info. 

King King, hailed by many as the UK’s biggest blues rock band, are nominated for “Blues Band Of The Year”. Led by Glaswegian vocalist and guitarist Alan Nimmo, the band start their UK tour with special guests The Damn Truth on Thursday February 10th. King King will perform tracks from their latest critically acclaimed album “Maverick”, plus classics from their back catalogue. Click here for info about King King’s February 2022 UK tour. 

Brave Rival, the Portsmouth-based five-piece rock, blues and soul band featuring the hypnotic lead vocals of Lindsey Bonnick and Chloe Josephine, are nominated for “Emerging Act Of The Year”. The band’s debut album “Life’s Machine” will be released May 6th. They release their single “Guilty Love” on February 11th. Click here for info about their new single, album, and UK tour dates. 

For further info about the UK Blues Awards 2022, visit www.ukblues.org/awards.

BATTLE BEAST Enter Worldwide Charts with New Album “Circus of Doom”

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On January 21st, BATTLE BEAST unleashed their brand new masterpiece »Circus of Doom«, via Nuclear Blast. In true BATTLE BEAST fashion, the 10 tracks blend true heavy metal with pop and rock-vibes, paired with Noora Louhimo’s unique voice. Since its release, the album has entered the charts worldwide, including #1 in their homecountry Finland.

Here is an overview of official chart results:

Finland: #1
UK: #1 (Rock), #6 (Indie)
Sweden: #1 (Hard Rock), #5 (Physical)
Switzerland: #5
Germany: #9
US: #7 (Current Hard Music), #10 (Top New Artist)

Eero Sipilä comments: “We are so grateful to our fans around the world for making ‘Circus of Doom’ such a huge success. We can’t wait to take this album on the road and get to thank all of you face-to-face! The circus is coming to town!”

»Circus of Doom« was recorded at JKB Studios in Helsinki, Finland and produced and mixed by keyboardist Janne Björkroth, while the stunning artwork was created by Jan Yrlund.

Get »Circus of Doom« in the format of your choice, here: https://bfan.link/circusofdoom

Today, BATTLE BEAST also announce new tour dates for their “Circus Of Doom” European Tour, originally scheduled for this spring, but had to be postponed to late summer 2022 due to the ongoing pandemic situation.

See the band live at one of the following shows:

Circus of Doom European Tour
25.08.   SE           Stockholm – Fallan
26.08.   SE           Huskvarna – Folkets Park
27.08.   SE           Gothenburg – Pustervik
28.08.   DK          Copenhagen – Pumpehuset
29.08.   DE          Hamburg – Gruenspan
30.08.   DE          Berlin – Columbia Theater
01.09.   DE          Stuttgart – Longhorn
03.09.   CZ          Prague – Palac Akropolis
04.09.   AT          Vienna – Simm City
05.09.   CH          Pratteln – Z7
07.09.   IT           Milan – Legend Club
08.09.   DE          Munich – Neue Theaterfabrik
10.09.   DE          Frankfurt – Batschkapp
11.09.   DE          Nurnberg – Hirsch
12.09.   DE          Bochum – Zeche
14.09.   UK          London – O2 Academy Islington
15.09.   UK          Wolverhampton – KK’s Stell Mill
16.09.   UK          Manchester – Club Academy
18.09.   BE          Vosselaar – Biebob

MORTEMIA Release Lyric Video for Single ‘Here Comes Winter’ Feat. Maja Shining

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Morten Veland (SIRENIA, MORTEMIA and founder of TRISTANIA) released the 7th Mortemia song from ‘The Pandemic Pandemonium Sessions’ on the 29th of January. The track is entitled ‘Here Comes Winter’ and features Maja Shining (Forever Still) on guest vocals. Today the lyric/performance video of the same song is out, watch it below.

Morten Veland:

“I am proud and honoured to introduce my friend Maja Shining as my special guest for ‘The Pandemic Pandemonium Sessions’. The seventh song is entitled ‘Here Comes Winter’, and will be available on all digital platforms from the 29th of January 2022. Me and Maja toured together back in 2019, when both Sirenia and Forever Still were on the billing of the ‘Female Metal Voices Tour’. We became great friends right away, and it was a pleasure to hear Maja and the band perform every time. I feel truly privileged and thankful to have Maja onboard this project, and I am really looking forward to sharing this song with you all. This song is quite slow and atmospheric, but still packs some heaviness, even a bit doomy at times. And the amount of emotions that Maja has poured into her performance on this song I find no less than breathtaking.”

Maja Shining:

“I met Morten, back when we were touring with Forever Still and Sirenia on the last tour before covid paralyzed the world and put an end to touring for longer than anyone could have possibly imagined. We bonded fast on the month-long Female Metal Voices Tour (maybe it was the Nordic kinship 😉 ), so I was very excited, when Morten asked me to collaborate on a song for Mortemia and said yes before even hearing it. The time of release couldn’t be more ideal, as the song perfectly embodies the spirit of cold, dark Scandinavian winter and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did working on it!“

Photo credits Morten pic: Angst Im Wald
Photo credits Maja pic: Tim Tronckoe, Mikkel Haastrup

After 11 years of silence Norwegian multi-instrumentalist, producer and artist Morten Veland is once more active with his solo project Mortemia, this time with a brand new concept. ‘The Pandemic Pandemonium Sessions’ is a series of singles  released on a monthly basis, each song featuring a well known and highly profiled guest singer from the metal scene, so far the following singers has contributed:

Madeleine Liljestam (Eleine)
Marcela Bovio (Stream of Passion, Ayreon, MaYaN, Dark Horse White Horse)
Alessia Scolletti (Temperance, ERA)
Liv Kristine (Liv Kristine, ex-Theatre of Tragedy, ex-Leaves Eyes)
Melissa Bonny (Ad Infinitum, The Dark Side of the Moon)
Brittney Slayes (Unleash the Archers)
Maja Shining (Forever Still)

More information at https://www.facebook.com/mortemianorway

Alt-Metal Heroes SOiL Release Fiery Version of NEIL YOUNG’s ‘Rockin’ In The Free World’

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When word got back to Neil Young and his band that their 1989 concert performance scheduled to take place in the Soviet Union had been cancelled by antagonistic government authorities, Young’s guitar player Frank Sampedro replied to the news with “well, I guess we’ll have to keep on rockin’ in the free world.” And thus, one of the most legendary and fiercely defiant rock anthems of the 20th century was born. The song became the bookends of Young’s brilliant studio album, Freedom, with an acoustic version kicking it off and an electric version closing it and would eventually be celebrated as one of Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time (#216).

Now that Young’s music has fallen silent on the world’s most prominent musical platform, Spotify, another band has stepped forward to make sure that Young’s rebellious spirit continues to live on with a powerful new version of “Rockin’ In The Free World.” Chicago alternative metal kings SOiL have released their own version of the song to all digital platforms, keeping the fire lit for future generations of rebels and iconoclasts.

As the band explains “Over the years, SOiL has considered covering Neil Young’s ‘Rockin’ In The Free World’ many times. It was a song that really struck a nerve with us individually in our younger days before SOiL was even a band. The song still stands the test of time and is as powerful today as it was back then. This version we recorded was scheduled to be released as part of a special upcoming album due out later this year, but we decided that now would be a good time to let everyone hear our take on the Neil Young classic with the SOiL twist. We hope you all enjoy it!”

Stream/download the single: https://orcd.co/soil_rockin_in_the_free_world

WATAIN to Release New Album “The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain” on April 29th, First Single Unleashed

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Notorious Swedish black metal collective WATAIN is proud to unleash “The Howling” – the first single from their upcoming new studio album, “The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain,” which will be released on April 29th, 2022. 

“The Howling” sets the tone for what will be offered on the band’s 7th full-length, an unsettling blackened voyage in 10 chapters that is as inexorably vicious as it is enticing.

E. Danielsson (vocals) adds:
“The Howling refers to the wordless voice of the wild, wailing eerily through the ages, urging us to leave our safe spaces and explore the dark recesses of the great Abyss both within and without. To see it, to learn from it, to know it. “

The single is available in both digital and physical form – a strictly limited 7” with “The Howling” on its A-side and the Profanatica cover “I Arose” on its B-side can be bought as of today (no pre-order!). The Black Vinyl is exclusively available through Nuclear Blast Mailorder, whereas the Oxblood colored version is being sold in the band’s own shop. Act quick as these will be gone fast!

LISTEN TO “THE HOWLING”: https://bfan.link/the-howling

“The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain” – Tracklist
01. Ecstasies in night infinite
02. The howling
03. Serimosa
04. Black cunt
05. Leper’s grace
06. Not sun nor man nor god
07. Before the cataclysm
08. We remain
09. Funeral winter
10. Septentrion

Watain crawled out of Satan’s cunt in 1998, and has since then ascended and grown into one of the world’s most well known and notorious Black Metal bands. Their legacy is often referred to with fear, love, confusion or awe, but seldom with indifference.

Their infamous live shows have become a worldwide phenomenon; inimitable ceremonies of wild Black Metal fanatism where the sacred and solemn collides with raw unadulterated force. With their greatly anticipated seventh studio album, Watain continues to arouse and electrify their audience with an unmistakable, adventurous brand of Black Metal Magic, processed and distilled over the course of a 25-year long history.

Recorded live by long time collaborator Tore Stjerna in his infamous Necromorbus studio, now re-located to an old church on the Swedish countryside, ”The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain” takes the listener one huge step closer to the innermost heart of a band that despite always being surrounded by rumors and controversy has always strived for a most sincere and genuine form of expression.

With 10 songs written by the founding trinity of Watain (E. Danielsson, H. Jonsson and P. Forsberg), it is also the first Watain album to be recorded live with a full line up completed by A. Lillo, H. Eriksson and E. Forcas.

The material is further enriched by noble contributions from Farida Lemouchi (ex The Devil’s Blood, now in Molassess) and Gottfrid Åhman (ex In Solitude, now in PÅGÅ).

The lyrics, always a central aspect of every Watain album, range from manic proselytism to profound contemplation on the relativity between life and death, sacred and profane, holy and unholy, agony and ecstasy, eagerly excavating the winding depths of mind and spirit with a new sense of clarity and determination.

Characterized by a morbid sense of beauty mingled with raw primal force, Watain is the wolf that keeps hunting, fearless and free, in the dark night of man.