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KISSIN’ DYNAMITE Drop New Anthem + Video ‘Coming Home’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 6, 2022
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[Photo Credit: Holger Fichtner & Patrick Schneiderwind]

German chart toppers KISSIN’ DYNAMITE are thrilled to release their newest single “Coming Home”. This banger truly proves their origins in stadium rock without being pigeonholed! It’s accompanied by a jaw-dropping video in which the five-piece once again demonstrates their relentless energy.

“Coming Home” is the last taste of the band’s upcoming studio album, Not The End Of The Road, to be unleashed before it’s released on January 21 via Napalm Records. It will build upon the success story of their previous album (#7 on the GER album charts) with their very own bursting high-voltage sound – watch out!

KISSIN’ DYNAMITE on the new song:
“Coming Home” doesn’t mean to return to a specific location. It is more the probably coziest emotion of feeling alive, being yourself & having love in your heart, no matter where you are. It’s a priceless gift. “Tell everyone I’m coming home!”

Founded in 2007, German heavy metal formation KISSIN’ DYNAMITE have made more than just a name for themselves in the scene: With six studio albums and various chart entries (#7 on the GER album charts with their full-length Ecstasy in 2018), the band established their trademark style – characterized by modern sound, massive anthems and catchy hooks paired with an 80s stadium rock attitude and eccentric look. Now, the five piece is ready to release their Napalm Records debut, Not The End Of The Road, and usher in heavy metal in 2022!

The new studio album was produced, recorded and mixed by vocalist Hannes Braun (Südland Music) himself, who has also worked with bands like Santiano, The Kelly Family and Beyond The Black. Mastering was completed by Grammy Award winning producer Jacob Hansen at Hansen Studios, known for his work with bands like Volbeat and many more.

Ande Braun on the new album:
“Not The End Of The Road is an album that accurately describes our experiences as a band since Ecstasy in 2018. First and foremost, we highlight with songs like “Not The End Of The Road”, “What Goes Up”, “Yoko Ono” and “Only The Dead”: We’re up for it, we’re pulling together and we want to reach the rock Olympus! Titles like “Coming Home”, “Gone For Good” and “Scars”, on the other hand, deal with real feelings like loneliness, homesickness and sadness, which are also part of life.”

Hannes Braun adds:
“With Ecstasy, we already didn’t make any compromises and just wanted to compose music that speaks from us. Not The End Of The Road seamlessly picks up exactly here.”

Pre-order Your Copy of Not The End Of The Road NOW!

With Not The End Of The Road, KISSIN’ DYNAMITE set another milestone in their successful discography: In guitar-driven power metal fashion, the tune of the intro and title track “Not The End Of The Road” prepares the listener for a thrilling road trip and new anthems straight from the heart of the KISSIN’ DYNAMITE universe. Crusher “What Goes Up” takes its listener into the truly spectacular soundscapes that make stadiums shake and convinces with Aerosmith-like guitar attacks and an anthemic hook. But KISSIN’ DYNAMITE are also not afraid to show their mellower side, as heard on delightfully tranquil tracks like “Good Life” and “Gone For Good” – not only showcasing the almost calm touches pervading the melodies, but also presenting the softer side of Braun’s vocal repertoire. While tracks like “No One Dies A Virgin” and “Yoko Ono” symbolize catchy party hymns, standouts “Coming Home” and “Defeat It” underline their origins of stadium rock without being pigeonholed. “Voodoo Spell” manifests the variety of the band and their different influences – starting with strong dark rock elements, the song becomes an opus that easily competes with the biggest stadium giants. The album’s closer, “Scars”, proves once again that KISSIN’ DYNAMITE can reach the depths and showcase lyrical vulnerability – an impressive ending that screams to be played live.

Not The End Of The Road track listing:
1. Not the End of the Road
2. What Goes Up
3. Only the Dead
4. Good Life
5, Yoko Ono
6. Coming Home
7. All for a Halleluja
8. No One Dies a Virgin
9. Gone for Good
10. Defeat It
11. Voodoo Spell
12. Scars

LAZY QUEEN Release Vibrant New Visuals for Single ‘Bed/Head’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 5, 2022
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(photo: Stian Werme)

LAZY QUEEN entered the Norwegian music scene like a breath of fresh air by way of New York, and today, the four-piece led by Henrik García Søberg (they/them) share the video for their cacophonous single ‘Bed/Head‘, which premiered exclusively on CLASH magazine. 

The vibrant, youthful new visuals arrive alongside news of the band’s hotly anticipated EP, “A Human Reaction”, set for release on March 18th 2022 via Icons Creating Evil Art. There will be more music from Lazy Queen this January – keep your eyes peeled. 

Listen to the single on all major streaming platforms here

Powered by their unique amalgamation of guitar structures from Brooklyn’s DIY scene and bouncy slacker pop melodies, the new track (produced by long-time Lazy Queen collaborator Morten Øby at Taakenheimen Lydriket in Oslo) sees the band take a tongue-in-cheek look at the causality between coping mechanisms and isolation, while knowing life continues all the same.

Speaking on the track, Henrik explains “Bed/Head is what your room smells when you haven’t gotten out of bed for a week straight. It’s feeling like your friends have forgotten you exist, and you’ve given them every reason to. It’s forgetting the sound of your own voice. It’s isolation and looking for a way out. It’s also a noisy pop song.”

The latest offering is an explicitly refreshed direction for Lazy Queen, who inked a new longform recording and publishing deal with Swedish label Icons Creating Evil Art in the summer of 2021. Said Henrik of the new union “we already feel right at home with our neighbouring brothers in ICEA. And we’re hoping to make this union of Norway and Sweden a little less “war-like” than the one from some 100 odd years ago, but only slightly”

“Bed/Head” follows the release of “Get Home or Die Trying”. Released through Eget Selskap and Pick & Mix labels, the darkly beautiful EP served as a crucial catharsis for the band processing personal trauma, allowing them to reassess, grow and move forward. Carefully considered singles “Bid Geal”, “Gutted”, “Throwaway” and “A Place (To Bury Strangers)” received widespread support and critical acclaim from renowned outlets such as Wonderland Magazine, Under The Radar, NYLON, Red Bull Music, Earmilk, Indietronica, Impose Magazine,  Medium and more. 

Along with extensive streaming and radio support they also played an incendiary set during the US festival #iVoted, where they as the only Norwegian booking shared the billing with artists such as Billie Eilish, Fantastic Negrito and Måneskin. 

With an increasingly vibrant Norwegian Indie Rock scene on the rise, Lazy Queen – as founded by Colombian-Norwegian Henrik García Søberg (they/them) – have made their mark with a sound inspired by the rich traditions of the Brooklyn DIY scene that birthed the band, ambitious and effervescent releases, coupled with their unique ability to convey personal and relatable experiences through García Søberg’s lyrics. 

The Oslo-based outfit effortlessly blends harmonic and discordant elements together with an instinctive ear for melody into a playful, innovative and vibrant sound, which affixes both context and contrast to lyrics that often explore life’s more maladjusted corners. It’s immediate. It’s urgent. It impatiently demands your attention.
Keep an eye out for even more new music from Lazy Queen soon. 

Lazy Queen was born in Brooklyn, raised in Oslo, and will never die. Join the wreckage.

IAN PARRY’S ROCK EMPORIUM Release New Video ‘In Isolation’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 5, 2022
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“In Isolation” is the second video taken from IAN PARRY’S ROCK EMPORIUM 2 “Brute Force” album. This powerful melodic classic metal track was written by Bob Wijtsma (music) & Ian Parry (lyrics & vocal melody).

The video also features the very talented musicians whom performed the music on “In Isolation” from the Rock Emporium 2 “Brute Force” album: Ian Parry – vocals, Bob Wijtsma (Ex-libris) – guitar, Kris Gildenlow (Kayak/ Pain of Salvation) – bass, Jereon van der Wiel (Odyssice/ Rock Emporium) – Keyboards, Sander Zoer (Delain) – drums. Filmed on location in the Netherlands by Lars Wijtsma & Ian Parry in France. Special thanks to Rob van Dalen location manager in the Netherlands. Video editing Francesco D’Acunzi at Mess Lab studios Italy.

“Brute Force” was released in June 2021 by Metal Mind Productions. The style of the album can be compared with some of the best rock & metal bands such as: Alcatrazz, Blue Murder, Dokken, Dio, Malmsteen’s Rising Force, Ozzy, Queensrÿche, Queen, Scorpions, Whitesnake and many other popular rock metal bands from the 90s.

In 2021 Ian Parry celebrated 40th years as a professional singer songwriter.

“Brute Force” – tracklist:

1. In Isolation
2. Darkest Secrets
3. ‘Til The Day I Die
4. My Confession
5. Brute Force
6. Fairytale
7. Lethal Injection
8. Rings of Fire
9. Dreamworld
10. Where Do We Go From Here
11. One Vision (Tribute to Queen & Freddie Mercury)

VOIVOD Launch New Digital Single & Lyric Video ‘Paranormalium’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 5, 2022
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photo by Catherine Deslauriers

Canadian progressive sci-fi metal innovators VOIVOD continue the promotional campaign for their upcoming studio album “Synchro Anarchy”, out worldwide on February 11th, 2022 via Century Media Records.

Today, a second single off “Synchro Anarchy” is being released, so go check out the album’s opening track “Paranormalium” in a lyric video created by Cloud Music Typography here:

VOIVOD guitarist Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain checked in with the following comment about the song:

““Paranormalium” opens with the very last guitar melody you hear on The Wake’s last song “Sonic Mycelium”, in the fade out of the string quartet. We wanted both entities or dimensions to connect through music as 2 parallel worlds can connect through distorted space-time, black holes, vibrations, spirituality or anything else.

“Paranormalium” is the name Denis “Snake” Bélanger came up with while writing the lyrics, trying to gather all of these concepts in one imaginary particle called “Paranormalium”. Depending on your individual perception or any influential inner or external event, makes oneself see or not see, be part of or not be part of, someone else’s reality OR even being stuck between many different dimensions as it is all connected in some ways through “Paranormalium”.

It’s one of the most complex, twisted and heavy songs on the album with many different landscapes. The melody comes back many times during the song in different forms, as reality can be consisted of the same material taking on different aspects. In the end, are we really living in the reality we think we’re in???”

Previously, VOIVOD launched the album’s first single “Planet Eaters” with a video clip directed by Pierre Menetrier here: https://youtu.be/lvHjNcjMqvU

“Synchro Anarchy” was recorded and mixed by Francis Perron at RadicArt Studio / https://radicart.net/ in Québec, Canada and mastered by Maor Appelbaum at Maor Appelbaum Mastering / http://www.maorappelbaum.com/ in California, U.S.A and produced by VOIVOD. The album features cover artwork by VOIVOD’s Michel “Away” Langevin and includes the following track-listing:

VOIVOD – “Synchro Anarchy” – Album:

  1. Paranormalium
  2. Synchro Anarchy
  3. Planet Eaters
  4. Mind Clock
  5. Sleeves Off
  6. Holographic Thinking
  7. The World Today
  8. Quest For Nothing
  9. Memory Failure

Next to the Jewelcase CD, LP and Digital Album formats, “Synchro Anarchy” will also be available in a Deluxe edition as Ltd. 2CD Mediabook and as Digital Album (2CD), containing the special “Return To Morgöth – Live 2018” bonus disc, which features a full live-show recording of VOIVOD’s 35th Anniversary hometown appearance at the Festival Jonquière En Musique from June 29 th, 2018. The show was recorded and mixed by Francis Perron, mastered by Yannick St-Amand and features the following track-listing:

VOIVOD – “Return To Morgöth – Live 2018” – Bonus Disc:

  1. Post Society
  2. The Unknown Knows
  3. Ravenous Medicine
  4. Psychic Vacuum
  5. Obsolete Beings
  6. Technocratic Manipulators
  7. Fall
  8. The Prow
  9. Order Of The Blackguards
  10. The Lost Machine
  11. Korgüll The Exterminator

The album’s pre-order is available here: https://voivodband.lnk.to/SynchroAnarchy

Closing in on 40 eventful years of existence, VOIVOD now return with their 15th (!) studio album, reaffirming to be one of the most fervently creative bands in the Universe. “Synchro Anarchy” follows 2018’s highly praised and Juno Award winning “The Wake” album as well as 2020’s stellar “Lost Machine – Live” release.

Michel “Away” Langevin added: “We are eager to present our latest work, a real collaborative effort. The new album represents countless hours of writing, demoing, recording, mixing and so on. The band and Francis Perron at RadicArt Studio gave their very best to make it happen under unusual circumstances, which led us to call it “Synchro Anarchy”. We feel that the sound and music are 100% Voïvod, and we hope everyone will enjoy it as much as we had fun making it. We certainly can’t wait to play it live!”

VEIN.FM Announce New Album “This World Is Going To Ruin You”, New Single ‘The Killing Womb’ Out Now

Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 5, 2022
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Massachusetts genre colliders VEIN.FM have announced details of their hugely anticipated second album “This World Is Going To Ruin You”, to be released on 4th March through Nuclear Blast Records in all territories except North America, where it will be released via Closed Casket Activities. Pre-order the new album on various formats now from: https://bfan.link/the-killing-womb

To mark the news, the band have released a horrifying new video for the record’s first single ‘The Killing Womb’, which you can watch HERE:

The new album, which was recorded with Grammy awarding winning producer Will Putney at Graphic Nature Audio in April 2020, features guest spots from Thursday‘s Geoff Rickly, Jeff Smith of screamo legends Jeromes Dream and Michigan-bred rapper Bones.

“This World Is Going To Ruin You” is a fully realised version of Vein.fm‘s heaviest elements, both sonically and emotionally. In the band’s own words, “With this album, the vibe was to go back to the origin point of Vein and put it on blast,” DiDio explains. “But it’s not a nostalgia trip. We’re just taking that part of the band to its fullest potential.”

‘This World Is Going To Ruin You’ Track Listing
1. Welcome Home
2. The Killing Womb
3. Versus Wyoming
4. Fear In Non Fiction
5. Lights Out
6. Wherever You Are
7. Magazine Beach
8. Inside Design
9. Hellnight
10. Orgy In The Morgue
11. Wavery
12. Funeral Sound

ROSS THE BOSS Announce Extensive 2022 European Tour Dates

Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 5, 2022
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Left to Right in photo is: Mike Lepond, Marc Lopes, Steve Bolognese, Ross The Boss – Photo: Scott Braun

Ex-Manowar guitarist ROSS THE BOSS will be spotted once more on European soil in 2022 – headlining shows on his own and appearing on festivals throughout much of the spring and into the summer (and joined on many of the dates by either Dark Embrace, and The Evolution of Fire Tour 2022 along with RAM, and Trauma ), in support of his last RTB effort, ‘Born of Fire’ on AFM.

“The highest energy set possible,” is what Ross says fans can expect from the upcoming dates. “We are chomping at the bit to play! 100% every tune will be amazing! Of course we will perform my classic Manowar-era epics and crushing new tunes from ‘Born of Fire’!”

‘Born of Fire’ was originally issued in March 2020, and is the group’s fourth album and arrived not even two years after their chart breaking 2018 effort, ‘By Blood Sworn.’ Unfortunately, Ross was unable to launch a proper tour behind the album due to the pandemic. But soon, he will be making up for lost time – with dates running from March through July 2022.

The shows during April will see Ross joined on a bill with Dark Embrace, while RAM and Trauma will team with Ross for much of May – before appearances as part of the Sweden Rock Festival, Big Gun Festival, and Midalidare Rock Festival this coming summer.

“We deliver every night! Metal excitement like no other band can!” And in the new year, metalheads will finally have the opportunity to catch the mighty Ross the Boss back where he belongs – on the concert stage.

CONFIRMED TOUR DATES:

3/3/22 DK Soborg Richter Ross The Boss
3/4/22 DK Viborg Viborg Metal Festival Ross The Boss
3/5/22 DE Hademarschen Hademarschen Ross The Boss
3/6/22 BE Aarschot De Klinker Club Ross The Boss
3/9/22 UK Great Yarmouth Hard Rock Hell Springbreak Ross The Boss
4/21/22 ES Barcelona Boveda Ross The Boss + Dark Embrace
4/22/22 ES Pamplona Sala Totem Ross The Boss + Dark Embrace
4/23/22 ES Valladolid Porta Caeli Ross The Boss + Dark Embrace
4/24/22 ES Gijon Sala Acapulco Ross The Boss + Dark Embrace
4/26/22 PT Oporto Hard Club Ross The Boss + Dark Embrace
4/27/22 PT Lisbon RCA Club Ross The Boss + Dark Embrace
4/28/22 ES Sevilla Sala X Ross The Boss + Dark Embrace
4/29/22 ES Almeria Sala Emma Ross The Boss + Dark Embrace
4/30/22 ES Valencia Paberse Club Ross The Boss + Dark Embrace
5/1/22 ES Madrid Caracol Ross The Boss
5/3/22 MT Valetta Aria Complex Ross The Boss
5/5/22 NO Kopervik Karmøygeddon Ross The Boss
5/7/22 GR Athens Kyttaro Live Ross The Boss
5/8/22 GR Thessaloniki Eightball Ross The Boss + RAM + Trauma
5/12/22 DE Hamburg Knust Ross The Boss + RAM + Trauma
5/13/22 DE Oldenburg Amadeus Ross The Boss + RAM + Trauma
5/14/22 NL Tilburg Little Devil Ross The Boss + RAM + Trauma
5/15/22 NL Rotterdam Baroeg Ross The Boss + RAM + Trauma
5/17/22 DE Osnabrück Bastard Club Ross The Boss + RAM + Trauma
5/18/22 DE Bochum Matrix Ross The Boss + RAM + Trauma
5/19/22 DE Würzburg Posthalle Ross The Boss + RAM + Trauma
5/20/22 DE Siegburg Kubana Ross The Boss + Trauma
5/21/22 DE Weinheim Cafe Central Ross The Boss + RAM + Trauma
5/22/22 DE München Strom Ross The Boss + RAM + Trauma
5/24/22 CH Pratteln Z7 Ross The Boss + RAM + Trauma
5/25/22 IT Bergamo Druso Ross The Boss + RAM + Trauma
5/26/22 AT Salzburg Rockhouse Bar Ross The Boss + RAM + Trauma
5/27/22 DE Leipzig Hellraiser Ross The Boss + RAM + Trauma
5/28/22 DE Eisenhüttenstadt Gesellschaftshaus Schleicher Ross The Boss
6/10/22 SE Sölvesborg Sweden Rock Festival Ross The Boss
7/1/22 RU Pereslavl Big Gun Festival Ross The Boss
7/15/22 BG Mogilovo Village Midalidare Rock Ross The Boss

Tickets for all engagements on sale now and can be purchased via this link: https://dragon-productions.eu/artist/ross-the-boss/

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