LIZZY BORDEN: ‘Master of Disguise’, ‘Deal with the Devil’ Vinyl Re-Issues Now Available

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On November 19th, LIZZY BORDEN will release vinyl re-issues of classic albums Master of Disguise (1989) and Deal with the Devil (2000) via Metal Blade Records. Pre-order your copies now at:

–USA: indiemerch.com
–EU: eu.kingsroadmerch.com

The records are available in the following versions:

Master of Disguise vinyl versions
– 180g black vinyl (EU exclusive)
– clear gold marbled vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 300 copies)
– blue / black marbled vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 300 copies)
– sky blue marbled vinyl (US exclusive)
– blackberry marbled vinyl (US exclusive)

Deal with the Devil vinyl versions
– 180g black vinyl (EU exclusive)
– blackberry marbled vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 300 copies)
– rose / white marbled vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 300 copies)
– clear warm grey marbled vinyl (US exclusive)
– beige marbled vinyl (US exclusive)

Tim Ripper Owens: “The New KK’s Priest Album Shows What Kind Of Music K.K. Wanted To Make w/ Judas Priest”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on September 23, 2021
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Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to KK’s Priest singer and solo artist Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens.

Ripper gave The Metal Voice a rundown of the upcoming KK’s Priest debut album, “Sermons Of The Sinner”, which will be released on October 1 via Explorer1 Music Group/EX1 Records.

When asked should this new KK’s Priest album have been the follow up to Demolition
“I don’t know. The thing about Judas Priest is they change and did whatever they wanted because they were Judas Priest. Every record sounded different except for ‘Screaming for Vengeance’ and ‘Defenders of the Faith’. Their last album was fantastic but it didn’t really sound like Judas Priest because they didn’t really write it. It was a great record but everything sounds different. What would have been next after Demolition I don’t know? This new record (KK’s) well could have been. I think what this record (KK’s Priest) shows is what kind of record K.K. wanted to make with Judas Priest because this is how he writes. This shows you why records become what they are. This new record shows just so much of K.K. Downing. KK wrote the record that he wanted to write and he wanted to write it for me to sing. “

When asked about some of the new songs musical style?
“There are a lot of layers, there are a lot of epic kinds of songs is how I like to describe it. There is a lot going on. Actually it goes back to early Judas Priest listen to Rocka Rolla. Rocka Rolla was filled with that stuff and guess who wrote most of that album K.K. Downing. The song ‘Return of the Sentinel’ is one of my favorite songs off the new album, it is a little more musical in the classic Metal way. I think K.K. has taken ‘Sad Wings of Destiny’ and ‘Rocka Rolla’ influences and just brought it to nowadays.”

Pre-Order new album here
https://www.kkspriest.com/shop

Instrumental Power Trio ADDIKTIO Release New Single ‘North’, New Album “Anthem for the Year 2020” Coming October 29th

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Photo by Håkon Sagen, design by Carl Stjärnlöv

Extraordinary instrumental trio ADDIKTIO bring a unique sonic experience with their new single “North”! Listen to their massive new single here: https://orcd.co/north.

“North” is the thrid single off Addiktio’s upcoming second studio album titled “Anthem for the Year 2020”, to be released on Oct 29 via Indie Recordings!

As the band states: “North’ is one of our straighter tunes, centered around a somewhat folky slide melody that Håkon wrote several years ago. The driving beat, the dreamy vibe, and the shimmering 12-strings makes for a perfect base to take things elsewhere just when it gets too comfortable. A classic example of Håkons songwriting. In many ways, ‘North’ is a great summary of what our music is all about.”

Addiktio – “Anthem for the Year 2020” coming Oct 29!

Pre-order LPs HERE! – Pre-order Digital Album HERE!

Addiktio deliver progressive, blistering sound, by mixing the elements of rock, jazz, and metal, into a sound of their own. The talented trio members are all active as session musicians for several Norwegian acts, where the most known internationally are Shining and Ina Wroldsen, and the most known nationally are Gabrielle, Darling West, Marit Larsen, Odd Nordstoga, Ida Maria, Lido ++.

Their debut album “Verraton” saw the light of day in 2018 and was met with raving reviews from the Norwegian press. “[…] these are top-level musicians making it impossible to give anything but a high score” was the review from Musikknyheter, while the newspaper Fædrelandsvennen wrote that “Norway has a new power-trio, creating a mighty mix from rock, jazz, and metal”.

The incredible trio is now set to release their new full-length sonic masterpiece, and we are ready for it!

VARDIS Announce New Double Live Album “100 M.P.H.@100 Club”, Out November 26th

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British NWoBHM legends VARDIS have announced a new double live album “100 M.P.H.@100 Club”, coming out on November 26th, via SPV/Steamhammer.

In the 1970s Vardis’ relentless touring of the working mens clubs of Northern England took them to support slots with Hawkwind, Slade, Motörhead and Saxon, emerging with a reputation for a unique heavy rock attack and high energy technical brilliance. On November 1st 1980 Vardis’ live debut LP 100 M.P.H. entered UK Album Charts at #52 and instantly became a foundational record of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. The power trio’s fusion of fast punk rhythms, relentless heavy riffs and blistering blues rock solos echoes through Metallica’s 1983 Kill ‘Em All and Megadeth’s 1985 Killing Is My Business … and Business Is Good!, and became an old school Heavy Metal classic.

Four studio albums, three compilations and seven singles later, SPV/Steamhammer present to you the Vardis live experience on record for the first time since 1980: ‚100 M.P.H.@100 Club’. A double live album recorded on March 13th 2020, the 40th anniversary of 100 M.P.H., this blistering two hour set includes every track from an album that led the way for Thrash, performed up close and personal by Steve Zodiac (Guitar, Vocals), Joe Clancy (Drums) and Roly Bailey (Bass) in London’s legendary 100 Club.

 “GUARANTEED NO OVERDUBS”

Tracklisting:

CD1

  1. Out Of The Way 3:10
  2. Steaming Along 3:21
  3. Paranoia Strikes 2:10
  4. Situation Negative (Boogie Blitz) 5:37
  5. Red Eye 3:41
  6. Dirty Money 3:06
  7. Mods & Rockers 5:25
  8. Don’t Mess 2:55
  9. Shoot Straight 4:22
  10. Move Along 5:35

CD2

  1. Destiny 3:05
  2. The Lion’s Share 3:04
  3. Radio Rockers 3:38
  4. The Loser 5:47
  5. Head Of The Nail 3:45
  6. Jolly Roger 4:33
  7. Let’s Go Again 3:21
  8. 100mph (I won’t Go To Hell) 9:15
  9. If I Were King 5:20
  10. Living Out Of Touch (encore) 3:17

=> Download / Streaming
Pre-Order: https://smarturl.it/VardisLive

=> Exclusive CD/LP Bundle with a shirt only at the Steamhammer shop
Pre-Order Link: https://shop.steamhammer.de/artists/vardis/store

Emma Zoldan + Mistheria Release Acoustic Cover of DREAM THEATER’s ‘Lord Nafaryus’

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Singer Emma Zoldan (front-woman in Sirenia) and pianist Mistheria (creator/producer of Vivaldi Metal Project) have teamed up to make a cover of “Lord Nafaryus” (taken from Dream Theater‘s album “The Astonishing”).

Following Mistheria‘s invitation to Emma to participate in the new Vivaldi Metal Project album (“EpiClassica”), Mistheria was in turn called by Emma to create this song together as acoustic version, piano and voice duo. Definitely a very special reinvention, a different approach that offers an unusual and intimate interpretation of this beautiful piece.

Watch the video here:

Emma Zoldan says: “Dear all, I am very happy and proud to finally share with you the cover I announced some weeks ago! I had the huge pleasure to collaborate once again with Maestro Mistheria (Vivaldi Metal Project), who accepted my invitation to work together on this cover of Dream Theater‘s ‘Lord Nafaryus’. Thanks Mistheria for your amazing work and your kindness. Hope you guys will enjoy it as much as we had fun to make it!”

Mistheria says: “Proud and very glad of this collaboration with one of the most extraordinary singers I have ever worked with, Emma Zoldan, a warm, powerful, charming, wonderful voice! After inviting Emma to participate in the upcoming Vivaldi Metal Project album “EpiClassica”, I was very flattered by her invitation to make this song together, an acoustic duo version of the fantastic Dream Theater‘s song ‘Lord Nafaryus’.”

U.D.O. Release New Single + Video ‘Prophecy’

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“Game Over!” – it says in U.D.O.’s new album, releasing October 22nd.

The title of the bands new studio album, around rock icon Udo Dirkschneider (original voice of the cult band Accept,) has become a statement that has a lot to talk about. A topic of conversation that will probably also be provided by the new single “Prophecy”, including the video that has now been released.

U.D.O. looking deep into the abyss of humanity. How far can a wish go? And can you really wish for anything? We live in a world in which you can do almost anything for money. But where is the limit to what can be bought with money?
The video for the song speaks a clear language. It was filmed in an SM club near Karlsruhe and is visually devoted to the question of whether important limits are sometimes overlooked in our (affluent) world – out of greed, out of selfishness, out of the belief that nothing is impossible.

Dirkschneider stands for clear, straightforward statement. “If humans don’t rethink some things, it could have drastic consequences,” he says. The whole album “Game Over” is  the realistic, sober observation of an artist who has seen the world more intensely than hardly anyone else. Born in Solingen, he has been on tour around the world for over four decades. He traveled to Russia at the time of the Iron Curtain, gave concerts at an altitude of over 4000 meters in Peru and experienced the planet and its inhabitants many times more privately than anyone would do as a normal traveler.

Humanity with its often (self-) destructive nature preoccupies him.
However, “Prophecy” is not only a promising harbinger of the new album in terms of text and content: the song also makes it clear musically where the journey is going this time. Crashing riffs, precise grooving basses and a driving heaviness dominate the songs. Anyone who likes unpolished, straightforward heavy rock will immediately feel at home here.

Pre-order “Game Over” now HERE!