GENTLE SAVAGE Take You On A Rollercoaster Ride Into The Satin Nights with New Single “Livin’ It Up”, Out August 6th

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GENTLE SAVAGE have announced their new single “Livin’ It Up”, coming out this Friday, August 6th. The single is taken from the band’s debut album “Midnight Waylay“, previously released only on Bandcamp (on June 17th 2021).

Pre-save now the single on Spotify: https://smarturl.it/GS_Livin_it_up.

The stunning coverart was created by Elisa Kääriäinen.

Tornado stated on “Livin’ It Up”:
“Livin’ It Up” sounds something like Guns’n Roses meets Faith No More (quote from a fan). Borrowing from the ‘80s Stadium Rock era “Livin’ It Up” takes you on a rollercoaster ride into the satin nights. Hold nothing back, seize the moment and LIVE IT UP BABE!”

Just recently Keith Clement from Metalheads Forever conducted an in-depth interview with GENTLE SAVAGE’s Tornado Bearstone and Theo Van Boom, talking widely about the band’s debut album “Midnight Waylay”. In case you missed it, watch the interview here: https://youtu.be/Dz3B57GrbTQ

Tornado on “Midnight Waylay” album: “Midnight Waylay depicts a ‘taking it easy in the daytime, turning into a beast at night’ kind of lifestyle. Just like a hunter strikes from the shadows, ruthless and silent, these songs can without warning rock your world. As a concept the album Midnight Waylay is best appreciated when served whole, but each song has its own character and works well independently. Find your own adventure, let yourself loose!”

Kimmo Kuusniemi, Godfather of Finnish heavy metal, on Gentle Savage’s debut album “Midnight Waylay”: “Listening to Gentle Savage reminds me of Deep Purple! That’s not bad at all!”

“Midnight Waylay” Track List:

  1. Karelian Magic
  2. Personal Hades
  3. YNAMW
    (You Never ask Me Why)
  4. Into The Abyss
  5. Honey Bunny
  6. After All
  7. Run Run Poor Boy
  8. Livin’ It Up
  9. Carry The Fire

Buy the album at https://gentlesavage1.bandcamp.com

Tornado stated on the album coverart:
“TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY
Isn’t it strange that when you get something really big done you are at the same time relieved and a bit confused?! That’s how it feels like right now.
Our debut album is ready for release, coming out on June 17th via our Bandcamp page, and now we are proud to reveal the MIDNIGHT WAYLAY album cover to the world.
The cover art was created by our friend, graphic art wizard Vin Valentino. Vin and vocalist Tornado created the Midnight Waylay world based on Tornado’s visions of a Rock Band descending down to earth using a ‘stairway to heaven’. That’s Tornado’s way of showing his gratitude to the old great ones who showed the Rock’n Roll way for latter generations to roll. “

Watch and stream the previous singles:
‘Personal Hades’ – https://songwhip.com/gentlesavage/personal-hades
‘Lovin’ Ain’t Easy’ – https://youtu.be/wkT1zlV5aPg
‘YNAMW (You Never Ask Me Why)’ – https://youtu.be/5pm5E0uV0N4
‘Honey Bunny -the Rock’n Roll transformation’ – https://youtu.be/CsBGKvzZKko
‘Run Run Poor Boy’ – https://youtu.be/_TJ3BfgOz6k
‘Karelian Magic’ – https://youtu.be/osEmTdkQCps

More information and follow GENTLE SAVAGE at
https://www.facebook.com/Gentlesavagerockband
http://gentlesavagerockband.com
https://gentlesavage1.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/gentlesavageofficial
Twitter @GentleSavageX
YouTube – hyperurl.co/GentleSavageYouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSe-yyD7_XB5cFE37yYBtaw

“It is all about the songs. And their internal message. That’s the basic philosophy behind Gentle Savage.”

GENTLE SAVAGE are:
Tornado Bearstone, songwriter, vocals and guitar
Jay B, drums and backing vocals
Vance Bead, bass and backing vocals
Tim O`Shore, guitar and backing vocals
Theo van Boom, keyboards and backing vocals

’Treat yourself and let our magic in. We’ll take care of the rest’.

Band promo photo by Timo Soasepp
Album coverart by Vin Valentino

EARTHSIDE Sign with Music Theories Recordings / Mascot Label Group, Announce Comeback Single ‘All We Knew And Ever Loved’

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When an artist resurfaces after years spent in creative immersion, whatever they return with needs to make a statement. This is even more the case when said artist is following up a debut as heavily acclaimed as 2015’s A Dream In Static—a work widely regarded as one of the finest, most attention-seizing debut albums in recent rock and metal music.

Cinematic rock collective EARTHSIDE find themselves squarely in this unenviable position—however, if one song alone could make that critical impression—speaking to the moment, and leaving that heavy feeling of awe churning in the listener’s chest, “All We Knew And Ever Loved” would be that song, out August 19th.

In conjunction with their signing to Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group, Earthside returns to the spotlight in the most monumental of fashions. The culmination of years of feverish planning, recording, and detail obsessing, “All We Knew And Ever Loved” offers the first window into the gripping next chapter of the band’s collective story—and the grim scene that awaits humanity in the absence of change.

Sacramone began writing the song in 2017 to the setting of bleak, rainy March weather and the second season of True Detective. “The goal was to be as brute force as possible—to use the most powerful combination of instruments to create a very ambitious aural rendition of humanity fighting itself and sinking,” Sacramone says. “And also as an artist—to put your money where your mouth is; if you want to write something that is about a topic this significant, the music has to live up to it and it needs to be as dramatic as possible; it needs to be devastating.”

Through the positively apocalyptic sounds of one of the largest pipe organs in the world (recorded at the First Congregational Church in Los Angeles) and an earth-shaking mix courtesy of Randy Staub, known for mixing Metallica’s legendary symphonic live album, S&M, the effect isn’t merely devastating; it’s inescapable.

Earthside have also announced that the featured artist on the song is Baard Kolstad of the Norwegian Progressive metal act, Leprous, whom Earthside have previously toured with.

Pre-save ‘All We Knew And Ever Loved’ HERE

SWALLOW THE SUN Announce New Studio Album “Moonflowers”

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Band painting by Doppelganger-Art

In all the silence, Finnish death doom masters, SWALLOW THE SUN, have written, recorded and mixed a new album called “Moonflowers”. It is done and ready and will be released on November 19th , 2021.

Along with some of the album formats, there will also come a full bonus album featuring very special instrumental versions of all the regular album tracks. This instrumental album has been composed for strings and recorded at Sipoo Church in Finland. The strings were performed by the group called “Trio NOX” from Finland.

Starting today, all these instrumental songs will be launched as animated videos, which were created by Dronicon Films. One by one every week, leading up to the first single release of the main album.

Watch the first video HERE!

Juha Raivio comments:

“I know well that I should not say this, but I deeply hate this album. I hate where it takes me, how it makes me feel and what it stands for me personally. I wish it wouldn’t. But for all its honesty I got no option than also love it. That is all that matters to me with the music anyway and it doesn’t matter how it makes me feel, as long as it does. For me this album is like a mirror of a deep self-disappointment. Even I still want to believe that there is and could be more than this in me. But I don’t need or want to talk more about it. After all music means so different things to each one of us by how we have walked our own paths, and that is a beautiful thing about music. There is no right or wrong.

After I had finished writing all the music for this record in the fall of 2020 I started to write these small instrumental versions of the album songs for the violin, viola, cello and piano. Mostly because I was wondering how it would feel like to hear all these songs first as these intimate versions instead of a full band album. It was really beautiful to see and hear these songs come alive in this way and form, recorded live in this big church in Finland. To be able to hear the echoes of this music reflecting from the church walls and feel the very soul of these old wooden instruments played by real people in this sacred place. Something about hearing the strings breathe this fragile beauty into these songs that carry so much pain otherwise. Now looking back, maybe I wrote these versions just for myself to be able to hear and feel at least some kind of a beauty and solace in these songs, maybe…

I wanted to create the cover art of this album myself this time, so it would stand as brutally honest for me as the music is. So I painted the moon on the ‘Moonflowers‘ cover with my own blood and I decorated it with the flowers I picked up and dried on the spring of 2016. Maybe it isn’t the most outstanding looking piece of art ever made in this world, but for me it is everything. I wasn’t going to write any new music before I would have moved towards the right direction in my life, but finally all this music just forced itself out of me during the long nights of this hope crushing and neverending lockdown prison. Something grew out from that void eventually and writing these songs made me think a lot about moonflowers that bloom at the darkest hour of the night, so that name felt right to call the album also.

All my love to you, take care.

-Juha Raivio-“

“Moonflowers” tracklist:

  1. Moonflowers Bloom In Misery
  2. Enemy
  3. Woven Into Sorrow
  4. Keep Your Heart Safe From Me
  5. All Hallows’ Grieve (Featuring Cammie Gilbert)
  6. The Void
  7. The Fight Of Your Life
  8. This House Has No Home

Raivio further states, “In other news, unfortunately our busy brother Jaani will step aside from the band at least for this new album cycle, but we are happy to tell that you can hear Jaani’s backing vocals on the new album anyway.”

Jaani Peuhu adds, “Sadly, Corona virus messed up everything including the release schedules of my bands. Both the Mercury Circle and Swallow The Sun albums are being released at the same time, making it impossible for me to tour with both bands. For this reason, I decided that it’d be better for me to solely focus on MC for this release cycle.

That being said, the upcoming Swallow The Sun album will be amazing, and

I am so happy we could still do it together. I wish the best of luck to

StS on their tour with it!

See you in the audience!

LOVE,

-Jaani”

Hungarian SHELL BEACH Release Video For ‘Hero’

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Budapest’s Heavy Hitters SHELL BEACH have released Hero, the first new music in five years!

The track is the first to feature the band’s new vocalist Zoltán Bodóczy, a well recognised figure in the Hungarian underground scene and formerly of Grand Mexican Warlock. Hero also sees the return of original guitarist Viktor Sági. Bodóczy has played a major role in co-writing the band’s forthcoming new the record and his involvement has led them to expand their style dramatically. Dancing between post-hardcore, alternative and experimental rock genres, Shell Beach are almost impossible to categorise and  put into one box.

The music video for Hero was filmed on location at Tarnók Mine (Tárnoki Kőfejtö) in Hungary which was also a prominent filming location for Bladerunner 2049.

Zoltán Bodóczy comments on Hero: “This was the first track that was born out of the band’s new line-up. The lyrics follow the suffering of a man, but with a twist. Because of things we cannot resolve, we’re unable to move forward, carrying with ourselves the kind of baggage that makes it impossible to start over again.”

Recorded at Supersize Recording Studios and produced and mixed by founding member Attila Horváth, ’’Hero’ is the first taste of Shell Beach’s new album which will be announced soon and will be supported with a full European tour. 

Founded by long-time friends, Shell Beach are no strangers to the European touring circuit with 6 European tours under their belt as well as appearances at several major European festivals. The band has toured Europe supporting ENTER SHIKARI and a handful of their own headline tours. Shell Beach has also graced the festival stages of GROEZROCK Festival (BE), SZIGET Festival (HU), ROCK FOR PEOPLE Festival (CZ), ELECTRIC CASTLE  (RO),  VOLT  Festival (HU), and many others. Touring helped mature the band’s sound and helped Shell Beach get further established as the most prominent band of the Hungarian and Budapest post-hardcore scenes leaving the band’s fanbase eagerly awaiting their forthcoming record.

NOUTAJA Release New Single ‘Deicidal Tendencies’ From Upcoming EP

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New finnish death metal band NOUTAJA is releasing their debut EP later this autumn and now they present the second single from the upcoming release.

Listen to “Deicidal Tendencies”
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3C1llQO
Bandcamp: https://noutaja.bandcamp.com/album/
Apple: https://apple.co/3ll092o
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3A5Xyxi
Tidal: https://listen.tidal.com/album/191829575
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/album/246575652

Guitar player / Singer Masi Hukari backgrounds the song: “Deicidal Tendencies was the last song we wrote together for our upcoming debut release. (Never Meant to Save Us 20.8.2021) The song came together really quickly once our bassist Pekka Johansson showed us such a killer opening riff that we instantly went in to a collective windmill mosh mode!

Even though the title is tongue in cheek wordplay of two bands that are influential to us the topic of the song is pretty serious. I grew up in the Middle East in a very religiously charged situation and got to see how crazy and dangerous things can get when some one believes that they are more right than everybody else and justify atrocities with faith. Experiencing war is a great way to turn a young man in to a sceptic.”

BLACK STONE CHERRY Reissue ‘Kentucky’, To Tour Scandinavia in November

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To coincide with their upcoming tour dates through the US, the UK and Europe, BLACK STONE CHERRY have announced the transparent vinyl reissue of 2016s Kentucky, released 10th September (Europe) / 24th September (US).

You can listen to the full album over at Spotify here
You can pre-order the vinyl here: http://smarturl.it/bsc-kentucky

It has been five years since the band released their 5th studio album, which at the time reached their highest ever charting in France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland, as well as charting #5 in the UK charts, #1 UK’s Rock & Metal Albums Chart, #15 US Top Current Album Chart, #1 US Hard Music Chart, #13 in Austria, #14 Switzerland, and #21 in Germany

Named after the band’s home state, the new album was a ‘back to their roots’ affair, with the four-piece working with the same engineer in the same ‘local’ studio, Barrick Recording, where they crafted their eponymous debut. Many of the songs from the album have gone on to be live favourites such as “The Rambler,” “Cheaper To Drink Alone,” “Shakin’ My Cage” and “Soul Machine.”

As you prepare to be shaken to the bones on their upcoming dates, get hold of this beautiful piece of vinyl to get the party started.

Scandinavian 2021 Tour Dates in November

Tickets available from: http://www.blackstonecherry.com

05 Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo, Norway
06 Debaser Hornstulls Strand, Stockholm, Sweden
07 Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark