WITHERFALL Announced As Special Guest On EVERGREY’s “Recharging Europe Tour 2021”

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In support of their new album “Escape Of The Phoenix” via AFM Records on February 26th 2021 Swedish progressive metal band EVERGREY will be hitting the road for an extensive tour throughout Europe in 2021.

As special guest EVERGREY invited no less than dark melodic heavy metal juggernaut from Los Angeles WITHERFALL. Bringing along their third opus “Curse Of Autumn” (to be released March 5th, 2021 via Century Media Records), the quintet are blazing new trails and weaving new tales, offering a genuine metal classic with an expressive song-writing and a refined and perfectionized sound of their distinguished and musically-adept dark melodic heavy metal.

Opening support comes from the Modern Metal quintet DUST IN MIND, one of the most up and coming French bands today.

EVERGREY Front-man Tom Englund states: “We are really happy to announce a tour of Europe next fall and let’s all hope that the world is in a better place by that time so we get to see all you lovely people again!“

WITHERFALL comment: “After a long and tense year WITHERFALL are extremely happy to announce the very first tour dates in support of our soon to be released Album ‘Curse of Autumn’ as special guests with the brilliant Evergrey. We look forward to seeing all of our European friends and are excited to make some new ones in these new and uncharted waters.”

Rock Hard, Eclipsed, MusiX and metal.de present:
Recharging Europe Tour 2021

EVERGREY

  • special guest: WITHERFALL
  • DUST IN MIND

08.10.21 (DE) Oberhausen – Resonanzwerk
09.10.21 (GB) London – 229 venue
10.10.21 (GB) Nottingham – Rescue Rooms
11.10.21 (GB) Bristol – The Fleece
12.10.21 (GB) Manchester – Academy 3
13.10.21 (GB) Newcastle – St Dom’s Social Club
14.10.21 (GB) Glasgow – Cathouse
15.10.21 (IE) Dublin – Voodoo Lounge
16.10.21 (GB) Birmingham – The Asylum 2
17.10.21 (NL) Leiden – Gebr. De Nobel
19.10.21 (DE) Stuttgart – Im Wizemann Club
20.10.21 (DE) Hamburg – Bahnhof Pauli
21.10.21 (DE) Berlin – Columbia Theater
22.10.21 (NL) Eindhoven – Dynamo
23.10.21 (BE) Vosselaar – Biebob
24.10.21 (DE) Mannheim – 7er Club
25.10.21 (DE) Nürnberg – Hirsch
26.10.21 (DE) Lindau – Club Vaudeville
27.10.21 (DE) Munich – Backstage Halle
29.10.21 (DE) Aschaffenburg – Colos-Saal
30.10.21 (DE) Andernach – Live Club
31.10.21 (CH) Luzern – Schüür
01.11.21 (FR) Colmar – Le Grillen
02.11.21 (FR) Lyon – CCO Villeurbanne
03.11.21 (ES) Barcelona – Boveda
04.11.21 (ES) Madrid – Shoko
05.11.21 (ES) Pamplona – Totem
06.11.21 (FR) Toulouse – L’Usine
07.11.21 (FR) Paris – Petit Bain

HEARTS & HAND GRENADES Incinerate Their Comfort Zone With “Turning To Ashes” Music Video & Single

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Buffalo NWOCR band HEARTS & HAND GRENADES have revealed a new music video and single for the title track off their forthcoming album, “Turning To Ashes“. The video was directed by Charles Butera. Watch it right now via YouTube:

“Turning To Ashes” is the third single and title track from the band’s new full-length album Turning To Ashes which drops worldwide on January 8, 2021 via Eclipse Records.

“This song is about being held back by the circumstances surrounding you and facing a decision to break out of your comfort zone, move forward into the unknown, and leave the past behind you” says front-woman  Stephanie Wlosinski. “Turning To Ashes is a relatable song for everyone I think, so we wanted the intensity of the music to match that of the fire theme that happens throughout the video.” Guitarist Mike Bress adds, “the fire theme throughout the video fits well with the chorus of the song, ‘the bridge is burned that leads me home and I’m turning to ashes’, so we wanted to visually represent that at some point you’ve got to move ahead, take risks, otherwise there’s no change for rewards in life… sometimes indecision is going to leave you burned.”

Turning To Ashes is a hard rockin’ energetic debut from Hearts & Hand Grenades. Fronted by Stephanie Wlosinski on lead vocals and bass guitar, the band’s first two singles quickly made inroads with the NWOCR scene this year, and not even the holiday break can stop this band’s momentum! Watch the music videos for their first two singles “The In Crowd” and “Nothing Left” right now!

Pre-Save or Pre-Order the album at this location

AVALAND To Release Metal Opera Debut Album “Theater Of Sorcery” In April 2021

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Rockshots Records is proud to announce their signing of Grenoble, France’s AVALAND, an epic and symphonic metal opera, directed, written, and composed by young 22-year-old prodigy Adrien G. Gzagg.

Inspired by heroic fantasy, history, mythologies, and esoterism, Gzagg decided to create an epic story with 8 characters. Entitled “Theater Of Sorcery”, the debut will be a theatrical metal adventure that tells the story of a young sorcerer Adam Wilstorm who could be the salvation of bringing back the light to the kingdom of Avaland and during his journey, he must learn to control his powers linked to the Storm.

For AVALAND, Gzagg reunited with four musician friends Camille Souffron (Bass), Christophe Feutrier  (Guitars), Lucas Martinez (Guitars), and Léo Mouchonay (Drums) that he has performed with in the past to help him to record the metal opera’s debut full-length. The record also includes talented guests for vocals and guitars with Ralf Scheepers (Primal Fear), Zak Stevens (Savatage/TSO), Zaher Zorgati (Myrath),  Emmanuelson (Rising Steel), Stéphan Forté (Adagio), Madie (Nightmare) among many other great musicians. 

Gzagg adds:
“I started my heavy metal life as a great fan of Avantasia and Ayreon. I was impressed by those big teams Tobias Sammet and Arjen Lucassen could create. I quickly knew I would make something like this in my life! It wasn’t easy to find musicians who were crazy enough to follow me in this adventure, and I thank them so much for their trust in this project, especially guitarist Christophe Feutrier (guitars) my partner in crime for Avaland for 5 years now.

“I like to also add that Avaland is not a “classic” band, it’s a Metal-Opera and when Covid is over, I plan to take it the stage with many vocalists to perform this theatrical tale of an epic and magical story. To sum it up, Avaland is a modern-age opera to not just fans of metal, but beyond!”

“Theater Of Sorcery” album will be released in April 2021, while first single is expected in January 2021!

An album teaser can be heard and viewed below.

A PERFECT DAY Release Studio Report Video

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Italian alternative hard rockers A PERFECT DAY give us a full insight of the recordings and the “life in the studio” during the creation of their latest album “With Eyes Wide Open”.

Watch the video below.

“With Eyes Wide Open” is out now through ROAR! Rock of Angels Records, physically and digitally worldwide!

The third born in the A PERFECT DAY family, entitled “With Eyes Wide Open” and delighted by the touch of the renowned producer Marco Barusso, allows the sound an impressively broader and more American-like airplay, as the band rediscovers a truly free-range and impetuous attitude. Ten intense, passionate and concise songs that definitively replace the late 80’s class metal influences with the more recent hard blues revival of Black Stone Cherry and Blackberry Smoke, keeping the mandatory alternative rock/post-grunge junction at the center of the band’s sound.

Get “With Eyes Wide Open” now:

CD:
https://www.musicmegastore.com/product/a-perfect-day-with-eyes-wide-open-jewel-case-cd/
https://roar.gr/product/a-perfect-day-with-eyes-wide-open-jewel-case-cd/

Digital:
https://backl.ink/142823382
https://rockworld24.bandcamp.com/album/with-eyes-wide-open

The third born in the A PERFECT DAY family, entitled “With Eyes Wide Open” and delighted by the touch of the renowned producer Marco Barusso, allows the sound an impressively broader and more American-like airplay, as the band rediscovers a truly free-range and impetuous attitude. Ten intense, passionate and concise songs that definitively replace the late 80’s class metal influences with the more recent hard blues revival of Black Stone Cherry and Blackberry Smoke, keeping the mandatory alternative rock/post-grunge junction at the center of the band’s sound.

MISERY INDEX Announce Tour With Primitive Man, Ulthar & Gloom

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 16, 2020
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US death/grindcore veterans MISERY INDEX have announced a tour for September 2021! See below for the exact tour dates:

MISERY INDEX Tour 2021
with: PRIMITIVE MAN , ULTHAR, GLOOM

08.09.2021 Eindhoven – Dynamo NLD
09.09.2021 Hamburg – Bambi Galore GER
10.09.2021 Augsburg – Kantine GER
12.09.2021 Paris – Backstage FRA
13.09.2021 London – Boston Music Room GBR
14.09.2021 Manchester – Rebellion GBR
15.09.2021 Brussels – Magasin 4 BEL
16.09.2021 Mörlenbach – Live Music Hall Weiher GER
17.09.2021 Kassel – Goldgrube GER
18.09.2021 Copenhagen – Pumpehuset DNK
19.09.2021 Leipzig – Werk2 GER
20.09.2021 Budapest – Dürer Kert HUN
21.09.2021 Vienna – Escape Metalcorner AUT
22.09.2021 Prague – Nova Chmelnice CZE
23.09.2021 Poznan – U Bazyla POL
24.09.2021 Berlin – BiNuu GER
25.09.2021 Dortmund – JunkYard GER

About MISERY INDEX

When their debut EP “Overthrow” was recorded in 2001 by vocalist and bassist Jason Netherton (ex-DYING FETUS) together with (then) guitarist and vocalist Mike Harrison and drummer Kevin Talley (ex-DYING FETUS), MISERY INDEX immediately charted a course to explore and push the limits of Death Metal and Grindcore, drawing influence from bands like MORBID ANGEL, NAPALM DEATH, TERRORIZER, BOLT THROWER and ENTOMBED. The erstwhile project shifted to a full-time band when guitarist Sparky Voyles (ex-DYING FETUS) joined. In 2003, MISERY INDEX unleashed their first full-length ‘Retaliate’, to exceptional reviews and followed by numerous support tours and festivals in Europe and North America. After several line-up changes, the second album “Discordia” was released in 2006, the first to feature current drummer Adam Jarvis and guitarist/vocalist Mark Kloeppel, with even more touring in its wake. Their third full-length, ‘Traitors’ (2008) reaped raving reactions from both critics and fans and saw the band on the road again until 2009. Then MISERY INDEX dropped ‘Heirs to Thievery’ (2010) like a bomb on the death metal masses, shattering all expectations. The album was both a commercial and critical success, elevating the band to headlining slots. During that year, long time guitarist Sparky Voyles was replaced by Darin Morris. In 2013, the band released its first live album, “Live in Munich”, which perfectly epitomized the rawness and ferocity that MISERY INDEX elevated onto a new level with their fifth full length “The Killing Gods” in 2014.

In 2019, MISERY INDEX released “Rituals of Power” and proved once again that the group is as furious as ever. Featuring the singles “New Salem”, “Naysayer, “The Choir Invisible” and “Hammering the Nails” the album was the band’s highest charting and best-selling release to date. Last year, the band did an EU headlining tour with support from Wormrot and then a US tour with Nails in the summer. At this time, they also released the single “Zombie Prescription” (Snapcase cover) via New Noise magazine’s flexi series. In February 2020, the band hit the EU again on the month long “Campaign for Musical Destruction” in support of Napalm Death, along with Eyehategod, Rotten Sound and Bat.

JUPITERIUM Premiere ‘King of Spades’ Via Bravewords; Featuring NIGHTWISH, WOLF And EX-AMORPHIS Members

Posted by Stargazer on December 16, 2020
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For the first time in history, Iranian and Scandinavian metalheads joined forces to pay a tribute to the unique rock and metal legend, Lemmy and BRAVEWORDS is there to support! JUPITERIUM is proud to release ‘King of Spades’, a tribute song to Ian Fraser Kilmister, Lemmy; featuring amazing artists as special guests, Marko Hietala (NIGHTWISH, TAROT), Johan Koleberg (Ex-HAMMERFALL, Ex-THERION, WOLF), Niclas Etelävuori (Ex AMORPHIS, FLAT EARTH) via a lyric video which can be watched here.

The song was mixed and mastered by JUPITERIUM’s Ehsan Imani and artwork and lyric video is done by Mohsen “Stargazer” Fayazi at Stargazer MultiMedia.

“I think we can call 2020 many names but one can be the year of division, even in the metal music community, people are getting divided over their political opinions and this virus makes it even worse.” Stated JUPITERIUM’s Mohsen “Stargazer” Fayazi “I believe in situations like this,  Lemmy, an icon over anyone or anything, could bring us all back together and remind us that we, metal brothers and sisters are more alike than different! That’s what we tried to do in this tribute project but still no one is like him! We miss you very much Lemmy! Gone but not forgotten!”

King of Spades by Jupiterium

2020 is the twentieth anniversary of MOTORHEAD‘s iconic song, ‘Ace of Spades’ which was released on 27 October 1980 and stormed British music charts for weeks. This year is also the fifth anniversary of Lemmy who left us on December 28, 2015.


More info on JUPITERIUM:
* https://www.facebook.com/JupiteriumBand/
* https://www.instagram.com/jupiteriumband/