PAPA ROACH Announce “Greatest Hits Vol. 2 – The Better Noise Years”, Release First Single & Video “The Ending (Remastered 2020)”, Feat. In Motion Picture ”The Retaliators”

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PAPA ROACH have announced the upcoming release of their second collection of hit singles entitled “Greatest Hits Vol. 2 – The Better Noise Years.” The album, due out March 19, 2021, is comprised of 12 of the band’s top 10 Hits released between 2010 to 2019. The set includes 21 tracks including 3 unreleased remixes and 2 unreleased acoustic recordings recorded Live at the YouTube Studios in NYC.   The set also features a guest appearance by Danny Warsnop (vocalist of ASKING ALEXANDRIA) on the track “Broken As Me.” The original version of the song was recorded for Papa Roach’s 2015 album F.E.A.R.   The band noted, “We wanted to commemorate the last 10 years of our journey with this special collection of the music that got us here.” The collection is available for pre-order now on all streaming sites.

First single and video “The Ending (Remastered 2020)” is also released today.  The song will be featured in the motion picture ”THE RETALIATORS.”  The film is a horror thriller, and the music video includes footage from the movie. Jacoby Shaddix, Papa Roach’s lead singer, also makes his acting debut in a crucial role in the 2021 picture. “When I heard about this film last year, I spoke to the creative team and I felt I had a vehicle to see if I could expand my range as an artist.  Truly, I couldn’t have imagined how much I enjoyed this experience and can’t wait to find another film in the future,” explained Shaddix.  He appears alongside a diverse cast, which includes Michael Lombardi (FX’s Rescue Me, The Deuce), Marc Menchaca (Ozark, Black Mirror, The Sinner) and Joseph Gatt (Ray Donovan, Game of Thrones, Banshee, Dumbo) in the high-octane horror thriller.

Watch “THE ENDING” at https://paparoach.ffm.to/theending2020

Watch The Retaliators teaser trailer below.

Lombardi, who is also a Co-Producer on the film, says of Shaddix’s acting in the role of Quinn Brady “I wasn’t sure what to expect. I thought he might be good because he’s a great storyteller with his songs, but I was truly blown away by his performance as an actor. I found Jacoby to be incredibly focused and committed! He was never afraid to jump off that cliff. For example, he and I had a scene together where his character has to slap me, pull my hair and lick my face. Lucky for me we only needed two takes, because he 100% went for it. I had a red, smacked, wet face when the director yelled cut.  He’s a beast!”

Papa Roach has remained relevant since their debut in 2000.  Now 20 years in, the band currently has over 8 Million monthly listeners on Spotify with total streaming numbers into the billions.  Papa Roach has released 21 Top 5 singles over the course of their distinguished career – 12 of which are included in the new Greatest Hits collection from the past 10 years. “Help” the band’s 2017 release has just been certified GOLD by the RIAA, selling over 500,000 copies in the United States alone.

Track listing “Greatest Hits Vol. 2 – The Better Noise Years”

1.   Born For Greatness (Remastered 2020)                          
2.   Help (Remastered 2020)                                                   
3.   Elevate (Remastered 2020)                                  
4.   Come Around (Remastered 2020)                                                
5.   Broken As Me (feat. Danny Worsnop of Asking Alexandria)*
6.   Falling Apart (Remastered 2020)
7.   Who Do You Trust? (Remastered 2020)              
8.   Gravity (feat. Maria Brink) (Remastered 2020)
9.   American Dreams (Remastered 2020)                             
10.  Face Everything and Rise (Remastered 2020)    
11.  Periscope (feat. Skylar Grey) (Remastered 2020)
12.  Still Swingin’ (Remastered 2020)                         
13.  The Ending (Remastered 2020)                                       
14.  Burn (Remastered 2020)                                                 
15.  Kick In The Teeth (Remastered 2020)                              
16.  Elevate (Aelonia Remix)*                                
17. Help (Aelonia Remix)*                      
18. Born for Greatness (Cymek Remix)     *                             
19. Top of the World (Aelonia Remix)*              
20. Face Everything and Rise (Live Acoustic) *                                  
21. Leader of the Broken Hearts (Live Acoustic)*

* – previously unreleased

The collection is available for pre-order now on all streaming sites, plus CD and double gatefold vinyl on double smokey translucent vinyl.

GREATEST HITS PRE-ORDER https://paparoach.ffm.to/greatesthits2 

THUNDER Release Official Video For ‘Last One Out Turn Off The Lights’

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British hard-rock heroes, THUNDER will release their 13th studio album ‘All The Right Noises’ on March 12th, 2021. The band have shared the first single ‘Last One Out Turn Off The Lights’.

Listen to the track here: https://thunderband.lnk.to/ATRNPR
The video can be seen here: thunderband.lnk.to/LOOTOTLTW

The album is a return to the full-throttle sound of Thunder that has seen them create a hugely successful 30+ year career at the forefront of British rock, all built around the lifelong friendship of vocalist extraordinaire Danny Bowes and songwriting genius and guitarist Luke Morley.

‘All The Right Noises’ is an intense confection of illicit charms that reasserts their authority as the number one band in the land. Recorded in the months leading up to the first Covid-19 lockdown, it was originally due for release in September 2020. Strange to reflect then on how much of the new material appears to address the challenging new world we now inhabit.

On the album, Luke says “ All the songs were written and recorded pre-Covid. But it is interesting how if you look at some of the tracks through the prism of Covid they still make a lot of sense.”

The volcanic lead single from the album, ‘Last One Out Turn Off The Lights’ could easily be mistaken for world-ending lockdown rage. But, says Luke, “That was directly about Brexit, but you could apply it to everything else.”

The track is indicative of both the ferocity and message of the album as a whole, with subjects tackled including depression, mental health, and diversity. With their knack for imaginative songwriting, ‘All The Right Noises’ also takes aim at Donald Trump in a song written from his perspective, as well as a song Luke describes as “Like the opposite of ‘My Generation” by The Who in its message. 

‘All The Right Noise’ will be available in 1CD, 2CD, 2LP, and 4LP formats, with the 2CD and 4LP releases containing bonus tracks.

The LP versions feature a stunning pop-out of the ‘Singing Ringing Tree’ which appears of the album’s glorious artwork. The photo cover art was shot by the band’s long term collaborator Jason Joyce. The sculpture, which also appears in the video for ‘Last One Out Turn Off The Lights’, is set in Burnley, Lancashire, and resembles a tree which harnesses the energy of the wind to create a choral, discordant sound.

‘All The Right Noises’ follows on from 2019’s stripped back and reimagined album, ‘Please Remain Seated’ which continued their consecutive Top 10 UK Album Chart run since their ecstatically received comeback six years ago.

It is another chapter in the band’s incredibly successful history that has seen them create a succession of some of the most highly-regarded rock albums of the past 30 years. The key to their renown: brilliantly conceived top-drawer material including all-time classics like ‘Dirty Love’, and ‘Low Life In High Places’, described by the late great Radio One Rock Show presenter Tommy Vance as “the greatest ever single released by a rock band”. 

With their most recent success, Thunder have proven themselves as vital now as when they emerged with their debut album in 1990 ‘Backstreet Symphony’, and their hit follow-up in 1992 ‘Laughing On Judgement Day’, which was only kept off the top spot by Kylie Minogue. 

Tracklisting
1. Last One Out Turn Off The Lights
2. Destruction
3. The Smoking Gun
4. Going To Sin City
5. Don’t Forget To Live Before You Die
6. I’ll Be The One
7. Young Man
8. You’re Gonna Be My Girl
9. St George’s Day
10. Force Of Nature
11. She’s A Millionairess

ABYSMAL DAWN’s Candlemass Cover “Bewitched” Available For Streaming

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Earlier this year, ABYSMAL DAWN was featured on the cover of Issue #52 of New Noise Magazine, which was released in April 2020! Along with an in-depth interview with mainman Charles Elliott, the issue included an exclusive flexi disc of the band’s brand new cover of CANDLEMASS’ “Bewitched.” The song is now available for streaming and download via all digital services at THIS LOCATION.

In addition, drummer James Coppolino of Los Angeles recently teamed up with Sick Drummer magazine to share the drum play-through for the song “The Path of the Totalitarian.” The song is taken from the band’s 2020 release, ‘Phylogenesis.’ Watch the video at THIS LOCATION.

The band is supporting their new release, ‘Phylogenesis,’  which is out NOW and can be ordered and streamed HERE.

VOLTAGEHAWK Release Video For MARIAH CAREY’s “All I Want for Christmas is You”

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East Nashville, TN based Hard Rockers VOLTAGEHAWK get into the Holiday spirit with a sexy, heavy re-interpretation of everyone’s least favorite Christmas retail standard, the 1994 MARIAH CAREY Award Winning “All I Want for Christmas is You.” Giving the bubbly classic a metal kick wasn’t enough, though, with the new and upcoming rockers putting together a Frankensteinesque music video narrative dripping with equal parts sex and carnage, creating the ultimate Christmas song experience for rock and rollers who love tasty licks and heavy riffs and gore.

“We all know this song sucks, so we made a version that doesn’t.” – VOLTAGEHAWK

Hell-bent on pushing the sonic envelope, East Nashville rockers Voltagehawk quickly set a ground rule that “NO” was not welcome in the creative space.

While recording at Electric Thunder Studios with Geoff Piller, Mastering by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering (Black Keys, Ghost, Arctic Monkeys, Dr John, Marilyn Manson) the band put together an energetic, fast paced, melodic opener set and quickly found themselves supporting national touring acts including loud rockers Beasto Blanco (Chuck Garric of Alice Cooper) [Rat Fink], as well as pop punkers The Pink Spiders [Geffen], bluesy rockers Goodbye June [Earache, Interscope] and stoner powerhouses Duel and Toke.

GO GO BERLIN Release New Single & Video “Struggle Is Real”, New EP Out Now

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Danish alternative rock upstarts GO GO BERLIN have released their new EP, entitled Lyfe, via Rodeostar Records / Napalm Records.  
 
The chart-breaking alternative rock group is one of Denmark’s strongest live acts and is now igniting their musical expertise with the new focus track “Struggle is Real”, taken from their new EP Lyfe, which includes five well-written and self-produced tracks.
 
The soft and floating 80’s-vibed track “Struggle Is Real” sets the bar for the band’s ultra-modern sound and questions how much time you’re willing to wait for one person to change or move forward. All we know is that you can’t wait forever.

Listen to “Struggle Is Real” and watch the video HERE:

Drummer Christoffer Østergaard on “Struggle Is Real”:
“It was our favourite song almost right away when we wrote it. It’s a track we constantly want to put on. It gets stuck. You only have to hear half of it, and the melodies stay in your head. And it’s got something. It’s one of those songs that just makes you happy when you hear it.”
 
Lead singer Christian Vium says:
“You shouldn’t spend your life waiting for others but instead find out what it is that you want. It is a love song, about the fact that life can be insanely colorless when the right people are not there. Maybe you have to make some choices to move forward.“
 
Lyfe envelops you like a gentle lullaby, carrying you into the depths of the GO GO BERLIN universe! 
 
The band states on new EP:
“‘Lyfe’ is focusing on changes, a band in constant motion. A band that is always searching for answers and ideas. Sometimes life hits you hard and sometimes you float – It’s a symbol for a new era in Go Go Berlin’s ‘lyfe’. We could not keep these songs in a drawer and wait to release them – They had to be born!

Lyfe Track Listing
1.  I Never Meant To
2.  Changes (U Want It)
3.  Welcome To The Hills
4.  Nervous
5.  Struggle Is Real
 
Lyfe is out now on all Streaming Services!

GO GO BERLIN on tour:
20.04.21  DE –  Nuremberg / Club Stereo
21.04.21  DE –  Passau / Zauberberg
22.04.21  CH –  Luzern / Schüür
23.04.21  CH –  Wil / Gare de Lion
24.04.21  DE –  Jena / Rosenkeller
25.04.21  DE –  Hannover / Bei Chez Heinz

ALICE COOPER Unveils First Song From Upcoming Studio Album “Detroit Stories” Feat. STEVE HUNTER, JOHNNY BEE, PAUL RANDOLPH, Plus “Honorary Detroiter” JOE BONAMASSA

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ALICE COOPER releases “Rock & Roll” today as a first taste of the upcoming studio album “Detroit Stories”, coming February 26th, 2021 on earMUSIC.

“Rock & Roll,” a classic song by The Velvet Underground from the album “Loaded,” is not a casual choice: It´s a song of joy and celebration of that magical moment when we all first turned on Rock and Roll radio …and it saved our lives.

Have a listen: Maybe it will save yours too! Here are some interesting Detroit Stories for the fans of rock and roll trivia and for those who believe that nothing happens by chance (especially in Detroit).

In 1971, the Alice Cooper Group was working in Detroit, with producer Bob Ezrin.
Around the same time, also in Detroit, a band called… Detroit, which featured Mitch Ryder, Johnny Bee and Steve Hunter, recorded a heavy new arrangement of Lou Reed’s “Rock & Roll” also produced by… Bob Ezrin.
It was when he heard that version that Lou Reed decided to work with Ezrin on the follow-up to his monster hit album “Transformer.” Their collaboration produced the seminal and fascinating classic album “Berlin.”
But wait, there’s more.

Steve Hunter, the amazing guitar player who created the iconic main riff that drives Detroit´s cover of the song in 1971, ended up working with Ezrin on many of his productions. He toured and recorded with Alice and with Lou Reed as well…and that same riff is the backbone of this new recording of the song which was done in…Detroit, of course.

Alice Cooper and Lou Reed shared a relationship of mutual respect and friendship over the years. Bob and Lou collaborated several other times and were dear friends for 40 years.
Alice and Bob can’t remember how many albums this is and have been creative partners for 50 years.

Listen to Alice’s powerful new version of Lou Reed’s “Rock & Roll” featuring Johnny “Bee” Badanjek (Detroit Wheels), Steve Hunter (Detroit), Paul Randolph (legendary Detroit jazz and R&B bassist) and special guests Joe Bonamassa and Tommy Henriksen (for this occasion, crowned “Honorary Detroiters”) here: https://alicecooper.lnk.to/RocknRoll

A visualizer for the single can be found on YouTube:

“Detroit Stories,” Alice’s upcoming new album, is a celebration of the sound and spirit of the Golden Era of Detroit rock.

“Detroit was Heavy Rock central then,” explains Alice, “You’d play the Eastown and it would be Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, the Stooges and the Who, for $4! The next weekend at the Grande it was MC5, Brownsville Station and Fleetwood Mac, or Savoy Brown or the Small Faces. You couldn’t be a soft-rock band or you’d get your ass kicked.”

“Los Angeles had its sound with The Doors, Love and Buffalo Springfield,” he says, “San Francisco had the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. New York had The Rascals and The Velvet Underground. But Detroit was the birthplace of angry hard rock. After not fitting in anywhere in the US (musically or image wise) Detroit was the only place that recognized the Alice Cooper guitar driven, hard rock sound and our crazy stage show. Detroit was a haven for the outcasts. And when they found out I was born in East Detroit… we were home.”

50 years later, Alice and Ezrin have united in Detroit with their Detroit friends to record “Detroit Stories,” Cooper’s new album.

If 2019’s “Breadcrumbs” EP laid down the trail to the city, “Detroit Stories” drives like a muscle car right down Woodward Ave.

Discover Detroit Stories as they were meant to be told.

“Detroit Stories” will be available on CD, CD+DVD Digipak, CD Box Set (including CD, Blu-ray, T-shirt, face mask, torch light and 3 stickers), and 2LP Gatefold on February 26th 2021 on earMUSIC.

And since Alice hasn’t been able to tour for awhile, Alice asked us to include a DVD and Blu-ray of the incredible last show of the 2019 “Paranormal” tour – “A Paranormal Evening At The Olympia Paris” – available for the first time on video. With all concerts being cancelled or postponed, and the world still facing the Covid 19 pandemic at home, Alice Cooper asked us to bring the show to you… until we can celebrate the joy of Rock and Roll together again.

Pre-Order “Detroit Stories” here: https://alicecooper.lnk.to/DetroitStories

Tracklist
1. Rock & Roll
2. Go Man Go (Album Version)
3. Our Love Will Change The World
4. Social Debris
5. $1000 High Heel Shoes
6. Hail Mary
7. Detroit City 2021 (Album Version)
8. Drunk And In Love
9. Independence Dave
10. I Hate You
11. Wonderful World
12. Sister Anne (Album Version)
13. Hanging On By A Thread (Don’t Give Up)
14. Shut Up And Rock
15. East Side Story (Album Version)