ALBERTO RIGONI Announces Legendary Bassist DOUG WIMBISH Joining His Tenth Solo Album Line-Up

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Italian bass master and composer ALBERTO RIGONI (solo, BAD AS, NATURAL BORN MACHINE, Bassists Alliance Project, Vivaldi Metal Project, The Italians, Kim Bingham) has a pleasure to announce that the legendary bass player DOUG WIMBISH will join his 10th solo album line-up! Doug is known for being a member of rock band Living Colour and funk/dub/hip hop collective Tackhead, and as a session musician with artists such as The Rolling Stones, James Brown, etc, to name a few.

Alberto stated:
“Dear friends, great news! I’m super excited to announce that the legendary bassist Doug Wimbish has joined on song of my upcoming 10th album! What he has recorded is absolutely gorgeous… are you ready to face a new bass experience???”

[Photo credit: Anima Nigra Photography]

“To support the production (recordings, mix & mastering, artwork design etc, I’ve launched a fundraising campaign. Here’s the link: http://www.albertorigoni.net/justbass
The campaign will end on November 30th. Would be amazing if you could support with a pledge! Thanks so much, Have a great weekend and stay safe!”

Just recently Rigoni launched a fundraising campaign for his 10th solo album, get more information here: http://www.albertorigoni.net/justbass
Also check out https://www.patreon.com/albertorigonibassist

Previously, ALBERTO RIGONI announced the impressive bass player Mohini Dey joining his 10th solo album line-up! More about Mohini Dey: https://www.facebook.com/Mohini-dey-243289075712164/

More on Alberto Rigoni:

He is an Italian bass player and composer, internationally known for his career as a solo artist and as a member of the metal band BAD AS, The Italians, Lady & THE BASS, co-producer of the Vivaldi Metal Project and ex member progressive rock band TwinSpirits (no more active). His solo albums, released worldwide between 2008 and 2020): Something Different, Rebirth, Three Wise Monkeys, Overloaded, Bassorama, Duality and EvoRevolution, Prog Injection, Odd Times, floating between progressive rock metal and fusion, also featured by legendary musicians such as Kevin Moore (ex Dream Theater), Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson), Göran Edman (ex Yngwie Malmsteen), Michael Manring, Marco Minnemann (The Aristocrats, Paul Gilbert) and many others.

Alberto has also recorded for several international artists such as Italian pop singer Alexia and is now playing bass for Canadian rock singer and songwriter Kim Bingham (Nelly Furtado) and The Italians, sharing stages with artists such as Alan Parsons, Suzanne Vega, Jørn Lande, Paul Gilbert and others.

More information at:
BAND: https://www.badas.rocks | http://www.albertorigoni.net
MANAGEMENT: https://alphaomega-management.com | https://www.facebook.com/OfficialAlphaOmegaManagement

GENTLE SAVAGE Reveal Title For Upcoming Debut Album + Story Behind It, Announce New Video, Out November 27th

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Finnish Rockers GENTLE SAVAGE, formed in 2013, have revealed the title + story behind it, for their upcoming debut album, out in February 2021.

“Gentle Savage’s upcoming debut album is titled, ‘Midnight Waylay’. It’s a way of describing an ambush at midnight, or going to a rock show; you never know what’s going to happen out there.

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!”

Furthermore, the band announces that their new animated music video for the song ‘Honey Bunny -the Rock’n Roll transformation’ will be unleashed on November 27th 2020! So, stay tuned and follow the Bunny to the underworld! 🤘

More information will be revealed soon.

Just recently, GENTLE SAVAGE released the gripping lyric video for their latest single ‘Run Run Poor Boy’, taken from the band’s upcoming debut album, and now available on all major streaming services. In case you missed it, watch the lyric video here: http://hyperurl.co/RunRunLyricVideo

Vocalist Tornado tells that “Run Run Poor Boy is a multilayered story about humanity at its barest!”

Stream the single on Spotify, here: http://Smarturl.it/GentleSavage_RRPB

‘Run Run Poor Boy’ single coverart was created by Vin Valentino, this is what the band has to say about it:
“The idea behind this picture was to represent the feeling of ‘Run Run Poor Boy’ as good as possible with only one single frame. Our colleague Vin Valentino did a brilliant job by making the cover look emotional and informative. One can really find ‘Run Run Poor Boy’s message and feeling in that one picture. And what about you, how does this single cover make you feel?”

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

GENTLE SAVAGE’s first single ’Karelian Magic’, released in April 2019, turned out to be a fairly personal love song with a universal theme; every man that loves a woman knows what it feels like to be under her spell. ’Karelian Magic’ was released with a music video directed by Saku Petteri Perintö from Lumifilms. The video is a modern fast paced brain twister. It was widely appraised around the world and also on YouTube. ‘Karelian Magic’ became the song the band is known for, however there’s more to Gentle Savage.

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

Watch ‘Karelian Magic’ video here: https://youtu.be/osEmTdkQCps

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

More information at
https://www.facebook.com/Gentlesavagerockband
http://gentlesavagerockband.com
https://www.instagram.com/gentlesavageofficial

CULT OF LUNA Reveal Details For New EP ‘The Raging River’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on November 12, 2020
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Featuring a guest appearance by Mark Lanegan; announces creation of their own record label, Red Creek – now distributed by Metal Blade Records in North America and Season of Mist in Europe.

On February 5th, Cult of Luna will release a new EP, entitled The Raging River, via Red Creek (red-crk.com) – the band’s newly created record label, which will be physically distributed by Metal Blade Records (in North America) and Season of Mist (in Europe). Pre-order The Raging River now at: metalblade.com/cultofluna (North American ltd edition pre-order; vinyl & CD) and red-crk.com (limited editions, band merch & more).

Cult of Luna comments: “After more than 20 years of touring, releasing albums and experiencing different kinds of deals and aspects of the music industry, we believed that it was the right time for us to seek more freedom and to reduce the distance between us and our audience.
So, in 2020, Red Creek was born. It has been created as a safe home for our art, but we wanted to do more and offer our experience, expertise and network to the artists we love and believe in. Therefore, we gathered talents and partners around us to create a crafted solution to our needs that is adaptable also to the needs of other artists.
Red Creek will be our home; if you’ve been with us for 20 years or 2 days, this will be your home too.
We’re also pleased to team up with great companies such as Metal Blade for the distribution in North America and Season of Mist for the distribution in Europe.”

Red Creek’s debut release, The Raging River, is a seamless continuation of the writing process and the creative mindset that has guided Cult of Luna for the last couple of years. “‘The Raging River‘ feels more like a bridge. A midpoint that needs to be crossed so we can finish what we started with 2019’s ‘A Dawn to Fear,'” the band adds. “It’s been an interesting, as well as an introspective, way of working, having our instinct leading the way and then having to figure out where it takes us. But not only has it been a linear journey; some aspects of it are also clearly circular. For example, we have been a fan of Mark Lanegan for many years. So in 2005, when we wrote the song ‘And With Her Came the Birds’, we had his voice in mind, and the working title was ‘The Lanegan Song’. But we were not many years over 20, and our lack of self-confidence prevented us from even daring to ask. It took fifteen years for us to get the guts to ask him. Hearing his voice on ‘Inside Of A Dream’ is nothing more than feeling that we’re inside of a dream.”

The Raging River track-listing
Side A
-Three Bridges (8:45)
-What I leave Behind (5:58)
-Inside of A Dream (3:20) – featuring Mark Lanegan

Side B
-I Remember (8:09)
-Wave After Wave (12:22)

DEAD GIRLS CORP Release Official Music Video For Cover Of Marilyn Manson’s “Great Big White World”

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Hollywood, CA based Industrial band DEAD GIRLS CORP. has released the official music video for their cover of the 1998 Marilyn Manson single, “Great Big White World,” via Monsterman Records, on Halloween.

“As Covid-19 cripples the world and continues mass shutdowns everywhere, and with the current amount of extreme civil unrest in the USA, Dead Girls Corp. took aim at recording the song ‘Great Big White World’ by Marilyn Manson whom Toddy Deadboy (vocals) worked for for 5 years as his personal assistant . We feel the song and video strongly captures this current period in time. Director/DP Stephen Readmond along with editor Alexis Johnston did a great job capturing this mood.”

In Hollywood, Ca, a dark alleyway forbodes, connecting Studio 56 and the Record Plant. Music legends of today and yesterday from Elvis, Marilyn Monroe and Mel Torme holed themselves into these studios, all of them making records in the same one hundred yard radius. And, like many stories of legend, the lost replaced the heroes, the junkies replaced the giants, and Satan replaced Sinatra. In the middle, another entryway leads to DeadZone Sound Design. Home of Dead Girls Corp. for the past 10 years. Imagine Depeche Mode with a beat box through a distortion pedal , playing ultra pop at a Satanic disco. Dave Teague burns a hypnotic guitar straight into the psyche. Bruce Miyaki churns the vulgarity within the soul on his bass. Then Mel Mcfail hammers the earth like a sledge , forcing trauma to the body. And all of this abrasion is honed and torqued by the pop-evil song crafting of Toddy T..With the old millennium come and gone, the real Apocalyptic party is ready to begin….

EYES Release Third And Final ‘Angry Music Sessions’ Live Video

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[ photo by Rasmus Sejersen ]

Twisted Copenhagen hardcore mongers EYES released their debut album ‘Underperformer’ this past September and scorching eyes and ears with their unique fusion of punk and metallic hardcore, leaving no confronted soul unstirred, not at least through their fantastically entertaining music videos. As every other band on planet earth, they have not been able to tour due to the ongoing pandemic, but now there’s some action available for the hungry hardcore hordes out there.

Together with Vincent B. G. Kosmol, EYES has shot three ‘Underperformer’ songs live in their rehearsal space in Copenhagen, Denmark which happens to share space with Angry Music Studios run by producer Tobias Munk Tønder, producer of the band’s output so far, including the new sessions. Mathcore Index is hosting and premiered the three session clips, the first one was “Voiceswhispersecretsandspeakonlytruths”, then came ‘Swim’, and now it’s time for ‘Off’. Lead singer ‘Victor Kaas’ says of the session:

“We were hesitant to do a live session – everyone and their mother does one these days (for obvious reasons). In the end we decided to do one, since it’s the only way we can showcase our live sound outside of Denmark at the moment. We hope to tour as soon as possible, when it’s deemed safe again, but for now, we hope you’ll enjoy this 3-parter as a substitute.”

The three clips allows you to experience the live intensity of EYES, if not first hand, then through the screen, where one senses the spit, the sweat and all the other filthy particles, we’re not supposed to near. But this does not stand alone, as the band has actual, though pandemic regulated Danish shows coming up in November. In addition, the band has just been confirmed for Denmark’s big metal festival Copenhell in June and also Prime Fest the same month and city.

Watch the third and final ‘Angry Music Sessions’ live video ‘Off’ with EYES here:

EYES is made up by five young veterans from the Danish metal and hardcore scene, and ‘Underperformer’ reflects a combo, that does not worry one bit about what fans, scene or people in general might think. One senses an artistic kinship with bands such as Daughters, Pissed Jeans and Converge – all bands who started out with a particular sound and have changed and developed their musical vision significantly; something EYES aims for as well – and succeeds in.

‘Underperformer’ and its ten songs showcases a unique talent for injecting new life into hardcore with a disregardful (mis)use of the genres many strains and traits through a focused, original songwriting. In its essence, ‘Underperformer’ is a narrative about becoming an adult and having a hard time adjusting to the role it implies. About feeling discontent with one self and where one is in life; Feeling like you’re always busy and have your hands full, but never actually accomplishing anything – feeling like an ‘Underperformer’.

‘Underperformer’ was produced by Tobias Munk Tønder (Église, Drukner), mastered by Jacob Bredahl (Lifesick, I Am Bones) – who also contributes guest vocals on the record – and Jon Gotlev/No Heroes has created the notable artwork. The album was released September 25th 2020 on vinyl (400 black and 100 white copies), tape (100 copies) and digital formats, physical versions are available to purchase via Indisciplinarian HERE

EYES live 2020/2021
13.11.20 – Sønderborg, Sønderborghus (DK) w/ Orm
27.11.20 – Copenhagen, Pumpehuset (DK) w/ Tvivler & Praytell
14.01.21 – Copenhagen, Sorte Firlkant Musikfestival (DK)
16-19.06.21 – Copenhell (DK)
25-26.06.21 – Copenhagen, Prime Fest (DK)

BLACKMORE’S NIGHT Release New Holiday Song & Video ‘Here We Come A-Caroling’

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BLACKMORE’S NIGHT reveal their new holiday song ‘Here We Come A-Caroling’, taken from the forthcoming 4-track EP of the same name, to be released on December 4th, 2020.

The song is a beautiful rendition of the classic Christmas carol, which is being given a new-yet-traditional sound by Candice Night and Ritchie Blackmore. It’s the forerunner of the upcoming “Here We Come A-Caroling” 4-track EP which will bring the holiday spirit into the homes of many fans during the cold season. 

‘Here We Come A-Caroling’ is available for immediate Streaming and Download: https://blackmoresnight.lnk.to/caroling_single

The corresponding official lyric video with wonderful animations and festive illustrations is now available on earMUSIC’s YouTube channel:

Blackmore’s Night brand new EP “Here We Come A-Caroling” includes 4 festive tracks and will become available December 4th, 2020, on Limited Edition 10” Translucent Green Vinyl as well as a Limited Edition CD Digipak and Digital.

You can pre-order it here: https://blackmoresnight.lnk.to/carolingPR