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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!”
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.
Finnish Rockers GENTLE SAVAGE, formed in 2013, have announced their new single, entitled ‘YNAMW (You Never Ask Me Why)’ coming out still by the end of 2020, revealing first teasing details about it. YNAMW is taken from the band’s upcoming debut album ‘Midnight Waylay’, out in February 2021. Furthermore the band reveals the single cover artwork, created by Vin Valentino.
Lead vocalist Tornado on the single: “YNAMW is a fairly weird song. With it’s rhythmic and dynamic character YNAMW gives you some real nice boost while jogging or coupling or just rockin’ around.. (Meditation is propably out of the question). Four different parts include two solos and of course – a catchy chorus. YNAMW tells a story about a modern cowboy-vampire and his call to action. Our hero reveals his yearn for eternal love. And just for making sure; this story is fictive! More about it later.”
On November 27th, GENTLE SAVAGE unleashed their new analog animation music video of an adventure in the Underworld, ‘Honey Bunny -the Rock’n Roll transformation’. Just recently the band released two reaction videos, where the band members Jay & Tornado and the cartoonist Jyrki Heikkinen give their reaction while watching the fully edited video for the first time. Watch below.
Watch the ‘Honey Bunny -the Rock’n Roll transformation’ video here: hyperurl.co/HoneyBunny – https://youtu.be/CsBGKvzZKko
‘Honey Bunny – The Rock’n Roll Transformation’ video was made in collaboration with cartoon artist Jyrki Heikkinen and photographer Ilari Kallinen. The story was created by Tornado Bearstone and Jyrki Heikkinen alongside the Gentle Savage’s guitarist Tim O’Shore.
“Break the boundaries, find your own way!”
Gentle Savage’s debut album, ‘Midnight Waylay’ is coming out in February 2021. 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!”
“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 Single coverarts by Vin Valentino
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