CROWNE to Release New Studio Album “Wonderland” on August 22nd

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Swedish supergroup CROWNE are pleased to announce the release of their third studio album “Wonderland”, set for release on August 22nd, 2025, via Frontiers Music Srl.

The band share the first single and official video “Waiting For You”, available now.

Pre-Order “Wonderland” HERE

Vocalist Alexander Strandell commented on the new record, by saying: “It feels incredible to share this third chapter with all of you. Working alongside the amazing team at Frontiers and my brothers Jona, Kicken, John, and Love has been an absolute honour. If you’re a fan of Art Nation, The Poodles, H.E.A.T., Dynazty, or Europe – this one’s for you”.

Swedish-based supergroup Crowne is back with their highly anticipated third studio album, “Wonderland”. Continuing their musical evolution, the band builds on their signature blend of melodic rock infused with powerful, metal-tinged soundscapes. 

“Wonderland” delivers an unforgettable listening experience filled with epic atmospheres, anthemic choruses, and technical brilliance that showcase the band’s top-tier musicianship.

At the helm is Alexander Strandell, renowned for his soaring vocals with Art Nation, Lionville, and Nitrate. His impassioned delivery adds intensity and depth throughout the album. Guitarist Love Magnusson (Dynazty) provides electrifying riffs and solos, while Jona Tee (H.E.A.T) crafts lush keyboard textures that elevate the album’s cinematic feel. Legendary bassist John Leven (Europe) offers a thunderous low end, and drummer Christian Lundqvist (ex-The Poodles) drives each track with precision and force.

One of the standout moments is “Warlords Of The North”, a powerful anthem featuring a songwriting contribution from Biff Byford, the iconic frontman of Saxon. This collaboration adds majesty and weight to an already monumental track.

With “Wonderland”, Crowne continue to push the boundaries of melodic heavy rock, delivering a collection of songs that are as emotionally compelling as they are technically impressive. It’s an essential release for fans of melodic metal and arena-ready anthems.

“Wonderland” Tracklist:

1.    Wonderland
2.    Waiting For You
3.    Eye Of The Oracle
4.    Heaven Tonight
5.    Warlords Of The North
6.    Timing Is Right
7.    Goodbye
8.    Love Thy Enemy
9.    Legacy
10.    Hearts Collide
11.    The Fall

Line Up:
Alexander Strandell – Vocals
Love Magnusson – Guitars
Jona Tee – Keyboards
John Leven – Bass
Christian Lundqvist – Drums

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BraveWords Records Radio Special Debuts on Stations Around the World on June 5th

Posted by tarjavirmakari on June 3, 2025
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Debuting on June 5th, the one hour BraveWords Records Radio Special! Playing songs from Chris Slade Timeline, ASKA, Prophets of Addiction, Jack Starr, Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse, Rhett Forrester & Rob Robbins, Lillian Axe and Crimson Glory. Brought to you by Doc Rock of Metal Shop 101.

Tune in:

BEGINNING JUNE 5TH

ON DEMAND AT WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/@BRAVEWORDSRECORDS

THURSDAY JUNE 5TH

  • WILDDOGSRADIO.COM 12PM EST
  • WWW.ROCKSTEADY94.CO.UK 2PM EST
  • WWW.WFRMRADIO.CO.UK 2PM EST
  • WWW.SUNSETRADIO.IE 2PM EST
  • FEELGOODMUSICRADIO.COM 2PM EST
  • SPINHITSRADIO.COM 2PM EST
  • KDUBRADIO.COM 3PM EST
  • BADASSPRODUCTIONS1.COM 6PM EST
  • PIRATEFLAGRADIO.COM 10PM EST

FRIDAY JUNE 6TH

SATURDAY JUNE 7TH

  • MMZRADIO.COM 1PM EST
  • WWW.METALSHOP101RADIO.ONLINE 7PM EST

SUNDAY JUNE 8TH

  • MMZRADIO.COM 6PM EST

MONDAY JUNE 9TH

  • VIBETUNESRADIO.COM 4PM EST
  • WWW.WELOVE.RADIO/RADIO/FREEKSHOW-RADIO 10PM EST

TUESDAY JUNE 10TH

  • RADIOSTPETE.COM 9PM EST

BraveWords Records has released albums by Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse, The Chris Slade Timeline, Rhett Forrester and Rob Robbins, Prophets of Addiction, Jack Starr, ASKA, ALCATRAZZ and future releases from Lillian Axe, Crimson Glory and David Reece’s Bangalore Choir.

There is a serious void which desperately needs to be filled, hard-working and creative bands that have yet to find a partnership and a mutual vision with a professional team. The music-fuelled minds behind BraveWords Records, Brian Adams, Giles Lavery, Tim Henderson and Michael Brandvold, have built the ultimate home for an artist that will take you where you want to be. Collectively, with nearly 100 years of music industry experience under our belts, the BraveWords Records team will take care of all the crucial aspects of your project from global distribution (digital and physical), publicity and media coverage (web, radio, visual), social media blanketing and streaming opportunities (such as Streaming For Vengeance). Where most labels have forgotten the concept of actually marketing a release sensibly, BraveWords Records will construct a viable and comprehensive marketing plan, including visibility at BraveWords.com, which attracts a million visitors monthly. BraveWords Records has all senses on high alert as the music industry continues its never-ending transitioning, so the artist will always be aware of new opportunities to build their brand and strive for world domination. BraveWords will also have a focus on licensing film and TV content, both contemporary and retrospective across many genres. As artists and labels transition to the many new mediums available today for their work, BraveWords intends to stay ahead of the curve in providing and actively seeking opportunities for our roster of clients.

With the rapid spread of the world wide web, BraveWords.com was born in 2000 and quickly became the CNN of heavy metal. With its team of global writers and photographers, the site flourished with 24/7 updated news, features, reviews, audio and video steams.

For nearly 30 years, BraveWords wears their metal heart loudly on their sleeve, as they celebrate the greatest genre of music with the most dedicated and passionate fans on the planet!

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JORDFÄST Release First Single + Video ‘Dit Gudarna Trälar Är Pt.3’ from Upcoming Album

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Swedish JORDFÄST are back after some time with their latest opus, Blodsdåd och hor, set to be released on July 25th.

Today, the band presents their first taste of their upcoming album with their first single, Dit Gudarna Trälar Är pt.3.

Stream/pre-save the album at https://music.blacklion.nu/jordf%C3%A4st

Jordfäst about the song – Dit gudarna trälar är” (Where the gods are thralls) journeys through centuries of Swedish history, shaped by the steel and iron industry and defined by relentless warfare.

Bloodshed and whoredom is the third installment in the Jordfäst saga and the darkest chapter thus far. Bellowed by the winds from the past, it is forged with steel and blood in a furnace built by Scandinavian rock. The lyrical themes and musical compositions bond together, forming a strong and durable alloy. Under the unyielding strokes of hammers, the characteristic Jordfäst soundscape has been hardened, and the melodies have been thoroughly honed by melancholia to deep-cutting perfection.

“Ett altare av skarvar” (An altar of shards) combines fragments from Völuspá with imagery of violent manipulation and mental torture to explore the everlasting desire in humans to make sense of their existence. “Dit gudarna trälar är” (Where the gods are thralls) journeys through centuries of Swedish history, shaped by the steel and iron industry and defined by relentless warfare.

Track list

  1. Dit gudarna trälar är
  2. Ett altare av skärvor

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ZETRA Return with Dreamy New Single ‘So’

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Inimitable synth rock enigma ZETRA have returned with their dreamy, anthemic new single ‘So’. The track is the duos first new music since the release of their debut album in September of last year.

You can get it here: https://zetra.bfan.link/so

ZETRA comment:
“Can we believe the lie?
The membrane shudders to the touch
Alive within the mind, a barrier between two worlds.
Will there be peace beyond the veil?
Or is chaos ever raging?
It is so.
Zetra are reborn.”

ZETRA were recently awarded The Great Escape’s Steve Strange Award for 2025 following their performance at the festival last month. The award celebrates boundary-breaking new talent and the legacy of the iconic music agent Steve Strange.

This weekend will see ZETRA perform at Rock Am Ring/Rock Im Park in Germany, before returning to the UK for a slot at this years Download Festival. The pair are also set to support mysterious new act PRESIDENT in London at the end of July.

ZETRA LIVE 2025
7th June – DE, Nürnberg – Rock Im Park
8th June – DE, Nürburgring – Rock Am Ring
14th June – Donington, UK – Download Festival
30th July – London, UK – The Garage (supporting PRESIDENT)

ZETRA‘s self-titled debut album is available to purchase and stream at: 
https://zetra.bfan.link/zetra

CRADLE OF FILTH Reveal Music Video for New Album Track ‘Demagoguery’ + UK/EU Tour Begins This Week

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Following the release of their brand new 14th studio album The Screaming Of The Valkyries (Napalm Records) – which made stellar debuts at #2 on both the US and Canadian Hard Music Albums charts, #4 on the US Current Rock Albums chart, and more – GRAMMY Award-nominated extreme metal institution CRADLE OF FILTH have unveiled another surprise! A brand new music video for driving album track “Demagoguery” is out now, providing an eerily disturbing backdrop to the song, which blends dark beauty, blast beats and slaytanic groove as only Cradle can combine.

The video comes just in time for the band to kick off their UK/European headline tour, featuring support from label mates Nervosa, later this week! See below for a full listing of current tour dates!

“Demagoguery” music video director Shaun Hodson says about the video’s concept:
“Subject Eleven, a marionette puppet, is controlled by the media, government, and television, her every move dictated by their unseen strings. As a charismatic world leader rises, cloaked in promises of peace, the truth behind her manipulation becomes clear: she is part of a dark orchestration guiding the world toward the rise of the Antichrist.” 

On The Screaming Of The Valkyries, Dani Filth’s recognizable scream and equally identifiable growl stand mightily alongside twin guitar attacks, symphonic flourishes and explosive rhythm section, implemented by drummer Martin “Marthus” Skaroupka, bassist Daniel Firth, guitarists Marek “Ashok” Smerda and Donny Burbage, and keyboardist/vocalist Zoe Federoff. Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Scott Atkins at Grindstone Studios in Suffolk, England, The Screaming of the Valkyries beckons the brave into a new era of CRADLE OF FILTH misadventure, celebrating massive melancholic melody, blackened thrash, and apocalyptic existential dread with a grinning smattering of unbridled revelry. The Screaming of the Valkyries is a bloody dark love letter to the longtime legion of CRADLE OF FILTH faithful and a stunning entryway for fresh lambs to the sonic slaughter.

Menacing album opener “To Live Deliciously” hits immediately with rhythmic urgency, built around a Libertine lyrical hook that twists and writhes with aggression, atmosphere, and melody. Across the album’s blunt and unforgiving yet inviting expanse, Cradle summons the succulent flavors of classic albums like Dusk And Her Embrace and Cruelty And The Beast with the galloping (but no less fierce) thunder of recent entries Hammer Of The Witches and Existence Is Futile. Flashes of early metal influences coalesce with carnivorous glee into unapologetic death ‘n’ roll. Anchored by arguably the most mournful melody in their catalog, “Non Omnis Moriar” (“I shall not wholly die”) could be a cousin to Paradise Lost or Anathema, inverted through Cradle’s thorny prism. “You Are My Nautilus” is the darkest song Iron Maiden never wrote, spinning an epic tale with dueling guitars, while “Ex Sanguine Draculae” conjures Dusk-era atmosphere with imaginative new colors. 

Order The Screaming of the Valkyries HERE

The Screaming Of The Valkyries track listing:
1. To Live Deliciously
2. Demagoguery
3. The Trinity Of Shadows
4. Non Omnis Moriar
5. White Hellebore
6. You Are My Nautilus
7. Malignant Perfection
8. Ex Sanguine Draculae
9. When Misery Was A Stranger

CRADLE OF FILTH 
SUMMONED IN SUMMER TOUR UK/EU
Support: NERVOSA (on select dates)
06.06.25 PL – Gdansk / Mystic Festival
07.06.25 CZ – Ostrava / Barrack
09.06.25 SK – Kosice / Colosseum
10.06.25 HU – Budapest / Barba Negra
11.06.25 AT – Salzburg / Rockhouse
12.06.25 AT – Nickelsdorf / Nova Rock
14.06.25 UK – Donington / Download Festival
27.06.25 FI – Helsinki / Tuska Festival
04.07.25 DE – Ballenstedt / Rockharz Festival
05.07.25 BE – Leffinge / De Zwerver
06.07.25 UK – Norwich / Epic Studio
08.07.25 UK – Margate / Dreamland
09.07.25 UK – Torquay / The Foundry
11.07.25 UK – Southampton / 1865
12.07.25 NL – Emmen / Pitfest
13.07.25 NL – Maastricht / Muziekgieterij
15.07.25 DE – Dortmund / Junkyard
16.07.25 DE – Bremen / Tivoli
18.07.25 DE – Aschaffenburg / Colos-Saal
19.07.25 DE – Munich / Backstage
20.07.25 IT – Cremona / Luppolo Rock Festival
21.07.25 AT – Dornbirn / Conrad Sohm
23.07.25 SK – Bratislava / MMC
24.07.25 SI – Tolmin / Tolminator Festival

CRADLE OF FILTH is:                    
Dani Filth – Vocals
Marek ‘Ashok’ Smerda – Guitars
Martin ‘Marthus’ Skaroupka – Drums
Daniel Firth – Bass
Donny Burbage – Guitars
Zoe Federoff – Vocals, Keys

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JINJER Announce European Duél Tour 2026

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Ukrainian metal titans JINJER are set to return to headline stages across Europe for the first time in over six years. Kicking off on January 23, 2026, in Cologne, Germany, the tour will span 17 major cities, marking a triumphant new chapter for the band.
 
Armed with their most dynamic and ambitious album to date, Duél, JINJER are ready to unleash their trademark blend of technical precision, crushing heaviness, and emotional intensity on fans across the continent. Following years of global festival appearances and extensive touring, this tour is more than just a series of shows – it’s a full-circle moment that fans have been eagerly awaiting since the band’s last European headline run in 2019.
 
Renowned for their genre-defying sound and electrifying performances, JINJER continues to rise as one of the most dynamic forces in today’s metal landscape. The band spent 2024 on the road with Sepultura as part of the iconic group’s farewell world tour, and 2025 has already seen them bring their ferocity to stages across Asia and Australia. This summer, JINJER will storm North America as direct support for Babymetal, with additional high-profile festival appearances set for Download UK, Graspop Metal Meeting, and more.

JINJER Live 2025/2026
 
EU FESTIVALS 2025:
03.06.25 LT – Vilnius / Compesa Hall
04.06.25 SE – Sölvesborg / Sweden Rock
06.06.25 PL – Gdańsk / Mystic Festival
07.06.25 DE – Nuremberg / Rock im Park
08.06.25 DE – Nürburg / Rock am Ring
10.06.25 SI – Laibach / Mediacenter
12.06.25 AT – Nickelsdorf / Nova Rock Festival
13.06.25 FI – Turku / Rock Fest
14.06.25 CH – Interlaken / Greenfield Festival
15.06.25 UK – Donington Park / Download Festival
17.06.25 BG – Sofia / Maimunarnika
19.06.25 FR – Clisson / Hellfest
20.06.25 BE – Dessel / Graspop Metal Meeting
22.06.25 IT – Milan / Dissonance Fest
25.06.25 ES – Viveiro / Resurrection Fest
26.06.25 NL – Ysselsteyn / Jera On Air
28.06.25 NO – Oslo / Tons Of Rock
29.06.25 PT – Lisbon / Evil Live Festival
02.07.25 DK – Roskilde / Roskilde Festival
 
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR SUPPORTING BABYMETAL w/ Bloodywood:
05.07.25 US – Milwaukee / Summerfest
06.07.25 US – Maryland Heights / Saint Louis Music Park
08.07.25 US – Chicago / Aragon Ballroom
09.07.25 US – Minneapolis / The Armory
11.07.25 US – Denver / The JunkYard
14.07.25 CA – Vancouver / Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Center
15.07.25 US – Kent / Showare Center
17.07.25 US – San Francisco / Masonic
18.07.25 US – San Francisco / Masonic
20.07.25 US – Las Vegas / The Pearl
21.07.25 US – Salt Lake City / Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre
23.07.25 US – Phoenix / Arizona Financial
 
EU HEADLINE TOUR 2026:
23.01.26 DE – Cologne / Palladium
24.01.26 NL – Tilburg / O13
25.01.26 BE – Brussels / AB Brussels
02.02.26 FR – Paris / L’Olympia
03.02.26 FR – Lyon / Transbordeur
04.02.26 FR – Toulouse / Bikini
11.02.26 CH – Zurich / X-tra
12.02.26 DE – Stuttgart / LKA
13.02.26 DE – Wiesbaden / Schlachthof
14.02.26 DE – Munich / Tonhalle
16.02.26 HU – Budapest / Barba Negra
19.02.26 CZ – Prague / Sasazu
20.02.26 DE – Leipzig / Felsenkeller
21.02.26 DE – Berlin / Astra
01.03.26 DK – Copenhagen / Amager Bio
02.03.26 DE – Hamburg / Grosse Freiheit 36

Over the past 15 years, JINJER have built a reputation as one of modern metal’s most fearless and forward-thinking bands. Rising from the Ukrainian underground to international acclaim, their blend of progressive groove, technical precision, and raw emotion has earned them over 250 million global streams and views. From viral hits like “Pisces” to the crushing intensity of Macro and the dark complexity of Wallflowers, their discography continues to redefine what heavy music can be. Their latest album Duél features multiple music videos with multi-millions of combined views to date and broke into the charts at #2 US Hard Music Albums, #6 US Current Rock Albums, #2 CAN Hard Music Albums, #3 France Metal, #7 UK Rock & Metal and beyond.

Order Your Copy of Duél NOW – only a few formats left!

Duél tracklisting:
1. Tantrum
2. Hedonist
3. Rogue
4. Tumbleweed
5. Green Serpent
6. Kafka
7. Dark Bile
8. Fast Draw
9. Someone’s Daughter
10. A Tongue So Sly
11. Duél

JINJER is:                     
Tatiana Shmayluk – Vocals         
Roman Ibramkhalilov – Guitars 
Eugene Abdukhanov – Bass       
Vlad Ulasevich – Drums
 
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