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15th October 2012
Navigator Records via Proper Records

The Guardian ****
The Observer ****
Metro ****
Evening Standard ****
Financial Times ****

http://www.bellowhead.co.uk/

Bigger, bolder, brassier and more brazen than ever, Bellowhead blaze back with their mighty new album, Broadside.

While all things Bellowhead tend to be an event, Broadside is a positive spectacular, taking some of the wildest, most joyous and iconic songs in the richly colourful canon of the folk song tradition… and turning them upside down and inside out with the unique sense of drama and theatre, instrumental virtuosity, verve, humour and blind cheek that has seen them spearhead the new folk boom.

Their third album Hedonism was the highest-selling independently released traditional folk album of all time, yet t...

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Formed in 2008 and hailing from Pasadena in Southern California, North American up-and-comers HOLY GRAIL offer a unique blend of the legendary NWoBHM scene with influences of several contemporary heavy metal sub-genres.
After numerous celebrated festival appearances (including ’Wacken-Open-Air’ & ’Download Festival’) and extensive touring with bands such as BLIND GUARDIAN, EXODUS and ELUVEITIE, the time is right for this promising quintet to hit the next level. In that regard, Nuclear Blast Records are proud to announce the Europe-wide signing of HOLY GRAIL!

Nuclear Blast A&R – Jaap Wagemaker comments:

“Already after we’d listened to their debut EP »Improper Burial«, it became pretty obvious that HOLY GRAIL – offering a modern version of the old-school heavy metal we’ve grown up with &#...

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VIDEO FOR FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH’S ”THE PRIDE”
From Gold-Certified American Capitalist Album

Las Vegas, NV – Five Finger Death Punch’s video for ”The Pride” premieres on Vevo TODAY, and can be viewed here:
http://www.vevo.com/watch/five-finger-death-punch/the-pride/US5Z51200276.

The clip is the first wherein the band has presented live footage from the road within the short-form music video medium. Footage was selected from the band’s successful Metal Hammer Presents Trespass America Tour over this past summer, and the band’s critically acclaimed set at Rock On The Range.

Five Finger Death Punch singer Ivan Moody shares, ”One of the best parts of being in this band is that we have the chance to design and build bigger and bigger live shows...

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Overkill, Purified in blood, 3 inches of blood – Islington academy, London – 7th October 2012

Purified In Blood put in a very energetic set. Their music felt powerful, angry and aggressive, and Hallgeir Enoksen certainly looked the part. He did everything possible to get the crowd going including climbing over the barrier and singing from the crowd as he tried to stir up some energy from the crowd. If you like your music loud, powerful, aggressive and good then these guys are well worth a listen.

Next up came 3 inches of Blood. If ever there’s a prize for the most misleading band name these guys must be in with a chance...

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World Fire brigade is a band whose members have sold over 10 million records between them. You have Brett Scallions (Fuel), Sean Danielsen (Sile empty soul), and Eddie Wohl (producer for Anthrax, Ill nino, 36 crazy fists amongst others). So these guys clearly have experence in the music industry. They teamed up and started writing songs with the intention of licensing them out for other artists to record/perform but soon decided that the material they were writing was too good for them to want to give it to other artists, so they decided to record and release the songs themselves, and thus World Fire Brigade was born.

Brief comments on a few tracks

”The end of silence” isn’t a song as such – it’s just a short intro to the album...

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Soldierfield formed in late 2011 and now just a year later are releasing their debut EP – ”Bury the ones we love”. The various band members have spent time in other bands including Rise to addiction, Blaze, Paradise Lost, and China Beach.

This EP certainly makes me look forward to them releasing a full length album. You’ve got a good solid metal core to the music with rock and prog thrown into the mix, which gives it a nice well rounded but heavy feel.

Brief comments on a couple of the tracks..

The EP starts off with the title track – ”Bury the Ones We Love”. Heavy guitar riffs and powerful vocals make this a definite metal track, but at the same time those rock influences creep in with the big chorus that makes it a song that will appeal to a wide range of people.

”Feel alive” is a mor...

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Orden Ogan are back with their third album – ”To the end”. The German band released their first self produced demo/EP in 2004, then in 2008 released their debut album – ”Vale”. They signed with AFM records in 2009 then soon after had one of their songs ”We are pirates” used by German TV channel RTL in their coverage for the Formula 1 Grand Prix at Monza, gaining the band a huge amount of exposure and new fans. In 2010 they released their second album, ”Easton hope”. Now two years later it’s time for their third album to be released.

singer/guitarist Seeb says of the new album..”To The End” is a lot more heavy and fast, compared our first two albums. But at the same time there are a lot more hymns this time and the tracks are even more melodic...

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German band Mob Rules are about to release the seventh album of their eighteen year career. ”Cannibal Nation” seems an odd title for a melodic metal band – it seems more suited to bands playing Death metal or one of the other heavier genres, but after eighteen years the bands fans aren’t going to be put off by the album title. There is a reason for the album title – the song of the same name is about African despot Jean-Bédel Bokassa – leader of the Central African Republic who was charged with crimes including Cannibalism.

Musically Mob Rules are Melodic metal – along the lines of Orden Ogan, Blind Guardian and Dragonforce. There are prog elements and power metal too, and there is plenty of power here along with the melodies...

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Following the release on 22nd October of legendary guitarist Steve Hackett’s newest album, Genesis Revisited II which comes in a limited edition 2CD Media-book, as well as a 4LP & 2CD version, Steve is proud to announce details of his forthcoming 2013 world tour. The tour will be a special production and something of a departure from his recent live shows.

This will mark the first time any original former member of Genesis has toured the band’s repertoire solely from the 1971 – 1977 period and will comprise songs co-written by Steve from that period, including such classics as Supper’s Ready, Dancing with the Moonlit Knight and The Musical Box. The line-up will feature the addition of Nad Sylvan as principal vocalist on several songs...

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It’s never easy choosing singles from an album, especially an album where the songs are both well-crafted and packed with lyrics that instantly throw up all kinds of visual ideas, some more bizarre than others. So, following on from ‘No Place Like Home’ and ‘No Friendly Neighbour’, singles one & two from the debut Primal Rock Rebellion album, ‘Awoken Broken’, it was decided that followers of the project – new to the public, but several years in the making – should be given the chance to register their vote, and the band’s online sites duly glowed red hot with suggestion and counter-suggestion as to just what single three should be…

An interesting exercise for sure, and by and large, what the Primal Rock People wanted was ‘Tortured Tone’… not one of the album’s more de...