”Another step” is the debut album from Manchester band City Reign. The band comprises the songwriting duo of Chris Bull and Mike Grice along with Duncan Bolton and Ryan Ashton. After moving to Manchester to study, Chris and Mike met at a Ryan Adams gig – the band’s name comes from his song ”City Rain,…
Finnish power metal band Stratovarius are due to release their new studio album, Nemesis, in late February. Fans though can get a taste of the new album with the new EP, Unbreakable, which is being released on 25th January. The EP consists of five tracks – one new song (Unbreakable) taken from the forthcoming album,…
American female fronted band Upon Wings are due to release their Afterlife EP in March. The EP features some guest vocals from Brett Hestla (ex-Creed, Dark New Day) and was mastered by Kid Rock recording engineer Glenn Brown. Opening track ”Afterlife” is absolutely superb. Vocally the best comparisons are probably Epica and Delain, and musically…
HELLO CATHOUSE!- extremely new single from Babylon Bombs Hard rock and sleaze in the air- as we love to feel it in bones everywhere. Swedish band from Stockholm seems actually unstoppable.. So, are you ready? New single from Babylon Bombs is available in 7 days! „It’s a song written as a homage to a good…
AOR Records/Sound Pollution Behind the moniker PHOENIX RISING stands guitarist Andrea Maddalone (NEW TROLLS, session musician) and lead vocalist/drummer Titta Tani (ASHENT, GOBLIN etc). After a successful EP, “Give It a Name” in 2012 the band were on their way. They state influences like BOSTON, JOURNEY, PRIDE OF LIONS and GIANT, and they seem to…
Frontiers/BAM Here´s a new one, imagine three guys, members or associated with Italian heavy metal band LABYRINTH doing a moderns sounding hard rock album?! Well this is not a mirage, it has happened. Guitarist Andrea Cantarelli, bassist/vocalist Roberto Tiranti and drum ace Alessandro Bissa /VISION DIVINE) are A PERFECT DAY, and have debuted with Frontiers…
Swiss melodic death metal band Dreamshade formed in 2006, and in 2008 released their debut EP – To The Edge Of Reality. After two years of touring and playing festivals including Metalfest, Metalcamp and Summer Breeze open air, they signed to Spinefarm records. In January 2011 they released their debut album (What silence hides). Since…
Swedish rock band takes our head again.. Rock, we could say, is the genre, what everybody knows. Maybe not like, or love, like thousands and millions of funs all over the world, just simply knows. Anyway the name is with us: in movie titles, on t-shirts, and so on, and so on.. And this is…
Me, who never lived the rock ’n roll life in the 80s, Im extremely happy to just look around nowadays and meet more and more bands, who give the feeling of that great, heroic time of rock and the life around it. This style seems that – thanks good- started to spread again, as a…
It’s been a long wait since British heavy metal band Beholder released their last album (The Awakening – released in 2009). Since then there has been one lineup change – Simon Cliffe being replaced on guitar by Scott Taylor (maybe having three Simons in the band just got too confusing). The four year gap doesn’t…
Combichrist’s latest release is ”No redemption”, which is thirteen new songs written for the computer game series Devil May Care. In addition to the standard 13 track cd, ‘No Redemption’ will be released as a limited deluxe 2 disc edition which contains a second disc which contains ten classic Combichrist tracks that are also used…
nulldB come from Würzburg in Germany and in 2008 won the ”German Rock and Pop Award” as the best newcomer in the category ”Hard ‘n’ Heavy”. In 2009 they released their debut album ”In the Eye of the Storm”. The bands biography describes them as ”Neue Deutsche Härte” (New German Hardness), which I have to…