Welcome to the new Empyre. Empyre will release their new album Relentless on 31st March via Kscope, having signed to the label earlier this year, joining the likes of TesseracT, The Pineapple Thief and Envy of None. The band, who have just completed a UK tour with Vintage Caravan, now share the lyric video for new single and live favourite..
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Joanne Shaw Taylor – Sheffield City (Memorial) Hall, Sunday 4 December, 2022
It is a cold and wet Sunday night in Sheffield and Joanne Shaw Taylor is bringing her special brand of the blues to town but England are also playing Senegal in the World Cup so I feared that many fans would stay at home in front of the television. However, I had no need to..
ALL MY SHADOWS : ‘Eerie Monsters’ : debut album by new hard rock act formed by Vanden Plas kingpins | out 17 February 2023 via Frontiers
Frontiers Music Srl is pleased to announce the signing of All My Shadows, a new hard rock quintet formed by Vanden Plas members Stephan Lill (guitarist) and Andy Kuntz (vocals). Their debut album, Eerie Monsters, will be released on 17th February 2023, with a first single and video from it for the song Silent Waters..
RICK WAKEMAN GEAR STOLEN WHILE ON TOUR – Appeal For Help, But Tour Continues
On the night of Wednesday 7 December, a van carrying keyboards, flight cases, cabling and other equipment belonging to Rick Wakeman CBE was broken into in a hotel car park on the outskirts of Birmingham during Rick's current 'Grumpy Christmas Stocking' tour of the UK. The equipment is of no commercial value, as it is..
Melancholic metal masters unveil 2nd single & video for “Austerity”
Spellbinding New Album, Sky Void of Stars, out January 20, 2023 via Napalm Records | Pre-Order HERE! With eleven full-length records under their belts, Swedish melancholic metal masters KATATONIA don't need to prove anything to anyone. Yet, it comes as no surprise that the band is about to impressively solidify their unique stance in the world of metal and beyond..
Enemy Eyes – History’s Hand (Frontiers Music)
Enemy Eyes is a new project put together by the American vocalist Johnny Gioeli with History's Hand being a cracking old-school hard rock album. Gioeli is an exciting singer with a long and illustrious career in the world of rock being the voice of Hardline, the long-time singer with Axel Rudi Pell as well as..
Renaissance – Azure D’Or Expanded (Esoteric/Cherry Red)
We need to give Michael Dunford immense thanks and kudos for his writing skills on Azure D’Or. It was his spirit that helped keep the band ‘alive’!”Annie Haslam Back in 1979, things were getting tricky for the old guard. Few progressive rock bands escaped the punk and disco eras unscathed, and many who kept afloat..
WHO ON EARTH : ‘The Price’ – new single and video by US hard rock quartet | from debut album out now (digital) / 17 February 2023 (CD)
New Jersey-based US hard rock act Who On Earth has released a new single and video for The Price, which is the opening song on their just released debut album, Blame. Produced by Mike Orlando (Adrenaline Mob, Noturnall, Her Chariot Awaits), the album is available digitally with a CD format to be issued on 17th February..
Rising Steel – Beyond The Gates Of Hell (Frontiers Music)
Rising Steel is a cataclysmic heavy metal band from Grenoble in France with the marvellously titled Beyond The Gates Of Hell being the band's third album since it was formed in 2012. The band released the well-received Warlord EP in 2015 which well and truly put them on the map and they followed this with..
TWILIGHT FORCE | release second single ‘Sunlight Knight’
Photo: Stefan Altzar There's little more than one month left until the release of TWILIGHT FORCE's new opus At the Heart of Wintervale. Today however, the Swedes hope to thrill their fans by releasing the second single from their upcoming long-player. Sunlight Knight is accompanied by an amazing pixel art, video game style video. TWILIGHT FORCE comments: "Knights! It is dangerous..