German power metal titans MASTERPLAN, who not only embark on an extensive European tour with FIREWIND kicking off this February, return with a brand new song, entitled Rise Again. Following the band's colossal anniversary edition, a reissue of their memorable debut re-released in 2023 via AFM Records, today, MASTERPLAN are sharing their new single Rise Again – an epic, powerful and harbinger of..
Arjen Lucassen Reveals Lucassen & Soeterboek’s Plan Nine’s ‘The Long-Lost Songs’ Released 17th May via Music Theories Recordings / Mascot Label Group
17th May will see the release of Lucassen & Soeterboek's Plan Nine album The Long-Lost Songs via Music Theories Recordings / Mascot Label Group. To go with the album announcement, they have revealed the video for Before The Morning Comes, which you can watch below. It was the early nineties, and musical polymath Arjen Lucassen had begun working on several projects:..
Cruzh announce new album “The Jungle Revolution” set for release on March 22, 2024
Swedish glam rockers Cruzh have announced the release of their highly anticipated new album, The Jungle Revolution, set for release on March 22nd, 2024. They're also sharing a taste of the upcoming work with the first single, FL89, out now. About the new single, bassist Dennis Butabi Borg said "It feels great to release FL89..
FIREWIND set to release new studio album “Stand United” on 1st March, 2024, out on AFM Records
Hard rock power metal titans FIREWIND, who recently announced their brand new studio offering Stand United, for release on March 1, 2024 via AFM Records, have also announced a US headlining tour kicking off in the Spring of 2024. All upcoming FIREWIND live dates listed below. Tickets are on sale now, more US dates to be announced soon. Their new album Stand..
Tom Heyman – 24th Street Blues (Bohemian Neglect Recording Works)
Tom Heyman is an American singer songwriter now based in San Francisco and he is another of those well-worn and life weary musicians who like to take a step off the beaten track so that they can stand and watch the interactions of those passing by and the way they live their lives in this..
Reveal – Still Alive (Art Gates Records)
Reveal is a Spanish/Swedish hard rock/power metal band with Still Alive being their third album following on from 2017's debut Timeline and follow up Overlord in 2019. It's taken several years for the third record during which time they appear to have become a little heavier and probably more hard rock than power metal with..
Project Arcadia – Of Sins And Other Tales (PA Music)
Centered around guitar wizard and main composer Plamen Uzunov, Project Arcadia has been releasing some classy progressive power metal since its inception in 2007. You can’t call them prolific, because Of Since And Other Tales is only their third full-length release since, but what cannot be denied is that quality steps up in spades in..
EXOCRINE Master the Art of Tech-Death on ‘Legend’, album available now on Season Of Mist
EXOCRINE have been turning heads with their philosophical bent on technical-death metal for more than a decade. But on their new album, the daring and deadly French architects spin razor-sharp riffs and precision blast beats into a truly legendary tale. Exocrine are locked and loaded on Legend. Eidolon fires off laser-guided riffs and a bass that..
SONS OF LIBERTY – The Detail Is In The Devil
The jams are kicked out again with the pulverising What's A Man Supposed To Do, while possibly the highlight of the whole album comes in the shape of the exceptional Hawk Men Come, a mini epic with huge, fist-pumping choruses and riffs that roll by like black cloud thunder... Sons Of Liberty (whose third album..
MINISTRY | releases brand-new track & video ‘B.D.E.’
Toxic misogyny, violence against women, and incels are the latest target Al Jourgensen takes aim at in the song B.D.E.' (aka "Big Dick Energy) out today, including a spellbinding music video that draws the line on the poisonous behavior seen in both politics and everyday life in 2024. The song's whiplash riffs, barreling drums, punchy keys, and pummeling bass..