Swedish metallers SABATON are on a mission to send chills up listeners’ spines. Today, the Falun five-piece unleash their new album The Symphony To End All Wars – a virtuosic, symphonic take on The War To End All Wars – which was released on March 4, 2022, by Nuclear Blast Records.
The band state: “These stories about courageous heroes and extraordinary incidents during the Great War are not only worthy of a whole album and an accompanying history edition, but an additional symphonic soundtrack edition that summons new emotions and adds a new dimension to our compositions. This is an entirely different take on The War To End All Wars.”
Today, international rock powerhouse Fozzy, led by multi-hyphenate superstar Chris Jericho and acclaimed guitar guru Rich Ward, has released their highly anticipated new studio album, Boombox, via Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group (ex-NA). PRESS HERE to listen. Boombox, Fozzy’s eighth full-length album produced by Johnny Andrews, features the band’s anthemic new single “I Still Burn,” which is quickly rising up the US Active Rock radio charts, currently at #24. The 12-track collection also features their US Top 10 singles “Nowhere To Run” and “Sane.” Boombox, the follow-up to their massive 2017 album Judas, is available now digitally and on CD with vinyl shipping later this year.
THREE DAYS GRACE, the multi-platinum selling Canadian band release their seventh studio album, ‘EXPLOSIONS‘ today May 6th 2022 via Sony Music For Nations. With the album, the iHeart Radio and Billboard award- winning Ontario quartet – Matt Walst (lead vocals), Barry Stock (lead guitar), Brad Walst (bass), and Neil Sanderson (drums, percussion, keyboards, programming) – balance moments of extreme emotion on an axis of pummelling hard rock anthems and pensive balladry. Throughout their career, the band have amassed billions of streams and millions of album sales, sold out arenas on multiple continents, and reached unprecedented heights, earning 17 total #1 entries on the “Mediabase Active Rock Chart” and 16 total #1 singles on the “Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs Chart,” and with ‘EXPLOSIONS‘ the band have ascend to another level. ‘EXPLOSIONS‘ is available on all formats HERE.
Trivium singer and guitarist Matthew Kiichi Heafy has released Rashomon, the long-awaited and much-anticipated album from his IBARAKI project today, May 6, via Nuclear Blast.
First featured on their successful 2018 studio album The Sacrament Of Sin (#1 GER album charts), POWERWOLF have now revealed the haunting live action version of “Venom Of Venus” and its exciting video clip, both cut from THE MONUMENTAL MASS – A CINEMATIC METAL EVENT – a movielike live spectacle available via DVD, BluRay and many other physical formats on July 8, 2022! The song impresses with POWERWOLF trademarks like strong guitar solos, standout vocals and exciting dynamics.
Texas Rock Band BLACKTOP MOJO has released an animated, “Jealousy/Make Believe,” a two track compilation and first installment for the 3 song concept within their 2021 released, self-titled album. Created by front-man MATT JAMES and bassist CATT MURTIS on the porch of the band’s house in Palestine, TX, with an acoustic guitar, “Jealousy/Make Believe” blossomed in Nashville with the help of producer PHILIP MOSLEY. The animated video will be released in two parts, with part two concluding the story with “Darlin I Won’t Tell,’ which will be released later.
“From our fourth record, ‘Jealousy/Make Believe’ and ‘Darlin I Won’t Tell’ are sort of a concept album within the album. The three songs flow together as a singular narrative and we wanted to create a striking visual to convey the story. We decided to do something cool that we’ve never done before and make a 3 song animated video to tell this story of heartbreak, murder, and deception. ” – BLACKTOP MOJO
Track List: 1. Wicked Woman 2. Bed Tundy 3. Latex 4. Rewind 5. Jealousy 6. Make Believe (Interlude) 7. Darlin’ I Won’t Tell 8. Do It for the Money 9. Hold Me Down 10. Cough 11. Stratus Melancholia 12. Tail Lights
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Catch BLACKTOP MOJO Live! 04/27 @ Front of House Lounge – Springfield, MO * 04/29 @ The Des Plaines Theare – Des Plaines, IL 04/30 @ 1175 Sports Park & Eatery – Kansasville, WI 05/01 @ Castle Theatre – Bloomington, IL 05/03 @ Hi-Fi – Indianapolis, IN 05/04 @ Manchester Music Hall – Lexington, KY 05/06 @ Arcada Theatre – St. Charles, IL 05/07 @ The Machine Shop – Flint, MI 05/08 @ The L – Horseheads, NY 05/10 @ Morgan Hill Event Center – Hermon, ME 05/11 @ Aura – Portland, ME 05/13 @ Montage Music Hall – Rochester, NY 05/14 @ Tally Ho Theatre – Leesburg, VA 05/16 @ Suck Bang Blow – Murrells Inlet, SC 05/17 @ Silverados – Black Mountain, NC 05/18 @ Georgie Theatre – Athens, GA 05/20 @ Welcome to Rockville 2022 – Daytona Beach, FL * 06/18 @ Dirty D’s (Matt & Catt Acoustic) – Baytown, TX * 08/18 @ Northwoods Rock Rally – Glen Flora, WI * 09/10 @ Scorpions MC Annual Pig Roast – South Lyon, MI *
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Formed in late 2012 by vocalist Matt James and drummer Nathan Gillis in the small East Texas town of Palestine, Blacktop Mojo’s fiery blend of sludgy grooves, classic rock guitar riffs, and southern metal shredding falls somewhere between Soundgarden and Lynyrd Skynyrd to form a sound deemed by some as “Texas Grunge”. The music draws on a multitude of genres and styles to form a hodgepodge of dirty, heavy rock and roll mixed with sensual and at times even, carnal blues.
After their debut album I Am in 2014, The band spent a few years cutting their teeth in dive bars, dancehalls, and honky tonks around Texas. In 2017, during the recording of their sophomore record Burn The Ships the guys quit their day jobs, moving into a small house together in Palestine, TX. The house created an unbreakable fellowship between the band and a culture of constant creativity.
Released via their label Cuhmon Records, Burn The Ships yielded two Billboard Top 40 singles on the Mainstream Active Rock charts including “Where The Wind Blows” (#27) and a cover of the Aerosmith classic, “Dream On” (#31). After the album cycle and touring for Burn The Ships concluded, the guys returned home in 2018, where they locked themselves in the band house for six months to write their third record, Under The Sun. The record yielded them another top 40 single in “Can’t Sleep” (#27) and the band continued touring in the US through the beginning of 2020.
Locked down with the rest of the world and unable to continue touring, the guys began work on their fourth, self-titled album, which released August 13th, 2021 to rave reviews, reaching #3 on the iTunes Rock Chart and #17 on the all-genre Albums Chart.
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