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RAPID STRIKE Launch Single & Video To “Just a Lie”


Melodic Heavy Rock act RAPID STRIKE release today the single “Just a Lie”, taken from the band’s upcoming self-titled album “Rapid Strike”due for release via Wormholedeath.

“JUST A LIE” STATEMENT By Hrvoje Madiraca:

“Beautiful gals? Yeah! Mean riffs? Oh Yeah! Screaming lead guitars? Sure! Melodic guitar lines? And then some! Kickass female vocalist? Absolutely! We are Rapid Strike, and we deliver.

P.S. Do not go to strip joints! If you absolutely must, write a song as soon as you wake up broke in the following morning. Trust me, that´s what I´ve done and the whole experience was indeed “Just a Lie”

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WITHERFALL Release Video For The Emotional “The River”


See and hear a very different side of WITHERFALL by checking out the video for the highly emotional “The River”. After their homages to throwback horror with “As I Lie Awake” and “The Other Side Of Fear” the brand new video for “The River” finally shows a full band performance. The video was directed by Bradford Lloyd Cooper for Combobulated Arts Incorporated and can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/Zhy_5e_J-tY

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SABATON re-signs with Nuclear Blast; new single “Livgardet” due February 26th


Celebrated Swedish heavy metal titans SABATON enter a new partnership with NUCLEAR BLAST, re-signing with their longtime label home for a new single and much more to come.
Livgardet,” the band’s first new music since 2019’s “The Great War” (which cracked the Top 10 in 11 countries, including No. 1 positions in Switzerland, Germany, and Sweden), will arrive on February 26. The Swedish-language song honors the Swedish Royal Guards first established in the year 1521.

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POWERWOLF Vinyl Re-Release of Gold Status Album Blessed & Possessed out April 9, 2021 via Napalm Records


With their latest internationally successful outputs, the high priests of heavy metal, POWERWOLF, have truly proven that metal is alive and they are at the top of the scene: While heavy metal’s finest are constantly working on Call Of The Wild, the successor to their globally acclaimed full-length, The Sacrament Of Sin,they are also offering a new, very special treasure to their fans.

Their 2015 album Blessed & Possessed, which achieved Gold status for the first time in the Czech Republic and held fast at the top of the German charts for several weeks, will now be re-released in a vinyl edition on April 9, 2021 via Napalm Records.

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CRADLE OF FILTH announce their comic book debut ‘Maledictus Athanaeum’ + action figure


Incendium and Heavy Metal Entertainment announce the launch of Maledictus Athenaeum, a Cradle Of Filth comic book anthology series, under all-new music focused OPUS imprint.

In the ruined halls of the Maledictus Athenaeum lie occult histories, sealed records, and cursed artifacts – this unholy archive explores the far corners of Cradle Of Filth’s musical legacy, a vast universe of Ageless Vampires, Mythical Creatures and Vengeful Gods. The Countess, The Huntress, Lilith, The Manticore, and many more, will be revisited in stories from an all-star roster of comics talent from the pages of Heavy Metal Magazine and beyond.

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2 SHADOWS Releases New Single and Official Music Video, “SCREAMWORKS”, Via ROCK SHOP RECORDS!


Canada based Hard Rock / Metal band 2 SHADOWS has released a New Single, “Screamworks,” Produced by singer/songwriter/The Veer Union Frontman, CRISPIN EARL, accompanied by an Epic New Official Video, via Rock Shop Records.

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