The wait will soon be over to finally experience the brand new studio album by Swiss modern metal upstarts ILLUMISHADE. The rising band, fronted by vocalist Fabienne Erni and guitarist Jonas Wolf (both of Eluveitie) and completed with orchestration and synths by film composer Mirjam Skal, bass by Yannick Urbanczik, and drums by Marc Friedrich, will release their Napalm Records debut, Another Side of You, this Friday, February 16! On their new single, modern metal banger “Riptide”, ILLUMISHADE’s rhythm section demonstrates some of its most impactful work on the album.
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Emerging Dark Folk/Blackgaze Unit SULDUSK Releases Music Video for New Single “Crystalline”
March 1, 2024 will see Australian dark folk/blackgaze project SULDUSK herald the new year with the release of their much-awaited sophomore studio offering, entitled Anthesis, via Napalm Records. Following the release of the Melbourne-based act’s first single and album title track, today, SULDUSK are premiering a music video for their gripping new single, “Crystalline”!
Continue reading Emerging Dark Folk/Blackgaze Unit SULDUSK Releases Music Video for New Single “Crystalline”Finnish Melodic Death Metal Force BEFORE THE DAWN to Release New Digital EP, Archaic Flame
BEFORE THE DAWN are destined to further establish their position in the metal scene with their brand-new EP, Archaic Flame. Scheduled for release on March 8, 2024 via Napalm Records, the new offering unveils a fiery blend of sonic intensity and melodic prowess never before heard from BEFORE THE DAWN. After a decade of silence, the Finnish metal juggernauts shattered expectations with their comeback album, Stormbringers, the subsequent reconquering of Europe’s stages, and successfully dominating the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise last month.
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The iconic KK’S PRIEST – featuring Judas Priest alum and GRAMMY Award musicians K.K. Downing (guitar) and Tim “Ripper” Owens (vocals) – unveiled their blistering sophomore offering, The Sinner Rides Again, in September to rave reviews! Blabbermouth dubbed it “an absolutely ripping metal record”, while Paste stated, “…with all respect to Rob Halford and co., nothing they’ve produced in recent years feels as dynamic and as heavy as the material that their former guitarist has been forging with his project KK’S PRIEST.”
Continue reading KK’S PRIEST Reveals Futuristic Music Video for “Sons Of The Sentinel”POWERWOLF Honors OZZY OSBOURNE’s 75th Birthday by Covering Legendary Hit “Bark At The Moon”
On December 3, 2023, POWERWOLF honors the 75th birthday of the Prince of Darkness himself, the legendary Ozzy Osbourne, by releasing a cover of one of the Black Sabbath vocalist’s most famous solo tracks, “Bark At The Moon”! The title track of Ozzy’s celebrated 1983 album, Bark At The Moon, is an immortal classic, and the wolves’ cover of the song is performed in true POWERWOLF style while fully respecting the original version. The cover arrives with an accompanying official lyric video.
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Infamous metal pirates ALESTORM are set to return with another batch of mischief! Today, ALESTORM announces their “Tour Of The Dead Marauder” North American headline tour, kicking off in Cincinnati, OH on March 19, 2024. The month-long tour will feature support from Elvenking and Glyph, with venues to be announced soon. Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 17 at 10:00 AM local time – get yours soon before they are gone!
But that’s not all! Later that same week, they will release their new EP, entitled Voyage of the Dead Marauder, out March 22, 2024 via Napalm Records! The upcoming EP arrives as the successor to ALESTORM’s epic seventh studio album, Seventh Run of a Seventh Rum, which peaked at #7 on the German Album charts and #5 on both the US Current Hard Music and Top New Artist Albums charts. Once more, ALESTORM collaborated with producer Lasse Lammert (LSD-Studios), who produced, recorded, mixed and mastered the new EP and is known for his work with fellow genre greats Gloryhammer and Wind Rose.
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