Watford’s GOLD KEY have unveiled the title track from their forthcoming debut album HELLO PHANTOMin the form of a lyric video. The track is available as an instant grat when you pre-order the album at https://goldkey.lnk.to/HelloPhantom
“‘Hello, Phantom’ is about not being able to escape your worries. When it feels like they follow you around, almost as if they have manifested themselves as phantoms and are hiding in the shadows. When there is something weighing on your mind it can feel like it never quite goes away and that it is only a matter of time before your worries haunt you again”
– Steve Sears, vocals
Krysthla have revealed ‘The Minor Mystery Of Death’, the third single and official music video from their new album ‘Peace In Our Time’ which is released this Friday, 7th April.
Guitarist Neil Hudson says of the track: “The Minor Mystery Of Death is about embracing the end. Death is an absolute certainty and we’re living lives that seem like they’re going to last forever until it’s too late and your mortality is thrust into your hands. “We’re very precious towards our lives but don’t actually live them.”
Peace In Our Time was influenced by Krysthla’s 2016 European tour with Decapitated – with Hudson revealing that one experience on the road will live with him forever:
“On the Greek border, I saw a refugee girl stood on the other side of the motorway while we were parked up getting fuel. She saw us looking over at the thousands of grubby tents cooking the inhabitants in the scorching heat and fixed her eyes on me for a few seconds. “I gave her a nod. She jumped over the barrier and ran over the motorway to the garage, dodging traffic on her way. She walked over, looked me straight in the eye, said something in Syrian and gave me a highfive and hugged my leg. “I left a bit of me behind that day. We sobbed in the van as we left. It was utterly heart breaking to hear the hum of bodies murmuring in the boiling sun.” Hudson adds: “The album is influenced heavily, and almost solely by the fact I am a father. With so much unrest and violence in the world, it’s easy to turn your back and pretend none of it has an impact on your life. “Or somehow because it’s a long way from home it’s someone else’s problem. War does not sleep. War does not stop. It doesn’t choose who dies and who lives. But the people who light the fire and fan the flames do.”
The new album ‘Peace In Our Time’ is released 7th April via PHD.
Krysthla live:
9th April – Coventry, Maccov@The Arches
17th April – Peterborough, The Met
21st April – Bolton, The Alma
22nd April – Warrington, The Brewhouse
28th April – Cardiff, Fuel
5th May – High Wycombe, Phoenix
6th May – Worthing. Bar 42
7th May – Bournemouth, The Anvil
12th May – Inverness, Mad Hatters
13th May – Dundee, Beat Generator
14th May – Edinburgh, Bannermans
26th May – Northampton, King Billy Rock Bar
27th May – London, The Devonshire Arms
28th May – Leicester, Uprising Aftermath @ The Firebug
Finnish AOR maestros Brother Firetribe are proud to announce their 15th Anniversary European Tour.
Embarking upon a voyage across 11 different countries, this 19-date headline run not only celebrates the band’s 15 year career, it also features their first bill-topping appearances in certain countries, including the UK…
“We absolutely can’t wait to come back to the UK to hook up with all the friends we made there the last time. It’ll be a riot!” – BFT front-man, Pekka Ansio Heino.
To date, the group’s sole UK performance took place at Firefest in Nottingham in 2014; however, this will change in October of this year when they return to Nottingham for the melodic hard rock festival that is Rockingham, as well as putting on their first headline UK show at the newly re-launched Borderline in Central London.
UK dates as follows:-
21.10. UK – London, Borderline
22.10. UK – Nottingham, Rockingham Festival
Brother Firetribe’s fourth full-length album, ‘Sunbound’, is released on March 24th via Spinefarm Records.
Featuring 12 new pieces of music, including lead track ‘Taste Of A Champion’ plus follow-up single / video ‘Indelible Heroes’, ‘Sunbound’ has been mixed by Finnish studio-meister Mikko Karmila (Nightwish, Children Of Bodom, Stratovarius), and is the follow-up to 2014’s ‘Diamond In The Firepit’.
Since first coming together for their ‘False Metal’ debut back in 2006, Brother Firetribe –featuring Nightwish guitarist Emppu Vuorinen – have flown the flag fora brand of music (‘ultra-melodic West Coast AOR’) that once strode the US radio airwaves like a colossus, filling up arenas and providing the silky soundtrack to pool-side summers and wind-in-the-hair coastal highway drives; music pioneered by some of rock music’s most legendary names…
However, Brother Firetribe – that’s Vuorinen, Pekka Ansio Heino, keyboard player Tomppa Nikulainen, bassist Jason Flinck & drummer Hannes Pirila – are not trying to hitch a DeLorean ride into the past; rather, their collective aim is to both celebrate and reinvigorate a musical style that is all about big hooks, strong melodies, soaring vocals and searing guitars, not to mention the desire to entertain on a grand an’ glorious scale.
The new project “Vimic” put together by Joey Jordison (formerly known from Slipknot) are set to play their first UK shows this March. The release of their debut album, ‘Open Your Omen’ will follow soon after the tour.
Joey comments: “Hello to all our fans in the UK! It’s about time, isn’t it? It’s been a long road getting here, but it’s finally arrived and we’re on our way soon. We are thrilled and excited to bring VIMIC’S music to you live, in the flesh and blood, and describe sonically what your support over the years means to all of us. This is going to be one hell of a run and a killer kick-off to the future! Thank you all!!!! We hope you’ll come out and join us, as you are just as much a part of the band as we are. We look forward to seeing you very soon. Let’s go!”
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