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Megadeth returned to Germany's Wacken Open Air 2023 and welcomed their former guitarist, Marty Friedman, on stage as a guest musician to play a great set at sundown.
Professionally-filmed video of the band performing "A Tout Le Monde", "Symphony Of Destruction", and "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due"
Edmonton’s Fall Of Earth will be hitting the road for their first coast-to-coast Canada Tour of 2023 and the fourth of the year since touring across Eastern Canada earlier this year. Venturing across the country in support of their sophomore album From The Ashes, released this past April, this forthcoming tour also welcomes rhythm guitarist Matthew Lindholm to enhance the band's live sound and new bassist Myles Packer to replace Aaron Winklmeier who is on the band's latest album.
Following their recent signing with AFM Records and a first single, "I Witness", taken off their upcoming new album, today, Bavarian modern metal act Dust Bolt has unleashed a music video for the thunderous album anthem "Sound And Fury"! The band will release their much-awaited, fifth studio album, titled Sound & Fury, on February 23, 2024.
February 2024 will see the Germans release their fifth album, Sound & Fury, via AFM Records, an album that refines and noisily redefines the Dust Bolt sound for a new era.
Redemption have released a video for “Seven Minutes From Sunset”, featured on their new album, I Am The Storm, out now via AFM Records.
Tracklisting:
I Am The Storm
Seven Minutes From Sunset
Remember The Dawn...
W.A.S.P. announce The 7 Savage: 1984-1992 deluxe 8LP boxset from their 'Capitol Years', with studio album half-speed mastering, LP of bonus tracks, 60 page book, posters and numbered certificate. The 7 Savage: 1984-1992 will be released on October 27 via Madfish, and is strictly limited to 2,000 copies worldwide.
Compiled with the full cooperation of Blackie Lawless, the box set also includes a 60-page book with exclusive and rare pictures from legendary metal photographers...
Fans of German metal commandos Primal Fear, listen up. Code Red is almost here. In advance of the record’s official unveiling tomorrow, Friday, September 1 via Atomic Fire, the band offers up a final appetizer with “Cancel Culture”. Accompanied by a captivating lyric video created by Ingo Spörl of Hard Media, the track is themed around a topic that has been heavily discussed in recent years.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s long-running traditional metal veterans, Icarus Witch, have released their new single, “Rise Of The Witches”.
When a band’s been featured on outlets like The Occult Unveiled podcast and Witches & Pagans Magazine in addition to the world’s biggest hard rock magazines, you can bet a new single called “Rise Of The Witches” isn’t going to follow the cliche Hollywood trope of Witches as evil monsters.
Texas-based Thunder Horse has a genre that is hard to pin down, but there are definitely influences of doom, psych, occult, and a smattering of classic rock and NWOBHM.
Their third studio album and second Ripple Music release, After The Fall, cements the band's reputation of delivering titan-sized songs in the form of a refined formula: doomier, sharper, but also stronger.
Danish/American band, Pyramaze, have released an official studio video for "Taking What's Mine", a track from the band's new album, Bloodlines, available via AFM Records.
Pyramaze are an exceptional phenomenon in the international, heavy music scene: Their sound brings along numerous traditional melodic and progressive metal trademarks, but gets an immensely high recognition value by their unique feeling for great melodies.
Flashback to 1982. It is spring in Essen, Stauderstraße in the Altenessen district, a small musty rehearsal room in an industrial wasteland area. Three long-haired hopefuls have tuned their instruments and are hard at work, recording their first demo tape at top volume.
The track they’re cutting is called "Witching Metal" and becomes bludgeoning thrash metal of the purest variety.