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Twisted Sister guitarist Jay Jay French recently appeared on Episode #130 of Pod Scum.
During the hour long interview, which can be seen below, French revealed that the band's classic debut album from 1982, Under The Blade, will receive an expanded 40th anniversary reissue in 2023.
Saxon will play their first ever show with Brian Tatler (Diamond Head) replacing Paul Quinn in Athens this Friday at Rockwave Festival.
In a new interview with Yiannis Dolas from Rockpages.gr, Saxon leader Biff Byford talks about the upcoming show, hints at the theme of Saxon's new album, comments on people shooting live shows with their phones, reveals he'd like to do a mini-tour of Greece, and much more. Read a few excerpts below...
Following their latest, self-titled studio album in 2020, hard rock power metal titans Firewind have announced the release of an upcoming live album/Blu-ray, titled Still Raging. The release that comes as a special BluRay and 2CD edition, will be available on September 1, 2023 through AFM Records. Preorders are available at the AFM Records webshop.
On the blazing heels of their highly-lauded 2021 debut album, Sermons Of The Sinner - which debuted within the Top 20 on charts in the United States, the UK, Germany, Sweden, Finland and more - KK’s Priest return to sin again with their savage sophomore offering, The Sinner Rides Again, out September 29, 2023 via their new label home, Austrian rock and metal empire Napalm Records.
US metal legends, Virgin Steele, have shared a new single, "Black Earth & Blood", taken from the band's new album, The Passion Of Dionysus, out tomorrow via Steamhammer/SPV.
At a time when cultural innovation is being side-lined like never before and many unusual forms of music are succumbing to the temptation of the more commercially lucrative mainstream, Virgin Steele are the shining silver lining.
Sweden’s Stygian Fair will be releasing its new studio album entitled “Aradia” on August 25th, 2023, via Rockshots Records. It is the band’s fourth full-length and follows “Equilibrium” (2021), “Nadir” (2020), and the debut “Panta Rei” (2018).
Featuring 10 tracks of assorted AOR melodic metal, this album will touch and transport listeners to a place where melodies, words, and musicianship become emotion and images.
John Vihervä is the new bass player of Timo Tolkki’s Strato. John is one of the three original members of Stratovarius, and is one of the three founding members of the band back in 1985 in Helsinki.
John Vihervä is already recording his bass parts for the upcoming album from Timo Tolkki’s Strato, Return To Dreamspace, to be released by Warner Music Japan on October 27 (with the rest of the world to follow).
Watch Vio-Lence perform “Eternal Nightmare” and “Kill On Command” at hometown show in Oakland, CA at the Oakland Metro Opera for the 35th Anniversary of their 1988 debut Eternal Nightmare.
Eternal Nightmare was originally released in ’88 via Mechanic Records and peaked at #154 on the Billboard 200.
The Swedes Prime Creation have recently put out a lyric video for their new song, "State Dominion", as part of their upcoming studio record Tell Freedom I Said Hello.
The latter drops August 25, 2023 on Rock Of Angels Records.
Greek melodic rock/metal band, Hand Of Fate, have released their new single, "Evergrey". A music video for the song can be viewed below.
Hand Of Fate was formed in December 2014. The formation of the group was almost fatal, since to the initial existence of three of the total five members, the other two were added almost automatically.... as if they were driven by the circumstances of the moment.