NESTOR
"TEENAGE REBEL"
Hard Rock/ AOR/ Glam
Year:31.05.2024
(NAPALM RECORDS)

Get ready to embark on a journey through time as up and coming 80s rock purveyors NESTOR, hailing from the vibrant music scene of Sweden, release their electrifying, long-awaited new album, Teenage Rebel, via Napalm Records on May 31, 2024. Having formed in 1989 only to fall into a slumbering hibernation over three long decades, NESTOR emerged stronger than ever in 2021 with their debut album, Kids in a ghost town, marking the band's triumphant return to the spotlight and captivating fans with their timeless sound and unmatched energy. With glossy production and nostalgic authenticity, they take you straight back to the golden age of rock music, openly displaying their influences ranging from Bon Jovi and Aerosmith to Journey and Foreigner. With over 30 years of existence, NESTOR turn...

TYR
"THE BEST OF THE NAPALM YEARS"
Folk Metal/ Viking Metal
Year:31.05.2024
(NAPALM RECORDS)

Tyr from Tórshavn, Faroe Islands is a unique metal band that has made a name for itself worldwide, delighting fans with their powerful music and epic lyrics inspired by Faroese culture and mythology. And now the time has finally come - the long-awaited best-of album from Tyr is finally here!On this album you will find the band's strongest songs from their time under Napalm Records. From rousing anthems to epic ballads, the band covers an incredible spectrum. Singer Heri Joensen's powerful voice and virtuoso guitar riffs transport you to another world and captivate you from start to finishThe band Tyr has managed to combine traditional Faroese music with modern metal, creating a unique sound that sets them apart from other bands. With their impressive stage presence and pas...

DEICIDE
"BANISHED BY SIN"
Death Metal
Year:26.04.2024
(ATOMIC FIRE)

Death metal legends Deicide mark their devilish return with their new album, Banished by Sin, through Reigning Phoenix Music. Provacateurs by trade and dominant by nature, the Floridians, featuring founders Glen Benton (bass/lead vocals) and Steve Asheim (drums), as well as notables Kevin Quirion (guitars) and Taylor Nordberg (guitars), have yet again uncompromisingly splayed and slayed the genre's holy trinity of brutality, intensity, and aggression for the world to witness. Just as classic cuts like "Sacrificial Suicide" (Deicide), "Once Upon the Cross" (Once Upon the Cross), and "Homage for Satan" (The Stench of Redemption) elevated the firebrands to death's metal's apex, new songs "Bury The Cross...With Your Christ," "From Unknown Heights You Shall Fall," and "Sever the ...

LIMBONIC ART
"OPUS DAEMONICAL"
Black Metal
Year:28.06.2024
(PROPHECY PRODUCTIONS)

LIMBONIC ART are back! Their ninth full-length "Opus Daemoniacal" is black as a raven, fierce as a wolf, majestic as an eagle, and mighty as the legendary Norwegian black metal pioneers that mastermind, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Vidar "Daemon" Jensen founded in 1993 have always been. "Opus Daemoniacal" continues along the more straightforward black metal path that the Norwegian has chosen for his last releases yet this album also deliberately harks back to the dense atmospheric and cinematic feel of LIMBONIC ART's groundbreaking early works. After having turned into a duo, the debut album "Moon in the Scorpio" was released in 1996 via Nocturnal Art Productions – the label of EMPEROR guitarist Samoth aka Tomas Thormodsæter Haugen. Their at the time quite unique co...

ALCEST
"LES CHANTS DE L AURORE"
Black Metal
Year:21.06.2024
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Five years after their last album, Alcest have reconvened with a refreshed perspective on their epoch-altering musical endeavours. Les Chants de l’Aurore arrives at a tumultuous point in human history, laden with gentle charm and ferocious conviction, and doggedly determined to push Neige’s musical identity ever further into an expansive future. More importantly, perhaps, Les Chants de l’Aurore gives Neige a fresh opportunity to connect with his adoring fan base, armed with some of the most beautiful and mesmerising music that he has ever written.

CD/ LP/ 2LP:

01. Komorebi
02. L'Envol
03. Améthyste
04. Flamme Jumelle
05. Réminiscence

06. L'Enfant de la Lune
07. L'Adieu

COGNITIVE
"ABHORRENCE"
Technical Death Metal
Year:17.05.2024
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

Technical death metal troupe Cognitive are back with Abhorrence, their fifth full length album and a tremendously worthy successor to 2021’s Malevolent Thoughts of a Hastened Extinction. This is the New Jersey powerhouse quintet at its brutal best – unrelenting riffs leave the listener stunned, while a wave of thoughtful, devastating lyrics washes over. The album is a turbulent, draining but ultimately fulfilling experience. Cognitive started work on Abhorrence while touring Malevolent Thoughts of a Hastened Extinction, sending tracks back and forth to each other while trekking from one intense gig to another. That desire to create something with an authentic artistic vision is what led to the recording of Abhorrence. The album is an exercise in aural turbulence, each taking th...

VISIONS OF ATLANTIS
"PIRATES II – ARMADA"
Symphonic Female Heavy Metal
Year:05.07.2024
(NAPALM RECORDS)

The pirates of VISIONS OF ATLANTIS are about to take listeners on their heaviest symphonic adventure yet with their new studio album, titled "Pirates II – Armada", set for release on July 5, 2024 via Napalm Records. The new successor to their high-charting previous release, "Pirates" (2022),is set as high as the waves cresting the Jolly Roger — taking everything that has been achieved to date to another level. With the second chapter of the pirates' saga, VISIONS OF ATLANTIS prove that they are more than ready to claim the crown of symphonic metal.CD:01    To Those Who Choose to Fight02    The Land of the Free03    Monsters04    Tonight I’m Alive05    Armada06    The Dead of the...

BLAZE OF PERDITION
"UPHARSIN"
Black Metal
Year:19.04.2024
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

A step back from the somewhat unusual direction the band followed on their previous offering, -- 2020's The Harrowing Of Hearts -- Upharsin takes on a dark and pessimistic tone reflected by its appropriately oppressive music. Haunting and melancholic melodies rooted in traditional black metal meet unforgiving blastbeats and solemn marches, while emotional yet feral vocals aim to bring a proper sense of rage and disgust.

CD/ LP:

1. W Kwiecie Rozłamu
2. Przez Rany
3. Niezmywalne
4. Architekt
5. Młot, Miecz I Bat

EMBRYONIC AUTOPSY
"ORIGINS OF THE DEFORMED"
Death Metal
Year:14.06.2024
(MASSACRE RECORDS)

"Origins Of The Deformed" by EMBRYONIC AUTOPSY is an album for fans of brutal death metal the way it is meant to be: Sick, heavy, and relentless! Guest musicians on the album include James Murphy (ex-Death, ex-Obituary, ex-Testament), Jack Owen (Six Feet Under, ex-Cannibal Corpse, ex-Deicide), and Terrance Hobbs (Suffocation).Guest-musicians:- James Murphy (ex-Death, ex-Obituary, ex-Testament): Guest guitar solos on "Orgies Of The Inseminated", "Cleopatra's Spawn" and "Carnivorous Abortion"- Jack Owen (Six Feet Under, ex-Cannibal Corpse, ex-Deicide): Guest guitar solos on "Dissolving In Acidic Afterbirth" and "Dripping In The Vaginal Nectar"- Terrance Hobbs (Suffocation): Guest guitar solo on "Carnivorous Abortion".CD/ LP:1. Dripping In The Vaginal Nectar2. Orgies Of The Inseminated3....

SNOWY WHITE
"UNFINISHED BUSINESS"
Blues/ Classic Rock
Year:14.06.2024
(SOULFOOD MUSIC)

The British guitar legend SNOWY WHITE releases a brand new album with "Unfinished Business". In 2022 he achieved the first German chart position in his career with "Driving on the 44" (#27 in the official German album charts). With his previous albums, 'The Situation' and 'Driving On The 44', the former Thin Lizzy guitarist and Pink Floyd and Roger Waters touring guitarist has shown that he is one of the greats when it comes to soulful, nuanced Blues Rock. On the nine tracks of his new album we once again experience the blues master in great shape. The lively opener and namesake of the album offers a promising invitation, and also makes it clear that Snowy White has once again done a great job - contrary to what the title suggests. In his inimitably reserved "understate...

SEVERE TORTURE
"TORN FROM THE JAWS OF DEATH"
Death Metal
Year:07.06.2024
(SEASON OF MIST)

SEVERE TORTURE, the Dutch death metal titans, return with a vengeance, bearing the blood-spattered banner of the genre. Unbowed and unbroken, this quintet embodies the truest strains of death metal virility.Crafted within the ominous walls of Torture Compound Studios, Torn from the Jaws of Death is a visceral testimony to Severe Torture's raw power and unrelenting savagery. Mixed and mastered with malignant precision by Mendel bij de Leij of MbdL Productions, each of the ten tracks bleeds supremacy—from the guttural roar of 'The Death of Everything' to the fiendish chaos of 'Tear all the Flesh off the Earth.' Pär Olofsson's macabre cover artwork ensnares the eye, while Severe Torture's relentless ferocity grips the soul. This album do...

NOCTURNUS AD
"UNICURSAL"
sci-fi death metal
Year:17.05.2024
(SEASON OF MIST)

- After mounting one of the most notable returns in the realm of death metal, sci-fi death metal godfather Mike Browning returns with the sophomore NOCTURNUS AD album “Unicursal” which continues the story from their debut LP “Paradox” which was the continuation, 30 years later, of the classic Nocturnus album “The Key” (first death metal album to use keyboards), one of the most influential death metal albums of all time.  The new NOCTURNUS AD album sees Browning continue the lore set with 1990’s “The Key”.- CD edition to feature exclusive bonus track “Nocturnus Will Rise”.- “Unicursal” is NOCTURNUS AD’s most ambitious undertaking yet and the most challenging album Mike Browning has ever been involved in...

RHAPSODY OF FIRE
"CHALLENGE THE WIND"
Symphonic Power Metal
Year:31.05.2024
(ADA - Alternative Distribution Alliance)

The Italian Symphonic Power Metal institution RHAPSODY OF FIRE return with one of their best works yet, a continuation of their Epic Nephilim Saga which first started with “The Eighth Mountain” in 2019. Their new epos is called: “Challenge The Wind”!Ask any Power Metal fan and they will remark about how in 30 years RHAPSODY OF FIRE not only shaped a genre but developed as a band and created a legacy as the undisputed kings of Symphonic Power Metal.Having built their standing upon classics like Legendary Tales (1997), Symphony Of Enchanted Lands (1998) or Dawn Of Victory (2000), RHAPSODY OF FIRE once again show what they do best: Epic Orchestral arrangements, grandiose Choirs, fast and melodic guitars and a gripping story, that ties this opus of Symphonic-Power-fines...

POWERWOLF
"WAKE UP THE WICKED"
Power Heavy Metal
Year:26.07.2024
(NAPALM RECORDS)

POWERWOLF – a band that fills the hearts of every heavy metal fan with joy – will release their highly-anticipated new studio album,  Wake Up The Wicked, on July 26, 2024 via Napalm Records! With several #1 chart entries and multiple gold and platinum records, POWERWOLF is undoubtedly one of  the most successful current heavy metal bands worldwide. Headline and premium slots at premier rock and metal festivals like Wacken, Hellfest or Graspop, as well as massive sold-out arena shows have further solidified the Wolfpack’s standing at the very top of the scene. POWERWOLF’s high quality  releases are steadily praised by critics and fans alike, building upon the successful reach of their songs and  impressive  official  music  videos,&...

MY DYING BRIDE
"A MORTAL BINDING"
Doom Death Metal
Year:19.01.2024
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

The flower withers once more on My Dying Bride’s A Mortal Binding …

British doom/death metal legends My Dying Bride are primed to unfurl their 15th album, A Mortal Binding, via Nuclear Blast. The much-anticipated follow-up to The Ghost of Orion (2019) finds the Yorkshire-based quintet featuring a revamped lineup of now-permanent guitarist Neil Blanchett and the return of drummer Dan Mullins delighting in anxiety, loss, and toil to resplendent effect.

CD/ 2LP:

1 Her Dominion
2 Thornwyck Hymn
3 The 2nd of Three Bells
4 Unthroned Creed

5 The Apocalyptist
6 A Starving Heart
7 Crushed Embers

LINE UP:

Vocals: Aaron Stainthorpe
Guitar: Andrew Craighan
Drums: Dan Mullins
Bass: Lena Abe
Guitar: Neil Blanchett
Violin/Keyboards: Shaun McGowan