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September 07, 2023
HEAVY LOAD RETURN WITH NEW ALBUM TO CELEBRATE 40TH ANNIVERSARY

40 years have passed since Heavy Load released their album Stronger Than Evil (1983). Now, at last, on October 6, Heavy Load will release their comeback album titled: Riders Of The Ancient Storm.

Heavy Load’s comeback album reflects their well-known sound and songwriting. Still, many songs echo these pioneers’ famous Viking themes and existential lyrics.

September 07, 2023
K.K. DOWNING CONFIRMS HE WILL NEVER PERFORM WITH JUDAS PRIEST AGAIN - "I WAS EXPECTING TO BE BACK IN THE BAND WHEN THERE WAS AN OPENING"

Speaking with Metal Hammer, former Judas Priest guitarist and founder of KK's Priest, K.K. Downing, spoke bluntly about the fact he will never perform with Judas Priest again even though he did so during the band's induction to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2022.

Downing: "No. Before I started KK’s Priest, I asked if they’d consider me stepping back into my rightful place, because at one point they announced they were going out as a four-piece.

September 07, 2023
FALL OF EARTH ANNOUNCES "ROAD TO PURGATORY" COAST TO COAST CANADA TOUR IN SUPPORT OF NEW ALBUM FROM THE ASHES

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.

September 07, 2023
REDEMPTION PREMIER "SEVEN MINUTES FROM SUNSET" MUSIC VIDEO

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...

September 01, 2023
W.A.S.P. ANNOUNCE THE 7 SAVAGE: 1984-1992 LIMITED EDITION DELUXE 8LP BOXSET

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...

September 01, 2023
PRIMAL FEAR PREMIERE LYRIC VIDEO FOR EPIC NEW TRACK "CANCEL CULTURE"

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.

September 01, 2023
ICARUS WITCH RELEASE "RISE OF THE WITCHES" SINGLE AND LYRIC VIDEO; NEW ALBUM DETAILS REVEALED

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.

September 01, 2023
THUNDER HORSE SHARES "APOCALYPSE" LYRIC VIDEO

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.

September 01, 2023
PYRAMAZE DEBUT OFFICIAL STUDIO VIDEO FOR BLOODLINES ALBUM TRACK "TAKING WHAT'S MINE"

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.

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