Wymer Publishing has announced the upcoming release of the new book, Jethro Tull Chronicles 1967-79, available on March 25.





A book description follows...




This 256 page A4 Hardback mammoth tome chronicles Jethro Tull’s career from the outset to the end of the seventies. From the late sixties - a vital period where the group dynamics were established, Chronicles delves extensively into the history. Vintage gig and album reviews, contemporary quotes from band members, rare advertisements documenting how they were billed alongside their peers, it’s all in here.





Aside from the 140,000 word narrative, this is also a stunningly visual book adorned with countless photos, many of them previously unpublished. Preserving the detailed history of a band as influential as Jethro Tull is a vital endeavour. Archiving matters and to many fans out there, so does the fascinating story of Jethro Tull. Shenton has pulled it all together to make this an indispensable addition to Jethro Tull’s bibliography.





Pre-order now and get your name in the book on a dedicated fan page.

Supergroup Halloween Jack, featuring guitarist Gilby Clarke (ex-Guns N’ Roses), drummer Stephen Perkins (Jane’s Addiction), bassist Daniel Shulman (Garbage), and keyboardist Teddy "Zig Zag" Andreadis (ex-Guns N' Roses), has released the new video below, featuring clips of the band playing live to their version of "Detroit Rock City" by KISS, mixed with short interviews with the band.





Watch previously released Halloween Jack videos below:

Enuff Z'Nuff's Chip Z'Nuff has announced a stellar lineup of guest musicians for his upcoming solo album, Perfectly Imperfect.


Speaking on the YouTube channel of the White Line Fever podcast , Z'Nuff said the following:


"I just did my solo record. The Chip Z'Nuff solo record's got Joel Hoekstra from Whitesnake playing guitar on it. I also have Daxx Nielsen from Cheap Trick! (Steven) Adler's playing on a song, from Guns N' Roses. It's a strong record."




Z'Nuff said the album would be released by Italian label Frontiers in March. Enuff Z'Nuff's current band release is an album of Beatles-related covers entitled Hard Rock Nite.





White Line Fever is now in its 10th year and available on all the major podcast platforms.

SEPULTURA frontman Derrick Green spoke to Jason Rockman of "The Rockman Power Hour" about he has dealt with the fact that he has been unable to perform live for nearly two years due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "It was hard at first, because I was really ready to go to tour on the album 'Quadra'. We were already reheardsing in the studio and super excited because it was the best response, I think, that we've gotten since I've been in the band. And I was super stoked, and I felt really good. I was really healthy, really ready to do this tour. So I think that first month of the whole pandemic lockdown, I was really kind of bummed out. But I [quickly] snapped out of it by doing as many things possible that made me happy other than playing music. It was a challenge.

"It's been so long, it's hard to imagine being on stage," he continued. "So I have to really get in that mindset again. It's gonna take some time.

"I've been able to exist well mentally and physically without being on the road and without playing live music, but it'll always be in my heart. It's something that I really need to do. I know that desire is still there. But it's something that I'm, like, okay, it's gotta work its way back into full drive."

Cleveland native Green went from fronting hardcore band OUTFACE in Ohio to relocating to New York and then living in São Paulo, Brazil for nearly two decades.

Green moved to Los Angeles in 2018, telling Brazil's Kazagastão: "It's kind of a shock, because so much has happened within the U.S. It's been changing radically. I mean, 20 years ago, I would never think about living in L.A., but the city, I believe, has gotten better. It's moving in a very positive direction. There's a lot of creative people that are living there, so it's a place that's really great to come into and adapt to a different life or a different mood."

Last year, SEPULTURA launched "SepulQuarta", a weekly event where the band gave insight into its colorful history, took part in question-and-answer sessions with fans and performed music while in quarantine. Some of the musical collaborations, including those with members of MEGADETH, TESTAMENT, ANTHRAX, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, TRIVIUM and SACRED REICH, was released as a full-length album, also titled "SepulQuarta", in August.

SEPULTURA comprises Green, guitarist Andreas Kisser, bassist Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr., and drummer Eloy Casagrande.

SEPULTURA was formed in Belo Horizonte by brothers Max and Igor Cavalera, who are no longer with the band.

Finnish melodic death metal act Re-Armed have released a new acoustic version and music video for "Beyond the Horizon". The track was originally released on 2020 to Ignis Aeternum album (released via Black Lion Records), and it kind of guided the band to new direction in musically and thematically. Now the song gets new flesh around its bones for example with featuring female vocalist Mirva Saviniemi. 


The band's upcoming 20th anniversary EP, XX, will be out on January 27th, 2022 worldwide via Inverse Records.


The band comments on the new version: "We simply wanted to transform our strongest song into an acoustic version. The song maintains the same melancholy as original version, but instead of blasting and bursting the expression leans on ambients and clean vocals. Mirva’s vocals are dominant and works nicely together with Jouni’s clean vocals – not forgetting Oskari’s great vocal stems. This combination definitely lifted this song to another level. We simply wanted to show with this version that we are not carved from one metal sheet and this version proves that we can basically do whatever comes to our minds in a creative sense. The track is perfect fit to our upcoming 20 Years Anniversary EP release."













XX EP tracklist:


"As The Stars Align"
"Monoeyes"
"Beyond the Horizon" (acoustic version)
"Tomorrow"
"Ode to Life" (symphonic version)
"Evolve Cycle" (arcade version)


"As The Stars Align"





Photo by Allan Välimaa

Spawned from the momentous former namesake, Militia, Inhumane brings a heavier, more disgusting punch of death/thrash onto the scene. Poised to make an impact out of the gate, Inhumane has inked a worldwide deal with Extreme Management Group.  


The band says, "After what has been such a long year of no gigging and restrictions... We're pleased to finally announce that we're now signed to EMG and are keen to be working with the team to take this to the next level! We've got lots planned for the future and brutal thrash to deliver!"


Thrash, death metal and even hardcore, Inhumane create their very own concoction of blood churning music with lyrical content tackling dark and tragic events happening around the globe, and the unstable state of the world in the 21st Century. Under their former namesake Militia, the band previously toured with Helgrind and were announced unsigned band of the year by Metal Times as well as positive reviews by Kragen Lum (Heathen/Prototype/Exodus- Live) and Claudeous Creamer (Possessed).  Moving forward from Militia’s use of classic, crowd-pleasing heavy metal themes, Inhumane embrace catchy hooks fans of death metal will love; ballsy gutturals, and attacking thrash.   




A key distinction in this transformation from Militia is their image is that Inhumane present themselves with current vitality and relevancy, as opposed to ‘throwback’ or embeddedness in nostalgia.  In addition to this, they do not pigeonhole themselves into tiny subgenres that would limit their reach, potential, and musical content. Inhumane aims to produce music that moves people and gets people going, creating energy and excitement. What separates Inhumane from the rest is the lyrical content that each song tackles current issues on its own, such as world’s political leaders who lack the responsibility for their heinous acts. 


Extreme Management Group representative Mark Kloeppel said, “We are starting this from the ground floor, and are poised to do everything correct from the start. We see great potential with these guys.” Combining each of their inspirations, Inhumane have and will continue to create a distinct sound that will be known and remembered by everyone, regardless of genre preference.

The debut album from BLOOD REVOLT, formed from the Canadian/Irish triumvirate that consists of PRIMORDIAL vocalist A. A. Nemtheanga, REVENGE/CONQUEROR mastermind J. Read, and AXIS OF ADVANCE/REVENGE guitarist C. Ross, has reached its completion.

In what will be presented as one of the coldest, confrontational, uneasy, most-intimidating and challenging extreme metal albums that will corrupt people’s ears this year, the Blood Revolt debut album (which goes under the moniker Indoctrine) utilizes tactics from all forms of extreme metal and collectively draws upon the members combined experience of over 30 releases in the metal underground.

Unlike any metal album being presented today, Indoctrine amalgamates the elements each band member have defined for themselves in their other respective creative outlets.

The familiar soaring and distinct mighty vocal approach that Nemtheanga utilizes in Primordial is ever present in Blood Revolt, his vocals countering with the massive, chaotic, and tactically constructed whirlwind rhythm section provided by J. Read and C. Ross, an intriguing combination that can cause disorder and unease amongst the listener.

But it’s such a volatile amalgamation that is set to challenge and confront all listener expectations.

Without any kind of reliance on any sort of digital trickery, triggered effects, or studio enhancing methods employed to create such a raw, primal and ultimately vicious and unforgiving production and sound, Indoctrine will manifest itself as an uncompromising attack on people’s pre-conceptions of what so-called “extreme metal” should encompass.

Thematically, Indoctrine takes a glimpse into one man’s descent into madness and untimely vengeance.

An attack on the system and a social commentary where salvation is found from the barrel of a gun, Indoctrine is like the lone wolf that calmly waits to attack and becomes a statement of intent that there is a war coming.

Delving further within the concept of Blood Revolt, vocalist A. A. Nemtheanga states, “In an age of compromise Blood Revolt is genuine rebellion. Pushing the boundaries of what is accepted in 'extreme' metal, Blood Revolt is metal with teeth, like it should be. Genuine violence and aggression mixed with the kind of very real and very dark subject matter that would make other bands heads spin. No cartoon imagery or fantastical pseudo religious hocus pocus, this is the sniper filing down the pin before picking off innocents, this is the suicide bombers sweaty greasy hand on the ignition, dead bodies piled in the politics of the mass grave. Unforgiving and unrelenting elitism…”

To be released early July in North America through Profound Lore Records (Invictus Productions in Europe), tracklisting for Indoctrine goes as follows:

'Salvation At The Barrel Of A Gun'
'Dead City Stare'
'Bite The Hand, Purge The Flesh'
'God's Executioner, Praise Be'
'My Name In Blood Across The Sky'
'Indoctrine'
'Year Zero'
'The Martyr's Brigade'

An MP3 of the track ‘Year Zero’ can be heard below:

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Finnish Helsinki-based blackened death metal band Gomorran release their debut record, Excerpts From the Dark Age, today ( December 3rd) via Inverse Records. To celebrate the release, the band also released their third music video, "Esaiah". Check it out below.


 


Guitarist Joonatan Wiitasalo & drummer Olli Lappalainen comment: “It is an incredible feeling to behold the final product. When we first started this project in 2019 with Joonatan and thought about all the things we could do, the making and publishing of our own record was barely a dream. We talked about “what would be cool to do”. In the end that alone motivated a lot and it sparked a deep will to create something real. In a way it was evident, that nothing happens by itself and no one is gonna make anything come to fruition for you. Then we formed a band and now after two years of hard work we have a complete record and big hopes and medium sized plans for the future.




We have poured countless hours of time and energy into this record, but lo and behold this chapter came to an end. This record is our magnum opus at least so far, a project that let’s us show the work we have done during this quarantine year. This record encapsulates four musicians’ lifelong love of metal music - the song ideas that have finally come into reality.”





Tracklist:


"Tavern"
"Black Plague"
"Sermon"
"Hopeless Endeavor"
"Esaiah"
"Hail Caesar"


Gomorran was formed in Helsinki in the Fall of 2019, when Olli Lappalainen’s hiatus from playing drums came to an end. There was a burning desire to form a new band and get back to producing metal music. Guitarist Joonatan Wiitasalo ended his own hiatus and joined to release his heavy music creativity. In the following months many new song ideas came to light.


Even though the composing was proceeding strong, the band desperately lacked members. By the end of summer 2020 the band was joined by an ambassador of evil soundwaves, singer guitarist Perttu Laamanen. Perttu gave a huge boost to the composing of new material. Song structures and ideas formed into complete songs and Gomorran started to plan on producing its debut record. In the beginning of 2021, right before the recordings of Excerpts from the Dark Age, bassist Panu Nykänen joined to amplify the lower frequencies.


When Olli and Joonatan wanted to compose merciless ass-kicking music, inspired by Ajattara and Cannibal Corpse, Gomorran’s first song Black Plague was born in the spring of 2020. The song was held as a beacon to the direction the band should musically strive forward to. Gomorran perceives their music as death metal that draws influence from the murkiness of black metal. The impact of other music genres cannot be downplayed, since the members of the band own a wide range of musical influences. Lyrics on the Excerpts from the Dark Age record include harrowing stories about the Roman empire, Middle Ages and from pagan literature.


The band ended up recording their debut record, Excerpts From The Dark Age, independently in the band’s rehearsal room in Vallila, Helsinki. Mixing and recording was done by Gomorran’s drummer Olli Lappalainen. Choir, keyboard and strings were arranged and produced by Markus Lappalainen. The recording and mixing of the album was finished in July of 2021, following mastering done by Sound Spiral Studios’ Juho Räihä.


"Sermon"





"Hopeless Endeavor" 





Photo by Janne Pappila

Danish/American rock and rollers VOLBEAT have released a lyric video for the song "Temple Of Ekur". The track is taken from the band's eighth studio album, "Servant Of The Mind", which is being made available today (Friday, December 3) via Republic Records.

For "Servant Of The Mind", the band, which consists of Michael Poulsen (guitars/vocals), Jon Larsen (drums), Rob Caggiano (guitars) and Kaspar Boye Larsen (bass) took their signature heavy metal, psychobilly and punk 'n' roll sound up a notch while showcasing Poulsen's keen ability for songwriting and storytelling.

"I wrote the whole album in three months," recalls Poulsen, "I was in a good place and mood while at home, and had a captive audience of myself… There are a lot of VOLBEAT signatures in it. If you go back to the first record and compare it to where we are now, you can hear how the band has developed its style, while keeping the signature sound."

The album also includes the "double barrel" of summer songs the band released this past June: "Wait A Minute My Girl" and "Dagen Før" (featuring Stine Bramsen), the former of which became the band's ninth number one single on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.

Previously released single "Shotgun Blues" is an anthemic track in which Poulsen explores the ghostly events he recently experienced upon moving into a new home. Other songs on the album weave intricate and fascinating tales. "The Sacred Stones" tells the story of "an earthly being who has committed himself to the dark side. He is on a mission, speaking to darker forces and fallen angels." Meanwhile, "The Devil Rages On" looks at the idea of the devil taking human form. The aforementioned album opener "Temple Of Ekur" returns to the ancient themes explored in past songs such as "The Gates Of Babylon", while the epic album closer "Lasse's Birgita" explores the story of the first witch burnings to occur in Sweden in 1471.

"Servant Of The Mind" standard edition track listing:

01. Temple Of Ekur

02. Wait A Minute My Girl

03. The Sacred Stones

04. Shotgun Blues

05. The Devil Rages On

06. Say No More

07. Heaven's Descent

08. Dagen Før (feat. Stine Bramsen)

09. The Passenger

10. Step Into Light

11. Becoming

12. Mindlock

13. Lasse's Birgitta

Deluxe 2 CD/2 LP and digital deluxe bonus tracks:

14. Return To None (WOLFBRIGADE cover)

15. Domino (THE CRAMPS/ROY ORBISON cover)

16. Shotgun Blues (feat. Dave Matrise from JUNGLE ROT)

17. Dagen Før (Michael Vox Version)

VOLBEAT is two decades deep into a career that has found them sharing stages with genre legends like BLACK SABBATH, METALLICA, MOTÖRHEAD, SLIPKNOT, MEGADETH, ANTHRAX and more. They have racked up nearly three billion cumulative streams over the course of their career, notched a "Best Metal Performance" Grammy nomination for "Room 24" (featuring King Diamond) from 2014's acclaimed (and gold-selling) "Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies", and have grabbed multiple Danish Music Awards. Not ones to rest on their laurels, their forthcoming album "Servant Of The Mind", which was written and recorded during the shutdown and quarantine necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is introspective but pulls no punches and is no less raucous or driving than their previous efforts.

Since forming in 2001, VOLBEAT has gone from the clubs of Copenhagen to headlining stages around the world, including the famed Telia Parken stadium in Denmark (becoming the only domestic artist to ever sell out the venue). Over the course of seven record-breaking albums the band has picked up number one songs (including nine No. 1s on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart and counting, the most of any band based outside of North America), multi-platinum certifications, awards and accolades all over the planet. Their latest album, "Rewind, Replay, Rebound", was released in August 2019 and has spawned the hit singles "Last Day Under The Sun", "Die To Live" (featuring Neil Fallon) and "Leviathan". A live album featuring songs recorded during the subsequent world tour, "Rewind, Replay, Rebound: Live In Deutschland", was released digitally in November 2020. Most recently, they contributed a cover of "Don't Tread On Me" to "The Metallica Blacklist", with all proceeds from the track benefiting METALLICA's All Within My Hands foundation and the Børne Cancer Fonden of Denmark.

Photo credit: Ross Halfin

LED ZEPPELIN legends Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have paid tribute to the band's former tour manager Richard Cole, who died on Thursday (December 2) at the age of 75.

In addition to working with LED ZEPPELIN from 1968 to 1980, Cole worked with Eric Clapton, BLACK SABBATH, Lita Ford and Ozzy Osbourne, among others.

Page remembered his longtime friend fondly, writing on social media: "Yesterday, on the 2nd of December at 2.05am, Richard Cole passed after a brave and lengthy fight against cancer.

"Richard and I went back a long way and he had been recruited by Peter Grant to be tour manager with THE YARDBIRDS Keith Relf, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, and myself during our American touring schedule of underground venues. He was with me at the time that band folded and when I formed @ledzeppelin.

"From the time of the rehearsals at my home at Pangbourne through to the touring of the USA, we witnessed the phenomena that was LED ZEPPELIN. He was there for the first and last concerts of the band.

"He was a brother and a friend to the end. Goodbye my dear friend. They were special times and so were you."

Plant wrote: "Farewell Ricardo...sadly no more tall tales...brave to the end."

In 1992, Cole published a book, "Stairway To Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored", which included claims of drug use and on-tour excesses and was not authorized by the surviving members of LED ZEPPELIN. Page told Guitar World in 1993 about the tome: "There's a book written by our former road manager, Richard Cole, that has made me completely ill. I'm so mad about it that I can't even bring myself to read the whole thing. The two bits that I have read are so ridiculously false that I'm sure if I read the rest, I'd be able to sue Cole and the publishers. But it would be so painful to read that it wouldn't be worth it."

Cole and LED ZEPPELIN eventually made amends, and he was later seen at the band's 2007 reunion show and the "Celebration Day" film premiere in 2012.
























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"Fill My World", another song from SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS' upcoming album, titled "4", can be streamed below. Due on February 11, 2022, via Gibson Records in partnership with BMG, "4" is Slash's fifth solo album and fourth overall with his band featuring Myles Kennedy (vocals), Brent Fitz (drums), Todd Kerns (bass, vocals) and Frank Sidoris (guitar, vocals).

In October, SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS released the official music video for the LP's first single, "The River Is Rising", shot on location in downtown Los Angeles with Gibson TV director Todd Harapiak.

For "4", Slash and the band traveled across the country together to Nashville, Tennessee and recorded the new album at the historic RCA Studio A with producer Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, John Prine, Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile), revealing a stunning new sound and style all captured live in the studio. Cobb shared the band's desire to lay down the tracks live, in the studio including guitar solos and vocals — a first for the group.

The band's previous albums over the last decade — "Apocalyptic Love", "World On Fire" and "Living The Dream" — have continued on an upward trajectory, all achieving Top 5 Billboard charting debuts in the U.S. and reaching the Top 10 on 12 major charts across the globe. To date, the three SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS albums have now garnered 10 consecutive Top 5 Radio singles, spawned sold-out world tours, and have earned Slash and the band the best critical acclaim of their career with their latest album "Living The Dream" (2018) singled out by the Los Angeles Times, Classic Rock, Guitar World, Loudwire, LA Weekly, and more, as their best songs to date.

The new album "4" has the added history-making distinction of being the first-ever album to be released on the new Gibson Records label, which is headquartered in the iconic American instrument brand Gibson's hometown of Music City, Nashville. In light of the 30-year partnership between Gibson and the Grammy Award-winning Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee Slash, it makes sense the new SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS' album "4" will be released via Gibson Records.

SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS will kick off a North American headlining tour on February 8, in Portland, Oregon and hit 28 major cities, including Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, Nashville, Dallas, Austin, Houston, and more, before wrapping up March 26 in Orlando, Florida.

In June 2021, Dutch symphonic metal titans Epica unleashed a monument to their music, their career, and their enduring legacy as forebears of a whole genre. The worldwide streaming event Ωmega Alive was the Epica show of your wildest dreams, brought to life by 75 artists and crew members - think Marvel meeting Cirque de Soleil in a Tim Burton universe!


Tailor-made videos and graphic effects, spectacular pyro effects, rain, dancers, choirs and actors, all added to the aura of symbolism and cinematic splendor that brought fans from over 100 countries to flock to their screens and witness a show that became the biggest concert event in the band's 19-year-long history. Now, you can finally rediscover the entire opus in various audiovisual formats, available on December 3, 2021.


Epica vocalist Simone Simons has filmed an unboxing video for Ωmega Alive:







Coen Janssen, the mastermind behind the show's concept explains: “What we wanted to do was the ultimate Epica show where we could fulfill every dream we ever had, where there was room for all the ideas, effects and props that are just too big to be taken on tour." Far from your usual streaming concert, the band developed a trademark feature called a "living backdrop". "We built another stage right behind our stage where lots of things were going on the whole time. And we meant that very literally," he laughs. "Every song got something extra, something unique that was fitting its world."


Directed by Jens de Vos (Panda Productions) and graced by a magical artwork by Heilemania, the DVD, BluRay, CD, and vinyl contain 15 EPICA classics, fan-favorites, as well as first-ever live performances from tracks off the band's latest chef-d'oeuvre Ωmega, such as "The Skeleton Key" or the insanely monumental "Kingdom of Heaven Part 3".





Ωmega Alive formats:


-BluRay+DVD
-2 CD digipak
-Boxset
-CD-version of the Earbook
-5x 10'' Picture vinyl (Zoetrope vinyl)
-Earbook
-DVD+BluRay
-3LP (Light Green Vinyl)
-Earbook
-DVD+BluRay
-2CD
-Vinyl
-3LP in trifold incl 2 lyric sheets:
-Black in trifold
-Sun yellow in trifold (NB mailorder and wholesale exclusive)
-Clear + Green and Black Splatter (NB Mailorder exclusive)
-Glow in the Dark (Band store exclusive)
-Clear + White marbled in trifold (EMP exclusive)
-White with sun yellow + black in trifold (Netherlands + Belgium exclusive)
-2 CD/BluRay  - USA exclusive
-2 CD/DVD - Mexico and Brazil exclusive


Order your copy via Nuclear Blast.








 

Yarrr-tide greetings! Following the release of first holiday single “Sulphur Ahoy”, boisterous pack Ye Banished Privateers continue to stir up this Christmas with the next single off their upcoming album. The new single from the pirate shanty folk outfit, entitled “Carol Of Bellows”, offers another taste of their upcoming Christmas album, A Pirate Stole My Christmas, gliding their shipmates through the dreary winter in trademark pirate fashion.


On “Carol Of Bellows”, the notorious bunch show that they are able to sail on tranquil waters, still giving the Christmas classic a scraggly pirate-folk tone, riddled with pirate madness.


Ye Banished Privateers on “Carol Of Bellows”: “’Carol Of Bellows’ is our take on the epic traditional masterpiece ‘Carol Of The Bells’. Through a mix of chorals, bawdy Swedish traditional folk tunes and a Ukrainian nursery rhyme, we tell the tale of Bellows triumphant return from the grave. So, as the resurrected Bellows himself says between his incoherent ramblings - Yule is the time to rejoice, to drink rum and get too drunk, now go and fetch that rum!”




Watch the official lyric video for “Carol Of Bellows”:





´Tis the jolliest of seasons! Swedish sea dogs Ye Banished Privateers have come a’rowing through rough seas and salty winds to steal Christmas in the most swashbuckling of ways. Wrapped in the swag of pirate folk rock, the newly interpreted, grim covers of beloved Christmas classics on A Pirate Stole My Christmas draw the listener into a dark underworld of blood and bones! Ye Banished Privateers put their shanty and pirate folk-infused spin on Christmas tunes like "Twelve Days Of Christmas” and the captivating album opener “Ring The Bells”. The well-known classic “Oh Christmas Tree” gets a new coat of paint when Ye Banished Privateers re-word it to “O Cannonball” - most definitely making Christmas Eve a special occasion for the most beautiful time of the year.


Ye Banished Privateers add: “If given enough time, every artist will eventually lose their last ounce of self-respect, and release a Christmas album. Ye Banished Privateers are no strangers to self-loathing commercial stunts, and with our new album - A Pirate Stole my Christmas, we aim to officially join the ranks of Christmas legends such as Maria Carey and Bing Crosby. Our album is compiled of 11 classic carols defiled into an unrecognizable pulp of rum-drenched atonal pirate madness. If you didn't hate Christmas before, this is certain to change your mind!”


A Pirate Stole My Christmas will be available in the following formats:


- CD Sleevepack
- 1LP Gatefold Brick Red
- 1LP Gatefold Brick Red + Signed Postcard
- Digital Album


Pre-order here.





A Pirate Stole My Christmas tracklisting:


"Ring The Bells"
"It Came To Bloody Pass"
"Deck And Hull"
"12 Days Of Christmas"
"Sulphur Ahoy"
"Little Rummer Boy"
"O Cannonball"
"Festival Days"
"Drawn And Quartered"
"Carol Of Bellows"
"Away In The Gutter"
 
"Sulphur Ahoy" video:





Lineup:


Nobility - cembalo, pump organ, miniature piano and almond presents
Quinton Taljenblock - viola pomposa, fiddle, mandoline, hurdy gurdy and main chopper of the sloppy bells
Mr Bellows - squeezebox, crankbox and boxed presents
Eva the Navigator - violin, vocals and salt cured leg of lamb
Freebird af Wærmaland - violin, viola, vocals and wassailing
Monkey Boy - glühwein keg drum, naughty vocals and mixed floggables
Ina "Battery" Molin - glockenspiel, eggnog and pompous percussion
Wan Chou Zhong - obnoxious string drum, huge oriental fruit thing with strings and spices for the season
Silent Jim - mandolino, mandolino basso, cinnamon mead-drenched rambling and forced half merry singing
Magda Malvina Märlprim - blood-stained lute guitar, cherry vocals and prettifying with poisonous plants
Scurvy Ben - cajón, spicy percussions and lingering aimlessly whilst vocalizing various throat sounds
Meat Stick Nick - small bass, big bass, long tube bass and pickled herring
Quartermaster Blackpowder Pyte - peculiar proclamations, choir boy caroling and unorderly drunken revelry
Old Red - them thick, them thin and them tinsel strings
Landmark - percussion, marching drum and figgy pudding
Filthylocks - fipple pipes and mince pie
Shameless Will - vocals, vanity, profanity, coin snatching, coat turning and Abbot of Unreason
Bojtikken - heaven sent vocals, timbrell, loud cymbals and snow angels


(Photo - Samuel Pettersson)

Frontiers Music Srl announces the release of another stunning live performance from Alan Parsons and his incredibly skilled band of musicians, One Note Symphony: Live In Tel Aviv on February 11. The band's performance with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will be available on 2CD + DVD, Blu-ray, 3xLP, and Digital formats.


Watch a performance of the track "Standing On Higher Ground" below, and pre-order/save One Note Symphony: Live In Tel Aviv here.


On how this very special performance came together, Alan says "We had been booked to play here with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and I thought it might be a great opportunity to record a video of the show. It’s a rare treat to perform with an orchestra, so I asked the IM3 Global Entertainment video team of Trinity Houston and David Minasian, who earlier that year had done a great job filming two of our live shows in the Netherlands and produced our latest music video, The NeverEnding Show, to join us and film this performance as well. As luck would have it, they agreed to make the trip to Tel Aviv, and hired a fantastic crew of local cameramen and technicians. We are all very proud of the final result."




"Whenever I have an opportunity to play with a Symphony Orchestra, I always try to incorporate songs into the setlist that we wouldn't otherwise be able to perform live, such as the epic "Silence and I" from the Eye In the Sky album. We also took advantage of this opportunity to play The Sorcerer's Apprentice from our latest studio album, The Secret. It's a new version of a well-known classical piece written by Frenchman Paul Dukas that originally appeared in the movie Fantasia. Tom Brooks, our keyboard player, is also an incredibly talented orchestral arranger. He arranged and conducted all of the orchestral pieces for this particular performance, using former Alan Parsons Project conductor Andrew Powell as inspiration for the scores of some of the other songs included in the show," continues Alan.


Alan and his band have played in Tel Aviv (and Haifa) three times previously in 2010, 2015 and in 2017 and were thrilled to return to Israel. "There is a special sense of excitement whenever we play there. To be given the honor to perform with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, who are one of the greatest orchestras in the world, was a fantastic experience," adds Alan.


Alan Parsons' career started when he was 19 years old and earned his first album credit on the Beatles "Abbey Road", an album recorded in the legendary London studios of the same name. He soon became a well respected studio engineer, working for Paul McCartney, John Miles, The Hollies, Al Stewart, and Pink Floyd, among others. He is particularly renowned for his work on the Pink Floyd masterpiece "The Dark Side of The Moon". Recorded in 1972, Parsons experimented with many of the most advanced recording techniques of the time, showcasing his forward thinking approach. In 1975, Alan formed The Alan Parsons Project along with executive producer, songwriter, and occasional singer, Eric Woolfson. The Project consisted of a revolving group of studio musicians and vocalists, often involving the members of two bands Alan had produced: Pilot (Ian Bairnson, Stuart Tosh, and David Paton) and (on the first album) Ambrosia. The Alan Parsons Project released ten acclaimed studio albums, but never toured live, even after several US and UK Top 20 hits. The Project released their final album in 1987.


Since then, Alan has released four albums under his own name, often featuring musicians that also appeared on the Project releases. In 1994, he started touring regularly as The Alan Parsons Live Project. In 2019, Alan returned with an acclaimed new studio album, his first in 15 years, entitled “The Secret”. The album was followed by a comprehensive world tour which saw Alan and his band perform new songs together with classic tracks from his catalogue.  As well as receiving gold and platinum awards from several countries, Parsons has received thirteen Grammy Award nominations for his engineering and production work. In 2019, he won a Grammy for "Best Immersive Album" for his 5.1 surround remix of the Eye In The Sky album.





Tracklisting:


CD1
"One Note Symphony"
"Damned If I Do"
"Don't Answer Me"
"Time"
"Breakdown/The Raven"
"Luciferama"
"Silence And I"
"I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You"
"Don't Let It Show"


CD2
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
"Standing On Higher Ground"
"As Lights Fall"
"I Can't Get There From Here"
"Prime Time"
"Sirius/Eye In The Sky"
"Old And Wise"
"(The System Of) Dr. Tarr And Professor Fether"
"Games People Play"


DVD/Blu-ray:
"One Note Symphony"
"Damned If I Do"
"Don't Answer Me"
"Time"
"Breakdown/The Raven"
"Miracle" * (DVD/Blu-ray only)
"Luciferama"
"Silence And I"
"I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You"
"Don't Let It Show"
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
"Standing On Higher Ground"
"As Lights Fall"
"I Can't Get There From Here"
"Prime Time"
"Sirius/Eye In The Sky"
"Old And Wise"
"(The System Of) Dr. Tarr And Professor Fether"
"Games People Play"


"Standing On Higher Ground" video:





Lineup:


Alan Parsons: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Ukulele, Keyboards
P.J. Olsson: Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion
Todd Cooper: Vocals, Sax, Recorder, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion
Jeff Kollman: Guitars, Vocals
Tom Brooks: Keyboards, Vocals, Orchestral Arranger and Conductor
Dan Tracey: Guitars, Vocals
Guy Erez: Bass, Vocals
Danny Thompson: Drums, Vocals
Jordan Asher Huffman: Guest Vocals
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra