Canadian technical death metal force, Beneath The Massacre, have released the third single and video from their upcoming album. Fearmonger. Watch the video for “Treacherous” below.
Fearmonger will be released on February 28, and will be their forth album and Century Media debut. It’s an album that flows naturally yet retains, but still very much extreme and tech-death to the max. Beneath The Massacre’s trademark go-for-the-jugular sound.
The cover artwork for Fearmonger was created by Alexandre Goulet.
Fearmonger tracklisting:
"Rise Of The Fearmonger"
"Hidden In Plain Sight"
"Of Gods And Machines"
"Treacherous"
"Autonomous Mind"
"Return To Medusa"
"Bottom Feeders"
"Absurd Hero"
"Flickering Light"
"Bitterest End"
"Treacherous" video:
“Rise Of The Fearmonger” video:
"Autonomous Mind":
Origin have announced the Occupation Domination 2020 tour. The 30-date trek kicks-off on March 12 at The Riot Room in Kansas and will make stops in Toronto, New York and Austin before concluding on April 11 at Cabooze in Minneapolis. Joining the band on their headlining tour are Beneath The Massacre, Defeated Sanity, Wake (March 27 to April 11) and special guests. Purchase your tickets here
Tour dates:
March
12 - Kansas City, MO - The Riot Room
13 - St. Louis, MO - Red Flag
14 - W. Chicago, IL - WC Social Club
15 - Detroit, MI - Sanctuary
16 - Toronto, ON - Velvet Underground
17 - Ottawa, ON - Babylon Nightclub
18 - Montreal, QC - FouFounes Electriques
19 - Quebec City, QC - Le D'Auteuil
20 - Hartford, CT - Webster Underground
21 - New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
22 - Frederick, MD - Cafe 611
23 - Greensboro, NC - Blind Tiger
24 - Orlando, FL - The Haven
25 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade (Hell)
27 - Corpus Christi, TX - Boozers Rock Bar
28 - Fort Worth, TX - Tomcats West
29 - Austin, TX - Dirty Dog Bar
30 - El Paso, TX - Rockhouse Bar and Grill
31 - Mesa, AZ - Club Red
April
1 - Fullerton, CA - Slidebar
2 - Los Angeles, CA - Underground - Catch One
3 - San Diego, CA - Brick By Brick
4 - San Francisco, CA - DNA Lounge
5 - Portland, OR - Dante's
6 - Seattle, WA - Club Sur
7 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theatre
8 - Calgary, AB - Dicken's Pub
9 - Regina, SK - U of R Riddell Center
10 - Winnpeg, MB - Park Theatre
11 - Minneapolis, MN - Cabooze
German rock legends, Scorpions, continue to release classic live footage. Below you can watch the band perform "Life's Like A River" at the Sun Plaza Hall in Tokyo, Japan in 1979.
Watch "Lovedrive" from the same concert, below:
Scorpions will be taking over the Las Vegas Strip later this year with their exclusive headlining residency show. Promoted by Live Nation and Caesars Entertainment, Scorpions “Sin City Nights” kicks off Saturday, July 4 at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. Scorpions will be joined by special guests Queensrÿche.
“We are very excited to come back to Vegas in July 2020 for a nine show residency at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino’s Zappos Theater,” said Klaus Meine. “We’re looking very much forward to share some wild ‘Sin City Nights’ with all of you on the famous Strip … Let’s get ready for the Sting!!!!”
Metallica performed "Nothing Else Matters" at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN on March 11, 2019. Watch pro-shot video below:
Metallica's next show is April 15 in Santiago, Chile at Estadio Nacional. The venue has a capacity of 63,000 fans and is completely sold out! To view their complete tour schedule, visit this location.
Back in September 2019, Metallica announced that their second annual All Within My Hands benefit concert would take place on March 28, 2020 at The Masonic in San Francisco, CA. The band have since revealed a change of plans, sharing the following message:
"Time to update the calendar as the second installment of the All Within My Hands Helping Hands Concert has been rescheduled for September 12, 2020, still at The Masonic in San Francisco. A few of you may recall that in September as we were riding high on all the positive vibes that came out of the two S&M² shows, we were excited to announce that we had set aside March 28th to celebrate AWMH with all of you again. However, we may have been a little too ambitious with that date in terms of getting our shit together and giving you an experience that matches or surpasses the first event held in November of 2018.
"We apologize for the inconvenience that this change may cause and thank you for all the support and love that you’ve given All Within My Hands. We’ve had some incredible accomplishments in the last two years, including the launch of the innovative Metallica Scholars program (more on year two here) and are excited to share all the details - and a kick-ass show - with you later this year.
"More information and ticketing details coming very soon."
Australia’s Greystone Canyon have premiered their music video "Keeping Company With The Dead / Astral Plane" off the band’s Wild West inspired debut album While The Wheels Still Turn released during 2018 via Rockshots Records (EU/NA) and Hellfire Records (AU). If you’re a fan of classic metal in the vein of influences such as Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, and Megadeth, then this will be right up your alley.
In the ‘70s and ‘80s, Australia gave the world great hard rock/metal acts like AC/DC and Rose Tattoo. Now, joining those Aussie giants of rock is Greystone Canyon.
The band released their debut album While The Wheels Still Turn on March 9th, 2018, in Europe, U.S.A, and Canada through Rockshots Records and on Hellfire Records in Australia on March 12th, 2018.
The album was tracked at the splendidly named Goatsound Studios in Melbourne, Australia, and then mixed in Canada, making ‘the album a real rock n’ roll frequent flyer. Mixing duties were undertaken by none other than Grammy-nominated producer and legend Glen Robinson, who had engineered, mixed and produced equally legendary acts like Annihilator, Queensryche, and Voivod.
Inspired by legends like Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth and King Diamond, While The Wheels Still Turn is an album that could not only sit well beside the works of those legends, but with the current tsunami of all things the ‘70s and ‘80s inspired, Greystone Canyon are in the right place at the right time. We are traveling back to the future and they are the soundtrack!
As vocalist/guitarist Darren Cherry proudly states.
“We really wanted to make an album similar to old Ozzy Osbourne record where songs like ‘I Don’t Know’ and ‘Goodbye To Romance’ can sit comfortably. This is music from the heart and soul!”
Icelandic black metal band Helfró will be releasing their self-titled debut album, via Season of Mist Underground Activists on April 24. The album art and tracklist can be found below. The band have shared their first single, "Afeitrun," along with an official music video. The video was filmed in the beautiful, frozen landscapes of Iceland by Void Revelations.
Helfró comment: "We're thrilled to present 'Afeitrun,' an odyssey into the boundless and bare wastelands of cold and despair."
Hailing from the colorful and music inspired streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Gabriel and the Apocalypse return with their new music video, "Beds Are Burning." The song comes from the album Alpha Bionic, which was released last spring via Pavement Entertainment.
On the latest music video, frontwoman Lindy Gabriel says, "Beds Are Burning stood out to us as a song with a powerful message that is so relevant for today. With the video, we wanted to move people by the imagery of current events. Encourage people to think about how they contribute, how they give back. To recognize that all of our actions have an impact."
Gabriel And The Apocalypse will soon embark on the Street Noise 2020 tour. The band will be on the road with FLAW, Jump The Fall, and 14 North. The tour starts tonite, February 12, kicking off at The District in Rockford, Illinois, and ends on March 14 at Lefty's Live Music in Des Moines, Iowa.
Danish composer and multi-instrumentalist, Myrkur has revealed her new video and single, "Leaves Of Yggdrasil". Amalie Bruuns's delicate and sweeping vocals paired with the violin, piano, lyre and nyckelharpa make for a lullaby-like song which she notes, "is very dear to my heart." She continues, "I wrote Leaves of Yggdrasil about being apart from the one you love because of circumstances that are completely out of your control. The Norns weave the fates of Gods and man and sometimes that means very tough life situations. I wanted to create a song with the feeling of an old folk-tale, but with words that resonated with my own life today."
For the video, Amalie rejoined forces with filmmaker Mats Ek to create something entirely different from anything she's ever done. Watch below as they take you into a visual universe somewhere outside of nature and more into the otherworldly.
Myrkur's Amalie Bruun has always paved her own path and challenged underground preconceptions of heavy genres. Just after newfound motherhood, Bruun set out on a journey into the very heart of the Scandinavian culture that marked her own childhood with the release of her new album, Folkesange.
Due out March 20 via Relapse Records, Folkesange relinquishes black metal for a refined yet far-reaching evocation of traditional folk, combining songs ancient and new to sublimely resonant effect.
On Myrkur's first two full-length studio albums (2015's M and 2017's Mareridt), she recast black metal in the most personal yet expansive of terms, their blending of Bruun's Danish folk roots with tempestuous internal struggles breathing new life into a subgenre whose followers can be rigidly possessive.
After the nightmare-induced visions that wrought themselves throughout 2017's immensely acclaimed Mareridt, Folkesange offers an emotional sanctuary, a means to reconnect to something permanent and nature-aligned. It's an awareness that's become deeply bound to the album's organic, regenerative spirit.
Storytelling, rites of passage, and the invocation of a continuity that passes through time and generation are all part of folk music's tapestry, and Folkesange taps into all these currents in their most essential form. In part a purist's approach to the genre, free from over-interpretation and fusion, the use of Kulning (an ancient Scandinavian herding call) and traditional instruments throughout, such as nyckelharpa, lyre and mandola offer a deeper, more tactile connection to their source, an unbroken line of communication back to the past.
But the album is no museum piece; it resonates in the here and now, aided by the spacious production of Heilung member and musical collaborator Christopher Juul. Cinematic yet intimate, Folkesange exists in a state of boundless reverie, bourne by string-led drones, cyclical, elegiac rhythms and Bruun's frictionless voice, all carrier signals for deep-rooted, ancestral memories, and associations felt on an elemental level.
An immersive experience in its own right, but also belonging to a wider, pagan folk-based renaissance that has attracted a devoted following worldwide, Folkesange answers a need that has become ever more pressing in turbulent times. A zeroing in on a resonance that is both intrinsic and enduring, it's a rediscovery of personal grounding, and an experience that reaches beyond culture to remind us of a shared, deeply rooted inheritance. A tuning fork that binds the personal and the universal, Folkesange is a reminder that the most transcendent experiences are those closest to home.
During his February 9 show at Roxy in Prague, Czech Republic, Finnish singer/ bassist Marko Hietala (aka Marco Hietala, Nightwish) preformed a cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs". Check out the official video below.
"Here’s a nice little live video from Roxy, Prague. We’re doing SABs’ 'War Pigs' because it’s a true classic and, frankly, both these right & left wingers everywhere should examine their bull vs. history and learn. Liars are transparent. The vibe with the band & audience was and will be just great!!! Thank you and see you at the shows!!!", comments Marko Hietala.
Upcoming tour dates, with support from Oceanhorse, are as follows:
February
13 - Stuttgart, Germany - Im Wizemann
14 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
16 - Oberhausen, Germany - Turbinenhalle
17 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg
18 - Paris, France - La Machine du Moulin Rouge
Hietala's new solo album, Pyre Of The Black Heart, is out now via Nuclear Blast. Order on CD (jewelcase) or clear vinyl, here.
Tracklisting:
"Stones"
"The Voice Of My Father"
"Star, Sand And Shadow"
"Dead God's Son"
"For You"
"I Am The Way"
"Runner Of The Railways"
"Death March For Freedom"
"I Dream"
"Truth Shall Set You Free"
With the release of his jazz quartet’s brand-new album, Ray Suhy proves that a guitarist of death metal fame isn’t confined to a creative box. Transcendent (Sunnyside Records) by the Ray Suhy/Lewis Porter Quartet is an album that showcases the depths of Ray’s talent as a jazz virtuoso. While Ray may be best known for his work with the band Six Feet Under (Metal Blade Records), he has emerged from the underworld to lift the veil on his alternate musician ego. The record is due for release on April 17.
It’s not every day that a metal guitarist records a jazz album, but Ray Suhy is not an ordinary musician, nor has he experienced a linear creative journey. He’s a guitarist who has explored multiple musical styles throughout his career and a true creative who pushes boundaries. His work speaks for itself across a dozen albums with death metal bands Six Feet Under and Cannabis Corpse, post-rock experimentation with The Baltic Sea, and progressive math metal with East Of The Wall. Over the years, Ray dipped his toe in the jazz world by recording and performing improvised music with the likes of Nels Cline, Matthew Shipp, Allen Lowe, and Marc Ribot, among others. His collaborations eventually led him to begin a jazz quartet with Grammy-nominee and jazz pianist Lewis Porter.
Ray’s passion for jazz developed in his teen years. He grew up a self-taught guitar player who loved classic rock and thrash metal, but on a high school band trip to Berklee College of Music, he stumbled upon a record store that would change his life. He picked up a few records by John Coltrane, whom his rock guitar heroes revered, and upon first listen, became obsessed. Ray began exploring jazz harmony and eventually attended Berklee as well as The New School jazz program. While his college studies were short-lived, Ray began studying with the late great jazz educator and pianist Charlie Banacos, who taught Ray’s hero Mike Stern as well as Jeff Berlin, Wayne Krantz and many others. Ray’s studies with Charlie continued over the course of more than a decade, and he learned many different concepts that continue to shape his playing and songwriting today.
Transcendent is a continued exploration of Ray’s love of mid-1960s Coltrane-era jazz and combines that with slightly more free textures. Setting out to create a moody, diverse record, both Ray and Lewis composed pieces that showcase the strengths of the group that is rounded out by Brad Jones on bass (Ornette Coleman, Elvin Jones) and Rudy Royston on drums (Bill Frisell, Ravi Coltrane). Upon listening to Transcendent, followers of Ray’s work in Six Feet Under and other rock bands will appreciate his blistering guitar solos, while also discovering new levels of intricacy in his playing. Jazz lovers will appreciate the well-conceived charts and the group’s masterful improvisations. In this sense, Transcendent not only transcends genres and styles, but also fan bases, leaving something for everyone to enjoy.
Pearl Jam have released the official and final video for "Dance of the Clairvoyants", the first single from their forthcoming album, Gigaton.
"I can’t tell you how proud I am about this group of songs," explains Jeff Ament. "As you know, we took our time and that benefited us taking more chances. 'Dance' was a perfect storm of experimentation and real collaboration, mixing up the instrumentation and building a great song, and Ed writing some of my favorite words yet, around Matt’s killer drum pattern. Did I mention Mike’s insane guitar part and that Stone is playing bass on this one? We’ve opened some new doors creatively and that’s exciting."
Pearl Jam will release their much-anticipated eleventh studio album, Gigaton, via Monkeywrench Records/Republic Records on March 27 in North America. Internationally, the album will be released and distributed by Universal Music Group.
Produced by Josh Evans and Pearl Jam, Gigaton marks the band’s first studio album since Grammy award-winning Lightning Bolt, which was released on October 15, 2013.
Gigaton is available for pre-order now at PearlJam.com.
“Making this record was a long journey,” explains Mike McCready. “It was emotionally dark and confusing at times, but also an exciting and experimental road map to musical redemption. Collaborating with my bandmates on Gigaton ultimately gave me greater love, awareness and knowledge of the need for human connection in these times."
Gigaton’s cover features Canadian photographer, filmmaker, and marine biologist Paul Nicklen’s photo “Ice Waterfall”. Taken in Svalbard, Norway, this image features the Nordaustlandet ice cap gushing high volumes of meltwater.
Tracklisting:
"Who Ever Said"
"Superblood Wolfmoon"
"Dance Of The Clairvoyants"
"Quick Escape"
"Alright"
"Seven O’Clock"
"Never Destination"
"Take The Long Way"
"Buckle Up"
"Come Then Goes"
"Retrograde"
"River Cross"
In support of Gigaton, Pearl Jam will embark on their first leg of a North American tour dates in March and April. The 16-date tour kicks-off on March 18 in Toronto and wraps with a two-date stint in Oakland April 18-19.
Dates:
March
18 - Toronto, ON - Scotiabank Arena
20 - Ottawa, ON - Canadian Tire Centre
22 - Quebec City, QC - Videotron Centre
24 - Hamilton, ON - FirstOntario Centre
28 - Baltimore, MD - Royal Farms Arena
30 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
April
2 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena
4 - St. Louis, MO - Enterprise Center
6 - Oklahoma City, OK - Chesapeake Energy Arena
9 - Denver, CO - Pepsi Center
11 - Phoenix, AZ - Gila River Arena
13 - San Diego, CA - Viejas Arena
15 - Los Angeles, CA - The Forum
16 - Los Angeles, CA - The Forum
18 - Oakland, CA - Oakland Arena
19 - Oakland, CA - Oakland Arena
Pearl Jam will perform at Harlem’s world-famous Apollo Theater in a special invitation-only concert for SiriusXM subscribers and Pandora listeners on Thursday, March 26. This exclusive concert marks the first time that Pearl Jam will perform at the iconic venue and their first concert in New York City in almost three years.
The special event, taking place just hours ahead of the release of the band’s new album Gigaton, and before they embark on the North American leg of their Pearl Jam 2020 tour, will air live nationwide on SiriusXM’s Pearl Jam Radio channel 22, now in its 10th year on SiriusXM.
One Grand Prize Winner will receive a trip for two to New York City for the Apollo Theater show on Thursday, March 26, including round trip airfare, hotel accommodations and two front row tickets to the performance!
This very special performance will air live on the band's SiriusXM Pearl Jam Radio (ch.22), but here's your chance to be there in person!
Thulcandra have just released a new live video for their single, “Spirit Of The Night”, off their trailblazing album Fallen Angel’s Dominion, released in 2010 via Napalm Records.
The striking audiovisual was filmed at the band’s 15th anniversary show in Landshut in 2018. A melodic, yet charmingly aggressive mixture of death and black metal, directly inspired by the iconic sound of the 90s, makes Thulcandra’s performance an unforgettable. It’s an almost hypnotizing experience, tempting the audience to focus on the dark spectacle, its diversity and complexity on both a musical and textual level.
The skillfully constructed live video for “Spirit Of The Night” manages to showcase not only that range of Thulcandra’s sound, but also demonstrates the striking impression their performance leaves on the audience, proving the band’s talent to summon the darkest sounds and frame them with technical abilities.
Make sure to catch the band live on stage on their Diluvium Europe Tour 2020 with Obscura in the following cities.
Tour dates:
February
14 - Metz, France - Les Trinitaires
15 - Zug, Switzerland - Galvanik
16 - Bologna, Italy - Locomotiv
17 - Ljubljana, Slovenia - Orto Bar
18 - Graz, Austria - Explosiv
19 - Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Palma
20 - Sofia, Bulgaria - Mixtape5
21 - Bucharest, Romania - Quantic Club
22 - Belgrade, Serbia - Bozidarac
23 - Budapest, Hungary - Dürer-Kert
24 - Bratislava, Slovakia - Randal
25 - Prague, Czech Rep. - Futurum
26 - Krakow, Poland - Kwadrat
27 - Warsaw, Poland - Proxima
28 - Riga, Latvia - Melna Piektdiena
29 - Tallinn, Estonia - Tapper Club
March
1 - Helsinki, Finland - Tavastia
3 - Stockholm, Sweden - Klubben
4 - Oslo, Norway - John Dee
5 - Aarhus, Denmark - Voxhall
6 - Essen, Germany - Turock
7 - Landshut, Germany - Rocket Club
Israeli alternative metallers Walkways released their latest album, Bleed Out, Heal Out, on June 14th, 2019 through Nuclear Blast. Today, they release a new live video for the song "Unbearable Days", that was filmed at The Barby Club in Tel Aviv. Check it out below.
Bleed Out, Heal Out journeys through six chapters. It begins with a heart break and a deep disappointment, goes into a struggle with the urge to avenge and let a darker side take over, from there comes the chapter of release and unchaining from the burden of trauma. Then comes the step of letting someone new in to your life, the stage of loving again. Following that is a contemplation of the outside world - being horrified by our ways as human beings (wars, environmental pollution and animal abuse) and a strong desire to correct and evolve as one and a shout out to change as a whole.
To end the album, there is a recurring chapter of convergence due to the shock from the outside world, which is again flooded with great disappointment and a kind of despair from the current situation, but the deep desire to correct and transcend the internal and external chaos is always preserved.
Tracklisting:
"Till The End"
"Hell Born Shove (Impossible)"
"Despair (For Heaven's Sake)"
"Half The Man I Am"
"Trumpet Call"
"Levitate"
"Bleed Out, Heal Out!"
"You Found Me"
"Unbearable Days"
"Enough"
"Humane Beings"
"Care (In This Together)"
"Thank You"
"Bone Deep"
Metallica performed the ...And Justice For All album classic, "One", at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, KY on March 9, 2019. Watch this professionally-filmed video:
Metallica's next scheduled live performance is on March 28 for the All Within My Hands Helping Hands Concert & Auction at The Masonic in San Francisco, CA. Find the band's live itinerary here.
NEW FOUND GLORY will release its tenth studio album, "Forever + Ever x Infinity", on May 29 via Hopeless Records. The band has put together a quintessential record, supremely catchy with sing-along anthems, trademark breakdowns, and sweetly poignant lyrics.
"This is the record our fans have been waiting for us to make," guitarist Chad Gilbert says, "The old now feels new and fresh. It was a blast finding ourselves again."
Fans can check out the first taste of new music from the pop-punk legends with "Greatest Of All Time". This song dives beyond the surface and into the depths of love, rolling through ups and downs, and riding through the fear to keep going through failure. Lines like "I think we are what we've been waiting for" tug at the heartstrings of anyone that has struggled, worked, and made it out the other side. NEW FOUND GLORY has always been about this; life will be difficult, but these difficulties make us into stronger, bolder people, and celebrating the triumphs in life make it all worth it.
Combining punk, hardcore, and post-hardcore with emotional lyrics and melody is nothing new for the band that epitomizes heartfelt optimism with DIY work-ethic and spirit. But never has this been more evident than this 15-song barn burner of a record. Set at a blistering pace, songs like "Shook By Your Shaved Head" and "Nothing To Say" rip the listener out of their monotonous day-to-day and drain away all the pressure and self-doubt that manifests inside. When frontman Jordan Pundik sings, "You've gotta take your life back. You've got so much more to give. That's what I say to myself when I feel like giving into the shame I feel. Won't let it keep me standing still," you can't help jumping up, throwing a fist in the air, and singing the words out at the top of your lungs. This is what NEW FOUND GLORY has always been about — inspiring people to not be afraid of the odds, to lift each other up, and get up again.
After more than 20 yars of being a band, ten studio albums, one live album, two EPs, and four cover albums, NEW FOUND GLORY's ethos has never wavered; they always strive to be the friend you always need and who always understands you. With "Forever + Ever x Infinity", the band created an album that is 100 precent NEW FOUND GLORY.
NEW FOUND GLORY is Jordan Pundik (lead vocals), Chad Gilbert (guitar), Ian Grushka (bass guitar) and Cyrus Bolooki (drums).
SKUNK ANANSIE has shared the video for its powerful new single "This Means War", which features live footage of the iconic rock group on stage at Pol'and'Rock festival last year where they headlined to a huge crowd of over 850,000 fans. The track is a super-charged, rallying anthem with vocal powerhouse Skin's fiery and provocative lyrics commanding you to sit up and listen.
The video premiered exclusively with Kerrang!, where Skin explained: "We wrote this track just before we went on tour last summer. It totally stood out as a fan favorite and never left the setlist. So we're really happy to release a finished version produced by the magnificent Tom Dalgety. Enjoy!"
"This Means War" follows last year's single "What You Do For Love", which was the band's first instalment of new music in three years and garnered airplay on BBC Radio 2. Both tracks will be made available as a limited run "collector’s edition" double A-side vinyl seven-inch in April.
SKUNK ANANSIE is also thrilled to have been announced as part of this year's Meltdown Festival, on London's South Bank, which has been curated by music, film and fashion icon Grace Jones. They will be playing at the Royal Festival Hall on Thursday, June 18.
The news comes hot on the heels of SKUNK ANANSIE's 2020 U.K. headline tour being announced, which sees them playing venues across the U.K. throughout the year.
The last 25 years have seen SKUNK ANANSIE internationally acclaimed as one of the greatest British rock bands of all time. They were presented with the Hall Of Fame Award at the 2019 Kerrang! Awards while Skin herself has become one of the world's most iconic female performers, as well as inspirational role model, activist, trailblazer for women in the music industry, model and muse for designers. It's no surprise that she picked up the Inspirational Artist Award at the Music Week Awards in 2018.
Skin recently stunned audiences with incredible renditions of "Ave Maria", Madonna's "Like A Virgin", Stormzy's "Blinded By Your Grace" and Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On", whilst dressed as the hilarious Duck on ITV's smash hit show "The Masked Singer", and has just revealed that she will be reflecting on her incredible journey in her very first memoir co-written by respected journalist and friend Lucy O'Brien.
It promises an alternative narrative to the male-dominated, predominantly white Britpop era and will chart Skin's unique story from her working-class Brixton roots to the Glastonbury and international stage. The book is due for publication in September 2020 with Simon & Schuster and available to pre-order now.
SKUNK ANANSIE is renowned as one of the most fearless acts in modern British history. Their reflective, emotional and radical music has seen them grow as an important cultural force, on and off stage, while remaining honest and timely. The new single "This Means War" continues their story with a ferocious impact.
A music video for "Shattered Lives", a track from Waiting For Monday's upcoming self-titled debut album, is available for streaming below.
Waiting For Monday is a new melodic rock band formed by vocalist Rudy Cardenas and guitarist/singer August Zadra. The band hails from Los Angeles and was brought to the attention of Frontiers by Jeff Scott Soto, with the label moving quickly to sign them based on their outstanding talents.
Musically, you can expect classic chart topping melodies ala Journey, Styx, and Foreigner, but with a decidedly modern approach. And if you are looking for sunny, meaningless lyrics, then you probably best look elsewhere as the band has stories to tell, and not all of them happy.
The band's self-titled debut album will be released on February 14. Pre-order here.
Originally from Venezuela, Rudy Cardenas is an incredible vocal talent. His pipes carried him to the finals on Season 6 of American Idol and he has been heard on TV and movies ranging from Family Guy to Real Steel. For five years, Rudy was the power alto for the multi-award winning vocal group, M-pact, who was named Vocal Group of the Year at the 2005 L.A. Music Awards. More recently, Rudy was the featured vocalist for the Gold-selling Hungarian rock album by Mr. Zsolt.
August Zadra is best known for handling lead guitar and vocal duties in iconic singer Dennis DeYoung's solo band since 2010. Since the age of 15, guitar playing has been a passion that carried August from Fairbanks, Alaska to Hollywood, California, where he attended and graduated from the Guitar Institute of Technology. He has been a regular feature in the Los Angeles music scene for the past 20 years, playing with a variety of bands, and is often sought out as a guitarist/vocalist collaborator for writing and recording projects.
Completing the lineup are Joe Travers (drums), Walter Ino (guitar and keyboards), and Eric Baines (bass).
Tracklisting:
"Until The Dawn"
"End Of A Dream"
"Shattered Lives"
"Found You Now"
"Right In Front Of You"
"Must Have Been"
"Pick Your Lies"
"Inside Your Head"
"Make It Better"
"Love You Forever"
"One More Round"
"Shattered Lives" video:
"Until The Dawn":
"End Of A Dream" video:
Lineup:
Rudy Cardenas/August Zadra/Walter Ino - Vocals
August Zadra - Guitars
August Zadra/Walter Ino - Lead guitars
Joe Travers - Drums
Eric Baines - Bass
Walter Ino - Keys
Australian blackened death metal outfit, Earth Rot, are have released a video for "Mind Killer", a track from their upcoming opus, Black Tides Of Obscurity, out on March 6 via Season Of Mist. Find the clip below, and pre-order the album here.
Tracklisting:
“Dread Rebirth”
“New Horns”
“Towards A Godless Shrine”
“Unparalleled Gateways To Higher Obliteration”
“Ancestral Vengeance”
“The Cape Of Storms”
“Serpent’s Ocean”
“Mind Killer”
“Unravelling Vapour Of Sanity”
“Out In The Cold”
“Mind Killer” video:
“Dread Rebirth” video:
Release shows:
March
6 - Perth, Australia - The Boston
7 - Brisbane, Australia - Crowbar
8 - Melbourne, Australia - Bendigo Hotel
9 - Adelaide, Australia - Jive Bar
Last March, Whitechapel released their seventh full-length, The Valley, and kicked off a world tour in support of it. Today, the band has released a new live video, featuring tracks from The Valley - "Forgiveness Is Weakness", "Brimstone", and "When a Demon Defiles a Witch". Watch below:
Whitechapel return to the UK for nine headline shows in April and May, in continued support of The Valley.
Guitarist Alex Wade declares, "We are excited to announce our return to Europe in the spring of 2020 which includes a headlining run in the UK. Support for those shows will be announced soon. We look forward to the Impericon Festivals and supporting As I Lay Dying as well. Grab your tickets now and we’ll see you all in 2020!”
Dates:
April
24 - Oxford, UK - O2 Academy 2
25 - Leeds, UK - The Key Club
26 - Manchester, UK - Rebellion
28 - Colchester, UK - Arts Club
29 - Stoke, UK - The Sugarmill
30 - Glasgow, UK - SWG3
May
1 - Bristol, UK - Thekla
2 - Wolverhampton, UK - KK's Steel Mill
3 - London, UK - Scala
Whitechapel have additional headline shows in Belgium and Luxembourg, as well as European dates with As I Lay Dying and appearances on Impericon Festivals.
New York power metallers, Lost Legacy, will be releasing their new album, In The Name Of Freedom, on March 20 via Pure Steel Records. Featuring forty-six minutes of pure metal, the sophomore release is a concept album serving as an act II to their debut full length, which was inspired by the tragedy of 9/11.
The band explains: “The concept of In The Name Of Freedom is our way to thank our men and women of the armed forces for their sacrifice. It’s not about glorifying war, but these gallant people give so much and are often forgotten.”
The first single, "Front Line", is a melodic track that has a heavy breakdown rhythm section prior to a soaring guitar solo. Dave Franco's vocals are like a cannon and make this song a headbanger for everyone. Watch a video for the song below.
Lost Legacy has been around since 1998 and their dedication to their craft shows. Having four excellent musicians and a vocalist that can play guitar and write riffs makes for a plethora of ideas. With Franco’s vocal capacity and range, it has transformed them to write music that enhances his vocal performances and gives the band the freedom to play intellectual metal.
Lost Legacy discusses their expectations of the album: “We believe that this album is a genuine representation of how we sound in a live setting. We take great pride in putting on a great show and when we approached this record, we wanted to have a live band feeling. Our fans will be pleased with the songs, the sound, and the production. The music has catchy guitar-driven riffs and soaring vocals. We promise it will deliver great energy and inspiration to fans of classic power metal.”
Tracklisting:
"Rise To Glory"
"My Faith"
"Front Line"
"In The Name Of Freedom"
"Take Me Away"
"Enough Is Enough"
"Will You Remember"
"Rules Of Engagement"
Static-X have released an official video for their new song, "Hollow", taken from the band's forthcoming album, Project Regeneration. The record features the last recordings of late frontman, Wayne Static, and will be released on May 29th.
Bassist Tony Campos comments: "This song was originally a demo from the Start A War album, which was never completed. Wayne and I never felt like the music on the original demo was fully realized. The vocals sounded great, but some of the musical compositions from that time period felt a bit experimental. There is a reason that some of these tracks never made it on a previous Static-X album, and it certainly wasn't because of Wayne's vocals. The band was just going through a lot of changes at that time and, in retrospect, it felt like we were straying away from that authentic Static-X sound that had really defined us."
Project Generation will feature the last recordings of Wayne Static. Back in March 2019, Static-X revealed some details with regards to the making of the album:
"After announcing Project Regeneration to the world, we unexpectedly uncovered even more unreleased tracks left behind by Wayne. Because of this, the album will have fewer guest vocalists and more complete songs featuring lead vocals by Wayne Static. In the end, we couldn’t be more excited about the music that we are making together and we know that Wayne would be honored and proud. These extra tracks creates a lot of unexpected work for us and for our producers. As a result, our timeline has been thrown off a little bit.
Right now, we are focused on finishing 12 tracks for Project Regeneration. Wayne's lead vocals will appear on more than half of the album. His fingerprints and those of the original WDT lineup are all over this record."
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