LYZZÄRD with new video!

Portuguese heavy metallers Lyzzärd have a new video for the song “Yakuza”.  The track hails from the band’s debut album, Savage, which was originally self-released earlier this year as a limited CD-R but will now see international CD release on September 27th via Fighter Records. See & hear Lyzzärd‘s “Yakuza” video below:

Formed back in 2013, Lyzzärd released an EP entitled Release the Hounds in 2014, where their music was turning into pure heavy metal, until the recording of their debut album, Savage, during the last months of 2016. This work reflects the true spirit of the band, showing fresh and powerful heavy metal rooted in traditional ’80s bands combined with a modern approach in the vein of bands like Enforcer, Ambush, Skull Fist, White Wizzard, and Striker.

Additionally, hear the new track “Fire” at Fighter‘s official YouTube channel HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Lyzzärd’s Savage
1. Nightwatcher
2. Heavier than Life
3. Savage
4. Yakuza
5. Fire
6. Living in the Dawn
7. Queen of Vengeance
8. Survivor
9. Metalzone
10. Maniac (Michael Sembello cover)

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/lyzzardofficial

NARCOTIC WASTELAND’s Dallas Toler-Wade Discusses Gear Used on “Delirium Tremens” in New Rigged Video!

Extreme metal four-piece NARCOTIC WASTELAND – the full-time project of formerNile frontman Dallas Toler-Wade – will release a brand new full-length album, entitled Delirium Tremens, on October 13, 2017 via Megaforce Records/MRI. The album is now available for pre-orders via Amazon, with more options coming soon.

Today, Gear Gods has the exclusive on a new “Rigged” video detailing the gear Dallas Toler-Wade used on Delirium Tremens. Take a look here: http://geargods.net/rigged/rigged-narcotic-wastelands-dallas-toler-wade/

Delirium Tremens shines a spotlight on negative human behavior, inspired by – but not entirely based on – our country’s addiction epidemic. NARCOTIC WASTELANDnamed their new album after the title track, which is about delirium tremens, the medical term for symptoms an alcoholic suffers after about three days without a drink.

Over the years, many of Toler-Wade’s friends and family have fallen into the abyss of addiction, and some have never returned. It’s a tragic byproduct of growing up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a military town where male residents have a PTSD rate as high as 75% and there are the most reported incidents of shaken baby syndrome in the country. Lots of Fayetteville’s disenchanted population chooses to escape misery through street drugs, prescription medication and alcohol.

Instead of remaining silent about the scourge that has surrounded him, Toler-Wade addresses it throughout Delirium Tremens.  In the torrential, hyper-speed guitar-fest “Faces of Meth,” he growls about amphetamines, “slowly killing you while robbing your youth and beauty” and laments those who “never had a chance at a normal life”and are “raised from generations of total ignorance.” Listen to “Faces of Meth” below:

Delirium Tremens is a dramatic musical evolution from the band’s first release. Not only is the production better, the chemistry between Rhone and Toler-Wade is impeccable, each feeling out and feeding off of the other’s playing. And bassist Chris Dupre and drummer Phil Cancilla form a whirlwind rhythm section that’s tighter than a locked door. Coupled with trenchant grooves and impacting vocals, Delirium Tremens is more than an homage to the band’s favorite musicians, it’s a new style wrought from some of the best pages of the past.

“Maybe knowing that this was going to be my main band made me think about it a little more carefully about the songs,” Toler-Wade says. “I had a bit more direction and the stuff I was writing seemed more focused. The first record established a sound and this one definitely took it to the next level.”

Delirium Tremens track listing:

1. Introspective Nightmares
2. Faces of Meth
3. Return to the Underground
4. We Agnostics
5. In Memoriam (intro)
6. Bleed and Swell
7. Delirium Tremens
8. Self Immolation
9. Life Revolted
10. You Will Die Alone
11. Husk
12. Pharma Culture

Delirium Tremens was produced and mixed by NARCOTIC WASTELAND at Vegas View Recording and Dallas’ home studio. For mixing, the band tapped Grammy award winning producer Neil Kernon at Auslander, with mastering by metal producer-elite Alan Douches at West West Side Music.

NARCOTIC WASTELAND will head out on a 20+ city North American tour, beginning October 21 in Greenville, SC and hitting several states and provinces, coming to an end in Orlando, FL on December 9. Select dates will feature support from Dreaming Dead and Extinction Level Event. See below for a full listing of tour dates and get tickets via individual venues as they become available.

NARCOTIC WASTELAND 2017 Tour Dates:

Support bands: 10/30-11/5 Dreaming Dead, 11/30-12/6, Extinction Level Event

10/21 – Greenville, SC @ The Radio Room

10/24 – Houston, TX @ Walter’s Downtown

10/25 – Fort Worth, TX @ The Rail Club

10/26 – OKC, OK @ Thunder Alley

10/27 – Wichita, KS @ The Elbow Room

10/28 – Gallup, NM @ Juggernaut Music

10/29 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Dive Bar

10/30 – San Diego, CA @ Brick by Brick

10/31 – Anaheim, CA @ Doll Hut

11/01 – Sacramento, CA @ Blue Lamp

11/03 – Bend, OR @ The Third Street Pub

11/04 – Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven

11/05 – Vancouver, BC @ Astoria

11/07 – Edmonton, AB @ The Starlite Room (BRIXX)

11/08 – Calgary, AB @ Dickens Pub

11/09 – Winnipeg, MN @ The Pyramid Cabaret

11/16 – Appleton, WI @ Gibson Hall

11/18 – Omaha, NE @ Dr. Jack’s Drinkery

11/22 – Akron, OH @ The Empire

11/24 – Joliet, IL @ The Forge

11/26 – Westland, MI @ The Token

11/27 – Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks

11/28 – Montreal, QC @ Piranha Bar

11/29 – Quebec City, QC @ l’anti bar & spectacles

11/30 – Manchester, NH @ The Jewel

12/01 – Amityville, NY @ Revolution Room

12/02 – Queens, NY @ Blackthorn 51

12/03 – Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie

12/06 – Chesapeake, VA @ Riffhouse

12/08 – Charleston, SC @ The Sparrow

12/09 – Orlando, FL @ Bombshells Tavern

NARCOTIC WASTELAND is:

Dallas Toler-Wade – Guitar, Vocals

Ed Rhone – Guitar Vocals

Chris “Lutachrist” Dupre – Bass, Vocals

Phil Cancilla – Drums

NARCOTIC WASTELAND Online:

www.narcoticwasteland.com

www.facebook.com/narcoticwasteland

www.twitter.com/Narco_Wasteland

www.youtube.com/user/narcoticwasteland

New CRIPPER Video Online!

Cripper video “Into the Fire” from the album “Follow Me: Kill!” Online! Check it below:

Cripper comments:
“The video for ‘Into The Fire’ is our 8th music video. So what do you do as a band to not bore yourself with repetition? Right, you crank it up to 11 and take it to the next level! ‘Into The Fire’ is not only the track that inspired us for our upcoming album’s title ‘Follow Me: Kill!’, it is also one of the album’s bosses so to speak. Music, lyrics, story and performance mark another milestone in Cripper’s history. Many thanks at this point to our friends who once more helped us bringing our madness to life with this self-made video production by delivering brilliant performances and lending us their muscles and brains to make things work. We owe you!”
Vocalist Britta Görtz adds:
“Attention has become such an asset, that it overshadows true meaning and content. Big mouths saying big words, everyone is demanding “Follow Me” in one way or the other. The ones with the loudest voices seem to get all the attention, while at the same time politicians are blind to what’s going on around them – they are following their own agenda, leading us right “Into The Fire”. Metaphorically speaking: “Let the pigs feast on pigs, raise your own voice instead, make yourself heard – wherever you are on this planet! Take action and unite against hate, racism and history-repeating!”

Cripper line-up:

Britta Görtz – vocals
Christian Brohenhorst – guitar
Jonathan Stenger – guitar
Lommer – bass
Dennis Weber – drums

Cripper online:

www.cripper.de
www.facebook.com/Cripper.Official
www.twitter.com/cripperthrash
www.youtube.com/user/cripperthrash

CIRCA SURVIVE PREMIERE NEW SONG | MUSIC VIDEO “THE AMULET”!

Circa Survive have shared their brooding new music video for “The Amulet” the title track from the band’s upcoming sixth full length due out September 22nd fromHopeless Records. “The Amulet” showcases Circa Survive’s ability to balance impressively technical musicality with infectious melodies that wrap around the listener. Throughout the song, pulsating bass lines and intricate guitars melt into cascading drums that build to an epic conclusion, while vocalist Anthony Green continues to prove exactly why he’s one of the most singular voices in alternative rock.  You can listen to the track HERE or pre-order the entire album HERE.

“The Amulet“‘s titular track also illustrates Green‘s lyrical prowess as he ties the album’s many intersecting concepts together. The ideas explored on “The Amulet” manage to encompass both Green’s personal life and capture the concerns of the zeitgeist with sometimes startling prescience. He sings of decaying facades in intimate relationships while deftly applying that same painfully honest eye to our volatile political and social climate, searching for what’s next in times where blissful ignorance is no longer acceptable. Filmed at a fireworks convention in Fargo, ND, the music video for “The Amulet” conjures that same sense of unease: the explosions burst and fade like the fervor of affection, while the powerful track subtly repurposes the patriotic imagery into something far more eerie.

“The Amulet” Cover & Tracklist

1.Lustration
2. Never Tell A Soul
3. Premonition of the Hex
4. Tunnel Vision
5. At Night It Gets Worse
6. Stay
7.Rites of Investiture
8. The Hex
9. Flesh and Bone
10.The Amulet

Shadowside featured on Japanese magazine BURRN!

Photo by Bryan Burch

Japan’s greatest Rock/Metal magazine BURRN! features on its September issue the cover story with Accept and an interview with Shadowside’s lead singer Dani Nolden, talking about details regarding the production and release of the new album “Shades of Humanity”, which marks the official debut of Swedish bass player Magnus Rosén (ex-Hammerfall) as a full time band member.

Shadowside is once again enjoying success in the Asian market, after reaching the 26th position on BURRN!’s best selling album charts with their previous album “Inner Monster Out”. Now with “Shades of Humanity”, the band has been receiving high praise from fans and press, defining this release as the band’s best moment in their career.

“Shades of Humanity” explores deep subjects such as depression, abortion, the Mariana Dam disaster in Brazil and mankind’s moral values, branching out in musical ways nobody expected while still keeping their heavy guitar riffs and catchy melodies, the band’s trademarks. The album was recorded and produced in Sweden by Fredrik Nordström (Arch Enemy, Hammerfall, Evergrey) and Henrik Udd (Architects, Arch Enemy).

“Shades of Humanity” was released in Japan on July 26 via Spiritual Beast, in Europe and the US on July 28 via EMP Label Group (owned by Megadeth bass player David Ellefson), and the release in Brazil is scheduled for September 4 via Furia Music Records.

POWER QUEST: “KINGS AND GLORY” LYRIC VIDEO RELEASED!

Power Quest, the renowned melodic power metal band based in the UK just released a lyric video for “Kings And Glory”, the first single from their  long awaited 6th album “Sixth Dimension”. The album will be released on October 13th via Inner Wound Recordings in Europe/USA and on October 11th in Japan via Marquee/Avalon.

“Sixth Dimension” was mastered by Jens Bogren [Dragonforce, Symphony X, Arch Enemy] and the artwork was created by Felipe Machado Franco [Blind Guardian, Rhapsody of Fire, Iced Earth]. The album includes guest appearances by Anette Olzon [ex. Nightwish], Andrea Martongelli [Arthemis, ex. Power Quest] and Lars Rettkowitz [Freedom Call]

The album will be available in the following physical formats: 
– standard jewel case CD
– limited edition digibook CD – 500 copies [also includes bonus track]
– limited edition vinyl – 500 copies [200 copies with gold disc and 300 copies with black disc]

“Sixth Dimension” track listing 

01. Lords of Tomorrow
02. Starlight City
03. Kings and Glory
04. Face the Raven
05. No More Heroes
06. Revolution Fighters
07. Pray for the Day
08. Coming Home
09. The Sixth Dimension

UNREAL TERROR – “The New Chapter”!

Italian metallers Unreal Terror come back after 31(!) years with the new album entitled “The New Chapter” to be released by Jolly Roger Records on Cd, Lp (first 100 copies “bone” wax) and Digital, 6th October. The line-up features 3/4 of the previous albums: Luciano Palermi on vocals, Enio Nicolini on bass, Silvio Canzano on drums.
“it’s the bridge connecting Unreal Terror’s past and future, a statement of who we are as band today” claims Palermi, underlining “time is the pervasive theme that dominates the entire new album, even if it’s not a concept-album” and adding “we expect this new album to please our historic fanbase as well as attract new followers, we are very excited to release this new work and write a new chapter in our career”
“The New Chapter” contains 10 brand new songs whose style echoes classic heavy metal tradition, but with a modern perspective.

Tracklist:
1. Ordinary King
2. Time Bomb
3. All This Time
4. Fall
5. The Thread
6. One More Chance
7. Trickles of Time
8. It’s the Shadow
9. Lost Cause
10. Western Skies

Line-up:
Luciano Palermi – Vocals
Enio Nicolini – Bass
Iader D. Nicolini – Guitar
Arcanacodaxe – Guitar
Silvio Canzano – Drums

“The New Chapter” Album Notes:
Distribution Release Date: 6th October 2017
File under: Heavy Metal
Distribution: Cargo Germany (G.A.S.), Plastic Head (Uk), Rock Inc. (Benelux), Pick Up Export (Export)

Unreal Terror were born in 1984 under the will of Mario Di Donato, Enio Nicolini and Silvio Canzano (guitar, bass and drums, respectively) from the ashes of cult band UT with italian lyrics only. Luciano Palermi replaced Benedetto Spinazzola on vocals and with this line-up they first recorded mini “Heavy & Dangerous” (1985) and then, first full lenght-album “Hard Incursion” (1986) with Giuseppe Continenza replacing Mario Di Donato who started his own projects with cult doomsters Requiem first and later with The Black. In 1989 Unreal Terror broke down definitely, when both Palermi and Continenza left for Usa.
Unreal Terror have been protagonists of italian Heavy Metal scene in 80’s, among bands as Strana Officina, Death SS, Sabotage, Vanexa, Vanadium, Fil di Ferro, etc.
Unexpected reunion is reality in 2012 (with Enio’s son, Iader, on guitar instead of Continenza), thanks to a never ending interest towards the band, when they played live at Heavy Metal Night Festival and then, after the Cd reissue of “Hard
Incursion” (with 4 bonus tracks), at fourth edition of “Acciaio Italiano” festival, in 2014, together with Strana Officina, The Black, White Skull, both well-known and appreciated HM festivals in Italy.

NOT OVER YET feat. Blaze Bayley, Zak Stevens, Chris Poland Announce New Album ‘AXIOMS OF LIFE’ out In October!

American/Italian hard rockers NOT OVER YET announced the release of their debut album ‘AXIOMS OF LIFE‘, out on October 27th, 2017. NOT OVER YET is an international studio project that brings together world-renowned artists to create the ultimate hard rock album.

‘AXIOMS OF LIFE‘ preview teaser: https:/www.facebook.com/NOTOVERYETband/videos/705468369640972

Featuring as guests on ‘AXIOMS OF LIFE‘: Luca Princiotta – lead guitars (Doro Pesch), Chris Poland– lead guitars (OHM / Megadeth), Blaze Bayley – vocals (Blaze / Iron Maiden / Wolfsbane), Zak Stevens – vocals (TSO / Savatage / Circle II Circle), Dylan Rose – vocals (Archer Nation), Charlie Huhn – vocals (Foghat / Gary Moore / Ted Nugent / Victory) and Greg Izor – vocals.

Tracklist:

1. Will Power (feat. Dylan Rose, Luca Princiotta)
2. Crazy Tide (feat. Zak Stevens, Chris Poland, Luca Princiotta)
3. Boomshake (feat. Charlie Huhn, Luca Princiotta)
4. You And I (feat. Zak Stevens, Chris Poland)
5. Back to Square One (feat. Blaze Bayley, Luca Princiotta)
6. Some Blues (feat. Greg Izor, Luca Princiotta)
7. No Compromise (feat. Charlie Huhn, Luca Princiotta)
8. Breathe (feat. Dylan Rose, Luca Princiotta)
9. Let’s Stay Together (feat. Greg Izor)

NOT OVER YET is:

Giulia Cerardi – Rhythm guitars
Luigi Stefanini – Bass guitar
Luca Cerardi – Drums

NOT OVER YET was formed in fall 2014 by the siblings Giulia Cerardi and Luca Cerardi (Merendine Atomiche / Merendine). ‘AXIOMS OF LIFE‘ has been recorded in many different locations around the world. Drums, bass, vocals and rhythm guitars were recorded between June 2015 and March 2017 at New Sin Studios, Loria (Treviso, Italy). Blaze Bayley and Greg Izor both recorded their vocals at the same studio, in June 2015 and June 2016, respectively. Charlie Huhn recorded his vocals in January 2017 at North Avenue Studios in DeLand, Florida (USA). Chris Poland recorded his leadguitar parts during the same month, at Glass House Studios in Los Angeles, California (USA). Dylan Rose recorded his vocal parts in October 2016 in Santa Cruz, California (USA), while Zak Stevens recorded his during the same month at MG Studios in Columbia, South Carolina (USA).

www.notoveryetband.com
www.facebook.com/NOTOVERYETband

Soil release “My Time (Kickstart Version)”!

Soil release “My Time (Kickstart Version)” from their new album “SCREAM: The Essentials”, out on September 15th!

Pre order the album here: http://promo.afm-records.de/en/soil