Vandenberg's Moonkings, featuring former Vandenberg and Whitesnake guitarist Adrian Vandenberg, will release their new album, MKII, on November 3rd via Mascot Label Group. A video for the opening track “Tightrope” can be found below.
Four years after Adrian Vandenberg made a spectacular comeback with Vandenberg’s Moonkings the band returns with a sophomore album, simply titled MK II. The album has all the qualities of the debut: once again the four-piece band manages to create a perfect mix of vintage seventies hard rock and current styles of heavy rock. Adrian Vandenberg shines as a bonafide guitar virtuoso, while the rest of the band also delivers in spades. Yet MK II has even more to offer than the highly praised first album. It shows how the band grew into a strong unit during the world tours of the recent years. “The last few years have been very important indeed,” confirms Adrian Vandenberg, who previously gained world fame as the guitarist and songwriter of Vandenberg and Whitesnake. “We just got to know each other when we recorded out debut album. I think we all exceeded each other’s expectations. But you really get to know each other while on the road. It was then that I really became impressed by the abundance of energy that this band has. We tried to capture this on our new album. At the same time, we all grew individually. I am really amazed by the way Jan Hoving has grown even more in his role as a singer and as a front man. I’ve played with the best bass players and drummers in my extensive career, but with all respect I dare to say that Sem Christoffel and drummer Mart Nijen Es form the best rhythm section I ever had the pleasure of working with.” Order the new album at this location.
Tracklisting:
“Tightrope” “Reputation” “Angel In Black” “The Fire” “Walk Away” “All Or Nothing” “What Doesn’t Kill You” “Ready For The Taking” “New Day” “Love Runs Out” “If You Can’t Handle The Heat” “Tightrope” video:
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Shakra To Release Snakes & Ladders Album In November; Lyric Video For Title Track Streaming9/23/2017
On November 10th, Swiss hard rock band, Shakra, will release their new studio album, Snakes & Ladders, via AFM Records. Check out a lyric video for the first single, the title track of the album, below. Pre-order the new album here.
It’s been almost two years since High Noon was released, the comeback album with former lead singer Mark Fox back on the microphone. High Noon made it to #2 in the Swiss album charts and also entered the German charts. The haunting melodies, the distinctive voice of Mark Fox, the striking guitar riffs from Thomas Muster, the emotional solos from lead guitarist Thom Blunier and the irresistible grooves from drummer Roger Tanner and bass player Dominik Pfister are all typical Shakra trademarks, which can be found again on Snakes & Ladders. Tracklisting: “Cassandra’s Curse” “Friday Nightmare” “Snakes & Ladders” “Something You Don’t Understand” “The Seeds” “Rollin‘” “Medicine Man” “I Will Rise Again” “Open Water” “The Race Of My Life” “Fire In My Veins” “The End Of Days” “Snakes & Ladders” lyric video:
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Newcomer Toronto rocker Suzi Kory, who supported L.A. Guns earlier this year, has checked in with the following announcement: "Southern Ontario get ready to seriously rock out on October 12th at the Warehouse in St Catherines! Special guests FourCities, The Reed Effect and Nervcast. Doors open at 8:00pm... get your tickets at Suzikory.com (check out the music while you're there) or at the door for $10. Better yet, come see me at Niagara Music Week on September 28th. Say the magic words 'Too Pretty to Die' and get a special guest pass!" Suzi recently cut a couple songs with The Trews guitarist/producer John-Angus MacDonald and engineer Nick DiToro. Full length audio samples are available below.
Something Ain't Right - listen here. Too Pretty To Die - listen here. Courtesy of www.bravewords.com LYNYRD SKYNYRD, CHEAP TRICK and JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS will headline the second annual RockFest 80's, set to take place Saturday, November 4 and Sunday, November 5, at C.B. Smith Park in Pembroke Pines, Florida. A total of sixteen bands will grace the RockFest stage at this fan-favorite festival event. This year's spectacular lineup also features Sebastian Bach, DOKKEN, FOGHAT, Lita Ford, THE OUTLAWS, LITTLE RIVER BAND, STEELHEART, JACK RUSSELL'S GREAT WHITE and QUIET RIOT. RockFest Concerts LLC is an innovative company with more than a hundred years of entertainment experience behind the second annual RockFest 80's. The two-day musical festival celebrating '80s music and pop culture will bring a true rock festival back to South Florida annually, with this multiple artist event catering to '80s rock music fans. There are many sponsorship opportunities for brands and businesses to partner in on, including VIP Experience hospitality tent sponsorship, a Muscle Car Alley, a Street Art Exhibition, A "Rock UR Locks" hair styling tent, a merchandise midway, a DJ Village, Battle of the Bands, Storage Lockers and Charging Station area with sponsorship available for locker wrapped billboards and much more. To purchase tickets or more information about RockFest 80's, visit RockFest80s.com. Courtesy of www.blabbermouth.net
Swedish rock ‘n’ roll legends, Europe, have launched the pre-order for their new studio album, Walk The Earth, out on October 20th via the band’s Hell & Back label via Silver Lining Music. Order via the links below:
- Jewel Case CD - Special Edition CD/DVD Digi-book - White Coloured Vinyl - MP3 If Europe’s 2015 album War Of Kings was the album that made the rock world realise what a formidable act EUROPE had become then WALK THE EARTH is the album that is set to establish the band as one of the most exciting contemporary rock acts of current times. “We're simply a different band today,” says lead singer Joey Tempest. “Ever since we started up again in 2004, we have constantly explored our limits and new parts of our musical universe. After around 1,000 shows, we feel comfortable just improvising, jamming and pushing our lyrics and songwriting with much more ease. We have now been together recording and making albums longer than the early period of the band. Five albums in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Now six records with Walk The Earth. When we started up again in 2004 we all agreed to think ‘long-term,’ to take the long road and build up a new relationship with listeners and media. We all agreed on writing together, owning our music, and license it out to labels that really care and support us in the long run. “We also agreed to not look back! And never stop looking for that deeper expression. We don't have much in common with our contemporaries from back then. We have taken a different path, making sure we are constantly moving forward. We have little regard for outside influences and opinions. In order to enjoy this new journey and feel creative, it needed to be completely on our terms. “In a Europe live show, there is of course some room for nostalgia, but in the studio there is none. Every album is a reaction to the one before, a new journey a new adventure. The music of a rock band needs to constantly move, challenge, upheave, evolve or the band will automatically become a nostalgia act. We are proud of our past and previous albums, but we simply can't identify, recapture, emulate any of it. We simply can't write like that even if we wanted to. We are a new act with a different expression. “Over the years, we have learned how important recording techniques and recording equipment is by trying to search and research which producers, engineers and recording studios that can actually inspire and keep us wanting to be adventurous and daring. It has now taken us six albums to get here.” Walk The Earth features original artwork by famed Los Angeles artist Mike Sportes of Filth Mart. “We were in the studio a few days into recording and Dave (Cobb, producer) comes in wearing this very cool t-shirt with one of Mike's designs on it. Immediately we knew we had to check Mike's other work and have him come up with an exclusive design for us based on the vibe of the album. We are very proud to have his amazing artwork as the Walk The Earth album cover!” - Joey Tempest
Tracklisting:
“Walk The Earth” “The Siege” “Kingdom United” “Pictures” “Election Day” “Wolves” “GTO” “Haze” “Whenever You’re Ready” “Turn To Dust” “Walk The Earth”:
he album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London with Grammy winning producer Dave Cobb (Rival Sons, Shooter Jennings, Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton) who also produced the band’s War Of Kings album.Europe will be back on the road in the UK with Deep Purple later this year and this will be the first time you will hear tracks from Walk The Earth live.
UK dates: November 17 - Barclaycard Arena - Birmingham, UK 18 - Manchester Arena - Manchester, UK 20 - Motorpoint Arena - Cardiff, UK 22 - The SSE Hydro - Glasgow, UK 23 - The 02 Arena - London, UK Get tickets here. European tour dates for November and December to be announced imminently, together with more posts with information leading up to the new album's release. (Top Photo: Brian Cannon) Courtesy of www.bravewords.com Europe will be back on the road in the UK with Deep Purple later this year and this will be the first time you will hear tracks from Walk The Earth live. UK dates: November 17 - Barclaycard Arena - Birmingham, UK 18 - Manchester Arena - Manchester, UK 20 - Motorpoint Arena - Cardiff, UK 22 - The SSE Hydro - Glasgow, UK 23 - The 02 Arena - London, UK Get tickets here. European tour dates for November and December to be announced imminently, together with more posts with information leading up to the new album's release. (Top Photo: Brian Cannon) Europe will be back on the road in the UK with Deep Purple later this year and this will be the first time you will hear tracks from Walk The Earth live. UK dates: November 17 - Barclaycard Arena - Birmingham, UK 18 - Manchester Arena - Manchester, UK 20 - Motorpoint Arena - Cardiff, UK 22 - The SSE Hydro - Glasgow, UK 23 - The 02 Arena - London, UK Get tickets here. European tour dates for November and December to be announced imminently, together with more posts with information leading up to the new album's release. (Top Photo: Brian Cannon)
Helix frontman Brian Vollmer has a new solo album "Get Yer Hands Dirty" on the horizon and now, you can listen to the title track, featuring Danko Jones, below:
Advanced pre-orders for "Get Yer Hands Dirty" can be made at the official Helix website, www.planethelix.com.
The new studio album from Swedish rock band H.E.A.T, Into The Great Unknown, is out now via earMUSIC. A new video for the track “Eye Of The Storm” is available for streaming below.
After one and a half years of intense song-writing, with guitarist Dave Dalone (aka Sky Davis) back in the mix, the band went on a questionable trip to record an album in Thailand, once again with Swedish Grammy award-winning producer Tobias Lindell. With 10 top songs in their cannon, H.E.A.T entered the heavenly Karma Sound studios in the outskirts of Bangkok to record what would become the fifth studio album. Once again the band continue the musical landscape with an innovative, highly explosive and refreshing melodic rock sound and an unforgettable collection of fantastic new songs. Into The Great Unknown is the follow-up to 2014’s critically acclaimed Tearing Down The Walls. 2012’s successful Address The Nation album was praised worldwide as one of the best albums of the year, and consolidated the H.E.A.T’s growing reputation as the new leading band in hard edged melodic rock. "Into The Great Unknown is a rock and roll journey into the great unknown. The album delivers everything H.E.A.T is loved for - frontman Erik Grönwall’s incredible vocal talent and the band’s traditional approach to melodic rock. Tracklisting: “Bastard Of Society” “Redefined” “Shit City” “Time On Our Side” “Best Of The Broken” “Eye Of The Storm” “Blind Leads The Blind” “We Rule” “Do You Want It?” “Into The Great Unknown” “Eye Of The Storm” video:
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Airbourne - Diamond Cuts Box Set Due In September; Video Trailer For Rock N Roll Documentary9/19/2017
Airbourne's forthcoming box set, Diamond Cuts, is due for release on September 29th via Nettwerk.
Available in limited edition vinyl and CD formats, The Diamond Cuts Collectors Box Set includes the band's first three studio albums: Runnin Wild, No Guts, No Glory and Black Dog Barking, along with the brand new Diamond Cuts - The B-Sides collection featuring two previously unavailable tracks ("Money" and "Heavy Weight Lover") plus a bonus DVD of the brand new band documentary, It’s All For Rock N’ Roll - housed in a slipcase box featuring original Diamond Cuts artwork. A trailer for the documentary, It’s All For Rock N’ Roll, can be seen below:
The previously unheard track "Money" is the first single from Diamond Cuts; give the song a listen now:
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Madame Mayhem is a true rocker with an eclectic style in every aspect of life - merging theatricality with hard-hitting, rocking tunes. And on October 20th, she will be unveiling a brand new album, Ready For Me (via Metalville label in the UK and Europe, and HeadBall Records in the US). The just-completed album features a powerhouse team of rock talent, including producer Corey Lowery (Saint Asonia), Clint Lowery (Sevendust), Troy McLawhorn (Evanescence), and both Bevan Davies and Ryan Bennett (Madame Mayhem) on drums. A video trailer for the new album can be found below.
“All the songs on this album are super personal to me,” explains Mayhem. “About my frustrations, trying to get through the rough times, my anxieties and insecurities, some messed up stuff that has happened to me along the way, relationship devastation, you name it. I noticed it only afterwards that audiences are really getting 'the dirt' on me through this album. I was super honest, vulnerable, and didn't hold back during the writing process of these songs. Corey Lowery and I are a great team because he makes me feel comfortable to spill my guts during writing sessions, and during recordings, to re live these situations I am writing about so whoever is listening gets all of what we wanted to give. And it turns out the album’s first single/video is the perfect intro to the album - a song titled “All Around the World”. “’All Around The World’ is really about feeling like it's you against the world, and racing against time. It's about the pressures to succeed in such a short amount of time, people thinking they know best, and are lost in their own worlds, only concerned about themselves. In this rat race we all live in today, it's getting harder and harder to break through, even if you work your ass off. The sound is upbeat, kind of a more pop punk ish vibe. Corey Lowery and I thought, though we usually are huge fans of incorporating harmonies in our arrangements, that since this song is really about feeling like it's just you against the world, so we tried to make it sound like just one melody line, one voice, against all this hard hitting music. The verses are also supposed to make you feel that anxiety and panic that I have on a daily basis, as I'm sure many of us do. But its a super fun song to rock out to when you are just listening to it without over analyzing it.” Other album standouts include "War You Started" (“Hard hitting high energy - first track off the album to get listeners pumped up definitely one of my favorites!!! Also one of our favorites to kick off our sets with!”) Also, “So Wrong (Lay You To Rest)”, “It’s about some really dark messed up stuff I went through and the rage that was building inside me because of it - about laying to rest the stress I was having over the situation. This song is also hard hitting and the vibes from the verse-pre chorus-chorus, even the breakdown and solo take you through the different stages of the feelings one can go through when dealing with traumatic experiences; and the relief you have when you finally tell a loved one or anyone that thing that you tried to bury inside you that you didn’t know was holding you back.”). Plus, the album-closing title track. “’Ready For Me’ is the name of the album and the 13th/final track on the record. I thought it would be a strong album title because it's basically - Are you ready for me? I don't think you're ready for me; ready for me or not, here I am.”). Physical CD pre-order for North America here. Digital pre orders coming soon for North America. With hard rock roots and melodies that show off her vocal range, Madame Mayhem is excited to bring these new, unreleased songs to the masses this fall, as she will be hitting the road with Austin John Winkler (formerly the voice of Hinder) and Smile Empty Soul this fall on the Love Sick Radio Tour (presented by M7 Agency) in the US, before heading over to Europe and the UK for dates with Fozzy and Hardcore Superstar. “I am so excited to play this new music live! Really looking forward to touring Europe and The UK in October and November 2017!” The singer has performed across the United States to packed rooms, including B.B.King Blues Club, The Roxy, The Viper Room, Bowery Ballroom, Knitting Factory, a residency at The Cutting Room, the Bluebird Café during Grammy nomination week, Shiprocked Cruise 2017, Sunfest 2017, Sturgis Buffalo Chip 2017, and has performed on national tours with renowned and respected artists such as Doro and Mushroomhead. With Ready For Me and tour dates on the horizon, Madame Mayhem is setting the stage for what promises to be a big 2018 with this string of worldwide tour dates in 2017.
Ready For Me tracklisting:
“War You Started” “Wake Up (Enemy)” “Hurt Me” “Innocent” “All Around The World” “Number One” “Stand Up” “Say Go” “Before You Burn” “Original” “Slow It Down” “So Wrong (Lay You To Rest)” “Ready For Me” Trailer:
September
22 - Front Street Grill - Dardanelle, AR 23 - Outland Ballroom - Springfield, MO 24 - Shots - Rolla, MO 26 - Spillway - Bowling Green, KY 27 - Rockhouse Live - Memphis, TN 29 - 9 Muses - Tyler, TX 30 - Hideaway - Jackson, MS October 3 - Still Bar - Gadsden, AL 5 - Captain Hiram's - Sebastian, FL 6 - State Theatre - St Petersburg, FL 7 - 1904 Music Hall - Jacksonville, FL 8 - Club LA - Destin, FL 11 - Poseidon Rooftop Bar - Hilton Head Island, SC 12 - Carolina Nightlight - Darlington, SC 13 - Hogtails - Pendleton, SC 14 - Johnny and Junes - Winston-Salem, NC 15 - Open Chord - Knoxville, TN
October
27 - O2 Academy 2 - Birmingham, United Kingdom 28 - Tivoli - Dublin, Ireland 29 - Limelight 2 - Belfast, United Kingdom 31 - Live Rooms - Chester-Le-Street, United Kingdom November 1 - Waterfront - Manchester, United Kingdom 2 - Islington Academy - London, United Kingdom 3 - Corporation - Sheffield, United Kingdom 4 - The Garage - Glasgow, United Kingdom 5 - Riverside - Newcastle, United Kingdom 7 - Q Factory - Amsterdam, Netherlands 8 - Colas Saal - Aschaffenburg, Germany 9 - Z7 - Pratteln, Switzerland 10 - Live Club - Trezzo Sull'adda, Italy 11 - New Age Club - Roncade, Italy 12 - Kimera Rock - Rome, Italy 14 - Flex - Wien, Austria 15 - Technikum - Munich, Germany 16 - Turock - Essen, Germany 17 - Grunespan - Hamburg, Germany 18 - CPG - Genk, Belgium Courtesy of www.bravewords.com Helix frontman Brian Vollmer has checked in with an update on his solo album, Get Yer Hands Dirty: "Coming soon! In the next week we'll be taking advance orders for Get Yer Hands Dirty on the Merch section of the Helix website for both vinyl and CD. Got some great players on this disc including Danko Jones, who sang lead vocals with me on the first track. The disc was produced by Juno Award winning Gavin Brown, who also drummed on the tracks. As well, Sean Kelly rips it up on guitar, Daryl Gray holds down the fort on the bass, Matt Weidinger channels the ghost of Leon Russell on keyboards, and Cheryl Lescom kicks ass until it's blue." Courtesy of www.bravewords..com
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