Composer: Timo Mölsä
Lyrics: Timo Mölsä
& Ari Hokkanen
Arrangement:Timo Mölsä, Aleksanteri Kuosa
Recorded & mixed by: Aleksanteri Kuosa
Mastering engineer:
Svante Forsbäck
Cover art:
Slobodan Jovanovic
pic by Stormart / Janica Lönn
Finnish melancholic melodic death metal band Endless Chain
is working on their second full length album
planned to be released in late 2023.
Now they have released the first single "Until No One Comes"
from the upcoming album.
the composer and guitar player Timo Mölsä backgrounds:
"The preparation and pre-production of the second album started already in 2021 before the release of the debut album. During the last couple of years, the making of it has continued, and in the beginning of the year we returned to the studio again. Until No One Comes is a heavy hitting track with catchy melancholic melodies. The story is exploring the themes of manipulation, control and the power of the depths of the human mind."
Endless Chain are:
Aki Salonen - vocals
Timo Mölsä - guitar
Aleksanteri Kuosa - guitar, bass, keyboards
Samuli Mikkonen - drums
death metal band ENDLESS CHAIN
has released single/video
'Until No One Comes'
line-up:
Thomas Lassar
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Keyboards
Fredrik Fernlund - Guitar
Åke Jennstig - Bass
Fredrik Åkermo - Drums
Special Guests:
Rob Marcello - Guitar Solo
Michaela Lassar Persson
Backing Vocals
pic by Pavel Koubek
Art Of Melody Music & Burning Minds Music Group are excited
to announce the digital release of "Whatever I Do",
first single taken from "From Now On",
the first official solo album by Swedish AOR singer, keyboardist
and songwriter Thomas Lassar.
Thomas Lassar:
"'Whatever I Do' was the last song I wrote for the album, and the first single released. The song is about the ups and downs we all experience in our lives: we should never give up, even when times are tough."
The song features an amazing guitar solo by Rob Marcello
(Danger Danger).
"From Now On" is scheduled for release on April 14, 2023
via Art Of Melody Music / Burning Minds Music Group.
The CD booklet includes introductory liner notes written
by Jörg Bonszkowski (Rock It! Magazine, Rock Avenue Radio Show),
with graphics created by Aeglos Art.
THOMAS LASSAR
has released single/video
'Whatever I Do'
THOMAS LASSAR
has released single/video
'Whatever I Do'
track-list:
01. In The Line Of Fire
02. Soul Rider
03. Space Invaders
04. Mistress Of The Night
05. Lonely Road
06. Dogs Bark But The Caravan Rolls On
07. Sin And Shame
08. Heavenly Body
09. Dancing Across The Stars
10. The Golden Rule
11. Flying Finn
pic by Henrik Sirelä
Finnish Helsinki-based metalheads Wishing Well
releases their fourth album, titled “SIN AND SHAME” (Inverse Records)
on March 17th.
Songs on the album vary from the fast power metal style opening track
to classic hard rock ballad “Dancing Across The Stars”
and prog-influenced instrumental “Flying Finn”.
The title track deals with ancient religious themes of sin and punishment
whereas “Dogs Bark But The Caravan Rolls On”
is a classic hard rock shuffle with catchy riff and a punchline
that makes it clear to everybody that they mean business.
Wishing Well can handle all these styles with flying colours,
sounding original and familiar at the same time.
The band has updated their sound
with some more synthesizers and keyboards,
though their distinctive trademark Hammond organ
is still there on most of the songs, giving the music majestic touch.
Anssi Korkiakoski, the guitar player and prime mover of the band:
'We are relieved to get this album finally off our hands and hopefully into the hands and ears of as many people as possible. We enjoyed writing, rehearsing and recording it but now we just want people to hear the songs, live if possible. The new songs are great fun to play together and we want to take our babies out to the world. We take pride in our work and though our music certainly isn’t groundbreaking or revolutionary, it still represents us and shows the world who we are and where we come from. We’ve found our corner of the world and we want to share that corner with hard rock and metal fans all over the world. With our heads in the clouds and feet on the ground, seriously tongue-in-cheek.'
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WISHING WELL
will release album
'Sin And Shame'
WISHING WELL
will release album
'Sin And Shame'
Wishing Well discography:
Chasing Rainbows
(Inverse 2016)
Rat Race
(Inverse 2018)
Do Or Die
(Inverse 2020)
Sin And Shame
(Inverse 2023)
pic by Jussi Koskinen
The album was recorded and mixed in various studios during 2022
by Henrik Sirelä,
exclucing the title track, recorded and mixed by Marko Kataja.
'Sin And Shame' will be out on all major digital platforms
as well as on CD.
The band will play an album release gig
at On The Rocks Club in Helsinki on 31 March,
supporting legendary Finnish hard rock trio, Peer Günt.
WISHING WELL
will release album
'Sin And Shame'
WISHING WELL
will release album
'Sin And Shame'
Groningen, Netherlands, based melodic Metal band Maestro
has released single 'Black Bishop'.
This single track is a song already written in the eighties.
The lyrics are about playing chess.
Recorded before as a demo track back in 1989.
Covered, recorded and released by the Dutch cult metal band Vortex
on their ‘Hammer of the North’ album in 2003.
With a different title (Where’s My Gun) and lyrics.
They’re also from the city of Groningen.
But now finally properly recorded by Maestro
for their upcoming full, new album ‘Get it on!’.
Which shall be released by Pt78 Records.
Maestro is a melodic rock band.
Heavily inspired by bands like Dio, KISS, Queen, Dokken, TNT, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Queensryche, Winger, Triumph, Y&T etc.
This track is also mastered to sound as an eighties track.
'Black Bishop' will be accompanied by a lyrics video soon.
A teaser video has already been released.
MAESTRO
has released single
'Black Bishop'
MAESTRO
has released single
'Black Bishop'
Tampa Bay, Florida, based heavy metal act SEASONS OF THE WOLF
has released single 'Stella Magnetica'.
SEASONS OF THE WOLF
has released single
'Stella Magnetica'
SEASONS OF THE WOLF
has released single
'Stella Magnetica'
Finnish melodic metal band Dead End Finland is set to release
their fifth studio album 'Victory' on March 31st 2023 via Inverse Records.
Dead End Finland is a melodic metal band from Helsinki founded in 2007.
The lineup, which has remained unchanged since the beginning,
has enabled the band's sound to develop into its current rich form.
Dead End Finland is difficult to place into any specific genre,
and in the songs you can hear tones from classical music to death metal.
During a career that lasted almost 15 years,
the band's style has become even more bombastic and melodic.
The compositions have gained more depth and insight.
The previous album "Inter Vivos" reached number 10
on Finland's official album chart.
Dead End Finland's music
has been streamed more than 3 million times on Spotify alone.
Track list:
01. Northern Winds
02. Wounded & Bleeding
03. Heavy Rain
04. Beyond the Distance
05. In the Dark
06. Kaamos
07. Up So High, Down So Low
08. Delusions of Grandeur
09. Bound to Be Reborn
10. Wrath of God
Discography:
Stain Of Disgrace (2011)
Season Of Withering (2013)
Slaves To The Greed (2016)
Inter Vivos (2020)
Victory (2023)
DEAD END FINLAND
will release album
'Victory'
DEAD END FINLAND
will release album
'Victory'
The modern day power trio Eamonn McCormack,
currently on tour across Europe,celebrating the recent release
of their critically acclaimed self-titled album with the crowd,
keeps pushing the boundaries of blues rock
with a heavy and energetic presence on stage.
the band reflects on switching mode from domestic to roaming:
"The band and I are always looking forward to the very first shows, and the crowd never ceases to invigorate us with their welcoming energy and ravenous hunger for ROCK. It's these first days on the road that put the final pieces to the stage-hungry trio that we are, the puzzle that is Eamonn McCormack. We entered them as a mere gang of brothers united in music. And we're now looking back at this start – and looking forward to the rest of the ride – as a family made whole by all the rockers, bluesers, folkers, and metalheads who are spending loud and sweaty nights with us!"
Putting a few days off to good use,
the band releases their third and final album single 'Angel of Love',
along with an atmospheric video.
The song could best be described as the ultimate doomsday ballad:
Slow and heavy, it paints the apocalyptic picture of a world in demise,
fueled by Eamonn's lingering fear of an all out nuclear war.
Eamonn:
"I'm really not great when it comes to repressing this fear, so writing songs is my way of coping. The scenario of a potential world war, the fear that it can instill in us... That has changed drastically. Previously tucked away in the hearts and minds of people who spent their time in the eighties, and under the burden of the cold war, this fear has now found its way into the psyche of the youngest in our societies, as recent surveys suggest. It pains me to see that Angel of Love now speaks to them, too, and in a way that shouldn't be!"
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EAMONN McCORMACK
released single/video
'Angel of Love'
The dragging beat, the wailing guitar hammering out notes
that just click into place,
feeling meaningful and void of artistic posing in a rigorous way,
and lastly Eamonn's haunting voice begging for a shimmer of hope;
it all makes for that groove that proves once again:
On this album, there's more to a song than its title may suggest.
With his brand new record Eamonn McCormack,
which has been released worldwide on February 3rd, 2023
and is readily available, Eamonn introduces the listener
to a supercharged, heavy rocking portrayal
of the traveling blues rock artist's life.
Everything on Eamonn McCormack is interconnected:
the places he's seen, the people he's met and jammed with,
the miles he's covered,
and the experience he brought home to friends and family,
time and time again.
The result is an album that feels like a handful of rich, fertile soil,
composed of the best this planet has to offer.
You can't expose yourself to it without getting dirty,
depending on your own definition of dirt:
The blues on Eamonn McCormack's eighth album is certainly not clean.
Neither is the rock, nor the indie folk that Eamonn throws at it.
And how could it be, anyway – being found, carried and shaped far off
the beaten track that too many norm-abiding,
standardizing copycats have already paved and cleaned?
This warm, road-dusty record isn't meant to be seen
as a blues tourist's postcard
but as the recollection of a traveler in many respects, a true explorer.
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11/3 Hengelo - Metropool NL
12/3 Drachten - Induna NL
16/3 Straubing
Raven Music Club D
17/3 Freudenburg
Ducsaal Musik Club D
18/3 Fürth - Kofferfabrik D
28/3 Bremen - Meisenfrei D
30/3 Braunschweig
Barnaby's D
13/4 Ljubljana
Prulcek Club SL
14/4 Zagreb
Booze & Blues Club HA
15/4 Udine - tbc IT
16/4 Strasbourg - tbc F
19/4 Verviers - Spirit of 66 B
21/4 Oberhausen - Festival D
27/4 Vienna - Reigen Club A
28/4 Bratislava
Muzeum Obchodu SLK
29/4 Budapest - tbc H
30/4 Brno Czech Republic
tbc CZ
6/5 Apeldoorn
Blues Cafe NL
EAMONN McCORMACK
released single/video
'Angel of Love'
The stories that Eamonn has brought back home over the years
are being told in a down-to-earth fashion,
interwoven with the gritty mud of delta blues,
lush southern American rock, Celtic Irish spirit, Hendrix-infused funk
and even the eclectic layering of a quiet, post metal atmosphere,
when it's time to let go.
Eamonn's blues is known to be unapologetic
about his shitting on conventions,
and it doesn't whine as often as blues seems to be expected to do, hell no!
Instead, it snarls with gnashing teeth like Clint Eastwood, pointing thick-skinned fingers at shit
that never disappoints in pissing the man off.
Be it the corrupt gun biz from weapons of mass destruction to the guns in the hands of teens on the streets
and child soldiers (Living Hell) or the insufferable fear of humanity wiping itself out
with the push of a button (Angel of Love).
'In Letter to my Son' he sits down to warn the boy from falling prey to the temptation
of greed, disrespect and hatred.
Instead, he encourages his son to make mistakes but learn from them, paving any potential ripples caused
with an imprest of generosity and unconditional love.
The starkly contrasting story of Geronimo deals with the plight of the Apache native American tribes,
illustrating why not enough such letters could be addressed to kids by their passionate parents.
At the other end of the spectrum, the joy of living life to the fullest
takes the stage in the dance floor stomper 'Rock'n'Roll Boogie Shoes',
while a funky chunk of self-irony
grants a glimpse at Eamonn's humorous side and his smartphone addiction with Social Media Blues.
Eamonn and his young rhythm department have been called a modern-day power trio numerous times,
and songs like these – along with an ecstatic stage presence – could very well be the reason
why this is true for the millions of people who visited their explosive shows, uniting hard rocking bikers,
blues fans and folk fanatics all under one roof.
10/6 Dinxperlo
(Charity) Concert
for Dreams NL
20/9 Lübeck - Rider's Cafe D
22/9 Dresden - Tante Ju D
EAMONN McCORMACK
released single/video
'Angel of Love'
The Jericho Harlot is an Indianapolis, Indiana, based street rock trio.
"Voices" is an upbeat high energy release
combining the influences of punk
along with touches of southern rock and blues.
The Jericho Harlot brings the high energy
you'd expect from your favorite punk band
with some of the grooves from southern rock and blues.
The band aims to raze the walls
and decimate boundaries of traditional genres.
They ignite a fuse that sends their audience reeling back in time.
Their musical influences range
from Foo Fighters to the Blues Brothers.
Track list:
01 Horror Story
02 Liar, Liar
03 No One's Ever Really Gone
04 The Burning
05 The Heat Rox
THE JERICHO HARLOT
has released ep
'Voices'
THE JERICHO HARLOT
has released ep
'Voices'
Total Deathcore, an independent record label
known for promoting underground metal music,
is hosting their first-ever official festival
on Friday, April 7th and Saturday, April 8th
at the legendary venue Ground Zero in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Total Death Fest is a dream come true for label owner Daniel Whitehouse
and is showcasing some of the best unsigned up
and coming musicians from all over the East, particularly the Southeast.
This two-day event will feature a plethora of bands
ranging from all subgenres of metal,
keeping true to the name of Total Death Fest.
The festival is also working with BeatdownKing,
a prominent up and coming Twitch personality
who hosts a unique show called King's Wings,
where he interviews metal artists and musicians
while eating spicy food live on Twitch in a professional studio set-up.
Total Deathcore has been promoting underground metal music for years,
and this festival is a culmination of their hard work and dedication.
They have a roster of dedicated musicians
and an impressive discography under their belt.
The festival is also working with Convicted Printing,
a company that will be printing new merch designs
created by Andik Godfinger.
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7th & 8th april 2023
Ground Zero, Spartanburg,
South Carolina, USA
7th & 8th april 2023
Ground Zero, Spartanburg,
South Carolina, USA
Friday, 7th of april, 2023:
Gutcheck(GEORGIA), Shoot On Sight(SOUTH CAROLINA),
Regions(NORTH CAROLINA), Autumn Lies Buried(TENNESSEE), Divisive(TENNESSEE), Omenkiller(GEORGIA),
Violent End(SOUTH CAROLINA), Cleansing of the Temple(CAROLINAS), Until They Bleed(NORTH CAROLINA),The Guild(TENNESSEE),
Detest The Throne(NORTH CAROLINA), DISARMER(TENNESSEE)
and Fight From Within(NEW YORK).
Saturday, 8th of april, 2023:
Belvebuth(PENNSYLVANIA), WhatDrivesTheWeak(KENTUCKY),
GOD OF NOTHING(VIRGINIA), Kingz & Thievez(OHIO),
Homicyde(SOUTH CAROLINA), MAFIA(NORTH CAROLINA),
Severed By Dawn(SOUTH CAROLINA), ODIUM ROT(FLORIDA),
dreaded dale(KENTUCKY), Krypt(GEORGIA), Quiescent Mantis(TENNESEE), Abhorid(PENNSYLVANIA), Vile Revelation(MISSOURI)
and The Order of Elijah(MISSOURI)
7th & 8th april 2023
Ground Zero, Spartanburg,
South Carolina, USA
7th & 8th april 2023
Ground Zero, Spartanburg,
South Carolina, USA
