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The French true heavy metal outfit Lonewolf will release its new album Raised On Metal on September 22nd via Massacre Records. It will also be available as limited edition digipak with exclusive bonus tracks, as well as limited edition vinyl LP. The 9th studio album was mixed and mastered by Powerwolf's guitarist Charles Greywolf and comes with a killer artwork created by Peter Sallai (Mortpaintgraphics), the vocalist/bassist of Bornholm. The new album is full of straight, uncompromising heavy metal; fast songs with catchy choruses meet mid-tempo tracks and epic songs, among others. Raised On Metal will especially please fans of Grave Digger, Running Wild and Accept. Record Label: Massacre Style: Metal

The French true heavy metal outfit Lonewolf will release its new album Raised On Metal on September 22nd via Massacre Records. It will also be available as limited edition digipak with exclusive bonus tracks, as well as limited edition vinyl LP. The 9th studio album was mixed and mastered by Powerwolf's guitarist Charles Greywolf and comes with a killer artwork created by Peter Sallai (Mortpaintgraphics), the vocalist/bassist of Bornholm. The new album is full of straight, uncompromising heavy metal; fast songs with catchy choruses meet mid-tempo tracks and epic songs, among others. Raised On Metal will especially please fans of Grave Digger, Running Wild and Accept. Record Label: Massacre Style: Metal

We are proud to present the debut album of the UK trio Five the Hierophant, whose instrumental music is composed of ritualistic soundscapes fused with Psychedelic Black Metal, Jazz, Post Metal and Ambient.“Over Phlegethon” will be the follow up to the self-titled EP "Five the Hierophant", which was released in 2015 on Witching Hours Productions. With “Over Phlegethon”, the trio has created an utterly bleak, dark and devastating album that combines heavy riffs, drone-like atmospheres and an intensity you only find in Black Metal. Using instruments like the djembe, rag-dung, violin, bowed guitars and saxophone, alongside a normal band set-up, Five the Hierophant, regale the listeners with unique and varied soundscapes on this, their debut full-length album.Commenting on their upcoming collaboration with Dark Essence Records, Five the Hierophant had this to say: "It is with happiness and great pride that we can announce that Five the Hierophant is about to embark on a journey that we hope will take us far, far out. And you're coming with us. We have joined forces with good people of Dark Essence records from Bergen, and are heading towards murky waters over Phlegethon like there's no tomorrow". Record Label: Dark Essence Style: Progressive Metal

Following on the notion that one can never reach full potential out in the open being a slave at heart it all comes down to – plain and simple – rising above and stepping over and beyond all force-fed limitations in order to accomplish honest satisfaction, fulfillment and unsuppressed growth as an individual.” – about the concept behind the lyrics comments Darky, a long-time friend of the band considered to be its spirit member who has also contributed to the lyrics. “To accompany the fierce and powerful lyrical content of “The I”, we developed an equally strong-minded visual concept resembling the appearance of medieval scriptures. It refers to the intense religious critique omnipresent in each song and depicts the ancient spirit of rebellion at the same time. The cover illustration reflects the general notions of the album – centrality, elucidation and guidance. In the center of the image, the Devilish Impressions’ sigil represents the band’s everlasting propaganda of the aforementioned philosophy. The morning star on top of the sigil radiates enlightenment and wisdom upon and through the darkness of religion and blind belief. Each lyric is coupled with an old engraving modified in a certain way to create a stronger bond with the text. The carefully crafted typography and layout reinforce the antique and authentic look of the artwork.” – comments Infected Minds, the entity responsible for the album’s cover illustration, artwork and layout Record Label: Lifeforce Records Style: Metal

Briqueville is a band shrouded in mystery. On stage, they create an instrumental mantra of spooky guitars, modified field recordings and eery sampled chants. These meditative build-ups, based on the perseverant element of repetition, are contrasted with and ripped apart by sudden, unforeseeable outbursts of the purest and sheerest heaviness. The black Nazgûl-robes and golden masks that all Briqueville members wear on stage give theirpresence the air of an occult ritual... but Briqueville are not chasing (a) GHOST; in fact they have worn their masks for 10 years plus, and even do so during rehearsals. The anonymity creates equality, and prevents a cult of personality... and makes it easier to swap out band members without anyone noticing. It wasn't until 2014 that BRIQUEVILLE released their self-titled debut album, four tracks that all conclude around the 10 minutes mark. Upon release, the band buried 20 copies at various locations across the country, and gradually released the coordinates on their facebook page, animating fans to dig them up from the soil. The idea was met with great enthusiasm among their quickly growing fanbase, and will be revisited and extended for the release of Briqueville's mesmerizing 2nd album, aptly titled ,II", which is to be released now! Record Label: Pelagic Style: Metal

Downloadcode. The Wall of Sound by Zach Mathieu has its roots in the American post-hardcore and Emocore of the 1990s. With their harsh emotionality and intensity, the band evokes epigones such as Thrice and Hot Water Music as well as the early Jimmy Eat World and the alternative rock of the Foo Fighters. Even though "Highs & Lows" is the first work of the band, the four gentlemen are anything but new ones. With their predecessors, Carrie Anne and Palmcourtbeats, the musicians at the beginning of the 2000s have already accumulated ample stage experience, including a US West Coast tour. Zach Mathieu had already been on the road, with the New York postpunk combo The Noise, the quartet completed three tours to Germany and Switzerland. Zach Mathieu has devoted much time to her debut album. "Highs & Lows" was played live in the pavilion of Schrobenhausen under the direction of Achim Lindermeir (Emils Bulls, Claire, Van Holzen). The guest musicians included Maximilian Wörle (Adulescens) and Jon Landry and the Stanfields. The work has been mixed and mastered in the Canadian Halifax by Darren van Niekerk (The Stanfields, Iron Tulip Audio) and Noah Mintz (Lacquer Channel Mastering) Record Label: Rookie Style: Hardcore

Downloadcode. Tricky returns with his 13th album, Ununiform on his own label False Idols via !K7 Music. It’s a delicate, storming, intricate album that sees Tricky take perhaps his most radical step yet – a journey into happiness and contentment. It’s a record that shows the legendary British producer confront his legacy, history, family – even death itself. And in all of this, he finds the strangest, least familiar thing – peace Record Label: False Idols Style: Pop

3xLP pressing. September 16th 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of Marc Bolan's untimely death. To celebrate Marc's life and music, Demon is proud to release newly commissioned remixes of classic tracks including the UK #1 hits, 'Metal Guru' and 'Telegram Sam' as well as the renowned 'Children Of The Revolution' and '20th Century Boy'. The talented remixers include The Reflex, Wye Oak and Ra Ra Riot. Record Label: Demon Records Style: Rock

Steelheart is the brainchild of Miljenko Matijevic whose powerful voice and multi-octave range is the heart and soul of the band. Although they were lumped in with the glut of long-haired hard rock bands emerging in the early ‘90s, the band was always more forward thinking than their peers and the 2017 version of the band has a contemporary and edgy feel, while still retaining the patented powerful vocals of Miljenko. On Through Worlds Of Stardust, Miljenko has fused his past, present, and future together, creating an undeniable piece of hard rock music. Certainly fans of the band’s first three classic albums will be happy to hear those powerful pipes back in action, but fans of modern hard rock acts like Halestorm, Shinedown, Alter Bridge, and other melodic minded rock heavyweights will find much here to love. Steelheart released their self-titled debut album in 1990 and based on the buzz around the hit single “I’ll Never Let You Go” was a smashing success (for example, 33,000 albums were sold in one day in Japan) and quickly reached platinum sales. Steelheart's sophomore album, "" was released in 1992 to critical acclaim and rave reviews, but moderate success in terms of sales in the U.S. (by early ‘90s standards) due to the well documented rise of grunge music; however, East Asia was a different story, where the band was widely embraced yet again. In the midst of promotion of the album, a serious accident happened on Halloween night in 1992, when an improperly secured lighting truss hit Matijevic on the back of the head, breaking his nose, cheekbone, jaw, and twisting his spine. Almost impossibly, Matijevic managed to walk off the stage of his own strength before being rushed to a hospital. "Steelheart" as it was known ended that night. Four years later, Matijevic formed a new version of Steelheart with Kenny Kanowski (guitars), Vincent Mele (bass), and Alex Makarovich (drums) to record and release his third album, "Wait". The album was very different musically from the previous two albums, but featured the song “We All Die Young” (millions of streams and counting on Spotify) which was later included as a re-recorded version in the movie “Rock Star”, which saw Matijevic providing the singing voice for Mark Wahlberg's character. The movie soundtrack was performed by Matijevic (and Jeff Scott Soto) on vocals along with Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne's then guitarist and frontman of Black Label Society), Jeff Pilson (Dokken, Foreigner), and Jason Bonham. Now the band once compared to Led Zeppelin by respected metal outlet Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, is back with a sonic tour de force befitting of their stature. Don’t be foolish and dismiss this as just another “band from the ‘80s” as you will miss out on one of the most surprisingly robust and balanced hard rock albums of 2017! Highly recommended for fans of hard rock from then and NOW! Record Label: Vinyl Eck Style: Metal

DELUXE VINYL EDITION!!! "Live at Reading '81" was the second live album released by British heavy metal band Samson. This was recorded in 1981 at Reading Festival, with singer Bruce Dickinson, just before he left the band to join Iron Maiden Record Label: Back On Black Style: Heavy Metal

DELUXE VINYL EDITION!!! "Sphinctour" is a live album released in 2002 by the industrial metal band Ministry. It contains various tracks recorded on their 1996 world tour in support of the album Filth Pig. Record Label: Let Them Eat Vinyl Style: Industrial / Metal

Record Label: Lifeforce Records Style: Metal

With the debut released in the autumn of 2015, the band apparently overstepped the magical threshold from the insider's tip to the acclaimed newcomer with ease: "" Sow The Wind "is an energetic heavy rock statement which, despite all its directness, is not too bad for musical extravagances, It should sometimes have been elsewhere. Afterwards the band went on tour. With each of the more than 120 performances in Germany and abroad, which the band completed, the band of their fans grew continuously, according to the label MIG Music. Wucan wanted all the power that the band brings to the stage to be on the second album, for which the quartet again entrenched themselves in the Berlin Big Snuff Studios. Even stronger than with the predecessor album (so at least one's own goal), "... the new record should redeem what the combo promises live: a powerful rock sound, clear and organic at the same time, music for modern hippies and all who want it to be . " Record Label: Haensel & Gretel Style: Alternative Rock

The new and third full length album "Orga" by Sum Of R will be out in mid-September on Cyclic Law and Czar of Crickets / Czar of Revelations. Orga is a voyage that promises to wholly claim the spirit of its passenger, embracing mind and senses, swathing them with strange, vivid and mysterious nebula. Soothing at times, disturbing at times, confusing at times. It offers the listener access to a self-contained dimension, which once entered, binds the arrival from beginning to the very end. It seeks to translate the cosmic energy to waves of sound – where spirit, body and instrument become one, uniting, floating as formless waves in the seas of equilibrium, hauntingly beautiful and pure. Sum Of R creates slow moving instrumental music with a sensibility for hypnotic and complex song structures. Their intense and pulsating sound is influenced by dark ambient, nebulous post metal, psychedelic/experimental music, cinematic post rock and ghostly electronic music. Record Label: Czar Of Revelations Style: Metal

Steelheart is the brainchild of Miljenko Matijevic whose powerful voice and multi-octave range is the heart and soul of the band. Although they were lumped in with the glut of long-haired hard rock bands emerging in the early ‘90s, the band was always more forward thinking than their peers and the 2017 version of the band has a contemporary and edgy feel, while still retaining the patented powerful vocals of Miljenko. On Through Worlds Of Stardust, Miljenko has fused his past, present, and future together, creating an undeniable piece of hard rock music. Certainly fans of the band’s first three classic albums will be happy to hear those powerful pipes back in action, but fans of modern hard rock acts like Halestorm, Shinedown, Alter Bridge, and other melodic minded rock heavyweights will find much here to love. Steelheart released their self-titled debut album in 1990 and based on the buzz around the hit single “I’ll Never Let You Go” was a smashing success (for example, 33,000 albums were sold in one day in Japan) and quickly reached platinum sales. Steelheart's sophomore album, "" was released in 1992 to critical acclaim and rave reviews, but moderate success in terms of sales in the U.S. (by early ‘90s standards) due to the well documented rise of grunge music; however, East Asia was a different story, where the band was widely embraced yet again. In the midst of promotion of the album, a serious accident happened on Halloween night in 1992, when an improperly secured lighting truss hit Matijevic on the back of the head, breaking his nose, cheekbone, jaw, and twisting his spine. Almost impossibly, Matijevic managed to walk off the stage of his own strength before being rushed to a hospital. "Steelheart" as it was known ended that night. Four years later, Matijevic formed a new version of Steelheart with Kenny Kanowski (guitars), Vincent Mele (bass), and Alex Makarovich (drums) to record and release his third album, "Wait". The album was very different musically from the previous two albums, but featured the song “We All Die Young” (millions of streams and counting on Spotify) which was later included as a re-recorded version in the movie “Rock Star”, which saw Matijevic providing the singing voice for Mark Wahlberg's character. The movie soundtrack was performed by Matijevic (and Jeff Scott Soto) on vocals along with Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne's then guitarist and frontman of Black Label Society), Jeff Pilson (Dokken, Foreigner), and Jason Bonham. Now the band once compared to Led Zeppelin by respected metal outlet Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, is back with a sonic tour de force befitting of their stature. Don’t be foolish and dismiss this as just another “band from the ‘80s” as you will miss out on one of the most surprisingly robust and balanced hard rock albums of 2017! Highly recommended for fans of hard rock from then and NOW! Record Label: Frontiers Records Style: Metal

The French band Novelists turned heads on their 2015 release “Souvenirs” where they blended prog-rock influenced melodies and time signatures with modern melodic metalcore “Souvenirs” went on to sell 1,900 digital copies in the US and 4 of their top 5 markets on Spotify are in the US- Record Label: Nuclear Blast Style: Metal

The infamous Bay Area has a long and extensive Metal history. Responsible for many of Metal's most trendsetting acts (just think of Exodus, Testament, Forbidden, Heathen or Blind Illusion) for over three decades now, the city by the bay has spawned some of the most innovative and exceptional talents there is... Hexx, one of the third-generation Thrash Metal bands emerging from San Franciso, were formed in late 1984. Their first album entitled »No Escape« was released only in the United States of America by the legendary Shrapnel label and began shaping a steadily growing fan base for the band. »Under the Spell«, issued a year later, made strong waves on the independent radio charts at the time (also in Europe). The third album »Quest for Sanity« was released via Wild Rags Records and marks the end of Hexx Mark I. Record Label: High Roller Records Style: Metal

Imagine, a band combines memorable choruses and gang vocals with classic hardrock of the 1980s. Then you are in the right place at Hell In The Club. Because on their new album "See you on the dark side", the Hardrocker combines exactly that! Record Label: Frontiers Records Style: Metal

Founded by Ole Børud, Fleshkiller saw the light of day as a result of Extol’s return to hiatus after their last album in 2013. Børud continues his journey exploring the progressive sides of death metal with his brand-new band Fleshkiller. Reuniting with his former band mate Peter Dalbakk from their early 90´s melodic death metal act Schaliach. The upcoming debut album entitled ‘Awaken’ was recorded and mixed between late 2015 and early 2017 at multiple locations around the world. Also written by Ole Børud, the style of music mixes old school death metal aesthetics with rich harmonic prog fusion elements. Compared to his previous efforts in the genre these new compositions spark a new level of intensity! “With their jaw dropping mix of pure metal brutality and mesmerizing hooks, Fleshkiller make an astonishing entrance to the stage of metal. Their debut record stand short of none, and is a testament to the fantastic musicianship and songwriting capabilities embodied by the band.” - Erlend Gjerde, Managing Director at Indie Recordings. Record Label: Indie Recordings Style: Death Metal

Modern Thrash Metal at its best delivered Fateful Finalty on their second album "Battery". Now the foursome finally lays down and how. In 2012, they had already convinced the Wacken audience and the jury of the Wacken Metal Battle and with "Mankind" they will also muzzle the last critic! Record Label: Fastball-Music Style: Trash Metal