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The exotic Iranians from ANGBAND have been on our label for a very long time! The band from Teheran had been under contract with us since their debut "Rising From Apadana" (2008). However, since 2012 ("Saved From The Truth") it went very quiet around them. Now, on the upcoming album "IV", none other than PHARAOH- and CONTROL DENIED singer Tim Aymar takes over the microphone partly. On this album, Progressive Power Metal meet up with Persian folklore in a way, as if there were never two different origins. Calm, thoughtful moments and hymnal metal parts enter into an incomparable symbiosis that can only be achieved by this band

Hits 1999-2005 Plus Duets Eros Ramazzotti & Ben Moody

Alpha Wolf start with the upcoming album "A quiet place to die". For fans of Make Them Suffer and Co. an unrestricted recommendation.

Following a four-year silence, enigmatic LA- outsider Alex Izenberg presents his sophomore album Caravan Château via Weird World / Domino. Recorded largely at Tropico Beauty with Greg Hartunian (Young Jesus) and Derek Korat, and with the help of a handful of collaborators including Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear), Jonathan Rado (Foxygen, Whitney, Lemon Twigs), Ari Balouzian (Tobias Jesso Jr) and others, Izenberg creates songs that are easy to adore but hard to define. Izenberg’s sharp songs are the bait that first brings you into Caravan Château but that deliberate ambiguity is what brings you back repeatedly, hoping to tease out the riddles of being inside these stunning tunes

Alain Johannes, co-creator of the highly influential ‘90s alternative rock band Eleven as well as a key contributor on releases from Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures and Chris Cornell, releases Hum, his third solo album, via Ipecac Recordings. This album is acoustic-based with songs echoing the sounds of artists ranging from Nick Drake to Eddie Vedder. “It’s more about me than probably any album I’ve ever done,” says Johannes about the collection that follows a period of tragic loss, extreme illness and rebirth. “It was something I was striving for and needed to communicate. Coming out of a difficult period, I was liberated. I had lost people who were very close to me. I went through struggles with my own health. There’s a personal energy behind the way it was recorded and the feel of the songs. It’s a document of my life right now

With their new epic science-fiction based album, AEONS CONFER lets huge celestial bodies, driven by the dark twin star of the sun, penetrate deep into the planet's surface. Following the dystopian concept album SYMPHONIES OF SATURNUS, ZERO ELYSIUM sees numerous gigantic asteroids breaking through on a catastrophic course of destruction. A protagonist encounters a special scientific phenomenon that involves the Earth's magnetic field being able to store energy units. In a race against time, the protagonist devises a special mechanism to send high-energy charges into the outer atmosphere of the Earth to ignite a plasmoidal defense network. But the sheer power of the asteroids is too massive and once they begin to crash down, life on earth begins to crumble. Fleeing from impacts, heat waves, toxic acids and vapors, the protagonist descends into the core of the planet. Humanity, though technically advanced and hubristically proud of its technical achievements, is experiencing the limits of its influence over mighty nature. In the end mankind ceases to exist; darkness will rule forever.

Since forming in 1973, AC/DC's high voltage rock 'n' roll has flowed out into the world via consistently sold-out concert tours and global sales totaling more than 150 million albums and counting. AC/DC's mammoth power chord roar became one of the most influential hard rock sounds of the '70s. This double compact disc set features the early hits with Bon Scott, recorded in 1978 and 1979.

A.A. Williams released am 03.07. über Bella Union ihr beachtliches Debütalbum "Forever Blue". Eine spannende Mischung aus Post-Rock und Neo-Klassik-Elementen, die mit verwunschenen Atmosphären begeistert und sich aus der Stille heraus zu einem explosiven Drama entwickelt. Textlich verarbeitet die Londonerin dabei Sehnsuchts- und Verlustgefühle, die sich auf diesem ganz eigenen Soundteppich ausbreiten. Anfang 2019 veröffentlichte A.A. Williams ihre selbstbetitelte EP, darauf folgte die erste Live-Show beim prestigeträchtigen Roadburn Festival und wenige Monate Touren mit Cult Of Luna, Russian Circles, Explosions In The Sky, Nordic Giants und Sisters Of Mercy. Formate: CD / ltd. LP+DL, Gatefold / Silver Vinyl with a download code & printed lyric sheet

(Hed) P.E. are the pioneers of the G-Punk sound, which fuses together punk-rock, metal, hip-hop and reggae. For over two decades the band has toured the world alongside hard rock chart-toppers like Godsmack and Linkin Park, hardcore legends Suicidal Tendencies, as well as the iconic Ozzfest Tour, and helped bolster the booming underground scene tours with Tech N9ne, Insane Clown Posse, and labelmates the Kottonmouth Kings.Just a year after rejoining forces with legendary California independent label Suburban Noize Records for the release of their eleventh studio album "Stampede", (Hed) P.E. have revealed details on their upcoming new album "Class of 2020". The album is a return to the classic sound of early (Hed) P.E. albums like their now classic self-titled debut and the breakthrough album "Broke", which ironically enough celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. "Class of 2020" is stripped down to the raw essentials with a nod to the old-school punk-rock guitar tones, and aggressive unfiltered vocal stylings that have become an integral part of (Hed) P.E.'s trademark sound.

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Macello, the fourth record of the duo Zolle, wants to symbolize the human condition of living in ambivalence, contradiction, paradox. Macello (Italian word for Slaughterhouse, but means also “mess” or “shindy”) is the crudest expression, in all senses, of the coexistence of end and beginning, death and life, absence and presence, tragedy and opportunity. A significant place, a time suspended, a powerful ritual, a real mess. It is certainly a convivial record, but a little poisoned, it takes you with feet on the ground, sometimes it makes you dream. Macello was born to be born, genuine, in the rehearsal room, faithful to the meeting of Stefano (drums and voice) and Marcello (guitar and voice), distinguishing itself from albums conceived in function of a premeditated and probably written destiny. Macello is meat, not plastic. In Macello we find the value of authenticity, with a real, direct, analogical performance on tape, with overdubs reduced to the bone, so that the listener can perceive himself in the dimension of Zolle's concert, vibrating with energy. This time, perhaps to mark a bridge to the future of the Heavy Rock duo, there are trails of voice, never used in the past.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2019 release. Zito's 16th album is descriptively titled Rock N Roll: A Tribute to Chuck Berry. This release finds him broadening his boundaries still further even as it marks a return to his roots. The album consists of 20 Chuck Be

BLACK VINYL ! The YUM YUMS, the undisputed kings of power-pop are back with a brandnew album!!! Their fitfth full-length is called "For Those About To Pop!" and the title brings it to the point. It's stacked with catchy hi-energy, guitar-driven power-pop songs, complete with sugary multi-layered harmonies and lyrics that seems to be stolen from some 12 year-old girl's diary. Like Joss Hutton once wrote in Bucketfull Of Brains Magazine, "Let's consider the three minute pop-song for a second or two: so simple in it's construction, so inscrutable in it's perfection, so many who have tried and failed! For me the YUM YUMS have been THE band to watch over the past few years, their perfect (yep, it's true) take on the "power-pop" thang is a source of constant pleasure and amuzement". A pretty good description that is, but what more can we say about those ambassadors of pop? They deliver REAL POWER-POP, with the word power written in capital letters. Putting together the essential ingrediences of the music of the RAMONES, the PLIMSOULS and the OHIO EXPRESS, the 6t's and the 7t's, bubblegum and punk, pop and rock'n'roll, just to create their very own YUMMY sound. So, what we're talking about is extremely catchy pop-music with a fat, rockin' guitar sound, well executed vocal-lines, ridin'-on-the-waves drums and a crunchy punk feel to it. It simply makes you feel good! THE YUM YUMS are: Morten Henriksen - vocal, guitars Gunnar Brontveit - guitar, backing vocals Ulf Ramone Bendiksen - drums Frank Reiten - bass, backing vocals

Imagine a shoreline alone, carved from the continent, without land or water to border it, a rind of possibility, a moon-colored border between land and sea, knowing and unknowing. This is Conceptual Beach, a place John Rossiter, vocalist/guitarist of Los Angeles-based Young Jesus, describes as his long-time mental refuge, where he imagines himself living—like a medieval, stigmata-wrought hermit—all his needs for okay-ness finally met. Their new album, Welcome to Conceptual Beach, first took form as a physical zine in 2016, when the four members of the band were on their first tour together. At that time, it was still somewhere Rossiter inhabited alone, protective of his solitude. Now, he is allowing others to join him there. “The reason it’s called Welcome to… [Conceptual Beach] is because I’m inviting other inner landscapes into it,” Rossiter explains as he describes the transformation of the beach’s terrain into a whole varied emotional world.Indeed, Welcome to Conceptual Beach elucidates the balance between many contrasting forces: the individual and the collective, the rational and the emotive, the tame and wild. It transforms the complex musicality of much post- and math-rock into a radical, crystalline practice, vibrant and light-casting. The band’s members––including Marcel Borbon (bass), Eric Shevrin (keys), and Kern Haug (drums) in addition to Rossiter himself––refract and reconnect throughout the record, experimenting with new kinds of sounds and composition. They artfully balance the wandering riffs of previous records with irresistible hooks, woven into their characteristic swathes of improvisation to create a shimmering, molten tapestry.“Faith,” the opening track, runs parallel to the album as a whole: dynamic and groovy and psychedelic and emotional. Each musician has a moment to shine and to speak. Opening with Kern’s version of the Purdie Shuffle, to Marcel’s polyrhythmic bass, to Eric's organ solo, and held together by John's whispered prayer that, “we just might grow,” Young Jesus offer a music uniquely in service to emotion. “(un)Knowing” is a “meditation celebration,” a song about the confusion and pain of re-examining a life—of committing to a life of experience and curiosity. Mixing the spirit and experimentation of OK Computer with the sincerity of Bon Iver, “Root and Crown” is the first song that offers a way out of the traps and patterns of a life. A commitment to grieving, listening, and growing. A devotion to spring, sung from the depths of winter.Whether it’s a bank-vault-turned-concert-hall in San Francisco, a Brooklyn artists’ collective, a house show in central Connecticut, or a recording studio, a Young Jesus performance is unique and unrepeatable. Recordings are only snapshots of their songs in a given moment. Over dozens of shows, a single song will metamorphosize each time it’s played, taking on infinite new geometries. When they play live, their jamming—a self-selected, unaffected and doggedly genuine term for their complex improvisations—is a visceral, communal experience. They render sound an instinct, filling the space with urgency and joy. The intensity of feeling and connection between the band members and to their music is a thick, palpable force that sweeps audiences up, propelling them into uncharted territories.On Welcome to Conceptual Beach, Young Jesus pries our sobs from parentheticals and wields them with a brutal but tender force. They take these elements and translate them into a spacious ground for growth, for ourselves, our communities, our world. They affirm that change starts with how we reckon with ourselves as individuals, that we are all magicians, as the closing track of Welcome to Conceptual Beach suggests, “making love and doing dishes,” capable of conjuring new worlds for ourselves, and to live in others’

LP includes download code. Yip Man (of Scotland) aka singer-songwriter Al Nero returns with his sophomore effort, 'Pure Zen, Ken?' a pulsating grab-bag of razor-sharp riffs, edge-of-the-seat angles, deeply satisfying choruses and endless melodic and