Vixen Guitarist Has Died

Vixen has just made the following announcement:

"It is with profound sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Vixen founder and lead guitarist, Jan Kuehnemund, who lost a fierce battle with cancer on Thursday, October 10, 2013. Though most well known for her gifted guitar playing and other musical talents, Jan was a rare friend and beautiful in every sense of the word. Humble, thoughtful, loyal and kind, she was the most gracious of women, possessing the quiet strength of a true warrior. She genuinely loved and appreciated her friends and fans more than most could ever know. Those who were most fortunate to have known her and loved her are heartbroken at the loss of Jan, whose spirit will shine through her music eternally."

View the Original article

James Hetfield about New Album .

James Hetfield: feeling the itch
Metallica frontman and living fucking legend James Hetfield is keen to get cracking on that new album sooner rather than later – once this whole groundbreaking, record-breaking 3D film spectacular business is out of the way, of course.
“Hopefully...

View the Original article

Lemmy about his health.

Lemmy: Living Legend (and Golden God winner!)
Motörhead icon Lemmy has been typically nonchalant about his recent health issues, insisting that we’ve all been worrying about nothing.
“It was nothing; I’m over it,” he tells our chums at Classic Rock. ”I can still stand at that mic every night and play my songs. I’m getting better. By the time the tour comes around I’ll be ready. We plan to go on

View the Original article

Nightwish Announce New Members

From Nightwish's official website :

"Ms. Floor Jansen is a keeper.
Also, we will be a six-piece band from now on, as Mr. Troy Donockley (uilleann pipes, low whistles, vocals) will become a full-time member of NIGHTWISH.
Originally we were going to wait until 2014 to make a decision about the future line-up of the band, but the past year has clearly shown us that Floor and Troy are perfect matching pieces to our puzzle, and we are really grateful of the bond that has grown between all of us. We love you guys.
Tuomas
Marco
Jukka
Emppu"
Commented vocalist Floor Jansen: "Words cannot describe what I feel! This union is beyond everything and I cannot tell you how wonderful it is to continue this amazing journey with my new brothers! Once I had a dream…and this is it!!!"

Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies (2013)

Volbeat's latest album, Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies, released on 9 April 2013.


Tracklist :

1. Let's Shake Some Dust
2. Pearl Hart
3. The Nameless One
4. Dead But Rising
5. Cape Of Our Hero  (Official Video)
6. Room 24 (Feat. King Diamond)
7. The Hangman's Body Count
8. My Body (Young The Giant Cover)
9. Lola Montez  (Official Live Video)
10. Black Bart
11. The Lonesome Rider (Feat. Sarah Blackwood)
12. The Sinner Is You
13. Doc Holliday
14. Our Loved Ones

Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess (2013)

Atlantean Kodex released their second full length album The White Goddess on October 8th 2013 in North America and on October 4th 2013 in Europe and the rest of the world via Cruz del Sur.

Tracklist:

1. Trumpets Of Doggerland (Beyond The Dreaming West)
2. Sol Invictus (With Faith And Fire) (Free Streaming)
3. Bilwis (Sorcery And Witchcraft In Eastern Bavaria)
4. Heresiarch (Thousandfaced Moon)
5. Twelve Stars And An Azure Gown (An Anthem For Europa)
6. Kodex Battalions (The Iron Horde)
7. Virgin : Mother : Crone (The Goddess Approaches)
8. Der Untergang Der Stadt Passau (Flaming Sword Of The Heresiarch)
9. Enthroned In Clouds And Fire (The Great Cleansing)
10. White Goddess Unveiled (Crown Of The Sephiroth)

TÝR - Valkyrja (2013)

TÝR’s brand new album, Valkyrja, has debuted on charts worldwide! In the US, the album reached #15 on the Billboard Heatseeker’s Chart, #22 on Current Hard Music, #39 on Overall Hard Music, and #70 on the Independent albums chart! On iTunes on day of release, Valkyrja reached #4 on the metal chart. In Europe, the album entered at #45 on German Top 100 Album Charts, and #76 on Switzerland’s charts. And in Canada, the record reached #26 on the Metal chart. On iTunes Canada, the record peaked at #2 on the metal chart, #9 on the rock chart, and #73 on the top 200 albums chart!
Valkyrja is a concept album with a story line based loosely around a nameless Viking age warrior who leaves his woman and goes off to impress the Valkyrie on the battlefield so that she may bring him to Valhalla, or to Fólkvangr, the home of Freyja—the goddess associated with love, sexuality, beauty, fertility, gold, sorcery, war, and death. One can say the album is also indirectly about women and how they affect men and what men will do to impress and obtain women.

1. Blood Of Heroes  (Official Video)
2. Mare Of My Night
3. Hel Hath No Fury
4. The Lay Of Our Love (Feat. Liv Kristine)
5. Nation
6. Another Fallen Brother
7. Grindavísan
8. Into The Sky
9. Fánar Burtur Brandaljóð
10. Lady Of The Slain
11. Valkyrja
12. Where Eagles Dare (Iron Maiden cover)
13. Cemetery Gates (Pantera cover)

EPYSODE - Fantasmagoria (2013)

The dark progressive/power metal project EPYSODE returns with its sophomore album Fantasmagoria on October 11th.
Beside band leader Samuel Arkan, the following vocalists and musicians contributed to Fantasmagoria :

Tom S. Englund (Evergrey)
Henning Basse (Melium, Uli Jon Roth)
Ida Haukland (Triosphere)
Matt Marinelli (Borealis)
Tezzi Persson (Between The Silence)
Mike LePond (Symphony X)
Léo Margarit (Pain Of Salvation)
Julien Spreutels (Ethernity)
Simone Mularoni (DGM)

Tracklisting:

01. File-41-80-2
02. The Arch  (Official Lyric Video)
03. Morning Rose
04. Venom
05. The Black Parade
06. T.H.O.R.N.S.
07. Garden Of Exile
08. Raven’s Curse
09. Living Fortress
10. Fantasmagoria  (Official Lyric Video)
11. The Inheritance
12. Now And Forever
13. Forgotten Symphony
14. Unreal

END OF GREEN - The Painstream (2013)

The Painstream is the eighth album of the Stuttgart melancholics END OF GREEN.Somewhere between Metal, Alternative, Goth, and Pop, END OF GREEN paint a picture that is not only black but also offers a small flicker of light that makes the darkness a little more bearable. The Painstream was recorded with Corni Bartels (HACKNEYED, KILLERPILZE) at the Weltraumstudios in Munich.

Track Listing :

1.  Hangman's Joke
2.  Holidays In Hell
3.  Standalone
4.  Final Resistance
5.  Degeneration  (Official Video)
6.  Home on Fire
7.  Death of the Weakender
8.  Don't Stop Killing Me
9.  Chasing Ghosts
10.  Miss Misery
11.  The Painstreet
12.  Blackened eyes (Bonus Track)
13.  Demons (Bonus Track)
14.  Hurter (Bonus Track)

Queensrÿche - Rage for Order (1986)

Rage for Order is the second studio album by Queensrÿche, released on 14 July 1986.
Rage for Order was more progressive than the band's previous releases, with a layered and complex musical structure that employs a two-guitar approach, but also brought keyboards forward in the mix.
Lyrically, the album explored social/personal, political and technological themes, among others highlighting the dangers of artificial intelligence and government intrusion.The concept of robotics would also be emphasized through the use of staccato rhythms and vocal effects such as a reverse echo.
Rage for Order was the first album cover of Queensrÿche to prominently feature the band's Tri-Ryche logo, as nearly all later album covers would, each time with subtle changes made to the logo.
In 2005, Rage for Order was ranked number 343 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.


Track listing

1. Walk in the Shadows
2. I Dream in Infrared 
3. The Whisper
4. Gonna Get Close to You (Official Video) 
5. The Killing Words 
6. Surgical Strike 
7. Neue Regel
8. Chemical Youth (We Are Rebellion)
9. London
10. Screaming in Digital
11. I Will Remember 

Metal News : Apocalyptica, Brainstorm, Primal Fear, Memoira

Apocalyptica have premiered a new live performance video for Ludwig Wonderland. The track is from the band's upcoming release Wagner Reloaded - Live In Leipzig. Watch the video here.








Brainstorm have announced their brand new and 10th studio album that will be called Firesoul. The album will be released in March 2014.





Primal Fear have set Delivering The Black as the title of their tenth studio album, tentatively due in January 2014 via Frontiers Records.There will be a guest appearance by Liv Kristine (Leaves' Eyes, ex-Theatre Of Tragedy) on the song Born With A Broken Heart.



Finnish melodic prog-metal band Memoira are going independent and unsigned releasing their upcoming highly anticipated sophomore album on their own. The new album titled Memories, Tragedies, Masquerades will be released November 1st 2013.

Crimson Glory - Transcendence ( 1988)

Transcendence is the second album by Crimson Glory, released in 1988 via Roadracer Records in Europe and MCA Records in United States. It was recorded at Morrisound Studios.In 2005, Transcendence was ranked number 412 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.

Track listing :

1. Lady of Winter  
2. Red Sharks
3. Painted Skies  
4. Masque of the Red Death  
5. In Dark Places  
6. Where Dragons Rule  
7. Lonely (Official Video)
8. Burning Bridges  
9. Eternal World
10. Transcendence