The Veer Union - Decade 2: Rock and Acoustic (2018)

The Veer Union has released a new single and video, "Living Not Alive", alongside their new "Decade 2: Rock and Acoustic" 18 song album on Rock Shop Entertainment. Decade 2 contains 9 all new songs, with accompanying Acoustic versions as well.  The “Living Not Alive” video has been nominated for “Best Independent Music Video” by the Hollywood Music In Media Awards.

 They have toured in support of the release on the "Resurrection" Tour with Puddle of Mudd, Saliva, Tantric and Shallow Side. The band has now segued into a headlining tour across the US throughout September & October, and then will be direct support for RED for the rest of the year.

 TVU has released 4 albums and an EP over the course of their career.  The Vancouver based band has collectively sold over 100,000 Albums and also reached over 20 Million Streams Worldwide. They have eight Top 40 charting singles on the Billboard Rock Radio Charts, the latest being their tribute to the late Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, an acoustic cover of "Numb".  The song is featured on key Playlists @ Spotify, Apple Music, Slacker Radio and Google Play, among others.



The band plans to tour for the rest of 2018 into 2019.


Decade 2: Rock & Acoustic – Track Listing
1). Living Not Alive
 2). Save Yourself
 3). Embrace The Day
 4). City Of The Sun
 5). Man Into Machine
 6). Last Regret
 7). Awaken
 8). Letting Go
 9). Epic (Faith No More cover - Featuring Amalien)
 10). Numb (Linkin Park cover - Acoustic)
 11). Save Yourself (Acoustic)
 12). City Of The Sun (Acoustic)
 13). Living Not Alive (Acoustic)
 14). Man Into Machine (Acoustic)
 15). Awaken (Acoustic)
 16). Embrace The Day (Acoustic)
 17). Letting Go (Acoustic)
 18). Last Regret (Acoustic)

Connect with The Veer Union
Official website: https://theveerunion.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5brVc8zOs30bTgfsul4eEd?si=3tgA4AFdRh6WdXofDLpL_A
 iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/decade-ii-rock-acoustic/1404190226?ls=1&app=itunes
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theveerunion/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theveerunion
Twitter: https://twitter.com/theveerunion
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheVeerUnion
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/theveerunionofficial
 Bands In Town: https://www.bandsintown.com/en/a/198004-the-veer-union
snapchat @theveerunion

ELECTRIC BOYS - The Ghost Ward Diaries (2018)

RELEASE 23 November 2018


"We like guitar riffs, strong hooks and heavy grooves, performed on analog instruments. I guess you'd call it classic rock."

"Lyric wise it's a bit darker than before; little diaries from times on the road and the struggle in between."

"The album is far from predictable, yet it was the easiest album to record since the reunion. We really had a good team going with producer/engineer David Castillo." Conny Bloom, ELECTRIC BOYS

Formed in Stockholm in 1988, ELECTRIC BOYS is a band with roots in 70s groove rock and 60s pop and psychedelia. Their critically acclaimed debut album, "Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride" was produced by Bob Rock (Metallica, Bon Jovi, The Cult, Mötley Crüe) and spawned the self-produced Billboard Top 20 single, "All Lips ’N' Hips" that got them heavy rotation on MTV.
 After extensive touring, the band entered legendary studio Abbey Road to record the follow-up "Groovus Maximus", which gave the band another Billboard Top 30 single with the song, "Mary In The Mystery World". The third album "Freewheelin’ ’” (also recorded in Abbey Road) peaked at #16 on the Official Swedish Album Chart before the band called it a day in 1994.

Guitarist and lead singer, Conny Bloom went solo until he, as well as bassist Andy Christell, joined legendary glamsters Hanoi Rocks in 2005. In 2009 they began the process of reuniting the ELECTRIC BOYS. They released the album, "And Them Boys Done Swang" in 2011 and the critically acclaimed fan favourite "Starflight United" in 2014.

In all the years, the band has toured relentlessly opening for the likes of METALLICA, ALICE COOPER, MR. BIG, HARDLINE, VIXEN and THUNDER. In 2017, the band took part in the hugely popular Monsters Of Rock Cruise from Florida, it was a triumphant return Stateside.

Come 2018, the band has released 2 singles so far "Dishes" and "Suffer".

ELECTRIC BOYS have just finished recording the new album ”The Ghost Ward Diaries” to be released on the 23rd of November worldwide through Mighty Music. Conny describes it as
”different” and full of fun.

The first radio single and music video from the upcoming album, "Hangover In Hannover", is due to be released in late September.

ELECTRIC BOYS (featuring all original members) are:
Guitarist/vocalist: Conny Bloom
Bassist: Andy Christell
Guitarist: Franco Santunione
Drummer: Niclas Sigevall
and new drummer: Jolle Atlagic (The Quill/Hanoi Rocks)

*Please Note: Drummers Niclas Sigevall & Jolle Atlagic share recording and touring duties.

The following shows are currently booked and in 2019 will the ELECTRIC BOYS be touring Europe and play festivals.



7/9-18: Z Livescene, Drammen (Norway)
20/10-18: Bully On Rocks, Bully-les-Mines (France)
1/11-18: Logo, Hamburg (Germany)
2/11-18: KB, Malmö (Sweden)
3/11-18 The Tivoli, Helsingborg (Sweden)
23/11-18: Olsen På Bryn, Oslo (Norway)
7/12-18: Katalin, Uppsala (Sweden)
8/12-18: Palatset, Linköping (Sweden)
14/12-18: Sticky Fingers, Göteborg (Sweden)
15/12-18: Saga Salongen, Torshälla (Sweden)
22/12-18: Kägelbanan, Stockholm (Sweden)
http://www.electricboys.com/

ELECTRIC BOYS - "The Ghost Ward Diaries" Out 23rd of November 2018 worldwide through Mighty Music on LP, CD and digital.

REECE - Resilient Heart (2018)

RELEASE 9 November 2018

Heavy metal vocalist, songwriter and former Accept/Bonfire frontman, David Reece, will be releasing his long awaited new solo album worldwide through Mighty Music in November.

“Resilient Heart” an album rich on full blown melodic heavy metal, will be the follow up album from his latest solo album “Compromise” released in 2013. 

Reece says:
““I was searching for a record company that would see my vision as a solo artist so I reached out to Mike Tramp and he suggested I speak with Michael H. Andersen at Mighty Music. Michael teamed me up with the Danish producer and song writing team Marco Angioni and Martin Jepsen Andersen, both from the band Meridian. The collaboration we’re working on is exactly where I want to go musically and Michael H. Andersen and Mighty Music have given me a home to release my new record and given me 100% support and belief in this new record! The album will be recorded at Death Island Studio in Denmark with Marco Angioni as producer and is entitled “Resilient Heart”.

"Resilient Heart" is the perfect album for all fans of heavy metal. It's a wide album containing all of the greatest elements within heavy rock and melodic metal. Yet with a modern production.

The first single of the album "Anytime At All" is a wonderful heavy rocker with a touch of Coverdale and Whitesnake inspiration. A song with a powerfull riff, and a strong verse leading up to a bombastic sing-a-long chorus, where a song like"Perfect Apocalypse" stands out with it's progressive Pretty Maids inspirered elements. 

On “Resilient Heart” David Reece has teamed up with the Danish musicians Marco Angioni (guitar), Martin J. Andersen (guitar), Malte Frederik Burkert (bass) and Sigurd J. Jensen (drums).

"Resilient Heart" comes with two different tracklist. One for CD/digital and one for the ltd. 500 blood red vinyl edition.

CD/digital tracklist:
1. Any Time At All
2. Wicked City Blues
3. Karma
4. Desire
5. I Don't Know Why
6. Two Coins
7. Ain't Got The Balls
8. Forest Through The Trees
9. Perfect Apocalypse
10. Live Before You Die
11. I'm The One

Vinyl tracklist:
A
1. Karma
2. Any Time At All
3. I Don't Know Why
4. I'm The One
5. Forest Through The Trees
B
6. Perfect Apocalypse
7. Heart Of Stone
8. What About Yesterday
9. Two Coins
10. Live Before You Die

On Tour:
October 26 - Rock ’n’ Skull, Peoria, IL (USA)
October 31 Krater Rock City, Puertollona (ESP)
November 1 Sala Utopia, Zaragoza (ESP)
November 2 Urban Rock Concepts, Vitoria (ESP)
November 3 Cool Stage, Madrid (ESP)
November 9 High Voltage, Copenhagen (DK)
November 10 Charles Dicken’s, Helsingborg (SWE)
November 15 Sternensall, Schiers (CH)
November 16 Ölfleck Event-Bar, Frauenfeld (CH)
November 17 Johnny’s Lion Cave, Trübbach (CH)
November 24 Backstage Bar, Trollhaten (SWE)



David Reece Highlight Releases
Accept (Eat the Heat)
Bangalore Choir (On Target)
Reece (Universal Language)
Bangalore Choir (Metaphor)

Line-up
Vocals: David Reece
Guitar: Marco Angioni
Guitar: Martin J. Andersen
Bass: Malte Frederik Burkert
Drums: Sigurd J. Jensen

Web
www.facebook.com/reece.inc
https://www.davidreeceofficial.com/

Prins Svart - Prins Svart (2018)

"Prins Svart" is actually a reunion of four musicians whose roads crossed in Stockholm in the mid 90's. Then, they toured Sweden as a Led Zeppelin tribute and after recording a self-produced CD called "Four Sticks", life took them in different directions: Sebastian Sippola (drums) played with "Grand Magus" and "Plankton", Tomas Thorberg (bass) toured with "Michael Schenker" and "Tiamat", (and played with Sebastian in "Plankton"), Stefan Berggren (vocals) started singing in "Company of Snakes" with Bernie Marsden, Micky Moody, and Neil Murray (Whitesnake), and has been touring with "Don Airey Band" ("Rainbow", "Deep Purple") and "Uriah Heep", Henrik Bergqvist (guitar) played with "The Poodles" (since 2008).



 Now the road has led them back to where they started and the result can be heard on the self-titled debut "Prins Svart". The music can be described as rock with roots in the 1970s, the decade when they were born, but with elements of the first half of the 1980s and bands like "Dio", "Whitesnake", "Rainbow" and "Ozzy Osbourne". The lyrics are in Swedish and describe "the human condition”: longing, hope, love and sorrow.


The production of the debut, "Prins Svart", is signed Dino Medanhodzic ("Hardcore Superstar", "Kill the Kong", "The Poodles", "Smash Into Pieces"), promising a more modern sound than the influences suggest. Someone said that "Prins Svart" sounds like Swedish band "Kent” if they had listened to Led Zeppelin instead of Depeche Mode"!

https://www.facebook.com/prinssvartofficial

BLACK SUNDAY - Backyard Freaks (2018)

RELEASE 16 November 2018

Founded 2010 as Psychotic Pain and played a strange mix between synth, metal and rock music. Did some gigs, and demos and then changed their name to Black Sunday before they split up short time after.

In 2015 mainman Tricky T decided to do more hardrock style of music, and went into studio to record what to became their great debut album "A Ghost In The City"
He kept the name but no live performances happened and the promotion for the first record was very poor.

Again a break occured. In the fall of 2016 Tricky T again started to write songs for their second album. For this album, the band wrote about 15 songs and 10 of them ended up on the record. Among them, one old song called "Superstar Hero" that was supposed to be on the first record, but they did some changes from the demo version and did a new recording.
The same with the song "Nobody Cares", that originally was called "Alone".

The style is like the first one, some heavy riffs, some punk but mostly hardrock. It is still the mission of the band to write catchy singalong songs with good melodies and a dirty attitude!

For the new album the band hooked up with Mighty Music to realise the second album.

As this is written, they are back as a 4 piece band and hopefully will be back on stage where our music belongs!

The End of Melancholy - The Demon (Single 2018)

The End of Melancholy is an alternative- gothic metal band, founded in 2014 by Olly Lex and Peter Roff in Saint-Petersburg. They have a new point of view on a modern gothic scene combine in music powerful metal riffs with lyrical ballads. The band released EP “Playing with shadows” an later, in May 2018 the new single "Demon". Answering the question of one the metal magazine, what is this song about:

Olly Lex:
“The thing is that you shouldn’t run away from your Demons - you need to accept them. Finally accept yourself. I showed you mine in this video. You need to understand that it’s not an evil, he is just different. Thanks to his strong qualities, I can get what I want. Everybody has the same and it’s ok”



The End of Melancholy had performed with such bands as Theatres des Vampires, Hanzel und Gretyl, Centhron and etc., and now the band preparing a new album, which will be released in autumn.

https://www.facebook.com/theendofmelancholy
https://vk.com/theendofmelancholy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r89cOFe3Vok
https://theendofmelancholy.bandcamp.com/album/the-demon-single-edit-2018
https://www.instagram.com/theendofmelancholy/

SONG OF LOVE - Orgasm Planet (2018)

SONG OF LOVE really starded in Los Angeles California when metal was rulling the world, and everybody was listening to real music. Fabien, Song of love' s bass player and composer Was at the time drummer. He was approached by different bands like Corrosion of conformity, Ratt's De martini's brother. He used to hang out with The Mentors and would meet metal stars often


Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Armored saint, Helloween, Voivoid piggy. A metal has faded from mainstream, Fabien found out he could wite quite amazing songs which can reflect a different array of heavy metal music.

Song of love's goal is to bring heavy metal music back to the forefront. All over the world in the biggest arenas and in front of millions of people, which can finally listen to real music again.

In a day when many metal bands sound the same and are uninspired. Song of love wants to bring originality and uniqueness back to the music world. For the metal fan's happiness.

You have noticed that Song of love mainly talk about two important topic. Their first album Orgasm planet has two sides. Side A Orgasmic side 2 Prophetic side The orgasmic side of Song of love is to let you know that life is short. That you should live your life to the fullest. Months and years pass and you might not be enjoying yourself to the fullest.



The prophetic side of Song of love is to give an indepth look at the beautiful and mysterioud spiritual world around us. Of such many metal bands have talked about which make us dream Heaven or hell Black sabbath. For whom the bell tolls Metallica, Halloweed be thy name Iron maiden among many others.

And the events that have to soon transpire on earth. Song of love promising first album is ready to hit the stores in a few weeks. The first single A girl named clit came out. Song of love should be hitting the road soon and coming to a city near you. You can now jump on the bandwagon and enjoy this beautiful diversity of heavy metal sounds that will really make you day brighter and empowered. www.songoflove.org

http://songoflove.org
https://www.patreon.com/songoflove
https://www.facebook.com/songoflovemetal
https://www.reverbnation.com/songoflove
https://soundcloud.com/songoflove
https://twitter.com/Songoflove2018

Vanquished Kingdom - Vanquished Kingdom (2018)

Release Date: November 3, 2018

Vanquished Kingdom is a 4-piece band from Sydney, Australia whose strongest influence is the joyous power-driven energy and dark didactic depth of the 1980s best heavy metal.

Formed in October 2016, Vanquished Kingdom play all original music - "meaningful Maiden-esque metal made modern."

Sometimes described as the unholy lovechild of the granddaughter of Iron Maiden and the nephew of Megadeth, Vanquished Kingdom is exactly what you get when you cross 80s metal with four deeply musical, charismatic, thoughtful, millennial Australians with songs to sing... and sometimes, with axes to grind. Vanquished Kingdom are primarily a performing band.



While 'This is NOT! Spinal Tap', Vanquished Kingdom like to balance the dark, didactic depths of their music by not taking themselves too seriously: “This band is purely and only about having fun, just having fun and nothing else… oh, and changing the world.” They try to keep their tongue in their cheeks, filled with humour and hope even as they rail against and wail about the corruption of humanity.

The other genres that have influenced the members of this band are rock, blues, folk, indie rock, classical, and funk. Other metal bands that have influenced the music apart from Iron Maiden and Megadeth include the other three members of the big 4 (Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer) and especially Judas Priest as well as Black Sabbath. More recent bands like Lamb of God, Mastadon, Children of Bodom, Fenir, Dream Theatre are probably in there somewhere, too.



Zac Anderson – lead vocals and guitar
Nick Wilks – guitar
Siebe Pogson – bass guitar
Jessica Kesby – drums




Links:
Bandcamp:
https://vanquishedkingdom.bandcamp.com/album/vanquished-kingdom
Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/vanquishedkingdom/
Event page for Saturday November 3:
https://www.stickytickets.com.au/76536/vanquished_kingdom.aspx

Wannacries - Instafamous (Single 2018)

On November 2nd Wannacries will release their new single Instafamous on all major platforms. It is bluesy rock track with a strong melody and their trademark guitar sound. It was recorded together with three other songs from February to April 2018. It is the last of the four tracks to be released.
Wannacries is a hardrock band based in Stockholm, Sweden. It was formed by two IT guys who, one day in 2017, decided to start a band together. They had both been playing music in different shapes and forms for 20+ years. Daniel handles the bass and sings/screams in the microphone. Per is the guitar hero and studio genius.
The name started as a joke when they needed a name for the first gig. The ransomware WannaCry was in it’s prime and name stuck so they kept it.
Wannacries are influenced by classic rock acts such as Rolling Stones and Black Sabbath as well as modern bands like Avenged Sevenfold and Stone Sour. Their trademarks are fast and catchy songs with a sharp, modern guitar sound. Since the release of their debut EP the songs have been played on a number of internet radio stations and Spotify playlists.
They released their first EP Deadline King in January 2018. It has two original songs and two covers given the Wannacries treatment. Since then they have released four singles and they have steadily increased their listener base.



www.facebook.com/wannacries
www.twitter.com/wannacries
www.instagram.com/wannacries
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3rE8loxyGH5Kz02INlvnnf?si=yRIBGmsdTCCoN0sZedjg7Q
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1DXsNeyxqBgW95HttqUuqA

Doverose - Break Away (Single 2018)

Doverose are a band from Tucson Arizona.
They incorporate a wide variety of influences from various genre's, ranging from rock and alternative
to craft a unique hybrid own.

Links: Youtube channel: 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrPNrF0j7NqjDjZQQbJNcYw
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Doverose-237661987089542/?modal=admin_todo_tour
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/doverose_music/

Here is their latest music video for Break Away.

Trace The Sidewalk - UKSA (2018)

Trace The Sidewalk's debut album "UKSA", set to be released at Christmas 2018.

Almost 2 years in the making, "UKSA" features eight incredible tracks that will stir your inner rock fan.



Bellow you can listen to their first single "Simply Livin"




Links:

http://www.tracethesidewalk.com/
https://open.spotify.com/album/57Ij6xQVyIjHPFjfiPly7i

Oh. - Metallia (2018)

“Metallia” is an epical prog-metal composition in six parts. A multi-layered sonic piece of ravishing solo electric guitars, time-bending tempo shifts, grooving bass lines and deranged drums.

This instrumental progressive metal album will reveal its intricacies and hidden depths over time. It will extract from your mind pure visions, to mend your mental pictures, preen presumptions and to elicit an element of the unexpected…. because that is what will transmute your subliminal mind map into a remarkable blueprint which will lead you from wherever you are now, to wherever you want to be.

“If you put Kate Bush, Auf Der Maur, Ayreon, Chiasmata, Igorrr, old White Zombie and Amogh Symphony in a blender with several metronomes running different time signatures, add a healthy dash of thrash riffs to the proggy mix and baked the resulting mixture for several hours you probably wouldn’t even come close to the sound.” – Lee Davidson – Prog Metal Madness

It’s still a mystery to me, how a young lady like Olivia can invent, perform, and produce such a gorgeous piece of musical art. I suppose she got somehow a blessing from the forgotten gods of Olympus… No, really. It’s a wonderfully creative and inventive EP which sounds much more substantial and thought-provoking than many recordings from well-known grandees of modern instrumental Prog-Metal. -Igor Gorely – R.A.I.G. Records (Progarchives)

‘Metallia’ is what it is, not music for fragile souls but an evanescent storm of instrumental music (the voice being used not for words, but as sound) that will suit the enthusiast of powerful, progressive and experimental music.” – Rinco Ennema ~ Rock Affairs
“Oh wow! What the bloody hell’s going on here then? Freshness. Uniqueness. Boldness. An outlier! Call it what you like, but this is anything but your typical run of the mill, bog standard, meat and potatoes, vanilla-like metal.” – K-MaNriffs- Blessed Altar Zine



Metallia

I. Red Lion (4:30)
II. Bee (5:08)
III. Androgyny (3:21)
IV. Resurrection (3:56)
V. Dragon’s Kiss (5:03)
VI. Triumph (3:24)

Instruments: Oh.
ELECTRIC GUITARS, ACOUSTIC GUITARS, VOCALS, DRUMS, VIOLIN, KEYBOARDS, BASS



Composer: Oh.
Mixing & Mastering: Oh.

Recording Location: Greece

Available on Bandcamp

https://olitunes.com/
https://www.facebook.com/olitunes
https://twitter.com/olitunes
https://www.youtube.com/user/olitunesmusic?sub_confirmation=1
https://vimeo.com/oliviahadjiioannou/videos
https://soundcloud.com/waterinsilence
https://instagram.com/olitunes/
http://olitunes.tumblr.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/oh./id620203360
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7B3PbNw1J9qdtYfn4rqQwP