Singer Gianluca Mastrangelo - Video collaboration (featuring Mistheria) of his rendition of Yngwie Malmsteen's "No Mercy"

Singer Gianluca Mastrangelo (front-man in De La Muerte and Vivaldi Metal Project) has released a video collaboration cover based on the famous song "No Mercy" by Yngwie Malmsteen. 

For the occasion, Gianluca Mastrangelo involved his band-mate in Vivaldi Metal Project, keyboardist Mistheria (Bruce Dickinson, Joe Stump's Tower of Babel, Artlantica), and other Italian musicians, namely Luca Basile (also him part of the Vivaldi Metal Project as composer and cellist), Luca Montella on guitar, Silvia Pistolesi on bass (Hellucination, Infinite Rising), and Andrea De Carolis on drums (5 Rand, Travellin 'South, Timestorm).

 

The video is available here: https://youtu.be/qHIzZGnxAxg

"No Mercy" is taken from Yngwie Malmsteen's album "Fire & Ice" (© 1992 - Elektra Records).

INCITE – prendono posizione contro il bullismo nella nuova canzone 'War Soup (feat. Max Cavalera)'

 

Artwork di Brian Zellner

Con la data di uscita del loro nuovo album in studio "Wake Up Dead" posticipata all'8 aprile, i thrash metaller dell'Arizona INCITE sono ancora più entusiasti di condividere un altro antipasto dal disco, 'War Soup'. La nuova traccia groovy e grintosa è la prima canzone degli INCITE a vedere un duetto tra Richie e Max Cavalera, un incontro storico di generazioni heavy metal, oltre che un inno a prendere coraggio e affrontare i bulli.
 
Il cantante Richie Cavalera commenta: "La nostra nuova canzone 'War Soup’ è una di quelle che spaccano di più del nostro repertorio! È brutale, piena di groove e vede la partecipazione di Max Cavalera alla voce!!! Alzate il volume e scapocciate. La canzone parla di come affrontare i bulli, di non farsi mettere i piedi in testa, di parlare e di reagire. Sono sempre stato tranquillo, timido e gentile e la gente si è approfittata di me per questo, quindi ora uso la mia voce, la mia forza, per non avere più paura".
 
Il visualizer video di 'War Soup (feat. Max Cavalera)' può essere visto qui:
https://youtu.be/CzXN7znQ4DI
https://incite.afr.link/warsoupPR
 
In precedenza, la band ha pubblicato il video di 'Deadbeat': https://youtu.be/F8otOoZ4gNU
 
“Wake Up Dead” è preordinabile qui https://incite.afr.link/WakeUpDead nei seguenti formati:
– Digipak CD
– LP (black)
– LP (purple + black marbled, limitato a 500 copie)
- digitale
 
Nei loro cinque album “The Slaughter” (2009), “All Out War” (2012), “Up in Hell” (2014), “Oppression” (2016) e “Built to Destroy” (2019) hanno cementato la loro reputazione, divenendo una delle principali armate groove d’America, capaci di colpire pesantemente con la loro miscela di maestria thrash vecchia scuola, groove senza tempo, aggressività frenetica, melodia, abilità e spavalderia! Quella che è iniziata come una band di sbarbatelli che giravano per gli Stati Uniti su un furgone di merda, suonando in piccoli club, si è evoluta nel tempo in una band con il potenziale, la passione e il potere di diventare uno dei più grandi esponenti del groove metal.
 
INCITE sono:
Richie Cavalera | voce
Eli Santana | chitarra
Christopher “EL” Elsten | basso
Lennon Lopez | batteria
 
INCITE online:
www.facebook.com/inciteband
www.instagram.com/inciteband
www.twitter.com/inciteband 
https://label.atomicfire-records.com/project/incite

sinistra-destra:

Lennon Lopez (batteria), Eli Santana (chitarra), 

Richie Cavalera (voce), Christopher "EL" Elsten (basso) 

Foto di: Oleg Bogdan

UK Alternative Metal Band JUNCTION 28 Sign With Wormholedeath

JUNCTION 28 have signed with Wormholedeath a licensing deal for the reissue of their EP "Before You Drown", due for re-release on April 29th, 2022.
Combining raw, energetic performances with their own distinct musical flair, Junction 28 are paving the way as an influential alternative rock band for the modern generation. Since joining forces in 2019, the group has captivated fans with their signature sound and entrancing stage presence. New listeners will be hooked from the first note.

JUNCTION 28 signing statement:"We at Junction 28 are immensely proud to be sharing the next stage in our journey with WormHoleDeath. Partnering with this record label is a massive step forwards and we are incredibly excited for the bright future ahead of us."
“Before You Drown” is our first EP, conceived largely during the initial stages of lockdown. The project shifts our sound into a new spectrum, with a distinct focus on dynamic song-writing, electronic sound-design and atmosphere, all the while making sure to retain our penchant for hefty riffs and soaring melodies. Lyrically we turned our eyes inwards, reflecting on the personal issues and mental struggles that have permeated our everyday lives over the past year in a way we hope is both relatable and incisive. Bands such as Linkin Park, Bring Me the Horizon, Deftones and Don Broco were always in our minds during the writing process, though we also drew heavy inspiration from a wide sphere of genre influences, including alternative rock, heavy metal, electronica, synth-wave, and modern pop.

JUNCTION 28 is a band hailing from Essex in the UK. Aiming to combine huge riffs, dense electronics and soaring vocals into one cohesive aural assault, the group is now ready to show its new face to the world. Formed in 2018 by bassist Dick Phantom (Kieron Spears), it wasn’t long before the band began ploughing through venues across Essex and Greater London. Other Members include drummer Ben Woodwards, guitarist Gary Digby, synth player Kit Sylvester and lead singer Craig Keeling. Their first EP, “Before You Drown'' has been recorded at 'Hidden Track' Studios in Folkestone with producer Oz Craggs, the project weaves together the new and the familiar, its five tracks speak to a plethora of topics drawn from the band member’s own lives and personal struggles. Junction 28 is managed by UAC management and will be appearing in music venues in the very near future.

Line up:

Craig Garrick -Lead Singer

Kit Sylvester - Synth / Electronics / Screams

Dick Phantom - Bass Guitar

Gary Digby - Guitarist
Ben - Drummer

 Watch "Walls" Official Music Video 

“Before You Drown”

Cover & Tracklist

1. Exist / Forget
2. Suffocate
3. Edge Of Hatred
4. Don't Say
5. Walls

JUNCTION 28 ONLINE
www.facebook.com/Junction28band
www.instagram.com/junction28band
www.youtube.com/c/Junction28band/featured
junction28.bandcamp.com
www.junction28band.com

Irish Alternative Rock Band MOVMENT Sign With Epictronic

 

Irish Alternative Rock band MOVMENT has signed with Epictronic a deal for their album "Transformation", which is due for release on May the 20th, 2022.

Movment Signing Statement: "We are pleased to announce that MOVMENT have signed a record deal for the album Transformation with the Italian label Epictronic. We are delighted to work with the excellent label Epictronic who will release Transformation worldwide. It will give many more people the occasion to listen to the album Transformation, which we are very proud to have written and recorded."

About Transformation: There is a divergence in society. The new album Transformation explores this situation. We are bombarded with information, opinions, viewpoints, and words. We drown in ideas, in solutions, in propaganda. There needs to be a TRANSFORMATION from where we are now. Although guitars and bass are at the heart of their sound, it is hard to ignore the electronics that have infiltrated Movment's core.
It explores What We Are. Movment have been through it before. They examine What Way Should It Be. Their time is NOW! There is nothing we cannot do!

"Transformation"
Cover and Tracklist

1. Propaganda

2. Leave Me Alone

3. We All Must Go

4. Everything Will Be Clear

5. Late At Night

6. Don't You

7. What We Are

8. Blood Like Water

9. I Can See

10. On And On

Watch "Everything Will Be Clear" Video

Buy / Stream the single HERE

Biography

MOVMENT are an alternative rock bank band from Ireland. They have released 1 album, Broken Down, and 1 EP, Red Death Sessions. They will be releasing their 2ⁿᵈ album Transformation. Movment are more dark than light, more strong than weak, more direct. Movment make observations on life and living. They mean what they say.

Lineup:
Martin Kelly – Vocals, Drums, Words
Kevin Kelly – Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Synths, Programming, Words
Mark Kelly: Bass Guitar
Isabella Rowden Kelly: Guitars

www.movment.ie
soundcloud.com/movment

THE BLACKWALL presentano il video di "Spooky Stories"

 

I THE BLACKWALL sono felici di presentare il loro primo video ufficiale per la canzone "Spooky Stories", video diretto da George Spyropoulos con Theodoros Danikas.
Eccolo: https://youtu.be/NgUKUC_imQY

La band è pronta al debutto il prossimo 5 Aprile via Club Inferno, con l'EP "The Blackwall" mixato e masterizzato da produttore multipremiato Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, Sentenced, Amorphis, Theatre Of Tragedy) e la cui copertina è stata realizzata da Travis Smith (Opeth, Katatonia, Overkill, Riverside).
Si tratta di un 3-tracks EP caratterizzato da sonorità Dark ed atmosfere Gotiche per una musica che sembra essere uscita fuori da un film di Tim Burton, ed influenzata da ALICE COOPER, HIM, ma anche realtà più Metal come i SENTENCED.

Official sites:
- CLUB INFERNO ENT.: http://www.facebook.com/clubinfernoent
- THE BLACKWALL: http://www.facebook.com/theblackwallband

Cover and tracklist: 1. Spooky Stories - 2. Old Vinyl - 3. Python

Rockshots Records - ANNIKEN's New Single "Keep the Light" Pays Homage To Linkin Park's Chester Bennington

 

Norwegian solo metal artist Anniken will be releasing her debut album "Climb Out of Hell" on May 13, 2022 via Rockshots Records.

Today, she shares her tribute to one of her teenage influences, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park. She explains further.

"This song is an homage to Chester Bennington. I tried to give the sound some hints of Nu Metal. The riff is more rhythmical. The lyrics are about how Chester’s voice was a light in the darkness of difficult teenage years. I loved Linkin Park, especially their album Hybrid Theory. After Chester’s death, I couldn’t listen to their songs for a while. It was just too sad. Then one day I listened to their album One More Light on a flight back home from a holiday in the UK. The sound was quite different than that of Hybrid Theory, but I loved it. And the song One More Light is one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking songs I have ever heard. I decided then to write some sort of response to that song, as a message to Chester. Just to say Thank you!"

"Keep the Light" can be seen and heard via its music video at https://youtu.be/k8W6yM08ND8​

Spotify - https://spoti.fi/36ELVo6

Anniken has been a part of the Norwegian heavy metal scene for years with her band Darkest Sins, the studio project Ana – Metal for Charity, as well as being a part of her husband Marius Danielsen’s trilogy Legend of Valley Doom, both in the studio and with the live band. While in Darkest Sins she opened for bands such as Anthrax, Jorn, TNT, and UDO along with Legend of Valley Doom she has worked with legendary musicians such as Ralf Scheepers, Amanda Somerville, Roland Grapow, Matt Barlow, Doogie White, Jennifer Batten, and also actor John Rhys-Davies from the Lord of the Rings and Indiana Jones movies.

Writing her own songs and having a profound love of lyrics, Anniken is now progressing into her solo endeavours. Anniken's debut album "Climb Out of Hell" features nine tracks, a few of them co-written with her husband Marius Danielsen.

It is a varied metal album that is melodic, raw, and catchy with different types of songs for every kind of metal fan. Some slow, some fast, most of them heavy. Some of the songs have a deeper meaning to them, while others are just exactly what you think they are.

Anniken adds:

"Firstly, I want people to enjoy the music. Secondly, I want them to notice the lyrics. I love listening to music while reading them and trying to understand the stories that are being told. I hope that the listeners feel the same way. I like to also add, that some of the songs were written a while back. I had others that didn’t make the cut. Overall, it is fun to write with other artists and see how the songs turned out both in the studio and live. But writing with others also means compromising. And that is one of the main reasons behind starting my solo project. I wanted to show what I could do, without the guys (yes, the bands I’ve played with always consisted of all guys and me). It is, unfortunately, easy to underestimate female artists in metal. At least, that is my experience. There aren’t as many women within the genre as there are men. Very often I experienced that people just assumed everything was written by the men in the group. I don’t mind being “just the singer”, but I would love to show the world that I am, in fact, more."

"Climb Out of Hell" will be available on May 13, 2022.
Album pre-save - https://bfan.link/climb-out-of-hell​

Physical album Pre-Order
CD - https://bit.ly/AnnikenCD​
Vinyl - https://bit.ly/AnnikenVINYL​

Previous Single:

Lyric Video - Climb Out of Hell - https://youtu.be/vYvatSJq59c​
Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3sxGSga

Track Listing:​
1. Spotlight (3:52)
2. Climb Out of Hell (3:58)
3. Back Then (4:12)
4. Just Walk (5:05)
5. Keep the Light (4:15)
6. Star (4:49)
7. No Name (4:04)
8. Save Us (4:48)
9. Amplified (3:17)
Album Length: 38:23

Album Credits:​
- All songs are written by Anniken, tracks 6,7 and 8 are co-written with Marius Danielsen.
- Cover/art is a compilation of two paintings by Sylvie Rasmussen, Anniken’s grandmother.
- Album is produced by Marius Danielsen.
- All lyrics are written by Anniken, except for the lyrics for Star, which are co-written with Marius Danielsen

Vocals: Anniken
Guitar and Bass by: Marius Danielsen
Orchestrations by: Gabriels (Tracks 1,2,3,4,6,7,9), Peter Danielsen (Tracks 5,6)
Drums by: Alessandro Kelvin
Choirs by: Marius Danielsen, David Åkesson
Growl vocals by: Brandon Bordman
Solos by: Gabriels (Track 1), Bill Hudson (Tracks 2,5), Nick Giannakos (Track 3), Fredrik Enochson (Track 4), Tommy Johansson (Track 5), Jimmy Hedlund (Track 6), Nils Courbaron (Track 7), Marius Danielsen (Track 8), Terry Wapram (Track 9)

For more info:​
​Rockshots.eu​
​Facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063610741197
​Instagram.com/anniken.rasmussen 

Portuguese Rockers Mr. Giant & The Broken Stone Sign With Wormholedeath

 

Portuguese Alternative Rock Metal band Mr. Giant & The Broken Stone have signed with Wormholedeath a licensing deal for the reissue of their album "Metamorphosis", which is due for re-release on April 29th, 2022.

The band, speaking of the album, stated: "Strong influences from hard rock, alternative and metal, this first album "Metamorphosis" is a contemplative and heavy criticism of the mundane way in which society takes care of its most precious asset: Life." “Famous fate of those who proclaim it, fortunate those who build it. For in the resilience of our being lives the human essence of our heart ... Metamorphosis”

Mr. Giant & The Broken Stone
It all began with a whisper, the breeze of a dream... It was not about being different, or special, much less being important. Will and belief will always be fantastic engines of focus that allow us to give the world the best of us. And that instinctive reality served the fiery but intense mission to personify this alter ego.

Watch "Insomnia" (Official Video)

"Metamorphosis"

Cover & Tracklist

01 - Already Done

02 - Scream

03 - Lost Island

04 - Desert Streets

05 - Crying For No One

06 - What means… Happiness

07 - The Python’s Cave

08 - Vendetta

09 - Insomnia

10 - Metamorphosis

Left to right: Fabio Nunes (Drums), Fábio Jerónimo (Vocals and Guitar), Marco José (Guitar), Philipe Pinheiro (Bass Guitar).

Mr. Giant & The Broken Stone Online:

https://www.facebook.com/MrGiant.tbs/

https://www.instagram.com/mr.giant_tbs/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGrJS27tt40

https://mrgiantthebrokenstone.bandcamp.com/releases