Project Evil are mainly a Classic Heavy Metal and Doom Metal band with a lot of effort put into arrangements and melody, with Thrash and Epic Metal elements. The inspiration mainly comes from artists like Iron Maiden, Candlemass, Judas Priest, and Manowar but also from bands as Metallica, Overkill, and Slayer, overall embracing all the Heavy sound.
Each band member of Project Evil has been individually active on the national rock and metal scene for about twenty years but it was only in 2016 that they joined together in the Project Evil band. After little more than a year we started playing live and the excellent feedback we obtained both during and after our shows convinced them to professionally produce this album.
The concept of all the song starts from the lyrics: they really like their music to be some kind of a soundtrack for the stories they tell so that it could help anyone listening to the songs to be attuned to atmosphere of that particular track. Just close your eyes and make a journey through time and space with Project Evil.
Formed in 2008, Shotgun Rodeo are a four piece heavy metal band hailing from the city of Trondheim, Norway. Seamlessly cruising across a sea of metal styles and sub-genres, Shotgun Rodeo surpasses any premeditated sonic expectations that the listener may have had before listening. The band don’t like to be labeled as one genre, but if held at gunpoint they would refer to themselves as ‘Heavy Metal on Steroids’. Following on from their previous EP releases ‘Dead End Massacre’ (2012) and ‘Guilty as Charged’ (2013), the band really picked up some steam with the release of their debut full-length album, ‘World Wide Genocide’ in 2015 and ‘The New Standard’ EP in 2016. These were highly praised by international press and magazines. Labeled as a band that is both nostalgic and forward thinking, Shotgun Rodeo is a band that will appeal to many different listeners from the metal world.
Never afraid the push the boundries, the band are now gearing up to release their second full length album, ‘By Hook Or By Crook’ 24th of August through Mighty Music. The diversity and technical proficiency of the album’s 13 tracks takes Shotgun Rodeo’s sound even further then previous releases. It’s an interesting combination of styles which seems wayward upon first inspection, but overall their sound is incredibly methodical, and it’s this vast range of influence and Shotgun Rodeo’s clear knowledge and love for metal heritage that makes it work. At times, ‘By Hook Or By Crook’ feels like a release that could have been heard on Roadrunner Records during their heyday, but it could equally feel at home with along the likes of modern metal bands as Lamb Of God and Avenged Sevenfold. As only their second full length album Shotgun Rodeo have shown a lot of promise for what is yet to come.
‘Dead End Massacre’ (2012) EP ‘Guilty as Charged’ (2013) EP
‘World Wide Genocide’ (2015) ‘The New Standard’ (2016) EP
“By Hook Or By Crook” (24th of August 2018)
Asphodelia is a dark symphonic metal act founded in 2016 in Foggia, Italy, by Samuela “Samah” Fuiani (vocals and keyboards) and Ruggero “Lordian” Doronzo (guitar), and currently including Davide Ricciardi (bass), Giuseppe Centonza (drums) and Gianni Colonna (guitar). Their sound blends symphonic and choral sonorities, electronics and Mediterranean echoes into a solid metal frame with a strongly dark mood. Their lyrics are usually centered on the theme of the afterlife, on the life and death dichotomy, the fleetingness of time and the misery of the human condition.
The band is named after the asphodel, typical Mediterranean flower connected to the ancient Greek Underworld: in the ancient Greek mythology, the Asphodel Meadows is a place where the indifferent souls, who lived a life of neither good or evil, are sent to live after death.
The band released a promo EP entitled ’Vengeance’ on May 26, 2016, receiving enthusiastic response from their fanbase. In May 2017 they signed a management and booking deal with The Flaming Arts Agency, leading to important stage experiences such as the Female Metal Voices Tour Russia 2017 as main support to The Agonist, Sirenia and Cellar Darling.
Recently, Asphodelia have recorded their debut album “Welcome Apocalyopse” and signed to Denmarks Mighty Music. The band are currently scheduling a European tour in support of the album release.
BEWARE! Here come the new guys on the brutal European death metal scene! And they smell blood and suffering!
Carrion is a 4 piece death metal band based in Gent, Belgium. The band started out in 2007 playing covers of classic death metal songs. But quickly they recorded a demo with their own songs and finally in 2012 they released their debut album “Revelations” in 2012.
Since then Carrion has played numerous shows and festivals, with a passing on the famous Wacken Open Air in 2016, MetalDays 2017 and a show at the Black-Out Bash 2017 with Grave Digger and fellow label/death metal mates No Return.
Now the guys from Belgium are ready to spread their anger with the rest of world. Their second album “Time To Suffer” will see the light of day, with the release on Mighty Music 22nd of June.
It’s an album rich on full-blown brutal death metal, yet with a modern feeling to the sound.
Lineup
Sven Van Severen, Vocals
Mathieu Vander Vennet, Guitars
Jan Van den Berghe, Guitars
Sam Philipsen, Bass
Gert Stals – (temporary drummer)
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Revelations (2012)
Time To Suffer – To be released 22nd of June 2018
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Carrion stands for fast drums, punching riffs and heavy vocals with both screams, brutal growl and pig squirrels, combined with grooving and epic touches.
There is no doubt that these guys are here to conquer the extreme metal scene in future! And they start now!
Edge Of Ever is a greek/german metal band formed in December 2012 in Berlin, Germany by frontman Minas Marston and bassist James Smith.
The band consists of six members of different age, natio- nality and musical influences.
The music of Edge Of Ever is hard to define and not easy to put into a specific genre. it can be described as a mo- dern mixture of old-school heavy metal and progressive metal combined with core influences or as referred to by Rock Hard Magazine: „high energy prog“.
Lineup
Minas Marston – vocals
James Smith – bass
Ralph Swan Krieger – Keys
Julios Greco – guitar
Tom Kruse – guitar
Lucas Freise – drums
Releases
“Global Ignition”
“We Came With The Flood” – To be released 22 of June 2018
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The band released their debut-album „Global Ignition“ in October 2014 and has received outstanding reviews from various rock/metal magazines, including giants in the genre like Metal Hammer, Rock Hard and Legacy.
After its release, Edge Of Ever has played various concerts in Germany and abroad and in november 2017 the band finished the production of their newest double album „We Came With The Flood“. An album which is set to be released on Mighty Music 22nd of June!
The album ‘These Hollow Gods’ is written for all those that live with loss, regret and new beginnings every day. It is reflected in every aspect of our lives, through ego, obsession and self preservation. Every element of the album, from mix, production, photography to artwork, has been created by the band, without compromise. These songs are the result of years of blood, sweat, tears and broken strings.
The title track is about our role models, idols and those that we ultimately view as gods in family, religion, music and celebrity. Those that we worship and devote our lives to, but then reveal themselves to be nothing more than false hope, disappointment and betrayal. The consequences of putting so much faith in to one person or idealism and how it can blind our judgement of what’s wrong and right. This song is about realising the cost and coping with that moment of clarity. Everyone has a ‘hollow god’.
Lineup
Lee Brueton -Bass/Synth/Keyboard
Harry Mitten – Lead Guitar
Ashley Clark – Rhythm Guitar
Nelson Cancini – Vocals
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Born out of a passion to create dark and heavy rock music, Chasing Ghosts was formed by Lee Brueton. Influenced by bands such as Paradise Lost, Anathema, Moonspell and driven by a desire to give the UK rock scene some much needed fresh blood. In contrast to most bands within this genre, ‘Chasing Ghosts’ have carved their own unique sound, with clean vocals and emotive lyrics that are there to be heard and not hidden, compliment and not dominate. Their songs evoke emotions of fear, sadness, loss and regret, entwined within each doom laden guitar riff. Now signed to ‘Mighty Music,’ Denmark’s largest premier rock/metal label, with their album release due out early February 2018.
Recorded by ‘Enter Shikari’ engineer Tim Morris and aired on over 50 radio stations worldwide, the track ‘Fallen From Grace’ became the band’s first official video. The video featured Pixie Le Knot, actress and contortionist from ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘The Devil Inside’ . It debuted on ‘Amp’d TV’, hosted by Kerrang’s very own Johnny Doom.
The band are Nelson Cancini (Vocals), Lee Brueton (Bass/Synth), Ashley Clark (Rhythm purpose to produce honest and unrelenting rock music. Winners of Ubeat ‘Rock Act of the Year’ 2016, one of the UKs most celebrated emerging music awards.
Chasing Ghosts have played prestigious venues such as the Camden Assembly, Proud Camden, The Craufurd Arms, Bedford Esquires, Hope and Anchor and headlined the O2 Academy 2 Liverpool. A European tour is planned for early 2018 to coincide with their album launch in Copenhagen and festival dates to be announced soon.
“Mirrorland” is the second full-length album of Estate. It is powerful, attractive, mystical epic progressive power metal.
This album is a huge step up for the band. It is heavier and more progressive, but by no means Estate has lost their calling card – the lyrical and romantic melodism.
“Mirrorland”s very diverse but the songs keep the same vibe and are filled with obscure and mysterious atmosphere.
The album has such strong tunes as “Mirrorland”, “Lady Wind”, “The Ghoul” and a dark medium tempo horror story “Springtime”, plus traditional power metal ballads like “Winter Kingdom” and “Silvery Skies”. There is a special three-act opus that is called “Storm of the Age”. It was written under the influence of works of an American writer, Glen Cook, a founder of the dark fantasy genre.
The recordings began in August 2015 and lasted till May 2017 at the band’s own studio. Mixing and mastering is done by band’s guitarist Peter Filevsky.
Guest musicians include Mats Leven (Therion, Treat, and Candlemass) and Mark Boals (Y.Malmsteen, Royal Hunt, and Ring of Fire)
ESTATE is a Russian metal band with English lyrics performing in the genre of epic power metal with other influences.
The first album “Fantasia” was released in December 2014 with the help of Danish Label “Mighty Music/Target Group”.
“Fantasia” received positive feedback in many popular media sources around the world.
The songs “Hero”, “You Are Not Alone” and “Absolutely True!” played on many free radio stations on the globe and «Tarantella» with «Holy Land» were featured in numerous music collections.
In the beginning of 2015 ESTATE presented their new album in their home city, Krasnodar. The show was fantastic and epic and the local Rock Bar held the crowd of 400 people. After that the band performed with DORO (ex-WARLOCK), Michael Schenker (ex-SCORPIONS, ex-UFO, MSG) and KIPELOV (ex-Aria).
In summer 2015 the band went touring in support of the album around Europe.
The performances happened in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany, France and Holland. The highlight of the tour was a big international «Dobry Festival 2015» performance in Slovakia.
Autumn 2015 was marked by the release of the internet mini-album “Ascending” that included the “Fantasia” songlist with Russian lyrics, the lyric-video to “Ascending” and a documentary about the Summer European tour.
In the end of 2015 and 2016 ESTATE went on big tours around Russia which resulted in two musicians leaving the band but despite this the band is still working on new material.
At the present moment the band has finished the work on the second full-length album “Mirrorland” and everyone is full of hopes it’s going to be a success. New complicated arrangement added up some progressive and epic tension to the sound.
It features guest musicians such as MATS LEVEN (Therion, Y.Malsmsteen, and Treat) and MARK BOALS (Y.Malmsteen, Royal Hunt, T.Nugent, and Ring of Fire).
Fawn Reginald, a well-known creature from the magic world, is again there on the cover. And Leo Hao, who drew the cover art for such bands as BLIND GUARDIAN, ICED EARTH, PRIMAL FEAR and other renowned musicians, is again the author of the artwork.
In early January 2018 ESTATE released «Winter Kingdom» is the first video single from the album «Mirrorland» which will be released worldwide through Mighty Music on the 20th of April 2018 on Cd and digital.
Beautilful melodies, catchy riffs, big choruses and the feeling of the cold North. This is what Angel Heart is all about. It’s melodic hard rock/heavy metal fronted by the amazing singer Trine Elise Johansen.
Lineup
Lars André Larsen, guitars & keyboards
Morten Færøvig, drums
Trine Elise Johansen, vocals
Øystein Aaseby Pedersen, bass
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Angel Heart (2018)
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Remember the well established Norwegian heavy metal band Highland Glory?
Most of the members have now formed a new band called Angel Heart and they are now ready to release their debut “Angel Heart” on Mighty Music 18th of May.
“Three of us used to play in the metal band Highland Glory, who released 3 albums worldwide. Our musical roots belong in the 80`s hard rock / heavy metal, where bands like Dio, Dokken, Queensryche and Judas Priest ruled the scene. We are very happy that Mighty Music believes in us, and are really looking forward to be working with them”. Lars André Rørvik Larsen
Sandberg is the new aspiring hard rock band in Trondheim, Norway, formed in 2016. And with their unique sound of fusion elements from EDM to blues, they are now ready to release their second album “Monster on Mighty Music 18th of May.
Lineup
Guitar: Tom Erik Watterud
Bass: Jon – Tore Dombu
Drums: Andreas Nergard
Vocal: Kim Sandberg
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Monster (2018) Higher Than The Sun (2016)
Bio
Sandberg has always had an extreme interest in music, especially in the metal-genre.
After several years of psychological strain and battles between dark thoughts, his life and own world collapsed in 2013. Sandberg eventually started writing down his darkets thoughts and feelings, as a part of his therapy which resulted in the first album “Higher Than The Sun” released in 2016.
It was an album where vocalist Kim Sandberg opens his heart and tells his personal story about a challenging period of time, which were filled with thoughts of darkness. This album was produced as a part of his own therapy.
And now in 2018 they are ready to release their second album “Monster”. An album containing 8 hard rocking tracks. All of them with a modern touch and feeling to the sound. It’s a dark album, with heavy riffs and with great choruses, sung by the raw and powerful voice of Kim Sandberg.
MANIGANCE will release their new Album “Machine Nation” worldwide (ex. France) through Mighty Music in February 2018 and will again be on the road in March 2018 for an European tour of 18 dates with MYRATH.
Lineup
Didier Delsaux – Vocal
François Merle – Guitar
Bruno Ramos – Guitar
Stéphane Lacoude – Bass
Patrick Soria – Drums
Jean Lahargue – Keyboard
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Album, “Machine Nation” – 2018
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MANIGANCE was founded in 2002 and released the album “Angel or demon” the same year. Afterwards six studio albums and a live album have seen the light of day. On top of that, MANIGANCE has shared live scenes with bands like ADAGIO, FREEDOM CALL, STRATOVARIUS, DRAGONFORCE, ADX, and even THE SCORPIONS at the Olympia (Paris).
MANIGANCE has also participated in numerous festivals in France and abroad (Hellfest, Raismes Fest, PPM Fest, Rockalies, …). Rewarded with two “Hard Rock” trophies as the best French band within the melodic power metal genre, MANIGANCE are today considered one of the heavy weights on the French metal scene.
After the release of “Récidive” (2011) which was album of the month in Rock Hard France and received 87/100 from Burnn in Japan, the band released the equally praised album “Volte Face” in 2014 and toured a lot.