As just announced at ProgPower USA 2017 this past weekend (September 8th), Redemption is confirmed to headline next year’s edition of the festival, with new vocalist Tom Englund (Evergrey)! This new line-up including Englund, Nick van Dyk (guitars and keyboards), Sean Andrews (bass) and Chris Quirarte (drums) has finished recording Redemption‘s seventh full-length album, Long Night’s Journey into Day – the first to be produced with Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Primal Fear, Amaranthe, Doro, etc.).
PAIN, the Swedish industrial-metal force led by multi-instrumentalist and producer Peter Tägtgren (HYPOCRISY, LINDEMANN), will make their first ever North American appearance this upcoming September. Comments Tägtgren: “Painheads of America and Canada! We’re happy to finally be doing a North American tour together with Orphaned Land. Be there or be square. It might be the only chance to see Pain on this continent!” The band will be touring in support of their latest record, Coming Home, which was released last year via Nuclear Blast. Confirmed tour dates, which includes a performance at the Prog Power festival, are as follows: PAIN 09/09/17 Atlanta, GA ...
Today, EPICA release their long-awaited EP, The Solace System, which includes six brand-new songs, written and recorded during the process of their latest album The Holographic Principle. After unveiling the 2nd episode of their animated video-series in the form of a spectacular music video for “Immortal Melancholy” on Tuesday via BILLBOARD, and starting their massive “Ultimate Principle Tour – North America” on Thursday, these Dutch Symphonic Metal giants now present the unboxing video of their exclusive box-set entitled The Holographic Principle – The Ultimate Edition! Be quick if you want to add this stunning box set to your collection as our stock is close to SOLD OUT!
Following last year’s acclaimed release, “In His Infernal Majesty’s Service”, Swedish blackened thrash metal outfit WITCHERY have announced the release of their new album, “I Am Legion”, for November 10, 2017 via CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS. As with the previous album, “I Am Legion”, the release was created by the WITCHERY line-up consisting of Angus Norder (Vocals), Jensen (Guitar), Rickard Rimfält (Lead Guitar), Sharlee D’Angelo (Bass) and Chris Barkensjö (Drums). The album was produced and mixed by Daniel Bergstrand at Dugout Studios (Behemoth, In Flames, Meshuggah) and comes packaged in powerful artwork completed by Andreas Diaz Pettersson (as seen above). The album’s first single, “True North”,...
BROKEN HOPE recently released their seventh studio album, “Mutilated and Assimilated”, via Century Media Records to astonishing critical acclaim. Lauded as “a delightfully brutal and disgusting sonic assault” (Kerrang!) which “offers Jeremy Wagner’s finest riffs in years” (Metal Injection), the album pays tribute to John Carpenter’s classic film The Thing and John W. Campbell Jr’s short story Who Goes There.
Heavy doom/metal unit CASTLE will return to the road next week for their Endless Graveyard fall expedition. Slated to begin September 7th in Riverside, California and come to a close on September 30th in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the band’s latest trek includes performances at Shadow Woods Metal Fest and Stoned Meadow Of Doom.
CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS is proud to bring UK gothic metal pioneers, PARADISE LOST’s special 25th anniversary show “Live At The Roundhouse” to vinyl this September. Recorded in London on November 3, 2013 by Abbey Road Live, this will be an extremely limited one-time only pressing. Previously, “Live At The Roundhouse” was released as 2x CDR and digital album under the title “Tragic Illusion Live At The Roundhouse, London” offering a career spanning set-list and authentic, honest live sound due to being recorded and mixed on-the-fly. The vinyl’s front cover was created by Valnoir and is based on a shirt design originally offered at this unforgettable show back in 2013. “Live At The Roundhouse” has been...
