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10 NEW NAMES & GENERAL UPDATE ALCATRAZ 2021!

English:Festivals
  Van Muylem    29 november 2020

We are pleased to announce ten new bands today, including one headliner: Epica! They’re dropping a new album next February with ‘Omega’ and as things stand right now they will be stopping off at Alcatraz in August to introduce their new slab of symphonic metal to our inmates.

First track unveiled: In The Bleak Midwinter (feat. Matt Howden / Sieben ) from Thank GOAT, it’s Christmas! by THE DEVIL & THE UNIVERSE!

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  Van Muylem    29 november 2020

1. Advent - First song from our very own Christmas record. Vocals on this track by the one and only Matt Howden from SiebenIN THE BLEAK MID WINTER is a very well known Christmas song in the UK but pretty much unknown in other countries. However it is one of our personal Christmas caro...

Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side 25th Anniversary Edition (Nuclear Blast Records)

English:CD-review
  Van Muylem    30 november 2020

The album is right now 25 years old and I must be honest: I missed the launch and only noticed them whilst playing Sacred 2 on Playstation 2 and follow them since then. At first it sounded a bit like Queen in a bombastic/Wagnerian Symphonic metal jacket, but after a while you’ll notice it&r...

Implant release more info about upcoming new EP!

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  Van Muylem    29 november 2020

Cult Belgian electro act IMPLANT breaks 3 years of silence with a surprising new EP and announces the release of their 11th studio album “Cognitive Dissonance” in early 2021!

IAMX news: Dogmatic Infidel Comedown OK Re-Release now available!

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  Van Muylem    29 november 2020

Originally released in 2010, 'Dogmatic Infidel Comedown OK' has just been re-released and is available now on all digital outlets, as well as on CD, including a double CD of Dogmatic + Kingdom. It is an album of reworks and reinterpretations of tracks from the third IA...

Russian band ElisaDay is working on new album!

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  Van Muylem    29 november 2020

The band was formed in summer 2013 by the participants of sympho-metal band "Lanewin", after the moment when Anna Beliva, the leader of this group, disappointed in metal and started her new solo project. After several vocal casting sessions, the musicians chose Lubov Dunaeva, who had ch...

Death Doom heavyweights MAR DE GRISES to reissue "The Tatterdemalion Express" and "Draining the Waterheart" on vinyl for the first time, audio remasterd by JAIME GÓMEZ ARELLANO!

English:CD-preview
  Van Muylem    28 november 2020

Originally formed in Santiago (Chile) in the year 2000 by guitarist Rodrigo Morris, bassist Rodrigo Gálvez and vocalist Marcelo Rodríguez, later joined by guitarist Sergio Álvarez and drummer Alejandro Arce, Mar de Grises can be considered one of the most respected ...

NOVELISTS FR: releases new video/single “Lost Cause”

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  Van Muylem    28 november 2020

By now NOVELISTS FR should be known to anyone who shows even the slightest interest in Metal and hasn't spent the last years living under a rock. The four-piece, founded in France, has been producing their very own interpretation of Metalcore for more than seven years now which cann...

Let's Start a War is the new clip for Your Life on Hold!

English:CD-preview
  Van Muylem    28 november 2020

The clip is taken from the newest album called Echoes from The Bardo and was already highly acclaimed, so enjoy this gothic rock pearl from Belgium! Thank you Solar Lodge for taking care of our friends from Belgium!

KAUNIS KUOLEMATON premiere music video for "Hyvästi" and celebrate release of brand new album! "Syttyköön Toinen Aurinko" out now on Noble Demon

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  Van Muylem    27 november 2020

Today, Finnish Melodic Doom act, KAUNIS KUOLEMATON, unleashed their brand new album via Noble Demon. Not afraid to cross musical borders to expand Doom Metal's stereotypes, "Syttyköön Toinen Aurinko" is the heavy yet intense dreamlike journey of top notch metal melanc...