DORO PESCH – The Queen Of Heavy Metal: Check out below the 2012 festival tour dates where DORO will be headlining!
20.04.12 NOR – Haugesund Karmøygeddon Metal Festival
09.08.12 GER – Rottweil Kultur Festival
11.08.12 SWE – Rejmyre Skogsroejet Festival
(Source: Official Doro Pesch website)
* For more info on DORO, click here: DORO PESCH – Official Website
Stone.
I just couldn’t resist sharing this Rockin’ STRYPER music video. Click that magic box below so you can listen to and view STRYPER as they perform: Rockin Around The Christmas Tree.
Merry Christmas To All And To All A Metal Night.
Stone.
Epica’s upcoming 5th full-length album which will be released on the 9th of March 2012 (EU) by Nuclear Blast:
“The work is done! Recordings, mixes and mastering are finished. Although you have to wait some more to know how it sounds, we can already show you how it looks! So here it is: the official cover art (by Stephan Heilemann) and tracklisting of Epica’s new album Requiem for the Indifferent.”
The tracklist reads as follows:
01 – Karma
02 – Monopoly on Truth
03 – Storm the Sorrow
04 – Delirium
05 – Internal Warfare
06 – Requiem for the Indifferent
07 – Anima
08 – Guilty Demeanor
09 – Deep Water Horizon
10 – Stay the Course
11 – Deter the Tyrant
12 – Avalanche
13 – Serenade of Self-Destruction
EPICA also explained the meaning of the album title:
“This title refers to the end of an era. Mankind can no longer stick their head in the sand for the things that are happening around us. We are facing many challenges. There is an enormous tension between different religions and cultures, wars, natural disasters and a huge financial crisis, which is getting out of control. More than ever we will need each other to overcome these problems. As we are all connected; the universe, earth, nature, animals and human beings, this period in time will be the prelude to the end for those who still don’t want to, or simply won’t see it. A REQUIEM FOR THE INDIFFERENT but also a possibility for a new beginning with great new chances!”
Epica will present this album to the public on the 16th of March 2012, in 013, Tilburg (NL) tickets are still available but are going out fast!
Keep an eye on the official Epica website and social media for regular updates on REQUIEM FOR THE INDIFFERENT!!
(Source: Nuclear Blast News)
LONG LIVE EPICA.
Stone.
SABATON – Swedish epic Power Metallers SABATON have just finished the fantastic 1.5 year long “World War Tour” with a great show in Antwerp.
Watch the clip from this “final battle” right here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em5J7n3lVCk
After this great tour with epic shows, SABATON needs your support now:
The band is nominated at the “Bandit Rock Awards” for “Best Band” (Bästa grupp/artist) and for “Best Live-Act” (Bästa live-akt).
Support the guys, surf to http://www.bandit.se/rockawards/vote and make sure to vote for SABATON in both categories.
Thanks for your support!
(Source: Nuclear Blast News)
Stone.
Band Terrorizes National Year-End Lists!
Goregrind legends EXHUMED played their first U.S. show in over six years at the 2011 edition of the Maryland Deathfest and thanks to NPR, the set, in all its uncensored glory, is available for your consumption at THIS LOCATION.
EXHUMED released their All Guts, No Glory full-length earlier this year via Relapse Records. The record continues to reap critical acclaim from fans and critics nationally and has left it’s grisly mark on multiple Year End lists including Decibel, Pitchfork, NPR.org, MetalSucks and Skulls N Bones!
Said vocalist/guitarist menace Matt Harvey: “2011 has been a great year for the band. We’ve had a killer time scraping off the rust on the gore metal machine and getting back on the road and partying with necromaniacs all over the place. It’s amazing how many people have enjoyed our racket and have actually said nice things about our record – sometimes even in public! We have a lot of shit planned for next year and we’re chomping at the bit to continue subjecting the universe to more of our god awful noise! See you on the road…or at the bar. Play fast or die, dudes. Cheers!”
(Source: Earsplit PR)
* For more info on EXHUMED, click on the links below:
http://www.facebook.com/ExhumedOfficial
http://www.myspace.com/exhumed
LONG LIVE EXHUMED.
Stone.
ELMSFIRE are from Düsseldorf, Germany and have existed since 1999, having hit the stage for the first time in 2002.
Fritz, the band’s bassist, describes their music as Melodic Heavy Metal, which is influenced by Thrash and Power Metal. The songs are mostly about situations and emotions they’ve experienced.
The band’s name is based on the St. Elmo’s Fire, which is a weather phenomenon. The name ELMSFIRE represents the band, which is also full of energy.
Playing countless gigs and dealing with several lineup changes, ELMSFIRE have already recorded two demos and an EP.
“Thieves Of The Sun”, the first full-length album of ELMSFIRE, is going to be released on February 24, 2012!
(Source: Massacre Records)
* For more info on ELMSFIRE, click on the links below:
http://www.facebook.com/Elmsfire
http://www.myspace.com/elmsfire
http://www.youtube.com/elmsfire
Stone.
FAITHSEDGE – Southern California’s Hard Rockin’ FAITHSEDGE is currently recording their sophomore studio album. After their successful S/T debut on Scarlet Records earlier in 2011, fans (myself included) are eagerly awaiting this new studio release. Giancarlo Floridia (vocals, guitar, songwriter) and Fabrizio Grossi (bass & producer) are the Rockin’ brain trust of FAITHSEDGE and will no doubt be delivering the Hard Rockin’ goods once again!
Check out below for a preview of two new songs and the addition of keyboardist Eric Ragno to the band!
* For more info on FAITHSEDGE, click on the links below:
Stone.
LIZZY BORDEN – MENACE TO SOCIETY
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)
Here’s a legendary Metal band that helped define our Metal community as we know and love it today. A Metal band that’s led by their lead vocalist of the same name: LIZZY BORDEN. You want to listen to a real Metal album? Then go buy or trade for their 1986 sophomore release: Menace To Society. It’s a Metal classic. It’s an essential Metal album in the history of Metal music.
If you are salivating for a potent dose of real Metal, this album will kick your Metal lovin’ ass to kingdom come. No, not the band Kingdom Come. (Lenny Wolf and his band F’n Rocks by the way). Um, back to LIZZY BORDEN. Look, their entire catalog kicks monumental Metal ass… I’m only recommending Menace To Society for the simple fact that I can’t stop playing it for the last few months.
BLOODDYY MAARRRYYY!
Call it Menace To Society dependence, call it what you will. I’m only calling out this tremendous Metal album of yesteryear to bring attention to what quality, real Metal sounds like. Here’s my review for Menace To Society: it kicks F’n Metal ass. Okay? Now, if you want to treat yourself right with a Metal purchase, I’m strongly suggesting you go out and get Menace To Society and thank the Metal Gods that LIZZY BORDEN created this album and are still kickin’ Metal ass to this very day. Metal be thy name.
Generation Aliens
Notorious
Terror On The Town
Bloody Mary
Stiletto (Voice Of Command)
Ultra Violence
Love Kills
Brass Tactics
Ursa Minor
Menace To Society
Bonus Tracks (Metal Blade Records Re-Issue – 2001)
Taking Over The World (Demo)
White Rabbit – (Live Demo) (Jefferson Airplane Cover)
Stiletto (Voice Of Command) (Live Demo)
Betrayer (Live Demo)
* For more info on LIZZY BORDEN, click on the links below:
LIZZY BORDEN – Official facebook
LIZZY BORDEN – Official Website
LONG LIVE LIZZY BORDEN.
Stone.
IRON CLAW – Many bands and solo musicians make comebacks in the world of Rock each year. Notable acts the likes of Alice Cooper (The Band) and KING KOBRA made their impressive comebacks for certain in 2011. Anthrax made an album comeback (Worship Music) with Joey Belladonna returning to the forefront. BIOHAZARD is back. Beggars & Thieves are back too. The list is impressive as it is long. No, Black Sabbath can’t really count until next years album and tour. However, the one comeback band that amazed me beyond belief with their story during 2011 was: IRON CLAW.
IRON CLAW are in my mind, Heavy Music pioneers. IRON CLAW was a band on the scene when Heavy Metal was growing roots from Hard Rock. This band calls Scotland home and released an album of Classic Hard Rock in 2011 that you should know about (if you don’t know already). A Different Game made IRON CLAW the topic of conversation in many Hard Rock circles this past year. Released on Ripple Music, A Different Game was the first taste of new music from this band in nearly 4 decades!
I never, ever heard of IRON CLAW until this past year. I’ll tell you this much, IRON CLAW has served me right. Congratulations IRON CLAW on being named: Metal Odyssey’s Comeback Band Of 2011! Plus having: Metal Odyssey’s Comeback Album Of 2011! Metal be thy name!
See below the timeline of IRON CLAW posts featured on Metal Odyssey during 2011. Everything you’ve ever needed to know about IRON CLAW is right there for you! Feel free to become informed on the series of events leading up to the release of A Different Game, along with the intriguing Hard Rockin’ history (both past and present) of IRON CLAW. Each large link in this timeline will take you directly to that respective post!
Posted on June 29th, 2011:
Posted on July 6th, 2011:
Posted on July 15th, 2011: (A Different Game album review)
Posted on July 17th, 2011:
Posted on October 21, 2011:
Posted on October 24th, 2011:
From L to R: Gordon (vocals), Ian (drums), Alex (bass) and Jimmy (guitar)
IRON CLAW – 2011
Jimmy Ronnie – Founding Member, Songwriter & Guitarist
Gordon Brown – IRON CLAW vocalist, lyricist on A Different Game
(All IRON CLAW photos are courtesy and by permission of Jimmy Ronnie)
(Gordon Brown photo courtesy of Gordon Brown)
LONG LIVE IRON CLAW!
Stone.
That Metal Show’s Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson will be performing stand up live and in person at On the Rox, the upstairs room at The Roxy, on Thursday, December 15th in Hollywood, CA. This is a small, intimate room and tickets WILL sell out. The guys will be performing live stand up as heard on their Metal Blade Records comedy albums, which were both released earlier this year, from 7:00pm-9:00pm. Official Don Jamieson and Jim Florentine merch, CDs and DVDs will be available for purchase at the show.
Tickets to the show can be purchased now at indiemerch.com HERE.
(Source: Metal Blade Records News Update)
* For more info see the links below:
www.donjamieson.com
Stone.
Christmas Album Covers – I love the Christmas holiday. I dig giving more than receiving too. Really, I do. That is why I am giving you this list of Christmas album covers to laugh at, talk about and at times… gaze at. Maybe this list will encourage you to buy one of these Christmas albums? I dunno. The main Metal objective I have here is to have fun. So, without any further ado, let’s get the Christmas album cover party started!
Rockin’ Little Christmas
Since when is pile-driving your wife or girlfriend a “thing to do” at Christmas? Whoa.
MAYBE THIS CHRISTMAS
Maybe what? Maybe the power goes out on Christmas day? Maybe Bigfoot finally gets his beef jerky? At least this is a funny Christmas album cover. Okay, semi-funny.
Michael Buble’ – Christmas
I find this cover for Michael Buble’ Christmas to be rather, well, uncomfortable. You see, if I saw a dude in my neighborhood acting like this, I’d call the cops. A “stalking vibe” just screams out at me here. It looks like Michael is trying to squeeze out a last second fart, before he enters wherever he is going.
A VERY SHE & HIM CHRISTMAS
What was She & Him thinking here? They didn’t need to over-cool a cool look like that, to the point where it is not even cool at all. At least I think this cover is funny, in a non-cool way.
Classic Rockin’ Christmas
Whoa. I don’t trust that face on this Santa. A mean looking Santa. To me, it looks like this Santa had a bad day with the elves and now he’s looking for revenge. I’m just glad I don’t have anyone living nearing me who looks like this dude. By the way, I wouldn’t trust any egg nog he may be offering either.
Classic Rockin’ Christmas
Now this is the Classic Rockin’ Christmas I’m talkin’ about.
BOWLING FOR SOUP! MERRY FLIPPIN’ CHRISTMAS VOLUME I
Ha, ha, ha, ha! That’s so righteous man! Ahem. Whatever.
WE WISH YOU A HAIRY CHRISTMAS
Um, We Wish You A Hairy Christmas. Metal Odyssey is NOT supposed to be XXX here. I’m just the messenger, so please excuse me as I bust out in laughter from this Christmas album title. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. This is a compilation album of Christmas songs from a bunch of famous Hair Metal bands. Still, give me a Metal break.
WE WISH YOU A HAIRY CHRISTMAS
Now, this is a much more classier “look” than the previous We Wish You A Hairy Christmas album cover. The weird, plastic reindeer and huge candy cane are what makes this cover so damn memorable.
HEAVY METAL CHRISTMAS
Yes! This Christmas album cover is my favorite! Why? Cause it has “Heavy Metal” in it’s title and those Iron Maiden “like” fonts are the best! Plus, I can’t tell a Metal lie here… I’ve always been a HUGE admirer of Christmas decorative bows. Metal be thy name.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A METAL NIGHT.
Stone.
ECHOES OF ETERNITY – The second studio album, As Shadows Burn, from the Los Angeles Metal band ECHOES OF ETERNITY was released back in 2009, via Nuclear Blast in North America and on LP through Massacre Records in Europe. Take a look and listen to the new music video below for Ten Of Swords, which is the opening track on As Shadows Burn.
Led by the beautiful and vocally accomplished Francine Boucher, ECHOES OF ETERNITY is a Metal band that is without any doubt… on the Metal rise. Mixing up a potent batch of Speed Metal and Traditional Metal riffs, Ten Of Swords is a song that showcases the melodic and heavy talents of this band. Catch onto ECHOES OF ETERNITY and their Metal sound… hopefully it will serve you right as it did for me.
Francine Boucher – Vocals
Brandon Patton – Guitars
Bryan Eagle – guitar
Kirk Carrison – Drums
Duane Cowan – Bass
AS SHADOWS BURN – (2009) Massacre Records (LP)
Track Listing:
Ten Of Swords
Veiled Horizon
Memories Of Blood And Gold
The Scarlet Embrace
Descent Of A Blackened Soul
Twilight Fires
Buried Beneath A Thousand Dreams
Letalis Deus
Funeral In The Sky
* For more info on ECHOES OF ETERNITY, click on the links below:
http://www.facebook.com/echoesofeternity
LONG LIVE ECHOES OF ETERNITY.
Stone.
Miljenko Matijevic – Sometime during the Summer of 2009, I bought an autographed trading card of Miljenko Matijevic, the founding member and vocalist for the Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band STEELHEART. This autographed trading card is from the 2008 Upper Deck – Spectrum Of Stars set. I paid $10 (U.S.) for this piece of Rock ‘N Roll history, finding it at a sports card shop at the Merchants Square Mall in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
It’s not about any value when it comes to owning this very cool card of the legendary Miljenko. I’ve always been incredibly impressed by Miljenko’s vocals and yes, I do dig to the fullest the Hard Rockin’ sounds of STEELHEART. Metal be thy name.
Miljenko Matijevic – Autographed Trading Card – 2008 (Upper Deck – Spectrum Of Stars)
* For more info on STEELHEART, click on the link below:
Stone.
North Carolina power trio BLACK SKIES have been ravaging the North American masses since November 14 on their 2011 Fall tour excursion in support of the recently unleashed On The Wings Of Time full-length.
The band checks in from the van:
“The tour is going great! We’ve played some of our favorite venues. hit some new ones and had a great first time playing Canada! The crowd, promoters and venues in Montreal and Toronto were very welcoming and we look forward to going back! We’ve been playing songs off our new record for the most part including a tune we hadn’t really played out live before and a May Blitz cover on some nights. It’s been a blast being back out. Our friends Make from Chapel Hill were on the first half of the tour with us. It’s been great to share the stage with these guys every night. They’re an excellent band, and good, fun people to hang with. We joined up with Vaz in Montreal for a string of dates. It’s time to take over Easthampton, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Annandale!”
BLACK SKIES – Fall Tour 2011 [remaining dates]:
11/27/2011 St. Vitus – Brooklyn, NY**
11/28/2011 JRs – Philadelphia, PA**
11/29/2011 Cellar Door – Annandale, VA
** w/ Vaz http://www.vazmusic.bandcamp.com
On The Wings Of Time is currently available at all shows on digital download cards included with the purchase of a limited edition, silk-screened poster. A CD version with alternate cover art is also available. To hear On The Wings Of Time in its entirety, visit the band’s official BandCamp page. In addition, you can check out a live recording from the band’s first show of the tour at the Get Down in Asheville, North Carolina. HERE.
(Source: Earsplit PR)
LONG LIVE BLACK SKIES.
Stone.
BLACK ROBOT – Debut S/T (June 8th, 2010)
BLACK ROBOT – It’s Black Friday across America. That’s when material excess overrules proper judgement. It’s when a popular upscale department store can most likely sell rusted and bent barbed wire for a profit, by utilizing smart marketing on the masses. Black Friday for me is another day to crank up some more Metal and Hard Rock into my ears. A day no different from any other in my Metal lovin’ life. Metal be thy name.
A couple of days ago, with Black Friday looming larger than ever, I was thinking about the bands who have the word “black” in their (band) names. One of the bands I immediately thought of was BLACK ROBOT. (Yes, the ultra-legendary BLACK SABBATH was the first band I did think of). Classic Rock and Classic Hard Rock influences, colliding with today’s Hard Rock edge, is what overflows in the sound of BLACK ROBOT. You can hear a cool sliver of AC/DC thump and stump gleaming in this band’s Rockin’ thunder, fused with their own original style. Calling California home, BLACK ROBOT has created quite a heavy Rockin’ buzz for themselves the past few years, both stateside and across all shores.
BLACK ROBOT is a Hard Rock band you should be checking out, in the event you haven’t already. Trust me, their brand of Hard Rock is smokin’ with fired-up attitude and a crunchy, fist-to-the-air, blue-collar vibe. The guitar licks and riffs are aplenty, while if you’re looking for some b-b-b-baddass, head knockin’, rhythm stompin’, Hard Rock songs you’ll get ’em with BLACK ROBOT. Metal as my witness, you shall.
BLACK ROBOT was formed back in 2008 by bassist Jonathan “JB” Brightman. He is also a founding and former member of the Grammy nominated Hard Rock band: Buckcherry. Jonathan cowrote and played on the Buckcherry debut S/T from 1999 and their sophomore release from 2001: Time Bomb.
* Check out the BLACK ROBOT music video below, covering the JJ Cale original and Eric Clapton’s cover classic: Cocaine.
* The BLACK ROBOT debut album was released on June 8, 2010, on Formosa Records/Rocket Science Ventures.
* Keep your eyes and ears open for a brand new BLACK ROBOT album in early 2012!
* Track Listing For BLACK ROBOT (Debut S/T): Baddass * Cocaine * Momma Don’t Cry * Girls Kissing Girls * Money * I’m In Love * In My Car * Black Robot * Love On A .45 * Dissatisfaction * 23 Days Of Night * Stop The World * Nervous Breakdown
Open up a case or two of Hard Rock whoop-ass and click on the links to BLACK ROBOT below!
* You can download a FREE song from BLACK ROBOT here: BLACK ROBOT – facebook
LONG LIVE BLACK ROBOT.
Stone.
DISBELIEF – Germany’s Death Metal legends DISBELIEF have announced a fistful of live dates for 2012. Check out the list below and see if DISBELIEF will be in your Metal area.
20.01.2012 DE Adelsheim – Live Factory
21.01.2012 DE Annaberg-Buchholz – Alte Brauerei
09.03.2012 DE Dresden – Skullcrusher
09.06.2012 DE Reichenbach – Chronical Moshers Festival
25.-26.08.2012 BY Rechitsa (Belarus) – Metal Crowd Festival
(Source: Massacre Records)
* For more info on DISBELIEF, click on the links below:
LONG LIVE DISBELIEF.
Stone.
HUNTED – 2011 has been a Metal grand year for HUNTED. This fast rising Metal band from Cardiff, Wales saw their debut album Welcome The Dead released and critically praised by Heavy Metal outlets worldwide… with Metal Odyssey being no exception in dishing out the Metal accolades. Endorsement deals followed. Landing a record deal was inevitable for HUNTED and Massacre Records knows Metal talent when they hear it. Impaled is the new and first official music video from HUNTED, a killer track also heard on Welcome The Dead.
You can view Impaled at:
www.youtube.com/massacrerecords
or view at:
* For more info on HUNTED, click on the link below:
LONG LIVE HUNTED.
Stone.
German-/Italian Melodic-Metallers LOVE.MIGHT.KILL released their second video-clip “Down To Nowhere”. The track is taken from their highly acclaimed debut-album “Brace For Impact” which was released in Europe through Massacre Records this year. LOVE.MIGHT.KILLs first single “Pretty Little Mess” featured the very melodic side of the band while “Down to nowhere” is a heavy-uptempo-rocker.
“Brace For Impact” was released in Japan through Hydrant Music/EMI on November, 16th. The Japanese-edition of the album features a bonus-track called “Satans Den”.
LOVE.MIGHT.KILL also welcomes SASCHA ONNEN (ex-Mob Rules) on keyboards as a permanent member. Commented drummer and producer Michael Ehré: “We´re absolutely happy to have Sascha on board! His incredible skills will lift LOVE.MIGHT.KILL to another level!”
JAN MANENTI – vocals
MICHAEL EHRÉ – drums
STEFAN ELLERHORST -guitar
CHRISTIAN STÖVER – guitar
JOGI SWEERS – bass
SASCHA ONNEN – keyboards
LOVE.MIGHT.KILL was founded in 2009 by FIREWIND/ULI JON ROTH/METALIUM-drummer MICHAEL EHRÉ. After touring all around the world with several bands and writing songs for German-Metallers METALIUM, Japanese-female-Metal-vocalist SAEKO or ex-ZED YAGO-founder JUTTA WEINHOLD, he realised his vision of an own band by writing, recording and producing LOVE.MIGHT.KILLs debut-album BRACE FOR IMPACT. In addition with the brilliant Italian-singer JAN MANENTI as a co-writer, long-time-friends CHRISTIAN STÖVER and STEFAN ELLERHORST (who were both playing in German-based-Metal band CROSSROADS) on guitars and JOGI SWEERS on bass LOVE.MIGHT.KILLs outstanding line-up was completed.
BRACE FOR IMPACT features 13 stunning Melodic-Metal-tracks in the tradition of the bands longtime favourites like f.e. RAINBOW, JUDAS PRIEST, DIO or BLACK SABBATH. Michaels production and MARKUS TESKEs mix (SAGA, VANDEN PLAS, SPOCKS BEARD) underwrites the fact that LOVE.MIGHT.KILLs debut-album will convince all Melodic-Metal-maniacs all around the world.
Tomorrow never comes
Calm before the storm
Pretty little mess
Caught in a dream
Satans den (Bonus-track/Japan only)
Through the dawn
Brace for impact
We are the weak
Down to nowhere
Pray to your god
Reach out
The answer
Will love remain
(Source: Massacre Records)
* For further info please go to: www.lovemightkill.com
LONG LIVE LOVE.MIGHT.KILL
Stone.
NIGHTQUEEN – Since everyone and their cousin’s uncle’s, best friend’s neighbors are starting to celebrate Christmas earlier with each passing year, Metal Odyssey has decided to do the same. Metal be thy name. I couldn’t find or think of any better way than to have NIGHTQUEEN usher in the Christmas season on Metal Odyssey, than with their X-Mas Wonderland (official video). I hope you enjoy NIGHTQUEEN and X-Mas Wonderland as much as I do. Merry Christmas to all… and to all Metalheads worldwide!
* Check out more NIGHTQUEEN music videos at: Nightfairyful’s Channel – YouTube
Keely Larreina – vocals
Rex Zeco – guitar
Alan Rawson – guitar
Daniel Kells – keyboards
Steven Steele – bass
William Blodyn – drums
* For more info on NIGHTQUEEN, click on the links below:
LONG LIVE NIGHTQUEEN.
Happy Thanksgiving Week America.
Let’s Get This Christmas Season Started…
Stone.
Finland – a mine of talented newcomer bands since the year one. With BATTLE BEAST from Helsinki, Nuclear Blast are happy to welcome one of the most promising combos of this flourishing scene aboard!
Founded in 2008, the band already attended the W:O:A Metal Battle in their home country two years later and won the national contest, which enabled them to perform at the Wacken Open Air in Germany and represent Finland in the international Metal Battle finals. Battling 26 other bands from all around the world, BATTLE BEAST emerged victorious. Under these circumstances a record deal with the world’s biggest independent heavy metal label seems to be the only logical consequence – Andy Siry, head of A&R at Nuclear Blast, agrees:
”Young, dynamic but still deeply rooted in Traditional Heavy Metal – BATTLE BEAST breathe new life into the scene and rekindle the sound of the 80s with a fulgent livery. The well-deserved victory at the W:O:A Metal Battle 2010 was the first important step to which we want to live up by supporting these up-and-coming talents energetically. We’re looking forward to the cooperation!“
The band also expresses their joy. Guitarist Anton comments:
“We feel honoured that Nuclear Blast show their interest in BATTLE BEAST by releasing “Steel”. Many thanks to our partners, closest people and most of all to our fans who believed in us and gave us their support. The journey continues!”
BATTLE BEAST’s brilliant debut album “Steel“ will be released on January 27th 2012 via Nuclear Blast – the track list contains the following songs:
01. Enter The Metal World
02. Armageddon Clan
03. The Band Of The Hawk
04. Justice And Metal
05. Steel
06. Die-Hard Warrior
07. Cyberspace
08. Show Me How To Die
09. Savage And Saint
10. Iron Hand
11. Victory
BONUS TRACK:
12. Stay Black
About two months later the band will set off for a European tour as support of their future label mates NIGHTWISH over the course of the IMAGINAERUM WORLD TOUR calling at the following cities:
11.04.12 DK Copenhagen – Falconer Theater
13.04.12 NL Amsterdam – Heineken Music Hall
14.04.12 D Düsseldorf – ISS Dome
16.04.12 B Brussels – Forest National
17.04.12 F Paris – Bercy
18.04.12 F Nantes – Zenith
20.04.12 F Lyon – Halle Tony Garnier
21.04.12 LU Luxembourg – Rockhal
23.04.12 D Frankfurt – Jahrhunderthalle
24.04.12 CH Zurich – Hallenstadion
25.04.12 IT Milano – Forum
27.04.12 AT Vienna – Gasometer
29.04.12 HU Budapest – Budapest Arena
30.04.12 CZ Prague – Tesla (T-Mobile Arena)
01.05.12 D Leipzig – Arena
03.05.12 D Hamburg – o2 World
05.05.12 D Nürnberg – Arena
06.05.12 D Stuttgart – Schleyerhalle
08.05.12 SL Ljubljana – Križanke
Get ready – BATTLE BEAST break their chains and prepare for a high-end Metallic assault!
(Source: Nuclear Blast News)
LONG LIVE BATTLE BEAST.
Stone.
If you’re a band or musician and would like your music reviewed or be interviewed by Stone, please click the link under the “ALBUM REVIEWS ARCHIVES” section below!
Metal Odyssey > Heavy Metal Music Blog 
You must be logged in to post a comment.