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The Finnish alternative rock band Overhead releases a free net single! The new song titled "Aftermath", is one track from the band's upcoming new album, which is currently being mixed and to be released in 2012. You can listen to the song on Overhead's homepage, Facebook and MySpace pages:
www.overhead-band.com
www.facebook.com/overheadband
www.myspace.com/overheadband
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Starting out as a simple bedroom studio project, guitarist Keshav Dhar has seen SKYHARBOR quickly evolve into one of India's hottest metal prospects, with huge admiration coming in from some of the biggest names in metal worldwide.
An astonishing amount of buzz also surrounded the bands first ever performance at the Bacardi NH7 Festival in Pune, India earlier this month, where they played to over 1,000 people and were one of the weekend's highlights.
The long awaited debut album from SKYHARBOR promises to be a landmark release for the Indian independent music scene, in no small part thanks to the incredible number of international guest appearances it will see, including the likes of Marty Friedman (ex Megadeth), Daniel Tompkins (ex TesseracT), Vishal J. Singh (Amogh Symphony) and Sunneith Revankar (Bhayanak Maut).
Glass Hammer is a symphonic-progressive rock band from the USA. Multi-instrumentalists Steve Babb and Fred Schendel formed the band in 1992 and will be celebrating their 20th anniversary at OhioProg 2012. The band recently released their 14th studio album Cor Cordium which is a follow-up to last year's highly acclaimed If. Glass Hammer is certainly one of the most well-known and highly regarded progressive rock acts over the last 20 years and will be featured as a headliner alongside FM, Nightingale and Arena. They will play ahead of FM on Saturday, September 8, 2012.
New York, NY– All-American anthemic rockers Drowning Pool announced today that they will be parting ways with their current singer, Ryan McCombs. The hard working Texas band, who has worked with 3 singers in their 10 year career, issued the following statement:
"We have always been a band who has gained success despite having multiple singers...maybe we suffer from reverse 'lead singer's disease," said C.J. Pierce. "Changing things up has not always been easy, but the band has become re-energized time and time again. We are looking to find a new singer who will give both us and, and most importantly our fans, the new adrenaline shot they deserve." He went on to say, "We do wish Ryan great success in his future endeavors." McCombs, who had been part of the band since 2006, replaced singer Jason Jones, who joined Drowning Pool following the tragic passing of Dave Williams.
Drowning Pool turned the world into believers with their breakthrough single "Bodies" in 2001. Ten years, three singers and four albums later, they're giving fans a new reason to believe. "Feel Like I Do," the lead single from their self-titled fourth studio release [Eleven Seven Music], became the band's biggest radio hit to date, reaching No. 2 at Active Rock Radio, and remaining in the Top 5 for 12-weeks. With 2009's "37 Stitches" off of Full Circle reaching #4 at Active Rock and "Feel Like I Do," the band had 2 consecutive Top 5 Active Rock smashes and cemented their place as one of the top hard rock acts today. The band's sophomore album, Desensitized with second singer Jason Jones spawned a Top 10 hit with "Step Up." Recent successes have paved the way for unique opportunities such as presenting the Lane Evans Mental Health Care Reform to then-senator Barack Obama on Capitol Hill, performing for our troops all over the world and partnering with organizations like The Wounded Warrior Project and the G.I. Film Festival.
Drowning Pool is currently looking to find a suitable replacement for McCombs. In the meantime, they have already begun writing their 5th studio album in their hometown of Dallas.
Los Angeles based hard rock artists Will Wallner (Guitarist) & Vivien Vain (Vocalist) will release their debut album on February 1st 2012. The release and promotion will be handled by Los Angeles based company 'Metal Assault'. The album will feature guest musicians including Carmine Appice, Vinny Appice, Brian Tichy, Rudy Sarzo, Tony Franklin, Jimmy Bain, Derek Sherinian and Tony Carey providing an all-star backing.
The album was recorded in Los Angeles throughout 2011 and mixed by Gary Tole in New York. Mastering was completed in September 2011 by Graham Goldman at Masterdisk.
Both in their early twenties, Will Wallner and Vivien Vain came to America from Europe to pursue a career in music. After a year of performing locally in Los Angeles they had a chance meeting with Carmine Appice and Vinny Appice at the Rainbow Bar & Grill on the Sunset Strip in 2010. Both agreed to perform drums for their album and since that first meeting the project evolved featuring several other guest session musicians with Will Wallner and Vivien Vain performing all guitars and vocals respectively. Their debut features nine original songs written and produced by Wallner/Vain.
The album cover features Wallner/Vain photographed by Glen La Ferman. A music video for the song 'Streets Of Rage' will be released with the album, which was produced in Hollywood in September 2011. Wallner/Vain will announce live dates to promote their album release in the next couple of months.
For more information go to www.wallnervain.com
There will now be "Valour" EP CDs available at the shows, but as these are the promos there will be a limited number. All proceeds from the sale of these will go to War Child & The Royal British Legion. Also on sale will be a few copies of the "Dk3rd" on resplendent vinyl!
The new merchandise will be on sale at the shows and is also ready & waiting at www.purereasonrevolutionmerch.com
Those that buy advance tickets for the live shows (remember to bring your booking reference slip) will receive a free DVD & from now you'll get a free DVD with every internet order.
The waiting is over! "Elegant Stealth" will be officially released on Nov. 25 in Europe and the UK through ZYX, but the album is available now in the US through Amazon, including the European import.
Congratulations to Rainer from Finland, who was the very first person to own the CD (which he purchased last week directly from ZYX).
We're happy to report there's already lots of great momentum surrounding "Elegant Stealth." Thanks go out to Billy at Glass Onyon and Lee at Bright Lights for nabbing some choice interview opportunities for Andy.
A short list of recent interviews includes Sidesixx, one of Ireland's biggest rock websites (listen here: http://sidesixx.com/features/2619-we-sit-down-with-andy-powell-of-wishbone-ash/); Classic Rock Revisited, a well known US website; Sound and Vision Magazine, a large glossy magazine out of New York City; Total Guitar, and Record Collector magazine.
Interactive Guitar, a worldwide digital magazine, will produce a six-page feature on the band slated for January.
There's a special buzz around Andy's interview with Jesse Hughes (Eagles of Death Metal) for Artrocker, which promises to introduce the band to a broader audience.
"Jesse was very knowledgeable; and being a former political journalist, this will be an esoteric ramble-- quite different from the usual pitch," Andy says. "He's buddies with Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters and told me how he and Grohl really dug the two trance albums we did in the '90s, Trance Visionary and Psychic Terrorism."
That interview is slated for January release.
On the road again…
The "Elegant Stealth" tour begins in full force on Jan. 11 in Belgium and will take the band through Europe, North America and the UK. Steve Ozark, our booking agent in the States, also has his sights on some Brazilian dates! Check the website often for updates: www.wishboneash.com.
The first one is on November 29th, 2011. This one is to support a very nice
Progressive band from New York called Jolly who'll be in Toronto as part of
their North American tour.
More info here: http://www.halfpastfour.com/#/news/prog_the_garrison.html
Manchester based ALIASES have released live video footage filmed at their recent Euroblast Festival appearance, as they get ready to take their unique brand of progressive tech metal on the road for their first full UK tour in little over a weeks time - with Textures and The Ocean (sponsored by Terrorizer Magazine).
View the fan filmed footage on the bands YouTube account here: http://youtu.be/jCXBImSJc1I
Comments guitarist Pin: "After recently tearing it up at Euroblast in Germany, we are well and truly ready and in the mood for the Textures and The Ocean tour. Having known the Textures boys for several years now and talking about, but never managing to hook up a tour, the time has finally come and we are definitely going to make the most of it. If you've bought our EP 'Safer Than Reality, then get out to support us at a show near you, we want a huge Aliases turnout and we'll see you at the front, for plenty of partying!!"
UK TOUR DATES:
ANUBIS GATE recently completed work on a video for their song "Golden Days". The song is taken from the band's latest self-titled release which is available now on Nightmare Records. Metal Injection is hosting an exclusive premiere of the video HERE.
The music of ANUBIS GATE: Stylistically Anubis Gate is conglomeration of the classic 80's heavy metal, a more epic 90's ambience and a dark progressiveness of our days. You could describe it as metal with beautiful soundscapes, cool riffing, and a clear and powerful vocal performance.
The new album, titled simply ANUBIS GATE, is the most beautiful album the band has yet emerged with. The songwriting, which has always been the core of the "ANUBIS GATEsound", stands stronger than ever. This time emphasized by the fact that Henrik Fevre, who was largely responsible for writing the vocals on the previous albums, gets to sing the songs he wrote himself, injecting the emotion and meaning into the lyrics that he had in mind when writing them.
ANUBIS GATE isn't an album that's about endless keyboard/guitar unison soloing. It's all about the songs. From the classic Anubis Gate opener "Hold Back Tommorow" to the melancholic, but very crunchy, "The Re-formation Show", this album displays ANUBIS GATE at the top of their game while in no way rehashing their last two albums. Quite to the contrary, this album sees the band taking new turns whilst retaining the core of all the albums that came before.
TRACKLIST
1. Hold Back Tomorrow
2. The Re-Formation Show
3. Facing Dawn
4. World in a Dome
5. Desiderio Omnibus
6. Oh My Precious Life
7. Golden Days
8. Telltale Eyes
9. River
10. Circumstanced
All songs written by Kim Olsen & Jesper M. Jensen
DISCOGRAPHY
Anubis Gate - 2011 (Nightmare Rec)
The Detached - 2009 (Locomotive Rec)
Andromeda Unchained - 2007 (Locomotive Rec)
A Perfect Forever - 2005 (Locomotive Rec )
Purification - 2004 (Locomotive Rec)
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