Mad About Rock

  Devin Townsend is pleased to announce the release of his forthcoming new studio album ‘PowerNerd’ on the 25th October 2024 (InsideOutMusic). Devin Townsend’s career is one of many distinct eras. He’s been the leader of Strapping Young Lad, the lynchpin of the Devin Townsend Project and the co-architect of country duo Casualties of Cool, all while maintaining his prolific and lauded solo project. Now, the polymath’s newest era starts with ‘PowerNerd’. “It was a conscious thing,” Devin says of his brand-new album, the music on which he wrote in just 11 days. “I thought, ‘I’ve spent so much time overthinking every aspect of my work – what would happen if I didn’t?’ Maybe I would have the opportunity to be a bit more direct with what it is that I’m trying to do. I really wanted to see if I could cut through some of the meandering.” A song that embodies that, is the album’s title track (which features a guest spot from Jamey Jasta), and you can watch the video for that high-speed ramp...

  Impressive North Wales progressive heavy rockers ZEBEDY continue their resurgence with the release of their enticing new album, Waiting For The Tide, out on Friday, 3rd February. The record is backed by the band’s anthemic new single and video, This City Is Ours, out now. Listen to the single, here- https://ditto.fm/this-city-is-ours and check out the video at https://youtu.be/6xhVDSvSj4E   ZEBEDY express a dominating aura by merging dynamic and elaborate riffery and appealing melodics with progressive structures which takes the listener on a heady voyage of the senses. By taking inspiration from SikTh and Dream Theater through to Fightstar, Karnivool, and Biffy Clyro, ZEBEDY’s have the quality, desire and creativity that transcends their cohorts. So far, the talented four-piece have released two very well received EPs and full-length albums. The Welsh riff merchants have also toured throughout England and Wales, playing alongside Soil, COMA, Psychostick, Deadly Letter C...

  The wait is over: Hei’An are finally releasing their monumental post-progressive album imago, and the trailing piece in the band’s pentalogy of carefully crafted video singles, titled noises. Contradicting said title in an unexpected way, noises starts off slow and in a dignified manner, adding layers piece by piece until it all erupts in a festive crescendo with a positive message hidden deep inside: “Probably our favorite song off the record, it’s our most 'modern-sounding' song, with a lot of synths and pads, beautiful orchestrations and catchy melodies, with some progressive elements hidden in there, but really elegantly, so if you are not paying attention, it comes off as rather ‘simple’. It sounds huge, though – the whole song is a big buildup towards a majestic resolution for the end of the song. We are really looking forward to this one, it’s essentially about finding peace within yourself.” The official animated video for noises creates the perfect atmosphere for thi...

  Karnivool are sadly moving their 2022 UK and European tour back to January and February 2023 The band comments: “Having already rescheduled our European shows once, we have tried every which way to make them happen this year, but we are in the unavoidable position where we must move The Regeneration Tour - again. We could put out some lame excuse but that would be a disservice to all of you and to everyone who has tried so hard to make it happen. So here is the reality for a band from Perth, Western Australia: touring internationally is a risky business especially for artists who don’t want to compromise their show and we have always accepted that, but for us right now a significant financial blow - on top the pummelling we took in the last two years - would be, frankly, the end of the band. Between the extra costs around touring in a covid safe manner or having to cancel shows overseas at extremely short notice, insurance for covid being unavailable and now large currency flu...

  WYVERN are glad to unleash the first video of the Radiations series. Check out the video for "Amnesia" below: Speaking of the video the band stated, "This music video is the result of 6 month of intensive work by Elisa Lecourtois. She's a passionate artist and a good friend of ours, she always wanted to try animation and we thought her drawing style could really fit to a song like Amnesia. It's a work of collaboration, Elisa did the drawing, animation, storyboard and directed the project. Aurélie, the bassist of the band, worked on all the colors and Laurent, the keyboardist, worked on special effects. We're so happy that this project came to life and very proud to release this first animated episode of Radiations !" "Amnesia" is a track taken from the band's upcoming album "Radiations" due for release via Wormholedeath worldwide. Pre order / pre save start today: orcd.co/radiations "From harsh and strong riffs to smooth ...

  With the band‘s music video for "The Puppeteer“ , they not only showcased their new style but also revealed a visually appealing narrative around the character of “The Puppeteer”. With “I Am In Control, Pt. I” the story continues, accompanied by another animated music video. Check out the video for "I Am In Control, Pt. I': Groovy, heavy and catchy at the same time – one never experienced Monosphere as extreme, as on this track. “I Am In Control, Pt. I” culminates the different influences of the band into one shape: In between post-black metal, technical death metal and contrasting prog metal, and thanks to an astounding vocal performance by The Hirsch Effekt singer Nils Wittrock, Monosphere offer a rhythmically focused, modern mathcore sound, combined with catchy prog metal elements that might remind some of Between The Buried And Me or Devin Townsend Project. “’I Am In Control, Pt. I’ is the first part of a three-part opus and probably the best song we've...

  Canada’s Motion Device have a new music video out for their single “Blindfold It Away”. The single comes from their recent album, “Motion Device IV” (or ‘MDIV’ for short), which was released on September 4, 2020. This is the fourth album from the DIY band who recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered the album by themselves in a studio that was completely crowdfunded by fans around the world. Motion Device says they owe their success so far to their fans and are extremely appreciative of their support through their careers. They expect that fans will enjoy the album and the music video that is being released. With a vision of taking fans on a journey, through their music, they encompass all emotions, happiness, sadness, joy, anger, excitement, “MDIV” is an emotional roller coaster that is easy to connect to. The band explains the single in their own words: “The beginning riff was the very first piece of music that began the writing process for the album. Josh first recorded the gui...

Essex based Rock quartet Found Missing? have recently unleashed their powerful new single 'Now I'm Awake'. The track is highly melodic especially aided by the vocals but packs a punch with its heavy instrumentation with crunchy riffs, great bass lines and a slick hard-hitting solo - this is hard rock at it's best and will appeal to many!  Check out the video for the single below: 'Now I'm Awake' is available from all major digital stores for streaming. https://www.facebook.com/FoundMissingBand http://www.instagram.com/found_missing_uk https://twitter.com/FoundMissingUK ​

Belgian Stoner/Progressive/ Metal/Rock band BufferState releases its very first music video. The song this video is about is called “Archean”, taken from their first EP 'Anthropy' which came out on Nov 10th 2018 as an Independent Release. The video for “Archean” can be found here: https://youtu.be/76EOUuPiHxY Together with Josse de Maesschalk(aka WAANZIN), BufferState has now released their first music video. The song is an archetype of the band’s very particular, uncompromising sound. The lyrical theme is aggressive at first sight, very militaristic and us-versus-them. Having most fun when being creative, the story has been rewritten from scratch to the same theme for this video. Still, the images of the video match the feeling of the original lyrics and, of course, the flow of the song. BufferState is extremely proud of this cooperation with the up-and-coming movie talent of Josse de Maesschalk(aka WAANZIN). Creativity, community, engaging with other artists...

Like many artists, CELLAR DARLING have been hit hard by the Coronavirus pandemic and the associated lockdown measures and show cancellations. Rather than giving in or just asking for money without offering something in return, they've announced a campaign where they will provide exclusive content to fans straight from their own homes and rehearsal space, culminating in a live-streamed performance at Lucerne's Soundfarm Studio. The campaign will begin on 5 April with a live Q&A session at www.cellardarling.com/lockdown-content The live stream will take place on 3 May at 20:00 CEST | 19:00 BST | 14:00 EDT | 11:00 PDT | 15:00 BRT | 21:00 MSK | 03:00 JST | 02:00 SGT. Fans will be able to watch at www.cellardarling.com/live-at-soundfarm Throughout the campaign, fans can contribute by donating directly to the band. The stream itself is 'pay-what-you-want' and will also be available for free for those who can't afford to contribute. The band comment: "T...

Modern progressive metal outfit NOVELISTS FR released their brand new single 'Somebody Else' off their upcoming album 'C'est La Vie', which will be available on the 24th of January 2020 via Arising Empire! Watch the official audio stream for 'Somebody Else' here: https://youtu.be/Qn-L2K5dzfo Buy and/or stream the new single here: https://Novelists.lnk.to/SomebodyElse Pre-order 'C'est La Vie' here: https://Novelists.lnk.to/CestLaVie ICYM: Watch the music video for 'Head Rush' here: https://youtu.be/uK73Q22Ncuw Buy and/or stream 'Head Rush' here: https://Novelists.lnk.to/HeadRush 'C'est La Vie' tracklist: 01. Somebody Else 02. Deep Blue 03. Lilly 04. Modern Slave 05. C’est La Vie 06. Head Rush 07. Kings Of Ignorance 08. Rain 09. Human Condition More from NOVELISTS FR: 'Eyes Wide Shut' here: https://youtu.be/eQyXKsUQSn8 'L'appel Du Vide': https://youtu.be/1mQx85jewBo 'A Bitter End': https:...

Tomorrow, the Swiss Prog Metallers CELLAR DARLING kick off their European tour bringing their concept album 'The Spell' as well as their previously released sound tales to the European stages! They also announce an additional show, on which they will be supporting OPETH on October 27th in Norwich, UK. As a bonus, the band unveil the new video for 'Hang' from their latest album 'The Spell', which you can see here: https://youtu.be/_8ANMbIZ5z4 The band comment: "We welcome the beautiful colours of autumn with 'Hang', yet another animated video from our concept album 'The Spell', once again created by Costin Chioreanu. This is the 8th video in our ongoing series, in which every one of the 13 album tracks will receive a visual interpretation by Costin. We hope you enjoy it! We are also pleased to announce that we'll be joining the one and only OPETH at their upcoming show on 27 October 2019 at the Nick Rayns LCR UEA in Nor...

Bay Area natives AENIMUS are proud to present drummer Cody Pulliam's new playthrough for the song 'Between Iron And Silver', taken from their sophomore album Dreamcatcher. Watch the video here: youtu.be/pFdcDBGSGhI Cody Pulliam comments, “Real stoked to present my playthrough for one of our favorite songs off of Dreamcatcher, “Between Iron and Silver”! This song challenged me to focus on when it’s appropriate, to be fast and flashy as a drummer, and when to sit back and compliment the song and let the other instruments speak. Thank you to Chris P. Billz and Jeremy Klein at Abyssal Lair Studios for helping me track and film this playthrough. Hope you all enjoy it" Get your tickets now to watch AENIMUS perform this song every night on their upcoming tour with ENSIFERUM, KALMAH & ABIGAIL WILLIAMS this Fall: aenimusofficial.com/tour-dates Catch AENIMUS on the Path To Victory Tour 2019 with headliners ENSIFERUM and special guests KALMAH & ABIGAIL WILLI...

Promising to be one of the most ambitious projects in metal history, BLIND GUARDIAN's forthcoming release will be well worth the wait. The idea of recording an orchestral album originally formed in the minds of the two leading lights of the BLIND GUARDIAN universe - guitarist André Olbrich and singer Hansi Kürsch - during the 1990's when BLIND GUARDIAN started to use orchestral elements to enhance their opulent sound. The monumental project started to take shape over recent years, and mirroring its epic sound cascades, the lyrical concept was developed. To create the concept, Andrè and Hansi worked alongside German bestselling author Markus Heitz, whose latest novel Die dunklen Lande was released on March 1st, 2019. The book is set in 1629 and contains the prequel to BLIND GUARDIAN TWILIGHT ORCHESTRA's opus Legacy Of The Dark Lands, which will be out on November 8th, 2019. To give their fans a first taster of the new album, the band is proud to present the first sin...

One of the hardest working bands in the heavy metal landscape at the moment, Ukrainian juggernaut JINJER have released a 4th video single “Teacher, Teacher!” taken from their critically acclaimed 5 track EP entitled Micro, released via Napalm Records in January 2019. Filmed in various concert venues throughout Europe on their last tour with Amorphis and Soilwork,“Teacher, Teacher!” is a visually stunning portrayal of JINJER's exciting and energetic live show mixed over the unique Progressive Groove Metal sound that sets them apart from the rest of the pack. The band comments on the new track & video "Teacher, Teacher!": "The idea behind the song is about people that dictate their agenda by means of their status, position, or just their internet claim to fame in order to impose their opinion onto others but those opinions aren’t based on experience nor knowledge." JINJER are currently booking more tours on their quest for world domination with dates ...

The storytellers of CELLAR DARLING released their sophomore studio album 'The Spell' on the 22nd March 2019 and carry you away into the tale of an unnamed girl who is birthed into a world that is full of pain, damaged and debilitated by the human beings that inhabit it. We follow her as she searches for meaning in life when suddenly she meets and falls in love with death. This haunting concept album sees the band taking a turn towards heavy progressive rock while still not neglecting their folk roots. The band states: "Today we release 'The Spell' - a concept album based on the old motif of "Death and the Maiden", but with our own unique story of a girl who falls in love with the personification of Death. For the first time we wrote music according to a lyrical concept, we let the words of the story guide our melodies and rhythms and fully immersed ourselves in this fictional world. Now we invite you to do the same - dream, interpret, make it your ...

On March 22nd, Switzerland's CELLAR DARLING will release their new concept masterpiece 'The Spell', which tells the story of a girl who falls in love with death and to get their loyal fans involved, the band had decided to let their online followers cast votes on which song from the tracklist they would like to see released as next single. The winner was the 7-minute long 'Drown' and today, you'll get to see the hauntingly beautiful music video that was once again animated by Costin Chioreanu. "For this single, we wanted to do something different", the band states. "And we felt that our striking one-word tracklist is perfect for a fan vote. To let people decide which song they want to hear next based on only the title and length of the song, and to take us out of the decision process for once. To our surprise -- and joy -- the song that is probably the least "commercial" of all of them was chosen and we think that is kind of cool… ...

Progressive masters Dream Theater have unveiled a new single and video for 'Untethered Angel' taken from their upcoming new album 'Distance Over Time' which will be released February 22nd 2019. The album also marks the first for the band's new label InsideOut Music. Check out the video for 'Untethered Angel' below: "Distance Over Time" will be available as: standard CD jewel case, special edition digipak (including one bonus track), 180g gatefold 2LP edition (including one bonus track, an eight-page-LP-booklet and the entire album on CD), limited-edition artbook (including one bonus track, 5.1 mix with video animations, instrumental mixes and high-res files of the album, stems for "Untethered Angel", extended liner notes, additional artwork, including photos from the writing session and additional video content), as deluxe collector's box set (including lenticular cover card, artbook, 180g 2LP gatefold edition wit...