Country: UK
Sub Genre: Symphonic
Label: Cleopatra Records
Release date: June 18, 2013

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Country: Poland
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Lynx Music
Release date: June 5, 2013

Based on Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita"

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Kenny “Rhino” Earl is involved in two projects this year (so far). One is the new metal super group Death Dealer with Sean Peck, Stu Marshall, and Ross the Boss, offering their debut War Master. The other is this album Thundergod, the second appearance of his band Angels of Babylon. More»

Guest Vocals:  Michael Kiske

There's nothing subtle about Infinita Symphonia and their approach to power metal; after all they are from Italy. Their sophomore effort, simply self-titled, finds the band stirring up more bombastic arrangements with big riffage to grand orchestral layers to large vocal arrangements. More»

Singer John Waite (The Babys, Bad English) released on June 12 a new album called "Live All Access" and is available through including Itunes. The album contains the following eight tracks: More»

The 2nd album from Las Vegas based melodic heavy metal rockers Frozen By Fire.The songs on The Quickening range from hard and fast, to mid tempo rocking songs, to powerful ballads, to some progressive influenced rockers. The songs contain great guitar riffs, with catchy sing along choruses, and memorable melodies. The guitar solos on this CD are incredible, featuring everything from full out shred, to sweep picking, to tasteful melodic solos. The vocals range from in your face hard rock wailing, to tender singing, with a few metal screams More»

Promising not to be a one-off project is Death Dealer a 'virtual' heavy metal super group. The line up includes Sean Peck (Cage) on vocals, Stu Marshall (Dungeon, Empires of Eden) and Ross the Boss (Manowar, Ross the Boss, New Metal Leader) on the guitars, Mike Davis (Halford, Lizzy Borden) on bass and Rhino (Manowar, Holy Hell, Angels of Babylon) on drums. The band is 'virtual' because it does not exist in any one physical location, since the members are international and collaborated via the Internet. More»

Some may question their strategy, calling it interesting, quizzical, or bold. But Ireland's Mockingbird has chosen to release a live album, Live Cuts, following the similarly titled EP Fresh Cuts, before debuting a full-length album. Yet most rock bands are invigorated and propelled by their live performance, or broken by it. More»

Mean Streaks debut album "Metal Slave" caused a big stir in the world of metal with their 80´s influenced heavy metal. The band now declared war: The band´s latest album "Declaration Of War" is the first one to feature new lead guitarists Patrik Gardberg (Solution 45, Ammotrack, Divinefire) & David Andersson (Soilwork, Night-Flight Orchestra). This time no efforts were spared in achieving the perfect heavy metal album. With state-of-the-art songwriting and an exceptional musical craftsmanship, this is by far the strongest album Mean More»

A2Z, the instrumental project of Zachary Hietala (Tarot) & Ari Hentunen, have released their new album "Parasites of Paradise", on June 7, meaning through Playground Music.The cover has been borne by Toxic Angel / Janne Pitkänen More»

Five young musicians who are dedicated to the old time: Improved Gods play a mixture of hard rock, heavy and thrash metal of the 80 young with a good dash of panache that leaves neither Headbanger old rockers still cold! With these different influences and especially of its kind to combine them, they have already attracted many fans who are limited by no means limited to the village youths from the area - More»

the new album from multinational melodic metallers MASTERPLAN, will be released on May 17 via AFM Records.

In a recent interview with Metal Shock Finland, MASTERPLANguitarist/leader Roland Grapow stated about the band's new CD: "We are not leaving the MASTERPLAN path too much, but everything we have — the melodic part and a little bit progressive — I would say we're a little bit more powerful and I'm also mixing the album this time. I want to get a little bit more modern, as the sound we have was created More»

DARK MOOR will release their ninth full-length album titled «Ars Musica", June 18, 2013. Album was again produced by Luigi Stefanini (RHAPSODY OF FIRE, maze, VISION divine). More»