When I first heard that Galahad are about to release two albums in a 5 month period and of course in the same year, I was a bit skeptical of how they could keep it up at the same music level with each one of the works. After I had listened to “Battle Scars”, which is an exceptional album… I was more wary of how they could beat it… or at least reach it.
 

Unfortunately, Jonathan Douglas Lord a.k.a Jon Lord, the composer, pianist and Hammond organ player of Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Artwoods and Flower Pot Men has passed away after losing the fight with cancer.

 

Jon was a great musician & composer that has inluenced, with his unique style, loads of bands & musicians throughout his career...

 

The GR team is expressing their deppest condolences to Jon's family and his fellow musicians... R.I.P. Jon... Your music will never die...

 

RHAPSODY are proud to present the new visual creation of the talented director OWE LINGVALL of DREAMDAY MEDIA.

 

It is the video realized for the song "DARK FATE OF ATLANTIS", the first single extracted from the new album "ASCENDING TO INFINITY", to be released on JUNE 22 by NUCLEAR BLAST.

 

The song was edited and made shorter for the video while on the album it will appear in its original version of 6:29 minutes.

 

The members of Luca Turilli’s RHAPSODY state:

Sarah Jezebel Deva and band will soon release a digital EP called "Malediction" features special appearances by Dani Filth from CRADLE OF FILTH and SOILWORK frontman Björn Strid singing a duet with Sarah on "Lies Define Us".

 

"Working with Sarah Jezebel Deva was a trip. We definitely found common ground humor wise and musically. The song we did together is still ringing in my head. The atmosphere is fantastic and the melody is haunting. Drop the gothic top hats and get ready for the real deal"! commented Björn

 

Sigh have been around for over 20 years. Although they’re coming from Japan, they managed to overcome all those difficulties that a non-European or US band was facing at the time and become a respectful name in the metal scene. The band’s black metal days have long gone but that does not mean that they lost those extreme metal elements they had since the beginning in any case. It is true that every new album from this band is a surprise… not matter if you dig it or not. I still remember when I listened to “Imaginary Sonicscape” back in 2001… how impressed I was by the band’s creativity and skills. Perhaps, this is the band’s best work up to now.

 

Pitch Black Records is pleased to announce the addition of three outstanding Greek metal acts into our roster and the release of their albums in May. Each band is unique in its own way and style and their albums will be impossible to go unnoticed.

 

LITROSIS “I am Death” (symphonic black metal)

Their debut album will be the second release in the "Blackest Pitch Series", a series which always features an eclectic selection of black metal with the first pressing being a unique and collectible packaging limited to 333 numbered copies. Out in May the 1st 2012.

 

Arrow Films is pleased to announce the limited edition deluxe versions of Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento’s blood-curdling zombie horror classics DEMONS and DEMONS 2 - released as Blu-ray, DVD and Steelbook editions, alongside DEMONS 3, an exclusive and specially commissioned comic book by Stefan Hutchinson. All formats (detailed below) are released in the UK on Monday April 30th.

 

Restored from the original camera negatives by Cineteca di Bologna, these highly anticipated horror cult classics breathe new demonic fire and unrelenting fury into Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento’s notorious and now-legendary DEMONS franchise.

 

The international music community is buzzing with excitement over the new collaboration between legendary YES vocalist/songwriter Jon Anderson and Italian composer/conductor, international producer and arranger Marco Sabiu. “Limitless Lives” is the new single co-written and performed by Anderson and Sabiu, and is now available as a digital download. The song is also available on Marco Sabiu's most recent album "Audio Ergo Sum", which was presented on February 18, 2012 on live TV before an audience of 12 million; the album has consequently reached iTunes Italy Top 10.