Hailing from the beautiful city of Hamburg, SHAKHTYOR are the newest members of the CYCLONE EMPIRE family and we're sure they not only fit in perfectly, but will also blow you away with their massive sound, like they did to us. Their style can be best described as a mixture of Doom, Stoner, Sludge and Post Metal played completely instrumental. Although it´s quite hard to find fitting comparisons, we can throw in names like NEUROSIS, OMEGA MASSIF, BLACK SABBATH, UFOMAMMUT or even ENTOMBED and ACID BATH!

 

Attention PARADISE LOST fans from the UK! Celebrating 25 years, Paradise Lost will be performing live at Metal Hammer's annual Golden Gods award show on Monday 17th June at the Indigo2 in London and you can be there! 

 

There are x100 pairs of free tickets exclusively for all PARADISE LOST fans up for grabs. Simply follow this link to enter: www.futurecomps.co.uk/paradiselost.

 

 

PARADISE LOST live:

Four year after their second release, Midryasi are back with a new album under a new label. The band’s heavy rock, doom, psychedelic, prog, space & rock amalgam is evolving on each new work.
 
“Black, Blue & Violet” is following the band’s progression into a gloomy, hallucinogenic & obscure alleyway. All this psycho-doom-panic-murky atmosphere they create, has a pleasant edge especially to those who are fond of such things. The sound is also fabulous with bits of 70s psychedelia now and again but without being old-fashioned in the least.
 

Swedish classic rock superstars GRAVEYARD are glad to announce the return of bass player Rikard Edlund had checked himself into rehab in October last year.

 

Commented the band: “Ricky's back!.... more than glad to announce that: Rikard is back on (some kind of) track - which means that GRAVEYARD fans can start looking forward to his return to the stage”.

 

GRAVEYARD live 2013:

11.04. S Are - Bygget

17.04. FI Turku - Klubi Turku

Manilla Road is a strange case. It had always been like that with this “cult” & underground band. They do have die-hard fans all over the world and especially in Greece… but they also have lots of MR-haters. This is probably to Mark’s “odd” - love it or hate it - voice. I had never been into them that much but I can’t ignore albums like “Open the Gates” that are a milestone to the epic heavy/power metal genre.
 

Chicago's EARTHEN GRAVE is thrilled to announce their recent signing to Heavy Rock Leader, Ripple Music for worldwide release of their debut album, "Earthen Grave".

 

The album will be available on CD and double vinyl on July 9th via Ripple Music. 

 

Berlin-based classic/psychedelic hard rock trio KADAVAR proudly present the first single of the upcoming second studio album “Abra Kadavar”, to be released via Nuclear Blast on April 12! 

 

Check out the song “Doomsday Machine”, accompanied by exclusive on-the-road and behind-the-scenes video footage, below.

 

Norwegian doom rockers DEVIL proudly present a first song from their upcoming new album “Gather The Sinners”.

 

Check out “Southern Sun” below.

 

San Francisco-based doom rockers ORCHID have revealed the tracklisting for the band's upcoming album, “The Mouths Of Madness”, which is scheduled for a April 26, 2013 release via Nuclear Blast.

 

The band also commented on every song of the album – see below.

 

Check out the lyric video for the first single, “Wizard Of War” below.

 

Tracklist:

01. Mouths Of Madness

Germany’s most authentic and passionate psychedelic hard rock combo of today that already casted a spell on all fans of solid riff-driven yet doom-like 70’s hard rock à la BLACK SABBATH or PENTAGRAM – reveal the cover artwork and tracklist of their second full-length album “Abra Kadavar” that will be out via Nuclear Blast on April 12, 2013! 

 

The photo for the cover artwork was taken by photographer/ ex-STEREOLAB drummer Joe Dilworth.