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Luke Davies - Vocals, Guitar
Leon Kemp - Lead Guitar
James Britton - Bass
Ross Andrews – Drums
 

The Almighty are, according to Iron Maiden's Steve Harris, "Definitely one of the best bands to have played with us through the years. They've always been a special band...."

How special, well you can find out for yourselves when Ricky Warwick, Stumpy Monroe, Pete Friesen & Floyd London take to the stage at Newcastle Carling Academy on Dec 29th. With a new career retrospective CD/DVD package, appropriately entitled Anthf***ingology - The Gospel According To..., due to be released via Sanctuary on February 5th this is bound to be one of the gigs of the year. As Warwick says "Music is probably crying out for a band like The Almighty'. Do you want to tell him he's wrong. Tickets for the Newcastle show are available via this link but if you can't make this show the band are also playing the following dates in December

Dec 26th - Nottingham Rock City
Dec 27th - London Shepherds Bush Empire
Dec 28th - Sheffield Corporation
Dec 30th - Glasgow Garage

Magnum have lined up the following shows in May

May 17th - Glasgow Garage
May 19th - Nottingham Rock City
May 23rd - Manchester University
May 24th - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall

The band are currently finishing recording their new album, entitled Princess Alice & The Broken Arrow. Songs set to feature on the album, which is currently scheduled for a Spring 2007 release, include When We Were Younger, Eyes Wide Open, Like Brothers We Stand, Out Of The Shadows, Dragons Are Real, Inside Your Head, Be Strong, Thank You For The Day, Your Lies, Desperate Times & You'll Never Sleep.

Mastodon have lined up a series of UK shows in March 2007. The dates confirmed at this point are as follows:

March 5th - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
March 6th - Manchester University
March 7th - Glasgow ABC
March 13th - Nottingham Rock City
March 14th - Portsmouth Pyramid Centre
March 15th - London Mean Fiddler

REO Speedwagon head to the UK to play a quartet of dates in June. The dates are as follows:

June 4th - Glasgow Royal COncert Hall
June 5th - Manchester Bridgewater hall
June 6th - Birmingham Symphony Hall
June 7th - London Hammersmith Apollo

Stone Sour return to the UK for another series of shows in March. The dates confirmed are:

March 11th - Birmingham Carling Academy
March 12th - Manchester Apollo
March 13th - London Astoria
March 15th - Glasgow Carling Academy

Hot on the tail of their success as special guests to Hatebreed in November, and following their imminent stateside run as direct support to Slayer, Boston’s Unearth have announced their first ever headlining tour of the UK in March 2007.

March 20th - Exeter Lemon Grove
March 21st - Nottingham Rock City
March 22nd - Manchester Academy 2
March 23rd - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Marc 24th - London Mean Fiddler
March 26th - Oxford Zodiac
March 27th - Glasgow Garage
March 28th - Stoke Sugarmill
March 29th - Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
March 30th - Newport TJs

Main support will come from Glendale, Arizona based powerhouse Job For A Cowboy, who return to the UK for the 2nd time in less then a year before gearing up to record their debut album for Metal Blade - slated for a spring 2007 release.

Also on the bill are Canadian Deathcore pounders Despised Icon and one other act who will be announced shortly.

RIDE THE SKY, the new band of ex-HELLOWEEN drummer and MASTERPLAN founder Uli Kusch and ex-TEARS OF ANGER / BEYOND TWILIGHT singer Bjørn Jansson plus Benny Jansson on guitar, have signed a worldwide deal with Nuclear Blast!

"We're very happy that RIDE THE SKY has inked a deal with the label that has brought up so many great bands in the past years", states Uli. "We're looking forward to a creative cooperation with Nuclear Blast!" "We are extremely proud about being part of the Nuclear Blast roster and together with Uli Kusch, our song writing will take us to a whole new dimension", adds singer Bjørn Jansson. At the moment, the band is still writing songs for the upcoming debut album. The recording will take place in the band's own studio (Monsterclan Studios N&S) soon; RIDE THE SKY will produce the record by themselves together with a co-producer and are currently in negotiations with various contacts concerning the mix.

RIDE THE SKY's debut album will be released around August / September 2007.
 

The John Young Band play the following shows in the upcoming weeks

Dec 19th -  Stourbridge Rock Cafe 2000
Dec 22nd - Guildford The Boileroom
Feb 22nd - Putney, London The Half Moon

The band will be:
John Young (keys/vox) (ex Scorpions,Fish,Paul Rodgers,Asia,Greenslade)
Robin Boult (gtrs) (Howard Jones, Fish)
Frosty Beedle (drums) (Cutting Crew)
Steve Vantsis (bass) (Fish, Bonnie Tyler)

Hell Is For Heroes return to action early next year having completed work on their, as yet untitled third album. Before the album is released however, currently scheduled for spring 2007, the band undertake a comprehensive UK tour in February, the dates so far confirmed are as follows:

Feb 5th - Norwich Arts Centre
Feb 6th - Nottingham Rock City
Feb 7th - Newport TJ’s
Feb 8th - Exeter Cavern
Feb 9th - Bristol Carling Academy
Feb 10th - Leicester Charlotte
Feb 11th - Sheffield Leadmill
Feb 12th - Aberdeen Moshulu
Feb 13th - Dundee Reading Rooms
Feb 14th - Glasgow King Tuts
Feb 15th - Newcastle Global
Feb 16th - Manchester Hop & Grape
Feb 17th - Liverpool Carling Academy
Feb 19th - Stoke Sugarmill
Feb 20th - Oxford Zodiac
Feb 21st - Bournemouth - Old Fire Station
Feb 22nd - Portsmouth - Wedgewood Rooms
Feb 24th - London Islington Academy
Feb 25th - Milton Keynes Pitz
Feb 26th - Wolverhampton Little Civic

These tour dates will be marked by a one-off release of a live studio performance on record and video.

Legendary Milton Keynes fivepiece Capdown crashland back into the nation’s record racks in early 2007 with their first album release for many light years. ‘Wind-Up Toys’, their third long player, features twelve brand new tracks including recent download-only single ‘Home Is Where The Start Is’ and December’s comeback release ‘Keeping Up Appearances’.

With the close knit line-up of Jake (vox/sax), Boob (bass), Keith (guitar/vox) and Tim (drums) now augmented by newcomer Eddie (keyboards / samples) ‘Wind-Up Toys’ completes one heck of a raucous Capdown return to the limelight. Incessant touring with A, Big Reel Fish, Bad Religion and Less Than Jake had spread the heroically underground word far and wide over the past six years until happily, the 2006 Carling Festival proved that Capdown remain as enervating a live draw as ever with the biggest crowd for the Lock-Up stage on the Saturday afternoon at Reading.

Even more happily, fresh album tracks ‘No Matter What’ and ‘Blood, Sweat And Fears’ still retain the authentic ska sparkle which has sustained Capdown through thick, thin and even thinner. Yet with Hundred Reasons’ guitarist Larry Hibbitt at the production desk there is also a new hard rock muscularity to the Capdown sound with crunching riffs bouncing off rabble-rousing melodies to mosh-mashing effect on ‘Terms & Conditions Apply’ and the rather angry title track. Consider that ‘Thrash Tuesday’ is one minute 22 seconds of manic thrashing, manic shouting and – yes – manic feedback and it becomes apparent that Capdown are far from the cusp of calming down.

The full track listing for 'Wind Up Toys' is as follows:

Truly Dead, Blood, Sweat And Fears, Wind Up Toys’, Terms And Conditions Apply, Surviving The Death Of A Genre, No Matter What, Thrash Tuesday, Generation Next, Keeping Up Appearances, Strictly Business, Community Service and Home Is Where The Start Is.

The album is released via Fierce Panda on February 5th 2007

After two long years the wait is over. The third and final episode of the Genius Rock Opera, written and performed by the Italian multitalented musician Daniele Liverani, is now ready to be unleashed to its devoted fans on February 16th 2007!

This last chapter of the trilogy entitled "The Final Surprise" will reveal what happened to Genius and his guide Twinspirits 32 at the end of their long journey into dreams' world.

We left the two main characters on the threshold of the Asian fantasies warehouse, in front of a dark underworld. They were aware that the little prince was there, hidden in one of those warehouses, but they soon realised they were in front of a huge maze, full of an infinite number of fantasy warehouses.

Now...which one was the toy warehouse where the prince was hidden? Running through almost 80 minutes of various music styles, the listener will be led by the storyteller (Philip Bynoe) through the final events of the saga and discover what happened to Genius once he woke up to go back to reality world.

You will finally learn if the little prince will be saved, and if the dreams world will be safe forever. Lots of titanic vocal duels are featured in this episode including the amazing duet performed by characters Twinspirits 32 (Daniel Gildenlow of PAIN OF SALVATION) and Apikor (Jorn Lande, ex MASTERPLAN) and between Twinspirits 32 (Daniel Gildenlow) and Genius (this time performed by a majestic DC Cooper of SILENT FORCE).

Other great singers give their interpretation of the characters in this final episode: Eric Martin as Mr. Niko, Toby Hitchcock (of PRIDE OF LIONS) as Senator Jeramus and Andrea Dätwyler (of LUNATICA) as Kokeshi Doll. This breathtaking episode of Genius' is the final act and an amazing mind trip into the unknown parallel dimension where dreams are created. The dream is over but don't miss the surprises this Opera still has in store!

Drum tracks for the album were laid as usual by Dario Ciccioni, while Oliver Hartmann took care of the monster chorus vocal work.

Tracklisting of the album includes the following songs: Toy Warehouse; No More Chances; Save Me From My Destiny; Alive and Safe; Jump Off This Train; Let Me Live; Inside These Memories; I Die; Back To Life Again; Dream In Liberty; The Final Surprise.

Release date of the album has been set on February 16th 2007 on Frontiers Records, with a release in Japan scheduled on King Records.

McQueen announce "Break The Silence" new album and tour dates.

McQueen will kick off 2007 with tours across the globe in support of their forthcoming hotly anticipated debut album "Break The Silence" on Demolition Records due out on January 22nd. The first two confirmed legs of their "Break The Silence" Tour being the UK and German legs with more dates being expected to be confirmed shortly. A first single taken from the album called "The Line Went Dead" is also set for an early 2007 release and has been mixed by Reuben producer Jack Rustan.

The full list of confirmed shows at present is as follows:

Jan 20th - Wolverhampton Little Civic
Jan 21st - Southampton Joiners Arms
Jan 22nd - Brighton Engine Room
Jan 23rd - Manchester Roadhouse
Jan 24th - Glasgow Barfly
Jan 25th - Newcastle Academy
Jan 26th - Sheffield Corporation
Jan 27th - Nottingham Rock City
Jan 28th - Oxford Zodiac
Feb 9th - London Monto Water Rats
Feb 24th - Berlin White Trash
Feb 25th - Hamburg Logo
Feb 26th - Cologne Prime Club
Feb 27th - Frankfurt Nachtleben
Feb 28th - Munich Backstage

With influences coming from all manner of musical bases (Opeth, Black Sabbath, Isis, The Beatles, Abba), the mighty Memfis unleash their debut UK album ‘The Wind Up’ on February 07 on Dental Records. The band, who hail from the small, provincial Swedish town of Kristinehamn have already released ‘The Wind-up’ in their native Sweden to massive critical acclaim and a top 20 chart placing. The last few months have seen tours with bands such as The Haunted and Satyricon really open them up in their native land, leading the band to win a recent national radio award for best newcomer, across all genres. 2007 is thankfully shaping up as a worthy follow on from 2006 and looks to become a truly classic year for heavy music.

‘The Wind-Up’ from new boys on the scene, Memfis, is sure to follow on from the massively impressive 06 releases so far (Lamb of God, Mastodon, Bullet for my Valentine, Killswitch Engage, Alexisonfire, Satyricon, Slayer, Sikth, Iron Maiden and Bring me the Horizon) and start the new year with a metallic bang. Filled with aggression, melody, off-kilter funk breaks and middle eights, multi layered guitar solos and vocal harmonies, ten storey high riffs and a pounding, brain rattling rhythm section, ‘The Wind-Up’ is a monster of a record, and that’s no wind up…..

Dental Records is a new Stockholm based label, started by the men behind Cold Records (Scar Symmetry) and Threeman Recordings (Entombed), with this release being their first under this new Dental guise. Look out for further releases from Dental Records in January, Hearse ‘In These Veins’ and Birdflesh ‘Mongo Musicale’ as well as tour dates for Memfis in January and February 07.

'The Wind' up features the following track listing:

Breathless, The wind-up, Forever discounted, Eternal failure, The judgement, Cover it up, Dead ends, The game, Stop those waves, Save the day and Breed the disorder

Memfis are:
Mattias Engström - Vocals/Guitar
Johan Boqvist - Vocals/Guitar
Christian Öhberg - Bass
Carl-Johan Lindblad - Drums

Winterville have lined up a quartet of UK shows during February. The dates confirmed are:

Apr 3th - Stoke Sugar Mill
Apr 4th - Manchester Academy
Apr 5th - Glasgow King Tut's
Apr 6th - Birmingham Barfly
Apr 7th - Oxford Zodiac
Apr 8th - London Mean Fiddler
Apr 10th - Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
Apr 11th - Northampton Soundhaus
Apr 12th - Nottingham Rock City
Apr 13th - Newport T.J.'s
Apr 14th - Colchester Arts Centre
Apr 15th - Sheffield Corporation

Trouble have lined up a brace of UK dates in May as part of a Europe wide tour. The veteran doomsters play:

May 29th - Bradford Rio's
May 30th - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall

Hot on the tail of their success as special guests to HATEBREED in November, and following their imminent stateside run as direct support to SLAYER, Boston's UNEARTH have announced their first-ever headlining tour of the U.K. in March 2007. Main support will come from Glendale, Arizona-based powerhouse JOB FOR A COWBOY, who return to the U.K. for the second time in less then a year before gearing up to record their debut album for Metal Blade (slated for a spring 2007 release). Also on the bill are Canadian deathcore pounders DESPISED ICON and one other act who will be announced shortly. The dates are as follows:

Mar. 20 - Exeter - Lemon Grove
Mar. 21 - Nottigham - Rock City
Mar. 22 - Manchester - Academy 2
Mar. 23 - Wolverhampton - Wolfrun Hall
Mar. 24 - London - Mean Fiddler
Mar. 26 - Oxford - Zodiac
Mar. 27 - Glasgow - Garage
Mar. 28 - Stoke - Sugarmill
Mar. 29 - Portsmouth - Wedgewood Rooms
Mar. 30 - Newport - TJ's

UNEARTH's latest album, "III: In the Eyes of Fire", sold 22,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD was recorded at a Seattle studio with producer Terry Date (PANTERA, DEFTONES). A limited-edition version of "III: In the Eyes of Fire" includes a bonus DVD containing the "making of" footage for the album and a live video filmed on the Sounds of The Underground tour.

DARTZ! release their new single ‘Once, twice, again!’ on 29th January 2007 on Xtra Mile Recordings.

A classic example of William (bass/vocals), Henry (guitar) and Philip’s (drums/co-vocals) ability to produce intelligent, genuine and angular pop, ‘Once, twice, again!’ is a well crafted and energetic ode to positivity described by DrownedInSound.com as “a perfect collection of Dismemberment Plan chorus catches and limey At The Drive-In sloganeering”.

Available on CD, limited edition 7” vinyl and digital download, the CD is backed by brand new song ‘Lines’ and an exclusive remix of live favourite ‘Prego Triangolos’ by Beehivepines. The 7” also features an exclusive remix of ‘Prego Triangolos’ on the b-side, this time by Dave House (The Steal, Lucky Thirteen etc).

DARTZ! spent much of 2006 on the road with the likes of Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, The Rumble Strips and The Research, as well as one off dates with such luminaries as The Futureheads and 65 Days Of Static. They kick off 2007 supporting their good friends Hot Club De Paris* before heading out on their own headline tour in February and March:

As I Lay Dying have confirmed that they will be headlining three dates in the UK alongside supporting BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE on their rescheduled sold out shows in January 2007

January 6th - Colchester Arts Centre
January 10th - Oxford Zodiac
January 11th - Sheffield Corporation

Blind Guardian will return to UK shores in 2007 to do an exclusive show performing at Bloodstock Open Air on Saturday 7th July. This will be Blind Guardian’s first ever outdoor show in the UK and a welcome return following their last, and first appearance, at Bloodstock in 2002

The original line-up of the long-defunct Arizona thrashers SACRED REICH — Phil Rind (bass, vocals), Wiley Arnett (lead guitar), Jason Rainey (rhythm guitar) and Greg Hall (drums) — will reunite for several shows in Europe next summer, including an appearance at the Wacken Open Air festival on August 4, 2007. Included in the band's touring plans is a date at London's Camden Underworld on July 29th.

Metal Blade Records will release a SACRED REICH premium boxset including “Ignorance”, “Surf Nicaragua” and loads of bonus material as a 3-disc-package in spring of 2007

On Sunday, December 3rd, Vomitory entered Leon Music studios Karlstad, Sweden, to start the recordings of their sixth album, which will be entitled "TERRORIZE BRUTALIZE SODOMIZE". Leon Music's owner/founder Rikard Löfgren is the producer of choice for this album. Ten songs will be recorded during two weeks, and then the band take a break over the holidays, and during the beginning of January the plan is to finish everything with the mixing and mastering. The artwork is being produced by Chaos Media and the band can assure fans that the title and the artwork will go hand in hand...

 "TERRORIZE BRUTALIZE SODOMIZE" is scheduled for a late April release through Metal Blade Records.

Dragon Eye Promotions are pleased to announce that, after some weeks of discussion between legal representatives on both sides of the Atlantic, a globally exclusive management contract has been signed between Dragon Eye Promotions and Ron Marks, professionally known as Subsonic.

This is what Ron Marks had to say regarding the contract signing….

“Every once in a while you get lucky and find people who involve themselves with music and the industry for the same reasons as you. There's absolutely a positive chemistry between Geno, Trace and myself. And there are many times when one will say what the other is thinking. You can't fake that and you can't buy it either. The whole thing just feels right.”

We are all now working together in order to push Subsonic forward. Ron is currently in the studio working on material for an as yet untitled, third album release and we have tracks ready for radio airplay which will be released to relevant and interested parties over the coming weeks. We are also seeking record label support for the coming album. 

As part of our promotions with Subsonic, we have made a deal with Perris Records to release the track, ‘Treason’, through their network CD to be distributed throughout the US and Europe, so look out for these releases. A special thank you to Tom Mathers and Billy Ifantis for helping us make this happen. 

We now feel the time is right for Subsonic to be out on the road giving the fans what they want, a killer live show, and to this end we will be looking for slots as a supporting artist for tours within the US as well as headline shows.  

As competitive as today’s music industry is, every now and then a talented artist comes along and gets overlooked. We feel that this has been the case for Ron Marks and Subsonic for far too long. It is now time to address this and let the rest of world hear what we already know. Having a sense of humour and diversity can work well in today’s rock industry. We think you will be pleasantly surprised when you hear the new tracks.

MTM MUSIC is proud to announce the signing of Swiss hard rock band CRYSTAL BALL!.

Swiss like to rock! With acts like GOTTHARD, KROKUS and CRYSTAL BALL the Swiss scene is among the finest and healthiest around.

CRYSTAL BALL started as a cover band but soon began to create their own sound by performing more than one hundred concerts in their first two years as a unit. CRYSTAL BALL have been rising to fame amongst the fans of hard and melodic sounds with their trademark mixture of melodic Hard Rock and Power Metal.

After recording 4 studio albums and touring through Europe as support of well known bands like GOTTHARD, KROKUS, DOKKEN, DORO, U.D.O., PRETTY MAIDS, BONFIRE, PINK CREAM 69 and others with 450 shows almost in a row, they now come back with a dynamic and melodic hard rock album of finest quality.

“TimeWalker” was their latest release, the fifth full length in the band‘s still brief yet intense history. The album was a concept album with a journey through different historical events and was produced by Stefan Kaufmann (ex-Accept, U.D.O.).

(From left to rigth: Marcel Sardella (Drums), Mark Sweeney (Vox))

Now CRYSTAL BALL is back and already entered the studio for a brand new studio album. The line-up is as strong and tight as ever with long-time singer Mark Sweeney, guitar player Scott Leach and Marcel Sardella on drums.

The album is scheduled for spring 2007 and the band have already announced some festivals, while a proper tour will follow later the year. Vocalist Mark Sweeney commented "We are ready to rock and you can a expect a great piece of Swiss Hardrock!"

The release is scheduled for April / May 2007.

As one of the British rock success stories of 2006, The Answer blast into the new year with details of their largest UK headline tour to date.

After selling out London’s Mean Fiddler venue in November and currently drawing equally large crowds across Europe, The Answer will return from international duty to play 8 exclusive headline shows in the UK in March, with special guests ‘Airborne’.

Come March The Answer will have performed their immense foot-on-monitor-guitar-wielding-head-banging-good-time-rock ‘n’ roll throughout Europe and directly after the UK shows they jet off to Japan and Australia where they will be touring with the Eagles of Death Metal!. The band are fast becoming one of the hardest touring bands in rock ‘n’ roll and in the last year have managed to cram in a staggering 119 shows worldwide!


UK TOUR DATES: MARCH 07
01 Oxford Zodiac
02 Bristol Trinity
03 Manchester M.D.H
05 Nottingham Rescue Rooms
06 Newcastle Northumbria University
07 Glasgow Garage
09 London Bloomsbury Ballroom
10 Birmingham Academy

The Answer round off a triumphant 2006 with the release of their new single ‘Come Follow Me’, released digitally on December 18th 2006 through Albert Productions.
This high-speed riff-tastic download offers two exclusive and sought after bonus tracks - an acoustic version of their album highlight ‘Preachin’’ and a live studio version of the never yet released ‘So Cold’.

It’s accompanied by a brilliant 70’s inspired video where Evangelical front man, Cormac Neeson, tempts TV viewers to part with cash and find God whilst at the same time being led into temptation himself with attractive telephone operators and other er………appealing vices. A slightly more raunchy X-rated version is available to view online through the band’s official site www.theanswer.ie whilst the clean ‘church go-er’ version is now being showed on Scuzz, Kerrang! TV and VH1!

‘Come Follow Me’ is the third single to be lifted off their debut album ‘RISE’, which has just reached Impala SILVER certification status in Europe (including UK and Eire) selling over 40,000 copies since its release in the UK (July) and Europe (Sept).

Pride Of Lions

Frontiers Records is excited to announce the release of PRIDE OF LIONS brand new studio album entitled "The Roaring of Dreams" on February 16th 2007.

"With this album", says guitarist/vocalist/keyboardist Jim Peterik "we strove to emphasize all the elements that we are best noted for: big hooks, soaring melodies, clever modulations, inspiring messages, the rock-solid Pride Of Lions band and of course Toby Hitchcock's amazing vocal range and talent".

And indeed Toby seems to have hit his stride this time out. With vocal tour de forces such as the classic style power ballad "Faithful Heart" and the all-stops-out rocker "Heaven On Earth", his development can be clearly heard.

"We knew this was a make or break album for Pride of Lions. We put it all out there on the Live Album/DVD: the past and the present. This album is what our future is all about ", Peterik adds: "When we sat down with Serafino (President of Frontiers Records) last year, he suggested that Pride of Lions return to the more commercial and hook-oriented music of our first album and the Vital Signs album. I must say I was ready to do just that!"

You will hear the fruits of that conversation on melodic nuggets such as the City Boy inspired "Let Me Let You Go" and the non-stop drive of "Defying Gravity". Another standout is "Language Of The Heart: "I must admit I was thinking of the song we used as our opener in my Survivor years, "Feels Like Love" when I wrote this one. It has the same energy and drive" says Jim. In this and every other track, the power of Ed Breckenfeld on drums, Klem Hayes on bass, Mike Aquino on guitar and Christian Cullen on keyboards is stronger than ever. Also, the production team of Jim Peterik and Larry Millas is back in force and the sound is clearer than ever.

The themes that Jim's songs are noted for are all present and accounted for. The title track, "The Roaring of Dreams" traces the lives of two frustrated people whose only escape from their humdrum lives is the dreams that they hold sacred in their hearts - the hope for a better future. "Book of Life" challenges us to be all that we can be, "Are you just a footnote, or will you rise to fill it's pages, you were born to rock the ages, write a brand new chapter in the Book Of Life". And to find the definitive song on a man dealing with infidelity, you need to look no farther than the album's closing track, "Turnaround" featuring a cameo vocal by Tori Hitchcock, Toby's gifted 21 year old sister. The song plays out like a mini operetta complete with vocal counterpoint and soaring guitar leads shared by Mike Aquino and Jim Peterik.

With "The Roaring of Dreams", this band is finally destined to outrun their individual pasts and take their place as a force to be reckoned with on their own terms. Their terms are great Melodic Rock and their name is PRIDE OF LIONS!

Final tracklisting of "The Roaring of Dreams" includes the following songs (click on the song title to hear an mp3 sample):
Heaven of Earth; Book Of Life; Love's Eternal Flame; Language of The Heart; Let Me You Go; Faithful Heart; Defying Gravity; Secret of The Way; Astonish You; Tall Ships; Turnaround; The Roaring of Dreams.

Release is scheduled on February 16th 2007 on Frontiers Records in Europe, with King Records handling Japan.

Night Ranger

Frontiers Records is immensely proud to officially announce the signing of NIGHT RANGER for the release of their brand new studio album "Hole in the Sun"!

Like no other band formed in the '80s, NIGHT RANGER has both epitomized and transcended the sound and style of that decade. Since original members Jack Blades, Jeff Watson, Kelly Keagy and Brad Gillis reunited in 1996, they have brought their guitar-crunching, melodic brand of hard rock into the 21st century with unparalleled talent, energy and creativity.

NIGHT RANGER left an indelible mark with a string of best-selling albums that sold more than 16 million copies worldwide. The band's popularity was fueled by an impressive string of instantly recognizable hit singles and signature album tracks, including "Sister Christian," "(You Can Still) Rock In America," "When You Close Your Eyes," "Sentimental Street," "Goodbye" and "Don't Tell Me You Love Me." Harnessing the frenetic drive of heavy metal to hook-laden rockers, a stunning twin lead guitar team, and melodious, radio-friendly power ballads, NIGHT RANGER inspired new descriptive phrases such as "melodic metal" and "metal power pop," and became the standard-bearer of a new sound.

Following a seven-year absence, NIGHT RANGER reunited in 1996 for a World tour. The overwhelming response proved the continued love for the music and the band. That year also garnered the Ron Nevison produced album "Neverland", featuring the radio friendly single "Forever All Over Again." In 1997, the three-time Oscar-nominated film "Boogie Nights" spotlighted "Sister Christian" as one of the songs that defined the previous decade. Also that year, the band released "Seven", a studio album that helped set the standard for the '80s rock revival.

Since then NIGHT RANGER members have been busy individually in several solo projects, while the band kept active touring across the USA and Japan. Writing and recording sessions for a brand new studio album started at the end of 2005, with progresses in between the busy schedules of the band members. "I can't believe it is almost 2007!" admits bass player and singer Jack Blades "Most of the songs were written at the end of 2005 and recording happened at my Barn Studio (The Cock and Bottle studio) and Jeff's studio (Camp Watson)".

"I think you just keep making records and writing the songs that are in your heart", continues Blades. "As long as we continue to write and record with passion and integrity, (which we have done) I believe the fans will enjoy the ride. I personally am very proud of all the records Night Ranger has made over the 20 plus years of our career. This record reflects the years of touring so it rocks pretty hard. It also speaks to where the band is musically in 2006. Lots of split vocals and dual guitars".

With song titles as "There is Life", "Tell your Vision", "Drama Queen", "Rock Star", "White Knuckle Ride" and "Whatever Happened" NIGHT RANGER music and attitude has now come full circle. "Great melodies, blazing guitars and fun crazy rocking live shows...it is all we know how to do", admits Blades. We know we all can look forward to the release of "Hole in the Sun" during the spring of 2007!

MECCA

MECCA frontman Joe Vana has recently released the news of Swedish guitarist Tommy Denander joining the MECCA lineup for the upcoming studio album.

"Tommy Denander is one of the most hired and sought after writers, producers and guitar players today, and has turned down many offers from known bands to join them", says Vana. "Even though he will keep making Radioactive albums, they are only a project and MECCA is a band, and as Tommy puts it "Not just any band! Tommy has accepted becoming a full member of the MECCA family. His track record of more than 1,000 albums and working almost every known name in rock speaks for itself, but as Tommy says "In some ways it's also what's required to become a member of MECCA, anything less just won't cut it, I take pride in the task of creating another dimension to my work together with Joe and the guys in MECCA."

 

Alongside of the great Bobby Kimball (TOTO) and Joe Vana on Lead Vocals, the MECCA line-up consists of Shannon Forrest (Drums), David Hungate (Bass), Gordon Mote (Keys) and Christian Wolff (guitar), with Steve Lukather and Steve Farris making an appearance as guest players on the album. The line-up is complete and stronger than ever.

That is not to diminish the great contribution that Fergie Frederiksen and Jim Peterik gave to MECCA 1. Joe Vana adds "I can never repay those guys enough for their talent and contribution to making my dream a reality with MECCA 1. Sitting around Jim's piano writing songs for MECCA was a dream realized....I will never forget it."

"As far as the new album Catharsis goes, the writing synergy between Tommy and I so far has been amazing, we think so much alike in terms of melody and space but sounds very different melodically than what we both have done separately, so it truly is a union of ideas... this album will be a mix between Peter Gabriel and Mecca... I am going to push the Hell out of myself and Tommy to play and sing better than we ever have. Plus, I have the one of my closest friends Bobby singing next to me.... not to mention that he is the single greatest Rock singer ever. There is no 'almost good enough' for this album. We have four tunes that Richard Page gave us to record and 8 that we wrote. I waited three years to assemble the needed material to do this album. Every song had to be good enough to be on MECCA 1 or better, or it didn't make it. Bobby will push me vocally to the edge, I'm not playing it safe this time".

Bobby Kimball comments about the songs: "I'm not going to be nice about it, because that's not how great songs get written. We mortals have to put aside our feelings and go for what's best for the song....". Enough said.

Visit www.myspace.com/meccaofmusic to hear samples of the first two songs created by this new writing duo. MECCA will be completed first quarter of 2007 and released on Frontiers Records.