NEW RELEASES! AIR RAID, MORTICIAN, BORN OF FIRE AND MORE

Air Raid just released their new album Point of Impact, via High Roller Records. You can check the complete review here

The band is doing a release party in Goteborg the next 12th December together with Ambush.

You can buy the new album Point of Impact here

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Born of fire released their new album Dead winter sun, last 14th November via Pure Steel Records and also Mortician released finally their Shout for heavy metal, follow the links for the complete reviews/

REVIEW BORN OF FIRE - DEAD WINTER SUN

REVIEW MORTICIAN - SHOUT FOR HEAVY METAL

Buy  Shout for heavy metal and Dead winter sun from Pure Steel Records

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Renegade, Space Vacation and Alltheniko are releasing new albums the next 5th December, check the reviews following the links

Renegade - Thunder knows no mercy
Alltheniko - Fast and glorioius

Space Vacation - Cosmic Vanguard

You can now preorder these albums here

WARRANT and STUD new album! THUNDERWAR full length and THUNDERHEART, MORTICIAN AND BORN OF FIRE news

WARRANT NEW ALBUM "METAL BRIDGE" OFFICIALLY RELEASED

The speed heavy metal band Warrant finally released their new album Metal Bridge the 31st of October via Pure Steel Records, this is their second album after almost 30 years since their first album, The enforcer, considered a masterpiece of the genre and becoming cult material for true metalheads.

Check the complete review here

You can buy now the album Metal Bridge

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THUNDERWAR PREPARING THE FIRST FULL LENGTH




Thunderwar, the epic death metal from Poland are now entering the Hertz Studio (where bands like Vader also recorded) to record their first album, now in an early stage but due to be released soon next year, more news and details coming soon!

Check the review of their first EP Birth of thunder here

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THUNDERHEART NEW ALBUM REVEALED!




The new spanish traditional heavy metal band Thunderheart have signed deal with the germans Killer Metal records and is due to release their first album Night of the warriors on February 2015, the band is formed by ex Steelhorse guitar Willy Gascon, Ricardo Lazaro (Calibre Zero) on the drums and Javier Pastor (guitars on Wild) as vocalist.

Follow more news on their official Facebook Page

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STUD NEW ALBUM RUST ON THE ROSE RELEASED



The heavy metal band STUD have officially released their second album Rust on the rose, the 31st of October promoted by Metal Revelation check now the review!

You can read an interview with the band here

Buy the album here

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MORTICIAN AND BORN OF FIRE PRE ORDER

Mortician is releasing their album Shout for Heavy metal the next 14th of November and now you can pre order following this link

Also Born of Fire are releasing their album Dead Winter Sun the same day, and its possible to preorder it as well here!

Both bands are releasing their material via Pure Steel Records

Check the review of Shout for Heavy Metal by Mortician 

Check the review Dead winter sun by Born of Fire

REVIEW OF THE ALBUM SHOUT FOR HEAVY METAL BY MORTICIAN (14th november 2014)

Mortician is a genuine heavy metal band from Austria, formed in 1983 and releasing cult heavy metal materials on that time consisting in a demo and EP No War in 1987 with excellent media feedback, and changing line up for another demo in 1989 but without being as successful as their first EP, the band split in 1990. Twenty years after their last concert, the reunion of Mortician was a reality, forming a solid lineup with the two founder members Patrick (bass) and Thomas (guitar), joining forces with Daniel Khan on the vocals and Gergely Nagy on drums.


Soon the new Mortician released their first full length called Mortician via Pure Steel Records, a really high quality album showing a renovated energy from the Austrian quartet. Finally the band went again to the studio to forge their second bomb called Shout for heavy metal, released by Pure Steel Records and coming the next 14th November 2014

The sound of Mortician and their new album, is influenced by the greatest heavy metal bands from the 80s such as Accept and Judas Priest, combining the aggressive edge from those giants with the power metal showed on bands like Grave Digger, showing comparable composition strategy on verses, strong Teutonic guitar performance and catchy and repetitive choruses in general. 

Powerful is the word to use to describe the beginning of the album, the tittle track Shout for Heavy metal will make you bang your head straight away, mid strong pulse and catchy chorus in general, with a remarkable high pitched performance on the vocals, continued by Eagle Spy following similar patterns, excellent riff performance and really good progression on the verses, guitar riffs are outstanding and the drums do a good job on the pedals, a demonstration of true power heavy metal style.

Promised land heralds an effective riff in good harmony with the vocals, developing galloping in crescendo progressions and another good job on the vocal performance with clean and sharp techniques as the fast paced track Rock Power kicks in with drippings of Accept and Saxon in a powerful and headbanging feeling.

The Devil you know is another full power-heavy metal track with extremely catchy chorus, the ascending intensity this track create is astonishing, changing vocal techniques on the clean side in one hand to be answered by Udo style on the other hand, being a good highlight of the album among other tracks like Black Eyes, whose powerful riff will be remembered, this time vocals act with short shots under a mid tempo forceful changing rhythms, being one of the best acts the band have created.

Inner Self attacks with thrash metal drippings and high and lows on the vocals, melodies contains some modern details, and the attitude remains wild all over this song, the quality on the composition is better and more sophisticated, applicable also to the next track Hate, where the band show a more complex structures adding acoustic parts that are transformed into speed metal sections, great guitar riffs bringing memories from the Children of the grave track by Black Sabbath.

Wrong way finalise the album bringing some hard rocker attitude to the mixture that Mortician have shown already, the mid pulsed track encapsulates well what the band's style is about, showing a really exceptional guitar work.

Mortician follow the path of true metal once again with this album, The compositions are brilliant, however that could be more diverse, the patterns are followed in similar ways on most of the tracks.

Overall, the result is marvellous, highlighting tracks like Black Eyes, The devil you know or the tittle track. Shout for heavy metal will be an essential not only Grave Digger and Accept fans but also for NWOBHM maniacs hungry for louder than hell true metal records.

8 / 10

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