The Latest from: SCARLET RECORDS - KALEDON & EMPYRIOS

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KALEDON

Altor: The King Blacksmith

Scarlet Records

Release Date: April 23 2013

Veteran Power Metallers Kaledon have announced their new studio album, the first following the celebrated 'Legend Of The Forgotten Reign' saga, which was introduced in the song 'Steel Maker', from the band's 2012 "best of" album 'Mightiest Hits. 'Altor: The King's Blacksmith' narrates the life of the man who forged the sword that killed Mozul, the evil creature that upset the peace and tranquility of the kingdom in the last chapter of the saga. With this new album, the seventh in their career, Kaledon deliver another power metal masterpiece, with plenty of Classic Metal influences and majestic Sypmhonic parts. The band have also announced a very special guest appearance by renowned singer Fabio Lione (Rhapsody Of Fire, Kamelot, Labyrinth, Vision Divine) in the song 'A Dark Prison'. Videos for the last song and the monumental 'Childhood' are also in the making.

EMPYRIOS

Zion

Scarlet Records

April 23 2013

"The World to Come is here, now. mankind awakes from a deep state of unconsciousness only to realize that the current age is cursed and it's time to move on. Belief is the original sin, the source of all evil, the force pulling us down a spiral of consternation. But just as the universe can slowly decrease its expansion speed and start contracting to finally collide in a Big Church, humans have to redeem and travel back to their origin. enter the realm of ZION."

Founded by guitar virtuoso and acclaimed producer Simone Mularoni (DGM), Empyrios were able to push forward the boundaries of Progressive Metal with two critically acclaimed albums, '...And The Rest Is Silence', 2007, and 'The Glorious Sickness', 2008, built on extreme musicianship and strong feeling, mixing some of the heaviest riffs in Metal with refined guitar and keyboard solos and symphonic orchestra passages, 'The Glorious Sickness' granted the band a mention in Metal Hammer's "Best upcoming metal band of 2008" section and in the past few years every single member of Empyrios has been busy touring and making music around the globe. Simone Bertozzi joined the danish metal machine Mnemic for an extensive tour of Europe and Australia, Simone Mularoni packed his guitars and lead DGM through a European tour with Symphony X and Dario Ciccioni kept hitting the stage with Oliver Hartmann's solo project Hartmann. At the same time, countless guitar riffs and drum parts have been exchanged between home studios and dressing rooms to magnificently craft their unique blend of melody, rhythm and sound pressure into a new Empyrios masterpiece. Produced by Simone Mularoni himself at Domination Studios, 'Zion is the confirmed title for Empyrios long-awaited new album, an exciting chapter in the band's career, in which once again these four musicians put on tape their incredible technical abilities and impressive mix of melodic and brutal heavy metal, in the vein of bands such as Strapping Young Lad, Nevermore, Symphony X, Fear Factory, Yngwie Malmsteen and Mesguggah to name a few.

New Metal Music Release for Tuesday, March 5th 2013

ROTTING CHRIST - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy
(Seasons of Mist)

Altaar - Altaar (Indie)

Coilguns - Commuter (Pelagic)

Enforcer - Death By Fire (Nuclear Blast)

Eremite - Dragonarious (Taxi Driver)

Hatchet - Dawn Of The End (The End)

Jolly - The Audio Guide To Happiness (Part 2) (InsideOut)

Kamala - Kamala Akka (Inverse)

Krokus - Dirty Dynamite (The End)

Lifeless - Godconstruct (FDA Rekotz)

Long Distance Calling - The Flood Inside (Superball)

Neaera - Ours Is The Storm (Metal Blade)

Okular - Sexforce (Self)

Omnium Gatherum - Beyond (Lifeforce)

Paganland - Wind Of Freedom (Svarga)

Pathogen - Miscreants of Bloodlusting Aberrations(Dunkelheit)

Pyro Ohio - Before The Sun Sets EP (At Your Command)

Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy (Season Of Mist)

Shannon - Circus Of Lost Souls (Mad Association)

Soilwork - The Living Infinite (Nuclear Blast)

Upon Wings - Afterlife EP (Sword Of The Spirit)

Valor - The Yonder Answer (Pitch Black)

Vreid - Welcome Farewell (Indie)

White Widows - White Widows (Sacrament)

The Latest from: SCARLET RECORDS - GODYVA

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GODYVA

Alien Heart 

Southern Brigade Records

March 11 2013

Godyva was formed in Bari, Italy in January 2000. In September 2002 the band recorded their first EP 'Advent' and soon began performing numerous live shows in the South of Italy throughout 2002 and 2003, including festivals such as The God Bless the Metal Festival, Rock Targato Italia, Gothic Rave (with Theatres des Vampires and others) and Harder Fest (with Panic Cell and others).

In the summer of 2005, the American label Sorcery Studios/Razar Ice Records signed the band for a two album deal.

'In Good And Evil', Godyva's debut album, was released in 2006, giving the band a big exposure both in the press (with features in all the relevant metal magazines) and in terms of their live activity (including an appearance at Total Metal Festival with Dark Funeral and Rage among other).

With a renovated line-up, Godyva recorded their sophomore album 'Planetarium', which was released in 2008. More shows in Italy and many countries in Europe followed, including appearance at Prestenice Open Air Music Fest (with The Rasmus among others) and Metal Female Voices Fest in Belgium (with Arch Enemy, Tristania and Epica among others).

In June 2012 the band entered the studio to record the new album 'Alien Heart', which will be released March 11th 2013 on Southern Brigade Records and marked and distributed by Scarlet Records.

HIM sign to Universal Music Germany

....from Kelly Crawford Hitt - Lead HIM Street Team Member & Euro Rock Radio Host

Godfathers of Love Metal release new album “Tears On Tape” internationally on April 29, 2013

HELSINKI/BERLIN, February 20, 2013 – Finnish rock superstars HIM have signed a licensing deal with Universal Music Germany’s Vertigo Berlin imprint. The deal – for all territories excluding North America, UK & Ireland, China and India – will govern the release of the highly anticipated new album “Tears On Tape” due out on April 29.

The follow-up to 2010’s “Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice”, “Tears On Tape” is nothing less than a face-punching, heart-tugging 13-track monster of an album, and if it recalls the glories of albums like 2003’s “Love Metal”, then it’s no accident – rejoining forces with longtime producer Hiili Hiilesmaa, “Tears On Tape” is a love letter scrawled in large, block capitals.

Formed by high school friends obsessed not only with the immortal refrains of Black Sabbath but also the gloom-laden, sardonic wit of Type O Negative, HIM have become national icons in their native, rock and metal-loving Finland. Their trademark Heartagram symbol has left its indelible stamp on the globe and, with sales of more than 8 million records, HIM are a force like no other. They also have the distinction of recording the best-selling single of any Finnish artist to date with “Join Me In Death” from 1999’s “Razorblade Romance”, as well as being the first Finnish band to receive gold certification in the United States with 2005’s “Dark Light”.

“We wanted the heaviness without losing the sentimentality,” says frontman Valo. “Imagine Rambo meets The English Patient and you’re almost there. It’s got these big knucklehead riffs without forgetting the emotions behind them.”

Recorded in Helsinki and mixed at Assault And Battery Studios in London by longtime “masterer” of ceremonies Tim Palmer (Ozzy Osbourne, U2, Pearl Jam), “Tears On Tape is, according to Valo, the result of working with longtime friends: “We’ve so much history that it enabled us to concentrate on the essential, which is making good songs sound as good as possible and turning them into something massive.”

Discography
Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666 (1997)
Razorblade Romance (1999)
Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights (2001)
Love Metal (2003)
Dark Light (2005)
Venus Doom (2007)
Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice (2010)
Tears on Tape (2013)


Live Dates

April
22 Berlin, Postbahnhof
24 Cologne, Gloria
26 London, Dingwalls

May
3 LA, House Of Blues
4 LA, House Of Blues
5 SanFrancisco, Fillmore
8 Chicago, House Of Blues
9 Toronto, Danforth Music Hall
10 New York, Irving Plaza
11 New York, Irving Plaza
12 Philadelphia, Theatre Of Living Arts

June
1 Warsaw, Usrynalia Student Fest
12 Moscow, Maxidrom
14 UK Download Festival
15 Austria, Nova Rock

July
6 Turku, Ruisrock Festival
27 Oulu, Qstock Festival
August
10 Germany, Mera Luna Festival

More live dates to be announced shortly!

New Heavy Metal CD Releases for February 19, 2013

The Acacia Strain - Money For Nothing EP (Prosthetic)

As They Burn - Will, Love, Life (Victory)

Baptists - Bushcraft (Southern Lord)

The Beyond - Frostbitepanzerf–k (Horror Pain Gore Death)

Black Boned Angel - The End (Handmade Birds)

Botanist - IV: Mandragora (The Flenser)

Coldsteel - America Idle (Stormspell)

Complete Failure - The Art Gospel of Aggravated Assault (Season Of Mist)

Dark New Day - Hail Mary (Red)

Devourment - Conceived In Sewage (Relapse)

Disperse - Living Mirrors (Season Of Mist)

Edge Of Attack - Edge Of Attack (Spread The Metal)

Eight Bells - The Captain’s Daughter (Seventh Rule)

Enshadowed - Magic Chaos Psychedelia (Pulverised)

Eternal Solstice/Mourning - Split Re-Release (Vic)

General Lee - Raiders Of The Evil Eye (Play The Assassin)

Godflesh - Hymns Re-Release (The End)

Kingcrow - In Crescendo (Sensory)

Kongh - Sole Creation (Agonia)

Krypts - Unending Degradation (Dark Descent)

Manilla Road - Mysterium (Shadow Kingdom)

Misery Index - Live In Munich (Season Of Mist)

Nepente - Suffering Is The Seed (Sonic Blast)

Polluted Inheritance - Ecocide Re-Release (Vic)

Portal - Vexovoid (Profound Lore)

Puscifer - Donkey Punch The Night EP (Puscifer Entertainment)

Raven Black Night - Barbarian Winter (Metal Blade)

Sacred Steel - The Bloodshed Summoning (Cruz Del Sur)

Sannhet - Known Flood (Sacrament)

Sceptre - Age Of Calamity (Demonstealer)

Shai Hulud - Reach Beyond The Sun (Metal Blade)

Skineater - Dermal Harvest (Pulverised)

Spektr - Cypher (Agonia)

Suffocation - Pinnacle Of Bedlam (Nuclear Blast)

Terminate - Ascending To Red Heavens (Selfmadegod)

Tsjuder - Desert Northern Hell Re-Release (Season Of Mist)

Ulcer - Grant Us Death (Pulverised)

New Heavy Metal CD Releases: January 22, 2013

Aeon Zen - Enigma (Nightmare)

Andy Winter - Incomprehensible (The End)

Black Rose - Turn On The Night (Doolittle)

Blockheads - This World Is Dead (Relapse)

Clamfight - I Versus The Glacier (Maple Forum)

Cloud Rat - Moksha (Halo Of Flies)

Continents - Idle Hands (Victory)

Corsair - Corsair (Shadow Kingdom)

Crashdiet - The Savage Playground (Frontiers)

Deceptor - Chains Of Delusion EP (Shadow Kingdom)

Denouncement Pyre - Almighty Arcanum (Hells Headbangers)

Fall City Fall - Victus (Victory)

Fen - Dustwalker (Code666)

Giant X - I (SPV)

Golden Resurrection - One Voice For The Kingdom (Doolittle)

Head Of The Demon - Head Of The Demon (Ajna Offensive)

Helloween - Straight Out Of Hell (The End)

Holy Grail - Ride The Void(Prosthetic)

In Solitude - In Solitude Re-Release (Season Of Mist)

Jorn - Symphonic (Frontiers)

 Koldbrann - Vertigo (Season Of Mist)

Kromosom - Live Forever (Southern Lord)

Lancer - Lancer (Doolittle)

The Last Stand - The Time Is Now (Eulogy)

Lightning Swords Of Death - Baphometic Chaosium (Metal Blade)

Love & Death - Between Here And Lost (Tooth and Nail)

Nervochaos - To The Death (Greyhaze)

Nightfall - Cassiopeia (Metal Blade)

Otep - Hydra (Victory)

Phinehas - The Bridge Between EP (Red Cord)

Pink Cream 69 - Ceremonial (Frontiers)

Rivera Bomma - Infinite Journey Of Soul (Retroactive)

Rotten Sound - Species At War EP (Relapse)

Royal Hunt - 20th Anniversary Box Set (Frontiers)

Saille - Ritu (Code666)

Sammal - Sammal (Svart)

Septicflesh - Mystic Places Of Dawn (Season Of Mist)

Snakecharmer - Snakecharmer (Frontiers)

Sons Of Aeon - Sons Of Aeon (Lifeforce)

Tellus Requiem - The 11th Hour (Nightmare)

Vandroya - One (Inner Wound)

Thy Art Is Murder - Hate (Distort)

Viisikko IIII (Svart)

Voivod - Target Earth (Century Media)

Void Of Sleep - Tales Between Reality and Madness (Aural)

Vomitor - The Escalation (Hells Headbangers)

Wartorn - Iconic Nightmare (Southern Lord)

Yayla - Nihaihayat (Merdumgiriz)

Heavy Metal Release for Tuesday, January 8th 2013

Here’s the first batch of metal releases for the year!

Æther Realm - One Chosen by the Gods   (Primitive Ways)

Black Veil Brides - Wretched and Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones   (Lava)

Corpus Mortale - FleshCraft   (Deepsend)

Entrapment - The Obscurity Within   (Soulseller)

Heaven’s Cry - Food For Thought Substitute Re-Release   (Prosthetic)

Heaven’s Cry - Primal Power Addiction Re-Release   (Prosthetic)

Kontinuum - Earth Blood Magic   (Candlelight)

Nine Covens - On the Dawning of Light   (Candlelight)

Pagan Altar - Judgement Of The Dead   (Shadow Kingdom)

Philip Anselmo and Warbeast - War of the GargantuasSplit   (Housecore)

Wallachia - Shunya   (Debemur Morti)

Zatokrev - The Bat The Wheel and the Long Road to Nowhere   (Candlelight)