Lions Of The South Metal
South Florida metallers LIONS OF THE SOUTH will release their debut album, "Chronicles of Aggression" on 28th February via self-release. The cover artwork for the CD was created by Eduardo Hidalgo, can be seen below. LIONS OF THE SOUTH is a new upcoming, three-piece, South Florida metal band with South American roots in their blood. While the band simply describes their music as metal, others have described the band’s style as a fusion between heavy, groove, and crossover thrash metal.

Tracklisting:
1. Awakening
2. Vicious Cycle
3. In Your Hands
4.
Miracle Master Japan
"Tattooed Woman", the debut album from Danish/German hard rockers MIRACLE MASTER will be released in Japan on April 23 via Bickee Music and March 7 in the rest of the world via GoldenCore Records/ZYX Music. The Japanese version of the CD will include two *bonus tracks.

Japanese Tracklisting:
01. Come Alive
02. Stay With Me
03. Tattooed Woman
04. We All Touch Evil
05. Forgive Yourself
06. Fly Away
07. Miracle Master
08. Highway To Heaven
09. Will To Survive
10. Why Religion
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Miracle Master CD Live Show
Danish/German hard rockers MIRACLE MASTER have scheduled a exclusive CD-release party and live show for their debut album, "Tattooed Woman", on Saturday, March 15 at Rock Cafe KISS in Hechingen, Germany. The video teaser for the event can be viewed below.



MIRACLE MASTER will play the new album in its entirety, during the more-than-two-hour event, including a after show party. MIRACLE MASTER's debut album "Tattooed Woman" will be released on March 7 via GoldenCore Records/ZYX Music.


Tracklisting:
01. Come Alive
02. Fly Away
03.
Eden's Curse New Drummer
EDEN'S CURSE are disappointed to announce the departure of Pete Newdeck from the band. Pete has been the drummer of the group since it's formation in 2006 and has been a key member of the writing team during those eight years together.
Switchblade RockNGrowl
Israeli 80s heavy metallers Switchblade signs worldwide management deal with Germany’s ROCK’N'GROWL MANAGEMENT. SWITCHBLADE aims to attain the same sparkles and enthusiasm that made the 80s Metal scene so great in a sense that it will sink in deep in today’s perception of Metal music.

SWITCHBLADE are:
Lior "Steinmetal" Stein - Vocals
Fede "FedeRock" Taich - Lead, Rhythm Guitars
Venedict Pavlovic - Rhythm, Lead Guitars
Boris Siper - Bass
Moshe "Moshpit" Sabah - Drums
ICED EARTH performing for the first time in Israel.
Furyon New Album
British rockers FURYON will return next week to Black Dog Sound Studios in Atlanta, US to record their sophomore yet-untitled studio album. Once again, the album will be engineered and produced by US producer RICK BEATO (SHINEDOWN, FOZZY) and his team.

Singer Matt Mitchell says: "We've worked real hard behind the scenes to make this possible.
Kirk Swiss Metal
Swiss melodic metallers KIRK will release their sophomore studio album, "Masquerade", procduced by Dennis Ward (Pink Cream 69, Unisonic, Eden's Curse), on March 7 via Mausoleum Records. The cover artwork for the effort can be seen below.

Track Listing
01. Devil’s Claw
02. Supersonic Speed
03. Masquerade
04. Eternity
05. Fight Or Die Music
06. Nothing Else But Lies
07. Time
08. Tragedy
09. Face In The Crowd
10. The End Of The Universe
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Lord Volture SOS Festival
Dutch power metallers LORD VOLTURE to be confirmed for UK’s SOS Festival 2014, which takes place July 19th – 20th in Radcliffe. Other bands confirmed include: Blaze Bayley, Absolva, Savage Messiah, Monument, Exit State, Wizz Wizzard to name only a few.



First established since 2008, this will be the 7th SOS Festival.