Lord Volture Slovakia
Dutch power metaller LORD VOLTURE have announced a Slovakia headlining tour 'Pure Evil Hides In Slovakia Tour' with support of Austria's heavy metallers DIAMOND FALCON, which is due to kick off on October 8th in Bratislava, Slovakia. Tour dates as follow:

08.10.2014 SK Bratislava – British Rock Stars
09.10.2014 SK Trnava – Art Klub
10.10.2014 SK Brezno – 1. Dart Club
11.10.2014 SK Tisovec – Casablanca
12.10.2014 SK Banská Bystrica – Tirish Pub
It will be the second time LORD VOLTURE visit Slovakia.
Highway To Heaven Video
"Highway To Heaven", the second video from Danish/German hard rockers MIRACLE MASTER, can be seen below. The clip was directed & produced by Germany's  MV Video Productions. The song, is taken from MIRACLE MASTER's debut album, "Tattooed Woman", due on March

7 via GoldenCore Records/ZYX Music in Europe/North America and  April 23 via Bickee Music in Japan.
Kill Ritual Metal
SF Bay Area Metallers KILL RITUAL featuring former members of Imagika and Dark Angel, are streaming the title track of their upcoming album, The Eyes Of Medusa, due out April 4th via GoldenCore Records/ZYX Music. Listen to 'The Eyes Of Medusa' below.



Recordings were done at Fossil Sound; San Jose CA and Fang Studio; San Mateo CA. Production/engineering was again handled by KILL RITUAL guitarist Steven Rice. Mix and master completed by Steven Rice & Andy LaRocque (KING DIAMOND). The cover artwork for the CD was created by Jobert Mello of Sledgehammer Graphix (SABATON, PRIMAL FEAR).

Tracklisting:
01.
Existance Metal Band
French heavy metallers EXISTANCE will release their first full-lenght album, "Steel Alive" on 25th April via Mausoleum Records. EXISTANCE entered the studio in late 2013 to record their debut full-length album entitled "Steel Alive". The result "One hell of an ass-kicking album that proves true metal is".

Tracklisting:
01. Legends Never Die
02. Black Viper
03. The Siren
04. Dead or Alive
05. Slaughter
06. Burning Angel
07. Steel Alive
08. Get Away
09. Prisoner
10. Close to the End
11.
E-Force Band
French metallers E-FORCE will release their third album, "The Curse..." on 11th April via Mausoleum Records. E-FORCE have been labelled monsters of Thrash, and they are, but Eric Forrest’s (ex Voivod) wide array of musical influences, interesting lyrics and vocal capabilities set them apart from the pack and ensure that this band is very original.

Tracklisting:
01. Invitation
02. Perverse Media
03. Witch Wrk
04. Serpent’s Kiss
05. Awakened
06. Psyclone
07. Devoured
08. Mass Deception
09. Your Beloved Hate
10. Infexxxous
11.
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.
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.
Kilmara Cold Rain
A teaser for the video for the song "Cold Rain" from Spanish heavy metallers KILMARA can be seen below. The full clip will make its online debut together with the album release of "Love Songs And Other Nightmares" in March. The video was filmed by Henry Menacho from Kronic Productions.



"Love Songs and other Nightmares", tracked at Grapow Studios with Mr. Roland Grapow (Masterplan, ex-Helloween). The cover artwork for “Love Songs and Other Nightmares” was done by Canadian artist Jessica Allain, known for his work in digital photomanipulation.
Blackwelder Power Metal
PRIMAL FEAR, DIO DISCIPLES, Ex-ANGRA Members Join Forces In BLACKWELDER! International power prog metal band BLACKWELDER signs worldwide management deal with Germany’s ROCK’N'GROWL MANAGEMENT. Hailing from the four corners of the world, BLACKWELDER is a brand new metal experience featuring some of the top names in Power Prog Metal today. Arguably the best singer in all of metal, Ralf Scheepers (Primal Fear, ex-Gamma Ray) fronts this extraordinary outfit at the top of his game, alongside guitar virtuoso Andrew Szus (Seven Seraphim).