The Hard Rock / Heavy Metal Update

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Quiet Riot has hired Scott Vokoun as their new vocalist.

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Here's an interview with Meat Loaf.

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The new Great White album Elation is due out May 18th.

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Lita Ford's new CD Living Like a Runaway is tentatively due in May via SPV/Steamhammer.

The album is due June 15th in Germany, June 18th in the rest of Europe and June 19th in North America.

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The new Great White album Elation is due out May 18th.

Here's the track listing:

I've Got) Something For You
Feelin' So Much Better
Love Train
Heart Of A Man
Hard To Say Goodbye
Resolution
Shotgun Willie's
Promise Land
Lowdown (Bonus Track)
Just For Tonight
Love Is Enough
Complicated

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Sweden´s hardest working band Fatal Smile will release their new album 21st Century Freaks on May 7 via FS Records/GMR Music Group. The CD was produced by Mr. Y, engineered/recorded by Philty and mixed by the two of them together. The mastering duties were handled by Mats "Limpan" Lindfors at Cutting Room Studios.
21st Century Freaks track listing: 01. Welcome To The Freakshow 02. Nailed To The Wall 03. Raisning Hell In Heaven 04. Judgement Day 05. Broken Heart 06. My Private Hell 07. Scarecrow 08. Innocent 09. Break These Chains 10. Take It To The Limit 11. For The Last In Line.

After playing 350 shows internationally during their "World Domination Tour" with such bands as Dio, W.A.S.P., Queensrÿche, Doro and Lordi in support of their last album, "World Domination", Swedish hard rockers Fatal Smile spent over a year writing and recording songs for the follow-up effort. Entitled "21st Century Freaks", the new CD was recorded in the tour buses, hotel rooms and studios all over the world before eleven songs were singled out and re-recorded during 2011.

Ten top names tried out for the mixing job, all mixing the song planned as the second single of the album. The band put together a jury of friends to pick out their favorite mix, which turned out to be mix No. 5, not knowing it was mixed by Fatal Smile's own drummer Philty and guitarist Mr. Y!

This time the band have done everything on their own to make it the ultimate Fatal Smile album, from recording and engineering to producing and mixing the album and the result is massive, with 'in-your-face' songs and a 'larger-than-life' sound!'

The first single & video, "Welcome To The Freakshow", will be released in Europe in April. The video is directed by Owe Lingwall famous for his work with Kamelot, Meshuggah, The Rasmus etc...

[Artycool8or]

Hi, Deathstroke.
Just wanted to thanks you for the HARD work you putting into this thread, and keeping us well informed.
I listen to wide variety and style of music, but it seems to me we have a very close taste in METAL.


Rock On!

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Epica has split with bassist Yves Huts and hired Rob van der Loo as a replacement.

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The new Shadows Fall CD Fire From The Sky is due out May 8th via Razor & Tie.

Here's the cover art for the album:

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Bassist Robbie Crane has split with Ratt after 15 years.

Here's the new touring lineup for Jon Oliva's Pain:

Jon Oliva – Vocals, Keyboards
Christopher Kinder - Drums
Jerry Outlaw - Guitar
Jason Jennings - Bass
Joseph Diaz - Guitar

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The new Dokken CD Broken Bones is due out late spring / early summer via Frontiers Records.

Here's the cover art:

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The new Iron Maiden live CD/DVD release En Vivo is due out today worldwide. I thought it was the 27th, but even Best Buy has it listed in their weekly flyer as today. I checked their website and it says available today.

[DarKHard]

The new Iron Maiden live CD/DVD release En Vivo is due out today worldwide. I thought it was the 27th, but even Best Buy has it listed in their weekly flyer as today. I checked their website and it says available today.

Thank you for this info,i'll be sure to pick it up today,keep up the good work dude

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Apparently all new music CDS and DVDS were released today. I don't know why. If anyone else knows why, let me know.

By the way, I bought both the CD and DVD, listened to the CD at work. It was a fantastic live performance overall.

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The new Hardline CD Danger Zone is due out May 18th in Europe and May 22nd in North America via Frontiers Records.

The tracklisting is:
01. Fever Dreams
02. 10.000 Reasons
03. Danger Zone
04. What I'd Like
05. Stronger Than Me
06. Never Too Late For Love
07. Stay
08. I Don't Want To Breakaway
09. Look At You Now
10. Please Have Faith In Me
11. Show Me Your Love
12. The Only One

Hardline: Johnny Gioeli – lead vocals, Alessandro Del Vecchio - keyboards and backing vocals, Thorsten Koehne - guitars, Anna Portalupi - bass, Francesco Jovino - drums



The new Delain CD will be called We Are The Others. You can read the release details HERE.

The track listing is:

01. Mother Machine
02. Electricity
03. We Are The Others
04. Milk And Honey
05. Hit Me With Your Best Shot
06. I Want You
07. Where Is The Blood (feat. Burton C. Bell)
08. Generation Me
09. Babylon
10. Are You Done With Me
11. Get The Devil Out Of Me
12. Not Enough