On May 7, Mark Spiro releases his new album “Traveling Cowboys” and this is what can be read in a press release from the company Frontiers Records:

On April 16, drummer / singer Peter Hermansson (220 Volt, Talisman) will release his new album “Second Glance” via the company GMR Music. With him on the album, he also has members from Europe, Electric Boys, 220 Volt, Treat, Blindstone and Overdrive.

As with previous Cosmograf releases, the album features Robin Armstrong playing most of the instruments with Kyle Fenton on drums, but with a special guest performance from Chrissy Mostyn from The Blackheart Orchestra and additional voiceover from Tommy McNally.

Good old Power Metal from Greece based Silent Winter. Initially formed in the mid 90s, the band released only 2 demos and split. ” Empire Of Sins” is the follow up to the highly acclaimed debut album. Influenced by bands like Helloween, Stratovarius, Iron Maiden, Running Wild, Silent Winter is straight 90s Power Metal. One of the highlights is the Metal cover of Belinda Carlisle’s smash hit “Leave A Light On”.

Stranger Vision from Italy is one of the most exciting new heavy Metal bands around. Their sound is based on powerful riffs, enriched with melodic and orchestral arrangements. Stranger Vision released sensational covers of Space Oddity ( Bowie ), Mad World (Tears For Fears) and Moonfield ( In Flames ) for free during the lockdown. A stunning attack in the vein of Blind Guardian, Savatage and In Flames.

The new album turned out to be the most epic IMPERIA album ever, and therefore it was chosen to be released as a double CD. The album features lot of different styles; from goth rock to metal songs, but you will also find beautiful ballads and more folkish songs. There even is a Viking-themed song, “The Last Horizon” also features IMPERIA’s new drummer Merijn Mol, who is hailing from the Netherlands.

In 2018 Magnus Kerlund (Blender) and Jan Hedlund (Coastline, Eagle Down) met in Magnus’ studio. Both had played in numerous bands and toured all over Sweden. However, their true love was melodic rock and AOR. Soon after, Winding Road was born.

With a new album called the Swedish Power Metal quintet puts themselves back on the Metal dancefloor and set out to reinvent classic Melodic Metal – by unleashig a storm of power, monumentality and zeitgeist that you cannot escape. Spheric layers mix with flirring sequences and stoic beats fitting like a second skin for the massive, melodic and outrageously catchy wall of sound with which they continue to draw a picture of a modern “A Virtual World”.

n modern-day progressive rock, it seems as though there is a new supergroup every few weeks. But long before this was the norm, and before musicians were routinely involved in more than one band, there was Liquid Tension Experiment.

Emerging from the Scottish city of Glasgow, the band by the same name calling their debut from 1987 “Zero One Four”, 041 being the telephone dialing code of the city back in the day. Archie Dickson (g), who started playing locally before ending up with Wildcat in the late seventies and later on Heaven, tried to bring back Glasgow several times but it never happened.

Swiss all-female rockers Burning Witches consisting of lead vocalist Laura, guitarists Romana and Larissa, bassist Jay and drummer Lala will be releasing their new album The Witch of The North via Nuclear Blast Records on May 28, 2021.

Don Airey is the keyboard player of Deep Purple. With the iconic British band, he succeeded in doing what would have been impossible for any other keyboard player, substituting the legendary founding member Jon Lord, accidentally one of his idols.

Sister deliver raw, heavy and energetic punk-metal and have made themselves a name by releasing critically acclaimed albums and by making numerous tours all over Europe, including touring with reputable hard rock and metal bands such as U.D.O, Skid Row, Wednesday 13 and Hardcore Superstar.