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SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 12 THROUGH WATERTOWER MUSIC FEATURED GUESTS INCLUDE BEN HARPER, LIELA MOSS, TONY HICKS
WORLDWIDE RELEASE OF “NEVER TOO LATE”

Critically acclaimed thenewno2 have announced the release of their debut original score and soundtrack for Beautiful Creatures. Beautiful Creatures Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (WaterTower Music) will beavailable February 12 both digitally and through all major retailers. The soundtrack features original score and two unreleased thenewno2 tracks, including ”Run To Me,” with Ben Harper and Liela Moss (The Duke Spirit) as well as ”Never Too Late,” also featuring Liela Moss...

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A couple of young, fresh and talented band from the Swedish music-legend, now depart to a common tour around the North, to mock the postponed ’end of the world’.

The Drake Equation: a young metalcore band with pop, jazz and electronic influences from Västerås, has been in the final of the biggest rock talent competition in Sweden, in Released Live and Unsigned. „We did not win but we got a lot new friends!”- said the five boys. „It was really fun, overall.”

Now, they are on tour with three other young rock-metal groups, forming together the Afterlife tour, going ahead colonizing and fascinating the Swedish rock world totally. Then I asked them, about future plans, and now eveything is clear. „During the tour, we will release our EP, called ’Variables’, sometimes in February...

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San Francisco rockers Counting Crows have announced their first UK tour in over 4 years. The multi-platinum 7 piece will bring their live show to Birmingham, Bristol, London, Manchester and Glasgow in April, after touring in Australia and a string of European dates.

“All I could say when I saw the plans for a UK/EU tour was ‘It’s about time” – says Adam Duritz – “It’s hard to explain to fans why bands occasionally let so much time pass between visits. The truth is sometimes life just gets in the way and, before you know it, it’s been a few years. Personally, I’m just glad we’re going back. I have a lot of great memories of past tours. Remembering where we’ve been always gets me excited about where we’re going.”

The tour follows the release in 2012 of Underwater Sunshine (or W...

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KOMPENDIUM – PROG’S HIGHEST TALENTS GET TOGETHER TO CREATE THE ULTIMATE CONCEPT ALBUM

In an era of disposable music and throwaway icons, over two dozens timeless artists joined forces to create a concept album that brings back to life ‘the tradition of War of the Worlds, Dark Side of the Moon and Tubular Bells’.

Born as a personal challenge for celebrated producer/composer Rob Reed (Magenta, ChimpanA) to find the lost spirit of the 70s epic albums, the Kompendium project quickly attracted an array of significant figures and different styles. The result was Beneath the Waves, a record bursting with emotions, intensity and a rare amount of talent.

Beneath the Waves blends Celtic music with Rock and Classical to bring the listener through a unique journey...

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Power metal super-group AVANTASIA, fronted by TOBIAS SAMMET, vocalist of one of Germany’s internationally acclaimed bands EDGUY, are set to release a brand new studio album – their first in three years. Entitled ‘THE MYSTERY OF TIME’, the opus is due to street early April 2013 on CD and vinyl via Nuclear Blast Records.

Tobias – AVANTASIA mastermind, frontman and wordsmith, has now released album snippets and an ‘in-studio’ update over at www.tobiassammet.com

Tobi comments;

”Hey friends, as you know I am currently working on a new Avantasia album. It’s a lot of work, but I am so proud of what we are creating right now – it’s amazing stuff.
Of course, Michael Kiske (Unisonic, ex-Helloween), is on board again! I bet you expected this, you can hear him loud and clear, and he i...

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“Around for almost 30 years now, Germanys biggest thrash metal export, KREATOR, have proven to be a persistent, innovative and unstoppable force. And they have stepped it up another level for their return to the UK and Ireland.

Three years have passed since KREATOR headlined in the UK, so we are extremely stoked to announce the thrash-titans return in April 2013, bringing their ‘PHANTOM ANTICHRIST’ tour to the UK and IRE.

Mille Petrozza (Vocalist/Guitarist) comments;

”Finally we are coming back to play 3 selected shows for our loyal fans in the UK! We will bring our 3D tour production to give you the full KREATOR treatment. Support acts will be announced in the next few days, so stay tuned...

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Norwegian progressive extreme metallers ENSLAVED have revealed a tour trailer for their upcoming UK and EU tour, ’Springrite 2013’. The tour is in support of their new album ’RIITIIR’, which was released on the 1st of October 2012. See below for the tour trailer details:

ENSLAVED’s UK dates rack up as follows:

14 March – NQ LIVE, Manchester UK
15 March – HAMMERFEST, Wales UK
16 March – Button Factory, Dublin IR
17 March – Limelight 2, Belfast UK
19 March – The Corporation, Sheffield UK
20 March – The Fleece, Bristol UK
21 March – The Underworld, London UK

Tour dates and tickets can be found on the band’s Facebook page, here: http://on.fb.me/10RqciE.

Buy ’RIITIIR’ on CD: http://smarturl.it/EnslavedCD
Buy ’RIITIIR’ on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/EnslavedRIITIIR

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Australia’s hottest new extreme metal export, THY ART IS MURDER, has signed to Nuclear Blast Entertainment!

Their second album, ’Hate’, was recently released in their homeland where it has been smashing boundaries once thought to confine bands of their ilk. The record came in at #35 on the Top 40 Aria chart, making it the highest debut of any Aussie death metal band ever! Nuclear Blast Entertainment is proud to finally properly release ’Hate’ in the U.K on April 1st. The album was produced and mixed by Will Putney (SUICIDE SILENCE, BORN OF OSIRIS, FOR TODAY) with artwork created by Brent Elliot White (CARNIFEX, DEATH ANGEL).

“Nuclear Blast has always represented the pinnacle of extreme metal, a last bastion in an ever evolving industry,” commented guitarist Andy Marsh...

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FARMERS MARKET – SLAV TO THE RHYTHM, OUT MARCH 4th ON DIVISION RECORDS
“the world’s greatest musical stew…” VF

Twenty years in the making, the Norwegian prog ensemble Farmers Market remains as equally musically complex as they are critically acclaimed. Following their 2008 outing “Surfin’ USSR” (on Mike Patton’s Ipecac Recordings), the new recordings on “Slav to the Rhythm” have been released by the Oslo-based label Division Records to rave reviews in Norway, and are now set to be released on an unsuspecting British audience.

The former album earned them a Norwegian Grammy in the award ceremony’s open category...

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Onward Chariots is the brainchild of Ben Morss, a multi-instrumentalist and self professed music geek whose journey to This Is My Confession is peppered with eclecticism. In a life filled with music, Morss has toured the world, played with the California acid-jazz group 11:11 at festivals such as NXNW and SXSW, conducted orchestras, played gospel in African-American churches, arranged and played on albums for artists like Cake, and immersed himself in the works of Peter Bjorn & John, Belle & Sebastian, Yo La Tengo and The Beatles.

Taken from the forthcoming album This Is My Confession (Jan 29th), the band now make the track Mama available for streaming and sharing:

Morss had this to say about the track:

“It’s a shimmering, tragic, Sufjan Stevens-esque, minimalism-influenced chamber pop...