A roundup of the latest news from Nuclear Blast artists including updates on Ministry, Riot V, Panzer and Blues Pills.
Groundbreaking industrial-metal pioneers, MINISTRY, have signed a worldwide deal with Nuclear Blast Records. The band recently wrapped up recording their new album »AmeriKKKant«, which is tentatively scheduled for release the first quarter of 2018. More details to be announced shortly.
“This album, »AmeriKKKant«,” stated mastermind Al Jourgensen. “Will provide FEMA type relief for the devastation ‘Hurricane Cheeto’ has brought upon us”
For decades, the powerhouse of psychotic sound that is MINISTRY has overcome millions with releases such as »Filth Pig«, »The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste«, »Psalm 69«, »From Beer To Eternity«, and a flood of others. Since the 80s, founder Al Jourgensen, has been combining elements of synth pop, punk, metal and even dub in a way that is instantly recognizable and has influenced many other bands.
With timeless classics such as ‘Just One Fix’, ‘Thieves‘, and ‘Jesus Built My Hotrod,‘ MINISTRY are one of a kind musical pioneers.
With six Grammy nominations to date, over 3 million records sold, more than 2,000 live performances, and movie soundtrack work on Hurt Locker, Artificial Intelligence, Matrix, Robo Cop and Saw, MINISTRY has been contributing to the music industry for over three decades.
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NUCLEAR BLAST are proud to announce the signing of cult New York Heavy Metal band RIOT V, who will be inducted into the prestigious Heavy Metal History Hall of Fame 2018!
Hardly any other metal act has such a long, absorbing history behind it. Since the quintet formed in 1975 they have been hit by several severe strokes of fate during their long career. With Rhett Forester (R.I.P. 1994), Guy Speranza (R.I.P. 2003) and Mark Reale (R.I.P. 2012) – three deceased members have left their mark on the four decades of RIOT’s band history.
Since their legendary debut album “Rock City” (1977), RIOT has released numerous heavy metal classics, including “Fire Down Under” (with classics like “Swords And Tequila“), their masterpiece “Thundersteel” (1988), and the unforgotten “The Privilege Of Power“(1990).
After the death of Mark Reale and the departure of Tony Moore, Todd Michael Hall (from Michigan, USA), completed the line-up of the band, which in the meantime performed under the name of RIOT V under the auspices of the two long term members and main songwriters Donnie van Stavern (bass) and Mike Flyntz (guitar). With the critically acclaimed “Unleash The Fire” (2014), a pure power metal jewel once again underlined the musical importance and influence of the quintet.
Many artists name-check RIOT as an important influence of their musical career and have paid tribute to the power metal godfathers on multiple occasions. The list is long and includes several well-known acts such as HAMMERFALL (‘Flight Of The Warrior’), Luca Turilli’s RHAPSODY (‘Thundersteel‘), AXEL RUDI PELL (‘Warrior‘) and newcomers such as NIGHT DEMON (‘Road Racin‘), ALPHA TIGER (‘Flight Of The Warrior’), SAVAGE MASTER (‘Swords And Tequila’) and STALLION (‘Rock City’).
“RIOT V is proud to announce our union with the mighty Nuclear Blast label! Two true metal visionaries meet to unleash an assault on all you metal warriors of the world! Its really awesome to be on “THE” metal label and have so much respect and excitement between us. We are in great hands and it’s always nice to have a mutual vision of what this band needs to be thrust back onto the metal battlefield and with our thousands of metal soldiers supporting and fighting with us. This will be the start of a great relationship – and it doesn’t hurt that some of the Nuclear Blast staff are long-time fans! Now let’s start a riot! Shine On!”, commented Don van Stavern.
RIOT V are busy recording the follow up to the highly acclaimed come back record “Unleash The Fire”, which entered the Hard Rock 100 Billboard charts at #75 and Rolling Stone Magazine gives it a 4/5 rating, while most media including Burrn!, Rock Hard and Aardshock dubbed it album of the year! The new disc will be released in spring 2018 and production duties will be handled by producer whiz Chris “The Wizard” Collier (METAL CHURCH, FLOTSAM & JETSAM, SLIPKNOT, KORN a.o.).
The new songs promises to please fans of the “Thundersteel“-era of RIOT, as main song writer and long time Mark Reale music collaborator Don Van Stavern undertakes a lot of the writing as he did on “Thundersteel“, “The Privilege of Power” and the latest offering “Unleash The Fire“. Don van Stavern adds: “This next offering will please long time fans and create new ones, as the material is fresh and Power Metal at it’s finest.”
RIOT V truely are metal soldiers and will keep marching and fighting the good fight to bring you the music you’ve come to know, love and expect from RIOT V.
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Heavy metal saviours PÄNZER will unleash their sophomore record entitled »Fatal Command« on October 6th, 2017 through Nuclear Blast Records and today, the band is unveiling their first official music video for their new album. The video for the title track ‘Fatal Command’ was shot by Kai Swillus (Buntmetall) at the famous Swiss Club, Z7.
Schmier comments on the video: „We wanted to have a clip that fits with the bands sound, something that catches the energy of PÄNZER. No gimmicks – just a big stage and the look behind the curtain. The Z7 club in Switzerland is something like a home base for many touring bands, we wanted to pay tribute to our fave living-room and the people that work there.“
Speaking about the song ‘Fatal Command’, Schmier explains: „As the album delivers a very pure musical direction, we have tried to maintain and transport that feeling also into the videoclip. Metal does not need much frills – the song ‘Fatal Command’ stands for what PÄNZER is all about: RELENTLESS BEATS, POSSESSIVE HOOK-LINES & MELODIC TWIN GUITAR ATTACKS!”
Pre-order »Fatal Command« in various formats (DIGI, CD, 2LP (black, clear)): nuclearblast.com/panzer-fatalcommand
Pre-order »Fatal Command« digitally and receive ‘We Can Not Be Silenced’, ‘Satan’s Hollow’ and ‘Fatal Command’ instantly or stream the tracks: http://nblast.de/PaenzerDigital
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Sweden based blues rockers BLUES PILLS have announced to release their first ever DVD/Blu Ray, entitled »Lady In Gold Live In Paris«, on November 3, 2017. See cover below this message.
The release features the band sold out performance at Le Trianon in Paris, France on October 30, 2016 in front of 1.200 euphoric fans.
Today the band release their performance of the song ‘Elements & Things’ from said release.
The song as well as ‘Little Boy Preacher’ can now be purchased as an instant grat track: http://nblast.de/BluesPillsDigital
»Lady In Gold Live In Paris« is now available for pre-order in various lavish versions (exclusive Nuclear Blast Mailorder Edition including Canvas, Digibook DVD, Digibook Blu-Ray) and Vinyl Colors (black, bi-colored, clear, gold, violet, picture). Surf to these locations…
Physical: http://nblast.de/BPLiveInParis
Digital: http://nblast.de/BluesPillsDigital
