A roundup of the latest news from Mighty Music. DD VERNI from Overkill is releasing his debut album in October and this is the first single ‘Fire Up’. A hard hitting up tempo punk meets heavy rock song.
‘Blood And Leather’ is the second single from German speed/heavy metal legends Iron Angel. Taken from the album “Hellbound”, out 4th of May. The biggest Danish prog rock/metal band Black Book Lodge release their second single “Steeple And Spire” from the upcoming album of the same name, out 18th of May.
First single “Fire Up” from Overkill songwriter and bassist D.D. Verni will be releasing his long awaited debut album worldwide through Mighty Music in October.
“There’s some metal, punk, classic rock…..its all in there, from Queen to Green Day to Metallica, I think we covered all the basses!“, declares D.D. Verni.
D.D. Verni’s first effort has a host of guitar players doing guest spots on the record. Jeff Loomis (Arch Enemy), Angus Clark (Trans Siberian Orchestra), Jeff Waters (Annihilator), Bruce Franklin (Trouble), Mike Romeo (Symphony X), Mike Orlando (Adrenalin Mob), Steve Leonard (Almost Queen),and Andre “Virus” Karkos (Dope) who also contributed the rhythm guitar tracks. Rounding out the group is former Overkill drummer Ron Lipnicki. The record was mixed and mastered by Chris “Zuess” Harris (Rob Zombie, Queesryche, Hatebreed).
The first single “Fire Up” features guitarist Mike Orlando. D.D. Verni states “I’m psyched to get this disc out, we had a lot of fun and a lot of great players contributed“.
In addition to 18 Overkill full length releases, Verni has 4 releases with his side band The Bronx Casket Co. D.D. Verni continues “so why do a solo record….well I never really stop writing material,and after some time it starts to pile up and take shape and I wonder what it will be. In the past anything that was not Overkill material I would put aside for my other band The Bronx Casket Co, but when I starting pulling these songs together it was clearly not that, and I thought, OK I guess it’s a solo record. The material was kinda Metal and kinda Rock and kinda Punk, so those really are my basic influences.
In Overkill I take all that background and funnel it into our Thrash sound. But these songs were not Thrash but a combination of the other stuff. I would never really have an interest in doing a record that was thrash sounding outside of Overkill, I just don’t think it could be any better. The fun is trying new shit and seeing where it goes for me. I could always do all the instruments myself as I have in the past on projects but thought this could be a good opportunity to try working with some new people. My wife was hearing me thinking out loud and basically said why don’t you just call some guys who’s work you like and see if they would be interested, and so that’s what I did“.
The release date of the album is set to October 2018 and touring in both the US and Europe is currently being booked.
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“Blood And Leather” is taken from the Iron Angel album “Hellbound” out 4th of May 2018 on LP, LTD LP, CD and digital.
The Credits are: Music by Mitsch Meyer Lyrics by Maximilian Behr Cover-idea by Rob Altenbach/design by Mitsch Meyer Video production, edited and designed by Michael Meyer Video-idea Mitsch Meyer/Dietmar Mackel Movie-sequences from “Running Cool” with kind permission of Ferd Sebastian “producer/writer of Running Cool.
RON ANGEL is one of the true cult legends of the German Speed Metal genre. Formed in the Hamburg-area back in 1980 and known for two classic eighties metal album “Hellish Crossfire” from 1985 and “Winds Of War” from 1986 and a reputation as a staggering live band. The band has toured Germany with KING DIAMOND and in recent years they have showed they are still a live band to reckon with on festivals on Metal Magic in 2016 and earlier this year at the Headbanger’s Open Air in Germany. The band also recently toured South America with big success.
Now the time has finally come for the long awaited come-back album from the band – the first studio album in over 30 years! “Hellbound” will be released as a big priority on the 4th of May 2018 worldwide through Scandinavia’s premiere metal-rock label Mighty Music.
Iron Angel are currently booking summer festivals and European tour for the Autumn of 2018.They are booked for these shows this Spring:
May 5 – Metal Bash, Hamburg DE
May 11 – Nordic Noise , Copenhagen, DK
May 19– Heavy Agger, DK
“Hellbound” is a big priority release for Mighty Music and will be heavily advertised and promoted worldwide..
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Black Lodge release Second single, the title track from the upcoming album “Steeple And Spire”.
Black Book Lodge is a quartet based in Copenhagen, Denmark. They are not easily labeled in regards to a specific genre, as they work within a lot of different styles and somehow manage to merge these different inputs into a powerful, melodic, organic, and original whole. One way to define them though, would be as being inherently nordic, as their music does invoke an imagery of vast, barren landscapes and white, towering mountains, or as Metalsucks.net puts it: “If Mastodon and Muse had a baby in Denmark and never taught it how to run, that baby would be Black Book Lodge.”
In regards to the general direction on the new album, Ronny elaborates “I felt it was time to gather rather than alienate the listener this time around. As much as I love dark, angsty rock, lately I’ve simply been more inspired by the hope and light life has to offer. You might say the snow on the mountains and landscapes of our two former releases have melted on this one. The sun is out and beaming down, and it feels great, doesn’t it?”
