SONATA ARCTICA Announce ACOUSTIC ADVENTURES – VOLUME ONE for 2022, MAJESTICA Release new single “Metal United” as a tribute to all summer festivals and stage crews, Hypocrisy announce new album “Worship”, SUFFOCATION Announce “Live In North America” & Release Track Video For “Funeral Inception”.
Finnish melodic metal titans SONATA ARCTICA are a band with a unique sound, driven by different emotions and a touch of melancholy. Today, the band announces the new release date of their first acoustic album, perfectly entitled Acoustic Adventures – Volume One, to be released on January, 21st 2022.
“Despite of the circumstances slowly getting better, we will unfortunately have to postpone our “Acoustic Adventures European Tour” that was supposed to happen this fall. This is not a light decision by any means but right now we cannot go forward with the tour as planned. However we will be back in 2022, postponed doesn’t mean canceled. Our “Acoustic Adventures Vol. One” album will also be released a few months later than orginally planned but rest assured, it will be worth the wait. We’re really looking forward to getting out there again and play for you all, rather sooner than later. Meanwhile, take care”, says keyboard player Henrik “Henkka” Klingenberg.
“This acoustic form of SONATA ARCTICA has been slowly brewing for years”, comments vocalist Tony Kakko and explains: “The first manifestation of it, besides the few acoustic versions of songs released throughout the years, was the “Acoustic Adventures Tour” in 2019, which proved to be a great success, sparking an idea to get these songs also recorded and out on an album. Or two albums, at least for starters. Our songs have always been based on beautiful melodies, which makes it very easy to transform and rearrange them perfectly into the acoustic form as well. I should mention that many of the songs work so well dressed in acoustic garments.”
Acoustic Adventures – Volume One will be the first part, followed by a second acoustic record, to be released in October 2022. “I hope you love these albums as much as we do. There are many, many songs we had to leave out of these ‘’Volume One” and ‘’Volume Two” albums, so nothing would please me more than adding few more volumes in the future”, says vocalist Tony Kakko.
In 2019, the Swedish power metal heroes MAJESTICA released their debut album “Above The Sky” and quickly followed it up with their Christmas musical album, “A Christmas Carol”, in late 2020. Both albums were a huge success in the metal community, but when the time finally came to present their music to live audiences, the COVID-19 pandemic hit and made all touring impossible. But not only the tours were cancelled. Two years in a row now, metal fans all over the world had to go without the summer festivals, that are like the beating hearts of metal itself, not to mention a main source of income for all the amazing people, who help to make the events possible in the first place.
In these times more than ever the metal community must stand together and today, MAJESTICA release a music video for their new single “Metal United” – a true metal hymn and a statement of solidarity for fans and crewmembers alike.
Watch the music video here: https://youtu.be/UO37wJG1j2k
Get the single digitally here: https://bfan.link/Majestica-MetalUnited
The band comment: “All the people that work at the festivals and with touring bands have had a rough year, just like all of us. But a lot of these people that work so hard to make it possible for us musicians to perform on stage have had problems finding new jobs, and without these hard-working people, we can’t make our dreams come true.
And since we love to play at festivals and to go to festivals, we have been missing out on one important thing that means so much to us.
So the least we can do to honor these fine working people is to write a song as a tribute to them. A cheerful, uplifting song with Irish influences about the hope that everything will be back to normal, and a melodic, uptempo heavy metal song with an important message.
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With governments finally admitting that UFOs do in fact exist, and humanity attempting to heal from a state of the recent crisis, the timing couldn’t be more appropriate for the newest addition to the HYPOCRISY catalog: WORSHIP. Nuclear Blast Records. Today, the band releases the music video for the first single, “Chemical Whore”. Watch the music video created by NASTROE Production and Agata Nigrovskaya, here: https://youtu.be/uJRUq90EC_A
Peter Tägtgren comments, “We’ve been recording this album here and there for 2 years and now it’s done! Maybe it was waiting for the right time as some songs are even more real now than a couple of years ago. Thank you all for your waiting. We’re really excited to officially announce we’re back!”
WORSHIP. will be released on November 26th via Nuclear Blast Records. PRE-ORDER and PRE-SAVE Worship here: https://www.hypocrisyband.com/worship
New York death metal pioneers SUFFOCATION have announced their new live album, Live In North America, which will be released on November 12th via Nuclear Blast Records. Today, the band releases the track video for the first single, “Funeral Inception”. Watch the video featuring photographs taken by Jason Carlson, here: https://youtu.be/sS6QIrM-CRc
Terrance Hobbs comments, “We couldn’t be more excited to bring our fans our new live CD ‘Live In North America’ featuring Frank Mullen’s last performances with SUFFOCATION. We couldn’t think of a better way to wish Frank a fantastic farewell into retirement for all his contributions to this band as a great frontman, influence, and friend – and to also share this farewell with the fans, new and old, who have been there for us over the decades. We hope the fans will hold Frank’s last recorded live tour with us close to your hearts as we do. As another chapter from SUFFOCATION closes, we are more than ready and anxious to bring you more new music and classic death metal in the upcoming months and years. So keep your eyes and ears open, stay heavy and play it loud…. see you all on the road!”
PRE-ORDER your copy of Live In North America here: https://suffocationofficial.com/live-in-north-america
PRE-SAVE the album and listen here: https://suffocation.bfan.link/live-in-north-america
