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Former CANDLEMASS Singer MATS LEVÉN Joins PRINS SVART; New Single ‘Speglar Och Dimma’ Out Now
Swedish rock band PRINS SVART has just released “Speglar Och Dimma” (English-language translation: “Smoke And Mirrors”), the first single from its upcoming album “Sanning Och Makt” (“Truth And Power”). The song marks the group’s first recorded output with its new lead singer, Mats Levén, a veteran of the Swedish hard rock scene who has previously played with CANDLEMASS, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA, THERION and SKYBLOOD, among others. “Mats is Sweden’s best singer and we’re very proud to welcome him to the band,” PRINS SVART said in a statement. “This year has been surreal in many ways. Still we’ve had the chance to get to know each other both musically and personally on the road and in ...
IRON MAIDEN’s ‘Nights Of The Dead’ Live Album Lands On European Charts
IRON MAIDEN‘s new double live album, “Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast: Live In Mexico City”, has registered the following first-week chart positions in Europe: Belgium (Flanders): #10 Belgium (Wallonia): #7 The Netherlands: #14 Finland: #6 Germany: #6 Ireland: #29 Italy: #14 Norway: #12 Scotland: #4 Sweden: #5 U.K.: #7 “Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast: Live In Mexico City” was released on November 20 via BMG. Containing over 100 minutes of classic MAIDEN music and available in multiple formats, including a limited-edition Mexican Flag, triple-colored (180g) vinyl and a limited-edition deluxe two-CD book format, “Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast: Live In Mexico City” was recorded during the band’s three sold-out arena sh...
Will There Ever Be A ‘Definitive’ VAN HALEN Documentary? BANGER FILMS’ SAM DUNN Would Love To Get A Crack At It
Canadian documentarian Sam Dunn of Banger Films says that he would love to make the “definitive” documentary about VAN HALEN. “VAN HALEN, for me, has always been a bit of a Holy Grail story, particularly the David Lee Roth years, up to ’83, ’84,” Dunn told DEATH ANGEL‘s Ted Aguilar as part of the “Alive & Streaming” YouTube interview series (see video below). “That run of records is such a phenomenal run, and it happened in such a short period of time. “I know there’s been books written about VAN HALEN, and I know that it would never be an easy film to make, for many reasons,” he continued. “And that’s fine. And maybe it won’t get done. Maybe someone will be blessed with the opportunity to d...
JOURNEY Guitarist NEAL SCHON To Release Long-Awaited Solo Album ‘Universe’ In December
JOURNEY guitarist Neal Schon‘s long-awaited new solo album, “Universe”, will finally arrive next month. The effort, which was produced by current JOURNEY drummer Narada Michael Walden, has been in the works for several years. Earlier today, Schon tweeted out what appears to be the “Universe” LP cover, and he included the following caption: ” Coming early December”. He added in a separate tweet: “There are some interesting covers on here as well as originals written and produced by Narada Michael Walden Jimi /Prince / John McLaughlin / Stevie Wonder / Beatles / and Journey. There’s some very healing music for this Christmas”. In a 2018 interview with Michael Cavacini, Schon stated about “Universe”: “It’s ver...
Sabrina Claudio’s New Holiday Album LP Is a Jazzy Gift
This Christmas, you’ll get to sit around a socially-distanced household and take in the smoothest, sexiest, and most soulful holiday songs that you’ve ever heard thanks to singer Sabrina Claudio. The wistful Miami-born singer whose breakthrough, About Time, was released in 2017, reveals over Zoom that her latest body of work wasn’t planned and was spurred on by a conversation with her manager, Wassim “Sal” Slaiby. “I was supposed to be on tour and that didn’t happen because of the virus,” she says happily as she reflects on the experience. “I was just completely uninspired and didn’t really want to do anything with music. And he [Sal] just threw out there, ‘Oh, you know what? You should just release a Christmas song this year, just because,’ and so I took that idea and I ran wi...
Top 10 Biggest Songs Produced By Don Jazzy
Michael Collins Ajereh, known professionally as Don Jazzy is a veteran Nigerian music producer that has been around for 15 years in the Nigerian music industry. Growing up Don Jazzy quickly learnt about music as a kid while playing the bass guitar in his local church. Since then he has moved on to become a multiple award-winning music producer in Nigeria. He has worked with several Nigerian musicians including D’banj, Wande Coal, Dr Sid, Tiwa Savage, D’Prince, Ikechukwu etc. Don Jazzy has a long catalogue of music production credit to his name, having produced a ton of hits during his entire. He co-founded Mo’Hits Records with D’banj and after the split founded Mavin Records. Below are some of the biggest songs produced by Don Jazzy aka Don Baba J. Oliver Twist [embedded content] Whi...
Save the Trees With Disclosure and Treeapp’s New Collaborative T-Shirt
Helping fans protect the environment during the UK’s National Tree Week, Grammy Award-nominated duo Disclosure has recently announced a new t-shirt collaboration with British tech company Treeapp, whose mobile app allows users to plant trees from their phones for free. Co-branded with each group’s logo and screen-printed with the words “This T-Shirt planted a tree,” every shirt keeps its word, with sales facilitating the planting of a tree in the UK on the buyers’ behalf. The limited edition shirt is an extension of Disclosure’s “Big Tree ENERGY” clothing line, released in support of their most recent album ENERGY. Like all pieces in the line, this new t-shirt will be delivered to purchasers in biodegradable packagi...
With New Global Directory of Creators, FEMNØISE Works to Close the Music Industry Gender Gap
Launched in 2017 as a music industry collective for women, transgender and non-binary creators, Barcelona-based organization FEMNØISE has been actively working to close the gender gap through activism, discussion forums and virtual community building. With the launch of a new interactive map on the group’s website, FEMNØISE’s nearly 2,000 members from all backgrounds in the industry can now find each other around the globe, making a smooth system for professionals and emerging talent to forge new relationships and hire each other. Looking at the big picture, this move will empower the collective’s network to make meaningful connections and expand the pool of creators with marginalized gender identities. “Our idea is to serve as a bridge between d...
You Can Now Learn Spanish, French, and Other Languages With New Deezer Playlists
Need to refresh the foreign language skills you haven’t tapped into since high school? Deezer‘s latest playlist series may be for you. The streaming platform is betting on listeners’ openness to the idea of learning their next language through the power of music. A survey conducted by the company appears to have revealed exactly that, as over 90% of respondents confirmed they believe music assists with language mastery. The company has retained language expert Susanna Zarysky to help curate and launch five separate playlists, each designed to enhance the listener’s understanding of a particular language. The playlists, consisting of 20 tracks, are broken down into four segments, each having a specific purpose. The first five tracks are designed to enhance the l...
Zedd Launches “Inside Out” Minecraft Scavenger Hunt
Zedd is sending gamers through a slew of brain-twisting puzzles with the “Inside Out Scavenger Hunt,” a series of challenges named after the producer’s recent single. Taking place in the far reaching fields of Minecraft, participants are competing to solve ten unique challenges, each giving them the chance to win a special prize provided by Logitech, Elgato, Discord, and Mavix. The scavenger hunt environment was concocted by DoodleChaos, a YouTube creator with experience in developing immersive Minecraft concepts. DoodleChaos was the mastermind behind Zedd’s previous Minecraft-related endeavor, a rhythm game similar to Beat Saber, which was soundtracked to the producer’s single “Funny.” DoodleChaos invested over 100 painstaking hours into bui...
Country Girl
Long before the Taylor Swifts, Miranda Lamberts and Brandi Carliles, Carlene Carter set the standard for today’s independent, self-empowered, and irrepressible female country artists—and she did so when country music, as Barbara Mandrell sang in her 1981 Country Music Association Single of the Year, “wasn’t cool.” Three years earlier, the daughter of 1950s and ’60s country crooner/honky-tonker Carl Smith and the Carter Family’s June Carter Cash — and stepdaughter of Johnny Cash — released her self-titled debut album, on Warner Bros. The label had sagely sent her off to London with the idea of recording country music with a rock band. But it wasn’t just any rock band: Carlene Carter was recorded with New Wave singer-songwriter Graham Parker’s cutting-edge The Rumour, and produced by its key...
COREY TAYLOR’s ‘HWY 666’ Is Official Theme Song Of WWE’s ‘Tables, Ladders And Chairs’
Corey Taylor‘s “HWY 666” is the official theme song of WWE‘s “Tables, Ladders And Chairs” event. The final WWE pay-per-view of 2020 will take place on December 20 at a new Thunderdome set up at Tropicana Field in Tampa Bay, Florida. In “HWY 666”, which is taken from Taylor‘s debut solo album, “CMFT”, he narrates a harrowing tale of a man wandering down the titular road when the Dark Lord appears, eager to snatch a new soul. “CMFT” made impressive debuts on charts around the world last month, entering at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Current Hard Rock Albums chart, while claiming No. 2 on Current Rock Albums, No. 6 on Vinyl Albums, and No. 9 on the Top Albums charts. Furthermore, “CMFT” landed Top 10 on t...
