#Erik Martensson

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Swedish Melodic Rockers ECLIPSE Release New Single 'Hearts Collide'

  The new single from Eclipse, “Hearts Collide” is out today, along with the official music video.  The track is taken from the upcoming studio album, “Megalomanium”, that will be released on September 1, 2023. Erik Martensson and the boys once again show they are the top of the mountain of Melodic Rockers with another great ear-worm anthem. If you miss Bon Jovi, these guys picked up where they…

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Nordic Union - Because Of Us (2018)

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SINNER: Brotherhood Full-Length To See Release July 15th Via Atomic Fire Records; Artwork, Track Listing, And Guest Appearances Revealed!

SINNER: Brotherhood Full-Length To See Release July 15th Via Atomic Fire Records; Artwork, Track Listing, And Guest Appearances Revealed!

SINNER: Brotherhood Full-Length To See Release July 15th Via Atomic Fire Records. Artwork, Track Listing, And Guest Appearances Revealed! [Photo by Dominic Pencz] German hard rock quartet and recent Atomic Fire Records signees SINNER have unveiled the artwork of their forthcoming studio album, Brotherhood, scheduled for release on July 15th, via Atomic Fire Records. Notes vocalist/bassist Mat…

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Best New Heavy Metal Releases Week of August 12th, 2022

This one came down to the wire, as I had a much busier weekend at work than it should have been. Some big name releases this week in the Melodic Death Metal genre, but the dominant genre this week was definitely the good old-fashioned Heavy Metal genre, especially if you like it in the more traditional vein. No worries however, there was still something for everyone this week. Here are a few of the highlights…

The Halo Effect-Days of the Lost (Melodic Death)**

With members of this band with resumes that include bands like Dark Tranquillity, In Flames, HammerFall, Sacrilege, Sinergy, Nightrage, was there any doubt that this was going to be good? I was on board after just hearing about who was in this band and that trust was solidified after hearing the first track they released as a bit of a teaser. What I wasn’t prepared for however, was just how damn good this album would be all the way through. This will be pushing for inclusion in my top 10 at year’s end. Yes, it IS that good.

Acid Blade-Power Dive (Traditional Heavy)**

Now we start the old-fashioned Heavy Metal run on your senses. This is about as traditional as you are likely to get. Even the production sounds like it is straight out of 1983. Riffing that borders on Speed Metal that is just insanely catchy with vocals that are clean but NOT clean at the same time. I know that sounds weird, but trust me on this one. If you know what I mean, you know what I mean. If you are going to lean into this genre, then go all the way and this band wallow in it. Would be absolutely perfect for a festival like Hell’s Heroes in Houston.

Stryfe-Cursed Theatre (Heavy)**

For some reason, when I first saw the logo and album cover of this album, I first thought it would be a Thrash Metal album. Yeah, not so much. What you DO have here, however, is Heavy Metal but on the more modern side with a bit of Hard Rock here and there, but not in a way that makes the album feel “Lighter”. The Hard Rock elements are what remind me of a band like The Lord Weird Slough Feg. They also have that ability to create a Hard Rock inside their Heavy Metal sound that is just a LOT heavier than you would normally expect from that genre while never sacrificing the overall vibe. This is really hard to explain and I think I am doing a terrible job of it but just give the album a listen. I will say it isn’t something you come across every day.

Hell Fire-Reckoning (Heavy/Speed)**

Back to more traditional Metal sound. Got to admit, I wasn’t as enamored with this album at first listen as I was with their previous output, 2019’s “Mania”. That being said, there was something about this album that just kept drawing me back in. Each successive listen and I liked the album more and more. The way I was gushing about the Halo Effect album, it is probably pretty clear what the Pick of the Week is going to be, but to be honest, as time goes by, I think this album might be even better. If you don’t know this band and you like this genre, this is a no-brainer recommendation. Another band that would be perfect for Hell’s Heroes.

Nordic Union-Animalistic (Power/Heavy/Hard Rock)**

I consider the band Pretty Maids as one of the most underrated bands in the history of Heavy Metal. They always wrote some insanely catchy songs with hooks that were instantly memorable and vocals that were just made for this genre of Metal. Well, this band is a partnership with Ronnie Atkins and Erik Martensson. I found out about Erik Martensson after hearing his band Eclipse, which released one of my favorite Hard Rock/Heavy Metal albums of 2021, “Wired”. Add these two guys together and you have an absolutely fantastic partnership. Both guys understand the value of hooks to pull you into this genre and holy shit, do they ever use that knowledge. This album has hooks and groove for days with sing along choruses that instantly burrow themselves into your brain. You have been warned.

That will do it for this week. Until next week and, as always,

BANG THY HEAD!!!

All worthy of a listen if you like the genre

*= standout in that genre

**=best of the week regardless of genre

Best of the Best

The Halo Effect-Days of the Lost (Melodic Death)**

Acid Blade-Power Dive (Traditional Heavy)**

Nordic Union-Animalistic (Power/Heavy)**

Hell Fire-Reckoning (Heavy/Speed)**

Stryfe-Cursed Theatre (Heavy)**

Standouts in their Genre

Unexplainable-Prophecies & Revelations (Melodic Death)*

Overdose Brain-Overdose Brain (Thrash)*

Ardi Beltza-Cinco Balas (Thrash)*

Arch Enemy-Deceivers (Melodic Death)*

Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement-Constructing the Cataclysm (Death)*

Sunstorm-Brothers in Arms (Hard Rock)*

A-Z - A-Z (Hard Rock)*

Carrion Vael-Abhorrent Obsessions (Melodic Death/Black)*

Paralyzed-Heavy Road (Sludge/Doom/Stoner)*

Goot-God’s Doubt (Gothic)*

Worth of a Listen if you Enjoy the Genre

Tensile-Regression of Humanity (Heavy)

Devil’s Paradise-Post Mortem (Hard Rock)

Cancer Priest-Weaponized Brainstem (Death)

Embarla Firgasto-Temporal Capsule (Progressive Death)

Extermination Day-Be the Consequence (Heavy/Hard Rock)

Cianuro-Odio Total (Thrash)

Aronious-Irkalla (Technical Death)

Arpeghy-3 (Hard Rock)

Mimorium-The Route of Haeresis (Black)

Seventh Storm-Maledictus (Heavy/Power)

Paxtilence-Wildfire (Thrash)

Seven Horns-In Loving Memory (Melodic Death)

Caroline Brietler-The Guide Within (Melodic Heavy)

The Halo Effect takes the Pick of the Week with 5 princess bulldogs out of 5!

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ICARUS WITCH 'Goodbye Cruel World' Album Review & Stream

ICARUS WITCH ‘Goodbye Cruel World’ Album Review & Stream

Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor

It is the night before Halloween as I sit down to hammer out this review, a night traditionally known by a variety of names, depending on the locale. (more…)

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Icarus Witch announce fifth record Goodbye Cruel World, stream new track "Misfortune Teller"

Official press release:

Pittsburgh heavy metal band Icarus Witch has announced plans to release their long-awaited, 6th record, Goodbye Cruel World, on October 26th with Cleopatra Records. Pre-orders are live on iTunes. The upcoming record marks the band’s first new record in 6 years and first to feature new vocalist Andrew D’Cagna. The band has teamed up with Decibel Magazineto debut the…

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The Classic Metal Show TV – Interview with W.E.T.’s Erik Mårtensson 2018 Interview with W.E.T. and Eclipse vocalist/bassist Erik Mårtensson. Mårtensson called in to talk about the new release EARTHRAGE from W.E.T., as well as a lot of other topics.

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W.E.T. выпустили новый клип Watch The Fire с предстоящего альбома Earthrage

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Eclipse mit Wettbewerb

Gerade eben noch in Balingen am Bang Your Head rockten Eclipse die Halle in Grund und Boden. Am Dienstag nach dem Festival, also vor gerade drei Tagen veröffentlichten die Jungs rund um Erik Martensson die beim Auftritt angekündigte neue Single. Ausgekoppelt wurde mein absoluter Lieblingssong aus dem aktuellen Album Monumentum The Downfall Of Eden. Einmal mehr typisch Erik, ein Song der sofort ins Ohr geht. Was mir aber diesmal besonders gefällt, und bei solchen Passagen werde ich einfach immer sofort gefangen genommen, sind diese keltisch irischen an Gary Moore erinnernden Gitarrenparts. Verdammt da krieg ich einfach sofort Hühnerhaut. Mit der Veröffentlichung von The Downfall Of Eden hat sich die Band nun einen Wettbewerb einfallen lassen. Zwar soll es ein Mitsing Wettbewerb werden. Vielleicht haben sie sich vom Bang Your Head inspirieren lassen, als die Menge bei Battlegrounds unaufhörlich mitgesungen hat. Also, um mitzumachen muss man ein Clip auf Instagram, Facebook, Twitter oder Youtube veröffentlichen bei dem man mitsingt. Dabei sollte der Hashtag #iloveeclipsesweden verwendet werden. Zu gewinnen gibt es für drei Teilnehmer unterschriebene aktuelle CD’s inklusive Merchandising die von Eclipse persönlich ausgewählt werden. Der Hauptpreis ist ein Skype Gespräch mit der Band selbst.

Eclipse mit Wettbewerb was originally published on The Art 2 Rock

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New Post has been published on http://www.tempi-dispari.it/2017/06/27/enrico-sarzi-firma-street-symphonies-suo-disco-solista/

Enrico Sarzi firma con Street Symphonies per il suo disco solista

Street Symphonies Records annuncia di aver firmato un contratto con Enrico Sarzi per il suo primo disco solista. Cantante e songwriter, Sarzi in passato ha legato il proprio nome all’hard rock band Midnite Sun, di cui è stato frontman e fondatore e con cui ha dato alle stampe due full-length album. La sua reputazione si è accresciuta ulteriormente collaborando ad alcuni progetti dall’ampio respiro internazionale come Shining Line e Moonstone Project (che vantavano ospiti della passata e presente scena hard rock del calibro di Glenn Hughes, Ian Paice, Robin Beck, Erik Martensson, Harry Hess e molti altri). Il suo primo lavoro solista, previsto per il prossimo autunno, si intitolerà “Drive Through” e vedrà la partecipazione di Cristiano Vicini alla chitarra (Midnite Sun), Marco Nicoli al basso (Tragodia, Midnite Sun, The Unripes), Marco Micolo alle tastiere (Kee Marcello, Pupo) e Alessandro Mori alla batteria (Mitch Malloy, Axe, Issa, Lionville, Viana, Kelly Keeling). L’esordio dal vivo della band di Enrico Sarzi avverrà il prossimo 8 luglio al Sabbio Summer Fest di Sabbioneta (MN) di spalla a Lacuna Coil e Genus Ordinis Dei.

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Nordic Union - Animalistic

Release Date: 12 Aug 2022

* Photo by Tallee Savage

Nordic Union is an ongoing musical collaboration between legendary Danish rock singer Ronnie Atkins (Pretty Maids) and prolific Swedish songwriter and producer Erik Martensson (Eclipse, W.E.T.). The pair released their third album, ‘Animalistic’ was released yesterday. It includes the single 'In Every Waking Hour'.

As previously reported, Ronnie Atkins was given a stage four cancer diagnosis acouple of years ago. Throwing himself into creating music while he still can, the frontman has subsequently issued the well received solo albums ‘One Shot’ and ‘Make It Count’, while also partnering up with Erik Martensson again to work on this new Nordic Union album.

For his part, Martensson went into the ‘Animalistic’ sessions having enjoyed a successful 2021 with album releases by both Eclipse and W.E.T., the melodic rock supergroup that he has been part of since 2008.

Fans of the duo will discover further pure melodic hard rock joy on this third offering, which has songwriting contributions from Ronnie Atkins and Swedish songwriter Miqael Persson but is largely written by Martensson, who is also on production, mixing and mastering duties.

The partnership between Martensson and Atkins began in 2015 when their record company suggested bringing them together to create a Scandinavian melodic hard rock alliance. A self-titled debut album came out in 2016 and offered a hybrid of the melodic aspects of Pretty Maids with elements of Eclipse, W.E.T. and Talisman. It was followed by ‘Second Coming’ in late 2018, which was another high quality set of superbly written songs, faultless musicianship and brilliant vocals.

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Listen To The NEW NORDIC UNION Album, “ANIMALISTIC”

Listen To The NEW NORDIC UNION Album, “ANIMALISTIC”

In advance of the August 12, 2022 release of their new album “Animalistic”, Nordic Union, which features vocalist Ronnie Atkins (Pretty Maids) and guitarist/producer Erik Martensson (Eclipse, W.E.T.), have released a full album stream of the release on Frontiers Music Srl’s YouTube channel. Please enjoy this preview of the album Blabbermouth.net calls what “might well be the most aggressive and…

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NORDIC UNION (Melodic Metal - Ronnie Atkins (Pretty Maids) & Erik Martensson (Eclipse, W.E.T.)) - Release official music video for "This Means War" which is out NOW via Frontiers Music srl #NordicUnion

NORDIC UNION (Melodic Metal – Ronnie Atkins (Pretty Maids) & Erik Martensson (Eclipse, W.E.T.)) – Release official music video for “This Means War” which is out NOW via Frontiers Music srl #NordicUnion

NORDIC UNION (Melodic Metal – Ronnie Atkins (Pretty Maids) & Erik Martensson (Eclipse, W.E.T.)) – Release official music video for “This Means War” which is out NOW via Frontiers Music srl #NordicUnion   Ready for another new single & video from Nordic Union? ‘This Means War’ is out now! https://youtu.be/GHM6f1B63og Taken from their new studio album, “Animalistic”. Out August 12th on CD &…

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Eclipse Announces New Studio Album "Wired"

Eclipse Announces New Studio Album “Wired”

ECLIPSE ANNOUNCES NEW STUDIO ALBUM “WIRED” TO BE RELEASED OCTOBER 8, 2021 NEW SINGLE & MUSIC VIDEO, ‘BITE THE BULLET’ OUT NOW Their most successful album yet is “Paradigm” (including the massive single ‘Viva La Victoria‘ with 15 million streams and counting). Sweden‘s Eclipse returns with their new studio album “Wired” on October 8, 2021. A new single and music video from the album ‘Bite The…

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NORDIC UNION Release New Album "Animalistic" on August 5th, First Single And Video Out Now

NORDIC UNION Release New Album “Animalistic” on August 5th, First Single And Video Out Now

NORDIC UNION, the ongoing musical collaboration between legendary Danish rock singer Ronnie Atkins (Pretty Maids) and prolific Swedish songwriter and producer Erik Martensson (Eclipse, W.E.T.), have announced their third album, “Animalistic” will be released on August 5, 2022. Today, the band has released the first single and video from the album, ‘In Every Waking Hour’. Pre-order/save…