27.07.2007 ::: SOUL DOCTOR ready with new album "Blood Runs Cold" ::: label: METAL HEAVEN out: 28.09.2007 Berlin based Hard Rockers SOUL DOCTOR have finished the recordings on their new album "Blood Runs Cold". The CD shows the band back to their more melodic style and offers various new influences from the classic Hard Rock genre. Here comes the track list: 1. Blood Runs Cold, 2. Temptation, 3. Laugh In The Face Of Danger, 4. F.A.F.O.D, 5. Touch Of Love, 6. The Ocean, 7. The Lie, 8. Revolution, 9. Justine, 10. Mr. Youngblood. All songs have been written by singer Tommy Heart and guitarist Chris Lyne except for "Touch Of Love" which was written by Joe Lynn Turner, Glenn Hughes and Stuart Smith. A trailer for this release can be watched here ore in our specials section:  http://www.youtube.com/v/PU5Bb6V1E5A Feel free to link this YouTube video to your sites.  The first edition of "Blood Runs Cold" will be available as digi-pack release and include the European bonus track "Let's Zep", an almost 10 minute long medley of classic Led Zeppelin songs. The band is: Tommy Heart - vocals; Chris Lyne - guitars; Jogy Rautenberg - bass; Michael Wolpers - drums live: 28.09.2007 (D) Berlin, JWD 30.09.2007 (D) Ludwigsburg, Rockfabrik, United Forces Of Rock III 26.10.2007 (UK) Nottingham, Trent University; Firefest IV www.souldoctorrocks.com / www.myspace.com/souldoctorrock 27.07.2007 ::: HUMAN ZOO "Over The Horizon" ::: label: AOR Heaven out: 28.09.2007 HUMAN ZOO from Balingen, Germany, have been one of the most successful newcomers of the Hard Rock genre in the year 2006 with their album "Precious Times". "Over The Horizon" is the first release for their new label AOR Heaven which continues with the Melodic Rock sound plus saxophone. Once again produced by PINK CREAM 69's Dennis Ward, this release will take the band undoubtfully onto the next level. Here come some sound samples in advance: HUMAN ZOO Zoo - Over The Horizon (Edit) HUMAN ZOO - Communicate (Edit) HUMAN ZOO - Cryin (Edit) The band is: Thomas Seeburger - vocals; Tommy Strobel - drums; Ingolf Engler - guitars; Zarko Mestrovic - keyboards; Markus Ratheiser - bass; Boris Matakovic - saxophone live: 27.07.2007 (D) Rottenburg-Seebronn, Rock of Ages Festival 18.08.2007 (UK) Nottingham, Rock City, Thunderground Festival 01.09.2007 (CH) 10. Big Twin Party (Bikerfestival) / Mellingen 30.09.2007 (D) Ludwigsburg, Rockfabrik, United Forces Of Rock III 18.11.2007 (D) Zak, Warm Up Party 24.11.2007 (D) Balingen, Eberthalle, Release Party   27.07.2007 ::: IVORY MOON - Symphonic Metal from Italy ::: label: Ulterium Records distribution: Metal Heaven out: 28.09.2007 IVORY MOON are an exciting new distribution title at Metal Heaven. The Symphonic Metal band from Italy will release their second album "Human Nature" on 28.09.2007. Fans of Sonata Arctica and Rhapsody plus Epica and Nightwish will undoubtfully dig this high class release which trademarks - amongst the music - are female singer Cecilia Serra and male singer Sandro Manicone. The band is: Cecilia Serra - vocals; Sandro Manicone - vocals; Davide Calisse - Lead guitar; Fabrizio Zucchini - Guitar; Fabrizio Sclano - Bass; Filippo Natoli - Keys; Emanuele Valabrega - Drums Also released on 28.09.2007 will be DARKSUN's debut album in English language "The Dark Side" via FC Metal/ Metal Heaven. 27.07.2007 ::: NEW CONSORTIUM PROJECT video online! ::: Ian Parry's CONSORTIUM PROJECT IV has a new video clip online for the song "Enigma". Feel free to check it out at: www.youtube.com/ianparrycom  Their new album "Children Of Tomorrow" was released on 20.07.2007 through Metal Heaven. 27.07.2007 ::: VOICES OF ROCK - amazing feedback all over Europe! ::: AOR Heaven's 20.07.2007 release VOICES OF ROCK "MMXII" is currently receiving outstanding feedback from the press all over Europe. Here come some of the results: Rock It! (D) - soundcheck #1 / album of the month; review 9/10 Break Out (D) - over the top/ album of the month Rockantenne (D) - heavy rotation/ presentation of the album rocksensation.de (D) - album of the month Melodic Rock Station - album of the month Munich's Hardest Hits (D) - album of the week (week 29) metalroxx.com (D) - 9/ 10 points hallofmetal.com (E) - 9/10 points metal-dreams.com (E) - 9,25/ 10 points metal-symphony.com (E) - 4,5/ 5 points myrevelations.de (D) - 12/ 15 points sleaze-metal.com (D) - 9/ 10 points laestada.com (E) - 9,5/ 10 points metalearth.de (D) - 4,5/ 5 points ...and much more! Voices Of Rock new at Myspace: www.myspace.com/voicesofrock 31.05.2007 ::: BLOODBOUND hit the Swedish charts! ::: Our Swedish Melodic Metal darlings BLOODBOUND hit the Swedish album charts on #66 this week with their new album "Bood Of The Dead" (out now on Metal Heaven)! This marks the first ever chart entry for this exceptional band! Congratulations to the guys and we would like to thank our distributors Border as well for the great job they've done! Watch out for the band's coming live show: 09.06.2007 S-Sölvesborg, Sweden Rock Festival ...and their current promotional video clip for "Book Of The Dead" in our specials section. Book Of The Dead 20.05.2007 ::: NEW SIGNINGS & RELEASES! :::  Metal Heaven welcomes 3 new bands the ever growing family: STEVE GRIMMETT BAND, CONSORTIUM PROJECT and VIRON! Finnish Metal band MANITOU will release their 3rd album in July!     20.05.2007 ::: STEVE GRIMMETT BAND ::: This is the brand new project put together by Steve Grimmett simply titled 'The Steve Grimmett Band'. Steve's history is nothing short of incredible, having one of the most powerful and original voices in rock. His successes include Grim Reaper who accomplished major success worldwide with three highly acclaimed studio albums along with single releases and MTV airplay. After Grim Reaper came a brief spell with Onslaught and again there was commercial success even from that unlikely line-up. The band's debut single even charted in the UK. More recently Steve's success came in the form of Lionsheart, a powerful melodic metal band that took places such as Japan by storm with their debut album reaching number 1 in the mainstream charts as well as a top 5 hit single. A new STEVE GRIMMETT BAND studio album is due out in October 2007 on Metal Heaven and will be produced by the highly rated and acclaimed Dennis Ward (Pink Cream 69) and Pete Newdeck. STEVE GRIMMETT BAND is: Steve Grimmett (Grim Reaper, Onslaught, Lionsheart), vocals Ian Nash (Seven Deadly Sins, Lionsheart) guitars Richie Walker, bass Pete Newdeck (Paul Di'Anno's Killers, The Shock), drums Guests: Eric Ragno (Jeff Scott Soto, Tony Mills), keyboards Carsten Schulz (Evidence One), back. vocals   Live: 26.10.2007 UK-Nottingham, Trend University, Firefest IV (mit Threshold, Demon, Soul Doctor & Stormzone)     20.05.2007 ::: CONSORTIUM PROJECT IV ::: Producer and lead singer Ian Parry (ex Vengeance, Elegy) is proud to present his forth offering Consortium Project IV “Children of Tomorrow” for a release in July 2007. Unlike previous albums C IV is a more diverse rock metal production with progressive elements reminiscent of his earlier productions. Parry has spent more than a year on this epic co-produced production writing, recording and mixing with colleague Elegy keyboard player Joshua Dutrieux. The song writing has been shared as on the previous Consortium 3 albums with Joshua, Ian and newcomer to the Consortium family, ex-Within Temptation drummer Ivar de Graaf. Consortium show on the road later in 2007, as a prelude to an Elegy reunion. The full line-up of Consortium Project 4 is: Ian Parry – vocals Joshua Dutrieux – keyboards Ivar de Graaf – drums Henk van der Laars - guitars Guests: Lou St.Paul – guitars (WINTER'S BANE) Rosita Abbink – female vocals Erna auf der Haar – female vocals Kyrah Dutrieux – spoken words Judith Rijnveld – femals choirs Niels Vejylt - guitar Marcel van der Zwam – bass www.ianparry.com   20.05.2007 ::: VIRON ::: New at Metal Heaven is one of Germany's most promising Metal bands: VIRON. The band's debut album "NWOGHM" received high class reviews all over Europe last year and built the foundation for some single gigs and short tours with Ruffians, Solemnity, Morgana Lefay, Sacred Steel, Sabaton, Legion of the Damned, Majesty, Rebellion, Bonfire & Tierra Santa plus performances at festivals such as Headbanger's Open Air, Swordbrothers Festival and United Metal Heads Festival. The coming album will again be recorded at "Kohlekeller" studios with producer Kristian Kohlmannslehner (Sieges Even, Abandoned, Killers, Crematory) and is scheduled for a release in early 2008.     Line-Up VIRON: Alexx Stahl - vocals Thilo Feucht- guitars Roger Dequis - guitars Ingmar Holzhauer - bass Neudi - drums Live: 25.05.2007 - D-Weinheim, Cafe Central (mit Sabaton) 11.08.2007 - D-Mommenheim, Mommenheim Open Air (bei Mainz) www.viron1.com     20.05.2007 ::: In further news, Finnish Metal band MANITOU will release their 3rd album "No Signs Of Wisdom" in July! ::: The archetypes for Manitou are Queensryche, Iron Maiden, Annihilator, Ozzy, Dio, Whitesnake, Judas Priest and Tarot. Manitou's own trademark is to compose honest, traditional heavy metal and mix some little proggy elements here and there. You'll find 3 minute straight-forward metal rockers as also 11 minute epic stuff on their albums.  The band in the past has played numerous gigs with the likes of UDO, Paul Di'Anno, Helloween, Graham Bonnet, Tarot, Machine Men, Thunderstone etc., got cheering and great reviews from the metal media and even topped the Finnish single chart on position #2 last year with their “Fools In Control” single. "No Signs Of Wisdom" includes the following songs: 1. In This Indolence, 2. Dread Of The Freaks, 3. No Signs Of Wisdom, 4. The End Within, 5. Harbinger, 6. Polluted World, 7. Some Of The Sins Revealed, 8. The Loon, 9. August Sky MANITOU are: Markku Pihlaja - vocals (Kaihoro) Markus Vanhala - guitars (Omnium Gatherum, Malpractice) Antti Lauren - guitars Ismo Laukkanen - bass Matti Suhonen - drums 04.05.2007 ::: AOR Heaven special announcement: VOICES OF ROCK To create the VOICES OF ROCK for AOR HEAVEN, two of Germanys leading Melodic Rock producers and songwriters joined forces: Chris Lausmann (BONFIRE, JADED HEART, FRONTLINE) and Michael Voss (MAD MAX, CASANOVA). Besides writing and producing all the songs the most fascinating challenge for Lausmann/Voss was to put together a team of legendary voices from all over the world. The final result is an international high class album full of outstanding performances:   Featured vocalists - one song each: James Christian (HOUSE OF LORDS) Jean Beauvoir (PLASMATICS/CROWN OF THORNS) Göran Edman (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN/STREET TALK) Gary Barden (MSG) Harry Hess (HAREM SCAREM) Robin Beck Terry Brock (STRANGEWAYS/SLAMER) Dan Reed (DAN REED NETWORK) Steve Overland (FM/SHADOWMAN) Johnny Gioeli (HARDLINE /AXEL RUDI PELL) and: Bertram Engel - drums Angel G. Schleifer (ex BONFIRE) - lead guitars Tommy Denander (RADIOACTIVE) - lead guitars Here you can have an advance listen to streams to rough mixes for 3 songs of the album: Voices Of Rock (Dan Reed) - Over And Done Voices Of Rock (Johnny Gioeli) - Phoenix Rising Voices Of Rock (Harry Hess) - Irresistable The album by VOICES OF ROCK will be released July 20th, 2007 on AOR Heaven.   25.04.2007 ::: SOUL DOCTOR and HUMAN ZOO playing at the United Forces Of Rock Festival ::: 30.09.2007 Rockfabrik Ludwigsburg, Germany - UNITED FORCES OF ROCK III :::   We are happy announce the date and the bands to appear at this year's UNITED FORCES OF ROCK festival which will be - as usual - held at the Rockfabrik venue in Ludwigsburg (near Stuttgart) in Germany.   Performing on Sunday, 30th of September 2007 will be:   JOE LYNN TURNER STAN BUSH DANGER DANGER WHITE WOLF SOUL DOCTOR LAST AUTUMN'S DREAM HUMAN ZOO   Ticket price will be 45,00 Euro (incl. Vat; plus shipping). Tickets will be in stock in ~ 3 weeks time from now at CTS (German customers only), AOR Heaven Mailorder, www.rock-it-magazine.de/shop, at the venue and on www.united-forces-of-rock.de. For pre-orders until then, please e-mail to info@united-forces-of-rock.de or check www.united-forces-of-rock.de within the next couple of days.   We expect once again to sell this event out - be sure to order your ticket early!   UFOR III is supported by Frontiers Records, Escape Music, AOR Heaven, Rock It!, Rockfabrik Ludwigsburg, Hardbeat Media Service & GerMusica Promotion.   Press requests are welcome at any times at info@germusica.com   www.united-forces-of-rock.de   29.03.2007 ::: Metal Heaven signen CIVILIZATION ONE! CIVILIZATION ONE is an international musical entity creating timeless heavy metal with neoclassical, symphonic aggression, and features in it's ranks vocalist Chity Somapala (ex-FIREWIND, AVALON), guitarist Aldo Lanobile (SECRET SPHERE), drummer Luca Cartasegna (ex-SECRET SPHERE), and bassist Pierre-Emmanuel Pélisson (MALADAPTIVE; ex-HEAVENLY). The band produced their debut album "Revolution Rising" themselves at studios in France, Italy and Germany with mixing and mastering by Markus Teske (VANDEN PLAS, DOMINICI,SYMPHONY X) at Bazement Studios in Germany. CIVILIZATION ONE's debut will be released in June 2007 and feature 10 songs, including "Life Of Agony," "Legends Of The Past (Carry On)", and "Time Will Tell." More information and music can be found at: www.myspace.com/civilizationone oder www.civilization-one.com   29.03.2007 ::: STONELAKE present new album in June! This Swedish band's new album is entitled "World Entry" and was recorded between Summer and Fall 2006. Mixing was handled by guitarist Jan Åkesson, Pontus Lindmark and Anders ”Theo” Theander at Roastinghouse Studios, Sweden. Expect a melodic, slightly progressive album with great hooks & melodies! Line-Up: Peter Grundström, Vocals Jan Åkesson, Guitars, keys, bass Jaime Salazar, Drums Lasse Johansson, Bass   Web: www.stonelake.se   16.03.2007 :::BURNING POINT starts with the production of their new promovideo BURNING POINT starts the new promovideo filming in next Saturday the 17th of March. Producer of the video will be the North Crest Media and the camera-man/engineer Jukka Häkkilä. "Heart of Gold" was a track the band choose for the video and time schedule of shootings are very tight and they are going to finish filming in that same weekend. Two earlier videoclips are going to have a great companion. From the first album "Salvation by fire" they released "Fall of thy Kingdom" which climed to the top of the video list in one of Finnish national cabel TV-cannels "MoonTV" video charts, from the second album, "Feeding the Flames", they made a very low budget video clip "Into to Fire" that was released in Japanese edition of the album.   11.03.2007 :::BLOODBOUND – Sweden’s Melodic Metal shooting stars ready for strike #2! ::: Major news from the camp of Sweden’s most rising Melodic Metal band, BLOODBOUND: the replacement for departed singer Urban Breed is none other than Michael Bormann (ex JADED HEART, ex BONFIRE). And, in even better news, their brand new album “Book Of The Dead” already is finished recording and scheduled for a release on May 25th Metal Heaven! Guitarist Tomas Olsson comments: “After a lot of emails and phone calls Michael Bormann finally arrived in Bollnäs, Sweden on the 27th of January to meet the band and to record the vocals for our new album. We hit it off straight away and had a great time with Michael, both doing some serious recording and some heavy partying... We are very pleased with his performace on the album. Sounding like a mix between Jorn Lande/ Joe Lynn Turner/ Coverdale, yet with a personal touch, he will surely turn some heads with his outstanding performance on this release.”   Line-Up: Michael Bormann (v.); Tomas Olsson (g.), Fredrik Bergh (b., k.), Pelle Akerlind (g.), Henrik Olsson (g.) Track list “Book Of The Dead”: 01. Sign Of The Devil, 02. The Tempter, 03. Book Of The Dead, 04. Bless The Unholy, 05. Lord Of Battle, 06. Flames Of Purgatory, 07. Into Eternity, 08. Black Heart, 09. Black Shadows, 10. Turn To Stone, 11. Seven Angels www.bloodbound.se MICHAEL BORMANN   Book Of The Dead 11.03.2007 ::: ALTARIA release “Divine Invitation” compilation… ::: …on May 25th, 2007! “Divine Invitation” is a mid-price release made for fans! Due to the high demand and ongoing requests for the songs of the completely sold out first two albums of the band, “Invitation” (2003) and “Divinity” (2004), the idea came up to make the best 5 songs each available again, to introduce new singer Marco Luponero (ex TERRORWHEEL) with 2 brand new songs and add another 7 (!) bonus tracks which originally appeared on the band’s sought after demos “Sleeping Visions” (2001) and “Feed The Fire” (2002). Current line-up: Marco Luponero (v.), Marko Pukkila (b.), Tony Smedjebacka (d.), J-P Alanen (g.) and Petri Aho (g.) Track list “Divine Invitation”: 1. Fire & Ice, 2. Unchain The Rain, 3. Darkened Highlight, 4. History Of Times To Come, 5. Try To Remember, 6. Unicorn, 7. Prophet Of Pestilence, 8. Ravenwing, 9. Innocent, 10. Final Warning, 11. Keeper Of Mystique, 12. Ball & Chain, 13. Fire & Ice (Demo 2001), 14. Innocent (Demo 2001),15. Kingdom Of The Night (Demo 2001), 16. Unicorn (Demo 2002), 17. History Of Times To Come (Demo 2002), 18. Immortal Disorder (Demo 2002), 19. Emerald Eye (Demo 2002) www.altariamusic.com   Divine Invitation 24.01.2007 ::: METAL HEAVEN sign CHRIS CAFFERY! ::: CHRIS CAFFERY truly is one of the most respected and versatile guitarists in the Metal world of today. Starting in 1984 with the band HEAVEN, he first met producer Paul O’Neill who introduced Chris to US Metal legends SAVATAGE in 1987 and in 1996 Savatage's song "Christmas Eve Sarajevo" led to the formation of the extra-ordinary US Platinum act Trans-Siberian Orchestra. The latest TSO tour, in which Chris was the frontman as well as lead guitarist, sold one million tickets. After numerous tours and recordings with these bands and other projects the time was finally right for CAFFERY’s first solo album entitled “Faces” (2004) which was right away followed by the CD “W.A.R.P.E.D.” in 2005. These releases for the first time saw CAFFERY also taking over the lead vocals duties. His band consists of Paul Morris (RAINBOW, DORO) on keyboards, Nick Douglas (DORO) on bass guitar, Jeff Plate (SAVATAGE, METAL CHURCH) and Yael (MY RUIN, FIREBALL MINISTRY) on drums as well as Dave Z on bass guitars. “Pins And Needles” exactly continues here. The songs definitely are deadringers for any SAVATAGE fan once again. However, there is a more powerful, aggressive, experimental and focused attack that is sure to catch the ears of any metal fan. The album was produced by CAFFERY together with Nik Chinboukas at Nik’s Hot Tracks Studio, Spin Studios and Happy Beaver Studios, Astoria, NY. The ltd. edition first pressing of this release will be a digi-pack incl. the bonus track “Once Upon A Time”. Tracklist “Pins & Needles”: 01. Pins and Needles 02. 66 03. Reach Out And Torment Again 04. Walls 05. Y.G.B.F.K.M. 06. It's S-A-D 07. Chained 08. WORMS 09. The Sign Of The Crossed 10. The Time 11. Mettle Eastern 12. In The Midst 13. Quaaludio 14. The Temple 15. Once Upon A Time* (bonus track) ::: Marco Luponero joins ALTARIA! ::: The search is over! Altaria found their new man to take the place behind the microphone. Multi-talented vocalist Marco Luponero (ex TERRORWHEEL) attended auditions and managed to impress the band to the point that he was invited to join. The band is currently reharsing for shows with LORDI and HAMMERFALL as well as writing for the coming album. Here is a greeting from the man himself: ”Hello everyone! My name is Marco Luponero and I'm proud to introduce myself as Altaria's new singer. Considering that I've known the guys for many years, and that we've shared the same stage on several occations, it seems almost odd that it's not until now that we have joined forces. My musical background is somewhat different from the other members', I've been singing mostly in more brutal kinds of bands than ALTARIA, the most recent being TERRORWHEEL, from which a few of you might recognize me. But as I started my solo-project LUPONERO, I switched to a more melodic style of singing, that also fits ALTARIA's sound. I'm looking forward to play my first gig with the band and I also hope to see you all very soon! Take care!“ Altaria live (with Lordi): 10.02.2007 FIN-Pietarsaari, Icehall ::: RAZORBACK in the studio ::: RAZORBACK are happy to announce their fantastic new drummer: Mike Terrana (MASTERPLAN)! Mike already has finised recording his parts for the upcoming, yet untitled RAZORBACK album which will be released in Spring 2007 via Metal Heaven. Guitarist Rolf Munkes (EMPIRE) says: „It is great to work with Mike and he added a killer groove to our new songs which orientate again on the direction of our first album.” Working titles of these songs include: Deadringer, Hero, Last man standing, Give my lovin' to you, Line of fire, Burden, Take me to the other side, Razorblues, Miracle Babe, Rock'n Roll Life. RAZORBACK are: Stefan Berggren – vocals, Rolf Munkes – guitars, Chris Heun – bass, Mike Terrana - drums