Weekly Music News 17.11.24
Tomorrow night is the night!
A special show by "Walkways" to wrap up their European tour. They tore through Europe with 21 shows in 15 countries, and tomorrow they bring all that energy and love back to their beloved home crowd, with guest bands Insaint and Vessel.
Gagarin, Tel Aviv, 19:30 Buy tickets.
The band "Opeth" has a new album, its first in five years, marking the longest gap between studio albums in its career. It also brings back death-metal elements and growling for the first time since 2008's "Watershed". It is the band's first full concept album since 1999's "Still Life", telling the story of the reading of a deceased father's will. Each song represents a clause in the will, except for the final track, which adds a twist to the story. Enjoy...
Listen on: Spotify, Apple Music
"Body Count" also has a new album, "Merciless". It is the band's eighth album and its first in four years. It features plenty of guest appearances, including Max Cavalera, George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher, David Gilmour and more. You will find everything from Rage Against the Machine-style rap metal to Slayer-style thrash riffs.
Listen on: Spotify , Apple Music
What is this????? The band "Shabak Samech" releases a new song this week, "Amen", from an upcoming album, its first in 13 years. Produced by rappers and musicians Tzukush and Cohen, the album is due next month:
Boom!!! "Architects" releases a new single, "Whiplash", a title that speaks for itself. It comes from the band's 11th album, "The Sky, The Earth & All Between", due February 28, 2025. House Of Protection and Amira Elfeky are set to make guest appearances.
Lyricist and music producer Peter Sinfield, who was a member of King Crimson in its early years among many other achievements, has died at 80. Sinfield co-founded King Crimson, produced Roxy Music's debut album, had a long partnership with Greg Lake and wrote songs for Céline Dion. Sinfield initially worked with Ian McDonald in the band "the Creation", before they merged with "Giles, Giles and Fripp". King Crimson was then formed, and Sinfield produced and wrote lyrics for its first four albums: "In The Court Of The Crimson King", "In the Wake of Poseidon", "Lizard" and "Islands", between 1969 and 1971.
(Photo: King Crimson/Facebook)
The duo "Smith/Kotzen" releases a new single from its second album, "Black Light / White Noise", due March 7, 2025, exactly four years after its debut, "Smith/Kotzen". For those unfamiliar with the duo, it is a collaboration between Adrian Smith, Iron Maiden's guitarist, and guitarist Richie Kotzen, known for his work with Poison, Mr. Big and The Winery Dogs, among others.
Heavy-metal band "Impellitteri" releases a new single from "War Machine", the album released earlier this month. Believe it or not, the single, "Hell On Earth", refers directly to the Swords of Iron war from its opening lines:
"On the edge of misery, across the holy land
Violence, a killing spree, to make a stand"
The song even mentions the Iron Dome in these lines:
"Lightning strikes the iron dome, raining from the sky"
"Killswitch Engage" releases a new song from its upcoming album, "This Consequence", due February 21, 2025. It arrives six years after 2019's "Atonement". Singer Jesse Leach calls it "the combination of everything the past five years have thrown at us as a band, as human beings, and as a society as a whole. This album is about everyone and their stories as much as it is about my own personal journey." Jesse says the new single, "Forever Aligned", is "not only about us as humans, our love and connection, but about our connection to the unknown, the greater power, the universe, or God."
And "Machine Head" unveils a new single with In Flames, Lacuna Coil and Unearth. Titled "These Scars Won't Define Us", it comes from the band's upcoming 11th studio album, the follow-up to 2022's "Of Kingdom and Crown", planned for April 2025.
This looks insane. We need one at home: a pinball machine by "Metallica". Stern Pinball, Inc. has announced a line of accessories for "Metallica Remastered", compatible with the recently announced Remastered Limited and Premium Edition pinball machines. Each accessory can be purchased separately to upgrade your game. Below is the published price list. Of course, you can buy just some of the items shown in the video:
"…And Justice For All" Metallica Topper - USD $999.99
Illuminated Metallica Logo Shooter Knob - USD $224.99
Metallica Sword Side Armor - USD $399.99
Cabinet Expression Lighting SystemTM - USD $599.99
Speaker Expression Lighting System - USD $199.99
Last week he released a duet with Bulgarian pop star Maria Ilieva, a sugary ballad called "Forever". Turner wrote the music and English lyrics and handled the arrangement, while Maria Ilieva wrote the Bulgarian lyrics.
This week, Lynn Turner joined forces with another "legend", Russian punk rocker Andrey Knyazev and his band "КняZz". In August 2023, КняZz released its latest album, from which Joe Lynn Turner connected with the song "Stalker". This week, the two released a duet version of the song.
The band "Coheed And Cambria" releases another new single, "Searching For Tomorrow", from its upcoming tenth album, "The Father Of Make Believe", due March 14, 2025.
It is amazing that someone can still be so musically productive at 84. Ringo Starr releases another single from his upcoming album "Look Up", this time collaborating with Alison Krauss. It will be Ringo's 21st album and his second country album, a style he has always felt connected to, unlike his Beatles bandmates. The album was produced and co-written with musician T Bone Burnett and recorded in Nashville, of course, and Los Angeles.
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