Weekly Music News 19.06.23
Weekly news roundup for the week beginning June 19, 2023
The band "Sinnery" releases a new single, "Share This!".
It is the first single from "Below the Summit", a five-track EP due September 29. The EP will be released by Exitus Stratagem Records, the label that also released the band's album "Black Bile".
Israeli metalcore powerhouse "Canine" also releases a third single from its second album, "Perception", planned for sometime in 2024. Canine formed in Modi'in in 2009 and released its debut, "The Uprising", in 2017. In 2019, the band became a four-piece and has been working on the album since. The band said the new single was inspired by Stephen King's "Pet Sematary", particularly the question of what you would do if you had the power to bring a loved one back to life...
A new single from "Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons", "Schizophrenia", from the band's forthcoming album "Kings of the Asylum", due September 1. For those who do not know, Phil Campbell was Motörhead's guitarist from 1984 to 2015. After Lemmy's death and the band's breakup, Phil found himself out of work. In 2016, he went into the studio to make a solo album, which eventually came out in 2019. But something even more interesting happened during that process. What began as quality time with his three sons quickly became a serious project, leading to Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons. Phil recruited Todd on guitar and harmonica, Dane on drums and Tyla on bass. They added the singer and rhythm guitarist of Welsh band Attack! Attack! as their vocalist and began working on original material. Since then, they have released an EP, two studio albums and a live album, changed singers to Joel Peters, and are now ready for the next step...
Remember when we told you that country legend Dolly Parton was unveiling her first rock album, "Rockstar", with 30 songs and a star-studded cast including Richie Sambora, Nikki Sixx, Steve Perry, John Fogerty, Peter Frampton, Debbie Harry, Elton John, Sheryl Crow and many more? This week, her song "Bygones" arrived, featuring Rob Halford. The song also features Nikki Sixx and John 5. Here it is...
Our dear friends at "Rocking Israel" release "Rocking Israel: Vol. 1!" today: seven Israeli bands, seven covers of Israeli songs as you have never heard them before! The bands featured are:
Twisted Mind // The Killing Joke // Last To Die // Scalar // Persephore // Delicate Disorder // Venice Revive
Finally, after a long wait, "Structural" releases "Decrowned"! Its second album arrives five years after the debut, "Metacognition". If you do not know them, and you really should, Structural is a melodic/technical death-metal band formed in 2015 by guitarists Shani Friedman and Tamir Vered and singer Nadav Zaidman. After several lineup changes, the band now includes Shani Friedman and Tomer Dembinsky on guitars, Nadav Zaidman on vocals, Koren Esco on bass and Vadim Sergyenko on drums. Musically, the band draws on different metal styles and bands such as Lamb of God, Nevermore, Arch Enemy, Obscura, Periphery and more.
Battle of the Metal Gods: a double tribute show in Haifa - "METALLICA" and "JUDAS PRIEST" !
On July 20 at Wunderbar in Haifa, a team of musicians from the Israeli metal scene will come together for a special double tribute to Metallica and Judas Priest, performing the best of these two immortal metal legends!
Sergei Metalheart of Oceans on Orion and Alex Rozenberg of Desert have recruited top musicians from northern Israel for a celebration of classic, legendary metal. A team of singers and players will deliver an elaborate, hard-hitting show in what is billed as the north's biggest tribute yet.
Yes, it is really happening: PRS has unveiled the long-awaited signature guitar for Myles Kennedy. Alongside it, PRS released the NF 53, a separate model with a similar single-cut design. The company says it will delight everyone who has asked it for "a guitar in this style and sound" for "years".
Boston hardcore legends Death Before Dishonor come to Israel for the first time!!
Wednesday, August 2, 2023, at Ozen in Tel Aviv.
Opening the show: "Eternal Struggle", "Shesh Shesh Shesh", "Stash"
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