The Music News Update

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Here's an interview with Jack Russell.

The new Dragonforce album will be called Reaching Into Infinity. It is tentatively due out this spring.

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You can check out my review of the Jack Russell's Great White album He Saw It Comin' via this KNAC.com link.

Nice to see Robby Lochner getting some well deserved recognition. Been following his work since 1997 when I ordered his (immensely underrated) self titled CD directly from him (not the CDBaby version, since none of the tracks are same). The line up was amazing too, with Shane Gaalaas on drums, Barry Sparks on bass and Neil Turbine on vocals and that CD doesn't even show up on most sites collecting Metal music data.

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Nice to see Robby Lochner getting some well deserved recognition. Been following his work since 1997 when I ordered his (immensely underrated) self titled CD directly from him (not the CDBaby version, since none of the tracks are same). The line up was amazing too, with Shane Gaalaas on drums, Barry Sparks on bass and Neil Turbine on vocals and that CD doesn't even show up on most sites collecting Metal music data.

Thanks for reading the article and for the feedback. To be honest, I'm not really that familiar with Lochner so your response gave me something to look around for.

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The Obsessed will have their new album, Sacred, out on April 7th via Relapse Records.

01. Sodden Jackal
02. Punk Crusher
03. Sacred
04. Haywire
05. Perseverance Of Futility
06. It's Only Money
07. Cold Blood
08. Stranger Things
09. Razor Wire
10. My Daughter My Son
11. Be The Night
12. Interlude
13. On So Long (bonus)
14. Crossroader Blues (bonus)

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The new Sinner album will be called Tequila Suicide. It is due out March 31st.

01. Go Down Fighting
02. Tequila Suicide
03. Road To Hell
04. Dragons
05. Battle Hill (YouTube link to lyric video)
06. Sinner Blues
07. Why
08. Gypsy Rebels
09. Loud & Clear
10. Dying On A Broken Heart
11. House Of Rock *
12. Monday Morning *
13. I Am *
* bonus tracks

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You can check out the title track to the new Night Ranger CD Don't Let Up via this YouTube link.

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The second installment in my new review series The Cassette Chronicles can be seen via this Classic Rock Bottom link.

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God Dethroned will have their new album, The World Ablaze, out on May 5th via Metal Blade Records.

The new Prong album will be called Zero Days. It is due out this summer via Steamhammer / SPV.

The new Wednesday 13 solo album will be out June 2nd via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. It will be entitled Condolences.

The new Crazy Lixx album, Ruff Justice, will be released by Frontiers Music Srl on April 21st.

1. Wild Child
2. XIII
3. Walk The Wire
4. Shot With A Needle Of Love
5. Killer
6. Hunter Of The Heart
7. Snakes In Paradise
8. If It's Love
9. Kiss Of Judas
10. Live Before I Die


The new Richie Kotzen solo album, Salting Earth, will be released via the guitarist's own Headroom-Inc. label on April 14th.

01. End Of Earth
02. Thunder
03. Divine Power
04. I've Got You
05. My Rock
06. This Is Life
07. Make It Easy
08. Meds
09. Cannon Ball
10. Grammy (YouTube lyric video link[/url]

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Power Quest has signed a deal with Inner Wound Recordings. A new album is planned for an October release.

Skyclad will release their new album on April 28th via Listenable Records. The disc will be called Forward Into The Past.

01. A Storytellers' Moon (intro)
02. State Of The Union Now
03. Change Is Coming
04. Starstruck
05. A Heavy Price To Pay
06. Words Fail Me
07. Forward Into The Past
08. Unresolved (instrumental)
09. The Queen Of The Moors
10. Last Summer's Rain
11. The Measure
12. Borderline
13. A Storytellers' Moon (outro)

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The new Eric Gales album will be called Middle of the Road. It is due out February 24th via Provogue / Mascot Label Group.

You can check out the lyric video for the song "Boogie Man HERE!

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From Classic Rock Revisited:

A hobby band? A side project? Hardly. In fact, it’s been 32 years and, with the release of*Let Me Fly*on April 7, eight albums since Mike Rutherford formed Mike + The Mechanics, to complement, rather than replace, Genesis.

“In 1985 we were having the best time in Genesis,” he remembers. “But after 28 years, myself Phil and Tony wanted variety, so we ran our band and our solo careers side by side happily for many years. To be honest, it saved Genesis. *The fact I’m still doing it with the Mechanics just makes me smile.”

Mike Rutherford has much to smile about right now, and*Let Me Fly*distils everything that’s right about Mike + The Mechanics: the songwriting, the life-affirming uplift and the undercurrent of quirk.

Let Me Fly*began to take off as the band toured 2011’s*The Road,*the first album featuring the current line-up: Rutherford himself (guitar/bass), Luke Juby (keyboards), Gary Wallis (drums), Anthony Drennan (guitar), plus vocalists Andrew Roachford and Tim Howar.

Says Rutherford, “I’ve never had a long-term plan, even with Genesis. I’ll put*Let My Fly*out and I’ll see where it goes. What happens this year will tell me what to do next. I like that!”

We like it too! And we're confident with this new album that Mike + The Mechanics are certainly continuing their upward journey.*Let Me Fly*is now available for pre-order, with the first single coming February 28. In support of the release, the band will be touring Europe throughout February and March, and will take to the stage at BST Hyde Park with Phil Collins and Blondie on June 30. Click here for tour dates and ticket links.*
*Official Tracklist

01. Let Me Fly
02. Are You Ready
03. Wonder
04. The Best Is Yet To Come
05. Save The World
06. High Life
07. Don’t Know What Came Over Me (the first single)
08. The Letter
09. Not Out Of Love
10. Love Left Over
11. I’ll Be There For You
12. Save My Soul

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Red Dragon Cartel has hired Phil Varone as their new drummer.

Here's an interview with Vince Gill.

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The second Inglorious album, entitled Inglorious II, will be out May 12th via Frontiers Music Srl. You can check out the details via this Melodicrock.com link.

Tracklisting:
1. I Don’t Need Your Loving
2. Taking The Blame
3. Tell Me Why
4. Read All About It
5. Change Is Coming
6. Making Me Pay
7. Hell Or High Water
8. No Good For You
9. I Got A Feeling
10. Black Magic
11. Faraway
12. High Class Woman

You can check out the lyric video for the new track "Read All About It" HERE!

Here's the cover art:

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The debut album from Badass will be called More Pain, More Gain. It is due out April 15th via Lion Music.

1. Intro
2. More Pain, More Gain
3. Nightmares of My Youth
4. Royal Chains
5. Strong and United
6. What We Need
7. One More Night
8. Join Me
9. Redemption
10. Don't Bother Me
11. Outro

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Kittie bassist Trish Doan has passed away.

Here's an interview with Steve Jones (ex-Sex Pistols).

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have signed deals with Sony Music Entertainment. Article link.

Nile lineup news.

You can listen to the title track to the upcoming Place Vendome CD Close To The Sun via this YouTube link.

Quiet Riot will have their new album Road Rage released via Frontiers Music Srl on April 21st.

01. Nothing But Trouble
02. Let It Go
03. Snake Charmer
04. Hey Lil' Sister
05. I Don't Need You Anymore
06. Sledge Hammer
07. Never You Mind
08. Empty Rooms
09. Dirty Money
10. The Seeker
11. Road Rage