News from Sweden

Yeah, Enforcer finished recording of a new album.

Their forth release, "From Beyond", will be out in Europe on February 27th. Can't wait to lay my hands on it...

From their facebook anouncement:

Vocalist and guitar player Olof Wikstrand comments: "»From Beyond« is faster, heavier, louder, darker and more vicious all at the same time without losing a tiny bit of what ENFORCER stand for. A fist in the face of all current trends and a stake through the throat of modernity. Total metal!"

Album will contain ten new songs:

01. Destroyer
02. Undying Evil
03. From Beyond
04. One With Fire
05. Below The Slumber
06. Hungry They Will Come
07. The Banshee
08. Farewell
09. Hell Will Follow
10. Mask Of Red Death

Something new again

If you want to read something about Enforcer, check out NWOTHM page!

Metal from outer space

Dug out some time ago.

Name: Scanner
Genre: heavy/power/speed
How did I find them: mentioned in favourites on some other band's Facebook page

Formed in 1982 as Lions Breed, renamed to Scanner in 1986. Over the years band released 5 albums and underwent many personal changes. The only original band member is guitarist, Axel "A.J." Julius.

Band plans to release new album, "The Judgement" on January, 23rd, 2015, by Massacre Records.

Below you can find a song from their first release, "Hypertrace" (1988) - a science fiction sort-of concept album. Still a bit rough but really energetic piece of speed metal. Catched my ear in an instant and didn't want to let it go.

Here it is. Enjoy the hyperspace.

Heavy Metal Strikes Back

Aaaaand the band of the week is Rocka Rollas!

It's good to know that there are young people out there who keep the spirit of metal alive. It seems that there are more and more young bands playing 80s-like heavy and speed metal. I love it.

As Rocka Rollas is one of my favourites in this category, surely more on the subject will be coming in rather near future. For now - first of their songs that I've ever heard, dug out somewhere from depths of lastfm. Makes me wanna wildly bang my head and scream my lungs out.