Lords Of Black, the band formed by World class singer Ronnie Romero, renowed guitarist Tony Hernando and monster drummer Andy C. is now not only the band who made one of the best debut albums in Metal in the last years, but the new sensation with a new album coming out Worldwide with Frontiers Records. Lords Of Black made an impact with their debut album, a great mix of modern sounding Metal meets Classic Hard Rock, with excelent melodies, hooks, interesting and progressive elements and great lyrics. Their live performances made them gain even more reputation among fans, media and international scene…

Fierce Kate Bush fans who are expecting revelation in Aerial, her first new work since The Red Shoes in 1993, will no doubt scour lyrics, instrumental trills, and interludes until they find them. For everyone else, those who purchased much of Bush's earlier catalog because of its depth, quality, and vision, Aerial will sound exactly like what it is, a new Kate Bush record: full of her obsessions, lushly romantic paeans to things mundane and cosmic, and her ability to add dimension and transfer emotion though song. The set is spread over two discs.

Ingranaggi della Valle are a young Roman band created with the goal of evoking the sound and atmospheres of the historical Progressive Rock of the 70s, creating their own music open to fusion, ethnic and jazz-rock influences. The 2013 debut album "In Hoc Signo" (with the painting "In Hoc Signo" by Marcello Toma as cover artwork) is the representative manifesto of their music and philosophy. This album has it all-strong melodic hooks, great multilayered vocals, dramatic flair, sensitive violin, fiery sax (courtesy of David Jackson, who also contributes some excellent flute), virtuosic displays, compositional variety, even funky sound treatments (thanks to Mattias Olsson)…

Pure… Jazz, a massive four-disc set from Sony in the EU, while not mistitled, is a strange, wildly haphazard selection of jazz tunes recorded between the 1930s through the 1990s by virtually all of the labels the company owns – from Columbia, Epic, OKeh, etc. While all of the artists are names – including Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, Benny Goodman, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Weather Report, Branford Marsalis, Duke Ellington, and dozens more – and are represented by wonderful selections, it's their sequencing that is the real head-scratcher here…

Excess All Areas is the third album by the Birmingham, England band Shy. Recorded in the Netherlands with producer Neil Kernon, the album was published in 1987 on RCA/BMG. The album featured Shy's biggest hit, "Break Down The Walls", co-written with Don Dokken and reached Britain's top 75, with Metal Hammer magazine being appreciative.

Finnish grindcore veterans Rotten Sound release of their new full-length, 'Abuse to Suffer'. The album, the band's first new record in five years, will be released by Season of Mist in North America on March 25.

Spreading from the Ashes is a compilation album by the Los Angeles psychedelic rock band, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy (PBC). In total, there are 26 tracks composed of early work when the band was known as The Ashes, and their beginnings as The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.

Queen II was a breakthrough in terms of power and ambition, but Queen's third album Sheer Heart Attack was where the band started to gel. It followed quickly on the heels of the second record – just by a matter of months; it was the second album they released in 1974 – but it feels like it had a longer incubation period, so great is the progress here…

It truly is remarkable what one drummer, five vocalists and an author can accomplish. The outcome? A grand impact of exhilaration that has the listener so immersed into a parallel universe, that they don’t want to think about anything else. The record in question, that will no doubt cause all attention levels on everything else to drop and arise awareness to the sheer beauty the album delivers, is the new upcoming album titled “Voices Of Fire” for Acapella Metal troupe VAN CANTO….