JD Overdrive, a southern metal band from Poland, is currently working on the material for their third studio album. The as yet untitled album is scheduled for release this Spring.

As recently announced, Metal Mind Productions extended the recording deal with the British heavy metal legend Tank. Through the years, Metal Mind has re-released the band's back catalogue and released their recent albums “War Machine” (2010) and “War Nation” (2012). The band’s forthcoming, yet untitled, album is planned for late March/early April.

Bad Elephant Records
(UK) / January 25, 2014

AudioPlastik is an international project, featuring Dec Burke (Darwin's Radio) – vocals; guitars; Richard West (Threshold) – keyboards; backging vocals and Simon Andersson (Pain of Salvation) – bass, guitars; programming. "In the Head of a Maniac" is their debut output. The band claims to have produced an album that fuses metal and progressive music with a heavy dose of pop. Release date: February 2, 2015.

Esoteric Recordings
(UK) / January 25, 2014

“Now We Have Light” is the third Sanguine Hum album, following on from the acclaimed albums “Diving Bell” and “The Weight of the World”. This is a double CD concept album. Unusually with this record, it is also something that the band has been working on for over a decade, and its roots go right back to the days of Antique Seeking Nuns, which was the earliest project that guitarist Joff Winks and keyboard player Matt Baber collaborated on. During this time they hatched a truly bizarre conceptual story to hang even more music around – a work that perhaps was too ambitious for them at the time, and one which took the formation of Sanguine Hum to make it a feasible challenge to complete. Somewhat like a twisted mix of Frank Zappa's “Joe's Garage” and Genesis’s “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway”, “Now We Have Light” is a future parable set in an entirely possible scenario, in which entirely impossible events start occurring. Although a core group of songs were written for this album as far back as 2002, the band were inspired by the most recent Sanguine Hum material to revisit the old tunes and where needed develop and rewrite what already existed, whilst also creating a large amount of brand new music at the same time. Ultimately, it has come to represent a definitive cross section of all the work that they have made as Antique Seeking Nuns, Joff Winks Band and Sanguine Hum thus far. Release date: February 23, 2015.

Spider Rock Music
(Italy) / January 25, 2014

Aura's third studio album, “Noise”, represents a substantial turning of sound from the previous "Deliverance", while retaining many of the elements that have always distinguished the band's sound. The turning point, if we want to talk about turning, was determined primarily by the artistic maturity of the band members, now being able to master their art and know how to move skillfully among its many facets. This creates an enveloping disc, catchy and complex at the same time: you will seem to hear different influences within each listen, ‘70s rock to post rock, united in an amalgam of incredible arrangements, moving Aura to Pomp Rock Olympus, thanks to immediate and powerful songs with a complex harmonic structure and melody. Who is already thinking to act as Styx, Reo Speedwagon and Saga, is not too out of the way… Release date: February 6, 2015.

AMS Records
(Italy) / January 25, 2014

"Incanti Bio Meccanici" is the new album by the Italian band Ubi Maior. Release date: February 10, 2015.