As recently announced, Metal Mind will release “Salem Blood” the debut album by the Polish metal band Hellectricity. It will be released by Metal Mind on October 29th in Europe and December 11th in USA (via MVD). Although the band is new on the music scene, its members have an established history in the music business – they include musicians known from such bands as Corruption, Lostbone, Hedfirst, Carnal and The Supergroup.

The legendary British band Tank releases their first DVD in November. Titled “War Machine Live” the DVD will feature live performances filmed in Poland in 2011 and 2012 plus band interviews, on the road footage and the promo video for the title song from their most recent album “War Nation” (2012).

Unavailable for several years, the only two albums by the short lived UK outfit Strangers On A Train will be released again in early November. The band was formed in 1990 as a musical hybrid of talents comprising Clive Nolan (Arena, Pendragon, Shadowland), Karl Groom (Threshold) and Tracy Hitchings (Landmarq). "The Key Part I: The Prophecy" (1990) is the beginning of The Key trilogy, an epic concept conceived by Clive Nolan, who also wrote all the music and lyrics. A handful of gigs followed along with "The Key Part II: The Labyrinth" (1993), the much anticipated second album. The five-part, 72-minute recording features three multilayered tracks of a truly epic length and two shorter tracks exhibiting a balance of instrumental and vocal work. There were plans to record and release the third part of the trilogy. However, because of the success of the members' other bands, this has been put on hold. "The Key Part I: The Prophecy" and "The Key Part II: The Labyrinth" will be released by Metal Mind on November 5th in Europe and December 11th in USA (via MVD). The material will be remastered using tube technology and released in a digipack edition.

A Providence-based band, Alec K Redfearn & The Eyesores, presents us with “Sister Death”, a hauntingly beautiful and accessible, visionary rock album whose name derives from the St. Francis of Assisi quote, above. Conjured by accordionist, composer, bandleader, and poet Alec K Redfearn, the disc features 12 songs that embrace a world of musical influences to propose an alternative Americana.

In “New Myth / Old Science”, vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz and drummer Mike Reed exhumed a 1961 Sun Ra tape from the ESS archives and transformed it into a series of radically new jazz compositions. They assembled Living by Lanterns to enact their magic live, on stage, recruiting an all-star cast from Chicago and NYC, including Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, and more...

Named after Tiresias, a Greek soothsayer and shape/gender-shifter, Tiresian Symmetry is saxophonist/composer Jason Robinson's sumptuous new jazz album on Cuneiform. An all-star cast (Drew Gress, Liberty Ellman, Marty Ehrlich, & many more!) brings Robinson's compositions to life, augmenting the music's richly suggestive harmonic and metrical relationships.

Asheville avant-rock legends and music-genre anarchists, Ahleuchatistas, release a new album this fall on Cuneiform. While the title, “Heads Full of Poison”, is ripe with socio-political commentary, the instrumental music explodes with layers of lush beauty; this duo's sonic intensity is potent magic indeed.

Electronic music and analog instrument buffs will be thrilled to hear “Light Echoes”, Cuneiform's first release by Steve Moore (of Zombi). Under Moore's musical spell, 70s electronics spring to life, conjuring a hypnotic web of space music that exists outside the web of time.

Speaking of time, transformation, and sonic alchemy, Cuneiform's 6th Fall 2012 release is by djTRIO, the turntablist group assembled by Christian Marclay that here includes Toshio Kajiwara and DJ Olive. Titled “21 SEPTEMBER 2002”, the album features their Washington DC concert from that date, performed at the Hirshhorn Museum, the Smithsonian's museum of contemporary art.

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Speaking of Washington DC, don’t miss the 2012 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, which takes place September 28-30 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. This year, it will spotlight such avant-garde legends as the Glenn Branca Ensemble, Otomo Yoshide, Chris Cutler, Lydia Lunch and much more; feature three Cuneiform acts with new/2012 releases, Alec K Redfearn & The Eyesores, Ergo, and Janel & Anthony; and present the DC premiere of “Romantic Warriors II”, a documentary movie on Rock in Opposition.

“Beacon Theatre – Live from New York” by Joe Bonamassa is released as a 2 CD and double vinyl album for the very first time. The double live album, released by Provogue Records in the UK on Monday September 24th, features 20 stunning tracks that span his incredible career.

Following her acclaimed performance alongside Annie Lennox at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee concert in June, blues rock guitarist and singer/songwriter, Joanne Shaw Taylor, will release her new studio album “Almost Always Never” on Monday September 17th, a nationwide UK tour will follow in October, with very special guest Tristan Mackay.

Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist and harp player, Sandi Thom, will release her Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) produced new studio album “Flesh And Blood” on Monday Sept 17th. Released by Sandi’s independent record label Guardian Angels, “Flesh And Blood” is her fourth solo album, and was recorded at 16 Tons Studios in Nashville.

Music Theories Recordings, a division of Mascot Label Group, is pleased to announce the 15th October UK release of Paul Gilbert’s 12th solo album “Vibrato”. The album includes 4 new guitar and vocal compositions, 4 instrumentals, and 3 live cover songs from Gilbert’s 2010 “Fuzz” tour including Yes’ Roundabout, Muddy Waters’ I Want to Be Loved and AC/DC’s Go Down.