www.musicweek.com Black Keys El Camino Nonesuch/ Warner Bros Out now
TWO DECADES IN THE MAKING JEFF LYNNE’S LONG WAVE
JEFF LYNNE Long Wave Frontiers Released October 8
Cradle Of Filth: Tenth
album The Manticore & Other Horrors is out on
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VISION OF DISORDER The Cursed Remain Cursed Candlelight Out now
producer Will Putney (Shadows Fall, Suicide Silence) and mixer Cameron Webb (Motorhead, Social Distortion), The Cursed Remain Cursed features 11 new songs, including the album’s lead single Loveless.
ENSLAVED Riitir Nuclear Blast Released October 1
of the masters of the genre. Features and reviews are confirmed in Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, Rocksound, Terrorizer and more.
THE GAZETTE Division JPU Records Released October 1 Michael Bublé Christmas Warner Bros Out now
The new album from Norwegian progressive metal scene leaders Enslaved is another masterpiece of multi- layered music from one
Christmas songs; the album has now been repackaged with extra tracks and will be supported by a promotional campaign including appearances on Strictly Come Dancing and Graham Norton.
The biggest-selling heavy rock act you’ve never heard of: the GazettE plan to claim their place in the UK and European markets
with their hotly anticipated sixth studio album Division, by signing to a UK label for the first time. In their homeland of Japan, the band are rock royalty. Their last three albums debuted at numbers six, five and three respectively in the country’s official Oricon album chart, proving that their pioneering approach to metal has rocked the very hearts of the nation’s music fans.
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best Of Elo Frontiers Released October 8
Katherine Jenkins The Christmas Album Warner Bros Out now
Michael Bublé returns for a second season with his phenomenal multi-million selling Christmas album. Featuring all your favourite
critical acclaim, with The Independent declaring it Rock Album of the Year. The album debuted at No.2 on the Billboard Top 200 and it has already been certified platinum in Australia, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand, and gold in numerous territories including the US and the UK, where the album has been in the Top 50 for a staggering 40 weeks. The band performed sensational sets Reading and Leeds and will return to the UK in December for their biggest arena tour to date. Little Black Submarines, the third single from the album, is at radio and TV now.
Brand new album from innovative genre- melding pioneers Vision Of Disorder, their first new recording in 10 years. Teaming up with
The Black Keys released current album El Camino – their first on Nonesuch worldwide – in December last year to widespread
featuring brand new recordings by Jeff Lynne, which sound much sharper and clearer than the old versions. Includes a never before heard bonus track, Point of No Return. In a nod to ELO’s 40th anniversary, a very special edition of 10538 Overture is also featured.
SYLOSIS Monolith Nuclear Blast Released October 8
The new and third album from UK metallers Sylosis. Recorded in the legendary Monnow Valley Studios (Black
Sabbath, Judas Priest, Rush) in Monmouth, Wales, together with producer Romesh Dodangoda.
ANAAL NATHRAKH Vanitas Candlelight Released October 15
Homegrown UK extreme metallers Anaal Nathrakh return with their seventh album. Their illustrious history includes not only the
Fresh from her incredible run on US show Dancing With The Stars, Katherine returns with a seasonal album of classical
Christmas songs. Back to her very best, the album will be promoted with a fantastic promotional plot including an ITV special, Strictly Come Dancing, The One Show and The Royal Variety Show with Placido
Featuring ELO’s biggest and most memorable hits, Mr. Blue Sky The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra is a brand new album
release of those seven albums to rapturous acclaim, but collaborations with such legendary figures as Attila Csihar (Mayhem), Shane Embury and Danny Herrera (Napalm Death), Nick Barker (Testament, Dimmu Borgir), Joe Horvath (Circle of Dead Children), Sethlans Teitan (Watain) and more. All of this runs alongside appearances on BBC Radio 1 at the personal behest of sadly missed icon John Peel, headlining a stage at the renowned cult Inferno Festival in Norway as their debut international live appearance, countless placings in best album of the year polls and album of the month awards in the press and cover appearances on leading magazines.
DORO Raise Your Fist Nuclear Blast Released October 22
Celebrating 30 years of live performing, Doro returns with her new album which features a duet with Motorhead’s Lemmy and guest
Jeff Lynne’s first solo album in 20 years features masterful and fresh interpretations of some of the most recognisable and beloved songs ever written. From Rodgers & Hammerstein to Chuck Berry, fans will be thrilled to hear Lynne offer his unique take on their favourite tunes.
guitars by Ozzy Osbourne’s current guitarist Gus G.
CRADLE OF FILTH The Manticore & Other Horrors Peaceville Released October 29
Cradle of Filth’s 10th album in their 21-year career was recorded in eight weeks at both Springvale and Grindstone studios
(where it was also mixed by Scott Atkins), Suffolk. The album is testament to the longevity of The ’Filth, as not only does it reek of Cradle’s (feared or revered) brand of delicious metal but this thoroughly modern album places the band firmly in fresh killing fields anew.
THE SWORD Apocryphon Napalm Released November 5
Over the course of three mind-altering, critically praised albums, The Sword have proved to be one of rock’s most
intriguing bands. Part Sabbath, part Melvins, part Slayer. On new album Apocryphon, the band has taken the best elements from each of their previous albums and made a record that is the most fluid and heavy of their career.
GRAVEYARD Lights Out Nuclear Blast Released November 26
Before Gothenburg’s Graveyard had their own brand of beer in Sweden, or won a Swedish Grammy for Best Hard Rock
album, or landed on three Billboard charts and multiple Best Of 2011 lists with their album Hisingen Blues, they caught the attention of Rolling Stone’s David Fricke at
EVOLUTION NOT REVOLUTION FOCUSING ON FOCUS
FOCUS X Eastworld Released October 29
A new Focus era has arrived. There is a rejuvenated passion in the new compositions that adorn the new album Focus X, which features a full-scale Roger Dean painting on the cover. Frontman Thijs van Leer commented, “It’s a thrill to have finally completed Focus X; we are all ecstatic and looking forward to playing the new material on the forthcoming Focus X Tour.” This album – and the following gigs – will surprise the loyal fans. They will hear once again all the classic Focus tunes and they will be surprised at the strength and depth of the new material. “Our music is evolution, not revolution,” Thijs van Leer once said about the music of Focus.
SXSW in 2008. “They blew a few dozen minds,” Fricke said, with their “unison- fuzz riffs” and “sharp rhythmic turnarounds—like a prog-rock Free or a nimbler Black Sabbath.” Four years and hundreds of tour stops later, Graveyard’s forthcoming album, Lights Out’ reflects the diversity of their writing.
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