Spanish melodic death metal bringers Bloodhunter have premiered a brand new single “Threshold Of Hell”, featuring guest performance by Moonspell vocalist Fernando Ribeiro. The song appears on the group’s forthcoming long player Sons Of The Abandoned, due out on June 12th via Reigning Phoenix Music. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Tue Madsen at Antfarm Studio in Ebeltoft, Denmark. Read more…
On June 4th 2026, death metal unity Revolting will put out their tenth studio record dubbed Supernatural Anthems. It will be released through Xtreem Music on CD & Digital formats. Alongside unveiled details, you can also check out the first track in advance “At Dusk They Rise”. Read more…
Having formed in 2008 under the name Prowler, the back story of Silverbird is much like that of many other aspiring rock bands. All the clichés are there, forming in school, being the only lads with hair beyond their collars, and gravitating towards each other through their mutual obsession with rock and Metal music.
Despite thinking the name Prowler made them sound “a bit dodgy”, there were already plenty of bands operating under the same banner. So, how they came across their new name was as a result, an indirect act of fate, and the main culprit was dodgy hearing.
“The name Silverbird came from a line in Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel, Sail on Silverbird,” Guitarist Glen Maxwell told MetalTalk. “I thought, Silverbird. That sounds cool. Turns out my hearing was shite long before the tinnitus took hold. The lyric is actually ‘sail on silver girl’. But hey. We got our band name from it.”
All this led to Glen Maxwell, Jordon Hennessy, and later on Wayne Killeen playing pubs in every nook and cranny in Ireland, mainly doing Thin Lizzy and Gary Moore covers.
So after several false starts and fourteen years after forming, the Dubliners finally get that previously unattainable album off the ground.
“We’ve made several attempts at making an album over the years,” Maxwell said. “But the finances of hiring a studio made it really hard to make anything we were really happy with. We were booking studios for one day and trying to cram entire albums into it. Always turned out badly.
“We decided we’d take a stab at making it ourselves, recording, mixing, promoting, etc. It’s been a long road, with a lot of learning. Turns out engineering is bloody hard, so it’s taken us ages.”
Silverbird are an eclectic bunch, and draw inspiration from a number of genres, but it is good old traditional hard rock and some sprinklings of prog that properly fuels them.
There’s a nice bit of ‘let’s plug it in and see what happens’ kind of vibe with this album. And nothing wrong with that if it comes off. On 3 King’s, there is no doubting that that is the case. This is a right mind-bending prog-er that swerves in all directions, if at times a tad recklessly.
With the band admitting their limitations in the vocal area, a bit of outsourcing was required. In turn, they got a lively chap named Alex Dew, who leads four out of the eight tracks. Dew is good value, and knows how to give it some welly as you will hear on the hugely infectious opener Wake Up.
Though not as good, there are similarities with this track to a young and anarchic Skid Row. And just for context, I don’t mean the real Skid Row, the Irish blues-rock group that featured Phil Lynott and Gary Moore. I mean the American one, who, let’s say, acquired the name.
Another enthusiastic screamer, Michael Werninck, does his best Paul Di’Anno on the brawling Burnout. This has New Wave Of British Heavy Metal smeared all over it, and the similarities to Iron Maiden’s Phantom Of The Opera are undeniable.
The impressive-sounding Dew returns, sticking his chest out on the vocally powerful Out In Exile, and nearly gets upstaged by the nicely placed gospel keys of Romina Barba. Great tune, but the impromptu-sounding jam at the end strips a bit of gloss off.
The Celtic Rock hooley Our Day Will Come is hands down the album’s trump card. No disrespect to ambitious tracks like Save Me From Myself and Sounds From A Shipwreck, but if they solely went down the traditional Irish rock route with songs of this calibre, we would be dealing with something quite special, very special here.
But as it stands, Silverbird are not chasing commercial success or critical acclaim. This is quite possibly a one-off recording adventure, as real-life commitments are understandably taking precedent.
It is a bittersweet release, but whatever the future holds, they have got that elusive album in the bag. There are a hell of a lot that do not get that far, so hats off.
Xtreem Music is proud to announce, for the third and final time, the return of Canadian veteran thrashers Aggression. The band is currently finishing the recordings of their seventh studio album, Furious Unveiling Of Diabolical Forces, scheduled for release this fall. Read more…
Following his recent win as ‘Instrumentalist of the Year‘ at this year’s UK Blues Awards (review here), Will Wilde releases the official video for ‘Stole My Love‘, a standout track from his chart-topping album ‘Blues Is Still Alive‘, which was released last year via VizzTone Label Group. Will says “‘Stole My Love’ is one of […]
One month prior the release of their second full-length instalment Thorn, Italy’s Heavenfall have put out an official video for the latest new single titled “No Candlelight”. Read more…
Danish metal act AVARICE return with their second full-length album “Perpetual Ruin”, released via Mighty Music. The album delivers ten crushing tracks exploring humanity’s endless cycle of rise, failure, and collapse. Blending classic death and thrash metal with elements of hardcore and melodic death metal, Avarice present a sound that is both brutal and dynamic. Razor-sharp riffs, […]
Foghat and Nazareth unite for a tour of the U.S. beginning April 30th. Straight from the heart of the British blues-rock invasion, Foghat and Nazareth represent two powerhouse forces that helped define — and continue to drive — the sound of classic rock. Roger Earl/Foghat: “Foghat and Nazareth! What a great show that’s going to […]
