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Thomas Azier’s Room of Love moves through a shadowy, sensual kind of electronic pop, where atmosphere carries as much weight as the melody. Soft textures and carefully placed electronic details create a feeling of intimacy, while the production keeps a darker tension running underneath. Azier’s voice sits naturally inside that contrast, bringing warmth and vulnerability without turning the song overly dramatic. There is something cinematic in the way the track unfolds, shifting between stillness and movement as if caught between a private moment and a much larger dream. After years of shaping his own space within European pop, Azier continues to explore the meeting point between electronic music, art pop and more experimental territory. Room of Love feels less like a conventional pop song and more like stepping into an atmosphere where tenderness and unease exist side by side.

Softness can still burn.

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This coming November, Italy’s Opera IX will be heading out to the South American region for a string of headlining shows (flyer below).
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Michael B Kowal keeps things simple on that’ll have to do, letting acoustic guitar, an easygoing roots arrangement and his naturally conversational songwriting carry the track. There is a relaxed Red Dirt and Americana feel throughout, with a touch of bluegrass character in the way the song moves, but the real strength comes from its understated sense of humor and resignation. Kowal writes about everyday life without trying to turn every small observation into something profound, finding plenty of character in the ordinary. The result feels lived in and unforced, with the kind of warmth that comes from a songwriter comfortable leaving a little space around his words. It is a modest song in the best sense, built on simple details, an honest voice and an acceptance that sometimes doing what can be done really is enough.

Sometimes imperfect is exactly where the song begins.

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Today, Five Finger Death Punch released various physical editions of their brand-new 10th studio album, ‘Legacy‘, which arrived digitally on July 31st via Better Noise Music. The collection includes limited-edition vinyl, CD, and cassette variants featuring exclusive artwork, available now through the band’s official store here, with the European and UK vinyl release following on October 9th. […]

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 MANU PES BAND release their new album “EUFORIA” via Volcano Records & Promotion, a fully instrumental work that moves through hard rock, blues, heavy metal, funk and fusion, turning riffs, grooves and melodies into a true journey through consciousness.

Accompanying the album release is the music video for “S’Istria”, one of the record’s key tracks: a visual journey through alienation, the pressures of everyday life and the growing feeling of being trapped by a personal and professional existence that no longer reflects who we are and seems to become more constricting with each passing day.

 In “S’Istria”, the visual dimension becomes an integral part of the narrative. With no lyrics to guide the listener, the music leaves space for the images to focus on an increasingly universal condition: that of someone moving through routines, expectations and responsibilities until they gradually lose touch with themselves. The result is a constant tension between the need to escape and the impossibility of breaking free, between the desire for freedom and the weight of a daily life that seems to impose its own rhythm. This perspective fits naturally within the world of “EUFORIA”, described by the band as a journey through consciousness. Across 13 tracks and almost 55 minutes of music, the album creates an instrumental path in which the language of hard rock continuously opens itself up to different influences without losing cohesion or identity. Manu Pes Band’s songwriting is built around immediate riffs, memorable melodies and a strong focus on groove, bringing together influences from different eras and musical languages. Blues and heavy metal form two fundamental poles of the project, while funk and fusion elements also emerge throughout the album, always filtered through a deeply rooted rock sensibility.

Formed in 2023 by Manu Pes, Mattia Murtas and Maurizio Serreli, Manu Pes Band pursues a musical vision based on cross-pollination and the desire to develop a personal language. The line-up features Manu Pes on guitar, Mattia Murtas on drums and Maurizio Serreli on bass. With “EUFORIA”, the band brings this exploration to its fullest expression: an album conceived not simply as a collection of tracks, but as a continuous sonic journey in which energy, tension, groove and introspection coexist and evolve from one track to the next.

The video for “S’Istria” represents one of its most emblematic moments, translating into images the sense of oppression and disconnection that can arise when our lives stop resembling what we truly want. Watch the video: https://youtu.be/3Tfa9Oks728

A journey through consciousness, then, but also through the contradictions of everyday life: “EUFORIA” expresses without words what we often struggle to say.

Also watch the video for earlier single “Flying In The Dark”: https://youtu.be/zcBGYshpEyA

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The past year has been a defining stretch for The Hot One Two. Closing out 2025 with the release of their most ambitious album to date, ‘Virtues‘ (review here), the band pushed their signature hard-hitting rock to new ground, dropping a record built on heavy riffs and raw, anthemic energy. They took that momentum straight […]

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Bloodstock Founders Artwork Joins George Lucas’s Museum

Bloodstock Open Air Festival is proud to announce that founder and resident artist Paul Raymond Gregory has been selected for inclusion in the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson. The museum, dedicated to the art of visual storytelling, is located in Exposition Park in Los Angeles, California and was designed by architect Ma Yansong of MAD Architects. It opens to the public on 22 September 2026, eight years after its 2018 groundbreaking.

Paul’s dark, three panel masterwork The Designs of Melkor (1996-97), inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien‘s The Silmarillion, is now on display in the museum’s 300,000 sq ft, spaceship-like building, standing alongside works by Norman Rockwell, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Andy Warhol and more. It is a rare honour for an artist who has spent five decades moving between fine art and the world of rock and metal, and who has spent 25 years building Bloodstock into the UK’s premier independent festival for rock and metal music.

Paul was already mixing paint on a canvas the size of a stage backdrop years before he became the man behind Saxon‘s Crusader in 1984, the first of what would become a legendary run of album artwork for the likes of Dio, Uriah Heep, Blind Guardian, and Molly Hatchet. In 2001, that same restless creative energy led him to found Bloodstock, the festival he and his family still run today, 25 years later.

The Lucas Museum is far from Paul’s first brush with serious exhibition. His Tolkien series toured through a Sotheby‘s arranged exhibition culminating at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, leading to an invitation to the Barbican in London in 1984. The complete series was later shown at L’Univers des Fées in Brittany, France, and in 2007 at the Waldemarsudde Museum in Stockholm, in monumental hand-carved frames. It is simply the latest, and largest, chapter in a story still being written. 

Since 2014, Paul has channelled that same conviction into Bloodstock itself, building the festival’s Rock and Metal (RAM) Gallery into a dedicated, purpose built space at the heart of the festival grounds at Catton Hall. The RAM Gallery is a proper exhibition structure, showcasing rock and metal inspired art in all its forms, from Paul’s own monolithic Tolkien pieces, decades of album cover originals, and Bloodstock art, to handcrafted instruments as functional art, with work from up and coming artists given a platform alongside genre icons. With Paul’s own work now hanging in one of the world’s most talked about new museums, Bloodstock invites art press, music media, and fans alike to see where narrative art meets metal culture first hand when the RAM Gallery returns August 5 – 8 for the 2027 festival.

“I never set out to end up in a museum. I set out to paint the stories that gripped me, Tolkien most of all, and to give metal album covers the same weight and craft as any other art form,” says Paul. “To have The Designs of Melkor hanging in George Lucas’s museum is a great honour and is beyond anything I ever imagined when I first put brush to canvas. It says something bigger too, that the art of metal, fantasy and storytelling belongs in these rooms just as much as anywhere else.” 

Bloodstock will announce more details on future RAM Gallery exhibitors and Paul’s work in the coming months. For the latest information on Bloodstock, visit bloodstock.uk.com.

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Continuing a banner year, the Swedish masters of heavy metal Sabaton re-up their 2025 hit ‘Templars‘ with a brand-new version featuring Leigh Kakaty of Platinum-certified, chart-topping rock powerhouse Pop Evil. The song is now available on all DSPs and digital download providers via Better Noise Music. Listen to ‘Templars‘ (Feat. Pop Evil) – here. It’s a collision of two […]

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Texan metalcore outfit Fervence have unveiled “Ascension” as the second single from their forthcoming album “Constructs“. A Tom Flynn (Hatebreed, As I Lay Dying)-directed music video for the track has now premiered, with the full-length set to arrive October 16th through Metal Blade Records. Guitarist Trent Odneal offered some insi… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com