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Published: 09 March 2016

• Queensrÿche

Seattle’s iconic metal band, QUEENSRŸCHE, are coming back to Europe to promote their latest effort “Condition Hüman” which was released worldwide by Century Media Records on October 2nd, 2015. The album entered the German charts at #26 (highest German chart entry since 1999), #27 in the Billboard Top 200 surpassing the first week SoundScans of 2013’s self-titled record and #77 in the UK album charts (highest UK chart entry since 1997). A clear sign that the band is back in full glory!

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Published: 09 March 2016

• Mute Records
• LUH

LUH began 2016 by releasing ‘I&I’, a song about daybreak, new beginnings and fresh starts and with a sound so bold and unflinching, it served as perfect way to describe the shape of things to come. Today they announce details of the their debut album ‘Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing’ available for pre-order now and out on 6 May 2016 on Mute. The album was produced by The Haxan Cloak (known for his own genre-bending experimental compositions and work on Björk’s Vulnicura album) on the remote island of Osea. Watch the album trailer here: http://smarturl.it/LUHprologue

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Published: 09 March 2016

• Leichtmatrose
• Joachim Witt

They are doing it again! The founders of German Electro-Chanson, LEICHTMATROSE (alias Andreas Stitz) will support his discoverer and mentor JOACHIM WITT on his “Hände Hoch Tour 2016” The latest album ‘du ich und die andern’ is available here: http://www.amazon.de/Du-Ich-die-Andern-Leichtmatrose/dp/B00YZCW8VS. As support for WITT, LEICHTMATROSE will perform as trio consisting of Andreas Stitz on vocals, Thomas Fest on keys and for the first time Ben Miller on guitar. 

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Published: 08 March 2016

• Katatonia
• Peaceville Records

Katatonia, the Swedish purveyors of dark progressive rock/metal, have revealed details of their eagerly awaited 10th studio album – The new album, entitled The Fall of Hearts is set for release on the 20th May 2016 through their long-time home of Peaceville Records. The official follow-up to 2012’s acclaimed Dead End Kings was recorded at Stockholm’s Studio Gröndahl & Tri-lamb Studio, and was self-produced by Anders Nyström & Jonas Renkse. Mixing and mastering duties were carried out by Jens Bogren (Opeth, Ihsahn, Devin Townsend) at Fascination Street Studios, with Karl Daniel Lidén (Switchblade, The Ocean, Greenleaf) brought in as engineer. The dramatic yet desolate artwork was created by long time Katatonia designer and illustrator Travis Smith.

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• Wave Gotik Treffen
• WGT

Leipzig, Germany
13th to 16th May 2016
25th Wave Gotik Treffen with Aesthetic Perfection, Biomekkanik, Cinema Strange, Darkhaus , Das Ich, Diary Of Dreams, Die Krupps, Girls Under Glass, Haujobb, Legend, Mesh, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Velvet Acid Christ and many more

Twenty-four years ago, two Gothic people from Leipzig had an unusual idea: They didn’t want to create yet another dark music festival but rather a supra-regional gathering of like-minded fellows for relaxed meeting, chatting and celebrating. When the 1st Wave-Gotik-Treffen took place in 1992 at the edge of Leipzig with about 2,000 visitors and just a handful of bands, it is unlikely that anyone imagined that within a few years the WGT would become the largest meeting of Gothic people in the world, taking possession of a whole city every year at Whitsun.

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