The band Almah will launch next Wednesday, August 27th, their newly designed official MySpace page (www.myspace.com/almahedufalaschi). Besides the up to date information and the new layout, based on the artwork from their new album “Fragile Equality”, the fans will be able to listen first hand to the brand new single "You'll Understand". According to singer Edu Falaschi: "We chose this track ...

Please check out the audio player on www.afm-records.de to listen to an audio sample of the new Squealer song „The Circle Shuts“. To listen more samples of the new Squealer album, please visit the bands website: www.squealer.de. The new Squealer album “The Circle Shuts” will be released on September, 12, 2008. ...

The guys from Shakra will enter the swiss “Powerride-Studios” in the beginning of September to start with the recordings of their new album. The working title of the new album will be “Everest”. All bass tracks will be recorded by the new Shakra bass player Dominik Pfister. ...

Manowar co-founder ROSS THE BOSS and his band have released their first video clip “Blood Of Knives”, taken from the upcoming debut album “New Metal Leader”, scheduled for release on August 22nd. Also ROSS THE BOSS have a new myspace site! Here you can listen to some tracks of the new album already: www.myspace.com/newmetalleader Watch the clip here: http://www.youtube.com/afmrecords “New ...

We finally made it: Our third album “Sünde” will be released on the 22nd of August. Alexx and Pix promise a sombre-coloured dance of dark-rocking ice-pearls to their fans: Album III will be the darkest and hardest album so far. Faithful to the motto: Filigree-but-through-breaking! Hard but however warmly! We thought that the time has come to say THANK YOU to all our fans, so we would like to ...

The new Eden´s Curse album “The Second Coming” will be released on October, 24, through AFM Records. Once again production duties were handled by Pink Cream 69 bassist, and producer extraordinaire, Dennis Ward (Angra, Krokus, Silent Force, Allen/Lande) as the band have truly "Upped the Ante" in terms of song writing, performance and production. This is simply going to be a monster of a release ...

The past few years have been quite silent in the camp of the Crossover institution Exila, but now they come up with some sensational news. The Italian modern metal act has recently signed a new deal with AFM Records and have just finished the recordings of the yet untitled new record. “We can tell you in advance 'it rocks!'  We are all very excited and I can tell you, that this album will be ...

Every Doro fan should mark the 13th of December in his schedule! On this date, the ultimate Metal Party will take place in the ISS-Dome in Düsseldorf, Germany. Doro celebrates her 25th stage anniversary and invites you all to come and party with her in Düsseldorf. The party starts at 2 p.m. with a metal market that all guests can visit for free. Signing sessions with the bands will also be taking ...

The guys from Helstar have their new CD completed! The title of the new record will be “The King Of Hell” and the album is scheduled for September 2008. The US release should be about 3 months later. Here is the track listing for the new CD: 1. The King of Hell 2. The Plague Called Man 3. Tormentor 4. When Empires Fall 5. Wicked Disposition 6. Caress of the Dead 7. Pain Will Be Thy ...

All workings on the new Squealer album „The Circle Shuts“ are comleted! We just received the Master of the new Squealer Tracks as well as the remastered Bonus Songs from the first Squealer record “Human Traces”, which will appear as bonus tracks on the limited edition of “The Circle Shuts” The Band comments: „Mika Jusilla and Minerva Pappi did the mastering of the new material as ...

Debauchery will release their new record in 2009. The previous Debauchery albums were a mix of Hard Rock and brutal Metal. Now the Band wants YOU to get involved!!! Please visit the Debauchery Website and you can choose, if you like the slow and groovy Hard Rock stuff, or the fast and brutal stuff, or a mix of both. Just submit your vote at www.debauchery.de NEWS Blood For The Blood God ...

Gary Holt (Exodus) and Jeff Waters (Annihilator) will appear as guest musicians on the new Destruction record „D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.“ (release date: August, 29, 2008). Schmier: “Gary Holt and Jeff Waters play on 'Urge (The Greed Of Gain)'; the first solo is Gary, the second is Mike (Sifringer/Destruction guitarist), and the long third solo is Jeff. If you listen to his solo you’ll know right ...

The final part of the recording saga of "Crash & Burn" was delivered to the record company over the weekend. The master of the Limited Edition, with two brandnew bonus tracks, the video clip for the song "Revolution" & the digipak desgin. The final album contains 11 tracks and here's the tracklist: 1. Crash & Burn (Mat Sinner/Igor Gianloa) 2. Break The Silence (Mat Sinner/Igor Gianola) 3. ...

Recently PERZONAL WAR put finishing touches on their new video clip “Utopia”. The result can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/afmrecords The new PERZONAL WAR album „Bloodline“ is available since My 30th. ...

Our friends from Dezperadoz will support the Thin Lizzy Show on July, 16, 2008. The show will take place in the “Matrix” Club in Bochum (Germany) and it will start at 20:00 (CET). DON’T MISS IT !!! 16.07.2008 THIN LIZZY; Special Guest: DEZPERADOZ – Bochum “Matrix” ...

Hungarian Metal institution Ektomorf are happy to announce that they have recently signed a new deal with AFM Records. “It’s a great new chapter and we are very happy about it”, says lead singer and founder Zoli. So far 13 new songs are written “We will enter Antfarm Studio in Denmark from November 1st and record the new album with Tue Madsen. The new songs are groovy and heavy down tuned.” ...

Hi there, one more major announcement, we have another new family member in: Mr. Connie Andreszka (Cabal / ex-Circle OF Pain) on the guitar! Besides being a brillant guitarist (did some extensive touring as live member of Crystal Ball), Connie is one hell of singer! That guy's got balls for sure! After more than four years our friend and brother Schimmi decided to leave the band. He told ...

At last, the search is over! On June 6th, at The Sweden Rock Festival, we are proud to present our new guitar player Henrik Bergqvist! It has taken some time and effort to find a suitable replacement, a person that possesses all the qualities needed to fill the position at stage right in this great band. Many talented guitar players have applied and impressed. But in the end we found the linguist ...

Magica and AFM Records are happy to announce that the band is scheduled for recordings starting July 2008. Their fourth studio album will be called "Wolves And Witches" and will be released sometime in November this year. The names of a couple of tracks that will be present on this album are : "Hold on tight" , "Don't wanna kill", "Hurry up Ravens", "Dark Secret", "Just for two coins", "Mistress ...

Eden's Curse are currently in the recording studio working on the follow up to their well received debut record. Production duties will once again be handled by Dennis Ward. The record is scheduled for release in late October 2008. Tracks being recorded: Angels & Demons, Games People Play, Just Like Judas, Lost In Wonderland, Lost Soul, Man Against The World, Masquerade Ball, Prisoner Of The ...

Andrè Hilgers(drums) and AXXIS will go different ways by mutual agreement. Andrè will concentrate his full energy on Rage in the future.We wish him the greatest success out there and we want to say: thanxx for all! We're sure that we all will hear a lot of positive things in the future from Andrè. Bernhard:"Andrè is a great person and a super drummer. He would earn to reach the topten list ...

DESTRUCTION singer Schmier will be a guest in the German TV show „Nachtcafe“ (SWR channel). He will talk will guests like: the famous german comedian Bernhard Hoecker, Marc Bator, Kurt Molzer (chief editor of ”Penthouse”) and the german topmodel Johannes Huebl. Here are the airdates: SWR Friday, 13.06. – 22:00 (CET) Saturday, 14.06. – 12:00 (CET) The new DESTRUCTION album „D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.“ ...

The new webshop of AFM Records is now online. The shop is well-provided with a huge number of products, offers, special prices, Japanese imports bundles and fanboxes which will make Metalfans hearts leap for joy - and all of that at factory outlet prices! Numerous of our offers are not available in regular trade stores and can only be acquired in our in-house shop. Just use the following link ...

On August, 29, 2008, AFM Records will release the new Destruction album „D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.“ On June, 06, 2008, the press was invited to a pre listening session which will take place in the „Rockfabrik“ Club in Ludwigsburg (Germany). After the pre listening and the interview session, also the fans are invited to join the Destruction party! From 21:00, Schmier, Mike and Marc will ...

Just in time to the release of the new Headhunter album “Parasite Of Society” (release date: May, 23, 2008), the new Headhunter webpage is online now. Please use the following link to visit the website: www.official-headhunter.com Don´t miss the Headhunter show on the world’s most important and prestigious Metal festival: the Wacken Open Air! ...

After spending a couple of weeks in the studio recording their new album "Crash & Burn" (to be released on Sept 19 via AFM), German rock veterans SINNER need to get out - for some noise, lights and ROCK! They will play a special pre-release show on May 30 at Headbanger's Ballroom in Hamburg. This is where a pre-listening session for the new album will be held during the day for international media. ...

The guys from Squealer just finished the recordings for their new studio album “The Circle Shuts”. Currently, the songs will be mixed in the “Gernhart Studios” in Siegburg before Mika Jussila will do the mastering in the famous Finnvox Studios in Helsinki. According to the first audio samples, “The Circle Shuts” will include a perfect mix of heavy riffing and great melodies. Soon, ...

The German radio station Rockland Radio awarded the so called Classic Rock Awards 2008. There were several categories (e.g. best live band, best album cover, etc.) where the Fans could vote for their favourite stars. Our Metal Queen won the prize for Sexiest Rockstar. Congratulations DORO and a big THANK YOU to all the Fans who voted for her. ...

2008 - 25 years of German Thrash Metal history has elapsed, but still the unrelenting Thrash Monster that is Destruction is hungry, out there and on your trail !! The degeneration of the human race human can be delayed no longer. Perfectly transforming this ethos into 10 destructive new Thrash hymns including blistering moments such as "OFFENDERS OF THE THRONE", "UNDER COMPULSION" or "DOOMED TO ...

The last tone is recorded, the rough mixes are done! The hard drive is delivered to Achim Koehler's studio were the mixes & mastering will be done in early May. We are very happy about the new songs, the vibe and we are sure you will like the album too! It was so much fun to record the album, you can see on a photo from the photo session with Katja Piolka. Thanks to Dennis, Alex Kilb & the House of ...

THE POODLES´ guitarist Pontus Norgren has decided to leave the band. Pontus was offered to be the new guitarist of HammerFall, and understandably agreed. Here´s the statement of THE POODLES: Thank you Pontus Norgren for three fantastic years! We regrettably have to inform you that Pontus Norgren has decided to leave The Poodles. We would like to thank Pontus for all the great times we’ve ...

The U.D.O. show in Tuttlingen is sold out two week after the start of the ticket sales!!! The band and the organiser of the show found a solution to raise the capacity of the venue in Tuttlingen without any annoyance for the visitors. So from now on there are 400 additional tickets available. Please use this link to order your ticket. The DVD of the show in Tuttlingen will be available in ...

Be The Creator Of Our Debut Music Video! Are you an anime artist? Would you like the rest of the world to get to know how good you are? You now have the opportunity to be the creator for our first ever music video! Create your very own anime video for the song "To Lose The Sun" (off our debut album "Reversing Time") and send it in! The best video (which will be chosen by the band) will grant ...

The guitar players Ace and James of President Evil will be the guests in “Center TV” on Wednesday, April, 16 at 19:30 (CET). You can see the interview on TV (Kabelkanal S21) or in the internet. ...

The new Headhunter video clip “Silverskull” is online now! You can watch it here: www.myspace.com/officialheadhunter www.youtube.com/afmrecords On May 23rd Headhunter will release “Parasite Of Society”, their first studio album since 14 years!! Their unique mixture of NWoBHM and Thrash Metal still makes this band something very special. Headhunter is: Schmier (Destruction) – ...

Dezperadoz will support the upcoming tour of Rage and Edenbridge. You can check out their live performance at the following dates: FR. 19.4.2008 20.00Uhr D Memmingen Kaminwerk SA. 20.4.2008 20.00Uhr D Ludwigsburg Rockfabrik FR. 25.4.2008 20.00Uhr D Speyer Halle 101 FR. 2.5.2008 20.00Uhr D Aschaffenburg Colos-Saal SA. 3.5.2008 20.00Uhr D Andernach JUZ Live Club Furthermore, Dezperadoz ...

Our friends from Evidence One will open up the upcoming Y&T show in the „Colos Saal“ club in Aschaffenburg on September, 09, 2008. Here are all confirmed tourdates: 28/06/08 Spalene Porici Basinfirefest Czech Republic 09/09/08 Aschaffenburg Colos Saal Germany 03/10/08 Attendorn Dragonslayer Festival / Vereinshaus Ihnetal Germany 04/10/08 Antwerp De Rots Belgium 01/11/08 St. Martin de ...

Our friends from “The Poodles” will get a very special welcome on their arrival in Mahlberg (Germany). The mayor of Mahlberg organised a reception to welcome the band members. The local press was invited to report the welcome of The Poodles as well as their live show on April, 15. Finally, the band members will sign in Mahlbergs “Golden Book” ...

lldisposed ”The Prestige” has entered the official Danish album charts as nr. 44 in its first week. Congratualations!!! ...

Eden's Curse regrettably inform their fans that they will no longer be appearing at Firefest V in Nottingham, England on October 26th 2008. Due to negative public response the festival has been cut from three to two days and sadly Eden's Curse were amongst the casualties involved. Bassist Paul Logue comments "The band are very disappointed for their UK fans, but in the words of the great Freddie Mercury, ...

Welcome! After numberous castings and even more applications, we reached our decision. Shakra has found the successor of Oliver Linder. His name is Dominik Pfister, he's 21 years old and lives in Allmendingen (in the Canton of Bern, just like the rest of the band). We are happy to announce that we found a very capable bassist and new bandmate in him! Important: For the upcoming gigs Oliver ...

New guitarist! It is official now, we have a new family member in: Mr. Barish Kepic (POWERWORLD / ex-JADED HEART) on the guitar! After Warthy simply couldn't find the time to concentrate on E1, we had Barish in to do our recent live shows and tours, and, well, we couldn't let him go! We wish Warthy all the best for the future - keep rocking, buddy! It really was a pleasure & honor! More info ...

U.D.O., the band around former Accept singer and metal icon Udo Dirkschneider, just announced 2 special gigs to celebrate 20 years of U.D.O. 30.04. Solingen (GER) - Cobra (special Clubshow) 03.05. Tuttlingen (GER) - Stadthalle On April 30th U.D.O. will play a special club show with a very interesting support act: “FALLEN FROM FRAME”, with Udo´s son SVEN Dirkschneider on drums! So this ...

Howdy Partners! Finally, our new album „An Eye For An Eye“ will be released on April, 11, 2008. On May, 10, 2008, we will celebrate the release of our new album with a big release party which will take place at the “Rockfabrik” in Bruchsal (Germany). We would like to invite everyone who is interested in taking part of the release party. We will do a great live show in a “Wild West” ...

Eines von Deutschlands führenden Online-Magazinen, Powermetal.de, hat dem neuen JON OLIVA`S PAIN Album „Global Warning“ ein großes Special gewidmet. Im Rahmen der sogenannten „Gruppentherapie“ kommentieren verschiedene Powermetal.de-Redakteure, die sich ausführlich mit „Global Warning“ befasst haben, das neue Meisterwerk des Mountain King. Die Stimmen zum Album: „Ich könnte heulen ...

We just received the following words from Evidence One: Hi everybody sad, sad news: Due to a serious sudden hearing loss of our bassman Hutch, we decided to cancel all shows until Summer! Hutch runs the risk of losing his hearing completely, if he's gonna play. The situation indeed is serious. We hope to do the cancelled shows in Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands next Fall. Keep your fingers ...