Germany has yet again contributed to power metal in the form of Winterstorm. Winterstorm released their third studio album ‘Cathyron’ on 7th February 2014 via Noise Art Records. They have created such a thin line between these two sub-genres that it is difficult to comprehend when the power metal elements are playing and when the folk metal elements are doing so. They have mixed both sounds in such a way that it gets hard to differentiate between the two.

WHITESNAKE fans worldwide now have something to be excited about! To celebrate the 30th anniversary of WHITESNAKE's multi-platinum "Slide It In" album, Frontiers Music Srl, the Italian-based label, will release "Live In '84 - Back To The Bone", a complete celebration of the group's awe-inspiring lineup during what many feel was the incredible beginning of what singer David Coverdale called his desire to make WHITESNAKE more "electrifying" on record and on stage.

The Purple Album is the 12th studio album by British hard rock band Whitesnake. It contains remakes of songs from Deep Purple band lineups, Mark III and Mark IV. It is set to be released on 29 April in Japan, 15 May in Europe, 18 May in UK and 19 May 2015 in USA through Frontiers Records.

"Life of Pause" is the third studio album from American indie rock act Wild Nothing. He revealed dates for his world tour in support of the new release. The North American portion of the tour kicks off on April 20 inside The Casbah in San Diego, California, and it will conclude inside The Regent Theater in Los Angeles, California on May 20. For the Canadian fans, the trek will make its way to Vancouver's Biltmore Cabaret on April 26 and Toronto's Opera House on May 5.

Formed in 2008 under the (thankfully dropped) name Rightdoor, Within Silence are a melodic power metal band in the vein of Blind Guardian. As such you can expect huge swathes of guitar, souring vocals and banks of keyboards all vying for space amidst the pounding rhythms and heroic soloing. Growing steadily, the band have taken their time to draft their debut offering, the gleaming ‘gallery of life’, and it appears that it has been time well spent because the rehearsals, the time spent writing and then honing material on the road with the likes of Blaze Bayley has paid off with this confident and powerful album.

Previous Witchery albums, although certainly evil sounding in their own right, often maintained a morbid sense of humor about them that gave the impression the band didn’t always take themselves too seriously. Around five years has passed since the release of the group’s last studio effort, “Symphony For The Devil” and Witchery has grown a great deal more serious in the meantime. “Don’t Fear The Reaper” is easily the band’s darkest themed record yet.
As always, Tue Madsen makes the difference at the mixing desk and for the first time, the band has managed to come up with a record that you need not be a Witchery fan to appreciate out-of-hand. Seeking a musical middle ground in comparision to their past efforts, “Don’t Fear The Reaper” sees Witchery taking advantage of slower tempos at times but the primary shift in the band’s songwriting focus lies in the arrangements in particular, with the band making a conscious effort to shift between sounds from track to track, giving the album as a whole a diabolical yet defined character.

8 декабря 2014 года голландские симфо-металлисты WITHIN TEMPTATION выпустили новый двойной концертный альбом "Let Us Burn - Elements & Hydra Live In Concert". На релизе представлены два наиболее обсуждаемых стадионных шоу WITHIN TEMPTATION - блистательный концерт 2012 года "Elements", посвященный 15-летию группы, и последнее шоу европейского тура в поддержку альбома "Hydra", состоявшееся в амстердамском зале “Heineken Music Hall” в мае 2014 года.