To be released next May 29, 2026, “Chapter V” is the upcoming new album from ACACIA AVENUE, the band founded by Torben Enevoldsen (FATE, FATAL FORCE, SECTION A). After the release of ACACIA AVENUE’s fourth album ”Worlds Apart” (2018), Torben was busy working on his instrumental solo stuff, as well as writing and recording for ROB MORATTI, PINNACLE POINT, DECOY and FATE. In between these sessions however, Enevoldsen found the time to write new music for this fifth ACACIA AVENUE album.
As usual, he asked a few good friends along for the ride, so this new album features Peer Johansson (NOW OR NEVER, FATE), Peter Sundell (C.O.P., DECOY), Dagfinn Joensen (BLOODY DICE), as well as the late, great Tony Mills (SHY, TNT) on vocals. Pete Steincke (FATE) split the bass duties with Enevoldsen, who also played the keyboards and guitars himself, as well as doing lead- and background vocals on a few songs. Dennis Hansen (FATAL FORCE) once again did the drums.
“Chapter V” is pure class melodic hard rock with a classic rock touches here and there. It’s great to hear Tony Mills again in a reworked song from ACACIA AVENUE’s first album. Enevoldsen also does a pretty awesome cover of TOTO’s ‘Gypsy Train’…

And as more Doogie White material has been requested, this pretty unknown band he was involved with, English outfit CHAIN, released a rocking album in the mid Nineties titled “Eros Of Love And Destruction“. The album was self-released by the band in Europe, and by Victor Japan in Asia only, according to them, with a ‘Digital Remaster’.
CHAIN was actually the project of British guitarist Ashley Limer (ex VANDAMNE whose 80s recordings were released as part of the ”Lost UK Jewels” Collectors Series), also axeman for hard rockers DEALER. However when Doogie White and great keyboardist Jem Davis (TOBRUK, UFO, Di ANNO) joined, all songs were written by the three.
They used session bassist Paul Lyles for the album recording, where Limer programmed all the drums, something pretty common in the ’90s. Limer did a great job as the drums sound pretty natural. Producer Jerry Packer (TOBRUK, MIDNIGHT BLUE) helped a lot.
CHAIN’s “Eros Of Love And Destruction” rocks with dynamic pumping uptempo songs, musically brings to mind GEORGE LYNCH 1993’s album ‘Sacred Groove’: remarkable virtuoso guitar work but song format, with a stupendous singer in Doogie. Some tracks are bluesy based ’90s hard rock with some Mr. BIG / American WHITESNAKE, and Nineties NIGHT RANGER feel, while others pretty late Eighties Melodic Hard Rock in style, and that’s a good thing in our book….

The Master of Shock Rock, ALICE COOPER, is set to reissue one of his late-career highlight: “Along Came A Spider” (2008). This release marks a highly anticipated moment for fans & collectors, as the album has been out of print for over a decade, making original pressings some of the most sought-after and expensive items in the Cooper secondary market.
Presented in exclusive on 0dayrox, ”Along Came A Spider [Deluxe Edition]” is especially noteworthy for vinyl collectors as it will feature the original artwork, not used in the original strictly limited vinyl edition from 2008. Furthermore, the album has been expanded for the new Deluxe Edition reissue.
”Along Came A Spider [Deluxe Edition]” contains 3 bonus tracks, recorded during the album sessions. A classic hard rock / heavy metal concept album, ‘Along Came A Spider’ chronicles the activities of a psychopathic serial killer known as ‘Spider’ and the eventual undoing of his plans.
Among the great musicians involved, ERIC SINGER played all drums, while there’s guest appearances by SLASH, OZZY OSBOURNE, guitarist for everybody KERI KELLI (currently in NIGHT RANGER), etc.
A commercial success, it ended up becoming Cooper’s highest-charting studio effort in the United States since ‘Hey Stoopid’ (1991)…

Known for his unmistakably deep voice and powerful stage presence, KURT DEIMER has built a reputation as both a hard rock musician and rising horror actor. His newest film ‘Scared To Death’ introduces Deimer’s on-screen persona “The Grog,” a character that merges his theatrical rock style with the dark world of horror cinema.
Deimer’s new album “A Grog is Born” somehow works as the soundtrack for the movie, but it’s much more than that. The new album marks the cinematic follow-up to Deimer’s debut album, And So It Begins…, released in May 2025.
“A Grog is Born” also has been tweaked by legenday ’80s producer Chris Lord-Age, and features tracks co-written with BON JOVI guitarist PHIL X who also play guitars, while terrific Brian Tichy play drums. The single “In Deep” features a duet with Josh Todd from BUCKCHERRY.
”A Grog Is Born” includes as well a guest appearance from of legend Geoff Tate for a gorgeous reinvention of QUEENSRYCHE’s classic ‘Silent Lucidity’. Additionally, Deimer and his fabulous band did a heavy recreation of the PHIL COLLINS hit ‘In The Air Tonight.’
Lord-Alge did a great job providing variation in terms of sound, and “A Grog is Born” was impeccably mastered by another legend; Ted Jensen…

Iconic Bay Area thrash band TESTAMENT has announced the upcoming remastered reissue of their coveted 1989 album, ”Practice What You Preach”, on May 8th via Nuclear Blast Records.
The ”Practice What You Preach (2026 Remaster)” reissue was remastered by Justin Shturtz (SEVENDUST, TARJA) at the legendary Sterling Sound. It will be available digitally and 180G vinyl on Yellow and Orange Swirl with Black Splatter (limited to 1250 worldwide) and is packaged with brand new artwork from Bill Benson (who also designed the original cover art).
Commenting on the reissue, Chuck Billy says: “I am stoked about the remastered ”Practice What You Preach” release with Nuclear Blast. With new artwork and Bigger sound than the original. Drop the needle and bang your head!!”
Testament’s 1989 album ”Practice What You Preach” is widely regarded as a pivotal, melodic thrash classic that helped solidify their status as metal giants. It is noted for more socially conscious lyrics and enhanced technicality compared to its predecessors, featuring standout tracks like the a top-tier thrash anthem title track, and “The Ballad” (which is heavy anyway.).
Another remarkable thing on ”Practice What You Preach” is the mix. Everybody can be clearly heard, even more with this fresh remaster…

The Architect of Shock Rock, ALICE COOPER, is set to reissue one of his late-career highlight: Welcome 2 My Nightmare (2011), on 1-CD and 3-vinyl.
”Welcome 2 My Nightmare [Deluxe Edition 2xCD]” adds a bonus disc with 7 bonus tracks, exclusive tracks from iTunes, the original Japanese Edition, and the original vinyl-presing exclusive song. This release marks a highly anticipated moment for collectors, as the album has been out of print for years, making original pressings some of the most sought-after and expensive items in the Cooper secondary market.
Welcome 2 My Nightmare (also known as Welcome to My Nightmare 2) is the 26th studio album by Alice Cooper, released in September 2011. Peaking at No. 22 in the Billboard 200 it is Cooper’s highest-charting album in the US since 1989’s Trash.
The idea for the album came about soon after the 30th anniversary of the original Welcome to My Nightmare album, while Cooper was talking with producer Bob Ezrin, who proposed the idea of a sequel to Welcome to My Nightmare. Cooper liked the idea, and decided to recruit previous members of the Alice Cooper band.
The concept of the album was described by Cooper as “another nightmare, and this one is even worse than the last one.”

Dark-clad rock rebels BLACK VEIL BRIDES ensure first album in nearly five years gives fans much bloody goodness and heavy beef to sink their fangs into. The band’s helmsman Andy Biersack has clearly been blessed with an elastic voice – on ”Vindicate” he delivers highly varied performances, his cleans entrance, and his harsh vocals scorch with infernal heat. Biersack, who has always cultivated a love of the theater, welds his dramatic abilities and polish with raw passion and authenticity.
The intensity of ”Vindicate” opens with organ on “Invocation to the Muse”—a lovely, calm, and meditative track emphasizing the benefits of allowing wounds to fester. Biersack offers film-worthy narration here. The album contains a broad range of artistic impulses, drawing from the best of rock, metal, goth and more. On this offering, BVB incorporate everything from touches of goth darkness to those catchy, stadium-worthy chant-along choruses that Biersack learned to appreciate as a child from listening to KISS.
While “Alive,” for example, may be described as brutal metal in part; “Purgatory” and “Grace” are ethereal atmospheric; ”Vindicate” is often pleasantly heavy, but the aggression never wears our ears down due to the artful and balanced songwriting…

Lengendary rock n’ roll English act MOTÖRHEAD not only played a ton of gigs durig its existence: Lemmy liked to record every show they played, when possible. Now we have a legacy a very good MOTÖRHEAD concerts being released in aseries called “The Löst Tapes”.
All “The Löst Tapes” released are of very good sound quality, but perhaps most are for MOTÖRHEAD die-hard fans and collectors. However, tomorrow will be released a show of special interest: “The Löst Tapes Vol. 8 [Live at Winter Gardens, Margate, 5th Nov 1984]“.
And why? Because this is the ‘No Remorse Tour’, the first of MOTÖRHEAD with the new line up of guitarist Phil Campbell, guitarist Würzel, and drummer Pete Gill. There isn’t much released with Pete Gill on drums, especially live. And they were great. Love the bass tone, the twin guitars, the crushing drums, and the overall atmosphere.
It’s amazing that MOTÖRHEAD recorded all of these gigs, and now are being released. Lots of bands only want to release perfect and fully produced live records. In “The Löst Tapes Vol. 8 [Live at Winter Gardens, Margate, 5th Nov 1984]” we get the band just like it happened. No overdubs!

Sometimes a book or an album titled speaks for itself better than any press blurb. That’s the case with Norway’s up-and-coming hard rock purveyors BONG VOYAGE, and their debut album “Hedonistic Hard Rock“, available next May 8th.
Formed by ex-members of several Scadinavian bands, the end result is a devilishly twisted collection of tracks fused by the legendary sounds of the Seventies Hard Rock and Heavy Metal scene – the group wears a wide range of influences including KISS, BLACK SABBATH, THIN LIZZY, QUEEN, THE OBSESSED and even ELTON JOHN.
Yeah, it may sound like a crazy concoction but here we are with BONG VOYAGE raiding their parents vinyl collection and giving it a thrilling SATANIC ROCK makeover where the key elements are to entertain and Party-On throughout the whole album. The album still manages to find the time to touch upon areas of Melodic Hard Rock, NWOBHM, Melodic Metal and Psych Rock where you can’t help but fall in love with.
Take the superb opening track ”Saturday Rite Special” which sees BONG VOYAGE channel KISS, HUSKER DU and ELTON JOHN for a song that has a real ‘satanic’ attitude but with a loving embrace to the ’70s Hard Rock lifestyle whilst keeping with the doomed out melodies that the band lovingly build their music upon. The spiky lyrics and turbo charged vocals just add a real party going atmosphere which makes this one of the albums main strengths that carries through tracks such as ‘Large And In Charge’, ‘UFOria’, and ‘One Hundred Million Billion Beers’…

Swedish hard rock veterans THE QUILL return with ‘Master Of The Skies’ on Metalville Records. The new album marks another chapter in a long-standing dialogue between groove, weight, melody and power – this time with a darker tone.
It’s heavy without being clumsy, atmospheric without losing its swing – heavy rock with depth and character that has been hard-earned.
THE QUILL is a band that is comfortable in its own skin and writes music because it still means it, not because someone asked them to. No reinvention. No trip down memory lane. ‘Master Of The Skies’ is just THE QUILL doing what they’ve always done best: writing heavy rock songs that stand on their own.
The title track kicks off the CD and is a classic THE QUILL stomper. Built on riff power and Sabbathian influences, the song is a great start to the album. Combined with a change of pace and a blistering solo, the opener is a delight for headbangers…

Masterminded by multi-instrumentalist Frank Us, LEGACY PILOTS is one of the most original melodic progressive bands from the current scene, delivering a musical palette ranging from rock&pop, AOR to classic rock not forgetting its roots of prog rock.
”Camera Obscura” is the largest and most elaborate production the Pilots have ever made. This new work is somewhat unusual, as it is split across two separate CDs: CAMERA OBSCURA Volume I and Volume II.
In addition to classic progressive elements, Volume I also offers some calmer, atmospheric moments, while ”Volume II” ventures into darker, more extravagant, and perhaps even eccentric realms.
The new recording once again features many familiar faces from previous productions: STYX’s Todd Sucherman on drums, Marco Minnemann (Steven Wilson, Mike Keneally), Jake Livgren (nephew of Kansas’ icon Kerry), Finally George, Lars Slowak, ex Deep Purple Steve Morse, Pete Trewavas, and John Mitchell (Arena, Frost*, Lonely Robot). New to the Pilots are Seth Hankerson (guitar solos) and Kai Weidle…

Masterminded by multi-instrumentalist Frank Us, LEGACY PILOTS is one of the most original melodic progressive bands from the current scene, delivering a musical palette ranging from rock&pop, AOR to classic rock not forgetting its roots of prog rock.
”Camera Obscura” is the largest and most elaborate production the Pilots have ever made. This new work is somewhat unusual, as it is split across two separate CDs: CAMERA OBSCURA Volume I and Volume II.
In addition to classic progressive elements, ”Volume I” also offers some calmer, atmospheric moments, while Volume II ventures into darker, more extravagant, and perhaps even eccentric realms.
The new recording once again features many familiar faces from previous productions: STYX’s Todd Sucherman on drums, Marco Minnemann (Steven Wilson, Mike Keneally), Jake Livgren (nephew of Kansas’ icon Kerry), Finally George, Lars Slowak, ex Deep Purple Steve Morse, Pete Trewavas, and John Mitchell (Arena, Frost*, Lonely Robot). New to the Pilots are Seth Hankerson (guitar solos) and Kai Weidle…

Swedish glam metal torchbearers CRASHDÏET are back with their seventh studio album, ”Art of Chaos”, set for release on May 8th via Ninetone Records. These are the 10 sleaziest tracks thet’ve written in ages — a high-voltage return to the raw attitude, big hooks, and filthy swagger that defined CRASHDÏET’s early sound.
With the powerhouse vocals of John Elliot (Confess) leading the charge, the record blends the grime of the Stockholm underground with stadium-sized anthems and searing riffs. It is a sonic assault that captures the band at their most revitalized and dangerous—turning chaos into pure art.
Packed with big choruses, razor-sharp riffs, and that signature CRASHDÏET punch, ”Art Of Chaos” marks a fresh chapter for the band while staying true to the spirit that built their legacy. A must-have for loyal fans and newcomers alike who crave the unadulterated energy of modern sleaze metal…

Thirty years after a Fender Strat-wielding teenager from Shreveport, Louisiana bought the blues back into the mainstream, the platinum-selling, six-time GRAMMY-nominated blues rock guitarist KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD returns to the album that started it all… with a newly recorded 30th anniversary edition of ”Ledbetter Heights”, arriving May 8th.
At a time when grunge dominated the cultural conversation, Shepherd emerged unapologetically rooted in a genre often pushed to the margins. With fiery fretwork, pop-rock hooks, and a deep reverence for the blues, his arrival cut through the noise and connected with a new generation of listeners. Signed by legendary executive Irving Azoff at just 16, Shepherd recorded the album while still in high school, splitting his time between classes in Louisiana and sessions in Memphis.
Now, three decades later, with “Ledbetter Heights (The 30th Anniversary Sessions)” Shepherd is as vital as ever. No longer the teenage prodigy, he has grown into a master, touring, recording, collaborating, and evolving. The new release revisits Ledbetter Heights from the vantage point of a career shaped by decades of experience, returning to the album that first put him on the map and established him as a torchbearer for the blues.
A key presence on the project is longtime collaborator and legendary drummer Chris “Whipper” Layton, a founding member of Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, who has played alongside Shepherd since the original Ledbetter Heights sessions…

Sweden’s REXORIA returns with their signature Royal Metal sound on the brand‑new album ‘Fallen Dimension‘, delivering towering choruses, vivid storytelling, emotional depth, and the always commanding vocals of frontwoman Frida Ohlin.
With their fourth studio album REXORIA takes a bold and focused step forward. ”Fallen Dimension” spans a wide emotional and thematic spectrum, from social commentary and war‑driven narratives to heartfelt power ballads and uplifting, hook‑laden anthems. It is an album built on atmosphere, intensity, and the unmistakable REXORIA spirit.
A standout element of the record is its two exclusive duets, featuring guest performances from Mike Andersson (Tungsten) and Johnny Gioeli (Axel Rudi Pell / Hardline), adding further depth and dynamic range to the album.
Mixed and mastered by Jonas Kjellgren (Bloodbound, Dynazty), ”Fallen Dimension” delivers 11 powerful tracks that fully capture the band’s evolved identity and sharpened musical vision…