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ramzine.co.uk | Paul H Birch
A new limited-edition deluxe box set, of Hawkwind’s Hall Of The Mountain Grill is due out on 29th August from Cherry Red Records. Originally released in September 1974, Hawkwind’s Hall Of The Mountain Grill is regarded as one of the band’s finest albums and featured a new line-up of the band that saw the departure of Robert Calvert and Dik Mik, but the arrival of keyboard player and violinist Simon House.
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1 week ago | 
ramzine.co.uk | Paul H Birch
Jim Bob will release two brand-new studio albums on the same day — Friday 22nd August 2025 via Cherry Red Records. To launch the albums Jim Bob and co will be playing Stick in full at Banquet Records in Kingston (Friday 22nd) and Automatic in full at Rough Trade East (Saturday 23rd).
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1 week ago | 
ramzine.co.uk | Paul H Birch
Innovative Mongolian rock group and global phenomenon The Hu – featuring Galaa, Jaya, Temka, and Enkush – has released a new digital EP Echos Of Thunder via Better Noise Music. It contains alternate versions of three standout songs from their album, Rumble Of Thunder. ‘This Is Mongol’ receives the remix treatment by Trevor McNevan of Thousand Foot Krutch, working under his remix alias Teerawk.
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1 week ago | 
ramzine.co.uk | Paul H Birch
To celebrate the start of the current second leg of their 2025 North America tour, Jon Anderson And The Band Geeks premiere a lyric video for ‘Once Upon A Dream’. A 16-and-a-half-minute epic, ‘Once Upon A Dream’ was the centrepiece on the 2024 album True and will be performed nightly on the US tour. Since the release of the True album, Jon Anderson And The Band Geeks released the 2 CD/DVD/ Blu-ray live album Perpetual Change from their 2023 tour.
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1 week ago | 
ramzine.co.uk | Paul H Birch
Frontiers Records, the iconic Naples-based independent record label, celebrates its 30th anniversary by looking ahead – launching new sub-labels, signing legendary artists, and preparing a landmark celebration in 2026. Founded in 1996 by Serafino Perugino in Napoli, Italy, Frontiers initially specialised in distribution of indie rock labels across the Italian market.
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2 weeks ago | 
ramzine.co.uk | Paul H Birch
Thirteen years after his last solo album, Arjen Anthony Lucassen offers the soundtrack to humanity’s final days with his new apocalyptic album Songs No One Will Hear, due on12th September on InsideOutMusic. As a glimpse into the album, the epic ‘Our Final Song’, both aptly the last track on the record, but ironically the first single released from it is out now and available here.
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2 weeks ago | 
ramzine.co.uk | Paul H Birch
Between The Buried And Me return with their most immersive and eclectic record yet: The Blue Nowhere, out on 12th September via InsideOutMusic, the band’s debut album for the label. Between The Buried And Me has built a reputation as one of heavy music’s most forward-thinking and creatively ambitious bands. Over the past 25 years, they have released ten albums, from their 2002 self-titled debut to 2021’s Colors II, blending technical mastery with conceptual depth.
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2 weeks ago | 
ramzine.co.uk | Paul H Birch
Lunatic Soul, the Polish progressive rock outfit created by Riverside’s main composer and vocalist/bassist Mariusz Duda, has announced signing a new deal with InsideOutMusic for the release of their upcoming eighth studio album due later this year. A first new single entitled ‘The World Under Unsun’ – recorded, mixed and mastered by Duda and Robert Srzedniccy at Serakos Studio, Warsaw, Poland – has just been released today and can be streamed here with a video you can check out here at RAMzine.
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2 weeks ago | 
ramzine.co.uk | Paul H Birch
The enigmatic British trio, Virgin Vampires, is set to unleash ferocious second album, Whores And Judaism, on Rune Serpent Europa. Marking a dramatic stylistic shift from their electronic debut, the new album plunges headfirst into a raw, unadulterated realm of classic gothic and post-punk, cementing the band’s position as a formidable force in the contemporary dark music scene. The album’s new single, ‘At The Cemetery’, tells the tale of a party in a graveyard.
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2 weeks ago | 
ramzine.co.uk | Paul H Birch
London-based electro-industrial outfit Pink Panther Project returns with ‘Under The Ash’, the lead single from their forthcoming second full-length album, Clinics And Models. Set to be released on 21st July via the Assur Anshar label and distributed worldwide by Rune SerpentEuropa/The Circle Music, this 10-track album demonstrates a significant advancement in the band’s production and creative depth.
