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Steve Vai has announced an extensive tour of the U.S., with 54 scheduled appearances confirmed. Vai’s Inviolate World Tour will begin at House of Blues in Las Vegas on January 27th, 2022, and wrap in Los Angeles on April 2nd, 2022 at The Theatre at Ace Hotel.

Following the release of the critically acclaimed fourth album “Circadian”, progressive rock innovators Intervals have announced a North American tour this fall. Kicking off November 19th in Pontiac, MI, the run will find the band performing songs from the album for the first time in a live setting.

On September 3rd, 2021, Tuesday The Sky will release their new album, “The Blurred Horizon”, via Metal Blade Records.

For a first preview of the record, listen to the new single, “Hypneurotic” - which features drummer Gavin Harrison - below.

Pre-order “The Blurred Horizon” here in the following formats:

• digipak-CD
• 180g black vinyl (EU exclusive)

With over 40 years playing guitar and songwriting as a professional musician, career firsts are minimal for someone as prolific as George Lynch. On August 20th, 2021, George gets to add another highlight with the release of his first-ever full-length instrumental album, “Seamless”. The album features nine brand new tracks and three bonus tracks from Lynch who is backed by drummer Jimmy D’Anda and bassist Eric Loiselle.

Misha Mansoor, the highly-innovative musician renowned for his acclaimed guitar acrobatics, is set to release his first proper solo album using the longtime Bulb moniker that earned him internet fame in his pre-Periphery days. The album, “Moderately Fast, Adequately Furious”, arrives on July 16th, 2021, via 3DOT Recordings.

An introduction to the 11-song album arrives via the newly released “Parabolica” video - watch it below.

Dutch symphonic metal heavyweights Epica announce their first-ever streaming event titled “Ωmega Alive”. The universal streaming event will mark the band’s triumphant return to the stage to perform for the first time in support of their latest album “Ωmega”, their eighth full-length release the band’s first album in five years.
 

For many who lived through it, 2020 will forever be the year that time stopped. Especially for those who thrive in packed, sweaty environment – musicians, concertgoers, even humble record label operators – this led to some pretty fundamental changes in the way we spent our time.

Noise-laden dark ambient project Supervøid (with Eraldo Bernocchi, Xabier Iriondo, Jacopo Pierazzuoli and Jo Quail) will release their mind-boggling debut album “The Giant Nothing” on May 7th, 2021, via Subsound Records, and unveil a first single entitled “The Acceleration of the Universe” on Bandcamp today. Listen to the new single below.

World-renowned guitar virtuoso, Joe Satriani, has rescheduled his Shapeshifting European & UK Tour to Spring 2022, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Tickets for his April and May 2021 UK “Shapeshifting” tour dates remain valid for the rescheduled Spring 2022 dates.

Tickets are available here and here. See all dates below.

Romanian psychedelic doom and post-rock collective Methadone Skies has announced the details of their upcoming, fifth studio album, entitled “Retrofuture Caveman”, which is slated for a released on May 7th, 2021.