Year : 2023
Style : Heavy Metal , Dark Metal
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 110 mb
Bio:
For those who love 80’s new wave and/or 80’s metal, stand in the light of the darkness, and testify… your time is at hand! Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to JAMES RIVERA’S METAL WAVE!Fronted by the iconic Helstar singer James Rivera, the band will release their much-awaited album, entitled New Wave Gone Metal, on July 28, 2023 via Massacre Records. Get ready for the embrace of metallic, dark, epic and euphoric cover versions of songs by some of the greatest bands of the new wave/dark wave era!James Rivera comments: “Make no mistake that to this day I still love each of these songs in the original forms but I have to admit now that we did them in our own metal way, it’s hard for me to listen to them as they were and I know once these new wave classics sink their teeth into you metal wave style, you’ll never listen to them the same either!” Get a taste of what metal wave sounds like, today, JAMES RIVERA’S METAL WAVE has unleashed a music video for their first album single, a crushing heavy metal cover of the Depeche Mode classic “Black Celebration”!
James Rivera (born April 15, 1960) is an American singer, best known as the frontman for the heavy metal band Helstar. He was also the singer for Seven Witches between 2002 and 2005. Rivera got his start singing with power/speed metal act Helstar, a band established in the early 1980s in Houston, Texas. Rivera and guitarist Larry Barragan are the only remaining original members of the band after numerous lineup changes.[1] In addition to Helstar, Rivera has sung with several other metal bands (most notably Destiny's End and Vicious Rumors)[2] during his music career and belonged to several tribute bands.Rivera, along with Helstar's other founding member Larry Barragan, rebuilt the original band with guitar player Rob Trevino, bass player Jerry Abarca and drummer Russ De Leon (now substituted by Michael Lewis). In 2007 the band released Sins Of The Past, a re-recorded best-of including the most famous Helstar songs. In 2008, came a new brand full-length studio album called King Of Hell. They've released a number of albums since then, most recently in 2016 with Vampiro.Over the years Rivera and Helstar have been active with their live shows across the United States as well as touring in Europe. Helstar hits great stages like the ones of the Keep It True Festival and Headbangers Open Air, both in Germany, and finally the cult Heavy Metal festival in Italy called Play It Loud.In January 2017, it was announced that Rivera was to join UK-based power metal band Shadowkeep and would record vocals for their fourth album.
Album:
James Rivera's love for metal is undeniable, but his heart is also beating for the darker side of music, especially for new as well as dark wave and goth music - and JAMES RIVERA'S METAL WAVE's debut album "New Wave Gone Metal" perfectly combines the best of those genres!The band puts its own mark on selected classics and thereby invents a new genre: Metal Wave.New Wave Gone Metal was mixed by Larry Barragan at the Hombre Malo Studio, and was mastered by Robert Colwell at Bombworks Sound Studio. Slated for a release as CD Digipak , Ltd. Vinyl LP and Digital formats on July 28, 2023 through Massacre Records.
Line Up:
James “Vampiro” Rivera - Vocals (1982-present) - See also: Helstar, Killing Machine, Malice, Distant Thunder, ex-Destiny's End, ex-Thrasher, ex-Vigilante, Children of the Grave, ex-New Eden, ex-Seven Witches, ex-Vicious Rumors, ex-Flotsam and Jetsam (live), ex-Masters of Metal
Larry Barragan – Guitars
Maurice Eggenschwiler – Guitars
Garrick Smith – Bass
Rene Luna – Drums
Guest Musician:
Jan Kimmel – Hammond Organ, Backing Vocals & Co-Lead Vocals on “Rain”
Tracklist:
01. Black Celebration (Depeche Mode)
02. Love My Way (The Psychedelic Furs)
03. Lovesong (The Cure)
04. Shock The Monkey (Peter Gabriel)
05. Black Planet (The Sisters Of Mercy)
06. Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Tears For Fears)
07. Bela Lugosi’s Dead (Bauhaus)
08. The Killing Moon (Echo & The Bunnymen)
09. Pet Sematary (Ramones)
10. Rain (The Cult)
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