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Dimmu Borgir: Grand Serpent [CD]

Shinedown return with their long-awaited studio album EI8HT, led by the powerful new single "Safe and Sound." <br/>The release follows a historic year that saw four major singles featured on the album - three #1 hits Three, Six Five, Dance, Kid Dance, and Killing Fields, along with Searchlight, which debuted at the iconic Grand Ole Opry and continues to climb at radio.<br/><br/>The momentum continued with a massive sold-out arena tour, including Madison Square Garden. Self-produced by bassist Eric Bass and co-written with front man Brent Smith, the 18-track album balances arena-sized rock with deeply introspective, relatable lyrics, delivering something for everyone and reaffirming Shinedown's identity as everyone's band.<br/><br/>Brent Quote:<br/><br/>''This album is over a year in the making. Without question as a band we pushed ourselves like never before. Especially when it comes to Eric. Myself, Zach, and Barry are so honored to create, and work with such an extraordinary producer, engineer, mixer, songwriter, musician, performer, and band mate. We are so excited, finally announce our 8th Studio album titled EI8HT alongside our Dance Kid Dance Act ll World Tour.''

Muse are a culturally-attuned, genre-defying band who channel the anxieties of each era-technology, power, rebellion, and identity-into maximalist, stadium-ready rock that evolves with the times while staying unmistakably Muse.<br/>Kicking off with new single "Be With You," this next era of Muse is rooted in electronic experimentation and an insatiable curiosity. 'The WOW! Signal' represents a world of cosmic mystery, existential hope, and the exhilarating possibility of contact with something far greater than ourselves.

Analogue is a-ha's eighth studio album, originally released in late 2005. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, a deluxe 2-CD edition will be released featuring 21 bonus tracks-15 of which are previously unreleased-including b-sides, remixes, demos, and alternate versions. Includes the hit singles, "Celice", "Analogue (All I Want)" and "Cosy Prisons". It charted internationally, hitting #1 in Norway and top 30 in several other countries. The album was produced by a-ha and Martin Terefe, mixed by Flood, and features backing vocals from Graham Nash.

The album features tracks from across his solo, The Jam and The Style Council catalogue including Wild Wood, Start!, Broken Stones, Gravity, My Ever Changing Moods, Aspects, The Eton Rifles, Wake Up The Nation and Shout To The Top, plus Kinks, Colin Blunstone, The Zombies and Billie Eilish covers.

Hokka: Via Miseria IV [CD]

Maisie Peters has announced her much-anticipated third studio album, Florescence. Co-produced with 2x Grammy Award winner Ian Fitchuk (Kacey Musgraves, Beyoncé, Chris Stapleton) and featuring duets with Julia Michaels and Marcus Mumford, the album arrives two years after her chart-topping breakthrough The Good Witch. <br/><br/>After a whirlwind few years that saw Maisie open for Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Conan Gray, and Noah Kahan, headline her own world tours, and make her Glastonbury debut, she found herself almost constantly on the road. By the end of 2024, the pace had become unsustainable, affecting Maisie physically and mentally, and so she made the decision to step back - pressing pause on the popstar carousel and returning home to reconnect with her life offstage. That quieter chapter gave her space to reset, grounding her not just as a person, but as an artist. It was during this time that the emotional heart of Florescence quietly took shape.<br/> <br/>That return to herself was reflected not only in her life, but in the music. Led by her love of storytelling, Maisie headed to Nashville, where she wrote and recorded much of the album. Reuniting with longtime collaborator Ian Fitchuk - whom she first worked with in 2020 - felt like a natural fit. Together, they crafted the album's warm, textured sound, with Fitchuk supporting Maisie as she stepped into the role of co-producer for the first time.<br/> <br/>Drawing from the aftermath of the relationship explored on The Good Witch, as well as the love story she's now living - having fallen in love with her high school sweetheart - Florescence reflects on how the right love can help heal the wrong ones. It's an album about perspective, self-realisation, healing, and ultimately, learning how to flourish.<br/> <br/>"These 15 tracks depict a blossoming of myself from ages 23 to 25 and a blossoming of a true, real love that anchors both me and this record. It tells the story of the last few long winters, with all of their villains and thorns, heartbreaks and rains, and it leads you, by the end, into a perfect English spring, into the hope and catharsis that comes when the first wildflower blooms," shares Maisie. "This album feels like a true representation of healing, of finding hope, peace, and strength not just in somebody else, but in yourself. It is knowing that there was a point to all the sadness of before, and the point is the woman you see in this mirror now, and the person you see by her side."