STRIKER Pull Off A Hat Trick! Third Award Win In A Row At Western Canadian Music Awards For Metal/Hard Music Artist of The Year |

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Montreal, QC – October 15, 2018

For Fans of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Enforcer, Skull Fist, Steelwing

STRIKER Pull Off A Hat Trick! Third Award Win In A Row At WCMA For Metal/Hard Music Artist of The Year

European “Maple Meltdown Tour” w/ SKULL FIST

Sixth Studio Album “Play To Win” Out October 26th

New Lyric Video “Heart of Lies”

Photo Credit: Dana Zuk

Edmonton’s STRIKER have pulled off a hat trick at the Western Canadian Music Awards winning Metal/Hard Music Artist of the Year for their third time in a row. The awards were held in Kelowna, BC on October 11th during the BreakoutWest Festival & Conference. The band found about their award win while wrapping up the end of their North American tour with Unleash The Archers and Helion Prime this past week.

Guitarist Tim Brown was delighted by the news and had this to say;

“3 years in row! Huge thanks to all the supporters in Western Canada and around the world, we truly appreciate it. Hope our luck doesn’t run out with the release of our new album on Oct 26!”

STRIKER was nominated alongside CRNKSHFT (Vancouver, BC), Silence The Machine (Edmonton, AB), The Order of Chaos (Edmonton, AB) and Violent Betty (Saskatoon, SK). For full details on the Western Canadian Music Awards and nominees, please visit here.

Champions in blending classic heavy metal, hard rock, and 80’s hair metal, Canadian shredders STRIKER will be unleashing their sixth studio album “Play To Win” on October 26th via their independent label Record Breaking Records. The album features 10 fist pounding shredtacular anthems produced by the band plus mixed and mastered by Hendrik Udd (Firewind, Powerwolf, Hammerfall, Delain). The album follows their 2017 self-titled full length that the band supported with tours across Europe and North America with Sonata Arctica, Dark Tranquility, and Warbringer along with festival appearances at 70,000 Tons of Metal, Bang Your Head Festival (Germany) and more to add to their almost 1000 shows performed in their decade plus career. That fifth studio album also garnered them a nomination from Canada’s JUNO awards, the country’s highest music prize, along with wins at the Edmonton Music Awards and Western Canadian Awards.

STRIKER‘s new lyric video for their first single “Heart of Lies” can be watched here plus available for stream on Spotify. Digital album pre-order on iTunes.

Guitarist Tim Brown comments on “Play To Win”:“Play to Win: if you want to win you have to play the game. Find the rules and break them. This is our 6th album and 3rd independent release. If we followed the rules and listened to the industry people we’d have gone absolutely nowhere. Play To Win is about listening to yourself, following your own path, and playing that 5th ace hidden in your sleeve. This album is designed to light a fire under your ass and get you moving, and we made sure to get the most modern, ear melting sounds possible. It’s all about where metal is going, not where it has been, and this is our soundtrack to success.”

Track Listing:
1. Heart of Lies (4:04)
2. Position of Power (3:40)
3. Head of Power (4:02)
4. On The Run (3:51)
5. The Front (4:02)
6. Play To Win (3:48)
7. Standing Alone (4:56)
8. Summoner (4:04)
9. Heavy Is The Heart (4:54)
10. Hands of Time (3:46)
Album Length: 41:11

In support of their new album “Play To Win”, STRIKER will be touring Europe this coming November for the co-headline “Maple Meltdown Tour” with SKULL FIST (all dates listed below).

Maple Meltdown 2018 European Dual Album Release Co-Headline Tour w/ Skull Fist and Striker
Nov 2 – Metal Hammer Paradise, DE *Skull Fist Only
Nov 3 – Roeselare – De Veerlichte Geest
Nov 4 – Camden, UK – TheLounge
Nov 5 – Tillburg, NL – Little Devil
Nov 6 – Lyon, FR – Rock n’Eat
Nov 7 – Colmar, FR – Le Grillen
Nov 8 – Lichtenfels, DE – Paunchy Cats
Nov 9 – Essen, DE – Turock
Nov 10 – Mannheim, DE – MS Connexion Complex
Nov 11 – Zurich, CH – Werk 21
Nov 12 – Vienna, AT – Escape
Nov 13 – Munich, DE- Backstage
Nov 14 – Tchy, PL – Underground Pub
Nov 15 – Lodz, PL – Magnetofon Klub
Nov 16 – Cham, DE – L.A.
Nov 17 – Lindau, DE – Club Vaudeville
Nov 18 – Frankfurt, DE – Elfer