“This is a slick, aggressively-mixed record that drips with excitement and replayability.”
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Category: Striker
0 Heavy Music Headquarters – Striker – Play To Win “This is a slick, aggressively-mixed record that drips with excitement and replayability.”
0 Heavy Music Headquarters – Striker Interview
0 Vinland Radio – Episode 564 with new music from Striker, Rapheumets Well – Test Your Metal Records, Karmic Link, Malacoda – Rockshots Records
0 Metal Injection Premiere STRIKER’s New Video “Head First”; Sixth Studio Album “Play To Win” Out October 26th + European “Maple Meltdown Tour” w/ SKULL FIST
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – October 22, 2018
For Fans of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Enforcer, Skull Fist, Steelwing
Metal Injection Premiere STRIKER’s New Video “Head First”
European “Maple Meltdown Tour” w/ SKULL FIST
Sixth Studio Album “Play To Win” Out October 26th
Photo Credit: Dana Zuk
Edmonton’s STRIKER will be releasing their sixth studio album “Play To Win” this week on October 26th via their independent label Record Breaking Records. Before the album hits speakers across the world, the band has a new music video to share with fans for their latest single “Head First”. The video was filmed during the band’s performance at the 2018 Bang Your Head festival in Germany.
Watch the video’s premiere on MetalInjection.net at the following link: http://www.metalinjection.net/video/take-the-stage-have-a-beer-with-striker-in-their-head-first-video
Champions in blending classic heavy metal, hard rock, and 80’s hair metal, Canadian shredders STRIKER‘s sixth studio album “Play To Win” 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.
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.”
Album pre-order available on www.Striker-Metal.com, iTunes, Amazon and stream on Spotify.Lyric video – “Heart of Lies” can be watched here
Album pre-order available on www.Striker-Metal.com, iTunes, Amazon and stream on Spotify.Lyric video – “Heart of Lies” can be watched here
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
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0 Thank you Canada!! Much love MDs and DJs! \m/\m/ Huge Hails Horns \m/\m/ for your support! Striker (CAN) debut #6 on Canadian College Radio Loud Charts For the Week Ending: Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Thank you Canada!! Much love MDs and DJs! \m/\m/
Huge Hails Horns \m/\m/ for your support!
Striker (CAN) debut #6 on Canadian College Radio Loud Charts
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, October 16, 2018
0 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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NEWS RELEASE
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
For More Info:
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ASHER MEDIA RELATIONS
Jon Asher – Music Publicist
#.514.581.5780 | ashermedia@gmail.com
Facebook | @AsherMedia | Hire Us
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#.514.581.5780 | ashermedia@gmail.com
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0 Edmonton Journal – Metal veterans Striker return home on winning streak
0 Splice Magazine – Live Review + Pics – Striker – Ottawa
0 The Headbanging Moose: Concert Review – Striker & Unleash The Archers (The Velvet Underground, Toronto, ON, 10/01/2018)
0 The Headbanging Moose – Striker – Play To Win – “Blending the music by Iron Maiden with Motley Crüe, Stratovarius and Van Halen, which in the end resulted in sheer awesomeness, Striker offer us the thrilling On The Run, showcasing a brilliant vocal performance by Dan while William keeps extracting that metallic sound we all love form his bass, whereas The Front is another classic song by Striker, also feeling as it was taken from an 80’s Hair Metal album…Striker are a band that keeps winning no matter what with each and every release and the flame of Canadian metal will remain alive and vibrant while we have those skillful metalheads from Edmonton among us, always playing to win.”
Blending the music by Iron Maiden with Motley Crüe, Stratovarius and Van Halen, which in the end resulted in sheer awesomeness, Striker offer us the thrilling On The Run, showcasing a brilliant vocal performance by Dan while William keeps extracting that metallic sound we all love form his bass, whereas The Front is another classic song by Striker, also feeling as it was taken from an 80’s Hair Metal album…Striker are a band that keeps winning no matter what with each and every release and the flame of Canadian metal will remain alive and vibrant while we have those skillful metalheads from Edmonton among us, always playing to win.
https://theheadbangingmoose.wordpress.com/2018/09/28/album-review-striker-play-to-win-2018/
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