Get ready for some hellish metal pleasure: Following their four successful albums ‘The Unity’ (2017), ‘Rise’ (2018), ‘Pride’ (2020) and ‘The Devil You Know – Live’ (2021), European tours as headlining act or alongside luminaries such as Sinner, Edguy, Axel Rudi Pell or Rhapsody Of Fire, celebrated shows at Masters Of Rock, the Knockout Festival, Metal-Fest or Bang Your Head, The Unity’s fifth release, ‘The Hellish Joyride’, presents them from a more playful and varied side than ever before.

“Our music has always featured a wide stylistic range, but ‘The Hellish Joyride’ stretches the boundaries of melodic power metal even further,” explains Michael Ehré, referring to the album’s twelve extremely diverse songs, which range from neck-breakingly fast-paced and groovingly cool to balladesque.

On top of that, the band’s latest addition, Tobias “Eggi” Exxel (bass, Edguy), has brought fresh energy to the fold and unmistakably supports the sworn circle of Gamma Ray members Henjo Richter (guitar) and Michael Ehré (drums), vocalist Gianba Manenti, guitarist Stef and keyboardist Sascha Onnen.

The new album has been scheduled for release on Steamhammer/SPV on 25 August 2023, and their European tour with Primal Fear is set to kick off just one week later. The first lead single, including a “sportive” and as always lavishly produced video clip, is entitled ‘Always Two Ways To Play’ and will be out on 14 July 2023, followed five weeks later by the second single ‘Saints And Sinners’ on 18 August 2023.

So let the hellish joyride begin!

Tracklisting:

01. One World

02. Masterpiece

03. The Hellish Joyride

04. Only The Good Die Young

05. Saints And Sinners

06. Something Good

07. Always Two Ways To Play

08. Awakening

09. Golden Sun

10. Stay The Fool

11. Never Surrender

12. You‘re Not Forced To Stay

The new album "The Hellish Joyride" will be released on August 25th, 2023 worldwide through SPV/Steamhammer as CD DigiPak (incl. poster), 2LP Gatefold (cristallo vinyl), download and stream: https://TheUnity.lnk.to/Thehellishjoyride

Due to unforeseen scheduling conflicts, we unfortunatelly had to postpone our show in the Jahnhalle Nordenham from October 28th, 2023 to January 27th, 2024. Tickets already purchased will of course remain valid. If you don´t have time on the new date, you can of course return your tickjet. We hope for your understanding and look forward to a huge party with you on January 27th, 2024.

Tickets are available here

We have some awesome news today: we will be on tour with our friends from Primal Fear in September 2023!
Save the dates and be there!!!

PRIMAL FEAR + Special Guest THE UNITY
01.09.2023 (DE) Stuttgart - Im Wizemann
02.09.2023 (DE) Memmingen - Kaminwerk
03.09.2023 (DE) Naila - Frankenhalle
05.09.2023 (DE) München - Backstage Werk
06.09.2023 (DE) Bochum - Zeche
07.09.2023 (DE) Frankfurt - Batschkapp
09.09.2023 (CH) Sion - Le Port Franc
10.09.2023 (CH) Pratteln - Z7

Get your tickets here

Spectacular news from The Unity: The German-Italian power metal band featuring Gamma Ray members Henjo Richter (guitar) and Michael Ehré (drums) announces a new member: Tobias "Eggi" Exxel (Edguy) is confirmed as the band‘s new bass player and will join The Unity on their tour in September and October 2022 (see tour dates below). "I'm really happy to be part of one of the musically strongest and in a live context most thrilling European metal bands," explains Exxel, who represents, along with Richter, Ehré, singer Gianba Manenti, guitarist Stef E and keyboardist Sascha Onnen, an awesome metal six-pack.

After their four successful albums 'The Unity' (2017), 'Rise' (2018), 'Pride' (2020) and 'The Devil You Know - Live' (2021), tours all over Europe as headlining act or in a package with Sinner, Edguy or Axel Rudi Pell, among others, are in the pipeline, as well as shows at renowned festivals such as 'Masters Of Rock' in the Czech Republic, 'Knockout-Festival' in Karlsruhe or 'Bang Your Head' in Balingen, The Unity are currently preparing flat out for their upcoming concerts.

That Tobias Exxel fits into the band structure perfectly was more than obvious at The Unity concerts as special guests during the Rhapsody Of Fire tour and currently at a sensational show at the 'Rock Castle' festival in the Czech Republic. "After some fantastic shows, where Eggi helped us out at short notice, this is the result of a natural development," everyone involved agrees. “Everything just gelled from the first second! Together with Eggi, our fans can be sure that we’ve got lots of surprises up our sleeve.”

 Safe the dates and grab your ticket :-)

19.08.22 (CZ) Moravský Krumlov, Rock Castle Festival TICKETS

23.09.22 (DE) Hanerau, Hademarscher Hof  TICKETS

24.09.22 (DE) Fulda, KUZ Kreuz CANCELED

25.09.22 (DE) Oberhausen, Resonanzwerk TICKETS

30.09.22 (DE) Rheine, Hypothalamus TICKETS

01.10.22 (DE) OLdenburg, Cadillac TICKETS

28.10.22 (DE) Weiher, Live-Music-Hall TICKETS

29.10.22 (DE) Albstadt, Rockin´ Autumn-Festival  POSTPONED TO 2023

(engl. below)

Es ist sicherlich keine Überraschung, dass wir aufgrund der aktuellen Situation unsere beiden Jahnhalle Nordenham-Shows erneut verschieben müssen.

Die neuen Termine sind der 27. und 28. Mai 2022.

Ursprünglich für den 24. April (Freitag) bzw. 26. Dezember (Sonntag) 2021 gekaufte Tickets behalten ihre Gültigkeit für den 27. Mai 2022 (Freitag).

Ursprünglich für den 25. April (Samstag) bzw. 25. Dezember (Samstag) 2021 gekaufte Tickets behalten ihre Gültigkeit für den 28. Mai 2022 (Samstag).

Night Laser werden leider an den beiden neuen Terminen nicht dabei sein können, aber wir werden schnellstmöglich einen neuen Special Guest verkünden!

Engl.:

It´s surely no surprise that wwe have to postpone our two "Jahnhalle"-shows on Dec., 25th and 26th due to the current situation.

The new dates are May, 27th and 28th 2022. 

Tickets originally bought for April 24th (Friday) or Dec., 26th (Sunday) 2021 remain valid for May, 27th 2022 (Friday).

Tickets originally bought for April, 25th (Saturday) or Dec., 26th (Saturday) 2021 remain valid for May, 28th 2022 (Saturday).

Unfortunatelly Night Laser won´t join us on these new dates but we will announce a new Special Guest as soon as possible. 

Become a member of our CommUnity and benefit from exclusive offers and specials, be informed about news, tour dates, publications, CD recordings, video shoots and many more surprises from The Unity!

Simply register, get your personalized "The CommUnity Member" card and join our proud and crazy heavy-metal-family!!!

Along with this this exclusive specials and offers we have more cool stuff waiting for you! By becoming a CommUnity-member you will not only get your personalized card but also a package including "DevilsFuel" (our special The Unity-Energy-Drink!), 1 "Unity"- lighter, 1 "The Unity"- poster (DIN A1), 1 pin, 2 beer coasters, 1 guitar pick, 1 sticker and a signed "The Unity"-autograph-card!

The regular price for this package is 39€/year (plus shipping costs). We want to celebrate the release of our brandnew album THE DEVIL YOU KNOW - LIVE with you, that´s why we have this SPECIAL OFFER:  if you register until Nov., 26th, 2021 you can save 5€ (for the first year). 

You want to register: no problem! Simply send an Email to info@unity-rocks.com and let us know your name, address, your preferred paying method  (we offer Paypal as well as bank transfer) and we will provide you with all further details.

We´re looking forward to welcome you!!!

Gianba, Henjo, Stef, Jogi, Sascha and Michael

HAPPY RELEASE DAY!!!

Today THE DEVIL YOU KNOW - LIVE was released! When we´re listening to this album all the memories from 2017 til now come back and make this release a real special one for us.

Now, go and get it and dig deep into this fantastic atmosphere created by YOU - our fans and friends!!!

Order the album HERE

Exclusive Bundle with rare 7" vinyl single HERE

Unfortunatelly our tour with Rage and Last Days Of Eden in November had to be canceled! We're really sorry for that but we hope to share the stage with both bands in the future...

So the only chance to see us live is to come to one of our X-mas shows in Nordenham on 25th and 26th December. Better get your tickets now as there are only a few left!

Rage states:

"As you have noticed probably, we had to cancel our planned "Live Resurrection 2021 Tour". The ongoing pandemic doesn't allow us to carry out shows without restrictions, which influence our shows in a way, that we cannot guarantee them to be successful for all people involved."

We´re really proud to announce the release of "THE DEVIL YOU KNOW - LIVE",  our very first live-album!!! This album is our very own reaction to the lockdown, which has not been fully lifted. For months, music fans were denied the most important thing in their lives: live concerts! That´s why we decided to give our fans exactly that: THE UNITY LIVE! For us this is both a salute to our fans and a consolation to make up for the many shows that didn´t happen.

Tracklisting:

01. Revenge 1:21

02. Last Betrayal 4:22

03. No Hero 6:00

04. No More Lies 5:11

05. Welcome Home 4:41

06. Firesign 5:47

07. The Storm 5:54

08. We Don´t Need Them Here 3:58

09. The Willow Tree 5:09

10. You Got Me Wrong 5:09

11. Close To Crazy 3:54

12. Never Forget 8:32

"The Devil You Know - Live" will be released on November 12th, 2021 through SPV/Steamhammer in the following configurations:

=> CD DigiPak

=> Download / Streaming

Pre-Order Link: https://smarturl.it/TheUnityTheDevil

=> Exclusive CD Bundle with rare 7" vinyl single only at the Steamhammer shop

Pre-Order Link: https://shop.steamhammer.de/artists/the-unity/store

In these hard times we´re more than happy to announce that we will be back on tour in November! Our friends from  "Rage"  invited us to be the Special Guest on their "Live Resurrection 2021/2022"-Tour!

"Last Days Of Eden" will be the opening act!

RAGE states:
"RAGE-HEADS,
we are happy to show you the final Line-Up for our Live Resurrection in Europe in November and December 2021.
Amongst „Last Days Of Eden“ & „Manimal“, we will have our label brothers „The Unity“ & our agency brothers and new thrash hope „BONDED“ (Ex Sodom) with us.
@The Unity: Melodic Power Metal from Germany – Consisting of excellent musicians, who formerly played in legendary bands like „Gamma Ray“ & „Mob Rules“, you can expect to get rocked the hell out of you.
@BONDED: „Ruhrpott“ Thrash Metal at it’s finest – After splitting from SODOM, „Makka“ & „Bernemann“ decided to keep the true thrash-spirit alive, so they, inter alia, gathered with „Ingo Bajonczak“ (known from @Assassin / @Lord Of Giant) and „Chris Tsitsis“ (known from @Suicidal Angels) to form that new phoenix rising from the ashes. You can expect pure, raw energy on stage.

We are so much looking forward to play this Tour and seeing you all in front of the European stages.

Stay healthy & see you soon

Peavy, Lucky, Jean, Stefan & Lucky Bob Music Agency"

SEE YOU ON TOUR! WE CAN´T WAIT TO HIT THE STAGES AGAIN!!! BE THERE!!!

RAGE with Special Guest THE UNITY and support LAST DAYS OF EDEN:

13/11/21 - IT - Paderno
16/11/21 - FR - Colmar
18/11/21 - ES - Valladolid
19/11/21 - ES - Granada
20/11/21 - ES - Vitoria
21/11/21 - ES - Barcelona
23/11/21 - DE - Munich
25/11/21 - BE - Bilzen
26/11/21 - DE - Hanerau
27/11/21 - DE - Rostock

28/11/21 - DE - Berlin

We´re happy to announce that our merch is available in Ballroom Hamburgs Online-Shop.

We´d like to thank Ballroom Otti for the support!

Click here to get to the shop.

Today is a very special day for THE UNITY as our new, already third album PRIDE is released. We're really proud of this one!

It´s available as 2 CD digipak, 2 LP gatefold, boxset, download and stream.

Get your copy here:

https://theunity.lnk.to/Pride

Though there are still three months to go our CD-Release-Show in Nordenham on Saturday, 25.04. is already SOLD OUT!!! A good news for those who already got their tickets - a bad for those who don´t! That´s why we decided to play an additional show on Friday, 24.04.!

Playing in Nordenham at the Jahnhalle is always something really special for us and our friends and fans, always a real night to remember. We´re really looking forward to this special event and to celebrate the release of our upcoming third album.

Click here to get your ticket now!

Though this is happening very, very spontaneously we´re more than happy to announce that we will be special guests on seven shows of Rhapsody Of Fires upcoming "The Eight Mountain Tour 2020", where they will also celebrate the 20th anniversary of their classic "Dawn Of Victory" album. Also on board are the "Nerdmetal Superheroes" SkeleToon.

Make sure you get your ticket now!

19.02.20 (NL) Rotterdam - Baroeg
20.02.20 (NL) Arnhem - Willemeen
21.02.20 (BE) Antwerp - Zappa
22.02.20 (DK) Copenhagen - Beta
23.02.20 (DE) Hamburg - Logo
24.02.20 (PL) Warsaw - Progresja
26.02.20 (DE) Osnabrück - Bastard Club

We´re happy to announce our CD-Release-Show, which will take place on April, 25th @ Jahnhalle Nordenham. This night will be a very special night as we will celebrate the release of our upcoming third album.

Make sure you get your tickets here!

After two successful albums "The Unity" (2017) and "Rise" (2018) and European tours with Edguy, AXEL RUDI PELL OFFICIAL SITE and Sinner, SPV/Steamhammer and The UNITY extend their deal for two more albums. The band will play some festivals this year and will embark on their first headliner tour in autumn 2019. The band is already working on their third album which will be released in the first half of 2020.

The latest album"Rise" was released in September last year and entered the german album charts at #69. You can order it here: https://TheUnity.lnk.to/Rise

Photo from left to right:
Michael Ehré (Drums, The Unity), Olly Hahn (Labelmanager Steamhammer)

We´re happy to announce that we will play this years Knock Out-Festival in Karlsruhe on Dec., 14th!

Along with Avantasia, Battle Beast, Axxis, Grave Digger and Hardline we will make this night a night to remember!

For more infos about the festival click here

Get yout tickets here

We´re happy to announce that we will start our very first headliner tour in October/November!

After doing three support tours and a lot of festivals all over Europe in 2017 and 2018 it is time to enter the stage with a full headliner set. The tour takes place in October/November, make sure to get your tickets now!

Metal Hammer, Rock It!, Wacken-Radio, Steamhammer, Nine Lives Entertainment present:

THE UNITY "RISE-LIVE 2019"

17.10. (DE) Hamburg, Logo (support: Nine Eyes Nation)
18.10. (DE) Oldenburg, Cadillac (support: Nine Eyes Nation)
19.10. (DE) Rheine, Hypothalamus (support: tba)
25.10. (CZ) Prag, Nova Chmelnice (support: tba)
26.10. (CZ) Zlin, Masters Of Rock Cafe (support: tba)
01.11. (DE) Weiher, Live-Music-Hall (support: tba)
02.11. (DE) Memmingen, Kaminwerk (support: tba)

To get your tickets click here

The new THE UNITY album entered the official german album charts at #69! What a great success...thanks to the fans and everybody involved!!!!!

We can not believe it at the moment: our second album "Rise" entered the official german album charts! What we  have experienced as a band in the last one and a half years is almost unbelievable: two great tours, many festivals and now the chart entry. As if this is not enough we are in the midst of the preparations for our next tour, which will take us across Europe with Axel Rudi Pell. We are looking forward to meet our friends and fans again, whom we can not thank enough for their support!

Only about a year and a half after the presentation of their self-titled debut album in spring 2017, German-Italian melodic metal act The Unity are ready to strike again: 14 September 2018 will see the release of their current album Rise on SPV/Steamhammer. The recording features 13 brand-new songs and was cut by drummer Michael Ehré (Gamma Ray) at the B Castle Studio. Rise was produced by the band themselves and, like its predecessor, mixed and mastered by Spanish sound engineer Miquel A. Riutort at the Psychosomatic Recording Studio. The first single to be released from the album will be ‘No Hero’ on August 10th, the second single will be supported by an elaborate video clip. Aside from Ehré, The Unity continue to consist of guitarists Henjo Richter (Gamma Ray) and Stef, vocalist Gianbattista Manenti, bassist Jogi Sweers and keyboardist Sascha Onnen.

“The new songs reflect the amazing energy and extremely enthusiastic responses at our shows, but also the very positive media reactions,” Michael Ehré sums up the material on Rise. With their debut album The Unity were unanimously voted into the “Newcomer of the Year” category by the two leading German metal magazines, Metal Hammer and Rock Hard.  Subsequently the six-piece enthralled their fans at tours with Edguy and Sinner and cleaned up at festivals such as Bang Your Head, Metalfest and Winter Masters Of Rock.

Talking of which – soon after its release, Rise will also be presented to The Unity’s rapidly growing fan base as part of an extensive tour: from mid-October 2018, The Unity will accompany Axel Rudi Pell and his band, and the date of the big release show at Ehré’s home town of Nordenham has already been announced (see tour dates). So the second round of The Unity’s triumphal march is about to kick off!

Tracklisting:

01. Revenge 01:25
02. Last Betrayal 04:19
03. You Got Me Wrong 03:49
04. The Storm 04:52
05. Road To Nowhere 07:06
06. Welcome Home 04:26
07. All That Is Real 03:59
08. No Hero 05:17
09. The Willow Tree 04:23
10. Above Everything 03:52
11. Children Of The Light 04:51
12. Better Day 03:46
13. L.I.F.E. 05:20

Before THE UNITY will support AXEL RUDI PELL on his 2nd leg of his "KNIGHTS CALL-TOUR 2018" starting in October, we will play a one-off-show on June, 24th in Burglengenfeld/VAZ. We will enter the stage at 7pm!

The day before we´re headlining the SICKING HIGH ROCK-FESTIVAL in Weselberg...this is going to be a great weekend ;-)

The next dates so far:

16.05.18 (DE) Hamburg, Logo

18.05.18 (DE) Oldenburg, Cadillac

23.06.18 (DE) Weselberg, Sicking High Rock-Festival

24.06.18 (DE) Burglengenfeld, VAZ

12.-15.07.18 (CZ) Vizovice, Masters Of Rock-Festival

We´re happy to announce that THE UNITY is confirmed for this year´s  METAL HAMMER PARADISE-Festival!

The METAL HAMMER PARADISE will take place on 02. and 03. November in the beautiful surroundings of the holiday resort Weissenhäuser Strand situated right at the coast of the Baltic Sea. As some of us do appreciate a bit of comfort and do not necessarily need camping grounds, clammy sleeping bags, canned soup and waiting in line to use a porta-loo to get the real festival feeling, the resort provides fully equipped apartments, hotel rooms and several restaurants, cafés and bars.

The concerts and performances take place indoors on three stages. And when, after a long night of dancing and headbanging the neck feels a bit stiff and the head a bit heavy, a nice walk on the beach or a jump in the pool followed by some time in the sauna or a relaxing massage will feel just right and help to get one’s energy back.

The METAL HAMMER PARADISE combines the fun part of a true festival with the recreational effect of a short trip. It is a metal festival - but you won’t have to take a couple of days off to recover afterwards.

We have some fantastic news for you:

THE UNITY will hit the road again in October/November 2018 as special guest for AXEL RUDI PELL!
This is what we call "perfect timing" as we´re in the middle of the songwriting process for our second album, which will come out shortly before the tour with Axel starts!

“Chris Bay” (Freedom Call vocalist) will perform some acoustic songs on selected dates * !

The pre- sales just started! Make sure you get your tickets!

18.10. (DE) Bremen, Aladin
19.10. (CZ) Prag, Palac Akropolis
20.10. (CZ) Zlin, Masters Of Rock Cafe
21.10. (HU) Budapest, Barba Negra Music Club
23.10. (SK) Zvolen, Music Garden
24.10. (AT) Wien, Szene
26.10. (DE) Memmingen, Kaminwerk
27.10. (DE) Leipzig, Hellraiser
30.10. (DE) Langen (Frankfurt), Neue Stadthalle Langen
31.10. (DE) Karlsruhe, Substage
02.11. (DE) Emden, Live Music Center
04.11. (DE) Köln, Essigfabrik