Nita Strauss Releases Killer Track & Video for "Victorious" Featuring Dorothy

WATCH "VICTORIOUS" VIDEO FEAT. DOROTHY

GUITARIST NITA STRAUSS SHARES VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE "VICTORIOUS" FEAT. DOROTHY — WATCH  VIDEO FEATURES CAMEOS BY TEEN RISING GUITAR STAR CHARLOTTE MILSTEIN + U.S. BOXING OLYMPIAN MIKAELA MAYER  NEW ALBUM THE CALL OF THE VOID OUT JULY 7 VIA SUMERIAN RECORDS TOURING WITH ALICE COOPER THROUGH SEPTEMBER HEADLINE TOUR SET FOR JUNE Los Angeles-born guitar hero and musical force of nature Nita Strauss recently announced her brand new album The Call of the The Void, out July 7 via Sumerian Records. Pre-order it here. Today, she has shared the video for the latest single "Victorious," featuring vocalist Dorothy. "'Victorious' is the anthem I always wanted, a song about inspiring change, marching forward relentlessly, being willing to save yourself instead of waiting for someone to do it for you, and never backing down from a fight," Strauss shares. "Dorothy was the perfect powerhouse voice and personality to stand and deliver, and knock this one out of the park." Dorothy shares Strauss' enthusiasm for the track, stating, "I'm honored to be a part of 'Victorious' with my friend Nita Strauss. She is the embodiment of a bold, beautiful, strong woman. The song and video scream #GIRLPOWER and we know you'll love it!" The video features two killer cameos. 13-year-old rising guitar star Charlotte Milstein plays the role of a young Nita, while U.S. Olympian, former WBO and IBF champion Mikalea Mayer, a childhood friend of Strauss and former bandmate, also appears. Learn more about their relationship here! THE CALL OF THE VOID TRACK LISTING: PHYSICAL: "Summer Storm" "The Wolf You Feed" (Feat. Alissa White-Gluz) "Digital Bullets" (Feat. Chris Motionless) "Through the Noise" (Feat. Lzzy Hale) "Consume The Fire" "Dead Inside" (Feat. David Draiman) "Victorious" (Feat. Dorothy) "Scorched" "Momentum" "The Golden Trail" (Feat. Anders Fridén)  "Winner Takes All" (Feat. Alice Cooper) "Monster" (Feat. Lilith Czar) "Kintsugi" "Surfacing" (Feat. Marty Friedman)  DIGITAL: "Summer Storm" "The Wolf You Feed" (Feat. Alissa White-Gluz) "Digital Bullets" (Feat. Chris Motionless) "Through the Noise" (Feat. Lzzy Hale) "Consume The Fire" "Dead Inside" (Feat. David Draiman) "Victorious" (Feat. Dorothy) "Scorched" "Momentum" "The Golden Trail" (Feat. Anders Fridén) "Winner Takes All" (Feat. Alice Cooper) "Monster" (Feat. Lilith Czar) "Kintsugi" "Surfacing" (Feat. Marty Friedman) "The Wolf You Feed" (Instrumental) "Digital Bullets" (Instrumental) "Through the Noise" (Instrumental) "Dead Inside" (Instrumental) "Victorious" (Instrumental) "The Golden Trail" (Instrumental) "Winner Takes All" (Instrumental) "Monster" (Instrumental) All Nita Strauss tour dates are below. Get tickets here. Meet & greets are available here.   NITA STRAUSS + ALICE COOPER ON TOUR: 5/13 — Knoxville, TN — The Tennessee Theatre 5/14 — Spartanburg, SC — Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium 5/15 — North Charleston, SC — North Charleston Performing Arts Center 5/17 — Shreveport, LA — Shreveport Municipal Auditorium 5/18 — Biloxi, MS — Beau Rivage Theatre 5/20 — Daytona Beach, FL — Welcome to Rockville* SUMMER HEADLINE TOUR: WITH LIONS AT THE GATES: 6/13 — Nashville, TN — Exit / In 6/14 — Atlanta, GA — The Loft 6/15  — Greensboro, NC — The Hangar 1819 6/17 — New York, NY — The Meadows 6/18 — Toronto, ON — Horseshoe Tavern 6/19  — Mechanicsburg, PA — Lovedraft's 6/21 — Harrison, OH — The Blue Note 6/22 — Flint, MI — The Machine Shop 6/23 — Angola, IN — The Eclectic Room 6/24 — Bloomington, IL — The Castle Theatre 6/25 — Madison, WI — Majestic Theatre 6/26 — Omaha, NE — The Waiting Room 6/28 — Denver — The Bluebird Theater 6/29 — Salt Lake City — Urban Lounge 6/30 — Boise, ID — Neurolux 7/1 — Portland, OR — Hawthorne Theatre 7/2 — Vancouver, BC — The Rickshaw Theatre 7/3 — Seattle, WA — El Corazón 7/5 — Sacramento, CA — Goldfield Trading Post 7/6 — Los Angeles, CA — Whisky a Go Go 7/8 — Las Vegas, NV — The Space 7/9 — Phoenix, AZ — Crescent Ballroom 7/11 — San Antonio, TX — The Rock Box 7/12 — Dallas, TX — Trees 7/13 — Houston, TX — Scout Bar 7/14 — New Orleans, LA — The Parish @ House Of Blues WITH DEF LEPPARD + MOTLEY CRUE: 8/5 — Syracuse, NY — JMA Wireless Dome 8/8 — Columbus, OH — The Ohio State University Ohio Stadium 8/11 — Fargo, ND — Fargodome 8/13 — Omaha, NE — Charles Schwab Field Omaha 8/16 — Tulsa, OK — Skelly Field at H.A. Chapman Stadium 8/18 — El Paso, TX — Sun Bowl Stadium CO-HEADLINE "FREAKS ON PARADE" TOUR WITH ROB ZOMBIE: 8/24 — Dallas, TX — Dos Equis Pavilion 8/26 — Tampa, FL — Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre 8/27 — West Palm Beach, FL — iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre 8/29 — Raleigh, NC — Coastal Credit Union Music Park @ Walnut Creek 8/30 — Virginia Beach, VA — Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheatre 9/1 — Tinley Park, IL — Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre 9/2 — Des Moines, IA — Wells Fargo Arena 9/5 — Clarkston, MI — Pinke Knob Amphitheatre 9/6 — Toronto, ON — Budweiser Stage 9/8 — Scranton, PA — The Pavilion @ Montage Mountain 9/9 — Wantagh, NY — Northwell Health Theatre @ Jones Beach 9/10 — Hartford, CT — XFINITY Theatre 9/12 — Nashville, TN — Bridgestone Arena 9/15 — Bonner Springs, KS — Azura Amphitheatre 9/16 — Englewood, CO — Fiddler’s Green 9/19 — Ridgefield, WA — RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheatre 9/20 — Auburn, WA — White River Amphitheatre 9/22 — Concord, CA — Pavilion 9/23 — Anaheim, CA — Honda Center 9/24 — Phoenix, AZ — Ak-Chin Pavilion ABOUT NITA STRAUSS:  Nita Strauss has dazzled over a million live audience members per year across six continents worldwide. Fans may recognize Nita from her tours with Alice Cooper, Demi Lovato, and as the official guitarist of the Los Angeles Rams NFL team, as well as her successful career as a solo artist. Her 2022 single "Dead Inside," featuring David Draiman of Disturbed, became the first song by a female solo artist to go to #1 at rock radio. Nita's skill, exuberant stage presence, and love for all things about her instrument have earned her a stellar reputation in the music industry and endorsements including Ibanez Guitars, Marshall Amplification, DiMarzio pickups, Monster Energy, and more. She has been featured on the covers of worldwide print magazines including Guitar World and Guitar Player, and on dozens of albums, trailers, and soundtracks. Nita's second album is due in 2023. Her debut solo album Controlled Chaos is currently available worldwide through Sumerian Records. NITA STRAUSS ONLINE:

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Knucklebonz Rock Toy Fair 2018

If I had to pick one booth as my favorite for this year's edition of Toy Fair, then it had to be the awesome Knucklebonz! The beautifully accurate rock statues are a metalhead's dream come true! As a life long fan of heavy metal and hard rock music, I was in fucking heaven as soon as I saw their product!

Man, I always feel that there needs to be more Vic Rattlehead (Megadeth's mascot) merch, as there is hardly any at all. Thank the metal gods for Knucklebonz, then!

In fact, they definitely are going to be making fellow Megadeth fans very happy!

There is also a lot for Kiss and Guns N' Roses fans to look forward to!

Lemmy is what first caught my attention and made me head over in a heartbeat over to this booth!

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Funko- Toy Fair 2018, Part 1

Ahh, the Funko booth at Toy Fair, it always brings such joy to my life. As well, as knowledge that I will be bleeding my wallet dry in the days and weeks to come! There was so much awesome shit, that I had to break this article into two parts. Anyway, here are some of my favorite things that I saw this year, at it.

Let's start with some Game of Thrones Pops, all of which I need! These figures already out.

 The "Riverdale" (above) figures, exclusive to Hot Topic, are already out.

Sasha Banks is already out. I NEED Jake "The Snake" Roberts!

There is A LOT of Stranger Things stuff coming out! Fuck yeah!

For the DC fans:

For my fellow metalheads, the following Pops will surely rank among the coolest ever and must haves! They are, in fact. in my top toys that I saw in all of Toy Fair!

 "Shout at the Devil" era Motley Crue!

Alice Cooper!! Holy shit! This rules!!!

My fellow The Nightmare Before Christmas fans will love these!

Let's end this part with a look at the awesome It stuff that we will be getting. This batch should especially make you happy if you wanted to have the Losers club to go with all the variants of Pennywise (of which we are getting more) that we got last time. Stephen King fans rejoice!

To be continued! 

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The 30 Greatest Fangoria Covers of all Time Pt. 3, 10 - 1

10. Fangoria #23 (The Evil Dead)- Sam Raimi's gore drenched classic makes a cover appearance. I wonder if anyone back then imagined just how  massive a classic that this movie would become? Think about it, up to that point it was a low budget, unrated movie made by then unknowns starring then unknowns.







9. Fangoria #29 (The Gates of Hell)- Lucio Fulci's gory zombie classick makes this cover. Also known as City of the Living Dead, the image is of one of one of its classic splatter scenes, this one being where a character gets a power-drill to the noggin.








 
8. Fangoria #317 (Barbara Crampton)- One of the most beautiful women ever to grace the horror genre graces this modern era cover. This image not only proves that she is still a stunner, but has a nice bit of classic influence to it.








7. Fangoria #14 (An American Werewolf in London)- The first ever drawn cover for Fango features the werewolf from the John Landis' classic with a close-up of his face. It's some truly amazing artwork, indeed!









6. Fangoria #307 (Alice Cooper)- There are two drawn covers to this issue, the other, The Howling, is fucking cool, too. However, it is this one of the king of shock rock that makes the grade. Also, I have to add this was the issue where you can find my first published article. I remember seeing both covers and thinking to myself, "Holy shit! My favorite werewolf movie and one of my favortie frontmen (and one of my childhood heroes) made the cover of it!!





 
5. Fangoria #57 (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2)- While, I like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, I am admit ably, not it's biggest fan. I think it's alright, but fell that it has, over the years, gotten a little overrated. However, Savini's makeup FX for the movie is excellent, of course. I LOVE his Leatherface, who is the cover-boy here, of course.






 
4. Fangoria #10 (Scanners)- One of the most memorable gore scenes ever, this being the exploding head in David Cronenberg's classic sci-fi/ horror flick, Scanners, gets the awesome front pic here. The tagline on it is awesome, too!








3. Fangoria #1 (Godzilla)- The very first issue of what is probably the most renown horror mag in the world got the King of the Monsters, himself, Godzilla on its' cover. Based on a poster from the very first film Godzilla: King of the Monsters, AKA, Gojira, this cover will catch the eye of any true monster/ horror fan. And, yes I own a copy of it, and only paid 20 bucks for it. It was/ is in pretty good condition.






2. Fangoria #95 (Total Recall)- One of the goriest (if not THE goriest) Arnold Schwarzenegger movies makes the cover and takes the silver medal. It's more head violence (three of the titles in my top ten have some sort of head violence!), as the lead villain's eyes pop right out! It's such an iconic and wild moment that sums up this action packed and ultra-violent movie, so well! 






1. Fangoria #8 (Zombie)- And, the top spot, gold medal, best Fangoria cover ever goes to this one featuring the one of the most popular and iconic zombies in cinema history. He is, of course, from Fulci's gory classic, Zombie. This dude is just so cool and creepy and kind of stands as one of my favorite zombies ever. The white background really helps him pop out, too!

The 30 Greatest Fangoria Covers of all Time Pt. 2, 20 - 11

The 30 Greatest Fangoria Covers of all Time Pt. 1, 30 - 21

 

 

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My First Published Article- Fangoria #307

The new issue of horror magazine Fangoria (#307) features my first ever published article. While, I have been featured on various websites, I have never actually been published. So, this is a very exciting occurrence for me. When, I opened up the issue and saw my name in it, I felt very proud of myself. I grew up reading Fango. It was a major influence on me, and started to develop my love for film and deepened my love for horror movies. So, to be in it is a childhood dream come true. That the cover has Alice Cooper, a man I greatly admire and see as a hero, on one cover, while The Howling (my eleventh favorite movie ever, and my fav werewolf film of all time) is on the other cover, are the icing on the bloody cake.

This article is an interview that I conducted with the beautiful Angelina Armani. It was a pleasure to interview her, as it always is. In the interview she discusses her career, her love of horror movies, and, of course, the horror movie that she is in, the recently released, Chromeskull: Laid to Rest II.

The rest of the issue has more great articles including some must read interviews with Jessica (Suspiria) Harper, Jenny (Near Dark) Wright, Christina (Thriller) Lindberg, Alice Cooper, stuff on The Howling and so much more. This is really an awesome issue! And, I am not just saying that cause I am in it. Trust me, on this!

I hope you guys pick up a copy, and be sure to let me know what you think. You're ideas and words mean a lot to me. And, to those of you who do or did, thank you, so much. Your support means the world to me.

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