Metal News for January 22, 2016
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38 news articles posted on this day.
Morte Incandescente Releasing New Album
War Arts Productions just set March 18th as the international release date for Morte Incandescente's "...o mundo morreu" album.
As ever, this long-running Portuguese cult returns to the old days of black metal, when density and purity were a constant surface of the scene. The band's latest "...o mundo morreu" (English: "...The World Died!") is an album that transports the listener to the past, a past which is still present to the puritan listener.
It's an album that is not meant to break any boundaries nor limits nor anything, but to invoke the timeless thought that black metal still remains pure in its clearest form to a select few people. The track listing is:
1. Diz nao a vida
2. Num cemiterio
3. O final de uma era
4. Nunca mais ira amanhecer
5. Disturbio absoluto
6. Ser incredulo
7. Nas esquinas da alma
8. O sol nao nasce mais
9. Tiro no escuro
10. Diz adeus
11. O fogo de dentro
12. Um rasto de odio More...
Van Halst Streaming "World Of Make Believe"
Edmonton, AB's Van Halst is a fierce, empowering force of hard rock fused with metal. Van Halst began as a solo project centered around the artist for whom the band is named after -- Kami Van Halst - and has since become a full group producing socially conscious tracks that focus on disenfranchised and marginalized populations.
The forthcoming 2016 album "World of Make Believe" is set for release on March 4th and today an advance track comes online. Check out the title track "World Of Make Believe" below, courtesy of Bravewords.com.
Vocalist Kami Van Halst comments about the single: “World of Make Believe speaks to our version of an ideal world. Instead of make believe being about fairy tales, it’s simply about equality. The song talks about wanting to live in a world where everyone is equal in all measures.”
1. The End (4:31)
2. Save Me (4:12)
3. Ryan’s Song (4:11)
4. World of Make Believe (3:46)
5. Questions (3:23)
6. Denying Eyes (4:08)
7. Monster (3:29)
8. Plastic Smile (5:11)
9. Put Him Down (4:33)
10. Perfect Storm (4:44) More...
Infernal Curse Releasing New Album
At long last, Infernal Curse reveals full details on second album, "Apocalipsis," which is set for international release on February 26th via Iron Bonehead Productions.
Hailing from the oft-overlooked scene of Argentina, Infernal Curse is a study in patience and defiance. Forming in 2008, early on the band's sound was strictly within the blown-out blackthrash characteristic of South America's most-underground metal, culminating in the clattering 'n' chaotic "Awakening of the Damned" debut LP in 2012.
However, it was with the Iron Bonehead-released mini-album "The End Upon Us" in 2014 where Infernal Curse truly found its stride. Reigning in the chaos for a more pulsing form of barbarity, the power-trio was violent and virulent as ever, but pushed the still-overwhelming physicality into the beyond.
Now, with "Apocalipsis," Infernal Curse has pushed into soul-devouring, hideous and hypnotic territory on an album full of extremes. The track listing is as follows:
1. o ov soahX
2. Litanies Unto Djinn
3. Sin Of Iblis
4. Nasheed Al Mut
5. Obituaries
6. Fragments Of Annihilation
7. Adharma
8. Upon Death He Dwells
9. Etreum More...
The Rodeo Idiot Engine Posts New Video
Screaming in the woods time! France's The Rodeo Idiot Engine just released a brand new music video for the track "Passing Daemons," directed by As Human Pattern.
The group's third album "Malaise" is out now on vinyl, CD and all digital platforms via Throatruiner Records. You can stream the chaotic album in full by heading over to this location. More...
Beauty In The Suffering Posts Teaser
Beauty In The Suffering, the electro-metal project from producer Dietrich Thrall (ex-Doyle, Marazene) has released a 2016 teaser in the form of a 90 second video collage which highlights the band's upcoming releases.
The teaser includes an audio sample of a cover of The Outfield's 80's hit single "Your Love," which will drop on February 9th, 2016. An EP will follow on February 16th, 2016. The complete sample order listing is as follows:
1. "N.G.F.D." (Never Gonna F***ing Die)
2. "YOUR LOVE" THE OUTFIELD cover
3. "REVEILLE"
4. "JULIET" More...
Baphomet's Blood Posts Full Album Online
Today the Italian speed metal cult Baphomet's Blood streams the entirety of new album "In Satan We Trust," set for international release on January 25th via Iron Bonehead Productions. Listen in below. The new album's track listing is as follows:
1. Command Of The Inverted Cross
2. In Satan We Trust
3. Hellbreaker
4. Underground Demons
5. Triple Six
6. Infernal Overdrive
7. Whiskey Rocker
8. Eleg (Farao cover) More...
Magrudergrind Streams "Regressive Agenda"
A new single from Brooklyn grind/powerviolence trio Magrudergrind just came online for streaming. "Regressive Agenda" is taken from the band's forthcoming full-length album "II," and can be streamed below.
After a six-year hiatus, Magrudergrind announced new record "II" is set to be released on CD/LP/Digital via Relapse Records on February 12th, 2016. Again recorded with engineer Kurt Ballou at GodCity Studios and mastered by Brad Boatright (Obituary, Nails), "II" is a savage manifesto of scathing political and personal revolution.
For another taste of the release, check out the previously released "Sacrificial Hire" music video over here. More...
Joey Sturgis Releases New Limiter
Joey Sturgis Tones, the audio production software company founded by producer and educator Joey Sturgis, has released the latest product in a line of signature audio plugins and tones: the powerful and versatile limiter, Finality.
Available now in both "Advanced" and "Lite" versions, Finality can be purchased at special introductory pricing ($69 for "Advanced" and $39 for "Lite") via the JST Website here.
In his role as as producer, Joey has worked with the likes of Asking Alexandria, Of Mice & Men, We Came As Romans, Blessthefall, and The Devil Wears Prada.
Commented Sturgis: "I've needed a tool like Finality, that's why I designed it. As I tested it more and more, I realized other people would need this too. So I decided to make it available to everyone as an audio plugin for all popular recording programs and operating systems. I'm very excited to share this limiter with the audio community because it was a blast to create and sounds great!"
Finality is a limiter designed from the ground up to be both powerful and versatile. Whether the source is very dynamic like drums and vocals, or more flat like distorted rhythm guitars and synth, Finality can be dialed to control peak and level dynamics in a mix. A video manual can be seen online at this location for a full overview of all Finality's features. More...
Moon Tooth Streaming "Igneous"
Moon Tooth delivers the third new single off debut album "Chromaparagon" today - check out "Igneous" below, courtesy of the folks at Substream Magazine. You can pre-order "Chromaparagon" here ahead of the February 5th release date.
The Long Island, New York band sets out on an East Coat tour in February, ending with a slot on WSOU's 30th anniversary show with Candiria and Old Wounds. Dates are as follows: More...
Audiotopsy Announces Shows With Drowning Pool
Audiotopsy - the powerhouse foursome featuring guitarist Greg Tribbett (Mudvayne, Hell Yeah), drummer Matt McDonough (Mudvayne), vocalist Billy Keeton (Skrape) and bassist Perry Stern - released the "Natural Causes" debut in October 2015 via Napalm Records.
The band will also return to the road in North America alongside Drowning Pool and Violent New Breed. The tour starts February 11th in Ft Wayne, IN and runs through March 10th in Daytona Beach, FL. A complete list of tour dates can be found below, with more to be added soon.
2/11: Fort Wayne, IN @ The Rusty Spur
2/12: Chesterfield, MI @ Diesel Concert Lounge
2/14: Ringle, WI @ Q&Z Expo Center
2/15: Moorhead, MN @ The Garage Bar
2/16: Waterloo, IA @ Spicoli's Grill/The Reverb Rock
2/18: Golden, CO @ Buffalo Rose
2/19: Salt Lake City, UT @ The Royal
2/20: Idaho Falls, ID @ Hitt Event Center
2/22: Chico, CA @ Lost on Main
2/23: Los Angeles, CA @ Los Globos
2/24: Mesa, AZ @ Club Red
2/25: Lubbock, TX @ Jakes Backroom
2/26: San Antonio, TX @ Fitzgeralds
2/28: Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar & Grill
3/2: Tyler, TX @ Cowboys
3/3: Baton Rouge, LA @ Lava Cantina
3/5: Clarksville, TN @ The Warehouse
3/10: Daytona Beach, FL @ Main Street Station More...
Buffalo Theory MTL Posts "Skeptic Knight" Teaser
Comprised of members from Quebec bands Ghoulunatics, Les Ékorchés, Arseniq 33 and currently active Vantablack Warship, the stoner thrash influenced metallers Buffalo Theory MTL return to the scene with a new preview for fourth offering "Skeptic Knight." The EP is set for release via Stand Records on February 26th, 2016.
"Skeptic Knight" is the follow-up to 2014's "Murder Trilogy" EP and the 2012 full-length "Heavy Ride" and was recorded at Indica Studio in Montreal, QC where it was produced by the band along with Peter Edwards (Grimskunk).
Bassist Gary Lyons comments: "We think 'Skeptic Knight' is our best material to date and it’s damn heavy as usual. It has a different sounding production that we like a lot. We completed 5 songs for the release. There were lots of riffs just waiting to be completed and it was hard to choose which ones to release first as we are already prepared to unleash another EP by next year to follow it."
1. Conspiracy in Paranoland (3:45)
2. Punishment (3:09)
3. Get On It (2:59)
4. Skeptic Knight (3:20)
5. Psychic Enclosure (2:37) More...
Fleshgod Apocalypse Posts "Gravity" Video
The Italian symphonic death metal masters from Fleshgod Apocalypse have released a captivating lyric video for the brand new track "Gravity," which can be seen below.
The song comes from the band's upcoming opus "King," which will be released worldwide on February 5th, 2016 via Nuclear Blast. Our review can also be read at this location.
Ten Thousand Miles Of Arteries Releasing Debut
Midwestern solo harsh noise act Ten Thousand Miles Of Arteries will release a maiden official full-length through Annihilvs Power Electronix, as the anguish of "Even Spilled Seed Crawls Toward The Womb" oozes forth this Valentine's Day.
"Even Spilled Seed Crawls Toward The Womb" crushes the spirit with an assault of ultra-dark synth tones and battering, reverberating rhythm: this is the perfect soundtrack to an existential crisis. Check out lead track "One Last Woman" below. The full track listing is as follows:
1. One Last Woman
2. Purple Cloak
3. White Robe
4. Skeletal
5. Even Spilled Seed More...
One Morning Left Streaming Full Album
Finnish EHM outfit One Morning Left is st reaming third album, entitled "Metalcore Superstars," in full today as the disc sees official release in North America. Check it out below, courtesy of Revolvermag.com.
Vocalist Mika Lahti comments: "With our new album 'Metalcore Superstars,' I'm so glad to announce that we have finally managed to find a professional label to handle our business in North America & Oceania. We built this new album for years and with Imminence Records the album will get the attention it deserves. Can't wait for everyone to hear what we have created this time!” More...
Convulse Releasing "Cycle Of Revenge"
Convulse has announced "Cycle of Revenge" will drop via Svart Records on March 18th, 2016. The label also issued this statement:
"As one of the oldest Finnish death metal veterans the musicians from Convulse have a somewhat interesting history, to say the least. Beginning as a full-on death metal band in 1990, the debut demo, 'Resuscitation of Evilness,' as well as the 1991 debut album, 'World Without God,' were more or less successful attempts from Convulse to flex their death metal muscles for the whole world.
"In 1993, Convulse returned to the limelight again, offering two new songs on the 'Lost Equilibrium' CD-single – and at the same time, giving a taste of what was to be expected on their second album, 1994's 'Reflections.' Convulse had started incorporating some rock 'n' roll elements into their murky and uncompromising death metal sound, much like some of their Finnish extreme metal comrades (Xysma and Disgrace primarily come to mind). The band's death 'n' roll sound on their sophomore album divided the Convulse fanbase, with some embracing the new direction while facing rejection from others. It's both difficult and pointless to speculate at this point whether the drastic musical change led to Convulse’s downfall, but perhaps it was one of the reasons behind the split up in 1994. Only the original band members can say for sure... More...
Wormwitch Offering Single For Download
The black metal newcomers from Wormwitch are offering their debut single for exclusive stream and download through NefariousRealm.com here.
The "Coffin Birth" single will not be featured on the band's next EP, which has yet to receive a title. The new single instead offers a background on the group's transition from hardcore into black metal and touches on Wormwitch's Canadian influence from the infamous climate.
Guitarist / vocalist Robin Harris comments: "Coffin Birth is the first song that Wormwitch has written under its name, and is the truest culmination of the band's vision to date. The standalone covers themes of death and rebirth and the constant struggle of man versus nature; wherein nature exercises its timeless power to cast the blight of mankind into the endless void." More...
Halcyon Way Posts Tour Vlog Reports
Atlanta's Halcyon Way is currently on the road with Queensryche on the band's latest North American run. Bassist Skyler Moore has been checking in with on the road reports as part of the band's Tour Vlog. Halcyon Way is touring in support of the latest effort "Conquer" (check out our review at this location.
The first three reports are now available and can be viewed below, which features the journey from Atlanta to San Jose, CA and the reports from San Jose and Anaheim. The tour will run until Salt Lake City on February 4th and Moore will check in periodically. For remaining dates and venues, head on over to this location.
Check out the first three reports here: More...
Cemetery Fog Reborn As Asphodelus
After two releases through Iron Bonehead Productions - 2013's "Shadows From the Cemetery" demo and 2014's "Towards the Gates" MLP - Finland's Cemetery Fog is now reborn as Asphodelus.
Now expanded to a trio, Asphodelus will release a first record in this incarnation, a four-song 12" MLP titled "Dying Beauty & the Silent Sky," through Iron Bonehead on February 22nd.
Between those two aforementioned releases, Cemetery Fog made huge evolutionary strides - from doomy death metal, raw and rough-hewn, to a more magisterial and daresay graceful form of pure doom-death. Asphodelus continues that evolution with this debut mini-album. The track listing is as follows:
1. Intro
2. Illusion of Life
3. Dying Beauty & the Silent Sky
4. Nemo Ante Mortem Beatus More...
Black Cobra Streaming "The Messenger"
Black Cobra just released new track "The Messenger," taken off "Imperium Simulacra" and featured during the band's live set during a recent tour with Yob.
Check out "The Messenger" below. "Imperium Simulacra" will be released worldwide on February 26th and is available for pre-order here. The album's track listing is as follows:
1. Challenger Deep
2. Imperium Simulacra
3. Fathoms Below
4. Eye Among The Blind
5. The Messenger
6. Obsolete
7. Dark Shine
8. Sentinel (Infinite Observer) More...
Fragore Posts Album Trailer
Thrash / death metal band Fragore proudly presents a new album video trailer today, which can be seen below.
This third album will take Fragore on a new level after previous release “The Reckoning” (2014), featuring producer Ettore Rigotti (Disarmonia Mundi, Destrage, Slowmotion Apocalypse) who is again helming the new effort. More news will be announced soon, stay tuned!
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Remembering Jason Bradford - 1987 - 2016
Two days ago, I was sent a message on Facebook by a former member of this website, Kalis Wrath, breaking the news that another of our own, Jason Bradford, perhaps better known to regular visitors of this site as DeathInEye, had passed away the night before at the age of 28, having slipped into a coma a few days prior. As those who knew him will remember, Jason was a both an awesome mind and a spiritual warrior, who excelled as a poet. Every time he'd write poetry, or even discussed it, I felt like I was being educated. Like many other people, poetry was something I would either dismiss outright or shrug off as something anybody could do but I had no idea how much structure and thought went in to the process of crafting poems until Jason talked about them.
There was something else about Jason, something which he dealt with his entire life, which was his struggle against Muscular Dystrophy. This horrible affliction would be too much for most of us to bear, but Jason wasn't like most of us. I rarely knew him to talk about it and when he did, it was either in good humour or just as an aside. I remember what must have been ten years ago now, discussing with him education in Great Britain, because the British education system was better for his needs he said, and true to his word, he did arrive on this little island to study at the University of East Anglia. Another fond memory I have of Jason was a time when people were changing their Facebook pictures to their celebrity lookalikes for one reason or another and Jason, tongue firmly in cheek, said to the effect of, "Well, who else could I pick other than Stephen Hawking?" More...
Mortiis Announces "Demons Are Back" Tour
Mortiis will be returning to U.K. shores for a run of 7 headline shows in May - the tour kicks off at Newcastle’s Cluny venue on 23rd May and commences at Bristol’s Fleece on 29th May.
The tour will follow hot on the heels of the forthcoming release of Mortiis’ new album "The Great Deceiver," which is out on 4th March via Omnipresence.
The band comments: "It's about time we came back to the UK for some shows. See you in May, you bastards."
May 23rd NEWCASTLE Cluny
May 24th GLASGOW Audio
May 25th MANCHESTER Ruby
May 26th BIRMINGHAM O2 Institute
May 27th BRIGHTON Haunt
May 28th LONDON Garage
May 29th BRISTOL Fleece More...
Lionheart Releases New Music Video
Northern California hardcore band Lionheart released a new music video today for the song "Love Don't Live Here," which can be seen below.
"This is, by far, the most personal song I’ve ever written," says vocalist Rob Watson. "I wrote this song about the darkest point in my life and when I was at my absolute lowest. In my opinion, this is one of the best songs we’ve ever written and the most important song on the album."
That album being "Love Don't Live Here," the first full-length record from the band in over four years. It was released today through LHHC Records (a label formed by the band members themselves), and is also available in Europe and Asia via BDHW Records. If you missed it, you can stream the full release here. More...
Rex Shachath Posts New Video
Northern Irish death metal band Rex Shachath has released a new lyric video for "Colossus Rise," a track taken from latest opus "Revocation Of The Blood Elect," which was released via French label Great Dane Records last November.
"'Colossus Rise' is the final track on 'Revocation Of The Blood Elect' and was inspired by Hindu deities Shiva and Brahma," vocalist Dave Connolly comments. He goes on to say: "I wanted to tell a story from a creators viewpoint looking at the world today and how everything created can also be destroyed. The underlying message is that humanity is plundering resources above and beyond what can be sustained... and ultimately, unless things change, we may be creating things to benefit life today but it comes at an even greater cost. Creation will be our own demise. Earth will remain as it has done for many, many years, but we are quickly creating mankind's end." More...
Rage Releases "My Way" Video Clip
Germany's Rage issued a new music video for the track "My Way." The song is the title track of the new single/EP from the band, the first release following the split with Victor Smolski and Andre Hilgers. It is also the debut studio performance with the new lineup, which features Marcos Rodriguez (guitars) and Vassilios Maniatopoulous (drums) backing up founding member Peavy Wagner (bass/vocals).
"My Way" drops today via Nuclear Blast as a MCD and a 7"-vinyl exclusively. Order "My Way" at this location.
The track list is:
1. My Way (New Song)
2. Black In Mind (2015 Re-Recorded)
3. Sent By The Devil (2015 Re-Recorded)
4. Apuesto A Ganar (Spanish version of 'My Way')
Check out "My Way" here: More...
Wrathrone Issues "Carnal Lust" Video Clip
Finnish old school death metal band Wrathrone released the debut album "Born Beneath" today. To celebrate the album release, the band unleashed the new music video "Carnal Lust" and it can be seen below.
Listen to "Born Beneath" on Spotify at this location.
The band will perform in a string of live shows, starting tonight, as follows:
22.1. Brummi, Rauma w/ Nashorn, Mind Abduction
23.1. TVO, Turku w/ Nashorn, Concrete Icon
30.1. Baarikaappi, Pori w/ Nashorn, Eartheria
5.2. Lepakkomies, Helsinki w/ Antagonist Zero, Burweed
4.3. Keila- Ja Pelihalli, Huittinen w/ Eartheria
18.3. Motör Pub, Lahti w/ Sarvas
19.3. Bar Rock Bear, Vantaa w/ Antagonist Zero
Check out "Carnal Lust" here: More...
Soto To Release New Album "Divak"
Soto, featuring iconic vocalist Jeff Scott Soto, has completed the second studio album, "Divak," to be released on April 1st via earMUSIC.
"Divak" (pronounced dee-vock) comes shortly after the debut release "Inside The Vertigo," a mere 15 months partly due to Jeff Scott Soto’s insistence on continuing to create and build a true brand for his new venture. Once again the album is produced by Jeff Scott Soto and drummer, Edu Cominato, mixed by long time JSS engineer/associate, John Ellis.
The band features Soto on vocals, Cominato on drums, lead guitarist Jorge Salan, bassist David Z and keyboardist/guitarist BJ. The guys are heavily featured on "Divak" with their writing contributions together.
The first single "FreakShow" was co-produced/written by Tony Dickinson, who also co-wrote "The Fall,' (the 1st single released from "Inside The Vertigo"), the track is an extension of the Soto sound created especially for this new band.
The track list for "Divak" is:
1. DIVAK (Intro)
2. Weight Of The World
3. FreakShow
4. Paranoia
5. Unblame //
6. Cyber Masquerade
7. In My Darkest Hour
8. Forgotten
9. SuckerPunch
10. Time
11. Misfired
12. The Fall From Grace
13. Awakened
Bonus Tracks (all digital retailers)
14. Final Say (live)
15. The Fall (live)
16. Break (live)
17. When I'm Older (live)
18. Stand Up (live)
Additional Bonus Tracks itunes/apple music
19. My Life
20. Cracking The Stone
Check out the live bonus track for "Final Say" here: More...
Varg Issued "Achtung" Music Video
German blackened death metal warriors Varg released a new music video for the track "Achtung." The song appears on the new album "The End of All Lies" ("Das Ende aller Lügen"), which is now available in both English and German languages via Napalm Records. Check out our review for the album at this location.
The track list for "Das Ende aller Lügen" ("The End of All Lies") is:
1. Der große Diktator (The Great Dictator)
2. Das Ende aller Lügen (The End of All Lies) (see music video here)
3. Revolution
4. Streyfzug
5. Achtung
6. Dunkelheit (Darkness) (see music video here)
7. Totentanz (The Dance of Death) (Feat. Anna Murphy of Eluveitie)
8. Einherjer
9. Wintersturm (Winterstorm)
10. Ascheregen (Rain Of Ash)
Check out the clip here: More...
Product Of Hate Releases A "Monster" Of A Video
Wisconsin-based newcomers Product of Hate chose the band name for a good reason - a crushing response to the world in which we live. The five-piece honed the sound by sharing the stage with Lamb Of God, Meshuggah, Gwar and Testament to name a few. The band is pumped and is now ready to introduce the world to the debut album "Buried in Violence"! The album was mixed and mastered by the legendary James Murphy, known for his work with Death, Testament and Obituary.
"Buried In Violence" is available February 5th via Napalm Records. Digital pre-orders via iTunes at this location will come with instant downloads of the songs and "Blood Coated Concrete," "...As Your Kingdom Falls," "Unholy Manipulator" and "Monster."
Today the band debuts the music video for the latest single "Monster." "I was really excited that we chose 'Monster' for the first new video. It's one of my favorite tracks to begin with, and I believe that audiences will see how much we've matured as a band since our last videos. We're just getting this beast started," says front man Adam Gilley.
James Zahn of The Rock Father handled the directing duties for the new video. The director of photography was Chuck Przybyl of Most Visual, with Katrina May Rathbone providing addition camera help. Angela Kline tackled production design and Amy Adair took care of the Makeup FX.
The album's track listing is:
1. Kill. You. Now.
2. Annihilation
3. ...As Your Kingdom Falls
4. Blood Coated Concrete
5. Monster
6. Buried in Violence
7. Vindicare
8. Nemesis
9. Revolution of Destruction
10. Unholy Manipulator
11. Perry Mason More...
Amoth Releases "Tattered Wings" Video
Finnish progressive metal band Amoth released their second album "Revenge" in Europe today and will unleash it internationally on February 19th via Inverse Records.
"Revenge" is a continuum to the 2011 debut "Crossing Over," which was well received around the globe. One common factor among critics was the "uniqueness" and "own sound" of Amoth's music.
This time around the band keeps paving it's own path and prove that Amoth belongs in the forefront of the Finnish progressive metal scene. With new singer Tomi Kurtti in the line-up all the pieces truly lock into place.
To celebrate the album release Amoth has released a new music video for the track "Tattered Wings," which can be viewed in the player below.
The track list for "Revenge" is:
1. Die Young
2. …and So They Fueled These Veins with Chaos
3. Shadow of the Beast
4. Tattered Wings
5. For the Moon and Mercury
6. Till the End
7. Road to Ruins
8. Children of the Night
9. Revenge More...
Fear of Domination Announces New Album "Atlas"
Finnish shock industrial metal act Fear of Domination will give a totally new definition to "spring break" by unleashing its fourth studio album "Atlas" on March 11th. Vocalist and the lyricist Saku Solin describes Atlas as "the darkest and the heaviest album the band has ever done."
Solin says that "Atlas" is "about the moment, when all the light in the world has faded, and a human being is left to wander with his crushing burden.
“The question is, is the burden self-created, imagined or concrete. We’ve all had a bit of an emotion-filled year. I think we have efficiently packed primitive rage, desperation and misery here. It wasn’t a conscious decision. This is how we felt, and fuck, we did what had to be done.”
The string instruments are crunching lower than before and composer and keyboardist Lasse Raelahti has created a harmony of chaos and beauty with his synthesizer. Fans were given the first taste of blood, when the band released the music video single El Toro in the autumn. Check it out in the player below.
The lyrics of "Atlas" um are also more straight and brutal than before. Vocal producer Helena Haaparanta whipped everything out of Solin. He reveals that the rasp and growl vocals can change quickly to "freakishly annoyingly poppish" singing.
“We have always loved to create some contrast. Even though the lyrics are about the collapse of the mind and the world, suddenly there can be an opera-kind-of part or then it could be from E-Types disco song.”
The drum and the bass recordings were captured at D-studio, the guitars in the apartment of the lead guitarist and composer Johannes Niemi and the vocals in another studio in city of Kerava. Producers Alex Azzali and Nicholas Barker mixed and mastered the album in Italy. The cover art (shown below) is created by Timo Kokko.
Fear of Domination is ready for the "live-shows of the spring" and is more insane than ever. The band is famous for their theatrical and half-crazy shows filled with energy. 2016 started with sold out MeriRock in January and will continue with three day tour of MetalOrgy.
”We are looking forward to the gigs! We are able to use some new ideas and of course, to play the new songs. There are a couple of new ones, that I am sure will rock the hell out of the crowd”, Solin smiles. More...
xFiruath Unleashes Debut Novel "Empty"
Metal and gaming scribe Ty Arthur (xFiruath of Metalunderground.com/GameSkinny) today unleashes his debut novel “Empty” via Mirror Matter Press.
Following a string of short story anthology appearances, this long-awaited standalone sci-fi / horror tome is now available at Amazon here.
Down-on-his-luck, stuck performing punishment duty in the lower levels of the Penrose, Junior Engineer 3rd Class Hansen wants nothing more than to see the wreckage of a newly discovered ship dating back to man's earliest deep space explorations. The engineer is about to get his wish, and in the process come face-to-face with a long-dormant horror waiting patiently for the perfect vessel. What he'll uncover in the darkness will threaten to consume him, body and soul.
Arthur had this to say about his inaugural solo work:
“While the themes of 'Empty' draw heavily from personal experiences, it should come as no surprise that extreme metal was a major inspiration for me, and there wasn't a single moment of writing when I didn't have the headphones on, exploring the outer reaches of space through music. Special thanks in particular are due to Augury, Ne Obliviscaris, and Stagnant Waters for the epic and discordant tracks that acted as a soundtrack to those writing sessions.
“Although on the surface 'Empty' is about horrible things discovered out in the depths of space, I think metal fans in particular will be able to identify with the main character and underlying story dealing with the isolation of being different and separated from the herd.
“In the same way the music propelled me forward and inspired my writing, I hope one day 'Empty' inspires a metal band to write a sci-fi album so it can all come full circle.”
The author's recommended listening playlist to go along with a reading of “Empty” consists of: More...
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Check out now "Devour The Sun" below.
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Check out now "The Unholy Oath" in its entirety below.
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Check out now "The Sentinels Order" below.
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Check out now "Crystal King" below.
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Check out now "Veins" below.
The clip was created by Lukasz Rusinek, who comments: More...
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Check out now "The Angst In My Veins" below.
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