Immolation Reveals New Album Details

New York death metal giants Immolation are proud to announce their latest immense creation, "Acts Of God," which will be released on February 18th 2022. The 11th studio album serves as the next chapter of Immolation’s death metal epic. With 5 long years passed since Atonement, "Acts Of God" vigorously showcases Immolation’s ability to consistently create fascinating sounds, while still keeping their feet firmly rooted in the old school, New York death metal for which they are renowned.

Today, the band offers fans the first single from the album, "Apostle." Produced, directed, and edited by the band's own Robert Vigna, the video can be viewed below.

Immolation vocalist/ bassist Ross Dolan comments:
"After 5 long years, we are very excited to finally announce the arrival of our 11th full-length album Acts of God on February 18th, 2022! This time around, we have 15 tracks of some of the darkest and most haunting Immolation material to date! For the first single, we chose the song 'Apostle' because it's a very dark song that offers the listener all the elements of the Immolation sound. It's a heavy and explosive track that ebbs and flows from start to finish, with dark and creepy soundscapes and extreme bursts of dark energy that will take the listener on a dark journey that is just a small glimpse of what the album has to offer. Enjoy!" More...

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Fozzy Announces New Album, "Boombox"

Powerhouse rockers Fozzy have announced their new album "Boombox" – their first album in five years - which will be released on April 15th via Mascot Records / Mascot Label Group (ex-NA). The album, which includes the US top 10 singles, "Nowhere To Run" and "Sane", was once again produced by Johnny Andrews.

Talking about the album, Fozzy frontman Chris Jericho says; "'Judas'… both the album and the song was a HUGE breakthrough for Fozzy. It took us to the next level and positioned us as legit players at rock radio and as a live draw. As a result, we knew that we had to follow up with the album of a lifetime. Boombox is that album!! You’ve already heard the top ten singles 'Nowhere To Run' and 'Sane'- kick ass, hooky songs that set the tone for this record. But it’s 'I Still Burn', 'Army Of One' and 'Relax', that in my opinion are going to take this album and this band even further up the rock n roll ladder!

"I firmly believe this is the third best album of our entire career!! (Of course I think it’s our best…but I always wanted to hear a band say that). So crank the volume and hold the Boombox up to your earholes!! It’s gonna be a wild ride."

Rich Ward leads the band and is one of the most versatile, talented riff machines and songwriters in rock n roll today. Chris Jericho’s skills as a frontman are second to none and his vocal style and range are both unique and instantly recognizable. The powerhouse drumming of Frank Fontsere, the blazing solos of Billy Grey and the electric star presence of bass player, PJ Farley, round out the current line up.

These are five legit rock stars, whose energy and charisma light up every stage they play on and every crowd they perform for. It’s no surprise that Fozzy has skyrocketed into one of the hottest rock acts in years.

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Slaegt Signs With Century Media Records

Danish Black Heavy Metal outfit Slaegt (a.k.a. Slægt, meaning "lineage” / “heritage" in Danish language and pronounced /sl?gt/), one of the most vital and exciting bands to come out of the Scandinavian Metal scene, are thrilled to announce that they’ve signed a new deal with Century Media Records. The first studio offering with their new label (and fourth full-length overall) is entitled "Goddess" and will see a worldwide release on March 18th, 2022.

Speaking about their new label, the Copenhagen based band comments: "It is with utmost pleasure we can announce that we have signed a deal with Century Media. Century Media is a huge force within the metal world - their history speaks for itself and their roster of current and former acts is a sight to behold. The label is made up of passionate and professional people, whose work is very impressive in regards to how they maintain to be such a successful label while still understanding and respecting their artists’ creative process and work. So it would be an understatement to say, that we are truly looking forward to where this collaboration will take us, our music, and our listeners."

Speaking on the signing of Slaegt, Century Media Records Vice President Phillipp Schulte says: "We are happy to announce a worldwide partnership with Slaegt. The band’s vision, their passion and courage to create dark and timeless music as well as their breathtaking live performances have made a huge impression on us. We couldn’t be prouder to welcome this great band to Century Media Records."

A first single and video as well as further details for the "Goddess" album will be launched on January 14th, 2022 with the start of the album’s pre-order, so mark your calendars!
Additionally, Slaegt have just announced a next European tour together with fellow Danish group Demon Head, to follow the new album’s release

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Spirits Of Fire To Release New Album In February

Heavy metal supergroup Spirits Of Fire have announced their return with new vocalist Fabio Lione (Angra, ex-Rhapsody Of Fire) joining original members Chris Caffery, Steve Di Giorgio and Mark Zonder for the release of their second album, "Embrace The Unknown." Out on 18th February 2022, a first single and video from it entitled "A Second Chance" is available from today.

Spirits of Fire was founded in 2017 by Caffery (Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Di Giorgio (Testament, Death) and Zonder (ex-Fates Warning, Warlord), plus singer Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens (ex-Judas Priest, Iced Earth). "Embrace The Unknown" picks up where their well received 2019 self-titled debut left off, with Caffery's fiery fretwork leading the charge. Renowned Italian vocalist Lione sings on an album that is produced by his compatriot Aldo Lonobile, whose recent work on releases by Archon Angel featuring Zak Stevens, Sweet Oblivion featuring Geoff Tate, plus his own group Secret Sphere makes him the perfect fit.

With Lione and Lonobile adding their own personal touches to a skilful set of songs supplied by Caffery, the result is a stellar example of the 'Priest meets Savatage' sound that Spirits Of Fire have pursued since forming. Via the renowned guitar pyrotechnics of Caffery, the propulsive and crushing rhythm section of Di Giorgio and Zonder, plus the soaring vocals of Lione, ‘Embrace The Unknown’ sees the quartet firing on all cylinders as they deliver a dozen memorable slabs of metal on what is an all killer, no filler album.

Tracklisting:

1. A Second Chance
2. Resurrection
3. Wildest Dreams
4. Into The Mirror
5. Embrace The Unknown
6. My Confession
7. Sea Of Change
8. Shapes Of A Fragile Mind
9. Hearts In The Sand
10. House Of Pain
11. Remember My Name
12. Out In The Rain More...

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Conjurer Releases New Music Video

UK metal heavyweights Conjurer have released their video for "Thankless," from their globally-acclaimed debut LP "Mire" (2018).

In anticipation of huge things to come in 2022, Conjurer draw the curtain over a frustrating year for live music by releasing the "Thankless" video. The video features a collage of frenetic live footage recorded at different festival and club shows, as well as some backstage impressions, and gives you a hint of what to expect from Conjurer's eagerly-awaited return to stages in 2022 - including several festival appearances and a tour with French blackened post-metallers Celeste.

Conjurer comment: "We are so thankful to have 'Thankless' back online - this video catalogues a band starting to come into their own, our first time playing festivals without being the ‘unknown up and comers’. Captured as always by our main man Joe Guppy." More...

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Interview

Zmarlym Speaks On New Album And Poland

If you’ve never heard of Zmarlym, put this beauty on in another tab while you read the interview below.

Zmarlym only recently popped up on my radar. I listen to several Polish metal bands (Vader, Behemoth, Gruzja, Batushka--the first version anyway, Kriegsmaschine, Belzebong, Decapitated, Mgla, Truchlo Strzygi, etc.). Maybe I listen to more Polish metal than any other country other than Denmark? Anyway, Zmarlym's new album was probably randomly selected by Youtube for me to listen to because of all of these other Polish bands I appreciate. I was immediately hooked. You don't really sound like any other Polish bands that I know of, although there are occasional hints of Behemoth, Mgla, and Gruzja I suppose. Can you tell me more about the band's origin, members, and the making of your recently released first full-length album Druga Fala?

Andrew: The band Zmarlym was formed in early 2018 at the initiative of me and Mlody, who is also a drummer in another polish band Hegemoon. Me and Mlody were playing together in other bands before, so we know each other well. We invited our friend Marcin to this new project, and so it began. Material on the EP Ziemie Jalowe was created very quickly--in just few months--but for a variety of circumstances, we didn’t released it until September 2020 despite it being recorded in early 2018. In the meantime, we worked on new material, and I have to say, that before the start of the pandemic, we had composed maybe 75% of the music for the new record. But Druga Fala doesn’t contain any songs created during that time…

Since March 2020, initially due to the situation related to Covid-19 but later also influenced by other reasons, we haven’t had a place to have rehearsals. So the band was in some kind of coma. It’s not revelatory, if I would say that this was a very rough time, probably every person in the world felt some kind of depression in this time. After a few months of inactivity, which I really hated, I started to regularly play guitar again. Then the first sounds that you can hear on our debut album appeared. And I have to tell you that we did not plan to create any new music, it just happened. I mean literally, from the first riff from the first track on Druga Fala haha, that’s exactly where it started.

So I decided to talk with the other bands members. I sent them a demo of the first song, and we decided that we wouldn't let the fact that we didn't have a rehearsal room stop us. Instead we decided to create some music remotely--just by sending files to each other. It was the very first time when we were working that way, and it was a challenging expeerience, but we were determined to do it. Why didn't we decide to finish the previous material I mentioned above? We couldn't even imagine working on that material without regular rehearsals, and that wasn't an option as it was a completely different concept.

Going back to the topic of new material that we started writing that eventually turned into Druga Fala, this was supposed to be maybe three songs at most, released as an EP. We just wanted to get through this hard time doing something creative and then come back to the material that we orginally were working on and finish it. But the more we worked on this new stuff, the more the music sucked us in, the concept got bigger and bigger, until finally we realized it wasn't going to be just an EP; it was becoming a whole album. And that’s how it happened.

What bands have influenced Zmarlym?

A: There are a lot of bands that we were listening to, and the more I think about it… the more I don’t know how to answer the question, haha! But I can tell you some names, but this will be just the tip of the iceberg. And these are not only metal, or black metal, bands. So for sure Mayhem, Burzum, early Satyricon, Emperor, Furia, Lux Occulta (you should really check them out, they are non active at this moment but albums like a My Guardian Anger and The Mother and The Enemy are just fucking brilliant!) but also Pink Floyd, Archive, Massive Attack, and many many others, including some electronic or even hip-hop stuff.

On the other hand, I think that Zmarlym is influenced not only by music, but also by other areas of art--like film etc. For me a big influence would be the work of David Lynch, his extraordinary approach to creation, his courage to combine often seemingly contradictory elements into one bizarre, but still coherent, vision.

I called Zmarlym "proggy psychedelic black metal" when talking to a friend, but it's even more than that. Druga Fala is incredibly varied, which is especially rare for a band's first album I think. How would you describe the band's sound or genre?

A: I really don’t know, and I have to say that we weren't spending too much time on thinking about it. If I read that someone calls our music progressive black metal, it’s good, but it is not so important for us. When we are creating music, we don’t think about locking it in some kind of genre borders or anything like that. We just follow the ideas which are coming to us and let ourselves be led by these ideas.

When we were setting up our profile on bandcamp I was wondering how to add a tag for our music besides the obvious one "black metal". In the end we added the tag "post black metal", but I have no idea if it really has much to do with what we play. Haha

I visited Poland for the first time in 2021. I spent time in Krakow, Posnan, and Warsaw--seeing a few shows along the way. I want to go back in 2022 and visit some new places including Gdansk. Do you have any "must-see" locations for foreigners like myself who visit Poland?

A: You actually listed most of the most important places, haha! But if you wanted to really get to know our country, you should just hit the road and drive somewhere away from those bigger, more famous cities. Go through the Swietokrzyskie province for example; just drive around a town like Skarzysko Kamienna or Konskie, and then maybe you would see one of the reasons why there are so many black metal bands in our country, haha! If you actually happen to be there, don't stay there for long. The climate of abandonment, collapse, and depression could consume you so much, that the subsequent therapy could be very expensive and time consuming.

Many countries have some great metal bars. I've been to some in Japan, Denmark, Czech, and the UK. I couldn't find any in Poland. Do they exist and if so, where? Can you tell us more about the Polish metal scene?

A: I don't know too many such bars in Poland. Yes, there are some, but they seem to have more of a rock/metal character than a pure metal one, like for example Od Zmierzchu Do Switu in Wroclaw or Voodoo Club in Warsaw. Moreover, some of these bars collapsed financially during the pandemic.

What’s your favorite album from 2020? 2021?

A: There were so many great albums that it's really hard for me to choose just one. But if I have to, in 2020 it would probably be Rzeczom by Polish Odraza. As for 2021, it's not over yet, and I'm not able to choose a favorite album at the moment. Ask me in 2022, haha!

What are your touring and future recording plans?

A: We would definitely like to start playing concerts as soon as possible. However, the rehearsal room problems I mentioned earlier have delayed everything. We've only recently started rehearsing, and we are working hard to present the new material live soon.

Thanks a lot for the interview! Greetings to all Metal Undergound readers!

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Fullminator Premiere New Video On Metalunderground

Ex-Intergalactic warlords cloned from the evil cosmic conquer Colonel Roach to better fulfill his crusade of universal dominance, have successfully concealed their identity as the crossover thrash metal band, Fullminator. Having escaped through a prototype dimensional portal called the Nexus, they appeared in the streets of Puerto Rico in the year 2016 and have remained ever since.

"We at Fullminator want to present to you our latest single "Cyberpathic" all the way from the year 2078, punch deck and get ahead of the simulation!"

The new single, “Cyberpathic”, was inspired by the cyberpunk aesthetic and themes of William Gibson’s Neuromancer and The Matrix trilogy. A mash-up of fictional and factual political theories is paired up with the melodic fun, along with the style of the streets of Chiba City and the fast pace of a speed-fueled run through cyberspace. “Cyberpathic” explodes into life with energetic instrumentation, delicious distortion and powerful percussion. Fullminator are a powerhouse of hard-hitting metal with a galactic twist. Effects and electronics emerge through the immense thrash sound adding a theatrical punch of personality. If you were born before 2000 you may catch the throwback to the early era of the internet. Intricate guitar leads, aggressive vocals and utter full-throttle enthusiasm makes for a thrilling listening experience.

Fullminator deliver an epic fusion of sci-fi, speed and sheer creativity. The outfit have produced a release that will appeal to thrash lovers and space travelers alike. It’s loud, with a pace close to light speed and utterly fun. More...

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Atlas Posts "Susi" Music Video Online

Finnish northcore quintet Atlas unveil new album "UKKO" and in celebration release latest single "Susi" via Long Branch Records. Watch the video for "Susi" below.

On the new single, guitarist Tuomas Kurikka states: "This is our way of honouring those we've loved and lost. Heavy looping rhythms, huge percussions, haunting atmospheres, dark soundscapes, and ominous melodies create an album that celebrates northern spirits. UKKO is a blend of something ancient combined with a cold and harsh perspective of these stray modern days. You could say that the album is a sacrifice to the old Finnish pagan gods." More...

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Crowbar Reveals New Album Details

New Orleans, Louisiana sludge metal pioneers Crowbar will release their long awaited new full-length, Zero And Below,on 4th March via MNRK Heavy. In celebration, the band have unveiled the record’s artwork, tracklisting, and first single/video, "Chemical Godz," premiered via Revolver.

Watch the video to "Chemical Godz" below.

Crowbar songs are unapologetic emotional outpourings, with a bare-knuckle resolve alongside its soul-searching vulnerability, reliably delivered with crushing heaviness. Zero And Below, which cements the band’s dense catalogue exactly one dozen studio albums deep, is the most unforgivably doomy Crowbar record since their 1998 landmark effort, "Odd Fellows Rest."

Produced, mixed, and mastered by Duane Simoneaux at OCD Recording And Production in Metairie, Louisiana, Zero And Below is reverently old-school, counterbalanced by a resonant melodicism that’s stunningly mature. Songs like "Chemical Godz," "Bleeding From Every Hole," and "It’s Always Worth The Gain" demonstrate what Crowbar does better than any other band: powerful, evocative, and crushingly heavy music. Celebrating a recent 30th anniversary, Crowbar is led by one of the most beloved figures in heavy metal, riff overlord Kirk Windstein, whose menacing bellow and smooth drawl put resilient, unrepentant strength behind even the most sombre odes to suffering.

Comments Windstein of first single, "Chemical Godz," "We are all so excited to release the song and video for ‘Chemical Godz!’ It’s been nearly two years since the album was completed. It was such a sad time for so many people going through the Covid-19 epidemic and we felt it wasn’t a good time to release any new material. Get ready because the heavy is coming! We hope y’all enjoy the song and video. Stay safe out there!" More...

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Arch Enemy Premiere New Music Video

Arch Enemy premiere their newt single and music video titled “House Of Mirrors”. Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Fleshgod Apocalypse) mixed and mastered it and the video was directed by Grupa13.

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Infected Rain Premiered New Single & Music Video

Butcher Babies co-frontwoman Heidi Shepherd guests on the recently premiered single and music video from Infected Rain, “The Realm Of Chaos“. The song is off Infected Rain‘s fifth studio full-length called “Ecdysis“, due out January 07th via Napalm Records.

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Inferi Premiere New Music Video

Inferi return with a new official music video for “Heirs Of The Descent” from their latest release “Vile Genesis“.

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Enterprise Earth Premiere New Single

A new single named “Legends Never Die” from Enterprise Earth‘s impending new studio full-length, “The Chosen“ has premiered online streaming via YouTube below.

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Napalm Death Premiere First Single “Narcissus”

Napalm Death premiere their new single “Narcissus” off their upcoming new mini-album “Resentment Is Always Seismic – A Final Throw Of Throes“ due out February 11th.

Check out now "Narcissus" streaming via YouTube for you below.

The 29-minute outing's track list reads as follows: More...

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Spite Premiere New Single "Made To Please"

Spite premiere their new single called “Made To Please“. The band signed with Rise Records this past summer and have tapped ex-Emmure, Darko drummer Josh “Baby J” Miller.

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In Hearts Wake & Alpha Wolf Premiere New Track

Australian bands In Hearts Wake and Alpha Wolf have joined forces on a new track named “Dogma“. That single will be among the eight additional tracks included on the deluxe edition of In Hearts Wake's 2020 album “Kaliyuga“. Called the “Kaliyuga Booster Pack“, will be released on February 11th by UNFD.

Comments In Hearts Wake‘s frotnman Jake Taylor: More...

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Voivod Premiere New Single "Planet Eaters"

Canadian prog-thrash metal veterans of Voivod premiere their new single “Planet Eaters” off their upcoming fifteenth studio album “Synchro Anarchy”, which Century Media have scheduled for a release on February 11th, 2022.

Check out now "Planet Eaters" streaming via YouTube for you below.

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