Metal News for February 7, 2017
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Pit Stories: Bizzaro World Mindfuck
It's Pit Story day once again metal fans!
Today we've got a completely bonkers, off-the-wall story where every element of a show - from arrival and loadout all the way to what happened after getting home the next day - were so insane as to be a surreal, dreamlike experience.
This week's tale comes courtesy of guitarist Jordan Smith of Indianapolis, Indiana-based band Drude. Want more info on Drude? Head over to the band's Facebook profile here. Jordan tells the crazy pit story like this:
When I was asked to share a crazy pit story, narrowing it down became quite the challenge. Which really classifies as the craziest thing I've ever seen? Nude crowd surfing? Shooting up in the audience? Dude with a billiard ball in a bandanna blindly swinging it around at head level? Seeing as nude crowd surfing is awesome and junkies and reckless assholes will be served no honorable mention from me, I am going to with the Cleveland story. More of a crazy show story. Names and locations have been omitted intentionally.
The band I was in at the time pulled up to the building around 5 o'clock and we were met with all the hospitality you'd expect as a touring band. We were shown the place and got unloading. After getting our van stuck in the mud, we managed to make it inside and got setting up.
The time came for us to play and we noticed that people started bringing random trash into the building. I didn't wonder about it much, but by the next time I looked up, there was a dude 6 feet in the air crashing down on it. One by one, people were launching off of one another trying to absolutely obliterate this door. Once that had been destroyed, they brought in a wooden bench and starting completely fucking that thing up. Scraps of wood were flying all throughout the room. Mind you, we had fog machines and lights going, so this scene was just a completely intense sensory experience. Next were a few plastic lawn chairs falling victim to cinder blocks being thrown at them and exploding everywhere. Then I smelled burning. Somebody had lit a trash can on fire in the building.
I couldn't believe what was happening. It was amazing. After the havoc, we cleared the stage and began loading into the van. As soon as we got our gear out into the yard the skies broke into a torrential downpour, completely soaking all of our gear. After dealing with that the best we could, we went back in. As it turned out, the last band had left and decided that they weren't going to play. During our set there was a guy sitting on the couch in the back and our bass player had teasingly said something to the effect of "Come on get up, this isn't a coffee shop" and that so greatly offended the guy that he and his whole band left.
About an hour later a lady, who we had assumed was homeless judging by her clothing and demeanor, came in and started grabbing the mic from the final band and rapping into it. Saying all kinds of shit barely discernible through her badly slurred speech. After 10 or 15 minutes it had reached that "Ok, we get it" phase. Curiously, I asked one of the guys if this was a normal thing and why they didn't ask her to leave since she was clearly disrupting the show. The guy told me that there were some serious no bullshit crack dealers living across the street and that was their sister. The last time they kicked her out for coming in there and being a drunken mess, they were met with very convincing threats from their neighbors. So they just sort of had to let her do her thing and play along no matter how annoying or obnoxious she was being. She was harmless and sort of endearing.
Later that night, we were put up and fed by the promoter and the evening had seemed like a passing dream. The next day, we looked at the Facebook event page and it was blown up by some Neo-Nazi dudes just hammering away at how awful we were and making some really shitty comments about homosexuals and people with disabilities. It feels necessary to mention that he was in no way affiliated with the venue or promoters and they tried their best to have our backs. The whole thing was a complete Bizarro World mindfuck. I lost my favorite Sleep hoodie, but I gained a ridiculous story that I've probably told a hundred times since.
Three-piece metal outfit Drude (formerly known as Burn The Army) will release a new self-titled EP on March 3rd, 2017. Check out the title track below. More...
Black Cilice Posts "Channeling Forgotten Energies"
Today the Portuguese black metal cult Black Cilice premieres new track "Channeling Forgotten Energies" online. The track hails from fourth album, "Banished From Time," which is set for international release on March 10th via Iron Bonehead Productions and features this track listing:
1. Timeless Spectre
2. On the Verge of Madness
3. Possessed by Night Spirits
4. Channeling Forgotten Energies
5. Boiling Corpses More...
Replacire Streaming "Horsestance"
Boston's explosive, multi-faceted technical metal band Replacire is today streaming another new track from forthcoming album, "Do Not Deviate." The crushing, whirling amalgamation of extreme prog and death metal titled "Horsestance" can be heard below.
Regarding the track, guitarist Eric Alper comments: "'Horsestance' is my favorite song off the new record. The writing process was painless on this one, it flowed out naturally and hits hard! It's a flurry of downpicking slams, bouncy riffs, unique cleans, and visceral moments.
"Combining influence from multiple extreme bands it's a gross amalgamation of old Metallica's unrelenting picking style with the chromatic and unexpected note choice of Cannibal Corpse. It's one of the shortest songs we've ever written and in my mind represents the overall energy of the record. It's manic but deliberate, leaving something to be discovered with each listen. It features non-repeating parts but isn't linear, something we strive for throughout the album."
New album "Do Not Deviate" will be released by Season of Mist worldwide on March 17th, 2017 and features the following track listing:
1. Horsestance
2. Act, Re-enact
3. Built Upon the Grave of He Who Bends
4. Any Promise
5. Cold Repeater
6. Reprise
7. Moonbred Chains
8. Do Not Deviate
9. Spider Song
10. Traveling Through Abyss
11. Enough for One More...
Nailed To Obscurity Announces New Tour
Just shortly after the release of full-length album “King Delusion” last Friday, melodic death metal doomsters Nailed To Obscurity today announces a European tour with none other than Gothenburg melodic death metal pioneers Dark Tranquillity.
Guitarist Jan-Ole Lamberti comments: “Touring with a legendary band like Dark Tranquillity is definitely a dream coming true for us!
"We were about 15 years old when Damage Done came out and Volker and I were completely blown away by the album and so we were listening to it over and over again and it became one of our alltime favorite records. This band had such a strong influence on us in every possible way and it will be an honor for us to support them on their European headline shows in April/May.” More...
Sinner Posts "Battle Hill" Clip
Germany's hard n' heavy institution Sinner is set to release new album "Tequila Suicide" on March 31st. As a first teaser, the band now presents a lyric video for the track "Battle Hill."
"Tequila Suicide" was produced by Mat Sinner and Dennis Ward. Expect a full dose of tracks in typical Sinner style, with a few surprises added here and there, like the bluesy rock ballad "Sinner Blues."
Numerous guest musicians also appear, inlcuding Gus G of Ozzy Osbourne & Firewind, Ricky Warwick (The Almighty, Thin Lizzy) and Pete Lincoln (Sailor, Sweet). More...
Bloodbound Releases New Video
The Swedish power metal commandos from Bloodbound just released a brand new video clip for "Battle In The Sky," taken from upcoming album "War Of Dragons" (due out February 24th). The album's track listing is as follows:
1. A New Era Begins
2. Battle In The Sky
3. Tears Of A Dragonheart
4. War Of Dragons
5. Silver Wings
6. Stand And Fight
7. King Of Swords
8. Fallen Heroes
9. Guardians At Heaven's Gate
10. Symphony Satana
11. Starfall
12. Dragons Are Forever More...
Komatsu Announces New Tours
Komatsu will start the new year in high gear, with the mother sludgers supporting Orange Goblin in just a handful of days. Next up later this month, Komatsu will tour Euroupe with The Freeks (formed by members of Fu Manchu and Nebula). The tour starts February 28th in Italy and ends on the 19th of March in Germany.
The beginning of April will be Komatsu’s start of the Dutch festival season, with an appearance at the Paaspop fest. And if that’s not enough, Komatsu will embark on a ten day tour (May 2017) on the other side of the equator in Brazil. More...
Sauron Posts '95 Live Footage
Poland’s pagan black metal veterans from Sauron have dug out some proper old school footage of "The Baltic Fog" era ahead of that album's first-time vinyl release next month. The 16 minute footage is part of a concert which took place on November 10th, 1995 - check it out below.
Originally recorded and released in 1995 at ZSE Studio in Radom, Poland, the new LP version of "The Baltic Fog" will be limited to 200 copies and is scheduled for a March 3rd, 2017 release with the following track listing:
1. In the Glare of the Black Candles
2. Klasztor
3. Hellish Requiem
4. The Baltic Fog
5. In the Shadow of Svantevit
6. Grave
7. Necromansy
8. The Deepest Night of Arkona
The Obsessed Streaming "Razor Wire"
Maryland doom group The Obsessed will unleash "Sacred," the band's first studio album in over twenty years, this coming April 7th via Relapse Records. Check out new song "Razor Wire" below.
Guitarist Scott "Wino" Weinrich comments on the new album: "I can honestly say, I think this is the best sounding recording of my career, and I am excited to release it on Relapse. This song 'Razor Wire,' I have been carrying around the title concept and main riff in my pocket for a couple years. The full song was born after applying real life experiences, with a little wishful thinking! Fuck control."
1. Sodden Jackal
2. Punk Crusher
3. Sacred
4. Haywire
5. Perseverance Of Futility
6. It's Only Money
7. Cold Blood
8. Stranger Things
9. Razor Wire
10. My Daughter My Son
11. Be The Night
12. Interlude
13. On So Long (Bonus)
14. Crossroader Blues (Bonus) More...
OneGodLess Streaming "From The Ashes"
OneGodLess just released "From The Ashes," taken off the band's upcoming debut album coming in early 2017. A crowd funding campaign for the album is now live and can be found right here.
In late 2013, OneGodLess decided to bring nothing new. Since everything already had been done before, and everything else wouldn't be worth making, these brave young men decided to do something entirely different: to acknowledge their total lack of cutting edge, offering a mix of sounds like a lot of other groups before them.
Founding member Robin Zielhorst (ex-Cynic, Exivious), found like minded forces in Pieter Verpaalen (ex-Textures), Yordi Lopez (Red Eyes) and Yuma van Eekelen (Exivious, ex-Pestilence) to walk this beaten path of metal. The result is a grooving metal machine that does not stop until you're beating your head to the sound of the riffs. More...
Set And Setting Releases New Video
With new Set And Setting album "Reflectionless" officially out as of January 27th, today the band releases a new video for "Saudade."
The video marries tour footage, shot on the road in 2015, with the band's majestic, instrumental rock. "Saudade" chugs and soars; with two drummers propelling the beat, it drives forward with purpose. Check it out below.
"Reflectionless" was recorded by Ryan Haft (Torche, Wrong) at Black Bear Studios in Gainesville, Florida, and mastered by Ed Brooks (R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie) at Resonant Mastering. You can hear the full album right here. More...
Fucked Up Announces "Year Of The Snake"
Long-running Canadian hardcore punk unit Fucked Up will drop the eighth installment of the Zodiac Series with "Year Of The Snake" next month via Tankcrimes. Fusing all the prime tenets of rock, punk, metal, and psychedia into a comprehensive and imposing opus of unyielding enormity, Fucked Up is sonically and conceptually devouring.
Fucked Up's latest entry into the Zodiac Series documents the journey of self-care and opening awareness through the use of psychedelics and medicinal plants. The twenty-four-minute epic title track follows the narrative of a trip with strange instrumentation and electronics held together with the bands own loose interpretation of hardcore punk.
"Year Of The Snake" will come available on CD, digital, and various limited vinyl formats on March 24th via Tanckcrimes and features cover art cover art by illustrator Fred Tomaselli (They Might Be Giants, Phish, Elysian Fields et al) as well as bonus track, "Year Of The Snake, Remix," by techno noise project Container.
1. Year Of The Snake (23:57)
2. Passacaglia (6:05)
3. Year Of The Snake (Container Remix) (5:11) **
** CD EP bonus track
** included with mailorder copies of 12" on a bonus flexi disc More...
The Moon And The Nightspirit Releasing New LP
The Moon And The Nightspirit is a Hungarian duo that creates enchanting and melancholic folk music enhanced by a bewitching pagan aura where threads of ancient mysticism combine with phantasmagoric atmospheres.
The group will release new LP, "Metanoia," this coming March 17th via Prophecy Productions. In advance of the record's release, The Moon And The Nightspirit has released new song "Az Elsö Tündér Megidézése."
1. A Hajnal Köszöntése
2. Az Elsö Tündér Megidézése
3. Mystérion Mega
4. Kilenc Hid
5. A Fény Diadala
6. Metanoia
7. Kristálymezök
8. Hen Panta Einai (Minden Egy) More...
Virgin Steele Posts "The Ineffable Name" Video
Virgin Steele just released a lyric video for the song "The Ineffable Name," taken from the forthcoming re-release of "Visions Of Eden."
SPV / Steamhammer is proud to handle the re-release on February 17th, 2017 as a 2CD digipak, download, and stream.The first disc will contain a remixed version of the entire album and the second disc will contain a remastered presentation of the original version.
The package will also include a huge booklet with new liner notes and unseen photos by David DeFeis. The full track listing is available after the jump. More...
Power Trip Streaming "Nightmare Logic"
Power Trip today gives us one last glimpse into "Nightmare Logic" before it's officially out this month on Southern Lord Records. Check out the title track below.
"Nightmare Logic" is due out February 24th, 2017. Southern Lord comments: "Power Trip executes music with raw energy. They've trimmed the fat on every reference they pull from - whether that's hardcore, metal, or punk - to make music that leaves marks in 2017.
"Hailing from Dallas, the band has toured the world relentlessly for years. Their musical proficiency, perfect song structure, rich tones, fierce riffs, delivery, and collective attitude has seeded them as one of today's most prolific acts in any astute or heavy genre." More...
Blynd Working On Album
Following the "Liber Sum" album released back in November of 2015, Cyprus-based metal band Blynd is now gearing up to record a new full-length. The band comments:
"What's up everyone? We are very excited to inform you that we have started working on our next album. Last night at Zen Production Studios we finally got our minds into it and worked some early ideas.
"We don't know exactly what our next direction will be but can say for a fact that we will be exploring some other areas that we haven't gone before. We will probably do some more concerts for the rest of the year but our main focus is songwriting. See you all soon \m/" More...
Moros Announces Split With Black Urn
Doomed-sludge fiends Moros and blackened bludgeoners Black Urn are excited to release their exclusive, limited release split album featuring four new stunningly abrasive songs on February 27th.
Both bands are dominating the Philadelphia music scene and beyond with their filthy and unrelenting styles of miserable sludge, doom, and teeth chattering low-end riff obsession. With help in the studio from Jeff Barow (Ten Ton Hammer), Austin Haines (Outerheaven) and mastering from Alex Poole (Skaphe, Krieg), both Moros and Black Urn were able to see their massive soundscapes come to life.
The split release is available for pre-order and will be available on cassette and digital starting February 27th. Moros and Black Urn will celebrate the release at Kung Fu Necktie in Philadelphia with a free show. More...
Craven Idol Reveals "Shackles Of Mammon" Details
After four years of toil, London’s extreme metal force Craven Idol presents "The Shackles Of Mammon," an uncompromising and unique blend of metal from the early days of horrible hellnoise.
Recorded at Birmingham’s Priority Studios and engineered by Esoteric’s Greg Chandler (and mastered by Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound), "The Shackles Of Mammon" boasts an old school production as well as Craven Idol’s most fierce and varied songs to date.
The album features artwork by the extraordinarily twisted Daniel Corcuera, with a take on Sascha Schneider’s 1896 wood carving "Mammon und sein Sklave." Lyrically the album deals with the vices of man, the plagues they unleashed upon themselves, and the rationalization of its own actions – be it in tragedy or ruin – through the creation of deities and cults. Due out April 14th, the track listing is as follows: More...
Felix Martin Streaming "Bom"
Felix Martin recently announced details regarding his upcoming 15-track full-length album, "Mechanical Nations," due out February 24th, 2017. Today Martin is revealing a brand new track, "Bom," which can be heard below.
"For this song, I wanted to see drums and guitar as one instrument, writing grooves for both instruments in a way that would make sense," says Martin. "This was the very first song I wrote using this guitar you see in the video (FM-907), which is a 9-string and a 7-string together, making it a guitar with 16-strings in one wide neck. I wanted to add that low 9-string open string (which is the lowest note I could possibly play) in a way that would sound heavy and big. I do this by slapping the guitar with my hand open."
He continues, "This song came to me after listening to a lot of industrial, prog and nu-metal music. It's influenced by the band Planet X with a bit of industrial vibe from Nine Inch Nails mostly at the middle, then a general electronic vibe in the interlude. I think Primus influenced this track too." More...
Witherfall Streaming New Album
Witherfall will drop debut album "Nocturnes And Requiems" this February 10th, 2017, but before that a full album stream has come online and can be heard below. Digital, CD, and vinyl pre-order options are available here and the album's full track listing is as follows:
1. Portrait
2. What We are Dying For
3. Act II
4. Sacrifice
5. The Great Awakening
6. End of Time
7. Finale
8. Nobody Sleeps Here Anymore More...
Byzantine Crowd Funding New Album
Metal Blade Records has given Byzantine the chance to show off the band's talent on a bigger stage with "The Cicada Tree," the culmination of many years of musical craftsmanship and resounding songwriting. After 16 years underground, it's finally time for the world to hear Byzantine on June 2nd!
In conjunction with PledgeMusic, "The Cicada Tree" is now available to pre-order in various formats and bundles, with every pledge receiving a digital download of the tracks, plus exclusive content.
To reserve your copy of the album (with 2 cover songs by Fishbone and the Cars), signed material from the band, apparel, and more, head over to this location. Chris "OJ" Ojeda (vocals, rhythm guitar) comments:
"The last two Byzantine albums were released DIY and both were coupled with successful crowd-funding campaigns. Now that we have finally landed a home with Metal Blade, we feel that it is vital that we continue our close relationship with our fan-base by offering up pre-orders for 'The Cicada Tree' through PledgeMusic. Our experience with PledgeMusic has been nothing short of fantastic. We hope you enjoy 'The Cicada Tree' as much as we enjoyed making it for you!" More...
Lethe Posts "Down Into The Sun" Video
Tor-Helge and Anna Murphy - the masterminds behind Lethe - today present "Down Into The Sun," a new fragment off brand new album "The First Corpse On The Moon," which is ready to be released on February 24th via My Kingdom Music. Check out this new video edited by MKM Graphix below.
My Kingdom comments: "The new 10-track album is an astonishing and unique experience into the most avantgardish metal / trip-hop / electro / pop / experimental art and this new song shows how ambitious, eclectic and delirant is Lethe's musical universe! Close your eyes, open your mind, and let the music take you on a musical journey through different moods." More...
Dragonforce Unveils New Album Cover
The follow-up to Dragonforce's 2014 full-length album "Maximum Overload" and the 2016 compilation "Killer Elite" set has officially been recorded.
The real question is: will this one have a sick Johnny Cash cover like "Maximum Overload" did?
Today the band is also unveiling the album cover. After dropping several segments of the art separately at Instagram here, the full piece can now be viewed below. Stay tuned for full details on new Dragonforce album "Reaching Into Infinity" to arrive shortly. More...
Wear Your Wounds Releasing "WYW"
Wear Your Wounds is the product of years of lo-fi solo recordings by Converge founder Jacob Bannon. On this "WYW" release he is joined by guest musicians Kurt Ballou (Converge), Mike McKenzie (The Red Chord, Stomach Earth, Unraveller), Chris Maggio (Sleigh Bells, Trap Them, Coliseum), and Sean Martin (Hatebreed, Cage, Kid Cudi, Twitching Tongues).
Together they have created a powerful album that is unlike anything they have ever individually worked on, containing ten emotional songs that call to the slower, more epic leanings of Converge, as well as his previous work in Supermachiner.
Pre-orders are available here. Check out a video for the title track below, and the full track listing is as follows:
1. Wear Your Wounds
2. Giving Up
3. Iron Rose
4. Hard Road To Heaven
5. Best Cry of Your Life
6. Breaking Point
7. Shine
8. Fog
9. Heavy Blood
10. Goodbye Old Friend More...
Vidian Releases New Video
Vidian extends a reputation for boundary-pushing music to the visual medium as today a brand new music video for the twisted, bass-driven track “Pole Shift” comes online. The song comes off the "A Piece of the End" EP, which was released in May of 2016 on Arachnophobia Records.
The group was originally established in 2008 in the Polish town of Bydgoszcz and proudly avoids treading over old ground, with no release sounding the same. Most recent output, "A Piece of the End," is a 20-minute EP filled with melancholy and technical grooves.
Before signing to Arachnophobia Records, the act previously self-released two full-length albums: "Irrelevant Nonsense Machine Element" (2011) and "Transgressing the Horizon" (2015). More...
The Ocean Posts "Rhyacian" Video
Germany's premier post-metal act The Ocean has started work on a new album to follow 2015's split "Transcendental" EP with Japanese post-rock legends Mono.
In anticipation of the upcoming full-length record, The Ocean has launched a new live video for the track "Rhyacian," which head back further into the discography and is taken from 2007's "Precambrian" album. Filmed at the Brick by Brick in San Diego, CA, the video can be viewed below.
Prior to "Transcendental," The Ocean released sixth full-length album "Pelagial" in 2013 - which was hailed as the group's "most ambitious record to date" (HeavyBlogIsHeavy.com). Since the album and EP's release, the group has toured the world in support - stay tuned for more info on the upcoming opus. More...
Wacken Battle Announces Boston & PA Rounds
For over a decade at the world's largest outdoor metal festival Wacken Open Air, independent metal bands from around the globe have been performing in front of thousands and competing against one another for one to be crowned champion of the world along with winning multiple prizes.
For the first time ever, Wacken Metal Battle USA is coming to America for its inaugural year and will be hosting qualifying rounds in New York City as well as newly added events in Boston and Philadelphia. The national champion of those battles will perform at the 2017 festival taking place from August 3rd - 5th. The first batch of qualifying rounds have been announced for Boston and Philadelphia as follows:
Boston, MA
Round 1 – Tuesday, February 21 @ Once Somerville (156 Highland Ave, Somerville, Massachusetts)
Event Link
Coffin Birth
Skull Hammer
Swarm Of Eyes
1 TBD
Round 2 – Tuesday, March 14 @ Once Somerville (156 Highland Ave, Somerville, Massachusetts)
Event Link
Upheaval
Leather Lung
Birnam Wood
1 TBD
Round 3 – Tuesday, March 21 @ Once Somerville (156 Highland Ave, Somerville, Massachusetts)
Event Link
Pathogenic
Carnivora
Ravage
Goblet More...
A Breach Of Silence Posts "Broken" Video
Australian act A Breach Of Silence just premiered a music video for "Broken." This is the second video clip from upcoming studio album "Secrets" - check it out below.
“'Broken' was written about depression, what it feels like at your lowest” states guitarist Mat Cosgrove. “While we were writing this album, our bassist Blair broke up with his girlfriend and it really tore him apart.”
Bassist Blair Layt continues, "it reflects a time in my life when I was the most depressed I've ever been. I just broke off an emotionally abusive relationship and my thick skin had been worn thin over its duration. I was suicidal, depressed and defeated. For a short time, I turned to drugs to numb the pain. I shut people out, and I almost forgot what it was like to be happy. Luckily, through the amazing support of friends and family, I managed to pull myself together, and take steps to better my state of mind, and return to the positive place I like to revel in. Looking back now, this song is a reminder for me of how far I've come since then. I hope that any of our fans feel those vibes when listening, and hopefully they may learn through my experience... that no matter how low you are, life can always get better if you allow it to... even if you think it can't.”
New album "Secrets" was produced by Fredrik Nordstrom (Bring Me the Horizon, Arch Enemy, In Flames) and mixed by Henrik Udd at Studio Fredman. It will be released worldwide via Eclipse Records on February 24th, 2017. More...
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