Kaine Issues Recording Update

Essex heavy metal outfit Kaine has issued the following update about guitarist Rage Sadler laying down tracks for an upcoming release:

"Rage is done in the studio having finished off the guitar parts today. This concludes all of the recording of instruments for the new album.

"Kaine will now take a short break from working on the album to play Nottingham on Saturday before returning to finish the vocals the week after."

You can also follow the band's recording process over at the Kaine Facebook profile here.

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Gloryhammer & Poltergeist Named For 70000 Tons

UMC, the promoters for 70,000 Tons of Metal, announced the next two bands for the upcoming floating festival: Gloryhammer (featuring Christopher Bowes of Alestorm and Thomas Lazlo Winkler formerly of Emerald) and reformed Swiss thrashers Poltergeist (featuring André Grieder, who sang vocals on Destruction's 1990 album "Cracked Brain").

The cruise will take place from January 27, 2014 to January 31, 2014 - with the destination set as Costa Maya, Mexico, which was voted on by the fans. For more information, including booking your trip - head on over to www.70000tons.com.

Gloryhammer and Poltergeist join the previously announced acts, with 9 more bands still to be announced:

Bonfire (playing "Fire Works" in its entirety)
Carcass
Cripper
Cynic
Dark Tranquility
Death: DTA Tours
Death Angel
D.R.I.
Fear Factory
Finntroll
Haggard
Izegrim
Leaves' Eyes
Novembers Doom
Obituary (debuting the band's forthcoming new album in its entirety)
Orphaned Land
Overkill
Pungent Stench
Raven
Rising Storm
Satyricon
Septicflesh
Soilwork
Swallow the Sun
Symphony X
The Haunted
Victory
Vicious Rumors (playing "Digital Dictator" album in its entirety)
Xandria More...

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Eden's Curse Posts Recording Footage

Eden's Curse has posted a behind the scenes look at the vocal recording for the band's "Symphony of Sin" album released in 2013. Check it out below, and the album's track listing is as follows:

1. Symphony Of Sin
2. Break The Silence
3. Evil & Divine
4. Unbreakable
5. Fallen From Grace
6. Losing My Faith
7. Rock Bottom
8. Great Unknown
9. Turn The Page
10. Sign Of The Cross
11. Wings To Fly
12. Devil In Disguise

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Warpstone Streaming "The March"

Warpstone is now streaming new track "The March," which is the opening track off "Into the Phantasmancer Celestial Castle." Give it a listen below, and the band also comments:

"Warpstone is proud to honour the spirit of the blessed early ages, carving this intangible side of ourselves into sounds and words, as a rampart, and against the veil of oblivion. Musically hybrid, crossing the greatest extreme genres with a tortuous progressive feeling, Warpstone's sound is deeply engraved to a unique, occult and horrific landscape."

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Once Posts New Track Preview

German symphonic metal band Once has released a preview for an upcoming self-titled track, which can be heard below. Once consists of:

Vocals: Alina Lesnik
Guitar: Marco Paulzen
Keyboard: Frank Wypchol
Drums: Alexander Hey

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Years Of Exile Posts Album Teaser

South Wales, U.K. outfit Years Of Exile is gearing up to release debut album "Enigma" this coming January 20th, and now a teaser trailer can be seen below, courtesy of BlankTV. For more info on the band, check out the Years Of Exile Facebook profile.

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Masquera Di Ferro Streaming "Angel Of Fire"

Greek metal outfit Masquera Di Ferro is streaming the song "Angel of Fire," which can be heard below and comes off the "Reflection" album. You can also hear more music from the band over at Facebook here.

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Acid Deathtrip To Enter The Studio

Acid Deathtrip has issued the following announcement about hitting the studio:

"Who ever said delaying the release of a record is a bad thing? February 1st we're gonna be hitting Toneshed Recording Studio for yet another session of riffs and low frequency distrurbance.

"These spanking new tracks will be released as our side of the long awaited split LP with Hangman's Chair through Reflections Records this April.

"The original sessions we did for this split LP, will now be released as one bad-ass tape through Reflections records and will be available at our upcoming shows this March.

"Keep your eyes peeled on our profile and the Reflections records website. Both releases will be worth the wait....Trust us." More...

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Monuments Posts Tracking Video

Monuments has released a new guitar/bass tracking video, which can be seen below, and the band also comments:

"So we hear you guys like riffs? We'll maybe you should check out some of the filth we have planned for the next record."

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Trollfest Reveals New Album Art

Fresh from celebrating the band's tenth anniversary and with two North American tours, Norway’s Trollfest is starting 2014 by announcing details an a sixth full-length album.

The thirteen-track album will be titled “Kaptein Kaos” and is expected to appear on NoiseArt Records on March 28th. Recorded at the dUb Studio in Oslo and at the “Trollskogen Recording Facilities”, the album was mixed by Endre Kirkesola.

Once again the striking artwork is by Swedish cartoonist Jonas Darnell and designed by Terje Johnsen, both long-time collaborators with the band. The track listing is:

1. Trolltramp
2. Kaptein Kaos
3. Vulkan
4. Ave Maria
5. Filzlaus Verkündiger
6. Die Grosse Echsen
7. Seduction suit no.21
8. Solskinnsmedisin
9. Troll Gegen Mann
10. Sagn Om Stein
11. Renkespill
12. Kinesisk Alkymi
13. Døden banker på

Like previous albums, ”Kaptein Kaos” is set in the fantasy world of Trolls created by Trollfest. It tells the story of the Kaptein Kaos, who, according to the band ”is an inventor who creates a time machine and goes on an expedition across time to see some sights, taste some stuff and have some fun in ways that are exclusively available to people with time machines." More...

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Sickrites Announces New Collaborations

Russian black/death metal band Sickrites has made an announcement about an upcoming collaboration for its new 2014 split with Wargoat:

"TO THE LAKE OF FIRE! With unholy honor we want to proclaim that the guest vocal on our new song "Sepulchres Lie Below" was performed by the legendary Mike Browning of Nocturnus AD & After Death (ex-Acheron, ex-Morbid Angel etc). This song will be on one of the releases that will be released next year."

Sickrites also went on to mention another collaboration for one of its upcoming releases with Pestilentia:

"It is with great honor that SICKRITES announce a collaboration with an old friend & supporter Ludo "Evil" Lejeune of mighty MELEK-THA fame. Ludo has created a macabre outro for our new song "Dhaaegti" for split with Belorussian plaguebearers PESTILENTIA. Hailz, brother!"

Sickrites also announced that its two-song EP "Irreverent Death Megaliths" will be issued on CD format by Osmose Productions. Check out both songs from that 2013 digital release below.

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Chronobot Posts Tour Dates

Saskatchewan space/fuzz drone metal band Chronobot has announced a series of Canadian tour dates for the month of March, in its 'Blaze Through Time' tour. Chronobot has also been added to the Dark Light Noise Fest in Kamloops, BC on February 15th. Close to twenty bands are already confirmed for that event, with Chronobot playing the afterparty with the band Severed.

Chronobot last set the doom scene ablaze with its summer 2013 self-titled five song release, which you may stream below the tour date list.

CHRONOBOTS BLAZE THROUGH TIME TOUR
March 2014

13th - Regina @ The Club
14th - Winnipeg @ Windsor Hotel w/ Big Trouble In Little China, Beast
15th - Sault St Marie @ TBA
17th – Kitchener @ TBA
18th – Hamilton @ The Doors Pub
20nd – Montreal @ TBA
21rd - Quebec city @ Salle Unison w/ Memories Of An Old Man
23rd – Gatineau/Hull @ Le Petite Chicago
25th - Peterborough @ The Spill w/ Altarus
28th – Winnipeg @ 555 Osborne w/ SKF, Dead Ranch, More Than A Hand

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Surrender Of Divinity Bassist/Vocalist Killed

As reported by the Bangkok Post and Death Metal Underground, a self-styled Satanist posted on his Facebook page that he was the one who murdered Samong 'Avejee' Traisattha, bassist/vocalist of Thailand black metal band Surrender Of Divinity.

Jaruvan Surapol, 34, the musician's wife, told police that the killer was Prakarn Harnphanbusakorn, a fan of her husband's band. Prakarn had gone to the singer's house on Wednesday night to screen print some shirts and have a few beers. After the wife had put her child to bed, she went to check on her husband and encountered him stabbed over thirty times. Prakarn then posted the following litany on Facebook:

"I have intended to end my life since I was 25. Because I'll die eventually, I want to drag down those who tarnish Satanism with me. But I refrained from killing women and children," he wrote.

"In my view, I have more respect for devoted Buddhists, Christians and Muslims than those who call themselves Satanists without knowing anything about it," he wrote. "If I did not kill him, I'm sure he would be murdered by someone else later."

'Maleficent Meditation' (Prakarn's FB name) concluded that people who do not have faith in Satan should not call themselves Satanists. He also said he hoped he would be with Satan after he died. He also uploaded photos of the grisly crime scene to his timeline.

Surrender Of Divinity issued the following statement on its band page:

"Avajee, our Black Vomitor/Bass Thunder and most importantly our blood-brother has passed away yesterday by a cruel murderer. No words can express about this lost in our horde. Have a rest down there brother! May our blackest flames blazing bright forever!"

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Sunday Old School: Discharge

Stoke-on-Trent is an English city which might not be well known outside of Britain, but they’ve produced some outstanding talent, such as legendary England goalkeeper, Gordon Banks and Phil Taylor, perhaps the greatest player in the history of professional darts. But it’s not just sport that Stoke has contributed to. The world of punk rock, and indeed all heavy music, was changed forever in the city when five young Stokies got together in 1977 and formed Discharge. The seeds of the band were sewn by vocalist Tezz Roberts and guitarist Royston "Rainy" Wainwright, who quickly added Tezz’s younger brother Anthony, aka “Bones” on guitar, as well bass player Nigel Bamford and drummer Anthony "Akko" Axon. Like most punk bands starting out at the time, they were influenced by the likes of the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned, the latter two they would go on to support following the release of their first demo.

Their style was soon to change however, after Bamford and Axon quit the band and they hired vocalist, Cal Morris, leading Tezz Roberts to take up the position of drummer, while Rainy switched to bass. The new addition saw them shedding their Sex Pistols style in favour of a much more aggressive sound, influenced largely by Motorhead (whose frontman, Lemmy, was also born in Stoke-on-Trent) and their lyrics began to take a form as harsh their guitar tone, focusing on the fear of nuclear destruction and the evils in society that was caused by Capitalism. Although this change was made of their own accord, several other bands in Britain had also begun to perform a more abrasive style, such as Amebix and Chaos UK and the new second wave of punk was ready to unleashed, eventually referred to by rock historians as "UK82," which takes its name from a song by The Exploited. More...

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Dance Now Bitch Streaming EP

Mexican deathcore band Dance Now Bitch is offering its recent EP "Abduction" to its fans over on its facebook band page. Stream all five songs over at this location. The Guadalajara band made one of the tracks, "Baphomet's District," into an official video produced by Arturo Ancira. Check it out below.

Next up on the schedule for the band will be the Hell and Heaven Metal Fest in Mexico City on March 15th-16th, which will feature artists such as Pressive and Insertion Loss sharing the stage with Dance Now Bitch.

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