Lost Without Direction Streaming New EP

Germany's Lost Without Direction has a new five-song concept EP out, which you can buy on a name-your-price basis at this location.

All five songs off "Fragile" come together to tell a story, which you can hear in full via the player below. The track listing is as follows:

1. Burdens 04:21
2. Colors 04:53
3. Deed 05:06
4. Envy 04:07
5. Fragile 04:16 More...

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Trylion Posts New Lyric Video

Poland's Trylion just dropped a new lyric video for the track "Point Of View," which can be seen in the YouTube player below. Trylion is:

Vocals - Przemyslaw Palasz
Guitar - Bartosz Stachowiak
Bass - Pawel Stachowiak
Drums - Antoni Cepel

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A Higher Demise Releases New EP

The young and ambitious five-piece metalcore band A Higher Demise just released latest EP "The Doctor Will See You Now" via Ambicon Records.

The EP was produced by Jason Wilson and can be picked up at Bandcamp here. All five songs are available for streaming below, and the track listing is as follows:

1. My Therapist Knows You By Name 03:33 [watch the video here]
2. All These Reasons 03:55
3. Here We Go Again 03:55
4. It's A Trap 05:04
5. Over and Over 03:40 More...

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My Brother The Wind Posts "Song Of Innocence" Clip

My Brother The Wind just released an official video for the vast, slowly-building twelve minute movement, "Song Of Innocence."

The clip is not only culled from the group's new album, but was actually filmed directly in time with the recording of the track, showcasing the band's ultra free-flow style of recording. Check out he new video for "Song Of Innocence" below, thanks to The Obelisk.

The Swedish quartet recorded third studio full-length, "Once There Was A Time When Time And Space Were One," at Drop Out Analogue in the snowy wilderness of Åmål, Sweden. The album is due out October 14th, 2014 through Free Electric Sound. More...

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Behind The Sun Streams New Single

Four-piece outfit Behind The Sun rose from South Carolina in 2012, and now the band is ready to spread some new tunes to metal lovers across the globe.

Check out the new single "Gently" in the SoundCloud player below, and you can find more info on Behind The Sun via Facebook here. The band consists of:

Jesse Hanak - Guitar, Vocals
Nathan G. Day - Drums,Vocals
Brian Sisk - Bass
Morgan Murray - Guitar, Vocals More...

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Volharding Posts Full Album Online

New Jersey metal band Volharding has released the entire "Ascension" album online for streaming. Give it a listen below, and if you like what you hear, be sure to pick up a digital copy at Bandcamp here.

"Ascension" was recorded by Ermin Hamidovic at Systematic Productions and Kyle Odell at Think Sound, with addditional recording by Jeff Wallace at Entropy Recordings. The album was produced, mixed, and mastered by Jason Bakker, and the track listing is as follows:

1. Contagion 03:47
2. Red Sand 02:54
3. Holographic Shell 03:13
4. Requiem 01:43
5. Lesser of Two Evils 03:12
6. Black Ocean 05:14
7. Empire 03:58
8. Ascension 06:27 More...

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Maahlas Streaming Album's Title Track

Norwegian metal act Maahlas has released debut full-length album "Nightmare Years," which can be picked up at iTunes here.

"Nightmare Years" is a concept album that tackles such subject matter as environmental issues, religion & political struggles while mixing in some sci-fi themes to create a unique experience for the listener over the course of eleven songs. Check out the title track below, and the full track listing is as follows:

1. Sun of the Summerian
2. A False World
3. Morning Light
4. An Ancestral Memory
5. At the Edge of Life
6. Gliese 667 / Æra
7. Nightmare Years
8. The Great Divide
9. Birth of Sentience
10. Of Hypocrisy, Hate and Fall
11. Simulacrum of Reality More...

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Sunday Old School: Black Sabbath Part 1

As so many of our readers are aware, in the United States, the month of February is Black History Month. It’s also the time when we devote the Sunday Old School column to Black Metal history. What many of our readers might not know however, is that Black History Month is also held in the United Kingdom, albeit on a far less noticed scale, in the month of October. Since it doesn’t make sense to dedicate two months of the year to one genre, Metal Underground and Sunday Old School in particular, will focus on a different history, that of arguably the first, and many would say best, heavy metal band of all time. Welcome to Black Sabbath History Month!

The seeds of Black Sabbath, and perhaps heavy metal itself, were sewn when guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward teamed up with bass player Terry "Geezer" Butler and vocalist John "Ozzy" Osbourne, an old schoolmate and reported bullying victim of Iommi’s. They formed the Pulka Tulk Blues Band, which also featured a slide guitarist named Jimmy Clarke and saxophonist, Alan Clarke. The sextuplet quickly shortened their moniker to Pulka Tulk, before changing their name once again to Earth. In order to remove Phillips and Clarke from the group in the most polite way possible, the founding quartet decided to disband then reunite the band as a four piece, recording new, exciting material such as "A Song for Jim," (a tribute to their manager, Jim Simpson.) After being mistaken frequently for another British band of the same name, Earth decided to once again rechristen themselves, choosing the now iconic name Black Sabbath upon Geezer’s suggestion, who remarked how interesting it was that people would pay to be scared by films such as the Boris Karloff feature from which the quartet took their name. More...

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