Metal News for December 15, 2016
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29 news articles posted on this day.
Endemise Offering Free Download
After unleashing self-released album "Anathema" this past October as the follow-up to 2013 debut album "Far From The Light," Ottawa symphonic black / death metal band Endemise is now offering a free track download.
Grab your copy of "Soma," one of eight blistering ear piercers off "Anathema" that was produced by band guitarist Dale Sauve along with Ken Sorceron (Abigail Williams), at Pure Grain Audio here. You can also stream the track below. More...
Code For Silence Releases New Single
Finnish group Code For Silence just released new single "One Apart From Life," which can be heard below.
Code For Silence is also preparing an upcoming third full0length album witha new lineup that's presented for the first time in this new single. The most significant change in the lineup is that former singer Antti Ström has stepped out and the new singer is Markus Taipale. More...
Wiegedood Announces New Album
After exploding onto the extreme music scene last year with the furious “De Doden Hebben Het Goed” album, Belgian black metal trio Wiegedood now returns with a sophomore album, simply titled “De Doden Hebben Het Goed II.”
Set for release on February 10th via Consouling Records, this new album picks where the debut left off, but sees the band sounding more concise, cohesive, and ferocious than ever before.
The Belgians just shared first new song “Smeekbede,” which can be heard below. Pre-orders for the album - coming February 10th - can be made right here. More...
In Vain Issues Album Update
Norwegian outfit In Vain is currently working on the follow-up to previous album "Ænigma," with the band issuing this update:
"The pre-production is well underway and we have finished about 8 songs. We are focusing a lot on vocals and arrangements at this stage. Some songs have been easy, while others are harder to crack. We still have some more songs to go and there is a big variety in the music.
"Everything from fast and aggressive, groovy and intricate, to slower and more heavy tunes. As previously announced, Baard Kolstad will start recording the drums in January.
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"Make sure you follow our Youtube channel while you are at it for more updates in the times ahead. We appreciate your continuous support." More...
Machinae Supremacy Streams Full Album
Swedish video game-inspired band Machinae Supremacy will release new album "Into The Night World" tomorrow, December 16th, 2016 via the group's own Hubnester Records, in collaboration with Swedish music company BD Pop.
In celebration of tomorrow's release, the whole album is streaming in full an entire day early. Listen in below.
Vocalist Robert Stjärnström states: "So stoked to finally be able to share this album with everyone, and it's awesome to have Loudwire bring it to the fans one day early! On Friday, Into The Night World hits all regular digital services, and pre-ordered CDs should start arriving in the mail. We can't wait to hear what you guys think!" More...
Code Orange Posts "Kill The Creator"
Code Orange just premiered “Kill The Creator,” the second track to be released from anticipated new LP, "Forever," which will drop January 13th. Check out “Kill The Creator” and its accompanying visuals below.
Created by Brandon Allen Bolmer, the “Kill The Creator” clip embodies the vengeance of a grim retribution. Bolmer states, “Locked in a kill room, a man takes a merciless beating from the hellish force that he created from all the wrong he has done."
The Funeral Portrait Streaming Full Album
After we premiered the "Like Father Like Son" music video, Atlanta group The Funeral Portrait is now streaming full new album "A Moment of Silence," which is set for release, tomorrow, December 16th.
Recorded / mixed by Matt McClellan at Glow in The Dark Studios in Atlanta, GA and mastered by Kristofer Crummett, "A Moment of Silence" displays a more dangerous and honest side of The Funeral Portrait, telling the story of one man's journey through the afterlife.
Guitarist/vocalist Landstrom explains: "In this universe there is eternity after death, but there is no god and there is no heaven. This man has been told his entire life that when he died, he would be greeted by God at the gates of heaven. Now he must drift and observe, waiting for the truth to reveal itself." More...
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Todtgelichter Announces Final Album, Tour Dates
Following the "Rooms" album release earlier in 2016, German avant-garde outfit Todtgelichter has revealed 2017 will be the band's final year. A handful of last shows are being lined up, along with a final studio output. The band comments:
"Okay people, some sad news for you: We have mutually decided to put Todtgelicther on ice indefinitely. We will play some selected shows in 2017 (the last ones in March/April), after that we will effectively function as a studio band for one more album coming soon (promise!) and then –
Good Night.
"Reasons? Legion. The effort to create something new and exciting with which we can surprise ourselves feels bigger and bigger, and we keep asking ourselves more often why we put up with it. Add to that the hardships of the whole business, the decline of physical sales, the fading will to tolerate let-downs and disappointments you inevitably get when people that are supposed to work with you do not burn for the band with the same fire as you do, the fact that any band our size will know this hobby is a money-burning machine (Did we really get filthy rich with the supposedly moneygrabbing move 'Apnoe?' Not so. Yes, people actually did accuse us of that intention). More...
Candiria Posts "Wandering Light" Video
Brooklyn's own Candiria is bringing you a new video for "Wandering Light," another powerful track off new record "While They Were Sleeping" - a concept album conceived by the band's lead vocalist Carley Coma that tells the tale of a failed musician who rises up against a monarchy in New York City.
John LaMacchia (guitar) comments: "'Wandering Light' is one of my favorite songs off of the new album so I am very happy it was included in the live, Spaceman Sound Studio sessions. This version of the song includes an additional musical section that I feel adds another layer of excitement to the performance."
Fresh off a successful North America headline tour in support of the album, Candiria will head back out on the road again this upcoming January/February. Dates are as follows:
Jan. 19 - Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
Jan. 20 - Trenton, NJ - Backstage at Championship
Jan. 21 - Amityville, NY - Amityville Music Hall
Jan. 22 - Boston, MA - Great Scott
Feb. 2 - Santa Cruz, CA - Catylyst Atrium
Feb. 3 - Sacramento, CA - Blue Lamp
Feb. 4 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom Of The Hill
Feb. 5 - Los Angeles, CA - Complex
Feb. 16 - Pittsburgh, PA - Smalls (supporting Zao) More...
Ur Streaming "Hail Death" Release
The debut EP "Hail Death" from the new beast that is Ur is being released via Arachnophobia Records today (December 15th) and is available to stream in its entirety below. The "Hail Death" track listing is as follows:
1. A Dying Star
2. The Tongue of Fire
3. Let the Darkness Come
4. Total Inertia
5. Only Bones Stay Here
6. Infinity More...
All Hail The Yeti Releases "Feed The Pigs" Video
If you are one of the many music enthusiasts looking forward to a huge wave of politically-charged, post-election punk, hardcore, and metal, All Hail The Yeti has arrived early to get the party started.
The band leads the charge with an official call for change on new track "Feed The Pigs" - a self-described "wake up call" for our generation to take action in society. Along with the track, the band reveals a new music video below.
"Writing 'Feed The Pigs' came very naturally for us; one of the least stressful, yet one of the most important songs we have ever written," Garritty details to Huffington Post. "We have always been very conscious of the world around us, especially the environment. With everything that is going on around us right now, I felt that this song needed to be heard... so inspiration wouldn't be the word - it is more of a wake-up call! Our society needs to clue in to what is going on! Change has to start right now!"
Although originally hailing from Canada, the members of All Hail The Yeti have resided in the Los Angeles, CA metropolitan area for several years. Garritty, a business owner in the state of California (Timeless Tattoo), personally feels the sting hitting small mom and pop shops everywhere. More...
Arvas Unveils The "Black Path"
Following last year's "Black Satanic Mysticism" album, Arvas is gearing up to drop a new full-length release titled "Black Path" on March 24th via Mighty Music. The album bears cover artwork by Nacaez Mindartset and the full track listing will be as follows:
1. Blackpath
2. The Ferocious Stigma
3. Unhallowed Grace
4. I Am Thy Grief
5. Hellhunts
6. In Solitude I Dwell
7. This Scarred Soul
8. Murder Is Patience
9. Bergdjaevul
10. ...For The Fallen Shall Arise
11. Evil (Mercyful Fate tribute) More...
Perturbator Posts New Song
After releasing darkwave sensation "The Uncanny Valley" earlier this year (reviewed here), Perturbator is back with a new song titled "Tactical Precision Disarray" that can be heard below.
"The Uncanny Valley" is currently included on our reader poll of best albums in 2016 - if you haven't cast your vote yet, you can do so right here. Perturbator is also gearing up for a European tour next year, with these dates now confirmed:
11/02 - Magny Le Hongre (77) - File7
24/03 - La Rochelle - La Sirène
30/03 - Marseille - Jas'Rod
31/03 - Nîmes - Paloma / SMAC de Nîmes Métropole
01/04 - Monthey - Le Kremlin
04/04 - Strasbourg - La Laiterie Artefact
05/04 - Reims - La Cartonnerie de Reims
06/04 - Frankfurt - Nachtleben Frankfurt
07/04 - Munich - Backstage München
08/04 - Budapest - A38 Hajó
10/04 - Prague - Futurum Music Bar
11/04 - Warsaw - Progresja
14/04 - Helsinki - Ääniwalli
15/04 - Tampere - Pakkahuone
18/04 - Hamburg - Logo Hamburg
19/04 - Berlin - Club GRETCHEN
21/04 - Tilburg - Roadburn Festival
19/05 - Lille - L'Aéronef
20/05 - Vaureal - Le Forum de Vauréal
18/06 - Clisson - Hellfest Open Air Festival
30/06 - Metz - Tcrm-Blida More...
Incantation Announces Tour With Marduk
Hot on the heels of dates across Europe and South America, death metal's long running monsters of darkened brutality from Incantation have announced that they are teaming up with Swedish black metal legends Marduk for a string of dates across the good old USofA. Let the tanks of death metal war rage onward!
02/07/17 Tampa, FL The Orpheum
02/08/17 Atlanta, GA Heaven @ Masquerade
02/09/17 Dayton, OH Oddbody's
02/10/17 Chicago, IL Reggie's
02/11/17 Kansas City, MO Riot Room
02/12/17 Fort Worth, TX Rail Club
02/13/17 Austin, TX Grizzly Hall
02/14/17 Albuquerque, NM Launchpad
02/15/17 Phoenix, AZ Joe's Grotto
02/16/17 Las Vegas, NV tbc
02/17/17 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theater
02/18/17 Oakland, CA Metro Opera House
02/19/17 Portland, OR Bossanova Ballroom
02/20/17 Seattle, WA Studio Seven More...
Aenaon Streams Full Album
Greek avant black metal conjurors Aenaon unleashed the sonic alchemy of "Hypnosophy" upon North American shores this past Friday via Code666 (read our review here).
The provocative seven-track production was captured at Crown Audio Conspiracies and thrusts forth fifty-five minutes of heavily textured progressive black metal bedecked in horns, saxophone, and keys.
Dreamlike yet nightmarish, sensual and dark, extreme and regal, "Hypnosophy" is a portal to a glorious surrealistic voyage like no other and a true work of vision and devotion. You can now stream the entire album below.
1. Oneirodynia
2. Fire Walk With Me
3. Earth Tomb
4. Void
5. Tunnel
6. Thus Ocean Swells
7. Phronesis - Psychologic More...
Carnifex Joining Lorna Shore On Tour
New Jersey-based metal band Lorna Shore will be joining Carnifex on an upcoming North American tour in early 2017, presented by Nuclear Blast and Indie Merch.
The tour, which also includes Despised Icon, Fallujah, Rings of Saturn, and She Must Burn, kicks off in Las Vegas on February 1st, 2017, just a few days ahead of the release of Lorna Shore's sophomore full-length album, "Flesh Coffin," via Outerloop Records. Dates and venue information is listed below: More...
King Woman Streams New Song "Utopia"
King Woman is streaming the new song "Utopia." The song is taken from the upcoming new release "Created in the Image of Suffering," which is due out February 24th, 2017 via Relapse Records. The album will be available in CD/LP/Digital formats.
The track listing for the album is:
1. Citios
2. Utopia
3. Deny
4. Shame
5. Hierophant
6. Worn
7. Manna
8. Hem More...
Deep Purple Releases New Single "Time For Bedlam"
Deep Purple revealed the title, release date and first song from the new album “inFinite," the highly anticipated follow up to their most recent worldwide chart topping album "NOW What?!."
“inFinite” will be released on April 7th by earMUSIC. A lyric video for the first single "Time For Bedlam," an up-tempo classic Deep Purple song, is available in the player below.
"Time For Bedlam" will be available as instant grat as part of the digital album preorder as well as on all streaming platforms today. A limited edition EP for “Time For Bedlam," with non-album bonus tracks and unreleased recordings will hit the shops on February 3rd.
A documentary movie, witnessing the songwriting process and the recording of the album with producer Bob Ezrin, has been produced, allowing for the first time for the fans to be part of the private band member interactions in the studio. The movie will be included in some editions of the album and it will be presented before release in various fan events worldwide. More...
Faithsedge Releases New Video "Jennifer"
California hard rock/progressive metal act Faithsedge, featuring Stryper bassist Tim Gaines and Silent Force/Level 10 keyboardist Alessandro Del Vecchio, released a video clip for the song "Jennifer."
The song is taken from the band's latest album "Restoration," which was issued back in June via Scarlet Records. Check out the clip here:
Temptation's Wings Issues New Single
North Carolina stoner/doom three piece Temptation's Wings released the new single "Lair of the Gorgon Queen." The song will appear on the band's upcoming debut full length release expected to drop on March 10th. More information on the album is expected shortly.
Check out "Lair of the Gorgon Queen" here:
Battle Beast Issues "King For A Day" Video Clip
Finland's Battle Beast issued a video for the new song "King For A Day." The song is the first single from the new album "Bringer Of Pain," coming via Nuclear Blast Records on February 17th.
Pre-orders for the album can be made at this location. The track listing is as follows:
1. Straight To The Heart
2. Bringer Of Pain
3. King For A Day
4. Beyond The Burning Skies
5. Familiar Hell
6. Lost In Wars
7. Bastard Son Of Odin
8. We Will Fight
9. Dancing With The Beast
10. Far From Heaven More...
Immolation Posts 360 Visualizer Clip For New Song
New York death metal act Immolation will release the new album "Atonement" on February 24th via Nuclear Blast Records. The album is the first new studio release since 2013's "Kingdom of Conspiracy."
As a first taste, the band unleashed a 360 visualizer video for the new song "Destructive Currents." The track listing for the album is:
1. The Distorting Light
2. When the Jackals Come
3. Fostering the Divide
4. Rise the Heretics
5. Thrown to the Fire
6. Destructive Currents
7. Lower
8. Atonement
9. Above All
10. The Power of Gods
11. Epiphany More...
Damned Pilots Stream New Song "Gorguss"
Today marks the the release of "Overgalaxy" from Italy's Damned Pilots via Sliptrick Records. To celebrate, the band is streaming the new song "Gorguss." Check it out in the player below.
"Overgalaxy" is a steam punk concept album. As drummer/founder Don Nutz says: "it’s built on the story of four cartoon characters, Don Nutz, Sgt Ote, Willer Hertz and Erik Space …aka The Damned Pilots. They travel through space in the year 2500 A.C. on a 1970’s hippy van customized to fight against their archenemy Gorguss and his evil empire." The lyrics, written by Sgt Ote, are about love and hate, war and peace, past and future, rebellions against failed systems, all imbued with the sensibilities and humor of classic sci-fi b-movies.
The album was been recorded at Track Terminal Studio in Trieste, Italy by Francesco Bardy, except "Just Another Day" and "People Don’t Die," which were recorded at Voodoosound Studios in Ijmuiden, Holland by Paul van Rijswijk. The album was produced by Ron Goudie (Gwar, Death Angel, Poison) and mixed and mastered by legendary producer Bill Metoyer (W.A.S.P., Trouble, Slayer). The artwork has been made by Philippine graphic designer Uzi Emperado.
"Overgalaxy" includes nine songs written by Don Nutz and Sgt Ote and one by Ron Goudie ("Hell Is Cold"). The style varies from mid tempo groovy metal to doom metal plus psychedelics ballads all strung together by catchy melodies. More...
Abhorrent Decimation To Hit The Road In February
Abhorrent Decimation is delighted to reveal the first run of live dates for 2017, on home turf in the UK, and in what could well be the last chance to see the death metal act in support of the "Miasmic Mutation" album. This will also be the chance for fans to hear a brand new song, yes a brand new song, from the forthcoming second full length album slated for release early summer via Prosthetic Records.
Vocalist Ashley Scott comments, "As well as playing some dates across England on this run we can’t wait to return to Scotland (it’s been way too long). This will be the first chance for people to check us out with our new drummer Dan Danby (ex-Viatrophy). On this run we will be performing a selection of tracks from Miasmic Mutation and we're very excited to be premiering a brand new track from our next album. So everyone! If we're playing in, around and near your town, come down for a listen to that and let us know what you think. We will also have some new exclusive and limited edition merch on sale."
The dates and venues announced thus far are:
02 Feb - The Star Inn, Guildford
03 Feb - The Black Heart, London
05 Feb - Hope & Ruin, Brighton
17 Feb - Castle Tavern, Luton
18 Feb - The Fenton, Leeds
19 Feb - Ivory Blacks, Glasgow More...
Warchest Issues "Downfall" Video
Chilean thrash act Warchest released a new video clip for the song "Downfall." The song is the title track from the band's 2015 sophomore release, re-released through Digmetalworld earlier this year, with distribution via MVD Entertainment Group in North America.
The video was directed by Ignacio Norambuena. Check it out here:
Ekpyrosis Debuts New Song "Profound Death"
Hailing from Milan, Italian death metal outfit Ekpyrosis debuts a new song titled "Profound Death", taken from the upcoming full-length debut "Asphyxiating Devotion", which will be out in stores January 23 via Spain’s Memento Mori.
Check out now "Profound Death" below.
Engulfed Premieres Title Track Of Upcoming CD
Turkish death metal band Engulfed premieres the title track of the band's upcoming debut album called "Engulfed In Obscurity", which arrive in stores in February via Hellthrasher Productions on CD, with a vinyl edition coming in April or May through Blood Harvest Records.
Check out now "Engulfed In Obscurity" below.
Lago Premieres New Song "Catacombs and Oceans"
Arizona death metal band Lago premieres a new song entitled "Catacombs and Oceans", which was recorded by Ryan Butler at Arcane Digital Recording (Exhumed, Phobia, Landmine Marathon) and mixed and mastered by Ken Sorceron (Abigail Williams).
Check out now "Catacombs and Oceans" below.
Volbeat Debuts Live Video For "Dead But Rising"
Volbeat debuts a new live video performing "Dead But Rising" at the "Rock Im Park" festival in Germany, this past June.
Check out now "Dead But Risingl" below.
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