Metal News for December 17, 2015
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Scientist Posts Full New Album Online
The Chicago-based architectural metal assassins from Scientist dropped their "10100II00101" full-length upon unsuspecting masses last Friday. In honor of its release, today you can hear the unsung gem in full below.
Scientist features founding guitarist/vocalist Eric Plonka (ex Yakuza) with guitarist/vocalist Patrick Auclair (ex Taken By The Sun), drummer Justin Cape (ex Taken By The Sun), and bassist Mathew Milligan (Making Ghosts). More...
The Lumberjack Feedback Releasing New Album
The French instrumental juggernauts from The Lumberjack Feedback are set to release a cinematic debut full-length of epic proportions.
The Lumberjack Feedback is a modern doom band that stands apart from the rest of the pack, taking a more progressive approach to songwriting. Featuring two drummers who interweave two distinctly different styles to create a single, massive entity, The Lumberjack Feedback smashes the boundaries of multiple genres at once.
Recorded at Electrik Box studio (Sektemtum, Insain) and mastered by Colin Marston (Gorguts, Krallice), "Blackened Visions" will drop January 15th and features the following track listing:
1. No Cure (For The Fools)
2. Blackened Visions
3. IMereMortal
4. Salvation
5. Dra Till Helvete
6. Mah Song (Horses of God) More...
Hail Of Bullets Announces Live Vocalist
As was previously reported, Hail of Bullets and front-man Martin van Drunen have parted ways.
Today, the band has announced David Ingram (ex-Bolt Thrower/Benediction) as his live replacement for Maryland Deathfest on May 28th in Baltimore, USA - the only confirmed Hail of Bullets show for 2016. For more information about the festival, please visit this location.
Set to begin writing the follow-up to 2013's "III: The Rommel Chronicles" next year, Hail of Bullets has unleashed three full-lengths of war-inspired, death metal since the band's inception in 2006. Fans can expect another full attack from the Dutch troop on this upcoming record, at MDF, and beyond!
Author & Punisher Announces New Tour Dates
Tristan Shone, the one-man industrial doom strategist responsible for the crushing sounds of Author & Punisher, will drag his iron and steel overseas for a three-week live takeover next month.
Set to commence on January 16th in Rouen, France, Shone's latest expedition will make its way through ten countries, coming to a close on February 4th in Milan, Italy.
1/16/2016 Kalif - Rouen, FR
1/18/2016 Rainbow Cellar - Birmingham, UK
1/20/2016 Underworld - London, UK
1/21/2016 La Mécanique Ondulatoire - Paris, FR
1/22/2016 La Cooperative De Mai - Clermont-Ferrand, FR
1/24/2016 Freakout Club - Bologna, IT
1/25/2016 Rösli - Bern, CH
1/26/2016 Rockwoche - Zürich, CH
1/27/2016 Sonic Ballroom - Cologne, DE
1/28/2016 Neushoorn - Leeuwarden, NL
1/29/2016 Willemeen - Arnheim, NL
1/30/2016 DB's - Ultrecht, NL
1/31/2016 IFZ - Leipzig, DE
2/01/2016 Musik & Frieden - Berlin, DE
2/02/2016 Musikverein - Nürnberg, DE
2/03/2016 Mudam - Luxemburg, LUX
2/04/2016 Circolo Magnolia - Milan, IT More...
Jeremy Wagner Posts Rig Rundown
Recently, Broken Hope guitarist and Jeff Hanneman loyalist Jeremy Wagner shared the news regarding the reactivation of numerous famous guitars and amps owned by Slayer's late guitar god.
To further share this honor with Slayer fans across the world, Wagner has released an exclusive and in-depth look into some of the Hanneman guitars and gear in a special video directed by Tommy Jones.
In this feature, Wagner takes you inside his home studio and invites viewers on an audio-historical journey of Hanneman's most famous instruments, and elaborates on his personal mission to carry on Jeff Hanneman's legacy through the use and preservation of the Hanneman guitar estate.
Jeremy comments: "I feel a real responsibility to Jeff and to Kathryn to use these guitars in a way that honors him. As long as I own these guitars, I will use them and carry on Jeff Hanneman's legacy. He remains a huge influence to me, and I probably wouldn't be here as an extreme metal guitarist/lyricist without him." More...
It's All Red Posts "Propagates The Rage" Video
One of the fastest growing names in the Brazilian scene, It's All Red just posted a new music video for "Propagates The Rage," released in support of the third and latest album "Lead By The Blind."
Released this part October, the album was recorded at Studios Red and was produced by Rafael Siqueira and also features guest vocals from Iuri Sanson of Hibria.
The video below features live footage recorded during the group’s live performance this past September. The clip was directed and edited by Daniel Siqueira. More...
Saint Diablo Joining "Hail The Apocalypse" Tour
Saint Diablo has been confirmed as support for Avatar and September Mourning on select dates of the upcoming "Hail The Apocalypse" tour. The band will jump on the tour starting January 26th in Birmingham, AL. Confirmed dates and venues are listed below, for tickets visit this location.
Saint Diablo’s latest album “Devil Horns and Halos” was released on November 13th and was produced by Tim Gilles (Anthrax, The Misfits, ill Nino) at Big Blue Meenie studios in Jersey City, NJ. More...
Moon Tooth Posts Guitar Playthrough
Today, Gear Gods presents a playthrough video showing Moon Tooth guitarist Nick Lee ripping through "Queen Wolf," the first single off his band's upcoming full-length debut, "Chromaparagon." Check it out below.
Also the newest member of classic '80s metal act Riot, guitarist Lee plays with soul and grace, coaxing a whole spectrum of color out of his instrument. His musicianship propels Moon Tooth's sound – a complex yet groovin' mix of rock, metal and blues, with some parallels to The Mars Volta, Between the Buried and Me, and Mastodon, as well as older bands like Into Another. More...
Raff Sangiorgio Announces Solo Album
Raff Sangiorgio is an Italian heavy metal guitarist best known for being the co-founder of the death metal band Gory Blister.
Thanks to several gigs all around Europe to promote his band, Raff Sangiorgio has played and shared the stage with Sebastian Back, Virgin Steele, Testament, Nile, Nevermore, Sadus, Darkane, Entombed, Sinister, Obituary, Gorfest, Severe Torture and many more.
This year Raff launches a one-man band project focused on instrumental guitar songs in modern metal-rock style with bluesy influences.
The new album is entitled “Rebirth” and will mark a new way of conceiving a guitar solo album. Stay tuned for more news to come on the impending 2016 release. More...
Angel Vivaldi Posts "Crystal Planet" Video
Progressive guitar virtuoso Angel Vivaldi is fresh off of his successful "Touring You Apart" tour and already planning his touring schedule for spring 2016. In the meantime, Vivaldi has been hard at work putting the finishing touches on his cover of "Crystal Planet" (featuring As Blood Runs Black's Dan Sugarman), originally performed by guitar legend Joe Satriani.
Angel Vivaldi is pleased to unleash this re-imagined track along with its accompanying music video today. Check it out below. Vivaldi's modern progressive take on Satriani's guitar rock anthem sees the song in a much heavier light.
"The original has practically no rhythm guitar in it at all. A lot of those progressions were fantastic but were often overlooked by, of course, Joe's stellar playing. My goal was to make the song groovier and exaggerate the leads with different dynamics/harmonies," he says. "I've always admired Joe's ability to say a lot with the simplest phrasing. I wanted to honor these melodies with more dramatic, sometimes even aggressive variations to compliment the feel of the rhythm guitars." More...
Rivers Of Nihil Announces New Tour Dates
After completing a North American trek with Hate Eternal, Misery Index and Beyond Creation in November, Rivers of Nihil is ready to get back on the road again - this time, with Black Fast and Dark Sermon as support.
Set to kick off in February 2016, the tour marks the band's first headlining run on the "Monarchy" album cycle. See below for all dates:
Feb. 17 - Buffalo, NY - Broadway Joe's
Feb. 18 - Somerville, MA - Once Ballroom
Feb. 19 - New York, NY - Saint Vitus
Feb. 20 - Long Branch, NJ - The Brighton Bar
Feb. 21 - Frederick, MD - Club 611
Feb. 22 - Fayetteville, NC - The DHP
Feb. 23 - Columbia, SC - New Brookland Tavern
Feb. 24 - Orlando, FL - The Haven
Feb. 25 - Ybor City, FL - Crowbar
Feb. 26 - Pensacola, FL - The Handlebar
Feb. 27 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
Feb. 28 - Nashville, TN - The End *
Mar. 1 - Indianapolis, IN - The Hoosier Dome *
Mar. 2 - Chicago, IL - Reggie's *
Mar. 3 - Dayton, OH - Rockstar Pro Arena *
Mar. 4 - Lakewood, OH - The Foundry *
Mar. 5 - Pittsburgh, PA - The Smiling Moose *
Mar. 6 - Washington D.C. - The Pinch *
*=Rivers of Nihil, Dark Sermon only More...
Criminal Signs With Metal Blade
Metal Blade just re-signed the Chilean thrashers from Criminal, with the label having this to say about the deal:
"We are very happy to welcome back Criminal to the Metal Blade roster. Criminal released four albums in the past via Metal Blade before they moved on to different shores and are now preparing their return to the Blade with a major blast to drop in March of 2016!"
Comments Criminal main man Anton Reisenegger: “Re-signing to Metal Blade feels like coming home to me. I’ve had a very close relationship to the label from when they sent me vinyl promos for my fanzine in the eighties, to when they offered us to release our second album in the US and Europe in the nineties, to when I worked for them myself in the 00s. I’m very good friends with all of their staff, so I’m really happy they asked us to come back, and I am proud to say we are coming back with one of our best records to date!”
More details on the upcoming new studio album will be revealed shortly, but Anton is nice enough to give us a sneak preview: “The new album sounds really pissed off and aggressive. Angry old men who don’t give a fuck any more. We have come to terms with the fact we’re not going to be the next Slayer, but we keep doing this because we love making music together and I think we have something important to say in a time when image on the one hand and technique on the other seem to be more important than the riff. To us, it’s all about the riff!" More...
Agoraphobic Nosebleed Streaming New Track
Today the infamous extreme metal instigators from Agoraphobic Nosebleed debut "Not A Daughter" from the band's forthcoming new EP, "Arc," due out January 22nd.
Led by the distinctive howl of vocalist Kat Katz, "Arc" is a crushing, three-song onslaught of misanthropic, musical violence and the first in a series of four EPs designed to decimate your total being.
In related news and in conjunction with the release of "Arc," both Agoraphobic Nosebleed's "Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope" and "Altered States Of America" full-lengths will be available on vinyl for the first time in over a decade. More...
Fucking Invincible Posts Full New EP
Providence-based Fucking Invincible will unfurl the ruthless "I Hate Myself And Want You To Die" EP through Atomic Action! Records this Friday, December 18th. Today the full release comes online and can be heard below.
With its members hailing from the likes of Dropdead, Daughters, Soul Control, Sweet Jesus and more, Fucking Invincible's scathing and pissed-off hardcore/powerviolence blasts eight songs point blank into the listener's face in only seven minutes. Catch the band live on these tour dates:
2/26/2016 Democracy Center - Cambridge, MA
2/27/2016 ABC No Rio - New York City, NY
2/27/2016 Acheron - Brooklyn, NY
2/28/2016 Aurora - Providence, RI
3/01/2016 TBA - Worcester, MA
3/02/2016 Cold Spring Hollow - Belchertown, MA
3/03/2016 Casa Del Poppolo - Montreal, QC
3/04/2016 Coalition - Toronto, ON
3/05/2016 The Loving Touch - Ferndale, MI @ Berserker Fest
3/06/2016 Mousetrap - Chicago, IL
3/07/2016 TBA - St. Louis, MO
3/08/2016 Spinelli's Downtown - Louisville, KY
3/09/2016 TBA - Greensboro, NC
3/10/2016 Gallery 5 - Richmond, VA w/ Die Choking
3/11/2016 Sidebar - Baltimore, MD w/ Die Choking
3/12/2016 Lava Space - Philadelphia, PA w/ Die Choking
3/13/2016 The Savage Patch - New London, CT More...
Hibria Posts CD Release Show Footage
After a memorable CD launch show in the band's hometown of Porto Alegre, Brazil for a new self-titled album released earlier this August, power metal outfit Hibria wants to share some of that experience with fans who couldn't make it.
Check out a live video for the track "Lonely Fight," which is from the 2013 release "Silent Revenge," in the player below. The concert also included special participation from Distraught vocalist André Meyer and former Hibria members Marco Panichi and Diego Kasper.
Baroness Streaming Full New Album
Thge new Baroness album "Purple" will be released tomorrow - December 18th - but the full release is streaming now via the band's YouTube channel. Check out each and every song below.
Marald van Haasteren, a Dutch-based visual artist, created the accompanying videos for the song premieres, as well as the internal drawings for "Purple." More...
King Parrot Headed To Europe With Soulfly
After a triumphant run of the North American and Australian circuit, King Parrot will be touring Europe as direct support to Soulfly in January, February and March 2016. The bill will also include U.S. thrash/groove metallers Incite.
King Parrot will step foot on European soil for the second time since a March trek with Weedeater, giving fans the chance to live through the experience of new album, "Dead Set", in the flesh. The album was released in May 2015 on Agonia Records, shortly after the band's nomination for a Metal Hammer (UK) Golden God Award.
Commented by frontman Matt Young: "Having the opportunity to tour with Soulfly through the UK and Europe is an honour and we are really looking forward to our most extensive tour of the continent. Our new record 'Dead Set' has been received really well there, but it's our live show where the band excels. We feel like our live performance is pushing boundaries within the extreme realm of music, so having this chance to perform in a lot of new places is really important to us. We look forward to bring our new brand of chaos to the stages across Europe in 2016." More...
Wisteria Releases Debut EP
Vancouver's Wisteria just released debut EP "Ison's Wake," which can be streamed below or picked up at Bandcamp here.
The band, formed by Life Against Death vocalist Claire "Twitchy" Carreras, is a complete departure from the sound which she is known for. Instead of the thrash/death/grind hybrid of her regular band, Wisteria takes jazz, prog, thrash and doom and combines them into three tracks of genre-bending madness.
1. Impossible 08:03
2. Return To Nibiru 05:50
3. Soul Digression 11:32 More...
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Against The Plagues Premieres Full New Album
I guarantee you the first 25 seconds opening the new Against The Plagues album will kickstart your morning and make you wide, wide awake more than any sludgy cup of coffee!
The Chicago-based extreme metal band is absolutely relentless in approach on "Purified Through Devastation," which will officially release tomorrow - December 18th - via Non Serviam Records. But you don't have to wait till then to hear it, because we're premiering the full release right now!
Listen in below, and if you like what you hear, you can order your own copy of the utterly savage album right here. The full track listing is as follows:
1. Man's Modern World
2. All Flesh Had Corrupted
3. Praetorian Icon
4. Theokratia
5. Terrorform
6. Extermination Event
7. Falling Further (Instrumental)
8. Enblightened
9. Enemy Herein More...
Wisdom Announces New Album, New Track
Hungarian power metal act Wisdom, featuring new Alestorm guitarist Máté Bodor, will issue the new album "Rise of the Wise" on February 26th via NoiseArt Records.
Check out the lyric video for the new track "Raven's Night" below. The track list for the album is:
1. Over the Wall
2. Raven's Night
3. My Heart Is Alive
4. Hunting the Night
5. Hero
6. Through the Fire
7. Nightmare of the Seas
8. Believe in Me
9. Secret Life
10. Welcome to My Story
11. Rise of the Wise More...
Solution .45 Releases "Alter" Music Video
Solution .45 issued a new music video for the track "Alter (The Unbearable Weight Of Nothing)." The song appears on the band's new album "Nightmares In The Waking State - Part I," which is available now through AFM Records.
Check out the clip here:
Details Of New Lords Of Black - "II" - Revealed
Spain's Lords of Black, featuring the new voice of Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow Ronnie Romero, announced additional details of the new album "II." The second album from the melodic progressive metal act is expected to drop on March 18, 2016 via Frontiers Music srl.
Lords Of Black is ready to conquer the world with "II," an album that will blow the minds of fans of melodic metal. Once again co-produced, mixed and mastered by Roland Grapow (MasterPlan), "II" is not only the follow up to the outstanding and acclaimed self-titled debut album, but is an album with superbly crafted songs that will instantly become absolute metal classics. "The new album, being the follow up to a first record that was so greatly received, had to get to a higher place," says Tony Hernando. "After an intense year of writing and producing, along with the live performances, we came up with songs that are still deep and complicated in some arrangements, but have been written with the live performance in mind... The quest was to come up with something that artistically was meaningful for us as musicians and at the same time could catch the attention of the listeners. We really hope you enjoy this new album and come with us for a great ride!"
Tracks like "Merciless", "Everything You're Not", "Insane", "New World's Coming" and "Shadows of War" showcase the heavy and complex yet very melodic style of the band. The song "The Art of Illusions Part III: The Wasteland" is the conclusion to the trilogy that commenced on the debut album, while the song "Cry No More" is inspired and dedicated to the late, great, Phil Lynott.
This is a band destined for stardom: get on board now and enjoy the music!
The track list is as follows:
1. Malevolently Beautiful (Intro)
2. Merciless
3. Only One Life Away
4. Everything You're No
5. New World's Comin'
6. Cry No More
7. Tears I Will Be
8. Insane
9. Live by the Lie, Die by the Truth
10. Ghost of You
11. The Art of Illusions Part III: The Wasteland
12. Shadows of War
13. Lady of the Lake (Rainbow Cover) (Bonus Track - CD Edition)
14. Innuendo (Queen Cover) (Bonus Track - Digital Edition) More...
Witchwood Enters Studio For New EP
After excellent reviews worldwide for the debut album "Litanies from the Woods, Italian 70's era-hard rock style act Witchwood entered Duna Studio to record new tracks for an EP to be released on vinyl and CD in 2016 via Jolly Roger Records.
The precursor to the new EP will be a new video clip for the track "Handful of Stars" (which was taken from "Litanies from the Woods"), produced and created by the artist Dimitri Corradini. The track is a new version from the one that appeared on the debut.
More details are expected soon. More...
Lenore S. Fingers To Return With New Album
After a period of relative silence, Lenore S. Fingers is ready to come back with a very ambitious album, more mature, complex, decadent and professional than what the already great debut "Inner Tales" has represented.
The new release will be entitled "All Things Lost On Earth," an Ariosto's quote from the poem "Orlando Furioso" and it will be released in the fall of 2016. Actually, most of the songs have been composed and arranged and demo extracts are expected to surface soon.
As confirmation of the ambitions of the band and My Kingdom Music who will release the album, the band announced they will work with someone very special: Anna Murphy from Eluveitie. She man the keyboards and produce the album at Soundfarm Studio in Lucern.
More details to surface within a few weeks. More...
Circus Maximus To Wreak "Havoc"
Frontiers Music Srl is excited to announce all details of "Havoc," the eagerly anticipated new album from Circus Maximus, due for release on March 18, 2016.
"Havoc" is Circus Maximus' highly anticipated fourth studio album and one that will certainly make a huge impact on the progressive metal scene. The band's musical formula is not easy to pull off. Take jaw-dropping musicianship, singer Michael Eriksen with a voice from the heavens and put it together with hooks, anthemic melodies, and enough groove and heavy riffing to satisfy any prog metal fan, and you've got the Circus Maximus sound.
"The theme on this new album is about moments and experiences in life that lead to love and hate," says guitarist and producer Mats Haugen. "Metaphorically, it's about succumbing to fire and striving to cope with the aftermath of decisions when overshadowed by the love we have for others and ourselves."
Musically the band offers the usual mixture of very heavy moments intertwined with extremely accessible melodies. Songs like "Pages", the opener "The Weight", "After the Fire" and "Remember" show the full range of the Circus Maximus sound. Still, the album has very heavy songs ("Havoc") and slow and melodic moments ("Loved Ones") too.
The band is set to tour heavily in support of this new release with shows in Europe, US (they are already confirmed for the ProgPower Festival) and more territories to come.
The re-defining sound, the songwriting and the clever production, highlights the band as one of the leading, original Progressive-Metal bands around. It's early yet, but Havoc is an absolute contender for Top Album of 2016, transcending the boundaries and subgenres of Hard, Progressive and Metal music. It`s just THAT good - enjoy! More...
Insision Premieres New Song "Cold Air"
Sweden's death metal outfit Insision premieres a new song entitled "Cold Air", taken from the upcoming new album "Terminal Reckoning", which will be out in stores coming spring 2016.
Check out now "Cold Air" below.
Supreme Carnage Premieres "Sentenced by the Cross"
Germany's old-school death metal quintet Supreme Carnage premieres the title track from the band's upcoming new album "Sentenced by the Cross", which will be out in stores December 18 via Redefining Darkness.
Check out now "Sentenced By The Cross" below.
Subterfugio Premieres "Purulent Obsession"
Bolivian death metallers of Subterfugio premiere a new song entitled "Purulent Obsession", taken from the upcoming new four-way split album "Sublime Sound Of Agression", which will be out in stores by Catafila Production (Bolivia) and Total Noise Records (Argentina). The other 3 bands featured on the split release are: Necroterio (Brazil), Distraught (Brazil) and Impending Anomalies (Chile).
Check out now "Purulent Obsession" below.
The Wakedead Gathering Premieres New Song
Ohio’s one-man project The Wakedead Gathering premieres a new song entitled "Lungwort", taken from the upcoming new album "Fuscus: Strings of the Black Lyre", which will be out in stores February 5, 2016, via I Voidhanger Records.
Check out now "Lungwort" below.
Counterparts Premieres New Video For "Thread"
Canadian melodic hardcore band Counterparts premieres an in-house live performance of “Thread”, taken from the band's latest album "Tragedy Will Find Us", which was officially released on July 24th via Pure Noise Records.
Check out now "Thread" below.
Motörhead Premieres New Official Music Video
Motörhead premieres a brand new official music video for "When The Sky Comes Looking For You", taken from the band's latest album "Bad Magic", released on August 28th 2015.
Check out now "When The Sky Comes Looking For You" below.
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