Metal News for February 11, 2022
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18 news articles posted on this day.
Sabaton Shares New Music Video
Swedish power metal quintet Sabaton has posted a new music video online for the song, "The Unkillable Soldier." You can check it out below. The track appears on the band's new album, "The War To End All Wars," which will be released on March 4th through Nuclear Blast Records.
"The Unkillable Soldier" tells the story of Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart. He was of Belgian heritage but fought for the British Empire during WW1. Being injured multiple times he became known as the "Man who could not be killed." The song is available for streaming on all digital music platforms. More...
Kreator Posts Behind The Scenes Video Online
The mighty Kreator recently announced that their fifteenth studio album, "Hate Über Alles," will be released on June 3. Five years after their highly acclaimed album "Gods Of Violence," peaking at #1 in the German album charts, the genre-defining band are proud to present this 11-track behemoth. After releasing a music video for the title track, the band has now unveiled a behind the scenes video looking at the making of the clip. You can check it out below.
Frontman Mille Petrozza comments: "Hate Über Alles reflects the time we’re living in. Everything is really loud and aggressive. The way we communicate has changed, thanks to social media. It causes a lot of imbalance. The world is in a state of disrepair. Life is not harmonic right now, it’s disharmonic… that’s where I was going with the title." More...
Syk Reveals New Album Details
Italian avant-extreme metal collective syk will unleash their long-awaited new full-length, "Pyramiden," on March 11th via Housecore Records in North America and Nuclear Blast in Europe, today unveiling the record’s cover art, track listing, and first single.
"Pyramiden" was composed and recorded over the course of three years, the seven-track offering was mixed in the Winter of 2020/2021 at Inverno Studios under the supervision of Fabrizio Gesuato, while mastering took place at Anselmo’s own Nodferatu's Lair with Stephen Berrigan at the helm. The record features artwork by Elena Romenkova.
Comments Ferrian, "'Pyramiden' is about finding the way to isolate oneself to all the uneasiness coming from society, then find a suitable space to face one's uneasiness. It’s being in the farthest place on earth where silence gives room to all sorts of visions or hallucinations. As with the previous release, Pyramiden follows the alchemic principle of dissolving in order to assume a new shape but diving far deeper into obscurity where surviving means, in fact, to invent light into darkness." More...
Hangman's Chair Releases New Music Video
French based doom metal visionaries Hangman's Chair have finally released their latest album "A Loner." The follow-up record to 2018’s "Banlieue Triste" is the band’s sixth studio album and their first record on Germany based, worldwide leading metal label Nuclear Blast Records. Inspired and adorned with true-to-life experiences, Hangman's Chair shine again with their recognizable sound and passionate storytelling to deliver a worthy longplayer to their fans after four years. The combination of dark and atmospheric elements together with emotional melodies and harmonies make Hangman's Chair stand out as a truly promising prospect in the French metal scene and beyond. To celebrate the release day, their latest single "Who Wants To Die Old?" comes along with a new music video.
Hangman's Chair about their album "A Loner":
"It’s been a long, long way to get to this day and the path was beset with difficulties. And now to hold 'A Loner' in our hands is an accomplishment and a relief, we’re just enjoying the fruits of our labor. The 3 singles we released were a taste of the album and to discover 'A Loner' as a whole will definitely be a different experience that we’re finally happy to share. To celebrate this day, we also released a new video, "Who Wants To Die Old?," directed by Oscar Bizarre, filmed in an old disused asylum hidden in the woods near Paris. A music clip that closes the trilogy of 'A Loner' videos."
Additionally, the band comments on the release of "Who Wants To Die Old?":
"This is where it all started, depression. Depression comes back like an old friend, always. It crawls and slithers like Colonel Kurtz’snail, along the edge of a straight razor, our spine. And it survives.
'Who Wants To Die Old' was written at the peak of a never ending depressed state and the stage was set for the rest of the album.
"Musically, it has been inspired by our main influences from the 90’s Brooklyn Type O Negative & Life Of Agony. Once again, Oscar Bizarre is behind the camera, filmed in an abandoned sanitarium hidden in the woods near Paris, where concrete and nature become one." More...
Morbid Angel Pulls Out Of Maryland Deathfest
The organisers of the Maryland Dearthfest event, which will take place from May 26th - 29th, has announced that a number of bands have pulled out of the festival for a variety of reasons. Most notable was death metal legends Morbid Angel, who appear to be concerned over safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A number of replacements have been found though and a statement from the organisers reads as follows:
"We're pleased to say that for the first time ever, Deicide will be performing the Legion album in its entirety at MDF 2022! They will be performing on Sunday, May 29th at Edison Lot.
"In other news, we need to report that the following bands have cancelled:
"Morbid Angel will no longer be performing at MDF 2022. Despite trying to convince them to not cancel, the only thing we've been told is that the band 'will not be playing MDF or any other shows in the current climate,' so we'll let you interpret that however you see fit.
"Archgoat and Valkyrja were due to tour together, but the tour fell apart, and despite attempts to salvage at least one of those bands playing only MDF, it just wasn't possible.
"Blaze Of Perdition have also cancelled due to their tour falling apart.
"Lastly, Antichrist have cancelled.
"Immolation will be replacing Valkyrja on Sunday at Edison Lot.
Profanatica will be replacing Archgoat on Sunday at Rams Head.
Akhlys will be replacing Blaze Of Perdition on Friday at Rams Head.
Sulfuric Cautery will be replacing Antichrist on Friday at Soundstage.
"As a reminder, ALL tickets for 2020 / 2021 are automatically valid for 2022. You don't need to take any action for these tickets to be valid."
Amorphis Unveils "Northwards" Single
The day has finally come! "Halo," the new album from Finland's metal legends Amorphis is now out. After receiving raving reviews from all over the world, the band's stunning 14th studio effort is available on CD, 2LP vinyl, cassette and collector's box set and transcends the realms of metal and rock with its sheer profoundness and musicality.
Considering the band’s three-decade journey at the forefront of innovative metal music, it’s difficult to comprehend how Amorphis manage to raise the proverbial bar time and time again, presenting a more than worthy finale to the trilogy that began with 2015’s "Under The Red Cloud" and 2018’s "Queen Of Time."
To celebrate the release of Halo today, the Finns have unveiled a 3D art video for their album opener "Northwards" which showcases the diversity and especially the progressive elements of the new record. The video was animated by the band's cover artwork designer himself, Valnoir for Metastazis. Watch "Northwards" below. More...
Napalm Death Shares New Visualizer Video
Continuing the fearless exploration of their legendary sound’s outer limits, UK grindcore pioneers Napalm Death are releasing their newest Mini-Album "Resentment Is Always Seismic – A Final Throw Of Throes" today via Century Media Records.
A visualiser video created by Chariot Of Black Moth for the record’s experimental final track "Resentment is Always Seismic (Dark Sky Burial Dirge)" is now available below.
"Resentment Is Always Seismic – A Final Throw Of Throes" is a partner recording to Napalm Death’s latest, much acclaimed "Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism" album from 2020, concluding matters through vital, tumultuous grindcore and shockwave ambience.
Napalm Death frontman Mark "Barney" Greenway commented as follows: "You can certainly consider “Resentment Is Always...” as an extension of - or partner recording to - the “Throes…” album. We had long since wanted to put a mini-album out – in the spirit of the old days – and found we had enough quality tracks even after all the “Throes...” bonus tracks to do that. Hopefully this mini holds some nice twists in its own right for people, and certainly covering “People Pie” by Slab! made us really stretch ourselves, which feels great artistically. In the end, resentment is certainly seismic – it can trigger the complete erosion of humanity in many situations. That was the point that I really wanted to hammer home overall" More...
Vein.fm Announces European Tour Dates
Vein.fm have announced a run of UK & EU dates for this summer in support of their new album "This World Is Going To Ruin You," which will be released on the 4th March via Nuclear Blast Records (excl. North America) under exclusive license from Closed Casket Activities. Pre-order it here. The album follows 2018's "Errorzone." Tour support comes from Higher Power and Drain.
The tour dates are as follows:
June 15th - Stuttgart, DE - Juha West
June 16th - Metz, FR - Les Trinitaires
June 17th - Dortmund, DE - Junkyard
June 18th - Mannheim, DE - Maimarkthalle
June 19th - Cologne, DE - Helios37
June 20th - Hamburg, DE - Hafenklang
June 21st - Hannover, DE - Bei Chez Heinz
June 22nd - Warsaw, PL - Poglos
June 23rd - Prague, CZ - Club 007
June 24th - Ferropolis, DE - Full Force Festival
June 25th - Ysselsteyn, NL - Jera On Air
June 26th - Manchester, UK - Outbreak Festival
June 27th - London, UK - The Underworld
June 28th - London, UK - The Underworld
June 29th - London, UK - The Underworld
June 30th - Paris, FR - Le Gibus
July 1st - Nuremburg, DE - Mission Ready Festival
July 2nd - Ieper, BE - Ieperfest
Voivod Posts New Music Video Online
Today, Canadian progressive sci-fi metal innovators Voivod are releasing their newest studio album "Synchro Anarchy" via Century Media Records. In celebration of "Synchro Anarchy," a new video clip created by Felipe Belalcazar / Mental Pictures for the album track "Sleeves Off" can now be seen below.
Voivod vocalist and lyricist Denis “Snake” Bélanger checked in with the following comment about the track/video: "Here’s a cool clip from our friend Felipe Belalcazar. It’s a mixture of animation and live footage. The animation in the clip goes backwards, maybe in reference about the past when I had to make big decisions, as a teenager. Some were good, some were bad, but one thing for sure, I didn’t want to be cast in a mold to fit perfectly in the conformity of the world. I wanted to be me, show everyone who I was, do things on my own, and be creative. And when I met the boys, I found the place where I wanted to be. The live footage shows that I was right, as we are still going after so long. Enjoy!"
And Bélanger also added the following comment about today’s launch of "Synchro Anarchy": "Here it is folks. So proud to present this album to you. It is one of a kind, a very unique and distinctive album. It was made with all the passion we have for music under particular conditions. Driven by a nuclear brainstorm between the 4 of us in a state of emergency. Written, recorded, and delivered, and not necessarily in that order, we managed to do it all in a few months. We hope you will enjoy the album. We can’t wait to see you all of you, our fans out there on our upcoming tours. We’ve been missing you!" More...
Interview
Persefone On "Metanoia" And Representing Andorra
It's hard enough when a band is the only one playing metal in their town, but imagine being the only metal band in your whole country? For a long time, that's the situation that Andorra's, Persefone found themselves in. The progressive metal outfit have been going for twenty years now, steadily building a fan base across the globe, performing at such festivals as 70000 Tons Of Metal, all the while studying their craft and bringing new elements to their music with each album.
Last week, Persefone released their latest album, "Metanoia," through Napalm Records, their first output from a label of a major stature and already the reviews and fan response has been overwhelmingly positive. Their first album of new material in five years sees the group explore concepts and trials of the self and is as beautiful as it is ferocious. To find out more about this record, Metal Underground caught up with guitarist and founding member Carlos Lozano, who discussed the album's title and meaning, signing with Napalm, representing Andorra in the metal scene and much more. You can watch it in full below, while an excerpt from the chat reads as follows:
Diamond Oz: The new album, "Metanoia," is out now. Obviously it's very early days but so far how has the response been from fans?
Carlos Lozano: It feels like it's been really good. It's the first album we've done through Napalm Records and we're feeling the push from the label to get more people to listen to the music, so the feedback we're getting is way bigger than the last time. "Aathma" was a very successful record for us, but this one so far has been the most successful in terms of people listening to it.
Oz: What was it about Napalm Records that made the band feel like this was the right home going forward?
Carlos: We've worked with many labels in the past. We're a pretty old band at this point! The last two albums, they were like the most important for us, we were with this Swedish label called ViciSolum and there was this guy called Thomas, who was working a lot to help the band but he was just one person doing everything. Then, with this new album we had some interest from other record labels including Napalm, who were so willing to have the band on their roster, that was the key for us. So far, they haven't pushed us to do any artistic changes when it came to the writing of the music and they were willing to do whatever was necessary to get us on the roster. So, so far so good. They've been very supportive, very professional and they have a lot of people behind us, like one person for the marketing etc. so it's been a very pleasing and nice experience.More...
Night Cobra Premiere New Song "Lost In Time"
Old school heavy metal/speed metal band Night Cobra premiere their new single titled "Lost In Time". The track is taken from their upcoming release "Dawn Of The Serpent", due out on February 12, 2022.
Tells Night Cobra frontman Christian Larson: More...
Beculted Premiere New Single "Geborgenheit"
Darmstadt, Germany-based Beculted premiere a new single entitled “Geborgenheit”, taken from their upcoming debut album "Archaic Manifestations", which will be out in stores April 29th via The Crawling Chaos.
Check out now "Geborgenheit" streaming via YouTube for you below.
ONI Premiere New Single "The Lie"
A new single by the name of "The Lie", from ONI has premiered online. The track is the result of a collaboration with Lamb Of God guitarist Mark Morton and producer Josh Wilbur (Megadeth, Gojira).
Tells Jake Oni: More...
Cult Of Luna Premiere Full-Album Stream
Cult Of Luna premiere the full-album stream of the band's brand new album "The Long Road North", which is out today via Metal Blade Records.
Check out now "The Long Road North" in its entirety below.
Killing Joke Premiere Title Track From New EP
UK post-punk veterans Killing Joke will their new EP “Lord Of Chaos” out in stores on March 25th, 2022. It is their first proper release in 7 years, and will feature two new songs and reworkings of two tracks from their 2015 album, “Pylon“. A lyric video for the title track of the EP, can be streamed via YouTube below.
Says frontman Jaz Coleman: More...
Abbie Falls Premiere New Single & Music Video
Czech hardcore metal band Abbie Falls premiere a first track from their upcoming EP “Hell Is Other People“. Below you can stream the music video for “Parasite” from that album, which iwill be out late this spring via Seek And Strike Records.
Commenting on these latest developments, the group offered: More...
Wolves At The Gate Premiere New Single
A new advance track from Wolves at The Gate titled “Peace That Starts The War” has premiered online and is now available for streaming below. The track is off the band’s upcoming release “Eulogies“, which Solid State Records have scheduled for a March 11th, 2022 release.
Vio-lence Premiere New Single "Let The World Burn"
Bay Area thrash metal band Vio-lence will their new EP “Let The World Burn“ via Metal Blade on March 04th, 2022. Today the band premiere the title track as the second single from the album, streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you below:
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