Metal News for February 20, 2015
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Automatic Kane Posts "The Great Escape" Clip
Automatic Kane has a new video out now for "The Great Escape," which can be seen below and was recorded / edited by Julez Media-Design. For more info on Automatic Kane, check out the band's Facebook profile.
Monsterworks Releasing "The Existential Codex"
Eat Lead & Die Music is pleased to announce the release of Monsterworks' "The Existential Codex" on February 27.
The six-track, 42-minute digital version of the album will be available as a free download, while the physical version of "The Existential Codex" is a 73-minute double-CD that comes in bonus Blu-Ray 5.1 Surround and HD stereo mixes. Vocalist/Guitarist Jon Higgs had this to say about the album:
"'The Existential Codex' is a natural progression from our previous release, Overhaul, and picks up/expands various ideas from that and, in fact, the last several albums. Musically, we are pushing our boundaries in all directions, although it is definitely metal at its heart. Lyrically, there is some kind of abstract story weaving through the album with a meaning that is a mystery to everyone involved, including me. As always with Monsterworks there is a common theme but no definitive answers. Nevertheless, hopefully 'The Existential Codex' will spark some independent thought along the way.
“From a technical standpoint this is the first time we have successfully gone all the way with a 5.1 surround mix which I believe is an interesting way to listen to music and opens up new possibilities. Not only that, it is worth mentioning that we strive to maintain dynamic range in metal and James Plotkin helped out again with a mastering job on the main stereo mix which does not crush the life out of it. If you know about the ‘Loudness War’, you know what I mean and, in fact, any true metal head should make it their business to demand the best possible source material for their headbanging pleasure.”
1. Higgs Field
2. Ripple Effect
3. Engine
4. Temple of Distortion
5. Tapping the Void
6. The Ride More...
Slice The Cake Posts Album Trailer
Slice The Cake just dropped a new teaser trailer for the band's upcoming album, which is available below, and the group also comments:
"Hope everyone is excited for 'Odyssey to the West' to drop on March 1st! We're slaving away to get the album wrapped up, and we're sorry we haven't had much to get you all hyped, so by way of apology, here's two minutes of new tunes."
Extinction Level Event Posts Live Footage
Footage has just come online of bass-heavy outfit Extinction Level Event performing on The Metal Sucks Tour at Greene Street Club in Greensboro, NC. Check it out below. Be sure to also catch the band's latest bass playthrough video at this location.
Nasty Releases "Irreversible" Video
The new Nasty video, "Irreversible," is here (I know, it was just what you all wanted, right?) and can be seen below.
Nasty's fifth album "Shokka" will see a U.S. release next Tuesday, February 24th, on Good Fight Music. The label also comments on the new video clip:
"Nasty's trademark brand of larger-than-life Euro beatdown is in full effect on this new tune, although the video casts the band in a more artistic light than the last couple vids which were more about clothes, cash, bloodshed, and blowjobs." More...
Deez Nuts Asks "What's Good?"
Deez Nut's fourth album "Word Is Bond" is due out on Century Media Records on April 21st in North America and April 27th in Europe.
The first taste of music off the release comes in the form of the "What's Good?" music video, which is available below. Pre-orders for the new album can also be found at this location, and the full album's track listing is as follows:
1. Word
2. Yesterday [feat. Dre Faivre]
3. Pour Up
4. What's Good?
5. Behind Bars [feat. Andrew 'Goose' Neufeld]
6. What I Gotta Do
7. Chess Boxin'
8. Don't Wanna Talk About It
9. Face This On My Own
10. Wrong Things Right
11. Understand
12. Party At The Hill [feat. Andrew 'Drew York' Di Jorio]
13. The Message
14. Word Is Bond More...
Simbiose Posts New Album's Title Track
Today the Portuguese grind/crust group Simbiose has teamed up with New Noise Magazine for a stream of the title track from upcoming sixth album “Trapped," which can also be heard below.
"Trapped" is due for release on March 15th via Anticorpos Records in collaboration with Criminal Attack Records, Deviance Records, Apathy Never, Punk Vortex, Tanker and Neanderthal Stench.
The previously posted first single and opening song “Ignorância Colectiva” is also still playing online at this location. More...
Warhorse Streams "I Am Dying"
With its official reissue now just days away, today Vice.com levies the heavy with a stream of "I Am Dying" from Massachusetts doom weavers, Warhorse.
The gargantuan psalm comes by way of the band's final EP of the same name, initially unleashed in 2002 and now available as a companion to the band's "As Heaven Turns To Ash..." full-length, both given the reissue treatment by Southern Lord Recordings.
"As Heaven Turns To Ash... + I Am Dying" will be released on double LP via Southern Lord Recordings on February 24th, 2015. The track listing is:
1. Dusk
2. Doom's Bride
3. Black Acid Prophecy
4. Amber Vial
5. Every Flower Dies No Matter The Thorns (Whither)
6. Lysergic Communion
7. Dawn
8. Scrape
9. And The Angels Begin To Weep
I Am Dying EP:
1. I Am Dying
2. Horizons Burn Red More...
Diskord Recruits New Guitarist
Defect Designer's main man Dmitry has joined Diskord, a Norwegian obscure jazz death metal act. Diskord comments:
"It has been somewhat quiet from us lately, and that is for a reason. Our guitar player Håvard chose to leave the band. We wish him best of luck, and thank him for his devotion and mad skills; cheers buddy!
"Now, we are happy to introduce the new guitar player in Diskord, please welcome Dmitry Sukhinin to the fold! Everybody say 'Hi Dmitry!'"
The current lineup of Oslo-based trio Diskord act consists of:
- Hans Jørgen Ersvik on lead vocals and drums,
- Eyvind Wærsted Axelsen on bass and vocals
- Dmitry G. Sukhinin of Defect Designer on guitars More...
Gamma Pulse Streaming "Dead But Dreaming"
Substream Magazine is hosting a stream of the full new album from Gamma Pulse. Check out "Dead But Dreaming" below (and bizarrely, this does not appear to actually be a reference to the Cthulhu mythos).
The hardcore / electronic band's "Dead But Dreaming" album drops next Tuesday, February 24th. The track listing is as follows:
01. Metanoia
02. Nostalgia
03. Earthquake
04. Collect & Collapse
05. Memory
06. Art of War (Feat. Sirius Blvck)
07. Dead But Dreaming
08. Lucid Dreaming [Interlude]
09. Ghosts
10. Ecstasy (Feat. Valerie Tubbs)
11. Give & Take
12. Empty Space More...
Disgrace Announces New Tour Dates
As the "True Enemy" debut LP is being prepared for release in just over a month, Southern California hardcore outfit Disgrace has slated a short but brutal East Coast U.S. tour for mid-April. See the band live on these dates:
4/12/2015 Amityville Music Hall - Amityville, NY
4/13/2015 Bogies - Albany, NY
4/14/2015 Sala Rossa - Montreal, QC
4/15/2015 SHIBGB's - Toronto, ON
4/16/2015 Ocean Garden - Buffalo, NY
4/17/2015 The Voltage Lounge - Philadelphia, PA w/ Nails, Incendiary
4/18/2015 The Palladium - Worcester, MA @ New England Metal & Hardcore Fest
"True Enemy" will see release via Closed Casket Activities digitally, on CD, and on vinyl on March 24th, 2015. More...
M.O.D. Playing Obscene Extreme
Obscene Extreme America is proud to announce NYC thrashers M.O.D. aka Method Of Destruction (fronted by Stormtroopers of Death vocalist Billy Milano) are confirmed to perform at this year's festival taking place in Montreal, QC from August 20th - 23rd.
Providence, RI's hardcore moshers Dropdead and French grindcore band Inhumate have also been added to the line up with more to be announced in the coming weeks. For more info on Obscene Extreme, head over to this location.
M.O.D. is currently working on a new album, with further details forthcoming, and the band was also previously covered in our Sunday Old School column here.
Legion Of Andromeda Streams Full Debut Album
The cross-continental crushers from Legion of Andromeda today stream the entirety of "Iron Scorn" - released internationally today via At War With False Noise and Unholy Anarchy. Listen in below, courtesy of TheSleepingShaman.com. The track listing is as follows:
1. Transuranic Ejaculation (05:43)
2. Cosmo Hammer (06:21)
3. Overlord Of Thunder (06:01)
4. Scourge Of Pestilence (04:04)
5. Sociopathic Infestation (07:30)
6. Aim At The Starless Sky (06:13)
7. Fist Of Hammurabi (07:03) More...
Thrash Band Starts Pointless Petition
Christopher Murray, vocalist for the Tragic Hero Records thrash/punk band Illuminate Me, has started a petition on Change.org in an (unquestionably futile) attempt to stop Facebook from charging pages to reach their fans.
The petition started on 2/19 at 11pm EST and is averaging 1,000 signatures an hour. If you feel the need to shout at the uncaring void, you can sign the petition at this location. Illuminate Me comments:
"Facebook has raised its rates on bands and small business's promoting themselves through their website several times over the last few years, asking to pay even more money to simply reach the audience the band or small business has already acquired. It's getting to a point where it's blatant greed and is unjustifiable. Bands like us for example, (especially the unsigned ones) pay Facebook a hefty amount of money for an ad, just to get potential new fans to visit our page. On top of that now, we must pay a LARGE fee to talk to the fans already subscribed to our page. So we're paying double on a service that we heavily rely on. It's an exploitation of what bands need the most: communication with their fan base.
"On my band's Facebook page for example (nearly 25k likes), I have paid up to 3k in Facebook advertising to get the amount of people connected to it that it has now. (On top of the heavy touring that we do) I need to pay Facebook now 150 dollars if I want one of my posts to reach all of the people that I already paid to get in the first place. I have talked to even bigger acts that rely on communication with their fan base to sell their product, and the price can get up to $2,000 or more. More...
Aelter Announces Fourth Album
Pesanta Urfolk today announces April 20th as the release date for Aelter's fourth album, "Aelter IV: Love Eternal."
One of several side-projects to emerge from the Wolvserpent camp, Aelter is a solo project of Blake Green. Known for a cinematically dreary dreamscape of doom-inspired darkness over the course of three albums, Green has steadily evolved the Aelter aesthetic from minimal, wide-open expanses of sound to the strange ambient-influenced slowcore first suggested by 2011's "Aelter III." The new album's track listing is as follows:
1. Intro
2. Death Eternal
3. Love Eternal
4. Life Eternal
5. Hope Eternal More...
White Empress Announces 2015 Plans
After 18 years as Cradle of Filth’s main guitarist and songwriter, Paul Allender returns with White Empress. The group also features Mary Zimmer (ex-Luna Mortis) on vocals, Chela Harper (ex-Coal Chamber) on bass, Jeremy Kohnmann (The Awakening) on guitars and Will Graney on keyboards.
The band's debut full-length, "Rise of the Empress" (reviewed here), was mixed and mastered by veteran producer, Kit Woolven (Thin Lizzy, Cradle of Filth), and was released this past September on Peaceville Records.
The band is busy gearing up for an extremely busy 2015, which sees the empress headed off to Japan in May, with many more shows across the world currently in the works. Details on the Japanese show are as follows: More...
SpellBlast Posts "We Ride" Video
Italian heavy metal band SpellBlast was on the road with Circle II Circle on a European tour in November 2014, and now the band has released a music video featuring footage fromthe trek.
The chosen song is “We Ride,” which demonstrate SpellBlast's energetic live performance. Check it out in the YouTube clip provided below.
SpellBlast's latest work "Nineteen" is a concept album based on Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series. The album consists of thirteen tracks where the folk sound of the band evolves in a western direction. More...
Infernus Announces New Album
Moribund Records just set April 14th as the release date for Infernus' debut for the label, "Grinding Christian Flesh," which sports some truly classic artwork (check it out below). Moribund also comments:
"The Portland, Oregon quintet's second album, 'Grinding Christian Flesh,' is an explosive rush of blasphemous, pitch-black sound. With the ease of veterans, Infernus weave together the night-sky melodicism of classic Dissection and the filthy forward propulsion of ancient blackthrash ala classic Deastroyer 666. Full of blistering classics, each song is a finely honed force of immediate memorability and eternal headbangability that never gives a break from the infernal mayhem. From bloody beginning to fiery end, Infernus' 'Grinding Christian Flesh' does exactly what its title promises!"
A statement from Infernus reads: "Grinding Christian Flesh is a congregation of songs that we have performed over the past five to six years. Having trashed all the music and riffs that we didn't find strong or heavy enough, we kept only the music that still kicked you in the fuckin' teeth. The final quality was far greater than we had envisioned when we started. Get the studio ready and bring plenty of beer - our next album is on its way!" More...
Epica Posts European Tour Footage
Epica recently concluded another "European Enigma" tour, which saw the band sell out venues all over Europe, including appearances at L’Olympia in Paris, Markthalle in Hamburg, The C-Club in Berlin, and Ancienne Belgique in Brussels.
Panda Productions joined the band on the road to capture the action on and off stage. Check out several after movie clips from the trek below.
At the moment Epica is gearing up to kick off the South American Enigma tour. After that the group will return to Europe for a handful of club shows before starting a busy Summer festival season. More...
Enforcer Posts "Destroyer" Video
Swedish heavy metal foursome Enforcer will release upcoming new album "From Beyond" on February 27th (EU), March 2nd (UK), and April 7th (US) via Nuclear Blast. The fourth Enforcer record comprises ten new tracks, all produced, mixed and mastered by the band itself.
Today the band presents a video clip for the album opening track "Destroyer," which was shot in Arvika/Sweden and edited by Gustav Öhman Spjuth. Check it out below. The full album's track listing is:
1. Destroyer
2. Undying Evil
3. From Beyond
4. One with Fire
5. Below the Slumber
6. Hungry They Will Come
7. The Banshee
8. Farewell
9. Hell Will Follow
10. Mask of Red Death More...
Melechesh Posts Full New Album Online
Sumerian thrashing black metal group Melechesh has made the entire new album "Enki" available for streaming in advance of its official release. Listen in below.
"Enki" is set for release via Nuclear Blast on February 27th (EU), March 2nd (U.K.), and March 10th (U.S.). The track listing for "Enki" is as follows:
1. Tempest Temper Enlil Enraged
2. The Pendulum Speaks
3. Lost Tribes
4. Multiple Truths
5. Enki - Divine Nature Awoken
6. Metatron and Man
7. The Palm the Eye and Lapis Lazuli
8. Doorways to Irkala
9. The Outsiders More...
Mirror Queen Releasing "Scaffolds Of The Sky"
New York City's Mirror Queen will release new album "Scaffolds of the Sky" on April 21st via Tee Pee Records.
The follow-up to the band's 2011 LP, "From Earth Below," was recorded in front of a wall of Marshall amplifiers at Momek Studios in Brooklyn, and was mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering (Roky Erickson, Big Star).
Mirror Queen's driving music accelerates at the distinct point where NWOBHM and heavy prog rock intersect; a direct and definite delineation of an era when urgent metallic sound was the order of the day. The new album's track listing is as follows:
1. Scaffolds of the Sky
2. Quarantined
3. Strangers in Our Own Time
4. Vagabondage
5. At the Borderline at the Edge of Time
6. Dark Ships Arrived
7. Wings Wetted Down More...
Agnostic Front Posts New Album Trailer
The New York hardcore pioneers from Agnostic Front have posted a new video in the webisode series the band filmed documenting the production process for new album "The American Dream Died." Check it out below.
Agnostic Front has announced that as a special bonus in each vinyl edition of the album, every copy will also contain a download code for the album "Your Time's Up" by The Alligators, a rowdy punk project featuring Agnostic Front singer Roger Miret and members of Anaheim, CA hardcore band Insted.
"The American Dream Died" was produced by Madball singer Freddy Cricien and engineered, mixed, and mastered by Paul Miner. The album will be released April 7th, 2015 via Nuclear Blast Records. More...
Axel Rudi Pell Releasing "Magic Moments" DVD
Axel Rudi Pell will release "Magic Moments - The 25th Anniversary Concert" on April 28th in North America via SPV/Steamhammer.
It was a hot summer night and the beach was burning... Wrong song, wrong place! But the weather gods smiled on Axel Rudi Pell on that memorable magic evening of July 11th 2014: there had been a severe weather alert, but in the end the floodgates of heaven opened only during the last song of his regular set, the Rainbow classic "Long Live Rock´n´Roll."
"That was Ronnie James Dio crying from above," promoter Horst E. Franz speculated while bidding his farewells to the almost 15,000 drenched-but-happy fans at the festival site.
Three hours before the sun went down, creating a beautiful atmosphere at the Bang Your Head festival in Balingen, Germany, where Axel Rudi Pell celebrated his 25th anniversary as a solo artist with a once-in-a-life-time performance.
The CDs and DVDs document a show that is unlikely to ever be seen again in this constellation - a special present the protagonist had worked hard for. It took almost a year to set everything up. "The actual organization started in the summer of 2014 when the promoter and I went public with the idea of this event," Axel tells with obvious relief. He´s still very happy about how things have turned out. With a little help from his friends at his booking agency, the Bochum guitarist set up an extraordinary line-up. "It was mostly all about personal contacts," because after more than 30 years in the business Axel Rudi Pell is not only well-known, but also well-respected in the worldwide rock community, so the affix "& Friends" is not one of those usual exaggerations. Almost all of his favored candidates agreed on this one July date. More...
Riotor Signs With Inferno
Riotor - a metallic beast from Canada - has inked a deal with french label Inferno Records. The label comments:
"Riotor, formed back in 2007 in Québec, are no newcomers in the underground metal circuit! After a brilliant debut album released in 2010 (on Bestial Invasion Records) and many live shows where the beast spat his venomous metal style in the face of many metal maniacs, a new album is in the making & will be released on Inferno Records!
"This one will be entitled 'Rusted Throne' and will include 10 new devastating songs to be released on CD & cassette. Artwork to be revealed very soon as well as one new song for streaming. Stay tuned!"
Lifeless Streaming "Never"
Revolver Magazine has released today the first single and opening track to "Dream," the sophomore LP from pummeling New Jersey metallic hardcore outfit, Lifeless.
Wearing the sounds of the band's East Coast hardcore heroes and peers with pride, a tumultuous undertow of downtrodden metal rage influences each anthem on the gloomy "Dream" LP, and setting the stage for the beating to follow is the lead track, "Never." Casting a brief sense of sad silence in its intro, things quickly go sour as the track kicks in with full force and opens up the forty-minute deluge of the album. Listen in below.
"Dream" will see release on CD, several colors of 12" vinyl, and through all major digital outlets on March 24th. The track listing is as follows:
1. Never
2. The Truth Of Life And Death
3. Dream
4. Ladders
5. Stubborn And Stupid
6. Sinking
7. Empty
8. Surrender
9. How Hatred Starts
10. Scars And Holes
11. Broken Home
12. Reflections II More...
Continuum Reveals New Album
The Bay Area death metal henchmen and recent Unique Leader signees from Continuum are readying to unleash their debut full-length, "The Hypothesis," this Spring.
The brain child of lead guitarist/composer Chase Fraser Decrepit Birth, Animosity), Continuum was forged in 2009 and features the current working lineup of Fraser alongside guitarist Ivan Munguia (Arkaik, Deeds Of Flesh), vocalist Riley McShane (Son Of Aurelius), bassist Nick Willbrand (Flesh Consumed) and drummer Spencer Edwards (Son Of Aurelius).
Recorded mainly by Fraser with additional tracking and mixing by Zack Ohren (Suffocation, Fallujah, All Shall Perish et al.) at Castle Ultimate Studios, "The Hypothesis" delivers a scathing assemblage of engaging and abrasive compositions steeped conceptually in the mysteries of the infinite and the early but no-less-relevant and unsolved theories of the "continuum hypothesis."
This hypothesis was studied by a number of mathematicians including Georg Cantor in 1878, many of whom committed suicide before reaching a conclusion to the unfathomable question of infinity. This theme is brought to life by the lyrics of Mcshane, the artwork of Raymond Swanland (Deeds of Flesh, Psycroptic, Suffocation), and the mathematical compositions of Fraser.
"The Hypothesis" will be released via Unique Leader Records on April 21st, 2015 with teaser tracks and preorder packages to be announced in the coming weeks. The track listing is: More...
Human Waste Streaming "Harvest Remnants"
Human Waste just saw the release today of the band's first three demos from '91 - '93 in one package via Xtreem Music, titled "Harvest Remnants." You can also stream all the songs below, and the full track listing is as follows:
1. So is Death [Demo '93] 02:51
2. Cranial [Demo '93] 02:12
3. The Men and Their Lives [Demo '93] 04:01
4. The Almighty Protozoan [Demo '93] 01:59
5. Pool of Tears [Demo '93] 02:45
6. Sacro Sanctum Semen [Demo '92] 04:53
7. The Hegemony of Reality [Demo '92] 03:24
8. Pseudo-Disharmonic Excrescence of Noiseous Micro-Kaos [Demo '92] 00:15
9. Inert Bodies Distillation [Demo '92] 03:33
10. The Silence [Demo '92] 03:29
11. Existential Nausea [Demo '92] 03:52
12. When Gravity Acts [Demo '92] 04:39
13. Beauty Also Rots [Demo '91]. 04:41
14. Nonsense Time [Demo '91] 02:39
15. Human Waste [Demo '91] 04:32
16. Reaffirmation of Repression [Demo '91] 03:01
17. The Miracle of Death [Demo '91] 04:13
18. Pool of Tears [Demo '91] 03:49
19. Psychic Fear [Demo '91] 04:45
20. Circle of the Tyrants (Celtic Frost) [Demo '91] *unreleased 04:23 More...
Thormesis Streaming New Album
For 30 hours the full new Thormesis album "Freier Wille - Freier Geist" will be available online for streaming. Listen in while you can via the player below.
The album officially drops on March 13th and will be available during a release show at the Frostfeuernächte Festival. Thormesis also comments:
"We are very happy and proud that it has finally come. Tonight we are more than a year back on stage. With the new lineup and a new album. For those who can not be there and not hold the album in their hands, we have from noon today at 13:00 the album 30 hrs in the stream."
Rob Zombie Posts "31" Behind-The-Scenes Footage
Rob Zombie has released a new behind-the-scenes clip for his upcoming clown combat horror flick "31."
Check out Zombie and his crew scouting out locations for the impending filming in the player below.
If you missed the movie's original crowd funding campaign but still want to contribute and get in on the perks, you can do so at this location.
In addition to the coming movie, Rob Zombie is working on a new studio album and will release a live disc as well. For details on the live album, head over to this location. A listing of upcoming Rob Zombie tour dates is available after the jump. More...
Headline News
Former Yngwie Malmsteen Keyboardist Found Dead
According to the Chaingrai Times, former Yngwie Malmsteen keyboardist Mats Olausson, best known for his work on albums such as "Eclipse," "Seventh Sign" and "Magnum Opus" was found dead in Thailand in a hotel room in downtown Rayong yesterday.
The report from the Chaingrai Times website reads in part: "Pol Maj Gen Chumphon Chanthachamrassil has reported that 54-year-old Swedish Musician Mats Johan Olausson, has been found dead inside a hotel room in downtown Rayong on Thursday afternoon."
It goes on to describe how Olausson was found: "'The body of Mr. Olausson was found on the floor at his Rayong hotel in tambon Tha Pradu,' Pol Maj Gen Chumphon Chanthachamrassil, Chief of Rayong Police, told the Bangkok Post.
"Mats Olausson, wore only shorts and there were seven empty bottles of whisky and empty cans of beer in the room.
"Pol Maj Gen Chumphon Chanthachamrassil said police found no traces of a struggle, and according to a Rayong Hospital Physician his death occurred within 24 hours of his body being found."
Hotel employee Withoon Boonprasert knocked on Olausson's door after he was in the room for several days and never noticed him coming out for meals and never paid for the room. Investigators initially believe that alcohol consumption might be a possible cause of his death, but his body was sent out for a post mortem to determine the actual cause.
Olausson also worked with bands such as Ark, Iron Mask, Lion's Share, Kamelot, Evil Masquerade and more. More...
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Metallica Posts Footage From Corporate Concert
On February 9, Metallica played a corporate gig at Pier 48 in San Francisco at a party hosted by Salesforce.com, a cloud computing company. Official fly-on-the-wall footage shot by the MetOnTour reporter can be seen below. The clip includes footage of the band warming up in the tuning room, and "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" from the show.
Before Metallica agreed to its gig for Salesforce.com in 2011, the band stipulated that several hundred members of its fan club be allowed to attend free. After that concert, one fan wrote on a forum: "Everyone is just pretty much standing there motionless with their cameras out."
Metallica is currently working on material for its 10th studio album for a late 2015/early 2016 release. The new CD will follow up 2008's "Death Magnetic".
Septicflesh: New Drummer's Drum-Playthrough Posted
In 2014, Septicflesh's drummer Fotis Benardo left the group and was replaced by Austrian drum wizard Kerim "Krimh" Lechner (ex-Decapitated and live fill-in drummer for Behemoth's Zbigniew Robert "Inferno" Prominski).
Check out Krimh's play through video of "The Vampire From Nazareth" below, taken from the Septicflesh's 2009 album "The Great Mass".
Krimh comments: More...
Voivod Posts New Live Video
Multi-camera live video footage of Canadian metal veterans Voivod performing their new song "We Are Connected" on February 6 at Club Soda in Montreal, Canada can be seen below.
The band is currently on a North American tour in support of the new album titled "Target Earth". Together with label mates Napalm Death they still will be playing on the following remaining dates: More...
Exclusive
Lancer Reveals What's "Behind The Walls"
Swedish heavy metal quintet Lancer will drop sophomore outing "Second Storm" on April 10th via Despotz Records, with pre-orders now available over here.
"Second Storm" was tracked at Leon Music Studios with the assistance of producer Gustav Ydenius (Steelwing, Mustasch, Enforcer). Artwork comes courtesy of Dimitar Nikolov (who has previously made artwork for Steelwing and Katana).
Today we're bringing you a powerful new track cut off the album via a crazy animated lyric video. Head "Behind The Walls" below!
The band also comments: “’Behind the Walls’ is a fast speed metal song that's inspired by the mid 80's German metal scene. It's raw, wild and furious!”
The "Second Storm" will consist of: More...
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