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Utburd Premieres New Song, "He, Who Paint In Red"

Metalunderground.com brings you the brand new premiere of Russian atmospheric black metal band Utburd's "He, Who Paint In Red" song. The song is off of the band's upcoming album "The Horrors Untold," which is due out April 15, 2018 via Satanath Records. Utburd is a one-man black metal project from Kola North of Russia, started in 2014 by Vitalii "Tuor" Goryunov.

You can pre-order the album on bandcamp and also preview/download another song, "Death From Mount Tempest" there.

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Venom Inc. Carrying On Original Black Metal

Heavy metal has grown enormously from its humble beginnings in the late sixties/early seventies to encompass a wide variety of sub-genres. The origins of all these different takes on the genre are most often traced back to the early eighties when Michael Jackson's, "Beat It" made the British heavy metal charts thanks to a guitar solo from Eddie Van Halen and a young band from Newcastle decided that if that was heavy metal, they were something else. That band was Venom and their first three albums, "Welcome To Hell," "Black Metal"and "At War With Satan" would become monumentally influential, with the sophomore effort even spawning a genre of its own.

Fast forward to 2018 and the world now has two incarnations of the band. Namely; Venom, fronted by Conrad "Chronos" Lant from the classic lineup and Venom Inc. featuring the other two members of the legendary trio, Mantas and Abaddon, along with Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan, the Atomkraft frontman who replaced Chronos for a time in the late eighties to the mid nineties. With a superb debut album, "Avé," under their belts, Venom Inc. are taking to the road with plenty to prove and a lot to offer. I had the privilege of speaking with Demolition Man and Mantas on the first stop of their Bloodstained Earth tour, which also included Suffocation and Nervosa to discuss their debut album, the progress of other projects including Atomkraft, Dryll and Mpire Of Evil and why, in a sense, Venom were always the only black metal band. More...

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Goatwhore Riding High On A "Vengeful Ascension"

At a recent show in Bristol, the first British stop on the 2018 "Machine Messiah" tour, I had the pleasure not only of speaking with Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kissser, but with Ben Falgoust, frontman of New Orleans blackened thrash metal veterans, Goatwhore and Soylent Green. During the interview, we discussed a range of topics, particularly regarding the band's latest album, "Vengeful Ascension,"the upcoming 20th anniversary of their debut studio album, "The Eclipse Of Ages Into Black" and what it is that makes New Orleans so special.

On the writing process for "Vengeful Ascension":

"A big element of our writing is 'Are we going to play this live?' A lot of bands put out records and only play certain songs and never play anything else from the record live and we like to be able to take pretty much every single song at one point in the duration of touring for that record and put it in a live experience. When we're writing we're not just writing to write, we're writing from the perspective of "How is this going to sound live?'"

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