Metal News for March 30, 2016
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30 news articles posted on this day.
Architects Posts In-Studio Video
U.K. outfit Architects just released the first in a series of in-studio videos chronicling the recording of new album "All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us."
This new album will drop on May 27th, 2016 and pre-order options are now available here. The track listing is as follows:
1. Nihilist
2. Deathwish
3. Phantom Fear
4. Downfall
5. Gone With The Wind
6. The Empty Hourglass
7. A Match Made In Heaven
8. Gravity
9. All Love is Lost
10. From The Wilderness
11. Memento Mori More...
The Zenith Passage Posts Guitar Playthrough
With the release of "Solipsist," the debut full-length from Los Angeles death metal faction The Zenith Passage just a little over two weeks away, today a dual guitar play-through of first single "Holographic Principle II: Convergence" comes online.
"Solipsist" is slated for release on April 15th via Unique Leader Records, and in conjunction with the release, you can catch The Zenith Passage live on these dates:
4/14/2016 The Gate - Bakersfield, CA
4/16/2016 Pub Rock - Scottsdale AZ
4/17/2016 P.B.W.L.A. - Pomona, CA
4/22/2016 PB&Js - Reno NV
4/24/2016 Red House - Walnut Creek CA More...
Bardus Posts Full Album Online
The entire "Stella Porta" album from Philadelphia's Bardus is streaming today, unloading the avalanche of intoxicated sludge residue upon the masses as the record is prepared for proper release later this week.
Bardus comments: "We chose to work with Steve Poponi at The Gradwell House Studio in Haddon Heights, New Jersey to record this record. We had been sitting on these songs for a while and were excited to get them out. This record is an extension of who we are as people, and as a band. We use this band as an escape and outlet from real life and try to create our own world of sounds in the process. We wanted to make a heavy record without offending people's ears, but more so, inviting them in."
New album "Stella Porta" will be released on CD and digitally through Solar Flare Records this Friday, April 1st. A listing of upcoming tour dates is also avaialble after the jump. More...
Orxy Streaming Corrupted Cover
This week, the split LP between Denver-based doom/sludge duo Oryx and Tucson grindcore foursome Languish will be released via Battleground Records.
Another monolithic slab of audio has been leaked from the platter today - check out the Oryx cover of Corrupted's rupturing "Dios Injusto" belopw.
Upon the recording of "Dios Injusto," Battleground Records sent the track to Corrupted through the band's booking agency to gain the band's blessing on the cover. Initially, Corrupted thought the song was actually one of its own recordings, perhaps a live or unreleased version, before realizing that it was a cover. With that, the band immediately gave Oryx the blessing on releasing the track.
The Oryx/Languish split LP will see release through Battleground Records this Friday, April 1st in a run of 300 copies on 180-gram black wax including a digital download. More...
Atreyu To Perform Full Album On Upcoming Tour
Atreyu will embark on a headline tour in May 2016 in recognition of the 10-year anniversary of A Death-Grip on Yesterday." Tickets will go on sale on Friday, April 1st at 10AM PT.
The band will be playing the album in full for the first time, as well as songs from current album "Long Live," which was released in September 2015 on Spinefarm Records/Search & Destroy.
Islander and Sworn In will serve as support, save for the Seattle date, during which Nekrogoblikon will replace Sworn In.
Atreyu vocalist Alex Varkatzas said, "'Death-Grip' is my favorite 'older Atreyu album. It represents an exciting time and place for myself and my brothers. It's our most 'to the point' record. I also feel it's one of our most natural records as well. Lyrically, I got to run free and it felt great. We are pleased to play it in its entirety and give each song its due!"
Drummer and vocalist Brandon Saller concurred, "For me, 'Death-Grip' was a landmark record in our career. I feel that it was the first album we made where we took fearless leaps into the unknown. This record is still one of my favorite pieces of work we've ever done and I feel like our fans hold it in the same regard. I'm really excited to celebrate 10 great years of this album's life. We will be playing 'Death-Grip' front to back, as well as a good bunch of other favorites."
5/3: Chico, CA @ Senator Theater
5/4: Reno, NV @ Cargo
5/6: Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
5/7: Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
5/8: Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
5/9: Missoula, MT @ The Wilma
5/10: Billings, MT @ Babcock Theatre
5/12: Sioux Falls, SD @ The District
5/13: Council Bluffs, IA @ KIWR Rockfest
5/14: Wichita, KS @ Rock Island Live
5/15: Tulsa, OK @ Cain's Ballroom
5/16: Austin, TX @ Dirty Dog
5/17: Odessa, TX @ Club Patron
5/19: Phoenix, AZ @ Club Red
5/20: Las Vegas, NV @ Vinyl More...
Zhrine Streaming Full New Album
Icelandic death metal cult Zhrine is streaming deadly new album, "Unortheta," online in full. Regarding the new album, Zhrine comments:
"It is with great pride in our hearts that we finally unveil the grand statement of chords and chaos that is 'Unortheta.' This churning collection of dark, etheral, odes to the desperate void has long been yearning to be set free on the unsuspecting public like a tempest of raging atonality in a glass of aural unreason, and today is the day that the deed shall be done."
Zhrine's debut recording will be released worldwide on April 8th via Season Of Mist. The track listing is as follows:
1. Utopian Warfare
2. Spewing Gloom
3. The Syringe Dance
4. World
5. Empire
6. The Earth Inhaled
7. Unortheta More...
Cemetery Urn Signs With Hells Headbangers
Hells Headbangers is proud to announce the signing of Australia's Cemetery Urn. The label will release this new self-titled album on vinyl, CD, and cassette tape formats, with a release date slated for sometime this summer.
A statement from the band reads: "After aeons of primal chaos, Cemetery Urn return with our long-awaited third, self-titled album of super-heavy Australian death metal. Returning with a new lineup, now including Chris Volcano on vocals and human drum-machine Ma' Crossingham, and also featuring our tightest and heaviest production ever, it will shred everything in its path like the steamroller of Armageddon! Prepare to be crushed!"
Cover art, track listing, and a first audio sample are to follow shortly. Hells Headbangers previously worked with Cemetery Urn in releasing the band's first two albums - 2008's "Urn of Blood" and 2010's "The Conquered Are Burned," both originally self-released on CD - on vinyl in 2011. More...
Lord Vicar Cancels Doom Over Scania Gig
Lord Vicar just issued this announcement about pulling out of the impending Doom Over Scania festival:
"Horrible news - Lord Vicar will have to cancel the Doom Over Scania gig. Following the U.K. gigs the whole band got influenza from Hell. Everyone else but me (Kimi) are bedbound and basically unable to function at all.
"We are truly sorry about this, but there is nothing we can do about it. I have offered to do a solo gig, should the organizers want that. It would be one mournful show. This is the first time ever Lord Vicar has to cancel."
The organizers of Doom Over Scania also comment: "With only three days to go we regret to inform that Lord Vicar have to cancel their show due to some kind of fever illness. However, Kimi a.k.a Peter Vicar will do an exclusive acoustic show for us and will play some of the Lord Vicar material along with other great stuff." More...
Martyr Lucifer Unveils New Lineup
Martyr Lucifer just checked in with this announcement about a new lineup and working on a forthcoming album:
"Yesss, it’s true, we have started working on the new album and with a renewed line-up, that consists of Martyr Lucifer and Leìt on vocals, Adrian Erlandsson on drums and the Hungarian guitarist Nagaarum.
"Simone Mularoni will help us as session bass player and sound engineer (Domination Studio). We have some surprises in store for you speaking of musical direction, so stay tuned for further news and updates!"
Vicious Rumors Announces New Album
The San Francisco Bay Area metallers composing Vicious Rumors have set "Concussion Protocol" as the title of their 12th studio album, due at the end of August via SPV/Steamhammer.
The album features 11 brand new songs and tells a chilling story of an Armageddon by a global killer asteroid, as well as how humanity unravels in the wake of the news. The band's first concept album was produced by Geoff Thorpe and longtime co-producer / engineer Juan Urteaga at the world famous Trident studios in Pacheco, California.
Guest solos Brad Gilis (Night Ranger, Ozzy Osbourne) and Steve Smyth (One Machine, Nevermore, Testament, Forbidden, VR 1995-1999) only add to the album's madness. Tour plans are in the works and shall be revealed soon, along with a video for the first single "Take It Or Leave It,"
Geoff Thorpe states: "The album is relentless and crushing in true, classic VR style but with many twists and turns. Believe me, you're in for a treat, VRazors! If you've ever been a fan of VR, Sabbath, Priest or Maiden and a little bay area style thrash thrown in for good measure, then this album is definitely for you! Everything you love about Vicious Rumors is present throughout the whole album!" More...
Primitive Weapons Posts "Ashes Or Paradise" Track
Following previous streams of "Panopticon Blues" and the "Night Eyes" track, Primitive Weapons today releases a new song online for streaming.
"Ashes or Paradise" is available in the SoundCloud player below, courtesy of MetalSucks.net. This new track will appear on forthcoming record "The Future of Death," due out 4/15 on Party Smasher Inc.
"The Future of Death" was recorded and mixed by Dean Baltulonis (Madball, Modern Life Is War) at The Wild Arctic, and mastered by Dave Gardner (Black Lips, Rocket from the Crypt) at Magneto Mastering. More...
Triaxis Parts With Drummer / Guitarist
Drummer Giles and rhythm guitarist CJ from Triaxis just issued this message online about departing the band:
"Well the time has come!! Sunday saw the last Triaxis show for Giles and I, and we were given a truly wonderful send off. We've savoured every moment of the last few gigs and so we thank every single one of our fans who have supported Triaxis - those who have been there from the start and those who've only just found us. We thank you and will miss you all.
"To our amazing band mates: Krissie, Glyn and Becky. We love you all to bits, we are family, and playing those last few notes and drumhits on Sunday made it all feel real that we may never share a stage together again. However we did it with a smile on our faces and a feeling of love in our hearts. We will remember the amazing highs, the tough times that just made us stronger as a unit, and of course the very many laughs we have shared.
"Krissie you've been there almost from the very beginning, but before you joined, Triaxis didn't have it's voice and together we moulded the band we have today. Not only a unique voice, but a lifeforce that makes the band tick. More...
Mortillery Streaming "Radiation Sickness"
Canadian thrash group Mortillery today releases the first song off upcoming album "Shapeshifter." The lyric video for "Radiation Sickness" is available below, and "Shapeshifter" is due to drop May 27th via Napalm Records. The track listing is as follows:
1. Radiation Sickness
2. Age of Stone
3. Bullet
4. Mantis
5. Black Friday
6. Wendigo
7. At The Gates
8. Torture
9. Shapeshifter
10. Patient Zero (Bonus Track)
11. Neckbreaker (Bonus Track)
12. Shine (Cover) (Bonus Track)
Lucifer's Hammer Releasing "Beyond The Omens"
After the "Night Sacrifice (Demo MMXIII)" three years ago, Shadow Kingdom Records is proud to present the debut full-length from Lucifer's Hammmer. "Beyond the Omens" is due to drop via Shadow Kingdom on June 3rd, 2016. The label also comments:
"With confidence and energy bursting from every glorious note, 'Beyond the Omens' continues the magic these Chileans created on their celebrated demo, but Lucifer's Hammer take it one step further with a more polished sound that enables these anthems to ring proud and true. Like a time-warp to 1984, on both sides of the Atlantic, this is classic heavy metal that combines crushing energy, night-time atmosphere, moody melodicism, and huge choruses that would be ruling the radio if it was indeed 1984.
"But be aware that this isn't pantomime: Lucifer's Hammer are the real deal, and they hammer home the fact with a vengeance, leaving an indelible, long-lasting impression on the listener. Before it's over, you'll be enthralled to the secret 'Beyond the Omens' and these nine songs simply won't leave your head! Bolstered by a clear yet full-blooded production and cover art that tells a thousand words of the story, 'Beyond the Omens' is guaranteed to be a classic debut, and forceful point of entry for Lucifer's Hammer to continue their dominance. Fans of Iron Maiden and Warlord will freak out when they hear this - you've been warned!" More...
Victorian Whore Dogs Streaming New Album
Sludge metal band Victorian Whore Dogs is streaming new album "Afternoonified" online in full. The album, which is due to be released this Friday, is an 11 track masterpiece of the band's signature "Sexy Hobo Trampcore."
Vocalist Danny Page said the following about the album: "'Afternoonified' is a sludge-doom cacophony of debauched madness and sexual expression. It is not so much art, but a rejection of self, a journey into the confines of our own repressive nature to come full circle and truly understand that life itself is a rose-tinted cumstain left on the sidewalk. We are exploring ourselves, within ourselves, outside ourselves, on our shelves. It's fuzzy, doomy, riffy, and angry." More...
Lizzies Posts "Mirror Maze" Video
The release of the first studio album by Spanish outfit Lizzies is drawing nearer: "Good Luck" will drop on April 1st via The Sign Records and today a new video clip also comes online. Check out "Mirror Maze" below.
The clip was directed by the agency Holy Cuervo, who also worked on the band's previous clip for the "Viper" track. The band comments:
"In 'Mirror Maze' we wanted to project the feeling of being out of place, lost in a labyrinth full of mirrors, not being able to know between fiction and reality or if you are gonna be able make your way out of it. It was important to get that same feeling in the video and we believe it ended up turning really good. We had a great one making it and feel super happy about the result, hope you like it as much as we do!!" More...
The Algorithm Streaming Full New Album
Electronic tech-metal outfit The Algorithm is gearing up to officially release new album "Brute Force" this coming April 1st via FiXT.
Today all the tracks come online early - listen in below, and a track-by-track breakdown of the full album can also be read through Metal Hammer here.
This new album released will be followed by the "Brute Force" tour in May, which we are proudly sponsoring. Full date and venue info is available after the jump. More...
Despite Signs With Eclipse Records
Eclipse Records is extremely excited to announce the signing of Gothenburg, Sweden’s Despite to an exclusive worldwide deal. The label commetns:
"Featuring three eight-string guitar players, this band is so heavy and down-tuned their music makes the Richter scale overload! In late 2014, the band released the single 'Chaos Trigger' and quickly got the attention of VH1.com where the band was listed as one of 'fifteen more metal bands you should be listening to.' Despite released another single 'Praedonum' in mid-2015, and later that year Eclipse Records reached out to the band about signing a deal for 2016 and beyond."
Vocalist Peter Tuthill said of the signing: “I’m really stoked about Despite now being a part of the Eclipse family. I know that Eclipse, with Chris Poland at the rudder, has what it takes to bring Despite to the next level.”
Bassist Anthony Cui elaborates, "this is a huge step in Despite’s career, and I’m sure it’ll be a game changer.”
Despite recently wrapping up recording a new full-length album entitled “Synergi,” which is currently scheduled for release on July 22nd, 2016. More...
Mantar Streaming "Praise The Plague"
"Ode To The Flame" is the smoldering, Nuclear Blast-bound new full-length album from Northern Germany's infernal metal duo, Mantar. In advance of its April 15th worldwide street date, today the band spews forth the antagonistic sounds of "Praise The Plague" for mass digestion.
This new album will be available as a CD, vinyl (black and gold - the latter of which is only available from the Nuclear Blast Mailorder), and digital download. Pre-orders are available right here. More...
Conflux Announces Debut EP
Helmed by guitarist/songwriter Chase Fraser (Continuum, ex Animosity, Decrepit Birth) and drummer Tommy Mckinnon (Akurion/Neuraxis), Conflux is a new collaborative death metal project bent on both pushing the bounds of creativity within the genre and the culminating of ideas with other artists in the community.
Listen to a sample from the band’s debut EP "The Inception" below. A new full track will be premiered Monday, April 4th.
"From the start we wanted to include contributions from other members. Then we got the idea of making it a sort of club where all the members can contribute their original ideas, voices and tone, and individual expression,” commented Tommy Mckinnonon on the synergetic nature of the project. “Associations like this in Metal are somewhat rare, but they're even more rare in death metal."
Chase Fraser adds, "The Conflux collective is definitely an ambitious experiment and we couldn't be happier with the results so far. We're looking forward to sharing what we've been working on and can't wait to record the full length later this year." More...
Omnikage Reveals Album Details, Announces Tour
Omnikage has unveiled the details for debut album "Acceptance," set to be released this coming May 30th via Art Gates Records.
Furthermore, Alpha Omega Management has the pleasure to announce that Omnikage is confirmed as support act for the upcoming U.S. Fear Factory / Soilwork tour. Catch the band live:
4/24 Summit Music Hall - Denver, CO
4/26 In The Venue - Salt Lake City, UT
4/27 Hitt Event Center - Idaho Falls, ID
4/29 Revolution Concert House - Boise, ID
4/30 El Corazon - Seattle, WA
5/1 Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR
5/3 Slims - San Francisco, CA
5/4 LVCS - Las Vegas, NV
5/5 Brick by Brick - San Diego, CA
5/6 Marquee Theatre - Tempe, AZ
5/7 Fonda - Theatre Los Angeles, CA More...
Katatonia Posts New Lyric Video
Katatonia has revealed the first full track, entitled "Old Heart Falls," from upcoming new album "The Fall of Hearts."
The album is due for release on May 2th0 through Peaceville Records and a lyric clip for "Old Heart Falls" - directed by Lasse Hoile - is available below.
On the release of the first new song, vocalist Jonas Renkse commented: "A song with lush textures, distinct dynamics and a memorable chorus are the trademarks to some of the most beloved Katatonia songs. 'Old Heart Falls' substantiates all of those attributes, but is not by any means defining the album as a whole. There is more to come..."
About the lyric video, guitarist Anders Nyström added: "Knowing we didn't want another 'font circus' with all these words and letters competing in Olympic acrobatics, we decided to make it extremely simple but also very real... 30 years ago when we were active in the underground tape-trading scene, there were no computers around, so we had to write all our letters by hand, or when feeling extra motivated, we used a typewriter. I clearly remember writing letters on a typewriter with a ribbon directly to paper created a special feeling that no computer would ever emulate. So determined to bring back this feeling for a brief couple of minutes, we passed on our idea to our talented friend Lasse Hoile who made sure this beautiful Royal typewriter served a final purpose before crawling all the way back to the start, returning to dust..." More...
Gojira Posts New Album Tease
After posting some brief studio footage back in January, Gojira is ready to let the world in on a little bit more of the band's impending album.
Still in the works, you can see the band working on the follow-up to 2012's album release "L'Enfant Sauvage" in the video below, which features never-before heard music (thanks to Rollingstone.com for hosting the premiere). More details on the album are slated to land soon!
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Desaster Premieres New Live Video
The German masters of dirty blackened thrash are at it again, ready to unleash more destructive hymns of blasphemy and war!
Desaster's new album "The Oath of an Iron Ritual" comes out April 8th worldwide via none other than the mighty Metal Blade Records, with some U.S. shows in the works surrounding an appearance at the Maryland Death Fest the following month.
Before all those festivities kick off, we're giving you advance taste of the aural assault that is "The Oath of an Iron Ritual!"
Check out our exclusive U.S. premiere of a new live video for the album track “Damnatio Ad Bestias” below - but be sure to crank that volume knob first! Pre-orders for the new album are online here and the full track listing is as follows:
1. Intro (The Oath)
2. Proclamation in Shadows
3. End of Tyranny
4. The Cleric's Arcanum
5. Haunting Siren
6. Damnatio Ad Bestias
7. Conquer & Contaminate
8. The Denial
9. The Oath of an Iron Ritual
10. At the Eclipse of Blades More...
Profanatica Reveals Cover And Tracklist For New LP
New York black/death metal act Profanatica revealed the cover art and track listing for the highly anticipated new album, "The Curling Flame of Blasphemy," which will be issued soon via Hell's Headbangers Records . A summer release is expected with vinyl, CD, and cassette tape formats available (date TBA).
Forever the iconoclasts, Profanatica are both black metal legends and defiant of such concepts of "legendary." As one of earliest American black metal bands, during the dark 'n' bloody days of the early 1990s, Profanatica set out upon a course of utter blasphemy and barbaric primitivism, then retreated into the shadows as a cult icon, only to be resurrected years later once the black metal scene had finally caught up with the invention/degradation. When the band returned returned, with "Profanatitas de Domonatia" in 2007 through Hells Headbangers, the signature Profanatica sound was firmly in place, and yet masters Paul Ledney and John Gelso continued to challenge themselves and push this pulsing primitivism to uncharted waters of sin 'n' sickness. Three years later, "Disgusting Blasphemies Against God" pushed the envelope even further, and yet three more years again, 2013's "Thy Kingdom Cum" climaxed all over that envelope. Now, with "The Curling Flame of Blasphemy," Profanatica have gone back to the beginning while re-imagining the signature sound in the subtlest and yet somehow-most-powerful way. More...
Ravenia Posts "We All Died For Honor" Video Clip
Finnish symphonic/film score metal band Ravenia released a music video for the new track "We All Dies For Honor," which can be viewed in the player below. The track is taken from the debut album "Beyond The Walls Of Death," which will be released on April 29th in Europe and North America via Inner Wound Recordings.
"Beyond The Walls Of Death" was mixed by Nino Laurenne (Wintersun, Battle Beast, Ensiferum) at Sonic Pump Studios and mastered by Svante Forsbäck (Volbeat, Sonata Arctica, Apocalyptica) at Chartmakers.
The track listing for "Beyond The Walls Of Death" is:
1. For Those We Forsakened
2. Into Oblivion
3. We All Died For Honor
4. There Is But One Path
5. In Silence
6. When Darkness Reigns
7. The Fallen
8. We Stand As One
Check out "We All Died For Honor" here: More...
Hammer Fight Premieres New Music Video
Hammer Fight premieres a new music video for "Good Times In Dark Ages", taken from the band's latest album "Profound and Profane", out in stores now via Napalm Records.
Check out now "Good Times In Dark Ages" below.
Gevurah Premieres New Song "Temple Without Form"
Canadian black metal disciples from Gevurah premiere a new song entitled "Temple Without Form", taken from their upcoming debut full-length album "Hallelujah!", which will be out in stores June 03 via Profound Lore Records.
Check out now "Temple Without Form" below.
Decapitated Premieres In-Studio Performance Clip
Decapitated premieres a new music video of an in-studio performance of the track "The Blasphemous Psalm To The Dummy God Creation", taken from the band's latest album "Blood Mantra". The performance was recorded at the Lightship95 studio in London, UK.
Check out now "The Blasphemous Psalm To The Dummy God Creation" below.
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Withering Soul Premieres New Music Video
Last summer Withering Soul released the stellar "Adverse Portrait" album via Mortal Music, but even if you've heard it a dozen times already, there's still more to be explored on this melodic USBM offering.
Today we have the honor of officially premiering a new music video for the "Awakening" track - check it out below!
For those foolish enough to not have been spinning the disc for a solid eight months already, you can hear all the tracks and pick up your own copy at Bandcamp here.
Withering Soul also had this to say about the new clip: "'Awakening' is the first official video that we decided to cut from the 'Adverse Portrait' album, as it is a pretty straightforward kick to the balls. On this song, a blackened thrash attack is prominent, all while venturing off into dark atmospheres and beyond. The video was composed in tribute to some of the great early horror films of the silent era."
For more info on Withering Soul and upcoming live activity, be sure to head over the band's Facebook profile here. More...
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