Metal News for March 31, 2017
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CKY Signs Record Deal
American rock act CKY (featuring Chad I Ginsburg, Jess Margera and Matt Deis) just signed a worldwide record deal with Entertainment One Music (eOne Music) and plans on releasing a brand new full-length album this summer.
Scott Givens, SVP of eOne Music, says, "All of us at Entertainment One are elated to have CKY join us and are looking forward unleashing an amazing new record this summer."
"We are thrilled to be working with one of the most progressive record labels in the music business today," adds vocalist Chad I Ginsburg. ”CKY is looking forward to a long partnership in great music for the entire world with eOne!”
The yet-to-be titled LP will be the first release since the band put out "Carver City" in 2009. CKY also just announced a slew of tour dates highlighted by a summer long trek with the 2017 Vans Warped Tour. This is the band's first time CKY will be returning to the Warped Tour since 2000. But first the band will head over to the U.K. to do thirteen show run, some of which is already sold out. More...
Evergrey Gearing Up For North American Tour
Evergrey has a North American tour - supporting latest release "The Storm Within" (reviewed here) - that begins May 6th and continues through June 3rd. Catch these upcoming Evergrey 2017 tour dates:
5.6.17 - The Haven - Orlando, FL
5.7.17 - The Orpheum - Tampa, FL
5.8.17 - Southport Hall - New Orleans, LA
5.9.17 - Scout Bar - Houston, TX
5.10.17 - Gas Monkey - Dallas, TX
5.11.17 - The Rock Box - San Antonio, TX
5.13.17 - Joe's Grotto - Phoenix, AZ
5.14.17 - Brick By Brick - San Diego, CA
5.15.17 - Adrenaline bar - Las Vegas, NV
5.17.17 - The Viper Room - Los Angeles, CA
5.19.17 - Bossanova Ballroom - Portland, OR
5.20.17 - Studio Seven - Seattle, WA
5.21.17 - The Rickshaw Theater - Vancouver, BC
5.22.17 - Dickens Pub - Calgary, AB
5.23.17 - Exchange - Regina
5.25.17 - The Cabooze - Minneapolis, MN
5.26.17 - Reggie's - Chicago, IL
5.27.17 - The Token Lounge - Detroit, MI
5.28.17 - Mod Club - Toronto, ON
5.30.17 -L'anti - Quebec City, QC
5.31.17 - Foufounes Electrique - Montreal, QC
6.1.17 - The Marlin Room - New York, NY
6.3.17 - Jewel - Manchester, NH More...
Unaussprechlichen Kulten Unveils New Album
Iron Bonehead Productions has set June 2nd as the international release date for Unaussprechlichen Kulten's fourth album, "Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X)."
For nearly 20 years now, this Chilean cult has built a commanding canon of eldritch death metal darkness. From early demos to later splits and especially the group's preceding three full-lengths, Unaussprechlichen Kulten has explored the furthest reaches of primordial dread and ancient mysticism, all through pure 'n' authentic metal of death.
Bear witness to the first emanation from "Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X)" courtesy of Iron Bonehead's Soundcloud profile with the track "Sabbatical Offering." The album's full track listing is as follows:
1. Unholy Abjuration of Faith
2. The Woman, The Devil and God's Permit
3. Dentro Del Círculo
4. Firma El Libro De La Muerte
5. Sacrificio Infanticida
6. Sabbatical Offering
7. The Mark Of The Devil
8. Lujuria Carnal Con Incubos More...
Arkos Releases New Video
Canadian black / death metal band Arkos released a new video clip for "Black Moon Ritual," taken from the album "Black Moon Ritual." The video was filmed by Pete Jonze Productions in Québec and can be seen below.
Arkos was formed in 2014 at Sherbrooke, Québec. After releasing a first demo in 2015, the guys entered the studio and the result was first album "Black Moon Ritual," which was released in March of 2016. More...
Gloom Signs With eOne Music
DC metal band Gloom just signed a worldwide deal with Entertainment One Music / Lifeblood Inc. and is releasing an all new track today titled “Cede" - listen in below. Gloom will release the "Solaris" full-length album on June 2nd, 2017.
“We couldn't be happier to be a part of the Lifeblood and eOne family," says the band. "We've been hunkered down working so hard that I don't think the reality has set in for all of us. We're just really grateful to have such high a quality team backing us.
"'Solaris' is our first full length and while we were writing the album we really wanted to bring all our individual influences to the table and create something dynamic. We really want to carve out our own niche in metal and 'Solaris' is a big step in that direction. For us, 'Cede' is a good musical representation of some of the different styles you'll hear on the album. Lyrically, it's about breaking the cycle of a bad on-off relationship I had for years and finding a place where I could grow out of those feelings."
Furthermore, Gloom will open the Devastation on the Nation Festival tour throughout the U.S. and Canada from 5/19 - 6/11 alongside Cryptopsy, Decrepit Birth, Rivers of Nihil, The Zenith Passage, The Kennedy Veil, Visceral Disgorge, and Seeker. More...
Acherontas Unveils New Album
The eighth opus of the hermetic coven of Acherontas is hereby revealed, under the title and haruspex of "Amarta."
Set for international release on the 31st of May via W.T.C. Productions, it is an album that celebrates 20 years of the Acherontas coven (1997-2017) by embracing the solar traditions, lunar sorcery, and traditionalism as a revolt against the modern world and the compromise genre.
1. Tablets of Mercury
2. Schism of Worlds
3. I-AM Ness - The Tradition of EYE
4. Sopdet Denudata
5. Yesod Inversum
6. Rosa Andromeda
7. Savikalpa Samadhi
8. Amarta More...
Eruption Streaming "Sanity Ascend"
Today the Slovenian power-thrashers from Eruption premiere new track "Sanity Ascend" online. The track hails from the band's third album, "Cloaks of Oblivion," set for international release on May 2nd via Xtreem Music and featuring the following track listing:
1. Pharos
2. Sanity Ascend
3. Cloaks of Oblivion
4. Drones
5. Reborn Into Demise
6. The Yearning
7. This Barren Existence
8. Seven Archons
9. The Prophet More...
Sabaton Honored For Gold/Platinum Albums
Swedish war machine Sabaton is currently touring the world in support of latest studio record "The Last Stand" and also holding #1 ("The Last Stand"), #7 ("Carolus Rex" on the top for 248 weeks in a row now), #9 ("Heroes"), and #17 ("The Art Of War") in the Swedish Top 20 rock charts.
After hitting the charts worldwide with "The Last Stand," the band was recently honored with new plaques for impressive album sales: the album achieved Gold in the band's homeland Sweden and in Poland. Previous studio album, "Heroes," was even platinum-certified in Sweden.
Bassist Pär Sundström commented: "This is proof of two things - first, that we are still able to make music that fans want to listen to, and second, that we have fantastic fans who really care. Sure, the current tour is called 'The Last Tour,' but as long as it is going like this we'll be going strong for a long time." More...
Future Faces Posts First Song Online
Swiss band Future Faces just debuted first track "Embraces" online, which can be heard below. Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege (Nails, Beastmilk, Okkultokrati) and with artwork designed by Jonathan Sirit (Belgrado), the group's debut EP "Revolt" will be released May 26th on 12" vinyl via Throatruiner Records and GPS Prod.
With hypnotic drums, abyssal bass lines, elegant yet unpolished guitar work and reverb-drenched vocals, each track is a slow condescension into a lightness, enveloping sound, and the birth certificate of a band that is nothing but full of promises.
01. Embraces
02. Columns
03. Structures
04. January More...
Ektomorf Teases New DVD Release
Hungarian neo-thrash crew Ektormorf just launched a trailer for upcoming DVD release "Warpath," which will include the band's entire Wacken Open Air performance from 2016 on DVD and CD, plus an additional more than hour long road movie. Pre-orders for the release are now online via the AFM Records webshop here.
Fange Releases New Album
The new record from sludge/noise act Fange can be streamed in its entirety below as "Pourrissoir" is officially out now on 12" vinyl and CD via Throatruiner Records and Lost Pilgrims Records, and is distributed by Deathwish Inc in North America.
A mere few months after the release of debut album "Purge," this French degenerate sludge quartet returns with these six new tracks. With strong visual and lyrical ties to its predecessor, "Pourrissoir" marks the closing of a chapter for the band, while standing both as the group's most punishing work and as a step outside the normal comfort zone.
In addition to the stream below, catch these upcoming Fange European tour dates: More...
Malkavian Posts Entire New Album For Streaming
Malkavian is breaking out as one of the most crushing and heavy metal bands in France, with new album "Annihilating the Shade" dropping today via Finisterian Dead End. You can hear all the tracks below or buy a copy of your own at Bandcamp, and the full track listing is as follows:
1. Resurgence 06:32
2. Altar Of The Damned 03:36
3. Spit Away 05:25
4. Ruins 05:37
5. Annihilating The Shades 04:30
6. The Great Overset 06:23
7. Encryption Process 04:34
8. Kba 04:21
9. Void Of A Thousand Eyes 05:46 More...
Shadow Of Intent Releases "The Horror Within"
West Hartford, CT symphonic deathcore outfit Shadow of Intent today unleashes the band's first official music video for an all new track entitled "The Horror Within." This track is taken from forthcoming sophomore album, "Reclaimer," which is set to be released on April 28th, 2017.
"Reclaimer" was once again produced and engineered by guitarist Chris Wiseman, with Buster Odeholm handling mixing and mastering, and features crushing guest vocal performances on several tracks from Jason Evans (Ingested), Dickie Allen (Infant Annihilator), Alex Shikolai (Slaughter To Prevail) and Tom Barber (Lorna Shore).
The band had the following to say about the upcoming release: "We feel this album is definitely our best work to date. We put our hearts and souls into this, to craft it into what we believe Shadow Of Intent truly is. Our pride in Reclaimer cannot properly be expressed, and we hope the fans enjoy it as much as we enjoyed creating it."
1. We Descend
2. The Return
3. The Horror Within
4. The Catacombs (Ft. Jason Evans & Dickie Allen)
5. The Mad Tyrant’s Betrayal
6. The Gathering Of All (Ft. Alex Shikolai)
7. The Heretic Prevails
8. The Prophets Beckoning (Ft. Tom Barber)
9. The Forsaken Effigy
10. The Great Schism
11. The Mausoleum Of Liars
12. The Tartarus Impalement More...
The Projectionist Releasing New Album
The Projectionist was initiated by frontman Lord Matzigkeitus (Ex-Idolatry), who was soon joined by comrades from other diabolic acts including Vile Insignia, Unrest, Ov Enochian, Belchior etc.
The music is centered on themes of hatred and isolation, to evoke new unexplored domains of intellectual fury and bleakness in black metal with a complete despotic will poured over its endeavors.
New album "Exalted Solitude" is coming April 20th via Appalachian Noise Records and The True Plague Records jointly, with lavish artwork by Sang Ho Moon and Jan Pysander Whitney, and a guest guitar track by Christopher Hernandez of Xasthur. More...
This Gun For Hire Streaming Full Album
Formed in 2015, Vancouver's This Gun For Hire is a genuine band of brothers that built a long-lasting friendship through music. Today debut album "Something A Little More Sinister" officially drops, having been recorded with engineer and producer Roger Swan (K-OS, Battle Axe). Listen in to a full stream below.
“It’s just music we all feel the need to write. Metal with no boundaries is what got us together. There is way too much fluff going on now in this genre. It's lost its integrity. We hope people can walk away with one of our songs stuck in their head. Or looking for more!” says guitarist Tyler Burns.
1. Infection (3:34)
2. Something A Little More Sinister (4:13)
3. From The Earth To The Earth (3:24)
4. Set This Path (4:07)
5. Alligator Death Roll (6:35)
6. Good Evening Deacon (4:07)
7. To The Fallen And The Faithful (5:21)
8. One Hell Bent Lot Lizard (4:38)
9. Cause For Concern (3:32)
10. My Meaning (4:30)
11. Empty Eyes (4:31)
12. Barn Burner (3:20) More...
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Funeral Tears Releases "Beyond The Horizon" Video
Russian funeral doom act Funeral Tears is set to release 3rd full-length album "Beyond the Horizon" via Satanath Records (Rus) & Cimmerian Shade Recordings (USA). You can follow the latest on the band at Facebook.
Ahead of the April 13th release date, today we're officially premiering a lyric video for the title track, which can be found below and is highly recommended to fans of Ea, Worship, Evoken, Mournful Congregation & Frowning.
This title track exhibits despondent melodies, slow yet heavy riffs, and a wide range of vocal craftsmanship across a 9 minute duration. Thematically, the track is about the limitation of ours in terms of finding the truth; we can't get beyond the horizon and and can't find the truth from within. The only thing left for us is to live, and we will only be free when we will die.
Founded in Tomsk, Russia during December of 2007, Funeral Tears is the solo project of Nikolay Seredov and darkly conveys the inner state of Nikolay at different periods of life, the struggle for spiritual balance while at war with himself for only purpose - to find his own eternal peace.
"Beyond The Horizon," clocking in at near an hour across six tracks, creates an aura of being buried into the grave of intense depression. Prepare to be crushed amongst the gloomy passages of unadulterated funeral doom. Pre-orders are online here and the track listing is as follows:
01. Close My Eyes
02. Breathe
03. Dehiscing Emptiness
04. I Suffocate
05. Beyond The Horizon
06. Eternal Tranquility More...
Superjoint Announces New Tour
Superjoint will take on part two of the "Caught Up In The Gears Of Application" U.S. live takeover next month. The tour will make its way west from San Antonio, Texas in mid-April through mid-May with additional dates to be announced in the coming weeks.
Support will be provided by Motor City thrashers Battlecross and noise rock eccentrics/Housecore labelmates Child Bite, also of Detroit, who both trekked out with the band during the first leg of the tour in January. See all confirmed performances below.
Superjoint recently played the For The Sick Benefit, a three-day festival-style event organized for Eyehategod frontman Mike IX Williams, who underwent a liver transplant last December. More...
Axel Rudi Pell Posts "Love's Holding On" Video
Bochum, Germany-based guitar wizard Axel Rudi Pell releases the first single and video today from new album "The Ballads V" today. For the first time ever in his almost thirty-year career as a solo artist, Axel Rudi Pell welcomes a special guest star on one of his albums: rock legend Bonnie Tyler has recorded a stunning duet with ARP's longtime singer Johnny Gioeli.
Axel Rudi Pell is justly proud of his new single "Love's Holding On" that drops today, saying: "Bonnie Tyler only records songs she personally likes. So I wrote this tune just for her and she really loved it. She came to the studio and we recorded it within a couple of hours. The result is amazing - another soon-to-be Pell classic in the making. If I hadn't been a fan already, I would have turned into one instantly."
New album "The Ballads V" will be released on April 21st, 2017 through SPV/Steamhammer as CD digipack (including poster), double gatefold purple vinyl, limited boxset, download, and stream.
1. Love's Holding On 5:06 (new song feat. Bonnie Tyler)
2. I See Fire 6:02 (new cover version, Ed Sheeran song)
3. On The Edge Of Our Time 7:42 (new song)
4. Hey Hey My My 5:02
5. Lived Our Lives Before 6:31
6. When Truth Hurts 6:46
7. Forever Free 8:27
8. Lost In Love 6:05
9. The Line (live) 7:31 (previously unreleased)
10. Mistreated (live) 14:12 More...
SikTh Returning With New Album
SkTh is back - the Watford mathcore sextet that stumbled upon a sound unexplored returns with new album "The Future In Whose Eyes?"
The album is due to be released on June 2nd via Millennium Night, the newly-created label imprint from Snapper Music, home of Peaceville Records and Kscope.
Ahead of the release, the band premieres a new song titled "Vivid" today - listen in below. SikTh vocalist and lyricist Mikee W Goodman comments:
"Lyrically, it is inspired by traumatic dreaming. The verses talk from perspective of being in the actual dream, where the choruses are in despair from an awoken perspective. The song itself has a lot of elements of both tradition and new SikTh."
The digital single is available to buy and stream and will also be available an instant download with all digital album pre-orders. More...
Gruesome Streaming "Fragments Of Psyche" EP
Today - March 31st - marks the official release of Gruesome's new EP "Fragments of Psyche" via Relapse Records.
You can grab your own copy from various digital download sites and all seven songs have come online for streaming below. The full track listing is as follows:
1. Fragments of Psyche 04:03
2. Choke On It '91 06:03
3. Closed Casket (Demo Version) 03:49
4. Gangrene (Demo Version) 05:32
5. Gruesome (Demo Version) 04:22
6. Psychic Twin (Demo Version) 02:54
7. Savage Lands (Demo Version) 04:16 More...
Body Count Interviewed By 12 Year Old
Ice-T's Body Count just released new album "Bloodlust" today via Century Media. The album features guest spots from Max Cavalera, Megadeth's Dave Mustaine, and Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe.
The freshly unveiled album has seen the release of three videos so far: "No Lives Matter," "The Ski Mask Way," and "Black Hoodie." Today a new in-depth interview has come online from Little Punk People in which 12-year old metal-head Elliott Fullam asks Ice-T and Ernie C the hard hitting questions. Check it out below.
Ice-T and co-founder/lead guitarist Ernie C have crafted a mix of thrash, punk, and bottom heavy doom across five albums, hitting a zenith with the unstoppable "Manslaughter." They embody the monumental southern California tradition of street born punk bands like Suicidal Tendencies combined with the aggressive aural napalm of metal. More...
Ex-Nile Vocalist Announces Narcotic Wasteland
Narcotice Wasteland, the now full-time project of former Nile frontman Dallas Toler-Wade, is set to release new music soon. To satisfy fans in the meantime, the band has re-issued pervious 2014 self-titled debut album, "Narcotic Wasteland," out today via Megaforce Records/MRI.
Dallas states: "I left Nile for many other reasons that will remain undisclosed, not just for the reasons they detailed in their statement, which were 'to focus on my own plans and recordings.' That quote didn't come from me.
"I was already putting a lot of my time and energy into Narcotic Wasteland when Nile was not busy writing or touring. My intention was to do shows and albums with Narcotic Wasteland on the flipside, because I like to stay busy. I will continue to write and perform music on whatever level I can for as long as I can. From now on, Narcotice Wasteland will be my main musical focus."
The band's underlying concept is reflective of its namesake and the city where Dallas, Edwin, and Chris grew up. Fayetteville, North Carolina, a military town, has a PTSD rate of up to 75% in males and is the highest rated city in the U.S. for Shaken Baby Syndrome. The availability of street drugs is astounding and the ever growing epidemic of addiction to pharmaceutical drugs is an extremely toxic and unstable environment to grow up and live in. More...
Anathema Posts New Song "Springfield"
Following 2014 album "Distant Satellites" (reviewed here and with the title track appearing on the soundtrack to sci-fi / horror novella "Empty"), Anathema will see the release of eleventh studio album "The Optimist" this coming June 9th via Kscope.
Today the band shares new song "Springfield" below as pre-orders for the 11 track album come online. Anathema singer/guitar player Daniel Cavanagh comments:
“Here we present the song 'Springfield', it’s actually the song that closed our unforgettable Wembley gig with Opeth and it seemed to be a track that just fell into place without much effort. It seemed to do itself. The song forms part of a narrative that runs through The Optimist album, it’s a narrative that begins where A Fine Day To Exit left off. The album is a journey. The songs are ambiguous. There is no right or wrong way to take them. Make of them what you will.”
Anathema began recording "The Optimist" in the winter of 2016 at Attica Audio in Donegal, Ireland and then finished at Castle Of Doom studios in Glasgow with producer Tony Doogan. Mastering was handled at Abbey Road Studios and the track listing is as follows:
1. 32.63N 117.14W
2. Leaving It Behind
3. Endless Ways
4. The Optimist
5. San Francisco
6. Springfield
7. Ghosts
8. Can’t Let Go
9. Close Your Eyes
10. Wildfires
11. Back To the Start More...
Echelon Posts Lyric Video
Death metal supergroup Echelon, featuring within its ranks Dave Ingram and Rogga Johansson, today releases a new lyric video for "The Brimstone Aggrandizement," which can be seen below and comes off the band's latest album of the same name. The full track listing is as follows:
1. Plague of the Altruistic (streaming here)
2. The Forbidden Industry (streaming here)
3. Lex Talionis (listen here)
4. Of Warlocks and Wolves
5. The Brimstone Aggrandizement
6. Vital Existence
7. The Feared Religion
8. Monsters in the Gene Pool / Sonic Vortex
Reality Slap Releases New Video
A new video has come online from Portuguese hardcore quintet Reality Slap, created for the track "Blaze," which hails from the band's recently-released "Limitless" EP.
Issues the band with the new video, "We felt that 'Blaze' would be a perfect song to start the record with after the intro. It has a lot of dynamics, and it's a great bridge between the old Reality Slap and the new.
"Lyrically it talks about friendship and how some people can connect strongly no matter how far they might be from each other. Sharing the same views and energy, emitting the same light, and giving you a light you can follow through dark times." More...
Wolfpakk Streams New Song "Blood Brothers"
Melodic metal all-star project Wolfpakk - led by Mark Sweeney (ex-Crystal Ball) and Michael Voss (Mad Max, Michael Schenker) - released the first single from the upcoming new album "Wolves Reign," which drops on April 28th via AFM Records. Check out "Blood Brothers," featuring Saxon's Biff Byford, below.
In addition to Byford, the album features guest appearances from: George Lynch (Dokken), Rudy Sarzo (Ozzy Osbourne), Ronny Atkins (Pretty Maids), Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Harnell (TNT), Chris Holmes (W.A.S.P.), Oliver Hartmann (Avantasia), Timo Somers (Delain), Brad Gillis (Night Ranger), Pasi Rantanen (Thunderstone), Danny Vaugh (Tyketto) and Michael Vescera (Obsession/ex-Yngwie Malmsteen).
The album's track listing is:
1. Falling
2. Run All Night
3. Blood Brothers
4. Wolves Reign
5. No Remorse
6. Inside the Animal Mind
7. Scream of the Hawk
8. The 10 Commandments
9. Mother Earth
10. Tomorrowland
11. I'm Onto You
Check out "Blood Brothers" here: More...
Shibalba Is Caught "Opening The Shadow Box"
Meditative dark trance/ambient/shamanic act Shibalba - featuring Acherontas V.Priest (Acherontas), Karl NE/Nachzehrer (Nåstrond) and Aldra-Al-Melekh in its ranks - gives the first full track taste of the new album "Psychostasis - Death Of Khat" via the music video for "Opening the Shadow Box." Check it out in the player below.
"Psychostasis - Death Of Khat" willl be released on April 30th via Agonia Records. It's track listing is:
1. Phychostasis-Death of Khat
2. Ihag Mthong
3. Kaoshikii Mahayana
4. Aether Ananda Aiwass
5. Naljorpa
6. Reanimation of Akh
7. Five Points of Desire
8. Orgasmic Inebriation
9. Opening the Shadow Box
10. Svarna Khecari Mudra
Check out "Opening the Shadow Box" here: More...
Dream Evil "Dream[s] Evil"
Sweden's Dream Evil has risen from its seven year slumber and recently announced the new album "Six." Today, the band dropped the first single as a new music video for the opening song "Dream Evil." "Six" will be issued on May 26th via Century Media Records.
"Six" was recorded and produced by guitarist Fredrik Nordström, or as he is known in Dream Evil - "Ritchie Rainbow."
Pre-orders for "Six" can be made at this location. The album's track listing is as follows:
1. Dream Evil
2. Antidote
3. Sin City
4. Creature of the Night
5. Hellride
6. Six Hundred and 66
7. How to Start a War
8. The Murdered Mind
9. Too Loud
10. 44 Riders
11. Broken Wings
12. We Are Forever
Check out the video clip here: More...
Science Of Sleep Is "Condemned To Burn"
Germany's Science Of Sleep has released the official video for "Condemned to Burn," a track from last year's "Hellmouth" album (Bastardized Recordings). Check out the video in the player below.
The video was filmed at the band's album release show and features extreme live action with some backstage hilarity. Produced by Maik Kleinert (Filmmaker & Photographer).
See it here:
Emerald Issues "Only The Reaper Wins" Video Clip
Swiss metal act Emerald released a new music video for the song "Only the Reaper Wins." The song appears on the band's new release "Reckoning Day," which was just issued on March 24th via Pure Steel Records.
Check out the clip here:
Malamorte Signs With Pure Steel Records
Italian black metal act Malamorte has signed a worldwide deal with Pure Steel Records. The band will issue the new album "Satan Goes To Heaven To Destroy The Kingdom Of God" on June 9th.
Malamorte was formed in 2009 and is the a side project of Alex Nunziati (Lord Vampyr, ex founder/singer of Theatres des Vampires, Cain, Nailed God, Shadowsreign, Sepolcrum, ex-VII Arcano).
Stay tuned for more news on the album expected soon. More...
Katharos XIII Details Sophomore Album
Romanian suicidal black metal act Katharos XIII - featuring members or ex-members of bands like Negura Bunget, Argus Megere, Ordinul Negru, Kultika, Indefiance - will release the long awaited sophomore full length album "Negativity" on April 5th via Loud Rage Music.
The sound of Katharos XIII emerged from the dark chambers of human psyche, questions and deep melancholy into black chords, a truly unique combination of different layers and influences…personal experiences (all kinds of abuse, paranoia, severe depressions), strange stories, movies (Greenaway, Lynch), books (Eliade, Cioran, Zola) and of course no one can deny the musical field that is overwhelming and complex now days, but one thing is sure the members involved are more preoccupied to express themselves then being a part of the today's musical scene.
The track listing and artwork for "Negativity" can be found below:
1. XIII
2. Negativity
3. No One Left to Lead the Way
4. The Chains Are So Beautiful
5. World's Coffin
6. I Die Everytime I Walk This Path
7. Inside More...
U.D.O. Taps Bill Hudson As New Guitarist
After recently splitting with guitarist Kasperi Heikkinen, German based U.D.O. (featuring legendary ex-Accept vocalist Udo Dirkschneider) tapped T.S.O./Circle II Circle guitarist Bill Hudson as his replacement.
The announcement reads: "We are very proud to announce that Mr. Bill Hudson from Brazil is the new guitarist of Dirkschneider/U.D.O.!
"Bill is based in the United States, but has already been in Pulheim a few weeks ago to join the songwriting session for our next album which we will start recording soon.
"Bill fits in, in every way, perfectly with us and builds a fantastic guitar team together with Andrey Smirnov. He is very experienced and has shared the stage with several known bands, most notably Circle II Circle, Jon Oliva's Pain and TSO for the last few years. It's not really necessary to talk about his skills, simply check it out on our next tour and you will see what we're talking about!
"After Kasperi left the band we have received many suggestions and applications from great guitar players from all over the planet. At the same time, we started getting hints from different and unrelated people in the business pointing straight into the same direction, telling us to check out this Brazilian/American guy. Once in Germany he convinced everybody from the get go and it was very clear that this guy had all the requirements to become the new band member.
We are REALLY looking forward to kick ass even more so than ever before!" More...
Excommunion Announces New EP "Thronosis"
As the world crumbles beneath our feet, a slumbering beast awakens to feast on the weak. That beast is Excommunion. The band will break a years-long silence with the upcoming release of "Thronosis" via Dark Descent Records on May 12th.
Fifteen years after the sonic blitzkrieg that was the debut album "Superion," Colorado born Excommunion triumphantly returns with the new EP "Thronosis." Christbutcher and Kyle Spanswick once again form the backbone for this relentless return.
The band comments: "In death we are born again, to rise once more with new form, beneath the Shadow of the Logos. Old doctrines are cast into the abyss and old flesh flensed and given to the flames of pyres. Let only the old name remain as our epithet. Let all else burn and fall from this new and glorious form within the paradoxical light of a greater heresy. In death, Excommunion arises once more..."
The release was recorded, mixed and mastered at Flatline Audio by Dave Otero and Excommunion. The cover art (shown below) was created by Lauri Laaksonen (Desolate Shrine).
The track listing is as follows:
1. Twilight of Eschaton
2. Nemesis
3. World Crucifier
4. Blessed is the Epoch of Darkness and Strife More...
42 Decibel Is About To Get "Overloaded"
With the impressive debut album "Hard Rock 'n' Roll" (2013), the follow up "Rolling In Town" (2015), and fresh from the first European tour in 2016, 42 Decibel is making a comeback with the latest album, "Overloaded," which will be released by Steamhammer/SPV on June 23rd. A video clip for the new single "Dangerous Mess" can be seen below.
42 Decibel has recorded ten new rock tracks inspired by the idea of pushing a piece of equipment to its limits. The band recorded and mixed with this in mind, so most of the equipment used in the recording was pushed to its limits; VU meters hitting the red zone, red lights flashing resulting in various types of distortion. Overloaded still carries the Blues Rock torch from the previous albums, but this time 42 Decibel cranked it up a notch to give a more explosive experience but with that same Hard Rock n Roll these boys are known for.
With "Overloaded," 42 Decibel resolutely follow the course set out on in early 2010 with the first 7-track demo and went straight on to put into serial production with the debut "Hard Rock 'n' Roll." The current line-up with Junior Figueroa, Nicko Cambiasso, Billy Bob and Matt Fraga, is bursting with energy and thirst for action, and - with the exception of the final mastering of the album, for which the band members once more enlisted the services of Justin Weis - took on the entire spectrum of tasks involved in a dynamic studio production themselves.
The track listing for "Overloaded" is:
1. Whiskey Joint 3:07
2. Dangerous Mess 3:22
3. Brawler 3:42
4. Roadkiller 3:46
5. Hot Shot 3:03
6. Half Face Dead 2:39
7. Lost Case 4:37
8. Cause Damage 4:09
9. Double Itch Blues 6:55
10. Cannon Fodder 4:44 More...
Jackal To Issue First Album In 28 Years
Dutch metal act Jackal, formed in 1985, will release the first album in 28 years. The sophomore album "God Of War" will be issued via through Into The LimeLight Records and distributed worldwide by Soulfood Gmbh and Indieplant in The Netherlands.
A preview of Gods Of War can be heard at this location).
Jackal's debut album "Cry Of The Jackal" was released in 1989 after several demo’s an shortly after in 1992, the band broke up. In January 2007, original members John Bouman (Guitar) and
Rick Waalewijn (drums) kick-started the band again. New band members where found, rehearsals started and after a ball breaking live debut on 12-12-08 in de Kade in Zaandam, the band was playing full force again! In 2010, original singer Erwin Siereveld rejoined the band.
More information on the album is expected soon. The artwork for "God of War" can be viewed here: More...
Funeral Baptism Signs With Loud Rage Music
Funeral Baptism, the Bucharest black metal duo that recently took the Romanian extreme metal scene by storm with the release of the excellent second EP, "Gate," has just reached an agreement with Loud Rage Music regarding the upcoming release of the band’s debut full length album. The album is targeted for release in the second half of 2017.
"Gate," the band’s second EP and first in a duo line-up, is now available for free streaming in the player below.
Funeral Baptism was formed back in 2014 in Villa Gessel, Argentina by guitarist Damian Batista. The same year, the "Blasphemous Desires" EP was released, presenting a straightforward black metal style with an atmospheric twist. In 2016, the band relocated to Bucharest and with the inclusion of new vocalist, Liviu Ustinescu, Funeral Baptism released the second EP “Gate” in March 2017.
This new EP introduces a more aggressive style adding a death metal influence yet retaining the atmospheric overtones of the first release. Check it out: More...
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