Metal News for May 24, 2016
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Pit Stories: Enthusiastic Teens, Calm Adults
In recent weeks we've explored quite the range of show stories, including an epic drunk journey to see the Misfits, a truly violent farewell show, and a sad case of a mosh pit turning on the hardcore kid.
Today's Pit Story comes courtesy of psychedelic outfit Suns Of Thyme. Drummer Jascha Kreft shares these memories of teenage enthusiasm and more restrained adults trying to have a good time:
The most exciting mosh pit I ever experienced during a show of mine that was with my very first band back in my hometown in the most provincial backwater in northern Germany 10 years ago. I remember about 200 or so 14 year old teens "moshing" their hearts out (for most of them the first time I guess), falling on the ground constantly, older attendees laughing about them but enjoying themselves.
So far it seems to me that the audiences in Berlin are a little more calm, or more into themselves or just spoiled but there are exceptions. I had my last proper mosh at a concert of Fuzz. People were hanging from the ceiling right from the first song.
Suns Of Thyme recently inked a deal with Napalm Records and is gearing up to release new album "Cascades" on May 27th, 2016. More...
Wrvth Posts Studio Footage
Today the atmospheric tech death unit Wrvth reveals a live studio / music video for the song "Into Bloom." The tracks comes by way of the band's self-titled full-length album released via Unique Leader.
The clip was created by FlytrapTV, which met up with Wrvth in Northern California at Fang Studios with Nick Loiacono. A recently released music video for the "Larkspur" track can also be seen at this location.
Motorhead Posts "Overkill" Live Video
Motorhead's recently announced live set "Clean Your Clock" - featuring one of the band's final performances together at the Zenith in Munich, Germany - will hit stores on Friday, June 10th via UDR Music.
You can pre-order the set here and today, you can watch a brand new live concert recording of "Overkill" from "Clean Your Clock" below.
There will be no more Motorhead tours because Lemmy is no longer here, and many, many people did not get a chance to hear the band one more time on what proved to be the last-ever piece of road work. This makes "Clean Your Clock" a vitally important release: it is both a celebration and an epitaph, glorious yet not without melancholy, maintaining the warmth and curve of Motörhead's unique live sound. More...
Monsterworks Releasing "Black Swan Annihilation"
Monsterworks just announced the June 24th release of new album "Black Swan Annihilation." The album will be available as a free download, or as a CD with bonus tracks and 5.1 Surround / HD stereo mixes.
"Black Swan Annihilation" carries a theme about the rise of man and destruction we could face as the consequence of an unpredictable disaster. There are many "Black Swan" events throughout history which have caused profound change, and this time humanity is taken to the brink of extinction.
1. Immortalist
2. To Have Done What Must Be
3. Unbridled Force of Nature
4. Black Swan Annihilation
5. Vanishing Point
6. Unbeheld
7. Archivo Omnia More...
Black Fucking Cancer Releasing New Album
Born in MMX, Black Fucking Cancer is uncompromising, disease-ridden, chaotic black metal from the USA. Influenced by a hatred and disgust for the human cancer, Black Fucking Cancer relentlessly shoves your face in all the ugliness and filth this world has to offer.
The new self-titled release "Black Fucking Cancer" propagates ritual subjugation and mass execution: a must for for fans of old 1349, Katharsis, S.V.E.S.T, Antaeus, Sunn O))), Emperor, and Black Witchery. Due out June 24th, the track listing is as follows:
1. A Sigil of Burning Flesh
2. Acid Ocean
3. Blood Stained Whore
4. SinnRitualVoid
5. Wall of Corpses
6. Exit Wounds
7. Communion of the Blood Unholy More...
Dehuman Reign Posts Lyric Video
Berlin-based powerhouse Dehuman Reign has stood for uncompromising death metal since 2011, with no modern influences or trends, just death metal: pure, authentic and evil.
Now the time has finally come for Dehuman Reign's first full-length album "Ascending From Below," dropping on 5/27/16 in CD and digital formats. A lyric video for "Apply Salt To The Open Wound" is available below, and the full track listing is as follows:
01. The Ascension
02. Apply Salt To The Open Wound
03. Recipients Of The Abominable
04. Minds Of The Insane
05. Drown In Agony
06. Garden Of Decay
07. Articulating The Unspeakable
08. Grey Entity
09. Heart Of The Hypocrite
10. Stench Of The Infected
11. Mental Hibernation More...
Classhole Announces U.S. Tour
The New Orleans-based hardcore punk miscreants from Classhole will take to the streets next month on a short stretch of live demolitions. Set to commence June 23rd and run through June 30th, the rampage will crumble stages in Mobile, Spartanburg, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Memphis.
6/23/2016 The Blind Mule - Mobile, AL
6/24/2016 Ground Zero - Spartanburg, SC
6/25/2016 The Pinch - Washington, DC
6/26/2016 The Depot - Baltimore, MD
6/27/2016 Acheron - Brooklyn, NY
6/28/2016 Kung Fu Necktie - Philadelphia, PA
6/29/2016 Now That's Class - Cleveland, OH
6/30/2016 Hi Tone - Memphis, TN More...
Warfather Announces New Album
Steve Tucker just issued this announcement online about an impending new full-length album release from Warfather:
"I am really excited that the day has finally come to give you a little news on Warfather! The new Album is named 'Grey Eminence.'
"Soon we will share some art work and some other insights on the album, as well we will release a streaming track to get things rolling. I look forward to you hearing it!
"I have been joined by two new members, Jake Kock on guitar and Bryan Bever on the drums, and they did an amazing job on this album, along with Erik Rutan, who produced and mixed the album. More to come..." More...
GWAR Posts New Q & A Video
The scum dogs of the universe are working on a new album and have decided to announce it in properly bizarre fashion with a new episode of Pusty's Mailbag. The band comments:
"Day after day we are bludgeoned with an onslaught of lame questions and it's time we answered the most important one... Yes, GWAR has united itself to record yet another disasterpiece and it has been secretly in the writing phase for months in a crackhouse of seclusion in the northside of Chicago. A due date for the record has not been decided but the band is grinding out what may prove to be their most savage and bloodthirsty tracks to date.
"The Scumdogs are also currently searching for a producer that is brave enough to risk their life to give them the tones of the gods to make this next record stand as a testament to the next era of GWAR.
"We had found out about this information while watching the premier episode of Pusty's Mailbag where, apparently, he's taking time out of his day to host a show where the festering giant reads your letters. Watch the clip below as it may contain clues to the future endeavors of GWAR, including this year's highly anticipated GWAR B-Q, set for August 20, 2016 in Richmond, VA." More...
Weaksaw Posts New Music Video
Lifeforce Records debut "The Wretched Of the Earth" by French metal upcomers Weaksaw will be released on May 27th, and now its time to reveal the video for "XYY" off the forthcoming effort. Lifeforce also comments:
"Ever since their creation in 2008 in Montpellier (South of France), Weaksaw have played sincere brutal and melodic metal. Weaksaw have released two Eps in a positively thrash core style, '13 X 13' (4 tracks) in 2008, and 'The Overture' (6 tracks) in 2009, both recorded at Trendkill Studios.
"Their first album, 'Weaksaw,' was released in 2012 by Klonosphere / Season of Mist. With this album, their style changed into more radical, darker, more violent and technical direction. In early 2013 'James Hudson Jr' was released, marking the affirmation of Weaksaw’s style, with more direct, ambient songs, charged with brutal emotion. More...
Hobbs' Angel Of Death Signs With Hells Headbangers
Today Hells Headbangers announces the signing of Australia's legendary Hobbs' Angel of Death. The first fruit of this union shall be the band's long-awaited comeback album, "Heaven Bled," which will be released this fall by Hells Headbangers.
Helmed by one relentless maniac named Peter Hobbs, Hobbs' Angel of Death is one of the more unsung cult favorites of '80s metal. Hailing from Australia many years before it was cool to do so, the band released two classic demos in 1987, "Angel of Death" and the telltale "Virgin Metal Invasion From Down Under," before time came for the inevitable debut album.
That album, 1988's self-titled opus, was released by Steamhammer during the label's glory years, and quickly found a devoted legion of fans enthralled to Hobbs' Kreator-meets-Dark Angel style of deathrash. It would be many years before a follow-up, 1995's "Inheritance," and the band broke up not long after. More...
Netherlands Posts "Elephuck" Video
With less than a month remaining until the release of forthcoming effort “Audubon” through Prosthetic Records, NYC-based experimental/noise trio Netherlands has offered a sampling of new music with the trippy, holographic themed music video for “Elephuck.”
Directed by filmmaker/animator Eric Leiser (Spongebob Squarepants), the video can be viewed below. Scheduled for worldwide release on June 17th, “Audubon” was recorded by Tom Tierney (Tidal Arms) and features the following track listing:
1. L.M.M.
2. Elephuck
3. Thumper
4. The Bottom Of The Ocean
5. New Jocks
6. Dots
7. Thrombosis
8. Alien Pussy
9. In Cyan More...
All Hell Signs With Prosthetic
Prosthetic Records is excited to reveal the signing of blackened thrash/punk trio All Hell. Spawned from the dark hills of Asheville, North Carolina in 2013, the band consists of Jacob Curwen (vocals, guitar), Kurt Henderson (drums) and Erik Ballantyne (bass).
All Hell is currently working on the Prosthetic label debut and third overall release with plans to enter the studio later this fall. An early 2017 release is expected.
Citing a varying array of influences consisting of punk, thrash, first-wave black metal and 80's deathrock, All Hell's most recent release “The Red Sect” was produced by Joel Grind (Toxic Holocaust). While waiting for news on the upcoming album, be sure to catch the band live:
7/1 Atlanta, GA- 529 (w/ Cloak)
7/2 Spartanburg, SC – Ground Zero (w/ Venom Inc.)
7/3 Columbia, SC – The Sludge Gutter (w/ Satanachrist)
Nails Posts Studio Video
The hardcore metal punks from Nails are gearing up to release new album "You Will Never Be One Of Us" through Nuclear Blast on June 17th, 2016.
Today, the band releases a third installment in a series of in-studio series, which can be viewed below. The album's track listing consists of:
01. You Will Never Be One Of Us
02. Friend To All
03. Made To Make You Fall
04. Life Is A Death Sentence
05. Violence Is Forever
06. Savage Intolerance (watch the video here)
07. In Pain
08. Parasite
09. Into Quietus
10. They Come Crawling Back More...
Destruction Comments On Chart Position
Nuclear Blast Records is proud to announce that the new "Under Attack" album from thrash metal band Destruction entered the official German charts at #68.
Band mastermind Schmier states: "This is surreal and amazing at the same time cause German billboards are very conservative! Our last chart entry was in 2010, so it feels as special as the first time! Cheers to all supporters for kicking the ass of the mainstream!"
The album dropped via Nuclear Blast On May 13th, 2016 and a music video for the title track is available below. More...
Defiled Streaming "Conspiracy"
Japan's death metal stalwarts from Defiled are streaming a new track off "Towards Inevitable Ruin," their first new album in over four years. The track, titled "Conspiracy," is streaming below.
Regarding the new track, Defiled mastermind Yusuke Sumita comments: "The time has come to offer you another track from our upcoming album 'Towards Inevitable Ruin'. I know, the production deviates quite a bit from the current standard, because it has a lot of vibration, but hopefully many of you guys enjoy our effort to achieve an 'organic sound'. We have worked hard on it and are very proud of having a natural rich tone... no regrets!"
New album "Towards Inevitable Ruin" will be released worldwide on July 8th. The full track listing is as follows:
1. Subversion
2. Cauterized
3. Doomsday
4. Conspiracy
5. Force And Obedience (streaming here)
6. Shadows Hands
7. Fear From Above
8. Scapegoat
9. Debunked
10. One World
11. Silent But Ongoing
12. Towards Inevitable Ruin More...
Binary Code Streaming Full New Album
Today marks the release of "Moonsblood," the new full-length offering from New Jersey / New York-based progressive metal outfit Binary Code. The full album has also come online for streaming and can be heard below.
Binary Code will support "Moonsblood" with rigorous touring, to be announced shotrly. But first, the band will perform on June 15th at Dingbatz in Clifton, NJ to play "Moonsblood" in its entirety.
Engineered and mixed by Eyal Levi (August Burns Red, The Contortionist, Monuments) at Audiohammer Studios and mastered by Alan Douches (Suicide Silence, Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge) at West West Side Music, the members of Binary Code poured everything they had into delivering an album that would ultimately be a game-changer. "Moonsblood" features new vocalist Oded Weinstock and offers up a completely different sound from what fans might previously expect from the band. More...
Full Scale Riot Enters The Studio
Recently signed to Eulogy Recordings, Full Scale Riot is currently set up at New Jersey-based Trax East Recording Studio laying down the tracks for an impending self-titled debut album.
The band will finalize the recordings in the coming days and put the final touches on the album for a September release. "Full Scale Riot" is also slated to feature a guest guitar contribution from Mark Rizzo of Soulfly.
Issues Full Scale Riot from the studio this week, "The music on this album is somewhat different from the 'Depopulation' EP, so we decided to go a different route as far as recording goes, recording everything to two-inch tape then bouncing it through ProTools. We've also done a few other things to try to capture our live sound. While the new material has a very old-school hardcore/crossover feel, we're shaping the forthcoming direction of the band's sound."
While waiting for full details to arrive, check out the previous "Depopulation" EP release below. More...
Whispered Posts New Music Video
Last week Whipsered, the Finnish senseis of samurai metal, released third album "Metsutan – Songs of the Void," and in honor of that release the band just unveiled an epic new music video for lead single "Strike."
The video, about "executing a flawless, godlike strike with a sword," was written and directed by guitarist and vocalist Jouni Valjakka, with cinematography by Teemu Jortikka and Niko Finsk.
Check out the clip below, and if you haven't heard it yet, all of "Metsutan" is still online for streaming at this location. More...
In Mourning Announces Vinyl Release
Swedish progressive melodeath/doom metal band In Mourning just dropped new album "Afterglow" via Agonia Records, but that's not the only release now arriving.
In Mourning's former album, 2012 release "The Weight Of Oceans," will be made available for the first time in vinyl format. This new edition is set for August 26th via Agonia Records and pre-orders arecurrently available here.
A range of new T-shirt merchandise will accompany this release, featuring the album's cover artwork made by Kristian Wåhlin (Bathory, Tiamat, King Diamond) in various colour combinations. "The Weight Of Oceans" will be available in the following formats:
- Limited to 375 copies double black LP
- Limited to 125 copies double transparent blue LP
- Exclusive T-shirt in 4 different versions More...
Temple Nightside Releasing "The Hecatomb"
Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets August 5th as the international release date for Temple Nightside's second album, "The Hecatomb."
For the last five years, Temple Nightside mainman IV has been pursuing a bleak 'n' oblique vision of death metal. Although rooted in the vast and vibrant Australian black metal scene, the mysterious IV invested the blackest of arts into ancient metal of death, initially self-describing Temple Nightside as "Ritualistic Death Metal Necromancy.
Check out advance track "Adrift in Sepulchral Entropy" below. The album's full track listing is as follows:
1. Graven
2. Adrift in Sepulchral Entropy
3. Ossuary (Commune 3.1)
4. Fortress of Burden and Distress
5. The Murderous Victor (Commune 3.2
6. Within the Arms of Nothingness
7. Tempest
8. Burial Adoration (Commune 3.3)
9. Charnel Winds More...
Vidian Streaming "A Piece Of The End"
This is the end. Or at least, a piece of it, which is what Poland’s Vidian has unveiled today. After the success of "Transgressing the Horizon," new EP "A Piece of the End" delves into melancholic and groovy territory.
Check out all four tracks below. "A Piece of the End" is due for release on May 25th via Arachnophobia Records. Pre-order through the label's webstore here.
1. Constellations
2. Distorted
3. Pole Shift
4. A Piece of the End More...
Astronoid Announces "Air" Release
Astronoid is a five-piece band from Boston, MA with influences ranging from Devin Townsend and Mew to Alcest and Cynic. The group's first full-length album, being released by Blood Music in 2016, is part of an evolving experience that complements two previous EPs from 2012-13, "Stargazer" and "November."
The driving rhythms, subtle time signatures and soaring vocal harmonies combine to create a highly atmospheric, ethereal experience. Dense layers of thrashy guitar riffs and euphoric vocals reach new heights as Astronoid stands apart from the band's peers.
New album "Air" will see release via Blood Music on June 10th and pre-orders are active now at this location. The track listing is:
1. Incandescent
2. Up and Atom
3. Resin
4. Violence
5. Homesick
6. Tin Foil Hats
7. Air
8. Obsolete
9. Trail of Sulfur More...
Mizery Announces "Absolute Light" LP
San Diego-based metallic hardcore outfit Mizery has completed brazen debut LP, "Absolute Light," which is being finalized for a July 22nd release via Flatspot Records.
Issues Mizery on the upcoming release of the album: "We chose Flatspot because it just felt right. We knew it was a hardcore label, run by hardcore kids that we trust to put out the best record possible."
In February 2016, Mizery - comprised of guitarists Anthony Quiroz and Taylor Parker, vocalist Jose Gonzales, drummer Cayle Sain, and bassist Mike Salazar - took over The Pit Studios in Van Nuys with Taylor Young (Nails, Twitching Tongues, Rotting Out), to record "Absolute Light."
The album features guest vocals by David Wood (Down To Nothing, Terror), Dan Weinraub (Downpresser), and Anthony Herrera (Take Offense), and was mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, War Hungry) at Solomon's Gate's in Philadelphia. More...
Act Of Defiance Posts Guitar Playthrough
Currently on tour in North America, Act of Defiance's Chris Broderick has launched a new guitar playthrough for the track "Disastrophe," taken from the group's debut album, "Birth And The Burial."
See below for both the video and all upcoming Act of Defiance dates, including special appearances with Hatebreed and DevilDriver.
Revocation Announces "Great Is Our Sin"
Revocation's new album "Great Is Our Sin" is coming July 22nd via Metal Blade Records, with the label boasting this is the band's "most dynamic, boundary-pushing and weighty release to date."
The first song from the album entitled "Communion" is available for streaming below, and you can also pre-order at this location. Frontman Dave Davidson commented on the first track: "'Communion' is the fastest song we've recorded to date and while it's blistering in terms of speed there are also some proggy elements present to add contrast to the aggression."
Reuniting with producer Zeuss (Hatebreed, Bleeding Through), who also helmed "Deathless" and 2012's "Teratogenesis" EP, the record packs the requisite punch, yet retains the organic feel with which it was conceived.
While the songs come together to make for a cohesive record that is engaging from front to back, they are further united by the lyrical concept penned by Davidson. The title itself appropriated from Charles Darwin's quote: "If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin," Davidson went about building a theme that was not only fittingly expansive, but also had real resonance with regard to contemporary society. "The concept revolves around the folly of man throughout the ages. Some themes come from historical references that are hundreds of years old, yet sadly these themes are still very relevant today due to mankind's refusal to learn from the lessons history has taught us, time and time again." More...
Earth Ship Gives "Safeguard Of Death"
German sludge metal act Earth Ship is streaming the new track "Safeguard of Death." The song is lifted from the new release "Hollowed" - which drops on June 24th via Napalm Records.
The track listing for "Hollowed" is:
1. Reduced to Ashes
2. Hollowed
3. Valley of Thorns (see lyric video here)
4. Conjured
5. Monolith
6. In Fire's Light
7. In the Arms of Medusa
8. Castle of Sorrow
9. Safeguard of Death
10. Red Leaves
11. The Edge of Time
12. Blood Candy (Bonus Track)
13. The Edge of Time - Acoustic (Bonus Track)
Check out "Safeguard of Death" here: More...
Despite Releases "As You Bleed" Video Clip
Swedish melodic death metal act Despite released a video clip for the new song "As You Bleed." The song appears on the upcoming third full length album "Synergi," which will be released worldwide via Eclipse Records on July 22nd.
The track listing is located here:
1. Soul = Denied
2. As You Bleed (song streaming here)
3. The Perpetual Weakening
4. Triage
5. Time Lapse (feat. Nathalie Brorson)
6. Chaos Trigger
7. Give Me Life
8. Sanctum Falls
9. Synergi
10. Praedonum
11. Unexceptional (feat. Rob Guz)
12. Square Zero
13. Awakening
Check out "As You Bleed" here: More...
Withem Reveals "The Eye In The Sky"
Norwegian progressive metal act Withem is streaming the fourth new song. Check out "The Eye in the Sky" below. The band's new album "The Unforgiving Road" will be issued by Frontiers Music srl on June 3rd.
The track listing for "The Unforgiving Road" is as follows:
1. …Intro
2. Exit
3. In The Hands Of A God (song streaming here)
4. The Pain I Collected (see lyric video here)
5. Riven
6. C'est La Vie
7. The Eye In The Sky
8. Arrhythmia (song streaming here)
9. In My Will
10. Unaffected Love
11. Outro…
Check out "The Eye In the Sky" here: More...
Esperoza Finishes Work On New Album
Moldovanian symphonic extreme/dark metal act Esperoza finished the work on the second full length studio album which will be entitled "Aum Corrupted." The album will be released on WormHoleDeath Records and Aural Music this summer.
The band was formed by Zoya Belous and Dmitrii Prihodko in 2010. In 2012, they released the debut EP "Tempest" and in 2014 the band released the debut full length album "Esperoza." This was followed by concerts, festivals and a tour in Moldova, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine.
More information on the album, including artwork, track listing and release date is expected soon. More...
Gutter Instinct Post Pre-Release Full-Album Stream
Swedish death metal outfit Gutter Instinct premieres the pre-release full-album stream of the band's upcoming new album "Age Of The Fanatics", which will be out in stores through Prosthetic Records on 27 May.
Check out now "Age Of The Fanatics" in its entirety below.
Says the band about the new album: More...
God Enslavement (Misery Index Etc.) Posts New Song
God Enslavement - a new deathgrind project featuring members of Misery Index, Pig Destroyer, ex-Dying Fetus, Deadborn and Maladie - premieres a new song entitled "Katharsis Through Decapitation", taken from the upcoming new album "Consuming the Divine", out in stores now via bandcamp.
Check out now "Katharsis Through Decapitation" below.
God Enslavement is: More...
Bullet For My Valentine Premieres New Live Video
Bullet For My Valentine premieres a new a live video showcasing the band performing "You Want A Battle? (Here’s A War)" live at Iron City n Birmingham, AL this past February.
Check out now "You Want A Battle? (Here’s A War)" below.
Oracles (Aborted Etc.) Premieres New Song "S(k)in"
Oracles (Aborted, etc.) premieres a new song entitled "S(k)in", taken from the upcoming new album "Miserycorde", which will be out in stores July 01 via Deadlight Entertainment.
Check out now "S(k)in" below.
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