Naat Signs With Argonauta Records

Argonauta Records is proud to announce the newest band to hit its roster: Naat. The label had this to say about the signing:

"Naat is a huge blend of instrumental post metal, doom and sludge coming from Genoa, Italy, born in 2014 by founder members of Antea, Lilium and Stone Smokers, three bands that attended the rock, metal, and stoner scene for years in Northern Italy.

"The intention is to revise the personal musical ideas of each member and produce a preconceptions-free sound experience. Power and atmosphere are blended, accompanying the listener between peaks and sudden vertical drops where the dynamics develop and crumble into an instrumental kind of stream of consciousness."

The band says: “We are very happy to inked a deal with Argonauta Records, a label fitting so well in a music scene we know and where we want to carve out our own space. We are convinced that our approach to "metal and similar" is something to involve a good deal of fans. We look forward to the efforts of the past year are finally released; we are ready to bring our music live on stage! We would like particularly to thank Mattia Cominotto and Greenfog Studio of Genoa for helping us so much in the recording process, with dedication and advice; we are very pleased with our record and it is mostly his merit!” More...

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Destroyer Of Light Gearing Up For Tour

The Austin doom-crushers from Destroyer Of Light have updated their summer tour, which begins in just one week, then consumes the remainder of June and nearly half of July.

This new trek sees Destroyer Of Light taking the "Endsville" anthems back out to the masses, beginning in Fort Worth on June 16th, then running up through the Central and Midwestern states to the Pacific Northwest, before running down the West Coast on their way back to Texas, the final show going down in the band's hometown on July 11th.

Additionally, Destroyer Of Light has been confirmed to take part in the second installment of Shadow Woods Metal Fest in Maryland this September, with the likes of Zud, Tombs, Mantar, Wino with Faith In Jane, Ghost Bath, Darsombra, Blood Storm, and countless others, around which another tour is being routed.

Following the recent departure of Keegan Kjeldsen, these tour dates will see Destroyer Of Light taking to the streets as a three-piece for the first time, with Jeff Klein handling lead guitars, Steve Colca on guitars and vocals, and Penny turner on drums.

The band is now also working on a new album, which will see release in early 2017 on a label to be announced at a later date along with more info on the permanent lineup. More...

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Unlit Face Posts "Overcoming The Sky" Video

Sliptrick Records outfit Unlit Face has a music video online for the track "Overcoming The Sky," which can be seen below and comes off the "Everlasting Transformation" album. Sliptrick comments:

"The new album 'Everlasting Transformation' is themed on the creation of the world and humanity from the point of view of different cultures. Each song has lyrics based on a different mythology spanning the whole world and different time periods. From the native Tupis from Brazil, through the Eskimos to the old Slavic, with several others in between."

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Scorpion Child Posts "Reaper's Danse" Video

Texas hard rock band Scorpion Child just released new LP, "Acid Roulette," via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. In celebration, the group has released an animated video for the song "Reaper's Danse," which was created by Costin Chioreanu (Enslaved, Alcest) of Twilight 13 Media.

"Acid Roulette" is the follow-up to Scorpion Child's 2013 self-titled debut, which earned the quintet a "Best New Band" nomination at the Classic Rock magazine presented Classic Rock Awards and was praised as "straight-up kickass rock and roll" by Revolver.

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Something Is Waiting Announces Debut Album

New supergroup of the Chicago sewers, Something Is Waiting, has announced the July 22nd release of debut album "The Something Is Waiting Band," coming via The Path Less Traveled Records. Stream first single "New Lows In Hell" below, courtesy of MetalSucks.net.

A band of Chicago veterans, Something Is Waiting is fronted by Eddie Gobbo – vocalist of Jar'd Loose and Renaissance man of the Midwest metal scene. On guitar is Pete Grossman, co-owner of Bricktop Recording, the Chicago studio that has churned out recordings by Weekend Nachos, Harm's Way, Dead In The Dirt, and scores more. Drummer Idin Alexzander played in (Lone) Wolf and Cub, standouts of the Hewhocorrupts Inc label. Bassist Eddie Limperis is also a member of Barren Heirs.

Something Is Waiting picks up where Gobbo's other band, Jar'd Loose, last left us. The cover art was created by Stavros Giannopoulos of The Atlas Moth and the track listing is as follows:

1) New Lows in Hell
2) Pet Rockets Stoned
3) Cult House
4) Hippies Become Lawyers
5) Real Estate Cubicle Rock
6) David Mamet and Kids
7) Mark
8) Real Frontwomen Wear Ankhs More...

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Grotesque Ceremonium Streams "Barbaric Apostasy"

Another Grotesque Ceremonium track has just come online - check out "Barbaric Apostasy" below. The son hails from new album "Demonic Inquisition," coming via Satanath Records and More Hate Productions on June 15th.

"Demonic Inquisition" is a concept album about the darkness of medieval times and the Christian Inquisition turned on its head, with Baphomet's army of demons prosecuting a war of torture against the believers of God.

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Control The Devastator To Support Venom Inc.

U.S. blackened death metal horde Control The Devastator is now confirmed to share the stage with Venom Inc. on two dates at the end of that band's current tour. Direct support comes from Necrophagia.

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Control The Devastator was formed in 2011 and is based out of Snellville, GA. The band released a single in 2014, titled “Lacerations,” and is currently in the studio recording a full-length debut album, titled “Multilayered Dimensions” and produced by Wade Audio. More...

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Svartanatt Posts New Song

Svartanatt today releases the "Thunderbirds Whispering Wind" single, taken from a new self-titled album due out August 26th and available for pre-order here.

The new single is a six minute and twenty-six second long ballad that is shaped out of timeless rock with a classic sound based around the 60's music scene and the early days of modern rock history. The "Svartanatt" track listing will be as follows:

1. Filled up with darkness
2. Times are changing
3. Demon
4. Nightman
5. Thunderbirds whispering wind
6. Dreams
7. Rocket
8. Dead mans alley
9. Secrets of the earth
10. Destination no end More...

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Sunday Old School: Laaz Rockit

It's funny how some people come to bands through others. Perhaps when looking for the American cult heroes Pentagram, you stumbled across one of the bands of the same name from Chile or Turkey.

Maybe you never would have heard of Trust if Anthrax hadn't covered "Antisocial." Many American metal fans, and indeed younger fans from all across the world were introduced to the likes of Diamond Head, Budgie and Holocaust via Metallica covers. Speaking of Metallica, it was on an unlicensed documentary about the Bay Area quartet that I discovered today's featured band, as one of the interviewees mentioned he only attended one of their early shows because he wanted to see another group, by the name of Laaz Rockit.

Laaz Rockit was formed in San Francisco in 1982 by guitarists Aaron Jellum and Phil Kettner, along with vocalist Michael Coons and bass player Dave Starr, taking their name from the Clint Eastwood movie, "The Enforcer," before rounding up their lineup with drummer Victor Agnello, as well replacing Starr with Willy Lange in 1983. That same year, the band recorded their first demo, "Prelude to Death," which led to a record deal with Target for their debut, "City's Gonna Burn." Though by no means a bad album, there are fans who regard it as a slightly weak debut, feeling it's an unfocused work that didn't capture the band's full potential. More...

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New Interview With Slayer's Paul Bostaph Posted

Kaaos TV conducted an interview with Slayer drummer Paul Bostaph at the South Park festival in Tampere, Finland on June 10. Check it out below.

On whether he is pleased by the fan response to Slayer's latest album "Repentless":

Paul: "Absolutely. Whenever you're putting a new record out, you're not sure what other people are gonna think. You know you like it, but it's always nice when you get positive feedback from people about the fact that they like it."

On whether he was nervous about being accept by Slayer's fans again after being away from the band for so long: More...

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