Metal News for June 29, 2017
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23 news articles posted on this day.
Cattle Decapitation Announces Fall Headline Tour
This fall, Cattle Decapitation will headline the "North American Extinction Tour Part II: Inhuman Beings," featuring Revocation, Full Of Hell, and Artificial Brain as support.
The tour will run from October 10th through November 20th with Tijuana, Mexico's mad doctors of gore, Thanatology, replacing Full Of Hell as support on the first three dates. See below for all confirmed shows.
Cattle Decapitation w/ Revocation, Full Of Hell, Artificial Brain:
10/10/2017 Regent Theater - Los Angeles, CA * ^
10/11/2017 Brick By Brick - San Diego, CA * ^
10/12/2017 Green Room - Flagstaff, AZ * ^
10/13/2017 Launchpad - Albuquerque, NM
10/14/2017 Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO
10/15/2017 Diamondz Event Center - Jerome, ID
10/16/2017 Bossanova - Portland, OR
10/17/2017 Studio Seven - Seattle, WA
10/18/2017 Rickshaw Theatre - Vancouver, BC
10/20/2017 Starlite - Edmonton, AB
10/21/2017 Dickens - Calgary, AB
10/22/2017 The Exchange - Regina, SK
10/23/2017 Park Theater - Winnipeg, MB
10/24/2017 Cabooze - Minneapolis, MN
10/26/2017 Agora Ballroom - Cleveland, OH
10/27/2017 Reggies - Chicago, IL
10/28/2017 Madison Live - Covington, KY
10/29/2017 Token Lounge - Detroit, MI
10/31/2017 Opera House - Toronto, ON More...
Siberian Streaming Full Album
Swedish blackened sludge metal band Siberian is now streaming the entirety of new album "Through Ages of Sleep," which will be released worldwide tomorrow.
Check out the full stream below. "Through Ages of Sleep" is Siberian's second theme-based album in their "Age" trilogy. The album is written and based on the dreams of band members Gus Ring, Linus Marron, and Daniel Eklöw during a two year period. More...
Enepsigos Signs With Osmose Productions
With debut full-length album “Plague of Plagues” released at the beginning of the year on Drakkar Productions, and with work progressing steadily on the follow-up album, black metal crew Enepsigos has now inked a deal with Osmose Productions.
The band was formed in the summer of 2016 by V.I.T.H.R, otherwise known as Doedsadmiral, the founder and frontman of Nordjevel, Svartelder, and Doedsvangr. For this project, V.I.T.H.R has called on the services of former Sarkom guitarist Straff and drummer Thorns (Blut Aus Nord, Fides Inversa, Frostmoon Eclipse).
Commenting on the decision to sign with Osmose, V.I.T.H.R had this to say: “It was a natural progression to a bigger label who could take us further along the road. I already knew how Osmose worked, because Nordjevel is signed with them, and it has been a close collaboration, with everyone having an input and exchanging ideas. It’s a very productive way to work as far as I’m concerned." More...
Tetrarch Unveils "Freak" Album
Tetrarch is currently trekking across the states on the "Scream Out Loud" tour, hyping fans up for new full-length album "Freak." Today, the band is thrilled to reveal confirmed details on that album, which is due hit stores on September 29th, 2017 and in the spirit of independence, pre-orders will go live on July 4th.
Check out the title track "Freak" below. Although "Freak" is not a concept album, the album title depicts themes close to lead guitarist Diamond Rowe's heart.
"'Freak' is basically about embracing the weird things about yourself that other people may find bizarre," says Rowe. "I guess you could say I'm a bit of a freak. I'm not what you would consider your typical guitar player in a metal band! Honestly, it's great though. I like seeing the look on people's faces when they find out how huge of a metalhead I am, and even more so when they see me on stage ripping it up with the guys. Essentially, I'm what some might consider an outcast, or a freak, and I love it and embrace it. This song and album are for the people who, like us, are willing to flaunt their individuality."
"Recording Freak in Denver, CO with Dave Otero was honestly such a privilege," adds Rowe. "We want to grow creatively with every release. We really tapped into a lot of different influences on this record and tried new things that we never did with some of our previous EP's. We challenged ourselves to think outside of the box, and are extremely happy with how it came out. In some ways, this record is a lot heavier than anything we have ever done, and in other ways it's a lot creepier and mysterious. I think there's a little something for everyone on this record." More...
Bloodclot Posts New Song
Bloodclot - featuring hardcore pioneers John Joseph (Cro-Mags), Todd Youth (Warzone, Murphy's Law), Joey Castillo (ex-Queens of the Stone Age, Blast!), Nick Oliveri (ex-Queens of the Stone Age, Dwarves) - will soon release new album "Up In Arms" via Metal Blade Records.
Ahead of that July 14th release, today the band drops advanced single "Manic," which can be streamed below. Next month, Bloodclot will also kick off a USA tour in support of "Up In Arms" alongside Negative Approach, Nails, Final Conflict at select shows. Full tour info is available after the stream.
1. Up in Arms
2. Fire
3. Manic
4. Kill the Beast
5. Prayer
6. Siva / Rudra
7. Soldiers of the New Babylon
8. Kali (watch the video here)
9. Slow Kill Genocide
10. Slipping into Darkness
11. Life As One
12. You'll Be the Death of Me More...
Expulsion Streaming "Comatose"
Extreme metal act Expulsion -- which features members of Repulsion, Exhumed, Phobia, Intronaut, Gruesome, and numerous others within its ranks - today shares a new track from forthcoming debut album "Nightmare Future."
Hear closing track "Comatose" in the player below. Comments guitarist Matt Olivo: "You're living an undead existence connected to machines to keep you alive. Death is imminent, but when? Minutes? Days? Years? Decades? 'Comatose' tells this cautionary tale with vivid morbidity and sheer ultra-violence."
Produced by Matt Olivo, mixed by Toxic Holocaust's Joel Grind, and mastered by Maor Appelbaum (Mayhem, Faith No More, Halford), "Nightmare Future" will drop this coming July 14th on CD, LP, and digital formats via Relapse Records.
The previously released track "Total Human Genocide" can also still be heard by heading over here. More...
Ledge Releasing "Cold Hard Concrete" Album
Translation Loss Records and Hibernation Release are proud to announce their partnership with Ledge to drop brutal new album, "Cold Hard Concrete," on August 25th.
Today a new song from that release comes online - check out the album's fifth track "Disappearing God" in the player below, and you can also find a new interview with band mastermind John Hoffman at Revolvermag.com here.
1. Through Your Skull
2. Blacked Out
3. You Know Who You Are
4. Stalk Your Enemies
5. Disappearing God
6. Fuck Yourself
7. Last Shred Of Hope
8. Condemned More...
Blackfinger Announces New Album
Singer Eric Wagner - formerly of Trouble and currently of The Skull - brings his unique and legendary voice to the next Blackfigner album, "When Colors Fade Away." Now based in Pittsburgh, PA, Eric has a new Blackfginer lineup including another familiar name in doom circles, guitarist Terry Weston (Dream Death and Penance).
M-Theory Audio is pleased to announce a September 15th release date for the album on CD, limited edition colored vinyl and digital. Pre-order are up now at this location.
“Colors were a common theme throughout the first record… I think it was a reference for life, or maybe it was hope,” explains Eric Wagner. “What happens when colors start to fade or you feel like all hope is lost? I think there comes a time in everyone’s life when you need to confront your dark side in order to get to the light. When I saw the photographs of the old abandoned funeral home by Matt Bluejay, I thought it would make the perfect album cover for When Colors Fade Away, and the start of the journey to feel good about oneself again.” More...
Bonfire Signs With AFM Records
After German hard rock act Bonfire's latest studio records "Glörious" (2015) and "Byte The Bullet" (2017) both made it to the Top 50 of the German album chart and more than 160 live shows played in the last two years, AFM Records and Bonfire decided to strike a new path together.
During the more than 30 year-long history of the band, there were of course several different label partners releasing the sixteen studio records and some were not available at times. So in Autumn of 2017, big parts of Bonfire's back catalogue will be made available again before the new album will be released in Spring 2018.
Besides being in the studio to record their next record, Bonfire will be on tour for the rest of the year. Confirmed dates are: More...
Susperia Signs To Agonia Records, New Album Next
Norway's melodic extreme metal act Susperia, comprising former members of Dimmu Borgir and Satyricon, just inked a record deal with Agonia Records, with plans to release new album, "The Lyricist." By the same token, the band will close the eight-year gap that separates the last opus, "Attitude" (2009).
"The Lyricist" will be the first studio album to showcase new vocalist, Bernt Fjellestad (a.k.a. Dagon, Guardians of Time), who's official stage debut with the band was made at last year's 70,000 Tons Of Metal Festival at sea.
The band commented on the signing and upcoming material: "Susperia is proud to announce the signing with Agonia Records for our upcoming album 'The Lyricist.' It’s going to be a harder and more grim album, going back to Susperia’s black roots!"
Susperia may have it's roots in the Norwegian black metal scene, but it is merely a starting point for a band that describes the music as "extreme metal with melodic twists." A simple philosophy of "no boundaries" demonstrates that the band has no hesitation in embracing and exploring a variety of musical avenues with ease. More...
Power Quest Announces New Album, Tour
Power Quest, the renowned melodic power metal band based in the UK, will release the long awaited sixth album "Sixth Dimension" on October 13th via Inner Wound Recordings in Europe/USA and on October 11th in Japan via Marquee/Avalon. The album cover, once again designed by Felipe Machado Franco, can be seen below.
The album will be available in standard jewel case CD, limited edition digibook and also limited edition vinyl. The standard jewel case CD edition is available for pre-order at this location.
Keyboardist/composer Steve Williams commented "We are all so excited about this record, probably more so than ever before. I think it has the classic PQ stamp and then some!"
The album, the first PQ album since 2011, will contain nine songs (plus a bonus track for the limited edition CD and for the Japanese market), as follows:
1. Lords of Tomorrow
2. Starlight City
3. Kings and Glory
4. Face the Raven
5. No More Heroes
6. Revolution Fighters
7. Pray for the Day
8. Coming Home
9. The Sixth Dimension More...
Wolves In The Throne Room Details "Thrice Woven"
Wolves in the Throne Room re-imagines black metal as an ode to rain storms, wood smoke and the wild energies of the Pacific Northwest. The band is considered one of the most potent and highly regarded in heavy metal today. Now, a portal into the mythic ethereal heathen landscape opens once again as on August 23rd the new album "Thrice Woven" will unleash on the band's own Artemisia Records. The release is a glorious return to the blazing and furious black betal that the band alone can create.
The album begins with "Born From the Serpent’s Eye" a true thrashing black metal epic that is bisected with a haunting northern lament sung by Swedish star Anna von Hausswolff. The band worked with metal documentarians Peter Beste and Nico Poalillo to create a video for this track which captures a bonfire-lit performance in the forest near their Olympia compound. More on this very soon; to tide us over, check out a trailer that hints at what's to come in the player below.
"The Old Ones Are With Us" opens with the crackling of a fire and the voice of Steve Von Till (Neurosis) invoking the springtime thaw. It then storms into a dirge inspired by 90’s Finnish doom with lyrics that celebrate Imbolc, the holy day which marks the end of winter and the first stirrings of spring. Figures from Norse mythology intertwine with personal heartbreak and rebirth in the bleak "Angrboda." The song is named after a frost giantess who birthed Fenrir Wolf, a beast who was destined to destroy the world and murder the gods.
Fenrir Wolf also appears on the cover of "Thrice Woven" in a painting by Russian occult artist Denis Forkas. Forkas’ obscure medieval painting techniques perfectly compliment the music of Wolves in the Throne Room, you can explore the glimmering painting at the bottom of this post.
A raven’s wings stir the air in the interlude "Mother Owl, Father Ocean". Anna von Hausswolff returns in a duet with Turkish harpist Zeynep Oyku, forlorn industrial atmospheres haunt the mix, Hausswolff’s lyrics, sung in Swedish, echo over a barren grey seascape. "Fires Roar in the Palace of the Moon" is the classic Cascadian Black Metal epic, the third eye opens to see holy rivers being born from the ice on the tallest peaks, the lyrics offer blessings to the waters of the earth as they flow from the high places to the source of darkness, the ocean.
When the band returned to the road in summer 2016 long-time touring guitar player Kody Keyworth was welcomed as a full member of Wolves in the Throne Room. On "Thrice Woven," Kody contributes raven’s screams and some of the most brutal and dark riffs. The live line-up also features Peregrine Somerville (Sadhaka) playing 3rd guitar and Brittany McConnell (Wolvserpent) on keyboards and percussion. The effect of three guitars on stage is mesmerizing and reflects the dark psychedelia of the band’s albums.
The track listing is:
1. Born from the Serpent's Eye
2. The Old Ones Are With Us
3. Angrboda
4. Mother Owl, Father Ocean
5. Fires Roar in the Palace of the Moon More...
Eva Can't Issues "Gravatum" Lyric Video
Bologna's Eva Can't issued a lyric video for the new song "Gravatum." The song appears on the upcoming fourth studio album "Gravatum," which drops July 14th worldwide via My Kingdom Music.
The track listing is:
1. L’Alba Ci Rubò Il Silenzio
2. Apostasia Della Rovina
3. La Ronda Di Ossa
4. Oceano
5. Terra
6. Gravatum
7. Pittori Del Fulgido Astratto
Check out "Gravatum" here: More...
Revelations Signs With Sliptrick Records
Formed in 2012, Stockholm based traditional metal act Revelations gained a group of devoted fans while touring with music legends such as Paul Di’Anno (ex-Iron Maiden), Chris Holmes (ex-W.A.S.P.) and Neon Rose.
Since 2013, the band has consisted of singer Lasse Gudmundsson, Guitarist Anders Stafrén, drummer Janne Backlund and bassist Daniel Ramírez. After Revelations' first EP, 2013’s "Warning," Lasse joined as the new vocalist and the band recorded and released the single "Grip of Darkness," which gained some international success. With Lasse fully on board Revelations could finally gear up and start to give live performances and the band has toured Sweden a number of times, playing at both local rock bars and big festivals.
The band signed on with Sliptrick Records for the upcoming debut full length "Gatekeeper," which will see worldwide release later this year.
The track listing is: More...
Sunwalter Signs To Sliptrick Records
The Sunwalter project was launched in Moscow on August 31st, 2008. Originally, the band was defined as melodic black metal, but has since morphed to Sci-Fi Metal with clean female and extreme male vocals, a mix of metalcore, power and modern metal all wrapped up in some truly extra-terrestrial lyrics. The band signed with Sliptrick Records for the forthcoming "Alien Hazard" release.
The band commented: "At a certain point in time the Sunwalter crew was abducted by a group of alien creatures. None of the previous events matter anymore. In their songs they deliver encrypted messages from the deepest space, revealing the secrets of the Universe for the good of Earthmen. Any listener can experience the impact of the Sunwalter space patrons, since the extraterrestrial intelligence supervises the content of all songs.”
Stay tuned for more information soon. More...
Mayhem Announces Second Leg Of European Tour
Norwegian black metal icons Mayhem will embark on the second leg of the European live takeover this fall. "The Purgatorium Europæ - Pars Duorum" tour will commence September 29th in Berlin, Germany and ravage its way through twelve countries and nineteen cities, drawing to a close on October 27th in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Mayhem is commemorating the release of the 1994 landmark "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" full-length with a worldwide tour performing the monumental record in its entirety. The cornerstone record recently earned the #40 spot on Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time, the prestigious publication noting, "...Mysteriis... remains a singularly potent document, its expressions of alienation and nihilism lent an icy severity by Aarseth's lacerating guitar buzz, session vocalist Attila Csihar's arcane croak and presentation of Dead's lyrical gothic terror and the pummeling drums of Hellhammer (Jan Axel Blomberg)."
Confirmed dates are:
9/29/2017 Colombia Theater - Berlin, DE
9/30/2017 Reithalle - Dresden, DE
10/02/2017 Wizeman - Stuttgart, DE
10/03/2017 Orpheum - Graz, AT
10/04/2017 Le Gueulard - Nilvange, FR
10/05/2017 Essigfabrik - Cologne, DE
10/06/2017 Hardrock Fest - Avelgem, BE
10/07/2017 Soulcrusher - Nijmegen, NL
10/08/2017 MS Connection - Mannheim, DE
10/09/2017 Le Grillen - Colmar, FR
10/15/2017 Jas Rod - Marseille, FR
10/17/2017 Orion Live Club - Rome, IT
10/18/2017 Stuk - Maribor, SL
10/19/2017 Randal - Bratislava, SK
10/20/2017 Mega Club - Katowice, PL
10/21/2017 Progesja - Warschau, PL
10/22/2017 Melna Piektdiena - Riga, LT
10/23/2017 Tapper - Tallinn, EE
10/27/2017 Brewhouse - Gothenburg, SE More...
Wintersun Releases "The Forest Seasons" Trailer
Finnish symphonic/melodic black metal act Wintersun issued a trailer for the upcoming new album "The Forest Seasons." The album is expected to drop on July 21st via Nuclear Blast Records.
The track listing is as follows:
1. Awaken from the Dark Slumber (Spring)
Part I: "The Dark Slumber"
Part II: "The Awakening"
2. The Forest That Weeps (Summer)
3. Eternal Darkness (Autumn)
Part I: "Haunting Darkness"
Part II: "The Call of the Dark Dream"
Part III: "Beyond the Infinite Universe"
Part IV: "Death"
4. Loneliness (Winter)
Check out the preview here: More...
Dagger Premieres Music Video "All Hope is Gone"
Hong Kong’s very own hardcore metal band Dagger premieres a new music video entitled "All Hope is Gone", taken from the band's brand new self-titled debut EP, that came out last month.
Check out now "All Hope is Gone" below.
Explains guitarist/vocalist Riz: More...
HeadCrusher Streaming New Play-Through Video
Austin, TX-based metal quintet HeadCrusher has released a play-through video for its new single "Trails of Devastation," featuring David Coloma tracking rhythm guitars in the studio with co-producer/mixer Jesse Gander during the recording of the band's forthcoming album "Death Comes With Silence".
Check out now "Trails of Devastation Guitar Playthrough/Recording Rhythm Guitars David Coloma" below.
More...
Olde Debuts New Song "Now I See You"
Toronto doom rockers Olde debuts a new song entitled "Now I See You", taken from the upcoming new album "Temple", which will be released August 11 via STB Records.
Check out now "Now I See You" below.
Explains bassist Cory McCallum: More...
Shepherd Premieres New Song "Agents of Nihil"
Indian sludge/metal outfit Shepherd premieres a new song and music video for "Agents of Nihil", taken from the upcoming new split release with Death by Fungi, which will be independently released on August 15 via Bandcamp.
Check out now "Agents of Nihil" below.
Myrkur Debuts New Song "Måneblôt"
Myrkur debuts a new song titled "Måneblôt", taken from the upcoming new album "Mareridt" (Danish for "nightmare"), which will arrive in stores September 15th on CD/LP/DLX 2xLP/Digital via Relapse Records.
Check out now "Måneblôt" below.
The new album was inspired by a troubling episode of nightmares and sleep paralysis the singer suffered, of which she says: More...
Memphis May Fire Premieres New Music Video "Virus"
Memphis May Fire premieres a new music video entitled "Virus". The mildly NSFW video was directed by Caleb Mallery the video. You can catch the band live currently out on this year’s "Vans Warped Tour".
Check out now "Virus" below.
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