Metal News for July 16, 2015
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27 news articles posted on this day.
Destruktor Posts New Songs Online
Destruktor is streaming the tracks "Priestiality" and "Besieged" online, which both hail from the band's second album, "Opprobrium," set for international release on July 24th via Hells Headbangers. A statement from founding vocalist/guitarist Glenn Destruktor reads:
"We believe we have shown once again why Rome wasn't built in a day. 'Opprobrium' stems from many years of dedication, and was recorded with our longest-standing and strongest lineup to date. The small circle that has been subjected to our 'Opprobrium' believe it a step up from anything we have done before, and it would be very hard for us to disagree.
"Clearly a Destruktor release, 'Opprobrium' sticks to the formula of the past with total aggression, darkness, heaviness, and riff after riff of extreme metal that clearly sticks to the traditions of those long before. 'Opprobrium' is finally ready for release, and we are looking forward to smashing cunts live, and on your stereo with our new hymns of desecration!"
In other Destruktor news, the band is slated to play a first-ever U.S. show at Hells Headbangers' "Hells Headbash - Part 2" festival, set for September 4-6 in Cleveland, Ohio at the Agora Theater and Ballroom. More...
In Vain Working On Album
Johnar Håland from Norway's In Vain (not to be confused with the Spanish band of the same name) just issued the following announcement about working on a new album:
"After half a year of various disturbances, we are back in songwriting mode. There will be no vacation for us this summer; instead we are focusing our minds and energies on the upcoming In Vain album.
"Last year, expeditions to Asia were undertaken as a part of the conceptual and spiritual framework for the new album. In the autumn and winter of this year, similar excursions will be made to Africa, and if everything goes smoothly, a new album should be released in spring 2016.
"Its title has been decided and will be revealed in due course, as in turn all the exciting things emerging with our new exploration. We appreciate your continued support."
Stay tuned for more details on this upcoming album set to follow 2013's "Ænigma" full-length release.
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The Safety Fire Calls It Quits
Rivaling CROMCarl's record for April Fool's gags coming true, it turns out The Safety Fire's post back on April 1st about breaking up wasn't as much of a joke as the band let on. The Safety Fire just issued this announcement via Facebook:
"We had you guys going for a while there, ey? You truly were all April Fools... However, the harsh reality is, we have actually broken up.
"Maybe we will do a farewell show sometime. If you want to grab some merch to show people you were once cool, or are now cool and know some defunct band that no one has heard of in a few months time, then click here. When they're gone, they're gone for good.
"Thanks for all the support over the years - from Cruisin' to Smüth Beats, we had a real swell time. Thanks to everyone who bought a shirt, came to a show, let us sleep on their floors, fed us... but most of all, thank you to those who ever said, shouted, screamed, mumbled or merely whispered.... Fuck The Safety Fire." More...
Simple Lies Signs With Bakerteam
Simple Lies has signed a deal with Bakerteam Records for the digital-only release "Let It Kill," which Bakerteam describes as "a powerful sonic beast that is the perfect mix of the band's street metal influences (Mötley Crüe) with muscle and power driven modern sounds (Black Label Society, Alter Bridge and Black Stone Cherry)."
"Let It Kill" will be available starting from September 4th, with the first single "Symmetry Of Love" being released online July 17th. The full track listing is:
1. Look At Me Now!
2. A-MEN
3. Sunday Morning Apologies
4. Symmetry Of Love
5. Freak Show
6. Miss Anthropy
7. Let It Kill You
8. The Ant
9. Past Frames
10. The King Is Dead More...
Edenwar Releases New Album
Edenwar, founded by Anna Fiori (Mexico) and Nicolas Dobernack (Spain), presents its debut self-titled album with a video below showcasing its many collaborators.
"Edenwar" gathers artists such as Fabio Lione (Rhapsody of Fire, Angra), Timo Somers (Delain), Chen Balbus, Idan Amsalem (Orphaned Land), and Christian Vidal (Therion) for an epic symphonic metal experience. You can grab your copy of the album through the band here or via iTunes. More...
Fallen Angels Streaming "Forsaken Existence"
The Seattle, WA thrashers making up Fallen Angels have releaesed new track "Forsaken Existence," which is off the band's upcoming third studio release "World In Decay." Give it a listen below.
"World In Decay" was produced by Grammy award winning metal producer/engineer Michael Rosen (Forbidden, Testament, Death Angel, Flotsam and Jetsam, Tesla, Vicious Rumors) and is set to be released on August 4th, 2015 via Cyberdyne Records. The track listing is:
1. The Hammer's Blow (4:25)
2. Nightmare (4:58) [watch the lyric video here]
3. Forsaken Existence (5:05)
4. Leading the Blind (4:36)
5. Fire At Eden's Gate (6:13)
6. Into The Abyss (5:39)
7. The Hour of the Time (5:40)
8. Mortis Ex Machina (4:28) More...
Kraanium Announces "Chronicles Of Perversion"
Slam fiends rejoice: Comatose Music and Norwegian sickos Kraanium team up once again for their next slab of bloody depravity.
"Chronicles of Perversion" is the new offering from these purveyors of the twisted and grotesque. Kraanium's fourth full-length release since the band's 2001 inception contains eleven tracks of stomach wrenching, pure guttural brutality.
Comatose Music will release "Chronicles of Perversion" on September 18th, 2015. The track listing is as follows:
1. Rock Filled Orifice
2. Human Skin Fuck Doll
3. Hung By Your Entrails
4. Destined for Surgical Defilement
5. Evisceration of Pre-Teen Cadavers
6. Chronicles of Perversion
7. Acid Cumbustion
8. Rusty Knife Defloration
9. Fermented Uteral Mastication
10. Sodomize Her Headless Corpse
11. Revisitate to Mutilate More...
Horisont To Release "Odyssey"
Big of mustache and tight of trouser, Horisont drink from the bottomless wellspring of inspiration that's been bubbling up through the layers of time since the birth of the blues - or Blue Oyster Cult at the very least. Theirs is a sound that harks back to the dawn of the 70s, when a new clutch of heads decided it was time to harsh the 60s hippies' mellow and paint it black; those years when the twin spirit of hard rock and prog rose to redefine sound. More...
Wildlights Posts "Lights Out"
After streaming "Part of the Sea" online, North Carolina band Wildlights (featuring ASG vocalist/guitarist Jason Shi and Thunderlip! drummer Johnny Collins) has released a new track taken from a forthcoming self-titled album.
The track, titled "Lights Out," can be heard below. The Matt Hyde-produced debut will be released by Season of Mist worldwide on August 21st, while the full track listing is as follows:
1. Anchors
2. Rebel Smiles
3. Part of the Sea
4. Snow Song
5. Hellfire Forever
6. Pictures
7. Onward Upward
8. Lights Out
9. New Year Repeat
10. Climb in the Throne
11. Lions
12. Big Frontier More...
Fleshgod Apocalypse To Record New Album
The Italian symphonic death metal masters from Fleshgod Apocalypse will tentatively release their new album "King" in early 2016 via Nuclear Blast Records.
Tracking will start this summer at Kick Recording Studio and 16th Cellar Studio in Rome. Mixing and mastering will be handled by the world-renowned Jens Bogren at Fascination Street studios in Sweden later this year. In addition, acclaimed contemporary artist Eliran Kantor will handle all the artwork and iconography for the album.
Fleshgod Apocalypse's Francesco Paoli comments: "The new album is called 'King.' It's a concept album. It took longer this time but I believe it's a sign of more maturity and determination within the band. We can't release something mediocre just because it's enough to keep things rolling. I believe the music world requires people to work harder on their material and that is what Fleshgod Apocalypse is set to do in this ‘new middle age’ era. More...
Metal Allegiance Posts Second Studio Video
Metal Allegiance recently announced the release of a debut self-titled album due out September 18th but until then, the collective is teasing fans with videos from sessions in the studio.
The second trailer is now online and covers the recording of the second track, "Let Darkness Fall," featuring Troy Sanders (Mastodon), Rex Brown (Pantera, Kill Devil Hill) and Randy Blythe (Lamb of God).
The band’s forthcoming new album includes appearances by Philip H. Anselmo, Charlie Benante, Chuck Billy, Randy Blythe, Rex Brown, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, Phil Demmel, Alissa White-Gluz, Matt Heafy, Gary Holt, Jamey Jasta, Chris Jericho, Andreas Kisser, Misha Mansoor, Mark Osegueda, Tim “Ripper” Owens, Doug Pinnick, Troy Sanders, Cristina Scabbia, Steve “Zetro“ Souza and Ben Weinman, in addition to Ellefson, Menghi, Portnoy and Skolnick.
The album contains nine original songs, with the digipak edition including a cover of "We Rock" as a tribute to the late and great Ronnie James Dio. A lyric video for third song "Can't Kill The Devil" is also online at this location. More...
Grave Digger Details 35th Anniversary Release
After three decades of making heavy metal history, German power metal act Grave Digger is still enjoys a leading role when it comes to classic metal. Today, the band unveiled details for a special album in celebration of the 35th Anniversary - "Exhumation - The Early Years."
Back to the 80's and back to their roots. That’s what the "Exhumation - The Early Years" is going to be, as the band will re-record the absolute classics with the dynamic and powerful sound of 2015. The album will be released worldwide on October 23rd.
The track listing is:
1. Headbanging Man
2. Fire In Your Eyes
3. Witch Hunter
4. Shoot Her Down
5. Stand Up And Rock
6. Heavy Metal Breakdown
7. Enola Gay - Drop The Bomb
8. Get Away
9. We Wanna Rock You
10. Playing Fools
11. Here I Stand
12. Tyrant
13. Paradise
14. My Private Morning Hell (Bonus Track)
15. Young And Dangerous (Bonus Track) More...
Morbid Slaughter Releasing An Orgy Of Death
The Peruvian masters of the macabre have returned: Morbid Slaughter will release "A Filthy Orgy of Horror and Death" on vinyl LP September 4th through Boris Records in North America.
The album will also be released as a deluxe CD digipack through Inti Records (Peru) in South America and diehard tape edition by the band. The following press release was also issued:
"Unholy as the first wave of black metal, wild as punk and as filthy as a rock n' roll alley band, Morbid Slaughter present their first act of horror: 'A Filthy Orgy of Horror and Death.' Obsessed by horror tales and the desire to create a lustful beast, Morbid Slaughter was spawned by Envenom in September 2009.
"With a handful of demos and a 7 EP under their belt, the ghouls known as Envenom, Ripping Corpse and Necrophiliac Sodomizer are ready to ride the beast through the sickening valleys of Hades and engulf the world in a storm of damnation and lust. Coupled with a distinct worship of old horror movies and books, 'A Filthy Orgy of Horror and Death' explores the violent ecstasy of a psycho in the heat of the night and nightmarish themes of sexual carnage, necrolust and brutality." More...
DoctoR DooM Streaming "Behind Your Shadow"
"This Seed We Have Sown" by DoctoR DooM will be released worldwide on July 24th, 2015 through Ripple Music, with a limited vinyl released on STB Records out toward the end of June. Check out the new song "Behind Your Shadow" below.
Formed in the French town of Ariège in the Midi-Pyrénées by guitarists Jean-Laurent Pasquet and Jérémie Delattre, since their formation in 2011 DoctoR DooM have blazed an impressive underground trail for followers of new, authentically crafted hard rock, metal and progressive blues.
Having come together out of a shared appreciation for forgotten 60s and 70s music, it didn’t take long for the duo to find kindred spirits in drummer Michel Marcq and bass player Sébastien Boutin Blomfield as they sought to pull together the rhythm section required to knock out a monumentally heavy live set.
For more DoctoR DooM, be sure to check out the previously posted track "Relax, You're Dead" at this location. More...
Jill Janus Discusses Mental Illness, Cancer
Huntress is gearing up to release "Static" on September 25th via Napalm Records, and in a new interview with Revolver, vocalist Jill Janus reveals her lifelong struggle with Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia and Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Earlier this year, she was also diagnosed with Stage 1 uterine cancer in the midst of recording the new album. Janus is now cancer-free due to a hysterectomy performed two weeks ago.
In an excerpt from the interview, she explains why she's been hospitalized this year: "Once a Huntress album is done, it's almost like I slip into a postpartum depression. Being bipolar and schizophrenic, I have to be hospitalized so I don't hurt myself or anyone else around me. It can be very dangerous."
She also explains sensing there was something wrong before being diagnosed with cancer: "During the process of writing and recording our third album, I began to feel like something bad was growing within me...I had a procedure, and my doctor found early stage cancer in my uterus."
Janus is now recovering from a successful surgery at home, commenting, "I was encouraged by my bandmates to take my struggle and weave it into songs on the new album. When I formed Huntress, I was concerned with the stigma surrounding mental illness, especially for women in the music industry. But I've accomplished so much in just a few years. Writing one record a year, touring relentlessly and attempting to maintain my sanity has been, at times, very painful for myself and those close to me. Yet I've proven anything is possible if you truly believe in yourself. Speaking out about my mental illness and cancer diagnosis has given me a chance to encourage others to live for their purpose and not be held back by their illness. The vultures can wait." More...
Read the full article at Revolvermag.com.
Alcest Announces North American Tour
Parisian post-metal duo Alcest has announced a fall North American headlining tour. Alcest will launch the month-long trek on September 19th in Mexico City running through October 17th in Philadelphia, PA.
Support on the tour will come from singer-songwriter and visual artist Emma Ruth Rundle. Alcest continues to perform globally in support of its most recent album, "Shelter."
"We are very happy to announce that Alcest will tour in Mexico and North America in September and October of 2015,” comments band member Neige. “It’s been three years since we played in North America as headliners, so we are very excited to be back. Our support guest on this tour will be the talented Emma Ruth Rundle (Marriages, Red Sparrowes). Be sure to catch us on one of these dates!" More...
Demona Streaming New EP
Today the speed metal cult Demona streams a new two-track 2015 EP set for international release on July 20th via Hells Headbangers, on 7" vinyl only.
Longtime fans of the band - founded and led by metal goddess Tanza Speed, who originally hails from Chile but now resides in Canada - Hells Headbangers secured two exclusive tracks here, "Allura Red" and the telltale "Chasing the Speed," which both continue the band's manic speed metal madness. Listen in below. More...
Hate Eternal Posts "Zealot, Crusader Of War"
A third Hate Eternal track is online today metal legions! The death metal band just premiered new track "Zealot, Crusader of War" - listen in below.
This track comes online following two previous song releases. If you missed 'em, be sure to also check out "The Stygian Deep" right here and "Pathogenic Apathy" at this location.
All three songs are cull off new album "Infernus," which will be released worldwide by Season of Mist on August 21st.
Pre-orders for the album across multiple CD and LP bundles are available at the Season of Mist E-Shop. The artwork for "Infernus" was painted by artist Eliran Kantor and the full track listing is as follows:
1. Locust Swarm
2. The Stygian Deep
3. Pathogenic Apathy
4. La Tempestad
5. Infernus
6. The Chosen One
7. Zealot, Crusader of War
8. Order of the Arcane Scripture
9. Chaos Theory
10. O’ Majestic Being, Hear My Call More...
Kattah Presents The "Rebirth Of Pharaohs"
Brazilian power metal act Kattah released a new music video for the track "Rebirth of Pharaohs." The song is taken from the sophomore album "Lapis Lazuli," which was issued back in 2014 via Bakerteam Records.
Check out the clip here:
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Trials Premieres "Truth Defiled"
Tired of the mud slinging and the opinions from elected officials touted as facts? So is Trials! Today we're premiering new track "Truth Defiled," taken off upcoming album "This Ruined World." Give it a listen below.
The new album was recorded by Pete Grossmann at Bricktop Recording and mixed by Quentin Poynter at Gunpoint Recording, with art work courtesy of Eva Bialecki.
Trials guitarist / vocalist Mark Sugar comments on the album's opening track: "'Truth Defiled' is about public figures who engage in smear campaigns and spew their own personal biases as fact, in order to stay in the news and promote themselves. Musically, this track is one of the faster and more aggressive things that we've done. Enjoy!"
“This Ruined World” will be self-released on July 24 and follows a pair of previous independent releases - 2011's “Witness to the Downfall” and 2013's “In the Shadow of Swords” (still available for streaming here). You can pre-order the new album at this location and the track listing is as follows:
1. Truth Defiled
2. Don't Believe The Word
3. Digging My Own Grave
4. Disgraced and Erased
5. Blink Of An Eye
6. Beat The System To Death
7. They Hide Behind the Law
8. Inheritance
9. This Ruined World More...
Darkology Dares You To "Kill Me If You Can"
U.S. metal act Darkology - featuring Adagio/Firewind (live) vocalist Kelly Sundown Carpenter - released a new music video for the track "Kill Me If You Can." The song is the opening song from the band's new album "Fated to Burn," which was issued via Prime Eon (EU) and Nightmare Records (USA) back in June. A review for the album can be read at this location.
The video's concept parts were directed by UCLA grad, Tassos Kapsanis and edited by Methodd/EM and it stars a fair number of local talent from the burgeoning Athenian music scene.
Check it out here:
Riverside Releases Preview Clip Of New Album
Polish prog masters Riverside are currently on the road and pre-promoting their much anticipated new studio album "Love, Fear and the Time Machine," which is set to be released on September 4th via InsideOutMusic. The first trailer ("Love") for the album has now been launched and can be heard in the player below, along with the first single "Discard Your Fear."
A musical package entitled "Day Session," the brighter companion of the "Night Session" presented on the band's previous album "Shrine of New Generation Slaves," will be available as bonus material well.
Riverside's 6th studio album features cover artwork by longtime design-partner Travis Smith/Seempieces (Katatonia, Opeth, Nevermore, etc.) and will contain the following track-listing:
1. Lost (Why Should I Be Frightened By a Hat?)
2. Under the Pillow
3. #Addicted
4. Caterpillar and the Barbed Wire
5. Saturate Me
6. Afloat
7. Discard Your Fear
8. Towards the Blue Horizon
9. Time Travellers
10. Found (The Unexpected Flaw of Searching)
Check out the teaser and "Discard Your Fear" below: More...
Annihilationmancer Releases New Music Video
Italian thrash act Annihilationmancer - featuring I Miti Eterni/In Aevum Agere guitarist/vocalist Bruno Masuli - released a new music video for the track "Unpunished Massacre Messiah." The track is a newly re-recorded version of the track, which originally appeared on the 1995 EP "Precursor Of Destruction."
The music and lyrics were written by Bruno Masulli and the shooting and editing of the video clip were by Carmine Cuomo. Check it out here:
Unbreakable Hatred Premieres New Song
Quebec City-based death metal outfit Unbreakable Hatred premieres the title track of the band’s upcoming new second album entitled "Ruins", which is scheduled for release in August via Unique Leader Records.
Check out now "Ruins" below.
Display Of Decay Premieres New Track
Hailing from Edmonton, Alberta, Canadian death metal outfit Display Of Decay premieres the track "Created to Kill", taken from the upcoming new album "Dust of Existence", which will be released by the band in the Fall of 2015.
Check out now "Created to Kill" below.
Ecstatic Vision Premieres New Music Video
Philadelphia's Ecstatic Vision (ex-A Life Once Lost) premieres a brand new music video for the track "Astral Plane", taken from the new album "Sonic Praise", out now via Relapse Records.
Check it out now below.
Pig Destroyer’s "Prowler In The Yard" Reissued
Grindcore veterans Pig Destroyer will be re-releasing their 2001 album "Prowler In The Yard", coming as a new deluxe 2-CD set scheduled for September 04th via Relapse. The effort has been fully re-mixed and remastered by guitarist/engineer Scott Hull.
Check out the trailer for the reissue below.
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