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Metal News for August 14, 2016

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A Province Of Thay Releasing New EP

Seattle's post-metal group A Province Of Thay will release latest EP "Atonement" via Carrion Choir on October 28th, 2016.

The label comments: "This album is an amazing blend of doom and goth rock that takes the melodies of The Cure and combines them with heavy metal, into a unique whole."

1. Atonement
2. Animus
3. Thaymount
4. Dirgesinger More...

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Dwell Streams "Scars Of Grief"

New track "Scars of Grief" from U.S. hardcore outfit Dwell comes online today. This is the first single from Dwell's forthcoming album, "Innate," due to drop September 9th via Blood & Ink Records.

1. Scars of Grief
2. This Ground is Cursed
3. Innate
4. A Lie in Futility
5. Open Vein
6. Forfeit
7. Seasons and Trials
8. Like the Leech On Our Skin
9. Relief of Sin
10. When Aid Has Become Poison More...

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Sunday Old School: Bloodbath

Last month in this column, we examined the career of Fantomas and mentioned the topic of supergroups. Whilst Fantômas much like Cream, Emerson Lake & Palmer and Crosby Stills and Nash (and Young) crafted some excellent music and achieved great commercial success (in the latter three cases at least,) many of these projects fall flat or only last for two albums, such as Velvet Revolver and GTR. A supergroup that seemingly met the high hopes of fans however, was one formed in the Swedish capital city of Stockholm, which comprised of some of the most respected names in death metal and chose the suitably brutal name of Bloodbath.

Bloodbath were formed in 1998, the brainchild of Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt and Edge of Sanity's Dan Swanö, who handled vocals and drums respectively. They were soon joined by Katatonia members Anders Nyström on guitar and Jonas Renkse on bass and two years later, released their debut EP, "Breeding Death," through Century Media Records. The three track release received a generally positive response from the death metal faithful, with many feeling it was a worthy debut from such a talented collective. More...

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Dead Label Premieres "Salvation In Sacrifice" Clip

Irish metal outfit Dead Label premieres a new music video for "Salvation In Sacrifice", taken from the upcoming new album "Throne Of Bones", which will be out in stores later this year via Nuerra Records.

Check out now "Salvation In Sacrifice" below.

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