Metal News for August 18, 2016
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Sonata Arctica Posts Album Trailer
"The Ninth Hour" is approaching and Finnish power metal group Sonata Arctica is ready to celebrate it with you on October 7th.
Today, the band releases the first trailer for this upcoming ninth album - check it out below.
If you missed the first lyric video, you can watch "Closer To An Animal" at this location.
"The Ninth Hour" will be released on CD, digipack, and 2LP. The track listing for the album is as follows:
1. Closer to An Animal
2. Life
3. Fairytale
4. We Are What We Are
5. 'Till Death's Done Us Apart
6. Among the Shooting Stars
7. Rise a Night
8. Fly, Navigate, Communicate
9. Candle Lawns
10. White Pearl, Black Oceans, Pt. II - "By the Grace of the Ocean"
11. On the Faultline (Closure to an Animal)
12. Run to You
Corrective Measure Announces U.S. Shows
Following the release of a self-titled 7" through Atomic Action! Records in June, Maine-based hardcore outfit Corrective Measure continues to book new tour dates throughout Northeast North America.
The upcoming batch of performances from Corrective Measure will see the band playing in Freedom, Maine on September 3rd, followed by a show in Windham, Maine on September 9th, supporting Cruel Hand at a record release show.
The band will travel to Washington DC on September 24th supporting Stand Off's record release show alongside Red Death and more. October will see Corrective Measure heading to Toronto, Ontario to take part in the monstrous Not Dead Yet Fest, which runs from the 13th through 16th.
9/03/2016 South Paw Farm - Freedom, ME w/ Worse, Sunshine Ward, Combatant
9/09/2016 Windham Veterans Center - Windham, ME w/ Cruel Hand, Suburban Scum, Hot Shot
9/24/2016 Slash Run - Washington, DC w/ Stand Off, Red Death, Kombat, Guilt Parade
10/15/2016 Not Dead Yet Fest - Toronto, ON w/ Turnstile, Gloss, Power, Violent Reaction
10/22/2016 National Edge Day - Cambridge, MA w/ Floorpunch, Murphy's Law, No Tolerance More...
Negura Bunget Streaming New Song
Negura Bunget will release new album "ZI" on September 30th via Prophecy Productions. In advance of the release, today the group debuts a video for the album's lead track, “Tul-ni-ca-rind."
Drummer Gabriel ‘Negru’ Mafa says "Tul-ni-ca'rind" is a song "about sending a message; a message between places, between worlds, between different states of conscience." The new album's track listing is as follows:
1. Tul-ni-ca-rind
2. Gradina Stelelor
3. Brazda Da Foc
4. Baciu Mosneag
5. Stanciu Gruiul
6. Marea Cea Mare More...
Heavy Temple Releasing New Album
Philadelphia trio Heavy Temple is pleased to announce the band will release new album "Chassit" on November 18th, 2016. The four-song release is a sonic continuation of previous self-titled debut, though the mood has become more scalding than mystical.
The announcement comes ahead of an appearance at The Obelisk All-Dayer at Saint Vitus Bar in Brooklyn this Saturday, August 20th. The newly revamped Tridroid Records will issue "Chassit" on cassette in November, just in time for a performance at Doomed and Stoned Fest.
Label owner Christine Kelly commented about the signing: "Tridroid Records is proud to bring 'Chassit' into the physical realm. I was floored by their first EP and drove to Philly to see them play live 2 years ago. The performance was so enthralling that I've gone on to see them 3 more times, each performance better than the last. They're a Heavy Temple in the truest sense, massive both sonically and psychically." More...
Destroying The Devoid Streams New Album
Destroying The Devoid - the progressive death metal venture led by Craig Peters of Deeds Of Flesh and formerly Arkaik - will unleash the exploratory brutality of full-length debut, "Paramnesia," via Unique Leader Records tomorrow.
The seven-track, forty-six-minute sonic escapade was engineered and produced by Peters at Carnivale Nocturno Studios with all mixing and mastering handled by Zack Ohren (Deeds of Flesh, Arkaik, Suffocation et al) at Castle Ultimate Productions and cover art by Frank Barrera.
In advance of its official unveiling, today all of "Paramnesia" is streaming in its entirety. The track listing is as follows:
1. Chasm Of Existence
2. The Endless Cycles Of Lunacy
3. Carnivale Nocturno
4. Paramnesia
Beyond The Dark Veil
5. Part I: The Co-Existing Gaze
6. Part II: Into The Darkness Beyond
7. Part III: Beneath The Boughs More...
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Metallica Announces New Album "Hardwired"
Metallica has released a new music video and single for "Hardwired," the title track of the upcoming new album "Hardwired...To Self Destruct." Check out the clip in the player below.
The album is due out November 18, 2016. Pre-orders will begin shipping the week of November 14th. You can pre-order now at this location.
The 2CD album track list is:
Disc One
1. Hardwired
2. Atlas, Rise!
3. Now That We’re Dead
4. Moth Into Flame
5. Am I Savage?
6. Halo On Fire
Disc Two
1. Confusion
2. Dream No More
3. ManUNkind
4. Here Comes Revenge
5. Murder One
6. Spit Out The Bone More...
Drakarium Posts Toronto Power Fest Live Clips
The Canadian prog power specialists from Drakarium have released three live video clips from their performance at Toronto Power Metal Fest 2016 on August 12th, which can be viewed below.
Drakarium also released a self-titled debut EP through Maple Metal Records last November. You can listen in at the group's Bandcamp page here.
Fit For An Autopsy Reveals "Enslave America" Tour
New Jersey group Fit For An Autopsy has announced another round of tour dates dubbed the "Enslave America 2016" tour. Lorna Shore, No Zodiac and Face Your Maker have been tapped to support.
"We're happy to get back out and do a headliner with some younger bands that are making moves," says Fit For An Autopsy guitarist Pat Sheridan. "It's been a good year so far, this tour will definitely add to that vibe."
The band also just released a three way split with Thy Art Is Murder and The Acacia Strain via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Fit For An Autopsy included a new track on that release titled "Flatlining" and covered the classic Nine Inch Nails song "The Perfect Drug." More...
Decomposed Announces "Wither" Release
Decomposed is set to drop the "Wither" album via Chaos Records on October 3rd, 2016. After the Swedish death metal might of 2012's self-titled debut album and 2014's "Devouring," Decomposed has returned to up the ante with this third album and Chaos Records debut.
The new album is uncompromising, riff-driven death metal that proudly follows in the giant footsteps of Swedish DM greats like Dismember and Entombed.
"Wither" was recorded in mid-2015 by composer/founder Jesper Ekstål along with drummer Emil Leijon in Studio Blastbeat in Sundsvall, the same studio in which the previous albums were recorded. More...
Xalpen Releasing "Black Rites"
Xalpen's "Black Rites" is coming via Morbid Skull Records on September 6th, 2016. The band takes its name from the goddess of the primordial waters of the underworld: bringer of the infernal hosts from the depths of the abyss and opener of the gateways to the spiritual chaos.
Xalpen is a raw black metal manifestation that emerges with complete devotion by channeling ritualistic vibrations within the black arts of spirituality, guided by ancient traditions of dark knowledge. Euphoria, ecstasy, trance and satanic commitment have taken form between two different hemispheres of the planet, Chile and Germany.
Recorded in Santiago, Chile at Necrotic Studio by Benjamin Berrantes and additionally recorded, mixed and mastered in Hamburg, Germany by Pedro Aravena, “Black Rites” offers six tracks of pure, fierce and demoniacal black metal that will surely impress fans of Inquisition, Bölzer and Horna. More...
Rudra Releases New Song
Singapore’s unholy kings and pioneers of Vedic metal Rudra today releases a new single titled "Slay The Demons of Duality."
The upcoming Rudra album "Enemy Of Duality" will use traditional classical instruments such as sitar, tabla, Indian percussion, and didgeridoo and is set to release soon via Transcending Obscurity. Speaking about the new song, front man Kathir says:
“The single ‘Slay the demons of Duality’ was inspired by a verse from the Mandukya Karika. The verse in Sanskrit was chanted in the beginning and towards the end of the song. It is about how we are afraid of evil, demons, satan etc., In fact, many belief systems create a duality between good and evil. In this song, we present the very duality to be demons. Upon inquiry, these demons of duality are found to be purely notional” More...
Six-Score Posts New Song
German hardcore punk/metal label WOOAAARGH today streams "Bad to Worse" from Austrian grind band Six-Score. The track is taken from the band's upcoming album "Lebensräume," which is due out in October. The full track listing for "Lebensräume" is as ofllows:
01. Lebensräume
02. Meatdustry
03. Dump
04. Gutmenschologie
05. Eingezwängt
06. Contracts
07. Repulsive
08. Human Robots
09. Decease
10. Tötungsmaschine
11. Stadt Der Ausgränzung
12. Inspiration
13. Bad To Worse
14. Migration
15. Logik Der Maßlosigkeit
16. Turbo Huhn
17. Circle Of Despair
18. Scoop (Nasum Cover) More...
Magma Lake Reveals Guest Musicians
Magma Lake has revealed that Axenstar, ex-Dark Moor, and Bloden Wedd singers will guest on the band's upcoming EP.
Cristian González today officially announces that Magnus Winterwild (Axenstar), Elisa C. Martin (Hamka/ex Dark Moor), Nasson (Inferis/Resilience)) and Dan Elbelman (Bloden Wedd) are confirmed for the “Remains” mini-album.
“Remains” will be released on September 28th, in North America via Digmetalworld Records and the track listing is as follows:
1. Fakeness (Feat. Dan Elbelman)
2. Against the Crown (Feat. Elisa C. Martin & Nasson)
3. Remains (Feat. Magnus Winterwild)
If you aren't familiar with Magma Lake, check out previous single "Beyond This Path" in the player below. More...
Volunteer Streaming "Walk"
Noise/sludge metal band Volunteer just released "Walk," a new track from the group's forthcoming split with Buildings. The split will be released via Triple Eye industries on August 26th, 2016.
The band commented: "The Buildings/Volunteer split was made to bring two different bands in the same sub-genre of music, noise rock. Buildings creates songs that bring you in with hooks. Volunteer just tries to pummel you with anger and spite." More...
Ola Englund Posts Dimebag Tribute
The Haunted/Feared guitarist Ola Englund has released a video in tribute to the memory of Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott.
Dimebag would be celebrating his 50th birthday this Saturday, August 20th and to mark the occasion, Ola Englund decided to pay tribute to the memory of his fallen idol by releasing a video where the axemen talks about Dimebag’s influence on his musical upbringing and performs his favourite Dimebag parts.
Englund further challenges guitarists and Dimebag fans to keep his memory alive by recording their favourite Pantera guitar solos and post them online.
Cattle Decapitation Announces Tour With Brujeria
This fall, Cattle Decapitation will head back out on the road for a headlining North American tour, before joining Brujeria for a trek across the USA in October. Eternal Sleep and Pinata Protest will be joining on select dates.
Cattle Decapitation headlining tour dates:
Sept. 22 - Albuquerque, NM @ The Launchpad
Sept. 23 - Austin, TX @ Sidewinder
Sept. 24 - San Leon, TX @ 18th Street Pier Bar and Grill (BTDF TXDM Assembly)
Sept. 25 - Fort Worth, TX @ The Rail Club
Sept. 26 - Sauget, IL @ Pop's *
Sept. 27 - Indianapolis, IN @ 5th Quarter *
Sept. 28 - Westland, MI @ The Token Lounge *
Sept. 29 - Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall *
Sept. 30 - Toronto, ON @ Sneaky Dee's *
*=w/ Eternal Sleep More...
Age Of Woe Signs Record Deal
Age Of Woe just checked in with this brief announcement about inking a deal and gearing up to release a new album:
"It's high time for some important news! We have signed a deal with War Anthem Records for our upcoming album 'An Ill Wind Blowing.' We are stoked to be part of their amazing roster. Keep your eyes open for further info soon.
The label also comments: "War Anthem Records and Swedish Age of Woe have inked a deal. We are glad to have them along our troops. The 2nd album from this Gothenburg based outfit is called 'An Ill Wind Blowing' and will be released October 14th on CD and LP format. For fans of Entombed, Wolfbrigade, Amebix and Tau Cross. Stay tuned!!!" More...
Seele Releases Lyric Video
Finnish group Seele today releases a music video for "Kun Mieli Mustuu," taken from the "Jos Vain Kaiken Jättäisin" album. The full track listing is as follows:
1. Seele
2. Irti Ruumiista
3. Enkelten Luona
4. Hei Katso Mua!
5. Kuolo Korjaa
6. Liian Kauan
7. Vapaus
8. Rakkaudesta Sokea
9. Kun Mieli Mustuu
10. Jos vain Kaiken Jättäisin
Demonical Gears Up For October Tide Tour
Swedish melodic death / doom group October Tide and old-school death metal masters Demonical are gearing up for their co-headlining European tour supported by Finnish black metal group Author.
The tour will kick off on September 22nd in Hultsfred (Sweden) and run through October 1st in Bitterfeld (Germany). Check out a teaser trailer below, and see the show live on these dates:
22.09 SE - Hultsfred - Hulingen
23.09 DE - Rostock - Bunker
24.09 DE - Lugau - Iron Eagle
25.09 PL - Poznan - Club U Bazyla
26.09 PL - Bielsko-Biala - Rudeboy
27.09 CZ - Praha - Modra Vopice
28.09 PL - Wroclaw - Liverpool
29.09 DE - Berlin - Werk 9
30.09 DE - Hamburg - Bambi Galore
01.10 DE - Bitterfeld - Festung More...
Whitechapel Finalizes Tour Routing
As previously announced, Whitechapel will co-headline a U.S. tour with Suicide Silence this fall. Sponsored by BlackCraft Cult Clothing, the "Straight Outta Hell" tour also features Carnifex and Oceano as support, with Despised Icon appearing at select dates.
This journey will commence on September 28th, and the finalized routing has now been nailed down. See below for all confirmed dates.
Whitechapel:
9/25/2016 Ozzfest/Knotfest @ San Manuel Amphitheater - San Manuel, CA
w/ Suicide Silence, Carnifex, Oceano:
9/28/2016 Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR #
9/29/2016 Studio 7 - Seattle, WA #
9/30/2016 Pinnacle NW - Spokane, WA
10/01/2016 Pub Station - Billings, MT
10/02/2016 The Summit Music Hall - Denver, CO
10/04/2016 Wooly's - Des Moines, IA
10/05/2016 Waiting Room - Omaha, NE
10/06/2016 Cabooze - Minneapolis, MN
10/07/2016 The Rave - Milwaukee, WI
10/08/2016 St. Andrew's Hall - Detroit, MI
10/09/2016 House of Blues - Chicago, IL
10/11/2016 Agora Theatre - Cleveland, OH*
10/12/2016 Harmony House - Webster, CT*
10/13/2016 The Gramercy Theater - New York, NY*
10/14/2016 Chameleon Club - Lancaster, PA*
10/15/2016 Rock & Shock @ Palladium - Worcester, MA
10/16/2016 GameChanger World - Freehold, NJ
10/17/2016 Arizona Pete's - Greensboro, NC
10/19/2016 Warehouse Live - Houston, TX #
10/20/2016 The Door - Dallas, TX #
10/21/2016 Top Deck - Farmington, NM
10/22/2016 Vinyl at Hard Rock - Las Vegas, NV #
* w/ Despised Icon
# newly added
Dark Forest Streams "Where The Arrow Falls"
U.K. group Dark Forest has a new track out today from impending album "Beyond The Veil." Check out "Where The Arrow Falls" in the SoundCloud player below.
"Beyond The Veil" is due out August 26th via Cruz Del Sur Music and is available for pre-order at this location. The full track listing consists of:
1. On the Edge of Twilight
2. Where the Arrow Falls
3. Autumn's Crown
4. Blackthorn
5. Lunantishee
6. The Wild Hunt
7. Earthbound
8. The Undying Flame
9. Mên-an-Tol
10. Beyond the Veil
11. Ellylldan
12. The Lore of the Land
Darkthrone Streaming "Tundra Leech"
Darkthrone has launched a brand new track from upcoming studio album "Arctic Thunder" - check it out "Tundra Leech" below, which also includes track commentary from Fenriz.
The Norwegian duo will release "Arctic Thunder" on October 14th via Peaceville.
This album marks the band's first new studio material since 2013's "The Underground Resistance."
The full track listing is as follows:
1. Tundra Leech [05:02]
2. Burial Bliss [04:59]
3. Boreal Fiends [05:50]
4. Inbred Vermin [05:49]
5. Arctic Thunder [04:41]
6. Throw Me Through the Marshes [05:00]
7. Deep Lake Trespass [04:48]
8. The Wyoming Distance [03:14] More...
Interview
And Justice For Art:Testament/Kantor Album Covers
According to Testament's legendary frontman, Chuck Billy, working with artist, Eliran Kantor, has been "so easy because he sees our vision right away." The best proof of that lies in the many projects the American Thrash lords have commissioned to the talented Berlin-based visionary—including three album covers, stage backdrops, tour merchandise and more.
"We hope to have a continued relationship with him for years to come,” said Billy a few years back, while interviewed for the book And Justice For Art: Stories About Heavy Metal Album Covers. Their professional relationship has been recently renewed by the unveiling of a new artwork. We're referring to the cover for the band's eagerly-awaited new album, "Brotherhood Of The Snake." The cryptic-yet-epic quality of this imposing illustration has definitely cemented the creative synergy between them. Let's take a look to the Testament/Kantor album cover trilogy and find out what the illustrator has to say about his own arresting images.
THE FORMATION OF DAMNATION (2008)
This unforgettable apocalyptic scene features religious and political symbolism (the angels, the capitol). “It was all [guitarist] Eric Peterson’s concept from start to finish, including the way the composition is arranged with the trumpet-playing angels," Kantor admits. "I didn’t ask a lot of questions back then, as it looked perfect right from the initial pencil sketch he gave me on our first ever email conversation. My main conceptual contributions were my objection of using one of the working titles, "The Evil Has Landed" and insisting on using the old 3D logo instead of the flat one that Testament has been using for quite a few records.”
Motorowl Posts New Video "The Highest City Pt. 1"
German psychedelic metal act Motorowl released a video clip for the new song "The Highest City, Pt. 1" The song will be featured on the new album "Om Generator," which will be available via Century Media Records on August 26th.
The track list is:
1. Om Generator (song streaming here)
2. The Highest City, Pt. 1
3. The Highest City, Pt. 2
4. Old Mans Maze
5. One and Zero
6. Beloved Whale
7. White Horse
8. Spiritual Healing
Check out "The Highest City, Pt. 1" More...
Hangar's New Video Clip Feels "Just Like Heaven"
Brazilian progressive/power metal act Hangar, featuring famed drummer Aquiles Priester, released a music video for the song "Just Like Heaven." The song appears on the latest album "Stronger Than Ever," which is available now via FC Metal.
Check out the video here:
Ancient Declares Even "Death Will Die"
Norwegian extreme metal titans Anciient will release the long awaited 7th studio album “Back To The Land Of The Dead” on September 16th in North America via (Megadeth bassist David Ellefson’s) EMP Underground/EMP Label Group, and in the rest of the World by Soulseller Records.
To give another taste of the new album, today the band unleashed the new track "Death Will Die," which you can check out in the player below.
The track list for the album is:
1. Land of The Dead (Music by Dhilorz, lyrics by Dhilorz and Zel) (streaming here)
2. Beyond The Blood Moon (Music and lyrics by Zel)
3. The Sempiternal Haze (Music by Dhilorz, lyrics by Zel)
4. The Empyrean Sword (Music by Dhilorz, lyrics by Zel)
5. The Ancient Disarray (Music and lyrics by Zel)
6. Occlude The Gates (Music by Dhilorz, lyrics by Zel)
The Excruciating Journey
7. Part I Defiance and rage (Music by Dhilorz, lyrics by Zel)
8. Part II The Prodigal Years (Music by Dhilorz, lyrics by Zel)
9. Part III The Awakening (Music by Dhilorz, lyrics by Zel)
10. Death Will Die (Music and lyrics by Zel)
11. The Spiral (Music and lyrics by Zel)
12. Petrified By Their End (Music by Dhilorz and Zel, lyrics by Zel)
Bonus track :
13. 13 Candles (Music and lyrics by Quorthon)
Stream "Death Will Die" here: More...
Project Silence Issues "Perversion" Lyric Video
Project Silence is a band known for energetic live performances and tight playing as an industrial metal outfit combining extreme metal to headbanging industrial. The latest album - "Slave To The Machine" - was recorded, mixed and mastered by the band and features some thrash, black and extreme metal influence. The album is centered around themes of Sci-Fi, violence, sex, love and misery. The album is available now via Sliptrick Records.
Today the band unleashed a lyric video for the song "Perversion." Check it out here:
Psykosis Releases "Driller Killer" Music Video
Off the back of a blistering performance last weekend at Bloodstock Festival, Irish Thrashers Psykosis today unveiled a new music video for "Driller Killer," the first single from the debut full length album "Welcome To The Psyko Ward." Check it out on the player below.
Frontman Grant Walsh comments, "We chose 'Driller Killer' as our single because it shows a lot of playing styles and is a good example of what the album is sounding like. It's fast, catchy, funky and thrashy, you can bang your head, sing along or dance to it."
"The song is written about the serial Killer Jeffery Dalmer, who used to drill into his victims brains and pour eroding acid into the drill hole to make his victim a lifeless drone to obey his every command, so we thought that was pretty cool topic, and started writing 'Driller Killer'."
The track list for the album is:
1. Rise To Fall
2. Hunt To Kill
3. Driller Kller
4. Mortar Platoon
5. Tag Your Dead
6. Terror At 3am
7. Toxic Fugitive
Check out "Driller Killer" here: More...
Hartmann Announces "Shadows & Silhouettes" Album
Hartmann - the band fronted by Avantasia guitarist/vocalist Oliver Hartmann - announced that the upcoming new album will be entitled "Shadows & Silhouettes." The album will be issued on September 30th via Pride & Joy Music.
The first single/video clip will be available on September 2nd. The album's track list is as follows:
1. Irresistible
2. Glow
3. High On You
4. When Your Mama Was a Hippie
5. Jaded Heart
6. Amazing
7. Still the Same
8. I Would Murder for You
9. The Letting Go
10. To Good to be True
11. Shadow in My Eyes
12. Last Goodbye More...
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