Metal News for August 20, 2015
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23 news articles posted on this day.
Tyranny Streaming "Sunless Deluge"
"Aeons In Tectonic Interment" is the long-awaited new studio offering from Finnish funeral doom duo, Tyranny.
Slated for release via Dark Descent Records next month, the band's first proper recording in a decade spews forth five sickly psalms of slow, tortured, epically soul-consuming grimness.
As a precursor to its impending detonation, today the lumbering, near-eleven-minute crush of opening hymn "Sunless Deluge" is available online for streaming. The "Aeons In Tectonic Interment" track listing is as follows:
1. Sunless Deluge
2. A Voice Given Unto Ruin
3. Preparation Of A Vessel
4. The Stygian Enclave
5. Bells Of The Black Basilica More...
Coheed And Cambria Releases New Video
Man, don't you hate it when you have to run naked through the halls of your high school? It's time for some rad times at Amory High with this new video clip for Coheed And Cambria's "You Got Spirit, Kid."
The clip, an homage to ‘80s teen movies, is available below. Front man Claudio Sanchez comments: “Our video for ‘You Got Spirit, Kid’ gave us a chance to showcase a relaxed side of the band’s personality. With our love for ‘80s nostalgia, we decided to approach the treatment in a John Hughes or Steven Spielberg type fashion, allowing the spirit of youth and camaraderie to shine in each frame.”
The clip, which was directed by DJay Brawner (Refused, Grouplove), follows the band while taking down a group of school bullies through a series of pranks. The band's new album "The Color Before The Sun" will drop October 16, 2015 through 300 Entertainment. More...
Nightfell Streaming "Rebirth"
The first public preview of Nightfell's second LP, "Darkness Evermore," has been issued ahead of its looming street date via 20 Buck Spin, as the album's fourth movement, "Rebirth," is premiered online and can be heard below.
Portland-based duo Nightfell is comprised of Todd Burdette (Tragedy, His Hero Is Gone, Warcry) and Tim Call (Aldebaran, Mournful Congregation, Sempiternal Dusk, Saturnalia Temple), who here forge a harsh, epic, and wholly different delivery than any of their prior or current bands.
"Darkness Evermore" will fall digitally and on CD this coming September 11, with a vinyl version to launch October 23 as well. More...
Axis Posts "Discouraged" Track
Florida quintet Axis today reveals the next piece of debut album, "Show Your Greed," with a new track titled "Discouraged" streaming below.
"Show Your Greed" was mixed by Taylor Young of Nails and Twitching Tongues. Out September 4 on Good Fight Music, the album can now be pre-ordered here.
The band is currently deep in a U.S/ tour with Good Fight labelmates Old Wounds and Of Feather And Bone. Remaining dates are as follows:
Aug 20 - Milwaukee, WI @ Borg Ward w/ Old Wounds
Aug 21 - Chicago, IL @ Live Wire w/ Old Wounds
Aug 22 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Elks Lodge w/ Old Wounds
Aug 23 - Lakewood, OH @ The Foundry w/ Old Wounds
Aug 24 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Roboto Project
Aug 25 - Buffalo, NY @ Sugar City
Aug 26 - New Britain, CT @ Pulaski Club
Aug 27 - Chicopee, MA @ CCC
Aug 28 - Providence, RI @ The Funky Jungle
Aug 29 - New York, NY @ ABC No Rio (early)
Aug 29 - Warren, NJ @ Warren Legion Hall (late)
Aug 30 - Sayville, NY @ Soul Sounds
Aug 31 - Wilmington, DE @ School of Rock
Sep 1 - Baltimore, MD @ Charm City Art Space
Sep 2 - Annapolis, MD @ Metropolitan Lounge
Sep 3 - Greensboro, NC @ Empire Books
Sep 4 - Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern More...
Thy Catafalque Releasing New Album "Sgùrr"
Thy Catafalque - the progressive/avant-garde metal project of Hungarian mastermind Tamás Kátai - has announced the release date for a new album titled "Sgùrr." The album, written by, and recorded almost in it's entirety by Kátai, will be released internationally by Season of Mist on October 16, 2015.
The first taste of the new album, an ambitious folk-tinged track titled "Alföldi Kozmosz," is now available for streaming below. Regarding the new track, Kátai comments:
"This is a quite spontaneous song, recorded in my childhood room with my old, 10-dollar classical guitar while visiting home in Hungary. Violin is similarly off-handed, played by my Greek friend, Dimitris Papageorgiou. There's no vocals, only music depicting my love towards the Great Hungarian Plain where I was born and raised. Or home. Hence the title: Lowland Cosmos.
"The title of the album is from Scottish Gaelic meaning the top of a mountain but most of the songs are equally about water, mountains, their relationship and symbols attached to them, inspired by the Scottish Highlands and weirdly the Hungarian Lowlands. There's not much vocals at all, and when there is, it's not pleasant. Music is mostly unfriendly, bristly and cold compared to the previous albums. I guess it's more metal this time." More...
Lae Releases New Music Video
"Break The Clasp," the debut album from Lae -- the Montreal-based psychedelic post-hardcore quintet fronted by Steve Austin of Today Is The Day -- is now finally ready for release in its deluxe vinyl format.
An official video for the heartbreaking "To Give You The Stars Above" has also been released and can be seen below.
The album was recorded in full analog in main songwriter Marc Lucas Ablasou's woodshop in Montreal by Steve Austin, who ended up providing lead vocals to the entire album, and the lineup completed by Ronald Jean-Gilles, Serge Nakauchi Pelletier and Stephane Desgroseilliers. More...
This Gift Is A Curse Reveals New Album Details
The Swedish black metal instigators from This Gift Is A Curse have announced the title and album details for their Season of Mist debut, "All Hail the Swinelord." The band's new full-length will be released internationally on October 16, 2015.
The scathing track "Swinelord" can also be heard below. Regarding the new album, This Gift Is A Curse comments:
"When entering the studio, we were determined not to repeat what was done on previous recordings - instead we wanted to broaden our spectra of sound, making it even more dark and vicious at the same time letting melodies have a place as well as suggestive drone soundscapes. To be able to push our boundaries even further, we borrowed hands from fellow musicians, whom we had gotten to know during the years.
"This album thus contains guest vocals by Lillie Lindahl (Promise and the Monster, Stiu Nu Stiu), Johan G. Winther (Scraps of Tape) and Christina lom (Agrimonia). Their talent added a new dimension to the songs and to the album as an entity.
"The name of the record is 'All Hail the Swinelord,' and the record itself is a thematic album about the self-inflicted process of dehumanization and the loss of all notions of what we consider existence. A metaphysical and ritual guideline for the crossing of the final threshold. Into the shadows, to touch His black crown…" More...
Abominable Putridity Re-Releasing Second Album
This October, extreme metal powerhouse Unique Leader Records will reissue "The Anomalies Of Artificial Origin," the second full-length from Russian death metal behemoths and recent label signees, Abominable Putridity.
The out-of-print brutalizer was initially released in 2012 via Brutal Bands Records. This new redux version was remixed and remastered by Ivan Anthropocide at Anthropocide Studios and includes the wicked sci-fi cover renderings of Par Olofsson. The track listing is:
1. Remnants Of The Tortured
2. A Massacre In The North
3. Letting Them Fall...
4. A Burial For The Abandoned
5. Lack Of Oxygen
6. Wormhole Inversion
7. The Anomalies Of Artificial Origin
8. The Last Communion More...
Metal Allegiance Releases More Studio Footage
The massive supergroup Metal Allegiance will release a debut self-titled album on September 18 via Nuclear Blast, but until then, the collective is teasing fans with videos from the recording studio sessions.
The seventh trailer is now online and covers the recording of the track "Wait Until Tomorrow," featuring Doug Pinnick, Jamey Jasta, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson and Mike Portnoy.
Epica Launches New Music Video
The Dutch metallers from Epica have launched an official live video for "The Essence of Silence," which was recorded live earlier this year during the European "Enigma" tour during the sold-out show at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, Belgium.
The video was shot and edited by Jens de Vos and his team at Panda Productions. The show was recorded by Ace Zec and mixed by Epica producer Joost van der Broek.
Epica will be hitting the road with Eluveitie this coming September for a North American trek. Full details at this location.
Soilwork Posts New Song
Leading up to the August 28, 2015 release date of new album "The Ride Majestic," today Soilwork drops another song from the band's impending 10th album.
Check out “Enemies in Fidelity” via the the YouTube player provided below. Vocalist Bjorn “Speed” Strid comments:
“'Enemies in Fidelity' is indeed a very melodic and atmospheric beast. This was one of the first songs that I wrote for the new album and it holds a lot of surprises. The chorus almost sounds as if Simon and Garfunkel started a black metal band. That's the way we like it - playful, dark, intense and melancholic. It definitely stands out, but also gives you an overall idea of what Soilwork currently is about.
"The lyrics deal with whether you should escape or succumb to the suffering that you might experience in your life, in order to find new strength. The ambivalence. The guilt and the respect towards your own existence. Being awakened and finding satisfaction through frustration and anger, to a point where it almost becomes addictive. Enjoy!”
A preview containing snippets of all the album's tracks also recently came online and is available right here. More...
Goodbye To Gravity Reveals Album Details
Goodbye To Gravity just checked in with the following announcement about gearing up to drop an impending studio album:
"Ladies and gentlemen, the wait is almost over: 'Mantras of War,' our new full-length album will be available on 30.10.2015 via Universal Music România!"
The "Mantras Of War" track listing is:
1. The Day We Die (4:47)
2. Shadow Puppets (4:24)
3. Atonement (4:33)
4. Four Minutes of Rage (3:59)
5. Rise From the Fallen (3:36)
6. Heed the Call (4:15)
7. What If (3:54)
8. Spaceman (Babylon Zoo cover) (3:04)
9. This Life Is Running Out (3:54)
10. Ode to a Sacrifice (5:34) More...
Mantric Commits Some "Sin"
Mantric is an experimental prog trio from Oslo, Norway comprised of three-fifths of Extol: vocalist/guitarist Ole Sveen, guitarist/vocalist Tor Glidje and bassist/vocalist John Mjåland.
The three have been playing together for more than 20 years now, first in progressive black-metal group Lengsel, then in prog-metal innovators Extol, having contributed to the band’s classic album “The Blueprint Dives,” before disbanding in 2007.
Formed in that same year, Mantric picks up where they left off on “The Blueprint Dives,” determined to push boundaries and avoid easy categorization. The band’s debut album under the name Mantric, “The Descent”, was released in 2010 and clearly reflects such unbreakable artistic vision, fusing a unique, experimental metal sound with some challenging and powerful proggy tones, though this new incarnation sounds more refined and cultivated than before.
Now five years later, Mantric is set to return with a second full-length titled “Sin," due out September 25, 2015. The track listing is: More...
Kylesa Posts "Shaping The Southern Sky" Track
Kylesa is currently streaming "Shaping the Southern Sky," the second new track off forthcoming album "Exhausting Fire." Listen in below, and you can also hear the previously posted song "Lost And Confused" at this location.
"Exhausting Fire" will be released by Season of Mist on October 2, 2015. Regarding the new album, Kylesa vocalist/guitarist Phil Cope comments: "'Exhausting Fire' is an album we really put our hearts on our sleeves for. We’ve always done that, but emotionally, it’s probably the most honest and raw album we’ve ever done.”
Guitarist/vocalist Laura Pleasants continues, “No band sounds like us and we don’t sound like any other band. After all these years of experimenting with different styles and sounds, we’ve really developed our own thing and I can faithfully say that we sound like us. With this album, we’ve successfully made a record that incorporates all the elements we’ve always played with into a record that works on its own.”
1. Crusher
2. Inward Debate
3. Moving Day
4. Lost and Confused
5. Shaping The Southern Sky
6. Falling
7. Night Drive
8. Blood Moon
9. Growing Roots
10. Out Of My Mind
11. Paranoid (bonus track) More...
Cardinals Pride Streaming "Bearers"
New Damage Records’ latest signing Cardinals Pride is streaming a new song titled “Bearers,” taken from the band’s upcoming EP, "Those People Will Never Die," which is scheduled for release on September 4, 2015.
Pre-orders for the new record are available now at this location and "Bearers" can be heard below. Upcoming Cardinals Pride tour dates include:
Sept 3 - Hamilton, ON - Doors Pub
Sept 4 - Toronto, ON - Sneaky Dee’s (Homesick)
Sept 5 - St. Catharines, ON - Detour Music Hall (w/Prophets)
Sept 7 - London, ON - The APK (w/Prophets)
Sept 8 - Ottawa, ON - Cafe Dekcuf (w/Prophets)
Sept 10 - Montreal, QC - La Vitrola
Sept 11 - Quebec City, ON - Salle Multi (w/Prophets)
Sept 23 - Saint-Hyacinthe, QC - L’Anti
Sept 24 - Kingston, ON - Overtime
Sept 25 - Sarnia, ON - Trinity Lounge
Sept 26 - Kitchener, ON - KOI Music Festival More...
Horna Posts New Song Online
Horna's ninth album, "Hengen Tulet," is set for international release on September 22 via W.T.C. Productions, and today the new track "Hurmos" comes online. Listen in below. The album's full track listing is as follows:
1. Amadriada
2. Ajan Päättyessä
3. Nekromantia
4. Tämä Maailma Odottaa
5. Saatanalle
6. Puhdas
7. Ikuisuuden Kynnyksellä
8. Sodan Roihu
9. Hurmos
10. Profeettasi More...
The Murder Of My Sweet Posts New Video
The Murder of My Sweet's new album "Beth Out Of Hell" will be officially released tomorrow - August 21 via Frontiers Music. Ahead of that release, a music video for "The Awakening" just came online and can be seen below. The full "Beth Out Of Hell" track listing is:
1. Hell on Earth
2. The Awakening
3. World in Ashes
4. Always the Fugitive (streaming here)
5. Bitter Love
6. Still
7. The Humble Servant
8. Requiem for a Ghost
9. Euthanasia
10. Tide After Tide
11. Poets by Default
12. Heaven Succumb
13. Means to an End More...
Wulfhook Releases Debut Music Video
Wulfhook just released the band's first-ever music video for the song "Brutal Nightmare," which is available below. The group comments:
"We are very happy to debut our first official music video! It was filmed and edited by Welcome to this World Video Productions! They did a killer job all the way around.
"Our debut full length 'The Impaler' was released 7-17-15 through Divebomb Records! This is song quickly became one of the band's/label;s favorites, so it was an easy choice to do a video for. Check it out, Brutal Nightmare!!!"
If you missed it, you can still stream all of new album "The Impaler" by heading over to this location.
The Unravelling Releases Full Album Early
The Unravelling recently returned from the dead with two new singles (read all about it our recent interview here) and now months ahead of its planned release, the new full-length "Tear a Hole in the Collective Vision" is online early.
You can stream all the songs below, or grab a free digital copy over at The Unravelling's Bandcamp page.
The track listing is as follows:
1. The Hydra's Heart 04:52
2. Lucky Me 03:32
3. Tear a Hole in the Collective Vision 03:40
4. Out of the Depths 04:48
5. The Fearless Seed 04:38
6. Enough is Enough 02:48
7. Master Drone 05:37
8. No One's Song 03:00
9. Revolt 04:37
10. We Have No Problems 04:19 More...
Fuck The Facts Streams Entire Album
It's what you grind fanatics have been waiting for: the full new Fuck The Facts album "Desire Will Rot" is now online for streaming in full!
"Desire Will Rot" is officially due out August 25 through the band's own label Noise Salvation, but can now be heard below. You can also catch the band live on these upcoming Fuck The Facts tour dates:
08/20 - Kingston, ON @ The Mansion
08/21 - Montreal, QC @ Obscene Extreme Fest - Theatre Telus More...
Shrine Of Insanabilis Premieres New Song "Ruina"
Shrine Of Insanabilis premieres a new track titled "Ruina", taken from the upcoming debut album "Disciples of the Void", which is set to drop on September 22 via W.T.C.Productions.
Check out now "Ruina" below.
The track listing is: More...
So Hideous Premieres New Track "Yesteryear"
So Hideous premieres its new song titled "Yesteryear", taken from the group's new album "Laurestine", which will receive an October 16th release via Prosthetic Records.
Check out now "Yesteryear" below.
You can catch So Hideous live on the following dates: More...
While She Sleeps Premieres New Music Video
While She Sleeps premieres a new music video for the track "Brainwashed", taken from the band's latest effort, out in stores now via Sony Music.
Check it out now below.
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