Icarus Witch Reveals New Album Details

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s long-running traditional metal veterans, Icarus Witch, have released their new single, "Rise Of The Witches." A lyric video for the song can be found below.

When a band’s been featured on outlets like The Occult Unveiled podcast and Witches & Pagans Magazine in addition to the world’s biggest hard rock magazines, you can bet a new single called "Rise Of The Witches" isn’t going to follow the cliche Hollywood trope of Witches as evil monsters.

Icarus Witch founder Jason Myers, a craft practitioner of nearly four decades and a priest in the Cabot Tradition of Witchcraft, explains why you’d win that bet. "Many of the Witches in my circle are gifted artists, teachers, healers, herbalists, environmentalists, and compassionate activists – a far cry from the stereotypical villains the media often portrays us as. Yet despite enjoying more legal protection now than previous generations did, today’s pagans are still misunderstood and often suffer from dangerous systematic discrimination. As a genre, underground metal has long been about empowering marginalized people to stand together against hypocrites and bullies. ‘Rise of the Witches’ is a metallic battle cry for modern occultists that emphatically declares to close-minded zealots – You’re done here, never again."

To infuse additional power into this sonic spell, twenty-one actual Witches were summoned to lend their voices to the backing vocals on the chorus. When you hear this mystical congregation chanting "We are witches we shall rise, united far and wide" that is the sound of wise folks who are not afraid to fight for freedom.

While the lyrics came together through inspired automatic writing and make up one chapter of a 9-song concept album, it was the music for "Rise Of The Witches" that came first.

Guitarist and co-writer Quinn Lukas, a renowned music instructor and producer himself, explains how those catchy melodic hooks materialized. "The riffs for ‘Rise of the Witches” came effortlessly. The main chorus riff was simply inspired by late-night jamming through a new amp that I was testing out for the first time. I just slid my hand down the neck and that was the first thing I played. From there it takes on a few twists and turns. I’ve always liked the way that big colorful chords sound when ringing out against interesting rhythmic patterns. I think I get a lot of that from players like Jake E. Lee, Michael Wilton, and Chris DeGarmo." More...

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Mastic Scum Releases "Create And Destroy" Video

After a successful festival season, Austrian sci-fi death metal machine Mastic Scum has released "Create And Destroy", another video for a song from its current album "Icon." The album, full of massively groovy tech/death anthems, was released last fall and is available as CD as well as on red vinyl in stores, from the label or from the band. You can check out the video below. More...

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Hinayana To Release New Album In November

In 2018, Austin, Texas based melodic death metal unit Hinayana ensnared the masses with their self-released debut, Order Divine, and later defied the pandemic with their subsequent 2020 release, the "Death Of The Cosmic" EP. Now, the band returns with their long-anticipated sophomore full-length, "Shatter And Fall," out November 10, 2023 via Napalm Records - and it proves well worth the wait.

Produced by frontman Casey Hurd and Kevin Butler with mastering by Dan Swanö at Unisound, Shatter And Fall features guest contributions from melodic death metal purveyors and labelmates Tuomas Saukkonen of Wolfheart and Vincent Jackson Jones of Aether Realm. Setting them apart from genre greats like Insomnium, Amorphis and Swallow the Sun, "Shatter And Fall" incorporates modern, accessible elements, emerging as a fresh entry in this year’s most unmissable metal offerings. The album serves as a darker, more solemn work in comparison to their debut, yet superior without question in songwriting, technicality and cohesiveness.

Today, the band kicks things off with groove-laden first single "Reverse The Code." Backed by an impressive official music video, the track boasts catchy chorus progressions, engaging verses and technical aptitude, blending progressive touches with punishing extremity.

Frontman Casey Hurd says about the track:
"Regrets and mistakes. 'Reverse The Code' is about our hopeless and futile desire to be able to go back in time and change things in our past. The single serves as a perfect introduction to the fierce evolution of our sound that is 'Shatter And Fall.'" More...

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Ferocious Fetal Formulas Premiere New Single

Taiwanese brutal death metal band Ferocious Fetal Formulas premiere their new single titled "Stratified Pre-Rape Fumigation", taken from the outfit's impending new album "Primordial Generic Genocide", which will be co-released by Brutal Mind & Fat Tub of Lard Records on September 11, 2023.

Check out "Stratified Pre-Rape Fumigation" streaming via YouTube for you now below.

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Musket Hawk Premiere New Music Video

Baltimore, MD-based sludgy grindcore trio Musket Hawk premiere a new music video for their latest single "American Scum", streaming via YouTube for you now below.

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Our Demise Premiere New Single & Music Video

Perth, Western Australia-based deathcore band Our Demise premiere a new single and music video named "Vultures", streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below. The track features a guest contribution by Matthew Daly of Sedative.

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In Demoni Premiere New Single & Lyric Video

Magdeburg, Germany-based brutal death metal band In Demoni premiere a new single and lyric video by the name of "Stalker - Texas Danger", taken from their upcoming new album "Stupid Jokes For Brutal Folks", which will be out in stores October 1, 2023 via Morbid Generation Records.

Check out "Stalker - Texas Danger" streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below.

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Job For A Cowboy Premiere New Music

After nearly a decade, technical death metal band Job For A Cowboy have premiered their new track "The Agony Seeping Storm." This marks the first single from their long-anticipated fifth studio album, set to be released through Metal Blade Records. The band is making a comeback to the stage next week, marking their first performance since 2016.

In line with this, they've been added to the lineup for the September 08th installment of the 'Blue Ridge Rock Festival' in Alton, VA.

A new music video for that single will go live on YouTube as well at 11 am (EST/EDT).

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Exhumed Premiere New EP "Beyond The Dead"

Deathgrind outfit Exhumed have just digitally unveiled their new EP, "Beyond The Dead," via Relapse Records. This release includes four fresh tracks along with four live performances. Check out now "Beyond The Dead" streaming in its entirety via YouTube and Spotify for you below.

Vocalist and guitarist Matt Harvey shared his thoughts on this new release: More...

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