Metal News for September 1, 2023
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17 news articles posted on this day.
Deitus Releases New Single "A Thousand Razors"
Black metallers Deitus show no sign of slowing down this year, with the release of their new single "A Thousand Razors." The standalone track follows hot on the heels of their most recent album Irreversible which was released to critical acclaim via Candlelight Records in July. You can check it out below.
Comments Deitus on the new single:
"‘A Thousand Razors’ was recorded during the Irreversible sessions back in September 2022, although we later decided against using it on the album. We felt this spiteful hymn deserved its own separate release. Get down on your knees and tremble in the splendour of heinous light!!" More...
Firewind Shares "Ode To Leonidas" Live Video
Today, Firewind are celebrating the release of their new live album, "Still Raging." Available as a 2CD and Blu-Ray edition through AFM Records, the band's epic anniversary release, recorded in 2022 at a frenetically-acclaimed hometown show in Thessaloniki, Greece, is out now.
Band mastermind and guitarist, Gus G (Ozzy Osbourne, Arch Enemy, Dream Evil), comments: "Happy release day! Today Still Raging Blu-Ray is finally out and we wanted to share one more song with you. 'Ode To Leonidas' is from our 2017 concept album, Immortals, which has quickly become a staple at our live shows. We love playing this one, so crank it up and go check out the new live release!" More...
Insomnium Reveals New EP Details
Today, Finnish metal melancholists Insomnium have released their new single and music video for 'Song of the Dusk'. The track is taken from the band's upcoming EP "Songs Of The Dusk," due 3rd November via Century Media. Make sure to watch the majestic video from Riivata for the epic, almost 10 minute long saga, "Song Of The Dusk" below.
On the upcoming EP and new single, the band comments:
"As the album would have been too long, we left these three tracks out on the initial version, yet they are part of the 'Anno 1696' story and complement it and some of the gaps are being filled. 'Song Of The Dusk' offers an alternative ending, so people can decide which kind of mood they prefer. This version is a bit more hopeful and less tragic, at least on a general Insomnium scale - everyone is dead... except the wolves."
Music, essentially, is a weapon to destroy the walls we built around us – and Finnish metal melancholists Insomnium are amongst its strongest wielders. Their ninth masterpiece, "Anno 1696," released in early 2023 led us deep into the dark and troublesome past of Northern Europe, a time of witches, of superstition, of bloodlust and frenzy. And of werewolves. In November, Insomnium continue the epic story of "Anno 1696" on their addendum-like EP "Songs Of The Dusk," featuring 22 minutes of music and three more journeys into a dark and foggy past.
"We simply had eleven great songs, and we thought that this material is too good to be ‘just’ bonus tracks," Niilo Sevänen (bass, vocals) states. "They are part of the big story, so you can think of them as the director’s cut material that tells a little extra. For those who want to have more."
Mixed by Jaime Gomez Arellano (Orgone Studios) and mastered by Tony Lindgren (Fascination Street Studios), "Anno 1696" and the matching "Songs Of The Dusk" are by far their most accomplished, emotionally rattling, soaring achievements. More...
Marduk And Wind Rose Confirmed For 70000 Tons 2024
The organisers of the 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise has confirmed two more names for next year's edition of the floating festival. Joining the stacked lineup are Italian power metal dwarves Wind Rose and Swedish black metal stalwarts Marduk. The event is scheduled to take place from January 29th to February 2nd and will sail from Miami, Florida to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
The lineup is now as follows:
Aborted
Angra
Blind Guardian
Blood Red Throne
Crypta
Dalriada
Depressive Age
Draconian
Dynazty
Epica
Equilibrium
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Grave Digger
The Halo Effect
Heidevolk
Infected Rain
Iotunn
Kataklysm
Legion Of The Damned
Lord Of The Lost
Marduk
My Dying Bride
Mystic Prophecy
Nanowar Of Steel
Nervosa
Nile
Omnium Gatherum
Saor
Scar Symmetry
Serenity
Sodom
Thyrfing
Tygers Of Pan Tang
Unleashed
Victory
Warkings
Wind Rose
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Sadus To Release First Album In Sixteen Years
East Bay thrash metal legends Sadus will make their long-awaited return this autumn for the release of their first album in 16 years, "The Shadow Inside," on November 17th via Nuclear Blast Records. Reunited in 2017, the band spent the last several years writing the record at their own pace, impervious to outside trends and influences, and recently finished recording with Juan Urteaga (Exodus, Testament, Machine Head) at Trident Studios.
Featuring ominous artwork by accomplished artist Travis Smith (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Opeth), "The Shadow Inside," is a contemporary thrash classic with colossal, groove-laden riffs at break-neck rhythm and blistering solos. It’s the record fans have been waiting desperately for and one of the year’s most crucial metal albums.
Commenting on the record’s impending release, founding vocalist/guitarist Darren Travis says:
"I am giddy with excitement for this album to be unleashed upon the world. With the help of the entire Nuclear Blast team, we will bestow a hugely anticipated release of The Shadow Inside!!
"THANK YOU for your interest in our little band for all these years. I hope you will find the same release of excitement that WE DO!! The love of METAL is the only reason for SADUS!! Thank you ALL for the undying SUPPORT!!!! Fucking SADUS!!”
Sadus unleashed the first single, "It’s The Sickness" late last year. Today, the band have unveiled the record’s next track, "Ride The Knife," which is available now for streaming and is accompanied by the lyric video below. More...
Symphony Of Heaven Release Single
Symphony Of Heaven are preparing to unveil their new single "In Anger's Midst". With a sound that also leans into melodic blackened death realms, the band delivers a dynamic and powerful track.
The band explain about the new single, "'In Anger’s Midst' is about going through such a dark time in one’s life that you feel on the verge of being out of control, lost, and that if you don’t get yourself out of that hole you’ll regret what you might do or become". The track also fits into the band's pseudo-historical world that bleeds through their music; the lore of Ordo Aurum, a pseudo-historical Christian Order. Within this realm the lyrics of the song come from a document written by Grandmaster Nicolaus Farel, in 1919 after the death of his parents and family to the Spanish Flu in Europe. The surviving document has recently been uncovered, having been kept in the London Lodge until this time. More...
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Strike Master Premiere New Album Today!
Strike Master's 6th full length album is considered to be their best so far. It combines the old music structure but upgrading production and instrumental development.
"Tangram Apocalypse" is an 8 track master piece full of fast passages, grooving break downs, medium tempo dense riffing, blast beats, and a monstrous bass base which takes the band to a new beginning.
Check out the new album here! More...
Phil Campbell & TBS Shares "Strike The Match"
Today Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons release their third album "Kings Of The Asylum" via Nuclear Blast Records. To celebrate the release the band have unveiled a vibrant new live video for the track "Strike The Match."
The band comments "We are very happy to finally reveal our third album 'Kings Of The Asylum' and first with new vocalist Joel Peters is out now! We had great fun filming the music video for our new single 'Strike The Match' with our Bastard Crew Fan Club at our favourite rock club, Fuel in Cardiff. Play it loud and proud!" More...
Ethereal Sin Posts New Music Video Online
Japanese extreme metal outfit Ethereal Sin has posted a new music video online for the song, "Aibetsuriku." You can check it out below. The song comes from the group's latest album, "Time Of Requiem - Part 2," which was released earlier this year. Speaking on the title, the band said:
"Aibetsuriku is One of the eight sufferings in Buddhism. It means "The pain and sadness of being separated from loved ones by death and other events." More...
Autopsy Reveals New Album Details
Autopsy will release their new album, "Ashes, Organs, Blood & Crypts," via Peaceville Records on October 27. In anticipation of the record, the band has released a trailer, which can be seen below.
One of the longest running death metal acts active today, and an inspiration for whole generations of depraved metal maniacs the world over, Autopsy formed in 1987 in San Francisco (with drummer/vocalist Chris Reifert originally being a part of the genre-defining Floridan act, Death), and released four albums on Peaceville Records - beginning with the classic debut "Severed Survival" in 1989 - before disbanding in 1995, with members going on to form the equally disturbed Abscess.
Autopsy officially returned after a fifteen year hiatus with the 2010 EP, "The Tomb Within," followed closely by fifth studio album, "Macabre Eternal" in 2011, which set them on a new bloodthirsty trail, with the reinvigorated intent of creating more of the sickest and most twisted and uncompromising music ever to grace a turntable, and the band has remained prolific ever since.
Hot on the heels of 2022’s universally lauded opus, "Morbidity Triumphant," which was also the first release to feature new bassist Greg Wilkinson (also currently joined by Chris in death doom duo Static Abyss), the US death metal greats now return for a new sermon of sickness, with "Ashes, Organs, Blood & Crypts"; brutal bouts of riffery marked by the feral attack of the undisputed master poet of everything macabre, Chris Reifert.
Eleven tracks of pure audial attack, punctuated by frenzied soloing courtesy of guitar maestros Eric Cutler and Danny Coralles amid classic all-out death metal fury going straight for the jugular, interspersed with brooding doom-styled descents into delirium.
"Ashes, Organs, Blood & Crypts" was recorded at Sharkbite Studios by Scott Evans and Greg Wilkinson, with additional tracking and mixing carried out at Earhammer studios by Greg Wilkinson. Mastering work was once more carried out at Ken Lee mastering.
Carrying on with recent tradition, the cover artwork was created by the suitably morbid mind of Wes Benscoter (Bloodbath/Slayer). More...
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Monument Of Misanthropy: Drum Recording Done
Recording sessions have been wrapped up for brutal death metal outfit Monument Of Misanthropy‘s new studio album "Vile Postmortem Irrumatio", with Fleshgod Apocalypse drummer Eugene Ryabchenko having been recruited by the band to track the drums. Video footage from the sessions, will be published at a later date.
Recording sessions took place with sound engineer Marco Mastrobuono behind the boards, at the Bloom Recording Studio, Rome, Italy. The Bloom is a world class studio, chosen by bands and artists like Fleshgod Apocalypse, Alan Parsons, Ennio Morricone and many more. A release is expected in late 2023 with more details to come.
Asked about how the recording process went down Eugene commented: More...
Hollow Front Premiere New Single & Music Video
Michigan metalcore band Hollow Front are set to release their upcoming album, "The Fear Of Letting Go," through UNFD on October 27th. Alongside this announcement comes the release of a video for their latest single, "We're All Left Suffering."
Vocalist Tyler Tate shared his thoughts on the single: More...
Final Gasp Premiere New Single "Blood And Sulfur"
The track "Blood And Sulfur" by blackened/gothic deathrockers Final Gasp is now streaming online. This song will be featured on the band's debut album, "Mourning Moon," set to be released on September 22nd via Relapse.
Vocalist Jake Murphy shared his thoughts on the song: More...
Flat Black (Ex-FFDP) Premiere New Single & Video
Flat Black (ex-Five Finger Death Punch) have just released an official music video for their track "Halo", streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below. This song will appear on the band's upcoming debut album, which will include a guest appearance by Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor. Release details for the album are still pending.
Flat Black is fronted by former Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Jason Hook, with vocalist Wes Horton, bassist Nick Diltz, and drummer Rob Pierce completing the lineup. Jason Hook previously commented on "Halo," saying: More...
Kvelertak Premiere New Single "Endling"
Kvelertak returns with the title track from their upcoming studio album, "Endling." The Norwegian black n' rollers are set to release the album on September 8th.
The band commented on the single, stating: More...
Eighteen Visions Premiere New Track "This Machine"
September has started with a bang as Eighteen Visions unveils their latest track, "This Machine." This release marks the fourth single from the metalcore veterans of Orange County this year. Fans can anticipate this song to be part of the band's upcoming EP, "Purgatorio." Check out "This Machine" streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below.
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GWAR Premiere Final Recording w/ Oderus Urungus
The last recorded single with the late GWAR vocalist Dave "Oderus Urungus" Brockie is now streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you below. The track, titled "Tammy, The Swine Queen," has been included in the newly released 10th-anniversary edition of their final album with Brockie, "Battle Maximus." The album has been remixed and remastered for this commemorative release.
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