Metal News for September 14, 2015
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23 news articles posted on this day.
Armament Releasing "First Strike"
Blackened thrash outfit Armament has set fire to stages all around the band's native India and is now setting sights on the international community with the release of debut EP "First Strike."
Check out the advance song "Chaos Prevails" below, and you can also pre-order your copy of "First Strike" through Transcending Obscurity here. The full track listing is:
1. Hammer of God
2. Chaos Prevails
3. Wings of Death
4. Gas Chamber
5. Unstoppable Force (Agent Steel Tribute) More...
Dark Buddha Rising Streaming "E X O"
Dark Buddha Rising is now sharing the second audio excerpt "E X O" from the band's upcoming fifth album, "Inversum:" a two-track exercise in the black arts of psychedelia.
Regarded as the opening of the third cycle Of Dark Buddha Rising, "Inversum" was recorded, produced and mixed by the band in the bowels of the Wastement, the self-proclaimed "asylum of eternal feedback," and welcomes the addition of new recruits V. Vatanen (guitar, vocals), J. Saarivuori (keyboards) and M. Neuman (vocals).
Check out the new track below. The band comments: "'E X O' is the cosmic process of 'Inversum,' a universal collapse into the singularity of existence." More...
Superjoint Adds More Tour Dates
In addition to the previously announced dates as direct support on Danzig's annual Blackest Of The Black tour this fall, reanimated metal legion Superjoint confirms five additional headlining shows in Texas, Arizona, Georgia, Virginia and California.
Supplementary headlining performances will also be announced in the coming weeks. For now, see a full listing of dates below.
Slated to commence on October 3 in Tempe, Arizona and run through October 31 in Los Angeles, California, the Blackest Of The Black gala will quake eighteen cities with an included stop at this year's edition of Rock And Shock in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Additional support will be provided by Veil Of Maya, Prong and Witch Mountain. The tour also serves as a precursor to Superjoint's appearance at the third annual Housecore Horror Fest in November. Catch these upcoming Superjoint 2015 tour dates: More...
Ritual Killer Streaming "Exterminance" Album
New Orleans-based cult black metal outfit Ritual Killer is streaming full vicious new album "Exterminance" online. The album - Ritual Killer's first in 10 years - can be heard below.
Ritual Killer consists of Sammy Duet on guitar (Goatwhore, ex-Acid Bath), Zak Nolan on drums (ex-Goatwhore), James Harvey on bass (Goatwhore), and Jordan Barlow on vocals. The band will drop "Exterminance" this coming Friday, September 18, 2015 and the full track listing is as follows:
1. Bury The Earth, Bury The Sky
2. As The Vulture Feeds
3. Feral Eyes
4. Dogs, Wolves And Carrion Fowl
5. Cuntius
6. Pale Corpse Incantations
7. Crippling Beast
8. Passing Of Creation More...
Skepticism Posts Full "Ordeal" Online
Today the funeral doom pioneers from Skepticism stream full new album "Ordeal" - set for international release on September 18 via Svart Records.
Skepticism is hailed as one of the originators of funeral doom and this first album for Svart (fifth album overall) is also the band's first full-length since 2008's "Alloy." Instead of going the usual recording-in-the-studio route, the band decided to record this new album live before an audience on January 24 at Klubi in Turku, Finland, with the event also captured on film. The track listing is:
1. You
2. Momentary
3. The Departure
4. March Incomplete
5. The Road
6. Closing Music
7. Pouring
8. The March and the Stream More...
Anfinnsaas Streams Full New Album
The Norwegian duo Anfinnsaas is today streaming the entirety of a new self-titled album set to drop September 18, 2015 via Autumnsongs Records.
Listen in below, and for more info on the release, check out our interview with Anfinnsaas right here. The album's track listing is:
1. Svensk Revelje
2. Anfinnsaas
3. Ha°landsdal
4. Sla°tt Fra Røstad
5. Elve
6. Spissrot More...
Broken Hope Posts "The Docking Dead" Video
Chicago's Broken Hope has unleashed a brand new live video for the track "The Docking Dead," which is featured on the band's first ever concert Blu-Ray and live album. Check it out below. Jeremy Wagner also comments:
"This video clip of 'The Docking Dead' from our 'Live Disease' concert DVD excites me and brings me right back to being on that Brutal Assault stage in front of 20-some-thousand death metal freaks. I hope this video clip is a worthy sample of the visually and sonically epic brutality Broken Hope unleashes throughout this entire concert DVD and companion Live CD."
Broken will release "Live Disease At Brutal Assault" worldwide via Century Media Records on September 18, 2015. Pre-orders are up now at this location. More...
Ignite Finishes Album, Announces Tour Dates
Southern California's Ignite just put the final touches on brand new album, "A War Against You," which is the follow-up to the 2006 album, "Our Darkest Days." Both the band and Century Media Records are pleased to further announce that "A War Against You" will see a synced, worldwide release on January 8, 2016.
"A War Against You" will be released shortly before Ignite heads out on the 2016 edition of the EMP Persistence Tour, in which Ignite will be performing as headliner. The package also features label mates Terror as well as H20 and special guests, Iron Reagan, Twitching Tongues, Wisdom In Chains and Risk It.
14.01.16 (DE) Berlin - Astra
15.01.16 (DE) Hamburg - Grosse Freiheit 36
16.01.16 (DE) Oberhausen - Turbinenhalle
17.01.16 (B) Torhout - De Mast
19.01.16 (CH) Pratteln - Z7
20.01.16 (DE) Saarbrücken - Garage
21.01.16 (DE) München - Backstage
22.01.16 (DE) Wiesbaden - Schlachthof
23.01.16 (DE) Dresden - Event Werk
24.01.16 (NL) Utrecht - Tivoli More...
One Machine Releases "Forewarning" Video
Steve Smyth's One Machine is gearing up to release second album "The Final Cull" on September 18 via Scarlet Records, which was tracked at Death Island Studios with Marco Angioni and Tue Madsen helming.
Today, One Machine invites fans to step inside virtual reality with a new music video for “Forewarning,” directed and edited by Scott Canty of Dark North Media. Check it out below.
Steve Smyth comments: “The video depicts a wild ride into the not so distant future, where we find our rebel team entering a virtual world to reach their leader, the Hacker, only to be interrupted by the world leader the Cynic, busy blanketing all media with his driveling, meaningless rhetoric, with points inside his speech aimed at making our world seem hopeless without him and his leadership. In comes our hero the Hacker to spread the message of hope and independent thinking outside of conformity, and the war ensues, complete with a virus sent via virtual reality. Who will win? Watch and find out!” More...
Next To None Announces U.S. Shows
Prog metal band Next To None - composed entirely of members under the age of 18 - recently released debut full-length "A Light In The Dark" via InsideOut.
Produced by Mike Portnoy (The Winery Dogs, Dream Theater, Adrenaline Mob, Twisted Sister), "A Light in the Dark" also features guest appearances by Bumblefoot (Guns N’ Roses) and prog legend Neal Morse.
With the album out for public consumption, now the group is headed out on tour in the U.S. for a string of shows (hopefully none of these venues have 18+ policies!). Dates for the trek are as follows:
10/3 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Legendary Dobbs
10/6 – Asbury Park, NJ @ The Saint
10/9 - Hartford, CT @ The Webster
10/10 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
10/13 - Brooklyn, NY @ St. Vitus
10/16 - Westland, MI @ The Token Lounge
10/23 - Philadelphia, PA @ Bull Shooters Saloon
11/1 - Allentown, PA @ Crocodile Rock
11/8 - Allentown, PA @ Chicago Restaurant & Nightlif More...
Mantric Posts New Song Online
With the release of Mantric’s sophomore album “Sin” just less than two weeks away, today the Norwegian progressive metal trio has teamed up with Metal Sucks to host the stream of a new track titled “Arrogance vs. Anxiety” (also available for listening below).
Set for release on September 25, “Sin” follows the band’s debut album “The Descent” released in 2010 by Prosthetic Records and was recorded between Subsonic Society Studio with Tommy Akerholdt (Turbonegro) overseeing the drums/guitars tracking and Cipralexed Studio with Tor Magne Glidje handling bass, guitars, synths and vocals recordings.
The nine-track album was later mixed and mastered by Jack Shirley at The Atomic Garden in San Francisco. The "Sin" track listing is:
1. FaithFaker (streaming here)
2. On The Horizon
3. Give Me Eyes
4. Arrogance vs. Anxiety
5. Die Old
6. Maranatha
7. Anhedoniac
8. In The Shadow Of My Soul
9. Black Eyes More...
My Dying Bride Posts "Feel The Misery" Video
My Dying Bride has released a music video for the title track off upcoming 12th opus, "Feel the Misery." The album is set to drop on September 18, while the new music video is available below.
Using "The Raft of Medusa" by French romantic painter Théodore Géricault as visual inspiration, as well as taking cues from the band's own bleak and foreboding music, My Dying Bride's latest video is a harrowing tale of tragedy and loss.
Filmed on the stunning Pembroke coast of South Wales, and in particular St. Govan's Chapel, the scenes were set to play out the narrative as vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe takes the role of a lone musician and poet who stumbles upon a fallen maiden while combing the seascape for curiosities. Clearly the victim of a recent shipwreck, she is gathered up and removed to a suitable, somber resting place, all the while the mournful "Feel the Misery" plays alongside, marrying the rich visuals with the melancholic song.
Directed by James Sharrock and Ryan Mackfall, Sharrock explains: "The concept for 'Feel the Misery' has been in my head for a while. It is loosely based on the famous painting 'Raft of Medusa' by Theodore Gericault painted in 1819, and when I heard the song it invoked the creative idea I had been thinking about.
"In May this year I read in the news reports of a 'Ghost ship' carrying 350 starving Rohingya Muslims vanishing off Thailand. Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand refused to engage in search-and-rescue operations, instead pushing the boats back to sea, letting the people starve and refusing to accept the asylum seekers - similar to the story behind 'Raft of Medusa.' It was only later in the year as we were filming the music video down around the Pembrokeshire coast that the media took a greater interest in the deaths of asylum seekers in the Mediterranean. The song has allowed me to bring to life not only issues that are currently facing us all, but a masterpiece that reflects a similar tragedy from centuries ago." More...
Evertrapped Offering Track For Free Download
Montreal-based five piece Evertrapped is offering a free download of the track "Lethal District," the third single take off upcoming album "Under The Deep," which is due to drop on October 16, 2015. You can stream the song below, or pick up a free digital download at PureGrainAudio here.
Vocalist James Brookes had this to say: "'Lethal District' is somewhat of a post apocalyptic view of the surviving factions of humanity that instill themselves as the powers that be, and thus cast out the unclean, unworthy, and so forth. And therefore it sheds light on the madness and revolt of the unwanted."
Evertrapped also recently appeared on Metalunderground to discuss dodging dangerous moose for our weekly roundup of Pit Stories. More...
Ghost Releases New Music Video
Following a pope vs. pope penis measuring contest and a full stream of new album "Meliora," Ghost today released a new music video for "From The Pinnacle To The Pit."
Directed by Zev Deans, the clip can be seen below. Ghost's North American tour kicks off next week as well, with full dates available after the video.
Deus Otiosus Releases "Greater Horror" Video
The Danish death metallers from Deus Otiosus have released a music video for the song "Greater Horror," made in cooperation with the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society and featuring clips from the silent, black and white "Call Of Cthulhu" movie.
The song "Greater Horror" is taken from the "Sis Mortuus Mondo" EP (streaming here), released earlier this year on German label Godeater Records. The song will also be re-recorded for the upcoming 4th, yet untitled, Deus Otiosus album due out in 2016. More...
The Black Dahlia Murder Streaming New Album
All of The Black Dahlia Murder's new album "Abymsal" is now online for streaming ahead of the official September 18, 2015 drop date. Listen in below.
“Once the record started to come together we knew it was going to be something special,” states vocalist Trevor Strnad. “It’s more urgent, it has more dynamics, it’s a more emotive record, and it has a more raw, angry sound to it. It’s still million mile-per-hour death metal, but when you invest so much thought and emotion into what you’re creating you end up with a record that does stand out, and we can hold our heads up high and say yeah, this is our best work.“
The Black Dahlia Murder will return to North America this fall to headline the IndieMerch Tour with Iron Reagan, Harm's Way and Maruta. The trek will start Oct 3 and run through Oct 30. Full dates are available after the jump. More...
Sean Reinert Opens Up On Cynic Split
Recently the metal world was shocked with the sudden dissolution of Cynic, which was apparently an unexpected development for member Paul Masvidal.
There are still a lot of questions to be answered and Metal Injection got an exclusive word with drummer Sean Reinert about the situation. Here is an excerpt from the interview: More...
Iron Bastards Streaming "Boogie Woogie Violence"
Today is the day: French hard rocking power trio Iron Bastards just released a debut full-length effort called "Boogie Woogie Violence."
Consisting of 15 songs + 3 live recordings of hi-energy rock roll vibes with 70's influences, the full album is now available for streaming below and will fit right in for fans of Motorhead. You can also grab your own copy of the album at this location. More...
Rex Shachath Releasing New EP
Having laid low since the end of 2014, Northern Irish death metal band Rex Shachath is back for blood with a brand new record, which will be out November 20, 2015 via Great Dane Records.
Entitled "Revocation Of The Blood Elect," this new EP might not be what people are expecting if they're familiar with the band's debut offering "Sepulchral Torment." Since that release the band has had time to coalesce into an entirely new animal.
Tackling social issues such as the state of modern society and man's exorbitant desire for wealth at the expense of our natural world, the band has harnessed a sound more befitting to such issues on this forthcoming record. Old school ideals kneaded with modern death metal notions on a much punchier production is what we have here.
Vocalist and lyricist Dave Connolly sums the record up with a quote from French philosopher Denis Diderot, "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." More...
Geoff Tate To Appear On Avantasia Album
Avantasia's 7th studio album "Ghostlights" will be released via Nuclear Blast in early 2016. After revealing the return of Jorn Lande, another guest star can be announced - Operation: Mindcrime (former Queensryche) vocalist Geoff Tate.
This news may be met with a somewhat less enthusiastic response considering how Operation: Mindcrime's new album "The Key" is being received overall (reviewed here).
Avantasia's Tobias comments: "I am proud to announce a very special guest today: Mr. Geoff Tate! I have been fortunate enough to meet many amazing classic metal vocalists. Whenever we've talked about our influence as vocalists the name Geoff Tate was brought up.
"Throughout his incredible career of more than 30 years Geoff has constantly explored new territory as an artist and vocalist, while he has always managed to maintain this distinctive signature vocal sound that makes him stand out.
"His contribution sounds nothing but amazing, and you will immediately know why the man had such a huge impact on vocalists and fans around the globe! Enchanting, unique, amazing, progressive in the purest sense of the word! Thank you for joing the Avamtasoa family, Geoff Tate!"
Putrevore Announces "Tentacles Of Horror"
The new collection of rotting anthems by Putrevore bundled together under the title "Tentacles Of Horror" is due out via Xtreem Music on October 10, 2015.
This third album from the band is even more putrid than before and was completely mixed & mastered by Dave Rotten at his own Sanctuary Studios. Cover artwork was done once again by Juanjo Castellano, and the track listing is as follows:
1. These Caverns Breed Filth
2. Unspeakable Madness Beckons
3. Gable Window Portal Pt. I
4. Gable Window Portal Pt. II
5. Through the Vortex to Aeons Past
6. The Rotten Crawls On
7. Hyperborean Dreams
8. A Maw Surrounded By Tentacles More...
Stellar Master Elite Premieres New Song
Blackened death and doom outfit Stellar Master Elite premieres a new song titled "Desperate Grandeur" taken from the band’s upcoming album "III: Eternalism - The Psychospherical Chapter", which is due for release on October 1, 2015 via Essential Purification Records.
Check out now "Desperate Grandeur" below.
Teenage Time Killers Live Footage Posted
Supergroup Teenage Time Killers - featuring musicians of Slipknot/Stone Sour, Lamb Of God, Clutch, Prong, Municipal Waste etc.- took to the stage September 12th for the band's first-ever live performance. The concert was held at "The Fonda Theatre", in Hollywood, CA.
Check out fan-filmed live footage of the Misfits cover "Where Eagles Dare" below, featuring Corey Taylor, Randy Blythe, Peter Stahl, Tommy Victor, Lee Ving:
Artists originally booked for the performance included: More...
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