Metal News for September 15, 2015
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Pit Stories: Hotel Room Denied
It's Pit Story time once again! Like with last week's tale about dodging moose, today we shift focus away from the moshing over to the time shortly afterward where the band needs to find a place to crash and then hit the road again to keep the music going in another town.
Today's Pit Story comes courtesy of Hendrik Wippermann from German hard rock band Eat The Gun, who had this to say:
Over the last 12 years we’ve played a huge number of shows all over Europe so we could certainly publish a complete “Book of Tales from the Pit” if only anyone wanted to read it. Well, here’s one story from the past: We played in a small Swiss rock club, the name of the establishment isn’t important to mention.
The club was really packed, so we hung out at the bar after the show and most of us got pretty wasted. Unfortunately, I was the driver so I had to be satisfied with soft drinks that night. It must have been around 1 AM in the morning when we decided to leave for the hotel, so I asked the owner for the keys to the hotel. He turned around and walked into the backroom returning with five towels. He looked at me and told me that we’d all needed to take a shower.
I started to laugh because I assumed the guy was kidding me. Unfortunately he wasn’t. So I stood there in the still quite packed rock club with my four boozy band mates who were at that point far away from being in the physical condition of taking a shower. It should be added that the showers were placed in the club. I imagined us walking barefoot through the club covered with nothing but white towels.
I turned to the owner and told him that there wouldn’t be the smallest chance for me to convince the other guys to take a shower at this point. He explained that it wouldn’t be possible to use the hotel beds if the band was still “soaked with sweat.” To keep a long story short, we drove to the next venue overnight. Sometimes soft drinks suck.
Eat The Gun's new album "Howlinwood" dropped on September 4 via SPV/Steamhammer and you can pick up your copy at this location. More...
Avatarium Posts Bass Recording Video
Swedish doom band Avatarium is gearing up for an October 23, 2015 release date for new album "The Girl With The Raven Mask."
Today the band reveals another appetizer in the form of the second making-of trailer, which covers Leif Edlings' bass recordings. Check it out below, or you can see the first clip in the series over here. The new album's track listing is:
01. Girl With The Raven Mask
02. The January Sea
03. Pearls And Coffins
04. Hypnotized
05. Ghostlight
06. Run Killer Run
07. Iron Mule
08. The Master Thief
He Whose Ox Is Gored Streams "Crusade"
He Whose Os Is Gored will drop new album "The Camel, The Lion, The Child" on October 9, 2015 via via Bleeding Light Records. Today a new track from the album, titled "Crusade," can be heard below.
The album was captured at Red Room and Ex Ex Audio in Seattle by Robert Cheek (Serial Hawk, Noise-A-Tron etc.) with additional recording at Avast Studios with Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth, Wolves In The Throne Room etc.).
"The Camel, The Lion, The Child" was mixed by Matt Bayles (Isis, Mastodon etc.) and mastered by collaborator Blake Bickel. To hear more from the coming album, check out the song "Omega" over here. More...
Diavolos Releasing "You Lived, Now Die"
Hells Headbangers is proud to present Diavolos' debut album, "You Lived, Now Die," set for international release on December 11, 2015.
Although technically a "new" band and "You Lived, Now Die" the first recorded release, Diavolos consists of metal vets Tas Danaz (Satan's Wrath, ex-Electric Wizard) and Taneli Jarva (ex-Impaled Nazarene, ex-Sentenced).
Fittingly, the quintet's "You Lived, Now Die" is an unabashed throwback to the original wave of 1980s death metal, long before blastbeats and gore became de rigeur. The album's track listing is as follows:
1. Diavolos Rising
2. Come To Salem
3. Hail All Evil
4. Piss In Holy Water
5. You Lived, Now Die
6. Baptized In Vomit
7.Demonwhore
8. Curse, Bleed, Die
9. Totencorpse
10. Death Metal More...
Tesseract Streaming Full New Album
Tesseract's new album "Polaris" is due out September 18, 2015 via Kscope and today the entire release comes online early for advance listening. Check it out below.
TesseracT’s Dan Tompkins & Amos Williams comment: "Do you know that feeling you get as you are stood in line for a roller-coaster? That mixture of excitement and fear that is unique to situations of anticipation. That is the exact feeling we have about releasing 'Polaris.'
"The release of the full album stream signifies the real start of the Polaris World Tour for us. It's wonderful to be able to share this music with so many of you as we explore all and every musical option available to us. Thank you for all your support, we can't wait to see you guys out there on the road as we try to visit as much of this tiny planet as we can over the next two years."
The "Polaris" track listing is as follows:
1. Dystopia
2. Hexes
3. Survival
4. Tourniquet
5. Utopia
6. Phoenix
7. Messenger
8. Cages
9. Seven Names More...
Zud Returning To The Stage
After a year and a half hiatus, Zud will return to the stage in less than two weeks to headline the first Shadow Woods metal festival on September 26, 2015.
The new open air, camping based metal fest takes place in White Hall Maryland, just north of Baltimore. With the likes of Midnight, Occultation, Wormreich, Dreadlords and Sangharsha and over two-dozen others at the two-day event, Shadow Woods can be expected to be a game changer in festivals held on the East Coast.
In regards to the fest, Zud frontman Justin Curtsinger states: "I think this fest is going to really wake up a lot of folks who gravitate towards this type of music into realizing that there is more to this stuff then this mundane excuse of a 'metal' lifestyle of getting trashed and watching horror movies or Metalocalypse or driving a Scion to MDF. I know there have been fests like this done semi-successfully on this scale out west and there have been attempts at it east of Chicago, but I think Shadows Woods is going to be something else all together. It is an honor to be a part of it."
For those a bit further north, there will also be one more live performance from Zud for 2015; Halloween Night at Geno's Rock Club in Portland, Maine. Support will come from Sangharsha (Kathmandu via NYC) and two other Portland locals, Sylvia and Mugwort.
"Both of these shows are going to be pretty special for Zud," Curtsinger continues. "Zud has been on hiatus for two reasons, which maybe I'll get into some other time, but, what matters for now is that it is back and ready to keep exploring further through this weird maze of obscure roads where it left off. I feel that the new lineup is much stronger than before and I am psyched to not only play these two shows with the new guns on board, but to see where we go together over the winter with new material. More...
War Agenda Posts "Night Of Disaster" Trailer
German thrash band War Agenda will release debut album "Night Of Disaster" on October 9, 2015. Today a teaser trailer comes online heralding the upcoming 10 track release, which can be heard below.
"Night Of Disaster" was recorded earlier this year in Double Terror Studio and is mixed and mastered by Kai Stahlenberg at Kohlekeller Studios (Crematory, Powerwolf, Aborted). The album's track listing is as follows:
1. Shot To Pieces
2. Geocide
3. The Wait
4. Sentenced
5. Night Of Disaster
6. Time Heals Nothing
7. Mosh
8. Destiny Of?A Mad Man
9. Gone But Not Forgotten
10. Axis Of Evil More...
Grave Desecrator Announces "Dust To Lust"
Cult death/black metal horde Grave Desecrator has announced new details behind a forthcoming album following the band's signing with Season Of Mist earlier this year.
Swedish magazine Close-Up recently published an exclusive studio report regarding Grave Desecrator in the October issue (no. 177). Editor-in-chief Robban Becirovic personally visited the Brazilian band in Rio, who revealed that the album will be titled "Dust to Lust" and is scheduled to be released in early 2016.
Founded in 1998 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Grave Desecrator has established a reputation as one of the most savage and brutal South American metal bands through the release of two full-length albums and several splits with the likes of Archgoat and Black Witchery.
Grave Desecrator bassist E. Necrogoat comments: "A pact has been sealed, and we are very proud of it! Season of Mist will be in charge to spread our waves of sonic desecration, striking down the earth in witching hour!" More...
Caspian Streaming "Arcs Of Command"
U.S. post-rock outfit Caspian has a new track online for streaming below in advance of the release of upcoming album "Dust and Disquiet." The band comments:
"'Arcs of Command' is the third and final song we’ve chosen to reveal leading up to the official release of 'Dust and Disquiet' on September 25. The last two years have been a relentless whirlwind in many ways and we wanted to try and write a song that captured the intense end of that spectrum. We threw the kitchen sink into this track, no regrets, full-tilt."
This new album is coming out on Triple Crown Records, Hobbledehoy Records (Australia) and Big Scary Monsters (Europe), with pre-order bundles available over here. The "Dust and Disquiet" track listing is:
1. Separation No. 2
2. Ríoseco
3. Arcs of Command
4. Echo and Abyss
5. Run Dry
6. Equal Night
7. Sad Heart of Mine
8. Darkfield
9. Aeternum Vale
10. Dust and Disquiet More...
Vesperia Announces "Tempest Of The East" Tour
Coming off recent performances being local Toronto support for Eluveitie and The Agonist, Canada's epic metal quartet Vesperia is proud to announce the group will be performing live shows across Eastern Canada and the USA for "The Tempest of The East" tour in support of latest EP "The Iron Tempests."
Vocalist / bassist Morgan Rider comments: "We are very excited to announce our next multi-week foray on the road! We will once again be bringing our epic show to the Canadian Maritimes, but this time we will also be including 2 weeks of shows for the first time ever in the United States! We can't wait to see and play all of these new places for us as well as meet all the awesome fans and fans to be!"
Vesperia's new EP "The Iron Tempests" was released on July 10 and was co-produced with the effort of Ryan Bovaird, frontman of Canadian melodeath band Hallow's Die. More...
Sofy Major Streaming "Waste"
French noise-rock/power trio Sofy Major will release third full-length album “Waste” on October 30, 2015 via Solar Flare Records and today the first sample from this new effort has been unveiled online. Listen in to the title track below.
“Waste” follows the band’s agitated (hurricane Sandy completely destroyed Sofy Major's recording studio along with all gear) second album “Idolize,” and was once again recorded by Dave Curran (Unsane, Pigs, Big Business) this time at Black Box Studio in France. The effort was then mixed by Andrew Schneider (Pigs, Julie Christmas, Unsane) at Translator Audio in Brooklyn and mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering. The new album's track listing is as follows:
1. Waste
2. We See Fire
3. Turning Point
4. Slow Everywhere
5. Infinite Pill Case
6. Black and Table
7. Iron Butt
8. Devotion Man
9. As Happy As [Les Thugs cover] More...
Thirty 30 Releases New Video
San Diego outfit Thirty 30 just dropped a new music video for the track "Saints," taken off full-length album "House Of Plagues," which is due for release later this fall.
The first of several videos set to arrive from "House Of Plagues," this clip was shot at Pearl Harbor Studios in San Diego, CA during a recording session with producer Michael "Spike" Dobmeier. The footage was shot by longtime Thirty 30 photographer Jonathan Labrador and was edited together by Thirty 30 manager Seven Ceez.
While the clip deals with the main antagonist featured in the plot line of "House Of Plagues," Thirty 30 has also stated that the track is about the fall of As I Lay Dying front man Tim Lambesis. More...
Tsjuder Posts Full New Album Online
Norwegian threesome Tsjuder is streaming full new album "Antiliv" online ahead of its release date - listen in below. Regarding the new album, the band comments:
"Our new album 'Antiliv' is yet another fist in the face of everyone. It's Tsjuder. It's pure black metal with no fucking compromises. This record consist of tracks with variations from full throttle blast beats to slow and harsh grooves.
"The title is well reflected in the songs and lyrics, where life isn't very much appreciated. We have stated that Tsjuder will forever play raw and brutal black metal - 'Antiliv 'is yet another proof of our words!"
"Antiliv" will be released by Season of Mist in North America on September 18 across multiple CD and LP formats. More...
Power Theory Details New Album "Driven By Fear"
Philadelphia traditional/power metal act Power Theory has provided details on the new release "Driven By Fear." The album will be issued on October 9, 2015 via Pure Steel Records. The band features ex-Sleepy Hollow bassist Alan D'Angelo and Metadox vocalist Jeff Rose.
The track list for the album is:
1. Spinstress
2. Long Hard Road
3. Driven By Fear
4. Truth Shall Set You Free
5. Dark Eagle
6. Break the Glass
7. Don't Think Twice
8. Cut & Run (see music video here)
9. Beyond Tomorrow/After the Fall (Reprise) More...
Eric Calderone Covers Labyrinth
It's been a couple of months since we posted anything from the ever-awesome Eric Calderone, who creates guitar covers of movie and game themes. The latest creation features music from the David Bowie flick "Labyrinth" - check it out below. Calderone also comments:
"So before the wave of Magic Dance comments come haha I really wanted to include that but that one ABSOLUTELY NEEDS vocals in it. So I figured I'd a medley of the Opening Credits, Underground, and Into the Labyrinth until we get some vocals in here.
"In my opinion this movie, it's score, and it's soundtrack are genius thanks to you know who :P Thank you all so much for everything! It means the world. BIG ups for always rockin my casbah." More...
A Sound Of Thunder Makes You "Tremble"
As excitement and anticipation builds for the new release "Tales from the Deadside," D.C. area metal act A Sound Of Thunder has unveiled the new audio track "Tremble." The song can be previewed in its entirety in the player below.
A Sound of Thunder guitarist Josh Schwartz comments: "Tremble is the name of one of the big villains in the Shadowman comics [on which the album is based]; an ancient voodoo spirit inhabiting a human host, spreading fear wherever he goes, and inciting people to do terrible things because of that fear. He's a monster, so we wrote a monstrous song. 'Tremble' is basically music to crush/kill/destroy...heavy groove meets grinding riffs and sinister vocals. Alternatively, if you own a Panzer tank, this is a good song to play when you take to the streets and start crushing cars beneath the treads. We also had a ton of fun recording this one, especially [ASoT vocalist] Nina, whose vocals are infused with black magic, ancient spells, vodka...and just a hint of King Diamondy cheese for good measure. Play it loud; do neck damage."
The band will release "Tales From The Deadside" worldwide via its own Mad Neptune Records on September 25th. More...
Behemoth Releases "The Satanist" Video
Behemoth has launched a brand new video for the title track from "The Satanist." The video, directed by Andrzej Dragan, is another ambitious and visually striking piece of art from the band that's known for videos that remain a cut above standard metal music clips.
Behemoth front man Nergal comments: "Behemoth has always been about breaking boundaries, taboos, leaving its comfort zone and thinking out of the box! Here we go again with the brand new video from us. It's already a fourth official clip off 'The Satanist.'
"The concept came from the director, Andrzej Dragan. It's situated in modern Warsaw in the present times. It's where the carnal world meets the unknown… it's where the ZOS meets KIA… It's where SACRUM is raped by PROFANUM…"
Director Andrzej Dragan adds this brief comment: "This is a picture of alienation and ultimate rejection of an oversensitive character by an anonymous city."
Behemoth's latest output "The Satanist" was released in February of 2014 and named our album of the year during our annual year-end awards. More...
Armored Saint Posts Live Footage
Armored Saint is on the road now with Saxon and the tour continues tonight in Washington D.C. with the remaining dates listed below.
Earlier this summer, Armored Saint performed a special headlining gig at Count's Vamp'd in Las Vegas to a sold out crowd. The show was captured on film and two tracks were cut to serve as official live "bootlegs." Watch the classic Saint track "Dropping Like Flies" and a new song, "Mess," below.
Bassist Joey Vera offered up a comment about the tour: "We're stoked to be out here again with our friends Saxon. This is such a great package tour for the fans and us alike. So far we've done Progpower Atlanta, Stafford Springs, CT and Portland, ME and every gig has been met with rabid fans. Love it! Looking forward to DC today and then we move into the Midwest. See you out there!"
09/15 Washington, DC Howard
09/16 Westland, MI Token Lounge
09/17 Pittsburgh, PA Altar Bar
09/18 Cleveland, OH Agora Ballroom
09/19 Dayton, OH Oddbody's Music Room
09/20 St. Charles, IL Arcada Theater
End Tour
11/14 Corona, CA M15 Concert Bar and Grill More...
ProgPower USA Announces 2016 Lineup
Glenn Harveston, promoter for the annual ProgPower USA Festival, announced the lineup for the 2016 edition of the Atlanta, Georgia event. Next year marks the 17th installment and will be headed by a U.S. exclusive performance by Fates Warning featuring original vocalist John Arch performing the 1986 classic "Awaken the Guardian" marking the 30th anniversary of the release.
The complete lineup, which was revealed after Anathema's set this past Friday, September 11th, is as follows:
Friday (September 9, 2016):
Fates Warning (USA) "Awaken the Guardian" in its entirety with John Arch. - a U.S. Exclusive
Scar Symmetry (Sweden)
The Gentle Storm (Netherlands)
Freedom Call (Germany)
Vanishing Point (Australia)
Ascendia (Canada)
Saturday (September 10, 2016):
Devin Townsend (Canada) with special guest, Anneke van Giersbergen
Haken (UK)
Refuge (Germany)
Green Carnation (Norway) ("Light of Day, Day of Darkness" in its entirety. - a U.S. Exclusive)
Serious Black (Multinational)
Savage Messiah (UK)
In addition, 2016 will see the Midweek Mayhem and Kick Off Shows merge into the main festival, to be known as ProgPower USA Days 1-4. Going forward, Wednesday's show will be a joint presentation of Milton Mendonca of Infinity Concerts and Nathan Block of Swordlord Productions and Thursday will feature three bands, each a selection of the three promoters, all of which will be the caliber of band that could headline any day.
Tickets will be sold separately for the first two days (Wed/Thur) and then the second two days (shown above). The first ticket sales for Days 3-4 (lineup above) will go on sale via Ticketmaster on October 3, 2015. Tickets for Days 1-2 go on sale go on sale November 7th (more info coming). More...
Denouncement Pyre Finishes New Album
Australian black/death metal outfit Denouncement Pyre has wrapped up work on a new full-length release, with the band commenting:
"After many hours of gruelling work at I-HQ studios, we can announce that recording & mixing of the new album in now complete. Mastering will follow shortly. Album title, track listing, artwork & label will be revealed soon."
This upcoming release follows the 2013 album "Almighty Arcanum," which can be heard in full via the Bandcamp player. More...
Graveshadow Reveals New Album Details
The California-based female fronted symphonic metallers Graveshadow have signed a worldwide deal with Mausoleum Records from Belgium. The band's debut album, "Nocturnal Resurrection," will be released in Europe on November 13, followed by a North American release on December 13, 2015.
Emil “Nightmare” Nodtveidt from the Swedish industrial metal band Deathstars was brought in to mix and master the recordings that were produced by Matt “Hazmatt” Thomas (Fallrise). Adding to this, powerhouse vocalist Ralf Scheepers of Primal Fear was brought in to sing guest vocals on the Doctor Who inspired song "Blink." The "Nocturnal Resurrection" track listing is as follows:
1. Namesake
2. In The Roar Of Desire
3. Lycan Lust
4. Winter’s Come To Call
5. Blink
6. Fading
7. Exhumed
8. Blood And Fire More...
Void Of Sleep Announces The "New World Order"
The Italian progressive occult metal visionaries from Void Of Sleep will release their sophomore full-length in Europe on October 16 and in North America on November 13 via Aural Music.
Titled "New World Order," the seven track concept album and follow-up to 2013's "Tales Between Reality And Madness" long player (reviewed here) was captured by bassist Riccardo Pasini (Ephel Duath, The Secret) at Studio73 in Ravenna, Italy and mastered by Collin Jordan (Eyehategod, Indian, Wovenhand, Voivod etc.) at The Boiler Room in Chicago, Illinois.
"'New World Order' represents to us a new culmination of our sound," issues of the band of this latest composition. "Now more than ever you can call it visionary, sludgy and progressive. It's an occult, esoteric and wicked metaphor to the modern society as we consider it: with no positive expectations of the future of this world. This album embraces the concept of evil in its purest form. Since the beginning, man has been doomed to consume and enslave and destroy his own kind in an absurd discord to the final extinction."
The "New World Order" album comes shrouded in the arcane cover creation of Simone Bertozzi who relays of the work, "while doing it I experienced the breath of Lucifer on my back, the Illuminati around the corner and reptilians getting ready for my abduction. Coincidence? I think not."
1. The Devil's Conjuration
2. Hidden Revelations
3. Slaves Shall Serve
4. Ordo Ab Chao
5. Lords Of Conspiracy
6. New World Order
7. Ending Theme (l. Mourn ll. Triumphant lll. Void) More...
Teramaze Posts "Out Of Subconscious" Video
Melbourne, Australia’s progressive metal ensemble Teramaze has signed to Music Theories Recordings, which is a part of the Mascot Label Group.
The band’s first release for the label, "Her Halo," will hit stores on October 30, 2015 and features new vocalist Nathan Peachey.
In advance of that album release, today a new music video drops for the track "Out Of Subconscious." Check it out below. The full "Her Halo" track listing is:
1. An Ordinary Dream (Enla Momento)
2. To Love, a Tyrant
3. Her Halo
4. Out of Subconscious
5. For the Innocent
6. Trapeze
7. Broken
8. Delusions of Grandeur More...
Wolfpack 44 Premieres New Track "The Black March"
Wolfpack 44 - a collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Ricktor Ravensbrück from The Electric Hellfire Club and vocalist/guitarist Julian Xes from Kult ov Azazel - premieres the new track "The Black March", taken from the debut album titled "The Scourge", out in stores on January 20, 2016, via Deadlight Entertainment. The effort among others includes guest appearances of vocalist Thomas Thorn (The Electric Hellfire Club), vocalist Jinx Dawson (Coven), guitarists Lord Ahriman and Chaq Mol (Dark Funeral).
Check out now "The Black March" below.
Of Mice & Men Premieres New Video
Of Mice & Men premieres a new video for "Never Giving Up", taken from "Restoring Force: Full Circle", the deluxe version of their 2014 studio album. The clip features performance clips as well as backstage footage.
Check it out now below.
Ex-Veil Of Maya Fronted Lost Origins Posts Track
Lost Origins - fronted by ex-Veil of Maya vocalist Brandon Butler - premieres a new song entitled "Life Fall". States Brandon about working with his new band: "I almost forgot how much I love writing music, without all the pressure of the industry."
Check out now "Life Fall" below.
Metal Allegiance Premieres New Music Video
Metal Allegiance premieres a new music video for the track "Gift Of Pain", taken from the band's self-titled debut album, which hits stores September 18th via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. The supergroup's core musicians include Megadeth‘s David Ellefson, Testament‘s Alex Skolnick and Mike Portnoy of The Winery Dogs. Joining them on "Gift Of Pain" are Lamb Of God's vocalist Randy Blythe and Gary Holt of Slayer/Exodus with a guest solo.
Check it out now below.
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