Metal News for September 18, 2015
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Devil City Angels Streaming New Album
Today marks the release of the self-titled debut from heavy rock super group Devil City Angels, featuring Tracii Guns of L.A. Guns on guitar, drummer Rikki Rocket of Poison, Rudy Sarzo of Quiet Riot and Ozzy Osbourne on bass, and singer Brandon Gibbs of The Gibbs Brothers and Cheap Thrill.
In celebration of today’s official release date, the entire album is now available for streaming in the player below.
With upwards of 100 million units sold and countless packed arena and stadium gigs worldwide between them, the members of Devil City Angels have banded together to do what they love – simply rock out and have a great time while providing music lovers with a fun and engaging sound that everyone can enjoy. More...
Of Feather And Bone Posts Entire New Album
Of Feather and Bone's debut full-length, "Embrace the Wretched Flesh," is out today on Good Fight Music.
Recorded by Andy Patterson (Cult Leader, Call of the Void, SubRosa), "Embrace the Wretched Flesh" sees this young Denver trio lay down a totally scorching onslaught of crust, grind, and the darkest hardcore.
The band is a welcome new addition to the Good Fight family, alongside labelmates like Old Wounds, Axis, Hollow Earth, and Exalt. To get acquainted with Of Feather and Bone, stream the full new album below. More...
Castlevania Goes Heavy Metal
Uh-oh, looks like Eric Calderone has some serious competition coming up! YouTube user RichaadEB has a new guitar medley online of Castlevania tracks and it's pretty amazing.
Check it out below, and you can find more guitar medley videos from various video games at RichaadEB's profile here. His rendition of "Schala's Theme" from Chrono Trigger in particular is pretty bad ass.
Leprous Kicking Off New Tour Dates
Norwegian prog outfit Leprous is about to start a massive European touring string covering a total of 22 countries in support of latest studio album "The Congregation" (reviewed here).
The band has checked in with the following comment about the upcoming tour: "Feeling the excitement building up here, in the Leprous camp. For many months we've been working very hard in order to take our live show up one level!
"We're almost there now, and we hope that you will like the result! It's our largest and most ambitious tour-production so far, and can't wait to get out there to show it to everyone!
"Yes, it has been a lot of work the last months, to make everything perfect, but we now we're almost ready and also quite proud to show Europe the next level of Leprous." More...
Cryptic Brood Releases "Wormhead"
Cryptic Brood just dropped the new four track "Wormhead" release via Xtreem Music, which can be heard via the Bandcamp player below or picked up at this location.
This new mini CD is the continuation of a debut demo in 2013 and the band's split album with Graveyard Ghoul from 2014. The "Wormhead" track listing is:
1. Temple of Pestilence
2. Gargling Vicious Mass
3. Infecting the Brood (Suffocation cover)
4. Wormhead More...
Corrections House Streaming New Track
"Know How To Carry A Whip" is the imminent new studio endeavor from industrialized volume abusers Corrections House.
A nine-track, forty-five-minute exercise is sonic indecency, the record was captured by the band's own Sanford Parker (Buried At Sea) alongside recently institutionalized minister of propaganda, Seward Fairbury, in a subterranean bunker complex in Vietnam.
In advance of its release, today the decadence of third movement, "White Man's Gonna Lose," is available for streaming below. New album "Know How To Carry A Whip" will be released worldwide on October 23, 2015 via Neurot Recordings. More...
Soilwork Posts "Enemies In Fidelity" Video
Soilwork's latest album "The Ride Majestic" dropped at the end of August, and now the band has released a new music video off the eclectic release.
Check out the video for "Enemies In Fidelity" below. If you missed it, the title track is also available for streaming over here, while the full track listing is as follows:
1. The Ride Majestic
2. Alight in the Aftermath
3. Death in General
4. Enemies in Fidelity
5. Petrichor by Sulphur
6. The Phantom
7. The Ride Majestic (Aspire Angelic)
8. Whirl of Pain
9. All Along Echoing Paths
10. Shining Lights
11. Father and Son, Watching the World Go Down More...
Annihilator Streaming Full New Album
Today the Canadian thrash masters from Annihilator are unveiling their 15th studio album, "Suicide Society." With the album out now, you can also stream all the tracks in the player below.
As usual, on "Suicide Society" guitar wizard Jeff Waters handles all songwriting duties, plays all guitar and bass, engineers, produces, mixes and masters… and Waters is also back commanding lead vocal duties, as he did on "King of the Kill" (1994), "Refresh the Demon" (1996), and "Remains" (1997). The new album's track listing is:
1. Suicide Society
2. My Revenge
3. Snap
4. Creepin' Again
5. Narcotic Avenue
6. The One You Serve
7. Break, Enter
8. Death Scent
9. Every Minute More...
Erimha Releasing New Album
Erimha made its impact on the metal scene after the release of "Reign Through Immortality" in 2013 and joining the 2014 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival.
Equipped with the evocative and melodious new album, "Thesis Ov Warfare," the symphonic black metal army transcends previous works to cultivate a grand, gloomy, and dramatic score. Hear the new single “The First Law" below, while the album is now set for an October 30 release date.
On the album’s title, Erimha vocalist Gore states, “We’ve always seen life as a war and the writing process for this record was not an exemption. 'Thesis Ov Warfare' is clearly an analysis on how to handle your pain and keep on fighting towards your goals, so you can finally see beyond your pre-set boundaries and reach a new level of freedom.” More...
Funeral Throne Streams Full "Threshold" Album
U.K. black metal cult Funeral Throne is now streaming the entirety of second album "Threshold," released this week by Blut & Eisen Productions.
Originally released last year on a very limited cassette edition, "Threshold" is now being unleashed upon a wider audience to weave its spell. Listen in below. The "Threshold" track listing is as follows:
1. Resurrection
2. Through Transforming Fire
3. Victory
4. Hypnotic Coils
5. Vessel
6. Novus Ortus
7. I) Gateway To Lucifer; II) Gateway To The Eye More...
Magic Circle Releasing "Journey Blind"
20 Buck Spin will round out its roster for 2015 with the release of "Journey Blind," the triumphant sophomore LP from Boston-based quintet Magic Circle due out November 20 on CD and digital formats. A vinyl pressing is due out in mid-December. 20 Buck Spin also comments:
"Who said anything about running out of ideas? The stubborn ones were born to linger, to nose out newer, more subtle permutations with the help from a few ragged fucks willing to practice them.
"The Magic Circle mutts roll in heavy metal whatness, striking a balance with the pituitary culture it begat, and the tunes it jacked out. Suburban drag races. Basement bum wine scrum. Every collective thought burnt into a dirty tape dub of Mob Rules. Sabbath, especially in its later incarnations, hulks ephemerally among all openings, rests, and codas.
"When Chris Corry and Dan Ducas' guitars aren't jelly-legging around Iommi, they're rekindling 'Neon Knights,' brandishing 'Die Young' credo. Meanwhile, Q clubs the kit like a drunken Cozy Powell. Brendan Radigan stakes big, black flag in vocal territory long occupied by Saint Vitus, Saxon, Armored Saint, and Trouble. Bassist Justin DeTore alternates creepy crawl and thunder word belch, laying yoke over each tune and driving them prejudicially underground.
"But motherfuck simply 'sounding' like these bands. Magic Circle celebrates them, and in doing so honors the form they have found. It's HEAVY METAL. Hit hard. Write riffs that clack along like rustbucket tanks into perpetuity. Play bass in ways that make you at once inseparable from every punch the drummer lands, and also ghosts every riff -- working beneath, between, behind the rhythm. Sing that fucking story as every ancient did their Homer. It means something. It stands for something. Bring that to the tape. More...
Satan's Satyrs Releasing "Don't Deliver Us"
The bloodcurdling Virginia rock & roll outfit Satan's Satyrs will release new album "Don't Deliver Us" on October 30 via Bad Omen Records.
The trio, featuring bassist / vocalist Clayton Burgess (also of Electric Wizard), guitarist Jarrett Nettnin and drummer Stephen Fairfield, recorded the album in Nashville, TN and calls it, "more stripped down, more raw, and definitely heavier."
"We wanted to recapture the primitive thrust of rock 'n' roll with our sound," asserts Burgess, who recently achieved the considerable feat of completing a sold-out U.S. tour performing double-duty in both Satan's Satyrs and Electric Wizard.
He goes on to say, "I've watched Tony Iommi rip into the opening chords of ‘War Pigs’ from 30 feet away. I've had Bobby Liebling look me straight in the eyes as he sang ‘All Your Sins’. I've had my hair stand on end and felt strange frissons from the music which means so much to me. My ultimate desire is to reach people in the same way with our music. That's what I strive for."
The new album's track listing is:
1. Full Moon and Empty Veins
2. Two Hands
3. (Won't You Be My) Gravedancer
4. Spooky Nuisance
5. Germanium Bomb
6. Creepy Teens
7. Crimes and Blood
8. You-Know-Who
9. 'Round the Bend More...
Hiems Re-Issuing "Cold Void Journey"
It's been an age since we heard anything from Hiems, with the "Worship Or Die" album released back in 2009 (reviewed here - and seriously, all the metal bands who "break up" for two years, take note that a project that's still active spent longer between releases than you have and didn't feel the need to whine about it on Facebook).
Moribund Records is now proud to present the remastered reissue of Hiems' cult-classic debut album, "Cold Void Journey," set for international release on November 20, 2015.
Originally released in 2005, when the black metal landscape was quite a bit different to how it is now, "Cold Void Journey" introduced Hiems to the international scene with a vengeance. The work of just one man, the selfsame Hiems creating something quite comparable to its title: harsh, cryogenic, and unrelenting in its spiraling violence; no light is let in, and none escapes.
Now titularly expanded to "Cold Void Journey (The Forsaken Crimes)," the album has been fully remixed and remastered from the original master tapes for more dynamic interaction and an even more explosive experience. As a bonus, the first pressing of the album will include a whole disc's worth of rarities, including demos from the late '90s pre-Hiems band SN. The full track listing is: More...
Inverted Serenity Streaming "Breath Of Life"
Producing technical groovy death metal rooted in musical duality and lyricism, Winnipeg's Inverted Serenity is now streaming new track "Breath of Life" below, taken off upcoming album "Integral."
The new album will drop on October 9, 2015 and Inverted Serenity had this to say about the "Breath Of Life" single:
"This track is the longest on the record and is definitely one of the most impressive songs structurally. Beginning with a doom inspired riff that picks itself up into an uplifting proggy type groove which then unexpectedly turns itself into an atmospheric black metal passage is just one of the many interesting changes the song paints itself into.
"This is also the first track that we as a band chose to include clean group vocals with pan out really smoothly with the dissonant acoustic guitar riff written by Tomas a few years prior. The theme discussed in the lyrics is based upon balancing of mind as it increasingly unfolds itself unto the realization that it is the observer of all that is. Through the process knowing the rhythmic balanced interchange of natures polarity (inhalation/exhalation), the endless unfolding is fully expressed." More...
King Diamond Filming New DVD
King Diamond will be recording a feature length live concert video for blu-ray / DVD / digital release while on tour this fall.
Director Denise Korycki (Cannibal Corpse, Killswitch Engage) has been enlisted to direct the project, which will include footage from multiple shows throughout the entire "Abigail In Concert 2015" tour alongside Exodus.
Dates for the impending U.S. live trek are as follows:
10/29 Denver, CO The Fillmore Auditorium
10/31 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex
11/02 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
11/05 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern (SOLD OUT)
11/06 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
11/08 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre
11/09 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
11/13 San Antonio, TX Housecore Horror Festival at the Aztec Theatre
11/15 New Orleans, LA The Civic Theatre
11/16 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle
11/20 New York, NY Best Buy Theater (SOLD OUT)
11/21 New York, NY Best Buy Theater (SOLD OUT)
11/24 Boston, MA Orpheum Theater
11/25 Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore
11/27 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom
11/28 Detroit, MI The Fillmore
11/30 St Paul, MN Myth Live
12/02 Tulsa, OK Brady Theater - Club Brady
12/04 Houston, TX House of Blues
12/05 Dallas, TX House of Blues
The Black Dahlia Murder Posts New Music Video
The Black Dahlia Murder's devastating new album, "Abysmal," is officially out today via Metal Blade Records. Not only is the album streaming in full over here, but a new music video also drops today for the track "Receipt."
Check it out below. "Receipt" was directed by Robert Graves and produced by Marco De Molinafor Veva Entertainment Co.
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 October 3 and it marks the group's first official Canadian / U.S. tour supporting "Abysmal." More...
Queensryche Streaming "Hellfire"
Yeah, that Operation: Mindcrime album comes out today, but on a more exciting note, there's new music from Queensryche!
The band has debuted new track “Hellfire,” which comes off the group’s upcoming full-length offering, "Condition Hüman," set for a release via Century Media Records on October 2, 2015.
“HellFire” is also the iTunes instant grat track available immediately upon pre-order purchase. The album's full track listing is as follows:
1. Arrow of Time
2. Guardian
3. Hellfire
4. Toxic Remedy
5. Selfish Lives
6. Eye9
7. Bulletproof
8. Hourglass
9. Just Us
10. All There Was
11. The Aftermath
12. Condition Hüman More...
Huntress Posts New Album Preview
Huntress is on the verge of releasing third studio album "Static" on September 25 via Napalm Records.
Today the band unveils a new album preview clip, featuring snippets of all the "Static" tracks. Check it out below. For a full song stream, check out the "Flesh" lyric video at this location.
The new Huntress record was produced by Paul Fig (Grammy nominated engineer, Alice in Chains, Deftones, Trivium, Ghost BC) and Jim Rota (Fireball Ministry, Emmy nominated Executive Producer of the Sonic Highways series, Producer Sound City Movie). More...
One Machine Streaming Full New Album
Today One Machine unleashes second full-length album, "The Final Cull," via Scarlet Records. In celebration of today’s release, you can now hear the entire album below, courtesy of Metal Injection.
"The Final Cull" was tracked at Death Island Studios, with Marco Angioni and Tue Madsen helming. You can order "The Final Cull" at this location. European fans can also catch One Machine on tour this fall:
Friday, September 18th - London UK @ Barfly Camden
Saturday, September 19th - Westbury UK @ Charlies Westbury
Wednesday September 23rd - Norwich UK @ B2
Thursday September 24th - Glasgow UK @ Audio
Saturday September 26th - Manchester UK @ Club Academy
Friday October 2nd - Dublin, Ireland @ Fibber Macgees
Saturday October 3rd - Belfast UK @ Limelight 2
Saturday October 10th - Cardiff UK @ Fuel Rock Club
Saturday October 17th - Leicester UK @ Ragefest, Firebug
Friday October 23rd - Southampton UK @ Firehouse
Saturday October 24th - Oxford UK @ The Cellar
Thursday November 19th - Newcastle UK @ Trillians
Friday November 20th - Manchester UK @ TBC
Saturday November 21st - Lowestoft UK @ Attitude Fest
Sunday November 22nd - Bristol UK @ Tunnels More...
ProgPower USA Announces First Act For 2016, Day 2
ProgPower USA promoters Glenn Harveston, Milton Mendonca and Nathan Block have announced that Scotland based fantasy power metal act Gloryhammer is the first band announced for the upcoming revamped format for ProgPower USA Day 2 (Thursday, September 8, 2016).
The festival will move from "Midweek Mayhem" (Wed) and "Kick Off Show" (Thursday) to a ProgPower Days 1-4 format with Wednesday (Day 1) showcasing one band picked by each of the promoters and Thursday (Day 2), a joint promotion of Mendonca/Block.
The lineup for Days 3-4 (September 9-10, 2016) was announced last Friday after Anathema's performance at the recently completed 2015 installment (see information at this location).
Tickets for Days 3-4 are available via Ticketmaster on October 3, 2015. Days 1-2 will be in sale November 7th. More information is expected soon.
Stay tuned for the next band announcement. More...
Mindless Sinner Details New Album
Sweden's Mindless Sinner will release "The New Messiah" on October 16th via Pure Steel Records. The album is the band's sophomore release and first in 29 years. Pre-orders will begin on October 2nd through Pure Steel's webshop.
Beside acts like Heavy Load and Gotham City, Mindless Sinner belongs among the legendary godfathers of the Swedish 80s-Heavy Metal scene. Misunderstood in the mainstream, loved in the underground, the band issued the EP "Master Of Evil" in 1983 and the full length "Turn On The Power" in 1986.
"The New Messiah" was recorded with almost the entire original band's lineup. Driven by catchy, melodic heavy metal, the unique, clear power vocals of Christer Göransson still hits on every note through all ten new tracks. Provided with powerful drumming, the guitar duo Danneblad/Edman conquer the hearts of all "Swedish steel" enthusiasts with poignant leads.
The band commented: "It’s 2015 and there’s a new Mindless Sinner album coming out. Well, who would have thought that way back in 1990 when we laid the band to rest. Anyways here it is 10 new blistering tracks! We have tried to make it sound like it would have done back in the day but of course with a new touch. So if you like our previous work you’re gonna love this! 'The New Messiah' is here!"
The track list is as follows:
1. Men Of Steel
2. Where Worlds Collide
3. The New Messiah
4. Follow Your Path
5. Terror
6. We’re The Ones
7. Dance Of The Devil
8. Time Of Fear
9. Step Into the Fire
10. Metalized More...
Rose'n Signs with Pure Steel Publishing
Active on the live circuit for close to 30 years, Germany's Rose'n have finally found a home in which to distribute studio releases - via Pure Steel Publishing. The subdivision of Pure Steel Records will issue Rose'n's debut album "Wake Up" on October 30, 2015.
With fresh sounds in the songs, some of which were written in the 80s, Rose'n will issue 10 tracks of hard rock/metal. The track listing for "Wake Up" is:
1. Flying
2. Table's Turned
3. Tonight
4. Take Me To The Top
5. Don't Rush Ones Fences
6. Decide It
7. My Immortal
8. Dreamer
9. Tales
10. Wake Up More...
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Seven Nines And Tens Premieres New Single
Our studious readers may recall we premiered a track from a Canadian band called Seven Nines and Tens back in early 2013.
Well, that melodic "skygaze" outfit is finally back in action ready to release new music, and we're stoked to be bringing you the exclusive premiere of the atmospheric "I Come From Downtown" single.
Featuring artwork by Nic Brown and a new band photo courtesy of Asia Fairbanks, check out the track below and get info on upcoming live activity from Seven Nines And Tens at Facebook here.
For those wondering if this means more material is on the horizon, you'll be pleased to know "I Come From Downtown" is only the first single from the second Seven Nines & Tens record “Set the Control for the Heart of the Slums.”
The album was conceived after principle songwriter David Cotton spent 500 consecutive days writing the music, and the album's mission statement is simple: defy any new/haphazard music industry model with timeless songwriting. “Set the Control for the Heart of the Slums” exhibits a dramatic leap in compositional refinement amid Everest sized melodic motifs.
After the album’s release, Seven Nines & Tens will support the record with extensive touring throughout 2016 and 2017, so stay tuned for more news. More...
Exmortus Releases Lyric Video For New Track
California's Exmortus released a lyric video for the new track "For The Horde" taken from their upcoming new album due out via Prosthetic Records in early 2016.
"For The Horde" is available now digitally via Prosthetic Records as well as in a limited edition 7" EP featuring a B-side exclusive cover of Yngwie Malmsteen's "As Above, So Below."
Check out the clip here:
Graveyard Streams "Too Much Is Not Enough"
Swedish classic rock act Graveyard is streaming the new track "Too Much is Not Enough." The song is taken from the upcoming fourth full-length studio release "Innocence & Decadence," which can drops on September 25th, 2015 worldwide via Nuclear Blast Records.
The track listing for the album is:
1. Magnetic Shunk
2. The Apple And The Tree
3. Exit 97
4. Never Theirs To Sell
5. Can’t Walk Out
6. Too Much Is Not Enough
7. From A Hole In The Wall
8. Cause & Defect
9. Hard-Headed
10. Far Too Close
11. Stay For A Song
12. The Hatch (Bonus Track)
Check out "Too Much is Not Enough" here: More...
Lords Of Black Issue New Album Preview Clip
Spainish power metal act Lords of Black, featuring ex-Saratoga guitarist Tony Hernando and drummer Andy C., released a preview clip for the upcoming sophomore release entitled "II." The album was co-produced, mixed and mastered by MasterPlan's Roland Grapow and is set for release in 2016.
The track listing for the limited edition 2CD version is:
CD 1:
1. Malevolently Beautiful (Intro)
2. Merciless
3. Only One Life Away
4. Everything You're Not
5. New World's Comin'
6. Cry No More
7. Tears I Will Be
8. Insane
9. Live By The Lie, Die By The Truth
10. Ghost Of You
11. The Art Of Illusions, Part III: "The Wasteland"
12. Shadows Of War More...
Moonspell Releases "Domina" Music Video
Portuguese gothic metal act Moonspell released a music video for the track "Domina." The song was taken from the band's latest album "Extinct," which was issued earlier this year via Napalm Records. A review for the album can be viewed at this location.
Check out the clip here:
Crystal Ball Shouts "Mayday!"
Swiss melodic power metal act Crystal Ball released a new music video for the track "Mayday!." The song appears on the band's latest album "Liferider," which was issued back in May via Massacre Records. The song features a guest appearance by Battle Beast vocalist Noora Louhimo.
Check out the clip here:
Reject The Sickness Posts "Only Darkness Is Real"
Belgian melodic metalcore/death metal act Reject the Sickness has issued a lyric video for the new track "Only Darkness is Real." The song will appear on the upcoming debut full length album "Chains of Solitude," which will be issued on November 13th via Mighty Music.
More information on the album, including cover artwork and track listing is expected soon. Check out the clip here:
Grave Releases Lyric Video For "Mass Grave Mass"
Sweden's Grave released a lyric video for the new track "Mass Grave Mass." The song is taken from the upcoming release "Out of Respect for the Dead," which drops on October 26th via Century Media Records. The album is the follow up to the critically acclaimed 2012 release "Endless Procession of Souls."
The track list for the album is:
1. Intro / Mass Grave Mass
2. Flesh Before My Eyes
3. Plain Pine Box
4. Out of Respect for the Dead
5. The Ominous 'They'
6. Redeemed Through Hate (song streaming here)
7. Deified
8. Trail of Ungodly Trades
9. Grotesque Glory
Check out the track here: More...
Soulfly Premieres 360° Live Video "Archangel"
Soulfly premieres its 360° live video for "Archangel", which was shot by director Robert Sexton (The Devil Wears Prada, Death Angel).
Comments Sexton: "Not to overplay it, but the 360° aspect of this clip, and the fact that it’s Soulfly, is pretty epic. Sure, it’s only one set up, but it’s the whole room and the viewer is standing in the middle of the pit! No one in metal has really exploited this new tech as of yet. Definitely a cool perspective."
Check out now "Archangel" below.
Chuggaboom Premieres New Track
Satirical metalcore outfit and "Awesomecore" inventors Chuggaboom premiere their new track "#TBT That Time When I Made Out With Your Sister", taken from the band's debut album "Zodiac Arrest", which will be released next Saturday, September 26th.
You can now check out "#TBT That Time When I Made Out With Your Sistera" below.
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