Metal News for September 24, 2014
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First Episode Of NOLA Metal Documentary Posted
Today Noisey, the music arm of Vice, is proud to present episode 1 of "NOLA: Life, Death And Heavy Blues From The Bayou."
A seven-part series examining the people and the culture that helped foster bands like Down, Eyehategod, Crowbar, and so many others, episode 1 features New Orleans native Phil Anselmo who exports his style to Dallas band Pantera, thereby changing the landscape for metal in the '90s.
Meanwhile, a visit from the Melvins to the New Orleans area would alter music as we know it, while Kirk Windstein of the band Shell Shock was discovering that slower was, for him, indeed heavier. More...
Wormwood Announces Self-Titled Debut
Magic Bullet Records will deliver a corrosive sludge/doom release this year with the somewhat unexpected self-titled debut and incurably bleak and sinister awakening of Boston's newest outfit, Wormwood. The label comments:
"In 2005, band members Chris Pupecki and Chris Bevilacqua represented one half of the progenitors of Black Thunder, the debut album from Northeast perennials, Doomriders. Pupecki played guitars and Bevilacqua handled drums.
"Nine years later, the duo have come back together to unleash a sound and a vision much, much farther out on the plains of annihilation than either had gone prior. Recorded 100% analog by Alex Garcia, you will simply not be hearing the sounds of Wormwood on Apple commercials, in romantic comedies, or overhead while walking through the mall. Song titles and lyrics like 'Hollow Black Eyes' and 'I'd Rather Die' obviously convey a very specific worldview and outlook.
"The sonic attack is harsh, the vocals are unapologetically negative, and it's all destructively perfect as the needle digs in across the vinyl expanse of this stunning debut. If albums from Winter, Warhorse, -16-, Old Man Gloom and Graves At Sea frequent your habitual deafening, Wormwood should be next in line. More...
Interview
Interview with Digestor Of Ghoul
When not defiling graves and taking the lives of their native Creepsylvania inhabitants as they sleep, Ghoul creates thrashing grindcore songs about the mayhem that occurs in their pathetic, pit-of-Eastern-Europe town. Whether it's battling marauding bikers, opposing Commandant Dobrunkum's dictoral decree against rock ‘n roll or just songs about grave robbing and consuming the succulent flesh of humans, Ghoul writes hilarious songs with catchy rifsf that skaters dig. These above-the-catacombs dramas play out on stage, too, in a Gwar-like-blood-spewing fashion.
The hooded miscreants once again arose from their tombs and took a barge to North America, Count Dracula-style, to join up with blackened thrash titans Skeletonwitch and NYBM force Black Anvil. In order to bring you the following interview, I had to lead the guitarist/vocalist Digestor into the closest thing to his catacombs, a rat-and-roach-infested alleyway. He felt more at home in that environment.
Giant Squid Releasing New Album
San Francisco progressive doom-rock scientists Giant Squid will release fifth LP "Minoans" on October 28th via Translation Loss Records.
The record was recorded and mixed with engineer Tim Green (Earthless, Melvins) at Louder Studios in Grass Valley, CA and lyrically excavates one of the earliest civilizations known to history; examining how the aquatic demise of the ancient proto-Greek people may foretell our own end.
"Minoans" is the follow-up to Giant Squid's 2011 release "Cenotes' and features conceptual artwork created by guitarist / vocalist Aaron John Gregory.
"'Minoans' is the record I've always known Giant Squid could make; ancient, exotic and other-worldly, while showing a new level of refined focus," comments Gregory. "Lyrically, the album is a giant love letter to the Mediterranean and specifically Bronze-age Greece - a region, people, and time period that deeply fascinates me - and which I feel mirrors these heartbreakingly brutal, turbulent times we live in today." More...
Protokult Posts Lyric Video
Sing along with beer drinking progressive folk metal outfit Protokult and the band's new lyric video for "Get Me A Beer," the perfect song for any metal karaoke party! The drinking anthem is off the band's new album "No Beer In Heaven," released on August 8th.
"For those of you who can't understand what the hell Martin is spewing, now is your chance to sing along! Get yourself a cold one and enjoy!" comments Protokult's vocalist and woodwinds performer Ekaterina Pyatkova.
The rest of the "No Beer In Heaven" album can also be streamed in full over at this location. More...
Excel Streaming Tracks From Re-Issue
Next week, California hardcore/thrash metal crossover band Excel will re-issue debut album "Split Image" via Southern Lord, and to mark the occasion, an official online store has been launched, and several tracks from the remastered classic album are now streaming.
The album was originally released through Suicidal and Caroline records in 1987 and produced by Randy Burns (Death, Possessed, Megadeth, Kreator, Suicidal Tendencies).
This Southern Lord re-issue has been remastered by Brad Boatright (Bl'ast!, Sleep, Obituary, Black Breath) and comes with a massive amount of bonus material including the "Welcome to Venice" comp tracks, "Personal Onslaught" demo & "Refuse to Quit" demo. The LP Includes a 32 page 7" X 7" booklet with tons of photos from the era and a 11" x 17" poster of the original Michael Seiff album cover artwork.
Hear three tracks off the album below. The full track listing is as follows: More...
Cannibal Corpse Posts "Kill Or Become" Video
"A Skeletal Domain," the latest full-length from American death metal icons Cannibal Corpse, debuted at an astounding #32 on Billboard's Top 200 chart, making it the highest charting record in the band's history.
Additionally, "A Skeletal Domain" ranked in at #3 on the Hard Music chart, #5 on the Independent chart, #7 on Billboard's Rock chart, #21 on the Physical Albums chart, #31 on the Top Current Albums chart, #59 on the Digital Albums chart, and #4 on iTunes Metal.
The band's 13th album was produced by Mark Lewis (The Black Dahlia Murder, DevilDriver) at Audio Hammer Studios.
Today the band is pleased to unveil the official new video for "Kill Or Become." Shot at Kelly's Hideaway in Seffner, Florida and directed by videographer David Brodsky of MyGoodEye (Goatwhore, Hellyeah, Whitechapel, Municipal Waste et al), the zombie-strewn, nightmarishly awesome clip fluctuates from color and black and white and offers up a delicious visual inundation of blood, guts and gastric fluids. More...
Revocation Posts Second Studio Clip
Revocation just gave us an epic Pit Story about a biffed stage dive yesterday (read it here!) and now the band has released the second in a series of video clips documenting work on new album "Deathless."
"Deathless" is set for an October 14th, 2014 release through Metal Blade Records.
The full album's track listing will be as follows:
1. A Debt Owed to the Grave
2. Deathless (streaming here)
3. Labyrinth of Eyes
4. Madness Opus
5. Scorched Earth Policy
6. The Blackest Reaches
7. The Fix
8. United in Helotry
9. Apex
10. Witch Trials More...
Entombed A.D. Releases "Kill To Live" Video
Swedish death metal act Entombed A.D. just started a European tour with label mates Grave, and to kick off the trek, the band has launched a new video, "Kill To Live," taken from their recently released album, "Back To The Front."
Filmed at Party-San Open Air in Germany by Oliver Barth from Visions In Fear, "Kill To Live" can be viewed below. Catch the band live on tour now, with full dates available after the video clip. More...
Rigor Mortis Streaming "Ancient Horror"
Rigor Mortis - which recently gave us a fantastic Pit Story about bridging the divide between punk and metal - is gearing up to release fourth and final studio album "Slaves To The Grave" on October 7th.
This release comes 23 years after the band's last record and nineteen months after the death of guitarist Mike Scaccia.
Today the band premieres the third blistering track from "Slaves to the Grave." Noisey is hosting an exclusive premiere of the song "Ancient Horror" along with an interview with bassist Casey Orr. Check out the track stream below. More...
Usnea Streaming "Healing Through Death"
Having signed Portland based funeral doom/death quartet Usnea earlier this year, Relapse Records is now preparing the band's monstrous sophomore LP for descent onto the population in mid-November.
Today, Usnea unveils the full details of this second full-length LP entitled "Random Cosmic Violence," which was recorded and mixed by Jared "Fester" See at Haywire Studios (Stoneburner, Rabbits, Drunk Dad) who supplies additional guitars to the title track, and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege (Yob, High On Fire, Integrity). The artwork and design was handled by Justin Cory and Orion Landau.
You can also hear the new song "Healing Through Death" in the player below. The album's track listing is as follows:
1. Lying in Ruin
2. Healing Through Death
3. Random Cosmic Violence
4. Detritus More...
1349 Brews A "Massive Cauldron Of Chaos"
The Norwegian black metal tyrants in 1349 are streaming their vicious new full-length album "Massive Cauldron of Chaos" in full ahead of it's September 30th release date.
The album, which has been called "a welcome return for 1349 and a record that will surely reconfirm their standing in the modern black metal world" (Metal Hammer UK) and "their most eclectic and perhaps definitive album to date" (New Noise Magazine), is streaming below, thanks to Lambgoat.com. The track listing is:
1. Cauldron
2. Slaves
3. Exorcism
4. Postmortem
5. Mengele's
6. Golem
7. Chained
8. Godslayer More...
Windhand Streaming Split With Salem's Pot
On October 31st, RidingEasy Records will unleash a special split 10” vinyl featuring new music from both Windhand and Salem’s Pot. The pre-sale goes live here on September 27th, and the pressing is limited to 1,000.
On Side A, Windhand (Relapse Records) delivers the billowing "Forest Clouds," A ten-minute journey through a haze of distortion and vocal wails, emblematic of the band’s technical prowess and thunderous energy. For the other side, Salem’s Pot take a gargantuan trip on “Pink Flamingos.” You can take a listen yourself below, courtesy of Noisey.Vice.com.
In other Salem’s Pot news, the Swedish psychedelic sorcerers will be playing the 2015 Roadburn Festival, is releasing the smoking 7” record “Ego Trip” on October 14th, and will be on tour in February 2015 with label mates Monolord.
Windhand is currently here in the United States on tour and will be off to Australia and New Zealand dates below. Dates are as follows: More...
Alexanred To Release New Album
Finnish industrial rock/metal band Alexanred is gearing up to release the album "Always Active" via Inverse Records on October 3rd, 2014.
A teaser trailer for the digital album can be heard at the band's Facebook profile here and the track listing will be as follows:
1. Holiday in the Cold 3:29
2. This is my Base 2:52
3. Inhale and Exhale 3:10
4. Bride of the Wolf (Another Fragile Bedtime Story) 3:22
5. And Locust Ate 3:02
6. The Ship Has Left 5:42
7. Rest After Result 3:17
8. Effective 3:28
9. Non-Stop Non-Stop 3:15 More...
Abysmal Dawn Streaming New Track
Los Angeles based extreme metal band Abysmal Dawn returns with a massive display of refined brutality on fourth full-length "Obsolescence."
"Obsolescence" will be released October 27th in North America via Relapse Records and features artwork created by Pär Oloffson.
So far only one song from "Obsolescence" has been made available, but today that changes. Abysmal Dawn presents the second song titled "The Inevitable Return to Darkness," which can be heard below.
Front man Charles Elliot comments on the new song and upcoming tour: "Here's another new song for you guys right before we head out on our North American tour! It's the fast and epic closer to our new album 'Obsolescence", and it even features some vocal trade-offs with our bass player Eliseo for a change. We hope you all enjoy the brutality and beauty in this one. See you the road soon!" More...
Anthrax Posts New "Chile On Hell" Trailer
Grammy-nominated thrash act Anthrax is releasing "Chile On Hell," a live-in-concert DVD, this month via Nuclear Blast.
Filmed at the Teatro Caupolican in Santiago, Chile in 2013, the DVD features Anthrax performing an extended set that featured songs from the band's entire catalog. A short video clip of drummer Charlie Benante talking about the release can be seen below.
"Santiago was the perfect place to film the show for this," said Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante. “When we'd played there in the past, we'd finish our set, play our encore and go back to the dressing room. But every time, the fans would continue to scream and cheer and clap. I mean, they went on and on, they wouldn't stop. One time Scott [Ian, guitar] and I walked out to the side of the stage just to watch what was going on in the audience, it was intense. Why wouldn't we want to film a DVD in front of an audience like that?”
"Plus," Benante continued, "the time was right to do this DVD… We wanted to finish on a high note. We didn't want to look back and regret that we didn't record the live show."
Dystopia Proclaims "Human=Garbage"
With the re-issue of "Human=Garbage" from sludge metal/crust punk missionaries Dystopia just a few weeks away, today Cvlt Nation offers up the record in its filth-ridden entirety (check it out below).
Initially released in 1994 as a five-track LP on the band's own Life Is Abuse and Misanthropic Records, then followed in CD format as a twelve-track brutalizer with help from Common Cause in Germany, Dystopia existed as a four piece with Mindrot's Dan Kaufman on lead vocals.
This is a new chance for the current generation to catch the band's doom-laden, metal-tinged, down-tuned punk and "love earth-hate people" credo.
Included on the Tankcrimes edition are tracks from the band's 1993 splits with Grief and Embittered as well as one additional tune only previously released on the CD collection. Set for official unveiling on October 14th, 2014, the Tankcrimes reissue comes packaged as a double LP on clear vinyl with a 7" x 7" sized booklet as well as a download card for the digitally astute. The release will come available on CD as well. More...
Dischordia Posts New Lyric Video
Oklahoma City's Dischordia today releases a brand new lyric video for the song "When She Saw Him," featuring spoken word by James Dorton of Black Crown Initiate. Check it out below.
"We are beyond excited to debut another chapter from our newest album, Project 19", comments Dischordia guitarist Keeno. "It was an honor to work with our great friend, James Dorton from Black Crown Initiate. Huge thank you to Dean and everyone at Rogue Records America for making this video possible."
"Project 19" was released on July 23rd, 2013 via Rogue Record America. The album is available for streaming and purchase at this location. More...
Meshuggah Posts "The Ophidian Trek" Trailer
Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the recording of the band's first EP, Swedish experimental extreme metal band Meshuggah will release a concert DVD / 2CD set and Blu-ray, "The Ophidian Trek," on September 26th (EU) and 30th (North America) via Nuclear Blast Records.
With visual footage shot in Europe during "The Ophidian Trek" tour and festival footage from Wacken Open Air 2013 in Germany, the live audio was processed and edited by Meshuggah guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, mixed by Daniel Begstrand and mastered by Mats "Limpan" Lindfors.
Nuclear Blast HQ gave Meshuggah a ring to discuss the upcoming Blu-Ray/DVD release, "The Ophidian Trek." Here's how it went down... watch the new trailer here: More...
Ronny Munroe Splits With Metal Church
Legendary U.S. metal act Metal Church has announced that vocalist Ronny Munroe has split with the band to "pursue other interests." Munroe appeared on four albums that spanned his 10 year stint with the band. The statement posted on Facebook assures fans that the band is alive and well and "big announcements" are expected soon, presumably one of them being the naming of a replacement.
The statement reads: "AFTER 10 YEARS, 4 ALBUMS AND MANY GREAT SHOWS & PERFORMANCES, LEAD VOCALIST RONNY MONROE WILL BE LEAVING METAL CHURCH TO PURSUE OTHER INTERESTS. THIS IS REGRETTABLE, BUT UNDERSTANDABLE. WE WISH RONNY SUCCESS WITH HIS NEW ENDEAVORS. TO OUR FANS WE WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT METAL CHURCH IS STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE AND WE WILL HAVE SOME BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR YOU IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE \m/" More...
Ragnarok Announces New Vocalist
It has been several months since Norwegian black metal band Ragnarok announced the departure of vocalist Hans Fyrste, and since then there has been much speculation as to who will replace him.
Until now the band has kept quiet about the replacement choice, whilst at the same time rehearsing the new lineup behind closed doors. The new vocalist will be drummer and Ragnarok founder Jontho himself, and his place behind the drum kit on stage will be taken by Dauden drummer Malignant.
Jontho comments: "When Hans Fyrste left I sat down together with bass player DezeptiCunt and guitarist Bolverk, and we knew that finding the right person who would fit Ragnarok's ethos both in terms of performance and live appearances was not going to be easy.
"On top of which we had to begin work on our eighth full-length album, and we didn't want to have to rush into anything we might later come to regret, so we took the decision that I would continue to handle the drums in the studio, as well as taking on the vocals both in the studio and on stage, and that Malignant would drum for us live on stage. More...
Bloodbath Posts New Song Online
After revealing the band's new vocalist is none other than Nick Holmes from Paradise Lost, today death metal supergroup Bloodbath has teamed up with Metalhammer to stream a track off the release.
Check out new song "Unite In Pain" via the SoundCloud player below.
Upcoming album "Grand Morbid Funeral" - the first since the band parted ways with Mikael Akerfeldt - is due out on November 18th through Peaceville Records and the track listing is as follows:
1. Let The Stillborn Come To Me
2. Total Death Exhumed
3. Anne
4. Church Of Vastitas
5. Famine Of God`s Word
6. Mental Abortion
7. Beyond Cremation
8. His Infernal Necropsy
9. Unite In Pain
10. My Torturer
11. Grand Morbid Funeral More...
Metallica Releasing 10th Anniversary Edition DVD
Metallica today announced the release of a ten-year anniversary 2-disc Blu-Ray of the long out of print "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster" on November 24th, 2014.
Originally released on July 9th, 2004, "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster" follows the band through three turbulent years in a three-decade long career, and gives viewers an incredibly raw and intimate look into the lives and psyches of the members of one of the most successful rock bands in music history battling through addiction, domestic life, backlash from fans, and near-total disintegration during the making of the "St. Anger" album.
The documentary, directed by Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky (Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost 1-3), won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature.
This ten-year anniversary release marks the first time "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster" will be available digitally and via video on demand. The updated version will contain an additional bonus feature, "Metallica: This Monster Lives," a 25 minute follow-up piece filmed at Toronto International Film Festival 2013 during the release of the band's second film, "Metallica: Through the Never," which features interview footage with the band and Berlinger & Sinofsky that looks at the decade since the release of the documentary film.
On Black Friday Record Store Day, November 28th, 2014, Metallica will also release a limited-edition 12-inch vinyl of "Lords of Summer." Side A will feature the "First Pass" (studio) version of "Lords Of Summer" as well as a previously unreleased live version recorded at the Rock In Rome Sonisphere Festival on July 1st, 2014. Side B will feature a laser etching of the Metallica "M" logo. This collectable vinyl will only be available through independent retail and Metallica's website. More...
Horrified Streaming "Veil Of Souls"
Newcastle's old school death metal outfit Horrified, led by Daniel Alderson (ex-Plague Rider, Starborn) is proud to announce the release of "Descent Into Putridity."
A thirty-minute journey into the pitch-black depths of the underground, the seven tracks are described as "a sordid blend of Autopsy, Pestilence, and Morbid Angel."
The band has made new track "Veil of Souls" available for streaming, which can be heard below. A physical release is set for October 28th via Memento Mori Records. The track listing is as follows:
1. Tomb Of Rebirth
2. Narcolepsy
3. Mortally Deceased
4. Descent Into Putridity
5. Buried Among Putrified Flesh
6. Veil Of Souls
7. Repugnant Degeneration More...
Krampus Posts New Lyric Video
Krampus has checked in with the following announcement about releasing a new lyric video clip:
"Check out our brand new lyric video for our latest single 'Mistakes!' We would like to thank the Made Of Metal crew for their work and all the people who where under the stage!
"We worked really hard on this song that we produced ourselves and without any label support.
We started as a more traditional folk metal band but we evolved, this is a fact; we think that a band is not defined by its genre but from its sound and we will keep on experimenting new ways to express ourselves. We never wanted any bounds and we never will. This is what we are.
"'Mistakes' was recorded at Black Mirror Studios in Italy. The track was mixed by Luigi del Missier and mastered by Ted Jensen (Linkin Park, 30 Seconds To Mars, Paramore)." More...
Black Raven Signs With Dream Records
New metal act Black Raven has inked a multi-album deal with German based label Dream Records. The band is currently in the studio to record the as of yet untitled debut album, which is targeted for an early 2015 release. More details are expected to be announced soon.
Black Raven has its roots in the traditional metal sound with pinches of melodic power metal. The sound is described as "dynamic & heavy" "with charismatic vocals by singer Raven. What you get are fast riffs, tight solos with a massive bass and pounding drums. Metal done the right way!"
Dream Records label manager Axel stated: "I'm happy to have this high potential metal band in our roster and looking forward to work with them on the new album."
Dream Records was originally founded in 1989 to focus on Rock/Metal releases. In 2014, the label signed a cooperative deal with Rock 'N' Growl to market several titles. The releases will be distributed by Cargo Records UK.
Black Raven is:
Raven - Vocals
Rize - Guitars
Manta - Bass
Hammer - Drums More...
Burning Nitrum Streaming "High Speed Bangers"
"High Speed Bangers," a brand new song from Italy's Burning Nitrum, can be streamed now via the YouTube player below.
The track is taken from the band's debut full-length album, "Molotov," released on September 22nd. The full track listing is as follows:
01. Subversive Nausea
02. Remote of Death
03. Apocalypse of Pain
04. High Speed Bangers
05. Lying Until The End
06. Falling into Slavery
07. Slave of Lust
08. Sparkling Splatter
09. Nemesis, The Death Star
10. Turned to Ashes (Nothing Stands Still) More...
Alkoholizer To Release New Album
Italy's thrash outfit Alkoholizer is back, and the group will release a new album this Fall via Punishment 18 Records.
Alkoholizer opened it's career with a partnership with Punishment 18 Records in 2009 with the debut album "Drunk or Dead," which can still be heard below. Further details on the upcoming album will be announced shortly. More...
Axenstar Announces New Album, Preview Clip Posted
Swedish power metal act Axenstar announced that the band's fifth studio release will be entitled "Where Dreams Are Forgotten." The album is the follow up to the 2011 release "Aftermath,' and marks the first release for new label Inner Wound Recordings. The album is set to drop on November 28th in Europe and December 2nd in North America. A teaser for the album can be viewed/heard below.
"Where Dreams Are Forgotten" was mixed by Axenstar and Pelle Saether (Wolf, Harmony, Månegarm) at Studio Underground and mastered by Daniel Beckman (Månegarm, In Mourning, Deals Death) at Ridge Street Studios. The artwork shown below was created by Felipe Machado Franco (Blind Guardian, Rhapsody of Fire, Iced Earth).
The band commented on the album: "This is an album we're extremely proud of! The whole band have contributed to the songwriting and we have really taken the time to make sure every song has gotten the attention it deserves. We have gone back to the roots of the Axenstar sound and mixed it with all the new influences we got over the years and it has turned into this great and exciting new album. As always we have recorded the album at Studio Underground with Pelle Saether in charge of the mixing and producing. And of course we're really excited to have been signed to Inner Wound Recordings and to work with them on this release! Make sure to check out our new album 'Where Dreams Are Forgotten' later this year!"
The track listing for the album is:
1. Fear
2. Inside The Maze
3. My Sacrifice
4. Curse Of The Tyrant
5. The Return
6. Demise
7. Annihilation
8. Greed
9. The Reaper
10. This False Imagery
11. Sweet Farewell More...
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody Posts "Prometheus" Update
Italian based symphonic metal act Luca Turilli's Rhapsody released another diary update on the band's upcoming new opus "Prometheus - Symphonia Ignis Divinus." In a post on Facebook, Turilli revealed that the new album will feature over 70 minutes of material.
"Hi to all, just to tell you that we started the last recording session of lead vocals and choirs in Germany with our engineer Sebastian Roeder and to give you a fresh news:
The regular edition of the new Rhapsody album 'Prometheus - Symphonia Ignis Divinus' will last over 70 minutes!!! So many great songs and so difficult to exclude one of them. Be ready for the ultimate cinematic metal experience!"
Stay tuned for more information each week. More...
220 Volt Releases "Walking In Starlight" Video
Swedish hard rock act 220 Volt released a new music video for the track "Walking in Starlight." The song is the title track of the band's upcoming new release, which will drop this Friday via AOR Heaven.
"Walking in Starlight" is the band's full length release since 1997's "Lethal Illusion," and the first release to feature new vocalist Anders Engberg (Sorcerer), who joined in 2013.
The track list for the album is:
1. Walking in Starlight
2. System Overload
3. Broken Promises
4. Alive
5. Blind
6. Stranted
7. Get Me Out
8. The Waiting
9. Through the Wastelands
10. Burning Heart
11. Take a Good Luck
12. One Good Reason
13. Guiding Light
Check out the video here: More...
Ghost Brigade Releases Second Teaser For New LP
Finnish melodic death/doom metal act Ghost Brigade released another teaser clip for the upcoming new release "IV - One With The Storm." The album is to drop on November 7th (EU) and November 11th (North America) via Season of Mist Records.
The track listing for the album is:
1. Wretched Blues
2. Departures
3. Aurora
4. Disembodied Voices
5. Electra Complex
6. Stones and Pillars
7. Anchored
8. The Knife
9. Long Way to the Graves
10. Elämä On Tulta More...
Haken Releases "Darkest Light" Music Video
U.K. progressive metal act Haken released a music video for the re-worked track "Darkest Light." The song appears on the upcoming new EP release "Restoration," which will be released in the U.S. on November 11th via Inside Out Music as a digital release only.
The band had this to say: "'Darkest Light' was our first chance to work creatively with our new bass player Conner Green. It was a natural fit right from the start as not only did he bring with him some insanely cool bass playing, but also a great positive energy that made the whole Restoration EP incredibly fun to make."
Ray adds: ''Darkest Light' is based on 'Blind', one of our favourite tracks from the original 07/08 demo. We've managed to chop the old song in half, cut away all the excess fat and produce a 6 minute rowdy riff roller-coaster that will surely find a home in the heavier side of our live show."
"Restoration" is comprised of three reworked and updated songs which originally appeared on their 2007/08 self-produced demo, and the release has been mixed & mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios. It will be released as a digital download, and a vinyl LP including CD.
The track listing for the EP is:
1. Darkest Light (6:44)
2. Earthlings (7:52)
3. Crystallised (19:23)
Check out "Darkest Light" here: More...
Scar Symmetry Releases New Lyric Video
Sweden's Scar Symmetry have unveiled a lyric video for the song "Cryonic Harvest," the fourth track off the upcoming sixth studio album "The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity)," reviewed on the MetalUnderground.com Official Podcast here.
"Cryonic Harvest" follows up "Limits To Infinity," released in late August.
"The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity)," the first of a planned concept album trilogy, hits stores on October 3rd (EU), October 6th (UK & France), and October 14th (US) 2014 via Nuclear Blast. It is Scar Symmetry's first new material since 2011's "The Unseen Empire." The tracklist is as follows:
01. The Shape Of Things To Come
02. Neohuman
03. Limits To Infinity
04. Cryonic Harvest
05. The Spiral Timeshift
06. Children Of The Integrated Circuit
07. Neuromancers
08. Technocalyptic Cybergeddon
Roberto Tiranti Splits With Labÿrinth
Italian progressive/power metal act Labÿrinth announced that vocalist Roberto Tiranti has split with the band, following another split with his other band A Perfect Day a couple of months ago, in an effort to pursue a solo career. The band has not made an official statement about the split, nor has a replacement been announced.
The statement from Tiranti reads:
"It is never easy to write this kind of public statements, but I think it's fair to be clear and sincere towards those that for many years have granted us esteem and love.
"From now on I am no longer the singer of Labyrinth, after almost 18 years I leave the band that more than any other has given me in terms of satisfaction, blazon and experience in Italy but even more abroad.
"6 albums, an EP and a 'Best Of,' a lot of music written all together with a common goal, so much life shared that cannot be wiped out and the awareness of having friends I can count on and hopefully meet again in the future to write other music together.
"Everyone is useful, no one is indispensable and I think that also this time the band will be able to face this with the usual strength and ability to reinvent itself. I've had the best band I could have had to express myself in that field and I'm sure I won't ever be part of any other band of similar type, it would be stupid, incoherent and unfair to Labyrinth. At the moment I'm working on my first solo album on which I am spending a lot of energies, moreover the collaborations with Ken Hensley, Wonderworld and Mangala Vallis keep going on. My priorities obviously go to my solo project, in order to create a firm-based foundation for the future.
"THANKS TO LABYRINTH, THANKS TO YOU ALL." More...
Interview
ProgPower USA XV Interviews: EVERGREY
Not altogether unexpected, given Evergrey’s close relationship with ProgPower USA promoter Glenn Harveston, it was still a nice surprise to most to see drummer Jonas Ekdahl and mainman Tom Englund announce a listening party for the new album, “Hymns For The Broken,” at ProgPower USA this year. Their video for “King of Errors” got the world chattering when it revealed that Ekdahl and previous guitarist Henrik Danhage were officially back in the band after a few years’ time. The listening party at the festival revealed that the support for Evergrey never waned among their core USA fans, with the crowd giving applause after every single song that played.
During their time at the festival, the Evergrey men made time to have a nice long chat in person with MetalUnderground.com’s Frank Serafine, during which it was revealed that much of the new album was inspired by mainman Tom Englund’s descent into depression and self-doubt, as well as overcoming it to get to where he is today. In good spirits, the guys joked throughout the interview. Englund even almost got teary-eyed when describing several touching emails he received from Evergrey fans. Moreover, it was revealed that Evergrey would like to eventually release an acoustic album, which would be an excellent choice given their flirtation with acoustic songs on past records. More...
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