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blessthefall Premiere First New Single In 5 Years
Rumors of blessthefall's disbandment circulated late last year when the band seemingly erased certain aspects of their social media presence. However, recent teases on their official channels hinted at new material from the metalcore outfit. Today their highly anticipated single "Wake The Dead" has finally premiered, streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below.
Tank Founder Algy Ward Passes Away
Algy Ward, known as the founding vocalist and bassist of New Wave Of British Heavy Metal legends Tank, has died at the age of 63, his former bandmates have confirmed. No details have been revealed as to the cause of death, though he had been battling health issues for a while. He passed away on May 17th in a Tunbridge Wells hospital.
Ward first gained recognition as a member of The Saints, before joining The Damned for their seminal third album, "Machine Gun Etiquette." He would then form Tank in 1980,releasing the debut album, "Filth Hounds Of Hades" two years later; a classic of the genre and must have for any NWOBHM fan. Tank would release a string of well received albums in the 80s before disbanding in 1989. They would reform in 1997 and several times onwards, I which saw two versions of the band exist, one led by Ward, another by Mick Tucker and Cliff Evans.
The Agonist Announces Break Up
Canadian metal band The Agonist has announced that after nineteen years, six albums and three EPs, they have come to the decision to end the band. A statement from the group reads as follows:
"Dear friends, it's time to make a very difficult but necessary announcement.
"We have decided that The Agonist as a band, has come to an end. Much deliberation and care has been put into making this decision, and unfortunately, given the circumstances, this is the conclusion that makes the most sense for the band and us as individuals.
"There are many factors that led to this decision. It is a mix of personal, financial and industry related issues, but in the end the 5 of us are no longer able to agree on a way forward that would benefit The Agonist business as a whole, while respecting each member's personal lives and wishes.
We want to express our deepest gratitude to the fans for coming out to the shows, buying our merch, and supporting us over the years. Nothing is more satisfying than connecting with our fellow human beings via the gift of music. It is the number one factor that has always driven us- to make you, the listener, feel something. In the end, we know that we've accomplished this together.
"Some members of the band will continue to work on music in various ways, others will focus on personal projects and family. We kindly ask you to respect their privacy on this particular matter and encourage you to follow them on their individual social media accounts to support their future endeavors. More...
The Voynich Code Sign w/ Unique Leader Records
Portugese deathcore band The Voynich Code have inked a record deal with Unique Leader Records. The group’s latest single and official music video “Unholy Catastrophe” can be streamed via YouTube and Spotify for you now below:
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Transcending Obscurity Fest Headliners Announced
Transcending Obscurity Records have announced brutal death metal outfit Monument Of Misanthropy and black metal band Vorga as the headliners of their first ever international Transcending Obscurity Festival, taking place on May 5th and 6th, at the Futurum Music Bar in Prague, Czech Republic. 16 metal bands off the label's roster from six different countries will be performing on two days in the heart of the Czech capital city.
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Torture Rack Premiere 1st New Single in 5 Yrs.
Death metal outfit Torture Rack return with their first new studio full-length in five years titled "Primeval Onslaught", due out June 9 via 20 Buck Spin. Today they premiere their new advance track "Decrepit Funeral Home", streaming via YouTube for you below.
The record was engineered, mixed, and mastered by Seánan McCullough and Joe Anderson at Helvete Sound and the artwork was created by ROK of Australian metal outfit Sadistik Exekution.
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Vomitory Premiere 1st New Single In 12 Yrs
Swedish death metal/deathgrind outfit Vomitory premiere a new single and music video by the name of “All Heads Are Gonna Roll”, taken from their upcoming new album of the same name, which will be out in stores May 26th via Metal Blade Records. The track marks the first new single since 2011.
Check out "All Heads Are Gonna Roll" streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below.
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GELD Sign w/ Relapse Records & Premiere New Video
Australian hardcore band GELD have inked a record deal with Relapse Records. A June 09th release date has been scheduled for the band’s debut record for the label named “Currency // Castration“. For now, a new single amd official music video for the single “Fog Of War” has premiered online streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below.
Tornado Hits Morbid Angel Show In Illinois
During tonight's Morbid Angel show in Belvidere, Illinois, which also featured Revocation, Skeletal Remains and Crypta, the Apollo Theater received severe structural damage as a result of an ongoing storm, which caused the roof of the venue to collapse. At present, it's been reported by ABC Chicago that one person has died and twenty eight have been injured. In a message posted to the band's Facebook page, Morbid Angel stated:
"Tonights show is canceled due to a Tornado that hit the Venue.
"We ask anyone who is still traveling to the venue to please seek shelter and stay safe. We are currently sheltering in place, and want to extend our support and hope that everyone at the show tonight is safe.
"Right now our focus is on making sure everyone in the venue tonight is OK and gets home."
Skeletal Remains added: "Thank you all for checking in on us. Everyone on the tour package is alive and injury free. Our hearts go out to anybody in the crowd who were injured."
Scar Symmetry To Release First Album In Nine Years
Nine years since the first installment of "The Singularity Trilogy," virtuosic progressive metallers Scar Symmetry, who recently re-signed to Nuclear Blast Records, have announced "The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)" which will be released on 9th June. To coincide with the announcement, the band have also released the video for the album's first single "Scorched Quadrant."
In the wake of the announcement, band mastermind Per Nilsson comments "It brings us the utmost pleasure and pride to announce the long-awaited and much-teased 'Phase II' to the world along with its first single! It's been a long time coming but I'm glad that we went the extra mile to make everything as perfect as we felt it needed to be.
"The world is a different place in 2023 than it was in 2014 when 'Neohumanity' was released... We see the rise of AI before our very eyes and while we all look in awe at the wonders it can create it is easy to think of some very disturbing scenarios. In our new album, we once again explore these themes of neohumanity, artificial intelligence and the technological singularity from a dystopian point of view.
"The AI-enhanced neohumans are waging war upon the unmodified majority of mankind who don't stand a chance against their technologically superior oppressors, until one day, a glimmer of salvation appears in the night sky. Almost impossible to first take in; as an utterly alien mirage, seemingly out of nowhere mysterious, giant spacecrafts silently emerge from the heavens. Travelers both intergalactic and interdimensional, these ultraterrestrial beings who have been watching mankind for millennia seem to have decided to not sit idle while the technocalyptic cybergeddon is ravaging our planet.
"We recently renewed our vows with Nuclear Blast and we're very thrilled about moving on to this next phase (ahem) of our career with them by our side!
"The 'Phase II' touring cycle starts today and fittingly, we begin with a tour supporting my former employers Meshuggah! We hope to see you all on the road soon, but until then, here's Scorched Quadrant!" More...
Drowning Pool Reunites With Singer Ryan McCombs
As first reported by Metal Edge, Soil vocalist Ryan McCombs has rejoined Drowning Pool, with whom he appeared on two studio albums, "Full Circle" and "Drowning Pool," as well as a live album, "Loudest Common Denominator," before leaving in 2011. Fortunately for Soil fans, McCombs will continue to front them too. The quartet will play their reunion show tonight at Club L.A. in Destin, Florida, before headlining the Throwdown At The Campground festival tomorrow.
Said McCombs, "When I stepped away from music back in 2004, I only got back into the mix because it was with [Drowning Pool members] C.J., Stephen and Mike, and because it was also a way for me to be a small part of keeping their music with Dave [late Drowning Pool vocalist Dave Williams] alive. Just being back in the same room together after so many years, gearing up for these shows, was a quick reminder as to why I considered them to be my best friends in the business back in the day. As everyone living life can attest to, sometimes our days can get messy - but in the words of one Dave Williams, ‘Everything happens for reasons, I just don’t know…’ Some of the greatest moments in my career came about as a member of DP and I’m really thankful for the opportunity to perform with them once again."
Added drummer Mike Luce, "I’m very happy that Soil and Drowning Pool are in a spot now where we not only co-exist, but are close enough as friends to move forward together. We support and respect each other enough for us to make sure they can keep doing what they do, and for them to allow us to revisit a bunch of these cool tunes we played a decade-plus ago, with the singer who we viewed as the archetype after Dave passed. We can’t wait to get onstage together again and see where this leads."
"It’s exciting as hell having Ryan McCombs rocking out with us again," said guitarist C.J. Pierce. "It’s been 13 years since the last time we were in a rehearsal room together, and from the second we hit that first note it was like we never skipped a beat. I’ve never felt such a connection as musicians, true friends and family as I do with Mike, Stevie and Ryan. I can’t wait to share the stage together again."
"Never say never," said bassist Stevie Benton. "It’s hard to believe it’s been over 10 years since we shared a stage with Ryan. I think, deep down, we always knew this reunion would happen."
Additionally, McCombs’ band mates in Soil stated: "Ryan has extensive history with both Soil and Drowning Pool, so when the opportunity arose for him to move forward as the singer of both bands, we knew we could make it work together. Both bands aren’t kids anymore, and we’ve all grown as people, mended past hard feelings, and are approaching the 25-year marks. Ryan wants to work. He wants to tour and play as much as possible, and this allows him to do that. As Dave Williams said just days before his passing, ‘Anywhere there is electricity for DP and Soil to play together, let’s do it…’"
Glass Casket (BTBAM, Etc.) Return After 17 Years
Glass Casket will release their new self-titled EP on June 09th via Silent Pendulum Records. Today the band - featuring Between The Buried And Me‘s guitarist Dustie Waring, drummer Blake Richardson, guitarist Wes Hauch (Alluvial, ex-The Faceless, etc.), vocalist Adam Cody and bassist/vocalist Sid Menon - premiere a first single from it named “Let Them Go”.
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Avenged Sevenfold Premiere First New Song In 5 Yrs
Progressive metal band Avenged Sevenfold premiere their new single and music video titled “Nobody”, streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you below. The song is the first advance track to arrive from the outfit’s follow-up to their 2016 release “The Stage“, named “Life Is But A Dream...” and due out on June 02nd.
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Paria Premiere First New Song In Fourteen Years
Paria are back with a new single and music video named “Venerate“, which marks the group’s first new output in 14 years. The song is taken from an upcoming new EP Paria will produce with Jim Homan, who also oversaw the mixing duties on this new single streaming via YouTube for you below.
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Jim Durkin, Guitarist Of Dark Angel, Passes Away
According to the band's Facebook page, Jim Durkin (58), a founding member and current guitarist, passed away today. His wife Annie and some close friends were at his side at the time of his passing.
Durkin played on the band's first three albums and was touring intermittently with the band after their second reunion in 2013. "Darkest Descends," considered by many to be the band's seminal release, is still considered to be one of the most influential death/thrash crossover albums by many current musicians to this day. More...
Artillery Drummer Killed In Bus Accident
“Sleep well, father. It has been a good 14 years with you.”
So said the son of 45-year-old Josua Henrik Lander Madsen, who is known from the Danish metal band Artillery. Josua died after being hit by a bus early on Thursday morning (March 9, 2023) on the dark country road Snubbekorsvej, between Copenhagen and Roskilde, Denmark. He was walking home after rehearsing with a new band.
Josua was the drummer for Artillery for the past 12 years, and is featured on the four most recent Artillery albums.
Josua Henrik Lander Madsen on drums for Artillery (June 2021)
Therapy? To Release First Album In Five Years
Northern Irish rock outfit, Therapy? announce their colossal new studio album "Hard Cold Fire," a spiralling, hypnotic melange of grunge-rock and towering melody that sees the trio steadfast and reinvigorated. ‘Hard Cold Fire’ is set for release 5th May 2023 via Marshall Records.
Accompanying the announcement, the band also shares their first offering in the form the riotous new single "Joy," and details on a run of intimate UK in-store dates coinciding with the album’s release. Fans can find more information for in-store tickets here pre-order limited edition bundles of "Hard Cold Fire" and pre-save here.
Resilience and survival have become vital watchwords for Therapy?. Enduring over three decades as the musical, cultural and social landscapes have shifted around them, the trio have forged and retained a powerful and lasting connection with a dedicated fan base around the world, doing so by putting their emphasis on the music, solidifying a hard-won reputation as forward-thinking writers and a fierce live proposition in the process.
As Therapy?’s fourth decade finally gets underway in earnest, sixteenth album "Hard Cold Fire," written and pre-produced during an unprecedented time for music, is hefty, compact, and accessible, a distillation of everything that has made them what they are - hewn from County Antrim basalt, still possessed of their stoicism, but casting a renewed focus on catharsis and healing. More...
Abyss Above Sign w/ Seek And Strike
Slovakian deathcore outfit Abyss Above have signed with Seek And Strike. Today the band premiere their first new single and music video “Vain” for their new label home, streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you below.
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Veil Of Maya Announce First New Album In 5 Yrs.
Chicago-based progressive metalcore outfit Veil Of Maya premiere their brand new single and accompanying music video “Red Fur“. That song will be part of the group’s just announced seventh studio full-length “[m]other“, due out on May 12th via Sumerian Records.
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Born Through Fire Signed By Seek And Strike
Born Through Fire - led by As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis and Wolves At The Gate guitarist Joey Alarcon - have singed a new worldwide deal with Seek And Strike. Today they premiere their new single and music video “The Reckoning”, streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below.
Born Through Fire’s debut studio full-length “Purify And Refine” will be released on April 07th, 2023.
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