Archive for April 20, 2012

VORE – Signs With Germany’s AFM Records

Posted in Death Metal, Extreme Metal, Heavy Metal, heavy metal news, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags , , , , , on April 20, 2012 by Metal Odyssey

Death Metal veterans VORE is proud to announce that they have just signed with Germany’s AFM Records. The deal will see a re-release of VORE’s most recent album, Gravehammer (which was released by the band in December of last year) on July 20th on CD and vinyl formats. The iron fist of the underground is now poised for world domination!

Barely a month after its release, Gravehammer reached the #4 spot on Amazon.com’s death metal downloads chart and received praise from critics around the world. The long-awaited follow-up to 2005’s Maleficus,  Gravehammer, sees VORE’s battle-ready brand of Death Metal taken to a new level of intensity and aggression.

VORE has been cranking out their unique blend of crushing, doom-laden Death Metal since 1994. VORE draws upon Death, Thrash and Traditional Metal influences to create an onslaught of titanic power and heaviness. VORE’s mid-paced rhythmic style is built around strong riffs and songcraft, rather than all out speed, which sets them apart from current trends in Death Metal. Over this soundscape, themes of doom, darkness, conquest and sorcery roar in a savage vocal attack.

VORE consists of guitarist/vocalist Page Townsley, drummer Remy Cameron and bassist Jeremy Partin. The band has independently released four self financed cd’s – Dead Kings Eyes in 1997, Lord of Storms in 2001, Maleficus in 2005 and their latest opus, Gravehammer, is being unleashed in late 2011.

VORE has worked hard to promote their Metallic wares in the Metal underground and beyond. All of their releases have garnered accolades in the Metal press, and despite remaining independent and unsigned to a label all these years (many argue criminally so!), they have sold thousands of cd’s worldwide and charted at Metal radio.

VORE is always at their best within the live realm, pummeling audiences with their thunderous sonic assault and tight energetic performances. Over the years VORE has performed with bands such as MORBID ANGEL, CANNIBAL CORPSE, OBITUARY, DEICIDE, SIX FEET UNDER, NILE, IN FLAMES, MONSTROSITY, MALEVOLENT CREATION, HALFORD, ORIGIN, GOATWHORE, CATTLE DECAPITATION, MANOWAR, CARCASS and many others. VORE are also veterans of the infamous Milwaukee Metalfest.

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(Source: ClawHammer PR)

For more info on VORE, click on the links below:

http://www.vore.org

http://www.afm-records.de

LONG LIVE VORE.

Stone.

I SPIT ASHES – Sign To Massacre Records

Posted in Heavy Metal, heavy metal news, melodic death metal, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags , , , , , on April 20, 2012 by Metal Odyssey

We’re delighted to announce the signing of the Modern/Melodic Death Metal quintet I SPIT ASHES from Germany!

Modern and with a clear-cut course, I SPIT ASHES manage to please their fans as well as the music press!
Without neglecting their roots or following any trends, I SPIT ASHES don’t want to sound like any other band, even though they sound familiar. And just like life, the band’s songs are sometimes hard and angry, or smooth and sad.

II SPIT ASHES is rolling hard like no other young band these days, but you’ll also find quiet and ballad-like songs with a deeper meaning – either musically or lyrically – in their repertoire!

If true emotions conspire with futuristic melodic-aggressive sound patterns, walls will be torn down! If I SPIT ASHES bends the bows of melodies, the arrows do not only hit your ears, but directly the heart.

“If you attend a I SPIT ASHES concert, you’ll feel like you’ve seen a flying saucer landing right in front of you!”, comments guitarist Emanuel Seis.

Want to know what Emanuel is talking about? A few live videos are available at the band’s youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ISpitAshes

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I SPIT ASHES:

Emanuel Seis – Guitar

Bernhard Lindner – Guitar

Benedikt Rathsmann – Vocals

Daniel Lammich – Drums

Benjamin Müller – Bass Guitar

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(Source: Massacre Records)

For more info on I SPIT ASHES, click on the link below:

http://www.spitashes.de

LONG LIVE I SPIT ASHES.

Stone.

KATAKLYSM – POST THIRD “THE IRON WILL” TRAILER & ANNOUNCE TOUR DATES!

Posted in Death Metal, Extreme Metal, Heavy Metal, heavy metal news, melodic death metal, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags , , , , , , on April 20, 2012 by Metal Odyssey

Montreal based Extreme Metallers KATAKLYSM will release a multidisc DVD this June entitled “The Iron Will: 20 Years Determined”, which features a documentary and bonus CD materials. The set will depict the ups and downs of the band’s long, turbulent career, as well as footage of KATAKLYSM’s performance at last year’s Summer Breeze festival, which took place August 18-20, 2011 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. The cover art for the release was created by artist Colin Marks (ORIGIN, EXODUS, NEVERMORE) and can be viewed above.

Check out the third trailer for the upcoming release here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqfAaOJ2lSU

Also available:
Trailer I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rGLFjJ2q18&feature=relmfu
Trailer II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MpyZU_rPtg

Don’t miss KATAKLYSM live:

“IRON WILL RUSSIA”
KATAKLYSM 
With special guest : MARDUK + VADER + GODS TOWER

11.05 – Irkutsk “Megapolis”
13.05 – Krasnojarsk “DK Kraza”
14.05 – Novosibirsk “Rock City”
16.05 – Ekaterinburg “Tele Club”
17.05 – Magnitogorsk “Universal”
18.05 – Ufa “Agava”
19.05 – Nizhny Novgorod “TBA”
20.05 – Moscow “KKZ Moscow”

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28.07 -, Obersinn GERMANY @ Eisenwhan festival (headliner)
04.08 – Essen GERMANY @ Turock w/ special after show party (headliner)
04.07 – Tolmin SLOVENIA @ Metalcamp festival
04.09 – Chemnitz GERMANY @ Rock im Betonwerk festival (headliner)
09.08- Switzerland @ MEH SUFF festival (headliner)

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(Source: Nuclear Blast News)

For more info on KATAKLYSM, click on the links below:

http://www.facebook.com/kataklysm

http://www.youtube.com/user/kataklysmrocks

http://www.spreadthevenom.com/

http://www.nuclearblast.de/de/label/musi…

LONG LIVE KATAKLYSM.

Stone.

KING DIAMOND – Stone’s Metal Pick Of The Day!

Posted in Heavy Metal, heavy metal albums, heavy metal news, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags , , , , , , on April 20, 2012 by Metal Odyssey

KING DIAMOND – Metal Icon. Vocal brilliance. Lyrical mastermind. A true KING of Horror Metal. Any fan of King Diamond and/or Mercyful Fate knows what I’m talking about. My “Metal Pick Of The Day” for Friday, April 20th, 2012, is KING DIAMOND.

If you have never listened to any King Diamond or Mercyful Fate Metal in your life just yet… the time has cometh for you to realize; that you are missing out on some serious and historical Metal. You are missing out in a very profound way.

Yes, Abigail is the Metal Gem of the King Diamond discography. However, The Graveyard is one fantastically horrifying story to listen to. I’ll say this much: a young female child with a devotion to a severed head; plus it’s a severed head that is pure evil. ‘Nuff said.

Originally released back in 1996, this King Diamond album has grown on me like there is no tomorrow. I Am is my favorite song on The Graveyard, giving me the chills in a way I cannot even explain.

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For more info on KING DIAMOND, click the link below:

KING DIAMOND

LONG LIVE KING DIAMOND.

Stone.