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LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR “GODSLAYER” EP – Is Stone’s METAL Pick Of The Day!

Posted in Extreme Metal, extreme metal bands, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags , , , , , on June 13, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

Lair Of The Minotaur - Godslayer EP - Promo Cover - 2013

LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR – If you crave your Metal brutal, grinding, extreme and so intensely serrated that it can carve out the souls of the damned and make them cry for centuries, then this 2 song Metal offering from Lair Of The Minotaur is for you. Just these 2 songs alone on Godslayer are so viciously potent, that after each listen, I feel I’ve been taught an Extreme Metal lesson by this Metal trio from the badass city of Chicago.

Steve Rathbone on guitar and vocals excels at fronting these songs; supplying the anger charged pulse that could frighten away a swarm of Spider Wasps. Lethal drumming from Chris Wozniak, coupled with the tremor inducing bass playing of Nate Olp, makes me realize that underground Metal bestows some of the finest musicians within our Metal universe. Lair Of The Minotaur have captured an extreme formula of Metal that they can valiantly call their own.

It’s not the big name record label we buy, my Metal brethren; it’s the Metal artists that we support and buy into. Lair Of The Minotaur is worth every Metal cent and Metal second of your valuable Metal time. Metal be thy name.

Lair Of The Minotaur – Godslayer was released back on April 20th, 2013, via The Grind-House.

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GODSLAYER EP – Track Listing:

Godslayer

The Black Heart of the Stygian Drakonas

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For more info on LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR, click links below!

Facebook: Lair of the Minotaur

http://www.lairoftheminotaur.com

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LONG LIVE LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR.

Stone.

BANGLADEAFY – Explosive Tech/Spazz NYC Duo To Release New EP

Posted in avant garde music, avant-garde metal, Metal, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags , , , , , on June 13, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

Bangladeafy - promo band pic - 2013 - #1

NYC-based duo BANGLADEAFY are prepared to release their new EP, a capsule of musical mayhem containing a burst of the most bewilderingly fun metallic fusion out there.

With rabid rolls and pummeling percussion fueled with nutbar fingertapping, cerebellum-convulsing time change-ups, sporadic keyboard-interloping and the vocalizations and a general disregard for rulebooks, off-the-chain twosome BANGLADEAFY fiercely perpetuates an original style of technical extreme music defying genre classifications and merging in a melee that’ll have jazz aficionados fighting prog critics while the tech metal fans bang their own faces off in their own anomalous sequences.

While dropping riffery and percussion that is jagged and technical yet at once cohesive and succinct, this duo bears more than just a whack style and catchy name. BANGLADEAFY basically breaks down the band to the core, fusing the Bangladeshi origins of blazing drummer Atif Haq with the actual physical impairment of bassist/pianist/vocalist Jon Ehlers, the multi-instrumentalist having been born with sensio-neural hearing loss, alongside his two sisters. Disability aside, the intensely technical and somehow still laid-back basslines this musical assassin drops will floor critics and fans alike paired with is cohort’s jacked-up percussive attack.

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Following their self-released full-length This Is Your Brain On Bugs amidst other random recordings since their full-on inception in 2009, BANGLADEAFY has completed their newest display of jam-band-gone-homicidal musical intensity, now preparing it for disbursement as The Briefcase; a magnificent six-song EP that lays out more face-melting proficiency in under fifteen minutes than most so-called “tech” bands could ever visualize. The band will self-release the tracks through a direct cooperation with their cohorts at the oddball/prog-tech outlet Nefarious Industries on July 9th.

As more info on The Briefcase nears disclosure, BANGLADEAFY will hit the locals with a wave of live dates, playing shows in Jersey, Long Island and Brooklyn this week with Resolution 15, Torrential Downpour and headliners Car Bomb.

Stay tuned for full info on what’s in The Briefcase, new shows and much more on these zany BANGLADEAFY dudes in the coming days. For now sink into some live footage of the band engaging the public including a live portrayal of  Show Me The Gold and Dumpster Fire from the new EP and more RIGHT HERE.

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BANGLADEAFY w/ Car Bomb, Resolution 15, Torrential Downpour:

6/21/2013 Dingbatz – Clifton, NJ [info]

6/22/2013 Katie’s – Smithtown, NY [info]

6/23/2013 Saint Vitus – Brooklyn, NY [info]

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(Source: Earsplit PR)

For more info on BANGLADEAFY, click on the links below!

Facebook: BANGLADEAFY!

http://bangladeafy.bandcamp.com

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LONG LIVE BANGLADEAFY.

Stone.

Italy bound with Witch Cross

Posted in Metal on June 13, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

Witch Cross is on a Metal takeover… 1 Metal country at a time! Metal be thy name! \m/\m/.

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sunvalley WITCHCROSS

Just a couple of weeks to catch our breath this month, and then its all systems go for WITCH CROSS again as we converge from Spain, England, Denmark and Sweden on Gallio in Northern Italy to appear at the Sun Valley Metal Fest! We’re really looking forward to this one. We’ll have exclusive copies of the new album ‘Axe to Grind’ on sale, a full ten days ahead of its worldwide official release date, and we’re going to be performing tracks from both that and the classic ‘Fit for Fight’ album for our Italian fans.

Witch Cross Backstage 2012 (93)

We’re really pumped with the reviews we’ve been getting for the new album. We put a lot of hard work into it, and it’s nice to see it being received so well, but the acid test is not what it means to the critics – it’s what it means to the fans…we hope you

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ISIS REISSUE “CELESTIAL” ON JULY 9th Via Ipecac Recordings

Posted in Heavy Metal, heavy metal news, Metal, metal music, Music, progressive metal, rock music, rock music news with tags , , , , , on June 13, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

Isis - Celestial - promo cover pic - reissue - 2013

RE-MASTERED RELEASE FEATURES NEW ARTWORK

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San Francisco – ISIS reissue their landmark full-length debut, Celestial, on July 9th via Ipecac Recordings.

The hard to find and long out-of-print release will be reissued with new artwork from Aaron Turner as well as the audio having been recently remastered by James Plotkin.

Celestial was originally released in 2000 and was cited as one of the decade’s top Metal albums by Decibel Magazine.

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Celestial – Track Listing:

1.     SGNL>01

2.     Celestial (The Tower)

3.     Glisten

4.     Swarm Reigns (Down)

5.     SGNL>02

6.     Deconstructing Towers

7.     SGNL>03

8.     Collapse and Crush

9.     C.F.T. (New Circuitry and Continued Evolution)

10.  Gentle Time

11.  SGNL>04 (End Transmission)

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(Source: Speakeasy PR & Marketing)

For more info on ISIS, click on the links below!

Facebook: ISIS

http://www.isistheband.com

Ipecac Recordings - Logo - 2013

Ipecac Recordings: http://www.ipecac.com

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LONG LIVE ISIS.

Stone.

KISS – Reports Of Paul Stanley Getting Hurt Onstage Are False!

Posted in classic rock, classic rock bands, Hard Rock, hard rock news, Heavy Metal, heavy metal news, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags , , , , , , on June 13, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

Kiss - Kiss Army - promo pic - 2013 - #1

As reported on the KISS Facebook page (June 12, 2013):

Hey everybody!

The reports of me getting hurt in Copenhagen are total fabrication. I read it and it was news to me and I was there and would know!

Paul

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Stone Says: Phew! A Metal Hallelujah to that! I read those same reports on Wednesday too… can’t know the truth unless it’s from the horses mouth. Metal be thy name.

KISS - Paul Stanley solo 1978 cover pic!

(KISS Army photo: Facebook KISS)

For more info on KISS, click on the links below! Whoa!

http://www.kissonline.com

Facebook: KISS

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LONG LIVE PAUL STANLEY.

LONG LIVE KISS.

Stone.