Archive for August 16, 2013

ARGUS – “Beyond the Martyrs” Coming This October on Cruz Del Sur Music

Posted in doom metal, Heavy Metal, heavy metal bands, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags , , , , , on August 16, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

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Cruz Del Sur Music will release Beyond the Martyrs, from US Doom Metal outfit ARGUS, on October 1st in North America, with an October 7th release in the UK.

Beyond the Martyrs starts where their 2011’s release Boldly Stride the Doomed had left us…at the Ruins of Ouroboros. In between these two releases ARGUS has tested its strength and valor in several live shows both in their homeland and in Europe, receiving high praises from fans and from the record industry. Although a sense of impending fate marks again their compositions, the characteristic Doom Metal elements which were a distinguished trademark of ARGUS’ past releases have now given way to what is primarily to a genuine Heavy Metal approach, its nature rooted in the most classic environment of Heavy Metal tradition.

ARGUS’ third album is sure to force Metal Heads everywhere to raise horn-crested fists to the sky. Beyond the Martyrs contains the hallmarks of their previous works – twin guitars, soaring vocals, and a driving rhythm section; it is heavy, melodic, epic, and brooding all at once. After their successful shows at festivals such as Hammer of Doom in 2011 and Dublin Doom Days in 2012, the band will hit again the European soil with a proper tour in October 2013 in order to promote Beyond the Martyrs.

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Beyond The Martyrs – Track Listing:

1. By Endurance We Conquer

2. No Peace Beyond The Line

3. The Hands of Time Are Bleeding

4. Trinity

5. Four Candles Burning

6. The Coward’s Path

7. Cast Out All Raging Spirits

8. Beyond The Martyrs

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ARGUS:

Butch Balich – vocals

Jason Mucio – guitar

Erik Johnson – guitar

Andy Ramage – bass

Kevin Latchaw – drums

ABOUT ARGUS:

Pennsylvania’s ARGUS stormed onto the underground Metal scene with their twin guitar-driven, doom-tinged, working class Metal sound. Releasing a self-recorded demo in early 2007 on John Brenner’s (Revelation/Against Nature) DIY label, Bland Hand Records, the band was roundly welcomed by the Metal community at home as well as abroad and established its foundation amongst friends/fans within the scene. With this initial momentum, the band created a buzz that was only solidified by their punishing live performances.

Their self-titled debut album was released in May of 2009, receiving much critical praise. Following, was the 2011 release of the epic album Boldly Stride The Doomed, which also marks a switch to the record label, Cruz Del Sur. The band has continued to gain notoriety, traveling abroad and around the U.S. The release of their third full-length album, Beyond The Martyrs, is staged for release in October 2013.

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(Source: ClawHammer PR)

* For More Info On ARGUS:

Facebook: Argus

http://www.argusmetal.com

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Cruz Del Sur Music: 

http://www.cruzdelsurmusic.com/

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LONG LIVE ARGUS.

LONG LIVE METAL.

Stone.

MASADA “HIDEOUS ROT” – Underground Death Metal To Butcher Your Senses With

Posted in Death Metal, death metal bands, Heavy Metal, Metal, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags , , , , , on August 16, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

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3.5 Out Of 5 METAL Fists!

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MASADA – Kick-ass name for a Death Metal band? Um… okay. Check. Kick-ass cover artwork for MASADA’s Hideous Rot EP? Check. Kick-ass city where MASADA calls home? It’s Philadelphia and… check. Kick-ass underground Death Metal that MASADA wants to punish ALL of our Metal community’s senses with? Check.

If all you crave is underground Metal and Death Metal is your obsession, MASADA’s bludgeoning wall of sound will no doubt beat your eardrums and any brain cells that are still functioning into a pulp! My Metal brethren, this is MASADA. No smoke or dumb-ass mirrors happening on Hideous Rot; just backwoods, back alley and dark as hell, retro Death Metal.

Fluteotherapy sounds like MASADA kidnapped the legendary Ian Anderson and kept him in a cellar, forcing him to play his flute while surrounded by piles of dead corpses. A macabre listen it is… freaky and psychotic. MASADA came up with it and it truly creeps me out. Cool.

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Suffer Mental Decay is my favorite song. A sensational song title it is. It’s brilliant with all of its repulsive vocals and horrid vibes. Very cool. Toxic Unreality when played super fucking loud is like being hit in the face with soaking and scalding hot burlap bags. Aw hell, I’ve never really been hit with soaking and scalding hot burlap; only the description befits my Metal point.

Hideous Cerebral Pulp and Exist To Rot round out this Hideous Rot EP and both songs are like the spinning back kick to your face that you didn’t see coming. Both of these songs rage in their simplicity and this entire EP rages with its middle finger pointing right at expensive production costs. Let every Death Metal garage band know that there is a beacon they can follow to the dark side and it’s the underground disturbance known as MASADA. Metal be thy name.

MASADA HIDEOUS ROT – Track Listing:

Hideous Cerebral Pulp

Fluteotherapy

Exist To Rot

Suffer Mental Decay

Toxic Unreality

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For all of you Metal trivia lunatics out there, I looked up the definition of MASADA and here it is:

The site of the ruins of a palace and fortification built by Herod the Great on the southwestern shore of the Dead Sea 1st century BC

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For More Info On MASADA:

Facebook: Masada

http://masada.bandcamp.com/

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DEATHGASM RECORDS:

http://www.deathgasm.com

Deathgasm Records

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LONG LIVE MASADA.

LONG LIVE UNDERGROUND DEATH METAL.

Stone.