Archive for February 24, 2014

GAMMA RAY – Power Metal Icons Unleash New Lyric Video Via Revolver; “Empire Of The Undead” To Drop This Spring

Posted in Heavy Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, news, rock music, rock music news, world news with tags , , , , , , , on February 24, 2014 by Metal Odyssey

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Today, the perpetrators at Revolver are pleased to premiere the lyric video for “Hellbent,” from German Power Metal icons, GAMMA RAY. The new tune comes by way of the band’s long-anticipated new full-length, Empire Of The Undead, set for release this Spring.

A record that almost wasn’t, Empire Of The Undead was composed throughout 2013 with Eike Freese (Dark Age) at the mixing desk alongside bassist/co-writer, Dirk Schlächter, and was nearing completion before Hammer Studios, their home, rehearsal space, and meeting point for many metal bands throughout Germany, had burned down leaving much of its contents in ruins. Fortunately, the Empire Of The Undead masters managed to make it through unscathed. “If this could not stop us, nothing ever will,” joked light-hearted GAMMA RAY vocalist Kai Hansen, adding that, “We got rid of a lot of shit that we gathered there. Unfortunately, a lot of good equipment as well. Anyhow, we look towards the future, we saved the production and we can continue now in this new place.”

Sample triumphant new teaser track, “Hellbent,” now playing at Revolver at THIS LOCATION.

Empire Of The Undead will be released in North America on CD, LP and digitally via Armoury Records in conjunction with earMusic on April 15, 2014.

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(Source: Earsplit PR)

* For more info on GAMMA RAY:

Website: http://www.gammaray.org

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gammarayofficial

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Website: http://www.eagle-rock.com
 
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Website: http://www.ear-music.net

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LONG LIVE GAMMA RAY.

LONG LIVE POWER METAL.

Stone.

CAULDRON BLACK RAM – Launches First Strike From 20 Buck Spin Debut

Posted in Heavy Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, news, rock music, rock music news, world news with tags , , , , , , , on February 24, 2014 by Metal Odyssey

Cauldron Black Ram - Stalagmire - promo cover pic - 2014

Southern Australian pirates, CAULDRON BLACK RAM, have set sail for the 20 Buck Spin roster, and are preparing to deliver the most cunning onslaught on ye lubbers with their third LP, Stalagmire.

Following a deuce of LPs disbursed through cooperative alliances with Weird Truth Productions, Blood Harvest and Parasitic, among a random gaggle of demos and EPs since their 1997 formation, the latest tirade from this crew of bandits from Adelaide shows CAULDRON BLACK RAM once again utilizing tactics learned in previous voyages through treacherous doom and death territory. However, the Stalagmire be the grandest onslaught from this brutal seafaring trio yet, with the pungency of an armada’s worth of bilge rats and bellowing with the might of a thousand cannons.

20 Buck Spin’s northern allies at Cvlt Nation have today deployed the first missive from Stalagmire with the hellish opening tale “Fork Through Pitch,” now playing HERE.

Stalagmire will invade ports and pillage villages in North America on April and in Europe April 4th via CD, LP and digital deployment methods.

The crude horde that be the CAULDRON BLACK RAM emerge yet once more from wat’ry tomb to besiege hapless posers and put to manacles weak would be picaroons. Being the third of albums to sail under the banner of CBR, the new recording is a commanding effort of sludgy crossboned black death metal and slimy, rum-sodden doomed debauchery. The brigands from the far side of the world prove well versed in the execution of this unfair trade, delivering knavish punishment unto unprepared ears in the form of Stalagmire. This scurrilous tale puts CAULDRON BLACK RAM in league with similar ugly contemporaries who pay heed to old, distasteful gods and outlaw tradition but yet forge a singular path of their own making. Be it black, death, doom or thrash, all goes into the strange brew mixed in the CAULDRON BLACK RAM.

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(Source: Earsplit PR)

* For more info on CAULDRON BLACK RAM:

Website: http://cauldronblackram.bandcamp.com

Facebook: Cauldron Black Ram (Official)

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Twitter: http://twitter.com/20buckspinlabel

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LONG LIVE CAULDRON BLACK RAM.

LONG LIVE 20 BUCK SPIN.

LONG LIVE METAL.

Stone.

Mike Scaccia’s “Rock The Heart” Benefit Concert – DOWN Headlining, With: THE SCACCIANATORS, WARBEAST And DEAD EARTH POLITICS – May 24th, 2014 – Here’s The METAL Details!

Posted in Heavy Metal, heavy metal news, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, news, rock music, rock music news, world news with tags , , , , , , , , on February 24, 2014 by Metal Odyssey

Mike Scaccia's Rock The Heart Concert - down - warbeast - May 24 - 2014 - promo flyer

As reported on the Rigor Mortis (Official) Facebook page:

We’re ecstatic to announce that the mighty Down will headline the 1st Annual Mike Scaccia “Rock The Heart” Concert on Saturday, May 24 at Emo’s in Austin, Texas!! This benefit show is to help increase awareness of heart disease for the Mike Scaccia “Heart Rock” Foundation.

We also want to thank Philip Anselmo, Kate Richardson and the rest of the DOWN crew for offering to make this show the very 1st Mike Scaccia “Rock The Heart” Concert. It definitely means we are starting this thing off with a bang by having such a legendary band like DOWN headline this inaugural concert.

The complete lineup is below…

Mike Scaccia “Rock The Heart” Concert
Starring….
DOWN

w/ special guests…

The Scaccianators (Mike Scaccia/Rigor Mortis Tribute)
*Featuring former Rigor Mortis members Casey Orr,
Harden Hampton Harrison, Bruce Corbitt & Doyle Bright*
(w/ special guests Mike Taylor Rabid Flesh Eaters), Philip Anselmo, Scott Shelby (Warbeast), Rick Perry ( Gammacide) & more!)

Plus…
WARBEAST
&
Dead Earth Politics

The Mike Scaccia Heart Rock Foundation For Heart Disease - large logo - 2014

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* For more info:

Facebook: Rigor Mortis (Official)

Facebook: Down

Facebook: WARBEAST

Facebook: Dead Earth Politics

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REST IN PEACE, MIKE SCACCIA.

LONG LIVE THE LEGACY OF RIGOR MORTIS.

LONG LIVE DOWN.

LONG LIVE WARBEAST.

LONG LIVE DEAD EARTH POLITICS.

LONG LIVE TEXAS METAL.

Stone.