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DARK FUNERAL – 2024 USA Tour Dates and Info
Posted in Black Metal, Heavy Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news with tags Black Metal, dark funeral, gwar, Metal, metal odyssey on August 17, 2024 by Metal OdysseyPANOPTICON To Tour U.S. and Canada This October – With Exulansis and Primeval Well
Posted in Black Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news with tags Black Metal, Metal News, metal odyssey, panopticon on August 5, 2024 by Metal Odyssey
Announcing Panopticon‘s Autumnal Oration tour, presented by Hierophant Booking.
US black metal legends Panopticon will embark on an unprecedented string of intimate and powerful shows in the US and Canada this fall alongside dear friends and talented contemporaries Exulansis and Primeval Well – prepare accordingly!
Tickets to all shows here: https://linktr.ee/panotour24
Source: Bindrune Recordings | Website
THE DEPRESSICK – Mexican Post-Black Metal Act To Release Sophomore Album Faded.exe In July
Posted in Black Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, music videos with tags Black Metal, metal music videos, Metal News, metal odyssey, Mexican metal, the depressick on June 30, 2024 by Metal Odyssey
Mexican post-black metal act THE DEPRESSICK are finally back with their brand new, second full-length album titled Faded.exe, a gut-wrenching musical journey. The album will be released on July 19th 2024 via Tragedy Productions/End My Life Records.
The record shows a broadening in the scope in their sound, packing in even more brooding melodies, eerie howls, whirlwind drumming, and a tightening of the band’s signature songwriting chops. Constantly maintaining the subtle balance between light and melancholy, soaring atmospherics and granite riffs, THE DESPRESSICK deliver their sonic rebirth in fifty minutes of a grippingly emotional experience.
The first single “Greywave” is now streaming HERE.
Faded.exe definitely marks another step forward for the band, incorporating new suggestions into their visceral sound that bleeds raw emotion.
Track-list:
1. Shattered Heart
2. Greywave
3. HCI
4. Indlandsis
5. Papillon (Part I)
6. Papillon (Part II)
7. Gray Ocean (Piano Version)
THE DEPRESSICK is a Mexican Post-DSBM band formed in 2013. Based in Nezahualcoyotl a densely populated and historically impoverished suburb of Mexico City with considerable stigma attached to it. The “negativity, misery, poverty, sickness and filth” of their environment contributes to their music’s bleakness. For fans of: Lantlos, Lifelover, Amesoeurs and White Ward.
THE DEPRESSICK:
https://thedepressick.bandcamp.com/
End My Life Records:
https://endmyliferecords.bandcamp.com/
PRIMORDIAL – Special U.S. Shows With Bloodbath To Commence This Week
Posted in Black Metal, Heavy Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news with tags Metal, metal music, metal odyssey, primordial on May 27, 2024 by Metal Odyssey
The short but epic journey begins on May 28th in Chicago and makes its way through Seattle, Mesa, and Los Angeles. Additional support will be provided by Archgoat and Severe Torture. Tickets are on sale now at THIS LOCATION! See confirmed dates below.
PRIMORDIAL:
w/ Bloodbath, Archgoat, Severe Torture:
5/28/2024 Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL
5/30/2024 El Corazon – Seattle, WA
5/31/2024 Nile Theater – Mesa, AZ
6/01/2024 1720 – Los Angeles, CA
PRIMORDIAL released their acclaimed How It Ends full-length last Fall via Metal Blade Records. The follow-up to 2018’s critically lauded Exile Amongst The Ruins finds PRIMORDIAL delivering more of their seminal blend of Celtic and black metal, with added urgency staring down the apocalypse.
“The title is a question – is this how it ends? How it all goes down; culture, language, history, society, humanity… who knows?,” considers vocalist A. A. Nemtheanga. “Regardless of who you are or were, you get one chance at all of this, and it’s asking, is this the end of your town, state, nation? Myths, traditions, relationships…?, and I suppose it asks the question, who reacts, who rebels, how does it end now for them?”
Watch PRIMORDIAL’s “Death Holy Death” video at THIS LOCATION.
Preview and purchase How It Ends at metalblade.com/primordial.
Source: EARSPLIT PR
BATHORY – Biography Book To Be Published For The First Time In English!
Posted in Black Metal, black metal bands, books, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news with tags bathory, Black Metal, black metal books, metal history, metal music, metal odyssey on May 6, 2024 by Metal Odyssey
Pagan Records and Monomaniax announce the English-language edition of “From Hades to Valhalla… BATHORY – The Epic Story” by José Luis Cano Barron
Pre-order via Pagan Records now!
Pagan Records and Monomaniax will release the English-language edition of “From Hades to Valhalla… BATHORY – The Epic Story”, the unofficial but definitive biography of one of the most influential metal bands of all time. Written by renowned metal journalist José Luis Cano Barron, this comprehensive tome delves into the band’s illustrious career, offering an uncensored and carefully researched account of its groundbreaking music and enduring legacy.
“From Hades to Valhalla… BATHORY – The Epic Story” will be available from 29 May 2024, and can be pre-ordered via Pagan Records here: https://tinyurl.com/24puj3ft
Originally published in Spanish, “From Hades to Valhalla… BATHORY – The Epic Story” has been translated into English, making this essential work accessible to a wider audience. With 156 vibrant pages packed with rare photographs, illustrations, and reproductions, the book chronicles Bathory’s journey from their early black metal roots to their Viking metal mastery, painting a vivid portrait of a band that defied categorisation and shaped the very sound of black and extreme metal.
“From Hades to Valhalla… BATHORY – The Epic Story” goes beyond mere biography, offering a deep analysis of Bathory’s music and its impact on the metal scene. Cano Barron draws upon his extensive knowledge and insider access to provide insights into the creative genius of Bathory’s enigmatic leader, Quorthon.
“From Hades to Valhalla… BATHORY – The Epic Story” is an essential addition to the library of any metal fan. With its captivating narrative, wealth of historical detail, and stunning visuals, this book offers a unique and immersive exploration of one of metal’s most revered bands.
Book Details:
- Title: From Hades to Valhalla… BATHORY – The Epic Story
- Author: José Luis Cano Barron
- Publisher: Pagan Records / Monomaniax
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 156
- Language: English
- Release Date: 29 May 2024
- Pre-order Link: https://tinyurl.com/24puj3ft
Pagan Records online:
Website / Shop: https://www.pagan-records.com
DARKTHRONE – Release Video For “The Bird People Of Nordland”
Posted in Black Metal, Heavy Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news with tags Black Metal, darkthrone, fenriz, metal music videos, Metal News, metal odyssey on April 25, 2024 by Metal Odyssey
Ahead of the eagerly awaited new album It Beckons Us All from Darkthrone, the band give fans a final tease of what is awaiting them with the release of the official video for “The Bird People Of Nordland”. Video created by Matthew Vickerstaff .
WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO FOR “THE BIRD PEOPLE OF NORDLAND” HERE
(https://youtu.be/0Zjmk-POXyo)
Whilst freely admitting the concept for the song “Not a very metal subject, sorry!” Fenriz explains “ it’s about the EIDER bird and Nordland. Many years ago I saw a Norwegian documentary with the symbiotic relationship the coast people of Nordland had with the bird. They watched over the nests and in return could pick the eider for pillows clothing, warmth etc. So that is what the lyrics are about.” But, he continues “again, this is Ted’s song so a bit hard for me to comment on it musically but I will tell you all what I think when I hear it:
First of we have a typical grim Ted riff for the verse, then he surprises with a catchy riff for the refrain AND THEN comes my fave part of the album; the post-refrain riff which sounds like Queensryche 1984 style and you can also hear how much we enjoy to play it! EXACTLY where I want to be! Could have played that riff for 8 minutes straight, haha! This loops again with the refrain again without singing and then back to Queensryche ’84. Then first riff again with my added harmony guitar playing on it, what our studio man Ole Øvstedal called “the Corleone part.
A break arrives and then things are sped up (not faster than Yardbirds in 64, we are not an extreme metal band, more like MODERAT EPIC) which corresponds with a slower heavy metal riff where we also brought out the mellotrone if I remember correctly.
Then Ted bombs you with a final part, primitive d-beat thrash with a riff that sounds like Tom G Warrior made it and I also ordered Ted to lay on some hellish guitars. Anyway, I LIVE for that queensryche 84 riff, Ted!”
Humble as ever Nocturno Culto states“Well, AGAIN, talking about our music really blows or is very difficult, at least for me. Personally, music is a floating thing, and I am having a hard time to try to break it down. It´s metal, a bit of heavy/doom/black/thrash, that is Darkthrone now, mixing genres has been something we have done since A Blaze, and especially since 2005. And I am just looking forward on new material, new riffs and ideas.”
Just one more sleep until It Beckons Us All, Darkthrone’s new masterpiece, is unleashed in full!
It Beckons Us All – track listing:
- Howling Primitive Colonies [06:30]
- Eon 3 [05:43]
- Black Dawn Affiliation [06:11] WATCH VIDEO
- And In That Moment I Knew The Answer [03:17]
- The Bird People Of Nordland [07:27]
- The Heavy Hand [04:18]
- The Lone Pines Of The Lost Planet [10:03]
- Howling Primitive Colonies [06:30]
- Eon 3 [05:43]
- Black Dawn Affiliation [06:11] WATCH VIDEO
- And In That Moment I Knew The Answer [03:17]
- The Bird People Of Nordland [07:27]
- The Heavy Hand [04:18]
- The Lone Pines Of The Lost Planet [10:03]
It Beckons Us All is available on the following formats available to order here! https://darkthrone.lnk.to/beckons
- Limited Edition Deluxe boxed edition: includes It Beckons Us All on CD, an exclusive corona vinyl LP & cassette and art prints all housed in a heavy duty lift off lid box
- Limited edition ‘Fenriz’ edition LP on blue marble coloured vinyl– exclusively available through the Peaceville stores – VERY FEW COPIES LEFT!!
- Limited edition ‘Nocturno Culto’ edition LP on grey marble coloured vinyl–available through the Peaceville stores
- CD
- LP
- Digital Pre-save/Pre-add including Bandcamp available here
- Plus other limited edition coloured vinyl LPs are available in stores across the world – cream white, crystal clear, petrol and .. a collectors dream .. if you can find them!
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CODEX MORTIS Return with Tales of Woe | New Song Now Streaming
Posted in Black Metal, Death Metal, Extreme Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news with tags Black Metal, codex mortis, Extreme Metal, metal albums 2024, metal music, metal odyssey on April 11, 2024 by Metal Odyssey
Brace yourself for a chilling journey through an album that tells the harrowing story of demonic possession and mind control.
Tales of Woe, the album from Dutch black metal band CODEX MORTIS, tells about an evil spirit that tortures a man through demonic possession and mind control. With horrific visions of its previous victims, the evil spirit tries to turn the man into a murderer. The man escapes its hold by taking his own life, as a desperate attempt to end the circle of terror…
CODEX MORTIS has unveiled part of this chilling narrative with the album’s first single, “Capricious Disembodied Villain.” Watch the lyric video at youtu.be/gI4nDC1Y3F8?si=ESTXiu81IwZr6GSq
Black Lion Records will release Tales of Woe on June 21. Pre-order/pre-save the album at snd.click/Codexmortis
In Tales of Woe, a harrowing history filled with injustice, agony, violence, and death unfolds as a tortured soul, the antagonist of the story, finds itself in an undying state, compelled to inflict suffering and death upon others trying to undo its own misery. It describes the troubles of its latest victim, the protagonist, as he is possessed and haunted by horrid visions.
Track-list:
- Forsaken
- Capricious Disembodied Villain
- Chosen
- Trenched in Blood
- Fire Screams and Death
- It Dies with Me
The album was mixed and mastered by Björnström Ljud & Produktion. Artwork by Vladimir ‘Smerdulak’ Chebakov.
Stream CODEX MORTIS on Spotify and Apple Music.
CODEX MORTIS;
Vocals by Dirk Willems
Lyrics by Jos Schilder
Drums by Michiel van der Plicht
Guitars by Arjan van Dune
Bass by Mathieu Westerveld
CODEX MORTIS is a Dutch Black Death Metal band with explosive and hypnotic skull-crushing music that will haunt you into the afterlife. Incorporating the influences of the 90s, CODEX MORTIS crafts a sonic landscape characterized by ferocious speed and an abyssal depth, with each arrangement a relentless devouring sound.
Source: ClawHammer PR
DARKTHRONE – Announces New Album, ‘It Beckons Us All’ – To Be Released April 26th
Posted in Black Metal, Heavy Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, music videos with tags dark throne, fenriz, Metal, Metal News, metal odyssey, nocturno culto on March 15, 2024 by Metal Odyssey
IT BECKONS US ALL – THE NEW STUDIO ALBUM FROM NORWEGIAN TRAILBLAZERS DARKTHRONE DUE FOR RELEASE ON PEACEVILLE RECORDS ON 26th APRIL 2024
“A cauldron of old and epic metal beckons thee” – Fenriz
A SPELLBINDING CHRONICLE OF SEDUCTIVE
FROZEN ATMOSPHERES AND FEARLESS INNOVATION
PRE-ORDERS ARE AVAILABLE HERE NOW
(https://darkthrone.lnk.to/beckons)
An introduction from Fenriz
(https://youtube.com/shorts/FMQwAGpfxKA)
Watch the “It Beckons Us All” trailer
(https://youtu.be/ZHaKnsJjkjY)
A SPELLBINDING CHRONICLE OF SEDUCTIVE
FROZEN ATMOSPHERES AND FEARLESS INNOVATION
Pioneers of a sound that changed the world. Lifelong disciples of suspense and mystery. An enigmatic duo like no other, hell-bent on haunting souls through the eternities. There are many things Darkthrone have been called since forming in 1986 and these are but a few, having drawn from a creative well so potent and powerful it turned them into one of Norway’s biggest musical exports. Following from their debut album Soulside Journey, the next three full-lengths, often referred to as ‘the unholy three’, set the benchmark for black metal in the early 90s, though in truth they’ve never been the kind to rest on such laurels – distilling elements of vintage punk, doom, thrash and death into their own sonic fingerprint and continuing to test that equation throughout the years. It’s been quite the journey, having won cryptic pair Nocturno and Fenriz legions of loyal fans around the world. This tradition will only continue with latest masterpiece It Beckons Us All.
Set for release on Peaceville on 26th April 2024, the new music is an intense observation of the world around them – exciting and challenging the listener in equal measure, in the way only they can. Some of the riffs howl across a gallery of ice and snow while others crackle like a volcano awakening from its timeless slumber, Nocturno’s demonic barks ricocheting across the intoxicating structures almost like it’s beaming from a long-distant galaxy. As Darkthrone have shown us so many times in the past, their music is as visual as it gets – evoking tangible imagery through the medium of sound. Whether the ideas are sombre, reflective or incensed, they exist as emotional concepts you can see and feel as much as you hear.
“I am having difficulties putting into words my personal feelings around the existential title It Beckons Us All, I can only hope others out there can feel the darkness that encompasses it,” muses Fenriz.
Never afraid to venture beyond the confines of the extreme metal template they were paramount in creating, there are moments on It Beckons Us All that will dazzle and surprise, as well as satisfy fans of old.
Nocturno comments: “We recorded in the manner we always do, live, meaning drums and guitar, with another guitar added later. We found a new twist during this process that surely benefited this album. Fenriz did stellar clean vocals on several songs, and his way of thinking creatively made it so good. We also shared the bass work this time around. We added a lot of extra layers like solo guitars… it was just a cauldron of ideas. Instead of finding a plug-in or choir synth patch, we both recorded four vocal tracks each. Darkthrone is an ever-evolving band, as many should know by now, and this album is touching a bit into the heavy genre. I have no idea what genre we are, and have really not cared much about it, but I know for sure it’s metal.”
In that sense, It Beckons Us All is very much demonstrative of two visionaries at their world-commanding best. They know what works but more importantly they choose to grow, throwing every ounce of their hearts and souls into evolving the jaw-dropping whirlpool of noise that could only ever have come from their collective minds. There are clean guitars, clean vocals and less typical instruments thrown into the mix, but the approach, intent and ethos at the heart of their fearless artistry remains very much the same. This is music for dreamers who find themselves paralysed by the contrasting beauty and ugliness in the world surrounding them. Never ones to appease the faint-hearted, Darkthrone are as real and human as it gets.
It Beckons Us All was recorded in April and May 2023 at Chaka Khan Studios in Oslo, the same location used for the Eternal Hails and Astral Fortress albums, mastered by Jack Control at Enormous Door, with artwork courtesy of Polish artist Zbigniew Bielak. (https://www.facebook.com/zbigniewmbielak & https://www.instagram.com/zbigniewmbielak).
It Beckons Us All – tracklisting:
- Howling Primitive Colonies [06:30]
- Eon 3 [05:43]
- Black Dawn Affiliation [06:11]
- And In That Moment I Knew The Answer [03:17]
- The Bird People Of Nordland [07:27]
- The Heavy Hand [04:18]
- The Lone Pines Of The Lost Planet [10:03]
It Beckons Us All is available on the following formats and pre-orders are live NOW! https://darkthrone.lnk.to/beckons
- Limited Edition Deluxe boxed edition: includes It Beckons Us All on CD, an exclusive corona vinyl LP & cassette and art prints all housed in a heavy duty lift off lid box
- Limited edition ‘Fenriz’ edition LP on blue marble coloured vinyl– exclusively available through the Peaceville stores
- Limited edition ‘Nocturno Culto’ edition LP on grey marble coloured vinyl–available through the Peaceville stores
- CD
- LP
- Digital
- Plus other limited edition coloured vinyl LPs are available in stores across the world – cream white, crystal clear, petrol and .. a collectors dream .. if you can find them!
Follow Darkthrone: Instagram
DEVASTATOR – “CONJURERS OF CRUELTY” Releases On March 1st
Posted in Black Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, music videos with tags Black Metal, devastator, Metal, Metal News, metal odyssey, Thrash Metal on January 22, 2024 by Metal Odyssey
Formed in 2017, DEVASTATOR is a four-piece Black Thrash band from the county of Derbyshire in the United Kingdom . They released their debut album ‘Baptised in Blasphemy’ in 2019 on UK label Clobber records. The album was reissued remixed and remastered with 8 bonus tracks in November 2023 on Listenable. DEVASTATOR will release their brand new album ‘Conjurers of Cruelty’ on the 1st of March, 2024.
Expanding on the raucous Black ‘n’ Roll attitude of the band’s debut and turning up the Black Metal to cacophonous levels, DEVASTATOR‘s sophomore release ‘Conjurers of Cruelty’ differs in many aspects without losing the spirit and power of the band’s debut, harnessing other avenues in Extreme Metal and presenting a multilayered and expansive record which explores both Black Metal and Death Metal, whilst still delivering the furious Thrash Metal assault and NWOBHM drenched force that the band has become known for.
Ritual Abuse (Evil Never Dies) – Official Lyric Video watch HERE
The band comments on the new single : ‘Ritual Abuse (Evil Never Dies)’:
“We are proud to present the first offering from our long awaited new album ‘Conjurers of Cruelty’, when writing the material for this record we wanted to not only expand on the formula of our previous effort but also implement a stronger contemporary Black Metal approach which the first album only merely touched upon. This quickly became very natural to us and added to the new album’s overall themes of ritual sacrifice and ceremonial conjurations. ‘Ritual Abuse (Evil Never Dies)’ is a perfect example of our influences in complete and total display, from straight forward-no nonsense-Teutonic-styled Thrash, to pure Celtic Frost worship, topped off with a grim Black Metal outro”.
DEVASTATOR ’s new album ‘ Conjurers of Cruelty’ was recorded at Godhand Studios in Derbyshire with producer Ben ‘Audiomage’ Gaines who also remixed and remastered ‘Baptised in Blasphemy’.
DEVASTATOR – Conjurers of Cruelty’ Album track-listing:
1) Beyond the Gate. 1:06
2) Conjurers of Cruelty 5:01
3) Black Witchery. 5:02
4) Ritual Abuse (Evil Never Dies) 4:51
5) Walpurgisnacht 4:17
6) Necromantic Lust 3:13
7) Deathspell Defloration 5:58
8) Bestial Rites. 2:46
9) Sharpen the Blade. 4:10
10) Rabid Morbid Death 7:50
11) Liar in Wait 3:52 *
12) Death Forever 3:14 *
(*CD bonus tracks )
DEVASTATOR:
T. Nachtghul – Bass Guitar & Lead Vocals
R. Amun – Lead Guitar
C. W. Wolfgang – Rhythm Guitar
J. Scarlett – Drums
Source: Listenable Records
STORMCROW – Italian Black Metallers Share New Single “Dark Existence”
Posted in Black Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news with tags Black Metal, Metal, Metal News, metal odyssey, stormcrow on January 2, 2024 by Metal Odyssey
Italian black metal unit STORMCROW will release their third album, “Path to Ascension”, sometime in 2024 via Time To Kill Records.
The band shares a new single from the new album. Stream “Dark Existence” at THIS LOCATION.
The video of the previous single “Vulgus Vult Decipi” is also available HERE.
The band started out in northen Italy in 1997 and is no secret to genre connoisseurs thanks to a couple of well-received albums and European tours with Dark Funeral, Enthroned, Shining and many more. But now their big moment in the spotlight has come – STORMCROW are ready for the final breakthrough with the new album “Path to Ascension”.
STORMCROW have kept the black flame burning for 20+ years simply out of adoration and their respect for the genre. Undoubtedly they share some of the same DNA of iconic black metal bands that have gone before them, and whilst their technical abilities add a more than impressive flourish, they operate on a ‘don’t overcomplicate for the sake of overcomplicating’ rule. Keeping theatrics to a minimum has yielded a lean, sharp album that embodies the blueprint of old school black metal and embraces both melody and an epic narrative.
Watch for more details on the new album release, new tour updates, and more news on other upcoming STORMCROW activities to be posted shortly.
Line-up:
Wraith – Drums
Tohrus – Guitar
Vastis – Vocals
Astaroth – Guitar
Zedar – Bass
STORMCROW:
https://stormcrowblackmetal.bandcamp.com/
Time To Kill Records:
https://timetokillrecords.bandcamp.com/
Source: Anubi Press
HAUNTOLOGIST – Releases New Track “Ozymandian” & Announces Debut Album
Posted in Black Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music videos with tags Black Metal, dark metal, hauntologist, metal music videos, metal odyssey on December 20, 2023 by Metal Odyssey
Debut album “Hollow” to be released on 2 February
Hauntologist, a new project established by black metal stalwarts The Fall and Darkside, will release its debut album on 2 February via No Solace on CD and digital formats. To get a taste of the upcoming album, the band has released the first single “Ozymandian”.
Listen to “Ozymandian”:
- YouTube – https://bit.ly/hauntologist-ozymandian-YT
- Spotify – https://bit.ly/hauntologist-ozymandian
Although the material is only about to be released now, the roots of the project go back many years and due to the band members’ busy schedules, they were waiting for the right time to unleash their creativity. The Fall – known for his work with Owls Woods Graves, Over the Voids… and as a live bassist for Mgła – and Darkside – known as the Mgła and Kriegsmaschine drummer – decided to venture further than the typical and conventional boundaries of black metal in their musical exploration.
Over the years, the band has undergone numerous clinical deaths and reanimations but eventually recorded their debut “Hollow” in 2023. Deeply rooted in negative metal music, it leans toward other genres and forms of expression to seek musical analogies of sleepless nights and surreal, anxiety-provoking hallucinations.
“Hollow” could be described as a field recording of a feverish nightmare. Despite its metal foundations, the music on “Hollow” constantly turns into side streets of other, often difficult to term and locate, music genres. It is an album built on the foundation of rubble and debris of visions that developed and died back throughout the years. The documentation of spirit decay and life slipping through the fingers.
“Hollow” – tracklist:
- Ozymandian
- Golem
- Waves of Concrete
- Deathdreamer
- Hollow
- Autonomy
- Gardermoen
- Car Kruków
Hauntologist are:
The Fall – Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keys
Darkside – Drums
Source: 3nation
LIGHTLORN – Share New Song, “Of Longing Spirit and Infinite Solitude”
Posted in Black Metal, black metal bands, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, music videos with tags Black Metal, lightlorn, Metal, metal music, metal music videos, Metal News, metal odyssey, Music, music news on September 30, 2023 by Metal Odyssey
Cosmic black metal duo LIGHTLORN has posted the official lyric video for “Of Longing Spirit and Infinite Solitude.” The song marks the newest single off their upcoming full-length debut, “At One with the Night Sky.”
Black Lion Records will release “At One with the Night Sky” on October 27. Pre-order or pre-save the album at: snd.click/Lightlorn_ATOWTNS
Watch the video at: youtu.be/nJzCyX_FMQU
Brimming with dark, melancholy passages and wistful bridges interspersed with soaring crescendos and uplifting melodies, At One with the Night Sky is a post-black metal tour de force. From the opener “Amongst Stellar Remnants” to the closing track “Earthbound,” the album takes the listener on a sublime journey through the inner depths of the human psyche to the outer reaches of the cosmos.
If you enjoy contrasting song structures and the interplay between light and dark, between stirring and gloomy, and between serene and aggressive, then “At One with the Night Sky” is an album you need to hear.
Track List:
1) Amongst Stellar Remnants
2) A Tragedy in Starlight
3) Dimensionless Blackness
4) Ghostly Soliloquies
5) Of Longing Spirit and Infinite Solitude
6) Spiral Arms Like Swirling Rivers
7) Earthbound
LIGHTLORN is:
Renwar – All instruments and vocals
Riaan – Drums and programming
Source: ClawHammer PR
NIXIL – Maryland Black Metallers Share Guitar Playthrough For “Collapsing The Poles” – US Tour To Commence Tonight!
Posted in Black Metal, black metal bands, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news with tags Black Metal, Metal, metal music, Metal News, metal odyssey, Music, music news, nixil on September 29, 2023 by Metal Odyssey
Baltimore, Maryland black metal quintet NIXIL has shared a guitar playthrough for “Collapsing The Poles,” taken from the band’s second full-length, From The Wound Spilled Forth Fire, recently released via Prosthetic Records. The playthrough comes in conjunction with NIXIL’s US tour set to begin tonight, September 29th, in Youngstown, Ohio and run through October 6th in New York City.
Speaking on the guitar playthrough, Shane Gardner comments, “My number one ‘BuZzy’ is a partscaster — a fender body and neck — that I purchased for $200 and added a Seymour Duncan Hot Rail Humbucker and a killswitch, no toggle. For the playthrough I overdubbed my track using an SM57 through a Marshall CODE 50 Practice amp into Adobe Audition.
“I use the inverted triad on a lot of our songs. ‘Collapsing…’ has them throughout the verse sections. I think they add texture to a simple chord structure, and it adds a hypnotic effect with the addition of Alden’s guitar note bend. It’s all in the hands I guess.”
Of their upcoming tour, the band adds, “We leave this Friday, September 29th, for eight dates in the Northeastern US to celebrate the release of From The Wound Spilled Forth Fire. This album — like all of our music — is best experienced live and loud; bring your rage, your aching heart, your unquenchable thirst for catharsis, and join us.”
Watch NIXIL’s guitar playthrough for “Collapsing The Poles” at THIS LOCATION.
Watch NIXIL’s previously released video for “Abyss Unto Abyss” HERE, “In Thrall” HERE, and “Collapsing The Poles” HERE.
From The Wound Spilled Forth Fire is available CD, LP, and digitally. For orders, visit THIS LOCATION.
NIXIL Live:
9/29/2023 Westside Bowl – Youngstown, OH
9/30/2023 Kung Fu Necktie – Philadelphia, PA
10/1/2023 Ralph’s Rock Diner – Worcester, MA
10/2/2023 Cherry Street Station – Wallingford, CT
10/3/2023 Windsor Exchange – Windsor, VT
10/4/2023 Geno’s Rock Club – Portland, ME
10/5/2023 Dusk – Providence, RI
10/6/2023 El Bunker del Diablo – New York, NY
After solidifying their lineup in its current form, with the arrival of guitarist/backing vocalist Alden, NIXIL opted to record From The Wound Spilled Forth Fire live at Magpie Cage Recording Studio with J. Robbins. The resulting six songs seethe with a frenzied despair, whilst more ominous passages breathe with a disquieting existential terror in every percussive and rhythmically meditative trance, exactly as the band intended to capture before handing mastering duties to James Plotkin.
NIXIL:
C. – vocals
Key – drums
Aurora – bass, backing vocals
Alden – guitar, backing vocals
Shane – guitar
Source: EARSPLIT PR
Finnish Black Metal Band Verilehto Released A New Single And Music Video From Their Upcoming Debut Album
Posted in Black Metal, black metal bands, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news on September 28, 2023 by Metal Odyssey
Finnish black metal band Verilehto is set to release their debut album “Kuoleman Siipien Havina” on November 10th 2023 via Inverse Records. The first and only single “Alla Tähtitaivaan” is released today along with music video which can be seen via this link: https://youtu.be/2DVNa_qT454
The band comments:
“Picking up the single from the record was both hard and easy, every song is strong at its own, but Alla Tähtitaivaan ended up being most versatile to show what to expect from the record. The lyrical content is about old tales / folklore of northern lights, how fallen warriors’ spirits lived in those lights – trying to lure people to join them.”
LISTEN: Alla Tähtitaivaansingle on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/verilehto-alla
PRE-SAVE: upcoming album: https://music.imusician.pro/a/L6_OZ2Ca
https://verilehto.bandcamp.com
Line-up:
Janne Tuikkala – Guitar, Bass, Drums, songwriting
Janne Partanen – Vocals, lyrics
Single cover by Verilehto
Music by Janne Tuikkala
Lyrics by Janne Partanen
BIOGRAPHY:
Verilehto was formed in 2017 by Janne Tuikkala (Dawn of Everwinter, Muria, Alpha Noir, ex-Warceremony and ex-Strange Aeon) with ambition to write and record atmospheric, melodic, yet heavy black metal sung in Finnish. After showing few song ideas to Janne Partanen (Hautajaisyö, Alfa Pentatonik, Marraskuun Lapset, Paavalin Harhat and many others), they agreed to do a record together.
Few song ideas (oldest ones from 2001) led to first full album “Kuoleman Siipien Havina”.
The debut album consist from seven songs (intro + six songs), which are quite versatile compared to each other, yet still having a same mood to them. Melodic black metal layered with acoustic guitars and even additional drone synths.
All the music was recorded by Janne Tuikkala at his j.sound home studio during 10/2022 – 5/2023 and Janne Partanen recorded his vocals at Hautajaisyö headquarters during spring of 2023. Once vocals were finished Tuikkala mixed and mastered the record at j.sound.
Track list:
- Johdanto
- Lohduton Kylmä Polku
- Kuoleman Siipien Havina
- Alla Tähtitaivaan
- Kirottu Kiulu
- Hirtetyn Hyvästit
- Kalman Seppä
MELAN SELAS – Greek Black Metal Act Unveil “Zephyrean Hymns”
Posted in Black Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news with tags Black Metal, Greek black metal, Melan Selas, Metal, metal music, Metal News, metal odyssey, Music on September 20, 2023 by Metal Odyssey
Stream the album now in full via Black Metal Promotion!
“Zephyrean Hymns” out 22 Sep, pre-order via The Circle Music
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Greek black metal duo Melan Selas have unveiled the second album “Zephyrean Hymns” with a full album stream.
Listen to the album via Black Metal Promotion: https://youtu.be/rXW8XKYTGXU
Scheduled for a 22 September 2023 release, “Zephyrean Hymns” breathes new life into the black metal scene and promises to place the band among the greats of the Greek black metal scene.
“A quest through space and time, an ascension to something greater… Zephyrean Hymns lead our cause,” this is how the band describes the new album.
“Zephyrean Hymns” consists of eight songs that create a unique atmosphere. Sometimes the listener is assaulted by raging riffs and eerie screams and at other times engrossed in seductive vocals travelling with dreamy melodies.
Hailing from Trikala, Greece, Melan Selas formed in 2015 and have so far released two EPs and one full-length album, “Φάος”. The band consists of D.K. (Riffobia, Katavasia) who handles all instruments and Astraea (Oletir) on vocals and lyrics.
Melan Selas‘ music genre can be defined as black metal with epic and atmospheric elements, as well as some black/thrash metal sections. The lyrical themes of the project vary between nature, ancient times and philosophy. In 2016 they released their debut work, a self-titled EP. “ῬΕΟΝ” followed in 2018, released in vinyl format and in 2019 they released their full-length album “ΦΑΟΣ”. Currently, Melan Selas are on the way for the release of their new album “Zephyrean Hymns”, which is to be out in September 2023 via The Circle Music.
“Zephyrean Hymns” is available to pre-order via The Circle Music.
“Black Metal: Evolution Of The Cult” – The Definitive Black Metal Book Out This November
Posted in Black Metal, black metal bands, Metal, metal bands, metal books, metal music, Music, music news with tags Black Metal, Metal, metal books, metal history, metal music, Metal News, metal odyssey, Music on September 9, 2023 by Metal Odyssey
Features brand new interviews with Necromantia, Arcturus, Immortal, Agalloch, Destruction, Mystifier, and Winterfylleth plus extended interviews with Rotting Christ, Behemoth, Sigh, Mayhem and many more
The Restored, Expanded & Definitive Edition” to consist of 130,000 words of new content, 25 new chapters with over 70 new interviews and improved cover art and design
The book release marks 10 years of Cult Never Dies
UK-based publishing house Cult Never Dies will mark its 10th anniversary this November with the release of Dayal Patterson’s “Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult – The Restored, Expanded & Definitive Edition”. Pre-orders are available now via Cult Never Dies (UK & ROW store / EU store). North American orders can be placed via Decibel Books.
With the original version of the book no longer available in print, Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult is hailed as the most acclaimed book on the history of black metal, and the only one endorsed by those involved in creating the genre.
The book will be approximately 340,000 words long, including 130,000 words of new content, 25 new chapters and 48 extended and updated chapters. This will include over 150 exclusive interviews with some of the biggest names in the genre, including: Venom, Mercyful Fate, Bathory, Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Blasphemy, Darkthrone, Behemoth, Rotting Christ, Mayhem and many more. The author also included over 70 brand new or previously unpublished interviews with the likes of Necromantia, Arcturus, Immortal, Agalloch, Destruction, Mystifier, and Winterfylleth.
Evolution of the Cult will also have hugely improved cover art and layout by longtime Cult Never Dies artist David Thiérrée (Behemoth, Gorgoroth, Mortiis), and will include almost 600 photos, many previously unseen, including an 80-page colour/gloss section.
Silenoz of Dimmu Borgir commended the book: “You don’t have to read between the lines anymore ‘cause it’s all there, straight from the source,” while Sakis Tolis of Rotting Christ called it “a valuable educational piece of dark writing.”
Vorph of Samael added: “This is a very insightful work: Without doubt the ultimate book on the subject, a testimony of black metal and a good introduction for neophytes.”
Hvall of Windir and Vreid said: “A brilliantly written book – mandatory if you have any interest in the genre, or want to explore a new world.”
Dayal Patterson, book author, Cult Never Dies owner and longtime music journalist, said: “I cannot express how good it feels now that Cult Never Dies finally owns the rights to this book and are able to release it – along with Decibel in the US – in this massively improved form. The limitations placed on the original in terms of word count meant that so many chapters and parts I originally envisioned simply couldn’t be included or were not even worth completing due to a lack of space. What turned into a fairly straightforward restoration job led to about a year of 14-hour days, not only overhauling the existing chapters and layout (something we had always been unhappy with) of the book, but doing a huge number of new interviews and working with a wealth of new bands and artists. Finally, there are proper chapters celebrating bands such as Vinterland, Satyricon, Immortal, Arcturus, Mystifier and Profanatica, as well as greater explorations of black metal in Brazil, the US, the UK, Sweden, Greece, and, of course, Norway.”
For a full list of the 150 interviewees, visit Cult Never Dies.
Bands featured include: VENOM • MERCYFUL FATE • BATHORY • HELLHAMMER • CELTIC FROST • SODOM • DESTRUCTION • SEPULTURA • VULCANO • HOLOCAUSTO • MYSTIFIER • BLASPHEMY • SAMAEL • ROTTING CHRIST • NECROMANTIA • DEVISER • TORMENTOR • MASTER’S HAMMER • VON • MAYHEM • THORNS • DARKTHRONE • BURZUM • IMMORTAL • EMPEROR • GEHENNA • GORGOROTH • TRELLDOM • BEHERIT • IMPALED NAZARENE • CRADLE OF FILTH • DIMMU BORGIR • LES LEGIONS NOIRE • MARDUK • DISSECTION • VINTERLAND • THE BLACK • WATAIN • SHINING • STRID • FORGOTTEN WOODS • BETHLEHEM • SILENCER • FORGOTTEN TOMB • LIFELOVER • GRAVELAND • INFERNUM • BEHEMOTH • HADES • HELHEIM • ISENGARD/STORM • KAMPFAR • WINDIR • PRIMORDIAL • OCTOBER FALLS • ENSLAVED • SATYRICON • ULVER • MORTEM • ARCTURUS • FLEURETY • IN THE WOODS… • MANES • VED BUENS ENDE • DØDHEIMSGARD • SIGH • DEATHSPELL OMEGA • MYSTICUM • ABORYM • BLACKLODGE • BLACK WITCHERY • HECATE ENTHRONED • WINTERFYLLETH • FEN • AGALLOCH • ABSU • PROFANATICA and more
Cult Never Dies Online:
Website: https://www.cultneverdies.com/
UK & ROW Webstore: https://cultneverdies.myshopify.com/
EU Webstore: https://cultneverdies-eu.travelling-merchant.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cultneverdies/
MORBIKON – Announces First Ever Live Performances!
Posted in Black Metal, Heavy Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, music videos, news with tags Black Metal, Metal, metal music, Metal News, metal odyssey, morbikon, Music, music news, music videos, news on September 1, 2023 by Metal Odyssey
Black metal outfit MORBIKON, the creative effort of guitarist/bassist Phil “Land Phil” Hall (Municipal Waste, Cannabis Corpse, Iron Reagan), with drummer Dave Witte (Municipal Waste, Discordance Axis), and vocalist Mathias “Vreth” Lillmåns (Finntroll, …And Oceans), has announced their first ever live appearances!
MORBIKON released their debut full-length, Ov Mournful Twilight, last year via Tankcrimes. The project is guided by the second wave of Scandinavia’s black metal and melodic death metal scenes of the ‘90s.
Issues Hall, “MORBIKON was started as a passion project between myself and my writing partner Quotidius in 2020 to express our love of early ‘90s black metal while simultaneously blowing off some steam trapped in a quarantine. Getting Dave Witte involved pushed the music to a new level, then an awesome opportunity came to work with the outstanding vocalist Mathias Lillmåns from the Finnish band Finntroll. We completed the album Ov Mournful Twilightin the middle of the pandemic not considering any live show prospects. Now, three years after the inception of the band, we finally have the opportunity to play the music live. Unfortunately, the logistics of bringing Mathias Lillmåns all the way from Finland has proved to be infeasible. Stepping into the role of vocalist will be original lyricist Quotidius. We are also welcoming guitarists Toby Swope (Psychosomatic) and Adam Guilliams (Cannabis Corpse). Drums will be handled by Dave Witte. We are looking forward to playing live and bringing these awesome tunes to everyone soon!”
MORBIKON Live:
9/07/2023 Black Circle – Indianapolis, IN w/ Exhumed
9/08/2023 Wake Brewing Anniversary – Rock Island, IL
9/09/2023 Full Terror Assault Fest – Cave Rock, IL
12/01/2023 Decibel Metal And Beer Fest @ Summit – Denver, CO
Purchase Ov Mournful Twilight on CD or LP via Tankcrimes at the label webshop HERE and digitally at Bandcamp HERE. Watch the video for “Universal Funeral” HERE and “Borne Of Phantom Vessel” HERE.
Source: EARSPLIT PR
LIGHTLORN – Release New Track “Dimensionless Blackness”
Posted in Black Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, music videos, news with tags Black Metal, lightlorn, Metal, metal music, Metal News, metal odyssey, Music, music news, music videos, news on August 26, 2023 by Metal Odyssey
Cosmic black metal duo LIGHTLORN has unleashed “Dimensionless Blackness,” the newest single from their upcoming full-length debut: At One with the Night Sky.
The third track on the album, “Dimensionless Blackness” is full of contrasting elements. From the bright guitar picking in the intro, which belies the energetic, groove-infested opening riff that follows, to the ups and downs in the song structure, “Dimensionless Blackness” is highly representative of the sound LIGHTLORN has become known for. The lead guitar carries captivating melodies, while a foreboding piano section and an outro replete with strings and brass infuse the song with atmosphere and emotion. The lyrics are sung from the perspective of a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy. How it holds the galaxy together while slowly devouring the matter around it.
Stream “Dimensionless Blackness” at: youtu.be/T7jhrBCI_Qc
Pre-save the song at: orcd.co/dimensionless-blackness
Black Lion Records will release At One with the Night Sky on September 29. Pre-order the album at: lightlornblacklion.bandcamp.com
Renwar – All instruments and vocals
Riaan – Drums and programming
Source: ClawHammer PR
New England Black Metal Band EAVE Release “Fervor”
Posted in Black Metal, black metal albums, black metal bands, black metal videos, Heavy Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags Black Metal, connecticut metal bands, eave, Metal, Metal News, metal odyssey, Music, music news, music videos, news on July 28, 2023 by Metal Odyssey
Atmospheric post-black metal band EAVE presents their third full-length album, Fervor. Complex and powerful, Fervor offers seven new songs that show a more aggressive march across the bleak, depressive soundscape the band created on 2020’s Phantoms Made Permanent.
Fervor is out now on Bindrune Recordings. Order the album at shop.bindrunerecordings.com or bindrunerecordings.bandcamp.com.
Stream Fervor on Spotify and Apple Music.
Watch the video for “Mirroring” at youtu.be/r0hdmtwMGvE
Tracklist:
1) Past Pulses
2) Chance is a Spectre
3) Mirroring
4) Stale Ash
5) Bending the Light
6) Shards
7) Into Perdition
A lot has happened since the release of EAVE’s Phantoms Made Permanent via Bindrune Recordings. The world has seemingly flipped upside down and in the case of this forward-thinking quartet, change isn’t always a bad thing.
After a band migration back to their home state of Connecticut and a period of tireless effort, EAVE emerges with a formidable selection of songs that see the band demonstrating a fiery new approach to their unique brand of atmospheric metal. Bristling with energy and venom amidst passages of ethereal and shadowed melodies, the duly titled Fervor exhibits an air of urgency, disillusionment, and resiliency. Heavily incorporating elements from a myriad of musical genres and applying a broad tone of experimentalism to their soaring style of New England black metal, Fervor marks a new period of focus for the band, as they press upon new territory that feels wholly their own.
Recorded by the band in Connecticut, and re-amped, mixed, and mastered by Colin Marston in Queens, New York, Fervor sheds stunning light on the beauty and darkness that forever exists in mankind and its relationship to the natural world.
EAVE is:
Brian Tenison – Bass, Vocals
Caleb Porter – Drums
Ian Stoller – Guitars
Gabriel Shara – Guitars, Vocals
Source: ClawHammer PR
PROGENITOR – Announce “Eldritch Supremacy” – Share New Single
Posted in Black Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags Black Metal, Metal, metal music, Metal News, metal odyssey, Music, music news, news on June 12, 2023 by Metal Odyssey
Black metal horde PROGENITOR will unleash its debut album, titled Eldritch Supremacy, this summer. The band has launched an early assault with the album’s first single, “Beast of Gevaudan.”
Stream the song now at youtu.be/TLbAZpHWucw.
Eldritch Supremacy will be out on July 14. Pre-order the album at progenitormetal.bandcamp.com
Tracklist:
1) Intro
2) Eldritch Supremacy
3) Crows of Winter
4) Prophets Belial
5) Beast of Gevaudan
6) Treasures of Perversion
7) Binding of the Corpse God
Eldritch Supremacy was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Chris Manino. Artwork by Jasmine Howsmon.
PROGENITOR, an unrelenting force in the realm of black metal, emerged from the depths of darkness to unleash their sonic fury upon the world. Formed in 2008 in Tacoma, WA. PROGENITOR has risen as a formidable entity within the black metal scene.
Drawing inspiration from the ancient, occult, and primordial forces that shape the universe, PROGENITOR‘s music serves as a vessel for dark and introspective exploration. Their sound is characterized by a relentless onslaught of atmospheric riffs, blistering tremolo-picked melodies, thunderous blast beats, and hauntingly rasped vocals. By seamlessly blending atmospheric elements with ferocious aggression, PROGENITOR creates an immersive and evocative auditory experience that transports listeners to otherworldly realms of despair and transcendence.
PROGENITOR is:
Joe Erz – vocals
Fletcher Lane – lead guitar
Ben Kettel – rhythm guitar
Brian Sprouse– bass guitar and vocals
Alex Shaw – drums
https://linktr.ee/progenitormetal
Source: ClawHammer PR
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