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NIGHT DEMON – S/T EP Is: Stone’s METAL Pick Of The Day!

NIGHT DEMON – They’re from California. They’re old school. They’re Metal. They’re called Night Demon. The prolific Metal label known as Shadow Kingdom Records will be releasing Night Demon’s S/T EP on August 6th; best you pick up this Metal offering from Night Demon cause it’s invitingly raw, loud, and legit True Metal through and through!

From riffage on The Chalice that’s reminiscent of the legendary Scorpions classic cut The Zoo, to an underground Metal atmosphere of yesteryear throughout, Night Demon delivers the Metal goods! It’s honestly unfortunate that this is an EP and not an album of 12 songs. Stone wants more Night Demon! Now! Whoa.

Ritual reminds me that old school Speed Metal is back and the Traditional Heavy Metal spirit, musicianship, vocals and songwriting of Night Demon cannot be overlooked; not by any of my fellow Metal brethren anyways. Fans of old school Metal, NWOBHM, (early) Iron Maiden, (early) Saxon, Witch Cross, Satan, Obsession, Angel Witch, Sinister Realm and of course, Raven, are all in for a remarkable Metal surprise with Night Demon. This trio of talented Metalheads surprised the hell out of me! Metal be thy name.

Watch, listen and turn the volume up to NIGHT DEMON below! Whoa!

NIGHT DEMON – Track Listing:

Night Demon

The Chalice

Ancient Evil

Ritual

NIGHT DEMON:

Jarvis Leatherby

Brent Woodward

John Crerar

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* To read more about NIGHT DEMON, click on the link below!

NIGHT DEMON – Self-titled EP Releasing Via Shadow Kingdom Records

The above link is for a post featured on Metal Odyssey, on June 21, 2013.

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* For more info on NIGHT DEMON, click on links below!

www.nightdemon.net

Facebook: Night Demon

SHADOW KINGDOM RECORDS:

http://shadowkingdomrecords.com

Facebook: Shadow Kingdom Records

ALL HAIL NIGHT DEMON.

NIGHT DEMON KICKS METAL ASS.

Stone.

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ACHERON – Current Band News, New Album & Festival Details

Posted in Death Metal, Heavy Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news, Thrash Metal with tags acheron, acheron kult des hasses, acheron tour dates, Death Metal, metal albums 2013, Metal News, Thrash Metal on June 19, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

Black Death Metal Thrash demons ACHERON have completed the recording process for their upcoming Listenable Records release, Kult Des Hasses.The album is now set to enter the mixing and mastering phase.

ACHERON will be doing a mini-tour with INCANTATION in late July. The band has enlisted DISMEMBERMENT guitarist Jacob Shively to fill the slot of second guitarist. When asked if Shively would be their new permanent second guitarist, ACHERON founder Vincent Crowley stated:

“Jacob is a talented guitarist and fan of the band. His group DISMEMBERMENT opened for ACHERON a few times and I really liked them. That is why I asked him about filling in. But we are taking baby steps. We’ve learned from past experiences not to just hire someone right away. For now he is playing with us for all upcoming live shows. We’ll just have to see if it progresses into something more. But we are indeed open to the idea if the dedication and chemistry is there.”

Vincent Crowley – bass, vocals

Kyle Severn – drums

Art Taylor – Guitar

Jacob Shively

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ACHERON will also head to Germany to headline the Death Doomed the Age Fest in September and return in October for the Under the Banner of the Black Light Fest.

Confirmed ACHERON Live Dates:

07/18 – Philadelphia, PA @ TBA

07/19 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar w/ INCANTATION

07/20 – Providence, RI @ Fete w/ INCANTATION

09/06 – Lichtenfels, Germany @ Death Doomed the Age Fest – http://www.DeathDoomed.de

10/12 – Gieben, Germany @ Under the Banner of the Black Light Fest –

Facebook: Under The Banner of the Black Light Festival

(Source: ClawHammer PR)

* For more info on ACHERON, click on the links below!

Facebook: Acheron

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https://twitter.com/ACHERONband

Listenable Records: http://www.listenable.net

LONG LIVE ACHERON.

Stone.

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SIOUX – S/T EP Is: Stone’s METAL Pick Of The Day!

Posted in Heavy Metal, heavy metal news, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news, underground metal with tags metal albums 2013, Metal News, sioux, sioux ep, sioux s/t ep, sludge, underground metal bands on June 19, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

Above Artwork by: Matt Verges

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SIOUX – From the fine city of Portland, Oregon comes a really, really cool Metal/Heavy Rock band that recently caught my Metal attention and their named SIOUX. This Metal trio have just released their S/T EP on May 10th, 2013. I have become so impressed with this band’s sound and songs on this EP that I hereby make this Metal declaration:

SIOUX – S/T EP Is:

Stone’s METAL Pick Of The Day!

A (hopeful) majority of Sludge, Stoner, Doom and underground Metal fans will take an immediate liking to SIOUX and their muscular, badass heavy songs. There are 4 songs on their S/T EP and ALL 4 are legitimate listens that need to be heard and passed along throughout the Metal (world) community. Fans of Mastodon, WINO, Saint Vitus, Crowbar and Motörhead should all hear some influence within the song structures, vocals and musicianship of SIOUX.

Kirk Evans (vocals, guitar, bass) sounds like a giant atop the mountain peek, looking down upon his Metal followers who are chanting: SIOUX! SIOUX! SIOUX! In our grand Metal world there are those underground bands that turn up and kick your ass into Metal shape; SIOUX is one of those underground Metal bands. Get your ears into SIOUX and be glad you did; cause this band will serve you Metal right. Metal be thy name.

* To hear and purchase the digital download of SIOUX S/T EP and other SIOUX merch, click on this link: siouxtheband.bandcamp.com

* SIOUX Recorded & Mixed by Fester at Haywire Studios and Mastered by Nate Abner at Sola Sounds Studios.

SIOUX:

Kirk Evans – Guitar/Bass/Vocals

Ryan McPhaill – Drums

Juan Carlos Caceres – Guitar

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SIOUX S/T EP – Track Listing:

Bezoar

Rheap

Aegeless

In Tongues

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* For more info on SIOUX, click on the links below!

Facebook: http://facebook.com/SiouxPDX

siouxtheband.bandcamp.com

http://digital.eolianempire.com/track/ascension

LONG LIVE SIOUX.

Stone.

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PRIMITIVE MAN “SCORN” – A Scathing, Blackened Doom Journey To The Outer Cliffs Of Hell

Posted in doom metal, Extreme Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news, sludge metal with tags doom metal, metal albums 2013, Metal News, primitive man, primitive man scorn, sludge metal on June 18, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

PRIMITIVE MAN – As I listen to Scorn, I cannot help seeing myself being pulled into an invading dark vacuum that drops me upon the outer cliffs of hell. Seriously, the mood, atmosphere, vocals and overpowering vibes from Scorn sound so hellish that it’s ridiculously scary. Then again, that’s what Dark, Blackened and raging Metal will do to me every time. However, Primitive Man just comes across as so legitimately evil that I cannot help applaud their authenticity.

Primitive Man’s debut album Scorn will be reissued by the mighty Relapse Records on August 20th, 2013. Scorn exhibits some deadly serious Doom Metal, mixed with some Sludge and splattered with more darkness than a cloudy Northern sky during the height of Winter in Norway. It’s very difficult for me not to become (somewhat) hypnotized by the constant thundering stomp that Scorn radiates with its beats. Fuzzed-out, old school guitar tones blanket this album with a slice of Industrial noise and (a feeling of) cavernous atmospherics for special effects, making Scorn all the more legitimately chilling.

The title song (and album opener) is an epic that clocks in around 11:44 and is so memorable that I want to scream my face off in Metal jubilation.

If the album cover artwork doesn’t scare the shit out of you, then trust me, listening to Scorn by yourself with the lights dimmed or completely off will. Primitive Man is one Metal band from Denver, Colorado, that I want on my Metal side of the fence. I cringe at the thought of really hearing this band becoming pissed off to higher heights; Scorn has been a Metal lesson well deserved and more than welcomed for my Metal soul. Metal be thy name.

PRIMITIVE MAN SCORN – Track Listing:

Scorn

Rags

I Can’t Forget

Antietam

Black Smoke

Stretched Thin

Astral Sleep

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Facebook: PRIMITIVE MAN

http://primitivemandoom.bandcamp.com

Relapse Records: www.relapse.com

LONG LIVE PRIMITIVE MAN.

Stone.

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DEHUMAN REIGN “Destructive Intent” – A Morbid And Menacing Must!

Posted in Death Metal, death metal bands, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags Death Metal, death metal albums 2013, dehuman reign, dehuman reign destructive intent, metal albums 2013, Metal News on June 17, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

DEHUMAN REIGN – Releasing on July 26th, 2013, via FDA Rekotz is the menacing debut album, Destructive Intent, from Berlin’s Death Metal squad: Dehuman Reign. With (about) 20 minutes of face-melting Death Metal to be devoured on Destructive Intent, the keep it short, fast and deadly approach in which Dehuman Reign ventures into is not a bad idea at all. The shortened album approach in Metal has succeeded in the past, with Slayer’s Reign In Blood being the untouchable template for generations of bands and fans to savor.

Here we have Dehuman Reign and not Slayer, so the comparisons can stop with lengths of albums. With that said, Dehuman Reign rages along with a Gore Metal meets Death Metal sound; a blanket of sound that’s terrifying enough to put some of your worst nightmares to their knees. Morbid vocals and extreme speed musically, the two marry into each other with a perfection that only we Death and Gore Metal fans can wholly appreciate.

With killer album art and equally killer songs, what more can any savvy Death/Gore/Extreme Metal fan want? I’ll tell you this much, with this album playing and the lights turned off, Dehuman Reign easily can scare the shit out of me; especially the evil provoking spoken word tracks of: Invocation I Black Seed and Invocation II Scorched Earth. Whatever the deadly case may be, the melancholic vibes and darkness that lurks behind these spoken words are what keeps me up late at night and I’ll never learn my lesson; cause this is the underground Metal I crave for. Metal be thy name.

DESTRUCTIVE INTENT – Track Listing:

Prelude To Perdition

Extinction Machine

Invocation I Black Seed

Irreversible Soul Consumption

Staring Beyond The Edge Of Time

Invocation II Scorched Earth

Veil Of Ignorance

Masks Of Sorrow

Destructive Intent was mastered by Matias Ahonen at Finnish Audiamond Studio (Solstafir, Hour Of 13). The album’s cover art was masterfully drawn by Dedy of Badic Art (Demonical, Goregast, Skeletal Remains).

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* For more info on DEHUMAN REIGN, click below!

Facebook: DEHUMAN REIGN

FDA Rekotz: http://www.fda-rekotz.com

LONG LIVE DEHUMAN REIGN.

LONG LIVE DEATH METAL.

Stone.

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SINISTER REALM “World Of Evil” METAL Video Is: Stone’s METAL Pick Of The Day!

Posted in Heavy Metal, heavy metal albums, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags heavy metal albums 2013, metal albums 2013, Metal News, sinister realm, sinister realm world of evil, world of evil music video on June 17, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

SINISTER REALM – Releasing on August 6th, 2013, World Of Evil will be the 3rd studio album from Allentown Pennsylvania’s SINISTER REALM. Shadow Kingdom Records will be releasing this new SINISTER REALM album once again.

SINISTER REALM is among the elite True Metal battalion of bands; where Heavy Metal is safely protected as traditional with no bullshit additives to pacify the flavor-of-the-month crowd of plastic clowns. Following their successful 2009 s/t debut and 2011 release The Crystal Eye (both via Shadow Kingdom Records), SINISTER REALM has amassed an impressive loyal following by continuously playing live and staying in touch through social media.

A band like SINISTER REALM isn’t made overnight, this Metal troupe from the Keystone State have paid their Metal dues and have earned worldwide recognition as one of Metal’s finest from any independent or major record label. Any true fan of Metal knows what quality and integrity that exists in the Metal underground… and SINISTER REALM via Shadow Kingdom Records is living proof of this.

Recently, SINISTER REALM have released a new music video for their forthcoming album’s title song. Sung with chilling True Metal passion by Alex Kristof, with True Metal musicianship of equal heights behind him, this title song World Of Evil is a pronounced indictment on the societies that surround us. Listen to, watch and crank-the-hell-up this World Of Evil music video below; and pledge your Metal allegiance to…

The Realm… SINISTER REALM.

* Director & script writer: Stacy Feit

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Alex Kristof – vocals

John Gaffney – bass, guitar, background vocals

John Kantner – rhythm & lead guitar

John Risko – lead guitar

Chris Metzger – drums

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* For a related post on World Of Evil from SINISTER REALM, as featured on Metal Odyssey, click on the link below!

SINISTER REALM – Reveal Artwork And Track Listing For “World of Evil”

The above link is for a post featured on Metal Odyssey, on April 7, 2013.

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* To read the exclusive Metal Odyssey interview with SINISTER REALM’s bassist John Gaffney (from 2011), click on that amazing link below!

SINISTER REALM – A Metal Odyssey Exclusive Interview!

The above link is for a post featured on Metal Odyssey, on September 3, 2011.

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* For more info on SINISTER REALM, click on the links below!

Facebook: Sinister Realm

www.sinisterrealm.net

You can order SINISTER REALM World Of Evil by clicking that link below! Whoa!

http://shadowkingdomrecords.com/

LONG LIVE SINISTER REALM.

Stone.

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Moss Of Moonlight – Announce New Album ‘Winterwheel’

Posted in folk metal, Metal, metal albums, metal bands, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags folk metal, metal albums 2013, Metal News, moss of moonlight, moss of moonlight winterwheel on June 16, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

Formed in the summer of 2010 in the heart of Cascadia, Winterwheel is the second offering from Blackened Folk Metal duo Moss of Moonlight and will be released this summer solstice on June 21st, 2013.

Described as “a true rarity in the black metal genre” by Pure Gain Audio, ‘Winterwheel’ follows the highly acclaimed debut ‘Seed’, a concept album about a band of Pacific North Western rebels that rise up and create the Republic of Cascadia. ‘Winterwheel’ digs deeper into the earth; a 45 minute trance into the otherworld’s. Using Anglo-Saxon chanting, haunting female vocals, visceral growls, and a giant atmosphere, Moss of Moonlight has put ancient Pagan ritual into song. It’s an album of Anglo-Saxon gods and primal Paganism and as the band says, “it reaches far beyond ‘Seed’, into colder and darker territories.”

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Jenn Grunigen of the band recently discussed the upcoming album in more detail and touched on the actual writing process:

“Winterwheel is a ritual put to song. It embraces the turning of the seasons, and the necessary, vicious loop of birth and death. Each song delves into the nature of a different Anglo-Saxon god or goddess, and is steeped in the old, cyclic roads of our Pagan ancestors, as well as the very language of the Anglo Saxons. With this wisdom and craft, we made new rites–in other words, Winterwheel, this sacrifice to the gods, the cosmos. With each play, the ritual is brought to life once more, and anyone willing to listen is a participant in the offering.”

“The writing was natural, but is still a momentary step away from our Cascadian heart. Our first album, Seed, was created with the majestic, deep, damp forests of Cascadia in mind; a viscera that the music, of course, reflected. Winterwheel is rooted and broad in its own way, but is more grounded in our Pagan past. We extricated it from the typical tropes of folk metal; the usual woodwind riffs and such. Instead, this is an album of long, epic swells, swollen with meditative chants and percussion, cold chunky guitars with a tale to tell.”

Winterwheel – Track Listing:

01) Gaet

02) Eole

03) Catte

04) Hraefne

Cavan Wagner of the band took the cover image himself though the artwork throughout the digipack’s booklet is photography by both band members, Cavan and Jenn. “The artwork represents a photographic microcosm of Cascadia’s seasons. The cover image itself is simply another form of the wheel: the rose hip, an insomniac bud of life across the still sleep of winter.”

More info: www.mossofmoonlight.com

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(Source: Future PR)

LONG LIVE MOSS OF MOONLIGHT.

Stone.

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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 extreme metal albums 2013, lair of the minotaur, lair of the minotaur godslayer, metal albums 2013, Metal News, stone's metal pick of the day on June 13, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

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

LONG LIVE LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR.

Stone.

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ASKING ALEXANDRIA – Debuts New Track “The Death Of Me” From Forthcoming Album “From Death To Destiny”

Posted in Heavy Metal, heavy metal news, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags asking alexandria, from death to destiny, heavy metal news, metal albums 2013, Metal News, the death of me on April 5, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

U.K. Rockers Asking Alexandria have just debuted the new track, The Death of Me, from their forthcoming album, From Death To Destiny, which is set for a Summer release.

Check out “The Death of Me” here:

http://www.guitarworld.com/asking-alexandria-premiere-new-track-death-me

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ASKING ALEXANDRIA:

Danny Worsnop – vocals

Ben Bruce – guitar

Cameron Liddell – guitar

Sam Bettley – bass

James Cassells – drums

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* For more info on ASKING ALEXANDRIA, click on the link below!

http://www.askingalexandriaofficial.com

LONG LIVE ASKING ALEXANDRIA.

Stone.

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MAJALIS – Signs With Pulverised Records

Posted in doom metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags doom metal, majalis, majalis debut ep, metal albums 2013, Metal News on April 5, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

Swedish abjection horde MAJALIS is now in league with Pulverised Records!

With this project group suspended for several years and ultimately resurrected by the group’s pivotal figures Tobias Netzell and Björn Pettersson, also of In Mourning fame; MAJALIS is now ready to take the first leap forward and introduce the band’s debut EP to the unsuspecting world of mournful harmonious scorn.

In an official press statement from MAJALIS six-stringer Björn Pettersson: “We are happy and proud to be able to work with Pulverised for our debut EP. Some of us have been working together before and it feels like both us and the Pulverised guys are pretty stoked about this project, so we have no doubts that this will be a good collaboration.”

MAJALIS is a newly formed band but is hailing from a project that started quite some time ago, much of the material to this first EP was written by Tobias and Björn several years ago. Later the four of us got together and decided to make the project into a band, and now it feels perfect to be able to put these songs out as a first sign of life. All four members are active musicians in other bands and are no strangers to playing live or writing music, plus we all tend to work very well together so we have a lot of good vibes for this. The music we have recorded so far draws inspiration from some atmospheric, hardcore and doom-influenced territories. We are really eager to get going and to present what we are working on.”

Pulverised Records label manager Roy Yeo had this to say regarding the latest signing: “Having worked with In Mourning previously, we knew very clearly what Tobias, Björn and co. were capable of for sure. MAJALIS although are amongst the same musical territory with the likes of In Mourning, Katatonia, etc and its predecessors, they sound nothing like the aforementioned bands. There is really no better way to describe MAJALIS than somewhat sounding dangerously close to a funeral-like Post Rock band with unyielding depressive underlings.”

MAJALIS is:

Daniel Jansson – Bass, Vocals

Tobias Netzell – Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals

Björn Pettersson – Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals

Jonas Martinsson – Drums

(Source: ClawHammer PR)

* For more info on MAJALIS, click on the links below!

http://www.facebook.com/majalismusic

http://www.pulverised.net

LONG LIVE MAJALIS.

Stone.

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