VANISHING POINT Distant Is The Sun – Prepare for a HUGE album – release dates are February 21st (EU) and February 18th (US). Distant Is The Sun is releasing via Hamburg, Germany’s AFM Records.
Distant Is The Sun – Track Listing:
01. Beyond Redemption (Intro)
02. King Of Empty Promises
03. Distant Is The Sun
04. When Truth Lies
05. Circle Of Fire
06. Let The River Run
07. Denied Deliverance
08. Story Of Misery
09. Era Zero
10. Pillars Of Sand
11. As December Fades
12. Handful Of Hope
13. Walls Of Silence
14. April (Instrumental)
TRIGANT, in its current line-up has existed since mid 2010. Since then, this German band creates their own music, with a unique style, which can be described best as Modern Heavy Thrash Metal with a massive dose of Groove. Two in-house productions have already been released.
In spring 2011 “The Legendary Demotape” has been released, followed by the “Wolves EP” on Sept. 01, 2013.
Furthermore, TRIGANT has launched a series of concerts known as “Metal im Markt” which takes place two or three times a year and for now counts to the most famous once in their region.
CRANK UP AND LET LOOSE THE METAL FROM… TRIGANT! METAL BE THY NAME!
Greek death dealers MASS INFECTION prepares to dominate the death metal scene in 2014 with their new, highly anticipated full-length album, For I Am Genocide. This is the follow-up to their 2009 release The Age of Recreation.
MASS INFECTION has crushed skulls with their precision brutality since 2003. They have certainly proven to be a supreme force with their skillful and technical style of catchy Death Metal. MASS INFECTION are strongly influenced by bands like Deeds of Flesh, Hate Eternal and Severe Torture… so you can expect a blistering assault of barbaric insanity!
Album track “Praised By All The Entities” is now streaming below:
Check out the COMATOSE MUSIC webstore for a huge selection of brutality on CD and vinyl. Buy 3 CDs, get 1 free, buy 6, get 2; buy 9 get 3! Tons of merch, specials, pre-orders and more also available.
Here’s an interview with me from my studio, The Indalo Cave, conducted by Almeria Life’s Catherine Eleman, in which I discuss my work across the different bands and genres. Enjoy!
UNTIMELY DEMISE are from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thrash Metal and Death Metal collide in a fireball of gargantuan glory, on Systematic Eradication; with healthy slices of True and Speed Metal adding to the Metal delicacy! Untimely Demise is, in my Metal opinion, a Metal band that has an enormous cross-over appeal to Metal fans of widespread Metal tastes. I’m certain the majority shall agree, the cover artwork for Systematic Eradication kicks quantum ass. Ed Repka is an artistic Metal genius.
With plenty of melodic guitar solos and groove infested rhythm throughout, Systematic Eradication is a Metal release from 2013 that must be highlighted here on Metal Odyssey. This Untimely Demise album comes across with such a genuine attack of Thrash sound and energy; I cannot resist listening to Systematic Eradication, in its entirety, each time I reach for it! Vocally and musically impressive, as ALL eight songs flow seamlessly together, with each song having ample Metal uniqueness of structure and enjoyability. A fabulous Metal album! Metal be thy name. – Stone
Without Death Metal’s founding fathers, Possessed, Obscene Extreme would be a very different festival indeed.
Forming in San Francisco in 1983, the band dragged thrash metal into darker and heavier places with their classic albums ‘Seven Churches’ and ‘Beyond The Gates’ on Combat Records. Possessed created a whole genre and then faded away like ghosts.
Reforming around vocalist and founder Jeff Becerra in 2007, the original death cult are back and they’re writing new material too. Obscene Extreme 2014, prepare yourself for a new chapter in the unholy book of the dead…
Making an overdue return to Obscene Extreme since their debut visit in 2010, furiously outspoken death/grind San Diego outfit Cattle Decapitation have been confirmed to play at Obscene Extreme Festival 2014. Obscene Extreme organisers are proud to welcome the US powerhouse who will take their razor-wire brand of technical death/grind back to Trutnov, Czech Republic to pick up where they left off… filling the pit with teeth, blood and bones.
Having set a terrifying new standard with 2012’s ‘Monolith Of Insanity’ – a chaotic slaughterhouse floor of chainsaw riffs and bolt gun drumming – Cattle Decapitation are at their absolute best.
Obscene Extreme 2014, prepare for the slaughter!!!
Olympia, Washington-based 20 Buck Spin continuously defies all extreme music genre boundaries, the label’s vast juggernaut of a roster containing top-tier acts from all realms and scenes of the underground, and now continues this tradition with the new induction of mysterious entity, DEAD IN THE MANGER.
Very little information was provided to 20 Buck Spin regarding DEAD IN THE MANGER when the label was initially contacted about a release, only that the band delivers a mix of depressive black metal and grind (which seemed on paper an impossible combination) and that the intention is to leave a feeling of unease and despondency in the listener. Nonetheless, a cursory listen to the outfit’s debut MLP, Transience, leaves no doubt that DEAD IN THE MANGER succeeds handily in creating music both brutally violent and coldly agonizing.
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Transience begins with an atmospheric repetitive motive conjuring a bleak sadness that sets the stage for an urgent right turn to scalpel-sharp, maximum BPM aggression and multiple stab wounds of hate-driven malcontent. Filled with ill will and revulsion, DEAD IN THE MANGER walks a fine line between all out sensory violence and post trauma exhaustion.
With just six songs in less than twenty minutes — succinctly named Parts I-VI — Transience destroys the listener with a calculated premeditation in a short time, and is intended as a first glimpse at what DEAD IN THE MANGER is preparing for, as a debut full-length album is currently in the works.
Transience will be unleashed on MLP and digital formats in North America on April 29th and in Europe on May 2nd. DEAD IN THE MANGER’s LP debut will follow later in 2014, also on 20 Buck Spin.
Swiss Extreme Death Metal manglers, NEAR DEATH CONDITION, are readying to unleash their sophomore full-length for Unique Leader Records. Titled Evolving Towards Extinction, the record was mixed at famed Hertz Studios (Vader, Hate, Dead Infection, Vesania etc.) in Poland, mastered at Iguana Studios in Germany and hurls forth eleven infernal odes of chaos and death ornamented by incapacitating drum gymnastics, scorching riffs and enough vocal acrimony to flatten a nation.
Evolving Towards Extinction Track Listing:
01. Words Of Wisdom
02. Between The Dying And The Dead
03. Intelligent Design
04. Pandemic Of Ignorance
05. Praise The Lord Of Negation
06. The Anatomy Of Disgust
07. Anagamin
08. Evolving Towards Extinction
09. Vertigo
10. Communing With Emptiness
11. Nostalgia For Chaos
NEAR DEATH CONDITION was spawned in Switzerland thirteen years ago and unleashed their Delusional Perception Of Reality demo in 2005. More a full-length than a mere demo, the punishing offering reaped instant praise among the Death Metal underground and earned NDC a place on Unique Leader’s reputable roster of extreme. Their first official long player, The Disembodied – In Spiritual Spheres, which Masterful Magazine commended for fusing “traditional death metal aesthetics with its more modern counterparts while retaining heaviness and dynamics throughout,” came to fruition in 2011 and grossed critical accolades from fans and media globally.
NDC has leveled stages alongside the likes of Origin, Hour Of Penance and Darkane, ravaged the third edition of the infamous Silence Festival and plan to infiltrate the masses throughout 2014. A journey into the kingdom of sickness and insanity awaits!
Evolving Towards Extinction will be released via Unique Leader Records on March 18th, 2014, with preorder opportunities and further info to be announced in the coming weeks.
A new musical force to be reckoned with is about to turn the rock world upside down with the release of their self-titled debut, KXM. KXM is comprised of dUg PinnickofKing’s X on vocals/bass, George LynchofLynch Mob/Dokken on guitars and Korn’s drum maestro, Ray Luzier, rounds out the powerhouse trio. The band takes its name from the combination of the member’s other projects: K from Korn, X from King’s X and M from Lynch Mob.
The self-titled debut of KXM is something truly unique and special. The songs are powerful, precise, and transcend beyond the boundaries of the imagination. In today’s overpopulated music arena, true gems become harder and harder to find, but KXM’s unified vision rises above the normal and creates its own space. From the opening drum riff of “Stars” to the final chord on “Human Friction,” KXM is an album that is sure to resonate with fans from the band’s original projects, while garnering new ones as well. Songs like “Gun Fight,” “Faith Is A Room” and the first single “Rescue Me” are sure to be instant favorites among fans. The band shows their softer side on the ballad “Never Stop” along with their dark side on the tale of domestic violence, “Sleep.”
KXM formed in early 2013 when dUg, George and Ray spoke about trying to jam together. At the time it wasn’t clear what would come from those jams. The only thing that was clear was that these 3 musicians, at the top of their game, wanted to play together. The self-titled debut, KXM, was born from those jam sessions and is now an important piece in each band member’s musical legacy. In a world that constantly searches for new and unique music, KXM delivers all the power and punch that one would expect from these high level players! Official release date is set for March 11, 2014
U.S Death Metal Unit BLOODSOAKED have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for its fourth full-length album, Religious Apocalypse, to be released later this year on Comatose Music. You can donate to the cause at this location.
BLOODSOAKED main man Peter Hasselbrack explains the decision to launch the campaign:
“We took less money from our record label this time around so we could secure the digital rights to Bloodsoaked’s music and give back to the fans. With our new deal with Comatose Music we now have the rights to give away all Bloodsoaked’s music absolutely FREE via the Bloodsoaked web site. What does this mean to you…? Well, six months after the new Bloodsoaked album is released we will be releasing every Bloodsoaked album FREE to everyone and anyone. We are doing this to give back to all the fans that have supported and continue to support Bloodsoaked.”
BLOODSOAKED’s last recorded output came in the form of The Death of Hope, released in 2011 via Comatose Music. That album, along with 2009’s Sadistic Greed…Grotesque Memories are streaming in full at www.bloodsoaked.stereokiller.com.
Catch BLOODSOAKED on its upcoming European tour in April with SHORT FUSE, INSATANITY, AITTALA, and AGE OF ARES. Tour dates are as follows:
3-April Berlin, Ger (Blackland)
4-April Weissenfels, Ger (Schlosskeller)
5-April Greifswald, Ger (Klex)
6-April Katowice, Pol (Pub Korba)
7-April Poznan, Pol (Klub u Bazyla)
8-April Leipzig, Ger (4Rooms)
9-April Amsterdam, NL (The Cave)
10-April Paris, FR (Le Klub)
11-April Renchen, Ger (Come-Inn)
12-April Winschoten, NL (Boelies Pub)
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BLOODSOAKED have also announced that they’ll be playing the Obscene Extreme Festival in the Czech Republic, which will be held July 16-20, 2014. More information on the fest can be found at www.obsceneextreme.cz.
Cincinnati, Ohio – The Warriors of Metal, Inc. non-profit organization is very excited to welcome back the Madison, Wisc., power metallers who rocked the Warriors Of Metal Fest III & IV Open Air shows in 2010 and 2011, the LORDS OF THE TRIDENT!
Fest organizer Datis Alaee comments: “Not only did this band inject a lot of fun into our annual summer festival but the band’s most outgoing and ‘vocal’ personality, Ty Christian has been a source of incredible support for us, showing up each subsequent year in 2012 right in the middle of the storm we were being hit with and 2013 with more and more metalheads from Wisconsin to enjoy themselves during our metal weekend in Ohio. Those friends have since become new festival fans who are becoming repeat attendees! That kind of support is very rare and very much appreciated!!!”
Band founder and vocalist, Lord Fang Von Wrathenstein states: “The LORDS OF THE TRIDENT are excited to be able to return to the Warriors of Metal fest, and do battle with all of the other true METAL bands and fans out there. It has been two years since our last appearance at the fest, and this has given the fest organizer the proper time to rebuild the stage, put out all of the fires, bury their dead, and fill in the giant crater caused by our 2011 performance. We are once again ready to melt faces, abduct Ohio’s women, and slay all the unworthy who stand in our path. We sincerely hope that the venue has installed the necessary shock absorbing concrete slabs to withstand the earth shattering, inferno-producing metal we plan to unleash. WARRIORS! Ready your axes and prepare your strongest armor – YOU SHALL NEED IT!”
Check out the video for Complete Control, off of LOTT’s Plan of Attack, below!
Bands confirmed for Pre-Fest Showcase on Thursday, June 26 at O’Sheckeys Live Bar & Grill include: ETERNAL LEGACY (headliner) AUTOMATON, DEADIRON, LOWER 13, DETHRATS, , GRAVE ROBBER, SPLIT THE ABYSS and WINTERHYMN.
Warriors Of Metal Fest VII confirmed bands thus far for the main Fest on Friday, June 27 & Saturday June 28 include: ARMORY, BEYOND FALLEN, BURNING SHADOWS, CELLADOR, CRUSADER, FLESH ENGINE, LORDS OF THE TRIDENT, MITHRIDIUM, RESISTANCE, RESTLESS BREED, and SHALLOW GROUND.
Keep up-to-date with all of the developments such as band announcements and ticket information for next year’s show through the Warrior’s of Metal Fest’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/warriorsofmetal
BRAINSTORM – have added a second support band for their special “Firesoul” release concerts: GUN BARREL.
GUN BARREL will be the second supporting act for our special album release shows. So now you’ll get BRAINSTORM, BLOODBOUND and GUN BARREL. Not bad, huh?
Prepare to set your soul on fire! “FIRESOUL” coming on April 4!
Two years after The Landing, Hamburg, Germany Power Metallers IRON SAVIOR return with their brand new studio album Rise Of The Hero, out on February 28th (Europe), March 4th (USA).
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IRON SAVIOR will celebrate the release of their new album with a special LIVE release show on February 26th, in their home town of Hamburg, Germany.
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Listen to Burning Heart, from Rise Of The Hero, below!
If you are in Hamburg, Germany, on the 26th, come over to the Rock Cafe, see the band perform and get the brand new CD “Rise Of The Hero” 2 days before its official release.
* For more info on IRON SAVIOR and Rise Of The Hero, click on the link below! Whoa!
COLDSTEEL – With five songs of blistering, American made Thrash Metal, COLDSTEEL gets ‘er done with their 2013 release: America Idle. The duo guitars of Eddie Campbell and Joe Shavel are a Thrash force, the vocals of Troy Norr is a Thrash force and the rhythm section of Doug Odell (bass) and Hal Aponte are the Thrashing icing on the Metal freaking cake.
These seasoned warriors of Thrash Metal, from New York, New York, have paid their dues and exemplify all things kick-ass about underground Thrash Metal in America. With an old school nod to the greats of the genre, COLDSTEEL have always pulled it off in a genuine, Thrashing style as an original. For me NOT to get my ass up and Thrash about, while I’m cranking up America Idle, (at home, not in the car), is a rarity. COLDSTEELwill ignite your veins, brain and nervous system to MOSH the F*CK OUT! Metal be thy name. – Stone
BRAINSTORM – Firesoul cover artwork & track listing revealed! Release date is April 4th (CD, ltd. Digipak, ltd. Special Edition, ltd. Vinyl). Pre-order options will be announced soon.
Legendary U.S. Metal band HELSTAR will release their new studio album This Wicked Nest On April 25th. It will be available as CD & on Vinyl. Take a look at the cover artwork. Old school Metal!
Very first release show for our forthcoming album ‘This Wicked Nest’. Where else would we have it but our home town of Houston!!! More release shows to follow!
Helstar — ‘This Wicked Nest’ CD Release Show! CD, Vinyl, T-Shirts +more at Merchandise Table (Worldwide Release Date April 25th)
With Special Guests: Venomous Maximus, Warbeast, Sanctus Bellum, Termination Force
BLOODBOUND are a Power Metal band from Bollnäs, Sweden and I’ll guarantee their 2012 album, In The Name Of Metal, will kick your Metal lovin’ ass into the week after next. This insane fabulous album was released via AFM Records. Yup, the album cover artwork tells you immediately, that this Bloodbound album is whiz-bang.
When it comes to guitar driven Power Metal, Bloodbound are an unstoppable force. Unreal. Are Metal anthems what you crave? Bloodbound will have you lighting a torch and marching down main street to city hall at midnight. In The Name Of Metal and Metalheads Unite are two Metal anthems that speaks for our Metal community. Metal victory doesn’t await us, my fellow Metal brethren, the Metal victory is here and heard throughout this Bloodbound album! All the posers that aren’t still getting all this may now leave. Get out.
Lead vocalist Patrik Johansson is a pure talent, with a splendid touch of influence from Metal legends as Kai Hansen, Andi Deris and Bruce Dickinson. There’s even an obvious vocal influence of the legendary Udo Dirkschneider that I hear on Monstermind. I honestly put Patrik Johansson on a high Metal pedestal; for his range and sporadic falsetto are plenty impressive, to me. Bloodbound easily commands me to really feel the outpouring of jubilant Metal that they play so incredibly well, on In The Name Of Metal.
In The Name Of Metal never lets up on its powerful Metal momentum, from beginning to end it’s a Metal thrill! My favorite song is Black Devil, however, this entire album is relentless with its mission of in-your-face Power Metal. Bloodbound are just a complete Metal band and they’ve easily demonstrated to me their out-and-out power! Support Bloodbound, buy this album and thank me in the Metal future. Metal be thy name. – Stone
Looking back on 2013, there were many, many great Metal albums released; Metal albums that should always be hailed here, on Metal Odyssey. One such album is The Rise Of Resistance and the Power Metal brilliance of Heilbronn, Germany’s Circle Of Silence. This is a Power Metal album that MUST be heard, to understand it’s true potent thunder!
Yes, once again, we have album cover artwork that matches the Metal heard within like a Metal glove! Nick on vocals comes across as the ever confident and eloquent Metal frontman, as he exhibits an attitude and grandiose vibe of pure might, with every note. The duo guitar fretwork of Tobias and Chris is a sensation to take in; with the rhythm section of Björn (bass) and Pit (drums) only exemplifies why Circle Of Silence is a Power Metal force to adhere to.
Released via Abstatt, Germany’s Massacre Records, The Rise Of Resistance is just one of many numerous Metal gems that this legendary record label offered in 2013. Any rabid Power Metal and/or True Metal fan’s album collection is amiss without this recent Circle Of Silence offering. Circle Of Silence = Metal. Period. What makes any album memorable are the songs and Circle Of Silence surely has them on The Rise Of Resistance. Metal be thy name. – Stone
The Metal Warriors known across our lands as METAL INQUISITOR have a new studio album releasing this February 21st, via Massacre Records and it explodes with True Heavy Metal glory, speed, riffage, eye-popping guitar solo’s, kick-ass vocals, 10 memorable songs and an undeniable spirit of what Metal is ALL about! Ultima Ratio Regis is a Metal album you MUST seek out and own! Praise the Metal Gods that Metal Inquisitor exists!
For ALL of you old school Metalheads out there, this is a True Heavy Metal album that you will ALL be telling your fellow Metal brethren to buy and hail! My Metal God almighty, does this band from Koblenz, Germany know how to shred, ignite the Metal senses and profess the True Heavy Metal gospel! Yes, Virginia, the album cover artwork does dictate just how outstanding the Metal you’ll hear within is!
El Rojo on vocals slams it home, while the entire band screams legendary Metal talent, through these 10 songs. I’m NOT blowing Metal wind out of my ass here, Metal Inquisitor have paid their Metal dues and are a True Heavy Metal band that has erupted ALL the Metal goodness that flows within my Metal veins. Ultima Ratio Regis is an album that I cannot recommend any more highly than I’ve already tried. Metal Inquisitor and Old school Metalheads shall know what I mean.
Metal Inquisitor and their new album will have fans of Witch Cross, Satan, Sinister Realm, Manowar, Grim Reaper, Crystal Viper, Iced Earth, (early) Judas Priest and (early) Iron Maiden, salivating at the mouth. I am incredibly psyched-out that the Metal sounds of Metal Inquisitor are in my Metal blood for the rest of my Metal life. Metal be thy name. – Stone
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