This coming November and December, the legendary GRAVE DIGGER will be marching again on the German Metal Attack tour, with dates in Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Czech Republic. Click on the link below for complete tour dates, cities and venues:
http://www.grave-digger.de/home/tour/
* For more info on GRAVE DIGGER:
Facebook: Official GRAVE DIGGER Fan Site
Website: http://www.grave-digger-clan.com
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Last week, debilitating storms dumped flood water throughout the Detroit area, including the offices of Small Stone Records, label home of Sasquatch, Wo Fat, Greenleaf, Lord Fowl, Dixie Witch, Roadsaw and so many others. Gear and product were both destroyed and insurance is only going to go so far, so we’re coming together to help Scott Hamilton from Small Stone with some of the massive expense of cleaning up from this flood. Hamilton’s support for heavy music in the near two-decades that he’s run Small Stone has never wavered and this is a chance to help somebody who’s helped us by enriching our lives with great bands and great riffs.
A recent post by The Obelisk details, “It was painful last week to see the pictures of the Small Stone Records offices, flooded out from powerful storms that tore through the Detroit area. Still sealed label product floating through dirty water, files and CDs, the fruit of countless hours of work on the part of label owner Scott Hamilton, simply ruined. In one of the pictures, however, you can also see a floating vacuum cleaner, and that’s also important, because it reminds us that more even than being where kickass riffs come from, this is somebody’s home.
Scott is somebody whose tastes and whose efforts have helped greatly to shape the course of American heavy rock in the last decade-plus. Whether you’re a fan of Dixie Witch or roadsaw or Sasquatch or Wo Fat or anyone else on his enviable roster, chances are even if you don’t listen to those bands, someone in a band you listen to does. Small Stone has become the standard-bearer, and you can see the influence it has had not only in bands going for ‘that Small Stone sound,’ but also in labels who have come up in the last several years wanting to support the music they’re passionate about in a similar way.
But again, this is about more than music. It’s Scott’s house too, and that’s why it’s so important that this community comes together to help him out. You and I are part of a worldwide subculture. Don’t believe me? Go to a show anywhere and look around you. It’s the same every place you go, and that’s no mistake. One of our own – someone who’s directly participated in making this weird, ongoing thing to which we belong – needs our help. Frankly, that should be enough to make you want to get involved.”
Donations are being taken through the middle of next month, but since it’s a water cleanup process and there’s the ever-present threat of mold, time’s a factor.
To donate, point your browser to THIS LOCATION. Every bit helps. Thank you for your support.
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(Source: Earsplit PR)
http://www.facebook.com/smallstonerecords
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Cycles Within Cycles is a precursor to Post-Rock/Metal outfit The Clouds Will Clear, who recently released their self titled EP with Bleeding Light Records. Now, Bleeding Light will also issue a digital and limited cassette version of Cycles Within Cycles lone work, Mouths of Rivers.
Highly cinematic with rich texture and dramatic voice over samples sweep across this four song EP in short order, but leave a lasting impression. An intriguing document and insight of what was to come and what will continue in the future with The Clouds Will Clear.
The cassette release will be limited to 35 copies and will be available through Bleeding Light Records along with a ‘name your price’ digital version on September 9th. Pre-orders will be available soon.
* For more info:
http://thecloudswillclear.bandcamp.com/album/the-clouds-will-clear-ep-2014
https://www.facebook.com/thecloudswillclearmusic
https://twitter.com/cloudswillclear
http://bleedinglightrecords.com/
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(Source: Dewar PR)
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Candlelight Records has confirmed October 7th as the North American release date for ORANGE GOBLIN’s new album, Back From The Abyss. Recorded earlier this year in London, the album reunites the band with producer Jamie Dodd. It was mastered at Turan Audio in late July. Back From The Abyss will be available for preorder via iTunes and Amazon beginning August 26th. Fans can begin to preorder the CD today via Candlelight’s official webstore and Bandcamp page.
Loudwire.com is celebrating the announcement with an exclusive North American stream of the album’s first single, The Devil’s Whip. Vocalist Ben Ward says: “This song is a real old-school banger stuffed full of riffs, sleaze, filth, and speed… just like the best metal should be! It’s Motörhead-style, outlaw-biker rock in all its glory, destined to get heads banging, fists pumping, drinks flowing and asses shaking. If you don’t find yourself breaking the speed limit to this song, desperate to find the roughest bar in town, start a fight and spending the night in a cell, then you are quite clearly already dead. Let’s ride, let loose, let’s rip… that’s right, you can’t escape ‘The Devil’s Whip.'”
Listen now HERE.
Back From The Abyss follows the band’s most successful release, 2012’s A Eulogy For The Damned, and the recent reissue of their 2007 album Healing Through Fire. Featuring twelve new songs, it delivers the quartets now internationally respected Heavy Metal. Decibel Magazine calls the band’s sound, “maximum riffage and turbo doom.” Blabbermouth dubs them, “a big burly bag of rock goodness.” Rocking hard as fans have come to expect, Back From The Abyss shows not only the band’s tried-and-true blues and doom but the high caliber of their musicianship.
ORANGE GOBLIN will kick off the Autumn with a European tour alongside Doom legends St. Vitus. Set to begin in France on October 9th, the tour will work its way through thirteen countries before concluding in Germany on November 14th. On the tour’s announcement Ward said: “We are extremely excited to be going on tour with our good friends and long-time heroes St. Vitus. Vitus are one of the bands that inspired us to form ORANGE GOBLIN all those years ago and to be able to promote our new album and celebrate their thirty-fifth anniversary at the same time just blows my mind.”
American dates in support of Back From The Abyss are anticipated to start early in the new year. Details to be announced shortly.
Together since 1995, ORANGE GOBLIN has released seven full-length studio albums. A Eulogy For The Damned was the band’s first for Candlelight Records and closed a five year recording hiatus. The album was supported with the most live dates by the band in their history; touring that saw the band on North America soil first alongside Clutch then on a full-scale headline tour that found them on thirty-eightstages across the US and Canada. Two videos were filmed and released for the album, including Red Tide Rising and the special Scion A/V video for Acid Trials.
1. Sabbath Hex
2. Ubermensch
3. The Devil’s Whip
4. Demon Blues
5. Heavy Lies The Crown
6. Into the Arms of Morpheus
7. Mythical Knives
8. Bloodzilla
9. The Abyss
10. Titan
11. Blood Of Them
12. The Shadow Over Innsmouth
ORANGE GOBLIN is vocalist Ben Ward, guitartist Joe Hoare, bassist Martyn Millard, and drummer Christopher Turner. The band are endorsed by Marshall Amplification, Orange Amplification, Fender Bass Guitars, Natal Drums, Meinl Cymbals, Vater Sticks, Remo Skins, Vans, Volcom, Boss Pedals, Rotosound Strings, and Jagermeister.
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(Source: Earsplit PR)
* For more info on ORANGE GOBLIN:
http://www.facebook.com/orangegoblinofficial
http://www.candlelightrecordsusa.com
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Ohio’s Dismemberment are happy to announce that they will be hitting the road in September for a whirlwind three-day mini-tour.
The band’s guitarist Jacob Shively had the following to say about the tour:
“Very excited for this upcoming run of shows and to be opening for the legendary Solstice and sharing the stage with Mobile Deathcamp. Plenty more stuff in the works and we’ve begun working on material for a new full-length. Stay tuned!”
Dismemberment mini-tour official dates:
09/04/2014 The Shrunken Head -Columbus OH *with SOLSTICE
09/05/2014 Token Lounge -Detroit MI *with MOBILE DEATHCAMP
09/05/2014 Berlin Music Pub -Ft. Wayne IN
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(Source: Dewar PR)
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Tucson-based depravity squad, LETHAL DOSAGE, is ready to intoxicate the Southwest once again, having locked down another tour of the region for this Fall.
Having already torched the region on their Consume The Southwest Tour in February, and again during their more widespread Consume The West Tour in June, LETHAL DOSAGE will bring their crushing ruckus to another six towns across the Southwest US. Beginning October 6th, the Completely Meaningless Party Tour will blaze Anaheim, Ventura, Las Vegas, Flagstaff and Tempe before the caravan smolders out with a final show in their hometown on October 11th. The band’s hometown brethren in Evasion will be joining the melee as support for LETHAL DOSAGE on all dates.
LETHAL DOSAGE Completely Meaningless Party Tour:
10/06/2014 The Doll Hut – Anaheim, CA
10/07/2014 Billy O’s – Ventura, CA
10/08/2014 Adrenaline Bar – Las Vegas, NV
10/09/2014 The Hive – Flagstaff, AZ
10/10/2014 Tempe Tavern – Tempe, AZ
10/11/2014 The Rock – Tucson, AZ
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LETHAL DOSAGE released their second full-length album, Consume, in February via local cohorts, Battleground Records. Having harnessed the band’s massive live sound at Arcane Digital Studio, engineered by Ryan Butler and then finalized at Sonorous Mastering, Consume rages with over fifty caustic minutes of groove-heavy metal with elements of brutal hardcore infusing elements of Lamb Of God, Chimaira, Pantera, and Hatebreed, yet consumed with the band’s own self-destructive, caustic, desert-baked contamination. Consume is available in an economical, eco-friendly four-panel digipak exclusively at Earsplit Distro, and digitally via Bandcamp.
“…an exuberant, very welcome surprise… the sound on this album is positively monstrous.” – Chronicles Of Chaos
“…a modern and highly brutal form of death-influenced and groove-laden metal in the vein of Chimaira or Lamb Of God.” – Puregrainaudio
“Consume is filled with ominous riffs and ample groove, with a breakdown here and there. The bile-filled vocals are balanced with bouncy grooves…” – About.com
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(Source: Earsplit PR)
* For more info on LETHAL DOSAGE:
https://www.facebook.com/LethalDosageTucson
http://lethaldosage1.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/battlegroundrecords
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After countless delays, the long awaited and highly anticipated new release from SEPTYCAL GORGE is ready to be uncaged! Scourge of the Formless Breed will be self-released by the band in Europe on September 5 and the U.S. edition will be released by Comatose Music on October 14.
Scourge of the Formless Breed marks the third full length album during SEPTYCAL GORGE’s 10-year reign of destruction in the Italian brutal death metal scene. The track listing for both editions is identical. However, the packaging will be different. Musically this new release is a flawless execution of technical prowess that is superior in the genre. The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered by the band. Expect no mercy during the relentless assault that is Scourge of the Formless Breed!
Stream “Breed of The Rejected (Sons of Enoch pt.2)” below:
Track Listing:
1. Living Torment of the Sleeping God
2. Urizen – The Burning Sun
3. Slaughter Conceived
4. No Spawn No Reign (Sons of Enoch pt.1)
5. Breed of the Rejected (Sons of Enoch pt.2)
6. Anabasis / Paralysis
7. Deeds of Eternity
8. Coil of Nothingness
9. Awakening of the Seven Serpents
Pre-orders for the European edition are being accepted now at septycalgorge.bigcartel.com. The European version of the album will include a very limited special slipcase edition that includes a shirt, poster, sticker and guitar pick. Pre-orders for the U.S. edition will be available August 18 at www.comatosemusic.com.
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(Source: CLAWHAMMER PR)
* For more info on SEPTYCAL GORGE:
facebook.com/septycalgorge.official
Twitter: com/septycalgorge
Website: comatosemusic.com
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Deconstructing Sequence are proud to announce the release of their new EP, Access Code.
Consisting of two epic songs that blend black metal, progressive and post-rock, Access Code can only be described as Extreme Progressive Art. The EP is available direct from the band, and can be streamed and purchased here: http://dsprogart.bandcamp.com/
Access Code recording line-up:
Tiberius – Guitars, bass, vocals
Morph – Vocals, synth and programming
J Nerexo (Shadows Land) – Drum arrangements and performance
Deconstructing Sequence on-line:
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Source: Dewar PR
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On their newest album, Religious Apocalypse, USDM tour de force BLOODSOAKED pay tribute to the bygone era of ’80s glam metal with brutalized renditions of Cinderella’s Shake Me and Ratt’s You’re in Love. As this much awesome would be impossible to keep a lid on until the album’s September 2 release date, the band has posted both tracks on their YouTube channel. To stream, visit the links below:
With Religious Apocalypse, BLOODSOAKED has mastered the craft of combining the classic death metal feel with precision modern production to create a supreme blend of total sonic destruction. Now with the addition of a second guitarist BLOODSOAKED are ready to annihilate all that is holy with their old school storm of ravaging ferocity. See the band on their US tour in November 2014 and European tour in April 2015!
Religious Apocalypse will be out on September 2 via Comatose Music. Pre-order the album now at: www.comatosemusic.com.
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* For more info on BLOODSOAKED:
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HULL – Brooklyn’s Metal ambassadors known across the planet as HULL released a 7″ vinyl single (with B-Side etching and digital download card) back on February 14th of this year. The single is titled: Legend Of The Swamp Goat. This 7″ single released in limited colors, with sea-foam being an European tour exclusive. I kept playing this mighty Metal song over and over last night and came to realize: HULL’s The Legend Of The Swamp Goat shall be Stone’s Metal Pick Of The Day! Whoa.
Monstrous riffs, chunky bass, formidable drumming, powerful street-cred vocals, sludgy and doomy across this entire song, with an anthemic atmosphere of Metal sound is Legend Of The Swamp Goat. Hell, this is HULL for Metal sakes!! A true riff infested gem is this song and you can hear it and make a purchase for yourself below. Metal be thy name. – Stone
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Above cover artwork by Nathan Overstrom.
* For more info on HULL:
Facebook: HULL
Website: http://www.hullorhighwater.com
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Italian Punk Rockin’ Speed Metallers, OVERCHARGE, have posted a brand new track off their upcoming new album, Accelerate. The song, Nothing on the Way, is now streaming below:
OVERCHARAGE is in fact Punk Rock, Rock ‘n Roll, and Speed Metal rolled up into one. The Italians sound like a drunken fist fight between MOTORHEAD and Kill ’em All-era METALLICA, if everyone involved was gargling broken glass and DISCHARAGE was playing on the jukebox. It’s nothing less than adrenaline-fueled, mohawked mayhem!
Featuring a member of label mates OMNIVORE, OVERCHARGE wear their influences on their tattoo sleeves, but don’t sound overly beholden to any one of them. Like all good Rock ‘n Roll, songs and riffs matter more here than emulating a specific set of heroes. Accelerate will be the first full-length from these maniacs.
Accelerate is set for worldwide release on September 30 via Unspeakable Axe Records.
1. Accelerate
2. As If There Were No Tomorrow
3. Dirt
4. Drown In Your Own
5. Nothing On The Way
6. Leave Behind
7. Nowhere To Go
8. Water Of Fire
9. No Law
10. Don’t Waste A Breath
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* Album artwork designed by: Fabio Diosepoltura
(Source: CLAWHAMMER PR)
* For more info on OVERCHARGE:
facebook.com/UnspeakableAxeRecords
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With its highly anticipated worldwide release of Inner City Wolves coming in just over a week, Australian Trad Metal maniacs JOHNNY TOUCH have hooked up with Grande-Rock.com for the exclusive premiere of album track Dishonourable Discharge.
Boasting more Metal than the steel plate in cousin Eddie’s head, “Dishonourable Discharge” is now streaming at this location.
JOHNNY TOUCH previously released a demo tape and two split 7-inch records and are barely known outside of their homeland. Inner City Wolves is an amazing debut and serves as an example of a band creating an original work that will leave a lasting impression on the Heavy Metal world. Led by a first-rate vocalist and taking the best parts of JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN, and METALLICA, with YNGWIE MALMSTEEN style ripping leads that shred the soul, Inner City Wolves gets it right across the board! The songwriting is extremely complex, yet catchy as hell. Get ready for what is sure to be considered one of the best Heavy Metal albums of 2014 and a stone cold classic for years to come.
Inner City Wolves will be out on August 19 on Shadow Kingdom Records.
“The release from the Australians is sure to leave a footprint on the world of Heavy Metal, ….one of the best releases of the year Inner City Wolves” 10/10 – Metal Temple
“This is the sound of tape trading days in a heavy metal parking lots outside of a Judas Priest show, where metal heads shared the latest news of the underground metal scene from Europe to New York to Los Angeles with freshly mimeographed newsletters.” – Dangerdog Music Reviews
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Ordering and release information for this and other Shadow Kingdom Records releases can be found at this location.
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(Source: CLAWHAMMER PR)
* For more info on JOHNNY TOUCH:
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Top L-R: Dawid Slowiak (Bass) – Mike Matveev (Drums), Ekaterina Pyatkova (Vocals, Woodwinds, Synthesizer) – Martin Drozd (Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer) – Jeremy Jackson aka Vodnik (Guitar) – Photo Credit: Danielle Griscti
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Gracing the stage with the likes of ARKONA, TURISAS, ALESTORM and BLACKGUARD, Toronto, ON’s band of beer drinking progressive folk metallers PROTOKULT return in 2014 with their new album ‘No Beer In Heaven’ – released on August 8th and available on bandcamp here to follow-up to 2011’s ‘Marzena’ EP and 2009’s debut ‘Ancestral Anthems’.
With a beauty and the beast-like contrast between Ekaterina’s haunting vocals and the band’s Metal onslaught, No Beer In Heaven, captures the reformed quintet at an all-time high, showcasing an impressive palette of twelve entirely new compositions and straps the listener on an adventurous, heavy and experimental trek, diving into themes of drinking, history and human endeavor. The band unites their diverse cultures into one sound, balancing tradition and folklore with Heavy, Thrash and Black Metal for headbangers everywhere.
Vocalist Ekaterina Pyatkova comments:
“We are delighted to showcase our finest release brought to you by our lineup in peak form!! Three years in the making, No Beer In Heaven presents an assortment of ambient, prog-folk, heavy tunes that take you on a dark, drunken adventure! So grab a cold one and indulge!”
1. Get Me A Beer! (3:04) 2. Heaven Cast Me Out (4:04) 3. My Father’s Word (5:49) 4. Flight of The Winged Hussar (5:52) 5. Sol Intention (4:39) 6. Edge of Time (5:28) 7. Sanctuaries (2:04) 8. Desert Scourge (4:31) 9. Gorale (4:15) 10. Summer’s Ode (6:07) 11. Razbival Okovi Perun (1:26) 12. Water of Life (8:46)
Total Length: (56:12)
YouTube Album Stream – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tHT25mIl8o
(Source: Asher Media Relations)
* For more info on PROTOKULT:
http://www.facebook.com/protokult
http://www.twitter.com/protokult
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With the release of Totalitarian Dystopia, the new full-length from London death slingers, ACRANIA, now less than two weeks away, American Aftermath is pleased to wreck your speakers with sixth track, A Gluttonous Abomination.
Recorded with Stu McKay at Studio 6 in London with mixing/mastering by Chris Foster, Totalitarian Dystopia hurls forth a thirty-six minute maelstrom of audio wreckage through ten corrosive tales dissecting chaos, corruption and the imminent collapse of mankind. The record includes guest appearances from Tom Barber of Lorna Shore, Mendel of Aborted and Jamie Hanks of I Declare War, and promises to engulf an entire new legion of modern death fanatics worldwide with its surgical execution and relentless brutality.
Boasts American Aftermath of the track, “ACRANIA‘s ‘A Gluttonous Abomination’ is a festering slab of disgusting Death Metal and this is definitely something you want to wrap your head around on such a beautiful day.”
Get irate with “A Gluttonous Abomination” at THIS LOCATION.
And if you missed it, feast your eyes an ears on the “Festering With Dishonesty” lyric video now playing at Decibel at THIS LOCATION.
Named after a rare congenital disorder that occurs in the human fetus in which the flat bones in the cranial vault are either partially or completely absent, the politically-bent ACRANIA has spread their message through several independent recordings since their 2012 inception. Their debut split with Blue Waffle and “A Trophy Of Corporate Disfigurement” single, both released in their first year as a band, followed by their The Beginning Of The End EP released last year have helped the band forge a devout fanbase of pit-seeking followers. Having already toured with various acts around Europe including Cerebral Bore and Warpath, plus with upcoming shows booked alongside Thy Art Is Murder, Blood Red Throne and many more, ACRANIA will continue to scoff their way through the scene and proliferate their message of maximized hostility through their blistering fusion of brutality, slams and blastbeats.
Totalitarian Dystopia will be released on August 19th, 2014 via Unique Leader Records. Preorder your copy at THIS LOCATION.
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(Source: Earsplit PR)
* For more info on ACRANIA:
http://www.facebook.com/Acraniauk
http://www.facebook.com/UniqueLeaderRecords
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German Death Metal outfit OBSCURE INFINITY have revealed the cover art for their upcoming third full-length, Perpetual Descending Into Nothingness. The artwork comes courtesy of Juanjo Castellano (Blaspherian, Revel In Flesh, Harm), who commented on the album after hearing select tracks, calling it “killer stuff!”
Perpetual Descending Into Nothingness is set for release later this year on FDA Rekotz.
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(Source: CLAWHAMMER PR)
* For more info on OBSCURE INFINITY:
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THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER will return to the road next month for a select run of dates featuring openers Lorna Shore. The short but punishing trek will run through Grand Rapids, Iowa City, St. Louis, Champaign, and Indianapolis. From there the band will begin their next extensive North American tour, the announcement for which is slated for next week! For dates and info, go to THIS LOCATION.
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER w/ Lorna Shore:
9/16/2014 The Pyramid Scheme – Grand Rapids, MI
9/17/2014 Gabe’s – Iowa City, IA
9/18/2014 Firebird – St. Louis, MO
9/19/2014 The Highdive – Champaign, IL
9/20/2014 Emerson Theatre – Indianapolis, IN
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THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER‘s critically lauded Fool ‘Em All DVD was released on May 27th, 2014 and landed at #3 on the Billboard Top Music Video Sales chart upon its first week of release. The full HD version is available now on iTunes, Amazon instant video, and other digital retailers.
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER‘s most recent studio offering, Everblack, debuted at #32 on the Billboard Top 200 in June of 2013. The album earned the #3 slot on the Billboard Current Hard Music Albums chart (behind Black Sabbath and Queens Of The Stone Age). Additional chart debuts included #3 on the Billboard Hard Music Albums, #9 on the Billboard Independent Albums, and #30 on the Hits Albums Chart. Everblack also peaked at #15 on the iTunes album chart, and #2 on the iTunes Metal chart, second only to living legends Black Sabbath.
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(Source: Earsplit PR)
* For more info:
http://www.facebook.com/theblackdahliamurderofficial
http://www.youtube.com/blackdahliamurdertv
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East Anglia’s monolithic Metal act, The King Is Blind, have announced that they will release their debut EP, The Deficiencies Of Man, via Mordgrimm on September 1st. It is currently streaming via UK’s Terrorizer Magazine. Listen to it here.
Featuring ex-members of Cradle of Filth, The Blood Divine, Entwined and a current member of Extreme Noise Terror, The King is Blind’s debut was recorded, produced and mixed by Tom Donovan (Telepathy, Dingus Khan) at Tom Donovan Studios, Essex (UK) and mastered by Tim Turan (Emperor, Marilyn Manson) at Turan Audio, Oxford (UK).
A lyric video, directed by Sam Scott Hunter (Motörhead), to the track “A Thousand Burning Temples” is now showing below:
The band formed in 2013 and released a demo EP in March 2014 titled Bleeding the Ascension. Shortly afterwards, on March 21st, 2014, the band performed their debut live performance in their hometown of Colchester. The event was received with great praise and shortly before that the band was announced to play the UK’s biggest Heavy Metal open air, Bloodstock Festival.
The East Anglia quartet is not stopping there. They are already confirmed to perform at Hammerfest VII in March 2015. The band’s aim is to make British Metal the intimidating force it once was and they are already recognized for that by a MetalRecusants writer: “Colossally intimidating… The King Is Blind look set to dominate the British Metal scene”.
The King is Blind are already being recognised for their work. Terrorizer Magazine described the band’s sound as “the groove of old school Death Metal… with deliciously doomy riffs for good measure”. However, as Ghost Cult Magazine notices, the band likes to keep it fresh and has a modern sound: “Drawing comparisons to Celtic Frost, but with the touch and heft of the best modern bands”.
The Deficiencies of Man – Track Listing: 1. A Thousand Burning Temples 2. Of Osiris & Execration 3. Thorns That Pierce The Skull 4. Revelation, Apocalypse
Lee James Appleton – Guitars
Steve Tovey – Vocals / Bass
Paul Ryan – Guitars
Barney Monger – Drums
August 9, 2014 – Bloodstock Festival, Sophie Lancaster stage
March 13-15, 2015 – Hammerfest VII
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(Source: Dewar PR – Dewar PR Blog)
* For more info on THE KING IS BLIND:
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This November, Pennsylvania’s RIVERS OF NIHIL will embark on the biggest tour of their career thus far as openers on Death’s (DTA Tours) Swamp Leper Stomp ’14 tour! Additional support will come from Death Metal legends Obituary and Massacre. The trek will commence on November 14th at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, California and wraps up on December 7th in Miami, Florida at Grand Central.
Comments guitarist Jon Kunz: “We’re incredibly stoked to a part of this year’s North American Death (DTA Tours)! Death are one of our biggest influences, with the incredible Human album being a constant source of inspiration. Throw in the nasty Tampa savagery of Obituary and Massacre, and you have the best Death Metal tour of the year. Long live Chuck [Schuldiner]. Florida Death Metal is supreme!”
Earlier this year, RIVERS OF NIHIL released a video for Birth Of The Omnisavior, a sleek and dark clip that captures visually what this band does so well sonically: play emboldened, deftly-executed Death Metal at a level far beyond their years. Watch “Birth Of The Omnisavior” from their The Conscious Seed Of Light full length now at THIS LOCATION.
Formed in 2009, the modern progressive Death Metal quintet’s music is as dark and heavy as the coal and iron on which their home city was built upon, taking influences from some of Death Metal’s heaviest, most abrasive hitters like Morbid Angel, Gojira, Spawn of Possession, and Decapitated. RIVERS OF NIHIL‘s debut album, The Conscious Seed Of Light, was recorded in March of 2013 at Mana Recording Studios in Florida with famed Metal producer/musician Erik Rutan. While The Conscious Seed Of Light is not necessarily a concept album traditionally speaking, RIVERS OF NIHIL began their project with the idea that they would release four separate albums tied together with one common theme: each reflecting a particular season of a year.
Bassist Adam Biggs elaborates: “The Conscious Seed Of Light is intended to be representative of Spring and explores various themes concerning new beginnings, growth, and an attachment to the natural world in a post-human Earth. Unlike some concept records however, we wanted to allow each song to work on its own terms. Rather than have the songs rely on each other to move a specific story structure forward; they work within their own separate narratives, but ultimately serve the album’s broader concept.”
11/14/2014 Club Nokia Los Angeles, CA
11/15/2014 Ramona Mainstage – Ramona, CA
11/16/2014 DNA Lounge – San Francisco, CA
11/18/2014 Studio Seven – Seattle, WA
11/19/2014 The Rickshaw Theatre – Vancouver, BC w/ Untimely Demise
11/21/2014 MacEwan Ballroom – Calgary, AB w/ Untimely Demise
11/22/2014 Riddell Centre – Regina, SK w/ Untimely Demise
11/23/2014 Park Theatre – Winnipeg, MB w/ Untimely Demise
11/24/2014 Amsterdam Bar & Hall – St. Paul, MN w/ Untimely Demise
11/25/2014 The Metro – Chicago, IL
11/26/2014 Agora Theatre and Ballroom – Cleveland, OH
11/27/2014 The Opera House – Toronto, ON
11/28/2014 Club Soda – Montreal, QC
11/29/2014 Brighton Music Hall – Allston, MA
11/30/2014 Best Buy Theatre – New York, NY
12/03/2014 Empire – North Springfield, VA
12/04/2014 Tremont Music Hall – Charlotte, NC
12/05/2014 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
12/06/2014 Orpheum – Tampa, FL
12/07/2014 Grand Central – Miami, FL
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(Source: Earsplit PR)
* For more info on RIVERS OF NIHIL:
http://www.facebook.com/riversofnihil
http://www.riversofnihilpa.bandcamp.com
http://www.metalblade.com/riversofnihil
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Photo courtesy of Ides Bergen
Los Angeles Stoner Metal band BEHOLD! THE MONOLITH have announced the addition of vocalist Jordan Nalley to their ranks. Nalley joined the band following the tragic loss of bassist/vocalist Kevin McDade.
Guitarist Matt Price comments: “I met Jordan through some friends at a Mastodon show. Came to find out we had a few mutual friends and that he was a vocalist and actually did a bit of vocal coaching for the heavier styles at Musicians Institute.
I took a lesson from him and brought our CD, Defender, Redeemist. I got a call from him about a week later. He loved the album and wanted to audition. At the time our new bassist, Cas, was in Europe with Sasquatch and our drummer Chase was filling in for about a months worth of Castle’s North American tour. So we had to wait a few weeks to give it a try. But when we did it was obvious the chemistry was there. He sounds great on the old stuff, and his range is great so he’s taking the new stuff into even darker gnarlier territory! We played our first show with him and it went great! We’re pretty fucking stoked and are in full writing mode. We’re hoping to be recording in very early 2015 (we’ve been talking to Billy Anderson and he’s 100% on board).”
Read more on the new BEHOLD! THE MONOLITH line up at GeeksOfDoom.com.
BEHOLD! THE MONOLITH live 5 Stars bar 07/19/2014 – New Material:
BEHOLD! THE MONOLITH Los Angeles, CA. 7-19-2014
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Frenetic MELODIC SKATEPUNK THRASH topnotchers STRAIGHTLINE released the official video clip for their highly explosive track “Retrogressive”, which can be seen below:
Bart – guitar & vocals
Herzna – bass
Randy – drums
Enric – guitar
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Wild … wonderful … welcome!!!
STRAIGHTLINE from Munich returns with an electrifying release!
Three relevant questions in advance:
Giant demand about highest musical culture?
Urgently desires for rhythmic precision?
Big appetite for flipping out completely?
For many rebel souls & musical scale strikers there’s only one answer these days:
!!! STRAIGHTLINE !!!
The new (self-released) 7″ EP “Alteration Of The Rules” of the 1998 founded formation offers their roundabout proven style at it’s very best!
Alteration Of The Rules – Track Listing:
1. Alteration Of The Rules
2. Retrogressive
3. Unfinished Story
4. Blistering Attack
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Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTGyCF8fn8aMQXyXszDvJZA
Bandcamp: http://straightline.bandcamp.com/
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