DISARMONIA MUNDI – Italy’s DISARMONIA MUNDI made a triumphant return in 2015, in my Metal opinion, with their new studio album: Cold Inferno. This has been an album that I’ve turned to more than I had anticipated this past year and will happily admit, Cold Inferno has become a mainstay in my Metal listening cycle.
I love the way DISARMONIA MUNDI unites the melodic and extreme together, rather flawlessly I’ll add. Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Ettore Rigotti is a Metal mastermind, in my Metal opinion. Lyricist and extreme vocalist Claudio Ravinale can take a bow for this grand album as well. Metal Be Thy Name. – Stone
Cold Inferno was released back on June 9th, via Italy’s Coroner Records. Listen to Stormghostbelow and hopefully you’ll dig it as much as I do. Whoa!
The UK Metal community revels in delight after it’s brightest rising star in the independent festival market makes it’s opening announcements for their next event, MAMMOTHFEST 2016. The 3 day indoor festival, based in Brighton has revealed ALL its 2016 headliners and has opened up sales for a limited quantity of Early Bird tickets (including accommodation options!!!).
The festival kicks off its announcements by revealing Dutch Prog Metal Maniacs Textures will headline the opening night held at THE HAUNT, Friday 30th September. Saturday 1st October, see’s the legendary incarnation Venom Inc. headline CONCORDE 2 and closing the weekend on Sunday 2nd October at THE GREEN DOOR STORE are UK Battle Doom monsters Conan.
And that’s not all, to offer a wider range of choice Mammothfest have also revealed a Black Metal stage that will run on Friday 30th September at THE GREEN DOOR STORE, this will be headlined by UK Black Metal warlords Eastern Front.
Wrathrone plays brutal old school Death Metal with their own spices. Early years 2008-2011 Wrathrone was doing gigs in slow flow, though the first self-released EP “Burning Hatred” saw the daylight in 2011. The second self-released EP “Left Unburied” was out in 2013. From the year 2013 Wrathrone did gigs more and more and now they have done over 30 aggressive Death Metal shows altogether.
Wrathrone was stomping over the Baltics in 2013 and in year 2014 Germany met their destiny. The year 2015 has been busy and 2016 will be even more so.
“Born Beneath” was recorded in the great conditions of V.R. Studio in Turku, in Jussi Vuola’s hands. Inverse Records will release the debut album in January 22nd of 2016.
Kaotoxin Records has announced the signing of Swiss rockers THE ERKONAUTS and worldwide re-release of the band’s full-length debut, I Did Something Bad.
Mixed and mastered by SAMAEL‘s Drop at the Downtone studio, I Did Something Bad was independently released in January 2015. The demand for the album was so high, the band had to repress it twice. After tours in the USA, Asia and Europe, the Swiss Rock machine signed to Kaotoxin Records. In August the band, which features two ex-members of SYBREED, recorded two brand new tracks for the album’s reissue.
The Kaotoxin Records reissue of I Did Something Bad drops February 12th.
Along with 6:33, DRAWERS and THE LUMBERJACK FEEDBACK, THE ERKONAUTS are part of Kaotoxin’s heavy rock dream team. THE ERKONAUTS bring something fresh to the table with a sound that lies somewhere between mid-90s SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, early SYSTEM OF A DOWN, and PRIMUS, with a smart, Progressive, Alt-Rock / Metal / Punk fusion of their very own.
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Track listing – I Did Something Bad:
The Great Ass Poopery
Tony 5
All the Girls Should Die
Nola
Dominium Mundi
Hamster’s Ghosthouse
Gog
Your Wife
9 Is better than 8
Machine*
Culbutos*
*Exclusive to Kaotoxin reissue
The first run of the Kaotoxin reissue will come as a limited edition deluxe DigiSleeve CD and digital dowload, with preorders starting on January 18th. Kaotoxin Records is currently offer copies of the band’s limited edition 10″ picture EP, All the Girls Should Die. Order at:
Comatose Musicproudly welcomes the return of PATHOLOGY! After bouncing between several labels since 2010, this San Diego trio has come back home to Comatose Music for the release of their first new full length CD in nearly two years. This as yet untitled album is currently in the final stages of the writing process and expected for a Summer 2016 release.
Drummer and founding member Dave Astor says: “We are very happy and excited to be working with Comatose Music again! The label has always been a great supporter of the band through the years. They put out some of the heaviest underground music out there and we are glad to be back on the roster. We are currently finishing up the music and we are excited for everyone to hear the new tunes”. More updates to follow in early 2016, stay tuned!
See The Misfits revisit their landmark “Static Age” album and more, live in concert! Check out the list of confirmed dates below, OR visit the Tour section and check for more to be added in the future.
20 years have passed since a Norwegian band released one of the most groundbreaking albums of Black Metal history, continuing a groundbreaking character for the dissemination of a genre out of a small, rather subcultural audience in a new flow of Extreme Metal sounds. The band was SATYRICON and the masterpiece called NEMESIS DIVINA. Now, 20 years later, SATYRICON have decided to play on a few selected concerts, this seminal album, in all of its unique and immeasurable entirety. We are proud that one of those rare shows will go with us on our stage! Hail to Mother North!
SYMPHONY X – On July 24th of this year, New Jersey’s Progressive Metal giants, SYMPHONY X, released their 9th studio album, via Nuclear Blast: Underworld. What a treat this album has been for my inner, middle and outer ears! Did I say outer ears? I am getting ahead of myself, I guess. Russell Allen is just boss on vocals; I needed to get that in.
I absolutely love the way SYMPHONY X meticulously piece together the song and an outstanding example of this, from Underworld, is their musical creation: Nevermore. Below is the lyric video of Nevermore for you to hear and read along to. SYMPHONY X are at the pinnacle of their Progressive Metal game with both this song and their entire Underworld album for that matter, in my Metal opinion. Simply fabulous stuff. Metal Be Thy Name. – Stone
BATTLECROSS – In essence, I could very well state that the entire Rise To Power studio album from BATTLECROSS is Metal Odyssey’s METAL Pick Of The Day. With ten songs of Thrash Metal splendor, Rise To Power is a megastar Metal release for 2015, in my Metal opinion. Track number 2 from this album, Not Your Slave, is the song featured here today and it’s a strong example of just how Rise To Power plays out.
BATTLECROSS is a Midwest Thrash Metal band that the state of Michigan should be extremely proud of. I am ecstatic that BATTLECROSS has grabbed the torch of Thrash Metal, helping to secure the genre for many years to come. Rise To Power is the third studio album for BATTLECROSS on the Metal Blade Records label. In the event you haven’t checked out this band, you darn well should.
Listen below and hear for yourself! I hope you enjoy this song as much as I do. Metal Be Thy Name. – Stone
Just announced – IRON MAIDEN will headline Hungary’s VOLT Fesztivál Official in Sopron on July 1st. For all the info, hit their Facebook page or www.volt.hu.
Under Bio-lence, the new album from Chilean Crossover Thrashers CONFLICTED, will be released on December 4th via Sick Bangers. Ferocious, uncompromising and absolutely impossible to forget, Under Bio-lence is your one-way ticket to the Pit! Mosh ’em all!
Check out the official video for “Structural Violence” hereor below:
Under Bio-lence was recorded between February 21st and 26th, 2015 at Riveraudio Studios, Arica – Chile.
Produced by Sebastian Puente – Engineered & mixed by Sebastian Puente at Audiocustom Studio, Santiago Chile.
Mastered by Cristian Olivares at Audiocustom Studio, Santiago Chile.
Track Listing:
1. Legal Emptiness
2. Structural Violence
3. Public Privacy
4. Centuries of Abuse
5. Instrument of Death
6. Neuronal Riots
7. Divine Business
8. Your Speech
9. Breakdown
10. OBDC
CONFLICTED:
Felipe Huerta – Vocals
Rolando Vasquez – Guitars
Rodrigo Rios – Bass
Pedro Pablo Puente – Drums
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Band Biography
Conflicted – formed in 2010 – is a Crossover Thrash Metal band from Arica, Chile. At the beginning of its career the band launched their debut demo Dirty Snake Attack 10″, and two years later their first full length called Social Disorder released in 2012 Via Sick Bangers Metal Label and Distro.
Their home town Arica, borders with Peru and Bolivia, countries where the band has been able to perform promoting their debut album in a mini-tour called “South Disorder”,” sharing the stage with bands such as Violator, Onslaught, Artillery, Exumer and Annihilator.
In 2013, the band released Sick Mosh, a live DVD along with label mates Nuclear and Lefutray. This audiovisual material helped the band to be part of one of the most important festivals of extreme music in South America: The Metal Fest, carried out in Santiago, Chile on April 2014. The festival also had the presence of important bands like Pentagram (Chile), Dark Angel, At the Gates, Voivod, Hypocrisy and Megadeth.
New Jersey’s COGNITIVE will be hitting Full Force Studio to record its second full length album Deformity.
The band will be working with ‘Smoking’ Joe Cincotta who has worked alongside bands such as SUFFOCATION, BODYCOUNT and INTERNAL BLEEDING. Artwork for the album will be created by renowned illustrator Par Olofsson (SPAWN OF POSSESSION, IMMOLATION, ABYSMAL DAWN, JOB FOR A COWBOY). The legendary Alan Douches will master the upcoming album at West West Side (SEPULTURA, CONVERGE, HATEBREED).
Following the addition of new members guitarist Harry Lannon and bassist Ian Bainbridge, COGNITIVE have forged new ground and are eager to unleash the bands new material which will present a more formidable sound and direction. The band is currently seeking a label and aiming to have the album released by March 2016.
Vetten Äpärät is a second generation Folk Metal band from Helsinki, Finland. Their debut album “Syntyi Talven Kyynelistä” will be released in early 2016.
A new track “Wind of Exhaustion” from the upcoming album is featured below or here: https://youtu.be/Ic7qOscWBtA
“Wind Of Exhaustion” was recorded at Suomenlinnan Studio and mastered at Finnvox Studios.
Today Northern Irish Death Metallers Rex Shachath release their latest offering, Revocation Of The Blood Elect, via French label Great Dane Records, and to mark the occasion are streaming the EP in full right here!
Tackling social issues such as the state of modern society and man’s exorbitant desire for wealth at the expense of our natural world, the band have harnessed a sound more befitting to such issues in comparison to their debut release Sepulchral Torment. Old school ideals kneaded with modern Death Metal notions on a much more up to date and punchier production is what we have here.
Artwork (as seen above), was completed by UK artist Godmachine famed for his work with bands such as Suicide Silence, Bring Me The Horizon, Cannibal Corpse and Job For A Cowboy (to name a few). The EP was recorded, mixed and mastered by Joe Thompson at Sonic Forge Studio, Cardiff, Wales.
Check out the video for title track ‘Revocation Of The Blood Elect’!
“Death metal with venomous attitude!” – The Metal Gods Meltdown
“…punishing rhythms and atmospheric leads…” – Ave Noctum
“Rex Shachath have harnessed musical prowess with the type of agitatory lyrics and attitudes many could learn from.” – Belfast Metalheads
“Rex Shachath are a thoroughly locked in unit. Armed with an arsenal of killer ideas and riffs, displaying at times some Dying Fetus and Suffocation like groove.” – Inside The Coffin
Destination Nowhere, the riotous new debut album by Polish d-beat/crust ragers, STURMOVIK, is out this week via Selfmadegod Records, with the entire album having been made available for streaming.
Arising from the ashes of Wild Bitches, STURMOVIK contains two current members of Polish death metal horde, The Dead Goats – Paweł Bartulewicz and Radosław Pierściński (Neuropathia, ex-Squash Bowels), with the lineup rounded out by Błazej Kasprzak, Mariusz Rzepnicki and Krzysztof Drabikowski.
Recorded earlier this year, the band’s Destination Nowhere debut album boasts nine energetic anthems culminating into a half-hour of powerful, infectious tunes set to smash the system to nothingness. The caustic d-beat/crustpunk with eerie, melodic overtones in the outfit’s delivered attack on Destination Nowhere will undoubtedly be something all fans of Disfear, Wolfbrigade, Genocide SS, Victims, Hellshock and Martyrdöd will want to investigate.
STURMOVIK’s Destination Nowhere has been unchained in its entirety at THIS LOCATION or below:
Destination Nowhere is now available on CD/digital download directly through the Selfmadegod Records webstore HERE or BandCamp HERE. CDs will be available in the US via Selfmadegod’s stateside mailorder outlet, Earsplit Distro, shipping Black Friday, November 27th; place stateside preorders HERE.
On November 16th, 2015 – BLACK SABBATH Paranoid is ranked at #9, on the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums Chart. Sweet tater tots! This legendary studio album was released back in 1970. Yes, the song Iron Man is on this album. Geez, stop asking. I just wanna add that the talented Mariah Carey was born in 1970. Whoa.
On November 16th, 2015 – BLACK SABBATH Greatest Hits 1970-1978 is ranked at #24, on the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums Chart. This album was released back in 2006. Holy avocados!
On November 16th, 2015 – BLACK SABBATH Master Of Reality is ranked at #40, on the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums Chart. Holy hungry hippos! This cool studio album was released back in 1971. By the way, Richard Nixon was the President of the United States, back in 1971.
On November 16th, 2015 – The debut and self-titled studio album from BLACK SABBATH is ranked at #47, on the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums Chart. This seminal Heavy Metal album was released back in 1970, when I was only four years old. Amazing.
On November 16th, 2015 – BLACK SABBATH Vol. 4 is ranked at #52, on the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums Chart. Holy huckleberry! This studio album was released back in 1972, via Warner Bros.Records.
On November 16th, 2015 – BLACK SABBATH We Sold Our Soul For Rock ‘N’ Roll is ranked at #56, on the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums Chart. Whoa and damn right! This album was released back in 1975. I was nine years old, back in 1975. The legendary slugger for the Boston Red Sox, David Ortiz, was born in 1975 too. Unreal.
On November 16th, 2015 – BLACK SABBATH 13 is ranked at #59, on the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums Chart. Yes, it is. This album was released back in 2013.
SEVENDUST – One new album I was anticipating highly for this past year was SEVENDUSTKill The Flaw. To sum up in four words how I feel about Kill The Flaw: I am very happy. This cool album was released back on October 2nd, via 7 Bros. Kill The Flaw is the tenth studio album (of original songs) from SEVENDUST.
Kill The Flaw has received a bounty of grand reviews across the blogosphere; just google about for yourself to see! I hear and sense the perseverance and skill laden chemistry of this legendary band, throughout this entire album. Tonight, I am psyched to feature this album’s opening track, Thank You, as Metal Odyssey’s METAL Pick Of The Day! Whoa! Listen to Thank You below and I hope you like this song as much as I do. Metal Be Thy Name. – Stone
An Ocean of Void is a five-piece from Bordeaux, France. It is a project that plays hard-to-classify heavy music with plenty of contrasts since 2010. Its inspiration goes from different scenes as Post-Rock, Atmospheric Metal or Progressive Metal, with a Pink Floyd influence clearly established.
After a self-produced demo (2012), the band’s debut album ‘The Great Escape’ will see the light the 4th of December, through Inverse Records. With melancholic nuances and latent sadness, ‘The Great Escape’ is a perfect soundtrack for dark winter days, a real journey through feelings and emotions.
Track-List:
Diving in the Deepest Sea
Enigma
Silent Storm
Resonance
Behind Red Clouds
An Ocean of Void Part. I
A Faded Light
An Ocean of Void Part. II
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