NEWS: Bravewords Premiere ÉOHUM 'Unmasking A World of Deceit' (French Horn Black Metal) New EP 'Ealdfaeder' Out March 18th

 

Montreal black metallers Éohum have teamed up with Bravewords for the premiere of their third single 'Unmasking A World of Deceit' off their upcoming EP 'Ealdfaeder' set for release on March 18th.

NEWS: Lyric video from Scarleth

Scarleth is remarkable and experienced Ukrainian metal band playing music on joint of modern heaviness and diverse melodism. For the time being the band has played several hundreds of live shows, released two full-length albums worldwide and took part in festivals where Sergey Mavrin, Cherniy Obelisk, Dark Lunacy and other famous bands performed. Band’s style is expanding constantly and represents mind-blowing mixture of many melodic genres - from power, folk, doom and gothic metal to modern/progressive metal. Band completely deserves to be called one of the most outstanding young musical representatives of its style.

Website: http://scarleth.com.ua
vKontakte: http://vk.com/scarleth
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/scarlethband/videos
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scarlethmetal

Latest live videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcgPExlFWOg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsJB0kVg5a8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFPe-wtw09c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g5tnmfCCCs

NEWS: New Fear Of Domination album will be delayed

The band releases a new single from the coming album Atlas. Adrenaline is out in 11. March.

Shock industrial metal-band Fear of Domination is delaying the publishing of its fourth album Atlas by a couple of weeks. The vocalist and the lyricist Saku Solin says that the band members did everything they could, but faced many things, that couldn’t be helped.

INNER BLAST - Prophecy (2016)

Kraj: Portugalia
Wydawca: Nordavind Records
Oficjalna strona: http://website-inner.wix.com/blast#!__my-website

Inner Blast określany jest jako zespół grający metal gotycki, ale ja ze swojej strony kierowałbym się raczej w określeniu metal symfoniczny, ewentualnie symfoniczny metal gotycki. Album "Prophecy" jest debiutem Portugalczyków, a jego premiera zaplanowana jest na 15 kwietnia 2016 roku. Elementem wyróżniającym się na tej płycie, który od razu zwrócił moją uwagę, są wokale Liliany, która sprawnie radzi sobie zarówno w quasi-operowych partiach, jak i potrafi wydać z siebie solidny growl. Jej umiejętności są jasnym punktem tego wydawnictwa. Jeśli chodzi o pozostałe składowe, to również nie ma się do czego przyczepić. Jest melodyjnie, przebojowo, nawet to bardzo, ale przy równoczesnym zachowaniu ciężaru i dynamiki na właściwym poziomie. Gitary zahaczają zarówno o klimatyczne aspekty metalu progresywnego, jak i wchodzą w power i heavy metalowe rejony. Symfoniczności nadają klawisze, ogrywające partie orkiestry, ale także fortepianu i skrzypiec. Ja w tej muzyce słyszę inspiracje Nighwish, Within Temptation a czasem i coś z Theorion się zaplącze. Produkcja płyty jest bez zarzutu. Co mi się podoba na tej płycie, to brak ckliwych ballad. Oczywiście zdarzają się nieliczne, spokojne, melancholijne fragmenty, ale i one ostatecznie rozwijają się w ostrzejsze i bardziej agresywne dźwięki. Brzmienie jest przestrzenne, muzyka selektywna. Myślę, że nie tylko fanom wymienionych wcześniej zespołów ten album może przypaść do gustu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isnkjoBN7Ug

INTERVIEW - MUCKRAKER

https://www.facebook.com/MuckRakerMetal/
https://muckraker1.bandcamp.com/
https://www.reverbnation.com/muckrakermetal

1: Hello, here is Lukasz from Polish Gloria Metalus blog. How's going? Considering Muckraker band is not well known in Poland, could you please tell us story of the band? How did it all start?

Will from MuckRaker: The band has been around for six years or so with various lineup changes. I formerly in a band called BOILER which was signed to Mayhem Records (a subsidiary of Atlantic Records). Atlantic dropped Mayhem's funding and the label folded. Eventually, I decided to relocate to Atlanta. It wasn't my intention to form a band here, but I missed metal too much.

2: You define your music as blue collar stoner metal. I suppose it is referring to middle class, but I would like to understand better what is difference between common and blue collar stoner? Any unique idea behind this?

W: I write about historical and current events. Yes, it is about the middle class. But it is also about the working poor. The oligarchy has taken over in America. The media is owned by the corporations, as is virtually everything else in American life. I fight that. There are too many people who buy into the idea that nothing can be done to effect change. They go along the get along. They accept low wages and defend their corporate overlords. That is not this band.

3:  Listening to Karmageddon, I have a feeling that you had very good time recording this album and in general you keep a distance to the world around? Am I right?

W: Yes!!! We had a very good time recording this album. Especially me. Every day started at around 10:00AM, and that's when I started drinking beer and vodka. It was wonderful! Then, at around noon, we would order a pizza from a place called Grandma's. Then, I would drink even more because I had food in my stomach.

4: Is there any special message in your lyrics you would like to pass on to the listeners? What topics do you cover in your lyrics?

W: We cover religion, the downfall of democracy, the rise of oligarchy, and the Iron Heel on the neck of the working class. But we try to do it in a way that is tongue-in-cheek or the telling of a story. 85% of the media that we ingest here in the United States is owned by five corporations. Fascism, by definition, is the merger of corporate and state power.  And most Americans fail to realize that we are indeed becoming a Fascist state.

5: I'm aware turkey is playing important role in US history, but what was a reason to place it on the album's cover?

W: Dude, no offense...but it's a vulture. It is sort of a visual reference to our song Red Vulture.

6: What are your musical inspirations?

W: Bernie Sanders, Black Sabbath, Gandhi, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Clutch, Sheer Terror, Celtic Frost, Martin Luther King, The Sword, and COC.

7: How did your cooperation with Eternal Sound Records start? Why this company?

W: I got a message one day on Facebook from a woman named Nicole. She said that she really liked our band and I messaged her back, thanking her. She proceeded to ask me if we would like to sign with her label, based in Germany. I asked her how she found us. Nicole said that she Googled “stoner metal” and saw the picture of our album, Karmageddon. She told me that she liked the cover and started listening to the songs that we had on YouTube and fell in love with them. She shared those songs with her partner at Eternal Sound Records and they both decided that they were in love with MuckRaker. A couple of weeks later, I was sent a contract for distribution and promotion of the album, Karmageddon, throughout Europe. I signed it with no regrets.

8: What do you do for living? Are there any bands or other art related projects you are involved in?

W: Well, I am a warehouseman. I lift heavy shit all day. No, other than my day job I do MuckRaker full-time.

9: Any other bands from Atlanta's area, you can recommend to?

W: There is a band called State of Unrest who fuse pre-hardcore and ska. Tach is a band we will be playing with soon who show great promise. Honestly, there are many cool bands here, but there are few who do the kind of Clutch-style music that MuckRaker does.

10: Any plans for European tour or you are touring around the States only?

W: If you are willing to finance a European tour for MuckRaker, let me know. We would very much love to do that!

11: Last word belongs to you :)

W: Unicorns, Agnosticized, Razor Blades, Trolls, Data, I report, you decide.

Thank you very much for this opportunity to speak with you.

NEWS: Progressive Death Metallers DESTROYERS OF ALL release new video

DESTROYERS OF ALL RELEASE NEW VIDEO FOR "HATE THROUGH VIOLENCE"

Portuguese prog-death metallers Destroyers of All have just released the first video off their next album “Bleak Fragments”. The song “Hate Through Violence” deals with releasing despair and hate through violence means, and the video reflects the motto for the song.

NEWS: RAPHEUMETS WELL Streaming New Track 'Witch of Dark Spire' Sign w/ Test Your Metal Records For New Album 'The Exile' Due Out March 18th

Blending a sound that is a complex mix of classical orchestrations, cosmic synths, and extreme metal to portray the epics of parallel worlds, Hickory, N.C. based RAPHEUMETS WELL (Ra-few-mets) bring forth a voyage enriched with lore, fabricated from scratch to show the depth in which represents them as artists.

NEWS: Out Now! Montreal Power Metallers DEMISE OF THE CROWN Unleash Self-Title Debut

Brandish your weapons and bare your teeth in the battle for new world order with Montreal’s power metal quintet, DEMISE OF THE CROWN. They run the gambit from melodic power metal to hard rock weaved together with soaring solos reminiscent of Eddie Van Halen with undertones of Yngwie Malmsteen. The band's sound has developed from progressive to a heavy metal band that has a pop format structure to the music in order to lure people into the realm of metal. Through many years of playing music with different people in the Montreal scene and slowly forming the official line up in 2014. Each member have spent their time paying dues in the local community and have banded together with the same goal and vision for a band determined to shake the foundation of power metal.

NEWS: Out Now! VAN HALST Unleash New Album 'World of Make Believe'

 

Photo Credit: Renee Robyn

Music Video - Save Me - Watch here.

Track Listing: Van Halst - World of Make Believe
1. The End (4:31)
2. Save Me (4:12) 
3. Ryan’s Song (4:11)
4. World of Make Believe (3:46)
5. Questions (3:23)
6. Denying Eyes (4:08)
7. Monster (3:29)
8. Plastic Smile (5:11)
9. Put Him Down (4:33)
10. Perfect Storm (4:44)

Album Length:  42:14

Edmonton, AB's VAN HALST is a fierce, empowering force of hard rock fused with metal.  A project, which began as a solo artist for whom the band is named after -- Kami Van Halst, has since become a full group producing socially conscious, lyrical tracks that focus on disenfranchised and marginalized populations. The band’s influences stay true to goth rock with Kami Van Halst demonstrating an agile vocal delivery in combination with pummeling growls. Lyrically, the band draws from black metal due to its focus on people suffering from isolation and rising to overcome the preconceptions of a judgmental society. In This Moment’s industrial fusion remains a primary influence for Van Halst, employing a sampler, synthesizer, and distorted vocals.

Kami Van Halst dominates as the vocalist performing both growls and soaring vocals (Surviving Suzanne), Scott Greene (Derina Harvey Band/Dirty Pool) and Strathon J. Bajowsky (Havok Way) craft the guitar work while Brendan McMillan (bass) (My Darkest Days) and Brett Seaton (drums) (Cultured by Fire) drive the rhythm section of the band. Kami’s range and virtuosic vocal ability always captivates an audience and her attitude on stage truly delivers the meaning behind the songs. The main writing forces for the band are Kami and Scott working together to give listeners a vivid image of social injustices. The band’s live performance is a theatric experience as the utilize full-costumes, make-up and stage props.

Their debut album 'World of Make Believe' is now available as of March 4th and can be picked up on iTunes and Bandcamp plus streaming at the following links below.

Vocalist Kami Van Halst comments about the album:

"We are so excited to be releasing this album. It’s been in the works for years and to finally have it out is an amazing feeling. Thank-you for all the support and we’ll see you on the road!”


Listen to 'World of Make Believe' at the following links:

Bandcamp: https://vanhalst.bandcamp.com/album/world-of-make-believe

Idobi Radio http://idobi.com/exclusive/premiere-van-halsts-new-album-world-of-make-believe/

For more info, please visit www.vanhalstmusic.com 

NEWS: Out Now! Montreal Industrial Monsters PROJEKT F Unleash 'The Butterfly Effect'

Perfecting their industrial brand of rock/metal, PROJEKT F bring the heat on their loudest release to date with ‘The Butterfly Effect’ that discusses the torrid relationship between man and God. The EP is a continuation of their thematic discography ‘Skins’ (2013) and ‘Under The Skin’ (2014) and features seven pinnacle tracks for your auditory senses that are now available via iTunes, as of Friday, March 4th and streaming in full at the following link below.