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Oruga - Second Trailer Online
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French doom/sludge act Oruga have revealed a second video trailer for their upcoming debut album, Blackened Souls, to be released on May 19th via Apathia Records. This means you can listen to more new music. Enjoy below and don't forget to check out the first trailer here.
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The Black Dahlia Murder - Releasing New DVD
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The Black Dahlia Murder are releasing a new DVD next month and it is called Fool 'Em All. This will be the band's second DVD and follows up their Majesty DVD. Once again, director Robbie Tassaro captured the band on tour and this time around, you can put on your 3D glasses (included in the package) to experience the band in stereoscopic 3D in select scenes throughout the DVD. Fool 'Em All is scheduled for release on May 27th in North America and a few days earlier in Europe via Metal Blade Records. Take a look at the trailer here to whet your appetite.
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As I Lay Dying - New Project's Name And More Revealed
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As hinted before, Metal Blade Records has announced that Jordan Mancino (drums), Nick Hipa (guitar), Phil Sgrosso (guitar) and Josh Gilbert (bass) of San Diego based metal act As I Lay Dying have teamed up with vocalist Shane Blay (previously lead guitar/clean vocals in Oh, Sleeper) to create the new band Wovenwar. That's As I Lay Dying minus Tim Lambesis. Over approximately the last year, the band completed work on new material recorded with producer Bill Stevenson (Descendents, Black Flag) with mixing duties currently being handled by Colin Richardson (Slipknot, Machine Head, Trivium). For now, you can enjoy a small teaser below.
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Aborted - Debut Lyric Video For New Song
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New music alert! It is coming from gore-grinders Aborted. After sharing "Necrotic Manifesto", the second song you get to hear from The Necrotic Manifesto is called "Coffin Upon Coffin". Check out this new song through the lyric video available right here. You know you want it. Enjoy!
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Sinister - To Release New Album In May, Streaming New Track
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Dutch death metallers Sinister are pleased to announce the release of their upcoming new album, The Post-Apocalyptic Servant, on May 23rd via Massacre Records. The follow up to The Carnage Ending is the band's 11th full length studio release. The new track "The Burden Of Mayhem" is already available for streaming, and can be heard through the YouTube player below. Of course, don't forget to check out the cover artwrok and tracklist of the new album.
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Blind Guardian - Announce European Tour For 2015
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Talk about planning ahead of time. News arrive from Blind Guardian today and it is the announcement of a new European tour. However, it will only happen next year, so you still have a little waiting to do. Below you find the first dates of their new European tour, that will see the band en route through nine different countries in April and May 2015. So maybe the new album will come out around that time? One can speculate. According to Hansi Kürsch, the production is almost done.
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Deftones - Streaming Previously Unreleased Track
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One year ago, Deftones bassist Chi Cheng passed away after a prolonged coma caused by a car accident back in 2008. The band has now posted online a previously unreleased track called "Smile" in the first anniversary of his passing. You can stream the track on the YouTube clip below. The song is thought to be from the band's shelved album Eros, which was originally put aside after Cheng's tragic accident.
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Skeletonwitch - European Tour With Havok And Suffocation
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Skeletonwitch will be touring in Europe this summer and they are bringing Suffocation and Havok along with them for the ride. Will you get lucky? Find out below. Also, this tour includes festival appearances plus club dates and it is happening in July/August.
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Omit - Begin Recording New Album
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Good news arrive from the Omit camp today. Omit is doom metal band based in Oslo, Norway and their debut album Repose came out in 2011. Now its successor is being recorded at the Secret Quarters studio, as it was revealed by the band on their official Facebook page.
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Lyriel - New Album In September
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Folk metallers Lyriel have been recording their new album to follow Leverage and according to their label AFM Records, are right now finalizing their brand new album for a September release. In terms of details about the new album, Christian Älvestam (Solution .45, ex-Scar Symmetry, etc.) recorded clean vocals and screams which will be featured in the new song "Black And White".
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Malpractice - Sign To Sensory Records, New Album This Summer
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The Finns Malpractice haven't released a new album since 2008's Triangular but the wait is finally over as the next album is coming this summer. The progressive metal group just signed a deal with New Jersey based Sensory Records and their new opus is titled Turning Tides.
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Psygnosis
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PSYGNOSIS advocates freedom, compositions without limit, without barriers, without predetermined format. The perfect combination of Pink Floyd, Origin, Meshuggah and Aphex Twin, the Mâcon group undertakes no rule to expand its atmospheric extreme metal. Intelligent and powerful, both introspective and cathartic, PSYGNOSIS forges its own very original identity As his discography. PSYGNOSIS also has the particularity to have produced its first album in digipack entirely through donations from fans just before the current fashion of crowdfunding.
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Domains
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Night has fallen on us so many times, since August 2005, when the first incarnation of DOMAINS took form for the first time, yet still unnamed for the first months, since the first day it was firmly established with the clear aim of composing occult, violent and gleaming music. Four very young guys, inspired by progenitors such as Morbid Angel, Destruction, Mayhem, old Metallica and the almighty Slayer, started the decisive search to reach the force to compose music with the power capable of bringing magic and fanaticism as the aforementioned ones did, everything framed in the old Metal spirit, but free from clichés and Rock and Roll scenic drama.
"The objective was clear, the invocation of a very spiritual and oppressive art, that was and is still the main the raison d'étre of DOMAINS, and at that origin point, it was still unknown if it ever had to be reached, that was the primary requirement to continue with the band."
Months passed, some riffs were discarded, others were taken forever. After that, the first lineup changes occurred, setting the band as a three-piece weapon, a disposal that persists for today. It was on the second quarter of 2006 and after the completion of "Eucharist Of Relevance" when the entity felt the need to record the first part of their testament, in the form of a private rehearsal, and as it is said here, it happened, Rehearsal 2006 saw the dark of the day and was distributed among very close contacts, it was insufficient in many ways, but it had the potential and very primitive traces of an own style. Months of musical composition followed, a search and refinement in the style of singing and a progression in the making of lyrics, all at a very slow pace, with care and attention to what was being done, because like now, the band never followed a standard working rate imposed by anything or anyone.
It was in those days when two crucial things happened for the band, the composition of Mastery, which was an irrepressible deepening in elegance and darkness (forming together with Eucharist the structure of a recognizable style in the future), and the departure of J. from the formation, which had dealt with drums until then. This led DOMAINS to a dilemma, to disappear or to take a firm step forward and cast in stone the first demo/MCD.
"Reins were took, it was firmly believed on it, and Towards Pleroma was bled for the glory of Black / Death Metal, putting the band on the map and drawing attention from across the underground, more and more letters and interviews befell."
The fact that Towards Pleroma saw the light was but the hint of a bigger idea, which previously had been brewing in the core of the band, to create an oppressive opus whose malignancy and whose demeanor were simply totalitarian, an opus on which frame the eerie riffing and hateful vocals the band had been developing since the first day. Then the search for a drummer began , with high amounts of skepticism regarding finding someone suitable, and meanwhile, started the task of composition for the first parts of the new songs that would compend the full length. In April 2010 the band finally find the kind of person it was looking for and Nocturn converts DOMAINS again in a three-headed serpent. For the next month (and you can even speak of years) the band is still working on writing material for their first full length, which shows a change about their first compositions, an evolution, a continuity that leads to a more sinister hue with the inclusion of keyboards and faster parts, in addition to this, the constant work with the vocals approaches them to the standard the band was aiming for since the beginning, and the lyrics, they submerge deeper and deeper into the occult...
It is on the eve of 2012 when a crucial event for the band is produced when joining forces with The Sinister Flame to bring to this world the solemnly dark and satanic beast that Sinister Ceremonies is, the determination and dedication shown by both parties is complete, and it is decided that no matter when, Sinister Ceremonies will only see the light when it is the hateful piece of art that it has been promised to be. After an arduous recording process full of unexpected events and an enormous self-imposing, just when the result has become so enough dark and deep as originally intended, that is when DOMAINS and The Sinister Flame join forces for something that goes far beyond of any band-label relationship, and unleashes into this world, here and now, Sinister Ceremonies.
The future? ... uncertain in the content, certain in the form.
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Menace
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MENACE are the brainchild of Mitch Harris (Napalm Death, Meathook Seed)
"The band is called MENACE, but to me, it is more than just a band or a solo project", comments the musician. "It is the result of my life's work."
Not surprisingly regarding such an adventurous and prolific musician, the result is stunningly eclectic and absolutely unique. Within their driving, creative heavy rock or audio-installationism (A.I.) in the artist's own words, Harris and MENACE explore dissonance, melody, relating the width and breadth of human emotion and experience. This delicious musical cocktail contains many tasty ingredients ranging from the mystery and emotionality of Tool to eccentric Voivod and even delivering thrashy riffs.
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Demon Hunter - Release New Video
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"I Will Fail You" is a brand new music video from US metalcore act Demon Hunter, and is now available for viewing through the YouTube player below. The track for this video clip appears on the group's recently released new album, Extremist, available in stores from March 18th via Solid State Records.
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