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Lucifer's Hammer

Lucifer's Hammer were originally formed in Santiago de Chile during the first months of 2012 by Hades and Titan (guitar/vocals and drums, respectively). Their aim was to create a heavy metal band inspired by the sound of the 1970s and 1980s. The two brothers recorded the first demo 'Night Sacrifice', which received positive feedback and raised interest both inside and outside the country.

Moving forward to 2016, now joined by Hypnos for the twin guitar work, Lucifer's Hammer recorded the long awaited first album entitled 'Beyond The Omens', a successful album that showed all the potential of the Chilean heavy metal act. The characteristic sound demonstrated on the first full-length was complemented by the 'Victory Is Mine' EP in 2017, which explored the obscure and dynamic repertoire of the band. Now as a four-piece, with Sirius on bass, Lucifer's Hammer delivers 'Time Is Death', the follow-up to 'Beyond The Omens', which is about to be released on vinyl by High Roller Records.

'Time Is Death' is Lucifer's Hammer's second full-length album, quite clearly a more mature effort in comparison to their début album: "We believe that the main change has been in terms of experience. Experience has given us more insight, we got to the point where we know exactly where we want to go, and how to make our ideas become reality. Our early compositions and ideas were made just to express our visceral musical desires. We didn't question ourselves if it was wrong or right, we just wanted to explore and exploit our inner passion and drive for playing music, a sort of showcase for our convictions and thoughts. Today, we still feel the same, but we have gained more experience and now possess the will to do things better than before".

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Posted: 07.06.2024by Yaniv

Bands
Ylisia

Founder, keyboard player and composer George van Olffen (ex Secret Sounds, Moonflower, Kingfisher Sky), asked longtime friend and guitar player Martijn de Zeeuw to join him in the quest for an additional line-up.

In the summer of 2021, Liesbeth Cordia (ex Annatar, Eve’s Fall) joined as vocalist, along with Eva Levina as drummer and Tim Hoogervorst (ex theName) as bassist, who completed the band with a solid rhythm section.

George and Liesbeth discovered a deep musical connection. Liesbeth found her writing mojo and completed the songs with much needed melodies and lyrics in hyperspeed. Only three days after they first met, some vocals were recorded in George’s homestudio, instantly bringing the songs to life. So the story began.

Ylisia released their first homestudio demos on Soundcloud soon after. They quickly got featured on a ‘NH-pop Demodrop Heavy Edition’ livestream, where they received very positive feedback.

As of 2022, Ylisia has started storming the stage! For their very first gig they attended the W.O.A. Metal Battle in the preliminary round Zuid-Holland, where they ended up in 2nd place! Another highlight was their performance at Rotown, Rotterdam during the Eendrachtfestival. They also had the opportunity to support Imperial Age at Baroeg, during their ‘New World Tour’. Ylisia ended up in 3rd place in the final of Grote Prijs van Dordt. Furthermore, on January 2023 they won the audience award of the European final of Female Metal Event FemME, which allowed them to play at the FemME festival 2023!

November 18th, 2023, Ylisia finally released their debut album “Underneath”! They played an unforgettable album release show at Nobel, Leiden! A videoclip was released on YouTube for the title-song. The album is out now on all platforms and CD hard copies are available at shows & online! “Underneath” quickly got featured on the “From The IceBerg” radio show Christmas Special, along with a lovely interview with George & Liesbeth.

Source: https://www.ylisia.com/about/

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Posted: 06.06.2024by Bad English

Bands
Paralydium

Sweden's Paralydium was founded by John Berg, with a vision to create an innovative mixture of hard hitting riffs, melodical landscapes and hypnotizing grooves.

John gathered some of Sweden's most accomplished musicians and recorded a three song EP, released in October of 2015. Simply called "The Paralydium Project", the EP quickly put the group on the map in the world of progressive metal. With influences ranging from metal to prog to classical film scores, Paralydium created a unique atmosphere in their music which best could be described as a journey through space and time.
After receiving fantastic reviews and appraisals for the EP, John understood that it was high time for a follow-up. The writing process for a full-length album began shortly after the release of the EP and took almost four years before completion.
Paralydium's long awaited debut album "Worlds Beyond" will be released on Frontiers Records on June 12th, 2020.
It is a concept album where the music and lyrics are coherent during the entire experience.
Through different landscapes, or worlds if you will, the listener follows a man on his quest to find higher powers. What he comes across during journey is not what he expected, and he is forced to rethink the purpose of his life.

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Posted: 04.06.2024by Yaniv

Bands
Mörkvarg

Mörkvarg is a four-piece speed/thrash metal band from Riga, Latvia. The band originally started in Daugavpils in December 2015 as a then untitled side project of Dennis Dee. When he moved to Riga in beginning of 2017, the project slowly started to transform into a full band. After several line-up changes, by the beginning of summer 2019 the beast took its current form: Dennis (Hypervert, ex-Saintorment, ex-Varang Nord) on bass and backing vocals, Max (ex-Velvet Von Wild) on rhythm guitar and vocals, Paul (Terror Activator) on lead guitar, and Gleb (ex-Flying Axe, ex-Naughty Pineapple) on drums. Band played their first gig on the 14th of February, 2020, in Republika bar in Riga, opening for British rock 'n' roll warriors Neon Animal.
The noise produced by these fine gentlemen is a blend of the old school 1980s metal spirit with modern and progressive tendencies. At least the boys like it themselves, hope you will like it, too!

Source: https://www.facebook.com/MorkvargOfficial/about_details

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Posted: 29.05.2024by Bad English

Bands
Crimson Veil

Dark Alternative Metal band from Brighton, UK.
Crimson Veil are a group of multi-instrumentalists that blend elements of progressive rock, metal and cinematic music to create a sound that's striking and unique.

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Posted: 25.05.2024by Yaniv

Bands
Seth

After a demo entitled Apocalyptic Desires (1996) and a debut MCD By Fire Power Shall Be (1997), Seth's first album Les Blessures De L'Ame (released in 1998 on Season Of Mist) quickly appeared as a leading act in the extreme French metal scence with very promising reviews from the press and started creating a solid fanbase worldwide that was to gradually expand.

Offering a much more professional BM attitude at the time than many of its counterparts, the band signed a two album deal with Osmose Productions and recorded a second album The Excellence (2000). Uphold by prestigious collaborations such as Fenriz (Darkthrone) and the famous electronic band Total Eclipse, Seth combined different influences with no real boundaries. Shortly after the band got offers to appear on French TV music shows and shot a video clip for the French MTV channel "MCM".

Seth was then invited to take part of the legendary Tribute To Mayhem compilation on Avantgarde Music along with bands such as Immortal, Behemoth, or Dark Funeral.

In 2002, the band recorded a 3rd album, Divine X, at Excess Studio in Rotterdam (Sinister, Elegy, After Forever, Epica) again on Osmose Productions.

This release showed their undisputed ability to mix both dark atmospheres and brutality. The album was critically acclaimed, receiving top rank reviews in many magazines like Mindview and Grindzone.

In December 2003 the band entered again Excess Studio in NL with a revised line up, featuring new inputs Cyriex and Black Messiah, to record their most mature, personal and mesmerizing album ever: Era Decay.

After the 4th full-length album, the band entered a significant break in 2005. Still, in September 2011, they surprisingly played an exclusive show in Germany headlining together with the legendary Bethlehem.

The show recreated the special alchemy that used to bound the band together, the fans were there, and a new mini-tour was then scheduled in 2012. After these few live dates, Seth is now back in the studio and working on its 5th album.

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Posted: 25.05.2024by Starvynth

Bands
Altarage

The totality of NIHL is a landscape unto itself, and the work of titanic death metal deviance.

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Posted: 02.05.2024by Yaniv

Bands
Raised By Owls

Raised By Owls is an extreme metal band spawned from the depths of Derbyshire. Fusing together musical elements from various strains of metal and imbuing the lyrics with a humour moulded by misspent youths lived in rural England, Raised By Owls promises to provide you with a mild sonic disturbance, followed by an immediate apology.

Formed in 2015 by vocalist Sam Fowler, guitarist Alex LeGrice, and drummer Lee Deane, Raised By Owls was originally envisioned as a means of alleviating the boredom inherent to small-town life. After countless weekends spent in Alex's bedroom crafting music for their own enjoyment, the band decided to focus their efforts on writing and recording a full album. Released free of charge in October 2016, 'The Great British Grind Off' showcases the trio's shared love of heavy music and sardonic humour, picking on the bizarre quirks and cult figures unique to British culture. With a view to performing live, the band was brought to full strength with the addition of guitarist Mark Bainbridge and bassist Tobias Cope. Technically proficient and possessed of the same eccentric humour as the founders, Mark and Toby were viewed as the perfect fit for Raised By Owls.

With influences including Behemoth, Carcass, Napalm Death, and The Black Dahlia Murder, it is obvious as to what to expect from Raised By Owls. Their music is a no holds barred assault intended to pay homage to their influences as much as it is to purvey their own brand of warped comedy: the band strives to create technically challenging music that conveys their irreverent perspective of the world and they do so to great effect, with critics noting:

"Their appeal is not limited to getting one or two chuckles out of their listeners: they emulate and recreate the blackened grindcore sub-style with such talent and ease that it brilliantly adds to the over-the-top silliness that the five-piece has chosen to sing about."
- Far Beyond Written

"Raised By Owls have delivered what could be destined to become a cult classic. Great music with a gently twisted sense of humour, it demands to be heard."
- Totally Tankered

"Few bands have written albums as fun and engaging and varied as The Great British Grind Off. That this is only a debut album is an absolute testament to the amount of skill possessed by these lads."
- Toilet Ov Hell

Before they were in a position to perform live music, Raised By Owls worked to gather a small online following with whom they would share their music. The self-produced and self-released EP was made available online and saw the band utilise the creative talents of popular artist "Jim'll Paint It" to create an album cover that perfectly complements the eclectic nature of the lyrical content. The band understood the need to create a strong online presence as a means of expanding and engaging their fanbase and they continue to regularly update their followers. Social media has provided an ideal platform upon which to share the band's music videos, which take the form of short clips that perfectly communicate the ethos of Raised By Owls; that is, being amusing need not come at the cost of musical quality. Over the course of the past year, these videos have amassed more than nine million collective views on Facebook and continue to be a large factor in the band's expansion.

With the addition of Mark and Toby and a growing online presence, Raised By Owls is now well-equipped to bring its unique brand of noise to the unsuspecting people of Great Britain and grow their fanbase in a more conventional manner. Having played a number of shows across the UK, the band continues to realise its main goal: to write and perform music that will have audiences banging their heads and laughing in equal measure.

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Posted: 26.04.2024by Yaniv

Bands
Cainites

Under the same mark of Cain and within the same universe filled with the eternal night, Cainites is the name of the melodic death metal duo oozing darkness and blood from every song of their debut album 'Revenant'.

From the ashes of the Italian gothic doom masters Motus Tenebrae, rise the two Orthodox vampire priests: Andrea Falaschi aka Frater Orion (Deathless Legacy, Motus Tenebrae, Rodedentro) on vocals drums and keyboards, and Daniele Ciranna (Motus Tenebrae) on guitars and bass.

In 'Revenant', they groan in the shadows they have been locked in for centuries, as punishment - the shadows of the vampires. They can’t end their endless lives, but just follow the most brutal survival instinct, that makes them feed on human blood.

"Revenant is a concept album that talks about an old Orthodox Priest who became a Vampire against his will. Oscillating between a sense of abandonment by the divine and moving away from the light, and the manifestation of a faith that is still present with continuous pleas to God to stop him from his relentless bloodshed, yearning for a redemption that cannot be reached."

Through their dark, melodic death metal influenced by Insomnium, The Vision Bleak, Paradise Lost, My Dying Bright, Septicflesh, they create their own mystique, portraying the curse and the mark they have to carry - that of those longing for the light they’ve been banned from, forever.

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Posted: 24.04.2024by Yaniv

Bands
Bronze

Bronze, formerly known as Kramp, is an international traditional heavy metal powerhouse fronted by Mina Walkure on vocals. Alongside her, the band’s journey began in 2010 with her brother Lap on bass, aiming to revive the classic heavy metal tradition that seemed to be lacking around that time.

The band is completed with Cederick Forsberg on guitars & Billy Qvarnström as live drummer.

In 2016, their blazing debut EP ‘Wield Revenge’ was released, receiving an immediate positive response from fans and the media. Building on this success, they further established their presence in 2020 with their first full-length album ‘Gods of Death’.

Both releases highlight and showcase the strong influence of classic of 80s classic 80s heavy metal genres such as epic heavy metal, teutonic metal, US Power Metal, New Wave of British Heavy Metal, neo-classical, and speed metal, infused with elements of medieval folklore and classical melodies.

The band’s aesthetic and visuals, both on and off stage, reflect these elements, aligning music, graphics, and stage props to enhance the storytelling experience.

Fast-forward to 2023, a name change to Bronze was announced, followed by the release of their second full-length album ‘In Chains and Shadows‘ in 2024.


Source: bronzeofficial.com

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Posted: 19.04.2024by Yaniv

Bands
Kramp

Bronze, formerly known as Kramp, is an international traditional heavy metal powerhouse fronted by Mina Walkure on vocals. Alongside her, the band’s journey began in 2010 with her brother Lap on bass, aiming to revive the classic heavy metal tradition that seemed to be lacking around that time.

The band is completed with Cederick Forsberg on guitars & Billy Qvarnström as live drummer.

In 2016, their blazing debut EP ‘Wield Revenge’ was released, receiving an immediate positive response from fans and the media. Building on this success, they further established their presence in 2020 with their first full-length album ‘Gods of Death’.

Both releases highlight and showcase the strong influence of classic of 80s classic 80s heavy metal genres such as epic heavy metal, teutonic metal, US Power Metal, New Wave of British Heavy Metal, neo-classical, and speed metal, infused with elements of medieval folklore and classical melodies.

The band’s aesthetic and visuals, both on and off stage, reflect these elements, aligning music, graphics, and stage props to enhance the storytelling experience.


Fast-forward to 2023, a name change to Bronze was announced, followed by the release of their second full-length album ‘In Chains and Shadows‘ in 2024.”.


Source: bronzeofficial.com

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Posted: 19.04.2024by Yaniv

Bands
Tomorrow's Rain

The story of Tomorrow's Rain started in 2002 as vocalist Yishai Sweartz and bassist Maor Appelbaum (childhood friends) found themselves out of the bands they led - for Yishai it was Death Thrashers "Nail Within" and for Maor it was Gothic act "Sleepless". They were both depressed, frustrated, and hungry for a new form of expression. Maor came up with the name MOONSKIN and the musical path of a Dark Doomier kind of metal. The soulmates started to experiment at home and wrote their first song, "Trees". The first line-up of the band had Matan Shmueli (Orphaned Land) on drums, Gil Barrel on guitars, Tal Galfky on keyboards, Raffi More (Distorted) on guitars and a female singer, Beyana Kliener, to add a soft kind of singing to Swearts's deep voice.

With this line-up the band rehearsed hard for a year and played a local show for friends. Shortly after Moonskin and Beyana parted ways as Moonskin felt they didn't want a sound similar to the male/female gothic metal thing. The band recorded a song called "Embraced by Words" for a tribute album to Chuck Schuldiner (Death) released by Areadeath Productions. While other bands simply covered Death's songs, Moonskin wrote a song ABOUT Chuck and his inspiration as a lyricist and artist. As far as it is known "Embraced by Words" is the only song in the Metal world written about Chuck.
A few months after Moonskin appeared on the At the Gates tribute album "Slaughterous Souls", released by Goi Music. The band covered "Raped by the Light of Christ" with the help of guests Dori Bar Or (Eternal Gray) and Kobi Farhi (Orphaned Land).

At the same time, while the creativity level reached new heights, Swearts and Appelbaum had to face some personal crises within the band: "Some of the band members became really ill. It had nothing to do with the band but rehearsals were insane as they had been isolating themselves from reality, driven by paranoia in its sickest form, which led to it being impossible for them to even leave home. It was clear that professional help was needed and we stayed friends and supported each other but it was a common agreement we had to go on".

In June 2006, still with this line-up, Moonskin played with EPICA in front of 800 Metalheads in Tel Aviv. Shortly after the band was put on ice by both Swearts and Appelbaum. "When we wrote the songs for what was supposed to be the debut album, we were both depressed and the writing was our process to clean our soul from the dirt and sorrow we had been through, but close to the EPICA show I got married. It was a happy time in my life. I could not lie to myself as an artist going on stage singing about feelings I don't feel anymore" said Swearts, "I lost motivation, Maor too. We kind of let it go. I tried to hide from those emotions, which was, in retrospect, a huge mistake".

Five years passed? Maor Appelbaum left Israel for Los Angeles and became one of the most famous mastering engineers on the Metal Scene, working on albums by Yngwie Malmsteen, Mayhem, Rob Halford, Therion and Faith No More. He became a father and got married. Yishai Swearts stayed in Israel, became a father, got divorced and made himself into a successful metal promoter in Israel, working with everyone from Paradise Lost to Megadeth and Sabaton.
But Yishai was doing some soul-searching for expression, salvation, aggression - let's call it Temptation? so in 2011 he called guitarist Raffi More and asked him to go on stage with a new line- up, supporting Swedish band DARK TRANQUILLITY in Tel Aviv.

The band renamed themselves TOMORROW'S RAIN, inspired by the song "Fragile" (STING), and put together a new line-up with both Swearts (vocals) More (guitars) and Shmueli (drums) and new members Elad Maidan (guitars) Alex Karlinski (keyboards) and ARAFEL's bass player Roman on bass.

Under the name TOMORROW'S RAIN the band played to a packed house with Dark Tranquillity and then disappeared into the unknown again?..
Four more years have passed? but the Rain keeps falling on the soul of original member Yishai Swearts. As he approached his 40th birthday, he felt he was missing great artistic expression in his life.

"With previous bands I played with, BETRAYER (1992-2000) and NAIL WITHIN (2000-2002), I had great times but I never felt the full sense of musical expression that I wanted to achieve. With MOONSKIN and later TOMORROW'S RAIN I felt it was there. I felt I was missing a big thing in my life and I felt that I had to make it a now-or-never thing".

In 2015 the guys were called to arms again, with his long-time friend and musical partner Raffy More on guitars, Alex Karlinski on keyboards, Yaggel Cohen on bass, Gal Schohat on drums and Itay Franklin on guitars TOMORROW'S RAIN were reborn - this time to stay.
On April the same year TOMORROW'S RAIN were supposed to play with Finnish Doomers SWALLOW THE SUN but felt that it was too early to hit the stage and they still needed a few more months in order to reshape the material, but Mikko Johannes, singer of SWALLOW THE SUN joined TOMORROW'S RAIN in the studio and recorded vocals on the band's song "In The Corner Of A Dead End Street" (written as MOONSKIN back in the day), which will appear on TOMORROW'S RAIN debut album.

"It was a great honor for us as SWALLOW THE SUN is a great band. In my opinion they released the best album in 2015 and they are great guys" said Yishai Sweartz.
On May 2016 it was announced that TOMORROW'S RAIN would play with Swedish band DRACONIAN in November.
2016 will be the year that things happen. The band is working on their debut album. Some song titles are "Trees", "Misery Rain", "In the Corner of a Dead End Street" and a few others, the band will play few selected local shows and some bigger shows and many things are to be announced later on?
This time the rain will fall?..

Artistic motto: "I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring" (David Bowie).
Musical Inspirations: Fields Of The Nephilim, Paradise Lost, The Sisters of Mercy, My Dying Bride, old Katatonia, old Anathema, New Model Army, Bauhaus, old Opeth, Joy Division, Nick Cave, old Tiamat, The Mission, Morrissey and others? ?. All blended and cooked in our personal way - we don't sound like any one of them but surely we are inspired.

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Posted: 17.04.2024by Yaniv

Bands
No Terror In The Bang

No Terror In The Bang is a progressive metal / cinematic metal band. It weave a chiaroscuro universe between fragility and fury. The band's name refers to a phrase by Alfred Hitchcock, evoking the calm before the storm and the tension of his films: "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it." The band's songs alternate between dreams and nightmares, turbulence and frenzy.

If Volume I 'Eclosion' surprised metalheads with its duality between the primitive vitality of metal and the finesse of cinematic orchestration, Volume II 'Heal' drives the point home more brutally, with self-assumed "world" tracks that are by turns turbulent, touching and powerful.

Sofia Bortoluzzi's mezzo voice alternates between characters, clear and saturated vocals. Each of the band's tracks has a unique narrative atmosphere, somewhere between modern metal and dark film soundtracks, with suspense and climax.

Artistic direction is provided by drummer-composer Alexis Damien (Pin-Up Went Down, Void Paradigm, ex-Carnival In Coal live, etc.), along with Etienne Cochin (guitar), Clement Bernard (guitar), Brice Bouchard (bass) and Romain Greffe (keyboards). The album covers were created by photographer Louise Dumont.

The band's second album, 'Heal', is released on 12 January 24 on Klonosphere label / Season Of Mist / The Orchard / Sony.

Source: Official website

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Posted: 16.04.2024by Yaniv

Bands
Xeneris

Formed in December 2022, after the disbandment of Kalidia, Xeneris is the brainchild of Federico Paolini (Co-founder, composer, and guitarist of Kalidia) and Roberto Donati (Bassist of Kalidia). Coupled with the jaw-dropping vocals of Maryan and the rhythmic genius of Stefano Livieri, we've created an unstoppable team!

Xeneris, fuse power metal, symphonic metal, and progressive metal into an electrifying concoction of irresistible melodies, powerful riffs, and grand arrangements.

What makes us unique? We're infusing myths, real-life and fantasy legends, and introspection from human experiences into our music.

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Posted: 08.04.2024by Yaniv