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Trigger The Bloodshed - Entire New Album Available For Streaming

Trigger The Bloodshed and Bringonmixedreviews.com have teamed up to offer you a stream of their latest album "The Great Depression" which is in stores since April 14 through Metal Blade Records. "The Great Depression" is available for streaming in its entirety at this location.

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Source: bringonmixedreviews.com
Band profile: Trigger The Bloodshed
Posted: 02.05.2009 by ArtiA | Comments (0)


Shining - Two New Songs Uploaded And Available For Streaming

Taken from Blabbermouth:

"Swedish black metallers SHINING are streaming two new songs — "Vilseledda Barnasjälars Hemvist" and "Plågoande O'Helga Plågoande" — on their MySpace page. The tracks are taken from the band's sixth studio album, "VI / Klagopsalmer", tentatively due before the end of the year via Indie Recordings. The CD was recorded at The Slaughterhouse studios with producer Rickard Bengtsson.

"VI / Klagopsalmer" track listing:

01. Vilseledda Barnasjälars Hemvist
02. Plågoande O'Helga Plågoande
03. Krossade Drömmar Och Brutna Löften
04. Fullständigt Jävla Död Inuti
05. Ohm - Skoj Att Leva
06. Total Utfrysning"

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Source: roadrunnerrecords.com
Band profile: Shining
Posted: 02.05.2009 by Lucas | Comments (6)


Master - Sign With Pulverised Records

Pulverised Records press release

It is our greatest pleasure to welcome one of the pioneering and oldest bands in Death Metal history onto our roster: the legendary Master!

States A&R Manager Calvin: "Master was and is still truly an influential band and I would daringly assumed that a lot of the early Extreme Metal bands were somehow influenced by Master, but was probably never open and admitted widely. Paul Speckmann was really enthusiatic to join the Pulverised family and furthermore, very easy to work with. There were so many things that we have discussed and were definitely on the same page, so an album deal was struck in no time. We hope that with our support on the upcoming new album, it will be Master's most devastating and crushing album yet!"

Comments frontman Paul Speckmann: "It's an honor and a pleasure to be signing with a real label like Pulverised Records. I really feel like this label will believe in Master like a label should. It's really been difficult to find a label that is willing to dedicate itself to a band like Master who incidentally has been surviving the underground since 1983. I certainly have confidence in Pulverised Records and hopefully we can bring the band along to the next level. Forget all the cheap imitators, there is only one Master consisting of Speckmann, Nejezchleba and Pradlovsky, so be forewarned. The soon to be recorded new CD will be as brutal as its predecessor. Look for speed, intensity and as always objective lyrical content. For myself, I certainly live through my music, it is certainly my muse."

Speckmann and co. are set to commence work on the new material for a full-length album in August and the new album should be completed at the end of 2009. More details and announcements will be made.

Source: pulverised.net
Band profile: Master
Posted: 30.04.2009 by Thryce | Comments (2)


Deströyer 666 - Set To Release New Album

Australian warmongers Deströyer 666's fourth album "Defiance" will invade European stores on next June 22nd. The album will be released in the USA on July 14th. Here are the artwork and tracklisting:

01. Weapons Of Conquest
02. I Am Not Deceived
03. Blood For Blood
04. The Barricades Are Breaking
05. A Stand Defiant
06. A Path To Conflict
07. A Thousand Plagues
08. Human All Too Human
09. A Sermon To The Dead

According to frontman KK, "the artwork for the new album was inspired by the idea of resolute defiance in the eye of the spiral downwards".

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Source: season-of-mist.com
Band profile: Deströyer 666
Posted: 30.04.2009 by ArtiA | Comments (6)


Birds Of Prey - New Album Available For Streaming

"The Hellpreacher", the third album from Birds Of Prey is available for streaming in its entirety at this location. The album will be released on April 28 in US (May 4 internationally) via Relapse Records.

"The Hellpreacher" cover artwork] tracklisting:

01. Momma
02. Juvie
03. As The Field Mice Play
04. Alive Inside!
05. Tempt The Disciples
06. Taking On Our Winter Blood
07. The Excavation
08. Blind Faith
09. False Prophet
10. The Owl Closes In
11. Warriors Of Mud... The Hellfighters
12. Giving Up The Ghost

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Source: thehellpreacher.info
Band profile: Birds Of Prey
Posted: 30.04.2009 by ArtiA | Comments (1)


Gnostic - New Album Details

"Engineering The Rule", the new debut album from Gnostic will be release in Europe on May 25 via Season Of Mist (July 14 in the U.S.)

"Engineering The Rule" cover artwork] tracklisting:

01. Visceral
02. Isolate Gravity
03. Sleeping Ground
04. Engineering the Rule
05. Wall of Lies
06. Violently Calm
07. Life Suffering
08. Corrosive
09. Mindlock
10. Splinters of Change

An album comment reads as follows: "Taking the progressive sound of death to a new level of aggression with jaw-dropping breaks delivered in stunning frequencies, the Gnostic principle of duality is expressed in a fine sense for melodies and emotionality contrasting with the technical perfection of their execution. As fans of Atheist, Cynic, Death and Pestilence will flock to "Engineering The Rule", they should heed this warning: caution! Trying to play air guitar along the songs may result in broken fingers and severely damaged wrists!"

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Source: season-of-mist.com
Band profile: Gnostic
Posted: 30.04.2009 by ArtiA | Comments (3)


Impious - Working On New Material

Swedish metallers Impious have issued the following update:

"We've been very busy the past couple of weeks writing and arranging our new songs, and they're all turning out pretty fucking sweet. This will without a doubt be the most brutal and diverse Impious album to date! It's fast, it's catchy, it's heavy and it is extremely intense! We can't wait for you guys to hear what we've created! During May we'll take our songs to the rehearsal room and jam out the last ideas and perfect our tunes before we start tracking June 1st!

The recording will take place in our very own Valle Adzic's Studio Deadline. This is the first album ever we'll produce and engineer by ourselves and we're pretty stoked about delivering this baby without any other people involved. This album will truly represent what the fuck Impious is all about!

We would also like to tell you that we've hired the awesome and wickedly talented artist Marcello Vasco to create one of the most sinister and malignant looking album covers ever! Marcello is extremely talented and we're absolutely positive that everyone will crap their pants when they see what Marcello has created for us!

We have some good ideas to what we want to call the album. We surely want it to represent the dark and merciless vibe of our new songs and we also need the album cover to fit with it as well. We have some pretty wicked ideas, but we won't reveal any of it quite yet.

So, it's happening.

Stay tuned."

Source: blogs.myspace.com
Band profile: Impious
Posted: 29.04.2009 by SlaytallicA | Comments (0)


Amoral - Entire New Album Streaming, New Video Online

Finnish metallers Amoral have made their new album "Show Your Colors" available for streaming in its entirety on their MySpace page (the album will be online for a week, until May 6th, the official release date in Finland).

Also a new video, "Gave Up Easy", has been made available online. The clip contains footage shot in the recording sessions of "Show Your Colors".

"Gave Up Easy" comes off the band's forthcoming album, entitled "Show Your Colors", which will be released on May 6 in Finland via Spinefarm Records. The CD was recorded at Sound Supreme Studios in Hämeenlinna, Finland.

"Show Your Colors" cover art] tracklisting:

01. Random Words
02. Release
03. A Shade Of Gray
04. Year Of The Suckerpunch
05. Perfection Design
06. Sex N' Satan
07. Song For The Stubborn
08. Vivid
09. Gave Up Easy
10. Last October
11. Exit


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Source: myspace.com
Band profile: Amoral
Posted: 29.04.2009 by White Winter Sun | Comments (7)


Raintime - New Song Online

Italian metallers Raintime have launched a new and improved MySpace layout. For this occasion, a new song, entitled "One Day", is now available for streaming on their MySpace page.

The band's as yet untitled new album was recorded in March/April 2009 and will be released later in the year via Lifeforce Records in Europe, Replica Records in France, Soundholic Records in Japan and Bielerbros Records in the US, Canada and the UK.

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Source: lifeforcerecords.com
Band profile: Raintime
Posted: 29.04.2009 by White Winter Sun | Comments (0)


Autumn Hour - To Release Debut Soon, New Video Online

"Fade Out", the new video from Autumn Hour, the band featuring vocalist Alan Tecchio (Hades, Watchtower, Non-Fiction, Seven Witches), drummer Dave Lescinsky (Hades), bassist Clint Arent (Painmuseum, Seven Witches), and guitarist Justin Jurman, can be viewed below. The song comes off the group's upcoming CD, "Dethroned", due on May 5 via Rock Ridge Music.

Autumn Hour will appear at Sam Ash in Edison, New Jersey on Thursday, April 30 as part of the Gibson Tour Bus. They will perform and sign advance copies of the CD.

Tecchio previously stated about Autumn Hour: "We've written a concept CD about the near end of mankind and the role that accelerating technology plays in the wake of that. It's a story that was inspired by Ray Kurzwell's theory of the singularity. A cover of Eurythmics' "Here Comes The Rain Again" included as it fits the theme quite well."

"Dethroned" cover art] tracklist:

Part I: Singularity in the Making
01. Oblivion
02. End User
03. Techcceleration (The Machine Speaks)
04. Here Comes the Rain Again

Part II: Endgame.
05. Fade Out
06. Unbelievable (The Mind Speaks)
07. Dethroned
08. How Were We Supposed To Know?

Part III: The Machine Kind
09. Every Day (The Body Speaks)
10. Transcend
11. The Past (The Heart Speaks)

For more information, visit http://www.myspace.com/autumnhour.

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Source: myspace.com
Band profile: Seven Witches
Posted: 29.04.2009 by Thryce | Comments (1)


Fear Factory - Line-Up Reshuffle & Reunite With Dino Cazares

Fear Factory have had a complete line-up change including the original members Dino Cazares (guitar) rejoining along side Burton C. Bell (vocals) as well as bassist Byron Stroud and Gene Hoglan to play drums. The band will also play some festivals this summer.

Metal Hammer conducted an exclusive interview with Burton and Dino to talk about their friendship, why Raymond Herrera and Christian Olde Wolbers aren't included in the band any more, and their plans for a new album.

The interview can be found at this location:

http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/world-exclusive-fear-factory-interview/

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Source: metalhammer.co.uk
Band profile: Fear Factory
Posted: 28.04.2009 by Baz Anderson | Comments (18)


The Few Against Many - New Album Details

Pulverised Records press release

The latest Swedish all-star collaboration The Few Against Many, featuring ex-Scar Symmetry singer and lead guitarist Christian Älvestam, vocalist Pär Johansson of Satariel, The Duskfall and Demiurg fame, guitarist Patrik Gardberg (Torchbearer), drummer Jani Stefanovic (Miseration, Solution .45, etc) and bassist Anders Edlund (Incapacity, Angel Blake, etc) have revealed the album cover artwork and tracklisting for the debut album "SOT":

01. Hädanfärd
02. Bränd Mark
03. Blod
04. Skapelsens Sorti
05. Sot
06. Abider
07. Heresi
08. One With The Shadow

With the brilliantly mystical artwork of Dan Seagrave (Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Dismember, Entombed, etc) and backed by the top-notch production of Tomas "Plec" Johansson at Panic-Room Studios in Sweden and joining in as contributors Mikael Stanne of Dark Tranquillity and Jonas Renkse of Katatonia/Bloodbath fame penning down some lyrics, "SOT" is a crushing sick bastardization of Death Metal brutality combined with Progressive elements but only more twisted!

Comments Christian: "It's a great honour and privilege to once again work with my good friend Roy Yeo and his Pulverised Records. We have known each other for almost 12 years now, through our past work together with Unmoored and Quest Of Aidance, so it feels very much like coming home in a way. We are very happy and excited to see where this re-established cooperation can lead us as a team!"

Release date to be announced soon.

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Source: myspace.com
Posted: 28.04.2009 by Thryce | Comments (1)


Volbeat - Another New Video Online

"We", the new video from Danish rockers Volbeat, has been made available online. The clip was directed by AVA Studios.

"We" comes off the band's latest album, entitled "Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood", which was released on September 2008 via Mascot Records.


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Source: blogs.myspace.com
Band profile: Volbeat
Posted: 28.04.2009 by White Winter Sun | Comments (1)


Supreme Pain - Two New Songs Online

New Supreme Pain songs, called "The Unholy Throne" and the title track "Nemesis Enforcer", from the band's second full-length album, are streaming online over at the Supreme Pain MySpace.

The album is set to hit the streets somewhere in May.

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Source: myspace.com
Band profile: Supreme Pain
Posted: 28.04.2009 by ArtiA | Comments (0)


Stream Of Passion - New Song Online

A new preview track from Stream Of Passion's upcoming album "The Flame Within" is now available for stream at http://www.streamofpassion.com. "The Flame Within" will be released both as regular and limited digipack edition with bonus track on the following dates:

27.05.09 - FIN & ESP
29.05.09 - GAS, BENELUX FRA, ITA, SWE
01.06.09 - Rest Of Europe
02.06.09 - USA / CAN (RYKO)

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Source: myspace.com
Band profile: Stream Of Passion
Posted: 28.04.2009 by ArtiA | Comments (0)