Metallers ABORTED have recently announced that they will tour as main support to CANNIBAL CORPSE. The band just released their newest album, “Global Flatline”, via Century Media Records. The album produced, mixed and mastered by Jacob Hansen at Hansen studios in Denmark,
ABORTED on tour with CANNIBAL CORPSE
10.06.2012 Rostock / Alte Zuckerfabrik, Germany
12.06.2012 Zwolle / Hedon, Netherlands
13.06.2012 Leiden / LVC, Netherlands
23.06.2012 Aschaffenburg / Colos-Saal, Germany
24.06.2012 Augsburg / Kantine, Germany
27.06.2012 Kosice / Colloseum, Slovakia
28.06.2012 Budapest / Club 202, Hungary
03.07.2012 Nürnberg / Hirsch, Germany
UK based metal band MORTAD has recently announced new show dates for their UK tour in 2012. check them out below:
Apr.06 Mortad&Romeo Must Die co-headline show. Brighton.
Apr.13 Skindred, Therapy? Official after party. London.
Apr.14 ROYAL PARK CELLARS Music. Leeds.
May.06 The Babylon Lounge. Kent.
Oct.21 Metal Female Voices Fest. Wieze
As previously posted, MORTAD released a new video clip ,“Waste Of My Rage” which was sponsored by the Alchemy apparel clothing brand and produced by the Manchester-based video production company Video Ink. More than a dozen actors were cast for the video, including Collette Von Tora, who agreed to have her head shaved for this video shoot.
MORTAD‘s forthcoming full-length debut album, “The Myth Of Purity”, was recorded last October with producer Russ Russell (NAPALM DEATH, DIMMU BORGIR, EVILE) and is scheduled for an early 2012 release.
MORTAD was formed in 2009 by Iranian vocalist Somi Arian , whose lyrics take aim at the hypocrisy of religion and the government as well as seeking inner truth and strength in the face of such oppression.
MORTAD released a music video and an EP, entitled “Pandemic Paranoia”, in early 2011. This effort brought the band immense attention on the social media sites, placing the group as the No. 1 metal band on ReverbNation London metal chart, and attracting over 40,000 Facebook fans.
DJ Blackdiamond of FIREBRAND ROCK RADIO has conducted an interview with vocalist Somi Arian when the band was getting ready to perform at Hammerfest IV. The interview will be published soon on Metal Shock Finland. Stay tuned!
The second teaser for “Rise Of The Phoenix”, the new album from Finnish dark melodic death metal icons BEFORE THE DAWN, can be seen below. The CD will be released on April 27 via Nuclear Blast Records.
After the departure of Lars Eikin (bass/clean vocals) and Atte Palokangas (drums), Finland’s BEFORE THE DAWN experienced a rebirth of sorts. What could formerly be described as dark metal started to flow much more into melodic death metal waters.
Armed with new members Pyry Hanski (bass) and Joonas Kauppinen (drums), BEFORE THE DAWN will surprise you with a totally new, incredibly thrilling listening experience on their seventh studio album.
The perfectly fitting phoenix symbolism was chosen prudently as mainman, vocalist and mastermind Tuomas Saukkonen explains. “Massive changes in the line-up during 2011 ended an era of great frustration and brought back 110% dedication and professionalism into the band,” he says. “The newfound energy and motivation steered us into a victorious European tour and made it possible to produce the strongest, fastest, heaviest and definitely the most epic BEFORE THE DAWN album so far!”
“Rise Of The Phoenix” track listing:
01. Exordium
02. Pitch-Black Universe
03. Phoenix Rising
04. Cross To Bear
05. Throne Of Ice
06. Perfect Storm
07. Fallen World
08. Eclipse
09. Closure
Bonus tracks:
10. Unbreakable (2012 version)
11. Deliverance
12. Reflection (taken from the very first demo, 1999)
Finnish blues metal band CONCRETE SWINE has made its debut EP, “Ural Express”, available for streaming in its entirety at the group’s MySpace page. The CD was recorded by Jani Loikas at Cursed studio in Hyvinkää, Finland and was mixed by Rick Greenwood (LEGACY OF DISORDER, BEAR WITNESS) at Geneva Post Audio studio in Denton, Texas. The mastering was handled by Maor Appelbaum (SEPULTURA, HALFORD, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, ADRENALINE MOB) in Los Angeles. The blues harp on the EP was played by one of Finland’s top blues musicians, Ismo Haavisto.
“Ural Express” EP track listing:
01. Concrete Swine
02. Man To Lead
03. Hot Air
04. Save Yourself
CONCRETE SWINE is:
Mr. Brusila – Vocals Mr. Numminen – Guitar Mr. Penttinen – Drums Mr. Lahtinen – Bass
Former SINERGY singer Kimberly Goss has revealed to Noisecreep that she is now a teacher at the School Of Rock in Naperville, Illinois, where she is also raising her 5-year-old daughter.
When asked if she is involved with any bands right now, the 34-year-old ex-wife of CHILDREN OF BODOM guitarist/vocalist and her former SINERGY bandmate, Alexi Laiho, said, “For me right now, all other things have taken a back seat to motherhood. I didn’t want my daughter to be raised by nannies or babysitters, especially in the very beginning of her life, so I definitely chose to put my career on hold to concentrate on being a parent. Now that she’s getting a little older, I felt good about slowly getting back into music by teaching part time at the School Of Rock. I’m also currently writing for a music supervision company, whose job it is to place background music in TV shows. Writing a big, majestic film score has always been a dream of mine, but even getting the chance to write small clips for TV shows has been a great experience and I’m really grateful to still be getting opportunities to make a living solely from doing music.”
She added, “I would definitely love to start or join another band someday, but for the time being it’s not too practical. My days consist of taking my daughter to school, ballet class, libraries, playgrounds, and of course catching great shows like ‘Disney Princesses On Ice’ or ‘Sesame Street Live’. [laughs] I do have a feeling that getting back into a band will be somewhere in my future. The urge and desire is definitely still there and I have never stopped writing music. I just have to wait for the time to be right. Stay tuned!”
Regarding whether she would ever do a band with Alexi Laiho again, Goss said, “Alexi will forever be one of my dearest friends and he is without a doubt the greatest musician I have ever worked with, but we are both at very different places in our lives right now. That’s not to say that some day in the future something like that couldn’t happen, but it’s certainly not in the cards anytime soon. I would actually love to finish the fourth SINERGY album that we started production on many years ago. At this rate we can probably look forward to a release date in June of 2042!”
School Of Rock teaches kids to play guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards, drums and combines weekly private music lessons and group band rehearsals to prepare students to take the stage in front of live audiences in an authentic concert setting.
Fabiana Spinelli from www.heavyworlds.com recently conducted an interview with german singer Michael Kiske in occasion of the promotion of Unisonic self-titled debut album. In addition to Kiske, UNISONIC features in its ranks former Helloween mate and Gamma Ray mastermind Kai Hansen, Dennis Ward (bass) and Kosta Zafiriou (drums) of Germany’s PINK CREAM 69 and Swiss guitarist Mandy Meyer (who has previously played with ASIA, GOTTHARD and KROKUS). The entire 24-minutes interview can be streamed below. The album UNISONIC will be released on March 30 2012 (nine days earlier in Japan) via earMUSIC/Edel.
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