Darkscene.at conducted an interview with vocalist Tomi Joutsen and bassist Niclas Etelävuori of Finnish melancholic dark rock/metal icons AMORPHIS when the band played at Rockhouse in Salzburg, Austria on January 5, 2012. You can now watch the chat below. Source: Blabbermouth.net
“Cold Kiss”, the new video from Finnish female-fronted symphonic metallers AMBERIAN DAWN, can be seen below. The track, which features a guest appearance by STRATOVARIUS singer Timo Kotipelto, comes off AMBERIAN DAWN‘s fourth studio album, “Circus Black”, which was released in Finland on February 29 via Spinefarm Records. The band’s mainman, keyboardist and guitarist Tuomas Seppälä composed all ten songs for the CD and vocalist Heidi Parviainen penned the lyrics.
“Circus Black” features additional guest appearances by Tuomas Nieminen (ex- ADAMANTRA, THRONE OF CHAOS), Nils Nordling (ex-DREAMTALE, ANIMAL HOUSE) and Jens Johansson (STRATOVARIUS, DIO, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN’S RISING FORCE). Nieminen and Nordling share vocal parts in the song “I Share With You This Dream”, Kotipelto sings lead on “Cold Kiss” and Johansson plays a keyboard solo on “Crimson Flower”.
Commented Tuomas: “‘Circus Black’ is the most impressive AMBERIAN DAWN album so far. Musically it represents the most sophisticated and most symphonic edge of AMBERIAN DAWN music. There’s more diversity on this album than never before. This is the first time we used a real choir and we gathered some really excellent professional opera singers together to be able to achieve the best-sounding choir possible. This choir was conducted by Mikko P. Mustonen from Pathos Music. He also arranged the choir and orchestral parts.
“We managed once again to get some world-class guests on this album. So, the production is our biggest so far and the final polish on this album was given by Teropekka Virtanen (mixing engineer) and Mika Jussila (mastering engineer) at legendary Finnvox Studios in Finland.
“The whole band did excellent job with recordings. It was really awesome, that Kasperi [Heikkinen] recovered from his hand injury just in time (only a couple of weeks before the mixing sessions started) and he was able to play guitar solos on this album. Even in the fall it seemed that I and Kimmo [Korhonen] would have to play all guitar parts by ourselves.” Source: Blabbermouth.net
“Circus Black” audio samples:
A Finnish-language track-by-track breakdown of “Where Angels Fear”, the long-awaited fifth album from the Finnish female-fronted heavy rock outfit LULLACRY, can be seen below. Due on March 7 in Finland through the band’s own label, OUTO Recordings, the CD — which marks the first LULLACRY release since 2005’s “Vol. 4” — was produced by Mikko Herranen (ex-vocalist for MISERY, INC.), who also sings a duet with LULLACRY vocalist Tanja Lainio in the track “Feel My Revenge”. The album was mastered by Svante Forsbäck at Chartmakers in Helsinki. Source: Blabbermouth.net
“Bad Blood” video:
COAL CHAMBER, the reformed ’90s alt-metal band fronted by current DEVILDRIVER singer Dez Fafara, played on Sunday (February 26) at Olympic Park in Sydney, Australia during this year’s Soundwave Festival. Fan-filmed video footage of the group’s entire show can be seen below. Also available is a video interview with the band conducted by MusicFeeds.TV. Source: Blabbermouth.net
Interview:
MusikUniverse.net conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Alexi Laiho of Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM when the band played at Metropolis in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on February 27 as part of a North American tour with ELUVEITIE, REVOCATION and THREAT SIGNAL. You can now watch the chat below.
CHILDREN OF BODOM is scheduled to commence the songwriting sessions for its next album this fall for a 2013 release. “I have ideas, but I haven’t done anything about it,” Alexi said. “‘Cause the thing is, I can’t write when I’m touring; it’s not the right kind of environment for me. I know a lot of people do it, but I just can’t. And it’s OK, ’cause I build a lot of ideas in my head, and my memory sucks, but one thing that I never forget is the riffs; they’re always in my head somehow. So it’s really not a problem.” Source: Blabbermouth.net
“Servitude Of Souls”, the new lyric video from Swedish tech-death assassins SPAWN OF POSSESSION, can be seen below. The track comes off the band’s third full-length album, “Incurso”, which will be released in North America on March 13 via Relapse Records. The CD, which will contain nine tracks plus an instrumental intro, was recorded at Pama Studios in Kristianopel, Sweden with engineer Magnus “Mankan” Sedenberg.
According to a press release, “devastating riffs, jaw-dropping time-signatures and improbably complex songwriting coalesce to create an opus of next-level death metal on ‘Incurso’, which the band promises to be their most supreme work to date, and more devastating than ever.”
The “Incurso” cover art was created by graphic artist Pär Olofsson (IMMORTAL, IMMOLATION, DYING FETUS) and can be seen HERE.
“Incurso” track listing:
01. Abodement
02. Where Angels Go Demons Follow
03. Bodiless Sleeper
04. The Evangelist
05. Servitude Of Souls
06. Deus Avertat
07. Spiritual Deception
08. No Light Spared
09. Apparition
The song “Where Angels Go Demons Follow” can be streamed using the SoundCloud player below. Source: Blabbermouth.net
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