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BRIAR ROSE: Launch Kickstarter Campaign For Next Album With Producer Chris Tsangarides

Posted by aliblackdiamond on May 1, 2014
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Legendary Massachusetts traditional metal masters BRIAR ROSE have launched a Kickstarter campaign for their next album to be recorded with Grammy nominated producer Chris Tsangarides this coming Fall in Kent, England. The as yet to be titled album will be the band’s third album with the producer who is known for his work with THIN LIZZY, JUDAS PRIEST, BLACK SABBATH, ANVIL, HELLOWEEN and even TOM JONES to name but a few!!
Founding member and vocalist RANDY BLAKE II elaborates: “We are extremely excited to launch our initial Kickstarter campaign and we think we’ve got some great items! Everything from CDs, signed items, rare items, one of a kind items, things you can only get from the Kickstarter campaign, you can even have BRIAR ROSE play at your house in one of the items!!
The new album is going to be bigger and better than anything we have ever done and I seriously mean it!! It would be AWESOME if you could be a part of it!!”
The Kickstarter address can be found here.
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DEMONIC RESURRECTION: Announce New Album

Posted by aliblackdiamond on April 30, 2014
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Indian metal veterans DEMONIC RESURRECTION have announced the release of their 4th full-length album titled ”The Demon King”. The album is due for release worldwide on Candlelight Records and on Universal Music in India.
Release dates:
India: 13th July
UK & Europe: 14th July
USA: 15th July
“We have always played around with unnamed forces of darkness in the past.
With this release, we felt the need for an evil overlord to take the reigns and bring in the apocalypse. A savage and unstoppable force such as this had to be a definitive and commanding figure, which is why we came up with The Demon King.” said Mephisto (Keyboards) explaining the album title.
Demonstealer further commented “This album has been 4 years in the making and we’re more than excited to release it. We’re also extremely happy to renew our deal with Candlelight Records who will put out the album worldwide and also our new relationship with Universal Music who will release the album in India.”
The band’s last album ‘The Return To Darkness’ was released in 2010 on Candlelight Records worldwide and Demonstealer Records in India.
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Norwegian Sheep Born With Corpse Paint

Posted by aliblackdiamond on April 29, 2014
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Blackforestmag.com have reported the story of a black metal lamb born at Easter! Check out the story:
A lamb of the breed Old Norwegian Short Tail Landrace was born on Easter Monday. Nothing special about that really, but what is special is the colour pattern of his fur. His look can somehow resemble the traditional corpsepaint look of the Norwegian Black Metal artists you might already be familiar with. The owners named the little lamb for Batlam, from the famous superhero Batman. The lamb somewhat resembles Abbath of black metal legends IMMORTAL.

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The lamb lives in Vitengarden (the Science Farm), which resides in Nærbø, Norway. The farm is a part of Jærmuseet, which is a regional science centre for South-Western Norway and also a regional museum for seven municipalities in Jæren, near Stavanger. In their facilities you will find out about history, culture and industry of Jæren, past and present. And now, you can also visit Batlam!

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Photos: Odd Kjetil Liland, Jærmuseet / Jan F. Lindsø, Black Forest Mag

FORGOTTEN TOMB: Release Free Live Album

Posted by aliblackdiamond on April 29, 2014
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In order to reward the fans for their magnificent support, Italian pioneers of blackened doom metal, FORGOTTEN TOMB, release a free live album recorded during Kings Of Black Metal Festival in Germany in 2012. The audio has been professionally mixed and originally comes from FORGOTTEN TOMB‘s brand new DVD, “Darkness in Stereo: Eine Symphonie Des Todes – Live in Germany”, which additionally offers a full video of the above-mentioned concert, as well as excerpts filmed at: Under The Black Sun Festival and K17 Club in Berlin in 2012. While The DVD is available as of Today in Europe (and will be released on May 13th in North America via Agonia Records), the free audio album can be downloaded now at Bandcamp (see below for track list):

Audio track list:

1. Intro (Springtime Depression)
2. Reject Existence
3. Shutter
4. Solitude Ways
5. Todestrieb
6. Spectres Over Venice
7. Disheartenment/Alone/Steal My Corpse (medley)

The new DVD “Darkness in Stereo: Eine Symphonie Des Todes – Live in Germany” is available in:
– a noble A5 digibook with a 8-page booklet,
– a limited to 200 copies exclusive digibook including a postcard with signatures of all band members and a live poster (limited edition is available only via Agonia Records Webshop, here).

With almost 15 years of activity, 6 full-length albums and a double live in-studio album, live shows all over Europe and a worldwide underground following, FORGOTTEN TOMB definitely deserves its cult status in the current Extreme Metal scene. With now-classic albums such as the milestones of “Songs To Leave” (2002) and “Springtime Depression” (2003), the band practically crafted and gave birth to a whole new sub-genre, now regarded as Depressive Black/Doom Metal. Afterwards it managed to evolve it, destroy it and reshape it with the highly acclaimed “Love’s Burial Ground” (2004), the controversial “Negative Megalomania” (2007) and the ground-breaking “Under Saturn Retrograde” (2011). In 2012 “…And Don’t Deliver Us From Evil” was released to critical acclaim, followed by a European tour with Enthroned and Impiety to conclude the successful year. Over 2013 the band kept promoting the new album with a headlining European run with Isole and Ereb Altor, as well as single shows and another European tour with Incantation and Ragnarok. 2014 will see the band celebrate its 15-years anniversary and release its long-awaited live DVD.

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DARKEST ERA: Release Lyric Video For New Song ‘Sorrow’s Boundless Realm’

Posted by aliblackdiamond on April 29, 2014
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Northern Ireland’s DARKEST ERA have released a lyric video for ‘Sorrow’s Boundless Realm,’ the first track from the band’s forthcoming new album ‘Severance’ which is due for release on June 13th via Cruz Del Sur.

Guitarist Ade Mulgrew said: “It’s quite a dark song and probably reflective of how some of us saw the world around us when this album was being written. There was a lot going on in the band at the time and it certainly came out in the music. We also recorded it in the middle of winter against a backdrop that moved from being immensely beautiful on the rare occasions when the sun shined, to very bleak and desolate when the clouds rolled in. That definitely helped shape the vibe on this song. We’re looking forward to letting people finally hear it.”

Check out the video below:


‘’Severance’’ will be released on June 13th in the UK on Compact Disc/ Vinyl / Digital.

The track listing is as follows:

1.Sorrow’s Boundless Realm
2.Songs Of Gods And Men
3.The Serpent And The Shadow
4.Beyond The Grey Veil
5.Trapped In The Hourglass
6.The Scavenger
7.A Thousand Screaming Souls
8.Blood, Sand And Stone

For More Info:
http://www.darkestera.net
http://www.facebook.com/darkestera
http://www.twitter.com/darkestera
http://www.youtube.com/darkesteraofficial
http://www.cruzdelsurmusic.com

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Headway Festival Cancelled: VULTURE INDUSTRIES Show Will Still Take Place With Special Performance

Posted by aliblackdiamond on April 29, 2014
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Despite the recently announced cancellation of the Headway Festival that was due to take place in the Netherlands in May, disappointed fans will still have the chance to see one of the bands originally scheduled to appear, as Norwegian avant-gardists VULTURE INDUSTRIES will stage their “Turning Golem” show as planned. The “Turning Golem” show is part concert rooted in the heavier segment of experimental/progressive metal and part theatre performance in conjunction with the HAPPY GORRILLA DANCE COMPANY, and it will be the last time that fans will be able to see “Turning Golem” in Western Europe. The show will take place at P60 in Amstelveen on the 3rd May and VULTURE INDUSTRIES will include extra songs at the end of the performance to make it a special evening for those who were hoping to attend the festival.

With a career spanning 10 years and with over 100 shows under their belts, VULTURE INDUSTRIES‘ live performances are well known both for their technical skill and the eccentric and somewhat manic antics of frontman Bjørnar E. Nilsen, whose on-stage weirdness has garnered a multitude of fans for the band over the years. VULTURE INDUSTRIES released their third full-length album, “The Tower” on Season of Mist at the end of last year and recently announced that their second-full length album, which was released on Dark Essence Records in 2010, will appear as a deluxe vinyl edition on Blood Music in 2015.

Later in May VULTURE INDUSTRIES will hit the road with DORDEDUH and BLUTMOND on an eleven date tour that will take in countries such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece and Slovenia. As well as tickets being available from the usual ticketing agencies, special personalised tickets designed by the Romanian artist Costin Chioreanu, will be sold exclusively through the webshops of the individual bands. Each ticket will feature the name of the purchaser and will be signed by all the bands. Routing for what will be known as the “Branches” tour as follows:

21 May: Modra Vopice, Prague (CZ)
22 May: Melodka, Brno (CZ)
23May: Tirish Pub , Banska Bystraica (SK)
24 May: Blue Hell, Budapest (HUN)
25 May: Daos Club, Timisoara (RO)
26 May: Flying Circus, Cluj (RO)
27 May: Fabrica Club, Bucharest (RO)
28 May: 8 Ball Club, Sofia (BUL)
29 May: Eightball Club, Thessaloniki (GR)
30 May: Dom Omladine, Belgrade (RS)
31 May: MC Pekarna, Maribor (SLO)

More information about VULTURE INDUSTRIES can be found at http://www.vulture-industries.net

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