Finnish melodic death metallers INSOMNIUM teamed up with Terrorizer (UK) and launched a lyric video clip for ‘Revelations,’ taken from the upcoming album “Shadows Of The Dying Sun”, due out April 28th in Europe and April 29th in North America via Century Media Records. The video can be viewed here.
INSOMNIUM’s Markus Vanhala comments on the composition: “Revelations marks a milestone as a songwriting debut of mine as a “new guy” for Insomnium – as this is the first song i composed in this band. The song intro is flirting a bit to the Swedish metal side, but soon turning back towards the Finnish grand mourning in Insomnium-esque way.Vesa Tolonen who produced this lyric video found indeed the epic inner soundscapes of this song really well and flew with the music thru the forest and lakes over the moon and towards the sun!
Hopefully many will find it, many will keep it and many will turn towards our sun!”
Niilo Sevänen comments on the lyrics of ‘Revelation’: “These were the first lyrics I finished for this album. Some poems by Finnish poet Uuno Kailas have influenced this text. The theme is not very dark or death metal in the end but… shall I say hopeful or empowering. I’ll leave it up to you to make your own interpretation.”
The band also launched a first trailer for “Shadows Of A Dying Sun”:
INSOMNIUM live
30.04. NL Tilburg, 013 (w/ Epica)
02.05. NO Haugesund, Karmøygeddon Festival
08.05. FI Jyväskylä Lutakko
09.05. FI Joensuu Kerubi
10.05. FI Helsinki Circus
06.-08.06. DE Gelsenkirchen, Rock Hard Festival
27.06. DE Dischingen, Rock am Härtsfeldsee Festival
Vocalist Anthony Vincent Valbiro from American alternative metal band SET THE CHARGE has featured on Youtube’s ‘Ten Second Songs,’ singing Katy Perry’s ‘Dark Horse.’
He utilises his voice in an extremely effective way, singing the song in 20 different styles, including metal ones such as IRON MAIDEN, PANTERA, METALLICA and SLIPKNOT.
AS previously announced on the 16th of May, Swedish Heavy Metal band SABATON will release their seventh studio-longplayer called “Heroes.”
Today, SABATON are proud to release their second trailer about »Heroes«, which was filmed during the band’s album presentation in Stockholm, on February 22nd. The trailer was produced and edited by David Havlena of Spark Magazine (CZ) at the Pax studio.
Check out the new trailer below:
You missed the first one? Check it out here:
“Heroes” was recorded at Abyss Studio, along with producer Peter Tägtgren (AMORPHIS, CHILDREN OF BODOM and more), with whom SABATON already worked on their previous platinum album “Carolus Rex”.
The tracklist of “Heroes” will be like this:
01. Night Witches
02. No Bullets Fly
03. Smoking Snakes
04. Inmate 4859
05. To Hell And Back
06. The Ballad Of Bull
07. Resist And Bite
08. Soldier Of 3 Armies
09. Far From The Fame
10. Hearts Of Iron
Besides the stand version Jewelcase CD, there will be vinyl (different colors), a limited edition digipak (two bonus tracks), limited Earbook (incl. five bonus tracks) and the digital download (incl. one bonus track).
Among the bonus-tracks are three cover versions of METALLICA, BATTLE BEAST and RAUBTIER. The bandcommented on the decisions as follows:
METALLICA – ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’
“All of us are old fans of METALLICA. The choice of the song was difficult, but we all could agree on that one. As an addition, ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’was the first heavy metal song ever performed on a stage by Pär.”
BATTLE BEAST – ‘Out Of Control‘
“BATTLE BEAST was our secret guest at our latest Sabatoncruise and we all enjoyed watching them perform their songs live. We thought we wanted to support young and upcoming bands and decided to do a cover of them.”
RAUBTIER – ‘En Hjältes Väg ‘
“RAUBTIER are our brothers from the north of Sweden. We have played together countless times and in the past, and Thobbe used to be in this band. At a special concert in 2012 Joakim performed this song live together with RAUBTIER and it awoke the idea of doing a cover-version. Seeing to the song title it was also a natural choice for our latest album »Heroes«.
Catch SABATON live in 2014 on the following dates; more dates to be added:
04.04. USA Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection
05.04. USA Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
06.04. USA Chicago, IL – House Of Blues
07.04. USA Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
09.04. USA Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
10.04. USA Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
11.04. USA Cleveland, OH – Agora Theatre
12.04. USA Detroit, MI – St. Andrew’s Hall
14.04. CND Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theatre
15.04. CND Quebec City, QC – Imperial Theater
16.04. CND Montreal, QC – Corona Theatre
17.04. USA Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero –
18.04. USA New York, NY – Best Buy Theater
19.04. USA Worcester, MA – The Palladium
21.04. USA West Springfield, VA – Empire
23.04. USA Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
24.04. USA Orlando, FL – House Of Blues
25.04. USA Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Revolution
26.04. USA St. Petersburg, FL – State Theatre
28.04. USA Houston, TX – Scout Bar
29.04. USA Dallas, TX – Trees
01.05. USA Tempe, AZ – Club Red
02.05. USA West Hollywood, CA – House Of Blues
03.05. USA San Francisco, CA – Slim’s
05.05. USA Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory
06.05. USA Seattle, WA – El Corazon
07.05. CND Vancouver, B.C. – The Venue
09.05. CND Edmonton, AB – The Starlite Room
10.05. CND Calgary, AB – Republik
11.0.5 CND Regina, SK – Riddell Centre
12.05. CND Winnipeg, MB – Park Theatre
14.05. USA Denver, CO – The Summit Music Hall
15.05. USA Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
16.05. USA Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom
31.05. NL Nijmegen – Fortarock
13.06. CH Interlaken – Greenfield Festival
19.06. D Loreley – Metalfest
21.06. NO Halden – Fredrikstens Fästning
26.06. SK Piestany – Topfest
27.06. BE Dessel – Graspop Metal Meeting
10.07. D Ballenstedt – Rock Harz
11.07. CZ Vizovice – Masters Of Rock Tickets
12.07. HU Pecs – Rockmaraton
25.07. SLO Tolmin – Metaldays
31.07. SE Stenungsund – Nösnäsvallen
01.08. AT Graz – Seerock
02.08. SE Varberg – Fästningshörnan
07.08. SE Borgholm – Borgholms Slottsruin
08.08. SE Ronneby – Brunnsparken
09.08. SE Trelleborg – Östervång
16.08. SE Falun – Sabaton Open Air
21.08. SE Uppsala – Vaksala Torg
22.08. SE Norrköping – Folkets Park / Borgen
23.08. SE Karlstad – Mariebergsparken
Long Beach, California’s RIVAL SONS have announced an exclusive vinyl to celebrate this year’s Record Store Day in the UK.
The limited edition release will come on 7″ green vinyl, and will feature two brand new recordings – “Electric Man” and “Belle Starr” – both of which are set to appear on the band’s highly-anticipated new album, GREAT WESTERN VALKYRIE, due to be released on June 6th in Europe, June 9th in the UK and June 10th in the USA.
RIVAL SONS guitarist SCOTT HOLIDAY comments:
“Ever since this band started we’ve been very focused on releasing everything we do on vinyl and making sure it’s a special kind of presentation in this format. At home that’s pretty much all I listen to (vinyl), so I’m pretty focused about how we do it. As many have, we’ve also made it a point to always contribute something extra cool to RSD (Record Store Day). Last year for RSD we did one of my all-time favorite releases (of ours) – the Manifest Destiny limited edition on 10″ picture disc.
“This year we had to approach the Record Store Day release very differently; being as our record comes out a month after RSD we had to treat it a little more like an ‘advance’ to the album. So if you can get your hands on one of these (dry limited release) you’ll get an advance peep into our new record on a limited 7” green vinyl – featuring two of our very favorite tunes off the LP, which in my opinion is the coolest way to introduce the sound of the new album (Great Western Valkyrie). Just remember…records are for listening, not displaying on shelves or hoarding fifteen copies, and then selling ’em later for 10x the amount. That’s lame. Buy one and listen till your heart’s content. Spread the love.”
Founded in 2007, Record Store Day takes place on the third Saturday of April each year, bringing together artists and independently-owned record stores to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and sold in independent stores around the world.
For more information and to see which stores are participating in Record Store Day UK, head to http://www.recordstoreday.co.uk
RIVAL SONS‘ new album, GREAT WESTERN VALKYRIE, was recorded with producer DAVE COBB at LCS Studios in Nashville earlier this year. The album is available to pre-order now on digi-sleeve CD and limited edition coloured vinyl.
Metal legends ACCEPT have made a request from fans regarding their recently recorded upcoming album. Visit their official Facebook page to take part:
“We want you to help us select some bonus material for our upcoming new album. From the list of songs below that were recorded live last year, which song would you most like as bonus material? Leave a comment below with your song choice.”
Hung, Drawn and Quartered
Hellfire
Restless and Wild
Losers and Winners
Stalingrad
Breaker
Shadow Soldiers
Bucket Full of Hate
Bulletproof
Princess of the Dawn
Up to the Limit
Fast as a Shark
Metal Heart
Teutonic Terror
Balls to the Wall
Today Eternal Terror & Blank TV presents, the new video ‘Freeze Me’ from Norwegian progressive metal sextet FRAIL GROUNDS. ‘Freeze Me’ is taken from the debut and concept Frail Grounds album ‘’The Fields Of Trauma” which was released on 3rd March 2014 via Hostile Media.
The video is the result of 30 hours of shooting, 120 hours of cutting, post-production and special effects, 165 scenes, 2.5 litres of blood, 2 rolls of duct tape, 250 grams of latex, 3 metres of plastic piping and a video concept written by vocalist Morten Andre and video director David Langbach.
The video can be seen on Eternal Terror here and Blank TV here.
Morten Andre comments, “The concept for the video is a prequel to the story that takes place on ‘The Fields of Trauma’, showing something that has happened earlier and also leads up to the cover art for the album. To quote a sentence from the song ‘Emberstorm’, ‘but something survived. Its blood never dried’. The locations seen in the video might be the gloomy depths which the protagonist of the album reaches towards the end of the album.”
“The filming was done in two different locations, the band scenes were shot inside a media school in Tønsberg, Norway, while the ‘other’ scenes was shot in the basement deep beneath a hospital in Oslo. A fantastic location for the theme in the video, and being there brought me associations to Lars Von Trier’s ‘Kingdom’ series [laughs].”
“The actual filming was very exciting and a fun experience. Behind the camera was David Langbach, the director, and Tommy Bjelland, the special effects artist. In front of the camera were some great friends of mine, as the ‘men in black’ and the torturer, and of course someone might recognize me as the victim. Sitting bound to that chair, in that gloomy basement room all stripped down to my boxer shorts was an experience [laughs]. We filmed the video through three days, one day per ‘scene’.”
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