Legendary AYREON will release “The Theory of Everything” album in this year. AYREON‘s mastermind, Arjen Lucassen has checked in with the following:
“Finally…I’m basically ready with the new Ayreon album! Just in time for a release this year, I’m happy to say. So…expect the ‘guess this musician on the new Ayreon’ contest to start any time now.”
We discovered these musicians worked with Arjen for AYREON‘s forthcoming album up to now:
Jeroen Goossens – Flutes
Maaike – Cello
Ed Warby – Drums
WHERE GIANTS ONCE STOOD have posted a new guitar playthrough video for their track ‘Disbelievers’ from their EP ‘The Changing’ which was released last week. The video can be seen below:
In additional news, WGOS have announced the following Eastern Canadian tour dates in promotion of their new EP.
Tour Dates:
Facebook Event – https://www.facebook.com/events/553903228005864/
August 2 – Belleville, ON – Belle Pub
August 3 – Ottawa, ON – Cafe Dekcuf – Show Details – https://www.facebook.com/events/157273407794327/
August 7 – Halifax, NS – Plan B – Show Details – https://www.facebook.com/events/682046235155222/
August 8 – Halifax, NS – Gus’ Pub – Show Details – https://www.facebook.com/events/693745740652459/
August 9 – Yarmouth, NS – Haley’s Lounge – Show Details – https://www.facebook.com/events/140403616155754/
August 10 – North Sydney, NS – Phoenix Nightclub – Show Details – https://www.facebook.com/events/338502472947158/
August 11 – Trenton, NS – Trenton Youth Center – Show Details – https://www.facebook.com/events/207945466028774/
August 12 – Halifax, NS – Reflections Cabaret
August 13 – Moncton, NB – Plan B Lounge – Show Details – https://www.facebook.com/events/434480113306777/
August 14 – St John, NB – The Shop
August 16 – Montreal, QC – Cafe Chaos – Show Details – https://www.facebook.com/events/401562036618827/
August 17 – Oshawa, ON – The Atria – Show Details – https://www.facebook.com/events/173783636135420/
August 19 – Toronto, ON – The Rockpile Show Details – https://www.facebook.com/events/444447525647704/
Extreme metallers THE AGONIST finished a US tour with Danzig, Corrosion Of Conformity as well as selected headlining dates and waste no time in announcing the dates for their upcoming European tour in support of their recently released album “Prisoners”.
Danny Marino (guitars) comments: “We are so thrilled to be coming back to Europe! It has been way too long and we are very excited to release Prisoners upon our European fans. This time we’ll be rocking a full headline set that spans all 3 albums. It is also amazing to be touring with our old friends in Arsis and Threat Signal for the first time in 5 years! Can’t wait to see you all there this October!”
THE AGONIST live:
01.10 – Tel Aviv (Israel) „Reading 3“
03.10 – Eindhoven (Hol) “Effenaar”
04.10 – Metz (Fra) “Les Trinitaires”
05.10 – Calenzano (Ita) “Cycle Club”
06.10 – Romagnano Sesia (Ita) “Rock & Roll Arena”
07.10 – Roma (Ita) “Traffic Club”
09.10 – Darmstadt (GER) “Steinbruch Theatre”
11.10 – Cologne (Ger) “EuroBlast Festival”
13.10 – Vienna (Austria) “Viper Room”
14.10 – Bratislava (Slo) “Randal Club”
15.10 – Olomouc (Cze) “S-Cube”
16.10 – Katowice (Pol) “MegaClub”
17.10 – Prague (Cze) “Nova Chmelnice”
18.10 – Jena (Ger) “F-Haus”
19.10 – Hoogeveen (Hol) “Waves Of Metal Festival”
20.10 – Paris (Fra) “Le Divan du Monde”
21.10 – Liverpool (UK) “Kazimier”
22.10 – London (UK) “The Garage”
23.10 – Bournemouth (UK) “The Anvil Bar”
According to Century Media, Sweden’s EVOCATION is now ready to release a new EP, entitled “Excised And Anatomised”, featuring five cover versions of metal classics! Due out on vinyl and digitally on August 19th in Europe, “Excised And Anatomised” will also be available at CM Distro on bone-white vinyl (exclusive version, limited to 100 copies). See below for the EP’s track-listing:
Side 1:
1. … For Victory (originally by Bolt Thrower)
2. Corporal Jigsore Quandary (originally by Carcass)
3. You Suffer (originally by Napalm Death)
Side 2:
1. Enigma (originally by Edge Of Sanity)
2. Terminal Spirit Disease (originally by At The Gates)
For a preview of “Excised And Anatomised”, please visit www.metal-hammer.de for the premiere of “Corporal Jigsore Quandary” click here.
All songs on “Excised And Anatomised” were recorded at the band’s own Evocation Studios with Dan Swanö handling mixing and mastering at Unisound Studios. The cover and layout were once again created by Xaay, who previously worked with EVOCATION on their last two studio albums. The end result not only pays homage to other death metal legends, but also acts as a tribute to the scene that EVOCATION has been part of since the band’s founding in 1991.
EVOCATION live:
15.-17.08.2013 – Dinkelsbühl (DE) – Summer Breeze Open Air
According to Century Media, Grindcore metallers NAPALM DEATH continue to promote their critically acclaimed latest, 14th studio album release, “Utilitarian”. Next to ongoing festival activities, the British masters of noise have now confirmed to be teaming up with CHILDREN OF BODOM on a string of large dates in the UK and Ireland. Here is an exact list of dates, which also feature labemates Insomnium as well as Medeia in the support slots:
Children Of Bodom, Napalm Death, Insomnium & Medeia:
Monday, 7 October 2013 Bournemouth – O2 Academy
Tuesday, 8 October 2013 Bristol (UK) – O2 Academy
Wednesday, 9 October 2013 Dublin (Ireland) – Vicar Street
Thursday, 10 October 2013 Sheffield (UK ) – O2 Academy
Friday, 11 October 2013 Newcastle (UK) – O2 Academy
Saturday, 12 October 2013 Manchester (UK) – Academy
Sunday, 13 October 2013 London (UK) – O2 Sheperds Bush Empire
NAPALM DEATH frontman Mark ‘Barney’ Greenway checked in with the following comment: “We realise that there will be a fair percentage of people at these shows who have never heard of NAPALM DEATH – let alone would go to see the band – and so the task for us is to do our utmost to give people a truly extreme experience sonically and of course offer some ethos. There will be noise in the purest sense of the word and we appreciate being asked to do our bit.”
CHILDREN OF BODOM added the following: “Touring the UK & IRE with NAPALM DEATH feels great! We are honoured to have these pioneers with us and looking forward to seeing them live every night!”
NAPALM DEATH Live 2013:
Presented by Rage Wear, OX Fanzine, Slam Magazin and FUZE Mag.
08.08. Osnabrück – Bastard Club (Germany) Sold Out!
10.08. Ieper – Ieperfest (Belgium)
22.08. Brescia – Festa Di Radio Onda D’Durto (Italy)
23.08. Salzburg – Rockhouse Salzburg (Austria)
24.08. Bad Wünnenberg – Open Air (Germany)
30.08. Rasnov – Rockstadt Extreme Fest (Romania)
31.08. Frankfurt/Oder – Beach Rock Festival (Germany)
05.09. Alma-Ata – Da Freak Club (Kazakhstan)
06.09. Kiev – Green Theatre (Ukraine)
08.09. Samara – Zvezda Club (Russia)
09.09. Toliatti – NK Arena (Russia)
10.09. Yaroslavl – Avangard Club (Russia)
11.09. Ryazan – Dom Kultury (Russia)
12.09. St. Petersburg – Arctica (Russia)
13.09. Moscow – Moscow Hall (Russia)
14.09. Minsk – Re:Republic (Belarus)
16.09. Petrozavodsk – Das Kapital (Russia)
18.09. Murmansk – TBA (Russia)
25.10. Rennes – Garmonbozia Xve Anniversary Festival (France)
26.10. Selestat – Rock Your Brain Festival (France)
22.11. Krakow – Kwadrat (Poland)
23.11. Lodz – Dekompresja (Poland)
24.11. Gdynia – Ucho (Poland)
08.12. Castle – Metal festival @ Northumbria University (Great Britain)
13.12. Eindhoven – Eindhoven Metal Meeting (Netherlands)
14.12. Anröchte – Shout Arena Festival (Germany)
NAPALM DEATH’s latest album, “Utilitarian”, has recently (On July 15th) been re-issued by Century Media Records on LP due to the continuous demand. Check in with CM Distro for all available physical formats of the current release and previous albums: LINK
POWERWOLF is the first Power Metal band at ROCKHARZ 2014. The band, who has entered the official German charts on #1 with their new high-class album “Preachers Of The Night” is now confirmed for ROCKHARZ 2014.
As previously posted, the new POWERWOLF album “Preachers of the Night” entered the official Finnish Album Charts at # 49.
Chart Results „Preachers of the Night“ so far:
WOLFSNÄCHTE TOUR 2013
Presented by Metal Hammer, Rock It, Piranha, Noizeletter, Musix, Metalnews.de and BLAST!
POWERWOLF
MAJESTY
BATTLE BEAST
ASHES OF ARES*
WISDOM**
26.09.2013 FR – Paris, Divan Du Monde *
27.09.2013 UK – London, Underworld *
28.09.2013 DE – Osnabrück, Rosenhof *
29.09.2013 NL – Nijmegen, Doornrosje *
01.10.2013 DE – Langen, Neue Stadthalle *
02.10.2013 CH – Pratteln, Z7 *
03.10.2013 DE – Lindau, Vaudeville *
04.10.2013 DE – München, Backstage *
05.10.2013 DE – Stuttgart, LKA *
19.10.2013 DE – Saarbrücken, Garage *hometown show – different line up!*
24.10.2013 DE – Köln, Essigfabrik **
25.10.2013 DE – Hamburg, Markthalle **
26.10.2013 DE – Speyer, Halle 101 **
27.10.2013 DE – Hannover, Faust **
29.10.2013 CZ – Prag, Nova Chelmnice **
30.10.2013 DE – Leipzig, Hellraiser **
31.10.2013 DE – Geiselwind, Music Hall **
01.11.2013 BE – Vosselaar, Biebob **
02.11.2013 DE – Essen, Weststadthalle **
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Metal Shock Finland (World Assault ) 