Swedish melodic death metallers SCAR SYMMETRY have recently revealed the firs details of their upcoming album, which is entitled “The Singularity (Phase 1 – Neohumanity)”. The album is set to be released on October 03 (EU), October 06 (UK & France) and October 14 (US) 2014 via Nuclear Blast.
The band has also revealed the cover artwork, created by Mircea Gabriel Eftemie, which can be seen below:
The biggest heavy metal event will happen this week, Wacken Open Air celebrates its 25th Anniversary on the unholy soil in the North of Germany. Nuclear Blast has recently announced that some of their artists ‘s performances on W.O.A. will be available for live stream online. The bands and the dates are:
HAMMERFALL, on Thursday July 31 from 18:00 to 19:15 CET
ACCEPT, on Thursday July 31 from 22:30 to 24:00 CET
CHILDREN OF BODOM, on Friday August 01 from 18:00 to 19:15 CET
CARCASS, on Friday August 01 from 21:15 to 22:15 CET
KREATOR, on Saturday August 02 from 00:15 to 01:30 CET
To watch the live streams, check out ARTE TV. Also an additional stream of the AVANTASIA show will be available on 3Sat.
Montreal’s THE AGONIST will release their new album “Eye of Providence” on November 10th in Europe and November 11th
. “Eye of Providence” is the follow up to THE AGONIST‘s 2012 album “Prisoners” and will be the debut of new vocalist Vicky Psarakis. The lead vocalist change happened in the early part of this year when previous singer Alissa White-Gluz joined ARCH ENEMY. The album was recorded by Chris Donaldson (Cryptopsy).
The band has been hard at work in the studio and have just released their third “Studio Update” video, which can be seen below:
THE AGONIST TOUR DATES:
05.08. AT Vienna, Viper Room
06.08. CZ Jaromer, Brutal Assault Festival
07.08. SE Gävle, Getaway Rock festival
08.08. DE Frankfurt, Elfer Club
09.08. NL Tilburg, Little Devil
10.08. UK London, The Underworld
11.08. UK Reading, The Face Bar
12.08. UK Bilston, The Robin
14.08. GER Gardelegen, Metal Frenzy Festival
15.08. GER Dinkelsbuhl, Summer Breeze Festival
16.08. RO Rasnov, Rockstadt Extreme Festival
British progressive metal heroes THRESHOLD will release their upcoming new album – “For The Journey” – on September 19, 2014 via Nuclear Blast. The successor for their 2012 output “March Of Progress” was produced by Karl Groom and THRESHOLD keyboardist Richard West at Thin Ice Studios in England and mastered by Mika Jussila at Finnvox in Finland.
Today THRESHOLD release ‘Watchtower On The Moon’, the first single out of “For The Journey”.
PROG MAGAZINE has premiered the lyric video for ‘Watchtower On The Moon’, which can be seen below:
Spanish death metal act AVULSED has recently announced Erik Raya as the band’s new drummer, who is replaced Osckar Bravo.
The band stated as follows: “Although other drummers tested were of very good level, we were especially impressed about Erik’s incredible technique and powerful way of playing. He’s perfect for what AVULSED is looking for!! A mixture of technical and pounding drummer that’s able to ensure the continuation of the band’s crushing live performances. From the rest of members in AVULSED, we want to give a big welcome to Erik Raya with whom we’ll continue spreading the brutality all over the planet!!”
A video footage of Erik Raya playing drums, which was recorded one year ago can be seen below:
Legendary Teutonic heavy metallers ACCEPT have recently posted the first (out of three) online trailer, featuring guitar player Wolf Hoffmann, talking about different topics of their forthcoming new album, “Blind Rage”, which will be out on August 15th via Nuclear Blast. The video can be seen below:
Last week, the first ACCEPT single ‘Stampede’ was released. It is available as a limited vinyl edition.
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