Black/Death Symphonic Metal powerhouse DAMNATIONIS is thrilled to announce their signing with Wormholedeath Records. This exhilarating partnership heralds the reawakening of their magnum opus, “The Fallen Princess,” slated for re-release on December 12, 2023.
“The Fallen Princess” stands as a testament to Damnationis’ mastery, an album that beckons to Black Metal enthusiasts while weaving a captivating symphonic tapestry. Within its shadowy embrace, a melodic luminance emerges, setting it apart from its peers. It is a haunting journey that plunges listeners into a realm of romance, morbidity, and esoteric allure.
Hailing from the mystical landscapes near Metz, France, DAMNATIONIS emerged from the abyss in 2018. Their journey began with an homage to classic Black Metal. Yet, their evolution led to the creation of a genre uniquely their own – Black Death Symphonic Metal. Their lyrical inspiration flows from the realms of Gothic literature, mythology, and horror. Today, Damnationis reigns supreme on the Extreme Metal stage, boasting a formidable presence at festivals such as DEAD HOUSE FEST and sharing stages with global icons like NEGATOR, AGATHODAIMON, and ZORNHEYM.
Their debut masterpiece, “THE FALLEN PRINCESS,” is a testament to their sonic craftsmanship. Mixed and mastered by the alchemists at HAVOC Studio, this album boasts ten tracks that delve into the darkest recesses of the human psyche. The album’s striking cover art is a collaborative triumph with Damian Augustyniak of GuzikArt, acclaimed for his work with giants like SLAYER, EXODUS, and SABATON.
But that’s not all. DAMNATIONIS is poised to unveil a new single, “DARK SUCCUBUS,” a sinister reimagining of OZZY OSBOURNE’s classic “OVER THE MOUNTAIN” with a Black Metal twist. The cover art for this malevolent creation is courtesy of the brilliant Heino Brand, also known as hbrandr, renowned for his collaborations with WOLFHEART and KALMAH.
As we stand at the precipice of a new era for DAMNATIONIS, they are gearing up for live onslaughts that will shatter boundaries and transcend borders. Their mission? To conquer international stages at esteemed festivals across Europe.
DUST & BONES release the cover and tracklist of their fifth album “Mission Back To The Forbidden Planet”, which will be released on January 26th, 2024. The explanation of the album artwork is clear and simple:
“When we make music together, we feel like we’re on another, a very cool rock’n’roll planet. It’s been that way since the band was founded. With album number 5, we are back on this planet… landed… check!” So nothing stands in the way of another milestone of “High Energy Dirt Rock”!
Cover artwork: Markus R. Weller (cover design and artwork)
DUST & BONES are back to have fun … and bring fun!
For over two decades, the five Swabians have not allowed themselves to be pressed into any clothing. Their energetic mixture of riffy punk rock, dark heavy rock with metal attitudes and uncompromisingly dirty rock’n’roll, as well as the unusual line-up with two completely different singers and the earthy, deep-dirty guitar sound, are looking for its equal. Distinguished by their high recognition value and exceptional charisma, they have been delighting rock and metal enthusiasts alike with their legendary live performances for many years. With their fifth studio album “Mission Back To The Forbidden Planet” and 11 brand new tracks, DUST & BONES manage in an impressive manner to capture this unbridled brutal live energy on record and to captivate fans across genres. Audible fun and playing joy are obviously in the foreground … always authentic, always with melody and always with a certain wink. Fans of the Ramones, Rose Tattoo, Danko Jones, Motörhead and Turbonegro will take this special piece of “High Energy Dirt Rock” into their hearts, for everyone else it’s warmly recommended to their rockers heart!
Tracklist: 01 – Mission start 02 – UR R’N’R 03 – Move 04 – Remedy 05 – Out on that road 06 – Feel good07 – Earth stood still today 08 – For all the good and the bad 09 – Electricity 10 – Planet 5 11 – People strange 12 – This is not the end
From the vaults of Grammy-winning, multi-platinum hip hop icon DMX comes a brand new, never-before-heard track, a hard-hitting street-wise version of the holiday classic “Silent Night!” Meticulously produced by Jürgen Engler, the genius behind German industrial band Die Krupps as well as albums by Ann-Margret, David Hasselhoff, and William Shatner, “Silent Night” is a meeting of musical titans you never saw coming.
It’s also a result of old school artistry meeting new technology, a futuristic sound that is crafted and perfected with the aid of cutting-edge AI software and the archive of vocal sessions DMX recorded for Cleopatra Records over the last decade and a half prior to his passing. Dropping just in time for Christmas, this single is the perfect festive gift to every hip hop fan and music lover out there. Don’t miss out on this powerful tribute to DMX’s unmatched talent. This track is not just a song, it’s a legacy. Get ready to be blown away.
Introducing RADIOBOT, a dynamic musical ensemble comprising the talented members Brett Scallions, Billy Harvey, and Eddie Wohl. This exciting band has unveiled their re-imagining of Bob Dylan’s classic track, “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” and it’s now available on all major music platforms via The Label Group/Virgin Music Group.
Radiobot is all set to make their mark in the music industry with their original debut single, “This World’s On Fire,” which is scheduled for release on December 8th. Get an exclusive sneak peek and pre-save this electrifying track by following this link: https://ffm.to/radiobot-thisworldsonfire
“For us, Bob Dylan is such a rock ‘n’ roll lyricist, we wanted to pay tribute by turning over one with a snarl and swagger. The video is an homage to Dylans Alley video, and for it, Brett meticulously re-created all of the cards by hand,” says the band.
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” – Amy Poehler
RadioBot is a writing trio consisting of Brett Scallions, Billy Harvey, and Eddie Wohl. They got together for the first time in 2016, when Eddie invited Brett and Billy to his studio for a writing session. Though Bretty and Billy had just met, Eddie’s suspicions were spot-on: after just a few days in a room, the trio had three new songs to share. (“It’s On,” “New Best Friend,” and “Rolling On.”) Despite the undeniable chemistry, however, conflicting commitments and touring schedules forced Radiobot into a temporary hiatus shortly thereafter.
Flash forward to 2020. Lockdown. Isolation. Life changed for everyone on the planet. Being in the same room is how music is made…right?!
This time, RadioBot refused to let anything get in their way. The project was revving up again, and even distance proved a surmountable hurdle. With Billy in Nashville and Eddie and Brett both in California, the group decided to pursue the project virtually, via Zoom and FaceTime calls. Their mentality: “never let anyone tell you that you have to be in a room together to write or record an album.” They started writing, and before you know it, they had written—and recorded—18 songs.
The age of the HOME STUDIO.
“Everything starts with a Billy riff,” Brett said of their writing process. “After we establish the main riff of the song, we add more parts as needed, all while creating vocal melodies. Once we have the song arranged, I’ll take it and start laying down the drums. After the drums are the way we want them, I send the drum tracks to Billy, and he starts layering his guitar parts. We just keep adding what is needed until we feel like the song is finished.”
RadioBot in 2024
Stay tuned for the forthcoming albums CONCRETE and DESERT later this year.
Brett Scallions is best known as the original lead singer of the rock band Fuel. Brett released 4 albums with the band and sold over 5 million albums worldwide. He also toured the world singing The Doors catalog with Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger of The Doors. Brett was quoted as saying, _“We all try our parent’s shoes on at some point in our lives. It’s been nice to see what Jim’s felt like.” Other projects Brett has worked on include The X’s, Circus Diablo, and World Fire Brigade. He has performed with many of the top performers in the world including Slash, Dave Navarro, Tom Morrello, Mike McCready, Dee Snider, DMC, and Glen Campbell.
“Billy Harvey is the most famous person you’ve never heard of.” — AJ Croce.
A caffeine-addled do-it-yourselfer, Billy Harvey has navigated his career by quietly directing, editing, recording, and producing everything in sight. He’s produced records for artists like Crystal Bowersox (finalist on season nine of American Idol), Bob Schneider, Pat Byrne (winner of the first series of The Voice of Ireland), Charlie Mars, and Steve Poltz, to name a few.
He has also worked steadily as a side man, accompanying the likes of Patty Griffin, Kim Richey, The Forest Rangers, and The Courtyard Hounds.
He also played guitar in the hair band FLAME, if you want a chuckle.
Los Angeles based Eddie Wohl is a five time Emmy Award winning songwriter, composer, producer & mixer, whose projects have sold over 6 million units. As an artist he was signed to Epic, Elektra, Mercury/Island and had a production deal with Roadrunner Records. Growing up on the East Coast, Wohl was in his first band at age 15 and signed to his first record deal at the age of 25. Wohl’s major influences growing up included Black Sabbath, Stevie Wonder, Public Enemy and McCoy Tyner. Coming out of the NYC club/band scene he has spent many years honing his craft as a world- class songwriter and producer. In 1999 Wohl, along with his partners, launched the iconic New York based Scrap 60 Productions, which was responsible for producing such acts such as Anthrax, Ill Nino and H2O, to name a few.
His producing credits include a range of metal greats Fuel, Anthrax, Smile Empty Soul to glam punker Jesse Mallin and pop artist/American Idol judge Kara Dioguardi. Records that he’s produced embody performances by Bruce Springsteen, Robby Krieger, Roger Daltrey, Chino Moreno, Jakob Dylan, Josh Homme, Chris Shiflett, Jada Pinkett Smith and Dimebag Darrell.
As a composer Wohl has received five Emmy Awards for his work on his NBC San Diego and Washington DC Olympic and news promos. Having had numerous song placements on TV, including Superbowl XLVII, The CBS Superbowl Pre-Game show, “CBS Super Bowl 50th Anniversary” spots the NFL on CBS, NBA on NBC, The Rio Olympics, The NHL, NCAA Basketball, PGA Golf on CBS and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Wohl’s diverse music influences, collaborations and background allow for a unique approach to his craft.
Indie rock band The Intemperate Sons released the title track off the yet to be released, Dark Day’s Night LP (set for early 2024). The track was produced by Amir Derakh and The Intemperate Sons at The Kitchen Recording Studios in Dallas, TX.
The Intemperate Sons get a little darker about their outlook on humanity in this track exploring the underbelly of social media and the effects on society as well as personal relationships. Yet, in the end, it isn’t too late to turn back!
A brand-new music video for the single will be released on 11/17/2023 to the usual platforms. All Intemperate Sons’ tracks are mixed by Amir Derakh in Long Beach, CA. All mastering is done by Mike Marsh Mastering in the U.K.
“Dark Day’s Night” can be streamed at: -https://ffm.to/tis-dark-days-night -https://ffm.bio/theintemperatesons
The Intemperate Sons release all their music through the Frame|Work/INgrooves record label at the direction of Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck. The Intemperate Sons are managed by Denny Sanders at The Label Group.
The Intemperate Sons emerged onto the rock scene in the summer of 2019 in Dallas, TX, to bring their distinct sound to the genre. A deep love for music brought family members Keith Watson (drums), Jake Watson (guitars) and Max Watson (vocals, guitars, keys) together along with close friend Mark Marks, who provides the groove on bass to unite everything together. The band’s sound has been described as a 90’s alternative style that is obsessed with the 70’s.
Keith is well acquainted with entertaining massive crowds of concert goers and has played with many successful bands in Dallas, such as Gun Hill, Natural Born Thrillers and Agents of Solace, on top of opening for Lynch Mob, Joe Lynn Turner and Sponge. He is the primary lyricist for the band and has written the music for some of their most successful songs, including “Dust to Dust,” “The Color Within,” and “Unrealized.”
Multi-talented and gifted with the ability to play various instruments, Max is also the lead vocalist of the group. Along with being musically dexterous, he has also collaborated with Keith to write lyrics on the released songs “Going Crazy” and “Way Back When.” In the studio, Max usually surmounts expectations and goes above and beyond to prepare prior to a session with his own vocal harmonies.
Jake is the song architect of the Sons and extremely instrumental in the crafting of the music. His inventive ways of bringing lyrics to life in clever ways are unprecedented and fascinating to see in the studio setting. He is a prolific writer of music as well and is credited with helping create the songs “What’s Done is Done,” “Remission,” “Way Back When” and “Wading in the Gray.” Both Max and he play lead guitar on many of the songs as well. The other members of the band fondly refer to him as the “art director” since he enjoys taking charge in those areas for the group.
Prolific and unifying, Mark is an accomplished bass player and well known in Dallas. He was in the regionally successful band, Haggard, and had opened for Sebastian Bach of Skid Row. His input in song writing has been invaluable to the process of creating captivating melodies.
Despite the pandemic putting a pause on many major events, The Intemperate Sons lived up to their name and let nothing hold them back from making music. Constantly hard at work in the studio, they have collaborated with Amir Derakh (Julien-K, Dead by Sunrise, Orgy, Rough Cutt) and Ryan Shuck (Julien-K, Adema, Dead by Sunrise, Orgy). Both have lent their musical talents to various songs and ultimately have brought the Sons on to their label, Frame|Work. This led the band to also recently join the management roster at The Label Group. Ryan worked with Amir to produce the band’s upcoming track, “Game of Keep Away,” and has had a huge impact on the group. He’s been especially influential on Max’s vocal melodies and delivery. Amir also plays guitar on this latest ballad and has been mixing all of the band’s music as well as performing on multiple songs.
Another notable collaboration has been with Tony Franklin (The Firm, Roy Harper, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Whitesnake), primarily on the first album, The Color Within. He has been a valuable friend of the band and has played bass on some of their best tracks from that album, including “Running Man,” “Dust to Dust” and “The Color Within.”
The Intemperate Sons’ take on alternative rock is a dark and powerful concoction of hard rock mixed with folk and grunge concepts. The band has earned a serious reputation for writing and performing tracks that scratch deep into the backbone of the human experience. There is no shortage of darkness in their writing style, which has a retro vibe with many guitar-driven tracks stacked on top of a groovy rhythm section. The heavier style fits perfectly with the two and three-part vocal harmonies that are a huge part of their overall sound. It has been said that musicians that are related form unique sounds and communicate at a frequency only they can understand. This frequency has become engrained in their songwriting, arrangements, guitar melodies and vocal harmonies. The band has been compared to Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots and even R.E.M.
The Intemperate Sons Upcoming Show Dates: Thur Nov 16 @ Trees in Dallas TX w/ Adema, Smile Empty Soul, ONOFF, InnrCor Sat Dec 2 @ The Mystical Market 2023 in McKinney, TX Fri Dec 15 @ Six Springs Tavern in Richardson, TX w/ Flash Mob Sat Jan 27 @ Rob’s Billiards Sports Bar in Euless, TX Fri Mar 1 @ Hanover’s Draught Haus in Pflugerville, TX
The Intemperate Sons are: Max Watson (vocals, backing vocals, guitars, keys, bass) Jake Watson (guitars, bass and backing vocals) Keith Watson (drums, backing vocals) Mark Marks (bass)
Spanish dark metal entity TODOMAL have shared the second single from their sophomore album “A Greater Good”. Watch the video of “Antichrist of Love” at THIS LOCATION.
The album is due out on November 24th 2023 via Ardua Music.
“Antichrist of love, that sinister part of our hearts that leads us to selfishness, arrogance, which distances us from others, preventing us from forming strong relationships with fellow human beings. That hedonistic monster that always craves more, is never satisfied until it lays waste to everything in its path, and at the same time, it is both a reward and a punishment. A reward because it satisfies that primal and carnivorous need. A punishment because, in the end, it forces us to confront the consequences of its voracity. This antichrist is our doppelganger, the absorbed twin, who sometimes wants to surface”.
Tracklist:
1. Silent Mass 2. High Time 3. Infero Tristi 4. Ultima Lucerna 5. Dust and Nothingness 6. Antichrist of Love 7. Loss 8. A Greater Good
TODOMAL is back with “A Greater Good”, their new studio album. The Spanish duo,formed by Christopher B. Wildman and Javier Fernández (Asgaroth, Nexus 6, The Heretic, Dejadeath, etc.) brings a collection of “dark songs” (as they like to define it), which began with the seeds planted in “Ultracrepidarian”, their debut album.
The band’s music has evolved into a complex, dense, and unclassifiable album that takes us on a journey through somber landscapes, existential doubts, tragicomedy, and spiritual and personal unrest. “A Greater Good” poses challenging questions, wrapped in music that is sometimes dark and at other times luminous, spanning from slow-tempo to progressive rock to quasi-mystical litanies. The path they embarked upon with their debut album, leading to desolate landscapes and the emptiness of the plateau, has continued into darker territories, reminiscent of tenebrist altarpieces, where doubts about what is right or wrong, what we do in this world to earn redemption, or why we have a nefarious tendency to destroy what we love are depicted against a smoldering forest. The journey continues, despite the obstacles.
“A Greater Good” boasts ambitious production to accommodate all its elements, like pieces of a giant mosaic. Vocal harmonies, acoustic elements, and occasional orchestral arrangements blend with serpentine opera-rock pieces, making their way by clawing through the earth.
Once again, the voice of Teodora Gosheva, the collaboration of Darío Garrido on the Spanish guitar and the audio assistance of ESOTERIC‘s Greg Chandler complete the work.
Special mention goes to the album cover, created by the multifaceted Paloma Pájaro, who brilliantly and resolutely encapsulates everything mentioned above.
The sophomore album of this prolific space doom duo will no doubt appeal to fans of bands like CANDLEMASS, KRUX, PINK FLOYD, AVATARIUM and, we dare to say, old GHOST! Doom on!
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