Turkish metallers PITCH BLACK PROCESS have launched, via their Facebook page, an urgent appeal to help the victims of the earthquake disaster:
Dear friends and followers all around the world; our country is facing a huge disaster caused by not one but two earthquakes (7.8 and 7.6) hit in a single day which are among the biggest and deadliest ones in the world since the 1950s. They affected 10 of our cities and some of them almost wiped out. Destruction in our neighbor, Syria, is also big. The death toll is rising and so many people are suffering under harsh winter conditions.
Your support and solidarity means a lot! Below, you can find donation links to two of the most respected and transparent NGOs in Turkey, fully deployed on the field as of now.
If you could share this post, we would appreciate it a lot!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts in advance!
Portuguese death doom duo OAK is now streaming their devastating new full-length, ‘Disintegrate,’ in its entirety ahead of tomorrow’s release! The offering can be found at THIS LOCATION.
Oak comments, “You had already explored the two craters left by the Giant’s feet with the excerpts from ‘Disintegrate’ that we revealed earlier. Now, you stand before him and you will be crushed by tons of his flesh that will fall on you and soon become dust. The time has finally come.”
Pre-sales for ‘Disintegrate are now live HERE while the album can be pre-saved on streaming services HERE.
The artwork for ‘Disintegrate’ was created by Belial Necro Arts.
With the birth of their first full-length album ‘Lone’ in 2019, atmospheric death doom duo OAK emerged from Portugal with a slow and steady force, like roots breaking concrete. After four years of slumber, the band has awakened like the old gods, ready to release utter suffering and devastation onto the masses with its sophomore effort, ‘Disintegrate.’ For nearly 45 unforgiving minutes, this mournful maelstrom drags the listener asunder, while tormented growls and agonizing riffs echo deep despair within the atmospheric abyss.
OAK’s path was forged by two kindred musicians; the mysterious pair recognized that they were an unstoppable force together when it came to creating painful, emotionally driven music. “We always wanted it to be a duo because of how fluid our jams have always been and this freedom we get when writing for OAK is really one thing that drives us,” explains the band.
The writing process took place under the cover of darkness, setting an intimate mood for the record’s creation. The pair worked with a totally clean slate, writing everything organically in their sessions together rather than coming with prepared compositions or ideas. As project took shape and began to come into its own identity, it yielded OAK’s agonizing and ferocious sound. “We can have clean guitars, clean vocals, distortion, deep grunts, whispers, slow beats, blast beats, ghost notes and all this glues together nicely,” says OAK of the project’s many textures and layers.
Thematically, ‘Disintegrate’ tells the epic tale of a Titanic Giant who seeks to be unburdened from carrying the weight of the world, demonstrating that even the strongest have a threshold for just how much pain and heaviness they can endure.
However, the story doesn’t end here as this is only the first chapter of the Giant’s tale. “We are continuing our jam sessions and writing more and more. We will grow further with each release in the attempt of making our sound almost visible/cinematic. We need to tell the story of this giant’s burden and liberation through our music and lyrics. We feel like there is much more to be told.“
Lineup: Guilherme Henriques – Vocals/Guitars Pedro Soares – Drums
Recording line-up Guilherme Henriques – Vocals/Guitars Pedro Soares – Drums Lucas Ferrand – Bass
Recording studio: Stone Sound Studio Producer/Mixing engineer: Ricardo Oliveira Mastering studio and engineer: Stone Sound Stydio by Ricardo Oliveira
Italy’s NWOTHM band TARCHON FIST is proud to announce that their new album, “The Flame Still Burns”, will be released in collaboration with Underground Symphony.
The band comments: “This is the result of what we produced during the hard time of the pandemic. We are so proud to be able to collaborate with a historic label that has strongly contributed to spread the music we love in our country”.
Some songs taken from “The Flame Still Burns” will be included on the setlist of the next live shows:
PYRAMAZE are an exceptional phenomenon in the international prog- and power metal scene: Their sound brings along numerous traditional melodic and progressive metal trademarks, but gets an immensely high recognition value by their unique feeling for great melodies – in connection with a certain open-mindedness for contemporary arrangements and further development.
It’s no secret that the band is currently working on a new album – and already the first single “Broken Arrow” stands as the epitome of what PYRAMAZE is about. Cast in a first-class production by PYRAMAZE guitarist and renowned producer Jacob Hansen , the track is elevated to highest quality realms not least by the fabulous organ of singer Terje Harøy.
Says keyboarder Jonah Weingarten: “Broken Arrow represents the perfect mixture of Disciples of the Sun- Pyramaze era with a splash of our modern Epitaph sound. It has the big chorus, huge strings, big powerful vocals, and catchy melodies that we are known for. It was an easy choice for our first single for our upcoming album!”
Watch the brand new video for “Broken Arrow”, now streaming below, and stay tuned for many more album news and details to follow soon:
The power ballad “Alone” is the new single from the Finnish hard rock band BLADE‘s upcoming debut album.
“Alone” is composed by guitarist Pekka Viljanen and the band refined it into its final format. Singer Pepe Tamminen found an idea for lyrics and melody during his journey in Lofoten Norway. The amazing landscape fits perfectly with the mood of the song and the singing part of the music video was also made there. Alone begins as an atmospheric ballad with acoustic guitar and cello followed by a catchy chorus which is typical for example Scorpions best ballads. The outstanding guitar solo mirrors perfectly the emotion behind the song. This song is dedicated to all who’ve lost their loved ones.
The song was recorded and mixed at Magnusborg Studios by Marko Kataja. Mastering was done by Svante Forsbäck, who is a well-recognized and trusted professional by many hard rock and heavy metal bands (Velvet, Rammstein, Ville Valo, Sonata Arctica, Sunrise Avenue, Michael Monroe, etc.).
BLADE is a new Finnish hard rock band that differentiates from mainstream artists by its uniquely cheery and explosive sound.
The members of the band have been touring together as a cover band since 2016, playing well-known rock classics from Led Zeppelin to Guns and Roses for the ever-hard-rock-hungry Finnish audience. The idea of BLADE’s material started to form in 2021, as all the band members dusted off the material they had collected in their drawers, cumulating ideas for songs on the new album. Even the most dedicated hard rock fan’s expectations will be met with this charged rock album.
The members of the band live between Helsinki, the capital city of Finland, and Lahti, where the band also practices together, drawing raw power from the beautiful and brutal nature surrounding the city.
BLADE’s debut album is scheduled to come out in 2023.
Line-up: Pepe Tamminen (singer), Pekka Viljanen (guitar), Jaakko Paljakka (guitar), Janne Viljakainen (bass and keyboard), and Henrik Hyöppönen (drums)
Antwerp, Belgium -based death/thrash metallers Schizophrenia are gearing up for the release of the band’s upcoming new tribute EP “Chants Of The Abyss”, which will see the light of day on February 10th. “Chants Of The Abyss” features six cover songs and personal interpretations of timeless classics by cult acts such as Slayer, Judas Priest, Mistfits, Exodus, GBH and Morbid Angel and with the music video for GBH’s “Race Against Time” Schizophrenia have just released the fourth and last single before the EP will be out.
Drummer Lorenzo Vissol comments: “The whole concept behind doing our cover EP ‘Chants of the Abyss’ was of course to have fun recording and playing songs we love, but it was also to shine a light on what we think are the essential roots of the music we play now and extreme metal in general. We believe one of those elements to be Punk and more precisely the Hardcore Punk influences. For instance, giving a certain idea of how they managed to separate themselves from the contemporary Hair Metal scene and be one of the originators of Thrash Metal, Dave Lombardo and Jeff Hanneman have explained several times how they were constantly exchanging Punk and Hardcore Punk bands they discovered during the inception of Slayer. (It is hence no surprise that Dave Lombardo now plays for the Misfits and Suicidal Tendencies). Metallica was also seen wearing GBH and Misfits shirts repeatedly during the 80s and early 90s. Furthermore, within Schizophrenia we often ponder as to what makes modern or actual Metal different than the old school Metal, musical judgment aside. I believe personally that, arguably, one of the most important elements is the progressive lack of Punk and Rock’n’Roll influences throughout the decades. All of this is why we decided to include two Punk songs out of the total 6 songs included in this EP.“
He continues: “GBH is possibly the most influential Hardcore Punk band and has been my personal favorite band since my teenage years. Covering a song by them seemed not only crucial but almost mandatory. We chose to cover ‘Race Against Time’ as this song had the perfect energy we were looking for and the lyrics could be reinterpreted as a testimony to their legacy explained above “Time is immortal, and we’re forever”. It is also the opening track of their first record released in 1981 ‘Leather, Bristle, Studs and Acne’ quite surely being a direct influence to the following Thrash Metal originator albums. The song was extremely interesting for us to work on and adapt to our own style. I took quite some liberty when composing the drums and for the story was highly influenced by Exciter, another band with explicit Punk influences, for which I had drum-teched on their European tour just a couple of weeks before recording. We tried making the song overall more brutal and simply better fitted for a Death/Thrash Metal band. We can only hope you will enjoy our own version but also feel the need to spin all those classic influential Punk records again!“
“Chants Of The Abyss” is available for purchase at THIS LOCATION
Tracklist:
Necrophiliac (Slayer cover)
Maze Of Torment (Morbid Angel cover)
Metal Meltdown (Judas Priest cover)
Bullet (Misfits cover)
Strike Of The Beast (Exodus cover)
Race Against Time (GBH cover)
Schizophrenia live w/Warbringer and Evil Invaders:
24/03/2023 BE Aalst – Oilsjt Omploft 25/03/2023 DE Essen – Turock 26/03/2023 FR Colmar – Le Grillen 28/03/2023 DE Kassel – Goldgrube 29/03/2023 DE Mannheim – 7er Club 30/03/2023 DE Leipzig – Hellraiser 31/03/2023 DE Hamburg – BHF Pauli 01/04/2023 DK Copenhagen- BETA 02/04/2023 DE Berlin – Cassiopeia 03/04/2023 PL Warsaw – Hydrozagadka 04/04/2023 PL Krakow – Kamienna12 05/04/2023 DE Munich – Backstage Halle 06/04/2023 CZ Prague – Modra Vopice 07/04/2023 HU Budapest – Barba Negra 08/04/2023 CH Sursee – Kulturwerk 118 09/04/2023 AT Dornbirn – Schlachthaus 10/04/2023 AT Vienna – Viper Room 11/04/2023 CH Martigny – Cave Du Manoir 13/04/2023 FR Lyon – Rock n Eat 14/04/2023 FR Pau – L’Ampli 15/04/2023 ES Barcelona – La Nau 16/04/2023 ES Madrid – Nazca 17/04/2023 ES Mos Pontreveda – Sala Rebullón 18/04/2023 ES Granada – Sala El Tren 19/04/2023 ES Zaragoza – Sala Lo Intento 20/04/2023 FR Nantes – Le Ferrailleur 21/04/2023 FR Paris – Backstage By The Mill 22/04/2023 NL Arnhem – Willemeen 23/04/2023 NL Helmond – Cacaofabriek 24/04/2023 DE Hannover – Cafe Glocksee 30/04/2023 NL Rotterdam – Baroeg
SCHIZOPHRENIA is: Ricky Mandozzi: Bass & vocals Romeo Promos Promopoulos: Lead & rhythm guitar Marty Van Kerckhoven: Lead & rhythm guitar Lorenzo Vissol: Drums
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