Washington DC Crossover Thrashers RED DEATH are proud to announce their upcoming third studio album and Century Media Records debut “Sickness Divine” for a worldwide release on November 29th, 2019.
RED DEATH checked in with the following comment about “Sickness Divine”: “ This is the record we all wanted to collectively make and we feel good about what we did. Whatever aspects we liked from our past material have been fine tuned and amplified. Any new ideas we wanted to bring to the table fit perfectly and now has opened the door for future material. We wanted to create something unique for our time. A crossover record but one that fully establishes RED DEATH as just RED DEATH and nothing more. A fine balance between what we’ve done and what we needed to do. We started recording with Arthur Rizk in Philadelphia, PA around late May and finished up early August. We are gearing up to tour Europe with the CRO-MAGS as well as preparing ourselves for 2020 and beyond. We are beyond excited and can not wait to share what we’ve created with everyone! ”
Once more produced by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Sacred Reich) and with cover art – to be seen above – by Timbul Cahoyno (The Black Dahlia Murder, Nocturnus A.D.), “Sickness Divine” is a sledgehammer-to-the-skull riff-ride across its 10 annihilating tracks.
Red Death – “Sickness Divine”:
1. Sickness Divine
2. Face The Pain
3. Sword Without A Sheath
4. The Anvil’s Ring
5. Sheep May Unsafely Graze
6. Path Of Discipline
7. (Refuse To Be) Bound By Chains
8. Dreadful Perception
9. Ravage
10. Exhalation Of Decay
Look out for the launch of the album’s first single as well as the album’s pre-order start to happen on September 27th, 2019.
Spanish prog project NORTH OF SOUTH will release their new EP “The Dogma and the Outsider” via WormHoleDeath, coming out in October. The first single of the upcoming EP, “Ember Remains”, is out now via Wormholedeath/The Orchard worldwide. “Ember Remains” features ORPHANED LAND‘s lead singer Kobi Farhi!
Watch “Ember Remains” Lyric Video here:
Chechu Nos Stated: “After the warm welcome given to their debut album from the media and audiences, Spanish Prog Metal band NORTH OF SOUTH come back with a second release, definitely ready to storm onto a new level of the worldwide metal scene. The ambition behind “The dogma and the outsider” EP (coming out in October) is revealed by the participation of some guest stars of international caliber.
As a categorical first demonstration, Israeli Kobi Farhi (Orphaned Land) is featured in their new single, “Ember Remains”, a total “tour de force” that displays NORTH OF SOUTH’s wide collection of Hispanic, Melodic and Extreme Metal influences, combining them with the oriental flavour of Farhi’s incendiary performance.
This new song comes with the support of an elegant and colourful lyric video by British Andy Pilkington, with whom North of South already worked in their first album and who has made productions for renowned artists and bands like Saxon, Rotting Christ, Flotsam & Jetsam, Dee Snider and Gus G.”
Norwegian progressive metallers ARTICULUS will release their debut album, simply tiltled “I” through their own label Etymology Recordings on November 1st, 2019. The album features 12 songs of atmospheric progressive metal that all tell the story of a historical figure or event, guided forward by extensive use of melody and heavy guitars, and framed in drums performed by Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth).
The themes on the album are rooted in an appreciation for history and art. The album is written, produced, engineered, performed and mixed by Willumsen and Malm, with the notable exception of Verbeuren’s drums. The elaborate artwork is created by Francisco Solé, known for creating the artwork for the mysterious ’90s film “The Ninth Gate”.
The album will be availble on vinyl, digipak-CD and limited edition double cassette boxset as well as on all digital platforms. The physical formats all contain a unique 16 page art booklet with drawings by Solé.
Tracklist:
1. The Bonfire of the Vanities
2. Beneath the Veneer
3. The Unconfined
4. Absinthe
5. And Velvet became Iron
6. Mutiny
7. The Smouldering Ember
8. Pulse of the Earth
9. Letter from Rome, 1610
10. The last
11. A Fair Intruder
12. An Asp unto my Breast
Power Metal act DRAGONFLY have revealed details of their new and sixth album entitled “Zeitgeist”, due out on October 25th through Art Gates Records worldwide.
In words of the band: “This is our sixth studio album, and the first one with this new lineup in which Jorge Alcazar has joined us as drummer. The quality and technique of Jorge is notorious in our new tracks and we think that you all will be surprised with the evolution of the band, much straight forward, much powerful but still keeping the essence of Dragonfly. We also have chosen to do a different album compared to what we normally do, releasing an album with less songs but in a more regular time lapse. In “Zeitgeist” we are honored to have a special guest, Alberto Rionda from Avalanch, in one of the tracks, who again shows us his mastery and professionality in the 6 strings. Victor de Andres is also a guest star, that has written a song with Juanba (bass). We need to thank Raul Abellan from The Mixtery, who we consider a part of band and that has showed us his kindness and professionality behind the controls in every moment. Right now we are preparing our new tour and closing the details with Art Gates Records, so stay tuned to our social media to keep up with all the news that are coming from Dragonfly!!
Tracklist:
Zeitgeist
El Guardian Del Tiempo
Estrella Fugaz
Alter Ego
La Travesía
Destino
Un Ultimo Adios
Solo Depende De Ti
“Zeitgeist” was recorded at The Mixtery (Valencia), mixed, mastered and produced by Raúl Abellán. Preorder packs coming soon at Art Gates Records.
Sydney teenage punks,THE KIDS hve released their video for ‘I Thought My Family Was Rich‘, the single is out now along with the b-side track, their cover of Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name’ on Golden Robot Records.
Check out the video here:
THE KIDS have been on a non stop rollercoaster ride since releasing their debut single School a year and a half ago. They opened for hard rock legends LA Guns, Guns N’ Roses keyboardist, Dizzy Reed, icons Living Colour and the great Skid Row as well as playing every teenage house party you can think of.
Now they are preparing for a massive run of shows in Australia in October and have just released a huge one-two punch in the form of a Double A Side for their own track, I Thought My Family Was Rich and a ferocious cover of Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name.
The band’s drummer Jagger Alexander comments; “We picked Killing (In The Name) because it’s the most dangerous song of all time, we want all the kids and angry 40 year olds to stomp around their room to this! As for “Family“ our shit just keeps getting catchier and more furious, this is our little masterpiece and it’s about being broke, what more can I say”.
ABOUT THE KIDS
The Kids are led by their extremely busy and highly praised drummer, 16 year old Jagger Alexander. The Kids have already supported a slew of top Aussie and international acts and have taken the stage from Frankies and The Cherry Bar all the way to LA’s famous Whisky A Go-Go. With influences ranging from Nirvana, RATM, Bad Brains, all the way back to Black Flag, The Descendants and the Pistols, The Kids re-interpret punk rock for a new generation, making it their own in the process!
Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voicerecently spoke to HELLOWEEN’s guitarist Michael Weikath.Weikath spoke about the band reuniting after all these years, the upcoming writing sessions of the new album and the bands new live Cd/Dvd BluRay, Helloween United & Alive in Madrid’ which will be releasedOctober 4th on Nuclear Blast.
Watch the interview here:
When asked how Helloween managed to heal old wounds and reunite not like other bands
“We have a different outlook and we have a different upbringing. That whole school system in Germany is quite different and Michael Kiske have this new-age approach towards things and he wants to be a wise character he’s thinking karma and stuff. I’m doing the same you know. Kiske and I used to be best friends in the past, it would be meager, puny and weak you know if we couldn’t sort out any issues for a reunion, we just needed a little talk. We know each other so well from from the past. We both agree there were some kind of demons in the past that screwed everything up. We don’t even know today how we both got onto the wrong track and became so negative towards each other? It’s like a big burden that you have to carry around with yourself for no use at all, just to be f***** right, just to be on the cool side, just to be Mr. Right. Names come to mind of other famous bands where you can say they will never have a reunion. Plus we have a very good management who put us together in the past with Kai Hansen and that would have been near to impossible if you have separate managements.”
When asked why people should pick up the latest Live offering by Helloween
“It’s the combination of a lot of things, maybe we didn’t play so well in the past. In the 80’s. there were crazy conditions and lots of stress and somehow you had to cope with equipment that didn’t quite work. Camera teams being difficult at times, too much booze and stuff and everyone too self-centered. I mean we have old recordings of the Hell of Wheels tour and I was freaking fat cause I’ve had lost a testicle and the hormones inside me were going freaking crazy and I added twenty kilos to my angelic appearance from before. I looked like a like a freaking dumb badass, it did not make me feel really proud.”
When asked about the progress of writing the new album with Pumpkins United
There will be 5 guys writing, Michael Kiske is not going to compose much except whatever he thinks will get into consideration. The pre-production we are going to start end of October 2019, that would entail three months where we will arrange, brainstorm, try things for new song material and then whatever is cool is going to be kept for the main recordings later.”
When asked if the musical directions will be a continuation of their last album My God Given Right “My God Given right was done quite a different way, we had 25 tracks and the producer picked the ones that he thought were the most worthwhile and bam you had that album ready, we just recorded all the ready-made demos . This time on the new album we have a lot more fragments and eventually there’s going to be some great stuff I just know. It’s going to be a lot of work it’s going to take some time but that’s probably a great approach if we’re all not too old for it or if we’re not too uncool for it. We have Charlie Bauerfeind and Dennis Ward as a producer a team on this album so as there’s got to be something great coming out of it. Denis Ward knows Unisonic and the way the band worked, Denis been part of the band himself and he knows how to arrange things and record things and and come up with great results under the most difficult circumstances and Charlie Bauerfeind is like the main organizer. I wrote three complete tracks, Sascha Gerstner came up with a few things, Markus Grosskopf finished a few tracks. Kai Hansen and Andi Deria are working on some fragments and when we put it all together we get creative and so that’s the way we’re gonna do it. In terms of musical direction we are not going to do something unexpected, we are going to play it safe in the future.”
When asked if they will change the set list on the next Helloween Tour
“Sure maybe we can do something like Twilight of the Gods or if people want to hear Save US or other songs we couldn’t do on the last tour because it was already three hours. Next time around it;s going to be different because there are enough stuff to pick from.”
When asked if Pumpkins United with Kai Hansen and Michael Kiske is a short term or long terms
“We all pretty much feel great and so we are going to keep it that way as long as it goes. From what I understood and from what I heard. I even asked how long are we going to do this and everyone was in agreement we are going to try as long as it lasts.”
When asked about if he looks at the Helloween album Chameleon more favorable then in the past
“I even looked at a favorable back then it was just I thought it could have been even better.I mean Chameleon could have been better with a different approach but it was the result of what was there at the time and the intentions we had with it. We were lambasted with debt of the amount of two million Deutschmarks, we were just trying to get rid of that somehow and we thought if we if we make the album commercial it would work.”
