METAL ON THE HILL is on fire for its next round! This year the most popular open-air venue in Graz, the Schlossberg Stage Kasematten, will burn for metal once again. Napalm Records and Napalm Events are happy to announce the final lineup of this year’s edition, which will be headlined by #1 charting band FEUERSCHWANZ and metal icons STRATOVARIUS! With melodic death metal force HIRAES, local heroes WATCH THEM FAIL and Ukrainian melodic modern metal up and comers IGNEA – who the festival is extremely happy to host after they were finally able to leave their country and the ongoing war – the lineup is finally complete.
METAL ON THE HILL has become a permanent institution on the international festival map with its exclusive and boutique character, high caliber acts and the most beautiful festival location in Austria, which are unmistakably connected with the uniqueness of Styria! The festival will once again take place on the most beautiful stage in Austria: The historical Kasematten. Daily schedules have been announced and are available to view now.
VIP tickets are almost sold out and can be purchased exclusively through Napalm Records. Alternatively, weekend or daily tickets can be purchased in the online store. All tickets are available HERE!
THE BLACK SKELETON’s new and 5th single, ‘Be Free’ is available now on digital platforms viaGolden Robot Records.
‘Be Free’, is “something very pretty we wrote while waiting to do an interview one afternoon” states frontman Quinn Gardener-Kane. ‘Be Free’ is about bringing the best of times home with you. The track features Quinn’s then 7-year-old daughter Vader, singing in the background.
THE BLACK SKELETON is the project featuring Quinn Gardener-Kane, best known as the charismatic singer of Australian funk/hard rock band, DEFRYME. ‘Be Free’ follows recently released singles ‘The Ledge’, ‘Total Control’, ‘Out of Our Minds’ and ‘All Around Me’ and sees the band starting to establish themselves on the rock market.
Finland’s multi-Platinum cello-rockers APOCALYPTICA have just issued the following:
The summer festival dates keep coming! While most of them are in Finland, we’ve also got shows coming up in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as France. These are going to be awesome!
Snag tickets for any of our festival shows here: Apo.lnk.to/Live
Here’s the full list of summer dates: 02.07.22 – Karjaa, FI – Raasepori Festival 15.07.22 – Tjentiste, BA – OK Fest 16.07.22 – Krapi, FI – Krapin Paja 17.07.22 – Virrat, FI – Virrat Soi 05.08.22 – Olavinlinna, FI – Savonlinna Boxing Night 20.08.22 – Saint Nolff, FR – Motocultor Festival 2022
Hitting festivals like Motocultor and OK Fest is going to be a blast, we’ve prepared a special set for you guys to rock out too!
Not only that – but we’ve added a bunch of merch to our merch stand for these shows including restocks on some of the popular Ouija merch, plus some new designs.
If you can’t make it to a show we’ve got them in the EU webstore as well. We’re really excited about the “I’ll Get Through It” design currently up for pre-order. These items will soon be added to the rest of our stores worldwide.
Irish Viking Metal/Norse Pagan Rockers REN MARABOU AND THE BERSERKERS Frontman Ren Marabou has posted online the 23nd episode of Metal Podcast ‘SAGAS’ in collaboration with Corban Skipwith AKA ‘Serpent Tongue’, this week discussing ARTILLERY‘s 2021 Album “X”, feat. Michael Dahl 🔥🤘🏻!
Serpent Tongue shared: “Welcome back to the SAGAS Metal Podcast where today we talk about the 2021 release by band ‘Artillery’ One of the most underrated ‘Thrash Metal’ bands drops one of the most complex and creative efforts of the sub genre!”
In earlier SAGAS episodes, Ren and Serpent Tongue were discussing about the great albums of Memphis May Fire, Diamond Head, TNT, Týr, Black Label Society, Suicide Silence, Amorphis, Ghostmane, Celtic Hills, Pantera, Mastodon, Aztlan, Gloryhammer, Nails, Insomnium, Sunn O))), In Flames, Cradle Of Filth, Megadeth, Dimmu Borgir, Him, and last but not least, Ren Marabou and the Berserkers. In case you missed, check them out at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5agm3BCgG1k0XGafH4TaoA/videos.
Hailing from the Emerald Isle and based in the hills of Co.Donegal these Irish Viking Metal/Norse Pagan Rockers, REN MARABOU AND THE BERSERKERS, deliver their own take on this powerful genre with a high energy stage show and anthemic, contemporary stylings. Endorsed by Cassidy Guitars, Skull Strings, Fishsticks drum sticks and Iron Age Guitar Accessories. Signed to United Music Mafia and Managed by Split Screen Management. The band’s next album ‘Tales Of Rune’ will come out July 1st, 2022.
It’s time for another deep dive into the horrors of mortality and the foul side of the supernatural – It’s time for “Survival Of The Sickest”! The sixth full-length album from BLOODBATH, Sweden’s undisputed masters of old school death metal, will be unleashed on September 9, 2022 via Napalm Records. This is death metal at its ugly best: vicious, unrelenting and irrevocably sworn to the black.
The world is in flames, and “Survival Of The Sickest”, produced by BLOODBATH and co-produced and mixed by Lawrence Mackrory at Rorysound Studios, offers no respite from the horrors of reality. Instead, with the addition of new guitarist Tomas ‘Plytet’ Åkvik (Lik) onboard, BLOODBATH’s latest and greatest album gleefully confronts the slavering ghoul lurking in the shadows, and treats him to ten songs of ripping death metal frenzy. Alongside BLOODBATH’s official alumni, “Survival Of The Sickest” boasts a smattering of irresistible cameos from the great, good and ghoulish of the metal underground, including Barney Greenway (Napalm Death), Luc Lemay (Gorguts) and Marc Grewe (Morgoth).
Alongside its pre-order kickoff, BLOODBATH have released the crushing new single and album opener, “Zombie Inferno”, a thrashing death metal assault set to draw the listener into a lunatic outburst of ferocity. The song breaks in with anxiety-inducing riffs and the insanely killer vocals of Nick Holmes, and is visually highlighted via a fast-paced, gory music video, acting as a tribute to the glory days of 80s splatter flicks.
BLOODBATH on “Zombie Inferno“: “One man’s struggle to rid the World of Zombie Infestation that seems to have inconveniently taken over the planet. Particularly, as he’s just refueled his 1969 Dodge Super Bee 440.”
Video Directed by Ash Pears – Produced by Ash Pears for AshTV /www.ashtv.co.uk
From the thuggish brain-smash of opener “Zombie Inferno” to the bleak, obsidian ooze of closer “No God Before Me”, “Survival Of The Sickest” is the sound of a great band in blistering form. In contrast with The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn, which borrowed heavily from the blackened end of the death metal world, the new BLOODBATH goes straight for the jugular in true old school fashion. With strong echoes of everything from Morbid Angel and Death to Deicide and Obituary, songs like the rampaging “Putrefying Corpse”, the disgustingly slow and heavy “Dead Parade”, and the deliciously twisted “Tales Of Melting Flesh” breathe fresh fire into an arcane, perpetually rotting formula.
Formed by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström (both of KATATONIA), Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth) and Dan Swanö (Edge Of Sanity) in 1998, BLOODBATH devoted themselves to resurrecting the increasingly forgotten art of pure death metal. In 2014, they unveiled a new frontman – legendary Paradise Lost vocalist Nick Holmes, now redubbed Old Nick – and yet another macabre musical evolution. With a line-up, the only way to go was grim. On “Survival Of The Sickest”, BLOODBATH evoke their most horrifying sonic scenarios to date, from the death-by-munching nightmare of “Malignant Maggot Therapy”, to the murderous nihilism of “Affliction Of Extinction”. A glorious comeback from a legendarily wicked musical force,“Survival Of The Sickest”provides yet more proof that BLOODBATH are the kings of the old school.
BLOODBATH add: “If there was a declaration of goods attached to this album, it would say Florida death metal exported from Sweden.”
“Survival Of The Sickest” track listing: 1. Zombie Inferno 2. Putrefying Corpse 3. Dead Parade 4. Malignant Maggot Therapy 5. Carved 6. Born Infernal 7. To Die 8. Affliction of Extinction 9. Tales of Melting Flesh 10. Environcide 11. No God Before Me
Experience BLOODBATH live in 2022: 01.07.22 ES – Barcelona/ Barcelona Rockfest 02.07.22 ES – Viveiro / Resurrection Festival 10.08.22 CZ – Jaromer / Brutal Assault 09.09. – 10.09.22 CH – Hüttikon / Meh Suff! 24.09.22 MX – Monterrey / Mexico Metal Fest
Italian metallers FROM THE DEPTH announce their new guitar player Eddie Thespot, who officially replaces Simone Martinelli. The band will present their new guitar player at their next confirmed summer concerts:
25 August – FROGSTOCK – Riolo Terme (Italy) – From The Depth + Nanowar Of Steel 27 August – FESTA BIKERS – Cologono al Serio (Italy) – Rain + From The Depth + Siska
The band says: “We have been acquainted with Eddie from quite some time now and we immediately knew that he was a great player, a professional musician and a friend we could rock the stage with” and adds: “Despite being arrived just now, he is already involved in our third album that will be finished before 2023. This doesn’t mean we don’t have something to show you very soon…“
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