Since first appearing in the Norwegian scene in 2004, BLODHEMN founder Invisus has worked tirelessly to further Black Metal’s iconic sound with his distinctive and aggressive approach, releasing three full-length albums, on which he performed all the vocals and instruments.
With a live lineup that, aside from Invisus on vocals, includes Hauk (AMONG GODS) on bass, Dan on drums, Xarim (DJEVELKULT, DEN SAAKALDTE) on guitars and Anneland (ELSKOV, VONBROT, MUNNHUGGER, CAPRISE) on guitars, BLODHEMN has rightly earned a stellar reputation for its work both in the studio and in front of an audience.
Joining the Dark Essence Records roster for the release of the band’s fourth full-length album, has, it could be said, been twelve years in the making for BLODHEMN, as Invisus explains:
I had a good experience working with some of the Dark Essence people in the past. Granted, at that time it was more on the music production side, but still, it has been a collaboration since recording “Brenn Alle Bruer” 12 years ago.
Inking the deal with Dark Essence Records, therefore, feels like finally finding the right street door after a long night out. Their good reputation amongst artists, and in the industry in general, was key to my decision to kick open this particular door.
I’m looking forward to finally getting the new album out and joining forces with the Dark Essence team to force-feed you thrashy black metal with a glaze of rock n’ roll. Skål!
Details of the upcoming album will be coming up in the near future, and in the meantime, more information about BLODHEMN can be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Blodhemnnorway or on the band’s website at https://blodhemn.no
Finnish melodic death metallers MISALIGNED have released their second single from the upcoming debut album “Colours” to be released in May 2022.
Band backgrounds the story:
“Misaligned has always been into handling themes like mental health issues and intoxicants on their lyrics. Our society reflects a dystopic image that alcohol, drugs and mental health issues are something that you prefer to keep silent about. Silver Moth symbolizes another deceitful savior that aims to escapism to ease the pain of the dystopic world by drowning the sorrow to alcohol and drugs. And that is something that leads to even worse perdition on the war against the addictions and broken minds.
Musically the song has some Gothenburg style melodic death metal vibes. And the message is pretty much that we cannot win every fight, but losing the war isn’t an option.”
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past” proclaimed William Faulkner. If anybody knows the truth of this statement, it’s longtime producer/songwriter/musician Tim Skold. After cutting his teeth with metal bands in his home country of Sweden, Skold came into his own with his eponymous industrial metal project, SKOLD, releasing his self-titled debut album Skold in 1996. The album was extremely well-received appearing in major studio films (Disturbing Behavior, Universal Soldier: The Return) and establishing Skold as a one-of-a-kind talent both in front of and behind the mixing board. On the cusp of completing the highly anticipated follow-up album, Skold was recruited by industrial empresario Marilyn Manson to join his band in 2001, touring and producing several albums and singles up to 2008.
From there Skold picked up where his solo career left off releasing more albums under the Skold moniker, but one album continued to linger: the abandoned follow-up album. Sure, several tracks had been leaked and downloaded innumerable times on the internet (at a time when digital music distribution was a wild wild west of piracy a la Napster) but the album seemed to be a piece of Skold’s past that refused to die, or even stay past. So, the artist got to work on finishing the mythic Dead God album (also known as Disrupting The Orderly Routine Of The Institution), mastering the album from the original full resolution mixes, and is now set to release it on all formats on April 15. This set crackles with turn of the century digital fury and paranoia, sounding as fresh today as it was groundbreaking then!
By way of previewing the album, the lead off track, “Don’t Pray For Me,” is being released to all digital platforms.
Expect to hear more from Skold this year as rumors that he is once again collaborating with Marilyn Manson have been confirmed. The two are also contributing to the new Ye album Donda 2. So pre-order your copy of Dead God before they disappear again!
Swedish death metal tyrants DEMONICAL are premiering a music video for a new song titled “We Conquer The Throne” in anticipation of their seventh studio album “Mass Destroyer”, set for release on May 6th on Agonia Records. Click through the link below to watch the video, which was directed by Tobias Rydsheim of Svartna Film.
Struck by a burst of inspiration, DEMONICAL indulged in a creative spree immediately after the release of their antecedent offering, “World Domination”; and with expertise worthy of death metal veterans, shaped it into “Mass Destroyer”. Developed in less than two years, the album reflects the energy that spawned its creation, and keeps to the Swede’s HM2-beaten track, promising a few twists along the way. Adorned in an old fashioned attire, “Mass Destroyer” packs a gruesome punch, embodies organic sounding and delivers a truly fiendish experience from well-seasoned old-school death-dealers.
“A huge inspirational boost hit us so why waste time and wait? Just hammer while the metal is hot,” explains the band, as to what seems to be a tried and true process, that already preceded “Hellsworn” (2009), “Death Infernal” (2011) and “Darkness Unbound” (2013). “The outcome is here, our seventh full-length and another vicious Demonical assault of Stockholm-style death metal madness and beyond,” the band comments. “Once again and as always, we wanted to crawl back in time and explore the early days of death metal but with traces and hints of various other metallic subgenres.”
Mark Riddick (Absu, Arsis) added his gruesome touch to “Mass Destroyer” in designing the fiendish cover artwork. Glashuset and SellnoiseStudios were used for recording with Johan Hjelm and Jonas Arnberg behind the helm, while Karl DanielLiden mixed and mastered the album at his Tri-Lamb Studios. “We worked with the same production team as last time and the result turned out nothing but great,” the band continues. “A dynamic and breathing album we all feel very satisfied and proud off. Can’t wait to destroy the masses!”
Tracklisting: 1. We Conquer The Throne 2. Sun Blackened 3. Fallen Mountain 4. Wrathspawn 5. Dödsmarsch 6. Lifeslave 7. Cemented In Ire 8. By Hatred Bound
Tour dates: 2022-05-10 CZ Prague – Modra Vopice 2022-05-11 DE Dresden – Chemiefabrik 2022-05-12 DE Bochum – Matrix 2022-05-13 DE Hamburg – Bambi Galore 2022-05-14 DE Rostock – Zwischenbau 2022-05-15 DE Göttingen – Freihafen
The mighty KREATOR are proud to unveil “Strongest Of The Strong,” the second single from their forthcoming fifteenth studio album, “Hate Über Alles,” which will be released on June 10th, 2022. Five years after their highly acclaimed album “Gods Of Violence” (2017), peaking at #1 in the German album charts, the genre-defining band are happy to present this 11-track behemoth.
The unrelenting mid-tempo sledgehammer “Strongest Of The Strong” definitely lives up to its name and quite fittingly features renowned strongman and vegan advocate Patrik Baboumian who adds thundering backing vocals to the song’s anthemic chorus.
Patrik also appears in the music video for the song as the comic book character Earthraiser who’s fighting for animals and nature. The video was directed by Tom Schlagkamp and shot in South Africa. Check it out below!
Mille Petrozza comments: “Strongest of the Strong represents every person on this planet who is striving to become a force of good in a world filled with a lot of bad. It’s a straightforward banger with a message that only one man could carry; his name is Patrik ‘Earthraiser’ Baboumian! Great working with him in the studio and on the music video, a man with a lot of shared values with my own. We hope you enjoy!”
KREATOR – Hate Über Alles Release Date: June 10, 2022
01. Sergio Corbucci Is Dead 02. Hate Über Alles 03. Killer Of Jesus 04. Crush The Tyrants 05. Strongest Of The Strong 06. Become Immortal 07. Conquer And Destroy 08. Midnight Sun 09. Demonic Future 10. Pride Comes Before The Fall 11. Dying Planet
Cover artwork by Eliran Kantor
For 37 years, KREATOR has spear-headed a thrash metal crusade, inspiring generations of metal heads and musicians alike. The collision of traditional and contemporary values is a sentiment that Mille Petrozza has breathed in to the soul of this monumental new album; recruiting visionary producer Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Cavalera Conspiracy, Ghostmane and Turnstile) from Philadelphia to work with the band at the legendary Hansa Studio in Berlin. “Hate Über Alles” features gorgeously grim cover artwork painted by renowned artist Eliran Kantor (Testament, Thy Art Is Murder, Helloween), serving a bold statement against hate and division in today’s society.
Mille Petrozza comments: “Hate Über Alles reflects the time we’re living in. Everything is really loud and aggressive. The way we communicate has changed, thanks to social media. It causes a lot of imbalance. The world is in a state of disrepair. Life is not harmonic right now, it’s disharmonic… that’s where I was going with the title.”
KREATOR Live 2022
17th Apr – Norway – OSLO – Rockefeller 2nd Jun – Czechia – METALFEST OPEN AIR 18th Jun – Finland – METAL CAPITAL FEST 24th Jun – France – HELLFEST 26th Jun – Italy – ROCK THE CASTLE 30th Jun – Portugal – VOA HEAVY ROCK FESTIVAL 03rd Jul – Finland – TUSKA 04th Aug – Spain – LEYENDAS DEL ROCK 19th Aug – France – MOTOCULTOR FESTIVAL 20th Aug – Netherlands – DYNAMO METAL FEST 23rd Sep – Mexico – MEXICO METAL FEST
KREATOR will embark on a European co-headline tour alongside LAMB OF GOD in November & December 2022.
State Of Unrest Tour 2022 KREATOR | LAMB OF GOD with guests: Thy Art is Murder & Gatecreeper
18th Nov – Denmark – COPENHAGEN, Forum Black Box 19th Nov – Sweden – STOCKHOLM, Fryshuset Arenan 21st Nov – Finland – OULU, Teatria 22nd Nov – Finland – HELSINKI, Ice Hall Black Box 24th Nov – Poland – WARSAW, Stodola 26th Nov – Germany – MUNICH, Zenith 27th Nov – Germany – BERLIN, Columbiahalle 29th Nov – Netherlands – TILBURG, 013 30th Nov – Belgium – BRUSSELS, AB 02nd Dec – Germany – LUDWIGSBURG, MHP Arena 03rd Dec – Germany – ESSEN, Grugahalle 04th Dec – Germany – SAARBRÜCKEN, Saarlandhalle 06th Dec – Spain – MADRID, Riviera 07th Dec – Spain – BARCELONA, Razzmatazz 09th Dec – Germany – WIESBADEN, Schlachthof 10th Dec – Germany – HAMBURG, Edel Optics Arena 11th Dec – Germany – LEIPZIG, Haus Auensee 13th Dec – UK – LONDON, O2 Academy Brixton 14th Dec – UK – GLASGOW, O2 Academy 15th Dec – UK – BIRMINGHAM, O2 Academy 16th Dec – UK – BRISTOL, O2 Academy 18th Dec – UK – MANCHESTER, Academy 20th Dec – France – PARIS, L’Olympia 21st Dec – Switzerland – ZURICH, Samsung Hall
Irish Viking Metal/Norse Pagan Rockers REN MARABOU AND THE BERSERKERS Frontman Ren Marabou has posted online the 12th episode of Metal Podcast ‘SAGAS’ in collaboration with Corban Skipwith AKA ‘Serpent Tounge’, this week discussing the 2004 album ‘Leviathan’ by the mighty MASTODON 🔥🤘🏻!
“Welcome back to the SAGAS Metal Podcast where today we talk about the 2004 release by band ‘Mastodon’ This album really is a shining example of how a band can incorporate everything and still sound fluent and smooth!”
Remember also to check out REN MARABOU AND THE BERSERKERS’ weekly segments for fans and Heathen Tribe lovers at https://www.facebook.com/renmarabou!
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 and Fishsticks drum sticks. Signed to United Music Mafia and Managed by Split Screen Management. The band’s next album ‘Tales Of Rune’ is on course for a release date in early 2022. More information TBA.
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s ASA unveil the long-overdue release of "Collective Failure" + first music video for title-track! Check it out and stay tuned for more news! Click image to watch the video
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s SARCOFAGUS return with a Historic 2010 Concert Video Premiere on YouTube! Click image to watch the video
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