FURY WEEKEND Release New Single ‘Tomorrow Comes Today’, Feat. Nouveau Arcade

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Fury Weekend returns with a captivating new synthwave album, ‘Million Flares and Starlights’, available now for pre-order from FiXT.
 
Releasing with the pre-order Announcement today is “Tomorrow Comes Today” featuring the vocal stylings of the enigmatic Nouveau Arcade. Fury Weekend explains, “After the successful release of our collaboration ‘Sad Boy’, our next single took a new direction towards iconic electronic retro pop rock to tell a new story.”

Purchase/Stream: https://link.fixtmusic.com/MillionFlaresandStarlights

‘Million Flares and Starlights’ features an array of collaborations, including PRIZM, King Protea, Nouveau Arcade, Mari Kattman, Platforms, and Kirill Babiev. Each artist brings their unique style to the album, enhancing its diverse sound. So put on your shades, get in your car, and prepare to drive down the neon-laced highway. Million Flares and Starlights is the perfect soundtrack for your retro-futuristic adventure, offering a thrilling escape into a world where the future meets the past. Whether enjoyed on the dance floor or through headphones, this album which seamlessly blends elements of everything from alternative to synthwave, from indie rock to dance. Fury Weekend offers a offers fans a beautiful homage to the ’80s and takes listeners on a cosmic voyage to the future. .
 
Singles like the sultry and hypnotic collaboration with PRIZM, “Feel The Beat,” drive a refreshing party vibe with it’s fusion of indie dance and synthwave. “Galaxy of Love” combines synthwave, indie pop, and indie dance and elegantly captures themes of yearning and connection with an unforgettable vocal performance from Platforms. In “Illusion Of Flight” alternative rock vocalist Kirill Babiev giving a stunning performance Fury Weekend weaves a tale exploring the human experience. He explains, “This song is sequel to ‘Velvet Rain’, which was produced on my previous album Afterglow and continues a deepest feelings experience of a lyrical hero in a big cyberpunk city, and it is the most emotional song of the album.”  Fury Weekend‘s adept production skills shine through in “Constellation,” as he effortlessly blends elements from synthwave and indie pop to create a unique and captivating musical experience.  
 
The Fury Weekend project was created when Belarus-based Ars Nikonov chose to combine his love of classic rock, electronic music, and ‘80s culture into a forward-thinking music venture. The result is a dystopian synthwave sound that blends bright synth melodies and gritty guitar work into a singular music vision of the future.

The uniqueness of Fury Weekend should come as no surprise given the artist’s background, which involves ambitious projects ranging from industrial to post-rock. Diversant: 13, Cold in May, Martian Love, Seanine, and Tribal A.D. are some of the many names that fill Ars’ creative resume, and each of those has given the creator the experience and tools needed to make an impact with his retro-futuristic synthwave project.
 
Blending ’80s nostalgia with modern pop and electronic influences, Seattle, Washington’s Nouveau Arcade is prepared to make their mark on the world. The duo consists of Kevin Preston and Len Hotrum, long-time collaborators who have known each other for the better part of two decades.

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PRIMAL FEAR’s Ralf Scheepers Guests on CRYING STEEL Song ‘No One’s Crying’

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Italian heavy metal veterans Crying Steel have released a re-recorded version of their iconic track “No One’s Crying”, originally released on their 1987 debut album “On The Prowl”. The new version features Ralf Scheepers of Primal Fear and ex-Gamma Ray on vocals. 

The video was created by Natalia Śmiechowicz / ‪@n.station (Motörhead, Dokken, Uriah Heep)‬ 

The release of the video follows the news of the band’s new permanent live and recording vocalist Tiziano HammerHead Sbaragli. Crying Steel will be performing with the new vocalist at Italian Metal Heroes festival on Saturday 31 August. 

Earlier this year the band released “Live And Thunder”, a brand new live album recorded at the band’s 40th anniversary festival in their hometown of Bologna in Italy. Grab the album via Bandcamp, listen via Spotify and other digital platforms.

Crying Steel was formed in 1982 and is considered to be one of the very first heavy metal acts to come out of Italy. The band’s discography includes: Crying Steel (1985), On the Prowl (1987), The Steel is Back! (2007), Time Stands Steel (2013), Crying Steel Deluxe Edition (Crying Steel and On the Prowl remastered + Wacken DVD – 2016), Stay Steel (2018) and Steel Alive (2019). 

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MODERN RITES Stream Full Album “Endless” Ahead of Release

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“It offers captivating, driving anthems with immense dynamism—on one hand, monumental and monolithic, on the other, brilliant and varied!” (Legacy)

Shortly before the official release of MODERN RITES‘ second album, “Endless“, artistic duo Berg (AARA) and Jonny Warren (KUYASHII) present the full album stream.

Building upon acclaimed 2021 debut “Monuments“, new album “Endless” drives powerful slabs of dark ’90s Industrial music through a low-slung framework of churning and guttural melodic Black Metal. “Endless” takes the band’s monolithic sound to the next level: with crushing advancements in riff-quality, vocal weight, rhythmic intricacy, textural range, dynamics and songcraft.

Jonny Warren describes the creation of “Endless“:

“For this album, Berg and I were already chatting about ideas and inspirations shortly before our first album was released. From there we recorded snippets of riffs to figure out the progressions of songs, sometimes just creating piano melodies to find the themes we wanted to come through the music. I would then create the foundation of bass and programmed drums and send that to Berg to layer guitars. Next we would chat about edits, find elements we want to pull out more, etc. After all the instrumentals were done, I began writing lyrics to tie themes together and recorded vocals. Lastly, we worked with The Empty Hall Studio to bring the album to life through mixing and mastering.

One thing we were very intentional about when starting the project was that we wanted the lyrics to be a true reflection of the human condition. This is definitely a driving force behind the sound as well, where the dance between poignancy and aggression take centre stage.

With Art in general, my approach is to speak to the diverse backgrounds we all have and allow the listener or viewer to create their own personal connections to the work. While I have my own meanings, I try not to force them upon others, but rather challenge them to find their own pathways of understanding. In the end, I want the takeaway to be that all of our experiences, while vastly different, are ultimately connected in some way or another and to be mindful of how we move through this journey of life together.“

Explore all album details here!

‘Endless” will be released on CD, vinyl and digital on August 30th. Pre-orders are possible via the label’s EU, US and Bandcamp shops.

MODERN RITES is an Industrial-rooted, melodic Black Metal duo founded in Autumn 2020 by guitarist Berg of Swiss Atmospheric Black Metal band AARA and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist/visual artist Jonny Warren of US Experimental Metal band KUYASHII.

Born out of experimentation and a mutual respect for each other’s craft, the pair began trading tracks across borders with the goal of creating a unique sound which would transcend cultural barriers. At the core of MODERN RITES is Jonny‘s heavily distorted bass sound inspired by dark Industrial music of the ’90s. The diverging, stereo bass paths create a desolate landscape in which Berg’s guitars are free to open portals into dark atmospheres.

Exploring the bleaker aspects of the human condition, lyrical themes dive into psychology, isolation, conflict, and the ever-evolving shadow self.

Impressed by MODERN RITES‘ quality and originality, Debemur Morti Productions released “Monuments“, a debut album which sets a vast, winding aural path for further experimentation to come, in 2021.

Building upon acclaimed debut, forthcoming album “Endless” unifies, elevates and perfects the band’s vision, ebbing and flowing between oppressive isolation and furious optimism in an anthemically intense exploration of the human condition. “Endless” is set to release on August 30th, 2024.

THE CROWN to Release “Crown of Thorns” Full-Length on October 11th, New Video / Single ‘Churchburner’ Revealed

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Swedish death metal icons THE CROWN will unleash their Crown Of Thorns full-length on October 11th through Metal Blade Records.

Crown Of Thorns serves as the band’s twelfth studio album as THE CROWN and is the dynamic, groundbreaking follow-up to 2021’s Royal Destroyer. The band made distinctly different creative choices to ensure that the LP’s ten songs would stand as a unique collection. “For me, Cobra Speed Venom and Royal Destroyer are like siblings,” says guitarist Marko Tervonen. “[We wanted] to make sure that we would take a step forward, get a bit more out of our comfort zone on Crown Of Thorns. We really wanted this to sound like a new, fresh album and I believe we did it.”

The approach was full circle and inventive. “I had the idea that we should work a bit backwards. I pushed to create the artwork very early in the process. We wanted the album cover to include a bridge from our hometown Trollhättan called Strömkarlsbron. It has this cool statue on it named ‘Strömkarlen’ [a water spirit]. It made sense to loop it all back to the town where everything started; as most people know, we were called Crown Of Thorns for a few years before we had to shorten the name.”

Giannis Nakos’ final cover proved inspirational, as THE CROWN focused on the music that most complimented the piece. “I wanted something really fast, melodic, heavy, epic, punky,” explains Tervonen, “areas we’ve touched before, but step it up to a new level. And to throw in a few surprises was also part of the process.“

Musical dynamics are also on a new level with the 2022 addition of drummer Mikael Norén and bassist Mattias Rasmussen as well as the return of lead guitarist Marcus Sunesson, rejoining longtime members Tervonen and vocalist Johan Lindstrand. “With Mikael, we managed to bring back a bit more of that crazy ‘Janne Saarenpää’ feel to the drumming, so that was a really cool energy boost. Mattias comes more from a punk/crust background, and he wrote ‘I Hunt With The Devil’ and ‘Mind Collapse,’ which turned out great. This is definitely a step up in many ways, changing the way we worked on the CSV and RD albums.”

Another change is the guitar tuning: “We decided to tune up to D from C,” Tervonen points out. “We played standard E tuning on our four first albums, then we slowly went over to D and from Possessed 13 and forward we tuned down to C. So now we have reversed the course and are climbing slowly back to E! But the lighter D tuning added so much better chugs and tones that we felt might be missing a bit on some of the latest records.”

The outcome of the revitalized process and personnel is evident on the first single, “Churchburner.” “‘Churchburner’ starts out with a nod to ‘Postmortem’ [Slayer] but then explodes into quite a different type of monster,” notes Tervonen. “It has a great groove to it, and it basically has a tempo/beat that we don’t use that often. It’s mostly in triplets. It’s a very strong song with Johan being on fire here and Marcus adds a killer solo as well.”

Crown Of Thorns was recorded by Marko Tervonen (Studio-MT), mixed and mastered by Jonas Kjellgren (Black Lounge Studios).

Find pre-orders at: metalblade.com/thecrown

Crown Of Thorns Track Listing:
01. I Hunt with the Devil
02. Churchburner
03. Martyrian
04. Gone to Hell
05. Howling at the Warfield
06. The Night Is Now
07. God-King
08. The Agitator
09. Where Nightmares Belong
10. The Storm That Comes
11. Eternally Infernal (Bonus Track)
12. No Fuel for God (Bonus Track)
13. Mind Collapse (Bonus Track)

THE CROWN Live:
11/23/2024 Gothenburg Hall Of Metal – Gothenburg, SE
3/15/2025 Heidelberg Deathfest 25 – Heidelberg, DE

THE CROWN:
Johan Lindstrand – vocals
Marko Tervonen – guitar
Marcus Sunesson – lead guitar
Mattias Rasmussen – bass
Mikael Norén – drums

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HORRENDOUS Release New Video for ‘Preterition Hymn’

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This month marks one year since Horrendous brought the metal realm to its knees in worship of Ontological Mysterium. After exploding from the underground in 2018 with the cultishly beloved Idol, last year, the Philadelphia death metal band were the toast of the genre’s critics.

Decibel, Metal Injection, BangerTV and Metal Hammer all listed Ontological Mysterium high atop their 2023 best-of lists, often right alongside the band’s recent tour mates Tomb Mold. The album also cracked the Billboard charts, climbing well inside the Top 10 of the Current Hard Music Albums. 

Today, Horrendous are celebrating the first anniversary of Ontological Mysterium with their first-ever music video. The album’s slow-burning triump “Preterition Hymn” now comes with a glorious film treatment that’s worthy of a Viking funeral.

“Our long awaited video debut is a symbolic journey through the lyrical themes of ‘Preterition Hymn'”, the band says. “It’s a psalm for the lowly and the damned, the Preterite and the passed over, sitting beneath the feet of the elect. Our downtrodden heroes are driven in chains by a mournful god to their final trial in this realm, sounding their last desperate cries in defiance of the fate bestowed upon them–and upon all of us. Is their sacrifice enough to win salvation? To rise in glorious flames? In communion with the spirit of the song, we endured the pain of icy November waters, risking life and limb to capture and offer up an authentic sacrifice in the name of the Preterite ones. Lift your voices along with our heroes that you may ascend before the tides rise again…”

Ontological Mysterium is available now through Season of Mist.

The video for “Preterition Hymn” was created by My Good Eye: Music Visuals

Full video credits

  • Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Post-Production FX: David Brodsky for My Good Eye: Music Visuals, http://www.mgenyc.com
  • Producer, 1st AD, Cinematographer: Allison Woest for My Good Eye: Music Visuals
  • 2nd AD, Grip: Robb Brown
  • Best Boy Electric: Lindsey Fehr
  • Production Assistant: Brandon Yeagley
  • Costuming and Stylist: Paulina Olivares
  • Location Managers: Ross Imbruglia, Joseph Imbruglia
  • Location Techs: Lee Hebelink, Todd Steinhouer
  • Starring: Nick Duchemin
  • Audio Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering: Damian Herring

Later this year, Horrendous are celebrating another anniversary when their second album celebrates its 10-year anniversary. In honor of Ecdysis, the band will play the entire album during a special set in front of their hometown faithful at Decibel‘s upcoming 20th Anniversary Show.

Horrendous 10th Anniversary Set of Ecdysis Live @ Decibel‘s 20th Anniversary Show w/ Autopsy + Immolation

August 31 – Philadelphia, PA @ Brooklyn Bowl [TICKETS]

“This will be a special day for us,” the band says. “Ecdysis was a significant milestone in our musical journey. Three of the album’s songs have never been performed live, and many others have not been played in years. We hope you’ll join us to celebrate – long live the Vermillion!” 

Tracklist:
1. The Blaze (02:00)
2. Chrysopoeia (The Archaeology of Dawn) (07:16)
3. Neon Leviathan (03:30)
4. Aurora Neoterica (01:56)
4. Preterition Hymn (03:58) [WATCH]
5. Cult of Shaad’oah (05:24) [WATCH]
6. Exeg(en)esis, (03:38)
7. Ontological Mysterium (04:44) [WATCH]
8. The Death Knell Ringeth (05:20)
Total run time: 37:44

“Surprises always come up during writing — spontaneous ideas pull you into new territory and enable the realization of novel possibilities that previously were inaccessible.”

Such are the words from Horrendous drummer Jamie Knox when discussing the creation of the band’s fifth full-length, the highly anticipated ‘Ontological Mysterium’. Knox’s quote also encapsulates Horrendous’s approach to extreme metal. Since 2009, the band has capably tapped into the inaccessible by providing a fresh, unconventional take on death metal that harnesses technical brilliance with elaborate, mind-melding melodies, frothy, spewing vocals and labyrinthine song structures. This combination has made each Horrendous long play a clinic in the gratifyingly unorthodox. The trend continues on Ontological Mysterium.

The follow-up to 2018’s Idol was recorded, mixed and mastered at Subterranean Watchtower Studios in Virginia, which doubles as the homestead of guitarist/vocalist Damian Herring. While the band (completed by guitarist/vocalist Matt Knox and bassist Alex Kulick) finished much of the songwriting for Ontological Mysterium in 2019, its recording was delayed by the 2020 global pandemic and various life events. Horrendous eventually finished recording in early 2022 and mastered the album before the start of 2023.

The album upholds Horrendous’s position as one of the underground’s best outside-of-the-box extreme metal bands. Having long abandoned concern whether people would appreciate their “uniqueness,” Horrendous has embraced its role as a band willing to veer far from death metal conventions, intentionally stretching and breaking norms. To wit, the band primarily views its music as filtered through a death metal lens. This may be Horrendous’s defining trait: By not accepting parameters, nothing is off-limits.

Lineup: 
Damian Herring – Guitar, Vocals
Matt Knox – Guitar, Vocals
Alex Kulick – Bass
Jamie Knox – Drums

Producer / Sound Engineer / Mixing / Mastering: Damian Herring at Subterranean Watchtower Studio, Arlington, VA, USA

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EPHIALTES Launch First Single ‘Homo Deus’ from Upcoming Debut Album

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Polish Blackend Death newcomers EPHIALTES have launched their first single ‘Homo Deus’, taken from the band’s debut album ‘Melas Oneiros’, coming out November 1st.

The name of the band derives from the Ancient Greek word “ephiáltēs (ἐφιάλτης)”, meaning “nightmare”,
which in turn derives from the “ephàllomai (ἐφάλλομαι)”, composed of two elements: “epí (επί)” (upon, on) plus “állomai (ἅλλομαι)” (assault, climb, uphill, jumping, jump) because, in reference to a popular belief, the nightmares were nicknamed “one who climbed over the body of the dormant”. Ephialtes. One who leaps upon.

The nightmare. The history of Ephialtes started over the course of the global pandemic. During that period the band’s driving force Przemysław Tomasz Olbryt alias Quazarre (also known from Devilish Impressions, Asgaard, ex-Crionics) had been hard at work on what would later turn out to be their debut album, ‘Melas Oneiros’.

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Lyrical content of “Melas Oneiros” deals with certain archetypes – characters and events which iconic and significant for humanity.

“Homo Deus” indirectly references a story akin the one we saw im Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – a creature created from body parts coming from numerous corpses, sewn back together and artificialy brought to life. Frankenstein Monster was powerful being and while being physically repulsive, he possessed remarkable sensibillity, intelligence and depth. He wanted to be loved and live with humans in peace but he was cast out as a freak, an outsider. Here we have a story not only about well know human desire to be as powerful as God himself and create anything on his image but also – or first and foremost – a warning tale about lack od acceptance for otherness, about reasons that drive societies all over the world to reject anything “different” and ostracize such units. No wonder that in the end, the creature unleashes his vengeful rampage on mankind. After all, isn’t it what we deserve?

Pre-order the album at https://orcd.co/melas-oneiros

Cover art: Łukasz Kotula – Logo: Christophe Szpajdel

The history of Ephialtes started over the course of the global pandemic. During that period the band’s 
driving force Przemysław Tomasz Olbryt alias Quazarre (also known from Devilish Impressions, 
Asgaard, ex-Crionics) had been hard at work on what would later turn to be their debut album, 
‘Melas Oneiros.

Track list
1. Ad Patres (intro)
2. To The Victims Of Sirens
3. In Her Embrace Again
4. The Void
5. Children Of Arachne
6. Homo Deus
7. The Blood Of The Gods
8. Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus

Line up
Przemysław Tomasz Olbryt (Quazarre) – vocals / guitars
Adam Niekrasz (Avernatus) – drums
Marek Tuskowski (Tzar) – bass
Marcus Edvardsson – synthesizers (guest studio appearance)

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