Combining angry and furious death metal and grindcore, I, Cursed is the brutal band of Eero Haula and Ville-Veikko Laaksonen, who are known from Atlases, Marto and Oceanwake, among others.
The “Blades” and Sorrower singles are part of the new “Death Holograms” EP to be released later on July 17th 2024. The upcoming EP is produced by I, Cursed and Jerkka Perälä of Soft Neon Audiovisual, whose handprint can be heard and seen in the mixing, mastering, cover art and lyric video for the “Death Holograms” EP. The release of the singles and the “Death Holograms” EP is handled in cooperation by Finnish record labels Inverse Records and Meara Music which is also an agency and event producer based in Ulvila.
The band comments Sorrower single: “Sorrower” is the second single from the forthcoming I, Cursed EP. Where the EP’s debut single “Blades” was pure roasting and brutalization, “Sorrower” is a more dynamic and pedestrian crushing death metal/grindcore jam whose desolation drives the mind to figuratively tear down houses. “Sorrower” is accompanied by a visualizer video for promotion. The “Sorrower” single is released by small label Meara Music in collaboration with Inverse Records.”
Irish rocker Mark Daly is thrilled to announce his fall tour in support of renowned guitarist Richie Kotzen. The seven-week run will launch September 13 at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, CA and conclude November 2, in Dallas, TX. The run includes a three-night stand at Iridium in New York City, October 10-12, as well as City Winery performances in St. Louis, Boston, Atlanta, and Nashville. See dates below.
“We are absolutely delighted to be embarking on yet another tour of the U.S.A. this September, with the legendary Ritchie Kotzen and his band,” says Daly. “Myself and the band could not be more excited to hit the road with one of our rock idols, and are so grateful to be able to play these incredible venues and to be part of such a huge tour.”
The tour announcement follows the release of Mark’s latest single, “Pieces,” a captivating duet with one of his favorite singers, Emily Armstrong of the band Dead Sara. The track is a soul-stirring blend of poignant lyrics and mesmerizing melodies, and is the second track to be released from Daly’s forthcoming album Devil’s Arms, due for release August 9 via One Opportunity Records.
“If you haven’t heard our latest release – “Pieces” featuring Emily Armstrong of L.A. rock band Dead Sara – yet, and are a fan of grunge and alternative rock, then you are missing out on what could be one of your favorite songs this year,” Mark says of the single. “Working with Emily was a dream come true, and hearing her spine-tingling voice on this track for the first time blew my mind. It’s one of my favorite songs that I have written, and I am so grateful for the incredible reaction we have received for this song since its release.”
“Pieces” is available now on all streaming platforms and has also been released as an official music video. Listen and watch here: https://hypeddit.com/markdaly/pieces
ark Daly with Richie Kotzen Fall 2024
9/13 @ The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, CA 9/14 @Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, CA 9/19 @ Goldfield Trading Post in Roseville, CA 9/20 @ Tower Theatre in Fresno, CA 9/21 @ Count’s Vamp’d in Las Vegas, NV 9/23 @ Metro Music Hall in Salt Lake City, UT 9/25 @ Black Sheep in Colorado Springs, CO 9/26 @ HQ Live in Denver, CO 9/27 @ Barnato in Omaha, NE 9/28 @ Knuckleheads Saloon in Kansas City, MO 9/30 @ City Winery in St. Louis, MO 10/2 @ The Blue Note in Harrison, OH 10/4 @ The Magic Bag in Ferndale, MI 10/5 @ Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, IL 10/7 @ Jergels in Warrendale, PA 10/8 @ Lorain Palace Theater in Lorain, OH 10/9 @ Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield, CT 10/10 @ Iridium in New York, NY 10/11 @ Iridium in New York, NY 10/12 @ Iridium in New York, NY 10/15 @ City Winery in Boston, MA 10/17 @ Tupelo Music Hall in Derry, NH 10/18 @ The Vault Music Hall in New Bedford, MA 10/19 @ Grand Opera House in Wilmington, DE 10/20 @ Suffolk Theatre in Riverhead, NY 10/22 @ Rams Head on Stage in Annapolis, MD 10/23 @ Sellersville Theatre in Sellersville, PA 10/24 @ Beacon Theatre in Hopewell, VA 10/25 @ Backseat Bar & Grill in Winchester, VA 10/29 @ City Winery in Atlanta, GA 10/30 @ City Winery in Nashville, TN 11/1 @ Haute Spot in Cedar Park, TX 11/2 @ Granada Theater in Dallas, TX
Mark’s next song and video release is “Better Off Alone” which will be available June 21 on all streaming and video platforms. “Out of all the songs on this album, I feel like ‘Better Off Alone’ will have the broadest appeal. The song touches on insecurities, imposter syndrome, and feeling like you’re messed up but knowing you can find your way out of the dark. So many of us have been there. I want people to know they’re not alone in those feelings and that they can find their way forward,” says Daly.
The fall tour in direct support of Richie Kotzen will be Daly’s second extended run of 2024, his first being a January block of dates alongside melodic rock supergroup Mr. Big that also included headlining shows of his own, including a marquee performance at the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY.
Hailing from Cork, Ireland, Daly is no stranger to American audiences, having toured extensively with acts including Candlebox, Queensrÿche and Geoff Tate.“I absolutely love everything about being on the road – meeting so many incredible people each night and getting lost in the music onstage, it’s pure magic,” says Daly.
Mark was first discovered while performing with his band The Voodoos in Spain. During one of their shows, music manager Brian Message (Radiohead, Nick Cave) was in the crowd and brought the band to London to record their first EP. An early highlight in Mark’s career was beating out more than 10,000 bands to earn a performance at the MTV EMA Awards with The Voodoos, launching their international touring career.
Mark Daly’s first venture as a solo artist hit No. 1 on the Scottish New Music Chart. Inspired by his son, Noah, the track “Your World” was written for an autism awareness charity.
Maryland guitarist Wes Anderson will release his new single “Heads Are Gonna Roll” on June 21st. The single featuring Skindred vocalist Benji Webbe, with founding Alien Ant Farm bassist Tye Zamora, and drummer Donald Spangler (Ballyhoo!) is being released in collaboration with THC MUSIC (Taproot, American Head Charge, Simon Says). “Heads” will be followed up in August with another new single, featuring Taproot vocalist/guitarist Stephen Richards.
View the teaser for “Heads Are Gonna Roll” here:
As former lead guitarist for Shanghai Superstars (2010 – 2012), Fiction 20 Down (2012 – 2015), Big Infinite (2015 – 2018 ), and now releasing music and performing as a solo artist, Wes Anderson has nearly 30 years as a touring and performing musician, building a reputation as a solo artist with collaborations with P-Nut (311), Jahred Gomes (Hed P.E.) and many more, spanning multiple genres and collaborators on each track, all of which start out with Wes and a guitar, and, through collaboration, take on a new life of their own.
Says Anderson, “’Heads Are Gonna Roll’ is another amazing opportunity, where I was able to enlist Benji from Skindred on vocals, Tye Zamora of Alien Ant Farm on bass, and Donald Spangler from Ballyhoo! on drums. I wrote the music and produced the track, a hybrid of punk, metal, and reggae vibes, just what you’d expect from the artists involved. Skindred is one of my all-time favorite bands, so to be able to collaborate with Benji is literally a dream come true!”
“Heads” marks the first new Hard Rock track for Anderson since 2021’s “Out The Way”, which featured vocals from (hed)pe vocalist Jahred Gomes. In addition to Metal, Funk, and Punk-infused Rock bangers, Wes is also a producer and multi-instrumentalist cranking out recent and upcoming hip-hop collaborations with The Kaleidoscope Kid, Kosha Dillz, MC Bravado, ¡Mayday!, and the incomparable Madalen Duke.
With nearly 30,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and several independent single, EP, and LP releases charting on iTunes, national touring, major endorsements from companies like Dean Markley Strings and Paul Reed Smith, and a Maryland Breakout Artist of the Year award, it is clear Wes has the talent, drive, and vision to take his music to the masses.
In the shadow-clad heart of a forsaken world, Seth smolder with rebellion against the oppressive night. The historic French black metal band are issuing a new declaration of war with their upcoming eighth album, La France des maudits.
Today, Seth are releasing the third single from La France des maudits. “Insurrection” is a hymn of the damned that heralds the dawn of a new era, where the chains of servitude are shattered and the throbbing heart of revolution is laid bare.
“Insurrection” is a blackened tome carved from the anguished wrath of exile. On their new single, Seth speak for pariahs, the decried and those heretics who are cast out from the grace of a callous heaven. It’s an ode to liberty, equality and truth. The frenetic riffs are a defiant thrust against the overseer, each crashing cymbal a challenge to the throne of an absent deity.
“Le Diable st avec nous” St. Vincent cries, cutting through the treacherous but triumphant melodies with the same cold and unforgiving reserve as the steel that once severed crowns.
Cover Art by Andy Julia
Tracklist 1. Paris des Maléfices (5:09) 2. Et Que Vive le Diable ! (5:35) [WATCH] 3. La Destruction des Reliques (5:51) 4. Dans le Cœur un Poignard (5:30) [WATCH] 5. Marianne (2:59) 6. Ivre du Sang des Saints (5:37) 7. Insurrection (7:33) [WATCH] 8. Le Vin du Condamné (8:06) 9. Initials B.B. (Serge Gainsbourg Cover) (Bonus Track) (3:49) Total runtime: 46:22
In the solemn shadows of a lyrically resurrected Paris, where the whispers of revolution still haunt the cobblestones and the phantom caress of the guillotine’s blade lingers in the air, stands a band – not merely of musicians, but of modern Marats, Robespierres in leather and lace, anointed with the spirit of insurrection. SETH, the harbingers of a dark yet fervidly awaited dawn, are poised once more to unleash a tempest upon the sanctified silence of the contemporary music scene with their newest auditory uprising, La France des Maudits.
The history of black metal formation SETH and Season of Mist spans back to the early days of the French metal scene. The band’s debut Les Blessures de L’Ame (1998) was one of the first releases on the label. This album is now regarded as a cornerstone in French black metal, pioneering the usage of their native tongue on a black metal record.
The release of Les Blessures de L’Ame quickly gained international attention and SETH built a solid fanbase. The French blasphemers signed a two-release deal with Osmose Productions and participated on the MAYHEM cult tribute album Originators of the Northern Darkness alongside IMMORTAL and BEHEMOTH. The second full-length The Excellence came out in 2000 and featured a contribution from none other than Fenriz (DARKTHRONE), who wrote the lyrics for the song Let Me Be The Salt In Your Wound.
Shortly after, the group recorded their third album Divine-X (2002) at the Excess Studios in Rotterdam (EPICA, AFTER FOREVER, SINISTER). This record demonstrated the ability of the band to mix gloomy and violent atmospheres and received extensive coverage from the international metal press at the time.
Returning to the Netherlands to record the fourth album Era-Decay (2004), two new members joined the ranks of SETH: vocalist Black Messiah and guitarist Cyriex. Afterwards, the band was invited to play at the prestigious Inferno festival in Norway in 2005.
A long hiatus followed, until the band returned in 2011 to play an exclusive show in Germany with the German cult act BETHLEHEM. The band re-joined the ranks of Season of Mist, eventually releasing The Howling Spirit (2013) and embarking on a European tour with PESTILENCE. Several appearances at major festivals followed, including Hellfest and Graspop Metal Meeting, concluded by a Canadian headliner tour with new vocalist Saint Vincent (BLACKLODGE).
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Les Blessures de L’Ame in 2018, SETH exclusively performed the entire album at festivals in Switzerland, Canada (Messe de Morts) and Belgium (Thronefest). The French label Les Acteurs de l’Ombre productions released a live recording of these shows, called 20 ans de Blasphème. The band’s new line-up features members of LOUDBLAST, ARKHON INFAUSTUS and MELTED SPACE.
In the twilight year of 2021, within Paris’ shadow-ridden crypt, Studio Sainte Marthe, an album was birthed from SETH‘s tumultuous revelation, christened, La Morsure du Christ. Earning plaudits of wonder, it was no mere collection of hymns, but a solitary harbinger of deconstruction, a cataclysm of unseen proportions. Inspiration seeped from Notre-Dame de Paris—her skeletal frame ablaze in a 2019’s firestorm—an emblem of decaying faith for a godforsaken era. As heavy as the iron heart of a guillotine, La Morsure du Christ echoed through the chambers of 2021, reigning supreme in a multitude of international & French metal charts, as well as its inclusion on premier streaming platform playlists. Bold symphonies interwoven with razor-sharp lyricism and a sophisticated conceptual resonance that dared to envision black metal through a revolutionary lens.
Rooted deeply in the soil that once drank deeply of royal and commoner blood alike during the tumultuous fervour of the French Revolution, SETH presents their latest opus – a black metal gospel according to the damned and the outcast. An intricate tapestry of shadows and defiance emerges from the darkness of history’s recesses, swirling with the mists of apocalyptic visions and the ashes of fallen angels. La France des Maudits is a declaration of war, a call to arms for the souls still smouldering beneath the veneer of a world too long gripped in the cold hands of a moribund orthodoxy.
With the fractured bones of dead gods beneath their boots, SETH voyages through the forbidden and the occult, tracing the lines of ancient prophecies and the decadent whispers of La Grande Catin Écarlate, the scarlet woman of the apocalypse. Their songs, from Paris des Maléfices to Insurrection, resonate with the echoes of a Paris besieged not by armies, but by souls clamouring for liberation – a city where each stone tells a tale of defiance, where every shadow harbours the spirit of revolt.
Lyrically, La France des Maudits is dripping with the wine of condemned men and the blood of saints, narrating the epic saga of rebellion from the ashes of a fallen Notre-Dame. This is not the Paris of light, but of enlightening darkness, where the façades of grandeur crumble to reveal the raw flesh of true humanity, writhing in its eternal struggle against divine oppression. Here, in the very heart of darkness, SETH finds its muse among the cacophony of broken chains and shattered dogmas.Prepare to march beneath the banner unfurled by SETH, in the grand tradition of those unyielding souls who once stormed the Bastille and dared to dream of a world remade. La France des Maudits beckons – not to the gallows, but to glory.
Line-up Saint Vincent – Vocals (Blacklodge) Heimoth – Guitar (Sinsaenum) Drakhian – Guitar (ex-Loudblast, Griffar) Pierre Le Pape – Keys (Melted Space) EsX – Bass (Arkhon Infaustus, ex-Merrimack) Alsvid – Drums (ex-Enthroned, ex-Ad Patres)
Recording Studio Sainte Marthe Studio
Production Credits Mixed, produced & mastered by Francis Caste
Italian tech-death ensemble HOUR OF PENANCE premieres lyric video for the closing track off the band’s new album “Devotion”, released in April on Agonia Records. The title of the song is “Spiralling Into Decline”.
“The next song we picked for this video is «Spiralling into Decline», because of both the brutality of the song and the themes of the lyrics seemed appropriate for this moment in history when war and violence are bringing us closer to a world conflict,” comments HOUR OF PENANCE. “This song describes the callousness of world leaders and how they willfully lead people into a spiral of destruction just to set their plans in motion. And because of their scientifically planned lies and disinformation, we willfully throw ourselves into this spiral, too.”
The new album “Devotion” features long-standing members Giulio Moschini (guitars), Paolo Pieri (vocals & guitars) and Marco Mastrobuono (bass), alongside new drummer, Giacomo Torti. Recordings took place at Bloom Studio and Kick Studio in Italy, with mixing and mastering handled by Hertz Studio (Vader, Decapitated, Behemoth) in Poland. New band photos were shot by Massimiliano Rocchi.
On “Devotion”, the band reflects: “This album is is our anthem to the futility of war, with no light at the end of the tunnel.T he main theme of the album is the misguided devotion which we, the people, give to our leaders, who mercilessly send us to our deaths under the pretense of democracy; while being guided only by imperialist ambitions and greed. The faceless crowd of the artwork stands in worship of these deformed statues of false deities. Musically, the album builds on the 20-year-old, fast-paced trademark style of Hour of Penance, and enhances it with more technicality and catchiness, interspersed with epic landscapes.”
Tracklisting: 1. Devotion for Tyranny 2. Parasitic Chain of Command 3. Birthright Abolished 4. Retaliate 5. Breathe the Dust of their Dead 6. The Morality of Warfare 7. Severance 8. The Ravenous Heralds 9. A Desert Called Peace 10. Spiralling into Decline
HOUR OF PENANCE is a blackened technical & brutal death metal outfit formed in 1999, widely considered as one of the most intense and talented representatives of the genre to emerge from Italy. The band needed three albums to surpass its local character and transform humble beginnings into international following, which triggered massive touring across Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Asia, with heavyweights such as Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, Devildriver, Deicide, Nile or Behemoth. The band has been consistent in crafting their sonic identity through a complex, crushing and surgical brand of death metal. Whilst tailored for hyper speeds and untamed brutality, the group doesn’t shy away from perceptive social metaphors in their dark imaginary and lyrics.
Upcoming shows: 30/10/2024: Barcelona – Sala Upload, ES 31/10/2024: Zaragoza – Sala Utopia, ES 01/11/2024: Portugalete – Estudios Groove. ES 02/11/2024: Oviedo – Sala Gong Galaxy, ES 03/11/2024: Madrid – Sala Silikona, ES 13/12/2024: Eindhoven Metal Meeting, NL
Line-up: Giulio Moschini – guitars Paolo Pieri – guitars and vocals Marco Mastrobuono – bass Giacomo Torti – drums
Following the release of his critically acclaimed new album Invocation, slide guitar virtuoso Troy Redfern embarks on an 11-date UK tour from Monday June 17th.
The UK tour will see Troy perform Invocation in it’s entirety, plus tracks from his previous albums that have never been played before. Tickets are available from www.troyredfern.com.
Troy has proved time and time again that his cup of inspiration is not only full, but runneth over, writing and release albums at an unprecedented pace and judging by the strength of his latest album Invocation, he has certainly set the bar.
Over the course of last two albums The Fire Cosmic (2021) and Wings of Salvation (2022) Troy found his true voice stylistically in terms of writing and playing. On Invocation he has created a collection of catchy songs that defines him as a unique guitarist and singer songwriter.
Tour poster illustration by Troy Redfern
Presented by Dusty Pop, Shock City, Surprise You’re Dead, NX Live and Friends by Arrangement with On Point Touring
TROY REDFERN “INVOCATION” JUNE 2024 HEADLINE UK TOUR TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM WWW.TROYREDFERN.COM
JUNE 2024
Monday 17 June – The Treehouse, Frome Tuesday 18 June – Retro, Manchester Wednesday 19 June – Classic Grand, Glasgow Thursday 20 June, Bannerman’s Edinburgh Friday 21 June, The Live Rooms, Chester Saturday 22 June – Asylum 2, Birmingham Sunday 23 June – Boiler Room, Guildford Monday 24 June – The Junction, Cambridge Sunday 25 June, The Joiners, Southampton Monday 26 June – New Cross Inn, London Tuesday 27 June – The Forum, Tunbridge Wells
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
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