ACID MANTRA Sign with Wanikiya Record, Debut Album “Cold Stare” Out Now

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Wanikiya Record is happy to announce the entry of ACID MANTRA, their debut album “Cold Stare” available now on all streaming platforms!

ACID MANTRA were formed in February 2021 from an idea by Marcello Monti (singer, actor, radio and television speaker). Voice to teach vocal teacher and student of harmonic and extreme singing, he is a male interpreter of the Rock opera “Oltre l ‘ Abisso”, lead voice in the Indhastria (alternative rock) and Hell Flames (AC/DC tribute band) projects, multi-instrumentalist and voice of Acid Mantra. Ascari Enrico (former Metal Core guitar Browbeat, Blowin, Wasting Disease, Stonedrift solo guitar, guitar and bass in the Doom project Stoner Mantra Acid Mantra). Both enjoying Doom Stoner Metal, they quickly compose some songs exchanging files over the internet given the covid period. In the following month Pietro Vecchi joins the drums (drummer of Indhastria “alternative rock”).

More information at https://www.facebook.com/acid.mantra.71

ANCIENT SETTLERS Release New Single + Animated Sci-Fi Short Film ‘Library of Tears’

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‘Library of Tears’  is the latest single from international modern melodic death metal outfit ANCIENT SETTLERS, out now on all digital platforms via Crusader Records, and was produced by the legendary Fredrik Nordstrom. ‘Library of Tears’ is accompanied by a stunning animated sci-fi short film.

Listen/Buy ‘Library of Tears’ HERE

Ancient Settlers was founded in 2020 by Carlos Chiesa-Estomba & Herman Riera former Haboryn), Rene González (former Aesthesis), Emmy Reyes (Blackbeer, former Gamalyel), and Antony Hämäläinen (Meridian Dawn, former – Nightrage & Armageddon), a group of musicians with more than fifteen-years of experience in the European and American metal circuit.  
 
‘Library of Tears’ offers a perspective about the dark side of our society and the decadence of our species. Sonically, the track features powerful guitar riffs, heavy guitar solos, blunt drums, rumbling bass guitar and deep vocals, surrounded by a spiritual synths & keyboards atmosphere.

The band started their journey with the intention to explore the frontiers of modern melodic death metal, including catchy guitar riffs, the use of synths & keyboards, and a variety of different sounds and rhythms, trying to develop their own music personality.  

From a lyrical point, the band gets inspired by the recent tragedies that affect the earth and human race. They try to spread their message over all those who want to listen.   

Despite this, the band needed to modify their starting plans, due to the pandemic outbreak. They pushed ahead and in January of 2021, the band released their first digital single ‘Diamond Eyes’, along-side a limited edition 7″ vinyl. The following February, the band released their debut album Autumnus. Both were recorded in Portugal, France, Spain and the USA, and requested the service of Daniel Cardoso (Anathema, Anneke Van Grisbergen) to mix & master the album, as well as Gus “Perkele” Sazes (Angra, Kamelot, Gus G, Firewind, Arch Enemy) to design the artworks. 

In April 2021, Miguel Herrera joined the band as a full-time bass player. The band started to develop a live-session tour, including venues throughout Portugal, France and Spain.  

Ancient Settlers have just signed to Crusader Records to release their killer 10 – song album, produced by worldwide Grammy awarded Fredrik Nordstrom. 

SWALLOW THE SUN Announce European Tour for Winter 2022

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SWALLOW THE SUN are finally hitting the road again. After being forced to not play live shows due to the pandemic for such a long time, the Finnish doom death metal spearhead is happy and proud to announce a European headline tour in Winter 2022 with special guest AVATARIUM.

Starting on January 24th, the band grasps the opportunity to celebrate their latest release of the full-length studio album ‘Moonflowers’ – which will be released on November 19th 2021 – with 35 shows through 15 countries across Europe ending on February 27th.

To check out the latest single ‘Woven Into Sorrow’ you can watch the video HERE: https://youtu.be/XKq4iECc8EA

SWALLOW THE SUN live:

24.01. Backstage (Halle), München, DE
25.01. Orto Bar, Ljubljana, SLO
26.01. Legend Club, Milano, IT
27.01. Secret Place, Montpellier, FR
28.01. Bóveda, Barcelone, ES
29.01. Sala, Caracol, Madrid, ES
30.01. Le Rex, Toulouse, FR
31.01. CCO Villeurbanne, Lyon, FR
01.02. Backstage, Paris, FR
02.02. Essigfabrik, Köln, DE
03.02. Matrix, Bochum, DE
04.02. Pumpehuset, Copenhagen, DK
05.02. Nalen, Stockholm, SE
06.02. Parkteatret, Oslo, NO
07.02. Valand, Götebord, SE
08.02. Headcrash, Hamburg, DE
09.02. UT Connewitz, Leipzig, DE
10.02. Schüür, Luzern, CH
11.02. Caves Du Manoir, Martigny, CH
12.02. Undertown, Meyrin, CH
13.02. Le Ferrailleur, Nantes, FR
14.02. Underworld, London, UK
15.02. Slay, Glasgow, UK
16.02. Limelight 2, Belfast, UK
17.02. Voodoo Lounge, Dublin, IRE
18.02. The Bread Shed, Manchester, UK
19.02. Het Entrepot, Bruges, BE
20.02. Le Grillen, Colmar, FR
21.02. Universum, Stuttgart, DE
22.02. Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg, DE
23.02. Doornroosje, Nijmegen, NL
24.02. Nova Chmelnice, Prag, CZ
25.02. Drizzly Grizzly, Gdansk, PL
26.02. Proxima, Warsaw, PL
27.02. Hole44, Berlin, DE

DOCKER’S GUILD Announce Crowdfunding for Upcoming Album

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Prog metal space opera DOCKER’S GUILD is very proud to announce the imminent launch of its crowdfunding campaign for its new upcoming album “The Mystic Technocracy – Season 2: The Age of Entropy“. “Season 2” continues the project storyline with a much darker tone and with the help of eighteen special guests, including Helly, Anna Portalupi, Joel Hoekstra, Sascha Paeth, Nita Strauss, Amanda Somerville, Anneke Van Giersbergen and many more. Thirteen videos will also be released, as well as a limited edition illustrated book, for a complete multimedia experience The campaign will start on October 1. All the details  the dates, the exclusives and the link to help finance the album will be revealed on October 1. 2022 will mark  the 10th year anniversary of the release of Docker’s Guild’s acclaimed debut album “The Mystic Technocracy – Season 1: The Age of Ignorance” and the project is very excited to celebrate the occasion with the release of this new fantastic album. Stay tuned for the October 1 announcement!

The Mystic Technocracy – Season 2: The Age of Entropy

  1. Trailer Terminus
  2. Episode 2.1 K475 W.A.M. Episodes 2.2-2.4 Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
  3. a. Nocturne
  4. b. Rings
  5. c. Lucy
  6. Episode 2.5 Die Today
  7. Episodes 2.6-2.8 Machine Messiah a. Part I b. Part II c. Part III
  8. Episode 2.9 Le Chemin
  9. Episode 2.10 Atlantis Town
  10. Episode 2.11 The Arrow
  11. Episode 2.12 Crusades Episodes 2.13-2.17 Into the Dahr Cages
  12. a. The King in Purple
  13. b. Cassilda’s Song
  14. c. Urbs Aeterna
  15. d. Pornocracy (Saeculum Obscurum)
  16. e. The Head

PERFORMED BY
Helly: drums [tracks 1 – 7, 9, 11, 13 – 18]
Stefano Aglì: drums [tracks 8, 10]
Anna Portalupi: bass [tracks 17 – 18]
Luca Pisu: bass [tracks 1 – 2, 7, 11]
Roby Salvai: bass [tracks 8 – 9, 13 – 16]
Giorgio Novarino: bass [crowdfunding bonus track]
Joel Hoekstra: guitar solo 4 [track 2], guitars [tracks 13 – 16]
Sascha Paeth: guitars [tracks 5, 10]
Nita Strauss: guitars [tracks 17 – 18]
Mio Jäger: guitars [tracks 1 – 2, 6, 11]
Toni Urzì: 12-string guitar [track 4, crowdfunding bonus track], guitars [tracks 7 – 9]
Luigi Iamundo: guitars [crowdfunding bonus track]
Douglas R. Docker: keyboards [all tracks], 4- and 12-string bass [tracks 5 – 6, 10], lead and backing vocals [tracks 4 – 5, 8 – 10, 12 – 18], backing vocals [tracks 6 – 7, 11] extreme vocals [track 6], spoken voice [tracks 1, 12, 16]
Anneke Van Giersbergen: lead vocals [tracks 13 – 14, 16]
Amanda Somerville: lead vocals [tracks 14 – 16]
Elizabeth Andrews: extreme vocals [tracks 13 – 14, 16]
Valentina Procopio: lead vocals [track 6, 10, 16], backing vocals [tracks 8, 17 – 18]
Anna Petracca: lead vocals [tracks 10, 12, 16], lead and backing vocals [tracks 7]
Serena Moine: operatic vocals [tracks 2, 10, 12, 16]

CREDITS
Released by [coming soon]
Produced by Douglas R. Docker
Mixed by Neil Kernon at The John and Ollie Music Facility, London, UK
Mastered by [coming soon]
Artwork and booklet design by Carl-André Beckston

Learn more about the album ▶ https://www.dockersguild.com/the-mystic-technocracy-season-2-the-age-of-entropy

HEILUNG Announce Signature Mead And Beer

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Enigmatic world music outfit HEILUNG are proud to announce their personally created, limited edition mead and beer! The specially developed signature beverages, which were created in collaboration with mead developer Mjødgård and beer brewery Nevel, are now available HERE.

HEILUNG comments:
“It´s feasting time! We wish you all a pleasant autumn equinox, the time where we reap what we have sown and enjoy the bounty of the harvest. This year, we have a special sort of harvest to share with you: Our very first batch of our very own ALU and MJØDR. We have always liked the idea of creating a beer and a mead, and thanks to our dear collaborators in Doomstar Bookings it all got set in motion this year. The choice of breweries landed on one of the oldest Danish mead breweries Mjødgård and the well renowned Dutch beer brewers Nevel Wild Ales. Please note: This is by no means a cheap, mass-produced product with a band logo on top, this is something we have been developing after our own taste for quite some time, and pored all our love into, like with everything we do. Skåååååål!“

Doomstar Bookings comments on the collaboration:
“Doomstar Bookings is utterly proud to unveil a project that combines two of our passions; music and tasty thirst quenchers! Upon touring together late 2019 with Heilung, the idea was put forward to create a Heilung beer. That idea started a life of its own and resulted in two beautiful products, the Heilung beer named Alu and the Heilung mead named Mjøðr, respectively created by the Dutch (award winning) artisanal ale expert Nevel and the renowned Danish meadery Mjødgård Bryggeri. Both have created an excellent alcoholic beverage that totally fits the artist’s flavour desires and their historical image. A limited amount of 3500 75CL bottles of this herbalized saison tripel beer and 1100 70CL bottles of the herbalized honey wine will be released to the world this autumn equinox through our partners at Spirits for Rock, we hope you can get spiritual after indulging in this amplified tastery!“

Mead developer Mjødgård comments:
“Mjødgård develops mead from passion. We look back in time for inspiration, and we want to show that mead is modern and, as then, still a luxurious drink. Making Heilung mead with the band’s historical and natural inspiration are completely in line with Mjødgård. To combine the essence of Heilung with our modern mead we had to use Meadow Sweet as the main spice, with its roots dating back to the Bronze Age, combined with hemp, with its thousands of years of history. Nature is our greatest source why our ingredients are all local. We want to support the preservation of biodiversity. We are therefore really proud to present a mead that builds a bridge between the world of the past and the present.“

Beer developer Nevel comments:
“Yup, that’s right! We were asked to brew for a neofolk band! Doomstar Bookings approached us, asking whether we wanted to make a traditional Scandinavian beer for Heilung, a band known for reviving traditional Scandinavian music. We could not say ‘no’ to that. We are very honoured to work together with these amazing artists and we are quite proud of the result. Alu was meant to be a crowd pleaser and we knew the band enjoyed drinking Belgian classics. They opted us to work with historical herbs and ingredients. For this beer, we used a traditional Scandinavian blend of herbs (with a.o. wild bog myrtle and meadowsweet), we added caramelized honey of beekeeper Stevns and we used a traditional Belgian Saison yeast. This boils down to a floral, thirst quencing, crushable beer. This beer is different to what you are used to, especially as this is a first time for us not to use our own house culture. We wanted to make more space for Scandinavian history.“

In celebration of the collaboration, Season of Mist & HEILUNG created special and extremely limited hand-made ‘mead cups’, which are available in three different colours. These cups are available via the shop HERE.

Following an extremely successful first ever tour of North America, in which every venue sold out, HEILUNG are returning to the states for one spectacular evening! The Danish formation will be bringing their mesmerizing ritual to the historic, century-old Red Rocks Amphitheater in Denver, CO on October 5, 2021. Tickets for the 2020 show will be honored at the new date. For every ticket sold, One Tree Planted will plant a tree in Colorado. You can purchase tickets HERE.

HEILUNG live:
10/05/2021: Denver, CO (USA) @ Red Rocks Amphitheater [TICKETS]

SHOTGUN FACELIFT Reveal New ‘Suicide Eyes’ Music Video & Single

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Grand Forks, ND (USA) – melodic groove-metal band SHOTGUN FACELIFT have revealed a new music video for their new single and metal ballad entitled “Suicide Eyes“. The music video was directed by Kevin Ackley from Chamber Six Media. Watch it right now at this location.

“Suicide Eyes” is the second single from the band’s second full-length album Dakota Blood Stampede which was produced by Tyler Pilot (Over You, Body By Torture, Anomic) at Red Dot Recording. The album is scheduled for a worldwide release on December 17, 2021 via Eclipse Records. Pre-order or pre-save the album here.

“Everyone in this band struggles with mental illness, depression and addiction. It’s dark inside, and we don’t back away from ourselves,” says guitarist Damian Goulet. “With this video, we simply wanted a space to purge our minds. If anyone can relate to the song, the lyrics, or any piece of the video, you’re not alone. Know that life is indeed worth living!” Drummer Jody Smith adds, “That poor guy with the makeup… he was entirely blind with that makeup on. He couldn’t see anything at all. It took almost five hours for the makeup specialist to put on his face, and then he couldn’t see for the entire day. Our director Kevin had to shout the movements at him, and he just followed it from listening. It was eerie to watch because that actor lost himself in that role so completely.”

Suicide is an important public health issue. For more information, please visit the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline website at https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Dakota Blood Stampede by Shotgun Facelift is an exhilarating album. It was recorded with the band’s live energy in mind, and sought to capture it. As a result, this album is as real as it gets. The band tracked every song playing together, all at once. When someone messed up, everyone had to sit in on a do-over. It was exhausting for the band and their producer Tyler Pilot, but the proof comes through in the recording. The energy there is unmistakable, but more important is the deep and personal nature of the songs on the album… With the first single “Bury Me” the band fires back at the conservative culture in their home state of North Dakota. With so many in the local scene praying for the band’s demise and even wishing actual harm upon the band members for being in a heavy metal band, the song shows their resistance in being able to stand up against them, embrace their hatred, and use it to become stronger. “Suicide Eyes“, is about the eyes of addiction, abuse, and despair. The band takes mental illness very seriously, and they write about it a lot in a non-exploitative manner because every band member suffers from some form of it deeply. “5 Dollar Bastard” is another song which is deeply personal to the band, especially vocalist John Huber. Many years ago, he had a loved one hand him a check for what he thought John was worth, valuing him at just five dollars. He never forgot that moment, how it made him feel to realize what this person really thought of him, and he wrote the lyrics for this song as a statement of conviction to make that individual choke upon that five dollar debt. If there ever was an album where a band “lets it all hang out” while confronting their demons, Dakota Blood Stampede is it!