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BRYMIR Unveil Performance Music Video for ‘Seeds Of Downfall’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on September 7, 2023

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Melodic death metal outfit BRYMIR have released a new performance music video set to their bludgeoning track, “Seeds Of Downfall”, cut from the band’s stunning fourth full-length, Voices In The Sky, released via Napalm Records one year ago in August 2022! With more than a million Spotify streams on their biggest hits, over 100k YouTube views on their most popular music videos and a European tour with Finntroll and SKALMÖLD under their belts, BRYMIR are at the top of the Finnish melodic death metal scene. Together with their peers in WOLFHEART and BEFORE THE DAWN, the five-piece is playing at legendary Tavastia Club in their hometown of Helsinki this autumn, before joining Battle Beast on tour, kicking off November 22 in Haarlem, NL.

“Seeds Of Downfall” is the most aggressive and gloomy track on Voices In The Sky, and it doesn’t lack anything in majestic arrangements – merging with heroic choirs, it represents the technical brilliance of the unit at its best. Check out the captivating official performance video below!

Viktor Gullichsen on “Seeds Of Downfall”:
“In honor of the first anniversary of our latest album, we present you with a music video for the song ‘Seeds of Downfall’. It’s a live video shot at the release show of Voices in the Sky at Tavastia, Helsinki. (when I still had some hair left on my head). Tavastia is one of our all-time favorite venues and watching this brings back many sweet memories from that exciting time we when finally got to show our new stuff to the world. Let’s wish our album a happy birthday and blast the heck out of our new video!”

BRYMIR live 2023:
w/ Wolfheart & Before The Dawn
22.09.2023 FI – Tavastia / Helsinki
23.09.2023 FI – Pakkahuone / Tampere

w/ Battle Beast
22.11.2023 NL – Patronaat / Harlem
23.11.2023 BE – Zappa Club / Antwerpen
25.11.2023 GB – Electric Brixton / London
26.11.2023 GB – The Fleece / Bristol – SOLD OUT
28.11.2023 GB – Academy 2 / Manchester
29.11.2023 GB – Garage / Glasgow
01.12.2023 GB – Asylum / Birmingham

Viktor Gullichsen adds:
”It’s always a pleasure to join our brothers from Battle Beast on tour and this time even more, as we finally get to bring our show to Great Britain for the first time. Our guitarist Joona plays in both bands, so don’t miss these special nights with him on double-duty!”

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Walking the line between melodic death metal and traditional genres like folk and classical music BRYMIR continuously pioneer the limits of the genre, dashing ahead with their notorious sound. Mixing endless riffs, with catchy choruses, blistering solos and a flawless production, the unit creates skillful soundscapes of pure epicness.

Voices In The Sky track listing:
1. Voices in the Sky
2. Forged in War
3. Fly with Me
4. Herald of Aegir
5. Rift Between Us
6. Landfall
7. Borderland
8. Far from Home
9. Seeds of Downfall
10. All as One
11. Diabolis Interium (Bonus)

BRYMIR are:
Viktor Gullichsen – Vocals
Joona Björkroth – Guitars, Backing Vocals
Sean Haslam – Guitars
Jarkko Niemi – Bass, Backing vocals
Patrik Fält – Drums

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GYPSY PISTOLEROS to Unleash New Album “Duende A Go Go Loco!” on November 3rd

Posted by tarjavirmakari on September 6, 2023

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GYPSY PISTOLEROS release new album ‘Duende A Go Go Loco!’ on 3rd November, out via Earache. Singles ‘Ballad Of Tommy Shelby‘, ‘What’s It Like To Be A Girl?’ and ‘Come On Eileen‘ are out now.

Preorder here: https://webstore.earache.com/A-Z/g/gypsy-pistoleros

New album ‘Duende A Go Go Loco!‘ is going to be hailed as the band’s masterpiece; an album that brings together all facets of this unique mongrel offspring of fiery flamenco passion and gritty gutter glam Punk.

The Gypsy Pistoleros defy the rules, born roaming somewhere between Zaragoza and Worcester, brought into the world to a soundtrack stack-heeled anthems of sleazy ’70s Glam. The songs span madly in the best rock ‘n’ roll tradition with big hooks, attitude, and sleaze. Yet those flamenco breaks got into your head and refused to leave – this hybrid rocks.

Tracklisting:
1 Duende A Go Go Loco!
2 I Got it all
3 Revolution
4 What’s it like to be a Girl?
5 The Ballad of Tommy Shelby
6 Like Tears in the Rain
7 Thrill Kill Killer Club
8 Maybe Tomorrow
9 I’ll Remember You
10 Come on Eileen

The new album ‘Duende A Go Go Loco! has been recorded, mixed and produced by fast-rising legend Dave Draper (The Wildhearts, Nickelback, Kerbdog, Terrorvision, The Professionals) at The Old Cider Press Studios, Pershore.

Live shows:
8th September – The Pub, Lancaster
9th September – Bannermans, Edinburgh
10th September – Ivory Blacks, Glasgow
29th September – Bears Bar, Bournemouth
30th September – The Apple & Parrot, Torquay
7th October – Quarantune Rocks Festival (Headliner), The Vic, Coalville
21st October – The Dragonfllii, Pontypool, Wales
27th October – St Swithuns Church (Pre-Album Launch Party), Worcester
28th October – Sharkfest Festival, Cannock
3rd November – Hard Rock Hell Festival 2023 Album Launch show
4th November – Hard Rock Hell Festival 2023 (Main Stage)
18th November – The Ainsdale Cricket Club, Southport
25th November – Dementia Aware Festival, HMV Coventry
3rd December – Planet Rockstock, Trecco Bay, Wales
2024
Saturday 9th March – HARD ROCK HELL AOR X FESTIVAL, Great Yarmouth

The Gypsy Pistoleros have always had a reputation for danger and played five Rocklahoma festivals 2007-11, in Oklahoma, USA , where they appeared alongside Motley Crue, Guns n Roses, Poison, ZZ top, Twisted sister, Faster Pussycat, Vain, Papa Roach, Whitesnake, Skid Row, Black Label Society. Normally closing each night!

They have toured extensively, playing with the likes of L.A. Guns, Faster Pussycat, Adler’s Appetite, UFO, Motorhead, Ratt, Dogs D’amour, Dirty Penny, Bang tango, Wrathchild, Vains Of Jenna, Twisted Sister, Poison, Vince Neil, Bang Tango, Skid Row, Slaughter, Faster Pussycat, Dokken and ZZ Top.

GYPSY PISTOLEROS have burst back onto the Rock scene, they have reinvented themselves, bringing Flamenco Punk Glam Rock n Roll to the masses. Their new album ‘Duende a Go Go Loco!’ captures an edgier, punkier and heavier side of Gypsy Pistoleros, whilst retaining the Flamenco Rumba heart and fully embracing their fiery flamenco/rumba passion, staying true to their distinctive crossover of punk rock ‘n’ roll leanings! “Gypsy Pistoleros may be best described as being the ideal house band for the fictitious Titty Twister bar of Rodriguez’s from Dusk Til Dawn. Between the nods to Morricone’s tense, tumbleweed atmospheres and the Gypsy Kings’ manic Mediterranean energy, a New York Dolls raw glam spark and a surplus of prime G ‘n’ R attitude!” Planet Mosh

“Gypsy Pistoleros are a thrill-a-minute collection of melodic eye-patch swagger that smells of exotic spices and forbidden concubines. The Gypsy Pistoleros sound like Hanoi Rocks, if Hanoi Rocks were sultans and snake charmers” – Sleaze grinder”
Classic Rock Magazine

“This, actually, is as good as sleaze ever got in the last decade. Gypsy Pistoleros was, and still are, a breath of fresh air. You will never hear another band like this. They are the greatest flamenco punk glam band ever. And that’s just a fact. If you don’t believe me, listen to this.” Maximum Volume Music

GYPSY PISTOLEROS are “The World’s Greatest Flamenco Punk Glam Rock band Ever!”

Gypsy Lee Pistolero – Vox
Shane Pistolero Sparkz – Guitars
Kerry Pistolero White – Bass
Crag Pistolero Shape – Drums

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SHYLMAGOGHNAR Reveals Album Details & Music Video for First Single ‘Follow The River’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on September 6, 2023

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Atmospheric black metal act SHYLMAGOGHNAR has announced its third studio album, titled Convergence, for a release on November 10, 2023 through Napalm Records! A music video for the first album single, “Follow The River”, is now premiering below.

What started out as a duo back in 2004 has turned into a one-man-band, yet, the upcoming new album sees SHYLMAGOGHNAR returning heavier and stronger than before. SHYLMAGOGHNAR is still a home produced project to this day, run by multi-instrumentalist and founding band member Nimblkorg. Convergence picks up right where both previous albums left off, and is intended as the end installment of a trilogy-in-spirit. While its predecessors, the much acclaimed Emergence (2014) and Transience (2018), invited the listener on a journey through human existence, time and space, Convergence marks the inward journey of death that one has to go through before being able to pass on. While the album’s protagonist is dying and lyrics describe the emotional, philosophical and psychedelic journey he is undertaking, the new SHYLMAGOGHNAR offering is also an allegory for learning to let go of positive and negative themes of the past that hold us back from moving on, and eventually, hopefully reaching inner peace.

As the first album single “Follow The River “ showcases, musically, SHYLMAGOGHNAR delivers the perfect soundtrack to that journey, where raw heaviness meets pure elegy, and where destruction gives way to harmony. Nimblkorg comments:

“Dear listeners, friends, family,
Finally I get to break the silence on Shylmagoghnar’s upcoming 3rd album, CONVERGENCE.
On a journey of death, the protagonist awakens in a surreal world. Are the things he is seeing real, or merely the machinations of a dying brain? It doesn’t matter now. All that he knows is that he must follow the river.“

Both inside and outside of the music, SHYLMAGOGHNAR has always been a path with a will of its own for the Southern Netherlands-based Nimblkorg, who produces and records all of the music on his own. Once again, almost half of the album is instrumental, as Nimblkorg agrees with a significant part of his fan base in that words can distract from the enjoyment of the music. The band mastermind also wishes to motivate other artists to not be afraid of home production. But what is immediately evident, is that it marks the deepest and most personal SHYLMAGOGHNAR record to date, as it’s dedicated to his late mother.

Convergence is a stirring, emotional and deep journey – never afraid of genre borders and always balanced between the light and dark, the beauty and horror, life and death. Some bands need countless records and members to create a masterpiece, while SHYLMAGOGHNAR already unleashes it with album number three, and one that will ultimately establish this one-man-show as one of the most enthralling acts in extreme music!

Pre-Order Convergence HERE

Convergence track listing:

I Hear the Mountain Weep
Follow the River
Threshold
Strata
Gardens of the Erased
Egregore
Infinion
Convergence
The Sea
Becoming

For More Info Visit:
https://www.facebook.com/Shylmagoghnar
https://www.youtube.com/user/Shylmagoghnar
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0sfWl1dWLgEtMy9oFnNoDA
https://napalmrecords.com/shylmagoghnar

TREVOR RABIN Launches Second Track ‘Push’ from First New Solo Vocal Album in 34 Years

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Trevor Rabin, the South African guitarist, singer, multi-musician, writer and producer, recently announced ‘Rio’, his first solo album of vocal material in 34 years, set for release on October 6th, 2023 worldwide.

Today he is pleased to reveal the second single taken from the album, and you can now watch the video for ‘Push’ below.

Trevor comments: “For this song I was thinking of the horror of politics and politicians. Once Vinnie Calaiuta played drums on this, it inspired me to redo some of the instrumentation. Vinnie‘s performance lifted this song beyond what I imagined. I utilized the strings at the end of the track to start the ARW live shows.”

‘Rio’ will be available as a Ltd CD+Blu-ray Mediabook & Ltd Deluxe Gatefold Red 180g 2LP + Blu-ray (including 8-page LP-booklet and obi strip), both featuring bonus material, 5.1 surround sound & liner notes. Also available as Standard CD Jewelcase, Gatefold 180g 2LP+LP-booklet (with etching on side D), and as Digital Album. The cover for the album was created by Trevor himself: “I dabble with digital art so I sent some images of mine to the label and was pleasantly surprised when they liked them.”

Pre-order and stream the new single here: https://trevorrabin.lnk.to/Rio

Watch the previously released video for ‘Big Mistakes’ here: https://youtu.be/KPzga7UJwy4

The full track-listing is as follows:
Big Mistakes
Push
Oklahoma
Paradise
Thandi
Goodbye
Tumbleweed
These Tears
Egoli
Toxic

The Ltd CD+Blu-ray Mediabook & Ltd Deluxe Gatefold Red 180g 2LP + Blu-ray also features the following bonus tracks:
Spek & Polly
Fragile (Demo)
Georgia

Given that his previous vocal-led solo album, ‘Can’t Look Away’, was released in 1989 (2012’s ‘Jacaranda’ was all-instrumental), Rabin has kept us waiting for more than three decades for a follow-up. Trevor admits that there was pressure from all sides, including his own family, to have speeded up the process. However, the delay is excusable. Since leaving Yes following the ‘Talk’ album in 1994 and largely as a prequel to touring as part of ARW in 2016, the guitarist entered the time-consuming world of movie soundtracks. Not just any old movies, either. Trevor’s name appears as composer for such blockbusters as Con Air, Armageddon, Remember the Titans, Enemy Of The State, Deep Blue Sea, Glory Road, and Gone In 60 Seconds and both National Treasure movies, amongst many others. “Over the past ten years I was having ideas, concepts that I couldn’t implement due to my busy schedule,” he explains, adding: “To be honest, those years flew by in a flurry. I knew that this was the time, and once I found my momentum I worked on the album 24/7.” The process proved a labour of love and as with his first and second solo records, ‘Trevor Rabin’ and ‘Face To Face’ (from 1977 and ’79 respectively), Rabin handled just about all of the instruments himself.

Stylistically, ‘Rio’– is tough to categorize. Besides guitar-driven rock-meets-pop, ‘Goodbye’ is Country & Western with an edgy drive, while ‘Tumbleweed’ begins in a burst of harmonies. No wonder its working title was ‘The Demographic Nightmare’.

“I wanted to get into many different areas,” Rabin states. “Of course there are ‘prog things’, but overall there are a lot of styles going on.”
As mentioned, Trevor plays the majority of the instruments on the record. However, on drums for a number of tracks is Lou Molino, while Trevor also contributes some drums and percussion. Vinnie Calaiuta provides drums on ‘Push’, and Rabin’s son Ryan Rabin helped out with some of the most important percussive arrangements. Along the way Trevor also drafted in a couple of friends, Dante Marchi and Liz Constantine, to sing back up on two songs.

TREVOR RABIN Online:
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www.facebook.com/TrevorRabinMusic
https://twitter.com/trevorrabin

CATTLE DECAPITATION Announce European Headline Tour “Terrasite Over Europe”

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San Diego, California-based deathgrind mavericks, CATTLE DECAPITATION, announces their first European tour in support of their latest masterpiece Terrasite that has been released in May of 2023.

Support comes from Metal Blade labelmates 200 STAB WOUNDS as well as SIGNS OF THE SWARM and VOMIT FORTH.

Below is the full tour dates. Tickets will go on sale this Friday (Sep. 8) at 1100 CET at: lnk.to/TERRASITE-EUROPE2024

TERRASITE OVER EUROPE 2024
CATTLE DECAPITATION
SIGNS OF THE SWARM
200 STAB WOUNDS
VOMIT FORTH
01.03.24 The Netherlands Nijmegen @ Doornroosje
02.03.24 Switzerland Zürich @ Züri Gmätzlets Fest
03.03.24 France Paris @ Petit Bain
04.03.24 UK Brighton @ Chalk
05.03.24 UK Southampton @ Engine Rooms
06.03.24 UK Exeter @ Phoenix
08.03.24 UK London @ O2 Academy Islington
09.03.24 UK Manchester @ Rebellion
10.03.24 UK Glasgow @ Cathouse
11.03.24 UK Newcastle @ Reds Bar
13.03.24 Ireland Limerick @ Dolan’s Warehouse
14.03.24 Ireland Dublin @ Academy
15.03.24 UK Leeds @ The Key Club
16.03.24 UK Birmingham @ Asylum
17.08.24 UK Bristol @ The Fleece
19.03.24 Germany Wiesbaden @ Schlachthof
20.03.24 Germany Munich @ Backstage
21.03.24 Austria Vienna @ Szene
22.03.24 Hungary Budapest @ Barba Negra
23.03.24 Czech Republic Prague @ MeetFactory
25.03.24 Germany Berlin @ Lido
26.03.24 Denmark Copenhagen @ Pumpehuset
27.03.24 Sweden Stockholm @ Fryhuset Klubben
28.03.24 Norway Oslo @ Inferno Metal Festival
29.03.24 Sweden Gothenburg @ Pustervik
30.03.24 Germany Hamburg @ Logo
31.03.24 Germany Essen @ Turock

Terrasite pushes the CATTLE DECAPITATION sound further into more epic and varied territory, and in the hands of vocalist Travis Ryan the governing concept takes a new and disturbing direction. “I wanted to do the 180° opposite of Death Atlas. I already had the concept idea from years back and since Death Atlas was so dark and brooding, I wanted a completely opposite effect – I wanted this to take place in the daylight. I’ve always found daytime horror to be really unsettling so I wanted to make sure what was going on on the cover took place in the light of day, which also finds its place within the lyrics.”

Stream and purchase Terrasite at: metalblade.com/cattledecapitation

Terrasite has entered the following Charts:

USA
#2: Current Hard Music Albums
#3: Current Independent Albums
#4: Current Rock Albums
#9: Digital Albums
#18: Current Album Sales
#21: Album Sales

CANADA
#2: Hard Music Albums
#7: Digital Albums
#9: Top Current Albums
#10: Top Albums w/TEA
#10: Top Vinyl Albums

GERMANY
#34: Official German Album Charts

AUSTRIA
#66: Official Top 75 Album Charts

SWITZERLAND
#68: Top 100 Album Charts Switzerland

CATTLE DECAPITATION:
Travis Ryan – vocals
Josh Elmore – lead guitar
Belisario Dimuzio – rhythm guitar
Olivier Pinard – bass
David McGraw – drums

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OTEP Unleashes Explosive Rendition of Eminem’s Rap Rage Anthem ‘The Way I Am’

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OTEP unleashes her acerbic arsenal with her latest sonic attack, “The Way I Am,” following closely behind the fury-filled shrapnel of her previous single, “Ostracized,” from upcoming album The God Slayer, available worldwide September 15^th. OTEP’s unapologetic, nu-metal reimagination of Eminem’s “The Way I Am” amplifies the Rap God’s unadulterated anger with a new vitriol all her own. OTEP’s wrath-filled rendition of this rap classic takes a sledgehammer to the Pollyanna image of the perfect celebrity, shattering the listener’s rose-tinted glasses with a power-packed, bass-heavy beat, blistering bars, and driving rhythm, complete with high octane screams and a bludgeoning breakdown. OTEP’s silver tongue shines with her transformative take on this hip hop hit, as she spits rhymes, seamlessly keeping in time, all the while ripping the words from the page to rearrange into something truly one of a kind.

Stream/download single: https://orcd.co/otep_thewayiam

On October 3, 2000, “The Way I Am” was released by Eminem as the second single from The Marshall Mathers LP. “The Way I Am” has received double platinum certification in the US and critical acclaim worldwide, including platinum certification in the UK and gold in Sweden. While Eminem’s undeniable talent thrust him into the spotlight, it also brought bitter criticism and controversy, as not everyone was ready to hear what he had to say. However, this condemnation only added to fuel to his creative fire, with which he has blazed the trail to the top as the highest-selling rap artist of all time.

“The Way I Am” serves as a celebration of OTEP’s return to the metal scene as the second single from forthcoming full-length feature, The God Slayer, coming five years after her previous full-length release in 2018. This crushing cover incorporates an intrepid intermingling of metal and hip hop which serves as a shape of things to come from The God Slayer, in which OTEP’s skillful mastery of a multitude of genres is fully realized through her careful coalescence of original compositions and covers, spanning a wide variety of genres.

Frontwoman and founder, Otep Shamaya, describes The God Slayer best herself, saying, “This offering to the gods of music, I performed many rituals, free-dives into the blackness of my soul, to retrieve the early spark that ignited my creative journey. With respect, love & gratitude, I now offer it to you.”

Pre-save the digital: https://orcd.co/otep_thegodslayer

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