US Texas-based veterans VESPERIAN SORROW return after years of slumber, ready to reclaim their throne Awaken the Greylight is the band’s first album in 11 years, due November 3rd. Stream the first single below.
Tracklist 1. As the Pillars Were Raised 2. Antediluvian – Proceeding The unshaping 3. An Epistle To The Prime, Vivified 4. Traverse The Vorthonian Passage 5. A Dire Flight for the Black Fragment 6. Seek the Last Priestess of Tyyk 7. They Beheld the chainbreaker’s Unwonted Defiance 8. Who Dwells Within The Blight Moon 9. The Excillion Ontogenesis 10. Awaken the Greylight
THE DAY WE LEFT EARTH has grown from clarity to clarity over their debut year. Earlier this year they released a single with Dead By April that became an instant hit with over 1.5 million streams worldwide. Alongside this, the album plan for THE DAY WE LEFT EARTH is set, and will be released in early 2024. As if this wasn’t enough, TDWLE have also signed with a bigger booker and have joined the roster along bands like: Lacuna Coil, Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquility and Evergrey.
Today marks a significant milestone as THE DAY WE LEFT EARTH unveils their seventh single from the highly anticipated debut album. Titled ‘Dead On Arrival’, this new single is a powerful metal anthem. Embellished with hauntingly beautiful lyrics, expansive vocal ranges, and a solid metal core, the track is set to infuse your autumn days with a brilliant burst of energy and emotion.
‘Dead On Arrival is about taking back control. It’s a song about liberation, it’s a song about inner peace and a song about freedom.We wanted to give people a mantra of sorts, making sure that you are doing right by yourself”. – THE DAY WE LEFT EARTH
Italian one-man black metal band, HIEMS,reveals music video for new track “A Night On The Bare Mountain”, in anticipation of upcoming album “Stranger in a Wasteland”, scheduled for release on September 8th via Agonia Records.
The video can be watched below.
HIEMS was launched in 1996 by Italian songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Alessandro “Algol” Comerio. “Stranger in a Wasteland” marks his third outing and is the sound of an artist confident in his craft. Recorded during lock-down, the music captures the dismal feelings of alienation and detachment, and translates them into malevolent, minimalistic and non-canonical black metal, infused with dark hard rock and ominous grooves. In comparison with “Worship or Die” – the second and last installment from 2009 – “Stranger in a Wasteland” boasts a much clearer and refined production, which added a commanding character to the vocals, exposed the weight of the guitars, and sharpened the overall listening experience. The topic of death – closely followed by a sense of not belonging – is equally present in the musical and lyrical layer of the album.
“It’s been a long time since the last Hiems record,” recalls Comerio. “I’ve always continued to write material, but only when the pandemic gave me some free time was I able to gather the songs written in the past years and shape them. I chose the name of the record to highlight the song that is the best representation of my vision of life and the current world. I feel like a stranger wherever I go. I can’t find any religion or philosophy with which I can completely agree, and today’s world seems to me a wasteland; destroyed and forgotten. So yeah, I do feel like a stranger in a wasteland. It’s about not belonging to any creed or flag. To follow your own path, even if it leads to loneliness. Regarding the production, I’m a sound maniac. I spent days and days in the studio, searching for the sound I had in mind. I wanted the record to sound different from actual ‘plastic’ metal, so I chose not to use triggers or artificial reverbs and go completely old school.”
“Stranger in a Wasteland” was recorded at Elfo Studio (Forgotten Tomb), engineered by Daniele Mandelli and mixed and produced by Daniele Mandelli and Alessandro “Algol” Comerio. The album was mastered at La Maestà Studio (Muse) by Giovanni Versari and comes with artwork by Adam Burke (Solstafir, Enforcer). Layout illustrations (medieval engravings) were provided by Davide Schileo. Guest appearances include Gabriel Minuta (guest guitars), Paolo Apollo Negri (guest hammond organs) and Elisabetta Marchetti (guest vocals).
Tracklisting: 1. A Night on the Bare Mountain 2. Death Unites Us 3. Master of Lies 4. March! 5. The Rites of Terror 6. Bereavement 7. Better Off Dead 8. Stranger In A Wasteland 9. Quietus
The inaugural Metal InjectionFestival is only one month away! To further spice up the festivities, Metal Injection will be hosting an official after party on the first night of performances! Featuring a rockin’ set of heavy metal classics by DJ Painkiller Kim, the rager will take place on September 16 at The Constellation Room (The Observatory) and is FREE for all to attend for festival ticket holders!
The Metal Injection Festival will take over Orange County, CA from September 16-17 across two iconic venues – The Observatory and House of Blues Anaheim. The stacked and diverse lineup is a melting pot of genres, inclusive to both legendary bands as well as emerging and underground artists worth discovering. The full lineup is as follows:
Saturday, September 16 @ The Observatory $35 Ticket [On Sale Now] Max & Iggor Cavalera (Performing a special Morbid Visions and Bestial Devastation set) Exhumed Incite Fueled By Fire Dead Heat
Sunday, September 17 @ House of Blues Anaheim $50 Ticket [On Sale Now] Testament Machine Head Fear Factory – (Performing a special Demanufacture & Obsolete set) Xibalba Spirit Adrift Exmortus Kyng Contracult Collective Upon Stone Thrown Into Exile
ICYMI: Metal Injection recently shared a specially curated playlist to pump up fans ahead of this spectacular event! Featuring music from each band on the lineup, the playlists can now be heard via Apple Music and Spotify.
Tickets for day one are now on sale HERE while day two tickets are available HERE.
“I’ve always dreamed of having my own festival as a kid, I mean what metal head hasn’t!?” Explains Metal Injection founder and company director Frank Godla. “I even wrote it down on a future goal plan for Metal Injection in the early days. When my Slay At Home virtual fest really took off during the pandemic, and reached communities in over 60 countries, it suddenly seemed possible, even overdue.
“Today, I bring you the first ever Metal Injection Festival. Two days days of killer bands ranging from thrash, death, industrial, hardcore, and more from legendary names to the ones worth discovering. We’ll also have some really sweet giveaways, a learning area for amazing causes I believe in, and special setlists including the legendary Max & Iggor Cavalera performing Morbid Visions and Bestial Devastation records in entirety, and Fear Factory celebrating their game changing Demanufacture and 25th anniversary of Obsolete with us!
“Every new endeavor has to start somewhere, and I couldn’t be more stoked to have this group of amazing bands be part of MI history!”
To further commemorate this exceptional event, Metal Injection is now sharing a special video announcement, which can be found HERE.
Sponsored by Metal Blade Records, Nuclear Blast, Century Media, Thunderflix and ESP Guitars, the face-melting program will also have a learning booth in support of two very important causes, MusiCares and Suicide Prevention. This initiative will help educate attendees on mental health awareness and related resources for fans and musicians in need.
That’s not all! Courtesy of ESP Guitars, Metal Injection will be raffling off a pair of ESP axes signed by each headliner. Night one’s guitar will be signed by Max Cavalera while night two’s prize will be signed by Alex Skolnick.
Keep those horns high and mighty and stay tuned for more info!
In support of their hotly-anticipated, fifth studio album “Everfrost” (postponed for a release on September 22, 2023 via AFM Records, pre-order HERE!), power metal force WINTERSTORM is premiering a lyric video for their new single “Fate of the Atlanteans”!
“In “Fate of the Atlanteans” we ask humanity, if it does not realize that if we do not change our way of dealing with our planet, we will face the same fate as in Atlantis history and thus the destruction of our world.” The band comments. Watch their new lyric video now streaming here:
As the “Winter” stands for nordic viking and folk metal, the “Storm” for fast-paced power metal, combined with epic and orchestral metal facettes, on “Everfrost”, WINTERSTORM shines in a new splendor. It’s the melodic grandeur, that clearly marks the foreground of WINTERSTORM, reflected in heavily catchy choruses and colossal, polyphonic vocals. Striking elements of different metal styles merge with each other and get a completely new impression, that WINTERSTORM’s new album may be their most versatile and powerful album to date; one that does not have to hide behind proved genre colleagues such as Blind Guardian or Rhapsody Of Fire.
“Everfrost“ will be coming out as CD Digipak, limited clear blue Vinyl and Boxset on September 22, 2023 via AFM Records, the pre-sale is available at THIS LOCATION!
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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