RISE TO FALL Announce New Album; Release Music Video for First Single ‘Intruder’ Feat. Björn “Speed” Strid

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Following their latest album “Into Zero” (2018), June 9th will see the release of “The Fifth Dimension”, the highly anticipated fifth full length record by Melodic Death Metal act Rise To Fall, which will be coming out on Noble Demon. Formed in 2006 in Bilbao (Basque Country) in northern Spain, Rise To Fall have established their well-deserved place within the metal scene over the past seventeen years. With a constant output and numerous live shows and festival appearances, Rise To Fall have become known for delivering music of the highest level and their devastating live shows. With the release of four studio albums, the band has kept raising the bar, leading not only to numerous tours across Europe, but also headlining tours in Japan and China, as well as touring alongside Soilwork!

A tour that should still unite both bands in the future – With the track “Intruder” Rise To Fall have now released the first single of the upcoming album, on which none other than Björn “Speed” Strid (Soilwork / The Night Flight Orchestra ) has taken over as a guest vocalist. The track comes with a brand new music video, which you can watch here:

Rise to Fall on “Intruder”:

“Upon returning from our Japan tour with Soilwork in November 2019 we set out to write the new album. In early 2020 we had already composed the track for Intruder and we talked to Björn from Soilwork to offer him a collaboration. Intruder is the first song we recorded from the new album, in which Dann also participated for the first time in the composition and in which our producer and friend Pedro J Monge (Vhäldemar) also appears as a guest doing the guitar solo. It is a very complete song, in which the melodic voices and screams of Dalay and Björn are interspersed, making the song super epic.”

Tracklist reads as follows:

  1. Rising Sun
  2. Hierophant
  3. Intruder
  4. Test of Time
  5. Empty Ward
  6. Infinite Crossroad
  7. What Lies Beneath
  8. Heroes
  9. The Great Chain
  10. Beam of Light
  11. Black Ocean

So be prepared for the next chapter of Rise To Fall, once again setting their very own benchmarks! “The Fifth Dimension” will be coming out on June 9th and is now available for pre-order at THIS LOCATION

Rise To Fall are:

Alain „Dalay Tarda“ Gutiérrez – Vocals
Hugo Markaida – Guitar
Dann Hoyos – Bass
Javier Martín – Bass
Xabier Del Val – Drums

For more info visit:
http://www.risetofall.net/
https://www.instagram.com/risetofallofficial/
http://www.facebook.com/risetofallofficial
https://www.youtube.com/user/risetofallband
https://twitter.com/risetofallband

Finnish JUDITH ALICE Release Music Video ‘Person That I Hate’, New EP Out Now

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Finnish rock band JUDITH ALICE released a new EP Resolute via Finnish record label Secret Entertainment. Also a new music video ‘Person That I Hate’ is done which can be seen below.

LISTEN Resolute EP: https://push.fm/fl/judith-alice-resolute 

Guitarist June Stacy comments: 
“Writing and recording the EP was a little bit troublesome and slow because of the covid. We recorded the demos and then the EP versions of the songs little by little when ever we could. Then over a year ago when it was already mixed and mastered Izzy (our guitar player) decided to pursue other things in life and quit the band. We didn’t wanna release anything or shoot music videos before we found someone to replace him. So it took another half a year to find Vasco. But finally here it is: ’Resolute’. The EP that updates the sound of Judith Alice for 2023! Enjoy”

Resolute (EP 2023) -Track list:

  1. Tonite’s Alright (feat. Diison)
  2. Person That I Hate
  3. Watch Out!
  4. Blind Leadin’ The Blind
  5. Close To The Sun
EP Picture by Aaro Tuisku, EP cover by Jussi Aaltonen

BIOGRAPHY:
Judith Alice was formed in Helsinki, Finland by old friends June Stacy and Stan Ford (Skeeter Hazy) in 2016. The nowadays five piece band has been creating a reputation as a wild live performer and a party maker since. The first single, “I Only Go Out When It’s Dark” was released in 2017. The second single “Drug Festival” was released in December 2018 and as a third single they recorded a cover for an old danish hit “I WIll Stay”, it was released January 2020. Yeah, the one Hurriganes made famous in Finland back in the day. Recordings of the first album began in 2017, and after all the setbacks and struggle it was finally released Thursday, August 13th 2020. When the world closed because of the pandemic, Judith Alice used the time to write and record new music! 2023 starts with a brand new single/video ”Tonite’s Alright (feat. Diison)” followed by an EP called ”Resolute”! 

Line-up:
Skeeter Hazy – Vocals
June Stacy – Guitar
Vasco – Guitar
Eric Jacobi – Bass
Aaron Snow – Drums

BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS Premiere New Single + Music Video ‘Hallucinative Terror’

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BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS are today premiering their new single and music video, Hallucinative Terror, via Knotfest. Hallucinative Terror is the second track to be taken from the Christchurch, New Zealand progressive death metal group’s upcoming fourth album, Rejecting Obliteration, due out on May 19 via Prosthetic Records. The song and video, directed by Matt Evlampieff, shines a spotlight on BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS’ native country’s mental health crisis.

LISTEN AND WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR HALLUCINATIVE TERROR VIA KNOTFEST HERE.

Hallucinative Terror is now available on all streaming platforms.
Pre-order Rejecting Obliteration here.

Speaking candidly about the track’s importance on Rejecting Obliteration, Ben Atkinson (guitar) comments: “Not a year goes by without losing someone we love to suicide. This was evident again throughout the writing, recording, and prep cycles for Rejecting Obliteration where collectively as a group we lost more friends and sadly an old band member. The thought that we will never see their faces or hear their voices again still hurts us.

“Mental Health issues are predominant here in New Zealand, especially in our city that also deals with the trauma of a city leveling Earthquake, and one of the world’s worst single person terrorist attacks.

“We are repeatedly assured that we should be reaching out when we are feeling low in mood, feeling as though we may hurt ourselves or endanger our lives. Which when we can, yes we should. But, not everyone who is feeling suicidal has that person, opportunity or capability to do so.

“The ways in which some people reach out may not be understood by their loved ones or may go unnoticed due to the subtlety of the approach. It is also really important for us all to be more proactive, be upfront with our friends and family when we notice they may not seem their usual self and ask them how they are feeling and what we can do to support them.

“The video for Hallucinative Terror is based at a funeral and shows a person who has passed away by suicide with their family and friends approaching the coffin to share their grief and ask why, pointing out that everything seemed ok. These scenes are intercut with the person seemingly alive in their coffin. They are screaming and thrashing for help as the coffin fills with water but the funeral guests are blind to this and don’t see this person’s struggles, and calls for help. The person is haunted by an older man invisible to everyone else throughout the video who represents the darker thoughts of hopelessness we can have. The video ends with the person drowning.

“The video represents that feeling of drowning in sorrow and hopelessness, that between breaths you are struggling to call out for help, to look for someone who may pull you up and no one truly hears you, or hears what you are going through. 

“Hallucinative Terror has taught us that we all need to be better listeners and observers and to proactively reach out.”

Navigating cycles of abuse and trauma, whilst actively reaching for resolution through resilience, BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS‘ aptly titled Rejecting Obliteration is a testament to and declaration of endurance through hardships and loss. Lyrically conceived by Stace Fifield and Stuart Henley-Minchington, Rejecting Obliteration’s ten tracks share a common narrative thread of finding identity and light outside of personal hurt and psychological harm. The pair’s primary focus on inner strength and resilience serves as an unwavering foundation of who the band are in essence.

Whilst despairing in it’s subject matter Rejecting Obliteration refuses to concede to a predestination of further anguish, opting instead to shun all notions of defeat, which in and of itself is vital to BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS’ long fought for and claimed identity.

Rejecting Obliteration tracklist:
1. Monolith
2. Methlehem
3. Hallucinative Terror
4. Rejecting Obliteration
5. Wraith
6. Cicada
7. Funeral Smiles
8. The Waves
9. Hands of Contrition
10. Caustic Burns

Upcoming BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS tour dates:

Headline Australian tour
18 May – King Lear’s Throne – Brisbane, Australia
19 May – Burdekin Hotel – Sydney, Australia
20 May – Evelyn Hotel – Melbourne, Australia
21 May – Crown and Anchor – Adelaide, Australia

BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS is:
Stace Fifield – Vocals
Stuart Henley-Minchington – Guitars, Vocals
Ben Atkinson – Guitars
Nick Smith – Bass
Tim Stewart – Drums, Percussion (recording only)

VAK Return with New Music, Releasing Dynamic Double Single ‘Panorama / The Map’

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After 3 long years VAK are finally back with new music. The brutally melodic, progressive sludge band is set to release a wonderfully dynamic double single ‘Panorama / The Map’.

«Panorama» is the first track from the double single, an upbeat little devil, and a force to be reckoned with.  Through hypnotizing rhythms and vibrating and mesmerizing vocals you are chanted into an unknown soundscape.

The second single «The Map» is a seven-minute sludge beast journey bringing you both the powerful and sludgy dimensions and the progressive aspects of the band with head tilting grooves, heavy dark rhythms, and intelligent clean build ups.

Listen to the singles here: https://orcd.co/panoramathemap

VAK states:
“The first singles of our upcoming album address, firstly, the theme of Stockholm’s beautiful and treacherous “Panorama”, its lying and sinister post-card character. Secondly, they suggest how city-surveillance needs more resistant and downloadable “cop-maps”, enabling a policing of police.
Despite the gravity of these issues, we had fun recording for example the backing vocals on “The Map” calling on the listeners to “download” the not yet existent maps.”

Artwork: Jonathan Hultén

Well-produced, doom-groovy, stoner/sludge Swedish metal band VAK were highly praised for their previous album “Loud Wind” (2019).
UK Magazine Zero Tolerance wrote that it was “one of 2019’s contenders for best stoner metal album! […] It’s one thing to pack an album full of crushing riffs, memorable hooks and passionate performances, but VAK truly evoke a unified togetherness that beams throughout”, while Metal Temple (UK) gave it a 9/10, stating that “VAK is its own unique breed, one that has hints of the past but is focused solely on the future.” Praised for their ability to incorporate more than just one style and genre in their music, drawing inspiration from a great variety of bands and artists,
VAK’s upcoming album is something to look forward to!

Band Members:
Tobias Alpadie – Guitars
Anders Bartonek – Drums
Patrik Engström – Guitars
Jesper Skarin – Bass, Vocals
Robin Skarin – Keyboards

Mexican TANUS Release Stunning New Single ‘The Abyss’

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Mexican metal band fronted by the DJ and producer duo of Mika and Eric Monsonis, TANUS, makes their debut at FiXT with new metal single “Abyss”. The single is the next track to materialize on the upcoming FiXT: Radium compilation.
 
Produced by Eric Monsonis and Mika “Abyss” dives in immediately with powerful melodies and heavy guitars riffs fused over synthesizers setting a conflicting mood that encapsulates the rest of the track. The song’s thought provoking lyrics coupled with a powerful vocal delivery by Diz, one of the top leading singers in Mexico and South America, create a turbulent anthem questioning the human experience.

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

“The lyrics of this song talk about freedom,” explains TANUS. “How free are we really today? In reality there are not many options, if you open your eyes to different circumstances, everything is so marginalized and manipulated. The information that reaches us is basically the same anywhere in the world; trends, as well as viral issues contaminates the minds of the new generations, this causes us to fall into an abyss that lacks options. It seems to me a duty, as a band, the option to comment on this, and thus be able to give back to people what they need to have; control. Human beings and their creativity have been compromised by a so called “controlled freedom.” Being in an ‘abyss’ is an option, agreeing to get out of it is a responsibility.“

Originally created in 2014 under the name Mikankh as a solo project of the Band’s DJ Mika, the project was so well received it was revamped into a six member ensemble today known as TANUS. The band is a hybrid of metal and electronic music incorporating  Trap, Industrial, Dubstep, and Drum & Bass for a diverse and unique but powerful sound of their own. 
 
TANUS has released eight singles with over 500,000 hits between them across all platforms with strong reception from live concerts with “Defying Gravity,” “Shadows,” and “Superhumanity” scoring plays on metal playlists throughout Mexico and South America. They currently have a collaboration coming up with AJ Channer, vocalist of the band Fire From The Gods. The group has made appearances in several large festivals over the years throughout Mexico and South America, including but not limited to Hell and Heaven Open Air, Corona Weekend, and Punk Rock Fest. They’ve shared the stage with top rated bands such as KORN, Slipknot, P.O.D. Megadeth and more.  In other words TANUS is ready to take the world by storm and isn’t slowing down anytime soon.

More information at
– https://www.facebook.com/tanusband
– https://twitter.com/tanus_band
– https://www.instagram.com/tanusband/
– SPOTIFY
– https://soundcloud.com/tanusband

GEORGE SANDERS AND THE PARALLELS Release New Video for Single ‘Tired’

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‘Tired’ is the debut single from English rock quartet GEORGE SANDERS AND THE PARALLELS and is officially out now via Bread & Butter Records/Golden Robot Records.

‘Tired’ features raw, raspy vocals, heavy hitting guitars and drums which build to a climactic ending, all of which is born from a single piano key at the start of the song. The lyrics share the story of a relationship in its last stages, the lyrics are from the heart and will tell a familiar tale to many listeners. 

The band have released a music video to support the new track. 
“We recorded the video for ‘Tired’ in Shoeburyness, a town just next to Southend, at an old gun emplacement from WW1 and 2. It was used as a line of defence against enemy planes before they followed the Thames and eventually reached London. It’s a circular, old, concrete, run down structure, with history seeping from every crack. 
Despite surviving two wars and years of environmental thrashing, it is still standing, much like the protagonist in our song ‘Tired’, riding the waves of a turbulent relationship, but still standing come the end. 
The video was recorded by a friend of ours, Roberto, who helped direct us to accurately capture what we set out to achieve. A real, raw video, with no bells and whistles, that mimics what we are about as a band. No nonsense, loud, guitar music.”  says frontman George.

Stream/buy ‘Tired’ HERE

George Sanders And The Parallels are a four piece rock band born out of the south east of England in 2020. The band is fronted by George Sanders who also plays guitar, Dylan Stubbings on drums, Matt Latter on bass and Tom Carey on guitar. With anthemic, raspy vocals backed by heavy guitars, they leave a unique mark on the modern rock scene. Taking inspiration from every decade and creating a new, yet wonderfully familiar sound. 

George Sanders And The Parallels started 2022 on the radio after being chosen as one of BBC Introducing’s ‘Top Picks of 2022’, being described as “arena ready”. They have also appeared on “Shakey’s Sessions on CCR”, “Phoenix FM” and “Radio Essex”. 

The band signed with Bread & Butter Records/ Golden Robot Records in 2022 and are gearing up for their debut EP release in 2023. 

More information at
https://www.instagram.com/george.sandersandtheparallels/
https://www.facebook.com/gsandtheparallels/
https://twitter.com/gsparallels