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Alt-Metal Enigma SIIICKBRAIN Drops New Single ‘Psychopath’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 28, 2023
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Los Angeles alt-metal scream queen SIIICKBRAIN will unveil her highly-anticipated, enthralling debut full-length album, “MY MASOCHISTIC MIND,” on December 1st via Lowly Records. Today, the enigmatic singer teases her legion of followers with the drop of a brand new single titled “Psychopath.” 

Commenting on the new track, SIIICKBRAIN states: 

“‘Psychopath’ is a song that was written from the perspective of trying to make it in the music industry. It can feel like, in order to be an artist, your brain has to go through hurdles that requires us to rewire certain parts of ourselves that in turn makes us feel that we have lost our minds. The question ‘do you really want it all’ is one everyone has to ask themselves while staying motivated in life, but one that artists particularly have to consider while trying to break in the industry.“

SIIICKBRAIN, the alternative persona of fashion model and musician Caroline Miner Smith, has recruited a massive worldwide cult following on social media, who are drawn to her dark guise and signature, eclectic mashup of alternative, rock, metal, industrial and electronic styles. In the last few years, she’s collaborated with with the likes of Skrillex, Pussy Riot and WILLOW among others, and has racked up millions of streams with singles like “Silence” and “Hellslide.”  Most recently, SIIICKBRAIN teamed up with friend and cohort Maggie Lindemann on the track “deprecating.’

SIIICKBRAIN is found at the intersection of fashion, art and music. Provocative in sound and imagery, magnetizing with juxtaposing melody and dissonance and an alluring visionary of pure artistic prowess, SIIICKBRAIN isn’t merely another project, it’s a movement aimed to provoke, excite and stimulate.

Pre-order “MY MASOCHISTIC MIND“: 
Stream “Psychopath“: https://lowly.ffm.to/psychopath

“MY MASOCHISTIC MIND” Track List: 
1. 14 Needles
2. Die Quietly
3. I Am A Machine
4. Fear God
5. IDOLS
6. LIAR
7. Parasite
8. Three Eyes
9. Psychopath
10. Transcendence
11. Emergency

About SIIICKBRAIN:

Siiickbrain is the moniker of American alternative artist, Caroline Miner Smith. After years of writing poetry, she began to experiment with song writing and with the tragic loss of one of her closest friends, she decided to start recording music as a form of therapy becoming instantly hooked. Influenced by experimental artists like Death Grips and Grimes, Siiickbrain developed a unique sound that combines alternative, rock & metal complete with raw yet palatable screaming. Her music touches on familiar topics with her generation: drug abuse and mental health, as well as the societal pressures and experiences young women face today.

Siiickbrain had a busy past few years, releasing several collaborations with Black17 phonk artists & producers, her debut EP, “Ashtray For Your Agony,”  and teaming up with artists like Hawthorne Heights to remix the iconic emo-rock anthem “Ohio Is For Lovers”, Russian protest art collective Pussy Riot to unleash an electrifying anthem “POWER”, which drives home the idea that women can take back any power that was ever taken from them. Siiickbrain also rounded out an incredible trio including Skrillex and Swae Lee on their propulsive track “Too Bizarre.”

Follow SIIICKBRAIN: Instagram / TikTok / Spotify / Youtube

Within Temptation’s Singer Explains What She Learnt Opening for Iron Maiden on Tour

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 28, 2023
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Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to Within Temptation’s singer Sharon den Adel about the band’s new album ‘Bleed Out’ which was self-released on Oct 20, 2023.

She also spoke about her experience as the band opened for Iron Maiden on their last North American tour’.

Sharon den Adel spoke about her experience as Within Temptation supported Iron Maiden on their last North America tour, she said,” well you know they’ve (Iron Maiden) been around since we were kids and of course we were inspired by Iron Maiden. It was the biggest compliment being asked to go on tour with them (Iron Maiden) in America. Because we do well in America and in Canada but you know they do quite a different venue than we do normally of course. So it was a compliment for us to be with them and to go on tour with them. But what I learned mostly is their love for music. I hope to be like Steve Harris when I’m his age or older, he loves music so much, he breathes it, he eats it, he speaks it, he’s constantly busy with music. Every show that we played on stage during that tour for three weeks, every time he (Steve Harris) was behind our gear looking at our show. Apparently he does it with all the support acts because I think he picks them and so he really likes the band and then he asked them on tour and he loves to see them. I think also (what she learnt) the interaction of being a little bit thrown to the Wolves or the Lions. You have to convince an audience that is only there for Iron Maiden,  that you are worthy to be in their support act. So you have to reinvent yourself, just feeling the atmosphere of the venue. Like okay  what’s the mood, what’s happened just recently here. Just being prepared before you go on stage .Okay I’m in this city and this happened just now what am I gonna say to people? How am I gonna get them on our side?  How am I gonna win their hearts? That’s the struggle which is always very cool to have, as you’re opening up for such an  iconic band as Iron Maiden. “

‘Bleed Out’ Track List
 

We Go To War
 Bleed Out
Wireless
Worth Dying For
Ritual
CyanideLove
The Purge
Don’t Pray For Me
Shed My Skin
Entertain You
Unbroken

DOKKEN’s New Album “Heaven Comes Down” Out Now

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 28, 2023
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Photo courtesy of https://www.dokken.net

DOKKEN‘s new album, Heaven Comes Down is out now via Silver Lining Music. Available on CD Digipak, 12” Vinyl Album in Black and colour variants, digital formats and special D2C products and bundles. Listen/order at this location.

The band recently released the mesmerizing new single/video for ‘Over The Mountain’. Watch/listen here. Directed by Above The Void.

Exchange the urban heat of the Sunset Strip for the warm wilderness of New Mexico, as Dokken bring their timeless convertible Ferrari rock’n’roll power to the table with some key modifications along the creative path. Working with engineer Bill Palmer over the course of a year at his studio in Santa Fe, the Dokken flavours remain as potent as ever, yet they’re also sprinkled with some desert seasoning which gives Heaven Comes Down a richness hitherto unseen on a Dokken album.

You want to rock? Sink your teeth into ‘Fugitive’, which rides some shimmering guitar work courtesy of 20+ year member Jon Levin, and if you want ballads, head on over to ‘I’ll Never Give Up’, hanging on that Coliseum chorus, Levin laying down a landmark solo. The pattern of Heaven Comes Down never falters in delivering the goods on both sides of the fence. ‘Just Like A Rose’ brings the Pacific Coast Highway to desert plains with its smooth, effortlessly-driven gears, and ‘Saving Grace’ carries a mystical malevolence. But ‘Santa Fe’ is perhaps the most revealing with Don Dokken opening up with what amounts to a ‘life-moment biography’: a spartan acoustic arrangement allowing the rich yet road-driven vocals to frame what might well prove to be the defining moment of Dokken’s career.

Mixed by Kevin Shirley (Aerosmith, Iron Maiden, Joe Bonamassa) and produced by Bill Palmer and Don Dokken, fans will love it, neutrals will be wonderfully surprised by some of the ingredients within Heaven Comes Down.

Watch/listen to ‘Gypsy’ here. Video by Natalia Jonderko Śmiechowicz.

Watch/listen to ‘Fugitive’ here. Video directed by Chris Eyre (Dark Winds, Smoke Signals) at Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Filming by Tom Strickfaden.

TRACK‐LISTING:
01 – Fugitive
02 – Gypsy
03 – Is It Me Or You?
04 – Just Like A Rose
05 – I’ll Never Give Up
06 – Saving Grace
07 – Over The Mountain
08 – I Remember
09 – Lost In You
10 – Santa Fe

DON DOKKEN – Vocals
JON LEVIN – Guitar
CHRIS McCARVILL – Bass
BJ ZAMPA – Drums

Produced by Bill Palmer & Don Dokken
Bill Palmer: acoustic guitar on ‘Santa Fe’
Mark Boals: special guest (background vocals)

Follow Dokken on: Website – Facebook – YouTube – X/Twitter – Instagram

VIOLET BLEND Release New Full-Length Live Album “Live and True”, Out Now

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 28, 2023
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(Photo Credit: Angelo Mura)

Italian alternative metal band VIOLET BLEND just dropped a new full-length live album entitled Live and True via Eclipse Records on October 27. The album contains seventeen songs spanning the band’s entire musical history. The album was recorded live at Viper Theater in Florence, Italy and it was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Andrea Dell’Olio and Furio Lanciano at Soundscape Studio.

”The concert has always been one of the fundamental experiences and part of our work, an important piece to fully understand our music” says lead vocalist and composer Giada Celeste Chelli. “During the performance, a deep connection is created with the audience and a synergy that cannot be reproduced in the recording studio. For this reason we decided to release a live album, to share this experience with all our fans around the world. The performance is real and we wanted to leave it as raw as possible, so Live and True is exactly the mirror of how we present ourselves to the public on stage. It wasn’t something we really planned; I mean when we performed that concert we didn’t have any idea of releasing it as a live album. Our sound engineer Andrea Dell’Olio records almost all of our shows, just so we can know how things went, to listen afterwards and then adjust the performance. We always want to improve our performance and ourselves too, so concert recordings help us a lot in this sense. After an interview with an American radio station, we realized that many of our fans around the world hadn’t seen us live yet and so we started thinking about releasing one of our live performances as an album. That’s how things went, we decided to release a full concert including many of the songs from the Demons album and some from our debut album White Mask, 17 songs in total. Live and True is our first live album, our first experience of this kind and we are very thrilled. We can’t wait to see how the public will receive it. We hope you like it and that it excites you the same way every concert does to us.”

Listen to Live and True at https://lnk.to/vltliv  

Violet Blend live dates (more info)
November 3,4,5 – Florence (ITA) @ Overkill Birreria

Violet Blend lineup
Giada Celeste Chelli (vocals, piano), Ferruccio Baroni (bass), Michel Agostini (drums), Edgard William Hamnett (guitar)

For more information about Violet Blend and their “Live and True” album, please visit them on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok, and follow the band on Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Amazon Music, Tidal, or Deezer now!

Israeli NAIL WITHIN Release Lyric Video for New Album Single ‘Years Of Madness’, Feat. Eric Peterson of TESTAMENT

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 28, 2023
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[photo: Eyal Peer]

November 17, 2023 will see Israel-based thrash / death metal band NAIL WITHIN return with their long-awaited comeback album, Sound Of Demise, via Massacre Records. The album pre-sale is available at THIS LOCATION!

Following previously-released, first album appetizers, “Bleeding Society” (feat. Tom Angelripper) and the thunderous track “Eyes Of Evil”, NAIL WITHIN have just premiered a lyric video for their new single “Years Of Madness”, featuring a guest appearance of TESTAMENT‘s Eric Peterson!The new clip is now streaming below.

“It’s a tribute song to L.G Petrov (Entombed) who passed away 2 years ago. It’s a tribute song to the early days of the extreme death metal scene in the underground”, NAIL WITHIN frontman Yishai Sweartz reveals. “Growing up with the early records of Entombed, Carnage, Morbid Angel, Bolt Thrower, etc., these were the years of madness when the genre was real and authentic! There was excitement in the air and we all felt that we are part of a new exciting movement far away from the public’s eye. The tape trading, the fanzines, the “no rip off here” on the flyers, the crazy shows and the cult feeling, truly years of madness.

This song features a great guitar solo by Eric Peterson from Testament, one of the best thrash metal guitarists ever.”

NAIL WITHIN was formed in 2001 by singer Yishai Swearts, guitarist Alex Shuster, bassist “Evil” Haim, and drummer Barak Miko Zait, rising from the ashes of two longtime collectives in Israel’s underground music scene (Betrayer and Azazel), and featuring guitarist Matan Cohen and drummer Nir Nakav.

Following their critically-acclaimed, self-titled debut album in early 2003 through Listenable Records, the band went on hiatus just a year later. Matan Cohen signed his other band Betzefer to Roadrunner Records and started a successful career touring with acts as Sepultura, Lamb Of God, Fear Factory and others, Alex Shuster moved to California and joined the legendary sludge band “-(16)-” (Relapse Records), Evil Haim toured the world with Israeli punk icons Useless ID, played in multiple local bands and opened a DIY punk record label (Taklitin Holim) while Yishai Sweartz became predominant metal promoter in Israel and formed Tomorrows Rain (A.O.P Records) where he joined forces with Nir Nakav (who continued to play in Salem).

Through the years, all the band members kept in touch and in 2022 Shuster and Sweartz started to talk about “hey this year it’s 20 years to the debut..” kind of talk, a week later a couple of new songs were written and the band decided to continue their creative momentum. As a result a full album was written and recorded in Israel/U.S.A with 11 new songs. Picking up from where the band left with their debut 20 years ago but introducing new dimensions that make it more relevant for this day and age, Sound Of Demise sees NAIL WITHIN return angry, dynamic and full of intensity!

Produced by Alex Shuster and mastered by Maor Appelbaum, the album also features guest appearances from Tom Angleripper (Sodom), Eric Peterson (Testament) and Bobby Ferry -(16)-. Slated for a release on November 17, 2023 via Massacre Records, pre-order your album copy now at THIS LOCATION!

Sound Of Demise track listing:

  1. Bleeding Society
  2. Eyes Of Evile
  3. Sound Of Demise
  4. Regression… And The Price We Pay
  5. Duplicate Our Lives
  6. Years Of Madness
  7. Everything We Know
  8. Words As Weapons
  9. Manipulated And Doomed
  10. Severe Suffering
  11. Isolate

For More Info Visit:
https://www.facebook.com/nailwithinband
https://www.instagram.com/nailwithinband
https://massacre-records.com

RAINING NAILS Release New Music Video ‘Queen of Thorns’, Debut Album Out Now

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 28, 2023
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Photo Credit – Valerio Sbriglione – http://www.vsphotoscape.com

Featuring members of Eternal Silence, Fallen Arise, Oracle Sun, and Sound Storm, Italy’s RAINING NAILS are proud to finally unbind their 1ten tracks of power and symphonic-influenced heavy metal from the debut album “Human Deeds”, which is now available as of October 27th from Rockshots Records at bit.ly/HumanDeedsCD

To celebrate the full-length’s release, the band is sharing their new music video “Queen of Thorns”, a mysterious track, that captures and slowly pulls you into a place that seems far away, but actually lies within you, its slow whirlwind that intoxicates the mind and makes you forget the world around you, bringing you back to a primal essence.

“This song evokes in each of us deep, strong, and conflicting sensations and feelings, sharp and blurred images that intertwine into a unique and unrepeatable cocktail. I think, above all else, this is the reason why we chose it as a single.” adds bassist Massimiliano Flak.

“Human Deeds” was produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by bassist Massimiliano Flak at Evolution Recording Studios in Turin (Italy) www.evolutionstudios.it, with album artwork and booklet designed by Caio Caldas at www.cadiesart.com based on a concept from the band. All lyrics were written by Alessia Scolletti, except Anthem by Marika Vanni and Close To You by Massimiliano Flak.

“We hope that this album will be received with curiosity by future listeners, we are musicians from different bands and we each put our own ideas and origins into this project, making it an interesting recipe. Being a debut album, there is no certainty. What is for sure is that this album will also appeal to those who do not usually listen to metal. This album talks about the bad situation of the world, but also keeps a light of hope for the future. You can clearly see what we mean by looking through the artwork. We think our overall goal was to create songs that punch people’s heads and shake their hearts. What’s better than heavy metal to reach this goal?”adds the band.

Creating something that was particularly close to their hearts, Raining Nails is trying to make listeners more involved in their ideas and emotions. Fans of bands such as Battle Beast, Powerwolf, and Kamelot are highly recommended to check out “Human Deeds”.

Lyric Video – “Anthem” – https://youtu.be/GT09Y9EfN7c​
Spotify – https://spoti.fi/46KpTtV

Track Listing:​
1. A New Way To Walk On – 4:22
2. Chained – 4:36
3. Every Angel Has Its Demon – 4:17
4. Queen Of Thorns – 3:59
5. Headcrusher – 4:21
6. Close To You – 4:56
7. Not Strong Enough – 4:28
8. Anthem – 4:21
9. Refuge – 3:54
10. Rage Of Justice – 5:20
Album Length: 44:37

Raining Nails is:
Marika Vanni: Vocals
Giacomo Paradiso: Electric and Acoustic Guitars
Massimiliano Flak: Bass
Mattia Rubino: Drum

More info: Rockshots.eu | Rainingnails.it | Facebook.com/rainingnails | Instagram.com/rainingnailsband

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