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MICAWBER Share New Single + Music Video ‘The Cremation of Care’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 7, 2023
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Photographer credit: Marc Birr

Green Bay, Wisconsin death metal group MICAWBER have shared a brand new single and music video, titled The Cremation of Care, out now via Prosthetic Records. The Cremation of Care serves as the first glimpse of new original material since MICAWBER’s 2018 full-length, Beyond the Reach of Flame, and as an introduction to their new guitarist Billy Zahn.

Stream The Cremation of Care via Apple Music, TIDAL, Deezer, Bandcamp and Spotify

Speaking on the single release, MICAWBER comments: “We are extremely stoked to release our new song The Cremation of Care and give everyone a taste of what we’re cookin’ up in the MICAWBER camp! With the addition of our new guitarist Billy Zahn (Vindicator, FROSTHELM, Fel) we are back to firing on all cylinders and ready to get back on the road doing what we do best; partying with all you psychos!”

The long running US death metal group’s latest single boasts visceral recording and mixing work by Marc Birr at Carp Town Studios, as well as mastering by Joel Grind of Toxic Holocaust. With their line-up solidified, MICAWBER’s future looks increasingly bright as they enter their sixteenth year of existence.

Having fine tuned their craft of death metal battery on stages across North America and Europe, amassing well over 20 tours along the way, MICAWBER intend to hit the road once again this year – with more details in due course.

MICAWBER is:
Leighton Thompson – Guitar and vocals
Billy Zahn – Guitar
Nick Gouin – Bass
Tyler Lachowicz – Drums

BLACK LAVA Share New Live Video for ‘Baptised in Ice’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 7, 2023
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Photo by Joe Ritson

Emerging blackened death metal quartet BLACK LAVA (ft. members of VIPASSI, ex-NE OBLIVISCARIS, AMDBL, HADAL MAW, etc.) is now sharing a brand new live video for their performance of the song “Baptised in Ice!” The song is taken from the band’s debut opus, ‘Soul Furnace,’ and can be seen at THIS LOCATION.

‘Soul Furnace’ was released in November 2022 via Season of Mist and landed coveted chart placements for the Australian Independent Record Labels Association, debuting at #2 on the 100% Independent Albums chart  and #4 on the Independent Label Albums chart! Additionally, ‘Soul Furnace’ was named among Sick Drummer Magazine’s “Favorite Drumming Albums of 2022!”

‘Soul Furnace’ can be streamed, downloaded, and ordered HERE.

The cover artwork for ‘Soul Furnace’ was painted by Paolo Girardi.

Tracklisting:
01. Origins (02:50)
02. Aurora (03:35)
03. Black Blizzard (03:32)
04. Baptised in Ice (03:27) [WATCH]
05. Eye of the Moon (04:10) [WATCH]
06. Northern Dawn (04:30) [WATCH]
07. Necrocatacomb (03:23)
08. Nightshade (04:06)
09. Soul Furnace (04:31) [WATCH]
Entire album duration: 34:02

Members of ELDER, HIGH FIGHTER, DELVING & LAWNS Announce New Band WEITE

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 7, 2023
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Nicholas DiSalvo (Elder, Delving) and Michael Risberg (Elder) alongside colleagues Ingwer Boysen (High Fighter) and Ben Lubin (Lawns), have announced a new band, Weite!


Weite was initially conceived as a one-off winter project by Boysen, who contacted DiSalvo and Risberg with the idea to write and record a record within a week. Having played together in DiSalvo’s live band for his project Delving, a certain musical chemistry was already apparent. The three recruited Berlin-based English guitarist Lubin to round out the quartet and proceeded to bunker in for a week of intense songwriting.

[photo: Leon De Backer]

Sharing their diverse musical interests and swapping instruments frequently, a body of songs was quickly created that channeled a collective love for 60’s and 70’s psychedelic music, krautrock, jazz and listening to one motorik beat for 20 minutes straight. The troupe set off to record in a short session at Big Snuff Studio with frequent collaborator Richard Behrens and within a few days “Assemblage” was born. Recording live, Behrens captured the essence of the session, at times mellow and times intense, with the five together then embellishing the raw recordings with a hearty dollop of experimental overdubs.


After many banal discussions and almost a year after the project was finished, Weite was officially born as the group decided to continue the project as a proper band. “We didn’t intend to start a band, but it kinda happened“, the band comments on their first social media post. “It turned out pretty cool, too cool to let it be a one-off, so we decided to keep it going. WEITE was officially born; the word means “expanse” “vastness” or “width”, a few adjectives we’d use to describe our sound.“
A making of video for “Assemblage” is now available on Weite‘s Instagram page.

Stay tuned and expect shows in 2023 celebrating the official release of “Assemblage”, slated for a July-release through Stickman Records, with more music to come in the future!

Follow WEITE at: http://www.instagram.com/_weite

EVERMORE Release New Album ‘In Memoriam’ on April 21st

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 7, 2023
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Photo Credit: Magnus Högfeldt

EVERMORE rewrite the traditional rules of European power metal in an extraordinary, unique way. 

With the 2021 debut ‘Court of the Tyrant King’ they showed off some remarkable skills; now ‘In Memoriam’ takes their ideas, songwriting and overall artistic approach to the next level. 

The album is set to be released on April 21st via Scarlet Records.

While always adopting a heavy and aggressive tone, Evermore’s stunning melodies weave around each other and create songs that are smart-structured and yet always catchy and radio friendly. This time, the Swedish band even used a church choir to add another sonic layer to the sound.

artwork by Christoph Peters

Lyrically wise, ‘In Memoriam’ may be perceived as an album about people and the everyday struggles that affect us all – “For those who lost their voice in the dark of night – Compassion is the flame that leads you home”. 

The end goal of Evermore is to create music that makes you feel “something” and creates that sense of empowerment, uplifting mood and motivation that is so strongly associated with the metal genre: you own the story! 

  • recorded at MWC Studios; produced and mixed by Marcus “Mackan” Alfsson; mastered by Svante at Chartmakers West
  • vinyl version available (limited 300 copies)

EVERMORE:
Johan Haraldsson – lead and backing vocals
Johan Karlsson – lead and rhythm guitar, bass, keyboards, orchestration, backing vocals
Andreas Vikland – guitars, drums, orchestration, lyrics

SYLVAINE Nominated for Norwegian Grammy Spellemannsprisen for ‘Nova’ Album

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 7, 2023
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Season of Mist is pleased to announce that Norwegian multi-instrumentalist SYLVAINE has once again been nominated for a Spellemannprisen (Norwegian Grammy) award! SYLVAINE is nominated for 2022’s opus, ‘Nova,’ in the “Best Metal Album of 2022” category!

SYLVAINE was previously nominated for a Spellemannprisen in 2019 for ‘Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone,’ making history as the first female artist nominated for the award in the “Best Metal Album Category!”

‘Nova’ was met with much critical-acclaim and named among one of the best metal albums of 2022 by Ghost Cult Magazine, A&P Reacts, Heaviest of Art, Infernal Masquerade, Forgemaster Metal Reviews, and more!

In addition, SYLVAINE is now embarking on a European headliner with support from E-L-R! The trek kicks off today, March 6 and will conclude on March 12! The full run can be found below!

Stream/download/order ‘Nova’ HERE.

Track-list
1. Nova (04:36) [LISTEN]
2. Mono No Aware (09:42) [LISTEN]
3. Nowhere, Still Somewhere (04:34) [WATCH]
4. Fortapt (11:55)
5. I Close My Eyes So I Can See (05:16)
6. Everything Must Come To An End (07:47) [WATCH]
Bonus track
7. Dissolution (05:58)
Total: 49:51

ICYMI:SYLVAINE has just launched her very own signature tea in collaboration with BrutaliTeas! “Apples Aligned, Coming Undone” is an apple crème brulée loose leaf tea created with ceylon black tea, gunpowder green tea, apple pieces, cinnamon, natural candy apple and crème brulée flavors, rose hips, rose petals, and marigold flowers and comes just in time for the autumn season! The tea can be ordered HERE and will also be available on SYLVAINE’s merch table for the upcoming EU tour!

Additional details for the tea can also be found HERE.

SYLVAINE Headlining EU Tour (w/ E-L-R), remaining shows:
07 Mar 23 Marseille (FR) Le Molotow
08 Mar 23 Toulouse (FR) Connexion
09 Mar 23 Barcelona (ES) Boveda
10 Mar 23 Madrid (ES) Wurlitzer Ballroom
11 Mar 23 Lisboa (PT) LAV Lisboa ao Vivo
12 Mar 23 Porto (PT) Hard Cl

SKAM’s Remastered Album “Intravenous” Out Now

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 6, 2023
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Out now, Intravenous is the culmination of SKAM’s 2-part anthology, making up their 4th full length release. The album consists of both earlier released EPs – Intra and Venous, and has been re-mastered by Ade Emsley, known for his work mastering for Iron Maiden and other great bands. 
 
The album is inspired by modern day struggles and each song focuses on a negative human trait but sends the message that in any situation, there is always hope. Having honed their craft, the lads have gone back to basics and put together a collection of hard-hitting tracks. 

“Lyrically, the songs follow the same theme of human conditions and experiences. We have really tried to push the envelope of the SKAM sound on this one and there is something there for fans both old and new. You will hear hard hitting bangers typical of the sound SKAM are famous for, but also some curve balls in the form of a power ballad and a 90s style grunge track!” – Steve Hill (vocalist/guitarist)
 
The track listing will run in ‘album order’ as the band believes it should run when put together, and the release will include the previously unreleased track ‘Do It Again’

Stream/buy Intravenous HERE

ABOUT SKAM
Formed in 2011, SKAM are a hard rock power trio band from the middle of England. They have a reputation for delivering no nonsense, gutsy, classic sounding British rock music. Over the last 9 years, the band have worked tirelessly to build a solid following in the UK. Now, they are considered to be at the forefront of the ‘New Wave of Classic Rock’ movement that is currently sweeping the nation.
 
To date, SKAM have independently released 3 albums, It’s Come to This (2011), Peacemaker (2014) and The Amazing Memoirs of Geoffrey Goddard (2017). With these releases, they established themselves as a live force to be reckoned with. The band have hit the road with The Answer, Airbourne, Skindred, The Quireboys, and GUN, to name just a few formidable live acts.
  
Their single ‘Take it Or Leave it’ was voted as ‘track of the week’ by Classic Rock Magazine and has since been included on Earache Records’ ‘New Wave of Rock N Roll’ compilation vinyl. Their recent EP Intra hit the UK Rock Chart at # 6!
 
SKAM don’t write songs to a formula, but as rock fans trying to capture what they would want to hear.

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