Grammy-Nominated Doom Metal Legends CANDLEMASS Showcase Lyric Video for ‘Angel Battle’

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After the amazing reception of their latest album, legendary classic doom icons CANDLEMASS continue the onslaught of epic heaviness with the release of an exciting lyric video for their fourth single, “Angel Battle”, from Sweet Evil Sun! Following the previous three earth-shattering singles, “Angel Battle” trudges in with a captivating guitar riff, presenting an ominous motif that parallels the story of the battle between heaven and hell with amazing guitar solos signifying the fight between angels and demons. A soft lull comes in as clean guitars and an organ play a small dirge before heavy guitar riffs trumpet once again for one last time.

With Sweet Evil Sun, recorded at NOX studio in Stockholm, the Swedish force centered around Leif Edling continue their unmatched legacy, following the inimitable The Door to Doom (2019) and proving once more that they reign as one of the heaviest metal bands on earth, bringing epic doom to the world of metal. Go and grab a copy of Sweet Evil Sun out now via Napalm Records!

After working on this massive piece of art for 18 months in total, with Sweet Evil Sun, CANDLEMASS brings back all the grandness of their early years, exploring themes of ambition and strife, hope and failure. It comes as no surprise that, alongside the band, renowned producer Marcus Jidell captured the band’s massive, smoky guitar tones, powerful drums and larger-than-life vocals, offering a truly unique, high quality sonic experience.

Leif Edling on the new album:       
“Sweet Evil Sun is about hope, striving, adoration and failure. It’s about all the personal battles that you have, but also the never-ending decay of humanity. The record took over a year to make and there’s not a bad track on it! We had a fantastic time recording it and are really looking forward to the release. It’s Doom, It’s Metal! It is the essence of CANDLEMASS put into one album!”

Order your copy of Sweet Evil Sun NOW

Sweet Evil Sun Tracklist:
1. Wizard Of The Vortex
2. Sweet Evil Sun
3. Angel Battle
4. Black Butterfly
5. When Death Sighs
6. Scandinavian Gods
7. Devil Voodoo
8. Crucified
9. Goddess
10. A Cup Of Coffin (Outro)

Experience CANDLEMASS live in 2023:
10.03.23 US – Seattle, WA / Substation
11.03.23 US – Portland, OR / Star Theater – SOLD OUT
12.03.23 US – Portland, OR / Dante’s
14.03.23 US – San Francisco, CA / DNA
16.03.23 US – Los Angeles, CA / 1720
17.03.23 US – San Diego, CA / Brick By Brick
08.04.23 DE – Munich / Dark Easter Metal Meeting
02.06.23 SE – Blädinge / Muskelrock
15.06.23 FR – Clisson / Hellfest
24.06.23 NO – Oslo / Tons Of Rock

SEETHING AKIRA Release Wicked New Video for Single ‘Metaphors’

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Defiant six-piece nu-metal rockers SEETHING AKIRA have released their wild and wonderful new video for their turbo-charged nu-metal single “Metaphors.”

The aggressive track pulses with a fusion of synthesizers, brutally heavy rhythms, thrashing guitars, and their signature explosive rap/rock vocal performances. Encapsulated by provocative lyrics “Metaphors” is about a single moment in time where you decide whether taking the chance is worth the risk. The single is hardcore chaos wrapped into a gift box, signed, sealed, and delivered with their usual bombastic style, and well, “Let’s take the risk.”
  
“Metaphors is the description of a single moment of hope seen in another individual or activity,” states Seething Akira. “And deciding in that single moment that it is worth the risk to pursue this single moment of hope for the potential of much greater moments that may follow, even if this may not come to fruition.”

Check out the video, filmed & directed by Dark Fable Media here:

Catch SEETHING AKIRA at dates below, more to be added:
27th Jan Voodoo Winter Ball, Electrowerkz
8th April Takedown Festival Portsmouth (Sleep Token, Skindred, Loathe, InMe)
28th-30th April Teddy Rocks Festival Blandford (Jake Bugg, Feeder, The Lathums etc)
12th August Bloodstock (main stage)

Explosive. Bombastic. Defiant. Intense. Seething Akira continues to rock on with their gloriously turbulent nu-metal sound towards their next album, Nozomi. Hot off the editorial success of their last album Dysfunctional Wonderland and with recent appearances at DOWNLOAD festival, the Heavy Music Awards, Tech Fest, Hammerdown Festival, Amplified Festival amongst others, and a recently featured single on the hit Meta Quest VR game Smash Drums with “The Fallen”. Seething Akira is not slowing down any time soon. 

Purchase/Stream: https://found.ee/Nozomi 

Seething Akira have developed a gloriously turbulent sound that is uniquely their own. Founded by vocalists Charlie Bowes and Kit Conrad, Seething Akira are a 6-piece electronic nu-core band hailing from the seafront city of Portsmouth, UK that have been tearing venues apart across Europe with their powerful fusion of genres since 2012.
  
The band’s first full-length album, Sleepy Skeletor, dropped in 2018 and made it clear that Seething Akira would be a force to be reckoned with in the years to come. In late 2020, the band launched a series of new singles leading up to their second album, the highly anticipated Dysfunctional Wonderland. With the strength of the band’s music and their popularity with fans rocketing skyward, they connected with the electronic rock label FiXT and forged a partnership for their future releases. 
  
Seething Akira has been featured on the Rock Hard Spotify editorial list, while their single “Firepower” landed on Kerrang Radio and Scuzz. “I Am The Devil” and “The Islander”  were both featured on BBC Introducing, and “The Islander” premiered on Soundsphere Magazine. 
  
At home and on the road, Seething Akira have also put their stamp on staple festivals such as Bloodstock, Victorious, Camden Rocks, and many more while touring with bands like The Qemists and The Algorithm.

DEATH & LEGACY Release Brand New Video ‘The Unnamed Shadow’ Feat. Tom S. Englund

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Melodic Death Metal act DEATH & LEGACY strike back with the release of the brand new video for “The Unnamed Shadow” feat. Tom S. Englund, vocalist of the well known act Evergrey.

The band leaded by the charismatic Hynphernia combines with fury and passion the glory of Heavy Metal and the strength of the Death metal genre, giving a top notch performance of their metallic abilities.

The video has been directed by David Romeu:

Extracted from the upcoming album “D4rk Prophecies”, coming out in April 14th.

The band takes inspiration from the structures and elements of classic Metal with the extreme and modern vibes of the scene’s newest generation, blending neck breaking riffs with clean and screaming vocals & growls from the abyss.

Pre-Production and recording has been done in V3 Studios in Madrid by Manuel Acilu and in Tercera Planta Studios by Manuel Ramil. “D4rk Prophecies” was mixed, mastered and produced in Tercera Planta Studios by Manuel Ramil (Adventus, Delalma, Avalanch, Mägo de Oz…)

Exclusive merch preorder packs now available at the AGR Online Store, HERE.

HERIOT to Support Rolo Tomassi on Tour in February

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UK’s most exciting new heavy band, HERIOT, will support experimental metal legends Rolo Tomassi on their Europe 2023 tour, alongside Holy Fawn.

Dates:

Feb 03: BE Antwerp Trix
Feb 04: DE Hamburg Headcrash [SELLING FAST]
Feb 05: DK Copenhagen Pumpehuset
Feb 07: DE Berlin Maschinehaus [SOLD OUT]
Feb 08: CZ Prague Underdogs
Feb 09: HU Budapest Durer Kert
Feb 10: AT Vienna Arena
Feb 11: DE Munich Orangehouse
Feb 12: DE Cologne Artheater [SELLING FAST]
Feb 13: NL Den Bosch Willem Twee
Feb 15: UK London Electric Ballroom

The news follows HERIOT‘s recent tours with Zeal & Ardor and Boston Manor and marks the band’s first tour in Europe. 

Releasing their globally-critically acclaimed debut EP, Profound Morality in April, HERIOT played to packed tents at Download Festival, 2000trees, Bloodstock, ArcTanGent, gathering a legion of fans in the process.

Profound Morality is out now via Church Road Records, available here: https://bfan.link/profound-morality

HERIOT are a blistering, vicious, visceral new group, having made their mark with their titanic singles ‘Dispirit‘, ‘Recreant‘, ‘Cleansed Existence‘, ‘Near Vision/Enter the Flesh’, as well as their monstrous cover of Machine Head‘s ‘Ten Ton Hammer‘ over the course of 2021.

The band’s output across the last year has led to heads being turned across the metal world, all blown away by HERIOT’s unrelenting take on the new heavy. Fully-focused and with a razor-sharp edge, the awe-inspiring double-vocal attack of Jake Packer and Debbie Gough on vocals is all-conquering; the titanic support of Erhan Alman (guitar) and Julian Gage (drums) rock-solid. 

Profound Morality reflects different aspects of human behaviour in our modern society. How far people push their moral boundaries to achieve what they want; outdated modes of living and beliefs that harm our contemporary life; life and death and how fulfilment can be achieved, be that helping or hurting peers; and how this shapes tyrants of industry, and a clear separation of class and wealth. 

HERIOT have deservedly been grabbing attention with all four pairs of hands, weaponising metallic sludge and hardcore, unholy levels of distortion, speed and gut-punching talent. Elements of Nails, Knocked Loose, Code Orange, and Vein combine and collide to exhilarating new effect, to create a new sound that is truly groundbreaking, fully worthy of the notice the band are achieving.

In their short recent history HERIOT have caught the attention of Metal Hammer, Rock Sound, Brooklyn Vegan, Kerrang!, Revolver, and Knotfest, among many others. Acclaimed as “one of the most promising young bands in modern metalcore”, HERIOT have supported Rolo Tomassi and Svalbard on their respective UK tours, and performed at Download, 2000trees, Bloodstock, ArcTanGent and more in 2022.

HERIOTare:

Jake Packer – Vocals/Bass
Debbie Gough – Vocals/Guitar
Erhan Alman – Guitar
Julian Gage – Drums

Finnish MARIANAS REST Announce New Album “Auer”

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Melodic death doom heavyweights MARIANAS REST have announced their upcoming fourth studio album, entitled Auer, out March 24, 2023 via Napalm Records.

Hailing from the coastal town of Kotka, MARIANAS REST embodies the Finnish melancholy and sadness of a cold, harsh winter landscape with absolute perfection. Formed in 2013, the six-piece with Jaakko Mäntymaa on vocals and Omnium Gatherum’s Aapo Koivisto on keys took the heavy music scene by storm with the release of their impressive 2016-debut, Horror Vacui. Now, just in time to celebrate their 10th band anniversary, MARIANAS REST unleashes eight new tracks that couldn’t be more multifaceted. 

Songs such as first single ‘Diseased’ prove that death metal does not always need fast-paced riffage and thunderous blast beats – MARIANAS REST spice up their dark mood with a heavy dose of doom and a significant black metal touch, to deliver a colossal sound and new piece of pure art!

Vocalist Jaakko Mäntymaa comments: “Today we are proud to present the first details about Auer, the most musically diverse of our albums so far. It is a story about the never ending dance of shadow and light. Humankind repeats its mistakes, but there is beauty amongst chaos.”

Bassist Niko Lindman adds: “We broke traditional song structures and seasoned the atmosphere slightly with clean vocal parts. The very core has still not essentially changed much as the album continues the “there is still light at the end of the tunnel, maybe” atmosphere familiar from the previous albums.”

“Diseased is most likely one of our most venomous designs,“ says the singer about the band’s first single. “It is the deep, dark end of Auer: A story about the poison that is spreading amongst us as we speak. No one is safe.”

Auer, is epic, heavy, sad and bleak; its overall melancholic yet brutal riffs, mesmerizing auditory colors and immersive vocals will hit you deep in your core. It’s a heavy ride through a disturbing yet beautiful sound landscape that only a Finnish band like MARIANAS REST can create, while always keeping you warm and welcome yet haunted and hopeless.

The album was recorded and mixed by Teemu Aalto at Teemu Aalto Music Productions, and was mastered by Svante Forsbäck at Chartmakers. The band‘s upcoming offering not only features a vocal guest appearance by MY DYING BRIDE vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe on album track “Sirens”, but without question, Auer will establish the name of MARIANAS REST as one of the most enthralling, remarkable and exceptional melodic death and blackened doom metal bands of modern times!

Pre-Order Auer HERE

Auer track listing:

  1. Auer
  2. Diseased
  3. Light Reveals Our Wounds
  4. White Cradle
  5. The Ground Still Burns
  6. Fear Travels Fast
  7. The Hanging Blade
  8. Sirens (feat. Aaron Stainthorpe)

MARIANAS REST is:
Jaakko Mäntymaa – Vocals
Harri Sunila – Guitar
Nico Mänttäri – Guitar
Nico Heininen – Drums
Niko Lindman – Bass / backing vocals
Aapo Koivisto – Keyboards

URIAH HEEP Release Second Single ‘Hurricane’ from “Chaos & Colour”

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British hard rock legends and progenators URIAH HEEP release the second single “Hurricane”, taken from their twenty-fifth studio album Chaos & Colour, set for release January 27th, 2023 via Silver Lining Music.  

The anthemic and epic “Hurricane” carries an underlying historical and mythological theme. 

Co-writer and drummer Russell Gilbrook explains: “Simon (Pinto) and I wrote the song about how our ancestors looked at storms and how these can be interpreted as being messages from the Gods… Their power is awesome and a great inspiration for a rocking track!”

Chaos & Colour second single, “Hurricane”, is accompanied by a lyric video available to watch at this location.

Founding member Mick Box comments: “Music and lyrics are of paramount importance to me… I used to hate those ‘80s MTV million dollar videos as they created such a visual image that all calls to imagination were lost because you didn’t have to think. I think the power of music and lyrics are that they do certain things to certain people.”

Watch/Listen to the recently released “Save Me Tonight” here. 

Chaos & Colour is an album which bristles with explosive classic rock guitars, supreme harmonies, and Heep’s famously generous keyboard foundation. “One Nation, One Sun” is a journey of soaring balladic contemplation, “Fly Like An Eagle” takes the listener on a journey of meditation, whilst “Closer To Your Dreams” is a battle cry for all rockers to get out there and do it, with Shaw imploring that “So many have tried but slipped away/Now it’s time for you to have your say.” During the entire album, Bernie Shaw’s timeless vocals sit expertly beside the band’s phenomenal artistry (Mick Box – guitar, Phil Lanzon – keyboard, Russell Gilbrook – drums, Dave Rimmer – bass), rounding out exceptional performances throughout.

Produced by Jay Ruston, and engineered by Pieter Rietkerk, Chaos & Colour is a superb album of quality hard rock from the pioneers of the genre who continue to create top class material. Old fans will be reinvigorated whilst new fans will surely find Chaos & Colour an exceptional discovery. In this, their 53rd pioneering year as a band, Chaos & Colour sees Uriah Heep throwing down more life, light and energy than peers 40 years their juniors.
“It sounds exactly as one would hope some of hard rock’s greatest architects to sound, 50 years in: committed, passionate, bursting with ideas and absolutely not interested in stopping any time soon” – Classic Rock 

“It’s incredible how the album songs can sound so fresh and urgent and at the same time so timeless to already be considered classic” – Rock Hard

“You know you’re onto a winner when you get goosebumps at the start of the first song. Huge riffs and even bigger melodies that you will be humming for days” 10/10 – My Global Mind

“Chaos & Colour Chaos ranks alongside Uriah Heep’s best work for many a year. Class is permanent, and in Chaos & Colour, Uriah Heep show once more that they are the classiest of acts.” – Metal Talk

“Uriah Heep are on an immaculate, impeccable level of creativity – still after almost 54 years. Chaos & Colour could have been also named Glory & Gold!” – Metal Hammer 

“A lush load of hard rock, tangy, lively riffs, epic organ, powerful grooves and most important hooks like total earworms.
A feast for fans!”- Rock Hard 

“Heroes of the rock Olympus! Not only one thumb up for the album but two thumbs up”- Hardline

Chaos & Colour is available to pre-order in Black and Coloured Vinyl configurations, as a standard CD Digipak, a Deluxe CD packaged in a hardcover book with Uriah Heep’s Chaos & Colour signature patch and in digital formats.

Pre-orders available on this site

Chaos & Colour Track List:

  1. Save Me Tonight
  2. Silver Sunlight
  3. Hail the Sunrise
  4. Age of Changes*
  5. Hurricane
  6. One Nation, One Sun
  7. Golden Light
  8. You’ll Never Be Alone
  9. Fly Like an Eagle
  10. Freedom to Be Free
  11. Closer to Your Dreams*
  12. Save Me Tonight (Demo)**

*CD and Digital only
**Deluxe CD only

MICK BOX – Lead Guitar / Vocals
PHIL LANZON – Keyboards / Vocals
BERNIE SHAW – Lead Vocals
DAVE RIMMER – Bass Guitar / Vocals
RUSSELL GILBROOK – Drums & Percussion
 
Produced by Jay Ruston
Engineered by Pieter Rietkerk
Recorded at Chapel Studios UK
Mixed by Jay Ruston at TRS West, Sherman Oaks, California
Additional Engineering by John Douglass
Mastered by Paul Logus