Cinematic Symphonic Metal Maestro MAX ENIX Unveils ‘City of Mortals’ Music Video

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Renowned visionary metal composer MAX ENIX has once again pushed the boundaries of musical innovation with the release of his latest video clip, “City of Mortals,” a captivating track from his double album “Far From Home,” released via Wormholedeath.

In “City of Mortals,” Max Enix fearlessly tackles themes of corruption, oppression, and the relentless pursuit of power at the expense of others. The song resonates with listeners, urging them to reject exploitation, tyranny, and falsehoods that plague our world. It captures the longing for a return to values, unity, and a brighter future, inspiring rebellion against these injustices.

Watch the emotionally charged and visually stunning “City of Mortals” music video here:

Max Enix: Music, Vocals, Artistic director, Lyrics/story…
Thomas Kubler: Additional arrangements, Orchestrator
François Rousselot: Conductor
Leo Margarit: Drums
Vikram Shankar: Piano/Keyboards
Jean-Jacques Moréac: Bass
Xavier Boscher: Guitars
Elise Wachbar: Vocals

“Far From Home” is a genre-blending masterpiece that combines progressive-symphonic-post rock/metal with film score elements, infused with world/New Age, hip hop, jazz, and avant-garde influences, resulting in a truly unique and unprecedented sound. Inspired by Max Enix’s personal voyage of self-discovery and exploration of diverse musical genres and cultures, the album showcases the Budapest Symphony Orchestra and guest musicians such as Vikram Shankar on piano/keyboards and Xavier Boscher on guitars. The expertly crafted production includes mixing by David Castillo at Studio Grondahl in Stockholm, Sweden, and mastering by Tony Lindgren at Fascination Street Studios in Orebro, Sweden. The album’s visual aesthetic is brought to life through Thomas Ewerhard’s illustrations and artwork. Max Enix’s music is an enchanting journey of self-discovery and exploration of diverse musical genres and cultures. His compositions not only captivate with their originality and innovation but also appeal to fans of various artists, including Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, and Hans Zimmer. Max Enix possesses a unique universe that transcends music and language, captivating audiences worldwide.

Stream and buy the album at this location.

For more information, please visit Max Enix’s official website and social media channels:

Website: www.max-enix.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/max.enix.73
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Ex Motley Crue JOHN CORABI Would Have Preferred If Morgan Freeman Portrayed Him in The Dirt Film

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Jimmy Kay for Canada’s The Metal Voice recently interviewed The Dead Daisies frontman and former Motley Crue singer  John Corabi on the streets of Montreal, Canada on July 3, 2023 prior to performing acoustic at The Piranha Bar. Watch the video interview below.

Corabi has asked about his portrayal in the 2019 Motley Crue movie The Dirt and if he should have been included, he told The Metal Voice, “I think they could have just shown the band split up and then show them talking to get back together again (without including him). The only thing that bugs me about that movie is that they took the unfortunate liberty to make it look like I was playing in high school gymnasiums to like eight people.  I’m fine, it is what it is. It doesn’t bother me at all anymore. I’m like whatever. I thought that was a little bit overblown their perception or their view of that time.  I mean it’s kind of funny if you go on to YouTube and type in John Corabi Motley Crue Live 94. it’s like yeah none of the shows were sold out but we still played to three, four, five, six thousand people, seven thousand people depending on the size of the Arena. I just thought that was a little shitty and then the other thing is if they were going to put me in the movie which they did I’m just angry that they didn’t get Morgan Freeman to play me. You know he’s always wise in every movie, he’s just cool in every movie.”

Corabi was then asked about all the Mick Mars and Motley Crue drama, he said, “I said what I had to say in the very beginning when that first press release came out that Mick wasn’t going to tour due to his health and yada yada.  Somebody asked me a question, I made the statements and now I’m keeping my mouth shut but none of the drama surprises me, do you know what I mean? That’s all I gotta say.”

SKULL & CROSSBONES (Feat. Former Members of STORMWITCH) Unleash Album Title Track ‘Sungazer’

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Following their recent signing with Massacre Records, German heavy metal act SKULL & CROSSBONES is premiering their upcoming album title track “Sungazer”! The band’s first full-length studio album will be released on September 8, 2023, and will be available as CD Digipak, Ltd. Vinyl LP and Digital formats. The pre-sale has just started at THIS LOCATION!

“Sungazer tells a fictional story – A boy hates his father, therefore can not look in the mirror, because he sees his father in there,” the band reveals. “When he became blind, the hatred in him grew, only the look to the sun and its warmth gave him strength to live on. Only after his father died, the hatred begins to fade. So an invisible force from nature gives him the courage to live.” About the musical characteristics of the first SCULL & CROSSBONES single the band says: “It’s a classic metal song; great choirs; beautiful, memorable melodies, guitar solos to die for.”

The four ex-Stormwitch members Volker Schmietow, Tobi Kipp, Jürgen “Wanschi” Wannenwetsch and Marc Oppold, completed by vocalist Tobi Hübner, pick up where they left off. SKULL & CROSSBONES have dedicated themselves to traditional heavy metal.

Sungazer was mixed and mastered by Marc Ayerle at KlangManufaktur, with a cover artwork created by Michael Vetter.

Sungazer track listing:

  1. Midnight Fyre
  2. Sungazer
  3. Manhunter
  4. The Invisible Man
  5. Tyrant’s Rule
  6. Nature’s Legacy
  7. Inner Self
  8. Live Your Dreams
  9. The Drowned
  10. The Traveller

SKULL & CROSSBONES Live:
09.09.2023 DE Bisingen – Umsonst & Draußen Zollernalb
16.09.2023 DE Gerstetten – Schlicker
09.12.2023 DE Horb am Neckar – Marmorwerk

SKULL & CROSSBONES are:
Tobi Hübner – Vocals
Volker Schmietow – Guitar
Tobi Kipp – Guitar
Jürgen “Wanschi” Wannenwetsch – Bass
Marc Oppold – Drums

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http://skullandcrossbones.de
https://www.facebook.com/skullandcrossbones.Band
https://www.instagram.com/skullandcrossbones_official

HOPELESS Release New Single + Lyric Video ‘Non Serviam’

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With an evocative blend of Gojira, Behemoth and Rotting Christ mixed with own personal touch, HOPELESS unleash via Agoge Records NON SERVIAM, first new single after years of silence.

Both massive and atmospheric, it strikes deep with stern riffs, wide chorus and intricate breakdowns to deliver its message of freedom and self awareness. “Non Serviam” is available in every digital platform.

Watch below the Lyric video.

Hopeless is a headstrong combination of old-school attitude and modern influences heading towards a melodic yet stout, yet symphonic breaths and uneven rhythms bringing forth the ideological earthquakes treasured by the philosophical and intimate lyrics.

Conceived in Piedmont, Italy, back in 2007 and yet brought to life only in 2012, Hopeless has a long preparation age with the line-up straight consolidating into a power trio (Lorenzo Stelitano – bass and vocals, Andrea Tosello – guitar, Domenico Fazzari – drums) dedicated to solid Death Metal music, melodic and streaked never exceeding neither in brutality nor “cheerful” melodies.

In early 2015, since the very first gig, Hopeless get delighted feedbacks, and no surprise that “Our Declaration of War”, self-produced EP released in the second half of the same years is praised in reviews and goes sold out in a few months and even the second print copies, in a renewed graphic asset, is likewise fast at disappearing. In September 2015 starts as well the first compositions (slow, fanatical and methodical) for what will become the debut album, yet to be finished.

During the following years, the band manages to consolidate a fan base especially in North Italy through many and intense live concerts and get the opportunity to share the stage with international bands such as Vulcano (Brasil), E-Force (Canada), Ade, Hellixir (France), Methedras, Voltumna, Girlschool (UK), Gotland, Atavicus and more.

Ending 2017, Domenico leaves the band and Elia Dutto takes his place. In the following two years, Hopeless plays abroad for the first time and re-record and release the single “Dawn of the Black Sun” (still from “Our Declaration of War”) with massive orchestral arrangements, just before Elia as well leaves the drum throne at the beginning of the well known pandemic situation.

During long and solitary lock-down months the momentary duo Lorenzo/Andrea bring to an end the composition of the album and by the end of 2021 the line-up is complete and magnified: both a new drummer (Fabio Vellano) and a second guitarist (Stefano Valpreda, from Amthrya) join the ranks, and the now four-pieces formation delivers some solid live scores in the following year.

In July 2023, Hopeless release via Agoge Records their first completely new single after years, before accomplishing the (way too) long waited debut full-lenght.

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HOPELESS: https://www.facebook.com/hopelessdeathmetal
AGOGE RECORDS: http://www.agogerecords.com

BUSHMAN’S REVENGE Release Single ‘Hollowed Be Thy Fame’ from Upcoming Album

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Fans of Jazz veterans BUSHMAN’S REVENGE won’t have to wait until September to hear what “All The Better For Seeing You”,  the band’s eleventh full-length album, sounds like, because today Is It Jazz? Records have released a single from the album.
 
The track, titled “Hollowed Be Thy Fame” is, as the band explains, the perfect track to remind long-time followers what has gone into shaping BUSHMAN’S REVENGE into what it is today, as well as acting as an introduction to new listeners:
 
“Hollowed BeThy Fame” was one of the first ones written for the new record. With this one we kind of tried to sum up most of the elements that have made up the band to this point in one song: the freer stuff, the rockier stuff, the riffier parts, the more soundtracky stuff etc. 20 years on, it hopefully sounds a little bit old, and a little bit new at the same time. Same as us!

“Hollowed Be Thy Fame” can be downloaded or streamed from a variety of services at this location.

Not only will BUSHMAN’S REVENGE be celebrating the release of a new album this year, they will also be celebrating twenty years since Even Helte Hermansen on Guitar,  Rune Nergaard on  Bass, and Gard Nilssen on Drums first got together to form the band. 

In those twenty years, BUSHMAN’S REVENGE have garnered a stellar reputation world-wide amongst critics and fans alike. Not just as a as a consummate studio band, but also as a live band that demonstrates explosive energy and telepathic interplay.

“All The Better For Seeing You” is a culmination of two decades of exploration and experimentation with different sounds and musical direction, the result of which has been the creation of a genre specific to BUSHMAN’S REVENGE. It is a sound that exemplifies all the energy of Rock, but Rock that is given free rein thanks to the band’s Jazz elements

With artwork by Per Spjøtvold, track listing for “All The Better For Seeing You” is as follows:

  1. Halvannen Time – an hour and a half, more than enough
  2. Last Cup Of Zorro
  3. Hollowed Be Thy Fame
  4. Stolen From a Blind Monkey
  5. Raptus Norvegicus
  6. Takk For Seg

“All The Better For Seeing You” will be released on the 8th September in CD, Digital and Green Vinyl formats, and is available to pre-order now from:
 
Bandcamp: https://bushmansrevenge.bandcamp.com/album/all-the-better-for-seeing-you
Webshop: https://isitjazzrecords.no/shop/ **

**Using the code “bushman” when Pre-ordering “All The Better For Seeing You” through the Is It Jazz? Records Webshop qualifies you for a 30% discount on all other Is it Jazz? Records releases.

No celebration for a band, especially one like BUSHMAN’S REVENGE,  would be complete of course without live appearances,  and BUSHMAN’S REVENGE will hit the road for a series of dates on their 20th Anniversary Tour.  Routing as follows:

BUSHMAN’S REVENGE 20th ANNIVERSARY TOUR 2023 “All The Better For Seeing You”, remaining shows

19.08: Blå, Oslojazz (NO) feat; Alexander Hawkins-Organ
19.09: TBA, Bergen (NO)
20.09: Apollon, Bergen (NO)
21.09: Inderøy jazzforum (NO)
22.09: PØKK, Trondheim (NO)
23.09: Munkehaugen, Arendal (NO)
24.09: Union Scene, Drammen (NO)
05.11: Karensminde Kulturhus, Copenhagen (DK) (with Kresten Osgood3)
06.11: TBA, Hamburg (DK)
09.11: Sarajevo Jazzfestival (BA)
10.11: Bimhuis, Amsterdam (NL)
11.11: Rockit, Groningen (NL)
12.11: Comment Dire – Dialograum Kreuzung an Sankt Helena, Bonn (DE)
07.12: Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo (NO)

More information about BUSHMAN’S REVENGE can be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063543191580

A video of BUSHMAN’S REVENGE’s appearance at 2022’s Cologne Jazzweek can be seen below.

Finnish Drama Metallers GOTHONY Release New ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’ Single, Debut Album Out Later in 2023

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Finnish Helsinki-based Drama Metal band GOTHONY released a second single “In The Shadow Of The Moon”. The track is taken from their upcoming debut album which is set to be released later in 2023. 

LISTEN In The Shadow Of The Moon single: https://push.fm/fl/gothony-moon

Bass player Väiski Syväoja comments the single:
“In the Shadows of the Moon is the latest creation of drama metal. When the three heroes (Me, Mika Uusitalo, M.Toivonen) put their heads together for the composition, you can hear a return to the atmosphere of the 90s and the rustling of wings from metal classics. The song is crowned by Wuohi’s lyrics about the search for meaning and the disappointment when the search does not yield results… A drama metal classic has been born…”

Guitarist Mika Uusitalo comments:
“Rhythmic, rattling, dramatics, grief and hope…”

WATCH music video Patient 2442 for the first single: https://youtu.be/s9-Tc2Yoe3I

LISTEN Patient 2442 single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/gothony-patient2442

Gothony was founded in 1993 with the line-up

Mikko: drums and vocals

Mika: guitar + vocals

Miika: guitar

Väiski: bass

This line-up released two demos in the 90s in 1995 (Gothony) and 1997 (Hidden thoughts). Gigs mostly in the capital region, e.g. Oranssi klubi, Semifinal and at the legendary Thunder Road House.

In 1999, the band broke up. There was no drama in the breakup, but everyone went toward different directions in life. In 2019, it was decided to reassemble Gothony to revive the past and play old songs. Mikko, who handled the vocals in the original line-up, gave the vocal responsibilities to Wuohi of the 90s group’s Bleed me tears and Katharsis.

In 2020, Gothony went to Tuska-Torstai and Emergenza to get a feel for live show’s. After the gigs, a decision was made to start working on new songs and continue Gothony’s story.

In April 2023, it’s time to release a new song as a single and a music video . The full-length album will be released in autumn 2023.

Line-up:
Wuohi: Vocals
Mika Uusitalo: Guitar
Miika Peräkangas: Guitar
Väiski Syväoja: Bass
M.Toivonen: Drums
Guest vocals on Patient 2442: Kata Samula

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