Light a torch, get out of your mental cavern and allow the light, refracted on the snow, to open your eyes and your thoughts.
The new single “Necessity of exploration” by NOISE IN MYSELF will be the perfect soundtrack.
The beginning of the song is dark and the fast meter presses on terms that increase the sense of claustrophobia, also because alternated with the drums. The instrumental explodes on a vigorous rhythm section, while the gloom vanishes and motivation and energy are coming back. The strings lead us, at first through the struggle and then towards the final part, with powerful and evocative riffs: a deep, hopeful and introspective breath while staring at the sky. The atmosphere becomes ethereal, on the wave of the question that Martina is asking to the universe: “Tell me, space creature, tell me what should I do? To be useful, to do good”.
“Necessity of exploration” is available now on all digital platforms via Wanikiya Record and with the official videoclip:
Noise in Myself is a young prog/alternative metal band based in Switzerland and Italy, born from an Enea Maina‘s idea. Enea is a swiss guitarist and composer born in 2004.
The line up of the band actually includes, besides Enea, Martina Pedrotti (voice and flute, born 2005), Leon Sürder (electric guitar, born 2008), Damiano Palmeri (drums, born 2003) and Federico Morello (bass, born 1994).
The band has published one homonimous album via Wanikiya Record in 2022.
Hot off from winning Hard Rock Hell’s “Blues Artist of the Year” award and having his album The Wings of Salvation featured in Rock and Blues Muse’s“Top 25 Albums of 2022,” British slide guitarist and singer songwriter TROY REDFERN is pleased to announce the release of his brand-new single The Fever today, Wednesday January 11, 2023. The Fever will appear on Troy’s forthcoming album due for release later in the year.
The new single follows the news of Redfern’s co-headline April 2023 UK Tour with The Commoners. Tickets are available viaPlanet Rock’s 48-hour ticket pre-sale from 10am on Wednesday January 11th.
Redfern has wasted no time since the release of the last single from his criticality acclaimed album The Wings of Salvation. In December, after the success of playing two storming sets Planet Rock’sRockstock Festival, Troy headed back into the studio with the same dream team that made his critically acclaimed album The Wings of Salvation such an authentic success. The Fever is produced by Dave Marks (who also plays bass), and features Paul Stewart (The Feeling) on drums. The single is mixed by Jo Webb.
“The plan for The Fever was to make something bigger and ballsier than what has come before,” says Redfern. “I also wanted to expand the musical landscape with new colours and sonic horizons.”
The Fever is a slide guitar blues barn-buster with subtle nuances of rock, glam and psychedelia. Lyrically, it deals with themes of emancipation and breaking out. It’s Troy Redfern full-circle blues rock and roll!
“The Fever is about pushing back and breaking through all the obstacles when you’re feeling held down,” adds Redfern. “It’s about feeling as if it’s you against the world.”
Redfern’s current album, The Wings of Salvation is available digitally, on CD, and vinyl from theOfficial Troy Redfern Shop.
LIV KRISTINE, the Queen of Scandinavian Gothic Metal, releases her sixth studio album this spring on Metalville Records. More information will be revealed soon.
She started off in her enchanting style and angelic singing-manner with five albums composed by Theatre of Tragedy (1993-2003), her own releases „Deus ex Machina“ (1998), „Enter my Religion“ (2006), „Skintight (2010), „Libertine (2012) and „Vervain (2014), next to five Leaves’ Eyes albums (2004-2015), which gained the bands worldwide attention and recognition.
In 1993 Liv Kristine embarked on a unique and courageous musical path, exploring, redefining, making way, until she became one of the most recognizable voices within the worldwide female voice metal movement.
Her autodidactic way into music and career reflects her strong individuality and courage to create with a free artistic heart, inviting her audience to experience musical and tonal aesthetics on a highly individual and elevating level.
She rose to world-wide fame already in the early nineties with her Norwegian band THEATRE OF TRAGEDY, moreover, as a solo artist, then in the new millennium with LEAVES’ EYES and various projects. For more than 25 years, she’s been and still is a fine inspiration for artists and bands worldwide within her authentic brand of Goth, Metal and Rock, being nominated for the Grammy Award (2005). Her musical achievements are numerous, e.g. a GRAMMY AWARD nomination for the song “Nymphetamine” in cooperation with Cradle of Filth, 500.000 records sold with THEATRE OF TRAGEDY, touring more than 50 countries, including repetitive hits in the official charts with her solo releases and her follow-up band LEAVES’ EYES, as well as European club, DJ, dance, rock and alternative charts. She also lent her voice to title tracks for popular TV series like “Tatort” and “Schimanski”. LIV KRISTINE has released more than 15 full-length albums with her bands since 1995.
Legendary extreme metal masters VENOM INC. release a drum playthrough video of drummer Jeramie Kling “War Machine” performing “Come To Me” in its entirety.
“Come To Me” is from their brand new album “There’s Only Black” which released on September 23, 2022 through Nuclear Blast Records.
The video recently premiered via Sick Drummer Magazine and can be found here:
Melodic metal band Blackment (Hyvinkää, Finland) unleashed their first full album “Plains of Oblivion” in the beginning of last September.
Now the band has released a series of behind-the-scenes videos from the studio sessions of the debut album. Check out how Plains of Oblivion was made at this location.
“In this four-part documentary you get to see previously unreleased material from the recording sessions of Plains of Oblivion. We had such a great time making this album and we think that you can definitely feel it watching these videos!” Blackment comments.
Plains of Oblivion was recorded by Harri Petjakko at Studio UG, Kerava, Finland.
Lethal Scissor Records proudly announces the new EP by German death metallers BLOODJOB.
Classic death metal meets grind and hardcore influences on “Metastasis”, the new studio EP by German five piece BLOODJOB, which will be coming out on March 10th, 2023.
The first single “Cancerous Growth” is now streaming at THIS LOCATION.
Since the release of their debut “Sick Concept Humanity” in 2019, the group has revamped the line-up, enabling more dynamic arrangements and colourful yet brutal elements enriching the new tracks. This combined with a powerful vocal performance and a tightly pounding rhythm section results in a full blown death-grind explosion.
With a growing number of gigs and festival appearances on their resume, “Metastasis” shows an ever evolving BLOODJOB, offering a varied and vibrant death metal experience.
“‘Metastasis’ deals with our dystopian view on the degenerating civilization we live in and offers you three brand new tracks of grinding death metal brutality along with two re-recorded BLOODJOB classics”.
Stay tuned to Lethal Scissor Records and the band’s socials for more details on the upcoming release and other activities in 2023.
Tracklist:
01. Cancerous Growth (Music & lyrics: Markus Seibert) 02. Nano-based Inconsistency (Music: Oliver Mühlig; lyrics: Sascha Kaiser) 03. All for the Good (Music: Oliver Mühlig; lyrics: Sascha Kaiser) 04. Basement Breed (Music: Markus Seibert) 05. Drowning in Defecation (Music & lyrics: Markus Seibert)
Line-up:
Sascha Kaiser – Vocals Oliver Mühlig – Guitars Markus Seibert – Guitars Karol Plata – Bass Julian Dietrich – Drums
Drums recorded by Chris Erkens in 2022 Bass & vocals recorded by BLOODJOB in 2022 Guitars recorded by Johann Faustus in 2022 Mixed by Johann Faustus at Zeitsparkasse Media Services Mastered by Chris Erkens at (((Cyphx-Audio))) Cover artwork by Kumislizer Art Layout & skull photo by Markus Seibert
BLOODJOB from Giessen/Germany relentlessly delivers their uncompromising blend of death metal and grind since 2007. After years of dwelling in the underground and brutalizing their style with influences from slam, thrash and black metal, they released their first EPs “Scalptures of Laceration” in 2010 and “Misogynic Obsessions” in 2012. These raw pieces of disgusting death metal offered a first taste of their trademark style consisting of sickening vocals, nasty riffs and blasting drums. The following years were characterized by several lineup changes but also powerful live performances as they shared the stage with Entombed, Lividity, Ingested, Inhumate and other well established acts. In 2019 they returned on the scene with their self-produced first album “Sick Concept Humanity” which caused international recognition and was re-released by PRC Music in 2020. In contrast to their first EPs, the lyrical themes now matured from perverted tales of horror to misanthropic reckonings with our rotten society. Following the vein of its predecessor, they recorded their new EP entitled “Metastasis” in 2022 which will also be their first release with Italian extreme metal label Lethal Scissor Records. Despite ongoing lineup changes they’re now working on their next full-length record.
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