Metal Outfit ANCIENT SETTLERS Return with New Line-Up & New EP “Transition”

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Presenting a new line-up with the inclusion of the female metal singer Argen Death (Vile-Hex) on voice and Agustin Martinez on the guitar, ANCIENT SETTLERS completed their current line-up with Rex Chiesa (Guitar), Herman Riera (Drums) and Miguel Herrera (Bass).

But, what about Transition? In this opportunity the band arrives in 2023 with their most powerful set of songs since their debut, combining and energetic and intense Technical Melodic Death Metal, with a plenty of modern guitar solos, synths, clean and guttural voices working together, also supported by Gregorian chants in songs like “Mihi Nomen Est Ira”.

A long list of awesome collaborations supporting previous work of Ancient Settlers (Fredrik Nordstrom, Daniel Cardoso, Gus Sazes, etc) talks about the ambition of the band, and they follow the line in this new step of the settlers saga. Mixed and master by Pedro J Monge at Chomaticity Studios (Rise To Fall, Vhaldemar, Etc), acompained by an awesome art-cover designed by the greek ilustrator Jon Toussas (Metal Hammer, Suicidal Angels, Septic-Flesh), the release adds fresh stuff to their discography.

Moreover they have interesting voice collaborations in 3 of the fourth songs of the Ep: like Dalay Tarda (Rise To Fall), Pintxo Wayewta (Empire of Disease) and Andres Pestana (The Black Tree).

The first single “Mihi Nomen Est Ira” will be released on February 7th and the album will be released in May via Crusader Records/Golden Robot Records, in digital format, and also a limited physical special edition in Cd & Vinyl and will be supported by their 3rd European Tour.

Transition Tracklisting:

  1. A New World Order. (Feat. Dalay Tarda)
  2. Mihi Nomen Est Ira. (Feat. Pintxo Wayewta).
  3. The Circle. (Feat. Andres Pestana).
  4. Modern Travelers.

ANCIENT SETTLERS line-up 2023:
Rex Chiesa: Guitar.
Herman Riera: Drums.
Argen Death: Voice.
Agustin Martinez: Guitar.
Miguel Herrera: Bass.

More information at
Twitter: @ancientsettlers
Instagram: @ancientsettlers
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AncientSettlers
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AncientSettlers
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2tnmS1TH4J9mA3UzCcPcpm
Bandcamp: https://ancientsettlers.bandcamp.com/releases

KK’s PRIEST to Play Exclusive Show at Time To Rock Festival

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Sweden’s Time to Rock Festival, taking place on July 8-10th 2023 in Knislinge, has issued the following:

In 1969, the first edition of one of the world”s biggest bands within the New Wave of British Heavy Metal – Judas Priest – was formed. One of the founders was guitarist KK Downing. KK was in the band until 2011 and over the years, he was one of the songwriters for most of the metal world”s biggest songs as “Breaking the Law”, “Living After Midnight” and “Painkiller”.

After KK left Judas Priest, he has not been very active as a musician. He has made a few guest appearances on records and some occasional live performances but not more than that. Until the spring of 2020, that is, when he announced that he would start writing brand new music again. The new band, KK”s Priest, took shape and released their debut album, “Sermons of the Sinner” in 2021. If you like Judas Priest, you will learn to like the album in question because even if it doesn”t necessarily sound the same as Judas Priest, the kinship is there.

In addition to KK on guitar, the band consists of A J Mills (guitar), Tony Newton (bass), Sean Elg (drums) and Tim “Ripper” Owens (vocals). During the 90s, Tim was also part of Judas Priest’s line up as he replaced classic singer Rob Halford for two very underrated records. So if you want to hear real metal of the highest quality, make sure to be there when the legend KK Downing enters the stage in Knislinge. Now the band’s debut album stands well on its own two feet, but it is not entirely impossible that we will also hear the occasional Judas Priest classic.

In addition, it should be mentioned that Judas Priest was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which means that KK Downing is one of two members of this honorable society visiting our festival this year. The other is Marky Ramone.

The gig will be the first in Sweden and also the only one, so it really is an exclusive booking we are offering!

Previosly confirmed bands:
SAXON, BLIND GUARDIAN, MSG, D-A-D, THE HOOTERS, ALESTORM, MOLLY HATCHET, HELLHAMMER PERFORMED BY TOM G WARRIOR’S TRIUMPH OF DEATH, TRIPTYKON PERFORMING CELTIC FROST, TRIPTYKON, THE TOY DOLLS, SHAM 69, ULI JON ROTH, ROSS THE BOSS, THE ANSWER, HARDLINE, TEAZE, MASTERPLAN, ANGEL WITCH, TYGERS OF PAN TANG, MARKY RAMONE’S BLITZKRIEG, BOURBON BOYS, TREAT, BACK STREET CRAWLER, DREAM EVIL, STEVE ‘N’ SEAGULLS, THE CRUEL INTENTIONS, THE QUILL, TUNGSTEN, KNOGJÄRN, PRINS SVART, SAFFIRE. STRÖM, THE DAHMERS, EMOTIONAL FIRE and PUNK ROCK FACTORY.

Another three bands will be announced later as they will be the winners of a band competition we have in cooperation with rocknytt.net, Sweden’s biggest rock webzine.

Tickets and other information you need: www.timetorock.se

Inferno Metal Fest 2023 Announces Indie Recordings Label Night

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As is tradition, the Infernal Easter weekend in Oslo, Norway kicks off with the Indie Recordings Night on Wednesday April 5. The festival and Norwegian label are inviting you all to a blast together with Indie Recordings at SALT art & music. Three bands will make this evening special: In Vain, Vorbid and Eradikated!

Get your tickets HERE.

Experience Norway with Inferno Metal Fest
Tickets for Friday 7 April Black Metal Bus Sightseeing are now sold out. Tickets for Sunday 9 April will soon be out!

Join the Inferno Guides for a trip through the places that marked the beginning of the legend that is now known as NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL. Conducted by Anders Odden known from such bands as Cadaver, Celtic Frost and Order just to mention a few.

For the average music fan the story of Norwegian Black Metal is in essence something about murder, suicide and church burning. Between 1991 and 1993 many of the most important events in this dark chapter in Norwegian music history took place in Oslo and we have put together a field trip to the sights that takes you back in time.

BLACK METAL BUS SIGHTSEEING – A FIELD TRIP THROUGH OSLO

12:00 Departure The Hub, Inferno Festival hotel.
12:30 Holmenkollen Kapell, re-done after church-fire 23rd of August 1992
13:30 Visit to the crime scene of Varg vs Euronymous 1993
14:00 Visit to NESEBLOD RECORDS the site of “HELVETE” 1991-1993
15:00 Visit to Nasjonalbiblioteket – Black Metal Exhibition.
16:00 Return to the Hub, Inferno Festival hotel.

But there is more..

In April 2023, the National Library in Oslo, opens a new exhibition investigating the dark and chaotic feelings of Norwegian black metal. Drawing from the library’s rich collection, the exhibition references ancient Norwegian cultural history and shows black metal as a music form with a distinct artistic expression.

The exhibition conveys how Norwegian black metal has had an impact far beyond Norwegian borders with a vast number of international followers. The National Library of Norway invites fans and other lovers of music and cultural history to dig deep and explore Norwegian black metal as a music genre and a cultural phenomenon.

More of INFERNO METAL FEST’S experiences will be announced soon.

Book your bus trip NOW.

INFERNO METAL FESTIVAL is one of the world’s leading extreme metal festival, situated in the heart of Norway, Oslo. Each year, thousands of metal fans gather to experience the best of what extreme metal has to offer and to also get a taste of a country that has been so iconic in the formation of the metal scene worldwide.

The festival will take place from April 6th to April 9th, 2023. The line-up features the following acts:

Thursday, April 6:

Emperor, Cannibal Corpse, Dark Funeral, Djevel, Mork, Nekromantheon, Nervosa, Mutilated Tyrant, 1914, Stormruler, Ingested

Friday, April 7:

Amorphis, Godflesh, Wolves In The throne Room, Odium, Harakiri for the Sky, Masacre, Lili Refrain, Darvaza, Dordeduh, Hulder, Beaten To Death, Omnia Moritur

Saturday, April 8:

Watain, Nile, Arcturus, Sakis Tolis, Vemod, Gaerea, Svalbard, Dold Vorde Ens Navn, Dwaal, Wayfarer, Nadir, Blodhemn, Tilintetgjort, Welcome To Hell

Sunday, April 9:

Elder, Abbath, Unleashed, Uada, Crowbar, Urgehal, Vredehammer, Fleshmeadow, Afsky, Octohawk, Ottone Pesante, Filthdigger, Ruun

Tickets are available here

Check out the timetable here

Book your stay at the official festival hotel: Clarion The Hub

THE FREQUENCY CONSPIRACY Release Video Cover of ‘Words Get in the Way’ by Gloria Estefan

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THE FREQUENCY CONSPIRACY, the project from former 24-7 SPYZ drummer Joel Maitoza, have just released a new video for their latest single ‘Words Get in the Way’. The amped-up cover version of the Gloria Estefan/Miami Sound Machine ballad from 1985 features Craig Soderberg from –itis on guitars/keyboards/vocals, Jaimie Scott from Tyketto on bass and Joel Maitoza on drums. The latest single is from the nine song debut album titled “Quarantine Covers” on So Cal Records, which is available now on CD through Amazon, as well as all digital and streaming platforms.

Check out the official video release of Words Get in the Way by The Frequency Conspiracy here:

Also check out the earlier released cover version singles:
‘Shapes of Things’ by The Yardbirds – https://youtu.be/ZjkeV3-LIS8
‘Sailing’ by Christopher Cross – https://youtu.be/4muntY_XaLY
‘Carry on Wayward Son’ by KANSAS – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdrbcunU4do
‘Rock Candy’ by MONTROSE – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlD9yzVTkco

For more information on The Frequency Conspiracy, please visit: http://www.facebook.com/thefrequencyconspiracy

Finnish Psychedelic Folk-Rock Project ITERUM NATA Releases New Single ‘Losing Connection’

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“Losing Connection” is the second single from the upcoming album of Finnish psychedelic folk-rock project ITERUM NATA. “Trench of Loneliness” will be released on all relevant formats on February 10, 2023.

Listen to “Losing Connection” here: https://orcd.co/losing-connection

Jesse commented:

This was the first song I wrote for the album. I don’t arrange my songs in advance at all, but I instead like to see where the music takes me. In many ways, “Losing Connection” revealed to me the direction my new material was heading in. Everything except percussion and vocals were recorded in just one session. “Losing Connection” is for those poor souls who need to live their lives in constant agony. It’s a reminder that everything, even the pain, will eventually go away.

“Trench of Loneliness” is the fourth album of ITERUM NATA – a psychedelic folk-rock project by Finnish multi-instrumentalist Jesse Heikkinen, who is also active with The Abbey. While the music of Iterum Nata is occasionally upbeat, the general atmosphere has more in common with neo-folk than Jesse’s former band: Hexvessel, for whom he played lead guitar for five years. All aspects of Iterum Nata are profoundly inspired by the pagan worldview, esotericism, and the dark regions of the human mind; the result is something that could easily pass as the bastard offspring of Rome, Tenhi, Of the Wand & the Moon, Linda Perhacs, Espers, and early King Crimson.

“Trench of Loneliness” was recorded at Studio Beyond North Star. With the exception of Hiski Pajuniemi’s appearance on tin whistle, Jesse handled everything – from the composition to tracking and mixing – entirely by himself.

The project was formed in 2017, following Jesse’s move from Oulu to Tampere. After years of playing other people’s music in various ensembles, all the while longing to write and perform his own material, he conceptualised and founded Iterum Nata. The band name is Latin for ‘born again’ and was chosen as a reference to how a person must always redefine himself – meaning, undergo a rebirth of sorts – in the wake of a powerful experience.

One year after the self-released eponymous debut from 2017 came “The Course of Empire” on Inverse Records. The second Iterum Nata album caught the eye of Finnish label Svart Records, and the critically acclaimed “Bardo Disorder” came out in 2020. Once Jesse had finished the material for the fourth record, he concluded that Nordvis was the perfect fit for his vision of “Trench of Loneliness”.

Tracklist:

1 – My Name is Sorrow
2 – One With the Sun
3 – Forgotten Friends
4 – Bones in the Forest
5 – The Feather
6 – The Mountain
7 – Losing Connection
8 – I Only Sing With the Dead
9 – I’d Rather Be a Fool Than a King
10 – Comedy of Humanity

Pre-sale links:

More information at:
Web: https://nordvis.com/iterum-nata-a-47
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/IterumNata93
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/IterumNata
Bandcamp: https://iterumnata.bandcamp.com

PALACE OF WORMS Premiere ‘When the Stones Come Tumbling Down’ Single, New Album “Cabal” Out on February 3rd

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Bay-area avantgarde metal entity PALACE OF WORMS will be releasing their new album, “Cabal”, on February 3rd 2022 via Acephale Winter Productions.

Just recently No Clean Singing was hosting the exclusive premiere of the new single “When the Stones Come Tumbling Down“. Stream the song HERE.

Operating since 2007, California-based Avant Metal project PALACE OF WORMS has a diverse and accomplished oeuvre that reflects its creator’s eccentric and often bizarre tastes and sensibilities. From the project’s early origins as a raging and misanthropic Black Metal band to its more recent releases which incorporate influences such as Doom, Death, Progressive, Ambient, and Electronica, each POW release is a completely. Sole member Nicholas “Balan” Katich sees no point in marinating in the stagnant pools of orthodoxy and believes evolution to be the true path.

“Cabal” is the latest and final full-length statement from the project.

Keeping with past tendencies towards unpredictability “Cabal” presents a wholly different approach than the mostly Post-Black Metal sound of the previous full-length “The Ladder”. Where “The Ladder” flirted with Progressive Rock and Doom sounds “Cabal” fully embraces these influences and throws elements of Deathrock, Electronica, Folk, and Death Metal into the quagmire. What results is the most personal and accomplished work the project has ever produced and its themes reflect its creator’s worldview after 4 decades of life. It casts the past in darkness but also looks cautiously forward, ever searching for the light to guide its narrator into a hopeful future.

Originally PALACE OF WORMS was solely the work of Balan, but on “Cabal” he is joined by an accomplished cast of co-conspirators including Trevor Deschryver (Lycus, Silence in the Snow, Deafheaven), Sammy Fielding (Noctooa), Roberto Martinelli (Botanist), Dylan Neal (Thief), Shelby Lermo (Vastum, Ulthar), Hunter Burgan (AFI), Andy Way (Thoabath, Sutekh Hexen), Elizabeth Gladding (Lotus Thief, Forlesen), Meghan Wood (Crown of Asteria) and more.

“Cabal” presents kaleidoscopic visions of subterranean carnival netherworlds, pale winter skies dotted with Ravens a flight, moonlit necropolises which play host to clandestine, and diabolical rituals, and the metaphorical immolation of the ego from which the Phoenix of transcendence and ecstatic freedom will arise. Light and dark refracting through the broken prism of the mind’s eye over 8 tracks.

Descend into the depths of the subterranean lair of the “Cabal”: the place where the monsters live.

Tracklist:

01. Telepathic Crucifixion
02. Bizarre Blood and Exhumations
03. Through the Dark Arches
04. When the Stones Come Tumbling Down
05. Cabal
06. Cessation of the Heart
07. Rebirth of Nihil
08. Winterbird

More information at
https://palaceofworms.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/tattooedinworms