French Crossover project MARY CREAM present “One For You” official video taken from the EP “Pulse”.
Enjoy it below.
MARY CREAM is a French one man band and his music is a fusion of dark energies and garage sound exteriorized with a hybrid of Heavy Metal, Electronic Music and Post-Punk, influenced by NINE INCH NAILS, KILLING JOKE or MARILYN MANSON but also bands like KORN without forgetting certain Dark Wave nuances that paint project’s music.
Norwegian industrial black metal masters MYSTICUM have released a strictly limited collector tape box.
Official 8-tape box from the masters and originators of Industrial Black Metal MYSTICUM. Housed in a luxurios matte black casewrapped box with silver hot foil stamped printing. This dangerous piece of metal is strictly limited to 750 handnumbered copies and includes:
Tape 1: Wintermass
Tape 2: Medusa’s Tears
Tape 3: Piss Off!!!
Tape 4: Live at Grotten
Tape 5: Norwegian Madness (EPs)
Tape 6: In the Streams of Inferno
Tape 7: Planet Satan
Tape 8: Never Stop the Madness: The Roadburn Inferno
Next to the 8 tapes, the box includes:
All tapes in the REGULAR box (112 – 750) are black.
The DIE HARD version (first 111 boxes) comes with coloured tapes and includes an exclusive longsleeve (Gildan Ultra Cotton) which is only available with this box-set and only in the DSR shop!
Orders can be done via Darkness Shall Rise Productions webstore at https://darknessshallrise.de
Watch the promotional video below.
Progressive Death Metal Masters CONTRARIAN will release Sage of Shekhinah, the band’s 5th album, March 17 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats via Willowtip Records. The album’s first single, “In Gehenna,” has been premiered, courtesy of Heavy Blog is Heavy. Stream it at this location.
True to their namesake, CONTRARIAN continue to defy the odds and steer the head of progressive/technical death metal towards a more organic approach. On Sage of Shekhinah, the band counteracts genre norms with nuanced composition and subtle production.
Pre-order:
Willowtip: https://willowtip.com/bands/details/contrarian.aspx
Bandcamp: https://contrarianmetal.bandcamp.com/album/sage-of-shekhinah
Track Listing:
Album Credits:
Guest Bouzouki appearance by Michael Paouris on “Sage of Shekhinah”
Guest Bass appearance by Jack Eaton on “Apollonius of Tyana”
Guitars recorded by Doug White at Watchmen Studios, Lockport, NY
Special thanks to Bill Bodily for engineering bass recordings.
Drums recorded at Solitude Studios PA
All songs written by Jim Tasikas
All arrangements by Contrarian
Produced by Jim Tasikas
Mixed by Neil Kernon for Auslander
Mastered by Alan Douches
Jim Tasikas and Brian Mason exclusively play ESP guitars.
Alex Cohen exclusively plays Paiste Cymbals.
Line-up:
Jim Tasikas – Guitars, Keyboards, Bouzouki
Brian Mason – Lead Guitars
Ed Paulsen – Bass
Alex Cohen – Drums
JaKob SiN – Vocals
FIGHT THE FADE have released the Deluxe Edition of their smash-hit album APOPHYSITIS.
The APOPHYSITIS Deluxe Edition set includes all fourteen of the original tracks and their instrumentals, plus the brand new single “Losing Time” + acoustic version of “Composure,” live versions of “Matter Of Time,” “Cut & Run,” and “Old Wounds.”
The original APOPHYSITIS release features fourteen ultra-catchy tracks including the turbulent “Cut & Run,” defiant “Matter of Time,” emotionally riff-heavy “Composure,” and the savage “Buried,” APOPHYSITIS is a one-stop-shop for the signature heavy-hitting edge that fans love about the band. Previously released singles like “Where You Go I Go,” which recently landed the official Rock Hard Spotify playlist, have already garnered editorial support from VEVO, Spotify, Yandex, Amazon, and Apple, as well as premieres and features from Outburn, Inked Magazine, Metal Insider, and placement in the Oculus VR game Smash Drums.
“APOPHYSITIS has really been a ride for us,” says Fight The Fade. “All of us have been going through various stages of life, but they’ve all been a season of growth, and I think you can hear that growth on this record. Sometimes that growth is painful, and sometimes it’s a matter of perspective. Our hope is that no matter what season you find yourself in, even if it’s painful, that you continue to grow.“
Already establishing themselves as a powerful rock / alt-metal force with over 350,000 global monthly listeners, tracks from APOPHYSITIS have already amassed over 5,000,000 streams on Spotify.
APOPHYSITIS [Deluxe Edition] is out now on all platforms from the independent multi-genre label FiXT.
Purchase/Stream: “Losing Time”: https://link.fixtmusic.com/Deluxysitis
Known for pulling together influences from rock, metal, and electronic music, Fight the Fade has forged an unmistakable sonic identity that wraps heartfelt lyrical themes within a robust production style and delivers them with nuanced and diverse writing approaches. The band’s work ethic and innovative blend of genres led them to an album deal with independent electronic rock label FiXT in late 2020, with Fight the Fade releasing singles throughout 2021, leading to a full-length album APOPHYSITIS released in July 2022.
More information at https://www.facebook.com/fightthefadeofficial
ILLEGAL MIND is alternative metal band from Tel Aviv, Israel, found in 2018. The band released their debut EP “Forbidden Content” in 2020, and are currently finishing their new EP. The First single of the new EP is out, “Turning Back” is avalaible on all streaming plataforms and also available for download on BandCamp.
“We think “Turning Back” is heavier than the previous releases, musically inspired by Refused, Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park(?). The song was inspired by Maxx’ ex-girlfriend, when he noticed that she basically turns back to previous thoughts and actions, which she used to. We always return to our previous selves, no matter how many times we try to change, even if it’s not that good for us. But usually we don’t need to, for nobody, especially if it makes us feel awful. We are turning back to what we used to, is also the decision on recording the album like we used to, DIY, from the comfort of our own studio!” – says the band.
The band started rehearsing in one of the Tel Aviv studios in February 2018. After several jams with several musicians, a 4-person band was born. The idea for the name was born accidentally after reading some of the texts by vocalist Max Datskovsky by other band members. The texts talk about a dystopian future and a mythological end of the world as we know it. Inspired by books, computer games and movies from the last century. The band has a singing call about where humanity is headed and how to avoid it.
Rockshots Records and prog rock orchestra AINUR have joined forces again to release today, on Tolkien‘s birthday, the brand new single and video “Forging of the Rings“.
Ainur started thinking about this song after Amazon’s “The Rings of Power” announcement. They were excited that the series would take us back to Middle-Earth again, but at the same time they realized that they had never produced a song about “The Lord of the Rings“.
For that reason Luca Catalano, one of the founders and main composers of the band, started to write about the music, and in only two hours the entire song was made.
“This is a big evolution in Ainur history” comments Catalano, “since it’s the first time in almost 17 years that we talk about “The Lord of the Rings” topics. In fact we always dealt with The Silmarillion subjects and only one time with The Hobbit ones”.
Ainur keep carrying on their music inspired by Tolkien’s works with this new single released by Rockshots Records, and they are already working on a new album that will be closely following the way that they started with “War of the Jewels (Wars of Beleriand – Part 1)”.
SPOTIFY – https://bfan.link/forging-of-the-rings
The single was mixed by Massimiliano Flak at Evolution Studios and mastered by Brett-Caldas Lima at Tower Studios.
Ainur is:
Luca Catalano – Composer, Guitars, Vocals
Marco Catalano – Composer, Drums, Vocals
Alex Armuschio – Composer, Keys, Lead Vocals
Max Clara – Lead Vocals
Roberta Malerba – Lead Vocals
Elena Richetta – Lead Vocals
Giuseppe Ferrante – Bass, Contrabass
Luca Marangoni – Violin
Carlo Perillo – Viola
Daniela Lorusso – Cello
Cristiano Blasi – Flutes
Chiara Marangoni – Horns
Wilma Collo – Lyrics
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