Psychedelic doom band OWLS & EAGLES hit the road June 1 with Space Queen to kick off their upcoming debut album “Patience Vol. 1”. Owls & Eagles have gained much respect in the doom community and are looking forward to bringing their music to the people.
Tour dates: June 1-Calgary-Album release party and tour kickoff *with Space Queen June 2nd-Equity AB-Vantopia 9 *with Space Queen June 3rd-Highriver AB High River Brewery *with Space Queen June 4th-Siksika-Siksika Arbor *with Space Queen June 8th-Regina-The Cure *with Space Queen June 9th-Saksatoon-Black Cat Tavern *with Space Queen June 10th-Winnipeg-Royal Albert Arms *with Space Queen
Owls & Eagles are: Mark Russell – vocals/drums Ross Ferguson – guitar/vocals
NARGATHROND proudly presents “Rivers Of Blood,” a chilling exploration of revenge, power, and the haunting consequences of violence. Combining influences from Black Metal, Synthwave, and various other genres, Nargathrond crafts a unique musical experience that delves into the macabre realms of horror storytelling.
In this haunting track, Nargathrond, led by the visionary artist The Runaway Wild, narrates the tale of a vengeful spirit who revels in inflicting pain upon those unfortunate enough to cross her path. The ethereal performance of The Runaway Wild creates a haunting atmosphere immersing listeners into the world of Nargathrond’s sinister vision.
“Rivers Of Blood” is another enticing preview from Nargathrond’s upcoming album, “Killing Season,” scheduled for release on June 16th, via Wormholedeath.
Nargathrond’s style defies genre limitations, fusing elements of Synthwave, Horror Scores, Glam Metal, Gothic, and Core influences. The resulting amalgamation of sounds creates a captivating blend that is best described as Horror Metalwave. This unique approach sets Nargathrond apart from the traditional metal scene, offering listeners a fresh and thrilling musical experience.
Denver-based rockers LOST RELICS are back with a powerful new single, “Doomed From the Womb“, set for release on May 30th. The track is the second single from the band’s upcoming EP, ‘Die + Cry + Loathe‘ and promises to be a hard-hitting addition to the band’s already impressive discography.
With hypnotic drum patterns and thick slabs of guitars, “Doomed From the Womb” is a powerful and emotional track that showcases the band’s unique sound. The commanding vocal delivery is a standout feature of the song, reminding listeners of their own mortality from the very first note.
Lost Relics is renowned for their unique blend of heavy rock and psychedelic elements, and their latest single “Doomed From the Womb” is a prime example of their signature sound. The band’s ability to seamlessly fuse genres creates an immersive listening experience that appeals to fans of rock music across the board.
The upcoming EP, ‘Die + Cry + Loathe‘ promises to be a collection of introspective and emotional tracks that delve into themes of desperation, heartache, and self-loathing. “Doomed From the Womb” serves as a powerful preview of what’s to come on the EP, showcasing the band’s ability to deliver raw and honest emotion through their music.
With their first single “Hangxiety” already generating buzz, fans are eagerly anticipating the release of “Doomed From The Womb” on May 30th. The EP is set to release on June 23rd, 2023, on Golden Robot Records and Iron Head Records.
Death/doomers from WELCOME TO PLESHIWAR, who were founded in 2021, attracted attention with their debut EP “Unsolved” last year. The quartet’s death-doom, which is strongly influenced by the 90s and enriched with progressive elements, was immediately received with enthusiasm by the press and fans alike.
In the meantime, plans are underway for the full-length debut of the musicians, who, by the way, are no blank slates and are or were active with bands such as Lacrima Christi, Immortalis and Reawacan. For the Full Lenght debut, which will be released in autumn, they not only have a studio date with Andy Classen in mind, but have also signed a deal with Black Sunset/MDD!
If you want to know what to expect, you can listen to the current EP on the bandcamp profile. More information about the upcoming album will be available soon – stay tuned!
DELIRIO AND THE PHANTOMS – the new project of Freddy Delirio (DEATH SS, FREDDY DELIRIO AND THE PHANTOMS) and his son Chris Delirio, will release their debut album “Platinum” on June 16th 2023 via Fuel Records/Self.
The album will be available as CD, LP and digital. The pre-orders are available here: https://bfan.link/platinum-1
Today the band unveils the official video for the first single “The Light Scares You”:
Freddy Delirio, historical keyboardist of Death SS with whom he has an extensive discography produced by himself at an artistic level, has reached the top of the charts on more than one occasion (among the many records: Ten, Rock’n’Roll Armageddon, Resurrection, The Darkest night etc.) to which is added a very important live activity as a headline Singer and founder of H.A.R.E.M., with 22 years of discography (Fuel Records – SELF Distribution) and concerts to his credit, he has been a producer and sound engineer for over 30 years (professor Production Bachelor Jam Academy). Owner of the FP Recording Studio with hundreds of productions made internationally, he arrives at a new record and project called Delirio and The Phantoms.
The album was composed and produced by Freddy as singer and keyboardist and by his son Chris Delirio as drummer, keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist who often sees him on guitar, bass and backing vocals.
To complete the training are the refined lead guitarist Paolo Oliveri, with over twenty years of record and live experiences and Alessandro Lupo on bass, also a musician with extensive concert and studio activity behind him.
There is no shortage of exceptional guests inside the disc.
Kevin Riddles, the historic bassist of Angel Witch who played bass directly in the same song “Free Man”, a bonus track cover present both on the CD and in the digital version, which he himself chose for this collaboration with Delirio and the Phantoms.
David Smith historic guitarist of Gypsy’s Kiss (first band of Steve Harris of Iron Maiden) on guitar, guest on the same track “Free Man”.
To complete the list of guests who played on the record, Eleonora De Medici, lyrical voice, Lucky Balsamo on guitar, Jos Venturi on bass, Giuseppe Favia and Francesco Noli present in the cover bonus tracks on drums.
Conceptually the texts describe ghosts in a timeless ancestral dimension, souls who never die and who cross the path in this dimension, where everyone carries their own karmic cross, living the experience of this planet. There is talk of stories of life lived in communication with a not always tactile and human dimension, starting from ancestral love to get to the infernal groups opposed to the high and metaphysical world of Hyperuranium. Historical quotes from ancient civilizations where you have to let go of mistakes and recover the best, only in this way can we talk about true evolution and culture. There is no shortage of references to the everyday life lived within Delirio’s Haunted House.
The first album “The Cross” (Black Widow Records) that bore the name Freddy Delirio and the Phantoms, finished Top Album in several foreign newspapers including Legacy Magazine (Germany), iO Pages (Netherlands) etc., led the band to perform as headliners at several festivals including Sbamfest (TO), Leynir Fest (MI) and Junihell (PO).
During the summer of 2021 the Freddy Delirio and The Phantoms DVD “Live at Crazy Bull Café” was released based on the memorable concert in which ours shared the stage with Simonetti’s Goblins on February 22, 2020 in Genoa, the last Italian date before the lockdown.
The split album “The smell of rain” – “I’m beginning to see the darkness” was recently released with the prestigious Norwegian musician Mortiis and Freddy Delirio and the Phantoms where ours participated with a first version of the song “Platinum”.
The album was written and produced by Freddy (vocals, keyboards) and his son Chris Delirio (drums, keyboards, guitars, bass, chorus). The line-up is completed by Paolo Oliveri (lead guitars) and Alessandro Lupo (bass).
Freddy comments: “Delirio And The Phantoms is an evolution of my previous solo project. Now the presence of my son Christian ‘Chris Delirio’ plays a key role in composition, recording, arrangement and production. I feel supported by a true professional. We worked together during every stage of the realisation of ‘Platinum’, from the moment of songwriting to the final production’.
Angel Witch’s bass player Riddles is the special guest on “Free Man”, alongside with David Smith (Gypsy’s Kiss).
Freddy continues: “The album ‘Platinum’ has a varied sound, featuring different sonorities in a dynamic way. The original sound, which is typical of this band, is held together by a common thread in a kind of journey where the themes, sometimes addressed to the metaphysical world, in other cases more historical and in others still more personal, are the result of real feelings and real life“.
Track lististing
The Light Scares You
Pyramidal Lymph
Phantoms
A Better Time
Once Again
New Eras
On The Threshold
No Mercy
Always Here
Platinum
ree Man
Pick Up The Bones
Pipeline
Anne Of Cleves
Line Up: Freddy Delirio – vocals/keyboards Chris Delirio – drums Paolo Oliveri – guitars Alessandro Lupo – bass
Gloom Core trio JOHNNY THE BOY are unveiling their third track ‘Endlessly Senseless’. The video illustration is not for the faint hearted, so when ready, view the video in full HERE.
The song is taken from the band’s full length “You”, which will be released via Season of Mist on June 9, 2023.
JOHNNY THE BOY comments: “The constant and endless abuse of the natural world and our environment, results in the horrific doom and gloom that comes with it. That shit is on us. Welcome to the beginning of the end.”
Although the band contains members of CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX, the music of JOHNNY THE BOY took a whole different direction. It’s creepy, heavy, dark and full of diabolical black metal screams from none other than Belinda Kordic.
Together with Justin Greaves and Matt Crawford, the band created an album with Bathory style elements, a touch of ‘Satyricon BlacknRoll’ and a bit of fast Motörhead.
The artwork for “You” was created by JOHNNY THE BOY.
Track-list: 1. Die Already (05:12) 2. Grime (04:10) 3. He Moves (04:44) 4. Endlessly Senseless (06:13) [WATCH HERE] 5. Crossings (08:05) [WATCH HERE] 6. Druh (02:52) [WATCH HERE] 7. Wired (02:47) 8. Without You (07:16)
JOHNNY THE BOY has done it again.
Sometimes the best ideas come from spontaneity. Sometimes they come from gut instinct. When both happen simultaneously, anything is possible, unimaginable horrors included.
Born from a simple idea, and eventually coalescing over the last couple of years into a fully-formed entity, JOHNNY THE BOY make music that fucking hurts. Armed with a scabrous but sculpted blend of ice-cold black metal, excoriating sludge and sinewy, white-knuckle rock’n’roll, the trio’s musical identity has arrived, perfectly imperfect and ready to eviscerate. Formed around a creative core of vocalist Belinda Kordic, guitarist Justin Greaves (both members of Crippled Black Phoenix) and bassist Matt Crawford (CBP alumnus and live bassist), JOHNNY THE BOY began life as an instinctive grab for something darker and nastier.
“It began at a rehearsal with CBP many, many years ago,” says Greaves. “We were rehearsing down at Arthur’s, where CBP used to practice, and it was during one of those rehearsals that I just got on the guitar, someone else got on the drums and we were just fart-arsing about, with Belinda doing her necro vocals! Then we posted a little clip online and people starting asking, ‘Oh, is this legit?’ Like always, it took fucking years to even think about doing anything, but it was always going to happen.”
“In the background, there’s the fact that in the first band I was ever in, I sang that way,” adds Kordic. “I really missed doing that. We both missed that whole Iron Monkey, Varukers, aggressive side of music. That’s the first way of singing that I loved, and I’ve missed doing it. So we always wanted to do this.”
Brought together by a love of dark, twisted and extreme music and energised by an opportunity to return to the full-bore hostilities of their earlier creative years, JOHNNY THE BOY‘s debut album You is the final proof that the best ideas cannot be stopped. A collaborative effort that brought the evil best out of everyone involved, it’s an album that has been stewed in real blood, sweat and tears. But mainly sweat.
“Justin starting working for me at a venue in our hometown, and there was a mention of doing something called World War,” says Crawford. “We went to our rehearsal room for two days. It was the hottest, most uncomfortable sweatiest room ever, and we were trying to write the coldest, bleakest music you could imagine! So it was horrific, but I think we got five tracks out of those two days. Me and Justin were together in Scunthorpe, and Belinda was working remotely in Sweden, and that was before it was cool!”
One of the songs from that initial batch of JOHNNY THE BOY material was No Regrets: a caustic blast of blackened fury that was mischievously planted at the very end of Crippled Black Phoenix’s acclaimed 2022 full-length Banefyre, almost as a clandestine warning of the darkness to come.
“That was Justin’s idea. When we recorded Banefyre, he said, ‘Why not sneak in and record a JOHNNY THE BOY track?’,” says Kordic. “We did that and No Regrets went on the album, and then Michael at Season Of Mist said he wanted a whole album from us.”
“Yeah, No Regrets played two roles at the same time,” says Greaves. “It was something pretty outlandish at the end of a CBP album, to give everyone a a kick in the bollocks, but it was also our way of saying, ‘We do this other thing, by the way!’”
Not just another “thing”, but an entirely box-fresh (but intrinsically rotten) means of expression, JOHNNY THE BOY conjure a claustrophobic cyclone of serrated-edge riffs and bilious crescendos. Like the outer reaches of the Melvins’ back catalogue pumped backwards through a frosty, Bathory-fuelled prism, with marauding D-beats and moments of oppressive melancholy hurled in for extra impact, You offers a mesmerising blend of the familiar and the unknowable. From the imperious, doomy mantras of Endlessly Senseless to the all-out blitzkrieg of Wired, JOHNNY THE BOY’s warped vision is heavy in every sense.
Meanwhile, bursting out from the abrasive, treacly maelstrom of riffs at all manner of bone-snapping angles, Belinda Kordic’s extraordinary screams and howls elevate every song to a higher level of primitive intensity. “I truly think that Belinda’s vocals are some of the most more visceral, vicious and spiteful I’ve ever heard,” says Greaves. “I love the opening song, Die Already, it’s just a horrible song. I just love when Belinda’s singing ‘You prick!’ or whatever it is. She’s just spitting venom.”
“It’s all Belinda too,” adds Crawford. “It’s all natural. There’s no studio trickery!”
“When I was recording the vocals in Sweden, at the same studio where we recorded most of the vocals for Banefyre, the engineer asked me ‘Why do you sing like that?’” Kordic recalls. “I just said, ‘It’s instead of crying!’ That’s what I do. I let it out that way.”
In keeping with the rapacious, hateful noise that JOHNNY THE BOY whip up, Kordic’s lyrics are also notable for their direct and destructive rhetoric. A collection of incensed diatribes, everything from the demagogue-baiting Die Already to the poetic grief of closer Without You resounds with gruelling emotional clarity. Eschewing the usual underground metal cliches in favour of harrowing, real world concerns, JOHNNY THE BOY are lunging straight for humanity’s jugular (with a little feline representation thrown in for balance).
“The songs all have different meanings,” Kordic explains. “Die Already is about dictators. Crossings is about how no one should have to die alone. The last song (Without You) is about Tigger, our cat. Wired is about being really neurotic. Druh is about Witold Pilecki who was in the Polish resistance in the Second World War. He got caught on purpose, so that he could get into the concentration camp, so see how the prisoners were being treated. There he discovered what was going on with the Jews, the gypsies, the disabled, and he tried to tell the world. He was a real fucking hero.”
Fuelled by decades of devotion to the infernal musical arts, JOHNNY THE BOY bring something unique and undeniable to the table. You screams its defiance and vitality from first to last, while a sense that Greaves, Kordic and Crawford are sharing an act of profound catharsis with the world is unmistakable. Soon, the band will expand into a full live unit, in order to inflict You’s brutal conflagration on the masses and in the flesh. Most importantly, You burns with a ferocity that simply can’t be faked. Equal parts magick, malice and metal therapy JOHNNY THE BOY ignores the rules and burns the fucking house down.
“This is totally new and it’s exciting,” concludes Greaves. “Everything’s an experiment at this point. But we’re doing it because we needed to rediscover the reason why we all make music in the first place. After a long time in the industry, we’re all very jaded and cynical, but now I can’t wait for the first gigs and seeing all the metalheads’ faces when Belinda comes out and starts screaming. This is going to be fucking great.”
Recording Studio: Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire UK, Kapsylen Studio, Stockholm Sweden Mixing: Kurt Ballou @ GodCity Studio, Salem MA. USA. Mastering: Magnus Lindberg – Magnus Lindberg Productions, Stockholm, Sweden.
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