“I Wanted Everything” is the second single leading up to LUCIFER STAR MACHINE’s fifth studio album “Satanic Age”. A melodic punk rock track featuring raw guitars and big hooks, “I Wanted Everything” is released together with a music video premiered by Vive Le Rock.
The band on “I Wanted Everything”:
“The day will come when you look into the mirror and ask yourself: ‘did I live my life to the fullest?‘.Life is too short to let it spiral into an endless circle of routine. Live every day as it would be your last, because you owe it to yourself.“
“I Wanted Everything” is out now on all streaming platforms. Lucifer Star Machine’s upcoming album “Satanic Age” will be released on The Sign Records on the 14th of April, 2023.
Lucifer Star Machine live: 18/11 Kuckucksnest, Berchtesgaden 19/11 Silo1, Töging 20/11 Hafenklang, Hamburg (w/Turbo AC‘s) 25/11 Wild At Heart, Berlin 26/11 Club 007 Strahov, Prague 08/12 Lady Luck, Canterbury 09/12 Pipeline, Brighton 10/12 Water Rats, London 11/12 Scruffy Murphy’s, Birmingham 17/12 Johnny B, Burgdorf
Lucifer Star Machine are: Tor Abyss (Throat) Mickey Necro (Guitars) Mighty Ramon (Guitars) Benny Zin (Bass) Captain Fettsau (Drums)
Italian metallers INVERNO have premiered the new single “Martyrs”. Watch the official video HERE.
INVERNO are a new Italian metal band whose line-up comprises Diego Cavallotti (Lacuna Coil), Danilo Arisi (Avelion), Daniele Salomone (ex D With Us), Nicola Pedrali (Genus Ordinis Dei) and Simone Orizio (ex A Hero Named Coward).
“Martyrs” is the fourth single released by INVERNO: a song that once again refines the band’s formula with edgy riffs, abundant and vitalizing tempo changes, growling vocals and catchy yet sharp choruses.
The lyrics, music and video further develop the concept of “Hollow”, “Lands” and “Roots”, the three singles preceding “Martyrs”. Inner conflict is still the main theme, as we’re often poor arbiters of our own emotions and desires.
Watch for more details on other upcoming INVERNO activities to be posted shortly.
International groove metal supergroup VENTED have signed Worldwide Record Deal with Metal.hu Records!
VENTED is featuring Sean Zatorsky (Daath/Sinsaenum/ex-Chimaira) on vocals, Austin D’Amond (DevilDriver/Bleed The Sky/ex-Chimaira) on drums, Gergo Hajer (Omega Diatribe) on guitar & bass and Simon C. Bondar (White Tiger) on keys & samples. Their impressive full-length debut album “Cruelty And Corruption” contains 13 banging songs which will be available on CD and also a limited edition DIGIPAK version which includes a bonus track. The vinyl release is coming in 2023.
“Cruelty And Corruption” will be released on the 16th of December, pre-order has started now: [🇺🇸] USA & [🇨🇦] CAN [👉] bit.ly/Vented_US-CA [🇪🇺] EU & [🇬🇧] UK [👉] bit.ly/Vented_EU-UK [🇭🇺] HUN & [🌐] WW [👉] https://bit.ly/Vented_HUN-WW
VENTED about signing: “Stoked to announce our collaboration with Metal.hu! We negotiated with a lot of labels: majors, mid levels and smaller ones too through 2022, but when we met Tamas we felt immediately he knows what we want without any pressure. We’re looking forward to a successful future together. Cruelty And Corruption is coming… Get ready!”
VENTED’s full-length debut album “Cruelty And Corruption” will warp you back to the finest era of groove metal featuring pure sonic aggressiveness, soul squeezing melodies, destructive vocals, insane drumming and powerful samples. The album was produced by HK at Vamacara Studios, France. His mix showcases the rawness and sonic brutality the way it was meant to be heard… Loud and aggressive. This record will make your head bang and will hit you in the feels!
Metal Blade Records, the fiercely independent label that launched Metallica, Slayer, Armored Saint, Cannibal Corpse, Amon Amarth, and dozens more iconic heavy metal bands, continues its 40th Anniversary Celebration in 2022 with the release of a new playlist featuring a selection of songs from the label’s 10’s catalog spanning 2010-2020.
In conjunction with the release of the label’s 10’s playlist, a brand-new merch design created by American artist Samwise Didier. Samwise serves as senior art director at Blizzard Entertainment, having acted as art director for the flagship games of the Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo franchises, the producer of several games, and an artistic contributor to almost every game released under the name Blizzard Entertainment.
Check out the new playlist, available on Spotify and Apple Music, and the new shirt design at: metalblade.com/40thanniversary
In other news; Metal Blade is proud to announce being the sponsor of Decibel Magazine’s Metal and Beer Fest 2023 in Philadelphia, PA. Thrash metal legends Suicidal Tendencies descend on Philadelphia to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their self-titled debut by playing the crossover classic in its entirety (along with a helping of other hits), while melodic death metal kings THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER make their triumphant east coast return as a Metal & Beer Fest headliner.
But the exclusive anniversary sets don’t end there. NOLA sludge lords Eyehategod will celebrate 30 years of bad times with the first-ever full performance of Take as Needed for Pain, while U.S. death metal progenitors Incantation will honor the 25th anniversary of masterwork Diabolical Conquest with an exclusive start-to-finish performance of the record. One more special set, honoring the 30th anniversary of an iconic album, will be revealed soon.
The already stacked artist bill, presented by Metal Blade Records, is rounded out by: Northwest black/doom force Mizmor; Fort Worth deathstorm Frozen Soul; old-school metallic hardcore heroes All Out War; New York death metal newjacks Undeath; Vermont’s metalcore finest Drowningman; blackened doom swamp dwellers Worm; crusty death metal cretins Fuming Mouth; cavernous death metal upstarts Phobophilic; and New England blast furnace Escuela Grind.
But that’s just the half of it! The weekend’s malt maelstrom is totally covered via America’s most metal breweries! The year’s beer lineup is presented by craft beer legends 3 Floyds (IN) and includes featured breweries Broken Goblet Brewing (PA), Wake Brewing (IL), WarPigs Brewing (IN), TRVE Brewing (CO), Widowmaker Brewing (MA), Bone Up Brewing (MA), Kings County Brewers Collective (NY), Yards Brewing (PA), Magnanimous Brewing (FL) and flagship meadery Brimming Horn Meadery (DE).
About Metal Blade Records: Founded upon owner Brian Slagel‘s enduring drive to find great bands and get their music out to as many people as possible, since 1982 Metal Blade has brought wave after wave of powerful, innovative, and often genre-defining music to the ever-hungry metal masses. It is this ethos that has seen Metal Blade build up a stunning and diverse catalogue, weather the various storms facing any independent label, and in an age of declining record sales boast the most successful years of its existence as it celebrates its fourth decade.
Metal Blade Records launched Metallica, Slayer, Armored Saint, Fates Warning, GWAR, Cannibal Corpse, Amon Amarth, Whitechapel, The Black Dahlia Murder, Cattle Decapitation, and dozens more genre giants, shaping four decades and counting of hard rock, metal, and extreme music culture. Brian Slagel worked as a record store clerk when he founded Metal Blade in 1982, reserving a spot for a young Lars Ulrich on his Metal Massacre compilation series. Metal Blade grew from humble beginnings in Los Angeles to become an international powerhouse, selling millions of albums while remaining fiercely independent. In 2017, Slayer‘s Kerry King inducted the label into the Hall of Heavy Metal History. Slagel‘s For the Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records arrived the same year.
All-star charity project FEELINGLESS have released a mesmerizing new track titled “Hope“, taken from their forthcoming studio album “Metal Against Animal Cruelty“, out on December 2nd via Noble Demon. While the first two singles already featured high-caliber guest contributions by Björn Strid (Soilwork), Jake E (Cyhra) & Rachel Aspe of Cage Fight, the band’s new track brings in Christian Älvestam, who may be known to many as a member of legendary acts such as Solution .45, Miseration, and Noble Demon label mates Cipher System!
Feelingless mastermind Hugo Markaida comments:
“This song is sung by Christian Älvestam, another one of my favorite singers that I discovered back in his time with Scar Symmetry. Christian is a formidable and super demanding guy who got really involved and took the track to another level.“
Feelingless was brought to life by Hugo Markaida, member of Spanish melodic death metal band Rise to Fall, and is a project to support animal rights and to give a voice to the voiceless. With guest appearances by the likes of Björn Strid (Soilwork), Jon Howard (Threat Signal), Christian Älvestam (Solution .45, Miseration) and Ettore Rigotti & Claudio (Disarmonia Mundi) – just to name a few – “Metal Against Animal Cruelty” offers eleven tracks and the proceeds raised from this release will be donated to local animal shelters in Spain and to ‘Animal Equality’ (https://animalequality.org/), a well respected, transparent and very efficiently working international animal welfare organization.
The album was produced, recorded and mastered at Chromaticity Studios by Pedro J Monge. Music and lyrics by Hugo Markaida (Except Anxiety Lyrics and music by Iñigo Lopez and music in Fear & Guilt by Iñigo & Hugo and Lyrics by Hugo). The album is available for pre-order HERE
Tracklist:
Feelingless feat. Björn “Speed” Strid(Soilwork, The Nightflight Orchestra) & Lawrence Dinamarca
Anguish feat. Jon Howard(Threat Signal, Imonolith) & Gavin Iedema, NeroArgento, Lawrence Dinamarca
Peace feat. Mikael Sehlin (Degradead, Engel) & Lawrence Dinamarca
Love feat. Ettore Riggoti & Claudio Ravinale (Disarmonia Mundi)
Hope feat. Christian Älvestam (Solution .45, Miseration)
Nostalgia feat. Rachel Aspe (Cage Fight, Ex- ETHS) & Jake E (Cyhra, Ex- Amaranthe) & Lawrence Dinamarca, Diego Zapatero
Guit feat. Björn “Speed” Strid (Soilwork, The Nightflight Orchestra)
Pride feat. Daniel Heiman (Harmony, Heed, Ex-Lost Horizon)
Fear feat. Ville Viljanen (Mors Principium Est) & Dann Hoyos (Rise To Fall, The Space Octopus)
Israeli Rock Duo CADENCE’s first international album features four songs of diverse styles and musical direction, inspired by the history of the Duo’s origins. Meeting at Kindergarten at age five, and starting their first band together at age ten, Ran Zilca and Amir Shwartz proceeded to form the rock band “Inch”, that toured the Tel Aviv clubs and continued to record and perform locally in the late 1980s. Fast forward 30 years of career and family, they reunited as Cadence, working with iconic Israeli producer Gil Smetana, releasing a debut album in 2019.
While inspired by the sights and sounds impressed in the minds of two 1970s Israeli kids, The lyrics of the songs of The Big Wheel are a reflection of the personal journeys of the two artists, today an AI researcher and a real estate engineer/entrepreneur, and both family men. Musically, the styles vary from alternative/electronic rock to old-school ballads, with a recognizable influence of modern European prog metal.
Tangier : “Tangier” is set in the Strait of Gibraltar, serving as a metaphor for lovers who almost touch but are an ocean apart. One’s heaven and the other one’s hell. The smooth phaser guitars mix with brass guitar-synth and airy vocals to form a marine atmosphere where “metal ships float in the water” and “rays of sun play with the waves that sparkle back”.
Somewhere In This World: “Somewhere In This World” is a song of gratitude. Modern life is entrenched in the comfort of a daily routines. But in the background of one’s usual daily route, there is the unease from TV, radio, and social media, that constantly broadcast catastrophes, conflicts, and human pain. This song is about the awareness of human suffering, but also the gratitude that on most days life is pain-free.
Headphones An aging rocker is funny business: “Headphones” is about the dissonance between the mundane daily life of a family man, and the imaginary world that exists in his mind as soon as he puts the headphones on and the guitars start riffing inside his head. You Break ups are ever easy, but the worst kind are those that linger on while two lovers drift apart.
“You”: is about a lover who is fading away and disappearing gradually. Written and produced with subtlety, the almost-identical chords blend with the vocals and reverberated guitars to create a thin cloud of sadness.
THE ROCK ALCHEMIST – Italian Rock Band from Turin with a strong sonic identity that blends modern rock with progressive, hard, alternative, and pop elements!
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s SARCOFAGUS return with a Historic 2010 Concert Video Premiere on YouTube! Click image to watch the video
Metal Shock Finland (World Assault ) 