Turkish EXNUN Drop ‘Melancholy And Raving Madness Of The Abominable Twins’ Single

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Istanbul, Türkiye’s extreme metal stalwarts EXNUN have released their second single “Melancholy And Raving Madness Of The Abominable Twins” from their upcoming new album “Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death”, due out June 9th 2023 via Time To Kill Records.

Watch the lyric video at THIS LOCATION. 

“’Melancholy And Raving Madness Of The Abominable Twins’ is a song about humanity’s endless struggle before duality of the universe, struggle between its primate brain and eternal soul.
Lyrics are a free form poem independent of the vocal lines. Musically it’s a journey through the subgenres of punk and extreme metal such as metallic hardcore, grindcore and death metal”.

“Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death” mixes hardcore punk’s ferocity with extreme metal’s dark, poetic complexity.

Musically it deconstructs all the basic elements of punk, hardcore, grind, death metal, noise, thrash and black metal and puts the pieces together in a nonconforming post-modern way while sound-wise staying raw and old school.

The video of the album’s first single, “What’s Wrong With The Lobotomy Kid?”, is available HERE.

Tracklist:

1. The Diseases, and Casualties this year being 1632
2. Depascent Ballagàrraidh
3. Majör Arkana Pt.1 – The Mind
4. Melancholy And Raving Madness Of The Abominable Twins
5. Monkey Flesh Golden Leech Machinery
6. Orally Shed Ectoplasm
7. Tips For A Successful Therapeutic Exhumation
8. Vanilya Kanibal
9. What’s Wrong With The Lobotomy Kid?

Lyrically this is an album about the normalization of collective insanity and how our twisted, unrealistic definition of the “normal” affects the mental health of the individuals and the society. Today the system we live in pushes us further into a soul crushing monotony and sameness filled with a horrifying suppressed anxiety. Everyday we ignore our emotions and try to meet unrealistic expectations of the society whose only fundamental value is money. We don’t know where we are, what we are and why do we live because we compleletly forgot our universal cosmic roots. Overwhelming feeling of powerlessness and desperation it creates on every individual gets us little bit closer to inhumanity everyday and since everybody is trying to act like everything is ok, everyone of us thinks “something should be wrong with me” while the only thing being wrong is living in a system which values the money and power more than love, happiness, beauty, meaning, truth and freedom.

The album takes its name from “The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death” which is a series of nineteen intricately designed dollhouse-style dioramas of actual murder scenes, created by Frances Glessner Lee (1878–1962), a pioneer in forensic science.

Lyrics of the songs are seperate poems while the actual vocal lines recorded on the album are just selected words and lines from the poems and inscrutable screams emphasizes emotion more than meaning.

The album is recorded in Istanbul by the band, mixed by Taylor Young at The Pit Recording Studio and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.

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The foundations of EXNUN were laid by bassist and vocalist Can Temiz in 2018 as a project that blends many different genres of metal on the axis of hardcore punk and death metal. In 2019, their first album “Decomposition Of An Infant Soul” was released. The album drew a lot of attention in the Turkish local scene and was critically acclaimed by the Turkish reviewers. One of the songs from the album, “Rape of God” was chosen by the Canadian YouTube channel Banger TV viewers to be the theme song for the Banger TV show “Overkill Global” by a landslide

The band took its final form with the participation of Ozan Çam (Kozmik Yıkım) on guitars and vocals in 2019, Ersin Çağlayan (Radical Noise) on guitars and vocals in 2020, and Aberrant Engin (Burial Invocation, Diabolizer) on drums in 2021.

Line-up:

Can Temiz: Bass, Vocals, Noise
Ozan Çam: Guitars, Vocals, Noise
Ersin Çağlayan: Guitars, Vocals
Aberrant Engin: Drums

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YES Launch Video for Second Single ‘All Connected’ from Upcoming Album

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YES, who are Steve Howe, Geoff Downes, Jon Davison, Billy Sherwood & Jay Schellen, will release their new studio album Mirror To The Sky on InsideOutMusic/Sony Music on the 19th May 2023.

Today the band has revealed the second single ‘All Connected’ from the album, Listen to and watch ‘All Connected’ below.

“This is a very important album for the band,” says Steve Howe, Yes’ longest serving member, master guitarist, and producer of Mirror To The Sky. “We kept the continuity in the approach we established on The Quest, but we haven’t repeated ourselves. That was the main thing. As Yes did in the seventies from one album to another, we’re growing and moving forward. In later years, Yes often got going but then didn’t do the next thing. This album is demonstrative of us growing and building again.”

For Yes, that “next thing” is a collection of high energy, intricate, lush and layered new studio songs for an album which adds to the band’s much heralded legacy, while charting a path to exciting future times ahead.

MIRROR TO THE SKY will be available on several formats, all featuring artwork by long-time Yes artist and collaborator Roger Dean.

Pre-order here.

AVKRVST Reveal Video for Second Single ‘Arcane Clouds’

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Norwegian progressive rock group AVKRVST will release their debut album ‘The Approbation’ on 16th June, 2023. Pre-order at https://avkrvst.lnk.to/TheApprobationNE.

The Approbation is a concept album about a bleak soul who is left solely with his thoughts, isolated on a cabin deep into the dark forests, far away from civilization. The 49 minutes long concept album contains 7 songs, which take the listener though the thoughts of a man struggling towards the acceptance of death, being hauled into the abyss.

Previously released as a single on streaming services, the haunting new video for the album’s second single “Arcane Clouds” is out and can be seen here

HARADRIM Unleash First Single ‘Venus Falling’ from Upcoming Album

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Blackened death metal act HARADRIM has announced the release of the band’s upcoming debut full-length record, entitled “Death of Idols”, which will be coming out on June 23rd via Trust No One Recordings and EAT Heavy Records. Hailing from the far north of Sweden, HARADRIM was formed during late 2021 and is based around the core duo of Anton Palmborg and Dennis Sjögren. Being a band heavily inspired by the crust and hardcore scene of their hometown Umeå, “Death of Idols” delivers a dynamic and relentless blend of massive tones that will delight all fans of Behemoth, Marduk and Martyrdöd. 

With the release of “Venus Falling” HARADRIM have just unleashed the first single of their soon-to-be-released debut. Listen to “Venus Falling” on BANDCAMP or SPOTIFY

HARADRIM about the track:

“Venus Falling contains most aspects of Haradrims music, the first half of the song is leaning on their blackened death metal sound with blast beats and fast riffs while the second half is heavy and epic with a thick layer of guitar leads and a melodic guitar solo. Lyrically Venus represents three things here, the first is Venus the roman goddess of beauty. The second is Gaia, who is mother earth in Greek mythology and the Greek equivalent to Venus. The third is the star Venus which in christian mysticism is associated with Lucifer, the fallen angel.” 

“Death of Idols” track listing:
01.Death of Idols

  1. Venus Falling
  2. Tyrant
  3. Godless
  4. Defiling of Spirit
  5. Nero
  6. Demigod
  7. Conquest
  8. The Price of Compliance
  9. Acheron
  10. Ashes of Warsaw

“Death of Idols” was recorded and mixed in the summer of 2022 at Lilhuset productions by Andreas Gren. The album was mastered by Dan Swanö (Dissection, Incantation, Asphyx) at Unisound.

The album is now available for pre-order at THIS LOCATION

HARADRIM are:
Anton Palmborg – Guitar, vocals
Dennis Sjögren – Bass
Isak Nilson – Drums

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ON THORNS I LAY Sign to Season of Mist

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Season of Mist is proud to announce the signing of ON THORNS I LAY! The Greek death doom band will release a brand new album via Season of Mist in the Fall of 2023. 

Check out the band’s previous releases on Bandcamp HERE!

ON THORNS I LAY comments on the signing: “We are proud to announce our signing with Season Of Mist, one of the top Metal labels out there! It is an absolute honour for us, as we couldn’t imagine a better place to release our upcoming and best album in our career so far”

ON THORNS I LAY started as a death metal band together with other cult bands in Greece in the early 90’s such as Rotting Christ, Septic Flesh, Necromantia, Nightfall and started to spread their name in the local and global underground scene.

ON THORNS I LAY have released 9 albums so far such as “Orama”, “Crystal Tears” and “Aegean Sorrow” gaining great praise. The band have shared the stage with artists such as Dream Theater, In Flames, Anathema, Amorphis, Katatonia, Rotting Christ, Tiamat, The Gathering, Satyricon, Septic Flesh and many more. The band’s last album “Threnos” (2020) followed the path of atmospheric, yet emotional Doom Death Metal – paying tribute to the roots and representing the trademark sound of the band once again. ON THORNS I LAY continue to tell dense stories of loss and despair.

After their mini tour at the Baltic states with Rotting Christ in 2022, ON THORNS I LAY finished the recordings of their 10th album which will be released in the Fall of 2023.

Line-up
Peter “Invoker” Miliadis: Vocals, Bass
Chris Dragamestianos: Guitars
Nikolas Paraskevopoulos: Guitars
Antonis Ventouris: Keyboards
Stelios Darakis: Drums

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SCREAMING BONES Presents ‘Leave Me Alone’ Visualizer Video

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Screaming Bones has released a visualizer video for the track “Leave Me Alone” off the reissued album “And It’ll All Be Good.”

The album, released via Wormholedeath, takes the listener on a journey through a surreal soundscape of hypnotic tones and heavy guitar riffs.

“And It’ll All Be Good” is a hidden gem of an album, with each listens revealing new layers of beauty within the chaos. The reissue of the album via Wormholedeath brings the music to a wider audience, showcasing Screaming Bones’ unique blend of heavy psychedelic soundscapes.

The project’s Bandcamp and official website provide access to Screaming Bones’ extensive discography and showcase the visual art and music videos that accompany the music.

“And It‘ll All Be Good” is available on all major digital platforms here: orcd.co/anditllallbegood

Visit Screaming Bones online:

screamingbones.org/home
screamingbones.bandcamp.com/music