Irish Vikings REN MARABOU AND THE BERSERKERS Update Summer Tour Dates in Ireland

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Irish Viking Metal/Norse Pagan Rockers REN MARABOU AND THE BERSERKERS have updated their Summer Tour Dates in Ireland, adding new shows! See the details below.

The band shared:
“..Heathen Tribe, here are some upcoming Irish summer shows 🤘🏻🪧⚡️
See you in the shield wall 🛡️🛡️🛡️⚔️⚔️⚔️”

  • May 14th @Toales Dundalk
  • May 20th @Fibber Magees – Burning Metal Ireland – Dublin
  • June 10th @Demolition Fest – Derry
  • June 23rd in Donegal – TBC
  • July 29th @Union Bar – Belfast
  • August 6th @Sligo Whiplash
  • September 3rd @The Railway Bar – Cookstown

More shows TBA, so stay tuned!

Just recently REN MARABOU AND THE BERSERKERS unleashed their new single ‘The Journey’s of Rig’, taken from the band’s upcoming album, coming out in Summer 2023!

The band on the single:
“‘The Journey’s of Rig’ is the first single to be taken from the upcoming Ren Marabou and the Berserkers album which will be released in summer 2023. The track is about the Norse God Heimdall and his journey’s on Midgard under his guise Rigs the wanderer. This Viking Metal, Pagan Rock track is out now through United Music Mafia 🛡⚔️🔥”

Stream and purchase ‘The Journey’s of Rig’ at

REN MARABOU AND THE BERSERKERS released their special “Odin (Songs for the All Father)” Compilation on November 16th 2022 through United Music Mafia. It’s available now on all major platforms including Spotify, iTunes, United Music Streaming. 🛡⚔️

Buy “Odin (Songs for the All Father)” at

The band’s latest full-length album ‘Tales Of Rune’ came out on July 1st, 2022 via United Music Mafia.

Stream /buy “Tales Of Rune” at https://open.spotify.com/album/44fWwjA31AUxlOvxg4vUKz
Order the album at https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/renmarabou/tales-of-rune

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Hailing from the Emerald Isle and based in the hills of Co.Donegal these Irish Viking Metal/Norse Pagan Rockers, REN MARABOU AND THE BERSERKERS, deliver their own take on this powerful genre with a high energy stage show and anthemic, contemporary stylings. Endorsed by Cassidy Guitars, Skull Strings, Fishsticks drum sticks and Iron Age Guitar Accessories. Signed to United Music Mafia and Managed by Split Screen Management. The band’s new album ‘Tales Of Rune’ was released on July 1st, 2022. In September REN MARABOU AND THE BERSERKERS joined 2022 “Final Declaration: Northern Tour 2022” with Polish titans VADER and HATE all across Scandinavia! The band released their special “Odin (Songs for the All Father)” Compilation, on November 16th 2022 through United Music Mafia.

Also watch/ stream:
‘King of Asgard’ – https://fb.watch/h7aoPBSbWC
‘Bloodlines …Echos of the Norse Gaels’ – https://open.spotify.com/album/08LTm5a9Tds8hZUC3HnaZB
‘Let’s Drink Mead’ – https://open.spotify.com/track/1ha54ritRWP06mbInOo0pp
‘Brand Of Sacrifice’ – https://open.spotify.com/album/1yKOPpwG663aD3s8GBbGbJ
‘Sigurd the Dragon Slayer’ – https://open.spotify.com/track/0OOr73kAIK4WPkt0ZAH5jf
‘Death of Baldr’ – https://ummmusicvideo.com/v/FtJpC
‘Dødssang’ – https://youtu.be/odx-OzoufTI
‘Fenrir’ – https://open.spotify.com/track/3F8c7CKWNs0wdR5XHGOuye
‘Prophecy of the Seer’ – https://youtu.be/QAXTujQ3xdE

Catch all the band’s music videos at https://ummmusicvideo.com/@Renmarabou

REN MARABOU AND THE BERSERKERS are:
Ren Marabou (Vocals and Guitar)
Terence McCann (Drums)
Michael Casserly (Bass)

Online merch store: https://renmarabou.bandcamp.com/merch

More information at
BAND: https://www.facebook.com/renmarabou
MANAGEMENT: https://www.facebook.com/SplitScreenManagement | http://www.splitscreenproduction.com

CRYPTOPSY Join Nuclear Blast Records, to Release First Album in Over a Decade Later This Year

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📷 Mihaela Petrescu Photography

Veteran harbingers of technical death metal CRYPTOPSY have officially signed with Nuclear Blast Records! The world’s heaviest label welcomes one of Canada’s most ferocious bands with plans to release their first album in over a decade later this year.

Commenting on the the signing, vocalist Matt McGachy states: 
“We are truly excited to have joined Nuclear Blast’s roster. Many of the bands we love and a bunch of our friends have released killer albums via Nuclear Blast. Back in 2012, we became an independent band. Now in 2023, we have decided to team up with one of the most influential metal labels. We are eager to be showcased alongside the world’s best metal acts and can’t wait to unveil the next era of Cryptopsy as a Nuclear Blast artist.”

Details of the CRYPTOPSY’s long-awaited 8th album and return to the forefront of death metal will be revealed in the coming months. Follow the band for additional updates.

Originally hailing from Montreal, CRYPTOPSY officially formed in 1992 and has since been anchored by long-time drummer extraordinaire Flo Mounier. Over the last 3 decades the band has become a revered and influential pinion in North America’s underground metal scene. Groundbreaking albums like Blashphemy Made Flesh (1994), None So Vile (1996) and Once Was Not (2005), helped define the genre of technical death metal, while the band’s intense, earthshaking live shows garnered them a rapid following around the world. Now signed with Nuclear Blast, the band begins the next chapter of their legendary career, ready once again the break necks and pierce the eardrums of metal fans everywhere. 

THY CATAFALQUE Releases Third New Track ‘Testen túl’

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Photo by Orsolya Karancz

Avant-garde act THY CATAFALQUE is now unveiling the third offering from the upcoming album ‘Alföld’. The new track “Testen túl” can be found on the official Season of Mist YouTube channel HERE!

‘Alföld’ will be released via Season of Mist on June 16, 2023 and pre-orders are available HERE, while the album can be pre-saved HERE.

Mastermind Tamás Kátai comments: “Our last single from Alföld is Testen túl with Bálint Bokodi on vocals who is part of our live incarnation as well. The song is fast, dark and hopeless.”

Track-list:
1. A csend hegyei (4:10) [WATCH]
2. Testen túl (3:56) [LISTEN]
3. A földdel egyenlő (5:25)
4. Alföld (9:24)
5. Folyondár (4:06)
6. Csillagot görgető (5:25)
7. A felkelő hold országa (5:23)
8. Szíriusz (1:28)
9. Néma vermek (4:13) [WATCH]
Total: 43:30

Cover artwork: Photography by Orsolya Karancz – Lay-out by Tamás Kátai

Mixed by: Tamás Kátai in Budapest, Hungary 
Mastered by: Imperial Mastering, Austin, Texas, U.S.A., Colin Davis

Recording line-up:
Tamás Kátai – guitar, bass, keyboards, programs, vocals
Martina Veronika Horváth (The Answer Lies In The Black Void, Mansur) – vocals
Lambert Lédeczy (Ahriman, Mörbid Carnage) – vocals
Bálint Bokodi – vocals
Gábor Veres (Watch My Dying) – vocals
Gábor Dudás (Reason) – vocals
Breno Machado – lead guitar
Daniele Belli – acoustic guitar, double bass
Dario Cei – flute
Chris Lyons – violin, viola
Ido Romano – ney
Samuel Chacon – fretless bass
Austris Apenis – French horn

Guest musicians:
Martina Veronika Horváth – Track 4
Lambert Lédeczy – Track 1, 4, 6
Bálint Bokodi – Track 2, 3
Gábor Veres – Track7, 9
Gábor Dudás – Track 6
Breno Machado – Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8
Daniele Belli – Track 5
Dario Cei – Track 5
Ido Romano – Track 6
Samuel Chacon – Track 3
Austris Apenis – Track 4, 7

THY CATAFALQUE live
11 May 23 Budapest (HU) Budapest Park
30 Jun 23 Orfu (HU) Fishing on Orfu Festival

LOATHER Announce New Album, Release Mesmerizing First Single ‘Holler Your Name’

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Following their latest EP “Haganvelt” (2019), June 23rd will see the release of “Eis”, the debut full-length record by Blackened Doom Metallers LOATHER, which will be coming out on Vendetta Records. Hailing from Vienna, Austria, LOATHER have been continuously blurring the lines of European underground metal since 2016, releasing a demo, two EP‘s and sharing the stage with acts such as Gggolddd, Ultha, Wiegedood, Windhand and more. Being their first proper full-length album, “Eis” sees the band taking their unique blackened narcotic metal to new, at times unexpected territories – rest assured that the end result will ignite your heart while chilling you to the bone at the same time.

With the track “Holler Your Name” LOATHER have released the first single today. Listen to the track through your favorite streaming platform or right here:

“Themes of loss and longing run through the DNA of “Holler Your Name”. The first single of upcoming album “Eis” (out on Vendetta Records on June 23rd) by Austrian post-“post-metal” band Loather starts out as a blackened mid-tempo dirge, all yearning guitar lines, soaring vocals and cavernous screams – which makes the melancholic ending passage of mournful, almost ecclesial bass and ethereal sighing even more effective.” The band comments.  

Tracklist reads as follows:

  1. Ephemeral
  2. Holler Your Name
  3. Mortuary
  4. Eis
  5. Lost Sight
  6. Proper Burial

As the name suggests, “Eis” (German for “ice”) is a rather chilling affair and while it is not a concept album at heart, themes of loss and interpersonal struggle can be heard in the soothing voices and desperate screams strewn across the icy landscape. Rooted in the groups signature narcotic approach to metal music, reducing the records atmosphere to mere genre tags would do their versatile worldbuilding through sound wrong: it’s not the direct influence of blackened or doomed metal that renders the nebulous haze of tracks like “Holler Your Name” so eerily effective – the key to this darkness lies in its successful blending of honest feelings with a lack of restraint when it comes to passionate delivery of good old heaviness.

“Eis” will be coming out on June 23rd via Vendetta Records and is now available for digital pre-order at THIS LOCATION. Physical formats to follow with the release of the album. 

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HALFLIGHTED Sign Record Deal with Wormholedeath for Debut Album “Obloquy”

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Catalan-based metal rising force HALFLIGHTED is thrilled to announce they have signed a record deal with Wormholedeath Records. The band has been hard at work creating their debut album, “Obloquy,” set to release on June 2nd, 2023.

“We’re excited to finally show the world what we’ve been creating in the shadows these last years,” says Halflighted. “This debut album is the fusion of five completely different influences that have landed at a midpoint, far from any compromise with the listener. These five years of hard work have spawned an uncompromising offering that won’t hide in the dark any longer.”

“Obloquy” combines Gothic undertones, Death Metal forces, Progressive tints, classic Rock drumming, a fair amount of Psychedelia, and many other hidden influences. The exact genre of this uncompromising soundscape is left up to the listener to decide. Sung in English, Catalan, and German, the lyrics of the album explore themes of war, inner struggles, and despair through various points of view.

Recorded in the spring and summer of 2022 by Varg The Mighty in Redrum Studios and mixed and mastered by Javi Félez in Moontower Studios, “Obloquy” is a highly anticipated debut. The album art has been masterfully designed by Óskart, the band’s guitarist.

Tracklist:

  1. Ànima Fosca
  2. Fugint Del Foc Etern
  3. Der Letzte Krieg
  4. This Winding Path
  5. Cementiri
  6. Desolació
  7. In Elysian Obloquy

“Obloquy” promises to deliver a truly unique and unforgettable listening experience. Stay tuned for more updates on this exciting upcoming release.

Halflighted was conceived in 2018 by the minds of Óskart and Mark in Catalonia after the split of Mark’s previous Death Metal band Dryzer. Their initial idea for a Death Doom Metal project slowly evolved into an eclectic and genre-defying opus as the current line-up consolidated itself in the following years.

The current line-up includes Óskart on guitar, Mark on bass and vocals, Varg The Mighty on guitar, synth, and vocals, Pepe on drums, and MAD on vocals.

The band invites fans to join them on their journey by following them on Instagram at www.instagram.com/halflightedband.

Check out “Ànima Fosca” (Official Visualizer)

A KILLER’S CONFESSION Release First Song/Video for ‘Tongue’ from Upcoming Studio Album

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Photo courtesy: Michael Levine (pictured Waylon Reavis & Ghost THE Dog from Tongue video)

A KILLER’S CONFESSION released the first track Tongue today from their forthcoming 4th studio album. It is a darker and heavier version of AKC that no one has heard before. The first track was written by Dusty Boles & Waylon Reavis.

The title of the 4th Studio album will be VICTIM 1 with a release date and track announcement coming in the near future and will be produced by Dusty Boles.

The Tongue video is directed by Michael Levine, production by Corey James and director of photography Austin Scherzberg. Video was filmed at Perry’s Music Museum in Harvard, IL and features an appearance by AJ Good of The House of Masks.

Tongue is my first Victim. In the video you shall conceptually see the madman take Justice into his own hands. Victim 1 is a concept album of a vigilante with a split personality. The songs will speak for themselves.  It’s been refreshing to work with Dusty. We have had a-lot of fun creating together. It’s nice to step outside the box and have new perspectives on structure and song themes. – Waylon Reavis

Stream/Download: https://onerpm.link/tongue

(warning the music video contains graphic content)

A Killer’s Confession have released three albums since forming Unbroken (2017), The Indifference of Good Men (2019) and Remember (2021). They have also released several singles including the recent cover Roots Bloody Roots originally done by Sepultura. View Roots Bloody Roots here.

A KILLER’S CONFESSION:
Waylon Reavis – Vocals
JP Cross – Bass
Lee Hutt – Drums

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/akillersconfession
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/a_killers_confession
Shop: https://akillersconfession.myshopify.com/
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/waylonakc
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WaylonAKC