Irish Vikings REN MARABOU AND THE BERSERKERS Unleash New Single ‘The Journey’s of Rig’, Out Now

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Yesterday, April 29th, Irish Viking Metal/Norse Pagan Rockers REN MARABOU AND THE BERSERKERS released their new single ‘The Journey’s of Rig’, taken from the band’s upcoming album, coming out in Summer 2023!

The band shared:
“‘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

As previously announced, REN MARABOU AND THE BERSERKERS are featuring with their song ‘Bloodlines …Echos of the Norse Gaels’ on “SUSTAIN 2: A Rock” Compilation in Aid of Ukrainian Women and Children! The compilation can be streamed and purchased at https://sustainukraine.bandcamp.com/album/sustain-2-a-rock-compilation-in-aid-of-ukrainian-women-and-children

This Summer the band will tour in Ireland, see the details below!

Ren Marabou shared:
“Ren Marabou and the Berserkers are looking forward to a run of Irish shows in Counties Dublin, Belfast, Derry, Donegal, Sligo, Tyrone with more tbc. Included are shows at this years Sligo Whiplash, Demolition Fest at 720 Derry, Fibber Magees Dublin for the Burning Metal Ireland Fairwell Show, The Union Bar Belfast (Speakeasy), and The Railway Bar Cookstown 🤘🏻🛡⚔️🔥”

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

More shows TBA.

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. 🛡⚔️

“Odin (Songs for the All Father)” tracklist:

  1. Odin’s War
  2. The Wanderer (Odin)
  3. All Hail Odin
  4. Odin’s Sons and Daughters
  5. King of Asgard

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

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REN MARABOU AND THE BERSERKERS released their latest full-length album ‘Tales Of Rune’ on July 1st, 2022 via United Music Mafia.

“Tales of Rune” is the Trilogy along side ‘Valhalla Waits’ and ‘SAGAS’, ‘Tales of Rune’ is their most riff filled, head banging, anthemic and energetic album to date. This cranked up Norse Mythology themed album will have you filling your mead drinking horns, and readying yourself for battle. This new album also features vocals by Berserker Cass and Berserkers Tyr on the track ‘Bragi’ (God of Music). All recorded, mixed and mastered in Meadowbank Studios Donegal 🤘🏻🛡⚔️🔥

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

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

REVOLTONS Unveil Video for New Single ‘Escape or Drown’

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Long-running Italian heavy metallers REVOLTONS have unveiled the video for their new single “Escape or Drown”. The song is taken from their seventh studio album “Celestial Violence” which will be released on May 12th 2023 via Sleazy Rider Records.

“‘Escape or Drown’ talks about all those toxic relationships where even if you would like to help someone sometimes you are forced to flee because their negativity risks dragging you into the abyss together with this person. It doesn’t matter the deep bond you have with her, whether it’s love, deep friendship or whether you’re just moved by a sense of duty, or you ESCAPE OR DROWN!”, comments the band.

The video was filmed and edited by Marco Falanga and Beatrice Demori (www.oround.it) and features Angelo Bruna and Juanita Cozzi as main actors.

The track listening reads as follows
1. 2020 Alternative
2. Escape or Drown
3. Generation Mask
4. The Darkfall
5. Nany John Skennon
6. Low Ranking Businessman
7. The Game
8. Reality is a Crime
9. Spiritual Monster
10. Cosmic Disabled
11. Lockdown Diaries
12. Violentia Patris Caelestis?

“Celestial Violence” was produced and mastered by Ivan Moni Bidin and Christopher Burelli at Artesonika Studio.
 
The artwork was designed by REVOLTONS’ bass player Simone Sut at N.B.S. Imagination & Design.

REVOLTONS are:
Antonio Boscari: Vocals
Alex Corona: Guitars
Carlo Venuti: Guitars
Elvis Ortolan: Drums
Simone “Zimon” Sut: Bass

REVOLTONS online
https://hyperfollow.com/Revoltonsofficial 
https://www.facebook.com/revoltons
https://www.youtube.com/user/REVOLTONSofficial
https://revoltons.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/revoltonsofficial

ASTRALBORNE Announce New Album “Across the Aeons”, Reveal Lead Single + Music Video ‘War Vessel’

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Photographer credit: Paul Fuzinski

Midwest melodic death metal trio ASTRALBORNE have today announced their forthcoming sophomore album, Across the Aeons, will be released on July 28 via Prosthetic Records. Accompanying the album announcement, ASTRALBORNE have also shared the lead single and music video for War Vessel.

Stream War Vessel via Apple Music, TIDAL, Deezer, Bandcamp and Spotify.
Pre-order Across the Aeons here.

Speaking on the album announcement and War Vessel, ASTRALBORNE comments: “This track sets the tone for the whole album; thematically, stylistically, and musically. It’s a fast, aggressive, and in-your- face banger that represents four years of hard work as a band. We chose this song as the first single because it’s raw and relentless, but doesn’t give away too many of the album’s secrets. Ultimately, War Vessel exists for one simple purpose: To destroy.”

After their 2020 debut album, Eternity’s End, introduced ASTRALBORNE as accomplished purveyors of both compellingly intricate melodicism and dexterous brutality in equal measure, Across the Aeons’ creative process began immediately following their lauded first full-length release. Commencing writing in spring of 2020, the group soon found themselves expanding upon the more grandiose passages of their sonic foundations, with conscious efforts made to accommodate cellist and composer Kakophonix’s contributions.

Recorded by bassist and vocalist Paul Fuzinki in 2021 between Call of the Yeti Studio in Swanton, OH and North Shore Studios in Fife Lake, MI, Across the Aeons was then mixed by Unnus Latif at Black Moon Recordings, Columbus, OH and mastered by Orden Ogan’s Sebastian “Seeb” Levermann at Greenman Studios in Germany. The end result of production sees ASTRALBORNE’s knack for lofty fretwork and rhythmic pummel shine among sanguine acoustic arrangements and beguiling orchestration.

The 12 tracks on offer chart a journey of acceptance in the face of humankind’s impermanence within a cosmic void, be it Fuzinski’s bellowing promise of hell itself, “chaos, death and fire” on lead single War Vessel or interdimensional overlap on Gemini’s celestial death metal pomp. Elsewhere ASTRALBORNE team up with labelmates Steve Redmond (Foretoken, The Day of the Beast) and Yegor Savovin (Fires in the Distance) on December Flower and the resplendent mid-album instrumental Promethean Fire respectively.

ASTRALBORNE’s interstellar voyage is visually brought to life in evocative fashion by Spanish artist Juanjo Castellano (The Black Dahlia Murder, Voidceremony, Coffins). For as alone as we may be in the cosmos of Across the Aeons, the band’s second album shirks the nihilistic connotations of such a realisation, opting instead to revel in the totality of all beings and things.

Across the Aeons tracklist:
1. Exordium
2. War Vessel
3. Nocturneous
4. Skybreaker
5. Gemini
6. December Flower
7. Promethean Fire
8. Star of Extinction
9. Paradigm Shift
10. The Pillars of Creation
11. Across the Aeons
12. Cadence of Sorrow

ASTRALBORNE is:
Paul Fuzinski – Bass and vocals
Derik Smith – Guitar
Jayson Cessna – Drums

Italy’s TARCHON FIST Unveil Video for New Single ‘Wolfpack’, New Album Out Now

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Italy’s NWOTHM band TARCHON FIST have released their fifth studio album, “The Flame Still Burns”, via Underground Symphony.
 
“The Flame Still Burns” is available as CD Digipak and digital.

Order your copy here:
https://tarchonfistband.bandcamp.com/album/the-flame-still-burns (PHYSICAL)
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/tarchonfist/the-flame-still-burns (DIGITAL)

To celebrate the event TARCHON FIST unveil the video for the song “Wolfpack”.

STREAM/PURCHASE THE SONG HERE: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/tarchonfist/wolfpack

TARCHON FIST explain: “‘Wolfpack’ is inspired by the battle of Teutoburg Forest. This ‘pack’ is moved by passion considered as willpower in defending their country and loved ones during an invasion. The whole thing is also conceived as a fairy tale, told by a father to his child in front of a hearth”.

“The Flame Still Burns” was recorded and produced by TARCHON FIST at Roberto Priori’s PriStudio and Luciano Tattin’s Studio Tarconte.
 
The artwork was created by Mr. Stan W. D., who has already worked on the previous album “Apocalypse”.

The band comments: “The genesis and development of this album are the result of what we did during the lockdown which the pandemic forced us between 2020 and 2021. The common thread throughout record is passion, a concept we tried to decline on every song.“

“The Flame Still Burns” – Track listing:
01 – The Flame Still Burns
02 – Lens Of Life
03 – Wolfpack
04 – Soldiers In White
05 – 9/11
06 – Ireland’s Rebels
07 – Always Alone
08 – Escape
09 – The Man
10 – So, Thank You All!
11 – The Legend Of Rainbow Warriors

ICYMI:
“Soldiers in White” official video: https://youtu.be/-1vGLK6WyGA
Stream/purchase the song here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/tarchonfist/soldiers-in-white

Some songs taken from “The Flame Still Burns” will be included on the setlist of the next live shows:

12/05/2023 Blah Blah, Turin (Italy) + VICIOUS RUMORS
13/05/2023 Alchemica, Bologna (Italy) + VICIOUS RUMORS
 
More dates will be announced soon.

TARCHON FIST are:
Mirco “Ramon” Ramondo – Vocals
Luciano “Lvcio” Tattini – Guitars, backing vocals
Sergio “Rix” Rizzo – Guitars, backing vocals
Marco “Wallace” Pazzini – Bass, backing vocals
Lorenzo “Stupa” Stupazzoni – Drums (Session)

THE DAY WE LEFT EARTH Release New Single ‘The Wire’

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Photo by Linda Florin

THE DAY WE LEFT EARTH has grown from clarity to clarity over their debut year. Latest single together with Dead By April raised the bar and the two bands are leaving for tour together this fall. The album plan for TDWLE is set, and will be released in January 2024. As if this wasn’t enough, The Day We Left Earth have also signed with a bigger booker and have  joined the roster along bands like: Lacuna Coil, Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquility and Evergrey. 

Today, THE DAY WE LEFT EARTH are releasing their new single ‘The Wire’, a fierce and emotional metal song. Singer Martin Bjerkes hauntingly beautiful lyrics and big range vocals, together with the smattering metal foundation makes this the perfect metal tune.

–The Wire is a song about empowerment and about coming out stronger. It’s about that battle in our minds when making changes for the better.

‘The Wire’ is out now on all streaming services!

TRIUMPH’s US Festival 40th Anniversary Special Edition Package Announced

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May 29, 1983 will forever be an important day in the history of heavy metal. After all, it was on this date that the world’s top metal acts (Van Halen, the Scorpions, Triumph, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Mötley Crüe, and Quiet Riot) shared the stage on “Heavy Metal Sunday” at the mammoth US Festival. And to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this legendary concert, one of the day’s standout performers, TRIUMPH, will be issuing the double-LP, Live at the US Festival. The set will only be available via the official Triumph merch store – officialtriumphmerch.com – and specifics about the set include:

  • Double-LP, gatefold sleeve including never before seen photos
  • Etching of the iconic Never Surrender thunderbird logo on the 4th side
  • Remastered for vinyl at the legendary Metalworks Studios
  • Limited to 750 copies, comes in either black, red, or blue vinyl
  • Fans who buy from the official Triumph merch store will receive a US Festival special podcast featuring new interviews with Rik Emmett, Gil Moore, Mike Levine, Mike Primeau, Harry Witz, John Roberts, Wayne Webster and more.

To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of their US Festival performance and the new release on Limited Edition Vinyl, Triumph was hosting a special viewing of the concert on the official Triumph YouTube Channel on Thursday, May 25th.

Watch at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCyXUkzWujasX_3sK6W9Ejw

“Playing on the ‘Heavy Metal Sunday’ was just amazing for us,” recalls Triumph bassist Mike Levine. “ It was really neat playing without our big production. We killed it. The band was hotter than a pistol. That day will always be locked in my memory – flying in on the chopper and looking at the endless amount of people and going, ‘What have we got ourselves into here?!’”
 
Between 1975-1988, Triumph – singer/guitarist Rik Emmett, singer/drummer Gil Moore, and Levine – rocked the world, and in the process, gave us countless classic hard rock anthems (“Fight the Good Fight,” “Hold On,” “Magic Power,” “Lay It On the Line,” “A World of Fantasy,” etc.) and albums (Just a Game, Progressions of Power, Allied Forces, Never Surrender, Thunder Seven, etc.). 
  
But it was the trio’s show-stopping performance at the US Festival that remains one of the greatest performances of their career. And now, fans can revisit it from start to finish with the killer Live at the US Festival set. 

‘LIVE AT THE US FESTIVAL’ TRACKLIST:

Side 1
1. Allied Forces
2. Lay It On The Line
3. Never Surrender

Side 2:
4. Magic Power
5. A World Of Fantasy
6. Rock And Roll Machine

Side 3:
7. When The Lights Go Down
8. Fight The Good Fight

Side 4:
Etched with Triumph’s ‘Never Surrender’ Thunderbird logo

To purchase copies of the Triumph 40th Anniversary Us Festival LP go to: www.officialtriumphmerch.com