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HEILUNG’s New Masterpiece “Drif” Out Now + Streaming

Posted by tarjavirmakari on August 22, 2022

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Ritual collective HEILUNG are proud to reveal their entire new album ‘Drif’! The new offering dropped last Friday, August 22 and is now streaming via the official Season of Mist YouTube channel HERE and all other digital platforms HERE.

The album can still be ordered HERE

Track-list:
1. Asja (5:17) [LISTEN]
2. Anoana (4:57) [WATCH]
3. Tenet (13:05) [WATCH]
4. Urbani (2:55)
5. Keltentrauer (8:26)
6. Nesso (7:54)
7. Buslas Bann (5:03)
8. Nikkal (3:04)
9. Marduk (8:34)
Total: 59:15

HEILUNG previously announced new updates for their European tour in 2022 and 2023. A full list of confirmed shows can be found below.

HEILUNG comment on the tour: “It has been wonderful to feel the ground shake under our feet again on the various festival stages around Europe this summer and experiencing the joy of all of you being able to reunite, sing and dance in large gatherings again. It has been like a colorful sunrise after a long night. We are now ready for our next step on our continent: The Europe Tour. We would like to give thanks to everyone working hard behind the curtains for the past two/three years to make this happen. It has not been easy sorting out as the world has changed. On this tour we are bringing you our newest studio album “Drif”. “Drif” means “gathering”, just like we will gather again to heal, bond, and create, and be greater together.

We are deeply honoured to reveal that the amazing artists Eivør and Lili Refrain will be joining us on this tour, we look forward spending time with you on the road. This will truly be a once in a lifetime experience. See you all out there. Love Heilung“

HEILUNG US tour 2022
26 Aug 22 Atlanta, GA (US) Cobb Energy Center
28 Aug 22 Asheville, NC (US) Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
30 Aug 22 Pittsburgh, PA (US) Stage AE
01 Sep 22 Toronto, ON (CA) Meridian Hall
03 Sep 22 Montréal, QC (CA) MTELUS
06 Sep 22 New York, NY (US) Hammerstein Ballroom
08 Sep 22 Worcester, MA (US) The Palladium
10 Sep 22 Detroit, MI (US) Masonic Temple Theatre
13 Sep 22 Chicago, IL (US) Radius
15 Sep 22 St. Paul, MN (US) Myth Live
20 Sep 22 Seattle, OR (US) The Paramount Theatre
22 Sep 22 Portland, OR (US) Keller Auditorium
24 Sep 22 San Francisco, CA (US) The Warfield
27 Sep 22 Los Angeles, CA (US) Greek Theatre
29 Sep 22 Phoenix, AZ (US) Orpheum Theatre
01 Oct 22 Dallas, TX (US) The Factory in Deep Ellum

HEILUNG EU tour
+ Eivør + Lili Refrain
26 Oct 22 Copenhagen (DK) Forum Black Box
28 Oct 22 Stockholm (SE) Annexet
30 Oct 22 Helsinki (FI) Black Box
02 Nov 22 Krakow (PL) ICE*
04 Nov 22 Prague (CZ) Forum Karlin*
06 Nov 22 Halle (DE) Handel Halle*
08 Nov 22 Zurich (CH) Halle 662*
11 Nov 22 Brussels (BE) Cirque Royal*
13 Nov 22 Berlin (DE) Tempodrom
16 Nov 22 Bochum (DE) Ruhrcongress
18 Nov 22 Paris (FR) L’Olympia
02 Dec 22 Budapest (HU) Barba Negra
05 Dec 22 Ljubljana (SI) L56
07 Dec 22 Frankfurt (DE) Jahrhundert Halle
09 Dec 22 Milan (IT) Alcatraz
14 Dec 22 Stuttgart (DE) Liederhalle Hegelsaal
16 Dec 22 Vienna (AT) Gasometer
18 Dec 22 Munchen (DE) Zenith
08 Jan 23 Rouen (FR) Le 106*
10 Jan 23 Metz (FR) La Bam*
12 Jan 23 Tilburg (NL) 013 [SOLD OUT]
14 Jan 23 London (UK) O2 Academy Brixton
17 Jan 23 Manchester (UK) Bridgewater Hall
19 Jan 23 Dublin (IE) National Stadium
22 Jan 23 Glasgow (UK) Barrowland

In further news, HEILUNG has teamed up with HYRAW clothing’s new brand, Old Norse, for a set of exclusive merch items. A very limited amount can be found in the band’s official store, the rest will be sold on tour only!

ORTHODOX Release New Song + Visualizer ‘Feel It Linger’, New Album Out Now

Posted by tarjavirmakari on August 22, 2022

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Nashville metal band ORTHODOX have just relased their new full-length album, Learning To Dissolve.

“’Learning To Dissolve’ is the strongest this band has ever been portrayed. The new level we’ve stepped to is prominently represented in every song, and the bar is only getting higher from here,” states ORTHODOX frontman Adam Easterling.

To celebrate the release of their new LP, Learning To Dissolve, ORTHODOX have just released the visualizer video for “Feel It Linger” today. “Feel It Linger” follows the band’s previously released music videos for “Dissolve”, “Cave In” and “Head On A Spike”. Check out the new track HERE.

The sound of ORTHODOX is the opposite of what most associate with the laid-back energy and country-fied twang of their native Nashville, Tennessee. ORTHODOX’s distinct, nu-metal-tinged brand of metallic hardcore has carved its own lane with their Century Media debut, Learning to Dissolve. Learning To Dissolve is the punctuation on a journey that began with 2017’s Sounds of Loss. From the inception, ORTHODOX were nothing short of a standout, blending together riffs that wouldn’t be out of place on a Slipknot record coupled with Easterling’s blunt, Jonathan Davis-esque howls. But, like their sonic brethren in Knocked Loose or Vein.FM, while the influence of the 90’s/00’s is there, ORTHODOX doesn’t merely pay homage to their influences, it exceeds them.

Written during the global pandemic and world shutdown of 2020, Learning to Dissolve was born of frustration. That is, until Easterling and guitarist Austin Evans began to really dig in. Recording in the dead heat of Summer with producer and mixer Randy Lebooeuf (Thy Art Is Murder, Kublai Khan) at Graphic Nature Audio in Belleville, New Jersey, found the band in creative overdrive, ripping their songs apart.

While 2019’s Let It Take Its Course, which Revolver called, “A straight-up bone-chilling metal album that sounds like the music [ORTHODOX vocalist] Adam Easterling has always wanted to make, but is presented with the authenticity that his music has always had”, focused on the duality of love and anger Learning to Dissolve is born of intense self-reflection. It digs deeper than most metal or hardcore records. Not surprisingly, that ethos has echoed throughout ORTHODOX’s existence as a band, whose members past and present come from backgrounds rooted in straight-edge hardcore.

Order here.

DISTANT Sign to Century Media Records + Release First Song And Video ‘Exofilth’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on August 22, 2022

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Century Media Records welcome DISTANT to its roster family, the multinational juggernaut that emerged from Rotterdam, The Netherlands as well as from Bratislava, Slovakia.

DISTANT comment: “We are beyond excited for signing with one of the greatest metal record labels on earth, Century Media Records. With their perfect foundation for the next sagas of our lore, you can expect a lot more dark and evil albums coming from our camp!”

Dive headfirst into darkness and enjoy “Exofilth” HERE

Stream at https://distantband.lnk.to/ExofilthNE

Since their initiation in 2014 and the release of their inaugural EP, “Tsukuyomi”, DISTANT unleashed two studio albums, “Tyrannotophia” (2019) and “Aeons of Oblivion” (2021), as well as two EPs, “Dawn of Corruption” (2020) and “Dusk of Anguish” (2021). However, DISTANT have been breaking through the confines of deathcore and created no less than their own multidisciplinary universe by adding the fictional novel “The Rise of Tyrannotophia” into the mix that is accompanying “Aeons of Oblivion”.

BLACK REUSS to Reissue ‘Metamorphosis’ Album, Out September 6th

Posted by tarjavirmakari on August 22, 2022

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Metamorphosis is the first album release from melodic gothic metal project BLACK REUSS and will be re-issued worldwide on digital and CD formats via Sliptrick Records on September 6th, 2022.

“The first stage of life is about the transformation, the transformation of a man who is between worlds and nowhere really at home. Struggles with himself and with the world. Will Black Reuss make the journey? What will he encounter in his transformation, what will he take with him and what not?”

There is one person behind Black Reuss. Music, compositions, production, lyrics everything is from one pen and as close to the person behind Black Reuss as it can be. “All is one, all seems to be in balance, all is one, the journey can begin now”

Metamorphosis | Released September 6th, 2022 via Sliptrick Records

Black Reuss is:
Maurizio Dottore – Vocals/Guitars/Bass/Keys/Programming

THE UGLY KINGS Premiere New Video for ‘Do You Feel Like You’re Paranoid?’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on August 22, 2022

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One year after the release of critically acclaimed studio album Strange, Strange Times, Melbourne’s alternative rockers THE UGLY KINGS are heading off for the second leg of their Australian “Do You Feel Like You’re Paranoid?” tour with 9 shows in September, October and November.

Right in time before the tour, the four-piece, known for their foreboding alt-rock with blackened blues and gritty punk edge, releases a brand new official music video. “Do You Feel Like You’re Paranoid?” raises the question of developments in opinion formation in the present time, when the Internet – once the hope of freedom of speech – is often used for conspiracy theories or simple propaganda. The topic is underlined by a strong official music video!

THE UGLY KINGS on “Do You Feel Like You’re Paranoid?”:
“We’re super excited to release this brand new video for “Do You Feel Like You’re Paranoid?”, from our record Strange, Strange Times, as we are about to embark on the second leg of our Australian tour this September.

It’s been fantastic to be able to tour the album this year in Australia and what better way to celebrate than to release a new video.”

The recent studio album “Strange, Strange Times is about anxiety,” the band comments. “The world seems to be getting weirder and weirder every year and we are becoming more and more in touch with everything that is happening on earth as it happens. It’s impossible to process and impossible to make sense of. Strange, Strange Times is the low hum that we all carry around with us every day, the itch on our back that we can’t scratch, it’s the first cut in a thousand cuts. Take a deep breath, close your eyes and count to ten.”

Get your copy of Strange, Strange Times HERE

Catch THE UGLY KINGS live on the second leg of their “Do You Feel Like You’re Paranoid” tour in Australia:

03.09.22 AU – Melbourne / Hell on the bay
23.09.22 AU – Melbourne / Cherry Bar
01.10.22 AU – Adelaide / Crown & Anchor
08.10.22 AU – Darwin / Darwin Railway Club
15.10.22 AU – Hobart / Hobart Brewing Co
04.11.22 AU – Albury / Sodens Hotel
05.11.22 AU – Sydney / Frankie’s Pizza
12.11.22 AU – Frankston / Singing Bird
19.11.22 AU – Melbourne / Hotel Westwood

EVERMORE Release First Single + Lyric Video ‘Court of the Tyrant King’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on August 22, 2022

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(photo credit: Marcus Alfsson/MWC Studios)

Swedish power metal paladins EVERMORE have released a lyric-video for ‘Court of the Tyrant King’ – first single taken from the re-release of the eponymous 2021 debut album, set to be released on September 23rd via Scarlet Records.

Buy/Stream/Listen: https://orcd.co/evermorecottk

The Evermore debut album came out of the blue in 2021 and immediately left an impressive mark on the worldwide heavy metal scene, thanks to an inspired songwriting and a powerful yet classy performance.

The band favors a bit of a heavier tone compared to many other, more purely power metal-oriented bands, but they have always rooted themselves in strong melodies and catchy riffs.

A lot of Evermore’s sound, lyrics, arrangements and themes are a product of what feeling a particular song gave in the process of its creation. The Swedish trio tends to favor more grounded, serious or contemporary subjects when it comes to lyrical content, even though the classic fantasy-oriented themes are often still present.

The end goal of Evermore is to create music that makes you feel “something”; ‘Court of the Tyrant King’ evokes that sense of empowerment, uplifting mood and motivation that is sostrongly associated with the metal genre.