Finland’s GREEN KING Join The Sign Records, Launch ‘Godkiller’ Single from Debut Album

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The Sign Records is proud to announce that Finnish heavy metal group GREEN KING has joined the label. Originally formed as a side project to play stoner rock- inspired heavy music, Green King‘s members have long been part of the Finnish music scene in bands such as Rokets, Black Lizard, Rusty Triggers, and United Seafood. Quickly making a name for themselves in the heavy underground scene for their monumental riffs and colossal guitar harmonies, the Helsinki based four piece released the EP “Rock Alley Tapes” earlier in 2022. Now, the group is set to launch their debut, full length studio album “Hidden Beyond Time” in winter 2022, with the first single “Godkiller”, now available on all streaming platforms.

Listen to “Godkiller” through your favorite streaming platform or right here:

Green King comments: 

Godkiller is a song that pays homage to an 80’s thrash/speed metal band Holy Terror. The title comes from a video game I used to play when writing this song, so Godkiller isn’t much of a statement against christianity rather than a big heavy metal nerd out, but maybe let’s not tell that to the Jesus freaks out there. We’re proud and excited to release the first single from our upcoming album with the Sign records, this for sure is a milestone for us as a band!

Green King are:
Eliel Salomaa : Guitars and vocals
Lauri Lyytinen : Guitars
Heikki Nyman : Bass
Otto Bigler : Drums

HALF GRAMME OF SOMA to Release New Album “Slip Through The Cracks” on September 30th

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Sound Of Liberation – the renowned, international live and booking institution for all that is heavy in the realms of stoner and heavy rock, psychedelic, doom and sludge metal, hosts of events such as Desertfest, Keep It Low, Up In Smoke and many more acclaimed festivals of the heavy music underground – has launched its own record label! Distributed by The Orchard, September 30, 2022 will see SOL Records proudly present their first record release, the new album by Athen-based rock act HALF GRAMME OF SOMA!

Formed in early 2011, HALF GRAMME OF SOMA unleashes an enthralling blend of heavy rock and a wide range of eclectic influences. 90’s-fueled, orgasmically monolithic and with a deep psychedelic soul, the band’s sound is groovy and trippy at the same time, based solely on successful teamwork rather than meaningless individual show-offs.With their self-titled debut album in 2013, the Greek five-piece took the rock community by storm: In 2014, the band released their much acclaimed Marche au Noir EP, followed by extensive touring schedules and shows with bands such as Monster Magnet, Elder, Stoned Jesus, 1000mods, Mars Red Sky and many more. Groove Is Black, HALF GRAMME OF SOMA’s sophomore album, was released in 2017.


Just recently, the band has shared a first song taken of their upcoming, third studio album, Slip Through The Cracks, which will see the light of day on September 30, 2022 via SOL Records (PRE-ORDER HERE!). Their new album raises the bar even more, with memorable riffs, genuine heaviness, an increased use of 90’s influences, powerful driven vocals and a tight rhythm section that never ceases to impress with its precision and effectiveness. HALF GRAMME OF SOMA are once again not aiming for commercial success or innovations, but they revolutionize the modern approach to classic ingredients, creating an addictive yet effortless magma of straightforward heavy rock music and unpretentious punkery!

In support of their upcoming record release, the band will hit the road with NAXATRAS in October; make sure to catch this killer tour package of up-and-coming Greek rock gods live at the listed dates below! HALF GRAMME OF SOMA‘s new video for first single and album opening track, “Muck & Cheese”, is streaming here:

Slip Through The Cracks Album – Tracklist:

  1. Muck & Cheese
  2. Voyager
  3. Magnetar
  4. High Heels
  5. Mind Game
  6. Sirens
  7. Wounds
  8. 22:22

HALF GRAMME OF SOMA & NAXATRAS LIVE:

02.10.2022 (CH) Pratteln / Up in Smoke
03.10.2022 (ITA) Bologna / Freak Out Club
04.10.2022 (AT) Innsbruck / PMK
05.10.2022 (AT) Salzburg / Rockhouse
06.10.2022 (DE) Passau / Zauberberg
07.10.2022 (DE) München / Keep It Low
08.10.2022 (CZ) Prague / Rock Café
10.10.2022 (PL) Warsaw / Hydrozagadka
11.10.2022 (DE) Berlin / Zukunft am Ostkreuz
12.10.2022 (DE) Wiesbaden / Schlachthof
14.10.2022 (DE) Oldenburg / Cadillac
15.10.2022 (BE) Antwerp / Desertfest
16.10.2022 (NL) Utrecht / DB´s

CRASHDÏET Release “Automaton” on Vinyl, Unleash Music Video ‘Shine On’

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After CRASHDÏET released their sixth album Automaton earlier in the year, you can now own the 12 eclectic metal tracks on limited edition vinyl via Crusader Records/Golden Robot. 

In addition to the limited edition vinyl, Crashdïet have surprised their fans with a music video for their fan-favourite single, ‘Shine On.’

Just like a gigantic robotic machine with pre-determined instructions, failure was never an option… No matter what obstacles may have come their way in the past, Crashdïet have always marched forward, delivering their own style of sleaze metal they have become so well known for. Automaton contains 12 powerful sing-along anthems with massive drums, guitars, bass, and powering vocals (including a surprise special guest and a haunting voice from the past)

You can purchase Crashdïet limited edition vinyl Automaton with a colour option of purple or red via the Golden Robot Records online store. 

Buy Automaton on Vinyl HERE

New TRAUMA Album “Awakening” Out Now

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Bay Area thrash metallers TRAUMA have released their new album “Awakening”, out now on Massacre Records!

“Awakening” turned out to be a lot heavier than its predecessors, and will be a feast for every metal fan!

The album is available as CD Digipak, limited edition vinyl LP as well as in digital formats – listen to and get the album here » https://lnk.to/trauma-awakening

Awakening -tracklist

CD Digipak

Walk Away
Ted Talks
Death Of The Angel
Meat
The River Red
Burn
Falling Down
Voodoo
End Of Everything
Blind
Death Machine
Ltd. Vinyl LP

A-Side

Walk Away
Death Of The Angel
Meat
The River Red
Burn

B-Side

Falling Down
Voodoo
End Of Everything
Blind
Death Machine

Videos
Death Of The Angel – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRy50HYOyM0
Walk Away (Official Video) – https://youtu.be/p4qVUXg46Xk
Death Of The Angel (Official Video) – https://youtu.be/nRy50HYOyM0

VERMOCRACY Release Lyric Video for ‘Necrocracy’

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On 30 September “Age Of Dysphoria”, the second album by the Viennese melodic death metallers VERMOCRACY, will be released via Black Sunset/MDD. Friends of dark melodic death metal with a clear homage to the genre greats of the 90s will certainly enjoy it, because stylistically and in terms of content, the band draws a dystopian picture of the failure and decay of modern society with powerful riffs, earthy grooves and bestial vocals. With “Necrocracy”, a first sample is now available on the label’s YouTube channel. In addition to the CD release, there will also be a chic aluminium box containing the album as well as a few additional gimmicks such as patches and stickers and a signed autograph card. The final tracklist of the album is attached!

tracklist

  1. Intro
  2. Necrocracy
  3. World Of Wounds
  4. The Void’s Embrace
  5. Opposed Evolution
  6. Grace Of Hypnos
  7. Perpetual Flood
  8. The Pyre
  9. In Darkness Let Me Dwell

live
RECORD RELEASE

  1. November – Escape, Wien /w Infest, Dismal Lumentism Schänder

preorders
MDD: http://mdd-records.de/vermocracy (CD & Boxset)
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3TMVMfd

DRAGONHAMMER Reveal Concept Behind “Second Life” Album

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The new album “Second Life” realized by DRAGONHAMMER and out on November 4th via My Kingdom Music hides an interesting concept that keyboards player Giulio Cattivera explains to us in detail:

“Second Life” is a story that concerns us all. The goal I had set for this album was to tell the most important phases of life. The main character, song by song, will allow the listener to identify with his story.

It happens to everyone -probably- to experience a moment where we feel oppressed, perhaps by a life imposed by others, which is not the right one. A moment that kills and demotivates us and lets us slip into a kind of torpor from which we can only awake by stopping lying to ourselves. But life is a constant challenge and to follow ‘our path’ we can find ourselves facing critical situations, re-evaluating our loved ones and asking ourselves if what surrounds us is really what we want. There are also, during our journey, events that change our existence: the loss of someone or the risk of losing ourselves, for example.

At a certain point, we understand how we have lived until now, what values our existence has and how we want to lead it to the end. When we realize this, we are reborn in a second life.

I wanted to set the story in a historical period of the past, because the thoughts of the people of yesterday are also ours, the feelings and emotions have no time and this is what all men of any era have in common.

This is “Second Life”: an album that talks about that moment in which we are granted a second chance and become aware of what is really important. A story that unites all of us as men, but also DRAGONHAMMER as a band: the three people on the cover depict the main character in his three life stages that empathically connect to the dragon, the essence of the band.

Inside the booklet of the album, listeners will find a message left by the protagonist, but I can’t reveal anything else! Listening to the songs, you will understand all the phases of this story”.