Norwegian black metal legends TSJUDER are now unleashing a ferocious new single, “Iron Beast,” which is taken from the band’s forthcoming album, ‘Helvegr!’ The song can be found along with a ferocious visualizer at THIS LOCATION.
TSJUDER comments: “This is ‘Iron Beast.’ Death to all!”
The album will be released on various physical formats, such as cd digipack and coloured vinyl, but also limited edition clamshell box (cd) and LTD vinyl box. These limited editions come with a bonus album ‘Scandinavian Black Metal Attack,’ in which TSJUDER pays a special ode to Bathory.
‘Helvegr’ is due on June 23, 2023 via Season of Mist. Pre-orders are now available HERE while the album can be pre-saved HERE.
The cover artwork for ‘Helvegr’ was created by Jonas Svensson and Laura Nardelli.
Track-list: 1. Iron Beast (3:37) [WATCH] 2. Prestehammeren (4:01) 3. Surtr (6:59) 4. Gamle-Erik (3:46) 5. Chaos Fiend (4:02) 6. Gods of Black Blood (5:19) [WATCH] 7. Helvegr (7:36) 8. Faenskap og Død (3:08) 9. Hvit Død (2:52)
ARJEN LUCASSEN’S SUPERSONIC REVOLUTION have revealed the official video for “Golden Age of Music”, taken from the upcoming album ‘Golden Age of Music’, coming out on May 19th via Music Theories Recordings / Mascot Label Group.
Talking about the song Lucassen says, “For me the 70s were the Golden Age of music. But that’s purely personal! If I had been born 10 years later, I guess it could have been the 80s. Anyway, in these lyrics I describe how I used to lie in bed under the blankets and secretly listen to pirate radio stations like Radio Caroline on a little transistor radio. Those pirate stations played all kinds of weird underground music, and I Ioved it! I also loved 1970s fashion, with the colourful shirts and bell bottom jeans. And of course, I watched all the wrong TV series, like ‘Charlie’s Angels’ with the lovely Farrah Fawcett! Daisy D is of course Daisy Duke from the somewhat questionable series ‘Dukes of Hazzard’. The name dropping becomes quite obvious in the 2nd verse, where references are made to T Rex, Rainbow, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper and Thin Lizzy. And of course, Jaycee loved singing the line “JC’s a superstar!” (Even though I obviously had another JC in mind).”
You think you know Arjen Lucassen? Towering Dutch prog rock polymath? The man behind the super successful prog rock conceptualists Ayreon? Not to mention his prog metal of Star One and Guilt Machine? Enormous overarching concept albums about space and time, packed to the hilt with special guests that read like a who’s who of modern-day progressive rock? Arjen Lucassen? Well, think again…
Supersonic Revolution, the band behind ‘Golden Age Of Music’, are simply five men: Arjen on bass, long-standing keyboard player Joost van den Broek, guitarist Timo Somers, drummer Koen Herfst and singer Jaycee. Five men rocking out and having one hell of a time doing it.
The whole project grew from a request to provide a track for a cover CD for the German music magazine Eclipsed. A seed was sewn in Lucassen’s mind and the end result is 11 tracks of high energy, progressively inclined heavy rock that swings with the kind of groove Deep Purple rocked with in the early to mid-1970s. “This album is not a typical prog album. It’s not Yes or Genesis. But it’s not a metal album either. There’s a track called ‘Burn it Down’,” Lucassen notes, “it’s totally based on ‘Smoke On The Water’ but written from the perspective of the ‘stupid with a flare gun’ mentioned in the original lyrics. They have previously revealed the song “SR Prelude & The Glamattack.”
The album also features covers of some legendary songs given the Arjen Lucassen treatment as bonus tracks: T-Rex’s ‘Children of the Revolution,’ ZZ Top’s ‘Heard It On The X,’ Earth Wind and Fire’s ‘Fantasy’ and Roger Glover’s ‘Love Is All.’
Track list 01 SR Prelude 02 The Glamattack 03 Golden Age Of Music 04 The Rise Of The Starman 05 Burn It Down 06 Odyssey 07 They Took Us By Storm 08 Golden Boy 09 Holy Holy Ground 10 Fight Of The Century 11 Came To Mock, Stayed To Rock 12 Children Of The Revolution (Bonus Track) 13 Heard It On The X (Bonus Track) 14 Fantasy (Bonus Track) 15 Love Is All (Bonus Track)
Photo by Teppo Ristola / Teppo Ristola Photography
Finnish groove-thrash metal group FALLING FROM GRACE will release their second studio album, “At The Edge”, later in 2023 via Inverse Records. The first single and music video, ‘The Abyss’, is released today.
he band comments: “The Abyss has gotten its inspiration from sleep paralysis that many have told to feel a dark presence with them. You can feel that there is something in there, but you can’t see it physically. Is this only a trick of the mind, or is there something evil and dark in there with us when we can only lie down and not Imove at all?”
Composed by Timi Tonteri, Atte Väisänen, Toni Jokelainen & Valtteri Honko.
Lyrics by Niki Tonteri
Single cover by Sami Leppäaho
Falling From Grace’ is a groove-trash metal band from Finland, formed in 2013. Their influences come from genres like groove metal, thrash metal, death metal, metalcore, etc. As such, their music strikes the hearts of many metalheads. This five-man band always plays their gigs with 110% attitude, leaving no one in the crowd cold. Falling From Grace has released; the EP “Shadows of the Past” (2014), singles “Poseur” (2016) “, Reflection” (2020), “Break Your Neck” (2020), “In The Lies Where We Stand” (2021) and an album “Shattered” (2021). Falling From Grace is writing a new album titled “At The Edge” They plan to around the end of 2023.
Istanbul, Türkiye’s extreme metal stalwarts EXNUN will return with new album “Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death” on June 9th 2023 via Time To Kill Records.
“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 now streaming 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.
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.
Stay tuned to Time To Kill Records and the band’s socials for details on the upcoming release and other activities in 2023.
Magnetic Eye Records have announced the next installment in their acclaimed Redux Series of cover versions honouring legendary rock classics with a pair of double albums paying tribute to grunge gods SOUNDGARDEN in the form of “Superunknown Redux” and “Best of Soundgarden Redux”.
Following established tradition, the label is presenting the project first with a Kickstarter campaign, and today reveals the inclusion of a track featuring an actual member of SOUNDGARDEN, in the form of drummer Matt Cameron contributing to a cover by doom metal meets throat singing project Marc Urselli’s STEPPENDOOM. Alongside Cameron are guitarist Alain Johannes (QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, ELEVEN), and STONED JESUS vocalist Igor Sydorenko as well as throat singers Albert Kuvezin (YAT-KHA) and Utelo.
Other artists announced on “Superunknown Redux” and “Best of Soundgarden Redux” to date include:
MARISSA NADLER UFOMAMMUT DOZER HEAVY TEMPLE BEASTWARS FREEDOM HAWK DARKHER RESTLESS SPIRIT SOMNURI HIGH PRIEST JACK HARLON AND THE DEAD CROWS BLUE HERON HORSEBURNER JOSIAH HIGH DESERT QUEEN
The Kickstarter campaign is underway and will continue until April 28 at this link.
Jadd Shickler comments: “Next year is the 30th anniversary of the release of ‘Superunknown’, but we didn’t need an anniversary to justify an homage to this band”, states the Magnetic Eye Records label director. “Grunge has a lot of the same seeds as stoner rock and doom metal. Titanic riffs, splashes of psychedelia, and complete authenticity, combined with an absolute refusal to ever feel artificial or pretentious. Soundgarden have always been this perfect point of connection for everyone in the heavy rock underground. They’re simply the best of what came out of the grunge scene, and also the holy grail of irrefutable catchiness meets uncompromising heaviness. We can hardly wait for folks to hear what the artists we’ve gathered have done in reverent tribute to Chris, Kim, Ben, and Matt.”
unaffected by whatever was cool. Their mix of weighty power, soaring melodies and punk sneer made them ideal standard bearers for the grunge movement, but their towering musicianship and intelligent songcraft helped them transcend the era and remain iconic far beyond their origins in the Seattle scene. Arguably their finest and most comprehensive statement, “Superunknown” was the album that launched them to global mega-stardom. It contains some of the most lasting, meaningful, and heaviest songs they ever wrote.
“Superunknown Redux” presents new takes on all fifteen tracks from the seminal SOUNDGARDEN album from some of the loudest, coolest, and most eclectic bands across rock and metal today, along with a few less heavy but absolutely captivating contributions. Along with “Superunknown Redux”, we also present our “Best of Soundgarden Redux” companion album, offering up another 15 all-time classics and deep cuts from across the rest of the grunge gods’ extensive catalog.
The Magnetic Eye Redux Series features hand-picked classic albums from across the history of rock and metal re-imagined in their entirety from start to finish. Artists we love from within and outside the heavy rock landscape choose tracks to make their own, bringing these milestone records into the new millennium with crushing heaviness and searing energy. To date, we’ve produced Redux editions of PINK FLOYD’s “The Wall”, HELMET’s “Meantime”, BLACK SABBATH’s “Vol. 4”, HENDRIX’s “Electric Ladyland”, ALICE IN CHAINS’ “Dirt”, and AC/DC’s “Back in Black”, which have included artists like RED FANG, MATT PIKE, PALLBEARER, THE MELVINS, ALL THEM WITCHES, KHEMMIS, ASG, SUPERSUCKERS, ZAKK WYLDE, MARK LANEGAN, RUBY THE HATCHET, and many more amazing artists.
Join us for our seventh foray into Redux territory as we pay proper respect to the Seattle legends. More artist announcements to follow soon!
Thane (India) based rising metal band ETERNAL RETURNS is proud to present the music video for the track “Siege Sombre,” from their upcoming album “Hunchback Hatred,” due for release via Wormholedeath.
“Siege Sombre” is a testament to the unique sound and energy that they bring to every performance. As a band, they thrive in the live environment because of the energy which they share with the audience that makes the band sound.
Brace yourselves for a metal assault that captures the essence of Eternal Returns’ raw power. The music video is now available on YouTube, where the band flexes their sonic muscles, with singer Narendra Patel unleashing a barrage of savage vocals that is sure to leave you breathless.
Hunchback Hatred is a seven-song opus that reflects the band’s observation of a world steeped in hate, which is fast approaching a boiling point. The album exposes the anatomy of hate and the society that has formed a hump of hatred in every mind, waiting to be triggered. It is an album of self-awareness, avenging, and culture, reflecting the band’s affirmation of their place in a society driven by hate.
Eternal Returns comprises of Narendra Patel on vocals and lyrics, Harsh Makwana on lead and rhythm guitars and bass, and Viktor Lytvynov on drums.
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