German metal institution GRAVE DIGGER have released their new official video for their third single “Heart Of A Warrior”!
The track is taken from the upcoming longplayer “Symbol Of Eternity”, to be released as CD, Vinyl, Boxset, Download and on all streaming platforms next week Friday, August 26, 2022 via ROAR! Rock Of Angels Records!
Music by Axel Ritt Lyrics by Chris Boltendahl Mixed and Mastered by Chris Boltendahl @ Graveyard Studio / Köln / Germany Video created by: W Designer https://www.facebook.com/wdesignerbr/
Finnish metal band Autumn’s Grief is set to release their second studio album Dead By The Dawn on December 9th 2022 via Inverse Records. The first single The Tide is released today and a brand new lyric video can be seen below.
The band comments: “The song tells a story of the two individuals destined to meet over and over again through the ages. Decades, centuries and millenniums may pass, but the connection never fades. It is a force binding together. The strong feeling of a familiarity. Where have I seen those eyes before? Though the times change we will always search for the one hidden deep down inside our memory. For with the company of some souls we feel more safe and whole.”
Album cover painting by Kris Olson Art. Edited by Mikko Virtanen.
Autumn’s Grief is a Finnish metal band that combines the elements from soundtrack music, melodic metal, symphonic metal and doom metal. The band was formed in 2021 by Santtu Rosén (Dead End Finland, Ex-Dying Daylight), Ville Skön (Willie Dangerr, Ex-Dying Daylight) and Noora Virtanen (Tulio, Musta Orkidea).
Santtu and Ville had worked closely together in their previous band Dying Daylight. After some years of both concentrating on their own bands and projects, they started to once again make songs together on spring 2020. Noora found their music on the internet by coincidence in the beginning of the year 2021 and asked them the permission to try to do the vocals into one of their songs. After that new songs just began to emerge one after another and the debut album was ready in a blink of an eye. Since all of the three musicians wanted to continue making music together, they decided to form a band in May 2021.
Autumn’s Grief released their first single “The Oblivion” on June 2021 followed by the releases of the singles “The Dead Don’t Smile” and “The Thorn in My Side”. The band released their debut album “The Dead Don’t Smile” as a digital version independently on October 2021. The album received positive feedback amongst the media and fans around the World.
On spring 2022 Autumn’s Grief made an agreement with Inverse Records about the digital distribution and marketing of their second album.
Crust punk outfit BASTARÐUR (ft. singer/guitarist Aðalbjörn “Addi” Tryggvason of Sólstafir) is now sharing the brand new music video for the song “Viral Tumor!” The track is taking from the band’s 2021 debut album, ‘Satan’s Loss of Son.’ The video can be seen at THIS LOCATION.
Tryggvason comments, “‘Viral Tumor’ was the first song written for this album and features all the things I wanted to achieve by doing this album, so making a performance video felt perfect, having a whole band playing a song written a time long ago alone in a garage.”
After New York post-punk/dark rock veterans BLACKLIST recently unleashed the brand new single “The Final Resistance”, today more details about the band’s upcoming second album have been released. “Afterworld” will be out on October 28th via Profound Lore Records and marks the band’s first album in thirteen long years. Featuring ten brand new tracks packed with the band’s captivating and distinctive sound, “Afterworld” seamlessly picks up where its critically acclaimed predecessor “Midnight of the Century” (2009) left off: Powerful and dark anthems, blending elements of shoegaze and heavy metal with coldwave in a fluid motion. Thematically, the upcoming album explores the possible meanings of love in a time of political and environmental collapse, and with the track “Pathfinder”, the band has given another glimpse of their soon-to-be-released album.
Joshua Strachan comments:
In the summer of 2021, we met up with no demos, no preconceived notions of what or how we would write. At least nothing beyond the vague question I’d had in the back of my mind, “What if a band like Blacklist did what Iron Maiden did with ‘Somewhere In Time’ and made a guitar synth record?” We got a Meris Enzo pedal, a lot of tequila, and went into Glenn’s basement to see what would happen.
We ended up writing the basic parts for four songs that weekend, one of which was ‘Pathfinder.’ Musically I feel it has a lot of spiritual similarity to old school Blacklist songs like “Dawn of the Idols” and “Julie Speaks” with Glenn doing a sort of tribal drum thing and Ryan chugging away on a very propulsive bass riff. Lyrically, though, it really reflects what I feel is the most significant break from older Blacklist material. The lyrics are searching, yearning. They communicate vulnerability and uncertainty.
He continues:
I think it’s really reflective of where we are and who we are now. It’s Blacklist through and through, it’s the sound of charging forward into a fucked up world, it’s about human connection, and that really encapsulates what we’ve always been about.
Tracklist reads as follows:
Fires Of Black November
The Final Resistance
Nightbound
No Good Answers
Behind The Veil Of The Living World
Pathfinder
Scarlet Horizon
A Stranger In This Century
In Shadow Light
Lovers In Mourning
“Afterworld” was produced by Joshua Strachan at Primal Architecture Studio, Appalachia, VA and mixed by Sanford Parker (Darkthrone, Yob, BLOODYMINDED). The album will be coming out in CD/LP/DIGITAL formats and is now available for pre-order at THIS LOCATION
Swedish groove metal band, THE DEFACED are releasing a brand new video for the song “Monochromatic Void”. It´s taken from the album “Charlatans” that was released earlier this year via ViciSolum Productions.
Watch the video below.
The Defaced was formed in 1999 in Helsingborg, Sweden, when members from Darkane, Soilwork and local acts joined forces. Writing, rehearsing, demoing and gigging eventually led up to landing a record deal.
The debut album “Domination Commence” was released in 2001 through Scarlet Records and Nuclear Blast America. The album rounded up feedback putting the band on the map. In 2003 “Karma in Black” was released. The album meant a clear progression to a more mature sound which was recognized in the stellar reception of the album. A video was shot for the track “Once in Between” which gained air-time on various TV channels. Gigs and festival slots followed the album release.
2006 meant line-up changes prior to the release of the band’s third album, “Anomaly”. The album treaded new ground incorporating vibes from alternative genres into the band’s sound. More gigs followed the release of the album. Then silence…
Awoken from hibernation in 2018. The fire was back, songs fell into place and off it went. The evolution of the band is clear. The heritage from early days blends in with the ever so prominent vein on exploring progressive territories.
About the album: Charlatans took its beginning back in 2019 when Mattias Svensson gave Jens Broman a call. Jens Broman hadn’t been working with music to any major extent since 2010 when he left Darkane. Since the release of the album, Anomaly, back in 2006, The Defaced had slowly started to dissolve during 2007-2008 and was finally set on pause indefinitely in late 2008. Mattias explained on the phone that he had written a bunch of songs that he wanted Jens to listen to. The intention was to start up The Defaced again. Jens loved the songs immediately and slowly during 2019 Mattias and Jens started to set up a work process for continuing working on the songs. – It all came very naturally, just like in the old days, says Jens. Klas Ideberg shared the same thoughts and ambitions and after recruiting new drummer Bob Ruben a new start of the band was on the table.
All instruments were recorded in Helsingborg at the Mansarda studios, produced by Klas and Mattias.Vocals were recorded and produced by Jens and Björn Strid at Studio Björngrottan, in Tyreså Autumn 2020. Mixing and mastering by Lawrence Mackory, At Obey Mastering, in Uppsala. December 2020.
As with so many artists much of the inspiration for this record, lyrically came from a large extent from the pandemic. Not as such but its creativity came as an involuntary pause from the wound-up stressed world. The songs cover themes such as struggles with relationships, self-doubt and eager frustration and a feeling that everything is already too late to change. Charlatans is an album that encompasses the sound of the earlier albums but given the addition of a more prominent progressive touch. The songs aim to give the listener an even greater sonic adventure than the previous records. Still, most of the heritage from old metal giants is ever so present, blended together with classic songwriting with a twist towards progressive soundscapes.
After MØL released their second studio album Diorama in November last year, the guys from Denmark are back today with their brand new video for the song ‘Tvesind’.
For the frontman, Diorama is much more than an epitaph to his faith and childhood trauma. It’s a direct letter to those closest to him, communicating the scale of the hurt he feels in ways he couldn’t otherwise articulate. That’s why the album’s closing duology, ‘Tvesind’ and the title track—described as containing the most personal lyrics on there—are in Danish. They’re for Sternkopf’s confidantes, not the metal masses, he explained in an interview for stereoboard.
Singer Kim comments: “I got to have some profound conversations with my father that I wouldn’t have had if I didn’t get to write this,” he reveals. “Sometimes it’s difficult to talk to people and say, ‘You did something really wrong to me,’ but if you have it on paper, a song or movie or something to speak out from, there’s something we can examine from different angles. That’s where the title ‘Diorama’ comes in. Despite the odds being against us, I believe there’s a lot of hope because I’ve found a way to talk to them.”
Kim continues: “We have been very fortunate to be working with british director/editor John Bradburn who conjured up some amazing work with excellent videos for both DEAFHEAVEN on “In Blur” and Emma Ruth Rundle on “Blooms of Oblivion”. He has treated the heavy subject matters of the album with the utmost respect and a razor-sharp eye for aesthetics that we believe should accompany all of our music.”
Next week, the long-awaited EU/UK tour starts for MØL. Together with CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX and IMPURE WILHELMINA you can see the band live in the following citys:
25.08.22 DE Hannover – Faust 26.08.22 DE Hamburg – Bahnhof Pauli 27.08.22 DK Copenhagen – Hotel Cecil 28.08.22 DE Berlin – SO36 29.08.22 DE Leipzig – Täubchenthal 30.08.22 DE Munich – Backstage 31.08.22 HU Budapest – A38 01.09.22 AT Vienna – Chelsea 02.09.22 IT Bologna – Link 03.09.22 CH Winterthur – Gaswerk 04.09.22 FR Paris – Backstage 05.09.22 DE Cologne – Essigfabrik 06.09.22 NL Zoetermeer – Boerderij 07.09.22 UK London – The Dome 08.09.22 UK Bristol – The Fleece 09.09.22 UK Manchester – Rebellion 10.09.22 UK Glasgow – Classic Gran
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