One of Chile’s best-known metal guitarists in Finland, ERICK AVILA – Cold Scandinavian Metal meets hot Latin American rhythms in a new tango single ‘Por Una Cabeza’.
Music by Carlos Garde Lyrics by Alfredo Le Pera Arrangements by Erick Avila, Tuomas Riihimäki, Aki Kontiokangas, Elias Koljonen Recorded by Jori Saloranta, Tuomas Riihimäki and Erick Avila Mixed by Javier Bassino Mastered by Mika Jussila, Finnvox Distributed by Playground Music Scandinavia
Erick Avila moved to Finland two years ago for the love of the local music scene and he is now building his new career there. Erick Avila is one of the best-known metal guitarists in Chile. He is also a composer, producer and for a long time he has been the leader of a Chilean metal band Six Magics.
Avila found a band bearing his own name with three Finnish musicians. The group is doing now something no one has ever done before – combining metal and the hot rhythms of Latin America such as the Chilean cueca, Brazilian bossanova and Cuban salsa.
Last year Erick Avila band released their first single ‘Songo‘, an energetic song that combines salsa and metal. Now the band presents its version of the legendary ‘Por Una Cabeza‘, a tango from Argentina. The passion of the Carlos Gardel tango meets the Nordic metal in this new version that has been born in Finland.
Avila’s former band Six Magics has toured also in Europe in addition to Latin America. They have headlined concerts for thousands of people and supported bands like Nightwish and Tarja Turunen. Avila has a vast fan base in Chile for over 20 years of career and he has been an inspiration source for many guitarists in the area.
Now the new band has gained great reception by Chilean and Finnish audience due to the cross cultural videos they published in social media showing how the project and music were born so far away from Chile and how the band leader, Avila himself blended into the Finnish culture.
Erick Avila – The band: Erick Avila – guitar, vocals Tuomas Riihimäki – keyboards Aki Kontiokangas – bass Elias Koljonen – drums
Chicago, IL death metal trio MOLDER are today premiering their new single, Decomposed Embryos, and an accompanying visualizer via Decibel. Decomposed Embryos is the second single to be taken from their upcoming sophomore album, Engrossed in Decay, and recounts a bone chilling and true tale of a malevolent Midwest abortionist.
Speaking on the album announcement and track premiere MOLDER comments:
“Decomposed Embryos is about Dr. Ulrich Kloper, a Midwestern abortionist accused of preserving well over 2,000 fetal remains. Shortly after his death, the remains were discovered inside the garage of his rural home in Will County, Illinois. 165 additional remains were later found located in the trunk of his vehicle.
“We chose Decomposed Embryos as a single for the simple fact that it’s straight to the point. It definitely stands out on the record as our “less is more” track. Fixating less on technical precision and overwhelming flashiness, and more on brutality, wrecking your neck, and quenching your thirst for gore.”
Conceptually, Engrossed in Decay collects the sonic aesthetics of in-song samples, death-obsessed lyrics, and colorful mucus and blood themes into a cohesively gross package. This is the type of gift found in medical waste repositories or in the aftermath of a kitchen knife rampage. One look at the cover illustrated by Lucas Korte (Blood Incantation, Tomb Mold), and MOLDER’s sordid intentions are immediately evident. This is blood-curdling, gore-hurling death metal from graves licentiously disturbed.
Recorded at Studio Novy with Cheyenne Brandt (Vanished Cadavers, and Chicago Metal Hell Vol 2), Cianide’s Scott Carroll joined the sessions as steward before the final mix went to Philadelphia-based mastering ace Arthur Rizk (Creeping Death, Temple of Void). The result is an engrossing experience, nasty to the touch yet riveting like a chainsaw battle. Glutinous Remains, Chemically Dissolved, Huff the Stench, and the title track are prime examples of MOLDER’s choicest, meatiest cuts.
The next phase of MOLDER’s depraved death metal domination will commence after Engrossed in Decay is unleashed upon metaldom. Until then, they’ll fester wildly in and around Chicago, with the rest of North America suffering perversely with a full-scale bloodbath later in 2022.
You’ve been warned! MOLDER are coming for you, their stomach-churning, mortifying corpses in full-on attack mode.
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STINGER have released their new official videoo for the song “Monkey”!
The track is taken from the band’s new album “Expect The Unexpected” that was released on May 13, 2022 via ROAR! Rock Of Angels Records, as digipak CD and digital streaming and download format!
Produced by Matthew Sting & Claudio Jans Recorded at Stingray Studios Germany Mixed & Mastered by Claudio Jans at Crownjam Studios https://www.crownjamstudios.com/ Video editing by Daniel Streng / LowkezMedia www.lowkezmedia.com
Stinger are: Martin Schaffrath – Vocals Matthew Sting – Guitars Adrian Seidel – Guitars Simon Simon – Bass Sammy Sin – Drums
WALTER TROUT has revealed the official video for “Ride”, title track from his upcoming studio album, coming out on August 19th via Provogue Records/Mascot Label Group.
Arriving on the US West Coast two weeks before sessions began, Trout settled to write the Ride material in his now-deserted house in Huntington Beach, California. But even in this beachside paradise, amongst the swaying palms and ocean breeze, the past came calling. As long-standing Trout fans know, the Golden State has been the bluesman’s home for 47 years.
In time, Trout joined John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers lineup in ’85, before embarking on an acclaimed solo career from ’89 onwards. But before that came his chaotic, self-destructive years as a jobbing lead guitarist, whether for revered-but-tricky blues pioneers like John Lee Hooker and Big Mama Thornton, or an unhinged tenure in an ’80s Canned Heat line-up controlled by the Hell’s Angels.
Trout’s well-documented excess in this era was darker than a young rock star cutting loose. It could all be traced back to his troubled childhood in New Jersey, he explains, where an unstable stepfather – himself the victim of shocking cruelty as a prisoner of war – was a terrifying presence. As Ride took form, such memories couldn’t help but flavour the music. “This album is obviously what I was going through mentally and emotionally,” he considers. “All I did was express it. I spent a lot of time crying, because I would dig down into my emotional core. I want my songs to have some sort of truth to them.”
Some memories that Trout examines on Ride are long-distant but eternally poignant. Try the deceptively upbeat title track, another song that began as a poem, recounting the locomotive that rattled past his childhood home each night and enticed him to freight-hop to freedom. “That song is about what it felt like to lay there in bed and dream about escaping on that train.”
The stormy Hey Mama takes inspiration from the same period, with Trout debating whether his trauma could have been averted. “I’m not pissed off with my mom and I love her memory,” he says, “but my wife says, ‘Your mom probably could have done more to protect you from your stepdad’. Yeah, maybe she could have. But it’s easy to say that looking back.”
Walter Trout is the beating heart of the modern blues rock scene. Respected by the old guard. Revered by the young guns. Adored by the fans who shake his hand after the show each night, and after five decades in the game, Trout remains a talismanic figure.
But, however fast or far a man travels, he can never truly outrun his past. On his new album he found himself eyeing the horizon and the green shoots of his triumphant late career. There was a new record deal with Mascot/Provogue. A move from California to Denmark with his beloved family. Even now, aged 70, Trout was still writing fresh chapters of his life story.
By now, Trout knows that nobody ever really leaves their old selves behind. But with Ride providing an emotional release-valve – both for its creator and his loyal listeners – perhaps this veteran artist can reconcile with his past, accept his future and live in the present as it unfolds. “I think you can interpret this album title a few different ways,” he concludes. “I mean, this album is definitely a musical ride and I certainly tried to cover a lot of ground. But, really, life is kind of a ride too, isn’t it? And I want to live mine to the fullest.”
Track list Ghosts Ride Follow You Back Home So Many Sad Goodbyes High Is Low Waiting For The Dawn Better Days Ahead Fertile Soil I Worry Too Much Leave It All Behind Hey Mama Destiny
June 4 – Ballyshannon, Ireland – Rory Gallagher Festival TICKETS 10 – Grollo, NL – Holland International Blues Festival TICKETS 11 – Sölvesborg, SE – Sweden Rock Festival TICKETS 13 – Chester, UK – Live Rooms TICKETS 14 – Buxton, UK – Pavilion Arts Centre TICKETS 16 – Brighton, UK – Concorde 2 TICKETS 17 – Islington, UK – Assembly TICKETS 18 – Holmfirth, UK – Picturedome TICKETS 19 – Edinburgh, UK – Stramash TICKETS 20 – Bury St. Edmunds, UK – The Apex Arts Centre TICKETS 21 – Frome, UK – Cheese and Grain TICKETS 22 – Southampton, UK – 1865 TICKETS 24 – Carpentras, FR – TICKETS 25 – Bilbao, ES – TICKETS
July 2 – Near Ross-on-Wye, UK – Linton Festival TICKETS 8 – Torgau, DE – Bastion Festival TICKETS 10 – Weert, NL – Bospop Festival TICKETS 23 – Winterbach, DE – Zeltspektakel – Magic Blues Night TICKETS 28 – Duluth, MN – West Theatre TICKETS 29 – Minneapolis, MN – Dakota TICKETS 30 – Fargo, ND – Fargo Bluesfestival TICKETS
August 2 – Bornholm, DK – EKKODALSHUSET 3 – Bornholm, DK – EKKODALSHUSET 4 – Frederikssund Festival, DK 18 – Leverkusen, DE – Schloß Morsbroich TICKETS 19 – Wespelaar, BE – Swing-Blues for the People Festival 20 – Waffenrod, DE – Woodstock Forever Festival TICKETS 23-28 – Athens, GR, Keeping the Blues Alive at Sea – Mediterranean TICKETS
September 2 – Norge, NO – Blues in Hell
October 5 – Hamburg-Schenfeld, DE – Jucks TICKETS 6 – Hannover-Isernhagen, DE – Bluesgarage TICKETS 7 – Dillingen/Saar, DE – Lokschuppen TICKETS 8 – Köln, DE – Stollwerck, Blues Alive Festival 2 TICKETS 11 – Aschaffenburg, DE – Colos Saal TICKETS 13 – Münster, DE – Jovel 14 – Erfurt, DE – Gewerkschaftshaus TICKETS 15 – Kaiserslautern, DE – International Kammgarn Bluesfestival 16 – Berlin, DE – Kesselhaus TICKETS 19 – Karlsruhe, DE – Tollhaus TICKETS 20 – Worpswede, DE – Musichall TICKETS 22 – Leuven, BE – Depot TICKETS 23 – St. Niklaas, BE – De Casino TICKETS 24 – Bochum, DE – Zeche TICKETS 26 – Fredericia, DK – Tøjuhuset TICKETS 27 – Esbjerg, DK – Tobakken TICKETS 28 – Odense, DK – Posten TICKETS 29 – Skive, DK – Skive Theater TICKETS 31 – Sønderborg, DK – Sønderborghus TICKETS
Philadelphia based extreme metallers IATT have released their brand new album “Magnum Opus“, out today on Black Lion Records. In support of the new album and to celebrate the release in style, IATT have unleashed a brand new visualizer video for the track “Ouroboros”, which features Jørgen Munkeby of Emperor / Shining on saxophone.
IATT comments:
“Round the wheel goes – An inexorable assault over and over again with the album’s second track. A fast paced spin that showcases a dizzying spell cast by Jørgen Munkeby (Emperor / Shining) on sax. Too many twists and turns to truly grasp on first take, we recommend setting Ouroboros on loop.”
Meticulously crafted to pick up thematically where its predecessor left off, on “Magnum Opus” the listener is catapulted from the 1700s (Arsenic Ways) further back in time to a much darker, older world and the esoteric sciences of Alchemy. It was in this time man aimed to harness the world around him, bending the natural elements in a quest to obtain power, knowledge, control, and even immortality itself. Alchemy was the key to unlocking the secrets of existence and elevating one’s self to the pinnacle of enlightenment through transmutation and manipulation of the earthly elements. It was only through the process of Magnum Opus (the great work) that alchemists could harness the elementals in their purest form to create the Philosopher’s Stone – the key to power, enlightenment, and immortality.
Just as in alchemy itself, creating this album has been a journey of transformation; a period of great growth as individuals and as a unit. It’s through adversity, struggles, and the forging of the elements – of literal blood, sweat, and tears – IATT strive to transcend and elevate to their highest self, “the great work”, “Magnum Opus“.
“Magnum Opus” was produced by Joe Cantamessa and got mixed and mastered by Marcos Cerutti. Stunning cover artwork by Nightjar art of Adam Burke. Furthermore, the album features guest performances by musicians from UADA, RIVERS OF NIHIL, EMPEROR, WINDFAERER + more.
The album is available for purchase at THIS LOCATION
New rock outfit UMBILICUS have released their first single, called “Hello Future”, from their debut album “Path of 1000 Suns”. The group is made up of CANNIBAL CORPSE drummer/lyricist Paul Mazurkiewicz, guitarist Taylor Nordberg (DEICIDE, INHUMAN CONDITION), bassist Vernon Blake (ANARCHUS, NAPALM DEATH-live), and vocalist Brian Stephenson (FORE, OLD JAMES). Though the band members are active in the metal community, the quartet put their love of 60’s and 70’s rock into an album of hard rock, drawing influences ranging from GRAND FUNK RAILROAD, AEROSMITH, LUCIFER’S FRIEND, SCORPIONS, LED ZEPPELIN.
Vocalist and lyricist Brian Stephenson says: “Hello Future! Here we are, we did it! It’s time for the world to hear what we’ve been putting our time and efforts into. We could not be more stoked for this first single and the album! Real down and dirty, simple, straight forward, in-your-face rock n roll for the people. It’s been a labour of love on all counts and a real trip from conception to birth. Here it is kicking and screaming in all its glory! Me and my brothers Taylor, Paul, and Vern’s hearts could not be filled with more joy for you all to experience this with us. We are Umbilicus and we play Rock N Roll. Dig it! Much love and peace to you all past, present, and future!”
A visualizer for “Hello Future” can be viewed below.
UMBILICUS is: Brian Stephenson – Vocals Paul Mazurkiewicz – Drums Taylor Nordberg – Guitar Vernon Blake – Bass
Album artwork by Taylor Nordberg
“Path Of 1000 Suns” was recorded in 2021 at Smoke & Mirrors Productions, and mixed/mastered by Taylor Nordberg in 2022.
Band photo by Deidra Kling Visualizer by Jeramie Kling
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