Hard hitting, sharp shooting power rock influenced by the great sounds of the 1970s and 80s. THE RIVEN plays honest Rock & Roll that makes you wanna shake your fist and bang your head, and today the band from Sweden has released a brand new lyric video for “Death”. A classic heavy metal track with powerful vocals, gripping lyrics and an electrifying guitar solo, all contributing to a dynamic soundscape with a huge finale.
The band comments:
“This is our heaviest song to date and features a lot of different emotions. This is a journey you don’t wanna miss out on!“
“Death” is the second single from The Riven’s sophomore album “Peace and Conflict”, which is set for release on The Sign Records later this year. Stream the single HERE
The Riven headline tour Spain 2022: 12 apr – Wurlitzer Ballroom – Madrid 13 apr – Urban Rock Concept – Vitoria 14 apr – Pub Zeta – Binéfar 15 apr – El Cielo Gira – Soria 16 apr – Cal Jou Conques – Lleida 17 apr – La Traviesa – Torredembarra 19 apr – Sala Nana – Ciudad Real 20 apr – Dabadaba – Donosti 21 apr – El Gran Café – León 22 apr – Salason – Cangas do Morrazo 23 apr – Sala Mardi Gras – A Coruña 24 apr – Porta Caeli – Valladolid
April 15, 2022 will see Brazilian death metal act THE TROOPS OF DOOM, featuring former SEPULTURA guitarist Jairo “Tormentor” Guedz alongside bassist/vocalist Alex Kafer (Enterro, Explicit Hate, ex-Necromancer), drummer Alexandre Oliveira (Southern Blacklist, Raising Conviction), and guitarist Marcelo Vasco (Patria, Mysteriis, and acclaimed graphic artist for the likes of Slayer, Kreator, Machine Head, Soulfly, and Hatebreed), release their hotly anticipated debut album Antichrist Reborn! The record will be available as CD Digipack and Cassette, with a Vinyl to follow on June 26th, via Alma Mater Records – the Portuguese record label run by MOONSPELL‘s Fernando Ribeiro – and will be digitally released by Blood Blast Distribution.
Following two critically acclaimed EPs, The Rise Of Heresy in 2020 and The Absence of Light (2021), which has been lauded by both the international music press and fans alike, on Antichrist Reborn the THE TROOPS OF DOOM revisits the essence of ‘80s-style death metal, exploring a more primitive sound that takes its listeners back to that era, while remaining fresh, genuine, and ferociously heavy.
After the previously-released, first single and a music video for the heavy as hell track “Altar Of Delusion”, the band has unleashed a new lyric video for “A Queda”, sung in Portuguese and featuring João Gordo, lead singer of Ratos de Porão, on guest vocals!
Just exclusively premiered with Metal Hammer, you can now watch the new lyric video clip by THETROOPS OF DOOM here:
“I am still very impressed with the way religions, and especially Christianity, acted for centuries.” Jairo Guedz explains. “In this song I wanted to print this vision of a dictatorial and authoritarian regime, which takes advantage of the blindness and weakness of most people… Of course, our fiction doesn’t even come close to the brutal reality that turned the church into one of the greatest institutions of this planet. It was a great pleasure for us to have the presence of João Gordo from Ratos De Porão sharing the vocals with Alex. It’s a Portuguese version, but it translates the same dark truth that afflicts the whole world!”
Guitarist Marcelo Vasco adds: “This song is probably the most different on the record, not only because it is sung in Portuguese, but also because it has a more crossover approach, let’s say, mixing punk and metal. It’s a heavy, dirty song and has incredible energy. It was no wonder that right away we thought of inviting João Gordo to share the vocals with Alex. Everything fit like a glove and we are extremely happy with this track, that’s why we decided to choose it to be our second Single from The Troops of Doom’s debut album. Hope you all like it as much as we do. Lyric Video was created by the talented Wanderley Perna and directed by Jairo, where they wanted to rescue an aesthetic of the 20s cinema, combined with an inspiration from Pink Floyd and Nosferatu. Looks amazing!”
Antichrist Reborn was mixed by Swedish producer Peter Tägtgren at the iconic The Abyss Studio and mastered by Jonas Kjellgren at Blacklounge Studio, Sweden. Featuring very special guest musicians such as João Gordo and Alex Camargo & Moyses Kolesne (Krisiun), THE TROOPS OF DOOM unleash true oldschool death metal in its purest form; dirty, primitive, and brutally powerful as it should be! The cover art was painted by Sergio “AlJarrinha” Oliveira, the artist behind Sepultura’s Bestial Devastation original artwork. The album pre-sale of Antichrist Reborn is available at THIS LOCATION!
New Wave Of British Heavy Metal legends DESOLATION ANGELS signed a deal with Skol Records. The new studio album entitled “Burning Black” will be released this Summer, and will be firstly available as CD and Digital Download – details of the limited edition vinyl version will be revealed at a later date.
Cover artwork of the album has been painted by Guatemalan artist Mario Lopez, known from cooperation with such bands as CRYSTAL VIPER, EVIL INVADERS or MEDIEVAL STEEL. “Burning Black” will include 10 new songs.
DESOLATION ANGELS released their legendary same titled debut album in 1986, although actually debuted few years earlier, with demo tapes released in 1981 and 1982, and a 7″ single “Valhalla c/w Boadicea” released in 1984.
Polish heavy metallers LANINIA have released their new single ‘The Dark Times Roll’, taken from the band’s latest album “Tyrant”, released in November 2021.
Watch “The Dark Times Roll” here:
This Polish band was formed in 2018 by two friends, Daniel Ludwiczak (guitar) and Janusz Duź (guitar). Their music is inspired by bands such as Sepultura, Vader, Biohazard and Acid Drinkers. Debut album entitled “Loneliness” (2018) is a reference to the passing of time, interpersonal interactions and what the world around us is today. It’s the album that goes back to the 90s, but it does not avoid modern sounds. New material entitled “Tyrant” consists of 11 compositions bearing a common denominator-tyranny, which is the main theme of the album. As the band explain: „In today’s difficult and uncertain times, we wanted to look at this phenomenon at a wider angle and present it from different perspectives.” The album fully shows the multidimensionality of the band and what it has to offer to both Polish and English speaking listeners. English lyrics, melodic vocals and guitar groove are the most characteristic features of LaNinia. Invited guests musicians not only showed up for the recording sessions, but also took active part in the creation of the music right from the beginning and left a significant mark on the final sound of the compositions. The album includes a cover version of „Mandatory Suicide” by Slayer.
Tracklist:
Confession
Down With The Wicked
Not My Sin
My Tyrant
Mandatory Suicide (Slayer cover)
Eclipse Of Humanity
Fight Back
Malum In Se
Exterminate
The Dark Times Roll
Petrichor
Line-up Mateusz Popis – vocal Daniel Ludwiczak – guitars Janusz Duź – guitars Sergiusz Paszkiewicz – bass guitar Karol Wiśniewski – drums
JOE SATRIANI is unleashing his newest studio album, The Elephants of Mars, marking the legendary guitarist’s 19th studio album in his 35+year career in music. A dynamic and vivid new video for the title track, again directed by ZZ Satriani, debuted yesterday April 8th.
Watch the video premiere of The Elephants of Mars single HERE
Joe Satriani had an admirably productive workingman’s holiday, with pandemic forced time away from the road, that ultimately gave him and his touring band, all recording remotely in separate areas of the world during lockdown, the ability to deliver an album length journey that never dulls. The Elephants of Mars crackles with an exciting new energy, briskly traveling through stylistic roads that feel freshly updated, viewed through new eyes.
The guitarist challenged himself to create a “new standard” for instrumental guitar albums to be measured against, one which would work from “a new platform of his own design”, as he terms it. “I want to show people that an instrumental guitar album can contain far more creative and entertaining elements than I think people are using right now.”
In 2020 with all time constraints removed, The Elephants of Mars truly represents the album that Satriani himself hoped he could deliver with his band. “We did everything. We tried the craziest ideas. And we entertained every notion we had about turning something backwards, upside down, seeing what could happen.”
For over three decades, the guitar virtuoso has travelled the world, playing to sold-out crowds as both a headliner and as founder of the all-star “G3” guitar extravaganza. Satriani’s studio and live recordings have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide to date and of his many solo albums, two have gone platinum and four others went gold, with 15 Grammy nominations between them. His side project, Chickenfoot, featuring former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar, former bassist Michael Anthony and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ drummer Chad Smith saw their debut album certified gold and their second studio album debuted at #9.
Satriani’s touring band is Kenny Aronoff (drums), Bryan Beller (bass) and Rai Thistlethwayte (keyboards).
TRACKLISTING 1. Sahara 2. The Elephants of Mars 3. Faceless 4. Blue Foot Groovy 5. Tension and Release
6. Sailing the Seas of Ganymede 7. Doors of Perception 8. E 104th St NYC 9. Pumpin’ 10. Dance of the Spores 11. Night Scene 12. Through a Mother’s Day Darkly 13. 22 Memory Lane 14. Desolation
For over three decades, the guitar virtuoso has travelled the world, playing to sold-out crowds as both a headliner and as founder of the all-star “G3” guitar extravaganza. Satriani’s studio and live recordings have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide to date and of his many solo albums, two have gone platinum and four others went gold, with 15 Grammy nominations between them. His side project, Chickenfoot, featuring former Van Halen front man Sammy Hagar, former bassist Michael Anthony and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ drummer Chad Smith saw their debut album certified gold and their second studio album debuted at #9.
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Ireland’s finest, PRIMORDIAL, start their “Heathen Crusade To Doomsday” tour and release Redemption at the Puritan’s Hand (Redux) to celebrate last year’s 10th anniversary of the album masterpiece. As a bonus, the album will be re-released digitally with additional demo versions of all album tracks.
Primordial vocalist A.A. Nemtheanga comments: “Redemption at the Puritan’s Hand is just over a decade old, the world seems very different now, who knows where we tread, we are about to set out on tour, the last one before doomsday? Who knows. Take a bite out of the apple while you can and see you down the front. As for the Redux? We found lurking in an old folder somewhere the pre mixed, pre-master versions of the album, not quite the demos for the album but somewhere in between, the sound is quite different, maybe warmer on some level, but there are different vocal patterns and takes, leads in different places, the flesh on the bones of the album without perhaps the skin! ‘Redemption’ was an important milestone in the band’s career, a difficult album to make, full of complications, illness, and conflict before we even mention almost being stranded in the Welsh valleys in the harshest of Winters up to our hips in snow! We ask you now to take a chunk of the flesh and have a bite and celebrate over a decade of ‘Redemption’ together with our long term co conspirators over at the great Metal Blade Records! See you on the other side“
‘Heathen Crusade To Doomsday’ PRIMORDIAL + SWALLOW THE SUN Special Guest: ROME 08.04.2022 DE – Bochum, Matrix 09.04.2022 BE – Bomal, Durbuy Rock Festival 10.04.2022 UK – London, Assembly Hall 11.04.2022 UK – Southend, Chinnerys 12.04.2022 FR – Colmar, Grillen 13.04.2022 FR – Lyon, CCO Villeurbanne 14.04.2022 FR – Paris, La Machine du Moulin Rouge 15.04.2022 CH – Pratteln, Z7 16.04.2022 DE – Mannheim, MS Connexion Complex 17.04.2022 DE – München, Dark Easter Metal Meeting 18.04.2022 NL – Eindhoven, Effenaar 19.04.2022 DE – Berlin, Lido 20.04.2022 DE – Bremen, Modernes 21.04.2022 DK – Copenhagen, Pumpehuset 22.04.2022 SE – Gothenburg, Brewhouse 23.04.2022 SE – Stockholm, Slaktkyrkan
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