Heavy rockers THE SAME RIVER have signed a deal with Sliptrick Records.
The Same River is a rock band from Athens, Greece founded by Diamond Pr (Cyanna Mercury) and Dimitris Georgopoulos (Cyanna Mercury, Deaf Radio) in August of 2019. After two months, the band was completed by Fivos Katsifloros (One Man Drop) and Theodore Ntilgeris (The Great Black Shark). From the very first day The Same River focused on writing songs that can deliver their vision of this world; a lust for life and passion for making music.
In short the band is “four guys creating music, opposing the cruelty of this world with riffs and melodies. The Same River never step twice in the waters of our fears and they’re trying to create something soulful without looking back.”
After lots of sweat and tears, the groups four song debut was complete. An EP, recorded and mixed live, just to keep it’s true and raw feeling. Through the mist of the pandemic, Live At The Blackbox introduced The Same River to the world in March of 2020. Despite the difficulties and the lack of live performances, the reviews were overwhelming and gave them the strength and inspiration to complete their first full length album, Weight Of The World, set for release via Sliptrick Records in 2022.
Black metal band KEISER will release their sophomore single, “Sole Victor”, on January 21th 2022 via Non Serviam Records.
KEISER comment about the single.
“SOLE VICTOR” is the latest assault from Norway’s Keiser. It’s an old school black metal banger about a warrior emerging victorious from battle … alone, with slain bodies all around. Sole Victor is as chilling and unrelenting as it is melancholic and beautiful. All in all a great track to enjoy this winter.”
“Keiser was formed by drummer Geir Johansen and guitarist/vocalist Mikael Torseth in 2015 with the aim of making a unique brand of extreme metal together. This quickly resulted in the raw and primitive Ascension of Ghouls EP in 2016. The urge to do something bigger and more epic emerged soon after, and they started working on their debut album.
The Succubus was recorded in a week and was mixed and mastered by Johansen himself, and the band released The Succubus themselves in 2017 in true DIY fashion. This was a turning point for the band, as Johansen and Torseth were joined by guitarist William Aamodt and bassist Oddbjørn Haugen in the months before The Succubus was released. This enabled the band to start playing live and they soon built a small, but loyal following in the middle region of Norway.
Later in 2017, Haugen and the band parted ways and the band were joined by current bassist Jon Einar Hektoen. In late 2018, the band started to write and record a second album, their first album as a four-piece band. Instead of doing it as quickly and effectively as with The Succubus, the band decided to spend more time writing, recording and mixing to get the best result possible.
Geir Marvin Johansen: Drums, Vocals William Aamodt: Guitars Mikael Torseth: Guitars, Vocals Jon Einar Hektoen: Bass
First time on vinyl, the seventh full-length studio album “Invictus” by legendary German Thrash Metallers NECRONOMICON, coming out February 18th.
Old-school Thrash Metal with a modern production! Band got a hell of a lot more pedigree than a lot of people realize. After hitting the scene during the first wave of Teutonic Thrash Metal, alongside their more famous contemporaries Destruction and Kreator, these guys seemed to fade very quickly into near-total obscurity. It wasn’t for a lack of output, rather it was a lack of the luck. They’ve been nothing if not persistent though, because aside from a hiatus at the latter end of the 90s, Necronomicon have diligently plugged away at supplying a steady string of always respectable releases over the years. Amongst them, this 2012 effort ranks quite highly indeed.
What becomes quickly evident when listening to “Invictus” is how much more refined the new Necronomicon’s approach is. This album certainly represents the zenith of the progression they have undergone over the years. Gone is the rough appeal, and in its place you’ll find first-rate songwriting and a highly professional, up-to-date production style. What’s impressive is that in the process, they have managed to retain most of the manic energy that German Thrash Metal is so renowned for, even if it has become a little watered down by influences from the American Bay Area scene. The trade-off actually results in a much more interesting album. Stylistically speaking, this is straight-up Thrash Metal!!
“Invictus” is the album that manages to hold its own against some of the best Thrash Metal releases of the past years!!!
Comes in Gatefold Sleeve, with printed Innersleeve and Poster.
Available as: Limited Edition to 200 copies on Black Vinyl; Limited Edition to 200 copies on Blue Vinyl; Strictly Limited Edition to 100 copies on Special-Color Vinyl.
Invisible Oranges is now premiering “Fanges”, the new EP by the acclaimed French atmospheric death metal visionaries BARÚS. Stream “Fanges” at THISLOCATION.
Recently No Clean Singing premiered the video for the single “Châssis de Chair“. Watch the clip HERE!
The EP is scheduled for release on December 31st 2021 via Aesthetic Death (CD) and Breathe Plastic (tape).
The first, eponymously-titled track was created through a series of writing and recording sessions in the spring of 2020. As lockdown restrictions imposed novel and remote workflows, the band adopted a fluid and open collaborative process involving both musician Anthony Barruel and writer Sarah Onave. A structure gradually emerged from this studio work, weaving together spontaneous quasi-improvised elements alongside more complex layered sound constructions that together form a monolithic and experimental track, moving away somewhat from pummelling death metal, even erring towards hypnotic sludge and ambient territories.
The second track, “Châssis de Chair”, works as a mirror-track to “Fanges” by re-expressing the same core elements, albeit through an entirely opposite approach. It was written during the summer of 2021 and recorded live inside the band’s rehearsal space, focusing on a raw visceral performance with no overdubs or additional layers. It shows BARÚS as close as possible to how the band actually sounds, using the constraints of a live-setting to stimulate a more direct and riff-centric track.
Formed in 2015, BARÚS released an EP (“Barús”, 2015) and full length (“Drowned”, 2018). “Fanges”sees BARÚS now exploring new musical and lyrical territories while simultaneously reaffirming the band’s commitment to creating a unique strand of suffocating death metal – evolving their shape-shifting identity as purveyors of dark and introspective music.
On 17th January 2022 Polish band DIABOŁ BORUTA will release new studio album titled “Żywioły”. Video to the track “…z popiołów” with distinct black metal vibe.
DIABOŁ BORUTA is a Polish band which perform on the Polish music scene since 2010 and plays folk metal since the beginning. However, with the upcoming album, it undeniably changes its musical direction.
New studio album called „Żywioły” is the strongest in the band discography from Rzeszów (PL). In addition to the folk-rock atmosphere, there is a lot of space for thrash and heavy metal, and the whole thing has been enriched with death and black metal parts, as well as elements of ethnic music and classical, melodic rock. The vocal parts have been solidly varied and the listeners will find on the album from pure singing to growls and screams.
The lyrics contain descriptions of the four elements according to Slavic mythology: Historyię o Wiedźmaku (eng. The History of the Witcher) and the Pielgrzym sons, as well as two songs in English, The last song from the album – Ziemia (Dreamtime) tells about … Aborigines.
Date of release is scheduled on 17 January 2022 and will out as CD. City hall of Rzeszów (capital of Sub-Carpathian region) is main supporter of this release.
Music was recorded and produced in Rzeszovian „Dźwiękonarium” studio by leader of the band – Paweł Leniart.
“Huldufólk” is the new album by Italian legendary Speed/thrash metallers CELTIC HILLS, the band continues to tell and describe their land, but the intention of this new work is to walk the road in a different way! “Huldufólk” is coming out in 2022 via Elevate Records.
Band’s singer and guitarist Jonathan Vanderbilt reveals on the album cover artwork: “The cover was again entrusted to Sheila Franco with the input of drawing a brighter cover, with the predominant green between the green that characterizes the MATRIX movie and the green of uncontaminated nature. A record in the balance between the enchanted world of legends, heroic deeds performed by people who wanted a better world. A record that looks to the past, projecting itself into a future to be built. A passing disc that wants to take past history with it to go further …to draw.”
The tracklisting reads the following: 1 – The Secret of the Grail 2 – Metal Message 3 – After The Eartquake 4 – Hidden Folk 5 – Green Forest 6 – Gate Of Hollow Earth 7 – Living Out Of The Egg 8 – The Sound Of Earth 9 – The Hammer Of Thor 10 – Villacher Kirktag Bonus track Words In Out (remix 2022) Living Out Of The Egg sings by Simone Cescutti
Photo-edit by Pino Magliani
The drummer Simone Cescutti after this job leaves the band to pursue a career as a singer and guitarist with his own band! So, to greet his fans, he sings a song called “Living out of the Egg”. The other texts dedicated to the history of Friuli are “After the Earthquake” which speaks of the strength and courage of the Friulian people in rebuilding the territory devastated by the earthquake of 6 May 1976. “The Gate of Hollow Earth” tells of the legends of the mountains behind the city of Pordenone where there would be a secret entrance to the hollow earth. The album ends with the track “Villacher Kirktag” which tells of the Beer Festival in the city of Villach in Austria where every first Saturday of August Friulian boys go to party getting drunk and harassing beautiful Austrian girls! The text is sung in English with “notations” in Friulian and Austrian.
The album was produced also this time by Michele Guaitoli singer of Temperance and Vision of Atlantis in the studios of the Groove Factory in Udine and for the realization of the cover again the talented Sheila Franco.
Just recently was announced the guest guitarist, Gabriele Pala (Karnak, Azure Agony, Goldenseed), playing two solos in the album for the songs ‘Green Forest’ and ‘Gate of Hollow Earth’. In addition to being a very good guitarist, Gabriele is an expert connoisseur of Chapman Stick, an instrument played with the tapping technique.
Earlier Jonathan revealed on “Huldufólk”: “Again this time we will talk about Friuli, and the theory is at work that the location of the American Air Force Base Aviano is used to control an ancient access to the underground world, which has been used by the pagan gods since ancient times. The magical rites of the inhabitants of the mountains and the places where elves, fairies and gnomes once lived among the people are revealed. There are already definitive titles such as The Sound of the Earth in F sharp minor. A text tells how you can use the beneficial energy of the trees at dawn to strengthen your energies, but there will be no lack of historical events that accompany every CELTIC HILLS album.”
2021 was a very positive year for CELTIC HILLS! The reviews of the ‘Mystai Keltoy’ album have been many, published on the major world newspapers and all with an average rating of around 9.
“Mystai Keltoy” (which is an enigmatic name that alludes to the Eleusian Mysteries) was released on May 15th 2021 via Elevate Records, and it’s inspired by themes ranging from ancient alien civilizations, European pyramids, legends and historical facts of Friuli, as you can already guess from the album cover. The disc was recorded and produced at the Groove Factory in Udine by Michele Guaitoli, a prominent name for being the lead singer of Temperance, Vision of Atlantis, Era.
The cover is hand painted by Sheila Franco, the same girl who painted Blood Over Intents, and represents the myth of the ancient visitors. Jonathan Vanderbilt played and recorded the album with Panico Custom instruments, the Italian sponsor of custom lutherie of Luca Panico di Ravenna, a guitar specially created with the specifications requested by the Canadian guitarist.
CELTIC HILLS were born in 2010, in 2020 they sign a recording contract with Elevate Records with which they released the album “Blood over Intents” and the EP “Schrage Musik” both in 2020. In 2021 another album is out “Mystai Keltoy” produced and recorded by Michele Guaitoli singer of Temperance, Vision of Atlantis and Era. The style played is difficult to place in a single vein of metal, as there are many influences ranging from death to power, with sound elements that can also recall a certain type of 90’s thrash. The singing is quite varied, and for some listeners it may seem unusual in a metal band. power, speed and good melodic lines distinguish the band from others. Between 2010 and 2020 they released “Horns helmet fighters” and for the Slovak Music Globalliance they came out on international compilations on volumes 2,3,4.
THE ROCK ALCHEMIST – Italian Rock Band from Turin with a strong sonic identity that blends modern rock with progressive, hard, alternative, and pop elements!
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s SARCOFAGUS return with a Historic 2010 Concert Video Premiere on YouTube! Click image to watch the video
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