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SUMO CYCO Reveal “Initiation” Digital Deluxe Edition + New Single ‘Sun Eater’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 10, 2021
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[Photo Credit: Francesca Ludikar]

After setting the music world ablaze in May with the release of their mind-bending latest full-length album, Initiation, fans instantly clamored for more SUMO CYCO. Those prayers are now answered with the drop of the official Initiation Digital Deluxe Edition! Featuring peppy new single “Sun Eater”, plus additional limited edition tracks “New Jive”, “We Are The Nation” and “Awakened”, the Initiation Digital Deluxe Edition is available today via all digital retailers.

Fans can check out a delightfully demonic new music video for “Sun Eater” now! Seamlessly melding punk, reggae, metal and pop, “Sun Eater” joins the ranks of recent singles like “Bystander”, “Vertigo” and more – all boasting millions of streams/views to date.

Frontwoman Skye “Sever” Sweetnam says about the Initiation Digital Deluxe Edition:
“We are ecstatic to get more music out there on the Deluxe Edition of Initiation. We wrote so many songs for Initiation and had some really solid tracks that just didn’t make it on the original track listing. We just can’t keep them to ourselves.”

Skye adds about “Sun Eater”:
“When I wrote ‘Sun Eater’ I was contemplating life’s big existential questions. No matter what problems we’re faced with, we’re all just here for a moment spinning warp speed through space. When one starts thinking of the big picture, it can also make our everyday problems seem more insignificant. I sing about my inner demons very often in my music, when comparing those demons to a massive Sun Eating monster of the universe, it really is no match. So, the song is really about seizing the day, because it really is crazy that we even exist.

For the video, I wanted to try some 2D animation inspired by Monty Python and some of my favorite movie and TV opening title sequences. I wanted to inject lots of our signature colour but simple compositions of each frame keeping it all very stark and contrasted. In the video, I have created an alter dimensional clinic where my demons are waiting for a cure. I also introduce the mad Nurse who only prescribes one type of pill for everything. A gold pill that harnesses the sun.”

Watch the new music video for “Sun Eater” HERE

SUMO CYCO’s Initiation invites a mass of new followers into their warped, dystopian-like world of “Cyco City”! As with its predecessors Lost In Cyco City (2014), Opus Mar (2017) and countless singles, Initiation is based in the imaginative conceptual location of “Cyco City”. But unlike most concept albums, the lyrical content is inspired by the band’s real-time environment – featuring timely, personal themes of love, sacrifice, anxiety, empowerment and more that all listeners can relate to. By the end of Initiation, listeners will wonder just what exactly SUMO CYCO can’t do, proving them as a band on the rise, and that unconventionality always stands out from the pack.

Initiation Digital Deluxe Edition track listing:
1) Love You Wrong
2) Bystander
3) Vertigo
4) Bad News
5) No Surrender
6) M.I.A.
7) Cyclone
8) Run with the Giants
9) Overdrive
10) Power & Control
11) This Dance Is Doomed
12) Awakened
13) New Jive
14) We Are The Nation
15) Sun Eater

Order Initiation Digital Deluxe Edition HERE

JUODVARNIS Release New Live Music Video ‘Diena Kai Pasenau (Live at Kilkim Žaibu XXI)’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 9, 2021
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Lithuanian dark metal band JUODVARNIS have shared a new live video of their song “Diena Kai Pasenau” from their performance at one of the biggest Baltic metal festivals – “Kilkim Žaibu XXI”.

The musicians co-headlined the festival’s 1st day playing before the headliners – gargantuous French act “Igorrr”. Other well-known acts that participated in this edition of “Kilkim Žaibu” were Krzysztof Drabikowski’s Batushka, Nervosa, Cruachan, Obtest, Varang Nord, Crypts of Despair.  

The band also shares their thoughts on the release of the new video:

“This was an unforgettable night. After a very long lock-down we had finally returned to the stage and what a stage it was! Full-on metal festival with hundreds of people. Even heavy rain didn’t bother anyone. We are happy, that we can share this memory with all of you now. Play it loud!”

Mixed and mastered by Paulius Simanavičius at MuzLab Studios
Live sound mixing and recording by Rimtautas Piskarskas from Muzlab studios
Video shot and edited by Nobrake

THY ART IS MURDER Release Music Video For ‘Dead Sun’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 9, 2021
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THY ART IS MURDER, one of Australia’s top-heavy exports, released their highly acclaimed second album Hate on October 19, 2012. Today, the band releases the music video for “Dead Sun” featuring Nico Webers of WAR FROM A HARLOTS MOUTH. Watch the video, here:

THY ART IS MURDER also announces that they are releasing new formats of their sophomore album that will be released on November 5th.

Starting today, fans will be able to pre-order their copy of Hate in the formats listed below:
• Vinyl
o Blue Clear Pinwheel (Limited to 300 Worldwide, Newbury Exclusive)
o Red Clear Pinwheel (Limited to 1,200 Worldwide)
o Orange & Black Pinwheel (Limited to 300 Worldwide, Band Exclusive)
o Red | Orange Swirl (Limited to 300 Worldwide, Band Exclusive)
o Yellow W/ Black Pinwheel ((Limited to 600 Worldwide, German Exclusive)
• Red Cassette (Limited to 450 Worldwide)

Pre-order your copy of Hate in the format of your choice here: http://www.nuclearblast.com/thyartismurder-hate

Hate was produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Will Putney (EVERY TIME I DIE, KNOCKED LOOSE, END). The artwork was created by Brent Elliot White (CARNIFEX, DEATH ANGEL).

Below is the Hate tracklist:
1. “Reign of Darkness”
2. “The Purest Strain of Hate”
3. “Vile Creations”
4. “Shadow of Eternal Sin”
5. “Immolation”
6. “Infinite Forms”
7. “Dead Sun” (Featuring Nico Webers of War from a Harlots Mouth)
8. “Gates of Misery”
9. “Defective Breed”
10. “Doomed From Birth” (Featuring Joel Birch of The Amity Affliction)

EPICA Unveil Live Music Video for ‘The Skeleton Key – Ωmega Alive’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 9, 2021
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“17 months without playing. 17 months without doing what we love most…” – while being struck by the same fate as every other band on this planet, EPICA seized the chance to create a massive concept for a streaming event that should go down in the books as one of the most ambitious shows in the era of the pandemic. With “Ωmega Alive”, EPICA played the show of your wildest dreams, brought to life by 75 artists and crew members – think Marvel meeting Cirque de Soleil in a Tim Burton universe!

Soon to be available on various audiovisual formats on December 3rd, “Ωmega Alive” is more than just a live performance from the Dutch symphonic metal titans, and contains spectacular pyro effects, rain on stage, dancers, choirs and actors, as you can witness in the band’s second live video from the show. Watch ‘The Skeleton Key’ off their latest studio opus “Ωmega” being performed live for the first time ever here: 

Download or stream the song here: https://bfan.link/omega-alive.ema
Pre-order the BluRay/DVD, 2CD, Earbooks or Boxset via this link: http://nblast.de/Epica-OmegaAlive

On the weekend that “Ωmega Alive” sees the light of day, the band will play two intimate release shows in their homecountry:
03/12/ NL Dordrecht – Bibelot (sold out)
04/12/ NL Eindhoven – Effenaar (sold out)

In case you missed the spectacular fireplay of ‘Unchain Utopia – Ωmega Alive -‘, check it out here: https://youtu.be/c8XdrOhEZl0

BEHEMOTH Set Halloween to Flames with “XXX Years Ov Blasphemy”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 9, 2021
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“We are the ending ov all days. We are the next 1000 years!” – BEHEMOTH

This year on Halloween night, the veil between the two worlds will not only get thinner for the spirits of the otherworld to enter. This year, it will be torn down and set to fire by the black magick of Extreme Metal masters BEHEMOTH. Today, the band announces their global livestream Moment “XXX Years Ov Blasphemy” broadcasting on October 31st worldwide.

Nergal states,
“30 years of blasphemy and bring on 30 more! What better night than All Saint’s Eve to celebrate this most unholy anniversary than with us as we present the most ambitious project of our career to date, ’30 Years of Blasphemy’. Legions, when I say this is the ultimate cinematic Behemoth experience, I cannot express how much I mean that. Another huge risk for us but as always, we go feet first and push our limits. The result will be a sight to behold. We’ll see you in The Forest…and more.”

Celebrating their 30th anniversary, the band from Poland will grace their own birthday ceremony with a black mass that will unleash the darkest of all forces and make this Halloween a night to remember – hosted by Moment House and directed by maestro Dariusz Szermanowicz (G13 Production House), the event will comprise three sets.
With each set, BEHEMOTH will move further in their glorious history of thirty years and focus on each decade, starting at their early steps with pagan and black metal influenced records like “Pandemonic Incantations” to their international breakthroughs “The Apostasy” and “Evangelion” up to their most recent masterpiece “I Loved You At Your Darkest” that was released in 2019.
Three times, BEHEMOTH are set to invoke demons from the past and explore the depths of their discography.

The pre-sale for “XXX Years Ov Blasphemy” is now on, early bird tickets with a 20% discount are available until 5PM CEST, Friday, October 15th, where it will switch to standard pricing. The event comes with a completely new merch drop including shirts, longsleeves, hoodies, screen prints, hip flasks and socks – the first 500 merch customers will receive a free ‘Burning Cross’ Sticker.
The event will air three times to allow all legions all over the world to watch this Moment at the optimal time: 6PM JST/8PM AEDT (Asia, Australia, New Zealand), 6PM GMT (UK, Europe, Africa) and 6PM PDT / 9PM EDT (North & South America). After the initial broadcast, fans can watch the show until 24h after the event.
Additionally to the show, BEHEMOTH presents a post-show “XXX Years Ov Blasphemy – Behind The Scenes Special” that fans can buy for $5. The post-show will start immediately after the stream and is accessible until 24h after the initial broadcast.
Limited to 30 fans, BEHEMOTH will offer an online Meet & Greet presented by Moment House. Each participant has the opportunity to do a short video call (2 minutes) with Nergal, Orion and Inferno. The Meet & Greet will be scheduled between 5PM and 6 PM CET.

Watch the trailer for the event here:

BEHEMOTH will release the testimony of their last monumental livestream “In Absentia Dei” on December 17th. The event was said to set a new standard for streaming events in the future and this was something BEHEMOTH set out to achieve from the start. Produced by Grupa 13, “In Absentia Dei” was presented as a show of four parts, woven with high-production theatrics and even a hellish flames emanating from all parts of the sacred building. Preorder the live album here: https://bfan.link/in-absentia-dei

The band released their latest full-length, “I Loved You At Your Darkest”, in 2018 to vast critical acclaim. “I Loved You At Your Darkest” marked a milestone in the history of the band, being not only their most successful album, but also an audiovisual masterpiece: from its detailed, blasphemous artwork, to the highly vicious, yet deeply emotional tracks, BEHEMOTH once again played with fire – and ignited a wildfire burning the narrow minded bigotry of Christianity down to the ground.

BATTLE BEAST Reveal First Details of Upcoming Album “Circus Of Doom”, Announce European Tour in Spring 2022

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 9, 2021
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After re-signing to Nuclear Blast in early 2021, the Finnish heavy metal sextet BATTLE BEAST are once again getting ready to unleash their force upon the world in the shape of their brand new masterpiece »Circus Of Doom«. The album is set to be released on January 21st 2022 via Nuclear Blast and the first single will be revealed soon, on October 22nd. To shorten the wait, the band kick off the digital pre-order for the album today.

Pre-order/ pre-save »Circus Of Doom«, here: https://bfan.link/circusofdoom

The new album »Circus Of Doom« was recorded at JKB Studios in Helsinki, Finland and produced and mixed by keyboardist Janne Björkroth, while the stunning artwork was created by Jan Yrlund.

Tracklist
1. Circus Of Doom
2. Wings Of Light
3. Master Of Illusion
4. Where Angels Fear To Fly
5. Eye Of The Storm
6. Russian Roulette
7. Freedom
8. The Road To Avalon
9. Armageddon
10. Place That We Call Home

Today, BATTLE BEAST also announce their Circus Of Doom European Tour, that will follow the album release in spring of 2022. Starting in Paris on February 15th, the tour contains 19 shows all over Europe, including three shows in the UK, before concluding in Stockholm, Sweden on March 12th.

The band comment: “The long nightmare is finally behind us and the future’s looking bright! We really poured our heart and soul in this album and can’t wait to present it to you both on record and live on stage. Damn, how we’ve missed touring! You are all heartily welcome to this feast of joy and horrors – the Circus of Doom.”

Circus Of Doom European Tour 2022
BATTLE BEAST + support

2022-02-15Paris (Alhambra)FR
2022-02-16Vosselaar (Biebob)BE
2022-02-18Manchester (Club Academy)GB
2022-02-19London (O2 Academy Islington)GB
2022-02-20Wolverhampton (KK’s Steel Mill)GB
2022-02-22Bochum (Zeche)DE
2022-02-23Hürnberg (Hirsch)DE
2022-02-25Prague (Palac Akropolis)CZ
2022-02-26Wien (Simm City)AT
2022-02-27Pratteln (Z7)CH
2022-03-01Milano (Legend Club)IT
2022-03-03Frankfurt (Batschkapp)DE
2022-03-04München (Neue Theaterfabrik)DE
2022-03-05Stuttgart (LKA Longhorn)DE
2022-03-07Berlin (Columbiatheater)DE
2022-03-09Hamburg (Markthalle)DE
2022-03-10Copenhagen (Pumpehuset)DK
2022-03-11Gothenburg (Trädgarn)SE
2022-03-12Stockholm (Fallan)SE

Tickets are on sale at: https://battlebeast.fi/tour

Since their 2011’s debut album »Steel«, BATTLE BEAST have achieved over 200 million digital streams. Alongside the huge #1 success of their last three albums in the album charts of their home country, Finland, their last album »No More Hollywood Endings« (2019) reached a remarkable #11 in German album charts.

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