MAYHEM and MORTIIS have announced the rescheduled Northern Ritual MMXXI Tour dates. The 2021 tour was postponed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
For tickets, go here: https://www.thetruemayhem.com/live/
If you already purchased tickets for a previously cancelled show, please get in touch with your local ticket retailer.
See the tour dates below.
Cape Fear metal legends WEEDEATER have just announced a second round of dates for their upcoming U.S. tour! After the August dates conclude, the band will return to the road on September 3 in Atlanta, GA and will conclude on September 18 in Philadelphia, PA. The full run of dates can be found below! Tickets for all shows can be found at THIS LOCATION.
WEEDEATER U.S. TOUR DATES ( first leg w/ Joe Buck Yourself and Adam Faucett)
08/05: Greensboro NC @ The Blind Tiger [TICKETS]
08/06: Savannah GA @ El Rocko Lounge [TICKETS]
08/07: Orlando FL @ Wills Pub [TICKETS]
08/08: Tampa FL @ The Orpheum [TICKETS]
08/10: Mobile AL @ Alabama Music Box [TICKETS]
08/11: New Orleans LA @ Santos Bar [TICKETS]
08/12: Lafayette LA @Freetown Boom Boom Room [TICKETS]
08/13: Dallas TX @ Trees [TICKETS]
08/14: Houston TX @ The Secret Group [TICKETS]
08/15: Austin TX @ The Lost Well [TICKETS]
08/16: Oklahoma City OK @ 89th Street – OKC [TICKETS]
08/18: Huntsville AL @ Sidetracks Music Hall [TICKETS]
08/19: Greenville SC @ The Radio Room [TICKETS]
08/20: Asheville NC @ Asheville Music Hall [TICKETS]
WEEDEATER U.S. Tour Dates (second leg w/ The Atomic Bitchwax, Joe Buck Yourself, and Rebelmatic):
09/03: Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade [TICKETS]
09/04: Birmingham, AL @ Zydeco [TICKETS]
09/05: Cookeville, TN @ Muddy Roots Festival [TICKETS]
09/07: Des Moines, IA @ The Gas Lamp [TICKETS]
09/08: Iowa City, IA @ Wildwood [TICKETS]
09/09: Pekin, IL @ Full Terror Assault Festival *** [TICKETS]
09/10: St. Louis, MO @ Red Flag [TICKETS]
09/11: Little Rock, AR @ Mutants of the Monster Festival [TICKETS]
09/13: Evansville, IN @ The Venue [tickets only available at box office]
09/14: Canton, OH @ The Buzzbin [TICKETS]
09/16: Boston, MA @ Sonia
09/17: Brooklyn, NY @ The Arrogant Swine [TICKETS]
09/18: Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie [TICKETS]
*** Weedeater only, festival date
Praised by fans and critics alike for their outstanding 2020 debut album (“Impius Viam“), Sweden’s NIGHT CROWNED have unleashed the hotly anticipated & worthy successor, titled “Hädanfärd”!
With nine tracks spanning over 45 minutes, the band’s brand new full-length record is an intoxicating blend of uncompromising blackened death metal, symphonic arrangements and bleak & mesmerizing soundscapes. No surprise here, since the band’s line-up consits of well experienced extreme metal veterans, featuring former and current members of legendary acts such as Dark Funeral, Nightrage and Cipher System!
Thematically inspired by a story by singer K. Romlin, which deals with encounters with death, “Hädanfärd” is an infernal, bleak monolith of an album, one that will most likely see NIGHT CROWNED step out as one of Sweden’s best kept blackened death metal secrets.
Vocalist K. Romlin states: “What we made is not just an album, it is a story. A story that has no beginning, nor end. A story that is as old as time itself. This is a story about life given & life taken, this is the tale when I meet death.“
But enough of words, listen and be amazed by the epic track “Nattkrönt”, streaming here:
“Hädanfärd” is out now via Noble Demon and available for purchase HERE
Limited merch bundles with the cover art shirt in various sizes together with either the new digipak of “Hädanfärd” or black vinyl, orange or ghost silver marble color, are available HERE
Tracklist:
A PALE HORSE NAMED DEATH, the doom metal band led by founding Type O Negative and Life of Agony member Sal Abruscato, have released a new song, ‘Shards Of Glass’. It’s the second single taken from the upcoming album ‘Infernum In Terra’, out September 24th, 2021 via Long Branch Records / SPV.
You can stream ‘Shards Of Glass’ and pre-order ‘Infernum In Terra’ here: https://smarturl.it/infernuminterra
Sal Abruscato about the new single:“This song refers to the mental and emotional abuse that happens in a family setting. Tip toeing around a family member that causes only emotional damage to you and your family, what ever they touch they destroy, what ever they say about your character is a lie and no one trusts what you are saying is true. You get this feeling that the broken glass you walk on is what lies in their wake of destruction.”
‘Infernum In Terra’ is the fourth studioalbum by A Pale Horse Named Death and was mastered by Maor Appelbaum (Faith No More, Meat Loaf, Yes, Sepultura, Halford etc.) at Maor Appelbaum Mastering (California,USA) while the artwork was done by Kelvin Doran of Serpent Tusk Studios (Dublin, Ireland).
“The album to me represents a new beginning, turning a new leaf shall we say with the same vibe from past albums but with a fresh open minded approach,” says Abruscato. He adds: “There is no real concrete specific concept, it touches on some personal topics in my life long, my interest in the dark arts, that to have light you must have darkness to balance everything. With daylight comes nightfall, with heaven there is hell and at this moment the world seems to be in a very dark place hence the title of the album ‘Infernum In Terra’. This is a very dark album, but what else is new I always write dark music to sooth a dark soul!”
Sal Abruscato was born in Brooklyn, NY, and started playing drums at the age of 10. He is the co-founder of Type O Negative with Peter Steele and performed on Slow, Deep & Hard, Origin Of The Feces, Bloody Kisses and various best of and soundtracks. Sal was the drummer for Life Of Agony and performed on River Runs Red, Ugly, River Runs Again, Broken Valley and A Place Where There’s No More Pain. Additional projects include Supermassiv & My Mortality. He is now the singer, songwriter and guitarist for A Pale Horse Named Death.
Tracklist ‘Infernum In Terra’:
‘Infernum In Terra’ will be out on September 24, 2021 through Long Brand Records, the album pre-sale is available at THIS LOCATION!
Italian symphonic metallers ETERNAL SILENCE will be releasing their new album “Timegate Anathema” on October 8, 2021 via Rockhots Records. Recorded at The Groove Factory (Udine, Italy) and Line/Out Studio (Milano, Italy) with mixing and mastering by Michele Guaitoli (Visions of Atlantis, Temperance, Kaledon), “Timegate Anathema” will feature ten tracks of symphonic and power prog metal plus will see the band introduce new elements and experimentation into their sound. The album goes from power metal songs like “The Way Of Time” and “My Soul Sad Until Death” to heavy and dark ones like “Rain and Red Death Masquerade“, passing through the catchy melodies of tracks like “Glide In The Air” and acoustic moments on “Lonely and Firefly“. The main theme that inspired the album is the concept of Time.
“It has been a long time since our last full length was released, we took our time to make the best songs possible and then the pandemic broke in and forced us to stop and wait for the right time to publish it. But now everything is ready and we can’t wait to finally share this with you all.” adds the band.
Today, Eternal Silence unveils their music video for the second single “Glide In The Air”, which is one of the most easy-listening songs from the album with its catchy melodies and beating rhythm.
The band explains the song’s concept in further detail:
“This song was conceived by our guitarist Enzo Criscuolo. The guitars and the rhythmic section are strong and the beat of the drums plays a main role. Unlike the other tracks on the album, for Glide In The Air, there’s no bombastic orchestra and classical strings, but electronic keyboards and synthesizers that give the entire song a different taste and personality. The vocal part is completely entrusted to Marika, who shows her full potential in a more modern and poppy ambiance.”
Digital single: https://backl.ink/146941995
Album pre-order: http://bit.ly/TimegateAnathema_CD
Formed in Varese, Italy in 2008, Eternal Silence combines powerful guitar riffs, a thunderous rhythmic section, catchy melodies, and bombastic orchestral tracks with the support of two vocalists, Marika Vanni and guitarist Alberto Cassina sharing the front stage. The band’s current line-up is completed by Alessio Sessa (bass), Andrea Zannin (drums) and Enzo Criscuolo (guitarist).
Since their formation, the band has unleashed three albums and two EPs. 2020’s “Renegades” (EP), 2018’s “Metamorphosis” (EP), and 2017’s “Mastermind Tyranny” were released on Sliptrick Records, and their earlier full-lengths “Raw Poetry” (2013) and “Chasing Chimera” (2015) were released on Underground Symphony Records.
Over the years, the band has been a consistent touring presence in Europe, performing in Germany, Switzerland, France, Czech Republic, Austria, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, and Hungary along with being support for bands such as Temperance, Therion, Haggard, Sound Storm, Timo Kotipelto (Stratovarius) and Jani Liimatainen (Insomnium) Blackoustic.
Tracklisting:
Indian metal trio MIDHAVEN’s new album, Of the Lotus & the Thunderbolt, a rich concept album based on the theory of time, is available today.
Not clockwork time, but universal, cyclical time,” the band says. “We’ve grown up with a belief system that has repeatedly told us that things that have happened will happen yet again, and again, and again. Time is seen as a continuum, and there are more universes than just this one. These are subjects we’ve debated and discussed from time immemorial. From the ancients, right down to us, this is how time is experienced where we come from. So naturally, when we started discussing lyrical concepts, time is something that all subjects were ultimately pointing toward. We were acting from an awareness that in this grand circuit of the cosmos, the self is constantly recreated in every moment. It’s not just about time, it’s also about a very personal experience of that time, through the aeons as life itself. It ultimately boils down to how time chisels to perfection the one universal soul that finds itself echoed in every living being. For reasons not entirely known to us, it felt as though time channeled itself through us for the creation of this album. We were merely conduits in this process.”
Keeping in line with the concept of time, the first video from Of the Lotus & the Thunderbolt, “Primal Song,” premiered with Rolling Stone India on the Summer Solstice. Watch “Primal Song” below.
The three-piece Mumbai-based band fuses traditional metal with progressive and modern rock to create earth shattering, heavy music with soaring guitars, operatic vocals, guttural growls and war track ready drums, polished off by deeply fascinating lyrical concepts. The melancholic and anguished tracks “Codeman” and “Para Brahman” focus on the existential search for “the reason why,” while the screams and cries of the past echo through “Primal Song” with its rage-induced lyrics and grimy vocals, conjuring images of man’s animalistic need to maraud and destroy. “Zhitro” and “Mahakaal” are the heavyweights of the album, ushering in Indian elements of dark, experimental sounds that are at once groundbreaking and heavy. Riddled with references to the ancient past, “Mahakaal” is the running theme of the album – consuming the world we exist in.- and an homage to Shiva, the Hindu god known as the Destroyer.
Of the Lotus & the Thunderbolt was recorded in 2019 and readied for release by mid-2020, but Covid-19 – and particularly India’s staggering second wave of infection – caused the band to delay its release. “Covid-19 and its wreckfest on planet Earth put a huge stop sign right in front of the music industry’s gate,” says the band. “We held off on release until things got better but a second lockdown prevented any place for release or tours in our country. We curated a 2021 release, and even though vaccinating a country as big as India is a daunting task, we just couldn’t wait on it any longer. ‘Of The Lotus & The Thunderbolt’ is a universal, yet personal experience that is being conveyed in the form of heavy metal. The world hasn’t had enough metal from this side of the planet.
Of the Lotus & the Thunderbolt’s artwork, brought to life by prolific indie artist Gaurav Basu (aka Acid Toad), reflects the theme of the album, presenting a gorgeous visual representation of the album’s concept. The record was mixed and mastered by ARIA nominated and internationally renowned Australian producer Forrester Savell (Animals As Leaders, Make Them Suffer, Karnivool), who adds a touch of polish and refinement while not straying far from the raw, analog recording process.
Of the Lotus & the Thunderbolt track listing:
1-Para Brahman
2-Primal Song
3-Codeman
4-The Immanent Effervescence of Sorrow
5-Zhitro
6-Mahakaal
7-Bhairav
Of the Lotus & the Thunderbolt is available at https://linktr.ee/midhaven.ind.
Formed in 2012, MIDHAVEN grew quickly with the launch of their first release, the 2013 EP Tales From The Tide. The trio soon became one of the first major signings of an Indian metal band to a worldwide record label, Universal Music Group (UMG), which release MIDHAVEN’s debut full-length, Spellbound, in 2014. Like Of the Lotus & the Thunderbolt, Spellbound was also a concept album and featured re-recorded tracks from Tales From The Tide. MIDHAVEN has been nominated for the VH1 Sound Nation awards in the category of Best Metal Act, performed live on VH1’s Indian Music Diaries, and was nominated for Radio City’s Best Metal Live Act in 2015.
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