Ecuador’s BLACK SUN Share Award Winning Music Video “Terror Zone”

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Well known in their home country of Ecuador and South America for supporting bands like Judas Priest, Kreator, Firewind (Immortals Tour 2018), Edguy, UDO, and more, heavy metal trio BLACK SUN unleashed their new EP “Silent Enemy” during September 2020 via Rockshots Records. The EP follows the band’s three previous albums “The Pupetteer” (2017), “Dance of Elders” (2010), and “Tyrant From a Foreign Land” (2015).

Today, BLACK SUN release a new videoclip for the song “TERROR ZONE” with special footage taken from Black Sun’s award winner shortfilm “SILENT ENEMY”, featuring Henning Basse (Firewind / Metalium). The music video is an extract from their award-winning short film (total of 32 awards listed below from multiple film festivals), which can be found on the BluRay edition of “Silent Enemy“.

Silent Enemy is a musical short film based on the new concept music by Black Sun. Silent Enemy’s (album) music inspired the director and screenwriter Gustavo Arguello to write and direct the film produced by Black Sun. This cinematographic work counts with renowned Ecuadorian actors José Andrés Caballero and Mare Cevallos as its main protagonists. Silent Enemy, the film, has already been awarded 32 awards at different international film festivals. Along with a musical background, the story of John Doe’s journey through turbulent times unfolds, finally coming to understand himself when the film’s message is revealed. Silent Enemy is independently produced and was filmed and produced in Guayaquil, Ecuador. A Black Sun and Bobui Studios production, this film paves the way for experimentation and rediscovery of the musical film concept.

Shortfilm “Silent Enemy” (32 AWARDS WINNER SHORTFILM)

  • HOLLYWOOD GOLDEN AWARDS: 1 AWARD IN: BEST ACTION SHORTFILM.
  • NEW YORK CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARDS: 3 AWARDS IN: BEST VFX / BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC / BEST FILM POSTER.
  • EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARDS: 3 AWARDS IN: BEST VFX / BES SCORE MUSIC / BEST POSTER.
  • MADRID FILM AWARDS: 1 AWARD IN: BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORTFILM.
  • CANADIAN FILM AWARDS: 2 AWARDS IN: BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORTFILM / BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC.
  • FIVE CONTINENTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: 8 AWARDS IN : BEST MUSICAL SHORTFILM / BEST VFX / BEST MAKE UP / BEST COSTUME DESIGN / BEST ART DIRECTION / BEST ORIGINAL SONG / BEST PRODUCTION SHORTFILM / AUDIENCE AWARD.
  • FIVE CONTINENTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: 4 SPECIAL MENTIONS : BEST DIRECTOR / BEST LIGHTING / BEST ACTOR / BEST SCREENPLAY.
  • VENICE FILM AWARDS : 2 AWARDS : BEST ACTION SHORTFILM / BEST ORIGINAL SONG.
  • NEW YORK FILM AWARDS: 1 HONORABLE MENTION IN: EXPERIMENTAL SHORTFILM.
  • SCORPIUS FEST: 1 AWARD IN: BEST SHORTFILM.
  • SOUTH FILM AND ARTS AWARDS: 3 AWARDS IN: BEST MUSICAL SHORTFILM / BEST VFX / BEST ORIGINAL SCORE MUSIC.
  • SOUTH FILM AND ARTS AWARDS: 3 HONORABLE MENTION IN: BEST DIRECTOR/ BEST LEAD ACTOR / BEST PRODUCTION.

During the production of Black Sun‘s new material, the band parted ways with their longtime lead singer. Under the guidance of the EP’s producer Nino Laurenne (Emma Winner – Finnish Grammy, Hevisaurus, Amorphis, The Rasmus), Black Sun found ways to complete the EP with guest singers on all the tracks. Guests include Finnish metal legends and talents like Tony Kakko (Sonata Arctica), Lordi, Noora Louhimo (Battle Beast), Pasi Rantanen (Thunderstone), Elias Viljanen (Sonata Arctica ), Netta Laurenne (Smackbound), Jukka Pelkonen (Omnium Gatherum), Asim Searah (Wintersun/Damnation Plan), Topias Kupiainen (Arion), Henning Basse (Firewind), Petri Lindroos (Ensiferum / Norther) and JF Aguirre (JF Aguirre Project). All come together to create a powerful and catchy metal hymn.

EP order (CD, Blu-Ray) –https://bit.ly/blacksun_cdvd 
Spotify – https://spoti.fi/3d9ZLj8
Apple Music – https://apple.co/2NrsANm

TRACKLISTING:
Moebius
Resist
Terror Zone
Dark Mirror
No Return
Still Alive
Finale

HAMFERÐ Launch New Video For “Frosthvarv (Live in the Eysturoy Tunnel)”

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Faroese melodic death/doom sextet HAMFERРhave launched a video for “Frosthvarv (Live in the Eysturoy Tunnel)”, which can be viewed at: youtu.be/GEEp3XlKVbc. The track is taken from their 2018 album, Támsins likam.

Hamferð comments: “Through the band’s history, we’ve always been fascinated by performing in untraditional venues. So when we got the opportunity of actually playing beneath the bottom of the ocean, it was obviously something which we had to do. The tunnel and the sculptures by Tróndur Patursson really add to the atmosphere of the music, and we hope that the atmosphere translates through the video so people are able to enjoy it wherever they are.”

Be sure to catch Hamferð during Metal Injection‘s “Slay At Home” livestream this Friday, February 19th – featuring other performances by members of Paradise Lost, Spirit Adrift, Pallbearer, and more. Kicking off at 12PM PST//3PM EST//9PM CET, fans can tune in at: youtu.be/foFo5-7-eDg

Hamferð‘s latest release – 2019’s Ódn – is an EP that features the previously unreleased title track on side A and a bare-bones rendition of “Deyðir varðar” (from 2013’s Evst) on Side B, both performed live on unique occasions. The band explains: “‘Ódn’ is the very first Hamferð-song, first performed in the autumn of 2008 and never before published. It is built from three very different sections, which still represent our music today: one part foreboding, one part violent and one part elegiac. The parts follow the narrative of a sailor over three chapters; first braving an increasingly stormy ocean, then reflecting on a long life sailing the very seas that now threaten his life, and finally surrendering to the waves. The title translates to ‘violent storm’ or ‘hurricane’.”

Stream and purchase Ódn now at: metalblade.com/hamferd

ANGELUS APATRIDA Enter Official Album Charts In Spain At #1; More International Chart Entries

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Spain’s leading Thrash Metal band ANGELUS APATRIDA have just releaesed their 7th, self-titled album worldwide via Century Media Records and it has not achieved to conquer the top of the official album charts in Spain, but also marks the band’s first ever chart entries in Germany and Switzerland. Here is an overview of the chart results for “Angelus Apatrida”:

Spain: # 1
Germany: # 49
Switzerland: # 41

ANGELUS APATRIDA checked in with a comment about the amazing # 1 chart entry in Spain as follows: “We made it to #1 in Spanish charts!!! We can’t believe it, this is not only a giant step for us, but for the whole Metal scene in this country. We don’t get any radio, we don’t get any TV, we are not featured in the more relevant media, but still we can make it to the top thanks to the hard work of a great team and those who are passionate about Heavy Metal music; thousands of you helped us making it this far by buying or listening ‘Angelus Apatrida’, you are the best! Thanks for helping us put Metal back to where it belongs!!!”

ANGELUS APATRIDA’s previous albums had reached the following highest chart positions in Spain upon release: “Clockwork” (2010): # 44 , “The Call” (2012): # 14, “Hidden Evolution” (2015): # 2 and “Cabaret de la Guillotine” (2018): # 4.

Check out “Angelus Apatrida” via the singles/videos released so far:
“Bleed The Crown” (video): https://youtu.be/l3ebfRQwqOc
“Indoctrinate” (video): https://youtu.be/cCReKPDMubs
“The Age Of Disinformation” (lyric-video): https://youtu.be/MiERM1dmfJo
“We Stand Alone” (visualizer): https://youtu.be/oQhPQ7KYBXw

“Angelus Apatrida” (“/ˈan-je-lus – a-ˈpa-tri-da/”) was produced by the band, recorded with Juanan López in September/October at Baboon Records, in Albacete, Spain and then mixed and mastered by Zeuss (Rob Zombie, Overkill, Hatebreed, Municipal Waste, Shadows Fall) at Planet-Z in Wilbraham, MA, USA. The album features 10 songs, sounding more determined, versatile and ferocious than ever before, on the verge of the group’s 20th anniversary of existence.

“Angelus Apatrida” once again comes with artwork by GyulaHavancsák (Annihilator, Destruction, Stratovarius) and is available as limited CD Jewelcase in O-Card or as 180g. vinyl LP with the album on CD as bonus, on either black vinyl or in limited edition coloured runs (Creamy White vinyl: 100x copies from CM Webshop, Yellow vinyl: 200x copies from CM Distro and Red vinyl: 300x copies for Spain). The album’s tracklisting reads as follows:

Indoctrinate (05:39)
Bleed The Crown (04:26)
The Age Of Disinformation (04:42)
Rise Or Fall (03:36)
Childhood’s End (03:49)
Disposable Liberty (04:21)
We Stand Alone (04:11)
Through The Glass (05:41)
Empire Of Shame (04:17)
Into The Well (05:47)

The album can be ordered here: https://angelusapatrida.lnk.to/AngelusApatridaPR

And here is an overview of the upcoming live-dates by ANGELUS APATRIDA, including a newly announced live-show in Madrid in March:

ANGELUS APATRIDA live:
20.03.2021 Madrid (Spain) – La Riviera
More Details: https://www.livenation.es/artist/angelus-apatrida-tickets

03.06.2021 Viveiro (Spain) – Resurrection Fest
06.06.2021 Montagny (France) – Lions Metal Fest
03.07.2021 Barcelona (Spain) – Barcelona Rock Fest
15.07.2021 Balingen (Germany) – Bang Your Head
16.07.2021 Gavle (Sweden) – Gefle Metal Festival
07.08.2021 Osterholz-Scharmbeck (Germany) – Burning Q
18-21.08.2021 Dinkelsbühl (Germany) – Summer Breeze
19-22.08.2021 Saint-Noff (France) – Motocultor
04.09.2021 Málaga (Spain) – Guarrock
18.09.2021 Vieux Boucau Landes (France) – After Dark
More dates to be announced soon…

TEN Singer GARY HUGHES Releases New Official Audio Track ‘Electra-Glide’

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British singer and songwriter GARY HUGHES is happy to share with you the official audio track for “Electra-Glide”, from the upcoming his solo album entitled “Waterside”, which will be released on March 12, 2021 via Frontiers Music Srl.

The track can be streamed from HERE:

“Decades”, the double CD Best-of collection, which encompasses three decades of Gary Hughes’ solo work in a newly Remastered format and offers some of the best Hughes’ songs taken from his releases, “Precious Ones”, “Veritas”, “Once and Future King Parts I and II” and his self-titled release “Gary Hughes”, alongside rare tracks which were originally only released in Japan on the “In Your Eyes” EP, will be released on the same day.

Pre-order/save “Waterside” HERE: https://orcd.co/waterside
Pre-order/save “Decades” HERE: https://orcd.co/decades

“It is great to step back into solo mode again for a short while. The songs on my new ‘Waterside’ album are filled with light and shade. Very much lighter than my heavier and deeper Ten material. We live in such testing times and I have tried to create a piece of Melodic AOR that might lift the spirits and allow for a little much needed escapism. There is definitely a positive feel good factor to this collection of songs and I truly hope the fans enjoy listening to it,” enthuses Hughes The aforementioned feel good factor is never so prevalent as in the song and video for the title track ‘Waterside’. Hughes explains, “The Waterside video is a very straight forward jacket, jeans and Fender Telecaster affair. A slice of Anglo-Americana. A nod back to the mid ’80s and the golden age of laid back melodic rock. We enjoyed making this one immensely!”

Over the course of three decades in music, Gary Hughes has established himself as one of England’s premiere Melodic Rock/Hard Rock singers and songwriters. With fourteen TEN studio albums, one rock opera (in two parts), and much more, the body of work that he has amassed during his career is truly impressive. Gary’s work with his band TEN offers a hard rock sound which is rooted in the tradition of bands such as UFO, WHITESNAKE, and RAINBOW. Historically, his solo material has offered a more melodic sound which has strong roots in the late 80’s AOR and Melodic Rock scene. The new solo album,“Waterside,” marks his long awaited return to Melodic Rock. This is also his first new solo album since his“Veritas” release well over a decade ago.

Musically, this is what you would expect from Gary as a follow up to his self-titled solo record and “Precious Ones,” but also it includes hints of early Ten (the more melodic moments of “X” and “The Name of the Rose,” as a reference point).

Assisting Gary in the creation of this new solo album are his Ten bandmates Dann Rosingana (guitars) and Darrel Treece-Birch (drums), with David Rosingana appearing on bass and Karen Fell and Scott Hughes helping on background vocals. If you like British Melodic Rock, then look no further, “Waterside” is an awesome example of how truly stunning the style can be!

“Waterside” Tracklisting:

  1. All At Once It Feels Like I Believe
  2. Electra- Glide
  3. Lay Down
  4. The Runaway Damned
  5. Screaming In The Half Light
  6. Waterside
  7. Video Show
  8. Save My Soul
  9. Seduce Me
  10. When Love Is Done

Line-up:
Gary Hughes – Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitars
Dann Rosingana – Lead Guitar
David Rosingana – Bass Guitar
Darrel Treece-Birch – Keyboards and Drums
Karen Fell – Backing Vocals
Scott Hughes – Lead and Backing Vocals

“Decades” Tracklisting:
CD1

  1. First Light
  2. Wrecking Machine
  3. Perfect Ten
  4. In Your Eyes
  5. Veritas
  6. Dragon Island Cathedral
  7. The Night The Love Died
  8. This Thing Of Beauty
  9. Seducer
  10. Look At The Rain
  11. It Must Be Love
  12. We Walk With Angels
  13. Heart Of A Woman
  14. The Everlasting Light
  15. Precious Ones

CD2

  1. Blonde Angel 93’
  2. I Won’t Break Your Heart
  3. Give My Love A Try
  4. The Colours Of My Life
  5. Divided We Fall
  6. All I Want Is You
  7. Wide Awake In Dreamland
  8. There By The Grace Of The Gods (Go I)
  9. Lies
  10. The Miracle Is You
  11. Be My Fantasy Tonight
  12. This Time
  13. Synchronicity
  14. All Fall Down

DEAD DIRTY DINOSAURS Release New Single + Video ‘Holding Back’ And Announce New EP

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‘Holding Back’ is the latest single from the DEAD DIRTY DINOSAURS and the fourth single release with burgeoning punk label Riot Records and their parent company Golden Robot Records.

Stream/buy Holding Back HERE

“Life is like a licence, to do what you please” descants Julian the DDD’s singer over the ringing out of the first bluesy riff, “There’s no time for silence, I’m already on my knees……HEY!” And it’s on, into a rhythmic chugging that’s hard not to get lost into. 

“Everyone’s got something holding them back and when I was writing the lyrics to this, I was thinking a lot about the balance that we’re always struggling with, of when to go all in and when to hold back, and what some people will do to tip you over the edge”. 

‘Holding Back’ comes off their upcoming EP Too Many Questions: The Abbey Road Masters (Remastered) which will be available on all digital platforms on the 12th March which is available for Pre-order / Save now. 

Pre-order/save Too Many Questions (The Abbey Road Masters) HERE

CROWBAR Return With Exclusive Livestream This Saturday, February 20th

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The legendary masters of NOLA sludge, CROWBAR, will return to your screen with an exclusive livestream this weekend!

Set to commence Saturday, February 20th at 4:00pm EST / 1:00pm PST with on-demand replays through February 22nd, the multi-camera event will feature an updated setlist of CROWBAR bruisers and serves as a precursor to the band’s eagerly anticipated, as-yet-untitled full-length, set for release later this year via Entertainment One (eOne).

Comments founding guitarist/vocalist Kirk Windstein, “We’re getting ready for our third CROWBAR livestream! We have a few surprises in the setlist for everyone, and we’re upping our production by bringing in Mike Holderbeast as the director! This show is gonna be great, so tune in Saturday February 20th and watch CROWBAR level New Orleans!”

Find tickets and exclusive merch items at THIS LOCATION.

For nearly three decades, the name CROWBAR has been synonymous with the word “HEAVY.” Since rising ominously from the swamplands of New Orleans in 1990, they’ve been hailed internationally as one of the world’s foremost purveyors of crushing, melodic sludge. The band’s most recent release, The Serpent Only Lies, issued in 2016 via Entertainment One (eOne) in North America and SPV overseas, is both an affirmation of the group’s staying power and a nod to their legacy. It’s an album that stands toe-to-toe with those early CROWBAR classics while maintaining the lumbering hooks of mid-period standouts like 1998’s Odd Fellows Rest and 2000’s Equilibrium. Wrote Metal Injection, “With CROWBAR being part of the great foundation that makes sludge metal, The Serpent Only Lies encompasses so much of the sound we love of sludge, while finding itself in a place where it is at once heavy, but has room for opportunity.” Added Blabbermouth, “Windstein was born to write crushing riffs. He continues to churn out riffs that will likely make two Hessians driving around blasting the album simultaneously look at one another in acknowledgment of ‘that riff!’ Which one? Those amazing riffs are peppered throughout the album…”

Already listed among the most anticipated records of 2021 by esteemed metal outlets like Revolver, Decibel, BrooklynVegan, MetalSucks, and so many others, CROWBAR‘s forthcoming new long player promises a sonic bone crush like no other. Stay tuned.