Polish SUNNATA Release Hypnotic New Single ‘Black Serpent’

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Polish wilderness prophets SUNNATA (sanskr. noun emptiness, voidness), a four-piece shamanic doom metal band, have released their new single ‘Black Serpent’, taken from forthcoming full-length album Burning In Heaven, Melting On Earth which is released on 26th February.

Listen to ‘Black Serpent’ here: 

Add to your Spotify playlists here:  https://spoti.fi/3aV1LsL 
Pre-order Burning In Heaven, Melting On Earth here: https://linktr.ee/sunnata

SUNNATA comments: “‘Black Serpent’ is very different from our previous single ‘Crows’. Heavily inspired by repetitive, neurotic, a bit kraut-like rhythms and church-like harmonised vocals it hits you suddenly with full spectrum doom riffage just to take you on a shamanic ayahuasca interdimensional trip shortly after. All of this to create a background for yet another story of religious fanaticism.”

A ritualistic, meditatively uplifting, doom soundscape, Burning In Heaven, Melting On Earth is a sensuous, ever-mutating musical experience. SUNNATA produce a pulsating mystic dirge which shimmers with odd beauty and uplifting melodies. The result is an atmosphere of sacred submission immersed in huge dynamics for the duration of the album’s 46-minute expanse.

Tracklisting
1: Crows
2: God Emperor of Dune
3: A Million Lives
4: Black Serpent
5: Völva (The Seeress)
6: Way Out

SUNNATA have been paving their own way to higher metal skies since their 2014 debut Climbing The Colossus. Their spellbinding sophomore album Zorya (2016) made the band gather even more momentum with regard to the European alternative heavy scene. Third album Outlands (2018) brilliantly brought out even more ritual in the heavy, confidently crossing the frontier of progressive doom to land in even more melancholic and mind-expanding alleys. 

Returning in 2021 with Burning In Heaven, Melting On Earth, SUNNATA are at their most transcendent, melding together all the heaviness, intensity and tenderness into a graceful, cross-pollinating form to create something incredible that demands attention and respect. From here SUNNATA are free to roam wherever.

EVERTURE Release Fourth Single & Music Video ‘Closure’ From Upcoming Debut Album

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Promo pic by: Henri Korhonen @hl.foto

Finnish modern melodic metallers EVERTURE are set to release their debut album Emerge on March 19th 2021 via Inverse Records. The band has released their fourth single Closure, watch the video below.

Guitarist Matti Hautakangas comments:
“Closure is an instant boost to the listeners day. Be it shining or raining, you’d want to hear it from the radio. The upbeat rhythm makes the song perfect for a party or an exercise. Having it’s breathers and full blasting parts, Closure is a one a listener can give their one hundred percent! And that is also what the people did who participated in making the music video of Closure. A big thanks!

The lyrics tell an aftermath where so much has been experienced and you need some kind of closure. This makes the song a perfect fit for the closing song of the Emerge album. It’s the understanding of things in the end of all that has happened. It’s about the fact that from the chaos we undergo, beautiful things are born but nothing will ever be perfect. And eventually all things must end and still you can be okay with that.”

Listen to Closure single on:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/zTyi_GUYEVc 
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2MSEjo7 
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/album/201555432 
Tidal: https://listen.tidal.com/album/170401735 
Apple Music: https://apple.co/2MTc3l4 

Pre-order Emerge CD: http://bit.ly/2IYrN4y

Tracklist:

  1. In Between
  2. For Tomorrow
  3. Undersky
  4. The River Flows
  5. Promises
  6. Ivory Tower
  7. The Unfortunate End
  8. White Lies, Black Skies
  9. My 52 Shades
  10. Closure

Album cover art by Petri Lampela

GAMA BOMB Announce European Tour; ‘Lords Of The Hellfire Club’ Out Now

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Following the release of their highly praised seventh album, Sea Savage, GAMA BOMB have today announced a 17 day run of European tour dates supporting Exhorder alongside Evil Invaders and Chronosphere. The Storms Hide The Ground European Tour will kick off on September 17 and run until October 3, serving as the first set of live dates since Sea Savage‘s December 2020 release. Accompanying the tour announcement, the band have also today released a new music video for Lords Of The Hellfire Club.

WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO FORLORDS OF THE HELLFIRE CLUB  HERE.

Of the tour announcement, GAMA BOMB vocalist Philly Byrne comments: “The past year really made us miss the road, so it’s exciting to announce a proper European tour and get back into the trenches! This tour will be taking us to some new places and some familiar ones, with bands who we really respect. Our fans can expect a new, bigger GB stage show – and Snowy will be joining us, too!”

On Lords Of The Hellfire Club, Philly adds: “Lords of the Hellfire Club is one of our favourite songs from Sea Savage – it’s punky and to-the-point, and it’s about a real, historical group of alcoholic Irish satan-worshippers. They’re basically the original Gama Bomb, so we had to pay tribute.”

GAMA BOMB‘s new album, Sea Savage, presents itself as a 19th century play, with Act One and Act Two playing out on side A and side B of the record respectively, weaving together fantastical tales of maritime horror. Inspired by the attitude and speed of classic Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Accept rather than simply worshipping at the altar of old-school thrash, Sea Savage sees the Irishmen set sail further into classic metal and hard rock’s waters. 

Sea Savage is out now via Prosthetic Records.

GAMA BOMB tour dates:
Friday September 17 – De Kreun, Kortrijk, Belgium*
Saturday September 18 – Turock, Essen, Germany
Sunday September 19 – 7er Club, Mannheim, Germany
Monday September 20 – Le Petit Bain, Paris, France
Tuesday September 21 – Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg, Germany
Wednesday September 22 – Aaraukiff, Switzerland
Thursday September 23 – Im Wizemann Club, Stuttgart, Germany
Friday September 24 – Music Hall, Geiselwind, Germany
Saturday September 25 – Alte Spinnerei, Glauchau, Germany
Sunday September 26 – Dynamo, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Monday September 27 – Bahnhof Pauli, Hamburg, Germany
Tuesday September 28 – Hole 44, Berlin, Germany
Wednesday September 29 – Bazyla, Poznanu, Poland
Thursday September 30 – Pralnia, Wroclaw, Poland
Friday October 1 – Barba Negra, Budapest, Hungary
Saturday October 2 – Backstage Halle, Munich, Germany
Sunday October 3 –  Club Vaudeville, Lindau, Germany

*Without Evil Invaders

Tickets available here.

THE BOTTLE DOOM LAZY BAND Release Live Album “2005 – 2020 Doom Over The Years”

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French doom collective, THE BOTTLE DOOM LAZY BAND, has announced their first live album, which will be released on March 19th, 2021, through Sleeping Church Records!

With their loud ‘n low-tuned, epic yet fierce and slow doom sound, the band burst into the heavy music scene in 2005. Following 3 records and 15 years of countless shows and tours later, and especially in these current dark times of empty venues, THE BOTTLE DOOM LAZY BAND would like to share their memories with this very special collection of gig excerpts to be released as a live album titled “2005 – 2020 Doom Over The Years“. Recorded at several shows over the past 15 years featuring 10 blistering live tracks, the album was ultimately mixed & mastered by Guyome at Cripple Room.

Says the band: “This live effort simply represents the story of a bunch of mates, 15 years of gigging (well, just every now and then, not all the time. Let’s be serious, we’ve got other stuff to do). Gigging, with it’s fair share of stinky sweat, booze and puke spatter, encounters of all kind of thirsty people and nut jobs from all kind of places.”

Tracklist:
1. Blood For The Bloodking
2. The Dead Can’t Lose Again
3. Ridin’ Bones
4. Night Of The Living Dead
5. The Beast Must Die
6. Smiling Tomb
7. Space Crusader
8. Lost n’ Drunk 9. Too Old
10. Into The Necronef (Unplugged)

FEUERSCHWANZ Release Black Metal Version + Video For “Schubsetanz”

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German medieval rock masters FEUERSCHWANZ have released a black metal version of their own tremendous hit “Schubsetanz” together with an official video. The song will be available as a strictly limited 7” picture vinyl, out April 22, 2021 via Napalm Records, which also includes a live version of “Kampfzwerg”  (Fighting Dwarf) from the band’s latest chart-breaking studio album, Das Elfte Gebot (GER #3).

FEUERSCHWANZ premiered this diabolic offering for the first time at a recently-celebrated concert live stream, Die Letzte Schlacht. “Schubsetanz (Black Metal Version)” showcases a whole new facet of the six-piece in the most trve and evil way.

FEUERSCHWANZ about the song:
“‘Schubsetanz ist Rittersport’ (Schubsetanz is a sport made for  knights) – for years this song from the album Methämmer is a fan favourite at our concerts! We love the moment when hordes of metal-clad heavy metal warriors unite for the most beautiful of all dance styles, full of grace and violence: The ‘Schubsetanz’! That’s why the song made it onto the setlist of our legendary 11:0:A gig and was celebrated there in a special, corona-compliant way – packed into airtight rubber balls and to the sound of a specially created black metal version, we celebrated the moshpit – 2020 corona style!
 
However, fans noticed that this unpolished rough diamond in all its raw violence deserved its own version and immediately started an online petition demanding a full-length version.
We, as humble servants of our fans, spared no expense and effort and descended through the nine circles of hell, broke the seventh seal and snatched the tape from the incarnate himself, where those sounds were banned, that should have been hidden.”

Watch the official video for “Schubsetanz (Black Metal Version)” HERE:

FEUERSCHWANZ in corpse paint with blast beats and double bass – what sounds like an incompatible mix turns out to be a perfect symbiosis on “Schubsetanz (Black Metal Version)”. Hauptmann Feuerschwanz and his comrades-in-arms show us their dark and evil side in incomparable FEUERSCHWANZ style on this exquisite cover of their own hit single. As a bonus track, the vinyl’s B-side will feature a live version of “Kampfzwerg”  (Fighting Dwarf), recorded at the live stream event Die Letzte Schlacht. Both tracks will be available digitally as well.

Pre-order your copy straight out of hell NOW

FEUERSCHWANZ
+ WARKINGS
presented by: EMP, METAL HAMMER, METAL.DE & SONIC SEDUCER & START
05.01.22 DE – Nuremberg / Löwensaal
06.01.22 DE – Berlin / Huxley’s
07.01.22 DE – Leipzig / Felsenkeller
08.01.22 DE – Cologne / Carlswerk Victoria
13.01.22 DE – Frankfurt / Batschkapp
14.01.22 DE – Hanover / Pavillon
15.01.22 DE – Bremen / Aladin
20.01.22 AT – Vienna / Szene
21.01.22 AT – Graz / Dom Im Berg
22.01.22 DE – Munich / Backstage
27.01.22 DE – Saarbrücken / Garage
28.01.22 DE – Stuttgart / Im Wizemann
29.01.22 CH – Pratteln / Z7
04.02.22 DE – Oberhausen / Turbinenhalle
05.02.22 DE – Hamburg / Große Freiheit 36

MIMI BARKS Drops New Single “[KILL]BILLY“

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London based Trap Metal artist MIMI BARKS is currently working with full force on her debut album and drops her 4th single “[KILL]BILLY” today.

MIMI BARKS comments:

“[𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐋]𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐘 is my merciless revenge towards labeling. I wrote this song because I hate when unique, grassroots artists get compared to carbon copy mainstream artists. With the 4th single from my upcoming album I draw a harsh line between the Industry Plant and the profound world of grinding artists.
The movie KILL BILL has always been a huge inspiration for me. My artwork shows me in the role of Beatrix Kiddo vs. Gogo Yubari aka the industry plant comparisons.”

Make sure to check out her previous singles, too!

“BACK OFF”: https://youtu.be/7r3nIgOJc38
“11.PLAGUE/666”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x__L88a5KgM
“GUESS WHAT”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DVdqY5KwXw

MIMI BARKS kicked off her career in Berlin, where she started experimenting with a unique mix of Trap and Metal, adding her trademark ferocious and raspy vocals. After relocating to London in 2019, she finalized her debut-solo EP “Enter the Void” bursting through a male-dominated scene with female force.