Black Lion Records are proud to welcome Blackend Death Metallers SAILLE into the label’s roster family.
The band has played several European festivals ranging from Summer Breeze (DE), Graspop , Eindhoven Metal Meeting 2x (NL), Antwerp Metal Fest 2x (BE), Metal Méan (BE), Vlamrock (BE), Ragnarok (DE), Bloodstock Open Air (UK), Metalgate Death Fest Open Air (CZ), Incineration Fest (UK), Dark Easter (DE), and many more! having toured across Czech Republic, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Romania, Malta, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland.and many more places! the band will be releasing their fifth full length with us next year!
Black Lion Records ceo Oliver Dahlbäck comments, I am delighted to announce and welcome Saille into Black Lion’s roster having gotten to know Reinier this year through his other company Aimed&Framed.
It was clear that SAILLE were hard working and dedicated to their craft and with a strong foot in the European festival scene and new album at the door step it felt like a perfect opportunity to form a new bond with SAILLE and we look forward to releasing their new album worldwide in 2021.
Reinier Schenk comments: “We’re glad to announce SAILLE is signing with Black Lion Records. We’ve been waiting long enough now, due to the current situation, but it’s time to move on and release what we’ve been working on. It will be a relief to finally present our frontman Jesse and get to work with the entire band again, making videos and promo for the fifth album. It’s a pleasure to be acknowledged and accepted by Black Lion and we see things the same way. Looking forward to next year. We can only hope SAILLE can climb the stages again as well!”
ENSLAVED are being honoured with an elaborate 12 part television documentary named Heimvegen (The Way Home), which is broadcast every Saturday on Norwegian TV (TV Haugaland) and on YouTube. All episodes are subtitled into English.
The documentary offers a detailed insight into the history of the band, following Ivar Bjørnson and Grutle Kjellson as they guide us through the journey of ENSLAVED‘s formative years.
Five episodes are available to watch online now, with more to follow every Saturday.
Grutle Kjellson commented, “Doing the documentary for TV Haugaland has turned out to be one of the biggest, positive surprises in our career. It pretty much came out of the blue as well; we were asked early in the summer of 2020, and we were like “oh ok, a local tv network wants to have a little chat, why not?”. That it has ended up as a 12 part documentary was far beyond all of us involved could imagine, and such a great surprise!! Director Dag Olav Husås has really outdone a hell of lot of productions made by a lot bigger networks around the globe in my opinion. He has somehow made us re-discover ourselves, our roots, and going down this memory lane had been an utter pleasure. I hope not just our fans, but also new acquaintances will appreciate watching this as much as we did making it.”
ENSLAVED recently announced a celebratory Winter Solstice streaming event for Saturday 19th December via the Revolver Magazine Facebook page, which will be followed by a live Q&A with some band members. The event will be repeated the next day Sunday 20th December on the Enslaved YouTube channel.
The digital event will feature all three parts of ENSLAVED‘s recent Cinematic Summer Tour, the revered filmed performances titled; ‘Chronicles of the Northbound’, ‘Below the Lights’ and ‘Utgard the Journey Within’. The events are also collaborations with respected European festivals Roadburn, Beyond The Gates and Summer Breeze.
Appalachian psych rockers BASK have shared new riff and beat rundown videos via the band’s official YouTube channel! Guitarist Ray Worth has shared a play-through for some of his favorite riffs from the band’s album ‘Ramble Beyond,’ while drummer Scott Middleton gives a beat rundown for the song “Three White Feet,’ taken from the band’s 2019 full-length, ‘III.’ Watch the videos HERE and HERE.
For more unique and original content from BASK, be sure to subscribe to the band’s YouTube HERE.
BASK’s 2019’s release, ‘III’ was named one of the best records of 2019 (#7) by Metal Injection. ‘III’ was released on November 8 via Season of Mist, making it the band’s debut to the label. The record can be streamed, purchased, and downloaded HERE.
GHOSTS OF SUNSET are proving that there is still a hell of a lot of life left in the hard rock/hair metal scene. Their 80’s Hollywood styled hard rock has caused quite a stir with their recent two singles Miles In-Between (approaching 100,000 Spotify streams) and Never Goodbye which is not far behind.
Ghosts of Sunset is the project of singer-songwriter John Merchant from Western Michigan, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Todd Long and they have now delivered another glam drenched new single Another Rock N’ Roll Showvia Golden Robot Records. Apart from Long and Merchant the track also features Tim Mosher from Junkyard on Lead Guitar.
“In an era when bands delivered arena level performances in small clubs on the Sunset Strip, the Rock N’ Roll Show is where you make the biggest noise and create the biggest buzz.” – John Merchant
Ghosts of Sunset are also proud to announce their debutEP Headed West which will be released on 5th February 2021.Headed West is the debut 6 track concept EP based on the 1980s rock/hair/metal scene, by Ghosts of Sunset, featuring John Merchant (ex- Dutch Henry) and Todd Long (ex – The Verve Pipe). It takes a fictional US midwestern band, their move to LA, and the rise and decline as the industry itself changes. They also invited a list of L.A. rock royalty to appear on the EP.
Teutonic thrash metal legends DESTRUCTION are ready give the year 2020 one final, well-deserved kick in the butt with their event “THRASH INTO 2021 – The Ultimate Live Stream Attack”! The live stream of the show at Z7 in Pratteln, Switzerland, will be broadcasted worldwide on New Year’s Day via MANDOLIN.
DESTRUCTION – THRASH INTO 2021 January 1st, 2021 – 8.00pm CET (2.00pm EST/11am PST in the US)
Ticket buyers around the globe will be able to watch the show on demand for 48h after its end!
Here’s what DESTRUCTION front man SCHMIER has to say:
“We are excited to announce, that our MANDOLIN streaming ticket is on sale now. Also MERCH FACTORY has two exclusive event shirts and a merch bundle ready for you. We are all new to this. At the moment an event like this is the only thing that can keep the flame burning, that gives us hope, keeps us busy and entertained and can hopefully help us to survive this crisis that paralyzed our industry and profession.
The show itself will be filmed at the Z7, the Swiss premier concert temple in Pratteln. We will deliver you an “over the top” concert, a once in a life time event, with extra length, special setlist, some surprises and the full headliner production with top notch picture and sound quality!
THANK YOU for being a part of this. Your support is the key for any of our future projects, we really appreciate to have such loyal fans all over the world! Hopefully see you all in the near future in person at a real live concert again, cause we all know nothing can beat the tension, the energy, the power and the experience of an attended live gig! UNITED WE STAND!!!
Founded back in 2001 and after being active as a top-notch offering in the genre for almost 20 years, SIRENIA serve a new, exquisite pearl of symphonic metal: The four-piece around mastermind Morten Veland releases its tenth studio album, Riddles, Ruins & Revelations, on February 12, 2021 via Napalm Records!
On this magical output, the French-Norwegian quartet combines a heavy symphonic sound with modern influences, which their most recent record, Arcane Astral Aeons (2018), is proof of. This time, SIRENIA offer an exciting new twist to their songs, spicing them with electronic vibes, but never losing sight of their musical core. Riddles, Ruins & Revelations was produced, mixed and mastered by Morten Veland himself – which marks his first time doing so.
Today, the band has unleashed a bewitching new music video for the first single “Addiction No. 1”. As the album opener, it immediately showcases the direction SIRENIA are aiming in with their new epos, and is a prime example of how modern melodies chime together with classic symphonic instrumentation. Electronic vibes merge with harsh riffing, while the catchy chorus draws the listener straight into the unique symphonic world of the four-piece, all topped with the outstanding vocals of Emmanuelle Zoldan.
Morten Veland about “Addiction No. 1”: “This is our first single taken from the upcoming album. Musically I feel that this song really shows a modernised and new side of SIRENIA. I find the song very catchy, but heavy at the same time. Furthermore we have given the electronic elements a bigger role in this song. We hope you’ll enjoy it!”
Watch the official video for “Addiction No. 1”HERE:
With Riddles, Ruins & Revelations, SIRENIA, around mastermind, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter and producer Morten Veland, remains as true to their album title word-play as they do to their dedication to symphonic soundscapes, drawing the listener into a pounding narrative about the darkest aspects of life. All eleven songs accumulate step by step to an integral sound artwork, where the versatile mezzo soprano voice of singer Emmanuelle Zoldan always shines in high-profile. In addition, there are many enchanting, instrumental surprises lurking on the way that absolutely need to be discovered.
“We Come To Ruins” offers a contrast of harshness to the more modern-orientated songs on the record, like “The Timeless Waning”, and skillfully portrays the multi-faceted nature of the band. On “Downwards Spiral”, Emmanuelle is supported by the remarkable voice of longtime friend Joakim Næss on clean vocals, who has joined the symphonic metal outfit on previous releases. SIRENIA’s tenth full-length ends with a cover of Desireless` 1986 hit “Voyage Voyage”, where the unit again impressively combines symphonic sounds with electronic atmosphere, which doesn’t count only for this final epos, but for Riddles, Ruins & Revelations as a whole.
Morten Veland on the album: “Riddles, Ruins & Revelations is SIRENIA‘s tenth studio album. The album is very diverse, as a SIRENIA album should be. There’s a lot of material that shows the band from a new side, and there is lots of material that is to be expected from the band musically. All in all the album will take the listeners through a journey that will cover both familiar and unexplored musical landscapes. We hope that you will enjoy the journey.”
Riddles, Ruins & Revelations tracklist: 1. Addiction No. 1 2. Towards An Early Grave 3. Into Infinity 4. Passing Seasons 5. We Come To Ruins 6. Downwards Spiral 7. Beneath The Midnight Sun 8. The Timeless Waning 9. December Snow 10. This Curse Of Mine 11. Voyage Voyage
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