TROLLFEST Sign With Napalm Records, Release New Re-Recorded Single & Video “Der Jegermeister”

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Legendary Norwegian outfit TROLLFEST is back, ready to deliver their groovy, energizing and K.A.O.S-infused sound to the masses! After gathering millions of streams on YouTube and Spotify, TROLLFEST will be joining Napalm Records for the next chapter of their career. Since forming in 2003, the band has played numerous shows all around the world, making appearances at Wacken Open Air, 70.000 Tons Of Metal and Summer Breeze, sharing the stage with ALESTORM, WINTERSUN,  KORPLIKAANI  and FINNTROLL, making a name for themselves as the pioneers of True Norwegian Balkan Metal!

In True Norwegian Balkan K.A.O.S., TROLLFEST release an energizing and bombastic re-recording of their classic “Der Jegermeister” to celebrate their signing to Napalm Records. “Der Jegermeister” is the magnificent, brilliant, wisdom super troll that loves to hunt and drink, and is a fan favorite at live shows! This re-recording will get you moshing on your sofa, raiding the kitchen for alcohol or wherever mother, wife, husband, partner, dog or cats hide them. Trolls never hide alcohol.

Watch the latest music video for “Der Jegermeister” HERE:

TrollfesT on signing with Napalm Records:
“There are few things more welcome than good news in tumultuous times and with that in mind it is with unbridled joy that we announce our signing to Napalm Records. We are excitedly excited about this excitement and have overwhelmingly positive feelings of exuberance toward this endeavor. It is a pure honor to work with such legends. Gleefully chipper and tremendously exalted, we cannot wait for the next chapter of TrollfesT history where world domination, millionaire status, private airplanes and studios built of beer are sure to only be the minor ingredients, that or we will continue to roam the outskirts of obscurity. Either way, we will enjoy ourselves stupendously.”

HELL:ON Release Official Music Video For “My Testament”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 21, 2020
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Ukraine’s leading Death Metal band HELL:ON will release long-awaited 6th full-length album “Scythian Stamm” on November 1st, 2020 via Hell Serpent Music, now the band released the second Single and Videoclip for “My Testament”!

Digital store – http://bit.ly/2ZX4kWJ

“Somber and mystical in its opening moods and tones, the song becomes a savage onslaught of jolting rhythms and frenzied, cutting chords. The assaulting nature of the sound is matched by the intensity of the roaring vocals, both of them combining to create an atmosphere of fierce defiance.” @ No Clean Singing

Recently, Hell:on released their first Single “Architect’s Temple” which can be heard here: http://bit.ly/3hMbjrl

Pre-order “Scythian Stamm”: http://bit.ly/2RJOOsH

Album tracklisting:
1. Spreading Chaos
2. The Architect’s Temple
3. Ashes Of The Gods
4. Under The Protection From Beyond
5. Movements Of The Godless
6.The Denial Of Death
7. B.S.B.
8. Whispers Of The Past Yet To Come
9. Roaring Silence
10. My Testament

Hell:on was formed in early 2005, in Zaporizhzhia, Eastern Ukraine. Hell:on plays death metal with orient and tribal elements. Lyrics of the band generally deals with mysticism, philosophy and anti-religion. During the recordings of previous albums the band had worked with Andreas Kisser, Jeff Waters, Andy LaRocque, Marek Pajak.
At 2019, band was nominated as Best Ukrainian Metal Act. Shared a stage with Rotting Christ, Kreator, Marduk, Napalm Death etc.

ASHES TO OMENS Release Official Music Video For “War Cry”

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Athens, GA based Hard Rockers ASHES TO OMENS have released the official music video for their new single, “War Cry”. Released on 10/2, the single addresses the experience of overcoming anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts during difficult times and has already garnered critical praise as “a powerful song with persuasive lyrics, and dynamic instrumentals. It’s forceful message comes at a much needed time with our social climate and pandemic situation encompassing the globe.” (Famous And Made).

“‘War Cry’ is about bringing awareness to depression, PTSD, anxiety, mental illness and suicide prevention. It’s about staying strong when you can’t be and knowing that you’re not alone and that you don’t have to suffer in silence.” – ASHES TO OMENS

SETH To Release New Album In 2021

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French black metal pioneers SETH will release a new album via Season of Mist in the first half of 2021. The band has furthermore unveiled a teaser of the upcoming record, which can be viewed at the Season of Mist Youtube Channel HERE.

The band comments: “We belong to the label’s very first bands as our debut album ‘Les Blessures de l’Âme’ was released by Season of Mist back in 1998. Today, more than twenty years after, we proudly start a new path together again, to disclose album VI, rising from the ashes of the true genesis of SETH.”

SETH’s first full-length ‘Les Blessures de L’Ame’ was released by Season of Mist in 1998 and soon it became one of the cornerstones of the French Black Metal scene. The band fulfilled a pioneering role as they were the first to use French lyrics in black metal. With this critically acclaimed record, the black metallers grew a solid, international fan base and got noticed overseas shortly after.

After participating on the MAYHEM cult tribute album ‘Originators of the Northern Darkness’ alongside IMMORTAL and BEHEMOTH, the band inked a two-release deal with Osmose Productions. The second full-length ‘The Excellence’ featured a contribution from Fenriz (DARKTHRONE) who wrote the lyrics for the song ‘Let Me Be The Salt In Your Wound’.

A third album titled ‘Divine-X’ was recorded in 2002 at the Excess Studios in Rotterdam (EPICA, AFTER FOREVER, SINISTER). This full-length demonstrated the ability of the band to mix gloomy and violent atmospheres. The record received extensive coverage from the international metal press at the time.

Returning to the Netherlands to record the fourth album ‘Era-Decay’, two new members joined the ranks of SETH: vocalist Black Messiah and guitarist Cyriex. Afterwards, the band was invited to play at the prestigious Inferno festival in Norway in 2005.

A long hiatus followed, until SETH returned in 2011 to play an exclusive show in Germany with the legendary band BETHLEHEM. The band re-joined the ranks of Season of Mist, eventually releasing ‘The Howling Spirit’ and going on a European tour with cult death metallers PESTILENCE. Several appearances at major festivals followed, including Hellfest and Graspop Metal Meeting and a Canadian headliner tour.   

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of ‘Les Blessures de L’Ame’ in 2018, SETH exclusively performed the entire album at festivals in Switzerland, Canada (Messe de Morts) and Belgium (Thronefest). The French label Les Acteurs de l’Ombre productions released a live recording of these shows, called ‘20 ans de Blasphème’. The band’s new line-up featured members of LOUDBLAST, ARKHON INFAUSTUS and MELTED SPACE.

In the meantime, SETH have recorded a new album which will see the light of day in the first half of 2021 via Season of Mist.

ENDEZZMA Reveal Details Of Upcoming Album “The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder”

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Having recently signed a two-album deal with ENDEZZMA, Dark Essence  Records have today announced  the details of “The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder”, the third full-length album from the Norwegian Black Metallers, and which is set to herald in the new year when it hits the streets on the 21st January 2021.

Formed in 2006 by frontman M. Shax,  ENDEZZMA’s  current lineup, includes M. Malphas on guitars, Nihil on Rythm Guitar,  Skriu on  Drums and Aske on bass, forming a cohesive group of musicians who together demonstrate a  brand of brutal, fiercely intense, and yet aesthetically mystical approach to their music. 

With “The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder”, ENDEZZMA have taken a huge step forward in their song writing. Mixing the raw grimness of the early days of black metal with the epic grandeur of later bands, to produce an album that bridges the gap between dark anthems and primitive aggression. 

Recorded at the Vika Studio and the Malpherno Studio in Norway, “The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder”, was mixed and mastered by Tore Stjerna at the Necromorbus Studio in Stockholm.  With cover painting by Stefan Todorovic/Kahos Diktator Design, the album will be available in Digipak CD and LP formats, with an A2 poster included with the vinyl version.

Tracklisting for “The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder” is as follows:

  1. The Awakening
  2. The Name of the Night is a Strong Tower
  3. Anomalious Abomination
  4. The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder
  5. Formless and Void
  6. Garden ov Heathen
  7. Wild Glorior Death
  8. Open Your Eyes and Stab the Sight
  9. Arrows of Equilibrium
  10. Closure

Commenting on the album ENDEZZMA had this to say:
 
We are excited to finally bring out the news and details of “The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder” because this is an album into which we really have placed not just a piece of our heart but also our  whole soul.  Never before have we worked as hard and as determinedly on every little detail of an album.  In it we really see the band arise out of the ashes as a new golden entity, with a hunger  that is more rabid than ever, filled with the desire to set the world ablaze with our music.
 
 We feel that the album takes the band into a new epic and mythical landscape and sends  the listeners out on an  infernal, intense, and epic journey to a dark and obscure world that is lit by the archer’s flaming arrows of equilibrium, wild glorious death and anomalious abomination.
 
“The Archer Fjord and the Thunder” should be considered as a concept album, and we invite you into our world of stellar darkness, to explore our path of burning devotion…We are Endezzma  

ENDEZZMA recently releases a video for the track “Serpent Earth” from their 2017 album “The Arcane Abyss” and it can be seen below.

Swedish MAESTITIUM Announce Debut EP ‘Tale of the Endless’ Out On January 29th

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Swedish MAESTITIUM have announced their debut EP, set for worldwide release on January 29th CD/Digital via Black Lion Records.

Tale of the Endless is a debut EP telling the story of three people with troubled and dark minds, full of anger, despair and sorrow. With inspiration from bands like Insomnium, Hinayana and Wolfheart, Tale of the Endless brings epic melodies, blasting drums and a handful of atmosphere.

It’s composed/recorded by Elias Westrin (Guitars, Vocals, Synths, Orchestrations) and is mixed/mastered by Robin Leijon.
Tale of the Endless features studio musicians like Nils Fjellström aka Dominator’ (Nordjevel,Myrkskog,Odium, ex Dark Funeral,Aeon,) on drums and Anton Flodin (Deathbreed) on bass.

Artwork by MOON RING Design

Tracklist:
1 The Undying Travail
2 Morning Star
 3 Song of the Freezing Wind
4 Tale of the Endless

Check out the drum tracking video of Nils below.