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Grammy-Nominated Hardcore Legends HATEBREED Share Title Track from Upcoming Album “Fatal Paradox”

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Studied, imitated, but never replicated, the Grammy-nominated hardcore legends HATEBREED drop their long-awaited studio album FATAL PARADOX on November 6 via new label BLKIIBLK. Pre-order it here.

Today, they share the title track — an under-three-minute, groove-driven anthem with the kind of breakdown that leads to bloody noses, bruised limbs, and broken teeth in the pit!  

Listen to the song and watch the visualizer here:

Hatebreed have remained a fixture of the hardcore and metal scenes for the better part of three decades. After writing the playbook with their genre-defining releases Under The Knife (1996) and Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire (1997), HATEBREED continued to carry the banner for metallic hardcore with albums like Perseverance (2002), The Rise of Brutality (2003), and Supremacy (2006) dominating charts globally. In recent years, the band’s undisputed offensive continues with modern records The Concrete Confessional (2016) and Weight of the False Self (2020), remaining fixtures on charts globally. The band’s core values of self actualization, perseverance, and honest living have carried them from backyard and basement shows to festival dominators, selling out shows consistently across the world, effectively practicing what they’ve preached. 

Enlisting long-time collaborator Zeuss (Rob Zombie, Accept, Shadows Fall), “Kill Count Increase” is crossover excellence with accelerating speeds, crushing riffage, and frontman Jamey Jasta’s venomous bark inciting crimson flashes of carnage.

Holding no punches, and taking no prisoners Fatal Paradox see the Connecticut-born juggernaut operating at full tilt, bludgeoning listeners with a barbarous blend of breakdowns, d-beats, and dogpiles. Whether it’s the thrash stylings of “Kill Count Increase” or “Total Invincible,” capital H hardcore excellence of “The Carrion Choir” and “Truth Is A Lion,” rage remains the unifying spark to blow the keg in glorious flashes of violence. 

FATAL PARADOX TRACK LISTING:
“Kill Count Increase”
“The Carrion Choir”
“Decisions Become Destinies”
“Total Invincible”
“Fatal Paradox”
“Still A Threat”
“Sacrifice Season” (Feat. John Tardy)
“Truth Is A Lion”
“Make The Demons Obey”
“None Left To Save”
“Poison Planet”

Hatebreed will spend the summer doing what they do best — touring and bringing venues across the U.S. to their knees. All upcoming dates are below. Get tickets here.

HATEBREED ON TOUR:
8/28 — Edmonton, AB —  Pawn Shop Live*
8/29 — Calgary, AB — The Arrowhead
8/30 — Regina, SK — Casino Regina Show Lounge
8/31 — Winnipeg, MB — Burton Cummings Theatre
9/2 — Sioux Falls, SD — The District
9/3 — Kansas City, MO — Warehouse on Broadway
9/4 — Shakopee, MN — Mystic Lake Amphitheater (Supporting Slayer)
9/5 — Davenport, IA — Capitol Theatre
9/6 — Milwaukee, WI — The Rave
9/8 — Pittsburgh, PA — Roxian Theatre
9/9 — Silver Spring, MD — The Fillmore
9/10 — Albany, NY — Empire Live
9/11 — Quebec, QC — Envol et Macadam*
9/12 — Ottawa, ON — The Bronson
9/13 — Norwalk, CT — District Music Hall
9/19 — Pinellas Park, FL — England Brothers Park (Supporting Turnstile)
10/10 — Birmingham, AL — Furnace Fest*
*Festival Date

ABOUT HATEBREED:
Described by Forbes as “more relevant than ever in the metal and hardcore community,” the quintet remains one of the most definitive live acts in music today and recently celebrated a milestone with their track “Looking Down The Barrel Of Today,” which is nearing 130 million global streams, making it their single biggest career streaming track of the modern era. To date, Hatebreed have sold over 1.5 million albums in North America alone.  

Hatebreed’s most recent album, 2020’s Weight of the False Self, was praised as a “return to their hardcore roots” by Brooklyn Vegan. The album was deemed “one of their most aggressive to date” by Consequence and “pummeling” by Revolver, while Psychology Today called it “a blazing combination of extreme metal and hardcore punk.” Hatebreed remain one of the most vital bands in the hard rock scene.

Their signing with BLKIIBLK and forthcoming ninth studio album find the band harder than ever, stronger than ever.

HATEBREED ARE:
Jamey Jasta — Vocals
Wayne Lozinak — Guitar
Frank Novinec — Guitar
Matt Byrne — Drums
Carl Schwartz — Bass

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CHOPIN’s ‘Berceuse Op. 57’ Gets a Revolutionary Make-Over By MARIUSZ SZYPURA & FENNESZ

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Previewing one of Cleopatra Records’ most ambitious (and extravagant) releases of the year, today sees the release of Chopin’s “Berceuse Op. 57,” taken from Mariusz Szypura’s acclaimed Chopin Residue Blu-Ray, as reworked by remixer extraordinaire Fennesz.

It is just one of a series of reimaginings and reinventions include on the full album, featuring some of the most impactful remixers of the age – Fennesz is joined by Milosz Pękala, John McEntire, Blanket Swimming, Jacek Gawlowski and more, with each of the performances present as both a “Deconstruction” or a “Rework.” 

Speaking about the remixes, Polish-born artist Szypura explains, “I briefed [the artists] on the concept, sent the deconstructions and let them do what they do. Matthew Herbert built a house/dub out of it, Christine Ott went straight to ondes Martenot [if you’ve never heard this eerie sounding electronic instrument, you will now!], Fennesz did what Fennesz does.”

SINGLE: https://orcd.co/vpbm1k2

Releasing on Blu-ray on August 21, with other formats set to follow later this year, Chopin Residue is packaged as imaginatively as the music!  The CD will feature a six-panel digipak with a cutout circle on the cover and nine individual inserts (one for each composition) so the user can change the cover image by simply inserting one of the 9 inserts in the front panel of the digipak. The vinyl is a double LP in a trifold jacket. It has the same 9 inserts just scaled up to 12”x12” vinyl size.

Chopin Residue has already been compared to John Cage’s 4.’33, but that’s only the beginning, as Szypura continues.

“Chopin is inescapable in Poland. You grow up with him the way other people grow up with weather. At some point that stops being inspiring and starts being noise, you don’t hear the music anymore, you hear the monument.

“So I took the piano out. Not as a provocation, more as a question: if you remove the instrument everyone identifies with this music, what’s actually left? Turns out quite a lot. The harmonic structure is still there, the phrasing, the strange melancholy in the intervals. That’s the residue. The piano was the delivery system, not the content.

“Practically it meant giving the material to guitars, drums, theremin, ondes Martenot, electronics, breath. Nine compositions on Deconstructions, then nine reworks by other artists on the second disc. You can also play both discs at the same time, they were built to overlap.

“For the immersive version this was the real payoff. In stereo you hear an arrangement. In Atmos you’re inside the harmonic space with the piano missing from the middle of it. The absence becomes physical. That’s not a format upgrade, it’s closer to what the piece was always trying to do.

“I couldn’t have done that version alone. Morten Lindberg, Jacek Gawlowski and I are credited jointly as immersive audio producers, and Morten in particular thinks about space in a way that changed how I heard my own material. He treats the room as part of the composition, which is exactly what this record needed. Michael Romanowski did the immersive mastering and kept the whole thing from turning into a spectacle, which was the real risk. Working with people at that level made me rethink what the project actually was.”

 And the whole thing, he concludes, “works because nobody was trying to replace Chopin. They were all working in the gap where the piano used to be.”

 Turns out that it was a very big gap!

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Track List:

  1. Prelude Op. 28 No. 22
  2. Étude Op. 25 No. 12
  3. Berceuse Op. 57
  4. Prelude Op. 28 No. 20
  5. Prelude Op. 28 No. 4
  6. Prelude Op. 28 No. 2
  7. Nocturne Op. 72 No. 1
  8. Prelude Op. 28 No. 9
  9. Prelude Op. 28 No. 15

SINNER Say Thank You with New ‘Turn The Page’ Visualizer Video

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More than four decades into their career, SINNER have received an overwhelming response to their final studio album, Boom Bang Goodbye. Now, the band are celebrating that support by unveiling a new lyric video for one of the record’s most emotional tracks, “Turn The Page.”

Since the album’s release, fans from every chapter of the SINNER story have shown their support – from those who have followed the band since the early days to those who discovered them much later. SINNER would like to send a huge thank you to everyone who streamed and bought the album, shared it, recommended it and, above all, played it loud. Thank you for the incredible support!

Before the book closes, however, there is still one more song to share.

Combining classic hard rock with sweeping melodies and a melancholic atmosphere, “Turn The Page” stands among the most melodic and emotional songs on Boom Bang Goodbye. It reflects on the painful end of a relationship, the memories that refuse to disappear and the difficult process of letting go of the past in order to start a new chapter.

The track is brought to life by Michael Sadler (SAGA), whose unmistakable voice adds a distinctive emotional depth to the song. Hearing Sadler’s finished performance was also a particularly moving moment for Mat Sinner. He was blown away by the way Sadler had made the song entirely his own, singing it as though the story were deeply personal to him.

With 19 studio albums and more than four decades behind them, SINNER have brought their remarkable recording career to a fitting conclusion with Boom Bang Goodbye – an album that celebrates the band’s identity without simply dwelling on the past. Its eleven tracks bring together the melodies, powerful guitars and unmistakable rock’n’roll attitude that have defined SINNER since 1982.

Every story eventually comes to its final chapter. But before SINNER turn the page, they are giving their fans one more reason to crank up the volume.

Boom Bang Goodbye can be ordered or streamed here: https://sinner.rpm.link/boomPR

Watch also: SINNER – WAIT (Official Video) – SINNER – LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND (Official Video) – SINNER – ALL NIGHT LONG (Official Video)

HORSE OF TROJA Join Wanikiya Record Roster for International Promotion of Three Singles

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Wanikiya Record/Promotion is proud to officially announce the addition of the legendary Swedish hard rockers HORSE OF TROJA to its international roster.

A new and important collaboration joins the ever-growing international journey of Wanikiya Record/Promotion: Swedish hard rock band Horse Of Troja, originally from Märsta, officially joins the Italian label and promotion agency’s roster for a dedicated international promotional campaign focused on three of the band’s singles: “No Light”, “Memories of the Past” and “Live, Love and Die.”

This is a meeting between two realities that share the same philosophy: believing in authentic music, quality, passion and artists who still have something meaningful to say.

FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF ROCK TO A NEW GENERATION
The story of Horse Of Troja goes back to the early 1980s, right into the heart of the Swedish rock scene.

The band originates from Märsta, during a remarkable period in music history when the areas around Upplands-Väsby and Märsta were becoming fertile ground for the emergence of numerous hard rock bands and musicians who would go on to make their mark on the international scene.

It was within this extraordinary musical environment that Horse Of Troja developed their identity. Their sound is deeply rooted in classic 1980s hard rock, combining powerful guitar riffs, memorable melodies, driving rhythms and a strong melodic character. Among the band’s influences are legendary names such as Whitesnake, but Horse Of Troja are not simply trying to recreate a bygone era.

Instead, their music creates a bridge between past and present: a celebration of the great tradition of hard rock, reinterpreted through a modern perspective.

A nostalgic journey, yet one that feels fresh, energetic and alive.

A sound born from the golden era of rock, but created to speak to both longtime fans and a new generation.

FIVE MUSICIANS. ONE IDENTITY. PURE HARD ROCK.

The current Horse Of Troja lineup features:

Henna Murto – Vocals
Niclas Blomqvist – Guitar
Magnus Hällström – Guitar
Pertti Tikkanen – Drums
Lukasz Sobota – Bass

Five musicians. One identity. One unmistakable passion for hard rock.

The band continues to carry the same energy that made 1980s hard rock one of the most iconic and beloved eras in music history. Powerful riffs, unforgettable melodies, attitude and energy: all the essential ingredients are there.

But above all, there is something that cannot be manufactured: passion.

THREE SONGS. THREE STORIES. ONE NEW INTERNATIONAL JOURNEY.
The collaboration between Horse Of Troja and Wanikiya Record/Promotion will initially focus on three singles.

“NO LIGHT”
A title that immediately evokes a strong emotional and darker dimension, perfectly matching the power and atmosphere of the band’s hard rock identity.

“No Light” represents one of the starting points of this new international chapter and will be at the heart of Wanikiya’s promotional campaign for the band.

“MEMORIES OF THE PAST”
The past is an essential part of Horse Of Troja’s story.

“Memories of the Past” almost seems to capture the entire spirit of the band in its title: the connection to a great musical tradition, to the era in which their story began, and to those emotions that continue to live through rock music.

A song that looks back — but refuses to stand still.

Because memories are not only about remembering what once was.

They are also about building what comes next.

“LIVE, LOVE AND DIE”
Three words.

Live. Love. Die. Life, love and death.

Three universal elements transformed into a title that carries the unmistakable spirit of rock’n’roll. The song completes this first promotional journey and will help introduce Horse Of Troja to an even wider international audience. A band that is not interested in simply living through nostalgia, but is determined to continue writing its own future.

WANIKIYA RECORD/PROMOTION: TAKING HORSE OF TROJA TO THE WORLD
For Wanikiya Record/Promotion, the arrival of Horse Of Troja represents another important step in strengthening its international presence within the world of rock and metal.

The promotional campaign will focus on international media exposure, with particular attention to webzines, magazines, radio stations, interviews, reviews and specialized rock and hard rock media.

The goal is not simply to generate numbers or statistics. The goal is to create genuine attention around the band. To bring Horse Of Troja’s music to new listeners. To reach new media outlets. To build new connections.

And above all, to help the band strengthen its presence within the international rock scene.

For Wanikiya, every new collaboration represents much more than a promotional campaign. It is a partnership. It is a shared journey. It is the desire to build something that can grow and last over time.

A BAND THAT STILL HAS SOMETHING TO SAY
Horse Of Troja prove once again that true hard rock does not belong to just one era.

Genres evolve. Technology evolves. The way people discover and listen to music evolves. But when you have great riffs, powerful melodies, energy and passion, rock still works. And Horse Of Troja demonstrate exactly that with a musical identity capable of embracing tradition without becoming trapped by it.

The band has already received strong recognition from the rock community, with critics describing Horse Of Troja as “one of the highlights of the genre this year”, encouraging fans of the genre to discover their music.

Now, together with Wanikiya Record/Promotion, a new challenge begins: to introduce Horse Of Troja to an even wider international audience.

THE JOURNEY STARTS NOW
Horse Of Troja joining the Wanikiya roster marks the beginning of a new chapter.

Three singles. A band with a remarkable history. A new international partnership. And one very simple mission: Keep the Rock Alive.

Wanikiya Record/Promotion proudly welcomes Horse Of Troja to its international roster and looks forward to building this new chapter together.

The journey has just begun.

And this time… the horse is ready to run.

HORSE OF TROJA
Henna Murto – Vocals
Niclas Blomqvist – Guitar
Magnus Hällström – Guitar
Pertti Tikkanen – Drums
Lukasz Sobota – Bass

Official Website: www.horseoftroja.com

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Announce Free Live-Stream Show on September 8th

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Five Finger Death Punch will bring their 20th Anniversary Tour to fans around the world with a free global live broadcast from Colorado’s iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Tuesday, September 8 at 9pm Mountain Time (MDT), available exclusively on the livestream platform, Veeps. With epic new production and visuals, the show will feature a career-spanning set packed with the band’s biggest anthems alongside new music from their 10th album, Legacy. Watch the trailer here.

Legacy celebrates two decades of Five Finger Death Punch and stands as both a tribute to the band’s journey and a bold statement of what’s still to come. The album, released digitally on July 31, is streaming now on all platforms and will be available on CD, vinyl, and cassette on September 18.

Alongside the stream, fans can pre-order merchandise, including multiple variants of Legacy vinyl, as well as CD and cassette configurations, plus a special 5FDP vinyl carry case. With several previously announced vinyl variants already sold out, the offerings include:

*Legacy LP (Clear Vinyl)
*Legacy LP (Amber Wave Vinyl) featuring alternate art gatefold packaging
*Legacy CD
*Legacy CD (Gold Disc) featuring alternate cover and disc art

All merch is available now at the VEEPS event page and will be featured during the livestream broadcast. Fans are invited to tune in and enjoy the show free of charge. For more information, visit the event page HERE.

The North American leg of Five Finger Death Punch’s 20th Anniversary World Tour with support from Cody Jinks and Eva Under Fire continues through October 23 in Bristow VA before the band will get ready to head over to Europe in January 2027 for a massive run of arenas with Special Guest Lamb Of God and Bleed From Within. For tickets and more info, visit here.  

ABOUT FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH:
Five Finger Death Punch is a multi-platinum, chart-topping hard rock band from Las Vegas, NV known for their high-energy performances and impactful music. The band has accumulated more than 15 billion global streams and achieved 13 consecutive #1 singles on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. Their catalog includes 30 Top 10 rock hits, 18 Active Rock #1 singles, and more than a dozen RIAA certifications, including seven Gold or Platinum albums and a 2x-Platinum single. Throughout their career, Five Finger Death Punch has collaborated with a diverse range of artists, including Brian May of Queen, Rob Halford, Rob Zombie, Steve Aoki, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jamey Jasta, and Brantley Gilbert. The band’s impact extends beyond music. Founding guitarist Zoltan Bathory was featured as a playable character in Call of Duty. Five Finger Death Punch has also supported numerous charitable causes, donating more than $1 million to organizations focused on veterans’ and first responder issues, suicide prevention, youth homelessness, and more. The Association of the United States Army presented the band with its Soldier Appreciation Award, an honor only bestowed upon Elvis Presley before 5FDP. The City of Las Vegas proclaimed November 1 as “Five Finger Death Punch Day,” while frontman Ivan Moody received the Key to the City of Cheyenne, Wyoming, for his charitable work in the community. Following extensive global touring for two decades, including appearances on Metallica’s M72 World Tour, the band continues to expand its global reach. Their #1 collaboration with BABYMETAL, “The End,” became the first song featuring Japanese lyrics to chart at U.S. rock radio. In 2026, Five Finger Death Punch released their tenth studio album, Legacy.

MISCREANCE Premiere Second Album “Reminiscence” Ahead of Release

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Upon signing with Season of Mist in 2022, after crawling through the Italian underground, Miscreance were likened to Death, Sadus, Voivod and other immortal beings who have shaped the alternate timeline that is the history of extreme metal. The band’s thrashing riffs and blistering tempo shifts recall death metal’s golden age, but their upcoming second album, Reminiscence, is quickly proving itself to be far from just another blast from the past.

“What we have here is innovation, classicism, power and talent unmatched”, MetalBites writes in a 9/10 review, “but above all else, Miscreance is a group of musicians who understand the importance of those good ole days and the impact that they are still and should always be having on today’s Scene”

“[…] a four-piece set to stun the world through their progressive thrash/death blend of technicality that continually pushes the parameters of the genre as well as the individuals composing/playing this music”, Dead Rhetoric writes in another 9/10 review.

“On Reminiscence, the Northern Italian quartet take the old-school technical death metal blueprint – Death, Atheist, Coroner, Sadus, all the good stuff – and drag it through a prehistoric hallucination full of tribal percussion, psychic violence, alien ritual and fretboard abuse”, writes Decibel, who are premiering the full album stream today.  

Reminiscence comes out this Friday, August 28 on Season of Mist, but you can hear all nine mind-altering songs today by listening to the full album stream on Decibel Magazine’s website, HERE.

“After meandering through the sands of time, we are finally unearthing our new album Reminiscence”, Miscreance says. “Each of the nine songs on the album take a look into a forgotten past. Together, they merge into a mind-altering experience”.

“Reminiscence is a concept album that tells the story of a lost civilization, suspended in time”, the band continues. “Gifted with psychic powers and driven by an insatiable hunger for prey, this civilization once lived in symbiosis with nature, only for their age of splendor to give way to inexorable decline.

“While writing, we pushed ourselves toward a state of total neural unity, just as the lost tribe at the heart of our story once did. We became so deeply captivated by the concept that we decided to reinterpret the lost album as coherently and faithfully as possible, bringing its sound to life again through an array of tribal and unconventional instruments, unearthly time signatures and ritualistic chants.

“Lose yourself into the abyss and find your true self beyond the edge of reality!”

Pre-order & Pre-save: https://orcd.co/miscreancereminiscence

Reminiscence isn’t one band’s attempt to recall death metal’s glory days. Opener “Trait d’Union’ begins with funky, bouncing, tribal percussion that one associates with a time long before the dawn of Charvel guitars. “We still play old-school tech-thrash” Miscreance guitarist Andrea Granauro assures. But through a collective hallucination, on their new album, the band venture into dark territory that the genre has yet to travel. Lead single “Scalp Ceremony” shreds at a blood-thirsty pace before banging heads with a flurry of bongos.

“We are all very happy with how our first album turned out, but we wanted to go bigger by tying Reminiscence to a specific concept”, guitarist Tommaso Cappelletti explains. “Adding the tribal instruments to certain songs deepens the connection to the overall story that the album is telling”.

“What we’ve created is a ‘lost album’”, bassist Jean-Claude Rossignol continues. “It comes from an unknown civilization that’s both futuristic and extremely primitive. Through psychic powers and capabilities that transcend earthly comprehension, these primordial extraterrestrials have achieved total neural unity. Yet innate wickedness still lures inside of them, harboring the need for preys, scalps and lust”.

While recorded in their native Italy, Miscreance discovered the concept for Reminiscence by sifting through the sands of time. Along with tech-thrash riffs and proggy tempo shifts, the band uncover didgeridoo, berimbau, telepathic surgeries, strange tongues and a burning celestial corpse. Climbing “The Moaning Hill” is not for the faint of heart, but the intricate twists along its perverse path lead to truly sacred pleasures.        

“You’ve never known the face of death / But now it becomes yours”, drummer Andrea Feltrin growls amidst the many peaks hidden within “Oracle’s Rift”. As the band tear through a torturous passage with ruthless precision, the last thing you see – or hear – is death metal’s future mutating right before our eyes.    

With Reminiscence, Miscreance unlock a mind-altering experience of old-school technical death metal.  

Tracklist

1. Trait d’Union (4:31)
2. Vision (3:59)
3. Scalp Ceremony (3:14) [WATCH]
4. Synaptic Cortex Dissection (5:02)
5. Oracle’s Rift (5:06) [LISTEN]
6. The Moaning Hill (2:45) [LISTEN]
7. Symbiosis (4:12)
8. Zenith of a Dying Sun (4:19)
9. Mirage (4:27)

As is the custom in Italy, even the most obscene artists are well-versed in the classics.  

Upon signing with Season of Mist in 2022, Northern Italia’s Miscreance were likened to Death, Sadus and other undying greats from the alternate timeline that is the history of extreme metal. Fashioned in high-top sneakers and sleeveless band shirts, bassist Jean-Claude Rossignol, guitarists Andrea Granauro and Tommaso Cappelletti, and drummer/vocalist Andrea Feltrin proudly reflect the genre’s old-school spirit. But while its tech-thrash riffs and proggy tempo shifts will remind battle-tested heshers of the golden years, their second album isn’t just another blast from the past.  

“Through a collective hallucination, a voyage through time led us to discover a moment in human history that was lost”, the band says about the far-out path they took to their new album. “Reminiscence is a testimony of what we have seen, heard, perceived and imagined, told through our own perspective on old-school, thrashy, technical death metal”.  

In 2018, Miscreance quickly emerged onto the metal scene as a welcome mutation. While their initial incubation period under prior name Atomic Massacre fit the mold of Slayer, Kreator and Sodom, the band turned their morbid fascination with classic horror films and late ‘80s to early ‘90s tech-thrash into a debut that, while faithful to both Atheist and Dark Angel, gave the OSDM revival a much-needed jump scare. Convergence not only drew the favor of France’s premiere metal label but also attention from Decibel, New Noise and other international press.  

“We’re left wondering how band members who look so young also seem so well-steeped in so many different genre influences, and how technically masterful and wildly inventive they are in their songwriting”, No Clean Singing wrote upon the album’s release in 2022. “They seem inherently resistant to taking the easy way forward, and equally resistant to just mimicking their most prominent thrash metal forebearers”.  

Reminiscence isn’t an attempt to recall metal’s glory days. Opener “Trait d’Union’ doesn’t begin with blast beats but funky, bouncing, tribal percussion one associates with a time long before the dawn of Charvel guitars. “We still play old-school tech-thrash”, assures Granauro. With its eerie handcam footage, the music video for the album’s lead single will give tape collectors warm and fuzzy memories. However, while the band shred at a blood-thirsty pace, “Scalp Ceremony” bangs the long-haired heads of their captive audience with a flurry of bongos.

“We are all very happy with how our first album turned out, but we wanted to go bigger by tying Reminiscence to a specific concept”, Cappelletti explains. “Adding the tribal instruments to certain songs deepens the connection to the overall story that the album is telling”.      

While recorded in Italy, Miscreance discovered the concept for Reminiscence by sifting through the sands of time. Along with splintering riffs and trippy tempo shifts, the band uncovered a hidden world where jungle-dwelling hunters and digeridoo coexist with strange tongues, telepathic surgeries and a burning celestial corpse. As imagined by Iranian artist Mona Shiraz, the album’s cover art is a modern interpretation of the kind of painting that was all the rage during the Stone Age. “What we’ve created is a ‘lost album’”, Rossignol says. “It comes from an unknown civilization that’s both futuristic and extremely primitive. Through psychic powers and capabilities that transcend earthly comprehension, these primordial extraterrestrials have achieved total neural unity. Yet innate wickedness still lures inside of them, harboring the need for preys, scalps and lust”. Climbing “The Moaning Hill” is not for the faint of heart, but the intricate twists along its perverse path lead to truly sacred pleasures.

“You’ve never known the face of death / But now it becomes yours”, Feltrin growls amidst the many peaks hidden within “Oracle’s Rift”. As the band tear through a torturous passage with ruthless precision, the last thing you see – or hear – is death metal’s future mutating right before our eyes.

With Reminiscence, Miscreance unlock a mind-altering experience of old-school technical death metal.

Lineup
Andrea Feltrin – Drums and Vocals
Jean-Claude Rossignol – Bass
Tommaso Cappelletti – Guitars
Andrea Granauro – Guitars

Guest musicians
Leo Di Angilla – Percussion, Digeridoo, Flute, Berimbau

Recording and Production Credits
Recording Studio – Bridge Produzioni Audio in Susegana, Italy
Mixing and Mastering Studio – Majestic Studio in Silea, Italy
Producer – Marino De Angeli
Mixing, Mastering and Sound Engineer – Marino De Angeli

Cover art
Mona Shiraz

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