India’s death metal legends DEMONIC RESURRECTION have recently announced a massive tour of the UK with special guests Wretched Soul.
Also for this tour Arran McSporran and Shoi Sen from UK metallers De Profundis will be joining the DEMONIC RESURRECTION line-up on bass and lead guitar respectively.
The dates for the tour are as follows:
10.05.18 – Green Door Store, Brighton
11.05.18 – The Swan, Ipswitch
12.05.18 – TBC (If you know a guy, then call us)
13.05.18 – Incineration Festival, London
14.05.18 – The Junction, Plymouth
16.05.18 – Star & Garter, Manchester
17.05.18 – Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow
18.05.18 – The Hammer & The Anvil, Birmingham
19.05.18 – Eradication Festival, Cardiff
20.05.18 – Anvil Rockbar, Bournemouth
The band adds, “It’s been 4 years since we’ve played in the UK and we couldn’t be happier to return. We toured with De Profundis (and Onslaught) last time around and we became good friends with all of them. With the current line-up of the band it made the most sense to call upon our friends Shoi and Arran to fill in the empty bass and lead guitar spots, they are both stellar musicians and with their experience you know that Demonic Resurrection is going to deliver the goods. We look forward to seeing all our fans at the shows.”
UK’s long-running death metallers DE PROFUNDIS have had an illustrious career. Over the years, they’ve kept perfecting their sound which incorporated progressive as well as melodic elements, and for their fifth full length, they’ve distilled only the best qualities into a massive death metal slab that’s emotive yet powerful.
‘The Blinding Light Of Faith’ is a bold step forward for the band into heavier territories as they eschew long, winding songs and go straight for the jugular. With a new logo made by Gary Ronaldson (Misery Index, Benighted) and a gnarly album artwork by Alex Tartsus (Sinister, Depravity) depicting the band’s anti-religious stance, DE PROFUNDIS are confident of their direction and this promises to be their best album thus far. It’s a quintessential death metal album that manages to showcase diversity without compromising on the heaviness.
‘The Blinding Light of Faith’ is set to be released on May 10th, via Transcending Obscurity Records.
‘The Blinding Light of Faith’ Track list:
1. Obsidian Spires
2. War Be Upon Him
3. Opiate For The Masses
4. Bastard Sons Of Abraham
5. Martyrs
6. Godforsaken
7. Beyond Judgement
8. Bringer Of Light
With their appearance in London at the end of last year having sold out almost immediately, Norwegian Black Metallers TAAKE have announced that they will return to the UK to play the following four dates in April alongside UK favourites FEN and DE PROFUNDIS. Due to other upcoming commitments FEN are unable to do the London show and will be replaced by WINTERFYLLETH.
Thu 6 April, The Exchange, Bristol
Fri 7 April, The Dome, London (Winterfylleth will be filling in for Fen at this show)
Sat 8 April, The Ruby Lounge, Manchester
Sun 9 April, Ivory Blacks, Glasgow
With over two decades of experience, both in the studio and on the stage, TAAKE, or more precisely, the band’s formidable founder and frontman Hoest, has acquired almost legendary status. Never abandoning the origins of Norwegian Black Metal, Hoest still manages to innovate and surprise fans the world-over, and, in a long-lasting collaboration with Dark Essence Records, consistently produces albums that are considered to be classics in their genre.
Hoest’s powerful persona and mesmerising stage presence makes TAAKE much sought after on the live circuit, with 2017 already gearing up to be as busy as the previous year. As well as the four UK dates have already been confirmed for various festival appearances over the coming year.
The official video for the track “Nordbundet” from the TAAKE album “Noregs Vaapen” can be below:
Formed in early 2006 with the goal of producing Atmospheric Black Metal that incorporates elements of post-rock, FEN have, since then, found themselves at the vanguard of a resurgent UK Black Metal scene. With an EP, four full length albums, several splits and compilations, two European tours and numerous appearances at prestigious festivals under their belts, FEN’s fifth full-length album “Winter”, which is set for release on Aural Music on the 17th March, is the band’s most ambitious, and yet most fundamental expression, yet. FEN recently debuted a track from the album, on the strength of which two limited edition versions of “Winter” are already close to being sold out more than a month before release date. The track “I (Pathway)” can be heard at https://fenuk.bandcamp.com/album/winter
The official video for the track “Menhir – Supplicant” from FENs 2014 album “Carrion Skies” can be seen here:
DE PROFUNDIS started life in 2005 playing a haunting blend of Doom and Death metal, but, by 2010, whilst still retaining the sombre, melodic atmosphere the band’s sound became much more progressive in nature. Now, after years of honing their art, the sound of DE PROFUNDIS has been streamlined into concise, technical cacophonies that fuse ferocious Blackened Death metal with ethereal progressive overtones. DE PROFUNDIS’ extensive stage experience guarantees that this tour will be one too good to miss.
Polish death metal icons VADER, who just recently concluded their “Blitz South America In Fire Tour 2015”, have released a special video version for their 1995 classic “Reborn In Flames”, which was released originally on their second album “De Profundis”. Check it out below.
VADER comments:
Here’s for you our special version for “Reborn in Flames”, originally released on our second album “De Profundis” in 1995. The version used as playback for the video was a special bonus track on “XXV” album recorded in 2008 in Hertz Studio. Video was taken during our last tour in Europe with VENOM Inc. on shows in Gdansk and Wroclaw by LUCERNA FILMS
Just recently VADER issued their 2015 recap, unveiling also their plans for 2016:
Vadermaniax !!!! Year 2015 has ended a week ago. How was it for VADER? Pretty busy and really good indeed! We played over 100 shows on three continents. We spread madness in Georgia and Indonesia for a first time. VADER also came back to Russia after years for successful „Transsibirian East tour” in June.
There were many festivals and great tours like Blitz, Hatefest , the tour with Venom Inc. and long awaited trip to South America at the end of year.
We released beautiful re-edition of VADER first demos on all formats, also „Future of the Past” with bonus 2nd part including covers of Underground Metal hordes from Poland and Czech from 80’s. Our official Vaderempire.pl online store, which we started in December 2014 with cooperation with Witchinghour Prod. became huge success too! VADER also signed deal with Nuclear Blast to continue great cooperation for next years!
Now we are in 2016… What are the plans? We will give You new album entitled “The Empire” in early Autumn! We may already promise You VADER appearance on many great festivals this Summer also classical for our band tour BLITZ! in Russia, Poland and Europe, where we’ll play new album. But earlier we will show up in UK/Ireland (in April) with Overkill. Vaderemire.pl is working in the meantime on re-edition of legendary debut album in very special edition yet in Spring – when VADER will work in Hertz Studio with songs for fresh killer album. For all those who can’t wait so long we plan to release EP. with some new tunes before vacations. We are ready for 2016 !!! Are You ready for VADER?
UK London based Progressive Melodic Death Metallers DE PROFUNDIS have released a new video clip that gives a taste of the tracks on their formidable new album, “Kingdom Of The Blind”. The music is accompanied by images from their latest promotional photo session, interspersed with pictures from their recent London show with Enslaved and Grand Magus.
The video also features a fantastic selection of review quotes from the world’s media.
The fourth DE PROFUNDIS album, “Kingdom Of The Blind”, was released through Wicker Man Recordings on September 28th and can be ordered directly from the label here.
London based Progressive Melodic Death Metallers DE PROFUNDIS will be celebrating the imminent release of their new album, “Kingdom Of The Blind”, unleashed through Wicker Man Recordings on September 28th, with a very special London show.
The UKs kings of progressive death metal will be joining forces with ENSLAVED and GRAND MAGUS as they lay waste to the capital next Thursday, September 24th. The O2 Academy in Islington is the venue for this incredible meeting of metal masters and tickets are on sale now through Ticketweb.
This will be an opportunity to check out a selection of tracks from the magnificent “Kingdom Of The Blind” album which is available for pre-order here.
Speaking about the show DE PROFUNDIS had this to say: “De Profundis are really proud to be playing with Enslaved and Grand Magus next Thursday in London. Enslaved’s progressive approach to black metal has always been a huge influence on the band’s song writing. It’s the perfect way to celebrate the approach of our forthcoming album, Kingdom of the Blind.”
