“To Hell, Farewell”, a brand new song from reactivated Swedish death metallers MALFEITOR, can be streamed in the YouTube clip below. The band is currently working on new material for a 2011 release. Source: Blabbermouth.net
“To Hell, Farewell”, a brand new song from reactivated Swedish death metallers MALFEITOR, can be streamed in the YouTube clip below. The band is currently working on new material for a 2011 release. Source: Blabbermouth.net
“Dirty Woman”, a brand new song from PAIN, the Swedish industrial metal outfit led by musician and producer Peter Tägtgren, is available for streaming at this location. The track comes off the band’s seventh album, “You Only Live Twice”, which will be released on June 3 via Nuclear Blast Records.
“You Only Live Twice” final track listing:
01. Let Me Out
02. Feed The Demons
03. The Great Pretender
04. You Only Live Twice
05. Dirty Woman
06. We Want More
07. Leave Me Alone
08. Monster
09. Season Of The Reaper
Source: Blabbermouth.net
Metal Blade Records has issued the following update:
Swedish Heavy Metallers PORTRAIT have launched a landing page for their sensational new album Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae. Surf over to http://www.metalblade.com/portrait/ to check out the pre-order options (CD and 2-Gatefold-LP) for Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae and stream the opening track Beast Of Fire!
Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae is an album transcending the most glorious moments of 80s Heavy Metal. PORTRAIT are turning something great into something greater – you can only describe this album as the wet dream of any fan of Heavy Metal. Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae is Metal in its purest form – relentless, energy-driven, complex, dark, catchy and HEAVY!
Comments PORTRAIT guitarist Richard Lagergren: “The eight songs on ‘Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae’ constitutes Portrait’s by far darkest, hardest and most intense material to date. This album is an outburst of a long time of targeted hard work, an intense creative process and pure black magic. To Hell and back and to Hell again! To achieve the goals we had for this album, working with someone not being the obvious choice for our type of music proved to be just the right (or if you will, wrong) decision. ‘Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae’ sounds like Portrait was always meant to. It is hate, and it is love. And in many ways, it is our true debut album.”
Track listing Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae:
1. Beast of Fire
2. Infinite Descension
3. The Wilderness Beyond
4. Bloodbath
5. Darkness Forever
6. The Nightcomers
7. The Passion
8. Der Todesking
PORTRAIT is:
Per Karlsson – vocals
Richard Lagergren -guitars
Christian Lindell – guitars
Joel Pälvärinne – bass
Anders Persson – drums
The relentless, Swedish heavy metal monster known as PORTRAIT spawned in the year 2006 with the intention to bring back the dark energy that once was the cornerstone in many a classic metal release, but was long gone, raped by the hippie-infested power metal and retro- as well as modern “thrash” metal outfits of the day, whose entire existence the band spat whole-heartedly upon, hungry to take back the flag of hate, and then exterminate the entire world.
Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae will be released as a CD and 2-Gatefold-LP May 6/9 via Metal Blade Records in Europe, May 10 in North America.
“Dirty Woman”, a brand new song from PAIN, the Swedish industrial metal outfit led by musician and producer Peter Tägtgren, will be premiered on Sweden’s biggest rock radio station Bandit Rock on April 4 at 6:30 p.m. during the “Bandit Most Wanted” show.
Commented the band: “Our goal is to get as many votes and requests as possible to get the song on the ‘Bandit Most Wanted’ list. So after you hear the song, request it! Either by mail, phone, or SMS.”
To listen to the show live via the Internet, go to this location.
“Dirty Woman” comes off PAIN‘s seventh album, “You Only Live Twice”, which will be released on June 3 via Nuclear Blast Records.
“You Only Live Twice” final track listing:
01. Let Me Out
02. Feed The Demons
03. The Great Pretender
04. You Only Live Twice
05. Dirty Woman
06. We Want More
07. Leave Me Alone
08. Monster
09. Season Of The Reaper
Commented Tägtgren: “I really wanted something ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ meets ‘Alice In Wonderland’ kind of feeling but with our mascot, the Painhead in it. And Heile created that after what I wanted. And he did it in his own way. It really has this kinda Tim Burton feel to it. It will be really crazy with a big backdrop. We also gonna do some inflatable stuff with our Painhead. Its gonna be our Eddie, like IRON MAIDEN has it.”
Source: Blabbermouth.net
Swedish/German extreme metal metallers ARCH ENEMY will release their ninth studio album, “Khaos Legions”, on May 30 in Europe and June 7 in the U.S. via Century Media Records. The CD will mark the band’s return to new, original material, after the release of the “Tyrants Of The Rising Sun – Live In Japan” live DVD/CD (2008) and the re-recordings album, “The Root Of All Evil” (2009). The effort was tracked at Sweet Spot Studio in the south of Sweden with engineer Rickard Bengtsson (who produced 2005’s “Doomsday Machine”).
The “Khaos Legions” artwork, which comes courtesy of renowned artist Brent Elliott White (MEGADETH, DEATH ANGEL) can be viewed here on the left.
“Khaos Legions” track listing:
01. Khaos Overture (instrumental)
02. Yesterday Is Dead And Gone
03. Bloodstained Cross
04. Under Black Flags We March
05. No Gods, No Masters
06. City Of The Dead
07. Through The Eyes Of A Raven
08. Cruelty Without Beauty
09. We Are A Godless Entity (instrumental)
10. Cult Of Chaos
11. Thorns In My Flesh
12. Turn To Dust (instrumental)
13. Vengeance Is Mine
14. Secrets
15. The Zoo
16. Snow Bound (acoustic)
The song “Yesterday Is Dead And Gone” is available for free download at this location.
ARCH ENEMY drummer Daniel Erlandsson previously stated about the new CD, “We had a very inspiring and creative time writing this album. I think this is definitely evident when listening to the new songs. There’s tons of variation in the material, ranging all the way from very melodic to extremely heavy.
“As you can expect there’s no shortage of killer riffs and intricate guitar work; the Amott brothers [Michael and Chris] have come up with some very cool yet demanding ideas! This album has some of the fastest songs I’ve ever recorded, along with a bunch of heavy pounding mid-tempo songs. As always, it’s difficult to describe music in words, but rest assured — this album will be one heavy fucker!”
Source: Blabbermouth.net
Finnish death/doom band RAINROOM has inked a deal with Firedoom Music, a subsidiary of Firebox Records. The band’s full-length debut, “And The Other That Was A Machine…”, was released in Finland on March 9 and will be made available in the rest of the world on March 25.
“And The Other That Was A Machine…” track listing:
01. …Yea, Many Machines
02. Abort Engine
03. Loew Mechanism
04. Steam Conjecture
05. Form and Facades, or a Dream of an Omniscient Automaton
Two songs from the CD, “Abort Engine” and “Steam Conjecture”, can be streamed on band’s Myspace Page.
Source: Blabbermouth.net