Continuing with their quarantine live videos, brazilian metal masters SEPULTURA have uploaded a live video of the track "Mask" from their album "Kairos" on YouTube (check below). The video features Devin Townsend on guitar and vocals as guest musician. SEPULTURA released their latest album, "Quadra", last February through Nuclear Blast Records.
France´s ARTE Concert have put online the full Hellfest 2017 that progressive rock / metal masters OPETH delivered that year. The band was supporting their "Sorceress" album that was released in 2016. Check the video below:
Canadian black metal band PANZERWAR are streaming their new album "Ephemeral Existence" on their Bandcamp site (check below). The new album was released on July 20th and is the second full length release in PANZERWAR´s history. The band has also released the "Violent Subjugation" EP in 2020. The album was released independently in digital format. More info on:
Metal outlet Ride Into Glory has posted the exclusive premiere of At The Crossroads Of Infinity, the full-length debut album from California Death Metal Horde DRAGHKAR. This full album stream includes an in-depth interview with DRAGHKAR guitarist Brandon Corsair.
Sunny southern California would seem like an unlikely place for utterly bleak and hopeless death metal to emanate from. But it makes more sense when you consider DRAGHKAR's roots in the black metal scenes of sun-soaked Italy and Greece, or for that matter the Floridian origins of the earliest death metal, which clearly this band has also absorbed.
With these influences, as well as a healthy infusion of the old Finnish gods, DRAGHKAR is proud to unleash their debut full-length, At the Crossroads of Infinity. Through six tracks and around a 35-minute runtime, the band hews closely to their purpose: pummeling riffs and pounding rhythms that sear themselves into the brain, and monstrous vocals that send a shiver down the spine. The band acquits itself with confidence here, their best and most polished material following the obligatory run of demos, splits, and EPs. Clearly their time in the trenches, as well as sharing members with other bands like Drawn and Quartered, has made them formidable.
Montreal's melodic death metal band YOUR LAST WISH jave released a new album "Eradicate" last February and now they have released a video of the drums playthrough for their track "Exile" (check below).
Eight years after their sophomore album 2012’s “Desolation”, Montreal, QC melodic death metallers YOUR LAST WISH is back in full force with a new darker and heavier sound with their third studio release 2020’s “Eradicate”. The concept album beautifully exploits post apocalyptic themes. The album was composed and recorded entirely by guitarist David Gagné, while all lyrics were written by vocalist Roxana Bouchard. More than half the songs on this bilingual album are in French. Track ‘Pandore’ features a guest appearance by Beyond Creation’s Simon Girard.
Track by track explanation:
– Eradicate: Thrashy melodic death metal madness. It’s the most straightforward song of the album. It was made to be a single.
– Exile: Oldschool thrash influences, also introduces odd-time signatures.
– Monarque: One of our four songs in French, long instrumental passages and probably the most progressive song of the album.
– Décimé: It has a strong middle-eastern / tribal vibe and oldschool death metal riffs.
– Lost: Groovy, mid-tempo and orientally ambient soundscape to bang your head to.
– Pursuit: A clash of modern and oldschool death metal, all in one package!
– Pandore: Tribal prog duet with Simon Girard from Beyond Creation. Musically unleashes the apocalypse.
– Prestige: Originally written by Jean-François Gagné, very reminiscent of the previous album “Desolation” (2012).
– Le cri du monde: Thrashy beginning leading into an epic, cinematic conclusion to the whole album.
ZEISTENCROIX, the post industrial band from Los Angeles, California, has released their new video "Fallen Prophet" (CHECK BELOW), the third single from their album Gen Z, out via Sliptrick Records at the end of the last year. The video for Fallen Prophet is a little over three minutes long, with apocalyptic scenes bookending the track. It was recorded in San Bernardino, California, a few days before the shutdown of the city, which contributed to delaying the premiere.
ZEISTENCROIX – Gen Z
Powerful guitar riffs, odd-time-syncopated drums, a heavy use of electronic sounds plus a clean and an electronic voice (without the use of any effects), are some of the striking characteristics heard throughout Gen Z giving ZEISTENCROIX their truly unique and deadly sound. Gen Z was produced by OD and Alex Crescioni and recorded at Seahorse Studio, Stygian Sound and es audio studios Los Angeles CA. Mixing duties were also performed by Alex Crescioni with mastered by Paul Abbot at Zen Mastering. The artwork was created by Santi Rivillas and additional images come courtesy of Anabel DFlux.
Gen Z | Released October 1st, 2019 on Sliptrick Records
Track Listing:
01. Boom | 02. Sick | 03. Wake Up | 04. Dub | 05. Myself | 06. 漢字 Kanji | 07. Mr. K | 08. Fallen Prophet | 09. Blame | 10. Naked | 11. Far Away
All tracks written and Performed by OD and Santi Rivillas
Additional vocals for Myself and Wake Up by Zander Reddis
"We are born without any given path, faith, beliefs. All that is infused in us as we grow and by the time we are conscious we already have a great storm of deception in our minds."
Hearing the call of damnation, four rebellious spirits, GhiauR, Strigoi, Blestemat and Claudiu, influenced by unholy music, joined the dark forces to be a part of the underground and formed the band VOKODLOK in the beginning of year 2000. Soon after Freak took over the drums and the band released the demo "Unchain the Wolf", which contains five tracks of aggressive Black Metal, inspired from the dark side of humanity and representing a hybrid between apocalyptic thoughts and soul tortures. The demo was released as MCD-gold by "Beauty of Pain" Productions (Romania) and as a split tape, along with "Bloody Harvest" (Germany) by "Axa Valaha" Prod. (Romania) and "Eclipse of Life Promulgation" Prod. (Germany).
In 2003 the band released the album "Mass Murder Genesis" containing 10 tracks that spreads ideas of crime through the ways of Black Metal, standing in the line of anti-christianity, combining malefic lyrics and the disgust towards the forced religions and the christian puritan values with devilish blast rhythms and raw sounds. "Mass Murder Genesis" was promoted internationally and was followed by intense years of live appearances in Eastern European countries, along bands like Vader, Hecate Enthroned, Mystic Circle, Cirith Gorgor and as a support band for Catamenia's East European mini-tour in 2005.
A few lineup changes followed In 2007 with Shaitaan on vocals and Urmuz on bass and after several concerts the band was put on hold in 2008.
Many years later the EP "Oracle's fury" was released on the 13th of May. Inspired by the ancient Greek philosophy and the human feelings, the lyrical story takes the listener through the primordial aspects of fear and faith.
The next full-length album is ready to be recorded and is planned to be released in 2021.
