30 YEARS AGO: BLACK SABBATH RELEASE "TYR"

 

On August 20th, 1990, the godfathers of metal BLACK SABBATH released their majestic album "Tyr". The album was the third to feature the powerful Tony Martin on vocals and, besides the omniprescent riffmaster Tony Iommi, it shows the talent of the rhythm section created by Cozy Powell on drums and Neil Murray on bass. At the same time this was also the last album to feature Tony Martin´s voice (at least until the "Cross Purposes" album from 1994) before the reunion of the "Mob Rules" era BLACK SABBATH line up featuring Ronnie James Dio on vocals and Vinny Appice on drums. "Tyr" was recorded and mixed February - June 1990 at Rockfield and Woodcray Studios, Berkshire. A video for the track "Feels Good to Me" was released (you can check it below).

SOLITARY SIGNS WITH METALVILLE RECORDS FOR THE RELEASE OF "THE TRUTH BEHIND THE LIES"

 

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Imperative PR are delighted and extremely proud to announce that SOLITARY have signed a new deal with German label Metalville Records. Metalville Records was founded in 2008 by Chris Boltendahl of GRAVE DIGGER and former Nuclear Blast A&R man Holger Koch and has gone from strength to strength over the last twelve years – picking up gold and silver discs for their artists, along with Metal Hammer award nominations and chart placings in Sweden, Japan, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, the UK and USA. Now established as a major player in the rock and metal market, Metalville is home to internationally successful artists like Ugly Kid Joe, Lee Aaron, Foghat, Dog Eat Dog and many more.

SOLITARY have repaid the faith of Metalville by delivering a new album that is far and away the strongest of their twenty five year career. The Truth Behind The Lies will not only satisfy the band’s dedicated hardcore following, but capture the hearts of a whole new legion of fans. Along with renowned producer Simon Efemey (Amorphis, Napalm Death, Paradise Lost etc) Solitary have worked incredibly hard to produce an album packed with absolute thrash classics, with a sound that is second to none. All packaged in some stunning artwork from the legendary Koot (Girlschool, Saxon, The Almighty etc), who also created the cover for Solitary’s limited edition anniversary EP, XXV, this is the perfect way to begin this exciting new chapter in the Solitary story.

Speaking about the new deal SOLITARY's frontman Rich Sherrington said: "Given the current global uncertainty it’s an amazing feeling to be starting the next chapter in the Solitary journey. Securing a record label in the metal stronghold that is Germany is a big enough deal, but then when we factor in the stature of Metalville it’s is a dream come true. UK Thrash is the strongest it’s been since the late eighties it’s great to be putting out a brand new album in the midst of this."

It’s been a hell of a ride from the pubs and clubs of the north of England to the stage of the Bloodstock Festival, where SOLITARY triumphed in 2019 and the roster of Metalville Records. Despite all the setbacks along the way SOLITARY have simply refused to give up. The pledge they made when this band began still holds true...they still promise to thrash forever.

SOLITARY Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Official.Solitary

SOLITARY YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/solitarypreston/featured

SOLITARY Bandcamp: https://solitary94.bandcamp.com/

Visit Metalville: http://www.metalville.de/

SPIRIT ADRIFT RELEASE "HARMONY OF THE SPHERES" LYRIC VIDEO

 

Arizona / Texas doom metal band SPIRIT ADRIFT have just released a lyric video for the tune "Harmony of the Spheres" (check below these lines). The track is part of the band´s new album "Enlightened in Eternity" that will be released on October 16th through Century Media Records and 20 Buck Spin Records on different formats (digipack, 4 different colors vinyl). More info on the album and the band here:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpiritAdrift

Bandcamp: https://spiritadrift.bandcamp.com/releases

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiritadrift/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5sW5eR9g4kNibasfrlw4EN?si=VAHsVT-KTNOAtshCaZZhCA

HADEWYCH TO RE-RELEASE "WELVING" ON VINYL THROUGH TARTARUS RECORDS

 

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"Welving" is the second full length album by enigmatic Dutch experimentalists HADEWYCH and the result of continuing explorations into the grotesque and monumental. With an extensive percussion section and an instrumentarium that includes several home-built and prepared instruments, HADEWYCH seeks to provide a sonic experience that fascinates as much as it is unnerving.

Sporting a stylistic palette that ranges from ceremonial and ritual atmospheres to angular monolithic stomping and cathartic excesses, HADEWYCH manages, like no other, to coalesce these strains into their own distinct, unsettling vernacular. Thematically, the album recounts tales of gargantuan cosmic events, chthonic ritual celebrations, intense hymns to beginnings and ends - with the human state as an inept mouthpiece for the vastness that lies beyond.

Remastered for vinyl, with new artwork by Unknown Relic, Tartarus Records will give "Welving" the long-awaited vinyl release on August 28th.

Bio:

HADEWYCH is a collective comprised of Dutch, German and Swedish experimental musicians led by Peter Johan Nÿland - a.k.a. nOh v°v of Trepaneringsritualen - that also features members of Distel, Volksweerbaarheid and O Saala Sakraal. Even though HADEWYCH has performed live throughout their career, these live rituals have become rare, yet remain as unique visually as in its auditory essence. In 2019, Nÿland participated under the HADEWYCH moniker in the mammoth "Maalstroom" performance at Roadburn Festival, that featured many musicians from the Dutch metal underground.

Their sound has slowly evolved from atmospheric neofolk and black ambient on their eponymous album in the late 2000s, via experimental ritual EP "Nu", to an idiosyncratic sonic channeling that they have coined as "ultra grotesque": a colossal amalgam of interacting influences ranging from black metal, industrial and ritual ambient to 20th century avant-garde composers, which yet continuously escapes definitive classification with each track.

2018 saw the fruit of this stylistic course adjustment in the shape of second full-length "Welving", released by Malignant in the US. The album was reissued as a cassette by Cloister Recordings a year later. Now, the long awaited redesigned vinyl edition by Tartarus has come to see the light of day.

HADEWYCH are currently recording the follow up release to "Welving": their 3rd and final album titled "Vier", which will again feature contributions from various co-conspirators.

More info on:

http://hadewych.net/

https://tartarusrecords.com/

SEPULTURA: LIVE QUARANTINE VERSION OF "HATRED ASIDE" (FEAT. FERNANDA LIRA, ANGELICA BURNS & MAYARA PUERTAS)

 

Brazilian metal masters SEPULTURA have upoaded a live quarantine video of the track "Hatred Aside" featuring Fernanda Lira (CRYPTA), Angelica Burns (HATEFUL MURDER) and Mayara Puertas (TORTURE SQUAD) on vocals. "Hatred Aside" was originally released in the band`s "Against" album from 1998, the first one to feature Derrick Greene on vocals. You can check the video below:

REQUIEM´S SATHANA RELEASE "REQUIEM´S SATHANA"

 

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The Requiem’s Sathana project was conceived since 2010, but started its activities in 2017 in the city of Novo Hamburgo/RS. Idealized by Rex Mendax, bassist, composer and lyricist, his proposal turns out to be an extreme metal project, based mainly on black metal. However, it is also a project that seeks experimentalism, which is why its forays into the more traditional metal, death metal, doom and progressive. Lyrically, his lyrics are mainly about mysticism, sex, nihilism and the occult. Among its main influences, we can mention a group of bands, such as Emperor, Dark Funeral, Cannibal Corpse, Marduk, Deicide, Venom, Anathema, Krisiun, Carcass, Exciter, Metallica, Megadeth, Darkthrone, Satyricon, Slayer, Morbid Angel, Iron Maiden, Paradise Lost, Dimmu Borgir, Windir etc, inside the metal, as well as Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Dead Can Dance and many others focused more on experimentalism.

The project features Rex Mendax on bass, Rex Gutture on vocals and Rex Inferii on guitars.

The main idea of the project is to make not very long records, with more impactful and experimental music, not just using a formula, but staying faithful, obviously within the extreme metal. For this reason the careful lyrical work, so that it perfectly matches the melodies and riffs of the songs.

Contacts:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/requiemssathana

Bandcamp: https://cianeto.bandcamp.com/album/c168-requiems-sathana

INITIATE DECAY UNLEASH "AWAKEN THE EXTINCTION" EP

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Formed in August 2016 in the city of Esteio / RS, INITIATE DECAY was created with the proposal of playing a strong and brutal style of music, together with constant changes of tempo and rhythmic variations, this being its main sound characteristic. The original line-up had members who had the same ideas and goals, which was essential for the meeting and creation of the band. The line-up featured Aires Trajano (ex Mental Horror / ex In Torment), Diego Araújo (ex Revoke), Alexandre Graessler (In Torment) and Tiago Vargas (Carcinosi).

With a disturbing Death Metal style and lyrics that approached aggressive and controversial themes, the band started the process of composing the songs that would be part of their first record and a few months later, they were already playing their extreme sound in various regions of their state.

In November 2017, INITIATE DECAY Decay enters the Hurricane studio (Porto Alegre / RS) to record the EP Awaken the Extinction. Before the end of the recordings, Diego Araújo ceases to be part of the band, which ends up delaying the recordings and, consequently, the finalization of the EP.

With focus and objectives outlined, the band returns to the Huricane studio in February 2018, to continue the recordings. On April 7, 2018, the band officially launches Awaken the Extinction, independently and starts the shows to publicize their first work, which took place only in Rio Grande do Sul. The band is currently looking for a new vocal / guitar to continue your projects, with the finalization of the songs for your first full length being a priority at the moment.

Lineup: Tiago Vargas: bass / vocals; Alexandre Graessler: guitar; Aires Trajano: drums

More info on:

www.facebook.com.br/INITIATEDECAY

www.instagram.com/initiatedecay

www.youtube.com/initiatedecay

initiatedecay.bandcamp.com

BENIGHTED RELEASE "SERVE TO DESERVE" SINGLE AND VIDEO

 

French brutal death grind band BENIGHTED have just released a single, "Serve to Deserve" and a video for the same track. The tune was released on August 17th through Season of Mist Records and can also be purchased in the band`s Bandcamp site.  The track was recorded to support the Rock N' Eat venue in Lyon, France. Frontman Julien comments on the fundraising campaign: "We are very proud to unleash this very special track that we recorded to support our dear friends from the Rock N'Eat venue in Lyon ! The owners of the venue are brothers who are part of the underground scene for more than 20 years and they have put all their guts in this great venue where so many amazing bands already played like Aborted, Suffocation, Entombed, Der Weg Einer Freiheit and many others! Of course because of Covid 19, things are very difficult for them and we want to do everything we can to help them because they F***ING DESERVE IT ! So pls, my friends, we invite you to download this new brutal track and donate what you can to keep the underground alive !!! Thank you for this ! Love you all !". More info on:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brutalbenighted

Bandcamp: https://benighted.bandcamp.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_BENIGHTED

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dUwIwaPc6UukkCZTaaf7J

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benighted_band/

DRACONIAN RELEASE LYRIC VIDEO FOR "THE SACRIFICIAL FLAME"

 

Swedish gothic doom death metal band DRACONIAN have released a lyric video for the track "The Sacrificial Flame" (check below). The tune is part of the band`s new album "Under a Godless Veil" that will be released on Octobre 30th through Napalm Records. The video was created by Scott Rudd Film. More info on: 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/draconianofficial

Bandcamp: https://draconian.bandcamp.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/draconianhorde/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/draconianhorde

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TX9g1uSl0B0DQIE9lBqmU?si=OeRaOVCPRAOXg76EMUpgsw