SON OF SAM TO RELEASE "AND THE MONSTER AWOKE..."

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Son of Sam

And the Monster Awoke​...

Self-released

11 June 2021

Genre: Death ‘n’ Roll, Death Metal, Heavy Metal

Location: Borås, Västra Götaland, Sweden

FFO: Entombed, Gorefest, and Carcass.

 

Full Album Stream: Digital (YouTube, Spotify, Apple, Deezer …)

Hailing from Borås, Son of Sam was conjured in 2019 by Throllv and Tobias in the wake of their former band Rimfrost. The duo indeed escaped from the Rimfrost’s black metal root and embraced death metal vigor in their new pathway, but they could not break free from the evil tendency, melodic tenebrosity, and cut-throat aggression from the past. And thus, Son of Sam barrels along a new direction with the same force and spirit.

The Swedish two-piece worked really hard during the first year to finish the debut album, And the Monster Awoke... To present a glimpse of their work to the listeners, they unleashed a three-track demo, titled In Darkness and Dismay, in 2020. Later, they presented a slew of singles from the full-length before the release date on June 11, 2021.

On And the Monster Awoke..., Son of Sam plows through the fine line between rousing death ‘n’ roll, murderous death metal, and glorious trad metal. Although not a trailblazing effort, the opus aptly brings about a fast-paced, blood-cursed, gruesome death metal ride in the north.

Awake the monster inside you and let it be in for a satanic kill!

Track Listing

01. Son of Sam

02. I am

03. Mr. Sinister - Evil Minister

04. Depravity

05. My Nuclear Desire

06. Gods In The North

07. In Darkness And Dismay

08. Space Rider

09. Hypersleep

10. The Wicked Inside

11. Vengeance

Credits:

Throllv: Vocals, Drums, Guitars, Keyboards and Backing Vocals

Tobias Oja: Bass, Guitars and Backing Vocals

Sebastian Svedlund: Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals in "I Am"

Markus Wikander: Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals in "Depravity"

Emma Hacker: Backing Vocals

Fredrik Jordanius: Backing Vocals

Christer Johansson: Backing Vocals

Recorded by Son of Sam.

Engineered by Throllv at Freezing World Studios Borås, Sweden.

Mixed and Mastered by Mikael Anderson at SoundPort AB Ulricehamn, Sweden.

Produced by Throllv.

Co-Produced by Tobias Oja.

Artwork by Jani Stefanovic.

Order/Stream:

https://sonofsamband1.bandcamp.com/album/and-the-monster-awoke 

http://smarturl.it/SonOfSam_ATMA (digital/stream)

https://stores.merchprint.se/sonofsam (Merch)

For More Info:

http://mittvisitkort.se/son--of-sam

https://www.facebook.com/sonofsamban

https://www.instagram.com/sonofsamband

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjq_htkyzO4FdHgK9YPLdIQ

EVOKING WINDS TO RELEASE "TOWARDS HOMESTEAD"

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Release Date: August 10, 2021

Atmospheric metal meets folklore fantasy in music by Evoking Winds. It’s a mixture of stormy blast beats with an epic ambiance and a healthy dose of Eastern Europe’s dark tales.

Bio:

The band was originally founded by Artyom Prishchepov together with Ivan Sereda in Belarus in 2008 as the way close friends created music together. They composed music for years just for fun and inspiration, and the band has eventually grown: adding Yaroslav Korotkin on vocals and bass, Sergey Shulzhenko (keys and orchestration), Dmitry Sarychau on guitars, and Alexander Cherepanov doing vocals. Today the musicians live around the world: Belarus, USA, China, Russia - and collaborate online. Recently they decided to re-mix and issue all of their music digitally available for everyone for free, featuring James Knoerl on drums and programming. Starting with the very first works they walk the journey again opening new chapters together. This sense of friendship is something everyone really started to value during pandemics and isolation.

Follow the band at these links: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkvrxEe4T1lcXRQmosJUWfw

https://open.spotify.com/album/3dEeDCFhQR4jvzayrYSza9?si=l17acjSCRzalFJzTe5dZ5A&dl_branch=1

https://music.yandex.com/album/16903783

https://evokingwinds.bandcamp.com/album/towards-homestead

EXTREME DECAY RELEASE "ANTIVIRAL" EP

 

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Extreme Decay Releases Brand New EP

A brand new mini album/EP titled Antiviral was released by Disaster Records on Record Store Day 2021 on limited amounts, soon to be released on 7” vinyl by Samstrong Records.    

Extreme Decay officially released a new EP titled Antiviral on 22 July 2021. The EP was released on cassette tape on a limited number of 100 copies through Disaster Records. The EP was released along with the celebration of Record Store Day (RSD) 2021 by Disaster Records.

“Actually the EP came about as a last minute decision on the catalogue of Disaster Records,” as said by Ravi when Extreme Decay was interviewed by Rian Pelor on Play FM radio program Play Out Loud last Wednesday (21/7). “At the moment Disaster was preparing to release several cassette tapes on RSD, and we make an offer for EP release because the material is ready. Everything happens quite fast …”   

On the last couple of years Extreme Decay has been working quietly. Not many words and promises made publicly. As if they work in mysterious ways. “Actually since 2019 we have been writing new stuff for Extreme Decay,” Ruli said. “Although some of our members live in different cities, using technology we can exchange ideas, basic riffs, and song patterns. Then we perfected the ideas as a whole during rehearsal on studio,” as said by Nizar.  

“At first, the songs was recorded for demos,“ Ruli explained the new EP materials. “But we felt that the quality is pretty okay, so why not release it.”  

The title Antiviral is taken from one of the songs in the EP. Ravi, who wrote the music and lyrics for the song stated that “Antiviral” was inspired by a movie under the same name. The movie itself is centered on unhealthy social media culture, celebrity worship cults, and humanity’s obsession on hedonism.  

The other songs in the EP are “Kolaps” with the theme of earth collapsing due to ecological disaster, “Mendakwa Otak” about monopoly of truth and baseless judgment, “Skeptik Tank” about real life ‘vampirism’, and “Invasi Pengerat” about opportunistic and cannibalistic behavior among humans. Such issues feel real and relevant on todays pandemic-ridden world.  

Several weeks ago, Extreme Decay has released a track titled "Kolaps" as the first single for this EP, on 7 July 2021. The song was released along with a music video made by Dimas Tirta Arwana and available on Extreme Decay’s Youtube channel.

The Antiviral EP is a part of the latest recording session done by the band in Natural Studio (Surabaya) on 12-13 June 2021. The studio’s mastermind, Irwan Suharto, acted as the sound engineer under full supervision by the band. 

The recording session in Natural Studio left a deep mark, and evoke a certain nostalgia for the band members. “The studio was quite legendary, especially for bands from Surabaya, Malang and the whole East Java underground scene. Since ’90s the studio was often used by our friends bands. Back then the studio still used analogue recording, and nowadays it uses digital recording. We recorded our second full length, Sampah Dunia Ketiga (released 2003) also at Natural studio…” 

Extreme Decay actually recorded nine songs at the session. Five songs was then selected to be in the Antiviral EP, and the rest of the materials are still kept for revision and future releases. 

“We are going back to the studio at the end of the year to record a full length album to be released on 2022. We are aiming for new variations and elements to be incorporated to the next record” they said. 

Extreme Decay is a grindcore unit from Malang, founded on January 1998. Since their inception they have been quite productive. Extreme Decay has released several albums on various record labels in Indonesia and abroad, including a number of split album and international compilations on the last two decades. The current members of Extreme Decay are Afrl (vocals), Ravi (guitar/vocals), Ruli (guitar/vocals), Nizar (bass/vocals), and Eko (drum/vocals). 

The Antiviral cassette tape was released on Disaster Records web page on 22 July 2021. Currently the tapes are sold out. The good news is that the EP will be released on 7” vinyl by Samstrong Records which will also contains three new songs, to be available at the end of 2021. 

Now the band is quite busy preparing new materials for a full length set for release on early 2022. Grind On! 

Antiviral EP cassette tape on Disaster Records page:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CRjKltRtPJb/ 

Antiviral 7” EP vinyl on Samstrong Records:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CRtAKc2FrDq/ 

“Kolaps” music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQjsoqfVC9k 

https://instagram.com/extremedecay.grind

https://extremedecay.bandcamp.com

http://www.facebook.com/extremedecay

WINTER NIGHTS TO RELEASE "SKY BURIAL"

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Winter Nights is a four-piece melodic death metal band emanating from Brooklyn, New York in Winter of 2007. The sound and lyrical themes of their music portray loss, pain, grievance and darkness. Guitar driven melodies evoke visceral reactions to the mythic end of the world. They are an integral part of the thriving New York metal scene. As of 2021, their formation consists of dueling guitar brothers Jeremy and Efrain Farfan, bassist Martin Tune and drummer James Yarusinsky.

This album was Recorded at Backroom Studio & Brady Street Recordings in New Jersey, United States 

Autumn 2020 – Winter 2021 

All songs by: Winter Nights 

All Lyrics by: Jeremy Farfan 

Engineered by: Mikhail Marinas 

Mixed by Ahti Kortelainen at Tico Tico Studio in Kemi, Finland 

Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music  

All Artwork By: Masruron Nihayanto at Moron Fathers

Logo By: Luis Hermosilla at Luigiht Design 

Album band line - up: 

Jeremy Farfan vocals and guitar  

Efrain Farfan guitars 

Martin Tune bass 

James Yarusinsky Drums and backing Vocals 

Marco Sneck Keyboards (Guest Apperence)

Current Live Band Line Up: 

Jeremy Farfan vocals and guitar  

Efrain Farfan back up vocals and guitar 

Martin Tune bass 

James Yurusinsky drums 

Follow the band at these links:

Www.winternights.nyc

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/winternights/winter-nights-2

https://www.facebook.com/winternightsnyc/  

https://twitter.com/winternightsnyc

https://www.youtube.com/user/WinterNightsOfficial

https://www.instagram.com/winternightsnyc/

https://winternights.bandcamp.com/

https://twitter.com/winternightsnyc

https://open.spotify.com/album/5NlSlRncclBDpMjSvP4N0W

BRUNDARKH RELEASE NEW SINGLE: "BELLS OF THE DROWNED"

 

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Release date: August 4, 2021

FANTASY INSPIRED DARK SYMPHONIC METAL

Brundarkh was founded by composer, Heino Brand and is a collaboration between him and multi-instrumentalist, Caleb Bingham of Athanasia (ex Zonaria , ex Five Finger Death Punch ).

"Wraith Dominion" is the first single off the "Haunted Worlds" EP and centers around the Nine a.k.a. the Ringwraiths or the Nazgûl from J.R.R. Tolkien's, "The Lord of the Rings".

The track also features a guest solo by Jori Haukio of Cymatic (ex Mors Principium Est).

"Bells o the Drowned" is the second single to be released from the upcoming EP. This time around the lyrical theme of the song is concerning the lore of the "Drowned" from the video game, "Diablo IV".

This is a tale of undead creatures that come forth from the ocean waters to feed on the living and drag their bodies to the abyssal reaches of the sea.

Follow the band at these links:

https://www.facebook.com/brundarkh

https://brundarkh.bandcamp.com/releases

https://music.apple.com/za/artist/brundarkh/1553938742

https://www.deezer.com/us/artist/123805422

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL8Hxg0tXA1gVBXm4sEcD8A

https://www.instagram.com/brundarkh/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/73upisunt9U5zzOzoDuqL6?si=EvLrSHNdRd62PoqYQvZTow&dl_branch=1

SKANNERS RELEASE COMPILATION: "GREATEST HITS"

 

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To celebrate the 35th discographic anniversary of the Band and the forthcoming 40th since its formation, Music for the Masses has the honor to announce the agreement with legendary Italian metallers Skanners for the release of their first Greatest Hits which goes through the Band’s whole career. Skanners are with no doubt one of the most important and representative bands of Italian Heavy Metal, one of the few deserving the definition of “Legendary”. Kicking off back in 1982 and debuting in 1986 with “Dirty Armada”, released for a Major Label, the then very active CGD, which also released the following “Pictures of War” in 1988, the Band has ever since kept up its identity and dignity, always far from trend-following and staying true to its Metal Belief, supported by great composition and talent, together with Claudio Pisoni’s voice. These have always been the trademarks of the Band. The Greatest hits, produced by Music for the Masses is scheduled for release on October 22nd on cd format and features 16 tracks drawn from the entire rich Band’s repertoire, tracing an actual musical biography which will satisfy die hard fans but will also be able to attract new listeners to their musical craft. And, for this special release, a new, unreleased song entitled “Under the Grave” will be on the album.

The album will be distributed by Egea Music (Italy), Code 7 (Europe), Sleaszy Rider Records (USA), Wormholedeath Japan and Music for the Masses Distro. In addition, it will be available on all digital platforms. The promotion will be taken care by Grand Sounds (Europe), Metal Devastation PR (USA), Mazzarella Press Office (Italy) and Wormholedeath (Japan).

Lineup:

CLAUDIO PISONI -Vocals

FABIO TENCA - Guitars

WALTER UNTERHAUSER - Guitars

TOMAS VALENTINI - Bass

CHRISTIAN KRANAUER - Drums

Follow the band at these links:

http://www.skanners.it/

https://www.facebook.com/skannersitaly

https://www.instagram.com/skannersitaly/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5aZpDG_kp2_RcGUaEGfBng