REAKTION RELEASE "TO EXPECT NOTHING"

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Artist: REAKTION

Release title: TO EXPECT NOTHING

Label: Self-Released

Release Date: 14-06-2021

Format: CD

Genre: THRASH METAL

Country: Spain

Line-up:

IVAN LARA-VOCALS

GUSTAVO "GUFY" REVOREDO-RYTHM GUITARS

ÁLVARO DE PRADO-LEAD GUITARS

XAVIER F. VIDAL-DRUMS

SPANISH THRASH METAL BAND REAKTION COMPLETES THEIR “THE EXISTENCE TRILOGY”

With their latest album, entitled “To Expect Nothing”, Barcelona-based thrash metal band completes what they have called “The Existence Trilogy”, after “Blackmailed Existence” (2016) and “Learning to Die”. All the albums have been recorded, mixed and master at Axtudio, one of the most important metal studios in Catalonia.

The trilogy, or “thrashology” as they like to call it, consists of three parts: the first record talks about the idea of death as something that has to happen. The second one, second album, is based on, since we all have to die, how we can approach life. The last part, “To Expect Nothing”, calls for a life of acceptance and stoicism.

The band

Reaktion is one of the most important thrash metal bands in Spain. They have toured Spain and Portugal several times, supporting Brazilian female thrash metal band Nervosa and twice the classic german speed metal band SDI. They have played in many festivals including Vagos in Portugal, and their last gig was in Madrid supporting Artillery.

The style

The band has its own personality, something which is not common in the NWOTM scene. Their combination of old-school thrash metal with ’90 metal, some technical touch, thoughtful lyrics and catchy vocals give the band a very distinctive and unique sound.

For fans of METALLICA, MEGADETH, ANTHRAX, PARADOX, HEATHEN, TESTAMENT, DEATH ANGEL, SEPULTURA

Recorded, mix and mastered at Axtudio (Barcelona) in April-May 2021

Follow:

Website: www.reaktionband.com

Bandcamp: www.reaktionmusic.bandcamp.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reaktion.Metal/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5D52FeOp7mCkvnfXnupuK0

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

KEKAL RELEASE "ENVISAGED"

 

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Artist: Kekal

Album: Envisaged

Release Date: 15 July 2022

Genre: Avant-garde Metal, Experimental Metal, Progressive Rock, Electronic

Kekal is releasing a new album entitled "Envisaged", their 13th full-length album on July 15, 2022. This album features 9 tracks total with more than 51 minutes of playing time.

Tracklist:

1. Anthropos Rising

2. Born Anew

3. The Alchemy of Creation

4. The Ascending Collective

5. Conduit of Light

6. Anarchy in the New Earth

7. Summer Harvest

8. Zero Point

9. Destiny Recalibration

Formats:

Digital (Download, Streaming) by Kekal

Physical (CD, MC) by Elevation Records

“Envisaged” is an album that was specifically created to celebrate The Great Awakening of humanity and Earth's Ascension to the higher octave of vibrational frequency. All the songs were written during the recording process, to capture the spontaneous moments of insights within each and every passage of creation. The music and lyrics represent a creative spiritual journey following continuous revelations regarding the current events on Earth that have been unfolding especially in the past few years. If observed and put together in a continuum, they signify the process of global collective awakening and purification towards humanity's grand destiny: to transcend the matrix and rise beyond the construct of duality.

Born Anew Music Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUvoM40Y5qY

The Ascending Collective Lyric Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DndYszbgT10

About Kekal:

Formed in 1995 as a more straightforward extreme metal band with a punk-influenced attitude, Jakarta - Indonesia-based Kekal has been venturing deeper into the continuous exploration in creating music for 27 years and counting. Their monumental 4th album "1000 Thoughts of Violence" (2003) marked the beginning of their journey into the unknown, where they successfully blend their extreme metal basic energy with the enormous amount of progressive and experimental elements, yet somehow— accessible. For Kekal, musical exploration is considered as one important method of self-actualization.

Kekal is one of the first bands/musicians from Indonesia to gain international presence in the early and mid-2000 by releasing albums in both North American and European markets, and the first band from Indonesia to tour Europe in March 2004—playing a string of live concerts in Germany, Netherlands and Sweden.

Since 2009, Kekal has become a band with no official members, but its former member(s) still continue to make music and release albums for Kekal, albeit as anonymous contributors that are not published as music performers.

Follow:

www.kekal.org

kekal.bandcamp.com

www.facebook.com/kekalofficial

www.youtube.com/kekalofficial

www.instagram.com/kekalofficial

LIKHEIM RELEASE "ALT SKAL SVINNE HEN..."

 

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Release Date: MAY 30th, 2022

FFO: Bathory, Immortal, Darkthrone, Nefarious

Location: Norway 

I will leave it all behind, the blood, the shame, the sin, the suffocating love and the scarring scorn. I will walk to the distant mountains and in their shadowed, snow shrouded passes all things will fade. From the jagged peaks I will gaze upon a new world of perfect, empty, stillness. In the dark tunnels below the ice, I will find sanctuary from the demanding light. I will lie down beneath the vast, star-dusted night sky and the cold will freeze my heart and stop my blood. I will be at peace in my Niflheim and everything I know shall disappear...

Alt Skal Svinne Hen..., all shall disappear, is the debut EP from Likheim and the very first release from Underground Kvlt Records, a new subsidiary of the infamous Odium Records – an auspicious start for both parties. Underground Kvlt was set up to unveil dark treasures from the underground, unheard magic from the subterranean depths and Likheim’s shards of black ice are just such a hoard. Formed by vocalist Gretn, who remains the band’s driving creative force, Likheim exists to unleash harsh, raw black metal upon the world, elemental storms of fierce, atmospheric Norwegian darkness. The roots of the songs that form Alt Skal Svinne Hen..., their aching solitude and frozen venom, gestated in the mind of Gretn for nearly two decades before, inspired by André Hrafn Bendigtsen, he called upon the assistance of Polish guitarist Umarlak (Eradication) and bassist Gamle Erik (Carpathian Forest, Svarttjern) to invoke his desolate dream songs into raging, uncontrollable life. From the glorious title track to the concluding tempest of ‘Stormen’, Alt Skal Svinne Hen... is an enthralling, mesmerizing evocation of the black metal spirit. Rife with cruel, unforgiving riffs yet painting visions of breathtaking grandeur and evoking powerful emotions, true Norwegian black metal will never die while Likheim remain, screaming in the heart of the blizzard.

Underground Kvlt Records will let loose the chilling storm of Alt Skal Svinne Hen... on May 30th and Likheim will descend upon the world like the wild hunt, reaping and reaving, a whirlwind of bitter blades. And before the wounds have healed, as the leaves start to fall, Likheim will return with a new label and a full-length album. There will be no respite now this demon has been freed.

Check out the new song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umxmGYnBn3Q

LIKHEIM - Alt Skal Svinne Hen...

Mini album contains 4 songs and will be released as Cd in May/ June. You can pre-order it at:

www.odiumrecords.bandcamp.com or www.odiumrex.com

Line-up:

Gretn – Vocals/Creative Dictator

Also featured on the EP:

Gamle Erik – Bass, Synths and Samples, additional Lead Guitars

Umarlak - Guitar

Follow the band and label at these links:

www.facebook.com/likheim

www.odiumrex.com

www.facebook.com/odiumrex

www.instagram.com/odiumrecords

www.odiumrecords.bandcamp.com

www.youtube.com/odiumrec

JUNGLE ROT RELEASE VIDEO FOR "GENOCIDAL IMPERIUM"

 

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Death metal legends Jungle Rot have shared a ritualistic new video for 'Genocidal Imperium', the third single to be taken from their new album A Call to Arms, which is out now via Unique Leader. 

Watch the 'Genocidal Imperium' video here: https://youtu.be/tXdP39Lo-Vo

Stream and order A Call To Arms here: http://orcd.co/acalltoarms

For a band who’ve existed now for over 25 years, Jungle Rot are still hitting their prime with their savage new album.

Once again co-produced by Chris Djuricic and the band, A Call to Arms was mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö. It’s the band’s newest record since their acclaimed self-titled 2018 release, praised by Loudwire, Decibel, Revolver, Metal Hammer and a host of celebrated publications. 

Forever looking to push death metal groove with attitude, Jungle Rot are highly regarded globally. Jaded death metal purists looking for fresh kills need to add the band to their must-listen list – not just A Call to Arms but the band’s impressive and extensive back catalogue, including their 2013 reissue of their classic 1995 Skin The Living.

Shots firing overhead, out of breath, thankful to be alive, an exhausted, courageous soldier takes cover in a nearby trench. Overcome with tragedy, the cadet looks down to carefully remove his worn down combat boots to discover his feet numb and blue, knocking him back with an overwhelming smell of decay and gangrene. This phenomenon is known as “jungle rot”. With a little imagination, visualise this horrifyingly grotesque predicament as it would be in heavy metal form - teeming with despair, brutality, darkness and volatility.  The sinister picture you have just painted comes to life in four-piece death metal act Jungle Rot, who has been triumphantly destroying the metal scene since 1994. 

 Hailing from Kenosha, Wisconsin, Jungle Rot has steadily collected fans by the thousands since their 1995 demo release Skin The Living. Critics, blown away by their chillingly explosive live shows, rewarded the band with stellar reviews and were offered their first record deal with Pulverized Records. Through new representation, the men released their first full-length project, Slaughter The Weak (1998) and were greeted by a tremendous amount of support from both the metal community and critics everywhere. Responding to a flood of new fans, the band rearranged their line-up, adapted their sound, produced new material, and began to dominate the Midwest tour circuit. 

 The following decade saw the band sign with Olympic Records in 2001, releasing Dead and Buried, and then in 2009 signing with Napalm Records, and their What Horrors Await LP.

 The band have toured relentlessly across the world, including with Deicide, Entombed, Vader, Cattle Decapitation and many more. Inspired and motivated by their fans’ continued support, Jungle Rot went on to release the 2011 Kill on Command and eighth studio album Terror Regime (2013).

 Now signed to the mighty Unique Leader, the veterans make no sign of wavering or slowing down with the legendary brand of old-school thrash, death, and crossover crust punk.

For more information: 

Facebook || https://www.facebook.com/igotjunglerot

Twitter || https://twitter.com/junglerotband

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

HILD (FEAT. EX MARDUK DRUMMER) RELEASE "OBLITERATING SILENCE"

 

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Band: HILD

EP: Obliterating Silence

Country: Sweden

Genre: Thrash/Black Metal

Release date: May 16th 2022

HILD is the new outfit from Lars Broddesson (ex-Marduk, Funeral Mist studio session + much more).

It is a strife and battle-themed project centered around the Valkyries of Nordic mythology.

Each song honoring a specific Valkyrie, channeling their respective traits on the battlefield.

Fierce forces to imbue our beings, timeless traits for each of our struggles.

The outlet is raw, straightforward energy that takes no prisoners, wastes no time.

Labeling itself "Violent Swedish Metal" HILD is a Thrash Metal based outfit, infused with currents of Black and Death Metal as well as some old-school Swedish Crust and Hardcore.

HILD came to life through a divine spark and assignment in the woods around Hultsfred, Sweden, one night in early autumn 2021.

The motto is that no song be longer than 2:30 and require no more than 9 hours from first idea to finished product.

In this manner, an album of 12 tracks were written and completed during a 4-week period.

All entirely written, performed and produced by Broddesson.

The first official 2-track single "Brink of Extinction" was released on Feb 22nd, 2022.

It is followed by "The Great Unrest", another 2-track single, released on April 11th, 2022.

Further releases and action is underway as the project keeps gaining ground in the metal world.

HILD has been very well received and acclaimed for its fierce, contagious energy and catchy spirit.

Follow HILD:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Z8vznsR8cKeZyvuvtGEMJ?si=zSSOIX9ORsqHpkM3VlOkuA

https://www.facebook.com/HildSweden

https://www.instagram.com/hild_sweden/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChXWqjRsXdXsFYUwIau0CNQ