sábado, 20 de abril de 2024

MY SILENT WAKE RELEASE "LOST IN MEMORIES, LOST IN GRIEF"

 


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MY SILENT WAKE – LOST IN MEMORIES, LOST IN GRIEF

LABEL: ARDUA MUSIC

RELEASE DATE: MAY 3RD 2024


Even in the soft, surrounding darkness behind the walls of sleep, my memories consume me. A tableau of frozen moments, flickering images upon the lightless screen behind my eyes. Each one is perfect in its terrible, aching beauty; the pain honed again to a gleaming, cutting edge that the forgetful hours of daylight had just begun to dull. Here in dreams I break once more, but in that breaking I see past, precious days as new and I would not trade that bittersweet agony for a thousand years of peaceful, silent slumber…

It has been four years since My Silent Wake gifted us with a full length album, but with Lost In Memories, Lost In Grief, their twelfth such endeavour, they have offered up treasures enough for every day of those intervening years and many more to come. There is a sense of homecoming, of acquaintance renewed in the melancholy chord progressions that touch the heart with such honesty and openness, but there is also a fresh excitement to be found in vibrant songs like opener ‘The Liar And The Fool’. There is a new energy bubbling beneath the wistful guitar lines and the haunting atmosphere, a sense that My Silent Wake are exploring new territories and beginning new chapters in their storied career. In the past the band have walked two separate paths, their albums being either dark, towering edifices of powerful doom/death metal or more experimental creations – ambient, acoustic and touched by folklore and history. With Lost In Memories, Lost In Grief there seems to have been a magical blurring of boundaries between the two worlds, with ghosts slipping across the thresholds. While songs like ‘Wolf’, with its twisting guitar motifs, ‘The Last Lullaby’ – rife with the dark radiance and emotional power that characterises My Silent Wake’s music – and the staggering ‘No Time’, it’s notes held like dying breaths with time stretching out between them, are undeniably, magnificently heavy, they also possess an earthy majesty, a regal nature not bound to finery or fripperies but to the ancient spirit of the forest and the soil, a sense of history that links them to the fragile enchantments of albums like 2020s Damnum Per Saeculorum. With its telling keyboard presence, emotive vocals steeped in sorrow and tinged with desperation, windswept riffs and singing guitar melodies, Lost In Memories, Lost In Grief may well be the most vibrant, beautifully realised, complete My Silent Wake album to date.

Recorded, mixed and mastered predominately at Priory Recording Studios by Greg Chandler (Ungfell, Indesinence, Esoteric etc) with additional work being completed at Hollow Hearth by the band’s own Simon Bibby, Lost In Memories… is blessed with a sound rich in texture, that captures the palpable emotion and unquestionable integrity which shines from every note. In the track ‘The Liar And The Fool’ you will hear the words “I cannot see this ending well…escape while you can”, but when Ardua Music release Lost In Memories, Lost In Grief on May 3rd, adorned in the evocative artwork of Matthew Vickerstaff (Cradle Of Filth, My Dying Bride, Mayhem etc), you will never want to leave My Silent Wake’s kingdom of twilight shadows and star dusted skies.


Line-up:

Ian Arkley – Guitar/Ebow/Growled and semi spoken-word vox

Addam Westlake - Bass Guitar

Gareth Arlett – Drums

Simon Bibby – Yamaha Reface YC organ / Clean vox / Whispers


Genre: Epic/Doom Metal

For fans of: Paradise Lost | Novembers Doom | My Dying Bride | Atlantean Kodex


Further Information:

www.facebook.com/MySilentWake/

https://www.instagram.com/my_silent_wake_doom

https://www.arduamusic.com/

WEREWOLVES RELEASE "DIE FOR US"

 


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WEREWOLVES formed in 2019 with the express purpose of releasing ten albums in ten years. 2024 sees them hit the halfway mark with Die For Us, yet another barrage of completely moronic death-metal due out 19th July.

To prepare you for this fifth assault on the senses, which sounds "like a school bus getting fed into a metal shredder", the band have unleashed a video for the track 'Beaten Back To Life'.

 

Bassist/vocalist Sam Bean describes the track:

"Well, reaching the halfway point of our ten album goal was cause for us to pause and indulge in some introspection. I mean, we've been making some really childish, obnoxious, Jurassic death metal for five years now. If ever we were going to pivot to a new direction more befitting our skills and maturity, it would be now."

He continues:

"Of course we didn't. This album is even worse than before, and our first video is about how anyone who got into metal after 1992 is weak and worthless. It's all about vinyl, cassette tapes, and wanton violence at shows, not this stupid warm-fuzzy 'support our scene' non-sense."

Speaking about the Die For Us album, Sam says:

"Mixing and Mastering was done by none other than Joe Haley (PSYCROPTIC), who we’ll use until either he dies, we quit, or Erik Rutan becomes an affordable option. The artwork was done by Mitchell Nolte, not an AI because we’re not fuckwits, and is guaranteed to horrify as many people as all the previous albums. He basically took the album title and ran with it, focusing his artistic genius on cramming as much blood and gore onto an album cover as humanly possible."

Die For Us is set for release 19th July 2024, available worldwide streaming on everything.


Get yourself 'Beaten Back To Life' at the WEREWOLVES YouTube channel now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi4LwvivlU4


Pre-order Die For Us on vinyl, CD and digital formats

http://www.werewolvesdeathmetal.com/


Follow WEREWOLVES on Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/werewolvesinhell/

Follow WEREWOLVES on Instagram   https://www.instagram.com/werewolves_band_official/

Hear WEREWOLVES on Spotify   https://open.spotify.com/artist/5LLvF5fnwqrmYWUj07asot

NYRAK RELEASE "DEVOURER OF ALL"

 


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Two years since they first introduced themselves to the world with the raw, tumultuous power of debut album Malvs, Belgian black metal force Nyrak have returned…and this time they carry with them a second album, a tome of twilight terrors to swallow your very soul. Formed of seven songs - seven serpents, seven secrets – each driven by the implacable force of the storm, each staggering in their dark, hypnotic grandeur, together they become a tale of terror told by music wild, dramatic and untameable. Together they become Devourer Of All.

Opening with the blazing majesty of ‘Eyes Of Time’, Devourer Of All sweeps the listener into its maelstrom of sound, taking the heart and soul in an unbreakable grip. We are transported across the vast vistas of a kingdom locked in perpetual shadow, our reality undone by the irresistible onslaught on our senses and imagination. Steeped in the insidious essence of Scandinavian black metal and infused with breathtaking atmosphere and a vibrant, unfettered creative approach, songs like the staggering ‘Oceans Of Lies’ progress from narrative chapter to narrative chapter, moving from one musical movement to the next with deft poise and flair. These songs are veritable symphonies of the night! First formed by Guy Van Nieuwenhove (aka Nevel) in 2021, originally as a solo studio project, Nyrak has developed at a prodigious rate, growing from a seed of imagination and creative ambition to become a masterful invocation of sinister sonic sorcery.

Adorned in the darkly dreaming artwork of Phoenix Mortis Art and mixed and mastered to ruinous perfection at Project Zero Recording Studio (Nervosa, Serpents Oath, Carnation etc) Devourer Of All will be unleashed upon the world on May 3rd. With this album Nyrak have begun to shape their own mythology of nightmares within black metal’s haunted kingdom. A new bombast of devils rides out beneath the hunters’ moon


Follow Nyrak on Instagram   https://www.instagram.com/nyrakofficial/

Follow Nyrak on Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/NyrakOfficial

Listen to Nyrak on Spotify   https://open.spotify.com/artist/6X0piRp7YDBnpJ9jd41RvQ

MOTIVIK RELEASE "RENOUNCEMENT"

 


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Having announced themselves to the world with their 2020 debut album, Death Of The Gunman, a diverse and exuberant offering that Heaven’s Metal branded a “riff-filled, upbeat thrashy piece of metal art”, Motivik, consisting of the Atlanta, Georgia duo of multi-instrumentalist Ryan Roebuck and vocalist Courtney Simmons, are back with a second salvo of their distinctive, melodic thrash metal. Featuring thirteen killer tracks, bursting at the seams with exhilarating riffing, Renouncement sees Motivik taking giant, determined strides and lifting their metal to the very highest level.

Instrumental opener ‘Palace Of Ashes’ seizes the attention, building anticipation with its spiralling guitar leads, thunderous drum rolls and underlying piano melody – and then the world explodes… ‘Dethroned’ unleashes a raking burst of machinegun riffing, pinning you back in your seat and the electrifying adrenaline ride through classic thrash, melodic metal and adventurous, progressive song writing has begun! Courtney Simmons’ incredible voice leads the charge through punishing verses and towering choruses, his delivery impassioned, his range and power breathtaking. And throughout each song Ryan Roebuck fires out a stunning array of riffs and solos that hit that perfect metal spot every single time with unerring accuracy. With utterly outstanding songs like ‘Harbinger Of Demise’, ‘Septicemia’ and ‘The Storm Within’, Motivik have fulfilled all the potential that screamed out from the grooves of Death Of The Gunman. This is the sound of true metal magnificence.

Working once again with Roxx Records, Motivik will turn loose Renouncement on July 1st, complete with some arresting and impactful cover art created by Mangled Carpenter’s Seth Metoyer. This album screams out Motivik’s arrival on the international metal scene – a band to be reckoned with, a band who can take on all-comers - and win. The irresistible elixir that made you first fall in love with heavy metal and thrash is pulsing through the veins of Renouncement, enhanced with a fresh, vital energy. The ride of your life is waiting…


Visit Motivik on Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/MotivikBand

Visit Motivik on Instagram   https://www.instagram.com/motivikband/

Enter the home of Roxx Records here   https://roxxrecords.com/

(UN)WORTHY RELEASE "THIS PRESENT DARKNESS"

 


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(UN)WORTHY - THIS PRESENT DARKNESS

LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS

RELEASE DATE: MAY 17th 2024


Hailing from Southern California, (Un)Worthy are a two piece band who summon up some of the heaviest and most uncompromising deathcore that has ever screamed out its rage at the world. Driven by their passionately held beliefs, vocalist Dennis and multi-instrumentalist Jordan have built their reputation upon releases like their 2021 debut album In The Face Of Death and 2023s monstrous EP, Where Light Divides - one of the fastest selling releases in label Rottweiler Records’ illustrious history! Now in 2024, those who thought they understood the magnitude of (Un)Worthy’s unflinching dedication and intensity, the extent of their devastating sonic fire power, are about to realise the error of their ways…

“Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani - my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

- Mark 15:34


(Un)Worthy’s second album for Rottweiler Records, This Present Darkness, opens with first single, ‘Forsaken By God’ - and suffocating clouds of unnerving darkness gather like carrion crows, as the agonised words of Christ upon the cross are howled out in a desperate repeated mantra; the pressure building, the fear, the sense of disquiet constantly escalating, winding the nerves tighter and tighter before the punishing heaviness is unleashed in an all-consuming tidal wave of searing agony and despair. Blow after bone-breaking blow lands with bludgeoning force while an exotic melody winds its way through the darknesses in between. Complete with additional violent vocal exhortations from Voluntary Mortification’s Conner Luttig, ‘Forsaken By God’ flings wide the gates upon the implacable storm of brutality that is This Present Darkness. The light of salvation is hard to see as the seething sludge-ridden force of the album’s title track rains down upon you like burning magma, before the jagged leads of ‘Satan Whispers’ wound and scar. The moribund, mournful jeremiad of ‘Psalm Of Lament’ explodes into the absolute annihilation of ‘This Too Shall Pass’, featuring Holy Name guitarist Joe Holt and there is no respite as the album rampages on, no slackening in the fearsome pace or shattering heaviness…and when silence finally returns you will be left in a state of shock - stunned and brutalized. This Present Darkness sets new limits in terms of just how impactful and affecting deathcore can be.

Adorned in unsettling, monochromatic artwork - a vision of fear and solitude, a soul beset by nightmares - This Present Darkness will be released by Rottweiler Records on May 17th and nothing will stand in its way. A simply staggering collection of songs, steeped in atmosphere, built upon surging, rhythmic riffs and utterly colossal drums and shaped by a supremely caustic sound, This Present Darkness will smash through the opposition, tearing down boundaries and barricades, propelling the defiant deathcore of (Un)Worthy into the hearts and minds of advocates of absolute extremity worldwide.


Line-up:

Dennis - All Vocals

Jordan - All Instruments


Genre: Deathcore

For fans of: Desolate Tomb | Osiah | Voluntary Mortification | Oceano


Further Information: 

https://unworthyband.com

https://www.facebook.com/unworthyband.ca

https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/


BA'AL RELEASE "SOFT EYES"

 


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Back from the black once again, Sheffield’s Ba’al have returned with a new EP of overwhelming emotional power. Darker, more harrowing and yet ultimately more uplifting than anything the band have released before, Soft Eyes is comprised of a trilogy of vast tracks that will fall with you into the depths of despair, walk you through the cold fires of loss and pull you through the claustrophobic catacombs of grief, towards the first faint rays of hope. Raging and tumultuous, seething and insidious, scouring and cleansing – Soft Eyes will consume your senses and leave you spent.

Ba’al’s 2020 debut album, Ellipsism shocked the music press with its bleak intensity, leaving critics wondering what darkness could follow in its wake – and now Soft Eyes is here to finally provide the answers. Opening with the stunning, unfolding story of ‘Ornamental Doll’ the EP proceeds to unravel the listener, to dismantle them and lay bare their old scars and open wounds. Operating in the shadowed chasms that lie between the stark walls of genre, where monsters walk amongst the lost and unchained, Soft Eyes draws blood from doom, black, post and sludge metal, siphons off the essence of ambient and noise, reaches down into the emotive atmosphere of gothic mourning and sculpts the resulting clay into tortured graven images and monoliths of melancholy. The music moves from the cataclysmically heavy to the darkly brooding, shifts from deft, simmering rhythms to shattering explosions of thunder, slips quietly between hidden places and then roars into the light, tearing down defences in outpourings of agony and rage.

The sweeping sonic contours and dramatic dynamics of Soft Eyes were shaped by the engineering and mixing skills of Joe Clayton (Conjurer, Dawn Walker, Mountain Caller, Ithaca etc) at No Studio in Manchester and the mastering magic of Brad Boatright (Kylesa, Vastum, Obituary, Night Demon etc) at Audiosiege - and the results are simply magnificent; the three songs that form this record have become living, breathing, screaming entities. Ba’al have never sounded so potent, reaching new levels of soul-tearing, heart-rending splendour. Prepare to embrace the darkness within when Ripcord Records unleash this EP on May 3rd and Ba’al’s Soft Eyes turn to stare into you.


Visit Ba'al on Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/baalbanduk

Enter the shadowed halls of Ba'al's online temple here  https://baalband.co.uk/

Visit Ripcord Records on Bandcamp here   https://ripcordrecords.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/baalbanduk/

SHAMASH RELEASE "DONE WITH MISERY (NOS PERGAMOS IN DOMINE SALUTEUM)"

 


PRESS RELEASE:

SHAMASH – DONE WITH MISERY (NOS PERGAMOS IN DOMINE SALUTEUM)

LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS

RELEASE DATE: JUNE 14th 2024


The new album from Malaysia’s Shamash has been hovering on the horizon in tantalising fashion since late 2021. Whispers and rumours of its release have circulated on social media and several songs have dropped, heightening the anticipation for the album to nigh on unbearable levels for the band’s loyal fans. Well, now the interminable wait is nearly over and the follow up to the critically acclaimed Suffering Servant EP - described by HM Magazine as ‘a beautiful, melodic progressive metal record’ – is finally upon us! Featuring ten tracks of sublime melodic metal, that masterfully blend abrasive aggression and soaring melody with an array of imaginative, inventive musical influences, Done With Misery (Nos Pergamos In Domine Saluteum) is the proverbial gift that was well worth waiting for…

There are many bands on the modern metal scene that juxtapose shuddering heaviness and heart lifting melody, but few, if any, that do it in the utterly accomplished, breathtaking fashion of Shamash. From Done With Misery…’s first track, the triumphant metal anthem that is ‘Not By My Heart’, Shamash’s deft and dextrous weaving of musical elements is immediately apparent. And yet that outstanding opening barrage is just the first step on a path that is littered with sonic treasures, as Done With Misery… grows and develops with each passing minute, revealing more and more of the band’s adventurous song writing and passionate performances. The album’s title track is vibrant, infused with life and encompasses the overwhelming feeling that Shamash’s music is a bulwark against the trials and tribulations of life – that this band will walk with you through the darkness, holding your head up as the flood waters rise, stand with you, braced for impact, as each tragedy on our journey through this vale of tears hits. ‘The Missionary’ delivers full on metallic fury, with guest appearances from Pathos and Asaph of Symphony Of Heaven and Bryce Maopolski of Brotality, while single ‘Take Me As I Am’ ignites with a fantastic, driving rhythm that is instantly addictive. ‘In Memoriam’ blends power and aching melody in a manner that is simply beautiful and the dramatic concluding pairing of ‘War For Jerusalem’ and ‘The Return Of Al Masih’ bind their bludgeoning brutality in silver threads of exotic musicality and unfettered creativity. There are so many highlights on Done With Misery (Nos Pergamos In Domine Saluteum), so much to discover. This is an album of stunning scope and depth that unveils something new with each successive listen.

When Rottweiler Records release the glorious technicolour explosion of vivid, vital strength and defiance that is Done With Misery… on June 14th, complete with a vibrant, energised final mix and master, courtesy of Derek Corzine (Symphony Of Heaven, Testimony Of Apocalypse, Scarlet Oath etc) and some outstanding, evocative artwork, then every moment of the years of its creation will be justified. For those who find their way to its door, Done With Misery… will become a special album that will travel with them as the years pass. This is contemporary, melodic, aggressive metal at its very, very best.


Line-up:

Andre Chiang – Vocals/Guitar

Darren Teh – Vocals/Bass

Alexaander J. Martin – Lead Guitar


Genre: Melodic Death Metal/Metalcore

For fans of: Darkest Hour | In Flames | Shadows Fall | Dvne


Further Information:

https://www.facebook.com/mymetalservant

https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/

https://www.instagram.com/shamashmy

https://shamashrr.bandcamp.com/