It is with great excitement that turkish post metal outfit BIPOLAR ARCHITECTURE announce the release of their single and video to "Dystopia Is The Reality", track taken from their upcoming full lenght album "The Criticizer".
BIPOLAR ARCHITECTURE's sound consists in a mix of varoius metal genres: from Post-rock, Melodic Black/ Death Metal and Djent to Metalcore. Their music combines atmospheric lead guitars and groovy drums with screaming and growling vocals. The band call it "Post-metal".
International chamber black metal group have released their debut single "Funeral Crown" as a lyric video today. The song is now available worldwide on all streaming platforms and as a limited edition vinyl.
Australian vocalist Xenoyr (Ne Obliviscaris/Omega Infinity) and Canadian Juno nominated composer/pianist/harpist Lindsay Schoolcraft, conceived the idea for Antiqva while touring Europe in 2015, both expressing the interest to explore different musical pathways within the same band, ultimately starting a project that combined the age and elegance of classical music with the wild fervour of black metal, bringing both worlds together to create something altogether truly immense yet intimately detailed.
With an ensemble of experienced past, present, and live musicians from bands including Negator, Karkaos/Blackguard, Black Crown Initiate, Susperia/Abyssic, and The Ocean (in addition to Xenoyr and Schoolcraft's own lengthy resumes), Antiqva unites many talents, and if the depth and intricacy of ‘Funeral Crown’ is any indication of what's to come, Antiqva is not a band to sleep on.
Portland's SEA SLEEPER are pleased to announce that they will releast their highly anticpated debut record Nostophobia (Meaning an abnormal fear or dislike of returning home) via Metal Assault Records
About Sea Sleeper:
Sea Sleeper are a Portland metal band with a healthy passion for death and post metal. Their unique sound derived from bands like Gorguts and Gojira or even Mastodon and Blut Aus Nord. They meld a variety of genres but remain wonderfully coherent. Sea Sleeper formed, as all good bands do, out of the primordial ooze of the local scene. This trio are dudes who had played in bands together for more than a decade and felt like it was time to trim the fat and collaborate as just the three of them. To work together on crafting something far more powerful, pointing towards a thrilling new horizon.
Their debut single, ‘Nihilism’ has garnered a sizable number of listens and new followers. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Sea Sleeper were quick to reach out to their community and organize a benefit comp that raised money in relief funds for music promoters. With their unique sound, the demand for their music and their dedication to the scene, Sea Sleeper is rapidly gearing up towards a bold future as one of their regions premier heavy acts. Their devotion to the underground is an attitude guaranteed to take them far.
Now, Sea Sleeper are gearing up to release their first full length. The band has been hard at work crafting a record that builds on their early promise. Given that they want to play together until they die, they view this first release together as just one step in what promises to be a long sonic heritage. Dedicated to the community and with a relentless work ethic Sea Sleeper is committed to reaching new heights even in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their new music is a massive step forward and celebrates a decade of hard work, discipline and death metal.
The concept behind "Deliverance" was ruminated upon for years by front woman, Tricia Myers, after reading Milton's "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained."
Deliverance is a sinister take on Milton's work, reshaping it with harrowing twists and malevolent revelations, each chapter a battle in the dragon's ascent to gain command over Hell on Earth. Will you bow down in battle, sunken before the spear?
Today the quintet from Dallas, Taxes release the grim video to “Wraith Of Death”, the third single from their up – coming album “Crypt Of Ice” (out January 8th, 2020).
The band comments: “Wraith of death is one of our favorite songs off of Crypt of Ice. We filmed this video with our good friend Brendan McGowen (Ghost, Imperial Triumphant, Vitriol), together we brought our song life!”
“Crypt Of Ice” will be available in the following formats and can be pre – ordered HERE
CD Digipak (all outlets)
Black LP (all outlets)
Lilac LP (CM Distro EU, Evil Greed)
Clear LP (Band)
Deep Blood Red LP (Nuclear Blast & EMP)
Transparent Light Blue LP (EU Online Shop)
Digital Album (all platforms)
“Crypt Of Ice” Track List
Crypt Of Ice
Arctic Stranglehold
Hand Of Vengeance
Wraith Of Death
Merciless
Encased In Ice
Beat To Dust
Twist The Knife
Faceless Enemy
Gravedigger
About FROZEN SOUL:
FROZEN SOUL's brand of straightforward, in-your-face death metal is a gasp of fresh air in a genre that’s stretched the very limits of technicality. Fully formed in 2018, the quintet has rapidly made a name for itself and churned the underground with a sound that evokes the old school sound of bands like Obituary, Mortician and Bolt Thrower. That reverence for death metal’s roots was apparent from Frozen Soul’s initial four-song Encased In Ice demo (which includes a cover of Mortician’s “Witch’s Coven”) that was released in early 2019 on California's Maggot Stomp Records.
FROZEN SOUL entered the studio in early March 2020 to record its first full-length with former guitarist Daniel Schmuck handling production and mixing duties. Crypt of Ice is nothing short of a breath of very fresh and very cold air on death metal’s fiery landscape. From re-recorded demo tracks including the call-to-arms of “Encased In Ice” and the savage frost blister of "Wraith of Death", to the brutal, pummeling and momentous guitar churn of "Arctic Stranglehold", FROZEN SOUL has delivered a record that embraces the genre’s past whilst pushing death metal forward with frigid force.
Eyehategod have set a March 12 release date for the band’s first new full-length album in seven years, A History of Nomadic Behavior.
The album news arrives with a visualizer for “High Risk Trigger” a taste of what’s to come on the 12-song album. Lyrically, the song is cryptic and abstract, but it touches on the all-pervasive fears bred by an invisible germ storm sweeping through the nation and a society sickened by police brutality: “Infection is the way, disruptive crowd takes aim/Burn down the rail yard house, destroy the U.S.A.”
Singer Mike IX Williams said of the songs on the album, “We’re not a political band, but it was hard not to be affected by the news from the past year. During this recording, I thought a lot about how stupid humanity has become and how America is now completely divided with these people who don’t believe in science and blindly follow liars and nonsensical ideologies. Some of those feelings may have found their way into these songs, but it is mostly subliminal.”
A History of Nomadic Behavior follows a period that saw the New Orleans based band on the road for three years, preceded by Williams suffering liver failure and a transplant. “We toured our asses off for three years and that’s where A History of Nomadic Behavior basically comes from,” adds Williams before touching on his health challenge: “Death is a part of life, it’s a roll of the dice. Sometimes you take life as it comes, other times you fight to stay alive.” The album was produced by Eyehategod, Sanford Parker (Yob, Voivod) and James Whitten (Thou, High on Fire), with mixing by Whitten. The band recorded at HighTower Recording and Hypercube studios.
The album is available in the following formats and can be pre – ordered HERE!
CD Digipak – all outlets
Black LP+CD & Poster – all outlets
Digital Album – all platforms
Coke bottle green LP+CD & Poster (limited to 200) – EU Online Shop
Grey LP+CD & Poster (limited to 200) – CM Distro
Magenta LP+CD & Poster (limited to 300) – CM Distro
Creamy white LP+CD & Poster (limited to 200) – EMP & Nuclear Blast
Lilac LP+CD & Poster (limited to 200) – Bandshop
A History of Nomadic Behavior track list:
Built Beneath the Lies
The Outer Banks
Fake What’s Yours
Three Black Eyes
Current Situation
High Risk Trigger
Anemic Robotic
The Day Felt Wrong
The Trial of Johnny Cancer
Smoker’s Place
Circle of Nerves
Every Thing, Every Day
About EyeHateGod
New Orleans’ Eyehategod is the snarling, bilious sound of dead-end America. Since 1988, they’ve been a soundtrack for the troubled masses. Pitchfork dubbed them the “quintessential Southern sludge band,” Rolling Stone said they are one of “America’s great live bands,” and Thrasher said they are “true musical pioneers in every sense of the word.” Anyone familiar with Eyehategod’s story knows this is survivor’s music, a sound unto itself where Sabbathian riffs are meted out with a caustic anger that goes beyond punk. That’s been the blueprint since guitarist Jimmy Bower (also of NOLA supergroup, Down) founded the band in 1988 with vocalist Michael IX Williams joining not long after. With a discography including sludge-punk mainstays like In the Name of Suffering (1990), Take as Needed for Pain (1993) Dopesick (1996), Confederacy of Ruined Lives (2000) and 2014’s eponymously-titled LP, released in the US through Housecore Records, Eyehategod laid the cracked foundation for their infamous and influential sound. Gary Mader is the band’s bass player, with Aaron Hill on drums.
Anima Recordings presents Portland trio Flood Peak’s EP, Fixed Ritual, which arrives 22nd January 2021 on cassette and digital formats.
Flood Peak made their entrance in 2016 as outsiders, but their monolithic, gloom-ridden blackened post/sludge started to spread steadily through word of mouth and live shows. Swallowing elements from different extreme and experimental music territories, their impenetrable wall of sonic filth encompasses a mix of chaotic and droning riffs, creatively frantic drums, sparsely raw vocals, and monstrous basslines.
2018’s debut album, Plagued by Sufferers, saw Flood Peak anchoring their dismal cruise in an anemic wasteland. Reaping accolades from the critics and the fans alike, this opus compelled the Oregon sludge merchants to play more gigs and craft new tunes.
With the upcoming EP, Fixed Ritual, Flood Peak is ready to spread their absurd, disfigured, and desolated anthems to the minds and ears of all who cross its path. The five-track mini-album is not a mere extension to their debut; it’s a shift to a more dissonant and avant trajectory, a foreboding occurrence that frames vulnerability and negativity. Lyrically, this recording focuses primarily on mental and emotional states and the scarcely woven threads that seemingly hold it all together. Each song gradually progresses in aching slow motion and turns into more massive and more dangerous over time — without lacking variety.
Northern California Tech-Death beasts OMINOUS RUIN will release new album Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone February 26 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats via Willowtip Records.
On Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone, OMINOUS RUIN brings a breath of fresh air to the Technical Death Metal world. With intense, fast and dissonant 8-string guitars, dynamic 6-string fretted and fretless basses, punishing drums and incredibly dynamic and unique vocals. Each song is unique, yet the cumulative effect is one guaranteed to keep the listener interested from beginning to end!
Today (December 4th), Allegaeon has released a new digital single, Concerto in Dm – featuring the title track and B-side “In Flanders Fields”. Greg Burgess (guitars) comments: “What can we say about J.S. Bach that hasn’t already been said? Musical genius? Greatest composer to ever walk the earth? It’s all been written before, so I’ll go to what he means to Allegaeon. I first heard this piece back in 2000, and it has been a dream of mine to arrange this piece for a metal band; it only took 20 years to make it a reality. For anyone who has never worked on Bach before, the learning process is painstaking. Just when you think it’s a repeat of a section you’ve already learned, you’re suddenly in a new key, or there is a variation that totally throws a wrench in your muscle memory. In short, recording this piece was the most challenging thing I’ve ever attempted in this band. And I’m insanely proud of it. Crank it loud and get lost in it.”
Riley McShane (vocals) adds: “Originally, these songs were part of the first draft track-listing of ‘Apoptosis‘. In fact, this alternate track-listing – including these two songs – ended up being the running order for the ‘Apoptosis‘ LP. However, over a year after the initial release, we decided to put the songs out in a digital format for everyone to enjoy, just in time for the holiday season. Who needs Trans-Siberian Orchestra when you have Allegaeon covering Bach?”
Additionally, a play-through and documentary for Concerto in Dm can also be viewed at: youtu.be/_EtcIrkG8FA
Concerto in Dm track-listing
1. Concerto in Dm
2. In Flanders Fields
Allegaeon‘s latest album, Apoptosis, was released last year to critical acclaim. Tracked at Flatline Audio in Denver with long-serving producer Dave Otero (Cattle Decapitation, Cephalic Carnage), Apoptosis is Allegaeon‘s fifth full-length, and the first to feature bassist Brandon Michael. “Musically, Brandon brings a huge new dimension,” vocalist Riley McShane enthuses. “He has this wide breadth of music knowledge and stylistic proficiency that he draws from with excellent taste, and this makes a lot of the songs on ‘Apoptosis‘ come to life.” The record also features a guest appearance by classical guitarist Christina Sandsengen, who duets with guitarist Greg Burgess on “Colors of the Currents”. “On this record, I was more open to new ideas that we might not have used in past,” states guitarist Michael Stancel. “Rather than deleting something because ‘it’s not Allegaeon-y enough’, I would take a step back and see if that idea fit the song and decide if it was worth keeping. With that mentality came some of my favorite songs, because I was less worried about if it fit into our old sound.” This statement is borne out across the whole album, which while very much embodying the core Allegaeon sound that has drawn fans in over the course of their impressive career, it pushes into new territory, and does so with unerring confidence. “Thematically, this record is all about contrast, and the music reflects that perfectly,” says McShane. “The vocals are heavier than ever, but there are also more clean sections. The drums are faster than ever but also more dynamic, and the guitar playing is lower and slower than on most previous albums, but also provides long, melodic and beautiful sections throughout.”
Canadian progressive sci-fi metal innovators VOIVOD return with a much overdue new live release. Entitled “Lost Machine - Live”, the album was recorded in Québec City during the worldwide touring cycle for the band’s latest studio album “The Wake” and is being released today worldwide via Century Media Records.
VOIVOD’s drummer Michel “Away” Langevin comments as follows: “And last but not least, ‘Overreaction’, the new single/video from our brand new release ‘Lost Machine - Live’. This old classic from ‘Killing Technology’ has been on the setlist since 1987. It really gets the crowd going, and us too! Once again, splendid video direction by Felipe Belalcazar and thanks to Jaan Silmberg for animating my artwork. Enjoy our new live album!!“
Previously, VOIVOD released single/video clips for two other live-tracks:
The video clips feature audio recorded in Québec City (07/13/2019), video filmed in Montréal (06/30/2019) and material processed in Morgöth (2020). The album’s audio material was recorded and mixed by Francis Perron and the videos were directed and produced by Felipe Belalcazar / Mental Pictures.
“Lost Machine - Live” consist of 13 tracks across 74 packed minutes of playing time by one of the best live-acts in this day and age. Here is the track-listing for the release:
VOIVOD - “Lost Machine - Live” (74:00)
Post Society (07:50)
Psychic Vacuum (04:31)
Obsolete Beings (04:47)
The Prow (03:24)
Iconspiracy (05:21)
Into My Hypercube (05:24)
The End Of Dormancy (07:48)
Overreaction (05:11)
Always Moving (05:07)
Fall (06:38)
The Lost Machine (05:42)
Astronomy Domine (07:26)
Voivod (04:42)
“Lost Machine - Live” is available as limted CD with O-Card packaging (in its first European pressing), as Digital Album and as Gatefold 2LP on 180g vinyl in the following variations and limitations:
Black vinyl: Unlimited
Sky Blue vinyl: 100x copies via CM Webshop Europe – Sold Out!
Transparent Magenta vinyl: 200x copies via CM Distro Europe – Sold Out!
Previously this year, VOIVOD have released a 3-track 12” Vinyl and Digital EP entitled “The End Of Dormancy”. The EP is centered around a special “Metal Section” version of the title track “The End Of Dormancy” (Off VOIVOD’s latest, Juno Award winning album “The Wake” from 2018) with added trumpets, saxophone and trombones. Check out a remarkable video-clip for “The End Of Dormancy (Metal Section)” directed by Syl Disjonk and produced by Igor Simonnet here: https://youtu.be/iv321MReYW4
Also check out videos off VOIVOD’s latest and much acclaimed 14th studio album “The Wake” from 2018 here:
In other news, VOIVOD’s appearance as part of Century Media’s “Isolation Festival” online event is available here to be re-watched: https://youtu.be/v92HSqUPJVU?t=12181
