INTOXICATED launch brand new single ‘Legacy’s Demise’ and announce a 2nd Vinyl run of their previously SOLD OUT debut EP!
As bossman, ANDREW WK, just released his new single, Babalon, showcasing a much heavier side of himself than ever before, it’s hard to imagine that his backing band, made up of 2/3’s of Intoxicated, didn’t have something to do with it. Not to one-up the boss, but the Intoxicated boys also wanted to show that despite their busy schedule with ANDREW WK, that they have been keeping busy and Intoxicated are no part time side gig.
Legacy’s Demise showcases the band doing more of the same, but with even more ferocity and vigor than before. 1-part Death, 1-part Obituary, + 1-part High on Fire with a touch of Crossover Thrash flare and you have Intoxicated’s tried and true formula! The new single is a promise of what is to come on their debut full length that they hope to have out before the end of 2021.
Officially dubbed ‘The Van Halen Variants’, due to the ironic or almost serendipitous nature of their new vinyl color theme, these 3 new variants mark the 2nd pressing of their previously sold out debut EP, Walled. In coordination with the release of the new single, these beauties are now available for preorder and will begin shipping out by mid-March!
Inception Of Eternity: kick off 2021 with new single, new video, new album!
With the song "The Cradle of Darkness" Inception Of Eternity release the first track of their second studio album. Singer SINtana leads the listener through the uptempo gothic rock song with her versatile and distinctive voice, giving "The Cradle of Darkness" a unique and powerful expression with the mix of angelic background and dirty rock lead vocals. The single will be available to stream or download from all major online stores on February 21, 2021. The official video is available on YouTube now!
With the second studio album "Last Exit to the Past" mastermind Thorsten Eligehausen created a 15 track strong, musically extremely varied and genre-spanning album, without losing sight of the reference to the characteristic gothic rock elements. Quiet tones are as much an integral part of the album as rough and rocky compositions. Singer Ken Pike and vocalist SINtana take the listener on a musical journey with their extraordinary voices that is second to none.
"The creation process was - due to the two new contributing musicians SINtana and Marc Vanderberg - definitely more diverse. It was always interesting to hear how musicians of other styles listen to the demo of a song and what they then contribute to it, or how you understand their part", says Eligehausen.
"Last Exit to the Past" will be released on March 26, 2021 and is available as a CD in digipack, for download and also on all known streaming services. The presale of the album starts in selected stores parallel to the release of the single release "The Cradle of Darkness" on 21.02.2021.
Various merchandise articles of Inception of Eternity are also available via the store on darkSIGN-music.
Wreche, a high stakes challenger of the metal genre returns with a violent haymaker on All my dreams came true. A colossal masterpiece, this album sees John Steven Morgan working alone - more unhinged, personal, and varied than on Weche’s 2017 eponymous debut w/ drummer Barret Baumgart. At once horrifying and beautiful, All my dreams came true further binds genres like a particle accelerator - an absolutely devastating collision, a nebulaic nightmare of spackled iridescent light and void-lusting despair. Morgan’s brilliant songwriting and narrative structure, equally matched by his virtuosic performances on every instrument (piano, drums, vocals and synths) make this album something to seriously reckon with.
“Pushing the boundaries” of metal is a given when guitars have been trashed for an 88 key 700lb behemoth running hot on distortion and space echo. Terrifying, subterranean, and heavenly, Wreche transcends the sheer novelty of superficial texture swapping. The album hits the fringes of the most extreme musical ideas-- simultaneously maintaining a loyalty to black metal’s aural aesthetic while hard-flipping the genre's tired old past. Morgan’s lyrical poems tear through art, god, poverty, drugs, love and “life in the big city” as they are screamed with spine chilling conviction that sounds as mad and feral as the world around him. The otherworldly synth design and arrangements are unprecedented- an ominous spectoral presence levitating on the wasteland All my dreams came true paints. This isn’t just an experiment, it’s an interstellar meltdown.
Do yourself a favor and let this album rip your brain apart. Play it front to back and give it time to reveal its myriad miraculous stratified secrets. The invitation is an understatement and to miss this is to miss a masterful and haunting contribution to music, one that will inevitably set the tone for this year in metal. It is, and will be, unavoidable if you listen to extreme music - a ghastly expedition into the ether.
All my dreams came true arrives May 14, 2021
Handsmade (Oakland, CA) - Vinyl, Sheet Music
Cassette release by Acephale Winter Productions
Wreche is :
John Steven Morgan [Piano | Drums | Vocals | Synthesizers]
Addtl:
Crosby Morgan [Chorale on “Severed” | 2nd rec. engineer]
Barret Baumgart [live Drums on “Severed”]
Recorded, Mixed, & Mastered by John Steven Morgan at Studio 459 in Oakland,CA
Drums recorded in the airplane hangar at Soundwave Studios Backlot in Oakland,CA
Philly raw hardcore hallucination. We’re honored and proud to announce an official reissue of the unparalleled ear-splitting debut demo tape from rising Philly-based d-beat noise-punk demolition unit Hallucination, first self-released in 2020, and now available again as an exclusive label-curated re-edition with new artwork from Canadian xerox/collage visual master Paul Van Trigt.
With its desolate atmospheres and unforgiving intensity, the pulverizing demo comes packed with splinters of raw punk, d-beat, and off the rails Japanese-styled noise crust whipped into an unyielding and caustic raw hardcore assault that will demolish you in its wake.
Iconic bands in the genre like Deathside, Disclose, Raw Nerve, Krömosom, Cult Ritual, and Crude SS are all more or less referenced in one way or another throughout the tape’s meager eight minutes of unforgiving aural abandon, but far from being a simple self-referencing stylistic exercise, this astonishing demo brings a darkness and desperation to the plate that we’d rarely before seen in the genre, signaling the possible birth of a game-changing act whose full power and vision we’re not yet fully aware of.
Formed in the year 2020 amid global panic and state terror, the group pays homage to the tradition of D-beat raw punk (especially the aforementioned Japanese one) with mind-altering sonics and an unrelenting contempt for reality. Their caustic and hallucinatory sound is a relentless sonic assault of extreme raw guitars, dizzying repetition, and violent stylistic commitment.
Featuring a Poison Idea cover, the self-titled Hallucination demo tape reissue is slated for a March 5 2021 official release date along with digital formats, and the work can now be pre-ordered and streamed in full on our Bandcamp and webshop.
Polish black metal band Hegeroth releases a new lyrics video 'Last Salvation'.
Track is taken off from the band’s third full-length “Perfidia” released in November 2020.
“Perfidia”, the third album from Hegeroth, delivers diversity and some unconventional solutions while
being faithful to the second wave of black metal. Its energy will drag you through your most deep and hidden emotions, being a great album for the open-minded listener who’s not afraid of some dissonant vibes and catchy moments.
Perfidia album is available on all streaming platforms and band's bandcamp profile (digital and CD/digipack).
Skyborn originated from the eager desire of its four young members to write and play heavy music. Lukas (vocals, rhythm guitar), Julian (lead guitar) and Paul (bass) grew up in Munich. At the age of six, the three started to explore the world of music: while Lukas and Julian played guitar, Paul accompanied them on the piano. Eduardo (drums) developed his musical skills in his home country Ecuador.
In 2012, Lukas, Julian and Paul formed a cover band with ex-roadie Florian Menhart, young actor Jonas Holdenrieder and Melanie Meincke. Florian was the guy who led them to listen to heavy bands, such as Motörhead, Metallica, and Children of Bodom. After local success, the three decided to venture into creating their own music.
Still, they needed a drummer. The band was finally consolidated in 2015, when Eduardo moved to Munich from Quito, Ecuador. After a positive audition and some beers, Skyborn found the appropriate chemistry to step into the path of metal.
Lukas was inspired by Metallica, Rammstein and The Beatles, whereas Julian enjoyed listening to Wintersun, Devildriver and Gojira. Paul got his inspiration from Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and classical music, while Eduardo loved listening to Lamb of God, Children of Bodom and Dream Theater. Under the influence of classic rock and different metal styles, Skyborn creates music which appeals to a broad variety of metalheads.
In honor of the good old days, the debut album was named Paradise Falls - a homage to the former cover band.
"From musical point of view it’s easy - we’re looking for something that sounds great and gives the right mood and atmosphere, something that we enjoy playing and something that any decent metal listener would enjoy as well!
From narrative point of view it’s slightly more sophisticated... We are here to ask questions! We are here to make you think and ask questions as well! We want to raise awareness about things that mainstream media is silent about - every war, every crisis happening is made only with one goal - to feed the rich and make general population divided, scared for their lives, properties, mortgages and jobs. To get control and make sure it stays that way. We don’t like that and that’s why we’ve decided to stand up and talk loud about this stuff! We're not crying for everything to be free, life is tough and you have to do something to earn your living, as long as it's right and not involving other people's suffering! We are here independently and ready to stand together with everyone else for what is right!"
Tracklist;
1. Sacrifice
2. Black Storm
3. Downgraded World
4. Back To Where It Starts
5. Your Pain Tastes Good
6. All Attack
7. You Are Free
8. Return To Baalbek
Line-up:
Henrijs Leja - guitar, vocals
Stelios Aggelis - guitar
Agnis Aldiņš - bass
Ian Den Boer - drums
For fans of Metallica, Sepultura, Amon Amarath...
Credits:
Recorded in Helestios studio/ Nezvers studio/ On duty studio Holland
All songs written by Henrijs Leja, All Attack written by Henrijs Leja, Stelios Aggelis, produced by Henrijs Leja and Agnis Aldiņš, mixed and mastered by Agnis Aldiņš.
Hailing from Greece, Hard-Rock metallers Scream Collision are proud to announce that they have signed a deal for the release of their debut album "Memories" with Wormholedeath.
Band Statement:
"We are really happy and honoured to announce that Scream Collision will be joining Wormholedeath Records for the release of our debut album, “Memories”.
The guys (and girls) from Wormholedeath have been great and seem to enjoy the music apart from the business side of things, which is quite refreshing in the current state of the industry. We hope for a long and fruitful cooperation and that Wormholedeath can be the vehicle that lets us share our music with the World. - Rock on, Rock Hard, Stay Safe!"
"Memories" Tracklist:
1) Mess Inside My Head (Memories)
2) Nightmares
3) The Last Straw
4) Asylum
5) AWOL
6) Invincible
7) Rigged Game
Biography
Scream Collision are a Greek band formed in Athens in October 2017. In their first steps they played covers of Rock, Hard Rock, and Metal in a number of music stages. Their influences are varied but mainly come from Hard Rock and Metal. After a while they felt that it was time to compose their own music, and on May 31st of 2019 they release their first single “Rolling a Dice”. Presently they have completed their debut full-length album, entitled «Memories». This first album incorporates elements of music that has influenced them over the years, forming their own sound. It is a loose concept album, about a man battling mental turmoil and breakdown and emerging victorious for a bit of an uplift towards the end. The main concept connects the songs of the album, but every song is a bit different and has its own character.
On April 16th, Endseeker will release their new album, Mount Carcass, via Metal Blade Records. For a first preview of the record, a video for the new single, "Unholy Rites" (directed and edited by the band's own Ben Liepelt), can be viewed at: metalblade.com/endseeker - where Mount Carcass is available for pre-order in the following formats:
- digipak-CD
- 180g black vinyl (EU exclusive)
- brick red marbled vinyl (EU exclusive - limited to 300 copies)
- dark viole(n)t marbled vinyl (EU exclusive - limited to 200 copies)
- orange / black dust vinyl (Limited to 200 copies)
After unleashing Mount Carcass, Endseeker will host a record release livestream show on Sunday, April 18th at 10AM PST//1PM EST//7PM CET. Streamed live from Knust, Hamburg, reserve your ticket now at: eu.kingsroadmerch.com/endseeker
*Tickets are available only as bundles with purchase of CD or vinyl (shirt optional) via Kings Road
Endseeker comments: "We took all the frustration and despair over the cancelled shows and the whole misery Covid has brought upon us all and forged it into a bunch of straight forward, powerful songs that accompanied us through 2020 and will now be shared with the rest of the world. 'Mount Carcass' is definitely our most focused - in a way, even the angriest - record so far, and 'Unholy Rites', with its uplifting zombie-vibe, is the perfect opener for this new chapter in the history of Endseeker. We'd of course love to start this new chapter with YOU, our fans. Sadly, there won't be a sweaty sold-out release show like last time, however, we're back at the Knust in Hamburg on April 18th for a special livestream event (more details to be revealed soon). Come and celebrate with us online until we see each other in the pit again!"
Having become one of the premier German death metal bands - and rapidly rising the ranks of the genre as a whole - Endseeker storm back into the fray with Mount Carcass. Building on the groundwork laid down on 2017's Flesh Hammer Prophecy and having the difficult task of besting 2019's stunning The Harvest, they have returned with a streamlined, powerful collection that further raises the bar.
Like both of its predecessors, Mount Carcass was recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by Eike Freese at Chameleon Studios in Hamburg, Germany. Going into the record, Endseeker knew they wanted something rawer and more organic than The Harvest, and while Covid was causing global havoc, the band embraced the time they would have otherwise spent touring, using it to rehearse and discuss what they wanted the record to be. From this process they knew they wanted the songs to be quite straightforward and even have something of a "punkish / crust feel, so to speak. The songs are pretty reduced to the core with all the ballast removed. Every part and every riff has a meaning and isn't just there for no other reason than extending the song. The album is also very melodic. There are a bunch of very strong guitar hooks and vocal compositions that really stick in your ears for days. It's way simpler and probably more easy to listen to compared to 'The Harvest' or 'Flesh Hammer Prophecy', but at the same time, it has a very spontaneous and lively attitude with a big chunk of personality." To keep the genre sounding fresh in 2021, they focused on the production, having just a touch of the old school vibe to remain rooted, and they did not limit themselves too hard to the Swedish death metal style of songwriting they previously embraced, but also let other influences into their songs. "You can hear all kinds of stuff that is inspired by bands like Morbid Angel, Bolt Thrower, Slayer, Dissection, Gorefest, etc. We listen to so many different bands, and somehow, a bit from all of this keeps adding to our music."
