Dutch death metal bruisers Apophys have been making waves since their surfacing in 2012, slowly carving their path in the modern death metal scene. Featuring members from God Dethroned and Toxocara this is a band with experience and a clear vision and approach to their writing, song structure above technicality. Their debut album was testament to that and seen the band tour internationally with acts such as Vader, Hate Eternal, Dying Fetus, Misery Index, Cattle Decapitation and many others as well as several festival appearances including Eindhoven Metal Meeting and Deathfeast Open Air among others. Building on their growing reputation 2017 has seen Apophys complete their second full length, a sci-fi epic entitled Devoratis, set for release January 22nd via Ultimate Massacre Productions. Listen To The First Single ‘Retaliate’ Here! https://youtu.be/cMBTnhEr4rc The album is based on a science fiction story written by vocalist Kevin Quilligan. “We wanted to do a concept album but we couldn’t find a fitting concept,” Quilligan shares. “So we decided to write it ourselves. Together with all the members we fashioned our own tale to tell which has given a whole new meaning to our music.” Read the full story below… The story of an unlikely union of two forces against an intergalactic race led by a zealous leader known as Consul… It all starts with an Operator called Zohm, an engineer with remarkable skills. His task is to demolish planets, entire galaxies of them, to cast out all the elements within. “To make sure the Universe keeps developing as it should.” At least, that’s what his superiors told him. Zohn could care less for the ideology and secret plans of his superiors. It was the technology behind the devices used that he was most interested in. As long as he could keep working on those, he would believe whatever Consul came up with. One day, a day like any other, everything went wrong. A device failed to go off, a device operated by Zohm. He didn’t know why, there was nothing out of the ordinary. He knew he did everything right. He also knew he would be the one held accountable (which meant a trial before Consul and his peers). Everything went so fast that he could hardly remember it all, but he did remember the verdict: You must return to right your wrong To find a way Cast down into solitude An exile from this day Ultimately you will meet your end When your task is complete Eternally alone you will stay And now we will proceed. Zohm was exiled to the planet he was supposed to destroy. To fix the device and let it carry out its task. This wasn’t just exile; this was a death sentence. While trying to find out what went wrong he comes across a creature called Xiux. Xiux is an ancient being unlike anything else, more a consciousness then an organism. He is the planet and the planet is him. He stopped the device, to some personal damage. Zohm, unaware of the vastness that is Xiux, tried to trap him. The two collide and instead of taking each other down they merge. The resourceful engineer and the living planet form an entity of unparalleled power. Consul, outraged at the news that Zohm has not fulfilled his sentence, sends the entire fleet back to show everyone that disobedience will not be tolerated. He is met by Zohm and Xiux, eagerly awaiting them, hungry for a challenge. The stage has been set All pieces in place Their end is our beginning Devoratis is out January 22nd via Ultimate Massacre Productions. www.facebook.com/apophysdeath www.facebook.com/ultimatemassacre
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Long acknowledged as one of the greatest live bands of their generation, rock legends Metallica have set new attendance records at each of the shows they played on their recent UK tour. Metallica WorldWired - presented by Live Nation - played 5 sold out UK Arena shows in October to ecstatic reviews. Metro called them ‘exciting and innovative’, whilst The Times noted that they were ‘powerful enough to get over 20,000 fans punching the air in unison’ and Kerrang thought they were ‘jaw-droppingly awesome’. The bands’ ground breaking in-the-round production not only gave fans a totally immersive live experience but also allowed for an increased venue capacity. On the opening night at London’s O2, Metallica pulled in a crowd of 22,134, the following night they broke their own record for the best attended single concert performance by one headliner with a crowd of 22,211. It was the same story on the rest of the tour, a crowd of 13,111 packed into Glasgow’s Hydro to set a new attendance record and in Birmingham Metallica drew in a record breaking crowd of 15,604. Commenting on the achievement Live Nation’s Executive President of UK Touring Andy Copping said “This has been an incredible achievement by Metallica – the band and everyone around them have been a pleasure to work with and they staged one of the greatest indoor shows I have ever seen” Metallica’s most recent album Hardwired...To Self Destruct was released on November 18, 2016 on the band’s own Blackened Recordings record label and debuted at No. 1 around the world, selling over 800,000 copies worldwide in its first week. The album was produced by Greg Fidelman with James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, and is available in various configurations at www.metallica.com. On November 10th the band are re-issuing their third album ‘Master of Puppets’ which has been remastered for the most advanced sound quality and will be available in various digital and physical configurations, including a Limited Edition Box Set. You can pre-order them here. Russian Deathcore band SamadhiSitaram launched new video clip, entitled "ShangriI La", 8th track taken from the album - "KaliYuga Babalon", released on July 14 via Sliptrick records. Band comments: 'We always wanted to make a simple black and white video. These colours are classics forever, and it's magnetic! They remind us of Charlie Chaplin and Ingmar Bergman movie aesthetics.' https://deadpulse.com/product/samadhi-sitaram-kaliyuga-babalon/ https://www.facebook.com/samadhisitaram/ http://samadhi-sitaram.space https://www.instagram.com/samadhisitaram/ https://vk.com/samadhisitaram https://www.facebook.com/sliptrickrecords/ http://www.sliptrickrecords.com Hungarian black metallers Nocrul have released their fourth full-length "Eye Of Terror" via Bandcamp. It contains seven new heroic black metal songs and a cover from the band Heaven And Hell. The band comments: "The Eye of Terror is a realm of madness and despair, where skies weep blood, ancient stars burn in multi-coloured flares and the whims of the Dark Gods of Chaos hold sway. The weak and foolish bands like to say the new record is their very best - we think this kind of statement is pure humiliating of the previous releases and the listeners who enjoyed them. Nocrul's new material is just as good as any others before! The only but slightly differences is that the songs have more variety through the album than before - not to be better, but because this was the requirement of the Chaos Gods!" Apart from Bandcamp you can find the first lyric video on Youtube! https://khrul.bandcamp.com/album/nocrul-eye-of-terror https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGwM1nAramg Black metal mavericks Ignis Haereticum premiere the new track "Lifting the Veil" at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The track hails from the band's highly anticipated second album, Autocognition of Light, set for international release on December 1st via Goathorned Productions. Hear Ignis Haereticum's "Lifting the Veil" in its entirety exclusively HERE. Riding high on the towering immensity of their Luciferian Gnosis debut album in 2014, these Colombian occultists now aim for more transcendent heights and fathomless depths with a six-song/41-minute record that serves as one, unified work. Arguably even more towering than its no-less-considerable predecessor, Autocognition of Light dazzles and defies with an eerily seamless ease, its iteration of orthodox black metal soundly trumping the hapless throngs of Deathspell Omega worship. For this creation is imbued with true belief and solemn reverence: Ignis Haereticum are sonic mages weaving spells both terrible and trance-inducing, their descent into the abyss assured but surely not the final destination. Ignis Haereticum's new opus was conceived and written as an entire piece instead of just a bunch of songs. It is an illuminative treatise of the band's gnosis, which is manifested through two ways: the purgative way and the illuminative way. The purgative way deals with the active purification of the internal and external senses, the passions, the understanding and the will, through mortification and meditation. Here, the spiritual is nourished by the physical, reminding us all of our imminent mortality. At the end of this first part begins the infused contemplation, whereby the soul rises towards the illumination. It is here where we are aware of our divine condition and we leave behind the attachments of the flesh and the limitations of this material world. Bringing for us, the next path: the illuminative way, which is the recognition of ourselves, our nature, the state in which we are aware of our spirituality free of dogmas. Here, our humanity loses all value and only remains our divine communion with the light of knowledge, which is none other than the reflection of our own light that dwells in the depths of our consciousness. Fiat Lvx! The next testament to the Autocognition of Light is the track "Lifting the Veil," which can be heard exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. The first testament is the previously revealed "Glorious Wounds," which can be heard at Ignis Haereticum's Bandcamp HERE. Pre-order info can be found HERE. Australian Death Metal monster Beyond Mortal Dreams has launched a brand new track, titled "Deficit in Flesh." The song comes off the band's forthcoming sophomore album - Abomination of the Flames, due next year via Lavadome Productions. Stream "Deficit in Flesh" now at https://youtu.be/t9zYwDcd4FI Lavadome Productions is now offering pre-orders for Beyond Mortal Dreams t-shirts. Contact Lavadome Productions to reserve your size by messaging that label's Facebook page or by emailing [email protected]. A special bundle package featuring Beyond Mortal Dreams 2017 compilation CD As Death, We Shall Walk and the t-shirt is also available. www.facebook.com/beyondmortaldreams beyondmortaldreams.bandcamp.com www.facebook.com/lavadome lavadome.bandcamp.com www.lavadome.org Italian thrashers Adversor have unveiled the first details of their second full-length album! It will be titled "The End of Mankind" and will be out before end of March 2018. Release will be handled by Italian label Punishment 18 Records. New information will follow soon. https://www.facebook.com/adversorthrash/ www.punishment18records.com www.facebook.com/punishment18records Iron Bonehead Productions sets March 9th, 2018 as the international release date for the highly anticipated debut album of Peru's Antichrist, Pax Moriendi, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Formed in 2004 but not really kicking into recorded gear until a decade later, Antichrist soon released a steady stream of demos between 2014 and 2016. Through this requisite underground graft, the trio studiously perfected their craft, shaping its huge 'n' haunting foundation - the doom-death trinity of Thergothon, Unholy, and Winter - into something qualitatively their own. And indeed, across the five-song / 45-minute Pax Moriendi, the listener is taken down into sewers a mile deep (or more), tweaking that immortal doom-death schematic into something righteously foul and filthy but still well within the range of melancholic human experience. Crushing-yet-ethereal chords reverberate through the forlorn night, and ever deeper into one's worst corners of their subconscious; the attack is slow yet insistent early on, with the foulness and filth flung liberally, to either alienate part-timers or beckon the most intrepid of souls. Then, as the album plays on, Pax Moriendi reveals a wounded sort of slo-mo melody, a blanching vulnerability, shedding its layers of metaphysical/spiritual garbage for the laid-bare/laid-to-rest epiphany of climactic closer "You Will Never See Sun Light." No, indeed you won't when faced with the enormity of Antichrist's Pax Moriendi. Here is your funeral: welcome the end. Walk forth to the commencement of that funeral with the new track "In the Dark and Mournful Corner of Memory" HERE at Iron Bonehead's Soundcloud. Alpha Omega Management have pleasure to announce the signing of the Greek heavy melodic Goth Rock / Metal act Sede Vacante, formed in 2013. The band released their debut album “Skies Infernal” in November 2016 via Pride & Joy Music, receiving extremely positive feedback and the band was classified among the most promising goth bands of the current times. Besides having shared the stage with Delain and Sirenia in Athens, on June 29th 2017, Sede Vacante joined Evanescence in Romania (Arenele Romane), the reaction of the crowd was beyond any expectation. Currently the band is working on their second album. Stated the band on the signing: "Sede Vacante proudly announces the signing and collaboration with the highly respected Alpha Omega Management. We are more than sure that we will be able to perform for all of you on the globe our debut album ‘Skies Infernal’ and share our excitement...! Stay dark and see you on the road..!!!!" Alpha Omega Management adds: "We're truly glad to welcome Sede Vacante to our roster family! Their music is an exciting blend of dark and light colour shades, capturing your attention from the very first tunes. Stay tuned for next announcements!" www.sede-vacante.net www.facebook.com/sedevacanteband https://www.facebook.com/OfficialAlphaOmegaManagement Iron Bonehead Productions sets March 2nd, 2018 as the international release date for Disembowel's highly anticipated debut album, Plagues and Ancient Rites, on vinyl LP format. Hailing from the cult-metal hotbed of Chile, Disembowel are very much a summation of their homeland's ancient death metal and black metal traditions. That much was violently portrayed across their Act of Invocation MCD released in early 2017 by Iron Bonehead - gnarly, ghastly, grinding, gross - but here on their full-length debut, the power-trio extend further all the extremes which made that EP such a sulphurous blast. Draped in an ominous cloud of utter doom, Plagues and Ancient Rites soon approximates its very title: scabrous and hysteric energy coursing the pitch-blackest of metals, foul and fetid textures from death metal's deepest sewers, and a subtly ceremonial, spell-like seamlessness uniting the two. Its nine tracks compactly exude all the diabolism and devilishness for which Chilean black/death is known, and after 35 minutes, Disembowel emerge as the true Lovecraftian horrors that they are. Disembowel have opened the portals, and their Plagues and Ancient Rites are about to commence... The first manifestation of these dread rites is "IA! IA! Nyarlathotep!," which can be heard at Iron Bonehead's Soundcloud HERE. |
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