 [photo credit: Richelle ter Heege] Symphonic metal foursome Sirenia recently released its exquisite tenth studio album, Riddles, Ruins & Revelations, via Napalm Records. The 11-track offering draws the listener deep into a versatile symphonic metal vortex through combining heavy soundscapes with modern influences and showcases the multifaceted nature of the unit around mastermind, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter and producer Morten Veland. This is proven evident once more on their fourth single “This Curse Of Mine”. The song sets off with a fresh yet harsh riff attack and consecutive electronics, leading into a confident and strong vocal presentation of operatic vocalist Emmanuelle Zoldan, whilst unfolding all its magic in a memorable, grooving chorus. Morten Veland on “This Curse Of Mine”: “We are pleased to bring you a lyric video for the song 'This Curse Of Mine' taken from our brand new album Riddles, Ruins & Revelations. As touring is not an option these days we might as well be bringing you videos instead of shows. That being said, we really can't wait to see you all on tour again though. In the meantime, please enjoy 'This Curse Of Mine'. We hope you like it.” Watch the official lyric video for “This Curse Of Mine” HERE. Morten Veland on the album: "Riddles, Ruins & Revelations is Sirenia's tenth studio album. The album is very diverse, as a Sirenia album should be. There's a lot of material that shows the band from a new side, and there is lots of material that is to be expected from the band musically. All in all, the album will take listeners through a journey that will cover both familiar and unexplored musical landscapes. We hope that you will enjoy the journey.” Sirenia is:
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 Without further ado, Norwegian Black / Death Metallers Brotthogg announce their new album "The Die Is Cast". The album is the follow-up to last year album "Echoes Of The Past". "The Die Is Cast" will be released on August 1st. With this second full-length album following their critically acclaimed debut Echoes of the Past (2019), Brotthogg presents a new hyper charged melodic blackened thrashing beast. The album is filled with high-speed staccato riffing, massive and intense harmonies, as well as slower parts with a gloomy, heavy atmosphere. The band has now released the first track of the new album, Nokturne, to give you an taste of what to come. Check it out here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLXAA1dyamo Brotthogg says: "With our new album we continue to improve our witches' brew of everything we consider to be the best attributes of extreme metal. We aim to offer our listeners the duality of the melodic and the aggressive, the heroic and the chaotic, the moderate and the technical, all in one fine mixture. This is black metal influenced by melodic death metal, and strongly laced with elements of thrash, and I hope we have created an ambitious and intriguing release well worth exploring.”
Brotthogg deals in Melodic Black / Death / Thrash Metal that owes its allegiance to bands like Emperor, Old Man's Child, Symphony X and Dissection. The members are known from bands like Subliritum and Chton. The name Brotthogg is derived from an old forgotten Norwegian word in dialect meaning ”The one who has to take care of the job, the unpleasant one” Brotthogg's album The Die is Cast is now available for pre-order on their Bandcamp page.  Dusktone is extremely proud to announce the signing of Norwegian black metal conglomerate Ulvehyrde. Hailing from Hønefoss and featuring past and present members from Beastcraft, Vulture Lord, Sarkom, Angst Skvadron etc. they are planning to release the debut full-length album later this year on both vinyl and CD format. It is known that Norway is considered, without any doubt, the cradle of the worldwide black metal movement and Ulvehyrde fully represents the incredibly misty and dark spirit that comes out of those lands. Their music is a pure fundamental mid-tempo black metal based upon old, dark, Norwegian history. The band is now in the middle of recording process and any further infos, details and updates will be provided from time to time.... In the meanwhile, stay connected to Dusktone pages and band itself. Ulvehyrde FB: https://www.facebook.com/Ulvehyrde-1412562768886360/ Dusktone W : https://www.dusktone.it FB: https://www.facebook.com/dusktone.label IG : https://www.instagram.com/dusktone/  Nestled in the small northern Norwegian town of Alta, far above the Arctic circle, there's a rumbling of brutality shaking the earth from a young, dynamic metal quintet known as Féleth. Creating heavy, melodic assaults, that transcends the traditional limits of the genre, these great northern Norwegians, are taking their influences of death metal, thrash, deathcore, rock and even elements of Jazz to unleash to the world their debut album "Depravity" due out via DeadPop Records on May 22, 2020. With songs like 'Swan Song' showing off their deathcore influences, to the epic 'Dissolution' jumping from death metal to jazz to black metal seamlessly, and tracks like 'Pale Tongue' transforming from in your face death metal to a beautiful ambient soundscape, Féleth is a band that is ready to rise to the occasion and leap into the international moshpit. The album was mixed and mastered by death metal legend, Christian Donaldson (Cryptopsy, Shadow of Intent, The Agonist, Beyond Creation) at The Grid Productions. The album also features guest vocals from home town hero, singer / songwriter Petter Carlsen. Lyrically the album pulls away from traditional death metal tropes, to also criticize capitalism, pollution, fake news and the depravity of humanity at large. Musically, the full length features beautiful melodic leads, heavy chugging guitars, bass solo’s, fast intricate drum work and the huge vocal range from the lead vocalist, Espen Dagenborg. The band's to first two singles off "Depravity" can be heard at the following links: 'Arise' - YouTube 'Pestilence' - YouTube Spotify
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Mixing & Mastering: Christian Donaldson Producer & Recording engineer: Liam Knott Artwork: Eric Hyrcza at Kahinienn Graphix Lyrics by: Espen Dagenborg Music by: Espen Dagenborg, Alexander Stamnes, Thomas Nyvoll, Brage Ingebrigtsen Westgaard and Aleksander Alsen Band Members: Vocals: Espen Dagenborg Guitar: Alexander Stamnes Guitar: Thomas Nyvoll Bass: Brage Ingebrigtsen Westgaard Drums: Aleksander Alsen Facebook.com/FelethBand Instagram.com/felethband Norwegian Blackened Death crew Nexorum release guitar play-through for ‘Antediluvian Purification’19/3/2020  Recently, Norway’s blackened death metallers Nexorum unleashed their debut album “Death Unchained” via Non Serviam Records. Today, Nexorum 's Roger Isaksen presents you a new guitars play-through video for the song ‘Antediluvian Purification’ that you can watch here: https://youtu.be/yx0_lzttF2A Roger Isaksen comments on ‘Antediluvian Purification’: "Norway is in lock-down mode and we are advised to keep to ourselves. Not the worst situation to be in when you are somewhat introvert and have misanthropic tendencies, but it's also kind of boring to only play music in solitude. That's why we would like to share a guitar play through of ‘Antediluvian Purification’ with you! Do you like this kind of videos? If so, which song would you like to see next, and what instrument? Comment on our Facebook page or send us a PM!". “Death Unchained” is available at Non Serviam Records webshop: https://www.non-serviam-records.com/products/nexorum-death-unchained Bandcamp: https://non-serviam-records.bandcamp.com/album/death-unchained Get the album digitally here: http://smarturl.it/kim2px Nexorum comment about the album:- “We all love playing and listening to music and of course the brutality and intensity of extreme metal. I think it is apparent that the album is written with passion when listening to it. We’re not trying to make groundbreaking music or show of how technically we are able to play; we just want to deliver a solid album that we can be proud of!”. The amazing artwork has been created by the Polish renowned artist Rafal Wechterowicz.
Hailing from Trondheim, Norway, the band consists of members from Keep Of Kalessin, Khonsu, CHTON, VECORDIOUS among others. More about “Death Unchained” “Saligia Moralis Codice” OFFICIAL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/aeUc2OV1Ttk “Great Horned King” OFFICIAL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/PxWWSKUsrSs “Death Unchained” OFFICIAL VISUALIZER: https://youtu.be/We36p-hKAro https://www.facebook.com/nexorum.official https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdgp6IGlTLC3SEx0oxiRrqg https://www.instagram.com/nexorum.official https://www.facebook.com/nonserviamrecords https://www.instagram.com/non_serviam_records/ https://non-serviam-records.bandcamp.com/  Norwegian black metallers Thokkian Vortex release their new opus “Thy Throne is Mine” via Non Serviam Records.
To celebrate the event the band fronted by Lord Kaiaphas, the former vocalist of Norwegian black metal act, Ancient, unveils the new single “Winter Forest Cry”. https://youtu.be/VxlsaONBQvg “The new single, ‘Winter Forest Cry’ is a bit more experimental and different from the rest of the songs from the album. I wanted to make a slow-paced and melancholic track based around a piano riff with a more modern and black-gaze type of atmosphere. Cold, yet emotional. It features spoken vocals with distortion as well as traditional Black metal vocals. The lyrics tell a story of a majestic forest in the north during wintertime, but they are open to the listener’s interpretation”, explains Lord Kaiaphas. Order the album HERE: https://www.non-serviam-records.com/collections/frontpage/products/thokkian-vortex-thy-throne-is-mine Listen to the full album HERE https://non-serviam-records.bandcamp.com/album/thy-throne-is-mine https://www.facebook.com/ThokkianVortex/ http://www.non-serviam-records.com https://www.facebook.com/nonserviamrecords https://www.instagram.com/non_serviam_records/ https://non-serviam-records.bandcamp.com/  Norwegian black metallers Thokkian Vortex have recently announced the release of their new opus “Thy Throne is Mine” on February 28th via Non Serviam Records. Today the band fronted by Lord Kaiaphas, the former vocalist of Norwegian black metal act, Ancient, unveils the second single “Traverse The Tonal”. https://youtu.be/AAW0xlCIwOE Pre-orders of the album are available here. Webshop https://www.non-serviam-records.com/collections/frontpage/products/thokkian-vortex-thy-throne-is-mine Bandcamp: https://non-serviam-records.bandcamp.com/album/thy-throne-is-mine Recently the band revealed the first single and lyric video for ‘Banishing the Lion of Kutha’. Watch it now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dACu0FMjc7Y Mastermind Lord Kaiaphas states: “‘Thy Throne is Mine’ is simply the best Black Metal that I’m capable of creating thus far. As a whole, it’s an album with songs that are catchy and memorable. I didn’t want to make an album with every song sounding the same. For the lyrics of Banishing the Lion of Kutha I created a story based on Sumerian and Akkadian mythology. This song has a warlike feeling.” https://www.facebook.com/ThokkianVortex/ http://www.non-serviam-records.com https://www.facebook.com/nonserviamrecords https://www.instagram.com/non_serviam_records/ https://non-serviam-records.bandcamp.com/  Norwegian progressive metal act Green Carnation are now revealing the album details for 'Leaves of Yesteryear'. The new record is the first release by the band in 14 years and will be out on May 8th, via Season of Mist. The cover artwork was created by Niklas Sundin and can be found below together with the tracklist. "The cover contains elements from the lyrics on the album, affected by the music and expressed through the cover artist Niklas Sundin’s pencil. Niklas put a lot of effort into going deep into this album, and came up with a few different sketches. We immediately fell for this one. It is rich in detail, is eye catching and of course has Niklas’ signature, which we very fond of", singer Kjetil Nordhus says. The band has also launched a small interview series about the new full length, which can be viewed at the Season of Mist Youtube Channel HERE.
After almost 10 years of total silence, Norwegian Prog / Avant-garde metal act Green Carnation announced their comeback to the international metal scene for the 15th anniversary of their cult classic 'Light of Day, Day of Darkness' in 2016. After a successful comeback year with festival appearances and special shows both in Europe and North America, the Norwegians are now preparing to release their first album release in 14 years. Green Carnation from Kristiansand, Norway, was founded as early as 1990. After founding member Tchort joined legends-to-be Emperor and continued in Satyricon and Einherjer, the band was laid to rest until their debut album, 'A Journey To The End Of The Night' came out in 2000. Following a period with line-up changes, 2001 marked the release of the bands epic 'Light of Day, Day of Darkness'. With their albums 'A Blessing in Disguise' (2003) and 'The Quiet Offspring' (2005), Green Carnation shifted towards a more rock orientated style, before they surprised everyone with the stripped-down record 'Acoustic Verses' in 2006. What followed in the same year is perhaps one of the most spectacular DVD recordings metal history. The band played a show in the mountains, under a 30-meter-high dam. Only a year later, Green Carnation disbanded. After the successful return in 2016, the band continued to play shows in 2017 and 2018. In September 2019, the progressive metal act announced that they were going to record their first album in 14 years, in DUB Studio, with producer Endre Kirkesola (ABBATH, IN VAIN and SOLEFALD), who also produced their classic, 'Light of Day, Day of Darkness'. The new album is expected to be released in the first half of 2020 via Season of Mist. Line-up: Kjetil Nordhus - vocals Tchort - guitars Bjørn Harstad - guitars Stein Roger Sordal - bass Kenneth Silden - keys Jonathan Alejandro Perez - drums www.facebook.com/greencarnationnorway https://www.instagram.com/green2carnation/  Norwegian Black & Roll veterans Vreid have announced their participation in the "Songs That Changed the World" project by the Nobel Peace Center and Inferno Metal Festival. The band will be commissioned to interpret and cover a song about freedom of expression. The song is yet to be determined. Vreid will perform this special song and their own material during a show at the Nobel Peace Center on April 7, 2020. Founder and bass player Hváll comments: "In Vreid we have always been up for new challenges. It was therefore with huge excitement we took on this task when Inferno Metal Festival and Nobel Peace Center challenged us to do our interpretation of a song that changed the world. Freedom of speech has been relevant since the very beginning of rock, and is just as relevant and important today. A lot has changed since rock 'n' roll was new and rebellious in the 60s, but still today the freedom of speech are controversial and debated, so maybe the world has been at a stand still over the last 60 years. We are thankful for the engagement. Vreid looks forward to dig deep into the rock history of many fantastic songs, and will be ready to perform our song at the Nobel Peace Center in April." More information on the Nobel Peace Center can be found HERE. Inferno Metal Festival will take place on April 9 - 12, in Oslo, Norway. Find more information on the festival HERE. Finnish Cello Metal veterans Apocalyptica release brand new video for 'En Route To Mayhem'18/12/2019  Finland’s multi-Platinum cello-rock band Apocalyptica have released the video for ‘En Route To Mayhem’, which will transport the viewer to a fantastical post-humanity future. This imaginary world is barren, dusty, and littered with broken pieces of things once considered essential to humankind such as bits of plastic, a teddy bear, crumbling structures, cell phones and computers, bleached bones, and long-forgotten musical instruments. The setting is devoid of mankind, but brimming with the hope of new life; and then one day, thunder, lightning, and one drop at a time, it begins to rain, and Mother Nature steps in. Check out the ‘En Route To Mayhem’ video HERE. Apocalyptica’s Eicca Toppinen comments:- “‘En Route To Mayhem’ is a journey of hedonic needs growing into greed and aggression, driving into inner mayhem and ending without satisfaction. This video underlines the fact that however we think we are in control by destroying things and life around us, life itself will take over in the end, always. We are not in control of the bigger picture, and we should be aware of it and raise our respect to life around us.” The ‘En Route To Mayhem’ video is in support of Apocalyptica’s upcoming album, Cell-0, due out January 10th, 2020 via Silver Lining Music. Produced by Apocalyptica – cellists Eicca Toppinen, Perttu Kivilaakso, and Paavo Lötjönen, and drummer Mikko Sirén and mixed by Andrew Scheps (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lana Del Rey, Metallica and Black Sabbath), and recorded at Sonic Pump studios in Helsinki. The recording of Cell-0 followed a four-year break between albums that gave the band a fresh perspective and affected the way they approached the new music. Cell-0 is the quartet's first instrumental album in 17 years and found the musicians challenging themselves to discover new flavours and colours in their respective instruments. For Cell-0 pre-order options, go to this location. Perttu Kivilaakso comments:- “Cell-0 has a concept which is to challenge the listeners to question themselves and ask “Am I doing the best I can for the environment, for other beings? Is there still something I can change?” To highlight environmental issues, the band wanted to ask fans to do something for our planet; so to coincide with the release of the new video, they have launched a very special competition, which will give fans the chance to win the opportunity for Apocalyptica to play in their living room. To enter, fans will need to show the band how they are making the planet a healthier place for everyone. Fans can head to their Facebook page and comment with photos/videos showing what they are doing to help the planet and telling the band why they should be picked as a winner. To find out more information, head to the band’s Facebook page. The online contest is open to all European fans from now and will close at 7:00 pm CET Friday, January 10th, 2020. Full terms and conditions can be found here. In concert, Apocalyptica are known for their moving live performances and will kick off the New Year as Special Guests on Sabaton's 15-country, 23-date European arena tour that begins on January 17, 2020 in Zurich, Switzerland. With a set list that will likely vary night to night, Apocalyptica's performances will be comprised of new songs from Cell-0 as well as from the band's rich catalogue. Tickets are on sale now; go to https://www.apocalyptica.com for all pre-sales, VIP packages, and ticketing details.  APOCALYPTICA 2020 TOUR DATES JANUARY 17 Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland 18 Schleyerhalle, Stuttgart, Germany 19 Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany 20 Culture Factory, Zagreb, Croatia 21 Gasometer, Vienna, Austria 22 Arena, Budapest, Hungary 24 Torwar, Warsaw, Poland 25 Max Schmeling Halle, Berlin, Germany 26 O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic 28 Alcatraz, Milan, Italy 30 Arena Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 31 Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany FEBRUARY 1 König Pilsener Arena, Oberhausen, Germany 2 Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium 4 Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain 5 Vistalegre, Madrid, Spain 7 Zenith, Paris, France 8 Wembley Arena, London, UK 9 Afas Live, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 11 Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany 12 Forum Black Box, Copenhagen, Denmark 14 Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden 15 Hovet, Stockholm, Sweden 16 Spektrum, Oslo, Norway MARCH 12 Logomo, Turku, Finland 14 Pakkahuone, Tampere, Finland 15 Musiikkikeskus, Kuopio, Finland 27 Tullisali, Oulu, Finland 28 Rytmikorjaamo, Seinäjoki, Finland MAY 3 The Plaza Live, Orlando, FL 4 The Masquerade - Heaven, Atlanta, GA 6 Emo's, Austin, TX 7 House of Blues, Houston, TX 9 Sunshine Theater, Albuquerque, NM 10 The Van Buren, Phoenix, AZ 11 The Mayan, Los Angeles, CA 12 The Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA 13 Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR 14 The Showbox, Seattle, WA 15 Imperial, Vancouver, BC Canada 17 Midway, Edmonton, AB Canada 18 The Palace Theatre, Calgary, AB Canada 20 First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 21 House of Blues, Chicago, IL 22 The Opera House, Toronto, ON Canada 23 MTelus, Montreal, QC Canada 24 Webster Theater, Hartford, CT 25 Webster Hall, New York, NY 26 Big Night Live, Boston, MA JUNE 18 Hant Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia 19 Amfithéater, Terchova, Slovakia Eicca Toppinen – Cello Perttu Kivilaakso – Cello Paavo Lötjönen – Cello Mikko Sirén – Drums For further information visit: www.apocalyptica.com |
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