 [Photo Credit: Clément Thiery] It's finally here, and transgresses borders of all imagination! Ukrainian modern metal giants Jinjer have only just released one of the most anticipated metal albums of the year on August 27, entitled Wallflowers, and are already breaking the charts worldwide with the game-changing fourth offering. Wallflowers, the successor of their critically acclaimed third album Macro, is currently ranked at #7 on the German charts – marking their highest position in Germany so far – in addition to entering at #5 on the official UK Rock & Metal Album Charts. Plus, the band entered both the US Billboard Top New Artist Albums chart and Canada’s Hard Music Albums chart at #1, in addition to landing at #2 on the US Current Hard Music Albums chart and scoring several other top positions. Wallflowers has also gone on to gather numerous top spots in several other international territories. See all chart entries of this modern metal manifestation below.  Eugene on the new album: “Growing creatively has always been a major goal for us. The day JINJER stops reaching for new musical horizons will be our last day as a band. We could have churned out what our peers expected us to do, or produce ‘Pisces’ clones without end, but we’ve never done that and we never will. Instead, we wrote an album whose level of emotions range from the fiercest aggression we’ve ever had, to the most intricate melodies and melancholic vibes you could ever get from our music. We decided to rip apart all possible stylistic boundaries without regard to financial success or competing with our previous albums. Wallflowers is a different kind of album musically and visually. It’s about our identity as a band, as individuals and a clear statement that we are different from most artists… and that it is OK to do your own thing.” Get your copy of Wallflowers NOW JINJER is:
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 Man With A Mission have gone straight in at No.1 with their new album "Man With A “B-Sides & Covers” Mission in Japan. LISTEN HERE The album is the first of three new records to be released in celebration of the Japanese superstar’s 10th anniversary, and also makes global history as the first ever album of B-sides to top an album chart. "Man With A “B-Sides & Covers” Mission spans the breadth of the wolf-collective’s phenomenal rise to the stadium-conquering sensation they are today. It includes rarities and songs solely in their native tongue, such as 2015’s ‘Stella’, right through to the tearaway surprise B-side crossover hits including 2018’s ‘The Anthem’ and 2017’s ‘Mr. Bad Mouth’, which have since gone on to prove firm fan live favourites across the world. The album also includes the brand new song ‘The Victors’, which is also the lead track for the forthcoming feature length documentary Man With A Mission The Movie –Trace The History - due for release later this year. The second part of the 10th anniversary celebration album trilogy will be Man With A “Remix” Mission, released on April 29th. The record will feature remixes of Man With A Mission’s hit singles by famous producers from Japan and overseas  Man With A Mission are one of the most successful rock bands in Asia today. They regularly sell out arenas across their homeland and have also completed sold-out headline tours of the UK, Europe and US. The five-piece have a rabid following in the UK, no better demonstrated than at the overflowing tents at their recent performances at Reading & Leeds and Download festivals. Man With A Mission have been a part of major cultural moments in Japan and beyond. Their songs have sound tracked numerous anime films, TV shows, video games including Street Fighter V and also high profile sporting teams including Japan’s Sunwolves Super Rugby Team and New Japan Pro Wrestling G1 Climax last year. They provide the Super Rugby Sunwolves official theme song once again this year, with the new song ‘Fly Again –Hero’s Anthem-‘ which fans will get the first taste of in the forthcoming Man With A “Remix” Mission album.  Tool celebrates their third consecutive #1 debut on Billboard’s Top 200, with Fear Inoculum (RCA Records) reigning over the U.S. sales charts, selling 270,000 units. The news of Fear Inoculum’s impressive debut comes amidst news stories of the album release being met by lengthy lines at retailers as music lovers clamoured to get a copy of the limited edition, physical version of the CD. The spectacular, groundbreaking packaging boasts a 4” HD rechargeable screen with exclusive video footage, charging cable, 2 watt speaker, a 36-page booklet and a digital download card. The Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS) released a rare statement, describing the event-like album release:- “Several stores had well-attended midnight sales on Thursday (it was my store's first midnight sale in 10 years). When we returned to work on Friday morning, there were lines at the door… the TOOL release was the biggest thing to hit retail in years.” The success wasn’t isolated to the U.S., with the album debuting at #1 in Australia, Norway, New Zealand, and Belgium, as well as Top 5 debuts in the UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Ireland, Italy and Finland. toolband.com facebook.com/toolmusic twitter.com/tool instagram.com/toolmusic  Scandinavian death metal band makes death metal history in Denmark as their come-back album "Blasphemy Awakes" enters the Danish charts at an amazing no. 2 on the vinyl chart and at no. 7 on the physical album chart. "Anything is possible, but nothing is real or atleast this is surreal. A hellish greeting to those who made this possible, and between you and me, God is not included", says vocalist MHA.  The comeback album "Blasphemy Awakes" was recorded and mixed in late 2017 by Jakob Gundel (Invocator) in Copenhagen at Gain Factory. The new line-up features Perra Karlsson (Destroyer 666, Nominon) on drums, Kræn Meier (Sacrificial, Atomkraft) on guitars and JP Storm (ex. Dominus) on guitars and bass on this recording is handled by KB Larsen (Volbeat). Artwork is done by Roberto Toderico. Thorium will perform at this year's Metal Magic Festival on the 14th of July and currently a European tour is being booked. MHA – Vokills Kræn Meier - Guitars JP Storm - Guitars Perra Karlsson - Drums Claus Krans - Bass (Bass on the "Blasphemy Awakes" album by KB Larsen) www.facebook.com/thoriumdeathmetal  Deathcore squad Gravemind's EP 'The Deathgate' was released last week and the floodgates have opened - with the completely independent niche--within-niche genre Deathcore record hitting #70 on the ARIA Charts overall, #20 on the Australian Artists Chart and #2 on the Australian Independent AIR Chart. A massive effort for the Melbourne outfit, who have very few of the vinyl record pre-orders they put on pre-order last week as well. For most of the release week, they sat within the top 5 Metal releases, top 20 Rock releases and top 100 overall in iTunes and number 2 Metal release in Bandcamp. The release was announced via a viral mystery website - to which they revealed themselves to be the ones behind thedeathgate.com. It was a source of mystery that many media outlets tried to solve - The Music, killyourstereo, Rogue Inc, AAA Backstage, Reddit, Tomatrax, Deathcore Memes and more searched the site from top to bottom for clues, with varying degrees of success. Early July saw Melbourne Deathcore outfit Gravemind unveil that they were behind mystery website thedeathgate.com. The site countdown eventually revealed that Gravemind were behind the site. They are heading out on their EP release tour in September, which sees them on a three date jaunt in Brisbane, Melbourne and Launceston that brings along fellow Deathcore crew Blind Oracle for the Brisbane and Melbourne shows. Punters can look forward to seeing Gravemind on tour, having developed their sound and bone-rattling live show in shows with bands such as Architects, House Vs Hurricane, I Killed the Prom Queen, King Parrot, Hollow World, Iconoclast, A Night in Texas and Justice for the Damned. Gravemind's EP 'The Deathgate' is out now. Singles 'Anaesthesia' and 'Echo' are available now in iTunes and Spotify and all online retailers. For more information go to gravemindofficial.com.
While She Sleeps’ third album ‘You Are We’ entered the UK album charts at a career-high Number 8 last week. The record also debuted at Number 15 in Germany and Number 26 in Australia. The Sheffield band chose to fund the campaign with the help of their loyal fanbase through Pledge Music, making for a totally independently produced and released record. They achieved well over 200% of their initial goal and were able to connect with their fans every step of the way. Made with Carl Bown, who also produced ‘Brainwashed’, the songs that comprise ‘You Are We’ reaffirm While She Sleeps as one of the most inspiring, riotous and important voices in British music today, demonstrating both their continued musical evolution and their incisive social conscience. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whileshesleeps Site: http://www.whileshesleeps.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/wssofficial Twitter: https://twitter.com/whileshesleeps Snapchat: sleeps-brothers  Swedish Power metal heroes, Sabaton, released their latest record, The Last Stand, on August 19th through Nuclear Blast. The album reached the highest UK chart position in the bands history debuting at #17 on the National Chart. The success was wide-spread globally including top positions in Czech Republic, Finland, Switzerland and the band's native country Sweden. Now the Swedish quintet have entered the Top 10 of the world charts with the new studio album, hitting no. 6. The band commented on this big success across the world: "It's absolutely great to see that we list higher in every country than ever before with our new album The Last Stand. This inspires us to continue to write songs since apparently fans think we still have the ability. Now we just look forward to performing them all live!"  Worldwide first week chart positions for The Last Stand include: #1 - Czech Republic #1 - Finland #1 - Sweden (#1 in Rock/Metal) #1 - Switzerland #2 - Germany #2 - Austria #2 - Poland #4 - Belgium (#3 - Vlanders, #11 Wallonie) #11 - Netherlands #11 - Norway #15 - Hungary #17 - UK (#1 in The Rock Chart #5 in Indie Chart) #18 - Spain #20 - Canada (#2 Hard Music Chart) #29 - Australia #32 - France # 63 - US Billboard Chart (#2 on Billboard Hard Music Chart, #4 - Independent) #92 - Ireland (#14 - Indie) Additionally, the band have revealed the first track-by-track trailer today, telling more about the stories behind the songs. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/_nIPHU6N1IM Order the album on CD, Vinyl and Limited Edition CD/DVD (includes signed insert, while stocks last) from Recordstore.co.uk here: http://bit.ly/SabatonRS Or get the limited Gold, Yellow or Blue Vinyl, Box Set and Tank Edition (includes signed insert, while stocks last) from Nuclear Blast UK Store: http://bit.ly/SabatonNBStore Or digitally: http://nblast.de/SabatonDownloads http://www.sabaton.net/ https://www.facebook.com/sabaton/ https://twitter.com/sabaton https://www.instagram.com/sabatonofficial/ West Virginia's Rhin premiere "Uncle Tuck" video via Cvlt Nation ahead of Eastern US tour.16/4/2016  A brand new video by West Virginia-based noise / stoner metal trio Rhin has just been completed and immediately dispatched by the aficionados of the underground at Cvlt Nation. Culled from their third album, "Passenger", the video was filmed for the track "Uncle Tuck" by the band at their own House Of Tuck residence where the LP was recorded as well. Issues Cvlt Nation with the "Uncle Tuck" video premiere, "I love the hypnotic, psychedelic riffs of stoner metal, and the dirty blues of sludge, but I like them even better when they're mixed in the rebellious, chaotic blender that is noise! West Virginia's Rhin have a new album in the works entitled Passenger that will make you want to get all fucked up on moonshine and burn some shit!" Feel free to shred to Rhin's "Uncle Tuck" at Cvlt Nation RIGHT HERE. Baltimore-based Grimoire Records is preparing the diverse and damaging "Passenger" for release on splatter vinyl, cassette, and digital formats on May 6th, with a CD pressing following. Preorders are available HERE. Directly preceding the release of "Passenger", Rhin will hook up with their brethren of dirge in Grizzlor for a three-day romp through the Northeast at the very end of April. Also Rhin will inundate the Southeastern and Midwestern states on a more extensive tour with Ratship, whom they recently did a split cassette with, that action running from May 26th through June 5th. RHIN Tour Dates:
4/28/2016 The Fire - Philadelphia, PA w/ Grizzlor 4/29/2016 Grand Victory - Brooklyn, NY w/ Grizzlor 4/30/2016 Three Sheets - New Haven, CT w/ Grizzlor 5/26/2016 VClub - Huntington, WV w/ Ratship 5/27/2016 The Green Lantern - Lexington, KY w/ Ratship 5/28/2016 Nightmare House on Elm Street - Bowling Green, KY w/ Ratship 5/29/2016 Springwater Bar - Nashville, TN w/ Ratship 5/30/2016 Lost Cross House - Carbondale, IL w/ Ratship 5/31/2016 Black Sheep Cafe - Springfield, IL w/ Ratship 6/01/2016 Institute 4 Creativity - Champaign, IL w/ Ratship 6/02/2016 House Show - Bloomington, IN w/ Ratship 6/03/2016 Modern Cult Records - Louisville, KY w/ Ratship 6/04/2016 Rake's End - Cincinnati, OH w/ Ratship 6/05/2016 Spacebar - Columbus, OH w/ Ratship http://www.facebook.com/rhinwv  Abbath have entered national, independent, and metal charts all over Europe with their eponymous debut album. 'Abbath' has been released worldwide on January 22nd. All current chart entries are listed below. Sweden #3 - Hard Rock and Metal Chart UK #14 - Top 40 Rock and Metal Chart Norway #17 (higher than last Immortal album) Finland #33 UK #33 - Top 50 Independent Chart Austria #35 Germany #38 Sweden #49 Belgium #70 Holland #85 France #92 'Abbath' is still already available from the Season of Mist shop in several formats including a limited edition box with extras and Gatefold vinyl in various colours: http://smarturl.it/AbbathAlbumShop Artwork and track-list of 'Abbath'., which can both be viewed above and below. 01. To War! 02. Winterbane 03. Ashes of the Damned 04. Ocean of Wounds 05. Count the Dead 06. Fenrir Hunts 07. Root of the Mountain 08. Endless 09. Nebular Ravens Winter [bonus] www.facebook.com/abbathband www.abbath.net |
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