AWS have been invited to Wacken Open Air - one of the biggest European metal festivals - this summer! Wacken team ensured its support to AWS before as well as Germany's biggest metal festival posted a video message on their social media platforms according Eurovision Song Contest 2018. ► AWS - Wacken video message on Facebook: www.facebook.com/WackenOpenAir.official/videos/2003333269690258/ ►AWS - Wacken video message on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-tV6uwZXM ► AWS - Wacken video message on Twitter: twitter.com/Wacken/status/99423073483879628 AWS - a hard working, underground modern metal band did it again: after they won the local Eurovision Song Contest - with the support of the whole local scene from the major rock bands till’ the underground death metal fellows - they qualified for the Grand Final of Eurovision 2018. Sadly they did not win, nonetheless they delivered a powerful performance. ►AWS - Viszlát nyár (Eurovision Semi-Final, Lisbon) bit.ly/2wAQSvq ►AWS - Viszlát nyár (english and acoustic versions): bit.ly/2Ibhfxd ►AWS - Viszlát nyár (contest song and karaoke version) bit.ly/2Ka410j www.facebook.com/awszenekar www.facebook.com/EdgeRecordsHungary www.facebook.com/EurovisionSongContest www.facebook.com/pg/WackenOpenAir.official
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Hungarian hard rock / groove metal band Road have released their seventh studio album, “A tökéletesség hibája” (English translation: A Flaw in Perfection) earlier this month. The album, containing 12 brand new songs, was recorded at SuperSize Recording Studio and was recorded, mixed, mastered by Zoltán Varga. The cover art was made by Gyula Havancsák, who previously worked with Wintersun, Ensiferum, Stratovarius, Edguy and many others. ➧ The new album can be ordered on the band’s official website: www.road.hu ➧ (Official album teaser video) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJdZ-Uo2_14 ➧ Road on online platforms: songwhip.com/artist/road The band also premiered their first videoclip off the album, which was shot for the final song of the record, “Sokkal jobb jónak lenni”. Multiple award winning Hungarian actor Imre Csuja (Argo, A Kind of America, Glass Tiger, The Whisky Robber) also makes a special appearance in the video, which was made by Mihaszna Film Studio. ➧ ROAD - Sokkal jobb jónak lenni (Official video) goo.gl/DWqKsJ www.facebook.com/roadzenekar www.instagram.com/roadzenekar/?hl=hu www.youtube.com/channel/UCaxDfVieo85h-cgHru32Q4w www.facebook.com/EdgeRecordsHungary AWS qualified for the Grand Final of Eurovision 2018 - vote for metal on saturday! AWS - a hard working, underground modern metal band did it again: after they won the local Eurovision Song Contest - with the support of the whole local scene from the major rock bands till’ the underground death metal fellows - they qualified for the Grand Final of Eurovision 2018. We would like to thank for all of your support so far! Every single post, encouraging word brought the boys one step closer to the success. A young, talented modern metal band coming from the depth of underground scene blasted the Eurovision stage yesterday and that is what we call magic. The magic of metal unity. Please help them with a share to make it happen! #voteformetal #voteforaws #metal #unity #esc2018 #eurovision So here’s the time to join our forces again! How to vote in the Grand Final? source: eurovision.tv/vote If you are in one of the 43 participating countries you can vote in the contest. After all songs have been performed, you can vote for your favourites for ±15 minutes. You can vote by telephone and SMS through the numbers shown on your screen, and via the official app. Rates and legal terms will be shown on screen. You can vote up to 20 times, but you cannot vote for the country you are voting from. Televotes make up 50% of the result, the other 50% are being determined by a professional jury in each participating country. The official Eurovision Song Contest app is your ultimate second screen tool during the live shows, available for your iOS, Android and Windows device. You'll get live information about the participants, shortlist your favourites and vote. After voting you get a special video message from your favourite contestant. The app also features the latest news, videos and backstage photo galleries, selfie filters and easy access to the songs. AWS is unique not just because they are representing metal music and stage dives at ESC - also not afraid to shock the crowd - but presenting theirs song in Hungarian. All theirs behaviour is true to themselfs: pure feelings and acts from a nearly DIY band and a barefooted frontman. Please support the boys, support metal! ►AWS - Viszlát nyár (Eurovision Semi-Final, Lisbon) - bit.ly/2wAQSvq ►AWS - Viszlát nyár (english and acoustic versions) - bit.ly/2Ibhfxd ►AWS - Viszlát nyár (contest song and karaoke version) - bit.ly/2Ka410j www.facebook.com/awszenekar www.facebook.com/EdgeRecordsHungary www.facebook.com/EurovisionSongContest Hungary's Kalapác release new album “Örökfekete”; lyric video for first song now available14/4/2018 Hungarian heavy metal veterans Kalapács have just released their 10th studio album called Örökfekete (English translation: Everblack) today via Hammer Records. A lyric video for the first new song ‘A lángok évada’ was premiered last week and can be seen below. The disc was recorded by László Weisz at his very own studio, Ecseri Vasmű. The cover art was designed by Ádám Devecz (SNDSGN / HammerWorld).
Kalapács - A lángok évada (Official lyric video) - goo.gl/gxAtLm Kalapács was formed by Hungarian heavy metal singer József Kalapács in 2000 after participating in successful bands like Pokolgép and Omen in the ‘80s and ‘90s respectively. The band’s name means Hammer, and that is indeed his real surname. You can order the new album’s limited special digipak version by contacting the following address: [email protected] The 2-disc digipak version - beside the 12 brand new songs - also contains the “Félszáz év Total / 30 év Metal” (English translation: Half-Hundred Years Total / 30 Years of Metal) bonus DVD, recorded at the 50th birthday concert of József Kalapács in 2015. This version is limited to 1000 copies and comes with a signed poster. The content of the bonus DVD can be watched on the link below: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdA51_0SDN1ZcnXwqk3ZXmmWTBhGKghf- Kalapács streaming on online platforms: songwhip.com/artist/kalapacs www.facebook.com/KalapacsZenekarOfficial kalapacs.net www.facebook.com/HammerRecordsHungary Hungarian thrashers Archaic have revealed their brand new video for “The Saw”, taken from their latest album How Much Blood Would You Shed To Stay Alive. The album is a follow-up to their first full-length, Time Has Come To Envy The Dead that was released more than 12 (!) years ago in 2005 via ViC Records. The debut quickly gained the band international recognition and got them to a tour to support Testament in Germany. The band issued their new video with the following description to set the mood: “In 2018, a large number of dead bodies were found in a hidden room, near to thrash metal band Archaic's rehearsal room. A badly damaged video camera was found thrown into a near trash container. The following footage was retrieved from the broken memory card. Viewer discretion advised.” ► You can watch it on the following link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_oxYc_o7k4 The band stated the following - as they won awards for the best studio production and best artwork also: “The recording process has started in 2016 with Attila Vörös (SOW, Satyricon) and continued with István Horváth (ex-Blind Myself, PMA). We’ve recorded it only for ourselves, we neither wanted to release it, nor to make it available publicly. The mood was always excellent in the studio, and during the recording we were convinced to take this album seriously. Following a series of positive feedback, we asked Péter Sallai to make something for the cover art, which he did in merely 4 days. The rest is history…” Archaic - How Much Blood Would You Shed To Stay Alive (2017 - NAIL Records / 2018 - Plastic Head Distribution)
► Archaic - Hidden Desire Official Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC0Ml_SEg4A ► Archaic Facebook: www.facebook.com/ArchaicBand ► NAIL Records Facebook: www.facebook.com/ArchaicBand ► Digital Platforms / Stores: songwhip.com/artist/archaic Hungary-based electronic/modern metal band divideD have just unleashed a new EP titled “A Hundred Times”. The 6-song digital release includes reworked and live versions of the title song, taken from their debut album Modulus released last November. All songs are available for streaming on YouTube, and can be purchased on all popular online platforms as of 22 March. Four of the songs were accompanied by video clips and can be viewed below. The mentioned first full-length album also won the award for “best debut album” in their home country. ► divideD - A Hundred Times EP
► The remixes as described by the band: Lounge jazz remix: "Sometimes a falling out that leads to breaches in friendship can also unleash creative energies in the band, and this version is a shining example of that. We’ve felt for a long time that A Hundred Times has the potential to work in a completely new approach with a different instrumentation. So when the aforementioned problems prevented us from testing some of the new gear in our home studio, all we’ve left is an acoustic guitar and the mood of American pubs of the ‘50’s - ‘60’s. To crown the performance and deliver a more authentic feeling and scent of cigar smoke and Tennessee whisky, we’ve invited our friend András Schubert to enrich the song with Saxophone." Campfire / unplugged: "We’ve always wanted to make a puritan, acoustic guitar-only version of this song, but we’ve always had something more important to do. The ‘Lounge remix’ already introduced the utilization of acoustic guitars, so now re-arranging the vocals is all we had to do to create a version that makes you remember on cold winter days what it’s like to sit beside a campfire on summer nights for a few minutes." 8-bit remix: "Belmont and PsyKlone are huge Cadillacs & Dinosaurs fans for at least twenty years, and the whole theme/design of the Modulus album was based on Konami’s classic arcade games, so it was almost mandatory to create a version fitting for the pixel-graphic artwork of the booklet. Belmont approached TomboFry, who’s known for his 8-bit YouTube videos, to make an 8-bit version of the song. He even programmed an additional solo to it. To see a Cadillac with a divideD logo in a post-apocalyptic world ruled by dinosaurs is a dream came true." EP version: "The 2015 version of the song, as it was released originally on our first material. Different sound and mixing than the album version." Live: "Live recording of the song as it was performed on Stagediving Festival earlier this year. The whole show was recorded with multiple cameras in good quality, and will be released at a later date. This first song is a token to those who attended the event, and a taste of the band’s live performance for those who have never seen us live." Full EP on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAG39Ohgysk&feature=youtu.be www.facebook.com/dividedofficial www.dividedband.com songwhip.com/album/divided/modulus www.facebook.com/NailRecordsHungary For the first time Hungary has chosen a metal song to be the winners of "A Dal" (The Song), Hungary's national selection television show for the Eurovision Song Contest. The post-hardcore / modern metal band, AWS are going to represent their country with their emotional song “Viszlát nyár” (Eng.: Goodbye, Summer) performed in their native language in Lisbon this May. The band was founded in 2006 by Bence Brucker, Dániel Kökényes, Örs Siklósi, and Áron Veress in high school, who were later joined by current bass guitarist Soma Schiszler. Combining different elements of nu-metal, metalcore, post-hardcore and psychedelic rock, the band managed to produce 3 full-length albums, 3 singles and 7 video clips in the 12 years of their career. Following a decade of successful club shows and even major festival appearances from all over Hungary to Austria, Slovenia, Romania and the United Kingdom, the band was announced as one of the participants of A Dal in 2017. Winning live performance of “Viszlát nyár” in A Dal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcWC7XOBZIE The well deserved victory came as a big surprise, although the band united the Hungarian metal scene like no band before. Musicians from all over the country encouraged their fans to cast their votes for AWS from popular rock musicians of bands like Tankcsapda, and Road, to members of death metal band Kill With Hate. Also, fellow competitor metal band Leander Kills asked their fans too to support AWS with their votes. A well-known name among lovers of heavy music in the underground metal scene, AWS was chosen from 8 entries who made it through to the final rounds of the show. These acts were judged by a four-member jury consisting of well-known figures of the Hungarian music and art scene. Unexpectedly, AWS sneaked into the super-final round in the company of 3 pop music acts to steal the show: in this final stage, people from all over the world were able to vote their favourite ones. This is what ultimately earned the band their triumph: AWS knocked pop music out of their way to claim the first place with the help of metal fans. The dynamic winning song, featuring both clean and screamed vocals, was inspired by a family tragedy. Frontman Örs Siklósi comments: "<Viszlát nyár> was put together in a summer camp in the company of a few bottles of wine.The lyrics are originally about my father, who passed away recently. We tried to make the video a little bit different. We didn't want it to be only about my story, so other band members can relate to it as well. We've emptied all our family video archives to demonstrate the passing of time and to stress how important it is to look after our beloved ones, because nobody's got too much time here to mess around." “Viszlát nyár” Official Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQgurXKh42U The band also stated that they plan to perform the song unchanged with additional visual elements and the same intensity as they do in front of their fans. The world hasn’t seen a metal band winning the Eurovision Song Contest since Finland’s Lordi shocked the audience with their horror metal in 2006. 12 years passed, and now the chance to make the winds of change blow is here again. But if metalheads of the continent can unite once again to line up behind this band in 2018, if together we can make this competition not to be merely about pop music, that remains to be seen. AWS Facebook: facebook.com/awszenekar/ AWS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/AWSofficial AWS Instagram: www.instagram.com/awsofficial/ EDGE Records Facebook: facebook.com/EdgeRecordsHungary/ Hungarian black metallers Nemere will release their debut full-length "Vérmezõ", on February 22nd via Neverheard Distro on CD and MC. "Nemere" originally is a mountain range in Transylvania, and they call the powerful wind which blows from there like that too. Nemere play old style black metal with Hungarian lyrics and so far they've released two demos in 2009 and 2010, respectively, then recorded their first full-length in 2012 which wasn't released as Nemere stopped functioning like a proper band and the whole project was shelved for later times. Those “later times” have come and their debut full-length "Vérmezõ" (Bloodfield) is ready to take all old-school black metal fans by storm. https://www.facebook.com/nhd666 http://neverhearddistro.tictail.com http://nemere.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/nemereband https://anvilkvlt.blogspot.hu The 'Releases Of The Year' series are albums chosen by myself as the best release from each country / dependency known to have an official release in the year 2017. These are alphabetized in country order so are easy to navigate. Each award has national flag featured alongside the band name, Release Of The Year' and Facebook link (where provided)
The leading Hungarian folk metal band, Dalriada just released a new music video for ‘Búsirató’ from the upcoming new studio album ‘Nyárutó’. Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAeR3u9dHIc ‘Nyárutó’ will be released by Nail Records on digipak CD, MC and digital. Worldwide release: 19th January 2018 and distribution will be operated by Plastic Head Music Distribution (www.plastichead.com) - the album will be available on all major digital platforms! Studio recordings were done by Denevér Studió and final works and mastering by the Finnish Finnvox Studios under the direction of Mika Jussila (Nightwish, Amorphis, Sólstafir, Stratovarius). Direct pre-order available from now on through the band’s website: www.dalriada.net Upcoming shows: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 - Budapest - Barba Negra Club Sat, 20 Jan 2018 - Pécs - Est Café Fri, 26 Jan 2018 - Szolnok - Váróterem Club Sat, 27 Jan 2018 - Szekszárd - Est Café Sat, 03 Feb 2018 - Sopron - Hangár Music Garden Sat, 10 Feb 2018 - Miskolc - Helynekem Fri, 23 Feb 2018 - Debrecen - Kaptár Klub Sat, 24 Feb 2018 - Kecskemét - TEKA Sat, 03 Mar 2018 - Győr - Bridge Klub Sat, 10 Mar 2018 - Zalaegerszeg - Atlantis Sat, 17 Mar 2018 - Szombathely - Végállomás Klub Wed, 11 Jul 2018 - Dunaújváros - Rockmaraton Festival (/w Powerwolf) Thu, 12 Jul 2018 - Vizovice, Czech Republic - Masters of Rock (/w Helloween, Powerwolf, Korpiklaani, Orden Ogan, Van Canto) Wed, 08 Aug 2018 - Villena, Spain - Leyendas del Rock (/w Saxon, Nightwish, Sepultura) Wed, 15 Aug 2018 - Falun, Sweden - Sabaton Open Air (/w Powerwolf, Battle Beast, Beast in Black, Primal Fear) WEB: www.dalriada.net FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/Dalriadahu/ RTA: www.rising-talent-agency.com/artists/dalriada |
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