 Irish doom band Slomatics have just released their song "Gears of Despair" over at Heavy Blog Is Heavy. The song is taken from their upcoming album "Canyons" which will be released on June 14th via Black Bow Records. Listen to the song here: http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2019/05/30/exclusive-premiere-hear-slomatics-turn-the-gears-of-despair/ Formed in Belfast late 2004, Slomatics aim to reduce riffs to a primal state of heaviness, to produce music which whilst imploding under its own weight, creates a joyous and euphoric state of well-being which can only be obtained with a slew of vintage amplifiers, fuzz pedals, analogue synths and an alarming array of percussion instruments. This has endured through UK tours, gigs in Europe, five albums and a mountain of split/vinyl/cassette releases. 2012’s “A Hocht” was released to widespread critical acclaim, gaining support from around the world which was capped off with a deafening performance at the Incubate Festival in Tilburg. The band's fourth album Estron was released Feb 2014 and has been mentioned as one of the Quietus' Best Of 2014 and nominated for the Northern Ireland Music Prize 2014. Their album Future Echo Returns was unleashed in September 2016 and their collaboration with Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard was released in 2018. Slomatics are: Chris-Guitars David-Guitars Marty-Drums/Vocals Pre-order Links: Gatefold Vinyl (3 colour variants) - https://blackbowrecords.bigcartel.com/product/slomatics-canyons-vinyl Cd Digipak - https://blackbowrecords.bigcartel.com/product/slomatics-canyons-cd Tape Cassette (strictly limited edition) - https://blackbowrecords.bigcartel.com/product/slomatics-canyons-tape-cassette
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 Alien Weaponry have released the music video for their new single, "Ahi Kā", which premiered last week over at Billboard. The song represents the first new material from the New Zealand based metal trio since releasing their 2018 debut album, Tū. Fans can check out the music video for "Ahi Kā" via the link below. The track is also featured on Adult Swim's new, streaming-only compilation record Metal Swim 2. Alien Weaponry's singer-guitarist Lewis de Jong talks about "Ahi Ka" (Which, like many of the band's songs, is sung in New Zealand's indigenous language of Te Reo Māori):- "Ahi Kā was inspired by the Auckland city council's decision to burn down what was considered to be the unsightly indigenous Maori village of Okahu Bay in advance of Queen Elizabeth II's 1953 visit. The eviction sparked a 40-year battle for the native Ngati Whatua to reclaim their land, including protests and battles with the police. Amid worldwide criticism, a small portion of the original land was ultimately returned with an apology and some compensation." Watch "Ahi Ka" HERE "Ahi Kā" is available for streaming and purchase through Spotify and iTunes (respectively) over HERE! Fans and music critics alike have applauded the band's approach to unifying Te Reo Māori (the native language of New Zealand) with thrash metal sensibilities; ultimately creating a sound that is driven by emotionally and politically charged conflict while boasting youthful, warrior-like resilience. Both Lewis and Henry are of Ngati Pikiāo and Ngati Raukawa (Māori tribal) descent, and began their schooling at a kura kaupapa Māori (full immersion Māori language school) where singing waiata (songs) and performing haka were a daily routine. Also ingrained in their early education were stories of New Zealand history told to them by their father, who would also introduce them to the music of Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, Anthrax, Ministry, Red Hot Chili Peppers and many others. Alien Weaponry was formed in 2010 by brothers Lewis (vocals & guitar) and Henry de Jong (drums), who were 8 and 10 years old at the time. The two would later move to the small town of Waipu in 2012, and went on to meet Ethan Trembath (bass) there in 2013. The de Jong brothers came up with the name Alien Weaponry after watching the film District 9. Alien Weaponry have also been nominated for "Best International Breakthrough Band" at the 2019 Heavy Music Awards (UK). The event takes place on August 22nd at the O2 Forum Kentish Town in London. Fan voting is now open at https://vote.heavymusicawards.com/ until June 27th. ALIEN WEAPONRY On Tour: North American Headlining Tour 11.05.2019 US - Rockingham, NC / Epicenter* 12.05.2019 US - Washington, DC / DC9 13.05.2019 US - Boston, MA / Middle East 15.05.2019 US - New York, NY / Saint Vitus 16.05.2019 CA - Montreal, QC / L'Esco 17.05.2019 CA - Toronto, ON / Velvet Underground 19.05.2019 US - Chicago, IL / Chicago Open Air* 22.05.2019 US - Minneapolis, MN / 7th St Entry 24.05.2019 US - Pryor, OK / Rocklahoma* 26.05.2019 US - Denver, CO / Bluebird Theater 28.05.2019 US - San Francisco, CA / Bottom of the Hill 29.05.2019 US - Los Angeles, CA / The Roxy TOUR DATES EU 07.06.2019 DE - Berlin / Musik & Frieden 08.06.2019 DE - Frankfurt / Batschkapp 10.06.2019 UK - Cardiff / Fuel Rock Club 11.06.2019 UK - Bristol / The Exchange 12.06.2019 UK - Dublin / Vodoo Lounge 13.06.2019 UK - Glasgow / Audio Glasgow 15.06.2019 UK - Donington / DE74 2RP Castle Donington 16.06.2019 UK - London / The Underground Camden 18.06.2019 LX - Belval / Rockhal 19.06.2019 DE - Köln / Luxor 20.06.2019 DE - Hamburg / Uebel & Gefährlich 21.06.2019 DK - Kobenhavn / Copenhell Festival 2019 23.03.2019 FR - Clisson / Hellfest Open Air 2019 25.06.2019 DE - Saarbrücken / Garage 26.06.2019 DE - Hannover / Capitol 28.06.2019 FI - Helsinki / Tuska Festival 2019 03.07.2019 FR - Paris / Les Etoiles 61 rue du Chateau d´Eu 04.07.2019 FR - Toulouse / Rue Louis Bonin 06.07.2019 ES - Galicia / Resurrection Fest 2019 07.07.2019 PT - Lisbon / RCA Club 09.07.2019 ES - Sevilla / Sala Even 10.07.2019 ES - Madrid / Nasca Music Live 12.07.2019 ES - Barcelona / Sala Boveda 15.07.2019 IT - Milan / Circolo Magnolia 16.07.2019 IT - Padova / Parco Della Musica 20.07.2019 NL - Eindhoven / Dynamo Metalfest 2019 22.07.2019 SL - Tolmin / MetalDays Festival 2019 24.07.2019 HU - Budapest / Dürer Kert 27.07.2019 PL - Warsaw / klub Stodola Batorego 03.08.2019 DE - Stuttgart / Hanns-Matin-Schleyer-halle 06.08.2019 DE - München / Backstage Werk 07.08.2019 DE - Dresden / Alter Schlachthof 08.08.2019 CZ - Josefov / Brutal Assault 2019 10.08.2019 NL - Leewarden / Into The Grave Festival 2019 11.08.2019 BE - Kortrijk / Alcatraz 2019 16.08.2019 AT - Graz / Metal On The Hill Festival 2019 Official Website: www.alienweaponry.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/AlienWeaponry Instagram: www.instagram.com/alienweaponry Twitter: https://twitter.com/alienweaponry  Dublin's experimental metal combo Svet Kant are thrilled to present their new official video for the track "Sea of Planets". "Sea of Planets" is a track taken from "The Visage Unbiased", due for release on 31/05/2019. The album can be already pre-ordered. Check it out here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI8ut1hah9g The song, as well as the rest of the album, was composed by Santiago Kodela. Santiago Kodela holds a bachelors degree in music performance specialized in Classical guitar and decided it would be a good opportunity to present a different aspect of the band to the audience. For this piece, Santiago contacted Rebecca Rodgers, a good friend of him and colleague at the Institution where he studied classical music and composition (Royal Irish Academy of Music). The piece was inspired by Opeth's "Coil". Even though the aforementioned track doesn't combine male and female vocals singing together in harmonies, for "Sea of Planets", Santiago wanted to experiment with the idea of intertwining melodies carried by both singers. These melodies work independently, sometimes fusing together, and sometimes working in opposition. The song speaks about how will we depart onto the next world. Will we leave being a legacy of bitterness and sourness? or will we let go of all our resentment and material possessions and do what's right both for us and for the world we leave behind? It is a song that talks about facing the inevitability of death in the best way possible, bringing only positive thoughts and memories while leaving behind everything that troubles our minds. The track wraps-up the record and aims to close the crazy, experimental journey in a meditative and reflective state of mind. Almost like a much-sought rest after going back and forth onto the realms of chaos and unpredictability. The song was supervised and coached by Judith Mokk, an international coaching legend who has taught the likes of Mick Jagger, Tom Yorke, Eddie Vedder, and many more international stars. https://www.facebook.com/svetkantmusic  Irish death metal militia Sacrilegia stream the entirety of their striking debut album, The Triclavian Advent, at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. Set for international release on April 12th via Invictus Productions. Hear Sacrilegia's The Triclavian Advent in its entirety exclusively HERE. Hailing from Dublin, Sacrilegia specialize in IMPURE AND RUTHLESS METAL. Although no public recordings exist prior to The Triclavian Advent, one listen through and it's immediately apparent that this full-length is the work of veterans with a master touch. Deadly direct, no fucking about, iron-fisted and iron-willed: Sacrilegia are a grand repository of blackened thrash metal's most sterling moments across the past three-plus decades, but minced 'n' mangled in a manner most engaging and effervescent. Indeed, The Triclavian Advent strikes with a purity of intent and startling immediacy, but almost effortlessly invigorates the listener with bloodlust and battle fervour. And, in a mere 33 minutes, it gets in and gets the job done with fierceness and finality - and duly compels repeat listens, to whip forth total possession once again...and again...and again...
Maniacs pining for a new spiritual ascendant of Australia's reigning blackthrash paradigm (Destroyer 666, Gospel of the Horns, Nocturnal Graves) and maniacs of Germany's Desaster, Cruel Force, and early Ketzer, your unholy prayers have been answered with Sacrilegia's The Triclavian Advent! The full salvation can be found exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. www.facebook.com/sacrilegiametal www.invictusproductions.net www.facebook.com/invictusproductions  The Crawling are a doom/death metal act from the concrete maze of Northern Ireland. The closure of 2018 saw the release of their sophomore album, "Wolves and the Hideous White" - an exploration of the human desire to belong. Their latest single 'Rancid Harmony' focuses on formation and breakdown of relationships, and why we crave such like in a modern age. Check out the music video here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljqcfj0nRb4 Andy commented; “Is experiencing a connection with someone on any level better than none at all? Rancid Harmony reflects the facade of enjoyment, the dance we sell to the world, when inside it’s nothing but rot, and everyone sees it.” The album is available now from all major outlets and streaming services:
Website: http://thecrawlingband.co.uk/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/thecrawlingband Instagram: http://instagram.com/thecrawlingband YouTube: http://youtube.com/thecrawlingband  After five years of roaming city streets like a pack of rabid dogs, Vircolac is set to release its debut full length album titled Masque on Sepulchral Voice Records in Europe and Dark Descent Records in the US. Following on from 2016's The Cursed Travails of the Demeter EP, Masque celebrates a bolder edge mixing more visceral and vicious aural assaults with a foreboding and obtrusive atmosphere throughout the 36 minutes of the recording. The album title reflects the myriad masks we as human beings hide behind and the cover represents what is ultimately left once the mask of flesh is finally removed. Whether pauper or opulently venal, the end is the same for us all. Thematically, the album reflects two different strands of storytelling, with Side-A adopting a starkly defiant tone throughout. Side-B then takes a moodier assessment of the obsequious venality that governs the world we inhabit and inherit. The conclusion of this being the mass industrialized slaughter of much of Europe's young in the great war.
Masque is a direct statement of purpose by Vircolac and is the culmination of half a decade of steadfast belief in the continual relevance and importance of Death Metal. www.facebook.com/vircolacdeathmetal darkdescentrecords.com facebook.com/DarkDescentRecords sepulchralvoice.de  Irish death metal upstarts Zealot Cult premiere the new track "Sea of Suffering" at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The track hails from the band's highly anticipated debut album, Spiritual Sickness, set for international release on November 9th via Blood Harvest Records and Helter Skelter Productions. Hear Zealot Cult's "Sea of Suffering" in its entirety exclusively HERE. In early 2016, Zealot Cult self-released their debut EP, Karmenian Crypt. Duly impressed by this young quartet's power and poise, Blood Harvest stepped in and released Karmenian Crypt on 12" vinyl later that autumn. Quickly, Karmenian Crypt reaped critical acclaim, and for good reason: here was a band mature beyond their years, seemingly effortlessly crafting pure and total DEATH METAL that was simultaneously timeless and modern. Alas, those three songs were just a teaser for more mastery to come, and it's now arrived in the full-length Spiritual Sickness.
Instantly upon pressing "play" on Spiritual Sickness, this is the same whirlwinding Zealot Cult of before, only taken to bolder and more bellicose ends. Here exist those same strong, expertly integrated influences from classic Floridian death metal and especially the early Roadrunner/RC catalog which fostered same. And yet, Zealot Cult further manage to make epic, multi-dimensional majesty from that firm foundation, their compositions constantly rising and falling and taking dark 'n' doomed directions, all while remaining immediately memorable. So, while various strains of Pestilence, Death, Morbid Angel, and especially Obituary can be heard loud 'n' clear across Spiritual Sickness, its eight songs build upon said foundation and contribute to this rich legacy, underlining the unyielding ties to tradition whilst making majesty in modern times. Completed by clear-yet-crushing production and a fully satisfying 42 minutes, Spiritual Sickness is indeed aptly titled. The time is NOW to join the Zealot Cult! Continue initiation exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. Begin initiation with the previously revealed "Blades of Jihad" HERE at Blood Harvest's Bandcamp. Pre-order info can be found HERE. www.facebook.com/zealotcultDM www.bloodharvest.se www.bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com www.twitter.com/BloodHarvestRec www.facebook.com/pages/Blood-Harvest-Records/300012152033  Irish death metal mavericks Malthusian stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Across Deaths, at Decibel magazine's website. Set for international release on September 28th - Dark Descent will handle the album's North American release, while Invictus Productions will handle the rest of the world - hear Malthusian's Across Deaths in its entirety exclusively HERE. Since their fateful first demo, MMXIII, in 2013, Malthusian have been a study in strident refinement and maverick poise. No move is ever out of place, nor any possibility unexplored; chaos may be waiting in the wings, but it is resisted and never fully/remotely sought. The hydra-headed quartet started on enviably firm footing from the very beginning - trace elements of bestial black metal, morbid death metal, and languorous doom, all mangled and minced with poetic ease - but what sprouted from that first demo and especially the subsequent Below the Hengiform EP two years later was something extraordinary indeed. This was black/death/doom ART taken to hallucinatory extremes...and Malthusian were only just beginning. True, Across Deaths will be a "beginning" for many listeners otherwise new to Malthusian, but for those already well versed in the band's vortextural musings, the album-length format opens their world even wider. Peer inside and the visions of bottomless doom are writ large; obscene forms writhe and resist, each psychological tendril twisting to ever-beckoning infinity. That Malthusian can harness these sensations should be no surprise - both short-length predecessors seemed massive at the time (and still are) - but the sheer fact (not to mention the sheer audacity) that a band can so effortlessly take angular, largely atonal DEATH METAL and make it a seemingly cinematic experience should compel naysayers to finally investigate this malodorous of artforms. Naturally, for however adventurous their visions continue to be, Malthusian above all believe in the alternately damning/redemptive powers of heavy metal: diversity of expression comes from within, not without.
Further verbiage is simply wasted - the experience is all. No time like the present, then, to travel Across Deaths with Malthusian. Take the full, perilous journey exclusively HERE, courtesy of Decibel, North America's only monthly metal magazine. www.facebook.com/malthusianDM www.invictusproductions.net www.facebook.com/invictusproductions  Irish death metal mavericks Malthusian premiere the new track "Across the Expanse of Nothing" at esteemed cultural journal BardoMethodology.com. The track hails from the band's highly anticipated debut album, Across Deaths, which is now set for international release on September 28th: Dark Descent will handle the album's North American release, while Invictus Productions will handle the rest of the world. Hear Malthusian's "Across the Expanse of Nothing" in its entirety exclusively HERE. Since their fateful first demo, MMXIII, in 2013, Malthusian have been a study in strident refinement and maverick poise. No move is ever out of place, nor any possibility unexplored; chaos may be waiting in the wings, but it is resisted and never fully/remotely sought. The hydra-headed quartet started on enviably firm footing from the very beginning - trace elements of bestial black metal, morbid death metal, and languorous doom, all mangled and minced with poetic ease - but what sprouted from that first demo and especially the subsequent Below the Hengiform EP two years later was something extraordinary indeed. This was black/death/doom ART taken to hallucinatory extremes...and Malthusian were only just beginning. True, Across Deaths will be a "beginning" for many listeners otherwise new to Malthusian, but for those already well versed in the band's vortextural musings, the album-length format opens their world even wider. Peer inside and the visions of bottomless doom are writ large; obscene forms writhe and resist, each psychological tendril twisting to ever-beckoning infinity. That Malthusian can harness these sensations should be no surprise - both short-length predecessors seemed massive at the time (and still are) - but the sheer fact (not to mention the sheer audacity) that a band can so effortlessly take angular, largely atonal DEATH METAL and make it a seemingly cinematic experience should compel naysayers to finally investigate this malodorous of artforms. Naturally, for however adventurous their visions continue to be, Malthusian above all believe in the alternately damning/redemptive powers of heavy metal: diversity of expression comes from within, not without.
Further verbiage is simply wasted - the experience is all. No time like the present, then, to travel Across Deaths with Malthusian. Continue the perilous journey with the new track "Across the Expanse of Nothing" exclusively HERE, courtesy of Bardo Methodology. Begin the perilous journey with the previously revealed "Remnant Fauna" HERE at Invictus' Bandcamp. www.facebook.com/malthusianDM www.invictusproductions.net www.facebook.com/invictusproductions  Joining the ranks at Sliptrick Records this week: Swallowing The Weak (IRL) Deathcore Deathcore dissident Swallowing The Weak is a one man army taking shape within an online project. It was initially started in 2014 as an experimental project, working to achieve a more mature form as the project progressed and took on it’s own life. The music from Swallowing The Weak is a blend of modern breakdowns and heavy riffs with a death metal twist. The first EP, Devourer Of Souls is now ready and will be released worldwide via Sliptrick Records on November 6th, 2018. It’s 5 brutal tracks are full of hard, uncompromising twists and turns. Devourer Of Souls | Released on November 6th, 2018 on Sliptrick Records Swallowing The Weak is: Tomek Czajkowski – All instruments Band links: Facebook | Youtube | On Sliptrick |
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