Detroit melodic death metal band The Black Dahlia Murder has premiered their new song “Raped In Hatred By Vines Of Thorn” via Revolver Magazine. The song is off their upcoming album Everblack. The song is an ode to one of frontman Trevor Strnad’s favorite horror movies, Evil Dead.
The album is set to be released on June 11th via Metal Blade Records. You can check out the new song right here.
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Swedish melo-death masters, Dark Tranquility, have premiered the music video for “Uniformity” off of their upcoming tenth studio album Construct.
Construct is slated to drop in Europe on May 27 and in North America on May 28, via Century Media Records.
Check out “Uniformity” here.
Check out other trackes, “For Broken Words” and “The Science of Noise”, as well as Dark Tranquility tour dates and the Construct track listing here.
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Melodic death metal pioneers Dark Tranquillity have recently released a new video for the song “The Science of Noise” over at MetalSucks.
Dark Tranquillity are expected to drop their tenth studio album Construct on May 27th in Europe and on May 28th in North America via Century Media.
Stream the video for “The Science of Noise” here.
Check out the previously released video for “For Broken Words” here.
Dark Tranquility tour dates can be found here.
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Detroit melodic death metal outfit The Black Dahlia Murder have released the first single from their upcoming album Everblack. The record will be the band’s sixth studio release and is due out this coming June 11, 2013 on Metal Blade Records. The album art was painted by artist Nick Keller, with recording being completed at Audiohammer Studios (lead guitars and vocals), Rustbelt Studios (drums), and Regal Fecal (guitar and bass). Mixing was handled by Jason Suecof and Ryan Williams, while mastering was completed by Alan Douches at West Westside.
The first single is called “Into The Everblack” and can be found right here.
Vocalist Trevor Strnad recently had the following to say about Everblack’s lyrical concepts:
“The opening track is the first actual song we’ve done about the Black Dahlia. This one is for the fans… they’ve been asking for this to happen for a long time. The story takes place at the Elizabeth Short’s rain drenched funeral, where her killer in attendance… just one of the many macabre tales woven into the fabric of Everblack. Subterranean flesh-farming vampires, vine rape, Jeffery Dahmer, amputation… it’s all here! With this sixth slab of sickness I tried my best to honor the band’s legacy and write lyrics that will keep the legions of horror fiends perspiring with fear.”
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Acclaimed Swedish melodic headbangers Gardenian finally announced that they’re actually getting back together after reuniting for a one-off concert at the inaugural edition of the Gothenburg Sound Festival at Trädgår’n in Gothenburg, Sweden three months ago. After being gone for almost 10 years, this is exciting news. Here’s their statement:
“Well, boys and girls. Here is the news we were talking about. We felt we wanted to do some more than one show. So right now we’re back together for real and we are in the process of making new songs for an upcoming album. When this album will be recorded and how it is going to sound is yet to find out. But this old bear has slept enough and we are ready to bite someone in the ass. Are you?”
If you want to check out some fan footage from that Gothenburg show, you can watch it here.
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Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity will be releasing their 10th full-length album, entitled Construct, on May 27th in Europe and on May 28th in North America via Century Media. The band has revealed the album’s cover artwork and tracklisting. Aside from the cover art, the album will also feature artwork throughout by the band’s own guitarist, Niklas Sundin.
The band had this to say about the new album:
“The selected few people that so far have been granted the privilege of hearing the full album are uniformingly convinced that ‘Construct’ is the strongest and most exciting D.T. album in a long time, and who are we to disagree? While still bearing the unmistakable mark of the dark tranquillity, the record is probably our most different and diverse offering since 1999′s ‘Projector’. For now, we’re pleased to share the track-list, trailer and sleeve design with you, but the first musical preview will appear in the near future.”
Click right here to see a bigger picture of the album’s artwork, the tracklist and the video trailer for the upcoming album.
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British metal legends Carcass have announced that producer Colin Richardson has quit working on the bands new album, Surgical Steel, after only two weeks. Richardson will be replaced by Andy Sneap who has formerly worked with Megadeath, Machine Head and Killswitch Engage and will finish the album.
You can read a statement by Carcass frontman Jeff Walker here.
This will be the, very, long awaited follow up to the bands 1996 album Swansong and will be released via Earache Records.
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Kentucky metallers, Beyond The Shore, have debuted their third single “Glass Houses” off of Ghostwatcher on Loudwire.com.
Vocalist Andrew Loucks had this to say:
“It is written as a sequel dream state to ‘Half Lived’, as the entirety of the album is written in the mind state of a dream. ‘Glass Houses ‘is basically my perfect world, created and maintained from imagination.”
Stream “Glass Houses” here.
Ghostwatcher is set to drop on April 2nd.
Check out Beyond The Shore tour dates with Shai Hulud, Veil of Maya, The Contortionist and more here.
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London metal upstarts Monuments (Century Media) released a music video on February 25th for their song “Regenerate” off of their debut album Gnosis.
Matt Rose, Monuments vocalist had this to say of the video:
“This video was shot in our home town of London for the song ‘Regenerate’, turn it the f*%k up, and enjoy the groove.”
Monuments is on tour in Europe with Born of Osiris, After the Burial and The Haarp Machine, you can get the dates here.
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Charlotte, NC melodic death metal band Wretched and Dallas, TX alternative metal band The Browning have announced that they will be dropping off of the upcoming Soilwork North American tour. The Browning have cited “scheduling conflicts” and Wretched have cited “issues out of our hands.” There is not word yet as to who they will have replace the bands on the tour.
You can read the statements by both bands here.
Soilwork will be touring in support of their upcoming album The Living Infinite scheduled for release on March 1st in Europe and March 5th in the States via Nuclear Blast.
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Soilwork have just released the fourth and final single from their upcoming album The Living Infinite, out March 1st on Nuclear Blast, and it’s called “Long Live the Misanthrope.”
Check out the video for it here.
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Swedish melodic death metal band, Dark Tranquillity, has amicably parted ways with their bassist, Daniel Antonsson. The split happened shortly before the band began the studio session for their upcoming 10th studio album, Construct.
This decision has been growing for awhile, and the main reason is that Daniel wanted to focus on his own musical projects, as well as work more in his recording studio. Being first and foremost a guitarist, he felt that playing bass in a full-time band didn’t allow him much time for his main instrument and true passion.
With this in mind, he chose to follow his heart and step aside at this point instead of committing to another album and an intense touring cycle that would leave little room for other activities.
Daniel issued the following statement:
“I want to thank the guys in DARK TRANQUILLITY and the amazing D.T. fans around the world for the last four years of touring around the globe! It´s been awesome! Also a huge hug to the DT crew and all of the people working with us. I will miss you all very much! You are like family to me and I hope we will meet again soon!
But…now is the time for me to follow my heart and again focus on my guitar playing and being a recording engineer/producer in my studio, Gothenburg Rock Studios. We will meet again on the road or in the studio – that’s for sure!
Horns up and Cheerz!”
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German melodic death metallers Heaven Shall Burn have released their new track “Land Of The Upright Ones” off their upcoming album Veto! To hear the track, you will have to do a bit of work first: the song is chopped into 8 puzzle pieces that need to be put into the right sequence. Once you’ve solved the puzzle, you can listen to your first preview of the new album and download the song for free. Click right here to check it out.
Guitarist Maik Weichert commented about the song: “The song is dedicated to Thomas Sankara, a relatively unknown revolutionary whose fate is closely linked to Burkina Faso which can be translated to ‘Land of upright/honest people’ or ‘Land of honest people’. It’s a very heavy track.”
The album is set to be released via Century Media on April 19th in Germany/Austria/Switzerland/Norway and on April 22nd in the rest of Europe. It is set to be released in Australia/New Zealand/Finland on April 26th and on April 30th in the USA/Canada.
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Beyond the Shore, freshly signed to Metal Blade Records, have been hard at work on their new album. While at work, they took the time to make and release a studio update, the first of four to come in the next few weeks. They have also completed a music video for their song Homewrecker which was directed by Coleman Saunders. The music video will debut on Alternative Press Magazine’s website on February 25th.
View the studio update here.
Swedish melodic death metal pioneers Soilwork have released a second trailer for their upcoming album The Living Infinite. The video is about three minutes long and features frontman Björn “Speed“ Strid discussing the lyrics, guests and “the first double album in the history of melodic death metal.”
You can watch the second, and first, trailer here.
The Living Infinite is set for release via Nuclear Blast on March 5th in the States and February 27th in Asia. It is being touted as the “first double album in the history of melodic death metal.”
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Orange Goblin are pure rock n' roll... feared, respected and mentioned in whispers by awed rock fans and youngsters across the world. Orange Goblin are the modern UK metal heroes who never give up and always keep kicking ass. Back with their first live album, the pants-seat scorching A EULOGY FOR THE FANS (Candlelight), "The Goblin" just get better with age. Seriously, could this band be any more awesome? I think not.
