Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Monday, September 23, 2019 at 10:48 AM (PST)
Richmond’s .gif from god‘s complete monster of a Prosthetic debut is currently eating alive anyone who previews it in full over at Mathcore Index RIGHT HERE. Trust us when we say it is kind of a good time. You can tell the band white knuckled their deepest emotions into these sick ass, rollicking demonic freight train performances.
“Possible Futures In The Minds Of Children” is prob my favorite tune on here so far, giving me mathcore version of FNM’s “As The Worm Turns” vibes on the intro before exploding into jealousy inducing levels of chaos. Also love the way “Take The Flesh, Make It Stretchy” kicks off, just one of those songs that you know people will be likely to freak out live when they hear a split second of it begin.
approximation_of_a_human is available Friday, September 27th. Pre-order is available HERE. This band fucking rules and are def our favorite of the groups who are kind of showing some 00’s mathcore and screamo snark/mosh influence currently.
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 12:21 PM (PST)
PSYCROPTIC will hit the road in North America alongside Revocation, Voivod, Skeletal Remains and Conjurer starting next weekend (full dates below). The eclectic bill kicks off on September 12 and runs for a full month.
PSYCROPTIC tour dates.
Ahead of the journey, the ferociously skilled band have revealed a new video for the neck injury conducive new whiplashtastic banger “We Were The Keepers” from As The Kingdom Drowns. Check it at Metal Injection HERE.
Of the video, drummer Dave Haley comments: “We took a few days out on our recent Australian tour to shoot a couple of film clips – the first one being ‘We were the Keepers’. Our longtime friend and collaborator Wilson Bambrick handled everything behind the camera, and things turned out great. We wanted the clip to be an extension of our live show, and he did very well at capturing that.”
Posted by longhairedpoet on Sunday, August 18, 2019 at 12:21 PM (PST)
Photo: Aaron Ehinger
Chicago metallers Snow Burial earlier this month released a music video for their song “Sever the Bloodline” over at Decibel.
“Sever the Bloodline” comes off of Snow Burial’s upcoming album Ostrava due out on September 20 via Prosthetic Records.
About the video, SNOW BURIAL frontman, Ben Bowman comments, “This video was conceived, directed and edited by Derek Cox of Polymyth Studios. He’s been a long time colleague of Nick [Delehanty]’s and was inspired by the song’s dark imagery. The song itself is born from the despair bred by the wild inequality and greed we see daily and invokes some rather violent themes to make a point. We’re hardly ever literal, but the extremity of the sound and words have intent.”
Head over to Decibel to stream “Sever the Bloodline.” You can also check out the album art and track list for Ostravahere.
Posted by longhairedpoet on Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 10:10 AM (PST)
Photo by Jake Owens
UK death metallers Venom Prison have shared a new video interview with Eliran Kantor, the creator of their captivating album artwork on both Animus and Samsara.
The video was shot in Germany on Venom Prison’s recent European tour with Fit For An Autopsy; vocalist Larissa Stupar sat down with Eliran to discuss his work.
The band comment:
“We’ve met Eliran on tour and at festival art exhibitions over the past few years and have established a very productive working relationship. This time we decided to invite him to our Berlin show whilst on tour with Fit For An Autopsy to discuss the process of creating the album art for Samsara but also to speak about the importance of visual art within music, the difference to Eliran’s work for Animus and getting to see the original artwork for the first time.”
Check out the interview and Venom Prison tour dates here.
“The song is about running through darkness. More directly it’s about how hopeless and cyclical it feels to move through the world with debilitating anxiety that goes unaddressed; moving forward with no direction or intentionality. How can one hope to overcome their demons or circumstances without acknowledging the reality that they are faced with? Without others affirming that their reality is real and valid?”
Sofia, Bassist, adds:
“sassafras is a re-recording and modification of one of the first songs .gif ever recorded. I wasn’t in the band at the time but it was the first song I was taught after I joined. We never felt like it was done proper justice, and we’ve changed so much as a band since it was first written and initially released that it sounds wildly different now. We want to show people who’ve never heard of us before a song that still remains important to us, while hinting to our current fans how much we’ve changed before releasing material that bears almost no resemblance to previous .gif from god releases.”
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 5:05 PM (PST)
Pinnacle Music Group are absolutely thrilled to announce that the legendary guitar virtuoso MARTY FRIEDMAN will be returning to Australia, for the first time with his full “Super Band” across four VERY intimate venues.
With a career of over thirty years with some of the world’s biggest heavy metal acts on top of an absolutely monumental solo career, Marty Friedman is a household name for guitarists across the world, and Australian fans get the chance to see the legendary shredder himself tear it up onstage in four incredibly intimate venues, giving fans a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience Friedman’s guitar wizardry closer than ever before.
VIP packages are limited. To get yours now, please send an empty email to: vip.info@martyfriedman.com
Pinnacle Music Group Presents
MARTY FRIEDMAN Australian Tour
December 2019
Tickets on sale now via www.pinnaclemusic.eventbrite.com or Oztix!
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You can check it out over at Brooklyn Vegan. Absolution was mixed by TKris Hilbert (All Hell, Between The Buried and Me) and mastered by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Portrayal of Guilt).
Ashbringer will be heading out on tour next month, you can check out dates for that here.
Posted by longhairedpoet on Saturday, June 22, 2019 at 4:11 PM (PST)
Minnesota metallers Ashbringer have posted the title track for their upcoming album Absolution.
Absolution is due out June 28 via Prosthetic Records. The album was mixed by Kris Hilbert (All Hell, Between The Buried and Me) and mastered by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Portrayal of Guilt).
Check out “Absolution,” as well as Ashbringer tour dates and the Absolution tracklist and album art here.
Posted by longhairedpoet on Friday, June 21, 2019 at 1:54 PM (PST)
UK metallers Venom Prison have announced a North American tour with Homewrecker. The tour will also feature Call of the Void, Joy, and Great American Ghost.
The tour runs from September 13th through October 13th.
Regarding the official tour announcement, Venom Prison commented: “We are pleased to announce our return to the USA and Canada this Autumn with the hellish union of Ohio’s Homewrecker & select dates with Joy, Call Of The Void & Great American Ghost. We will be visiting some new places and soon to be regular haunts – bring yourself to a date and show us how it’s done.”
Check out tour dates, including some European dates, here.
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Posted by longhairedpoet on Friday, June 21, 2019 at 1:45 PM (PST)
San Francisco metallers Howling Sycamore have today released their album Seven Pathways to Annihilation via Prosthetic Records.
Seven Pathways to Annihilation is the band’s second album.
Howling Sycamore features Davide Tiso (Ephel Duath), Jason McMaster (Watchtower) and Hannes Grossmann (Necrophagist / Obscura).
Seven Pathways to Annihilation was mixed and mastered by Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me, The Contortionist). The new album features the recurring contributions of Kevin Hufnagel (Dysrhythmia, Gorguts) on lead guitars, Bruce Lamont (Yakuza, Brain Tentacles) on baritone saxophone and Fabian Vestod (Skinlab, Gospel Of The Witches, Red Serpi) on additional drums plus the guest appearances of Marty Friedman and Matt Baldwinson (Tangaroa, Dream Tröll, II II II) on lead guitars.
Stream the album in full over at the Howling Sycamore‘s Bandcamp.
Check out “Initiation,” “Mastering Fire,” plus the tracklist and album art for Seven Pathways to Annihilationhere.
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Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 1:32 PM (PST)
EXMORTUS have officially announced more tour dates in the wake of their upcoming trek with VENOM INC., and HOMEWRECKER! Immediately following their aforementioned run; EXMORTUS will continue crushing cities across North America headlining tour dates and making their extremely anticipated appearance at Modified Ghost Fest supporting Voivod and Exciter on May 26th in Vancouver, BC.
“After touring with Venom Inc. and Homewrecker we’re stoked to continue our trek across the US with some headlining shows home. Then later in the month we have some shows up and down the west coast around our appearance at Modified Ghost fest in Vancouver, including some with good friends and fellow shredders in Silver Talon and Cultural Warfare. See you on the road!” states Conan of EXMORTUS on the upcoming tours.
EXMORTUS live on the North America Spring 2019 Tour:
5/06 Indianapolis, IN Black Circle
5/08 Oklahoma City, OK 89th Street Collective
5/09 Odessa, TX The Club
5/10 El Paso, TX Rockhouse Bar & Grill
5/11 Mesa, AZ Club Red
5/23 Oakland, CA Oakland Metro+
5/24 Eugene, OR Old Nick’s Pub*
5/25 Bend, OR The Third Street Pub*
5/26 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theater
5/27 Seattle, WA Club Sur*
5/28 Portland, OR Bossanova Ballroom*
5/29 Fresno, CA Strummer’s+
*with Silver Talon
Well, the headline doesn’t lie! Rabble rousers and hater arousersNeckbeard Deathcamp, the band you love or love to hate (the secone one if you are a fash loser), are hitting the road. Even though Kriegmaster from the band writes for us sometimes I just noticed they still don’t have a band profile on our system, haha. How ungrateful are we?! Sorry dudes, I will build that soon but in the meantime I will publish you under the Neck Deep In Filth band module so we don’t have a lot of html nonsense going haywire on this article post, hahaha. You could team up and be The Filthy Neckbeards, a more rustic sounding down to earth name? But I also listed this as a Power Metal article. Just because. Where was I? Where am I?
Oh yeah, a real tour to promote and not just inane commentary! Yes, we are stoked Neckbeard Deathcamp are hitting the road to rock your face and defy their foes, and all the bands on the tour are siiiiick:
AS THE FIRES OF FASCISM KINDLE IN THE COLLAPSING UNITED STATES; THE SPARK WILL BE EXTERMINATED BY THE UNRELENTING MIGHT OF NECKBEARD DEATHCAMP. THE INFAMOUS MILITANT BLACK METAL ETERNAL WARKRUSADE FROM BORDEAUX FRANCE— NECKBEARD DEATHCAMP WILL CONTINUE CRUSHING FEDORAS ACROSS U.S. SOIL THIS SPRING AND SUMMER ON THE “THE FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA TOUR.” OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED TODAY— NECKBEARD DEATHCAMP WILL BE JOINED BY THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL GUESTS ON SELECT DATES: THEORIES (5/27-6/17), WVRM (5/27-6/02), NO CONVICTIONS (5/27-6/01) & DRYAD (6/02-6/22). ALL DATES BELOW. “IT IS WITH EQUAL PARTS BLOODTHIRST AND EAGERNESS THAT WE UNFURL THE LONG BLACK WARBANNERS AND BEGIN OUR CRUSADE ACROSS AMERICA. WITH EVERY FOOTFALL IN OUR CAMPAIGN, THE GROUND BENEATH OUR ENEMIES GROWS SMALLER. AND MAY THEIR LIGHT OF HOPE FINALLY BE CONSUMED BY THE DARK AS WE WILL KNOW NO MERCY.” -NECKBEARD DEATHCAMP
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Monday, November 19, 2018 at 4:17 PM (PST)
Jørgen Munkeby of Shining is a road warrior and so perhaps his range of experiences has allowed him to learn how to see the humor in the following crappy situation you’ll read about in a second. I had hit him up as part of our preliminary year end coverage to see if he had a “road story” worth sharing that was funny from this year, considering his band has been tearing it up live in support of awesome new hard rock album Animal. Turns out he had plenty to say but it wasn’t anything a band would usually laugh about. This guy has a good attitude, even when complaining, hahaha.
I’m currently midway on a 6-week release headline tour for Shining’s new album Animal in Europe. All shows have been great, and it’s been absolutely awesome to see how well the new songs go down with the audience. We usually open our set with the songs “Animal” and “My Church”, and from right from the start we see more people singing along than we’ve ever had in our shows before, which is amazing! But the funniest thing that has happened -or maybe craziest is a more correct word? – is what happened after I broke the neck off my guitar in a show in Marseille, France, last week!
All of the instruments I use, except my saxophone, are pretty new and cheap standard stuff, because I want to be able to get the same stuff quickly from any store or backline rental company in case it is delayed by an airline or breaks down on tour. My two guitars on tour has been a Gibson SG Standard and an Edwards SG guitar, which is basically a cheap but great Japanese copy of the Gibson SG. The neck of the Edwards guitar actually broke on the last brutal and physical note on a song during a show in Netherlands two years ago, but was later repaired.
On the last note of our song “The Madness And The Damage Done” during our Marseille show last week, I felt that I had been a bit controlled during the whole show because of a bruised rib I got during a show in Paris a week before. I was missing a little bit of action and physicality,so I decided to make the last note of the song a big and aggressive one, and I raised my guitar high before the note and signaled to the band that we were going to play a heavy ending when I brought the guitar down. But during that heavy downward motion my guitar snapped in two pieces just like it had done two years ago.
Winter may be around the bend but climate change is real and you will not find apathy from the Denver doom riff inclined metallic/nature honoring covenant known as Green Druid .
Who better than druids to know with a grim certainty that the Earth needs our help?
Want to hear one of the most timely and heavy slow molten lava toe tapping tempo songs on environmental issues all year? "The End of Men" has got you covered with a captivating psychedelic visualizer video HERE. We all have to embrace this moment in time and face this era with our most determined artwork, habits and as much pragmatism as we can muster in order to survive.
"The End of Men is a commentary on the general state of decay that our planet is currently in," comments guitarist and vocalist Graham Zander. "In recent years it has become increasingly common for people among our generation to feel an overall sense of doom. This stems from everything from the impending climate apocalypse to world politics."
