Oakland, California prog-doomers Secrets of the Sky have signed to the Italian label Kolony Records.
Secrets of the Sky are currently touring on their debut album To Sail Black Waters.
Secrets of the Sky have one show coming up with KEN Mode and Torche on May 21 in Oakland.
Check out the To Sail Black Waters tracklisting and the Secrets of the Sky line-up here.
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Dutch metal band Kill Division have recently signed a deal with Metal Blade Records. The band features former members of the bands Legion Of The Damned and God Dethroned.
The band commented on the new deal: “We are thrilled about signing to Metal Blade Records, since they are a very devoted label with a remarkable history and legacy and we’re really excited to be part of their metal family.”
The band has recently finished the recording of their debut album, Destructive Force. The album was recorded at Toneshed Studio. It was mixed and mastered in Andy Classen’s Stage One studio. The band is currently finalizing the artwork and are looking forward to releasing the album in the Fall of this year.
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Dutch death metallers Prostitute Disfigurement have signed to Willowtip Records. Prostitute Disfigurement are preparing to release the follow up to 2008′s Descendants of Depravity. The album, which as of yet has no release date, is entitled From Crotch To Crown.
Prostitute Disfigurement had this to say on the signing:
“We’re stoked to have joined the Willowtip family because of their reputation in working with some of the purest and unique bands out there and we look forward to sickening this world together. So far, the cooperation between us is great and we look forward to working with them. From Crotch To Crown is a mix of old-school mayhem and modern, bonecrushing, technical riffing with horrifying vocals spewed from the minds of the most sick and evil beings in history!”
Long Island hardcore band Vice and Mexican hardcore band Ultima Victima have signed to Eulogy Records. You can read the official press release below.
“Eulogy Recordings is very proud to welcome two new bands.
Vice was started in late 2010 in Staten Island, NY. Vice started with one simple goal in mind: to play meaningful hardcore music containing a strong message. That message is simple: return hardcore to its original form, when creativity and diversity were accepted and encouraged, when people disregarded trends and believed in music for the right reasons, when fashion went unnoticed and when the scene truly acted like a family. With a strong punk DIY work ethic, they intend to deliver their music and their message to as wide an audience as possible through constant touring and releases. The bands lyrics reflect the anger and hatred of being disappointed by things once believed in, disgust with the current state of hardcore and being let down by life plagued with depression. The anger and hatred that fuels the band was first shown in the 2011 “Grievances” EP, maintained and developed on the 2012 full length “You Made Us This Way” and will be further displayed on the upcoming 2013 EP (Eulogy Recordings) entitled “Flawed.”
Ultima Victima is one of the hardest working and best known bands in Mexico. Ultima Victima has constantly toured Latin America and has also added stops in Europe. The band has been in the studio working on their new full length for Eulogy Recordings, which will be released late summer/early fall. The album will feature songs in both English and Spanish. Ultima Victima will be touring the world in support of their new album.”
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Mortals, a blackened sludge trio from New York, have signed to Relapse Records. Mortals will be hitting the studio this summer to record their Relapse Records full length debut.
This is what the group had to say about the signing:
“It’s unbelievable that we now have the support and backing of a label like Relapse whose roster of incredible talent is one we’ve long followed. We’re so excited that this label is offering us the opportunity to share what we’re doing with the world. Pass the whiskey!”
Check out the bands tour dates here.
Southern sludge upstarts Windhand from Virginia have signed to Relapse Records. This move comes on anticipation of their newest, as-of-yet untitled, album.
The album is expected to have a Fall 2013 release date.
Meanwhile Windhand plans on releasing Reflection of the Negative, a split album with the band Cough in mid-April.
Read a statement from Windhand here.
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Baltimore death thrashers Necropsy have signed to A389 Records. Their debut album Agony Defined is expected to drop in May 2013.
Stream the track “Voices In The Morgue” here.
Find their tour dates here.
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Nuclear Blast Entertainment just announced that they’ve added Oklahoma rockers Anti-Mortem to their ever-growing roster. With over 300 shows to their name and somehow all aged between 18-22, Anti-Mortem is getting prepared to take full advantage of this opportunity. They’re recording their debut album this month with Bob Marlette (who has worked with Rob Zombie, Black Stone Cherry, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Shinedown). The album will be released later this year.
Cleveland, Ohio metal punkers Ringworm have signed to Relapse Records. They will be hitting the road on March 2nd for a tour that will start in Reading, Pennsylvania and go through to end in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 8th.
You can read a comment from Ringworm’s vocalist Human Furnace and find tour dates here.
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Austrian Symphonic Metal band Edenbridge have just inked a deal with the German record label Steamhammer/SPV.
The new album, which will be titled The Bonding, will be released on June 21st in Germany, on June 24th in Europe and it will be released on July 2nd in the US and Canada.
You can read comments from Edenbridge’s guitarist and from Steamhammer’s A&R here.
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Arizona heavy metallers Flotsam And Jetsam have returned to Metal Blade Records and will be releasing their new album Ugly Noise on April 16th. This is the band’s eleventh full-length album, their first release on Metal Blade since 2001 and the follow-up to 2010′s The Cold. This album also brings the return of original members Michael Gilbert on guitar and Kelly David Smith on drums who haven’t recorded with the band since High in 1997. Click here to stream the title track of the upcoming album in video form.
Kelly Smith commented on working with Metal Blade:
“We have just inked a distribution deal for the release of “Ugly Noise” through Metal Blade Records. Ugly Noise will be released worldwide in late March/Early April of 2013. It was the obvious choice for us after our long-standing relationship and Metal Blades 30 year history of metal. You can’t match what they can do with 30 years of experience behind them. We are excited and looking forward to working with MB in 2013.”
The band is currently on tour with Testament and Overkill.
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Pestilence, death kings of Netherlands, have found a new place to call home. In a press release today, Candlelight Records announced the signing of Pestilence. At the time of the release, there was no set drop date on the bands upcoming studio album, which is to be titled Obsideo.
You can read band and label comments here.
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Official Press Release:
“Australia’s hottest new extreme metal export, Thy Art is Murder, has signed to Nuclear Blast Entertainment! Their second album, Hate, was recently released in their homeland where it has been smashing boundaries once thought to confine bands of their ilk. The record came in at #35 on the Top 40 Aria chart, making it the highest debut of any Aussie death metal band ever!
Nuclear Blast Entertainment is proud to finally properly release Hate in the U.S. on April 2nd and in Europe on April 5th.
The album was produced and mixed by Will Putney (SUICIDE SILENCE, BORN OF OSIRIS, FOR TODAY) with artwork created by Brent Elliot White (CARNIFEX, DEATH ANGEL).
“Nuclear Blast has always represented the pinnacle of extreme metal, a last bastion in an ever evolving industry,” commented guitarist Andy Marsh. “To say we now share a label with the greatest extreme metal bands of all time is ridiculous. It was never a dream, it was impossible. But we’ve done it. The future will be heavy.”
Rising from the unhallowed wastes of Western Sydney, extreme metal outfit Thy Art is Murder have carved a trail of bloody mayhem since their inception in 2006. With an acclaimed EP and debut album in Infinite Death and The Adversary to their name, the band have traversed the highways and autobahns of Australia, the UK and Europe on a relentless crusade to destroy every venue and audience they can with like-minded peers in a who’s who of heavy metal.
Simply titled Hate, the band’s second full length is the pointed result of Thy Art is Murder’s growing dissatisfaction with all aspects of modern life – political, religious, social and environmental – everyone is to blame.
Fusing the blasting technicality of metal luminaries The Black Dahlia Murder with thunderous breakdowns and the intensity born of their nascent hometown scene; the blackened grandeur of Behemoth and the pit churning groove of Tampa originators Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse, the furious musical arrangements provide a bloody canvas for vocalist CJ McMahon’s outpourings of bile.
No strangers to stoking controversy and criticism, the band have not toned down their art for the sake of palatability and have introduced a morose melodicism into their maelstrom – the rumination before pulling the trigger.
With their best work to date ready to be unleashed on an unsuspecting world, Thy Art is Murder will once again take to the road to unleash the Hate with one simple message – get in the pit or get out of the way.”
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Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky melo-death upstarts Beyond the Shore have just inked a deal with Metal Blade Records!
Metal Blade said this in the press release concerning the bands signing:
“Metal Blade Records has announced the signing of up-and-coming metal act BEYOND THE SHORE. In 2008, the Lexington-Fayette, KY quintet formed when the members were still in high school. Relentlessly booking shows, touring and balancing school at the same time, BEYOND THE SHORE had the privilege of sharing the stage with acts such as: Born Of Osiris, Shai Hulud, MyChildren MyBride, Of Machines, After The Burial and many more. BEYOND THE SHORE has created quite a buzz in the short time they have been a band.The band’s first release, “The Arctic Front” EP (2009), was produced by Kelly Cairns and recorded at Lambesis Studios (As I Lay Dying, War Of Ages, Austrian Death Machine, Impending Doom) in San Marcos, California. The band’s debut release helped to build an impressive internet buzz, starting with the release of the first single “Shotgun Sunrise.” After playing several shows in support of the debut EP, BEYOND THE SHORE began work on their full-length, Ghostwatcher.”
Oregon thrashers Lord Dying have recently been signed by Relapse Records. The band commented on their signing: “We are honored to be a part of the Relapse family. Throughout the years, Relapse has released some of the most intriguing records in the world of extreme music. While it is intimidating to join the ranks of the Relapse roster, we look forward to the future. The gloves are off.”
The band recorded their forthcoming full-length debut this past September with Sanford Parker (Nachtmystium, YOB, Rwake). The album is currently being mixed and mastered and will see it’s release this summer via Relapse Records.
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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.
