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BLACK MESSIAH veröffentlichen "First War Of The World" am 12. März
Die deutschen Pagan-Metaller BLACK MESSIAH veröffentlichen am 12. März über AFM Records ihr neues Album - "First War Of The World".
Bandkopf Zagan dazu: "Wir haben erstmals ein Konzeptalbum gemacht. Es erzählt die Geschichte des ersten Krieges der Welt, der sich, nach der Nordischen Mythologie, zwischen den Göttergeschlechtern der Asen (Odin, Thor usw.) und der Vanen (Njörd usw) zugetragen hat. Diese Platte ist sicherlich epischer als die Vorgänger und setzt trotz aller Härte noch mehr auf Melodie und Stimmung. Wir haben mit Tom Zahner einen professionellen Sprecher verpflichtet, der ab und zu als Erzähler zu hören ist. Desweiteren ist in den Songs "Das Unterpfand" und "Andacht" der ausgebildete Bariton Markus "Mönch" Wahlers zu hören, der musikalisch die Rolle des Riesen Mime übernimmt."
Songtitel:
1) Prologue - The Discovery
2) The Vanir Tribe
3) Gullveig
4) Von Rachsucht Und Lüge
5) March Of The Warriors
6) Vor Den Toren Valhalls
7) The Battle Of Asgaard
8) The Chase
9) Burn Vanaheimr
10) Das Unterpfand
11) Peace At A High Price
12) Andacht
13) Söldnerschwein (Bonus)
Spielzeit: 65 min.
Studio: SSE Studios Essen
Pruduced by Sir Percy
AMORAL teams up with Finnish Idols-winner Ari “Heavy-Ari” Koivunen!
The Finnish metal group Amoral, whose ex-vocalist Niko Kalliojärvi left the group last summer, have found a new singer – Finnish Idols-competition winner Ari Koivunen!
Ari Koivunen won Idols in 2007, and is also known as “Heavy-Ari” in his home country due to his very metal and rock based song choices and solo albums. Ari Koivunen has released two very metallic solo albums to date, and has gathered several gold awards for his album sales in Finland.
The members of Amoral have known Ari for a long time, and after the departure of Niko Kalliojärvi they found it natural to see how Ari’s vocals and Amoral’s music would fit together – with excellent results! Like Amoral’s mastermind and lead guitarist Ben Varon puts it: “It was clear that we were heading for a more melodic genre of metal with our next album – now with Ari handling the vocals we can be sure that our new songs will work perfectly”.
Amoral is currently working on a follow-up to their last album “Reptile Ride” together with their new vocalist – the album is due for release next Spring.
www.amoralweb.com
TEXTURES premieres the Music Video for "Awake"
Textures have posted the Music Video for the song awake on the band's myspace: http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=45550340
The video was shot at the beginning of October in the Belgian Ardennes under supervision of director Rob Hodselmans (GEM, Room 11) and producer David Leite from Hazazah. The video has been made possible thanks to a generous grant from the Dutch TAX funds – an incentive from the Dutch Government to assist up-and-coming Dutch artists with audio/visual output.
Texas-based mythological occult metal outfit ABSU has announced the addition of bassist/co-vocalist Ezezu (ex-PANZRAM) to the group's ranks. This is the first time the band is experiencing a permanent quartet-type line up since the band’s debut album “Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L.” Drummer/vocalist Proscriptor says of the latest addition, "We are very proud to welcome Ezezu as the newest member of ABSU. He was the missing element we have been searching for and definitely fits in the group. We are delighted to convey our next chapter of mythological occult metal with him."
ABSU has just completed the recording of their latest album, “Absu” to be released in the beginning of 2009 on Candlelight Records. The album was more or less engineered by the band, mixed by none other than J.T. Longoria at Nomad Recording Studio (KING DIAMOND, SOLITUDE AETERNUS, ETC.) and will be mastered by Proscriptor at his studio Tarot Productions.
Guest musicians on the album include the following:
Ashmedi (MELECHESH)
Blasphemer (ex-MAYHEM/AVA INFERI)
Equitant (ex-ABSU/EQUITANT)
David Harbour (ex-KING DIAMOND/DAVID HARBOUR)
Michael Harris (DARKOLOGY/MICHAEL HARRIS)
Mindwalker (THE FIRSTBORN)
Nornagest (ENTHRONED)
Vorskaath (ZEMIAL)
"Absu" projected track listing: (in this particular order)
01. Between The Absu Of Eridu & Erech
02. Night Fire Canonization
03. Amy
04. Nunbarshegunu
05. 13 Globes
06. …Of The Dead Who Never Rest In Their Tombs Are The Attendance Of Familiar Spirits…Including:
A.) Diversified Signs Inscribed
B.) Our Earth Of Black
C.) Voor
07. Magic(k) Square Cipher
08. In The Name Of Auebothiabathabaithobeuee
09. Girra’s Temple
10. Those Of The Void Will Re-Enter
11. Sceptre Command
12. Ye Uttuku Spells
13. Twix Yesterday, The Day & The Morrow
Battlegod Productions - new releases:
MAY RESULT - Slava Smrti
Serbia’s Black Death Metal Legends are back with their 6th opus released as a Limited Edition digipack of 500 copies with a 24 page booklet The ultimate in Cold Darkness and Evil Black Metal.
THIRTEENTH SIGN - Oracles of Armageddon
From the UK. Melodic Thrash Metal with Heavy Metal touches Great melodies and harmonies with powerful Black & death vocals. Thrash Metal Power Attack at it’s best.
AEVERON - Existential Dead End
Arising from Germany, Melodic Symphonic Black, Death Metal.
Awsome music great production. Limited Edition Digipack of 500 copies with bonus hidden tracks.
BLACK REIGN - Sovereign
Forging the elements of power, aggression, darkness and speed into one metallic sound, the four riders of the storm have come. Black Reign pure classic heavy metal with a lethal dose of thrash!
The Swedish death/thrashers ARISE are now preparing for the definitive comeback after three years of silence with the fourth album entitled ”The Reckoning”. This album will be the definite comeback of ARISE and will be released february/march 2009 through Regain Records. The new album will feature the following guestmusicians: Jonas Kjellgren (Scar Symmetry, ex-Carnal Forge etc), Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity) and Jake Fredém (Nostradameus). They are often described as an crossover between At the Gates, Hypocrisy and Carcass and are responsible for the 3 albums ”The Godly Work Of Art”, ”Kings Of The Cloned Generation” and ”The Beautiful New World” released through Spinefarm/Universal Records. They have along toured with Vader also performed with bands like Morbid Angel, Entombed, Exodus, The Crown and Hatesphere to name a few.
Listen to a brand new song(“No memory Of Light”) from the upcoming album which will be released early 2009 at: www.myspace.com/ariseonline or: www.ariseonline.com
Stay tuned for more information about the upcoming release of ARISE.
Candlelight Records signs Corpus Christii
With the main aims of spreading the Word of Satan and to raise Torment over this Earth, Corpus Christii has been releasing works of audio terror since 1998. Being the first Portuguese band to expand internationally in a more broad way than they had been done before, Corpus Christii have reached out to a vastly spread audience on all continents through their releases but also through numerous live-gigs over Europe.
The back-catalogue consists of 12 releases in various formats (tape, CD, vinyl) of which 5 are full-length albums. The band has passed through different Eras in the creations, the first one being the more primitive side with "Saeculum Domini". Thereafter going into a more technical state with "The Fire God" and most recently, the conceptual "Torment"-trilogy where dynamics and built in symbolisms reflect themselves throughout the lyrics as well as the music.
Corpus Christii deals with the most inner desires for pain and destruction, combining ferocious moments with extreme melodic torturous lines. The band is the personal creation of Nocturnus Horrendus with Menthor as his second man on drums. A steady live line-up is strived for, but these two are the ones realizing the releases. Corpus Christii puts high value to live-manifestations and always wishes to visit new grounds that have not yet been reached. The unique thing with Corpus Christii, Nocturnus Horrendus says, lies in "The way we see Religion, the way we embrace Satanism, the way we have the strength to persist through all the problems we've dealt with and above all being Pure."
In a near future the mini-CD "Carving A Pyramid Of Thoughts" is being released and the creation of a new album is to begin during the end of 2008.
www.myspace.com/corpuschristii666
Candlelight Records announces the signing of Oakland, California based DEFIANCE.
The band currently featuring vocalist Steev Esquivel (Skinlab), guitarist Jim Adams, bassist Mike Kaufmann and drummer Mark Hernandez (Vio-lence, Forbidden) has started early tracking of their new album at Trident Studios and Greendot Studios in East Bay, California. The currently untitled album is expected for Spring 2009 release.
Formed in 1985, Defiance have recorded three albums all for Roadrunner Records - Product of Society (1989, produced by Jeff Waters/Annihilator), Void Terra Firma (1990, produced by John Cuniberti), and Beyond Recognition (1992, produced by Rob Beaton). In 1994 the members put Defiance on hiatus allowing them opportunity to work on outside projects. In 2005 after requests from fans and new vigor on the part of band members, Defiance reunited. In an interview with popular portal Metal-Temple.com Mike Kaufmann reveals, "We have received lots of messages from fans who have said they would love to hear some new Defiance. We always felt the band broke up too early so we plan to use this opportunity to pick up where we left off."
Defiance along with their fellow mosh pit peers of the 80's (Testament, Exodus, Death Angel) contributed to the rise and immense popularity of thrash metal for over a decade. In recent years with the reformations of many of the classic bands, fans have been given opportunity to re-embrace the aggressive sound of the American-flavor of the genre.
"AT THE ARENA OV AION - LIVE APOSTASY"
BEHEMOTH finally presenting their first live album ever! This is a release worth exploring by fans of BEHEMOTH as well as those who are looking for a 'Best Of' with which to explore their discography. Available as Digibook(15 Tracks) & Metalbox(incl. Patch + Guitarpic + bonus songs). The release of this masterpiece is scheduled for october 2008.
Tracklist:
1.Rome 64 e.v
2.Slaying The Prophets Ov Isa
3.Antichristian Phenomenon
4.Demigod
5.From The Pagan Vastlands
6.Conquer All
7.Prometherion
8.Drum Solo
9.Slaves Shall Serve
10.As Above So Low
11.At The Left Hand Ov God
12.Summoning Ov The Ancient Ones
13.Christgrinding Avenue
14.Christians To The Lions
15.Sculpting The Throne Ov Seth
16.Decade Ov Therion
17.Chant For Ezkaton 2000 e.v
18.I Got Erection (Turbonegro Coverversion)
19.Pure Evil & Hate
"BLOODPATH", the new video from Stockholm death metallers GRAVE, can be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jvd0XgfG3w . The song comes off the group's latest CD "Dominion VIII", which was recorded by Ola Lindgren in Studio Soulless/Stockholm and mixed by Peter Othberg in Sandkvie Studio/Visby.
www.grave.se
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