HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS press release
Victory Records Announces a New Venture with Hawthorne Heights Lead Singer,
http://www.victorypresscenter.com/New/PressRelease.asp?Release=27 …
EDGUY Just the best
German melodic metallers EDGUY are currently rehearsing for their forthcoming world tour, which will feature the band's biggest stage set to date. Commented EDGUY frontman Tobias Sammet: “I can't tell…
HAMMERFALL New material sounds promising
After the touring is over the next chapter is about to be penned. HAMMERFALL guitarist Oscar Dronjak says he can´t wait to dive head first into the composing, as the…
DEATHSTARS New video online
NUCLEAR BLAST are proud to present the new impressing DEATHSTARS video clip for Cyanide, taken from their upcoming album Termination Bliss
Don't miss to check it out, it's surely worth…
NUCLEAR BLAST Bandcontest 2005, Top 12
Nuclear Blast were happy to receive more than 1.500 applications for last years Bandcontest! Due to some impressing packagings we decided to award the 5 most innovative packages with a…
KEEP OF KALESSIN teaser video
Keep Of Kalessin has recently launched an internet teaser video for the new album “Armada”.
The teaser can be found at www.kalessin.no or direct link
http://www.keepofkalessin.no/videos/kalessinteaser10.wmv
The first tunes from the…
BLACK SUN „Tyrant from a foreign land”
Offspring bands come from everywhere You already know that really good stuff comes from South America. A new hope in the power metal area are here BLACK SUN from Equador.
BUFFALO BROTHERS „Magic Incinerator”
If you are looking for something melodic, basing on blues/rock grounds just try to find BUFFALO BROTHERS music. They started probably under the name PALEFACE (there is publication in London in 1995 called such name with two of B.B.
FALLEN INDUSTRIES – Interview with Grace Fallen
Fallen Industries is the brainstorm of Grace Fallen. They are a group of young models who promote talented bands, artists, companies and anyone who is following their hearts and dreams. Right now, they work for free and all you have to do is send them some of your merchandise and they'll surely bring it some eye opening attention. I had a chance to talk with Grace Fallen, the leader of Fallen Industries, so she can tell us more about herself and her company.
SKYFORGER Debuts in U.S.
SKYFORGERs debut US appearance will be coming up shortly. They will be playing the Heathen Crusade festival in Minneapolis, MN on January 20th. Hailing from Lithuania, SKYFORGER plays an eclectic…
SPI-RITUAL – Interview with Stefan Hertrich (voc. in DARKSEED).
Stefan Hertrich, singer and head of the German gothic metalheads DARKSEED, has again created a music project. Meanwhile this is his second solo project besides SHIVA IN EXILE and a further project called BETRAY MY SECRETS that he has got with Christian Bystron in MEGAHERZ.
Hertrich uses ethnic and Eastern music elements for his projects. The special thing is the way of the connection from Western and Eastern instruments. The singer and songwriter knows how to create nearly perfect fusions.
With Pulse the mini CD of 6 tracks of the new project SPI-RITUAL, it is succeeded to fusion gothic metal with ethnic and hypnotic, esoteric sounds that absolutely operate fascinatingly.
The details and backgrounds of SPI-RITUAL and the aims behind the project you can find in the following interview:
THE MYSTERY
December 10, 2005, Pabb, Heiligenhaus, Germany
CHAOS CONSPIRACY „Out Of Place”
CHAOS CONSPIRACY is the next Italian's musical experiment presented by Alkemist Fanatix Europe. The music of the band is so strongly twisting, that I do not know what I have write about the band.
FIGURE OF SIX „Step One”
This is the last material what we received from Alkemist Fanatix Europe – the promotive agency which assembles the bands dabble in oneself the sharp alternative playing with the smaller or the larger rock-metal tinge.
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Selfmadegod Records is proud to announce its new signing: INCARNATED.
INCARNATED was formed in 1992, playing sick and no-compromise metal described by band members as Gorephobic Slaughtering Metal. Quickly their first demo titled “Empire Of Rot”, produced at Bialystok's Salman…
New stuff of ABGOTT
ABGOTT is currently recording the album @ the Alpha and Omega Studios in Como (Italy) with producer Alex Azzali (Ancient – Symphony X – Mortuary Drape – Blaze
Baley). The album…
DEFLORE „Human Indu[b]strial”
Roman's DEFLORE is also gift from Promotive Agency Alkemist Fanatix Europe! This is not my defloration of the industrial music, although I am not the expert of industrial's sounds, because except the cult GODFLESH or MINISTRY it would be to hard mention something well-known from this circle for me. Despite of my ignorance in this subject – DEFLORE is the music on high-level and their music bases on trance, rhythmical sounds created by the massive, heavy guitar's riffs and the guitar's sounds, the pulsating bass, the rhythmic-hypnotic work of percussive automat with the addition of the different samples, the loops and the gentle keys.
AQUEFRIGIDE „Un Caso Isolato”
The next project from the stabling of Alkemist Fanatix Europe. The next and the very mysterious, as it results from the name of the music what the three men play.
KEENANTS „Lets Start From The Beginning”
Thanks to good kindness of Alkemist Fanatix Europe I had opportunity to acquaint oneself with representatives Italian “alternative metal” scene. “Alternative metal” because bands (AQUEFRIGIDE, KEENANTS, DEFLORE, FIGURE OF SIX, CHAOS CONSPIRACY), which music I acquainted, they oscillate between industrial, psychedelic music, grooves, crossover, past hard core and nu metal
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VINTERSORG “Solens Rötter ” Update
“The new album, 'Solens Rötter', is nearly recorded, some bass is missing. Still we've started to mix the album at Ballerina Audio with the engineer Nils Johansson. It has taken…
EKTORMORF Live DVD-details!
Hungarian hardcore/thrash metallers EKTOMORF will release a live DVD, entitled ťLive and Raw…You Get What You GiveŤ, on January 6. The package will include live footage of the band performing…
BLIND GUARDIAN Single details revealed
BLIND GUARDIAN's frontman Hansi Kürsch has revealed some details regarding the band's long awaited single Fly'! It will contain three songs: Fly, Skalds and Shadows (acoustic version), In A Gadda…
AMORPHIS Brand new track!
A brand-new AMORPHIS track, Two Moons', is currently featured among the “pre-listening specials” on Nuclear Blast's online Music Shop. Two Moons' is the opening cut on AMORPHIS' forthcoming album, ťEclipseŤ,…
PRIMAL FEAR Contest Winners
Congratulations to the lucky winner of the signed PRIMAL FEAR Flying V-guitar, Alain Yerna from Liege/Belgium! Both the band and Nuclear Blast were happy to receive more than 2500 entries…
SOUL TAKERS „Tides”
Soul Takers are completely new for me, and how Im predicting for most of you too. They are coming from Italy and playing melodic heavy metal, with some influences taken from trash (guitars), and classic music (piano, violin parts, etc.), and everything this is mixed up with very melancholy, but also beautiful climates.