Archive for September, 2011

A BAND OF ORCS Unveil New Song, “Wyrd Of The Winter Wolf”

The almighty A BAND OF ORCS have a new song out now entitled “Wyrd Of The Winter Wolf”.  A full blown metal assault revealing that these Orcs mean business.

A brief history of the dawning  of A BAND OF ORCS for those yet untouched by their lingering brutality. In December of 2006, a group of young nerds playing Dungeons & Dragons inadvertently summoned the monstrous oRcs by rolling dice on a “Random Encounter Table.” Unfortunately for them, they encountered A BAND OF ORCS, who reacted with all of the inappropriate violence that you might expect from such savage warriors. The oRc’s world changed forever, though, when they heard the demonic sounds of Slayer coming from downstairs.

The band spent a few months learning how to play guitar, bass and drums. During this brutal time rhythm guitarist Hulg ElfR.I.Per experienced a most (un)fortunate electrocution, in a battle over tunings fought with lead guitarist Cretos Filthgrinder.  Hulg has since been reanimated into an oRc zombie Master of Crushing Rhythms. So it goes. Studio sorcery began in May 2007, when A BAND OF ORCS converted and liaised with metal music veteran producer Scott Sargeant and engineer Juan Urteaga to cut their debut EP WarChiefs of the Apocalypse.

On November 23, 2007, heavy metal legend Bruce Dickinson played the track “Bring Out Your Dead” on The Bruce Dickinson Rock Show broadcasted on the BBC.  In May of 2008, another magical opportunity arose. Hollywood producer Courtney Gains (best known as an actor for his role as Malachi in “Children of the Corn”) assembled a film crew to create the oRcs’ first video with extremely talented, up-and-coming maestro Jess Bryden at the director’s helm.  The resulting CGI masterpiece, “Into the Maelstrom,” aired on Fuse-on-Demand in November of 2008, and is still garnering much attention!

By oRctober of 2008, A BAND OF ORCS had been sufficiently domesticated to appear before their human devotees in live brutality.  To metalheads and others who desire to be enslaved by the Domination. The harbingers of interdimensional metal, A BAND OF ORCS, have arrived.

TRAPPED UNDER ICE Announces Fall Headlining Tour

TRAPPED UNDER ICE Announces Fall Headlining Tour with Hundredth, Backtrack, Betrayal and Take Offense

TRAPPED UNDER ICE  has planned an extensive fall headlining run with support from Hundredth, BacktrackBetrayal and Take Offense. The tour begins in Wilkes-Barre, PA on October 22nd and comes to a close in Richmond, VA on December 12th. More dates are scheduled to be added soon.

 

  ‘Big Kiss Goodnight’ Hits Stores on October 11th, 2011 with GOOD FIGHT MUSIC; Vinyl Version Releasing with REAPER RECORDS

TRAPPED UNDER ICE and Altpress.com are offering a special prize pack contest right now in celebration of Big Kiss Goodnight! The winner will take home an ESP branded skateboard deck, an autographed copy of the AltPress Mini Mag September 2011 issue featuring TRAPPED UNDER ICE, a Big Kiss Goodnight CD and vinyl LP, a TRAPPED UNDER ICE t-shirt, and a GOOD FIGHT MUSIC t-shirt. You can enter the contest at this location: http://www.altpress.com/contests/view/trapped_under_ice

The band’s new album, Big Kiss Goodnight, is released via GOOD FIGHT MUSIC on October 11th, 2011 and a vinyl version will be available via REAPER RECORDS on the same day. The album is released with I Scream Records on October 7th, 2011 in the UK/Europe.

Big Kiss Goodnight boasts production credits from New Found Glory’s Chad Gilbert. TRAPPED UNDER ICE has launched worldwide pre-orders for Big Kiss Goodnight, located at www.BigKissGoodnight.com.

 

TRAPPED UNDER ICE Tour Dates:

10/7 Baltimore MD @ Charm City Art Space
10/8 New York NY @ Tammany Hall

 

TRAPPED UNDER ICE w/ Hundredth, Backtrack, Betrayal and Take Offense:

10/22 Wilkes-Barre PA @ Redwood Art Space

10/23 Quincy MA @ Future Bar @ Club 58

10/24 Jonquiere QC @ Kenogami Elks Lodge

10/25 Quebec City QC @ L’agitee

10/26 Montreal QC @ Underworld

10/27 Toronto ON @ Poor Alex Theatre

10/28 Hamtramck MI @ Small’s

10/29 Indianapolis IN @ ES Jungle

10/30 Arlington Heights IL @ Knights of Columbus Hall

10/31 Des Moines  IA @ Vaudeville Mews

11/1 Omaha NE @ Sokol Underground

11/2 Denver CO @ Blast O Mat

11/3 Ogden UT @ Mojo’s

11/4 Boise ID @ Shredder

11/5 Seattle WA @ West Seattle Legion Hall

11/7 Sacramento CA @ Branch Street

11/8 San Francisco CA @ Sub-Mission

11/9 Anaheim CA @ Chain Reaction

11/11 Camarillo CA @ Rock City Studio

11/12 San Diego CA @ Che Cafe

11/13 Mesa AZ @ The Underground

11/14 Albuquerque NM @ Amped Theater

11/15 Midland TX @ The Pine Box

11/16 San Antonio TX @ White Rabbit

11/17 Dallas TX @ Sons of Hermann Hall

11/19 Tallahassee FL @ Engine Room

11/20 Tampa FL @ The Orpheum

11/21 Pembroke Pines FL @ Talent Farm

11/22 Jacksonville FL @ The Pit

11/23 Charlotte NC @ Tremont Music Hall

11/25 Philadelphia PA @ Broad St Ministry -Downstairs

11/26 Portland ME @ Deering Grange

11/27 Clifton Park NY @ Northern Lights

11/28 Syracuse NY @ Lost Horizon

11/29 Buffalo NY @ Funeral Home

11/30 Cleveland OH @ Now That’s Class

12/1 Covington KY @ Mad Hatter

12/2 Corbin KY @ Corbin Tech Center

12/3 Evansville IN @ The Hatch

12/4 St Louis MO @ Fubar

12/5 Wichita KS @ The Scenery

12/6 Oklahoma City OK @ Conservatory

12/10 Atlanta GA @ The Archive

12/11 West Columbia SC @ New Brookland Tavern

12/12 Richmond VA @ Kingdom

Hemoptysis: ‘M.O.D.’ Music Video Trailer Released‏

Arizona thrashers HEMOPTYSIS have made a trailer for their newest video available online at this location. The video, for the track “M.O.D.,” taken from their album Misanthropic Slaughter was shot earlier this month in an abandon warehouse in Vail, AZ. Production and direction came courtesy of Sean Sinerius and Robert Jaime at Big Shot Studios, who previously worked with HEMOPTYSIS on the “Shadow of Death” video. The band plans to release the video this fall.

 

In other HEMOPTYSIS news, the band has announced the following live dates:

Wednesday, October 5th at Chasers in Scottsdale, AZ.
Saturday, November 12th at Boomers in Las Vegas, NV

For details, visit www.hemoptysismetal.com.

 

The threat is real; the hype is warranted.  HEMOPTYSIS’ Misanthropic Slaughter is a musically accomplished, superbly written, and utterly devastating album of thrash metal extremism! The explosive Phoenix, Arizona quartet HEMOPTYSIS self-released Misanthropic Slaughter on March 8th of this year and the critics haven’t stopped raving about it since. Don’t believe us? Check out the all the press quotes below!

The album was produced by Grammy Award winning producer Ryan Greene (Megadeth, Authority Zero, NOFX) and features 11 blistering tracks of unrelenting metal intensity.

The European version of Misanthropic Slaughter features a bonus video for “Shadow of Death” and is available through Rock It Up Records.

 

“Why is Hemoptysis not signed to a major label? A perfect Thrash metal album.” [5/5]

- Loud Reviews

“Hemoptysis is the true embodiment of the re-birth of American Thrash Metal. An amazing Thrash metal Album.” - Forbidden-magazine.com

“Of all the unsigned bands I’ve heard over the last 3 years or so, they are without a doubt the band that has it all together…” [9/10] - Hookinmouth.net

“One of the most promising unsigned acts to surface in quite some time.”

- Teeth of the Divine

“What a testament to the metal scene when an unsigned band like this can put their big label peers to shame.” - Metalcallout.com

MYSTIC PROPHECY is confirmed for the PROG POWER FESTIVAL 2012

The German Power Metal band “MYSTIC PROPHECY” is confirmed for the PROG POWER FESTIVAL 2012 and share the stage with SYMPHONY X, PRETTY MAIDS, EPICA, etc.

 

R.D. Liapakis: “We are very proud to play on the PROG POWER FESTIVAL 2012 - one of the best festivals in the United States! Btw, it’s the first time ever, we play with MYSTIC PROPHECY in the USA!”

 

The new album titled “Raven Lord” will be released at 25th November and comes as a Digipack + Limited Gatefold Vinyl edition, hand-signed, 500 copies.

 

MYSTIC PROPHECY are planning an extensive European tour for February and March 2012.

 

www.myspace.com/mysticprophecy

www.facebook.com/mysticprophecy

www.progpowerusa.com

www.rockngrowl.com

Zak Starkey Launches New Band PENGu!NS

 

Zak Starkey Launches New Band PENGu!NS

DO NOT TURN THE MUSIC DOWN

Drummer for The Who and Oasis, and son of you know who (Google it if you don’t), Zak Starkey today unveils his new band PENGu!NS, offering a free download of debut track ‘HateMale’.

PENGu!NS comprise the enormous talent that is Starkey, alongside the captivating and magnetic ‘Sshh’ on vocals. Debut single ‘Hate Male’ sublimely showcases the band’s love of expansive sound scapes defined by pulsating rhythms that grip like an industrial vice, backbreaking riffs and scorching harmonica.

HateMale tune is about an asshole on a plane who was asking Sshh to turn down her iPod even though he was three seats away and across the aisle. Sounds aggressive but so was he and so are we.”

‘HateMale’ can be streamed, downloaded and embedded here.

Press Shots and full Press Release available here.

Follow PENGu!NS on Facebook.

Having already played with Kasabian at the Itunes Festival this summer, you’ll be able to catch PENGu!NS on the This Feeling 5th Birthday tour at:

October:

7 – The Caves, Edinburgh || 22 – Sound Control, Manchester || 28 – Vibe Bar, London

Tickets Available Here


Brand New Sin’s New Album “United State” Out 10/11/11

Brand New Sin’s “United State” Out October 11th Via Goomba Music‏

  Brand New Sin has risen to new levels with their latest recording, and is ready to unleash the disenfranchised roar of United State; out October 11th on Goomba Music.

The enduring trio of Kris Wiechmann (Vocals/Guitar), Chuck Kahl (Bass), and Kevin Dean (Drums) are joined by the new blood of Tommy Matkowski on lead guitar. Tommy’s playing is truly the finishing piece to this already powerful puzzle, lending a fresh and deeply rooted hard rock style to the Brand New Sin sound. This line-up spent much of 2010 on the road together defining the terms of United State, including opening shows for Slash & Myles Kennedy.

United State expands on their 2009 independent release, Distilled, delivering some of the most accomplished and self-defining tracks of the band’s career. It’s clear that the lyrics of these autobiographical songs resonate in the state of mind of so many today. United State is a time capsule of the struggle to survive and overcome in our current society. Many of the songs are about self-reflection. Wiechmann taps into the psyche of the masses: the moments that define each of us. “Infamous” and “Elbow Grease” animate the thoughts of a listener pondering their own past. The rage of songs like “Goddess Of War” and “Bed Of Nails” call out those that try and take advantage of the plight of others, while the anthemic “All My Wheels” tells a story of the struggle to live life never looking back, never regretting, uncompromised.

United State sees a determined and confident Brand New Sin voicing the rage of the world, through fiercely developed statements in lyrics, riffs, and powerfully crafted guitar solos, backed by a driving rhythm section that continues to define strength.

United State is currently available for pre-order at the Goobma Records Webstore

Tracklisting:

The Lord Came Down

Know Yourself

All My Wheels

Rotten As Hell

Elbow Grease

Infamous

Groups Of 5

Your Song And Dance

Goddess of War

The Cup and The Lip

Bed of Nails

Travel Well

What Do You Do For Money Honey

CD Only Bonus Tracks

Glory Days

Sad Wings (Acoustic 2011)

The Wizard

www.brandnewsin.com

www.goombamusic.com


Anatomia/Burial Invocation – Decomposing Serenades 7″ Available Now

Anatomia/Burial Invocation - Decomposing Serenades 7″ Available Now  

Through Dark Descent Records                                                     

Two of the best doom-influenced death metal bands join forces to bring you two brand new crushing and suffocating tracks on this single 7″. When conjuring up a split 7″, the idea of Anatomia and Burial Invocation was an easy alliance. Both bands are known for similar yet signature styles which easily make for one of the best pairings in quite some time.

Anatomia delivers their brand of doom-laden material in the form of “Drawn Into the Abyss” a five-minute beast of a hymn while Burial Invocation counters with the five and a half minute slab of ugliness titled “Obliterated In An Ignominious Grave“.

This is all packaged with equally disgusting artwork by Dilek.

The disgusting brown/black vinyl version is limited to 100 copies. Visit www.darkdesentrecords.com to order.

 

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THE SUBWAYS FREE LIVE GIG WEB STREAM TONIGHT FROM A FORT!!!!!‏

THE SUBWAYS are playing a stunning HISTORIC FORT tonight in Koblenz, Germany (Thursday 15th September). The headline set is being streamed live on their website http://www.thesubways.net

The concert starts around 7.30pm UK (8.30pm Germany) so set your alarms and get yourself a few beers in!!!

The set up is stunning and you can watch this really unusual one off event free on the band’s website!!

For more information please visit

http://www.telekom-streetgigs.de/

http://www.fort-asterstein.org/

Miniature Dinosaurs reveal video for new single, ‘Alligator‏’

 Scottish pop-rockers Miniature Dinosaurs are proud to announce the release of their brand new single ‘Alligator’ through Saraseto Records on October 31st.   

Having generated a swell of hype for themselves in their home territory, galvanized by support slots with artists such as Fenech Soler, Twin Atlantic and Johnny Foreigner, Miniature Dinosaurs have built a steady following thanks to additional support from blogs and extensive radio play. Ally McCrae at BBC Radio 1 Scotland even noted that the band harp ‘back to older Scottish bands, the likes of Orange Juice and Fire Engines, mixed with some straight up pop…’.

‘Alligator’, the band’s latest offering, is the follow up to a 7” single released earlier in 2011 that came out via Electric Honey, the label that kick started the careers of other great Scottish bands like Belle & Sebastian, Snow Patrol and Biffy Clyro.

Vocalist and guitarist Barry MacLean said:

“Alligator is a song that always goes down well at the live shows, which means two things; it is an obvious choice for a single, and we’re also having a lot of fun touring it around the UK. It’s a good introduction to the band for anyone who hasn’t heard of us before.”

You can view the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpgEmcrbykk

Or listen to the track itself here:

http://soundcloud.com/rooftop-movement/miniature-dinosaurs-alligator/s-AFHJP

The band will of course be on the road, and can be seen live on the following dates:

8 Sep/ Cafe Drummonds/ Aberdeen

9 Sep/ Live @ Troon festival

10 Sep/ The Doghouse/ Dundee

17 Sep/ Rhe Fubar/ Stirling

23 Sep/ Hootenannys/ Inverness

29 Sep/ Bar Bloc/ Glasgow

13th / Oct / Electric Circus / Edinburgh

 

Miniature Dinosaurs are Barry Maclean (vocal / guitar), Alban Dickson (bass), Craig Ferrie (guitar / synth) and Sam Waller (drums)

 

For more information on Miniature Dinosaurs please visit: http://miniaturedinosaurs.co.uk/

TEXTURES Debuts Music Video for ‘Reaching Home’ as new album ‘Dualism’ Hits Stores end of September.

Progressive technical metalers TEXTURES have released the music video for ‘Reaching Home’, the first single from their upcoming album Dualism, via the band’s YouTube page

Reaching Home’ was shot on the island of Lanzarote (part of The Canary Islands) off the coast of Morocco and was directed by TEXTURES bass player Remko Tielemans together with the help of Kunststoff Media.

 

States the band: “It took us quite some blood, sweat, and tears to make this video, but it was really rewarding to be able to do it ourselves with the total dedication and support from our colleagues at Kunststoff.  Another DIY project in the books!  Hope you guys and girls like it!

 

Dualism will be released on September 23rd in Europe, South America, Australia & Asia and on September 27th in North America. The album was recorded at Split Second Sound Studios in Amsterdam with TEXTURES guitarist & producer Jochem Jacobs.

 

 

Catch TEXTURES on Tour NOW with Periphery, The Human Abstract, and The Contortionist

 

TEXTURES are currently on their inaugural North American tour with PeripheryThe Human Abstract and The Contortionist.  Remaining “Frak The Gods” tour dates are:

09-14-2011         Martini Ranch                                   Scottsdale, AZ
09-15-2011         The Rock                                         Tucson, AZ
09-16-2011         Chain Reaction                                 Anaheim, CA
09-17-2011         Epicentre                                          San Diego, CA
09-18-2011         Key Club                                         West Hollywood, CA
09-20-2011         The New Parish                                Oakland, CA
09-21-2011         Branx                                               Portland, OR
09-22-2011         Studio Seven                                    Seattle, WA
09-23-2011         The Venue                                        Boise, ID
09-24-2011         The Complex                                    Salt Lake City, UT
09-25-2011         The Marquis Theatre                        Denver, CO
09-27-2011         Fubar                                               St. Louis, MO
09-28-2011         The Bluestone                                   Columbus, OH
09-29-2011         Mojoe’s                                           Joliet, IL
09-30-2011         Rave Bar                                          Milwaukee, WI
10-01-2011         MXTP                                             Grand Rapids, MI
10-02-2011         Wreck Room                                   Toronto, ON – CANADA
10-03-2011         La Tulipe                                          Montreal, QC – CANADA
10-05-2011         The Palladium                                   Worcester, MA
10-06-2011         Gramercy Theatre                             New York, NY
10-07-2011         First Unitarian Church                       Philadelphia, PA
10-08-2011         Kingdom                                          Richmond, VA

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