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KATAVASIA stream new FLOGA album at RideIntoGlory.com

Greek black metal supergroup KATAVASIA stream the entirety of their highly anticipated second album, Magnus Venator, at heavily trafficked web-portal RideIntoGlory.com. Set for international release on September 4th via Floga Records, hear KATAVASIA’s Magnus Venator in its entirety exclusively HERE KATAVASIA is a Greek black metal band formed in 2014 by members of well-known Greek metal acts such as Varathron, Hail Spirit Noir, Aenaon, Melan Selas, and Agnes Vein. The goal of the alliance was to compose and perform Greek black metal at its finest. In 2015, KATAVASIA released their debut album, Sacrilegious Testament, which was highly praised by both […]

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CONVULSE: Finnish Progressive Death Metal Veterans To Release Deathstar Full-Length October 30th Via Transcending Records; Preorders Available

Stream / Share CONVULSE’s ‘The Summoning’ HERE Finnish progressive death metal veterans CONVULSE will unleash their long-awaited new full-length, Deathstar, October 30th via Transcending Records. A near forty-one-minute masterwork, Deathstar delivers nine tracks that transcend the boundaries of standard death metal. Fusing the prime tenets of death metal, heavy rock, and prog into something innovative and enticing, the record arguably picks up where the band’s underrated 1994 gem Reflections full-length left off adopting a similar genre-bending approach and modernizing it. Deathstar was recorded and mixed in analog at JJ-studio with Juuso Nordlund and comes swathed in the art of Jan […]

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BLUE ÖYSTER CULT ANNOUNCE NEW STUDIO ALBUM, THE SYMBOL REMAINS, DUE OCTOBER 9, 2020 ON FRONTIERS MUSIC

BLUE OYSTER CULT will return with a mammoth new studio album, The Symbol Remains, on October 9, 2020. Coming nearly two decades after the release of their last studio album, Curse Of The Hidden Mirror, the album showcases a band who hasn’t been slowed by the time passed, but simply unphased by it. “The Symbol Remains” is one of the band’s most spirited, diverse, and inspired releases to date. Fans can listen to two new songs from the album, ‘That Was Me’ and ‘Box In My Head’ at the links below or on any music streaming service. ‘That Was Me’‘Box […]

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THE ALLMAN BETTS BAND RELEASE STUNNING SOPHOMORE ALBUM, BLESS YOUR HEART

PURCHASE/STREAM Bless Your Heart THE ALLMAN BETTS BAND has released their impressive sophomore album, Bless Your Heart. The band recorded at Muscle Shoals Sounds Studio on two-inch tape, just as they did with their debut, Down To The River. The band enlisted veteran producer Matt-Ross Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price, John Prine and Elvis Presley) who also produced Down To The River. Bless Your Heart shows the band stretching their musical legs, making it quite apparent that they have gelled into a tour de force. The musical themes in their latest effort hit on everything from serious and deeply personal […]

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UK Thrash kings Solitary sign to Metalville Records for the release of incredible new album, The Truth Behind The Lies

SOLITARY have signed a new deal with German label Metalville Records. Metalville Records was founded in 2008 by Chris Boltendahl of Grave Digger and former Nuclear Blast A&R man Holger Koch and has gone from strength to strength over the last twelve years – picking up gold and silver discs for their artists, along with Metal Hammer award nominations and chart placings in Sweden, Japan, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, the UK and USA. Now established as a major player in the rock and metal market, Metalville is home to internationally successful artists like Ugly Kid Joe, Lee Aaron, Foghat, Dog […]

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PYRAMAZE sign with AFM and release first video/single

Danish Progressive Power Metal group PYRAMAZE has just inked a record deal in order to put out their next full-length studio album, called Epitaph, via AFM Records. The album will be released on November 13th – pre-order started a week ago. Both AFM Records and PYRAMAZE are extremely happy about the deal and are looking forward to a strong, professional and hopefully long partnership. This new musical union offers good prospects for both parties – while PYRAMAZE found a partner that has great expertise working with a lot of successful Progressive and Power Metal artist such as Evergrey, Orden Ogan, […]

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Scordatura prepare to release their latest crushing onslaught of death metal, Mass Failure, through Gore House Productions

After three years, the undisputed kings of Scottish death metal have returned with their third album of unrelenting savagery. SCORDATURA’s unholy union of old school song writing and new school intensity has never been more brutally, wickedly effective than on the nine canticles of carnage that together form the mighty Mass Failure. Stream ‘Disease Of Mind’ HERE SCORDATURA have always pushed hard at the boundaries of extremity, delivering pulverising death metal of the very heaviest kind. From their 2013 debut, Torment Of The Weak, to their acclaimed second album, Self-Created Abyss, and now with Mass Failure, the band have striven […]

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FUNERAL HARVEST set release date for SIGNAL REX debut EP, reveal first track

Signal Rex announces October 30th as the international release date for FUNERAL HARVEST’s highly anticipated debut EP, self-titled Funeral Harvest, on 10″ vinyl format. A pan-international quartet featuring members from Norway and Italy, FUNERAL HARVEST formed in 2016 and unleashed their first public recording the very next year. Tellingly titled Bunker Ritual Rehearsal, this first strike was auspicious to say the very least, and quickly built a name for FUNERAL HARVEST in the underground. Their raw ‘n’ robust black metal sound was rooted in the ancient ways but never regressive – in fact, its ghoulish hostility was perversely refreshing. An […]

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THE PASSING set release date for CALIGARI debut EP

Caligari Records sets September 11th as the international release date for THE PASSING’s self-titled debut EP on cassette tape format. Hailing from Los Angeles, THE PASSING formed back in the fall / winter of 2018 before the world took a shit on itself. Comprising the members Ian, Fox, Izzy, and Marvin, every member of THE PASSING is influenced by all types of hardcore, punk, D-beat, and metal, each generally stemming from the greater Scandinavian region. Thus, across the band’s The Passing debut will you hear a whole lot of classic Anti-Cimex, Black Uniforms, Wolfpack, Skitsystem, Mob-47, Disfear, and early Swedeath […]

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SPIRIT ADRIFT ANNOUNCE TRIUMPHANT NEW ALBUM, ENLIGHTENED IN ETERNITY

SPIRIT ADRIFT are a band who refuse to slow down. On their new album, Enlightened In Eternity, guitarist/vocalist Nathan Garrett alongside drummer Marcus Bryant have created yet another monument to the timelessness of heavy metal. While Enlightened In Eternity builds on the sizable foundation established by the band’s previous albums, it also sets itself apart in formidable new ways, widening the scope of what SPIRIT ADRIFT can be. Listen to the album’s powerful first single ‘Harmony Of The Spheres’ HERE SPIRIT ADRIFT have mastered the ability to invoke the power of metal’s past, whether it be the ’70s, ’80s or […]

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