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InsideOutMusic/Sony Music announce the signing of JETHRO TULL

InsideOutMusic/Sony Music are extremely pleased to announce the signing of progressive rock legends JETHRO TULL to the label. The band has already completed a new album titled The Zealot Gene, which can be expected in early 2022. Ian Anderson had this to say about the new signing – “After 54 years in the world of music recording, it is with great pleasure that I now sign JETHRO TULL to a record company which reminds me, in many ways, of the old Chrysalis label – both as an independent and in its later years in partnership with EMI. Here are real […]

Album Reviews

Album Review: VREID – Wild North West

Sogndal’s favorite sons, VRIED, return with album number nine, having kept to a reliable schedule of an album every 2-3 years throughout the entity’s nearly two-decade career. While never veering too far from the path originally embarked upon in Kraft, the outfit has managed to remain reliable in quality as well thus far. To be honest, Wild North West was one of those albums that, even before listening, I entered upon the assumption that it would rise to the same watermark as the formers had. At first look, there was that rare sight of a vibrant cover, bursting with Frank […]

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ECLIPSE ANNOUNCES NEW STUDIO ALBUM, WIRED, TO BE RELEASED OCTOBER 8, 2021

Coming off their most successful album yet, Paradigm (which includes the massive single ‘Viva La Victoria’ that has 15 million streams and counting), Sweden’s ECLIPSE return with their new studio album, Wired, on October 8, 2021. A new single and music video from the album, ‘Bite The Bullet’ is out today. Watch the video HERE Pre-order/save Wired at THIS LOCATION The album will be available in the following formats: CD Crystal Vinyl (available worldwide) Red Vinyl (exclusive to Frontiers’ US & EU webstores and Nordic retailers – Limited to 500 copies WORLDWIDE) Cassette (exclusive to Frontiers’ US & EU webstores […]

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Album Review: Hellcrash – Krvcifix Invertör

Italy’s HELLCRASH cranked out two demos and a split between 2013-2015, then unceremoniously departed from sight. Apparently, the trio has spent the time since on a strict regimen of liver punishment, graveyard hijinks and a diet of pre-’87 thrash/speed metal, now returning with its first full-length, Krvcifix Invertör. HELLCRASH makes no secret of its allegiances right out the gate, four of the nine song titles invoking the name of Satan, so it’s clearly time to party, right? Hellraiser’s guitars and sneer could’ve literally been spawned from Killing Is My Business… – era Mustaine’s drunken sweat, while the title track is […]

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FRONTIERER: A Trail Of Noise Tour Documentary From Scottish-American Tech Metal Act Now Playing At BangerTV

Scottish/American progressive/tech metal quintet FRONTIERER presents A Trail Of Noise, an engaging documentary filmed on tour with the band across the UK and Europe in 2019 before the COVID pandemic ended touring for over a year. The engaging short film is now streaming at the popular BangerTV. Back in June 2019, Canadian film producer Bradley Zorgdrager flew to the UK to join the masters of chaos on a three-week tour of Europe and the UK. FRONTIERER commissioned him to film a mini-documentary after connecting through Zorgdrager’s shout-outs of the band through BangerTV. His love for the band’s technical metal and […]

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Album Review: The Slow Death – Siege

Never has a band been more accurately named. I could feel all the remaining seconds of my life tumble into oblivion as this tedious blob of boring doom metal numbed my very soul. This is one of the dullest records I have heard in a long, long time. Let’s write 20-minute long songs just because we can. Not that they’d actually be better in less than half the time, we’ve got to show we are DOOOOOOOM metal. Stuff and nonsense! It’s getting so that every time I see a song longer than 10 minutes, I cringe internally, because I know […]

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WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM SHARE ‘SPIRIT OF LIGHTNING’ VIDEO

Two decades into their journey as ritualistic black metal conjurers, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM have emerged from the forest with Primordial Arcana, their most majestic album to date, and their first release via Relapse Records (North America only) out August 20th. WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM share the second single from Primordial Arcana. Watch the ‘Spirit Of Lightning’ visualizer video, filmed by the band, on YouTube HERE WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM comment on the new song: “‘Spirit Of Lightning’ returns briefly to the earthly plane as a tribute to the human connections forged in music. Metal is a […]

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Album Review: In The Company Of Serpents – Lux

First off, I did not see Lux coming. Secondly, why have all the clocks stopped? That’s right folks, its time to tune low and play slow. Opener and likewise gravitational suckerpunch, ‘The Fool’s Journey’ brings to mind images of Thulsa Doom jamming to this in his cave. Brethren, don those robes and nod in silent contemplation as the riff vibrates through you, and prepare for the sludge journey. Here, no lives matter. What you want is of absolute irrelevance. Succumb! ‘The Chasm At The Mouth Of It All’ reminds us that the Wild West wasn’t all cowboys and “injuns.” It […]

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LANTLOS present third Wildhund single ‘Lich’

With love comes pain: On ‘Lich’, the third single taken from their forthcoming full-length Wildhund (“Wild Dog”), LANTLOS reveal their claws by not shying away from multi-layered dissonance and noise elements. The album is scheduled to hit stores on July 30, 2021. The German alternative metal project headed by multi-instrumentalist Markus Siegenhort has previously revealed cover art, tracklist, and further details of the new full-length, which can all be viewed below. Pre-Orders HERE Watch ‘Lich’ at THIS LOCATION LANTLOS comment: “The song ‘Lich’ revolves around the theme of getting lost”, states Markus Siegenhort. “It is shaped by the idea of […]

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Album Review: The Grasshopper Lies Heavy – A Cult That Worships A God Of Death

Going into a band “blind” for a review is the two-sided coin we critics/celebrants/self-proclaimed journalists flip more and more often these days, as we come to the sobering realization that you simply can’t Hear Everything. Bands pop up on your radar, seemingly out of nowhere, despite having been in existence for sometimes many years prior. Such is the case with yours truly and THE GRASSHOPPER LIES HEAVY. Helmed by multi-instrumentalist/vocalist James Woodard, and completed by Mario Trejo on bass and drummer Steven Barrera, TGLH has moved over it’s 10+ years from a primarily instrumental outfit to a more “standard” band. […]

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