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Album Review: Valkyrie – Fear

VALKYRIE of Virginia has never been one to put out albums just willy-nilly, or “because we had enough songs written”. The brothers Adams and their cohorts aren’t averse to “sleeping” on songs, letting them bake a bit longer, marinate in their own seasonings until what comes out of the oven is exactly what they want to put before us. Which is part of what makes the 5-year wait between 2015’s Shadows and Fear worth it for the listener. I’ll admit to being foremost a fan of doom in all its forms when it comes to metal, without excluding the occasional […]

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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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Album Review: THE DEATHLESS DOGS – Five Across The Eyes [EP]

When a band’s promotional one-sheet references CLUTCH, I’m already on guard. Not that picking up sonic and lyrical cues from the Maryland Men Of Cordial Gentility is anything bad per se. It’s just that 8 of 10 times what we get is an act that’s flipped through a thesaurus, listened to a REVEREND GARY DAVIS album once, and probably covers ‘Big News I & II’ live to show its “diversity”. Thankfully, in real life, THE DEATHLESS DOGS are very much their own blend. Sure, the duo is the sum of its influences, but that’s the majority of what’s in all […]

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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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Album Review: Atramentus – Stygian

Though members of CHTHE’ILIST, FUNEBRARUM, and other acts comprise Longueuil, QC’s ATRAMENTUS, the quintet is very much its own beast from the start. Opener ‘Stygian I – From Tumultuous Heavens… (Descended Forth The Ceaseless Darkness)’ reveals a band certainly in no rush to get anywhere with great speed, yet more layered than FUNEBRARUM, less ribaldly feral than CHTHE’ILIST. We move through vast tundra wastes at times, lean against blizzards that howl through the bones others, but always, always alone. Solitary. While certainly beholden to its genre forefathers, who need not be named except as reference points for all that came […]

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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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