Odium. L-R – Joe Mullen – Drums | Bo Louther – Guitar | Andrew Fullerton – Vocals | Marc Dobson – Guitar | Jake Fortney – Bass/Vocals (Photo Credit: Supermaniak)
Canadian metallers Odium has made “Centipedes” as a free download here, and are streaming “Failure II” below. The band will begin working on their upcoming third album.
Show Dates:
May 09: The APK – London, ON (w/ The Agonist, Nothing Left For Tomorrow, Ataxia)
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Idolatry. Top (left to right): Nox Invictus (Guitar), Daemonikus Abominor (Drums), Lycaon Vollmond (Guitar), and Center: Lörd Matzigkeitus (Vocals) – Photo credit: Pandemic Photography (Kevin Eisenlord)
Edmonton, AB black metallers Idolatry is streaming their music video for “Clefs au Chambre de Tristêsse,” created by NVS Productions from Nashville, Tennessee, who has also produced videos for Wormreich (US), Hades (Norway), and Borgne (Switzerland) below.
‘Infection Born of Ending’ a 7’ split with Columbus, Ohio black metal group Unrest featuring the unique Idolatry track is available to purchase through BigCartel. There will only be 40, hand numbered copies available.
Track Listing
Side A: Unrest – Of Filth
Side B: Idolatry – Clefs au Chambre de Tristêsse / …Once Thought of Webs
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Shawn James & The Shapeshifters are streaming “Wild Man,” off their upcoming album The Gospel According to Shawn James & The Shapeshifters, out April 7, 2015. Listen to it below. The album was recorded at Insomiac Studios with engineer Adam Putman and featuring the stunning cover art of Polish artist Karol Bak.
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Between The Buried And Me is streaming “Memory Palace,” off of their new album Coma Ecliptic, out July 10, 2015 via Metal Blade Records. Watch this below.
According to the band, the effort is a ‘modern rock opera’ with the following offered on the story:
“The story follows the wanderings of an unidentified man, stuck in a coma, as he journeys through his past lives. Each song is its own episode in a modern day, sort of The Twilight Zone-esque fashion. The unidentified man enters each world and is offered a choice: stay, or move on to the next in search of something better, something more “perfect.” The man does find his ideal life, but then is offered the ultimate choice of life or death. He chooses life and wakes up to his own actual reality.
It’s at that moment he realizes that he had been in a coma – everything that happened had been dreams and false memories. After awakening, we find the man outside finally experiencing reality, and he sees what he has been missing: the world is beautiful, the air is fresh, and the people appear to be happy, and then he falls over dead. The take away from this is to make the best of your life. People are constantly searching for something better without taking the time to appreciate the things they have. What we need may already be here, and is hopefully real. We may all be in a coma in another life.”
Coma Ecliptic track listing:
01: Node
02: The Coma Machine
03: Dim Ignition
04: Famine Wolf
05: King Redeem / Queen Serene
06: Turn On The Darkness
07: The Ectoptic Stroll
08: Rapid Calm
09: Memory Palace
10: Option Oblivion
11: Life In Velvet
Stream a new Failure song “Hot Traveller,” off of their new album The Heart Is A Monster, out June 30, 2015 below.
Stone Sour are previewing their versions of “We Die Young” from Alice In Chains and “Heading Out To The Highway” from Judas Priest, off of their five song Record Store Day exclusive EP Meanwhile In Burbank on April 18, 2015. The EP was recorded live at Room 237 in Burbank, CA. Stream it below.
Stone Sour guitarist Josh Rand commented on the EP:
“Back in February of 2014 while Stone Sour was touring, Corey [Taylor, vocals] approached me about Stone Sour doing a cover of the Metal Church song ‘The Dark’ for the movie ‘Fear Clinic‘. I thought it would be cool not only to record ‘The Dark’, but the five cover songs that we had played on that tour.”
Rand added:
“The idea was not to shy away from a song because it was popular or pick a band that most people might not have heard, but to pick ones that truly meant something to one of us at some point in our life.”
Meanwhile In Burbank… track listing:
01. We Die Young (Alice In Chains cover)
02. Heading Out To The Highway (Judas Priest cover)
03. Love Gun (KISS cover)
04. Creeping Death (Metallica cover)
05. Children Of The Grave (Black Sabbath cover)
Listen to a preview of our cover of Judas Priest’s “Heading out to the Highway” off of “Meanwhile in Burbank”, available in record stores on April 18th! Limited to 3000 copies worldwide, find a record store near you at www.recordstoreday.com or www.recordstoreday.co.uk #StoneSour #recordstoreday
Posted by Stone Sour on Friday, April 3, 2015
Listen to a preview of our cover of Alice In Chains’ “We Die Young” off of “Meanwhile in Burbank”, available in record stores on April 18th!Limited to 3000 copies worldwide, find a record store near you at www.recordstoreday.com or www.recordstoreday.co.uk
Posted by Stone Sour on Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Los Angeles rock band Dekades is streaming their new single “The Drones Are Coming,” off their self titled EP, due out May 26, 2015. Stream it below.
Dekades is a five-piece rock band from Los Angeles, CA. The band continues to make name for themselves in the local music scene playing raw and intense shows all over southern California and opening for notable acts like The Mowgli’s, Dead Sara, Beta Machine and Big Black Delta. The veteran rhythm section of Chris Cano on drums and James Carter on bass rely more upon groove than rote aggression, mimicking the dark undercurrents of a pulsating human heart. Guitarist Josh Benson provides a rich wall of sound upon which multi-instrumentalist Matt Shores applies the chromatic textures. All this beautiful white noise is summoned behind vocalist/guitarist Arden Fisher, a tour de force in her own right.
Fellow musician and friend Matt McJunkins (The Beta Machine, A Perfect Circle) calls the track “sludgy, dirty and sexy.”
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Gallows is streaming “Leviathan Rot,” off of their forthcoming full length Desolation Sounds, out on April 14, 2015 via Bridge Nine Records below. The album was produced by Steve Sears at Titan Studios.
Desolation Sounds Track Listing:
01: Mystic Death
02: Desolation Sounds
03: Leviathan Rot
04: Chains
05: Bonfire Season
06: Leather Crown
07: 93/93
08: Death Valley Blue
09: Cease to Exist
10: Swan Song
Watch the three parts of the Desolation Sounds documentary below.
Danish machine gun metallers Encyrcle will release their self-titled debut album June 2, 2015, via Unspeakable Axe Records and Dark Descent Records. Stream “Bloodbasker” below.
Encyrcle Encyrcle tracklist:
01: Chronoboros
02: To the End
03: Evoke the Night
04: Bloodbasker
05: Entrance
06: Dizzy me Deadly
07: Serpent’s Dream
08: Deathlust
09: Facelasher
10: Black Dust
11: Obliteration Eyes
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Gruesome is streaming their namesake track “Gruesome” here, off their forthcoming debut Savage Land, out in North America on April 21st, preceded by its European release dates, April 17th in Germany, Benelux and Finland and April 20th in the UK and rest of the world via Relapse Records.
Stream “Hideous” below.
Uniting members of Exhumed, Possessed, Malevolent Creation, Derketa and more, with Savage Land, the collective is humbly determined to keep the sound and spirit of Death alive as sincerely and authentically as possible.
Savage Land was recorded by Rios and Gonzalez at Riversound Studios in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, mixed by Jarrett Pritchard at Mana Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida, and features a guest guitar solo on “Closed Casket” by James Murphy as well as cover art by legendary illustrator Ed Repka (Death, Megadeth, Massacre, Athiest et el).