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Venom Inc, Deströyer 666, Gaahl, Black Anvil, Gehennah To Play Beyond The Gates Fest This Weekend

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Celebrating their 5th anniversary this weekend in Bergen NO, the Beyond The Gates Festival brings the best in underground Black Metal, Death Metal, Doom, Thrash, Occult and Heavy Metal. Headliners include Venom Inc, featuring Abbadon and Mantas from the legendary Venom, Deströyer 666, and Gaahl’s (Gorgoroth, Wardruna) new band, Gaahls WYRD. Consisting of Trelldom material only, the Gaahl has commented “Many of these songs, from frontman Gaahl’s first ever black metal band, have never been played live before, so this will be a unique and unforgettable event.”

 

You can get tickets for the weekend at this link:

Beyond The Gates Festival -Full Line-up:

Venom Inc (UK)

Deströyer 666 (AU)

Gaahls WYRD performing Trelldom (N)

Infernal War (PL)

Secrets of the Moon (D)

Nekromantheon (N)

Degial (S)

Gehennah (S)

Urfaust (NL)

Magister Templi (N)

Black Anvil (US)

Sortilegia (CA)

Malthusian (IRL)

Nettlecarrier (N)

Spirit Cabinet (NL)

Saturnalia Temple (S)

Ritual Death (N)

Reptilian (N)

Black Magic (N)

Gravdal (N)

For further information, please contact torgrim.oyre@gmail.com

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Svart Crown Completes Deicide Tour, Continues East Coast Tour

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Fresh off the failed Metal Alliance tour and further headline dates with Deicide, France’s Svart Crown contuinues to grind it out on a tour of the US including to shows in Brooklyn. The band posted a message to their Facebook page:

 

“Well, the Deicide tour is now over . We would like to thank all the bands involved in that crazy ru”n , Black Crown Initiate & Lorna Shore for their help every night with backline and gear. Hate Eternal for being the most brutal band and all the good advices !
And then again, a big thought to our buddies from Entombed A.D. Among the best tourmates we ever had, it was short but intense !

So here the list of our last shows for this run. We just added a second show in Brooklyn Saint Vitus Bar on saturday 27th.”

 

 

–THE CURSED TOUR PART 3 –Well, the Deicide tour is now over . We would like to thank all the bands involved in that…

Posted by SVART CROWN on Saturday, June 20, 2015

 

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Svart Crown – remaining US tour dates

Jun 24: Pittsburg – The Smiling Moose
https://www.facebook.com/events/1046461652047394/

Jun 25: Toronto – Coalition w/ Seth
https://www.facebook.com/events/1584642625153206/

Jun 26: Montreal – Katabombes w/ Seth
https://www.facebook.com/events/1573676309573452/

06/27 Brooklyn – St Vitus w/ Tombs – Black Anvil

https://www.facebook.com/events/1655409178027416/

Jun 28 Brooklyn – St Vitus
https://www.facebook.com/events/420376298122867/


Audio: All Out War – Nothing Left To Bleed, Upcoming Live Dates

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All Out War is streaming “Nothing Left To Bleed,” off of their Dying Gods EP, out June 23, 2015 via Organzied Crime Records here. The band has a number of upcoming live dates confirmed.

May 22-24: Neumo’s (Rain Fest) – Seattle, WA
Jun 20: the Loft – Poughkeepsie, NY (release show w/ Black Anvil, Sub Zero, Living Laser, Jagged Visions, Absolute Suffering, Dark Past, Internal Warfare)
Jul 26: Electric Factory (This Is Hardcore) – Philadelphia, PA
Aug 07: JZ St. Peter – Duisburg (DE)
Aug 08: Still Cold Fest – Hannover (DE)
Aug 09: Cassiopeia – Berlin (DE)
Aug 10: Underworld – London (UK)
Aug 11: Werk 21 – Zurich (CH)
Aug 12: Molotov – Marseille (FR)
Aug 13: La Mechanique Ondulatoire – Paris (FR)
Aug 14-16: Motocultor Fest – Bretagne (FR)
Aug 14-16: Ieperfest – Ieper (BE)
Sep 04-09: Hearfest – Gatineau (QC)

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Trailer: All Out War – Dying Gods EP

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All Out War is streaming a trailer for their forthcoming Dying Gods EP, out June 23, 2015 via Organized Crime Records. Stream it below.

Dying Gods Track Listing:
01: Dying Gods
02: Vengeance Reigns Eternal
03: Nothing Left To Bleed
04: Servants To The Obsolete
05: Choking On Indifference
06: Arise
07: God Is Dead

The band has confirmed upcoming shows.

May 22-24: Neumo’s – Seattle, WA (Rain Fest)
Jun 20: The Loft – Poughkeepsie, NY (release show w/ Black Anvil, Sub Zero, Living Laser, Jagged Visions, Absolute Suffering, Dark Past, Internal Warfare)
Jul 26: Electric Factory – Philadelphia, PA (This Is Hardcore)
Aug 07: JZ St. Peter – Duisburg (DE)
Aug 08: Still Cold Fest – Hannover (DE)
Aug 09: Cassiopeia – Berlin (DE)
Aug 10: Underworld – London (UK)
Aug 11: Werk 21 – Zurich (CH)
Aug 12: Molotov – Marseille (FR)
Aug 13: La Mechanique Ondulatoire – Paris (FR)
Aug 14-16: Motocultor Fest – Bretagne (FR)
Aug 14-16: Ieperfest – Ieper (BE)
Sep 04-09: Hearfest – Gatineau, QC

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Taake, Wolvhammer and Young and in the Way Book June North American Tour

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Taake will be doing a brief North American run in June with Wolvhammer and Young and in the Way.

Jun 14: Brighton Music Hall – Allston, MA (w/ Taake and Wolvhammer)
Jun 15: Théâtre Plaza – Montreal, QC (w/Taake and Wolvhammer)
Jun 16: Hard Luck- Toronto, ON (w/ Taake and Wolvhammer)
Jun 17: The Loft – Lansing, MI (w/ Taake and Wolvhammer)
Jun 18: The Foundry – Lakewood, OH (w/ Taake and Wolvhammer)
Jun 19: Altar Bar – Pittsburgh, PA (w/ Taake and Wolvhammer)
Jun 20: Cobra Lounge – Chicago, IL (w/ Taake and Wolvhammer)
Jun 21: Riot Room – Kansas City, MO (w/ Taake and Wolvhammer)
Jun 21: The End – Nashville, TN (Young And In The Way only)
Jun 22: FUBAR – St. Louis, MO
Jun 23: The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
Jun 24: New Mountain – Asheville, NC
Jun 25: Metro Gallery – Baltimore, MD
Jun 26: Saint Vitus – Brooklyn, NY (sold out)
Jun 27: Saint Vitus – Brooklyn, NY (w/ Bethlehem, Tombs, Black Anvil & Inter Arma)


Roadburn Festival 2015 Adds Eyehategod, Focus, Black Anvil & More

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Roadburn 2015 just got a lot sludgier with the addition of NOLA sludge legends Eyehategod. The New Orleans five piece will join the likes of Fields Of The Nephilim , Enslaved and Bongripper at next years event which will take place from the 9th to the 12th April. Also added to next year’s event are prog rockers Focus and post-black metallers Tombs.

 

Press release:

Nola’s Eyehategod To Inflict Double The Anguish And Pain On Roadburn 2015

Dutch prog rock legends Focus confirmed for Ivar Bjørnson’s and Einar “Kvitrafn” Selvik’s Houses of the Holistic at Roadburn Festival 2015

Tombs, Black Anvil, Death Hawks and Pekko Käppi & K:H:H:L have also been confirmed for Roadburn 2015.

We’re beyond excited to welcome seminal New Orleans, Louisana sluge-legends Eyehategod back to the 20th edition of Roadburn Festival at the 013 venue in Tilburg,The Netherlands, with two sets of their unique, Southern hardcore-blues-sludge-and-doom on Thursday, April 9 at the main stage, and in HetPatronaat, Friday, April 10.

With its hateful, hopeless, anguished vocals set against extra-slow Iommi-inspired riffing,Eyehategod are credited with founding sludge-core, one of the most vital new genres of metal to emerge from the 1990’s. Countless bands have followed their footsteps, and after more than 20 years of creating some of the most corrosive, vile music known to man,Eyehategod still hasn’t lost the piss and vinegar, propaganda, and despair that fueled them back in 1988.

Over the years, Eyehategod have had more than their fair share of hardship, and recently suffered the tragic loss of drummer and founding member, Joey LaCaze. The new, self titled release from Eyehategod, the follow up to 2000’s Confederacy Of Ruined Lives, sees LaCaze’s drum tracks appear posthumously on this classic of the genre.

The album personifies desperation and addiction in the various backwaters of forgotten America, punctuated by the N’awlins sound of rebellion and pollution resulting in triumph over adversity. Come experience transcendence through malevolence as Eyehategoddeface Roadburn 2015.

We’re equally excited to announce that Dutch prog rock legends Focus have been confirmed for Houses of the Holistic, Ivar Bjørnson‘s (Enslaved) and Wardruna’s Einar “Kvitrafn” Selvik‘s curated Roadburn event on Friday, April 10 at the 013 venue inTilburg, The Netherlands.

With their unique brand of progressive rock, Focus established themselves at the start of the 70s as the most successful and appreciated of all the Dutch pop-rock exports. Fronted by founding member Thijs Van Leer, and best known for their hits Hocus Pocus,House of The King and Sylvia, as well as critically acclaimed albums Moving Waves, Focus 3 and Hamburger Concerto, Focus regrouped with a fantastic new line up in the early 2000s, which resulted in several well received albums, like Focus 9 / New Skin and Focus X.

Focus today consists of Thijs van Leer on vocals, flute and keyboards, and famed Focus drummer Pierre van der Linden, who joined the group on their second album Moving Waves in 1972. Internationally renowned for his rhythmic skills, Pierre remains a defining factor in the Focus sound. Bassist Bobby Jacobs, who comes from an acclaimed Dutch musical family and guitarist Menno Gootjes, who participated in Focus at an earlier stage, complete the band’s current line-up.

“If you know anything about prog beyond “old Genesis, not the new stuff”, you know Focus – an extremely influential band for any band in the progressive tradition that came after them; whether its progressive Metal like we try to fool around with, or purer retro-prog (a funny combination of concepts, by the way)”, says Enslaved’s Ivar Bjørnson. “Focus embodies everything that is true “Prog” for me: the incorporation of the classical elements, the tongue-in-cheek playfulness across times, genres and geography – and of course extraordinary musicianship. These highly vital legends has also shown amazing form live these days, so having freakin’ FOCUS accepting our invitation for our curated day. To put it simple, straight-forward and un-proggy: a dream come through!!!”

Pekko Käppi & K:H:H:L and Death Hawks have also been confirmed for Ivar Bjørnson’s and Einar “Kvitrafn” Selvik’s Houses of the Holistic on Friday, April 10.

As huge admirers of Tombs blackened ferocity, we simply couldn’t resist bringing this primordial killing machine back to the 20th edition of Roadburn on Saturday, April 11.

Straight from the filthy sewers of New York City, Black Anvil will hail death at Roadburn 2015 on Saturday, April 11.

In related news: Tickets for the 20th edition of Roadburn Festival, set for April 9 – 12 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands, will go on sale on Thursday, October 16,2014.

Set your alarm and get ready to score your tickets at 21:00 CET! (20:00 UK | 22:00 Finland, Greece | 3pm East coast | 12pm West coast).

Ticket info: http://www.ticketmaster.nl/artist/roadburn-festival-tickets/875833

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Skeletonwitch – Ghoul – Black Anvil: Live At the Sinclair, Cambridge MA

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Skeletonwitch continues up their climb up the modern metal ladder. They seem to be a band generally liked by many, with no real haters as far as I can tell. Their infectious combination of blackened thrash metal frames them as a crossover act for fans of many genres of metal. It doesn’t hurt that they are a tight live act and a lot of fun to see on stage. Waiting patiently for a legit headline tour, not just off dates here and there, the band promised to reward faithful fans with a deep set list. I rolled with Ghost Cult photog Meg Loyal, and we got there early, mingling with a lot of Boston Metaldom’s usual suspects.

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Starting things off right was Black Anvil. They immediately ripped Cambridge a new hole from the jump with the lively, caustic stage show and brutal sounds. I was an immediate fan of their album Hail Death (Relapse) which is a modern masterpiece, and it took me by surprise as the venerable NYDM and NYBM scene, although historically great, hasn’t turned out a band that really captured my heart a long time. I think even the early crowd in the venue was shocked at how killer their set was. They played with the energy and power of a headliner and really inspired the early crowd to move around a bit and hurt each other. This is a band definitely on the rise, so don’t sleep on them.

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Ghoul is always a lot of fun live and they were the perfect band for the middle slot on this tour. Our heroes from Creepsylvania always come to party with GWAR-inspired fake blood, and all kinds of crazy characters as a part of their performance. More than anything, Ghoul is a killer band with sick chops playing a fun take on a deathly take on old-school Bay Area thrash metal. There were circle pits galore, crazy breakdown and mass hilarity ensued. They definitely had their own core of fans in the house based on all the Ghoul merch being sported (fail!), and also bought and toted (good job!). It’s rare that you laugh as much as you headbang at a show. GWAR (RIP Dave Brockie) is one band that has always done that for me and Ghoul carries on that tradition to the hilt. Do yourself a solid and go pick up their latest EP Hang Ten (Tankcrimes) or any of their albums really.

 

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Time to die for the Witch! The thing I like about The Sinclair is they do run a tight ship. The change over was fast and the band hit the stage with a quickness. There isn’t a bad place to watch the show from in the entire room and I had a good spot. I was interested to see if the crowd had any energy left at all since the Ghoul set was a non-stop mosh-pit frenzy. When Skeletonwitch opened up with ‘I Am of Death (Hell Has Arrived)’, their past go-to closer, it was a glorious moment. It can be hard for bands to break their own mold and change things up, so kudos to them for that. This was a portend of things to come with an excellent set list of “hits” and deep cuts they promised.

 

 

 

And what a set is was! The band brandished their musical might this time with a relentless performance that definitely had the mark of greatness. The fans drank, danced, headbanged and screamed along with every word. Chance Garnette and crew whipped the crowd into a frenzy with cut after cut from their repertoire. Chance paced the stage, inciting more and more fury from the pit and the rest of the crowd. Even up in the rafters, you could see people were feeling it too. This was an awesome night rushing towards an awesome finish; as the band closed out the night with mostly old-school tracks. On this evening if you were in the house, you knew you were witnessing one of the ascendant bands in the American metal scene. Hailz!

 

 

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Skeletonwitch Set List:

I Am of Death (Hell Has Arrived)

More Cruel Than Weak

From a Cloudless Sky

Burned From Bone

Upon Wings of Black

Choke Upon Betrayal

Infernal Resurrection

Fire from the Sky

Stand Fight and Die

Beneath Dead Leaves

Serpents Unleashed

This Horrifying Force (The Desire to Kill)

Crushed Beyond Dust

Unending, Everliving

Cleaver of Souls

Beyond the Permafrost

Baptized in Flames

Limb from Limb

Repulsive Salvation

Of Ash and Torment

Within My Blood

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WORDS: KEITH (KEEFY) CHACHKES

PHOTOS: MEG LOYAL PHOTOGRAPHY

 

 

 


Black Anvil – Hail Death

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Even down to their so metal it hurts moniker, New Yorkers Black Anvil are quite the summarisation of an extreme metal act. Successfully melding various styles of metal’s more intense styles – combining black metal, the likes of thrash, doom and hardcore with firm nods to traditional heavy metal – Black Anvil have already proven themselves a more than formidable presence, with latest effort Hail Death (Relapse Records) cementing them thusly.

 

It is striking how they manage to take what are such polarising elements of different variations of metal music and make feel seamless. Predominantly this is very sinister and primal black metal with the raw fury and pace of early, punk tinged thrash metal; showcased on the opening barrage of ‘Still Reborn’. On ‘Redemption Through Blood’ the hardcore influences come to light as well with the use of gang vocals which should contrast with such kvlt traits but feels so natural.

 

Elsewhere proceedings even slow down to a doom like, brooding crawl, but maintain the sense of unbridled fury and menace. The bonus KISS cover of ‘Under A Rose’ is the real sore thumb with its clean vocals and does feel unnecessary, if not showing they have no fears of throwing a spanner into the works.

 

The only real criticism of this album is its duration. Several songs here nearly reach the 10 minute mark, and in the case of true album closer ‘Next Level Black’ even surpassing 11 minutes; and even with their diversity and dynamism it does feel needlessly drawn out. Aside from the need of cutting down however Hail Death is a very impressive effort which channels a wide range of extremities, resulting in plenty of visceral and hate filled headbanging fodder.

7.5 / 10

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CHRIS TIPPELL