Ghost Cult is bringing back an old feature, affectionately known as Day Job for a Cowboy (cowgirl, or any of our gender non-binary peeps reading this). We ask musicians about the worst job they have ever had in their life. In this guest post, Immortal Bird’s Rae Amitay shares a particularly rough time she had as a day camp counselor once, which you can read below. In 2019 Immortal Bird has toured and played select festivals supporting their excellent release from earlier this year, Thrive on Neglect, out now via 20 Buck Spin. The band is about to embark on another run of tour dates that kick off December 7th.Continue reading
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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: July 5th New Music Releases
Immortal Bird – Thrive on Neglect
Thirty-seven minutes of dark passion. That’s what we get with the second album, Thrive on Neglect from Chicago troop, Immortal Bird. The production was handled by Dave Otero (Allegaeon, Archspire, Cattle Decapitation, Khemmis) at Flatline Audio in Colorado. Immaculately produced, the album sounds great in headphones or full on with speakers.
Immortal Bird Streams Entire New Album – “Thrive On Neglect”
Chameleon-like extreme metal band Immortal Bird is streaming their entire new album over at Decibel Magazine, before it drops this Friday, July 5th via the 20 Buck Spin label. The album is am F5 tornado of riffs and beats but focused excellent songcraft. It’s sure to cap a lot of end of year lists. Check out the stream and pre-order that album now at the links below. Continue reading
Immortal Bird Streams New Single, “Avolition”
Chicago’s Blackened Death Metal band Immortal Bird has shared their new single today, ‘Avolition’. The track comes from their new album Thrive On Neglect, due next month via the 20 Buck Spin label.Continue reading
Immortal Bird Streams a New Single – “Vestigial Warnings”
Immortal Bird previously announced their brand new album, Thrive on Neglect, due out on July 5th via the 20 Buck Spin label. The band has now shared a new track, ‘Vestigial Warnings’ which you can hear now via the label’s YouTube channel or below. On tour right now as they head towards a date with Northwest Terror Fest, the band plays Denver tonight, May 24th. The track is a dizzying, brutal assault on the senses, which pushes the bands’ reputation for their razor-sharp blackened technical death metal to new levels of extreme. Continue reading
Immortal Bird Streams New Single, New Album “Thrive On Neglect” This Summer
Immortal Bird will release a new album Thrive On Neglect this summer, their first for 20 Buck Spin, on July 5th. The group has shared its first new song, ‘Anger Breeds Contempt’, which you can hear below. Continue reading
Doom Video Game Composer Assembles Metal Vocalists For “Doom Eternal” Soundtrack
Acclaimed composer Mick Gordon shared today that he has assembled a who’s who of metal bands to contribute vocals to the newest and fifth edition in the Doom video game franchise, Doom Eternal. The game is coming soon from id software and Bethesda Software. Bands began to post today on social media sharing the news. Among the vocalists from bands included are Aborted, Frontierer, Immortal Bird, Vault Dweller Tengger Calvary, Wildspeaker, Black Crown Initiate, Sectioned, The Anchor, and many more we are still finding out about. We’ll bring you more updates on the game and the score as we get them. Continue reading
Thrawsunblat – IV: Great Brunswick Forest
Fans of the legendary Doom outfit Woods of Ypres (RIP David Gold) are aware of bands’ legacy in the North American Doom Metal scene. Former WoY members Joel Violette and Rae Amitay (Immortal Bird) have carried on a kinship through their work together in Thrawsunblat. More of a doom and Dark Folk side-project, it is their link to to the past and boldness to move forward which courses through fourth album IV: Great Brunswick Forest (Ignifera Records).Continue reading
Immortal Bird Releases Tracks Recorded Live At Migrationfest
Chicagoan blackened death metal band Immortal Bird has released a two-song EP Live At Migration with, two tracks from their recent appearance at the 2018 Migration Fest. The tracks ‘Neoplastic’ and ‘Saprophyte’ are available to buy or stream, as well as some other new merch options from the band to check out too.Continue reading