We Sell The Dead - Echoes Of An Ugly Past

“What if Jack the Ripper had played in a band? A heavy metal band?”

This is the question that formed and influenced WE SELL THE DEAD, this is the question that made the band.

Revolving around Guitarist - Niclas Engelin (IN FLAMES, ENGEL), Bass player - Jonas Slättung (DRÖMRIKET), Drummer - Gas Lipstick (former HIM) and the voice of Apollo Papathanasio (SPIRITUAL BEGGARS, FIREWIND), WE SELL THE DEAD go beyond the strains of conventional storytelling and create a multi-media experience of premium quality heavy metal music embedded in visually stimulating and atmospheric visuals.

WE SELL THE DEAD’s debut album “Heaven Doesn’t Want You And Hell Is Full” is going to be released on February 23rd, 2018 on earMUSIC.

Heavy, yet melodic sounds transport the listener into a Victorian inspired world that is defined by pompous manors and daunting luxury standing in deep contrast to the harshness and cruelty of the gutter. It is a world that reeks of hysteria, but above all a sense of mysticism and dark romanticism. WE SELL THE DEAD’s music rises above this, not merely pointing out this injustice, but expanding the narrative into the extreme, playing with themes of ghosts, death or religion. But not only…

Despite a reference to Victorian times, WE SELL THE DEAD maintains a very modern and ever-so-current approach that translates to the world we live in today.

Jonas Slättung Explains: “From the late 1800, an era that has inspired our band enormously, comes one of the greatest and darkest crime mysteries of them all: Jack the Ripper. We don’t know 100% who he was but we know his horrendous deeds. All the visuals we had in our mind, combined with the sometimes slightly morbid lyrics, made us think that this is what music would have sounded like if heavy metal had existed in the 19th century, or if Jack the Ripper had travelled forward in time to join a metal band. We Sell the Dead would have been his natural choice for a backing band. He probably would have felt right at home with us.

But, at the same time, the world hasn’t exactly evolved into a beautiful place since the 1880’s.
In the 1979 movie, ‘Time After Time’, Jack the Ripper escapes justice by, indeed, fleeing in a time machine to 1979. After getting caught by his followers, The Ripper utters this line of wisdom:
– back in 1893, I was a monster. Today...I’m an amateur.”

Well enjoy today’s tune!



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Psycho Choke - Get Down

The Greeks not only delivers brilliant stoner rock and sludge, there are also a lot harder acts as the little more angrier guys from Thessaloniki, Greece.

PSYCHO CHOKE hail from the island of Greece and formed in 1999 by rhythm guitarist Argy. The band has four albums to their credit with the latest entitled "Unraveling Chaos". Other band members are Bax (rhythm and lead guitars), George Montes (drums), Al Roy (vocals) and Phantomas (bass).

In the spring of 2009 the band started recording their new -long anticipated- full length album called "Unraveling Chaos". It took two months to record it and another six to mix it, reamp it, and master it at Hansen studios in Denmark by Jacob Hansen (NIGHTRAGE, VOLBEAT, MERCENARY). The result of this process was the heaviest shit the band have made.

With a little help from their friends- Gus.G (OZZY OSBOURNE, FIREWIND), Marios Iliopoulos & Olof Morck (NIGHTRAGE) and Jacob Hansen (INVOCATOR, ANUBIS GATE, BEYOND TWILIGHT) PSYCHO CHOKE have created a really vulgar album that contains a good mood of brutality with hard hammer drumming and screaming guitar riffs.

Todays tune "Get Down" is taken from the album "Unraveling Chaos", 2010. Guest solo from Gus-G (FIREWIND). Video is Directed/Shoot/Edit by Gabriel Psaltakis.



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SOTO - The Fall

SOTO, a new band which is the culmination of one of today's premier Rock frontmen and vocalists, Jeff Scott Soto, cast with a union of hotshot young musicians to bring you a slamming blend of melody and muscle in some of the freshest power metal to surface in years present their debut album, Inside The Vertigo.

Jeff explains, ''I've been in the game for a long time but my roots started more on the heavier side of the tracks, I thought it was about time I came home to visit the family and stick around for a while!''. 

The band is comprised of Jeff's most current solo band, who he insisted on making this musical merge with him. Jorge Salan (lead guitar), BJ (keys, guitars), David Z (bass) and Edu Cominato (drums).

SOTO adds ''these guys come from different parts of the world and bring their own influence to make this band very special. From the US to Europe to South America, we have an exciting mix of style and prestige that keeps us all on our toes''.

A neurotic blend of power metal, prog, groove-laden huge guitars, hooks and production, SOTO is a contender in today's modern Rock arena while capturing the essence of strong songwriting simultaneously.

Songs like “Break”, “The Fall”, “Wrath”, “Narcissistically Yours” and “Final Say” are perfect vehicles of raw emotion. Songs like “When I'm Older”, “Karma’s Kiss”, to the title track “Inside The Vertigo” and the 9+ minute epic “End Of Days” advocate a modern day reality/wake-up call.

Produced by Jeff Scott Soto, the album features tracks co-written with his bandmates as well as a of his famous friends/colleagues. Collaborators include guitarists Gus G (FIREWIND, OZZY), Jason Bieler (SAIGON KICK), Mike Orlando (ADRENALINE MOB) and Joel Hoekstra (NIGHT RANGER/TSO), all of whom perform on their penned tracks for the album. Others appearing as guests/co-writers are Casey Grillo (KAMELOT), Connor Engstrom, Tony Dickinson, Leo Mancini, Hugo Mariutti and Gary Schutt.

The album was recorded during the latter months of 2013 and mixed/mastered in Boston by SOTOs long time engineer and friend John Ellis. ''Everyone from John to my amazing co-writers to some of my bandmates, especially Edu who was extremely instrumental on helping me stay on course musically, get overall credit for creating this album. I oversaw it as a whole knowing the vision I wanted to capture but I truly had a lot of help from my bros that appear on this masterpiece!'' exclaims Soto.

The release of the album intentionally coincides with the birth date of JSS’s fallen colleague and dear friend Marcel Jacob of Talisman. RIP.

SOTO will follow up the release of “Inside The Vertigo” with extensive touring and appearances throughout 2015.

Todays tune "The Fall" is the first single out from "Inside The Vertigo", Enjoy!


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Red Circuit - Digging In The Dirt

RED CIRCUIT is a Progressive metal Supergroup from Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany. It features members and guest musicians from renowned bands such as VANDEN PLAS; ADAGIO, FIREWIND and ELEGY.

That RED CIRCUIT are a great example of a band whose result is the sum of its individual parts. Or, to transfer a mathematical formula to the rock music world: world class vocalist plus brilliant instrumentalists equals a great band. And there is no hesitation in describing RED CIRCUIT as such, as their previous albums, “Trance State” (2006) and “Homeland” (2009) impressively proved. The finely balanced mixture of technically classy power metal, refined progressive rock and a cleverly inwoven mainstream attitude, which serve to make the songs so memorable has been praised for years, and not only by the music press, but also by an ever-growing hoard of fans. Their third studio album, “Haze Of Nemesis” is now on the start line, ready to burst on the world with powerful guitar riffs, symphonic keyboard parts and superb vocals.

The latest album "Haze Of Nemesis" was released in October 2014.

The RED CIRCUIT are:

Chitral "Chity" Somapala - Lead vocals (FIREWIND, CIVILIZATION ONE, REKUIEM, POWER QUEST)
Markus Teske - Keyboards
Christian Moser - Guitars (SHEELA, 3 MONKEYS AND A DOG, JUKE BOX HERO, JOY)
Tommy Schmitt - Bass (ZEUS, Q-SQUAD, FRACTURE)
Michael Stein - Drums (GODEX, ROKKEN)

Todays tune "Digging In The Dirt" is taken from the album "Haze Of Nemesis". The original can be found on the album "Us" by Peter Gabriel, released in 1992.



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