Monday again, so it's time to introduce "Record Of The Week".
Over the past twenty years, Atlanta's MASTODON has proven to us that they master the craftmanship with some pretty wild adventures. Where they have given us as listeners great stories to dig into. Like the 2004's album "Leviathan" where the white whale was the main story, or the cyclops in 2007's "Blood Mountain" or Rasputin in 2009's "Crack The Skye", the walk true the desert in 2017’s "Emperor Of Sand".
The new album "Hushed And Grim" is big piece to dive into, eightyeight-minutes divded on fifteen tunes gives a overwhelming size but with a grandeur result. Im really impressed how well oiled the MASTODON machine have come to over the years. All the knowledge that is built up during all these years is realized here with all the important parts that they succeed with before, results are almost like a greatest hits if you can now say so. At least it's completely magical.
For the first time on a MASTODON album they really showcase all the three singers that gives a great mix in the songs where they cover most of the genres of thier musical experimentations, like stoner rock, doom, progressive rock and metal. "Hushed And Grim" is produced by the Canadian record producer David Bottrill (TOOL, RUSH, dEUS, KING CRIMSON, DREAM THEATER and FAIR TO MIDLAND among many others).
The album opens up with the progressive piece "Pain With An Anchor" where classic sound is boosted with some brutality. It's followed by the progressive metal tune "The Crux", where parts are a bit punkish. The same manner and heat can be heard in tune like "Savage Lands" and "Pushing The Tides". On the softer and withdrawn side, you get songs like the groovy "Sickle And Peace" where they offer some excellent guitar work that is so overwhelmed with details that will amaze you. Other tracks in the same vein would be "The Beast" and "Skeleton Of Splendor" where we get served some acoustic guitars and creepy mellotrons. "Teardrinker" is a big tune, could say an anthem, could be one of the strongest pieces on an already very strong album where all the tunes have such an excellent quality that you flabbergast. Tunes in the more psychedelic spring are "Dagger" and "Had It All" where the final track "Gigantium" really wraps up the bag with the flag is waving at the top. "Hushed And Grim" is an epic and very varied release that never loses an ounce of its scintillating power along the way. An album that fits in perfectly during Christmas time. When you can not bear more Christmas music, play this and everything will be fine. Nice work MASTODON!
The album also serves as a tribute to MASTODON's former manager Nick John, after his death from cancer in 2018.
Sum: "Hushed And Grim" is a magical release, get it!
Today's tune "Teardrinker", taken from the eighth studio album "Hushed And Grim", was released as a double album on October 29, 2021, through Reprise Records.
Monday, new week, time to introduce "Record Of The Week".
The Swedish metal band SOEN is back with their fifth album "Imperial", the follow up to the two years old "Lotus", an album where they reached greater heights within the modern prog-metal world.
"Imperial" is a “product of the COVID-19 pandemic" as Soen has called themselves. With all touring canceled, the band was able to spend 12 hours a day bringing the album to life.
The new album "Imperial" is a complex and compelling story. It's a poetic, heavy, and very emotional album about our human conditions, the sound is tighter and they feel more focused than ever. All this is done in well-written lyrics, well-composed tunes that show their excellent musicianship. The emotional and melodic passages have really elegant movements with a lot of warmth, soulful feelings, and still with enough toughness to embrace the listener into their world and hopefully understand the message and pass it along to the masses. The production on the album is really punchy and clear, sounds really good.
The vocals of Joel Ekelöf vocal cords are very soulful, the guitars by Lars Enok Åhlund and Cody Ford are very bluesy and emotional, Martin López drumming is very dynamic and well played and danced hand in hand with Oleksii Kobel bass stings.
The heavy progressive tunes like the brilliant opening "Lumerian", the explosive "Monarch" and massive and thunderous "Antagonist" really roll out the red carpet where the lads' talents are showcased. The complexity in guitars and drum patterns works so well with each other along with Joel's vocals, it's like ice cream with golden sparkles on a sunny day. The heavy jazzy prog piece "Dissident" is just magic, the tones dance into the brain like magnets. The powerful "Deceiver" is heavy, progressive, and unpredictable. Tunes like "Illusion" are soulful and really heartbreaking where the closing "Fortune" follows the same path, great ending of the album.
The album "Imperial" is progressive metal delivered with passion and vigor.
SOEN is an undeniable cypher for all which swirls around us, something which will continue to set them apart from their peers for years to come, and "Imperial" is the latest potent, unmissable commentary from their journey.
The album was released by Silver Lining Music on January 29th, 2021
Sum: "Imperial" is a perfectly "pandemic" made an album that will suit any fans of A PERFECT CIRCLE and TOOL.
Today's tune "Monarch" is take from the new album "Imperial", enjoy!
In the third decade since their formation, the Swedish band PAIN OF SALVATION is at the forefront of the progressive rock/metal movement and has earned a reputation as one of the most exciting live acts in the modern rock scene.
The follow-up to the highly acclaimed 2017 studio album "In The Passing Light Of Day" is now called "Panther", was mixed together with Daniel Bergstrand (IN FLAMES, MESHUGGAH, Devin Townsend) and comes with a detailed visual concept with drawings by André Meister.
"Panther" is once again a triumph of artistic development and an exhilarating next musical chapter in the eventful history of PAIN OF SALVATION: Intense, always innovative and highly relevant. "Panther" is available as CD, Digital Album, limited 2CD Mediabook (Incl. 4 bonus tracks on separate disc and expanded arwork) and as 180g. Gatefold 2LP (Incl. 4 bonus tracks as Side D and album on CD as bonus). The album was released on August 28th, 2020 via InsideOutMusic.
It is for the restless, the shy, the motormouths, the passionate, the ones who go far beyond the point of reason for what you believe in, the outsiders, the diagnosed, the medicated, the hungry, the sad, the ones walking around daily trying to understand how to fit in with this species, with this era.
It's for everyone who always had problems sitting still in the classroom, or who never really knew how to speak up. The daydreamers, the relentlessly curious, the comedians, the unexplainably angry.
This is your album. Because you, my friend, are a panther. And you are a valued member of the Full Throttle Tribe. Ladies and gentlemen, rev your engines, the world is about to get panthered!
Today's tune "Unfuture", taken from the new album "Panther". Video created by Thomas Hicks, enjoy!
Monday, a new week is here and it's time to introduce this week's "Record Of The Week".
"Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape" is the latest album release by the Pennsylvania based progressive death metal group BLACK CROWN INITIATE. The band formed in 2012 and self-released their first EP Song of "The Crippled Bull", which was met with positive reviews. They began touring relentlessly in early 2014 with fellow extreme metal bands such as GOATWHORE, BEHEMOTH, and 1349, and lead to them being signed by eOne Music in June 2014. With eOne, they have released both "The Wreckage Of Stars" and their most recent effort "Selves We Cannot Forgive", which was released on July 22, 2016.
The origins of the name "BLACK CROWN INITIATE", there is a Tibetan spiritual leader that wears a black crown to signify help for humanity. We are all pervert pigs so we help by showing people that, first about ourselves.
"Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape" was released on August 7, 2020, on Century Media Records. Their recent masterpiece was recorded by Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland which have already collaborated with several Bands like RIVERS OF NIHIL, AUGUST BURNS RED and LORNA SHORE.
"Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape", Is something I have unconsciously longed for, wonderfully moaning, disturbing tones, bumpy harmonies, and other difficult pronounced oscillations. From the opening acoustic guitar tones of "Invitation", the slightly sad and clean vocal that sings a couple of lines until a crescendo of brutality overwhelms the tune with "Born, and set loose with his lust and his violence" and the tune takes a new turn. The driving rage of the harsh vocals and the musical mayhem slows down a notch and get mixed with clean vocals and a slightly more controlled state. Technical and progressive metal at it's best. Where bands like DREAM THEATER, OPETH, and FAIR TO MIDLAND comes in mind. The wonderful craziness continues over the rest of the album, it's like a perfect 5 meal dinner, where you get the best off everything is small portions and on top of it a production that sounds as good as a glass of fine vintage wine. From the epic "Son Of War", via the thunderous "Trauma Bonds" to the marvelous "Years In Frigid Light" where we get served a musical brilliance that is totally jaw-dropping. When we reach the middle of the album, we get served some instrumental Tibetan vocal warm-up with some throat singing in "Bellow". Back on track for part two on the record and "Death Comes In Reverse" is a little more withdrawn but "Jesus" so wonderful, what a flow. "Sun Of War" opens with a beautiful soft guitar intro before it shows his true self and burst out into a concrete tulip. "Holy Silence" is a really delicious piece of progressive death metal that leads into a softer note in the instrumental closing track "He Is The Path".
"Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape" is an excellent album, what impressive musicianship they obtain, brilliant songwriting and I love their mix of the technical brutality and the depth in the melody which is really emotionally compelling. It's really captured me into their world. I Highly Recommend this album.
Musicians:
Nick “Bass” Shaw / Bass
Andy Thomas / Guitars
James Dorton / Vocals
Ethan McKenna / Guitars
Sum: Wow what an Excellent album.
Today's tune is the brilliant "Sun Of War", taken from "Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape", enjoy!
FORSTENET is a Danish five-piece progressive and psychedelic rock/metal band, consisting of guitar, bass, drums, Hammond organ and, a highly prominent feature in their music, bass trombone! The main standout point of the band is that their songs are written in their native language Danish, with a singer who practices everything from clean singing, growling, screaming, throat singing, and powerful high-pitched falsetto singing. The eclectic vocals combined with heavy progressive grooves and dark, haunting, atmospheric guitar riffs with the nordic feel of the band's mother's tongue contributes to a quite fresh experience of modern progressive rock/metal. It's really good, check it up below.
First press is only 250 copies of the Vinyl, so act quickly if you want one.
Members:
Guitars/Vocals: Lauritz Andersen
Drums: Emil Deleuran Poulsen (SKIFTING)
Guitars: Lasse Sølling Madsen
Bass: Morten Gustav Eide
Keyboards/Bass Trombone: Troels Mathiesen
Today's tune "Skønhed Blandt Kolossale Masser Af Grå" is the second single from the album "Ephemeros: Virvar", released Nov
2019. The album is available on Gatefold 2-LP, Jewelcase CD and streaming. Enjoy!
With their two records "Back To Times Of Splendor" (2004) and "Gloria" (2006), DISILLUSION from Leipzig, Germany, pushed the boundaries of melodic death and progressive metal so far as to redefine the genres themselves in terms of both emotional depth and stylistic scope. After successful concerts with a refurbished line-up in 2015 and the single "Alea" in 2016, their first new recording in a decade, mastermind Andy Schmidt and co. deliver the logical successor to "Back To Times Of Splendor" in the shape of "The Liberation", an expression of clearance in the literal sense of its title
and testament to human development.
As (Blabbermouth) stated:" "one of the best-kept secrets to come from the metal underground".
"The Liberation" is the result of the Herculean creative task to which Andy Schmidt applied himself; spending countless hours of songwriting and recording. It comes 13 years after "Gloria" but stands with its genuinely enthusiastic, passionate, and driven prog metal as the logical stylistic and lyrical successor to "Back To Times Of Splendor" – but with 15 years of additional life experience on the part of its creator. As an expression of clearance in the literal sense of its title, it is a testament to human development. An interplay of fierce metal with moments of both pure euphoria and introspection, the songs take you on the proverbial roller coaster of emotions that you’ve missed – perhaps since OPETH's "Watershed".
DISILLUSION in 2019 resembles the storm you feel brewing over an epic such as "Wintertide", the straight-in-your-face stunner "The Great Unknown" see it below, or the unexpectedly catchy and hookline-laden "Time To Let Go", which - quite naturally - turned out to be exactly what fans have been craving for so long.
"The Liberation" was mastered by Jens Bogren (IN FLAMES) and is available as Digipak CD, gatefold 2LP, as well as 60-page 2CD book edition (hardcover, 18x18cm) with expanded artwork and audio commentary from Andy Schmidt.
Andy Schmidt (Vox, guitars)
Sebastian Hupfer (guitars)
Ben Haugg (guitars)
Robby Kranz (bass)
Martin Schulz (drums)
Today's tune "The Great Unknown" is taken from the bands latest release "The Liberation", enjoy!
Lauded California-based progressive metallers PSYCHOTIC WALTZ are back! Not only that but they return—after officially reforming in 2010—with all five members from the group’s first three albums, "A Social Grace" (1990), "Into The Everflow" (1992), and "Mosquito" (1994). That’s right. Appearing on new album "The God-Shaped Void" and stepping in as if they never left are: Dan Rock (guitars/keyboards), Brian McAlpin (guitars/keyboards), Ward Evans (bass), Norm Leggio (drums), and Devon Graves (vocals/flute/keyboard), originally known to fans as Buddy Lackey.
PSYCHOTIC WALTZ got its start in El Cajon (a suburb of San Diego) in 1986. Previously known as ASLAN, the band that would become America’s foremost progressive metal outfit—alongside FATES WARNING and WATCHTOWER. Now, 23 years later, the high school friends have found each other again under the majesty and mystery of PSYCHOTIC WALTZ.
"The God-Shaped Void" is a delightful album where the band continues to dive into darker atmospherics. Eleven tunes that clocks in at just under an hour. The lyrical and melody works continue to captivate and impress. From the opening dramatic, six-minute sprawl "Devils And Angels" where we hear that they still possess the magic in creativity. Powerful harmony with excellent riffage and a magical vocal opens the door to a delightful journey in The God-Shaped Void. That they are true to their prog metal roots while also imparting insightful songwriting tact on tunes like "Stranded", "All The Bad Men", and "Demystified", which features Graves on guitar and flute. A few other great tunes are the doomy "Sisters Of The Dawn", and the hook-laden "In The Silence" and the tempestuous groovy "Back To Black". The excellent beautiful piece "While The Spiders Spin" that gives us marvelous riffage and delicate vocals, see it below. The album a well-made craft where they stick to what they do best and deliver us a delightful piece of are that will get plenty of spins, an album that should be taken as whole to be fully appreciated. If you are into progressive rock then this is something for you, at least check it up and be impressed.
Sum: Majestic return and an impressive release.
"The God-Shaped Void" was released on Feb 14th, 2020 on InsideOutMusic
Devon Graves / Vocals
Brian McAlpin / Guitar
Dan Rock / Guitar & Keyboards
Ward Evans / Bass
Norman Leggio / Drums
Today's tune "While The Spiders Spin", taken from the Record Of The Week "The God-Shaped Void", enjoy!
The Dark Souls explorers FIRELINK is following their debut extremely excellent debut release that came out last year "The Inveterate Fire", FIRELINK returns with one more layer Black to infused the Dark Souls lore in the lead single "Where Demons Bore" from the upcoming album that is to be released in the Spring of 2020.
FIRELINK is hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. The duo released their debut album, "The Inveterate Fire", in May of 2019. Harrison Stivarius served as the songwriter and recorded all guitars and bass, as well as writing the drums. Adrian Davis wrote and recorded lyrics and vocals. On the second upcoming album, Kevin Paradis filling in on drums and a few more special guests.
Today's tune "Where Demons Bore" is an 8-minute epic, that follows up where the last album ends but diggs deeper in the world of the Dark Souls, enjoy!
BESVÄRJELSEN (Swedish for “Conjuring”) formed in 2014 by members out of bands like DOZER, GREENLEAF, AFGRUND, LASTKAJ and V. One can tell their influences has also been drawn from all these genres represented in their musical history. However rooted in Doom you will find traces of Progressive Metal, Punk, Folk, and simply old classic Rock n’ Roll that has been carefully weaved together to a sound as heavy as it’s sophisticated.
The band released their first EP “Villfarelser” in 2015 which was later followed up by yet another EP “Exil” in 2016. Both EP’s was well received by Swedish media and the band got quite a lot of radio plays on Swedish National Radio even though having released both EP’s themselves and not being backed up by any record label.
2017 has been spent writing and recording new songs which now has been funneled down to the bands first full-length album "Vallmo" (Swedish for "Poppy"). "Vallmo" is an album that more than ever showcase the bands enormous potential. Seamlessly wandering from crushing Doom riffs to catchy vocals and melodies, deep lyrical content and drum beats from hell, all topped with beautiful guitar solos and layers. A totally new addition to the debut "Vallmo" is that BESVÄRJELSEN now has songs in English as well as in Swedish, so for today we pick an English one so you all get a chance to follow the lyrics.
Enjoy this piece of music that will give a wonderful musical evening.
BESVÄRJELSEN is:
Lea Amling – vocals
Andreas Baier – guitar and vocals
Staffan Winroth – guitar and vocals
Johan Rockner – bass
Erik Bäckwall – drums
A follow up to "Vallmo" is soon ready for release. The new EP is titled "Frost", will be released in August this year. The release in August comes after being first included as part of the exclusive PostWax series. PostWax is a groundbreaking subscription-style series of exclusive records for diehard fans of stoner, doom, heavy, psych rock, launched by Blues Funeral Recordings.
Today's tune "Return To No Return" is taken from the latest release "Vallmo". Out on Suicide Records.
"Gold & Grey" is the latest release from Georgia’s finest, BARONESS. It's been 12 years since they started their journey thru the color palette with the 2007's "Red" Album to today's "Gold & Grey". It certainly been an wild colorful ride for the guys, lineup changes, bus crash is a few milestones they have been true over the years. "Gold & Grey" was released on June 14th, 2019 on Abraham Hymns.
"Gold & Grey" is a massive piece of music with a lot of stylistic changes and instrumental experimentation. The Baizley cover art is absolutely stunning, the painting was born from a deeply personal reflection on the past 12 years of this band’s history, and will stand as the 6th and final piece in their chromatically-themed records. While "Gold & Grey" found the outfit once again working with "Purple" producer Dave Fridmann (THE FLAMING LIPS, MOGWAI), sequestering themselves at Fridmann’s remote upstate New York Tarbox Road Studio, the 17-track album ushered in two significant changes: a decidedly different recording process and guitar player Gina Gleason’s debut on a BARONESS recording that resulted in the band’s most collaborative and emotionally evocative release to date.
"Gold & Grey" opens with the high paced progressive "Front Toward Enemy", an high energy and angry tune, cool riffing and strumming bass lick. Follows up with the groovy and gothic tune "I’m Already Gone". "Seasons" rolls out of the box with some incredible drumming signed Sebastian Thomson, sounds almost like drum n bass before the rest of the orchestra spices it up with a progressive touch and make it pure magic. The tune have so many sounds that it makes it impossible to label it. "Sevens" is a beautiful piano interlude, before it leave some space to "Tourniquet", low-fi vocals and acoustic guitar that begins the tune before it reaches full blom with excellent twin-guitars. "Anchor’s Lament" soft interlude with some strings until it clear the way for the progressive rocker "Throw Me An Anchor" that have a wide spread from garage rock to progressive sound. The album slows down to a live touching "I’d Do Anything". "Blankets Of Ash" is a war ambient interlude before the atmospheric and soft piece "Emmett-Radiating Light" that continues with a softy "Cold Blooded Angels", a tune that slowly moves forward until it half way true shifts into a heavier sound. "Crooked Mile" is a light guitar interlude. "Broken Halo" have some excellent twin guitar playing. "Can Oscura" is an instrumental piece that steps out a bit with it Krautrock sound. "Borderlines" is majestic rocker with it's monumental riffage and catchy space chorus. The last interlude "Assault On East Falls" tickles on your nerve before the album closer "Pale Sun" that is another curve-ball on the album that show the great musicianship that BARONESS have in 2019 and "Gold & Grey" is a varied and ambitious piece of music and an perfect conclusion of the band’s color-themed albums.
Sum: "Gold & Grey" is a work of art.
Gina Gleason (guitar), Sebastian Thomson (drums),
John Baizley (vocals/guitar) and Nick Jost (bass).
Today's tune "Seasons", taken from the album "Gold & Grey", enjoy!
Upcoming Tourdates:
16 JUN 2019
SOMERVILLE, MA - USA
ONCE BALLROOM/NEWBURY COMICS
19 JUN 2019
MEXICO CITY, DF - MEXICO
LUNARIO
21 JUN 2019
SANTIAGO - CHILE
BLONDIE
22 JUN 2019
BUENOS AIRES - ARGENTINA
UNICLUB
23 JUN 2019
SAO PAULO, SP - BRAZIL
FABRIQUE CLUB
11 JUL 2019
LANCASTER, PA - USA
CHAMELEON CLUB
12 JUL 2019
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY - USA
THE CHANCE THEATER
13 JUL 2019
HUNTINGTON, NY - USA
THE PARAMOUNT
14 JUL 2019
HARTFORD, CT - USA
WEBSTER THEATER
16 JUL 2019
BUFFALO, NY - USA
TOWN BALLROOM
17 JUL 2019
PITTSBURGH, PA - USA
MR. SMALLS THEATRE
19 JUL 2019
COLUMBUS, OH - USA
NEWPORT MUSIC HALL
20 JUL 2019
DETROIT, MI - USA
MAJESTIC CAFE
21 JUL 2019
INDIANAPOLIS, IN - USA
THE DELUXE AT OLD NATIONAL CENTRE
23 JUL 2019
PALATINE, IL - USA
DURTY NELLIE'S
24 JUL 2019
DES MOINES, IA - USA
WOOLY'S
26 JUL 2019
OMAHA, NE - USA
WAITING ROOM LOUNGE
27 JUL 2019
LAWRENCE, KS - USA
THE GRANADA
28 JUL 2019
ST LOUIS, MO - USA
THE READY ROOM
30 JUL 2019
NASHVILLE, TN - USA
CANNERY BALLROOM
31 JUL 2019
BIRMINGHAM, AL - USA
SATURN
4 AUG 2019
BATON ROUGE, LA - USA
VARSITY THEATRE
6 AUG 2019
ATLANTA, GA - USA
BUCKHEAD THEATRE
6 AUG 2019
TAMPA, FL - USA
THE ORPHEUM
7 AUG 2019
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - USA
CULTURE ROOM
9 AUG 2019
ORLANDO, FL - USA
THE PLAZA LIVE
10 AUG 2019
JACKSONVILLE, FL - USA
1904 MUSIC HALL
11 AUG 2019
CHARLESTON, SC - USA
MUSIC FARM
13 AUG 2019
CHARLOTTE, NC - USA
THE UNDERGROUND
14 AUG 2019
ASHEVILLE, NC - USA
THE ORANGE PEEL
16 AUG 2019
RICHMOND, VA - USA
THE NATIONAL
17 AUG 2019
BALTIMORE, MD - USA
BALTIMORE SOUNDSTAGE
23 SEP 2019
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE - UNITED KINGDON
O2 ACADEMY NEWCASTLE
24 SEP 2019
GLASGOW - UNITED KINGDOM
O2 ACADEMY GLASGOW
26 SEP 2019
LONDON - UNITED KINGDOM
O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON
28 SEP 2019
BRISTOL - UNITED KINGDOM
O2 ACADEMY BRISTOL
30 SEP 2019
BIRMINGHAM - UNITED KINGDOM
O2 ACADEMY BIRMINGHAM
1 OCT 2019
MANCHESTER - UNITED KINGDOM
O2 APOLLO MANCHESTER
3 OCT 2019
BELFAST - UNITED KINGDOM
ULSTER HALL
4 OCT 2019
DUBLIN - IRELAND
OLYMPIA THEATRE
6 OCT 2019
PARIS - FRANCE
L'OLYMPIA BRUNO COQUATRIX
7 OCT 2019
ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE - LUXEMBOURG
ROCKHAL
9 OCT 2019
MADRID - SPAIN
SALA RIVIERA
10 OCT 2019
LISBOA - PORTUGAL
COLISEU DOS RECREIOS
12 OCT 2019
BARCELONA - SPAIN
RAZZMATAZZ
14 OCT 2019
MILANO - ITALY
FABRIQUE
29 OCT 2019
WARSZAWA - POLAND
COS TORWAR HALL SPECTACULAR
31 OCT 2019
PRAGUE - CZECH REPUBLIC
O2 UNIVERSUM
1 NOV 2019
BERLIN - GERMANY
MERCEDES-BENZ ARENA
3 NOV 2019
STUTTGART - GERMANY
HANNS-MARTIN-SCHLEYER-HALLE
5 NOV 2019
ZÜRICH - SWITZERLAND
HALLENSTADION
7 NOV 2019
FRANKFURT AM MAIN - GERMANY
FESTHALLE MESSE FRANKFURT GMBH
8 NOV 2019
MÜNCHEN - GERMANY
KLEINE OLYMPIAHALLE MÜNCHEN
10 NOV 2019
LEIPZIG - GERMANY
ARENA LEIPZIG
11 NOV 2019
HAMBURG - GERMANY
BARCLAYCARD ARENA HAMBURG
12 NOV 2019
HAMBURG - GERMANY
BARCLAYCARD ARENA HAMBURG
14 NOV 2019
KÖLN - GERMANY
LANXESS ARENA
15 NOV 2019
KÖLN - GERMANY
LANXESS ARENA
17 NOV 2019
WIEN - AUSTRIA
WIENER STADTHALLE
19 NOV 2019
AMSTERDAM - NETHERLANDS
ZIGGO DOME
21 NOV 2019
ANTWERPEN - BELGIUM
LOTTO ARENA
27 NOV 2019
HELSINKI - FINLAND
HARTWALL ARENA
29 NOV 2019
STOCKHOLM - SWEDEN
TELE2 ARENA
Bonus clip with BARONESS - Live In The K! Pit (Tiny Dive Bar Show) Where the band bring their poignant, progressive sludge to Kerrang!'s Brooklyn K! Pit, where the world's biggest and most exciting bands play for a very select group of fans in a tiny bar called The Gutter.
SETLIST
Morningstar (0:44)
Seasons (6:04)
March to the Sea (11:08)
Borderlines (15:15)
Can Oscura (21:26)
A Horse Called Golgotha (25:16)
Shock Me (30:28)
The Philadelphia-based progressive metal band BARONESS has returned with a tourniquet and a new lead single "Borderlines", taken from the forthcoming album "Gold & Grey", see the tune below.
The new single sounds great, a takeoff from "Purple" (2015). The Video is spacy and trippy, six-minute riff-beast with great soaring harmonized vocals.
Gold & Grey is due June 14 via Baroness' own Abraxan Hymns label and with a stunning cover painting.
"Borderlines" marks the bands first new material since Gleason took over for Pete Adams following his departure in 2017. The new album was recorded in upstate New York with famed FLAMING LIPS prog-fuzz producer Dave Fridmann. (Fridmann also produced the last BARONESS album, 2015’s "Purple".)
BARONESS recently embarked on a massive co-headlining tour with fellow boundary-pushing rockers DEAFHEAVEN.
Tue, MAR 26
Metro Music Hall
Salt Lake City, UT
Wed, MAR 27
The Ogden Theatre
Denver, CO
Fri, MAR 29
Skyway Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
Sat, MAR 30
The Sylvee
Madison, WI
Sun, MAR 31
The Riviera Theatre
Chicago, IL
Tue, APR 02
Danforth Music Hall
Toronto, Canada
Wed, APR 03
Theatre Corona
Montreal, Canada
Fri, APR 05
Starland Ballroom
Sayreville, NJ
Sat, APR 06
The Palladium
Worcester, MA
Sun, APR 07
Upstate Concert Hall
Saratoga County, NY
Tue, APR 09
Agora Theater & Ballroom
Cleveland, OH
Wed, APR 10
The Fillmore Silver Spring
Silver Spring, MD
Fri, APR 12
Terminal 5
New York, NY
Sat, APR 13
Decibel Magazine's Metal and Beer Fest [April 13-14]
Philadelphia, PA
JINJER is a Ukrainian female fronted band which plays a mixture of progressive metalcore and groove metal, with some inlays of funk, reggae and jazz, though on their second LP the band shifted a bit to death metal of the European school.
JINJER was formed in 2010 when Tatiana Shmailyuk joined the guys as a vocalist. In 2013, the band were acknowledged as the best metal band of the year in Ukraine.
JINJER have been working frantically on a mind-blowing soundscape only they can do justice for and one that shatters all comparisons. Their third album "King of Everything" catapulted this Ukrainian juggernaut into the collective consciousness of the Metal universe and their new EP "Micro" undoubtedly cements itself as another milestone in the history of JINJER. The first single ‘Ape‘ is nothing short of a groove-laden kick in the guts wake up call, full of flickering sonic fury and melodic flashes, while the Micro EP in itself is an emotionally charged trip ranging from caressing to traumatizing and loaded with world-class grooves that can only leave you wanting more.
JINJER consists of:
Tatiana Shmailyuk - vocals
Roman Ibramkhalilov - guitars
Eugene Kostyuk - bass
Vladislav Ulasevish - drums
JINJER is out touring atm with AMORPHIS and SOILWORK.
Today's tune "Perennial" taken from the brand new EP “Micro”, released via Napalm Records on January 11th 2019, enjoy.
The Swedish progressive metal legends OPETH have released "Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre" on November 2nd via Moderbolaget Records / Nuclear Blast Entertainment. This historic event was captured for the DVD, Blu-Ray and Vinyl formats during their performance May 11th, 2017 at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver, CO. Both the DVD and Blu-ray formats include CDs containing the audio as well.
Video footage for "Garden of the Titans" was overseen by The Deka Brothers (CARPENTER BRUT, THE PRODIGY) and audio was mixed by David Castillo (KATATONIA, BLOODBATH). All versions feature the masterful artwork of revered artist Travis Smith (NEVERMORE, KATATONIA, TESTAMENT).
Always an unstoppable force for uniqueness amid a sea of generic swill, OPETH has been setting the rulebook ablaze, and ploughing a uniquely progressive and exploratory furrow for over 25 years now. Neither conforming nor exhibiting any desire to be restricted to a single genre, OPETH, quite simply, has a time honored tradition of blowing our minds with both class and forward thinking. All these years later, nothing and everything has changed once again with their most recent album, "Sorceress".
"Sorceress" was released in September 2016. For the band's first effort for Nuclear Blast via OPETH's imprint label Moderbolaget Records, the group returned to Rockfield Studios in Wales, also home to pivotal releases from QUEEN, RUSH and JUDAS PRIEST, where the Swedes had tracked "Pale Communion" in 2014 with Tom Dalgety.
Today's tune "Demon of the Fall" taken from the new live album, originally released on third full-length studio album "My Arms, Your Hearse", released August 1998, enjoy!
Swedish heavyweights PAGANIZER release an album that defies logic. Having been around for nearly two decades, their music has only gotten faster and heavier. "Land of Weeping Souls" is undeniably their fiercest and tightest yet. Fresh from the success of their recent EP on the same Indian label, this new album, their 10th full length, is a huge leap ahead. Each of the songs retains the classic Swedish riffing appeal and is enhanced by accelerated drumming, heaving hooks, and even a rabid thrash metal influence. In the words of Rogga Johansson himself, "the new album is the best PAGANIZER album, death fucking metal the way it is supposed to be done".
Lineup:
Rogga Johansson - Guitars, Vocals (ECHELON, DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN, JOHANSSON & SPECKMANN, etc.)
Kjetil Lynghaug - Lead Guitars (ECHELON, MORDENIAL)
Matte Fiebig - Drums (PORTAL, MORDENIAL)
Martin Klasen - Bass
Artwork - Daniel "Devilish" Johnsson (JUST BEFORE DAWN, ENTRAILS, THOSE WHO BRING THE TORTURE, SORCERY), Layout - Silvester Koorevaar (INCANTATION, COFFINS, HOODED MENACE)
Today's tune "Prey To Death" taken from "Land of Weeping Souls", enjoy!
INANIMATE EXISTENCE is a US Technical/Progressive Death Metal band, originally formed in the Bay Area (California), these guys have been active since 2010, and since then they have already released four albums.
"Liberation Through Hearing" (2012), "A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement" (2014), "Calling from a Dream" (2016) and the fourth album "Underneath a Melting Sky" (2017) where we find today's tune "Formula of Spores". The album artwork features a fantastic artwork done by Justin Abraham.
These guys are really good, excellent songwriting, great musicianship and extremely talent musicians. It's not easy listening music, it will take some time and commitment to spin true the album.
Band members:
Cameron Porras - Guitar, Vocals
Scott Bradley - Bass, Vocals
Ron Casey - Drums
Today's tune "Formula of Spores" is taken from "Underneath a Melting Sky", enjoy!
DEFECTO is Denmark’s newest and finest addition to melodic and progressive metal, featuring huge catchy choruses, massive riffs, blazing solos and grandiose symphonies with a modern feel. Being spotted by Grammy award-winning producer Flemming Rasmussen (METALLICA), DEFECTO is, without doubt, the most promising addition to the Danish metal scene since VOLBEAT.
The band's second album "Nemesis" was released on December 1st, 2017. Although they are a relative newcomer to the scene with only 2 albums under their belt, the band already boasts an impressive CV: doing sold out tours in Denmark, touring around Europe, playing at prestigious festivals such as COPENHELL and supporting giants such as METALLICA and RAMMSTEIN.
DEFECTO was formed in 2011 in Copenhagen when singer, guitarist and frontman Nicklas Sonne was approached by the legendary producer Flemming Rasmussen (METALLICA, BLIND GUARDIAN) after hearing Sonne’s music. Wanting to help Sonne record and release his material, they contacted lead guitarist Frederik Møller, as well as bass-player Thomas Bartholin and drummer Lars Jensen in order to create a band that could match Sonne’s unique potential.
Already from the beginning, DEFECTO’s brand of melodic and virtuoso metal was creating a buzz in the Danish metal scene. Released in 2012, their debut EP “Defecto” brought them into the attention of the Danish media, being named “Best Metal Band 2012” by Underground Music Awards.
The release of DEFECTO’s debut album “Excluded” in march 2016 was met with much attention and appraisal throughout the European metal scene, creating a dedicated following for the band and a considerable breakthrough especially in the Danish metal scene.
In December 2017, DEFECTO’s sophomore album “ Nemesis” was released to rave reviews from fans and press alike, both in Denmark and internationally. Following the release, DEFECTO’s signed with Swedish record label Black Lodge Records (IN FLAMES, SABATON, KATATONIA), on which "Nemesis" will be re-released in march 2018. Most recently, DEFECTO joined forces with German booking agency Dragon Productions (SONATA ARCTICA, VOLBEAT, D-A-D, DIZZY MIZZ LIZZY) who will henceforth be booking the band in Europe.
Already boasting an impressive CV, DEFECTO is definitely “one to watch”. 2018 also holds great promise for the band, featuring among many things a tour across Europe with renowned Andorran band PERSEFONE.
Today's tune "Savage" taken from their sophomore album "Nemesis", enjoy! The Video was Directed and edited by: Tobias Scavenius Filmed by: Tobias Scavenius, Sebastian Pichard and Sebastian Falck Stigsby
"Emperor Of Sand" is the seventh studio album from the American progressive metal dudes MASTODON and it reaches the 2nd place on the Tune of The Day's TOP 100 album list of the Best Albums 2017.
"Emperor Of Sand" is a masterpiece from the guys, where every note that Troy, Bill and Brent hits feels pertinent and Brann incredible drumming is just freaking stunning, what a sound they manage to create and the balance is just perfect, what an album. Read the review here!
The concept and story in "Emperor Of Sand" follows a desert wanderer who has been handed a death sentence. Themes of death and survival are woven into the song's lyrics.
Today’s tune ”Steambreather” taken from "Emperor Of Sand”, enjoy!
