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MOONSPELL Announce New Album ‘1755’ + Special Portuguese Shows!

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[ photo by Paulo Mendes / Pfm.photo ]

ANNOUNCE SPECIAL PORTUGUESE SHOWS & NEW ALBUM:
‘1755’ OUT ON NOVEMBER 3rd!

NAPALM RECORDS, MOONSPELL and Alma Mater Records (band’s owned label) are proud to announce that there will be three shows in Portugal for the release of MOONSPELL’s new album ‘1755‘: a concept album, sung in Portuguese, about the Great Lisbon Earthquake, of 1755.
They will have a double date hometown- show in Lisbon where you enjoy the band’s annual Halloween party as well as watching the show. On the 1st of November MOONSPELL will take the event to the city of Porto, as part of the ‘1755‘ first three announced dates:

30th + 31st Oct – LISBOA AO VIVO, LISBON
1st Nov – HARD CLUB, SALA 1, PORTO

These very special gigs will be produced by the band themselves in partnership with Alma Mater Records and in collaboration and with total support from their main label Napalm Records.
At the shows you will have the chance to buy the upcoming record exclusively and straight from the band and watch them destroy Lisbon and Porto. The ticket holder will get a free CD or vinyl edition (first 500 tickets, the edition will be signed by the band!). The new album ‘1755‘ will hit the stores on the 3rd of November in Europe via Napalm Records. Presales will be announced soon, but you can already get your ticket to Lisbon and Porto right now!

More info about tickets, reservations and information at:
www.letsgo.pt

Limited regular tickets for sale coming in September.
VIP Wolfpack deals are available, please contact:
vip@moonspell.com

Says the band:

„On these shows we’re gonna play 1755 in its entirety but also recover some obscure stuff we haven’t been playing for many years.

1755 is a poetic, musical and philosophical reflection of the band about the tragic event that took place on the 1st of November of 1755 in Lisbon, decimating the entire city.

It’s mostly a Metal record, with vibrant riffs, epic orchestration and vocals and lyrics which invoke the agony of that day. The band was also concerned in recreating the end of the 18th century Lisbon and there will be lots of fusion, percussion and a melodic approach to that time and to the atmosphere the great city of Lisbon enjoyed back then.

There will be ten powerful, surprising songs that echo remotely to some of Moonspell previous efforts like Under the Moonspell or alpha Noir. But make no mistake! This is MOONSPELL as you never heard them before, with the fire of their native Language Portuguese and 900 years of History to unveil!

An historical, rigorous, serious, artistic record. A black beast from Portugal that the Metal scene so craves for.“

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ICED EARTH – interview with Malcolm Dome on new album “Incorruptible”

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Legendary music journalist Malcolm Dome has done an in-depth interview with ICED EARTH’s mastermind Jon Schaffer during his stay in London, giving you a personal insight into the band’s current status and the making of the brand new album “Incorruptible”.
Watch the full 28-minutes interview here:

ICED EARTH’s new studio album “Incorruptible” is out now!

Below you can check out the four previously released single tracks:
“Clear The Way (December 13th, 1862)”
Youtube (lyric video): https://youtu.be/wmljtVrxul0
“Great Heathen Army”
Youtube (lyric video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_VbMVwVuhw
“Raven Wing”
Youtube (lyric video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAKvZKRk_Rs
“Seven Headed Whore”
Youtube (lyric video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sneo7yuIYFo

ICED EARTH line-up:
Jon Schaffer – Rhythm, Lead, and Acoustic Guitars, Keyboards/MIDI, Vocals
Stu Block – Lead Vocals
Brent Smedley – Drums, Percussion
Luke Appleton – Bass Guitar, Vocals
Jake Dreyer – Lead Guitar

ICED EARTH live:
Summer festival appearances 2017
23.06.2017 (DE) SAARWELLINGEN / Saarmageddon Festival
24.06.2017 (ES) MADRID / Download Festival
07.07.2017 (DE) Rock Harz, Ballenstedt
08.07.2017 (IT) TERNI / Burning Ruins Metal Festival
13.07.2017 (LU) ESCH/ALZETTE / Rockfabrik
14.07.2017 (DE) NEUKIRCHEN-VLUYN / Dong Open Air
24.07.2017 (SI) TOLMIN / Metaldays
04.08.2017 (DE) GEISELWIND / Music & Bike Weekend
12.08.2017 (BE) KORTRIJK / Alcatraz Festival

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Bloodstock Festival announces Gravil, watch the new video Detonate

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Bloodstock Festival announces GraViL + watch ‘Detonate’ new music video

“Pure metal delivered with maximum vitriol. This band rules harder than Josef Stalin.” – Dom Lawson

Watch the new music video ‘Detonate’

The latest announcement by Bloodstock Open Air sees the London melodeath group Gravil confirmed for the prestigious Sophie Lancaster stage on Sunday 14th August. This new addition to the bill once again demonstrates Bloodstock’s commitment to championing new bands in the metal community.

“We are honoured to be a part of Bloodstock Open Air 2017” says Gravil vocalist Grant Stacey. “Each year this spiritual home of heavy metal somehow betters the year before. We have each spent a lot of time on the hallowed ground of Catton Park, witnessing stunning new bands, the earth shattering veterans of the main stage and embracing the metal music community that we have come to call our family.  Now we are privileged to grace the Sophie stage, whose very name represents the strength and pride of our brotherhood. See you there!”

2017 has seen a resurgence for GraViL. Their sophomore album ‘No More Forgiveness’ was released in May and has being going down a storm with media and the band’s fanbase. With various premieres by the likes of Metal Hammer, Scuzz TV, Terrorizer and more, GraViL have now unleashed the music video for elite track ‘Detonate’.
This new video clip shows the group in a high-octane performance which also features three versions of the mysterious woman, ‘Obliti’… the present broken self, a lost dream of grandeur and the self-loathing dark entity which destroyed it.
“‘Detonate’ is a personal song drawn from a negative situation”, explains Stacey, “The video captures the lyrics perfectly… it tackles loss, taking charge and using the anger, rage and sadness to triumph over the overwhelming paint that the loss entails… hence detonating.”
Whilst the song and video reflect important issues in our society, it didn’t stop the band from taking time out to have fun on set and inflict ‘crabcore’ on non-believers.
“On the way to the video shoot we discussed how low our guitarists get to the floor during live shows. Sparx (bass) mentioned it was called crabcore and a confused Charlie (Webster, guitar) refused point blank to believe there was such a thing. Like a red rag to a bull this spurred us onto mischief, leading to the band shouting “crab it” during the performance sections and band members having to get as low as physically possible to the floor without taking the soles of their feet off the ground.”
Gravil’s new album ‘No More Forgiveness’ is out now.
Gravil live:
23rd June – Coventry, Arches (w/ Metaprism)
8th July – Burnley, Sanctuary Rock Bar (w/ Metaprism, Today, They Are Older)
14th Aug – Bloodstock Open Air (Sophie Lancaster Stage)
More dates to be announced.
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ODIUM: “The End Of Everything” videoclip + album details

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On July 14th, ODIUM’s tenth full-length “As The World Turns Black” will hit the stores! In order to create some anticipation, the german collective have published a brand new video for the track “The End Of Everything”, which is available below or at this location:

“As The World Turns Black” features nine tracks of high-class melodic thrash metal with a running time of 45 minutes. The release party will take place on June 30th, in Langenselbold.
LIVE:
30. Juni – Langenselbold, Alte Dorfschmiede – RECORD RELEASE
19. August – Hasselroth, Rock in Schröth Open Air
04. November – Nijmegen (NL), Rockcafe Backstage
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Der Weg einer Freiheit stream second new track

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DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT are unveiling the second track taken from their forthcoming fourth album, ‘Finisterre’. The new masterpiece of the rising German black metal stars will be released  on August 25th.

Frontman Nikita Kamprad comments on behalf of the band: “We are delighted to present the first half of our full ‘Skepsis’ opus, which is completing the picture that started to emerge, when we premiered ‘Skepsis Part II’ last month. It did not seem a good idea to introduce our new full-length, ‘Finisterre’ with an instrumental, but now its time has come. Instrumentals have always played an important role on our albums and this one makes no exception. ‘Skepsis Part I’ comes with a more complex and progressive composition in comparison with the rather straight-forward and aggressive second part. Although both are separate tracks, we see them as connected and forming one single epic piece. Hopefully, you will like it as much as we do.”

 

DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT have previously released the artwork and track-list of ‘Finisterre’, which can both be viewed below.
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1. Aufbruch (9:49)
2. Ein letzter Tanz (13:49)
3. Skepsis Part I (5:05)
4. Skepsis Part II (5:36)
5. Finisterre (11:13)

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Season of Mist sign DEATHWHITE

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Season of Mist are proud to announce the signing of DEATHWHITE. The enigmatic bringers of darkness will release their debut album, ‘For a Black Tomorrow’ via Season of Mist.

The band comments: “We are incredibly honoured to join the Season of Mist roster. DEATHWHITE started in 2012 as a basic studio project with the aim of playing dark metal in the vein of some of our most beloved bands. To have one of metal’s leading independent labels take an interest in us is far beyond our expectations. We now turn our attention to the proper release of our first full-length, ‘For a Black Tomorrow’, and look forward to among other things, our first live performances, and a strong as well as enduring partnership with Season of Mist.”

Check out DEATHWHITE on Bandcamp: https://deathwhite.bandcamp.com/

Formed in 2012, DEATHWHITE were created in part to follow on the path first explored by dark metal torchbearers such as ANATHEMA, KATATONIA, MY DYING BRIDE, and PARADISE LOST.

The band’s ‘Ethereal’ EP (2014) successfully established a template of melodic, clean vocals alongside melancholic, but heavy riffing. Their debut created an early buzz within the metal underground that grew significantly with the following ‘Solitary Martyr’ EP (2015), which was hailed by critics as “thick with emotion” and “wonderfully engrossing.”

Backed by such praise, DEATHWHITE spent 2016 writing and recording their first full-length under the supervision of producer and engineer Shane Mayer. ‘For a Black Tomorrow’ was originally scheduled for release in March of 2017, but after signing to Season of Mist the release has now been slated for early 2018.

Line-up: The band does not provide line-up information.

www.deathwhite.com
www.facebook.com/deathwhiteofficial

Style: Dark Melodic Metal

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