Atlanta based heavy rock powerhouse FOZZY has announced their hotly anticipated SAVE THE WORLD TOUR! Launching September 8 at The King Of Clubs in Columbus, OH, the tour will span the US and into Canada, wrapping up October 10 at Elevation in Virginia Beach, VA,
Foo Fighters together with the Hawkins family have teamed up with Paramount to take their all-star celebration of the memory and music of a rock legend worldwide: Paramount will present the September 3rd Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert live to the world from Wembley Stadium in its entirety.
With three weeks to go before the release of BEHEMOTH‘s twelfth studio album Opvs Contra Natvram, out September 16 and available for pre-order here, the black metal messiahs unleash one of their most fierce and menacing singles yet. “Thy Becoming Eternal” tells a story of finding strength in times of misfortune and is encapsulated in an epic animated video, produced by animator Ruben Fro.
The festival is over now and after bringing you the first day already, we got little more calm and piece to bring on another days. So here is the second one, Wednesday. The second day started with Czech band Sceletons. Guys present themselves as thrash death crossover and I totally agree. Even more, main vocalist and guitarist seems to be a really big fan of Chuck Schuldiner, which he borrowed vocal from. At least to my ears. Guys were really awesome. From the same genre, Heathen from US played their stuff, too. Call me crazy, but I have heard vocal from Iron Maiden a bit. The second day and am I nuts already, or deaf? At the very same day Czech Schizophrenia and D.R.I. closed thrash metal line-up.
Sceletons, Heathen
From old school to the new one. Core genres (especially the brutal one) were pressed into us by LornaShore. Guys had a hell of an audience, and their heavy deathcore with brutal and guttural vocals hit like a giant hammer! Bit behind, brutality wise, we could hear both lovely and heavy vocal of beautiful Tatiana and Jinjer. Djenty Tesseract also played at the afternoon.
Tesseract, Jinjer, Lorna Shore
Good ol’ brutality from years back were given to us by the Bloodbath on afternon and legendary CannibalCorpse in the night. The stage was packed really tightly, tons of people definitivelly looked forward to see and hear these immortal butchers. Earlier, MiseryIndex made other fans really happy with their fast grind.
Cannibal Corpse, Bloodbath
We also witnessed some more experimental stuff by Igorr or Strigoi. The frontman appeared next day in other legendary band – ParadiseLost. No wonder Strigoi gave us some interesting heavy crust crossover with a doom song as a bonus. ImperialTriumphant trio was another more experimental band. Their combination of really jazzy approach (bass especially) with some black metal and masks were something many people waited for. The concert was even spiced more, when the E string of the guitar snapped shortly after the start of the show. He managed well even without it. Another not so metal band was MeandThatMan. This bluesy concert was great for every fan of Nergal, as well as for everybody, who just wanted to chill from the extreme stuff.
Me and That Man, Strigoi, Imperial Triumphant
Another star appeared here for the first time. Bobby Liebling of Pentagram made lots of people (me included, especially) very happy with his old and heavy doom legacy, funny faces and lots of energy. Hard to believe he manages it in his age! With doomy aspect but more progressive, Czech Elbe was playing on afternoon. Many people waited for melancholical and calm French guys from Alcest, tho this set was much more intense due their last album. For fans of even more sadness and pain in the music, Amenra played their very heavy slow set, which was thick as the swamps in an abandoned wood. late in the night and we could hear the songs from various albums with nice classical projection behind them.
Amenra, Alcest, Pentagram, Elbe
One of the highlights of the day was the theater of Japanese cult band, Sigh. Their combination of occultism, black and thrash metal with blistering fast and cool guitar solos was really top and smaller stage suited them great for their rituals. DarkFuneral played lately that night, too. The night was closed by French black metal inspired horde Regarde les Hommes Tomber. It was 2 A.M. but there was still big pack of people craving to see the guys and party on to the morning hours as well.
American deathcore mainstays Oceano have released their new crushing track “Mass Produced”, mixed and mastered by Joey Sturgis (out via Sumerian Records). Speaking on today’s news, vocalist Adam Warren commented:
“As we unleash “MASS PRODUCED” it signifies a new chapter for Oceano. I’m very excited for Oceano fans everywhere to enjoy this song and video. To all the die-hards who connect with this band, thank you for your excitement. We have so much more to share with you on this journey. I’m fired up! Check our tour dates now! I’d love to see you while we’re on tour soon I hope!”
Otherness is arguably the band’s most cohesive and self-actualized record to date, featuring impassioned anthems with earnest and deeply heartfelt lyrics, and impeccable vocal and musical performances from the iconic five–piece. The band is currently featured on the cover of New Noise Magazine, as well.
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