In advance of kicking off their European tour with DYING FETUS this Friday, BEYOND CREATION are releasing an official video for the title-track of their current album ‘Earthborn Evolution’.
BEYOND CREATION are about to embark on an impressive string of dates in support of headliner DYING FETUS in Europe this Friday.
The Canadian masters of progressive technical death metal will be joined by PSYCROPTIC and DISENTOMB across the continent and the UK.
Diamond Head have announced more dates this year in the UK and Ireland kicking off in Dublin on November 23, 2017 and ending at the Blast from the Past Festival in Kuurne, Belgium on December 9, 2017.
Currently in the studio working on the follow up to the highly praised self-titled release from last year.
From the band: “We will continue to bring the lightning after we’ve spent some more time in the studio getting the next album together. See you all end of November!!!”
Portland, OR ‘Street Doom’ quartet R.I.P. is streaming their forthcoming sophomore album Street Reaper in full ahead of the release date on the 13th October. Hear and share the full album on YouTube and Bandcamp.
When R.I.P. came crawling out of the sewers of Portland, OR last year, their grimy, sleazy Street Doom was already a fully formed monstrosity that quickly infected the minds of everyone it encountered. Now, borne from the band’s declining state of mental health and increasing focus on songwriting, Street Reaper is an even more unhinged and menacing album than their 2016 debut In The Wind.
Borrowing equally from 80s Rick Rubin productions and Murder Dog magazine aesthetics, Street Reaper is a streamlined, yet brutally raw manifesto of heavy metal ferocity hearkening to the era when both metal and hip hop were reviled as the work of street thugs intent on destroying America’s youth.
Throughout, Angel Martinez’s guitar and John Mullett’s bass are inextricably interlocked, sounding like a massive sonic steamroller, while drummer Willie D keeps the beat solid and simple for the most powerful impact. And, the band’s extensive touring and excessive virgin sacrifices have clearly endued singer Fuzz with evermore agile vocal chords to drive it all home with extreme precision.
Operating on the belief that doom is not tied to a tuning or a time signature, but rather a raw and terrified feeling, R.I.P. eschews well trodden fantasy and mysticism tropes of the genre and focuses on conveying the horror and chaos inherent in the everyday reality of the human mind. With several years of touring under their heavily studded belt, R.I.P. has distinguished themselves from the interchangeable hordes of bands trying to play heavy metal by crafting an aesthetic and a sound all their own, focusing on the things that make metal heavy rather than adhering to the formulaic confines of a particular sub-genre.
Street Reaper opens with the knockout punch of “Unmarked Grave” and the rest is just sheer bludgeoning for bludgeoning’s sake as the album echoes the grimy vibe of legends like Saint Vitus, Pentagram and Motorhead, with the no b.s. aesthetic of the early Metal Massacre compilations.
Street Reaper will be available on LP, CD and download on October 13th, 2017 via RidingEasy Records.
R.I.P. LIVE:
10/13 Portland, OR @ Tonic Lounge – album release party
CANE HILL premiered their new single ‘Too Far Gone’ via Dan P. Carter’s Radio One Rock Show and have today, dropped the video for the track.
The song was produced by Wzrd Bld (Motionless in White, We Came as Romans) and the video was directed by Brendan Barone and Sam Shapiro, with animation provided by Toon 53 Productions.
“This song is about our short and dangerously intense romance with LSD. We went down a rabbit hole and I’m not sure how we came back. But Cane Hill’s here — bigger and better,” the band said. “This is in your face Cane Hill. The real Cane Hill. No makeup or gimmicks — just musicians playing aggressive ass music that’s meant to stick in your head and you won’t want to get it out.”
Details regarding Cane Hill’s new album, to be released by Rise Records, are forthcoming.
The band will be touring the UK early next year supporting Motionless In White.
You can see the band at the following dates:
18th January Engine Rooms Southampton
19th January O2 Academy Bristol
20th January Stylus Leeds
22nd January The Garage Glasgow
23rd January Riverside Newcastle
25th January Koko London
26th January O2 Institute Birmingham
27th January O2 Ritz Manchester
28th January The Waterfront Norwich
Preparing for their milestone of a decade of metal in Canada’s Okanagan Valley, ARMSTRONGMETALFEST is gearing up for their biggest event to date. Over the last nine years the festival has hosted a long list of bands such as Revocation, Cattle Decapitation, Suffocation, Beyond Creation, Rivers of Nihil, The Zenith Passage, Anciients, Bison, Striker, Archspire, Cryptopsy, Unleash The Archers, Ninjaspy, Vesperia, Aggression among many others for British Columbia’s largest gathering of metalheads from across Western Canada and beyond.
Planning their 2018 edition, early bird pre-sale tickets for AMF are now on sale for a limited time until February 1, 2018 for a special price of $95 CAD. Tickets can be purchased at the following link: https://armstrongmetalfest.ca/tickets/
All tickets provide General Admission and grant access to the festival grounds, camping area and arena from 11:00 AM on Friday, July 13, 2018 until 11:59 PM on Sunday, July 14, 2018. Free camping is included.
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