New York death metal giants IMMOLATION will release their new album »Atonement« on February 24th via Nuclear Blast Records. Today, the band has released their sixth video trailer for »Atonement«, in which guitarist Robert Vigna discusses the recording and mixing of the album.
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Mixed & Mastered by Dan Swanö (Edge of Sanity, Bloodbath, Katatonia)
On March 1st, the Finnish kings of epic melodic death metal, WINTERSUN, start their crowdfunding campaign to finance the construction of their own studio. Fans will be able to purchase their ‘Forest Package’ – also including their upcoming studio album »The Forest Seasons« – directly from the band and support them. Bit by bit, WINTERSUN unveil new info on their upcoming full-length release and today, Jari Mäenpää states:
ABOUT THE FOREST SEASONS ALBUM
This album is more primitive and organic than I normally like to do, but still modern, melodic, epic, bombastic yet also dark – and dare I say even shocking and we love it! It is new and different, because I don’t like doing the same thing over and over, but it’s still very much a WINTERSUN album – although WINTERSUN can be anything, even techno/trance/pop… There are no limits with the music of WINTERSUN!
It is a longer album than »Time I« running over 53 minutes and for once I’m 100% happy with the sounds and the production. The sound fits PERFECTLY for this album! This album actually sounds great in every sound system / speakers / headphones I’ve listened to it! If you are a WINTERSUN fan you won’t be disappointed! It has everything you would expect from a WINTERSUN album, that we can promise you! And if you’re not a fan, you might like it anyway, because it has lots of variety and new dimensions to our sound and style.
»The Forest Seasons« album was something that I could do with my current resources, but it doesn’t take anything away how great the album is. Because it is killer! And music isn’t measured in money. Albums costing hundred bucks or a million bucks can be equally good albums. (But the unfortunate thing is that certain albums can only be done with higher end production and then again some albums would sound like shit with a big budget production and vice versa, some albums would sound like shit with low budget production and some albums would sound killer with low budget production!)
The album has four epic and monumental songs, all very different, but still merging together perfectly like the season changes. Two of the songs, ‘Awaken From The Dark Slumber (Spring)’ and ‘Eternal Darkness (Autumn)’ are multipart songs like ‘Starchild’ and ‘Sons of Winter and Stars’.
AWAKEN FROM THE DARK SLUMBER (SPRING)
‘Awaken From The Dark Slumber (Spring)’ is the starting track. It’s a very energetic song illustrating the awakening of nature and it will build up to a big climax! (This song has this album’s “killer riff”… forest style!)
THE FOREST THAT WEEPS (SUMMER)
‘The Forest That Weeps (Summer)’ is the summer song. It’s atmospheric, melodic and rockin’! It’s also enhanced with big choirs celebrating the end of summer, before the autumn darkness takes over.
ETERNAL DARKNESS (AUTUMN)
‘Eternal Darkness (Autumn)’ is the darkest WINTERSUN track to date! It paints a dark mood illustrating the Finnish autumn, when you hardly see any sun at all. But ultimately the song is about death… with a twist that some of the parts are written from death’s point of view and how IT sees life… as a mistake in the universe. It’s an epic and long four part song describing four phases of dying.
LONELINESS (WINTER)
I’m really proud of all the songs, but especially the last song called ‘Loneliness (Winter)’ is what I’m really proud of. I really hit it out of the ballpark with this one, even if I do say so myself. It’s a little like ‘Silver Leaves’ (on »Time II«), but a more sorrowful and darker song with a really cold winterish vibe where as ‘Silver Leaves’ is more beautiful, oriental, atmospheric.
I really think that this is my first PERFECT ALBUM I’ve ever done. It all came together just right!
We sincerely hope you will support us by getting the new album from INDIEGOGO on March 1st, included in our crowdfunding package, the FOREST PACKAGE. This will help us to reach our goal which is to build the WINTERSUN Headquarters studio, completing »Time II« once and for all and start making our future albums!
Thank you!
Jari & the WINTERSUN boys
Here is the track list of »The Forest Seasons«:
1. Awaken From The Dark Slumber (Spring) 14:40
Part I The Dark Slumber
Part II The Awakening
2. The Forest That Weeps (Summer) 12:18
3. Eternal Darkness (Autumn) 14:08
Part I Haunting Darkness
Part II The Call of the Dark Dream
Part III Beyond the Infinite Universe
Part IV Death
4. Loneliness (Winter) 12:54
In the meantime you can witness the band’s return to the stage at the following festivals:
07. – 10.06. S Sölvesborg – Sweden Rock Festival
30.06. – 02.07. FIN Helsinki – Tuska Open Air
11. – 13.08. P Vagos – Vagos Metal Fest
10. – 13.08. UK Derby – Bloodstock Open Air
16. – 19.08. D Dinkelsbühl – Summer Breeze
18. – 19.08. SK Zvolenská Slatina – More Than Fest
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After finishing a successful UK tour together with Meshuggah, Swedish Thrash Metallers THE HAUNTED are soon to commence recordings for their newest, 9th studio album effort, which is expected to be released worldwide by Century Media Records later in 2017.
THE HAUNTED’s guitarist Ola Englund checked in with the following status update for the new album: “After almost 2.5 years since the release of ‘Exit Wounds’, we’re finally hitting the studio again. This time around we have chosen Russ Russell of Parlour Studios to record/mix the album, so we’re heading over to UK early march to start with the drums. And telling from the pre-productions, this will be a bit more of a dynamic album than “Exit Wounds”, song-wise. I’m very excited to let the fans hear what we have in store. It’s brutality and beauty in perfect disharmony.”
Next to the upcoming tour of Central Europe supporting label mates Arch Enemy in March/April, THE HAUNTED have now also already announced own Scandinavian dates for August/September. Here is a list of all upcoming dates currently announced for THE HAUNTED (New additions marked *):
THE HAUNTED live 2017
30.03.2017 Bochum (Germany) – Zeche + Arch Enemy
31.03.2017 Leipzig (Germany) – Hellraiser + Arch Enemy
01.04.2017 Colmar (France) – Rock In Hell Festival + Arch Enemy
03.04.2017 Hamburg (Germany) – Logo (Headlining show) *
04.04.2017 Langen/Hessen (Germany) – Neue Stadthalle + Arch Enemy & Lacuna Coil
05.04.2017 München (Germany) – Backstage Werk + Arch Enemy & Lacuna Coil
06.04.2017 Saarbrücken (Germany) – Garage + Arch Enemy & Lacuna Coil
07.04.2017 Durbuy (Belgium) – Durbuy Rock Festival + Arch Enemy & Lacuna Coil
08.04.2017 Cambrai (France) – Betiz Fest + Arch Enemy
09.04.2017 Ludwigsburg (Germany) – Rockfabrik + Arch Enemy & Lacuna Coil
31.08.2017 Oslo (Norway) – Blå *
01.09.2017 Stavanger (Norway) – Folken *
02.09.2017 Bergen (Norway) – Hulen *
08.09.2017 Örebro (Sweden) – Frimis *
09.09.2017 Linköping (Sweden) – The Crypt *
15.09.2017 Borlänge (Sweden) – Liljan *
16.09.2017 Sundsvall (Sweden) – Aveny *
21.09.2017 Göteborg (Sweden) – Pustervik *
22.09.2017 Hultsfred (Sweden) – Mörkaste Småland Festival *
23.09.2017 Malmö (Sweden) – KB *
29.09.2017 Stockholm (Sweden) – Debaser Strand *
30.09.2017 Eskilstuna (Sweden) – Lokomotivet *
More dates coming soon…
THE HAUNTED’s latest album “Exit Wounds” (2015) was highly praised as a return to form and managed to enter international sales charts upon release as follows: Germany # 64, Finland # 15, Switzerland # 100, Sweden # 32, USA # 151 Top Current Albums, USA # 5 Heatseekers.
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Meditative dark trance/ambient/shamanic act SHIBALBA, has launched a video trailer for the upcoming album “Psychostasis – Death Of Khat”, set to be released on April 30th via Agonia Records. The trailer, directed by Sebastian Dorner and Anna Apostata, can be watched at this link:
The band has also revealed the album formats:
– Gatefold black 12″ LP.
– Limited to 125 copies transparent orange splatter 12″ gatefold LP (with A2 poster).
– 6 panel digipack CD with booklet.
– Dark brown zipper-hoodie.
– Black t-shirt (colour front and silver on the black back and sleeve).
– Digital.
Pre-orders will be available today at this LINK.
SHIBALBA is Acherontas V.Priest (Acherontas), Karl NE/Nachzehrer (Nåstrond) and Aldra-Al-Melekh. Their music is saturated with the mysticism of the East. It’s richly detailed and multidimensional, while layered with chanting and broadly defined elements of traditional ritual and shamanic music. Apart from contemporary synths and guitar drones, the band makes use of bones and skulls as percussion instruments, Tibetan horns, Tibetan singing bowls, bone & horne trumpets, darbuka’s (goblet drums) as well as ceremonial bells and gongs. The band’s intention, in their own words, is to “guide the subconsious of the individual to dream beyond the skin of matter & to dream in ecstasy and exult”.
*Acherontas V.Priest photo by Elena Vasilaki.
SHIBALBA commented: “Τhe secret society of Shibalba inaugurate the transparent alignment beyond death and the transcendence of the Higher Self. The conscious pneuma transposes the bridge among worlds to unite Now with Forever. Our physical vessel, our Khat, is only the conduit for the attainment of spiritual and intellectual enlightenment. Soul and intelligence do not reside in the estates of the everlasting. Divided we are at the death of Khat, before Psychostasis”.
“Ten meditative worlds experienced and manifested in Sweden and Greece by the ancient teachings of eastern visions and of personal empirism using physical ritual recordings and instruments. Unlocking the portals of the individual to new dimensions of experience to dream beyond-above & below!”.
The cover artwork was made by Karl NE.
“Psychostasis – Death Of Khat” was recorded by the band themselves in Greece and Sweden, in a manner in which sound vibrations have been registered in a form analogous to the way in which the human ear perceives sound. High standards were provided especially for the vinyl edition of the album.
Tracklist:
1. Phychostasis-Death of Khat
2. Ihag Mthong
3. Kaoshikii Mahayana
4. Aether Ananda Aiwass
5. Naljorpa
6. Reanimation of Akh
7. Five Points of Desire
8. Orgasmic Inebriation
9. Opening the shadow box
10. Svarna Khecari Mudra
Line-up:
Acherontas V.Priest
Aldra-Al-Melekh
Karl NE/Nachzehrer
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