Interview by Carina Lawrence / Dark Art Conspiracy
Black metal thrash masters Aura Noir are finally unleashing their anticipated and long-awaited sixth new album titled ‘Aura Noire’ after a six-year gap and follow up to their last album ‘Out To Die’ (2012), and you can expect some of their finest and rawest material to date. I caught up Apollyon (Drums/Vocals) to discuss their origins, the new album and their upcoming tour…
Firstly can you tell us about your formation back in 1993?
AuraNoir started out as a solo project from Aggressor. The music was more avant guard-ish and doesn’t really have much in common with today’s AuraNoir.For his second demo recording, I helped him out with drums on one song and guitar on a second. After that, he ditched the whole project and we decided to continue playing together, still using the name AuraNoir but playing more thrashy music. This was in 1995 I guess, so we don’t really celebrate any 25 year anniversary until then.
How did you come up with your name?
Einar, who plays the drums in Virus and Infernö gave Aggressor the name back when he was playing more weird music.
Vancouver, BC’s TERRIFIER will be importing “Weapons of Thrash Destruction” to the 2018 NYDM SPRING BASH, a 2-day heavy metal festival being held April 19-21 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA). The thrashers are confirmed to perform the first night of the festival on Thursday, April 19th. For more info, please visit the following link here. The festival date will also be part of TERRIFIER‘s planned 2018 North American tour in April and May with concerts to be announced at later date. Continue reading TERRIFIER Confirmed To Play 2018 NYDM SPRING BASH + New Album Out via Test Your Metal Records→
A few weeks after the official release of its brand new and self-produced album, Serpents, French Hardcore/Metal/Thrash gang Eight Sins just premiered a new official music video for the song “Beer & moshpit” in partnership with the Hardwcore Worldwide channel.
‘SERPENTS’ is still available or CD, Tape on the band’s webstore and Digital formats through the main legal platforms such as iTunes, Deezer, Amazon, Bandcamp, Spotify.
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’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.
US Power/Trash metal act Wretch has released album art , tracklist and and a Release Date of their upcoming album which will be released: 24th February 2017
US power/thrash metal act WRETCH are pioneers of their local Cleveland metal scene and have since forged ahead to become an internationally recognized force of powerful melodic metal with festival performances in Germany and Greece. Prepare for the bands latest release ‘The Hunt’ – a shredding masterpiece that will appeal to fans of Primal Fear, Iced Earth, Helloween and Iron Maiden.
The first album to feature new singer Juan Ricardo who has a voice reminiscent of the mighty Bruce Dickinson, the new album is 40 minutes of exceptional power/thrash that marks the bands long journey since its 2006 debut ‘Reborn’
Released through the prestigious German label Pure Steel Records, who also released the bands previous album ‘Warriors’, the new album will be released in February before the bands upcoming European tour in March alongside Split Heaven.
TRACKLIST:
1. Sturmbringer
2. The Hunt
3. Throne Of Poseidon
4. Twilight´s End
5. The Final Stand
6. Fortune’s Fool
7. The King In Red
8. Straight To Hell
9. Pierce The Veil
10. Once In A Lifetime
11. She Waits
Total Playing Time: 41:26 min
LINE-UP:
Juan Ricardo – vocals
Nick Giannakos – lead- and rhythm guitar
Michael “Mjölnir” Stephenson – lead- and rhythm guitar
Tim Frederick – bass
Jeff Curenton – drums
German thrash titans KREATOR released the fourth video trailer for their upcoming album, »Gods Of Violence«. Watch KREATOR mainman Mille Petrozza talk about how the new material will work live, how many new songs to expect and what will be special:
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