The new GraViL album ‘No More Forgiveness’ is released 5th May 2017.
“Mammoth grooves from a technically advanced future” Metal Hammer
“GraViL showcase confidence with fantastic, blistering songs” Terrorizer
“Brutalising Tech Metal Wizardry” Kerrang!
With fire and no fear on their side, 2017 sees GraViL rise from the big smoke with the release of their new album ‘No More Forgiveness’ on 5th May.
Before the album drops, the band pulls no punches with the introduction of lead track ‘Decommissioned’.
Frontman Grant Stacey isn’t holding back with GraViL’s return to form, he said, “There is a massive sub-context of loss within the new album, with 2016 notably being a brutal year, however ‘No More Forgiveness’ pulls in a lot of strength from negativity that all too often engulfs our society and ways of life. It’s time to make a stand and do what’s right… and this is us, doing things right.”
GraViL’s new single ‘Decommissioned’ isn’t shy in coming forward, as Stacey notes, “It deals with betrayal on a huge scale. One of my favourite songs from the album, it’s really punchy and therapeutic, in a twisted kinda’ way!”
Monstrous black/doom/punk chimera MANTAR have announced to release a 10″ vinyl EP entitled »The Spell«.
»The Spell« will contain 3 previously unreleased songs and is set to be released on March 31 via Nuclear Blast. The title track features Okoi Jones from Swiss extreme metal duo BÖLZER on guest vocals. Responsible for the haunting cover art is renowned artist Aaron Wiesenfeld ( http://www.aronwiesenfeld.com ) who was also responsible for MANTAR‘s debut record’s artwork.
The official lyric video (created by Wayne Horse who also did the video for ‘White Night’) for the title track can now be viewed here:
British extreme metallers Krysthla have just dropped a punishingly epic lyric video for new song ‘Make Disciples Of The Nations‘
The track is the second song to be taken from the Northamptonshire’s forthcoming brutal sophomore album.
“‘Make Disciples Of The Nations‘ is buried in the feeling of helplessness and despair as the world is plunged into misery as the wars keep coming. An endless stream of ignorant cannon fodder gets in line to go and do their part for democracy but it all means nothing in reality. Eventually, all the nations of the world will be without culture or individuality. Goddess Columbia rules ok!” – Neil Hudson (guitars / lyricist)
Hailed by Metal Hammer Magazine (UK) as “setting 2016 on fire” (alongside Textures Dream Theater, Anthrax, and Devin Townsend) one of the finest extreme metal acts around will release their second album ‘Peace In Our Time’ on 7th April 2017 via PHD.
This new studio offering from Krysthla sees the British five-piece producing something extremely special. Part metal, part extreme, part technical, part progressive… Aurally this is a metal fan’s nirvana. There’s an abundance of aggression on offer, and yet the power of the band is amplified even more with melodic tinges and lighter musical landscapes, which never detract from the powerhouse delivery Krysthla is renowned for.
“Khimba Rites”, track number 5 on SVART CROWN’s new album “Abreaction”, is available as digital download/stream and lyric video as of today! Check it out here:
Four weeks to go until “Abreaction” is unleashed upon the world! The pre-order has started already a while ago, but now you finally have the chance to get a super limited version of the album on transparent-orange vinyl, which is limited to only 100 copies – worldwide! This version can exclusively be bought at CM Distro: http://smarturl.it/SVARTCROWNCMDistro
“Abreaction” will be released in Europe on March 3rd. The album will be released as a limited Deluxe CD Digipak (unfolding into cross-shape) and limited LP version with gatefold sleeve, 180 g vinyl and a 12-page LP-booklet plus the entire album on CD.
The previously launched song “Transsubstantiation” (track number 8 on the album) can be listened to here: https://youtu.be/6Q1GVYKIONs
Vinyl collectors! This is the colour split of the LP version of “Abreaction”:
Black vinyl: Unlimited
Transparent-orange vinyl: limited to 100 copies, exclusively available at CM Distro Europe
Golden vinyl: limited to 200 copies, available at various mailorder stores
More details to be revealed very soon.
“Abreaction” tracklist:
1. Golden Sacrament (5:23)
2. Carcosa (3:44)
3. The Pact: To The Devil His Due (7:21)
4. Upon This Intimate Madness (4:38)
5. Khimba Rites (5:23)
6. Tentacion (3:34)
7. Orgasmic Spiritual Ecstasy (4:56)
8. Transsubstantiation (6:40)
9. Emphatic Illusion (5:43)
10. Lwas (1:10)
11. Nganda (6:08)
SVART CROWN live
On US tour with Marduk and Incantation
02/07/17 Tampa, FL The Orpheum
02/08/17 Atlanta, GA Heaven @ Masquerade
02/09/17 Dayton, OH Oddbody’s
02/10/17 Chicago, IL Reggie’s
02/11/17 Kansas City, MO Riot Room
02/12/17 Fort Worth, TX Rail Club
02/13/17 Austin, TX Grizzly Hall
02/14/17 Albuquerque, NM Launchpad
02/15/17 Phoenix, AZ Joe’s Grotto
02/16/17 Las Vegas, NV tbc
02/17/17 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theater
02/18/17 Oakland, CA Metro Opera House
02/19/17 Portland, OR Bossanova Ballroom
02/20/17 Seattle, WA Studio Seven
Further live dates:
February 21st – Le Ferraileur, Nantes, France
February 22nd – Le Temps Machine, Tours, France
February 23rd – Le Petit Bain, Paris, France
February 25th – Le 106, Rouen, France
March 3rd – Le Metronum, Toulouse, France
March 4th – Jas Rod, Marseilles, France
March 8th – Magasin 4, Brussels, Belgium
March 10th – Le Grillen, Colmar, France
March 11th – Les Caves du Manoir, Martigny, Switzerland
August 9th – 13th – Brutal Assault Festival, Pevnost Josefov, Czech Republic
Finnish progressive melodic death metallers Damnation Plan have released a new title track single from their upcoming album “Reality Illusion”.
Drummer/songwriter/lyricist Jarkko Lunnas comments:
“Creating this album took us 3+ years of hard work, driving me and some of us almost insane during the process of recording the album almost entirely ourselves. It was a massive task but I believe it served the end result well!
The album deals with separating the truth from the beliefs and seeing it (or not seeing it) through the different bubbles that we’ve learned to live in our stable and modern societies. We are estranged from the reality until we are forced to face it.
The album delivers the message covering a whole spectrum of feelings from an atmospheric and emotional perspective, all the way to the maximal intensity.”
The band is also running a Pledge Music pre-order campaign for the upcoming full length album, out March 10 2017.
By pre-ordering the album from the campaign you’ll get 10+ in-depth video documentary episodes about the making of the album. The campaign can be found here: http://pledgemusic.com/damnationplan
The album was mixed by Dan Swanö (Edge of Sanity, Nightingale, Bloodbath, etc) at Unisound Studios.
DAMNATION PLAN – REALITY ILLUSION
Tracklist:
01 – Intro
02 – Beyond These Walls
03 – Rulers Of Truth
04 – Rise Of The Messenger
05 – Blinded Faith
06 – The Empowerment
07 – Maze Of Despair
08 – Iron Curtain Falls
09 – Reality Illusion
10 – A Chapter In Greed
11 – The Final Destination
+BONUS TRACK
U.S./Irish hard rockers BLACK STAR RIDERS are set to release their hotly-anticipated third album »Heavy Fire« on the 3rd of February via Nuclear Blast. Today, the band premiere the new lyric video for ‘Heavy Fire’, the album’s thundering opening track.
Lead vocalist/guitarist Ricky Warwick explains about the track: “Only fools would believe that rock n roll can rejuvenate a world in the throes of a collapsing civilisation that’s coming under heavy fire from all asunder. But what if the would-be fools are right?”
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