Saturday, March 22, 2014

Boris Records to Release self-titled Gunpowder Gray Vinyl LP

Clawhammer- "Boris Records will release GUNPOWDER GRAY's self-titled EP on 12" purple translucent vinyl on Record Store Day, April 19. A free download of album track "Cut Me Out" - available at this location - set the stage. Now the Atlanta riff-masters are offering up the seven-song main event."
Pre-orders coming soon boris-records.com


1. Gunpowder Gray
2. Cummin' My Way
3. Outta Sight
4. Under the Gun
5. Dancing With Death
6. Cut Me Out
7. Saints

ABSTRACTER's "Tomb of Feathers" to be released on 12" vinyl

Via Clawhammer- "France's Trendkill Recordings, Germany's 7 Degrees Records and Italy's Shove Records have joined forces to release the final and ultimate version of Tomb of Feathers, the debut album of Oakland apocalyptic blackened crust-doom horde ABSTRACTER. Finally arriving in 12" vinyl format on April 15, Tomb of Feathers was already released worldwide in September 2012 by the US's The Path Less Traveled Records in digital format, on a self-released limited edition cassette tape in fall of 2012, and once again by The Path Less Traveled Records on CD worldwide last summer."

Stream in full abstracter.bandcamp



Thursday, March 20, 2014

Pyrrhon - Premiere New Hymn via Vice/Noisey

Relapse Records news- "With the official unleashing of PYRRHON's The Mother Of Virtues now just two weeks away, today Vice/Noisey is waging war on the ears of the willing with "Invisible Injury." An exploratory mind fuck of broken chords, warring vocal tirades, and hurt feelings, the track encompasses pure evil. Embrace the hate." Check out the last dates of their tour they maybe coming to your town. Tour Flyer below.

Official release click here noisey.vice.com/pyrrhon-invisible-injury




Ringworm - Hammer of the Witch - Out Now!

Relapse Records news "Cleveland’s legendary kings of metallic hardcore return with their Relapse debut Hammer Of The Witch. 13 songs of fire-y rage propelled by lead vocalist Human Furnace’s wrathful fury, this is a record sure to satisfy metalheads and hardcore kids alike."

Official site: relapse.com/ringwormhammer




Death - Leprosy remastered/reissue 50+ extra minutes

Relapse Records news- "The legendary death metal classic remastered and reissued with 50+ minutes of previously unreleased demos and rehearsal material plus brand new liner notes and a 24 page booklet with never before seen photos!"

APRIL 29 (US) - APRIL 25 (GER/BENELUX) - APRIL 28 (UK/WORLD)

2XCD / LIMITED EDITION 3XCD / LP / PICTURE DISC LP / LIMITED EDITION 2XLP BOXSET / DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

Official site to place pre-orders click here relapse.com/DeathLeprosy



Monday, March 17, 2014

Tears Of Regret - Tears Of Regret EP

Tears of Regret is a four piece band from Jordan/Iraq consisting of members; Odai- Vocalist, Lyrics Writer and Mixing Mastering , Tareq- Guitarist, Hussein- Bassist, Fahad- Drums, Keyboardist and Music Composer. Tears of Regreat EP released through Depressive Illusions Records on January 1st 2014. Genre is describe as Atmospheric Black Metal, Doom, Ambient Metal.

The intro is lurid and creepy. Its a clean guitar line and really creates a depressive endless adventure through darkness. Next up is "Tears of Regret", title track, my thoughts are heavy sludgy and mind bending. One of the bands that come to my mind is early Sleepy Time Gorilla who also used off time sliding style riffing as I hear on this track. War In Sky, this composition goes for an incredible twenty seven minutes, I am thinking most of it was probably recorded live. What we hear is mostly bass lines with occasional drums and dark black metal style vocals like deep in the void of hell. Transilvanian Hunger, more on the ambient doom side of things, like very early Paradise Lost. Occasional double kick work and high BM style lyrics to make you crawl up a wall in fear. This track also features some synth work that makes it outlandish at moments. It ends with a keyboard piece and its catchy memorable. The Outro is similar to the intro, clean guitar line setting the atmospheric mode. The clarity in this particular song is very clean and polished compared to some of the earlier material.

In conclusion, the melodic aspect of the music is what I enjoyed the most. The Black metal style works but sometimes gets blurred with many other sounds happening. Fans of atmospheric BM, doom will surely want to check this EP out.
~Artemortifica

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STEEL PROPHET Reveal Artwork for Omniscient

Clawhammer- "The spectacular artwork was specifically created for Omniscient by German artist Timo Würz and represents one of the central themes of the album - "The Tree of Knowledge."

Clawhammer- "Omniscient is a concept album based on an original story written by lead guitarist and founding member Steve Kachinsky Blakmoor, and "The Tree of Knowledge" displayed on the cover represents a very important "character" in the plot."

Clawhammer- "Omniscient will be released by the end of June / beginning of July on limited-edition digibook CD, standard CD, limited-edition double LP and digital formats.

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