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Warforged announce new album I: Voice coming May 10 on The Artisan Era The promo states: Every so often, a band comes along that generates praise and attention for all the right reasons, and, not always due to having a label or marketing power behind them. Chicago, Illinois-based progressive death metal group Warforged achieved that with their completely independently released 2014 EP, Essence of the Land. An effort rightly lauded far and wide not just by the underground, but also by larger outlets such as Metal Injection, Metal Sucks, Heavy Blog Is Heavy, No Clean Singing, and just as widely praised by death metal fans as well. The group generated massive buzz purely off the strength of their innovative music then, and are finally ready to return with a follow up worthy of building upon the strong foundation Warforged established previously on that release and on their standalone near eight-minute 2015 single, "Two Demons". Several years in the making, Warforged ...

DRAGHKAR sign to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions; "Eternal Abyss" set for release on March 22nd Purchase album here  horrorpaingoredeath-hpgd Horror Pain Gore Death Productions have signed old school Los Angeles California's old school Death/Doom beasts DRAGHKAR and are set to release the new compilation album entitled Eternal Abyss March 22 on CD and Digital formats. Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcome DRAGHKAR to the roster with the compilation Eternal Abyss! Formed in Los Angeles California in 2016, DRAGHKAR have been annihilating ears with their uncompromising vision of mystical ancient Death Metal since their inception. Previously available only on Vinyl or Cassette, HPGD presents Eternal Abyss, a collection consisting of all of Draghkar's material to date, plus five new live bonus recordings. Listen to album track "Wings Over Malkier" below Eternal Abyss is 52+ minutes of Death/Doom madness that features new artwork, a new ...

Austria's melodic death metallers Dying Embers are set to release their debut full-length "Where Shadeless Dwell Frozen" on March 1st, 2019 via Black Sunset/MDD. Dying Embers is the solo project from Unhallowed's Jürgen Schurz and the first advance of the album, which comes in the form of the lyric video for "Beyond The Crimson Haze" "Where Shadeless Dwell Frozen" was produced at Soundtempel Studio Freilassung (a.o. Walachia) by Stefan Traummüller. The album will be released in DigiPak and it's already available for pre-order. Track list: 1. Pursue The Light 2. Beyond The Crimson Haze 3. Praise The Signs 4. Fields Of Fire 5. Ignite The Sky 6. Carved Into Fate 7. Where Shadeless Dwell Frozen 8. Dead To The World 9. In Cold Embrace 10. Darkside ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Latest blog announcements here - most current in...

Rochester (NY) - U.S. progressive Death Metal squad CONTRARIAN have partnered with Heavy Blog is Heavy for the lyric video premiere of "Whomsoever Worships the Whiteworm," a song from forthcoming album Their Worm Never Dies. Listen to it at Heavyblogisheavy Pre-order via Willowtip   contrarian-willowtip   Pre-order via Bandcamp    contrarian-bandcamp A new school of old school death metal. Creating death metal that is authentically new while have a natural memory and understanding of the old. Rooted in early 90's progressive death metal, but with an unrelenting forward thinking approach, CONTRARIAN return with their third full-length release Their Worm Never Dies. Spearheaded by guitar player Jim Tasikas, alongside George Kollias (Nile) simultaneously handling drum and vocal duties, CONTRARIAN is not a super group, but a unit of like-minded musicians that coincidentally converged on a vision of what a modern death metal band should sou...

South Carolina's USDM stalwarts LECHEROUS NOCTURNE will hit the road next month for the North American Conquest Tour. Joining them for the U.S. and Canadian dates will be Blackened Death Metallers and South Carolina brethren OLKOTH . Tour dates are below. More info can found at EVENTS South Carolina's USDM stalwarts LECHEROUS NOCTURNE will hit the road next month for the North American Conquest Tour. Joining them for the U.S. and Canadian dates will be Blackened Death Metallers and South Carolina brethren OLKOTH. Tour dates are below. More info can found at this location. March 8     Spartanburg, SC    Ground Zero March 9     Willmington, DE   Bar XIII March 10   Brooklyn, NY        Saint Vitus Bar March 12   Quebec, QC           L'Anti Bar & Spectacles March 13   Ottawa, ON           Cafe Deheuf March 14  ...

Greetings readers, please give a warm welcome to the band Negative Wall from Atlanta Georgia; Tommy Stewart (bass, vox)  Dennis Reid (drums, vox)  Don Cole (guitar, vox)   1- Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest, first off, thanks for taking the time to do the interview, could you give our readers a brief description of the group? Where is the band from? (Tommy Stewart)-  Negative Wall is from Atlanta, Georgia, USA! We're a three piece metal band writing science fiction stories and applying them to a blues style within a doom metal frame. For instance, the song entitle Imperii Exsules was inspired by a sixties Outer Limits TV show episode called The Zanti Misfits. 2- Gammagelu is the band's first full album, how long did it take to write? TS - This is an interesting question. From first practice to a finished master took fourteen days. We came to the first rehearsal and jammed out the songs to write the music. That took seven days. Then we went ...

The Metalitalia.com Festival team – Metalitalia.com, Vertigo and Eagle Booking Live Promotion – is very proud to reveal the dates and the first confirmed acts of the 2019 edition of the festival, which will take place once again at the Live Music Club in Trezzo sull’Adda (Milan), Italy. This time the event will take place over two days in spring: on Saturday 1st June and Sunday 2nd June. We're still working on various other things behind the scenes which we'll bring to you in due course, including the side programme and of course the full line-up and day schedules. In the meantime, we're extremely happy to be adding some cool bands to the festival with this announcement. DAY 1 – Saturday, 1st June The headlining act of the first day of the festival will be Sweden's ARCH ENEMY ! The Michael Amott led band, recently brought to the apex of his success by the charismatic singer Alissa White-Gluz is without a doubt one of the leaders of the modern thrash-death me...

Denver’s Saeva has released a punishing and chaotic new single, ‘Sanguine Rite’ and it is almost 7 minutes of tragic fury embracing blood sacrifice and moon worship. The Colorado band has been flirting with influences from a few genres since their birth under the cold moon of 2018 but remains heavily focused on black metal with sustained progressive riffs. ‘Sanguine Rite’ comes from the yet to be titled debut EP from Saeva, that is intended to be released later this year and according to them, it is a solid introduction to what Saeva is. “Sanguine Rite is the third song I wrote for this project and the first lyrics I wrote for the album. I wanted the song to be brooding and heavy but gradually move. The song needed to tell a story more than the lyrics. The music ebbs and flows and the melody reprised from the intro grounds you, reminds you where you are. The lyrics are about blood sacrifice and moon worship, in Saeva we move with the moon and we respect her gravity.” - N. Me...

Western Canada's decibel breaking heavy metal festival LOUD AS HELL will be making their pre-sale weekend passes available for purchase as of February 1st for their 2019 line-up being hosted in Drumheller, AB from August 2nd to 4th at the Dinosaur Downs Stampede Grounds. (Archspire @ LAH 2018 - Photo Credit: Dana Zuk Photography ) The promo states: Weekend passes will be available at a 20% discount presale price of $80 CAD via loudashell Weekend passes will remain at a discount price until the 2019 line-up is announced next month during March.    For the last 7 years, LOUD AS HELL has been presenting one of the loudest Western Canadian metal festivals with nonstop headbanging, moshing and camping over 3 days. The party gets so loud that even the dinosaur fossils come back to life!  2019 will see LOUD AS HELL celebrating its eighth consecutive year presented by Loud As Hell Productions, Jurassic Ink Custom Tattoo, Prairie Fire Events, and Ash...

The Lumberjack Feedback unveil a brand new track from their upcoming LP " Mere Mortals " due out April 26th on Deadlight Records. Having reviewed their album " Hand Of Glory " back in 2013 HERE  I am familiar with their music and this new track " Therapy ?" is intense and full of energy, you should definitely check this out. Visit the band here   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Latest blog announcements here - most current info Support this blog please My store Check out some live performances here Carcass live - View it here Nervosa live -  View it here Immolation live - View it here #heavymetal #music #promo #bands #artemorbid   This post contains affiliate links which means if you buy from the links I will get a small commission which in turn helps me maintain this blog .

Iron Fire have just revealed the title track "Beyond The Void" which is part of their new album coming out thru Crime Records on March 8th. Listen to it in the link below! Copenhagen (DK) - Danish power metal veterans IRON FIRE have released a lyric video for the title track from forthcoming album Beyond The Void. Purchase/Stream "Beyond The Void" New album here IRON FIRE will release Beyond The Void March 8 on Crime Records. Pre-order the album at shop.crimerecords How do you top great power metal albums like Voyage of the Damned and Among the Dead? Well, the answer from IRON FIRE is to keep the focus on songwriting straight, keep the approach real and speak straight from the beating metal heart. Beyond the Void is, therefore, nothing but an honest in your face metal album, filled with blistering power metal songs that meld traditional melodic heavy metal with hard-hitting power trash. This melting pot of heavy metal madness is mixed and mastered by...

Darkwater revealed a new lyric video for the track " A New Beginning " which is a song from their new album " Human " soon to be released via Ulterium Records March 1st. Read more details below. The promo states: The Swedish melodic progressive metal band DARKWATER just released a lyric video for "A New Beginning", the second single from their new album "Human". Link to the lyric video: This location "Human" will be released on March 1st via Ulterium Records. The album will be available on CD, 2LP and digital. Visit the band here "Human" won't leave fans of melodic metal or progressive metal disappointed. The songs are heavier, more melodic and atmospheric than before and the band worked really hard on tweaking the ten songs and over 76 minutes of playing time into perfection. Jacob Hansen (Evergrey, Volbeat, Amaranthe) was chosen to mix and master the album and he did a fantastic job which resulted in the ...

Meadows End has revealed an amazing and captivating lyric video for the song " Devilution " which comes from their upcoming new album " The Grand Antiquation " to be here on March 8th 2019 via Black Lion Records. Read more about it below. The promo states: Swedish Symphonic/Melodic Death Metallers Meadows End returns with their highly anticipated album THE GRAND ANTIQUATION. Filled with everything you've come to expect from Meadows End, the band's fourth album contains all their cunning symphonic and melodic tricks.  THE GRAND ANTIQUATION is forged from uncompromisingly delivered death metal, so full of groove and atmosphere that it makes it worthy of establishing the band both as a unique innovator of their craft and also a top player of the scene." Video Production by titanforged productions Follow Meadows End FB: Here IG: Here TWITTER: Here --------------------------------------------------------------------------...

The band Frenzy is currently   streaming their new album via their bandcamp page as well as a full video for the song " Save Me " and lyric video " From Hell " more details below. The promo states: Madrid (Spain) - Blind Justice, the debut album from traditional heavy metal rockers and comic book fanatics FRENZY, is out now on all major digital platforms and streaming its entirety. The album will be available on CD and vinyl formats in the near future via Underground Power Records. Stream/Purchase Blind Justice frenzy-bandcamp-blind-justice Self-admitted Heavy Metal and Comics fanatics and fronted by U.S. born singer Anthony Stephen, FRENZY has successfully created a fresh approach to the traditional style accompanied by great lyrics focused on comic books and graphic novels such as Daredevil, From Hell, The Killing Joke, Silver Surfer, X-Men, and others. This band truly is the perfect union of Heavy Metal and Comics, combining the “larger than life” and ...

A Novelist is about to release their brand new album Folie on February 8th. The band is currently streaming the album in its entirety thru Invisible Oranges. It is a pleasure to listen to the vast amount of melodies and complex arrangements being expressed here. More details below. The promo states: Louisiana-based progressive death metal project A Novelist is finally on the cusp of releasing their sophomore full-length, Folie, this Friday, February 8th. The band once again enlisted the talents of renowned sound engineer Jamie King (Between The Buried And Me, Wretched, etc.) to ensure the best possible production for their new album.  A Novelist is the creative partnership of drummer Alex Babineaux and vocalist, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist Ben Nugent. Started in 2009 between friends in Lafayette, Louisiana, they began with the simple goal of writing and playing death metal. Over time their goals as a band grew larger, driven by a bold desire to expand the idea of...

It has been thirteen years since the last album by Tool. Loudwire released a video yesterday outlining all the details behind the big delays and up to the most current news regarding the album. Below is also a link to the last instrumental song that was released as a teaser. #Tool #newalbum #news #review ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Latest blog announcements here - most current info Support this blog please My store Check out some live performances here Carcass live - View it here Nervosa live -  View it here Immolation live - View it here #heavymetal #music #promo #bands #artemorbid