rock/metal tracks
Track: Kreator Share Title Track ‘Hate Über Alles’ From New Album And European Tour Dates
Kreator have announced their fifteenth studio album, ‘Hate Über Alles’, due 3rd June via Nuclear Blast. It comes after five years from their highly acclaimed album ‘Gods Of Violence’. Mille Petrozza comments: “Hate Über Alles reflects the time we’re living in. Everything is really loud and aggressive. The way we communicate has changed, thanks to social media. It causes a …
Tracks: Ruoska – Kade
Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska is finishing the production of their sixth full length album. In anticipation they have released the second single from that album – ‘Kade’ Frontman Patrik Mennander backgrounds the new single: “Kade leads the listener deeper inside the upcoming album’s dark atmosphere. It’s a story about eternal disasters and misery that continue across the generations. The …
Track: Immolation – Blooded
New York death metal giants Immolation, have released their new album ‘Acts Of God’ which will be their 11th studio album after 5 long years since their last album ‘Atonement’. In celebration of the release, the band offers fans the music video for track ‘Blooded’. Immolation vocalist/bassist Ross Dolan comments, “Finally, after 5 long years, we are excited to unleash the full fury …
Track: Trivium’s Matthew Kiichi Heafy Reveals Ibaraki Album Details & New Single Feat. Nergal
Trivium singer and guitarist Matthew Kiichi Heafy has shared more details about his long-awaited and much-anticipated Ibaraki project. The project’s debut album ‘Rashomon’ will be released on May 6th via Nuclear Blast. The band have shared the video for ‘Akumu’ featuring Nergal of Behemoth. “‘Akumu’ translates to ‘nightmare’ — and with this piece, I encourage the listener to work to find their interpretations of what …
Track: Hate World Hero – The Beast Has Awoken
Finnish Rovaniemi-based melodic metal band Hate World Hero released a new single ‘The Beast Has Awoken’ via Inverse Records. The band comments: “The Beast Has Awoken is about the awakening or waking up of The Beast. The Beast itself can signify anyone or anything, even an object or an experience. In life we face setbacks, doubts and …
Track: Scruffy Bear – Stories Of Strange Women
North Yorkshires Soulful Fuzz Rockers Scruffy Bear have shared their new single ‘Stories Of Strange Women’. Lead singer Georgy Eaton comments: “This song is for all the weirdos out there that second guess themselves. I grew up always taking solace in stories about unique people that stuck to their guns and didn’t change for someone …
Track: Crows – Room 156
After returning last month after 3 long years with new single ‘Slowly Separate’, Crows have shared the next single ‘Room 156’, to be taken from their long awaited second album Beware Believers due 1st April via Bad Vibrations Records ‘Room 156’ was inspired by singer James Cox’s past obsession with true crime, and old faith healers. …
Track: H.E.R.O New Single ‘Lead The Blind’ Feat. Philip Strand Of Normandie
Danish Rock quartet H.E.R.O have shared their new track ‘Lead The Blind’ which sees them team up with Philip Strand, lead singer of Swedish rock heavyweights ‘Normandie’. The track is taken from the bands forthcoming album ‘Alternate Realities’ which is due 18th March via Mermaid Records. H.E.R.O front man, Christoffer Stjerne’s elaborates: “I come from …
Track: Venom Prison – Comfort Of Complicity
With the release of the bands new album ‘Erebos’, Venom Prison have shared the video for the track ‘Comfort Of Complicity’ filmed by singer Larissa Stupar. Venom Prison comment, “’Comfort of Complicity” is a song about the European and American immigration systems and the way they break families apart and criminalise vulnerable people for simply wanting to …
News: Candlemass Are Set To Release 35th Anniversary Reissue Of ‘Epicus Doomicus Metallicus’
Candlemass was formed by bassist and songwriter Leif Edling in Stockholm, Sweden in 1984, and is well known for its epic doom metal, having a great influence over a generation of the genre’s subsequent greats – Candlemass themselves taking a large influence from Black Sabbath. ‘Epicus Doomicus Metallicus’ is a true genre classic, with every track a monument of timeless and finely crafted Doom. This is one of the quintessential, definitive Doom Metal releases, immortalising the band in the annals of music history & creating the foundations of a legacy spanning over thirty five years. Going against the grain of bands at the time using speed to bolster their metal with the ongoing rise of thrash in Europe and the US, Candlemass eschewed this direction, and formed a phenomenon of their own through the latter part of the decade and beyond with their slow & spellbinding atmospherics. ‘Epicus…’ was recorded at Thunderload Studios in 1986 and was released later that same year, with the grand and inspiring vocals for the debut handled by Johan Längqvist. Leif Edling comments: “EPICUS was our first, and perhaps also the best. I have no clue what we did there in the studio deep under the Stockholm subway, but some sort of magic was created. This is a record I would …