Heavy Metal News - June 19, 2013
ROTTING CHRIST: ’666′ Video Released
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“666”, the new video from Greek…
Heavy Metal News - June 19, 2013
ROTTING CHRIST: ’666′ Video Released
Reposted from Blabbermouth.net
“666”, the new video from Greek…
Reposted from Blabbermouth.net
“666”, the new video from Greek extreme metal veterans ROTTING CHRIST, can be seen at this location. The song comes off the band’s eleventh full-length studio album, “Kata Ton Demona Eaftou”, which was released on March 5 (four days earlier in Europe) via Season Of Mist. The band spent more than four months at Deva Soundz studios in Athens crafting what it says “may be its darkest and more mystical and occult outcome ever.” The CD was mixed by Jens Borgen (AMON AMARTH, PARADISE LOST, KATATONIA, OPETH) at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden.
According to a press release, “the principle of Do What Thou Wilt is the threat leading through this amazing album, which is inspired by ancient cultures around the globe. ROTTING CHRIST employ poetry from the Sumerians and Incas as well as a Romanian folk song, the tale of an undead Russian water spirit, Voodoo, Zoroastrianism and other sources.”
“Kata Ton Demona Eaftou” track listing:
01. In Yumen - Xibalba
02. P’unchaw Kachun - Tuta Kachun
03. Grandis Spiritus Diavolos
04. Kata Ton Demona Eaftou
05. Cine Iubeste Si Lasa
06. Iwa Woodoo
07. Gilgames
08. Rusalka
09. Ahura Mazda Anra Mainiuu
10. 666
The album was made available as jewel case CD, double gatefold LP and limited-edition digibox, including a digipak CD with bonus track“Welcome To Hel”, a pendant in velvet bag and a flag.

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Italian modern thrashers SAWTHIS have set “Youniverse” as the title of their third album, tentatively due before the end of the year via an as-yet-undisclosed label. The follow-up to 2010’s “Egod”, which is currently in the mixing stage, “will sound more thrash-oriented and it will be a concept album based on the theme of multiple personality disorder,” according to a press release. The CD was once again recorded atPotemkin Studios with producer Paolo Ojetti (INFERNAL POETRY).
SAWTHIS recently parted ways with guitarist Andrea Giordano due to musical differences. He has since been replaced by Janos Murri (ex-RESURRECTURIS, DARKSIDE, DEMOLITION), who has already performed with the band on two European tours.
“Egod” was released in May 2010 via Scarlet Records.

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Massachusetts metallers REVOCATION will release their new, self-titled album on August 6 via Relapse Records. The follow-up to 2011’s “Chaos Of Forms” will be the first full-length album with bass player Brett Bamberger, who joined the band in 2012 and was featured on the group’s last EP, “Teratogenesis”, which was released by Scion A/V. The cover artwork for the new CD was created by Orion Landau (DYING FETUS, OBSCURA, NILE).
“Revocation” track listing:
01. The Hive
02. Scattering the Flock
03. Arch Fiend
04. Numbing Agents
05. Fracked
06. The Gift You Gave
07. Invidious
08. Spastic
09. Entombed By Wealth
10. A Visitation
The song “The Hive” can now be streamed using the SoundCloud widget at this location.
REVOCATION will take part in this year’s Summer Slaughter Touralongside THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, CATTLE DECAPITATION and others. The trek will kick off on July 19 in San Francisco, California and run through August 20 in Portland, Oregon.
“Chaos Of Forms” was released in August 16, 2011 in North America and September 5, 2011 internationally via Relapse. The follow-up to 2009’s“Existence Is Futile” was recorded at Damage Studios in Southbridge, Massachusetts with engineer Pete Rutcho.

Album Review: Skeletal Spectre - Voodoo Dawn
Skeletal Spectre [Sweden/USA]
Voodoo Dawn
2013
Full Length
Pulverised Records
Death MetalAfter the…
It may have been three long years since WOLVSERPENT’s watershed first LP ‘Blood Seed’ saw the cruel light of day, but the Boise, Idaho duo have been hard at work on its successor. They’ve just completed work on their sophomore release (and Relapse Records debut), a four song 80 minute opus entitled ‘Perigaea Antahkarana’ The album was recorded this past autumn with producer/engineer Mell Dettmer (SUNN 0))), BORIS, ASVA, EARTH, EYVIND KANG) in Seattle and in Idaho at in their home studio, and features another apocalyptic performance from Blake Green (guitar, vocals, keys) and Brittany McConnell (drums, percussion, violin, viola).
Stay doomed for further details; the track list, cover art, and a sample of new music will be revealed shortly. The end is nigh.
Standing alone, with an amalgam of influences from a plethora of genres within the contemporary extreme underground scene yet bowing to nobody, is Los Angeles-based quintet TWITCHING TONGUES.
Relentlessly savage, utterly memorable, and at all times compelling, the sophomore LP fromTWITCHING TONGUES takes all of this devotion to the next level. With nearly forty minutes of uncompromising crossover fury, In Love There Is No Law melds elements of Carnivore, Obituary, Celtic Frost, Life Of Agony, Sam Black Church, elder Cro-Mags and Sheer Terror into an instantly mesmerizing, morose and wholly distinctive alloy of metal, hardcore and beyond. Modernizing the works of the masters from two decades or more ago, with each hook and chorus the band’s punishing and primitive stylings grow more memorable than the last and will undoubtedly leave a lasting impression upon a solitarily listen. In Love There Is No Law was recorded, produced and mixed by Taylor Young at The Pit, then mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege, and will see release on August 20th via upstate New York-based Closed Casket Activities.
Preceding the release of the LP, this week TWITCHING TONGUES and Closed Casket release a brand new 7”/digital single for the title track and arguably the most iconic and encompassing song on In Love There Is No Law, in addition dropping the band’s first official video, the brilliant HD visual depiction of “In Love There Is No Law” was filmed, directed and edited by Joel Perkins.
The single can be purchased digitally via iTunes, and the limited 7″ can be purchased exclusively at All In Merch.
TWITCHING TONGUES will take to the streets all year in conjunction of the release of the new LP, with a month-long European tour with Harm’s Way confirmed for late this month through the end of July, their pending fourth American tour in the works, and more to follow. See the full list of confirmed dates below and stay tuned for further updates in the weeks ahead.
Neo-barbarians TWITCHING TONGUES have proven themselves as a hard working unit with their own goals, passing by contemporary acts on a daily basis — not only proving themselves as band with their own vision to be superseded by none, but in the end constantly producing a sound that is unarguably all their own by disregarding modern trends in metal and hardcore and coalescing into its own living, breathing, and dying entity. A 2010 formation quickly gave way to local shows in the LA area as well as a demo, which was followed by a 7” single, their first and second US tours, their first European tour, and a crushing slot on Southern Cali’s Sound & Fury Festival. 2012 was arguably even busier forTWITCHING TONGUES, as they released their debut LP Sleep Therapy as well as theirPreacher Man single, toured the US for the third time, toured Europe for the second time, pounded the West Coast of the US with regional shows and two full tours, and killed audiences at massive stateside hardcore festivals including Rain Fest in Seattle and This Is Hardcore in Philadelphia.

Driven by chemical despondency and the liberation of low-end audio scum, Nashville-based gruesome twosome BLACK TAR PROPHET has confirmed that their pending second LP will see release via D.I.Y. noisemongers Domestic Genocide.
Bearing a noxious brew of fuzz and misery-powered fuckcrush akin to Bongzilla, Buzzov*en, Weedeater, Noothgrush and the like, yet void of any vocal contributions, it’s pretty obvious from opening note to crushing closing of every track what the instrumental act is focused on; playing purely pummeling auditory filth with corrosive drugs coursing through it all.
Since their 2011 convergence the duo BLACK TAR PROPHET has soiled the lands with a rash of demo releases, and in 2012 released both a one-song/forty-two minute album called Note To Nod, and a split with Atlanta act Crawl, with a lineup shift happening the same year amidst the plethora of recordings coming into existence. They’ve endured tours of the Southern US states, and have tore up local venues with countless regional acts including Order Of The Owl, Backwoods Payback, Before The Eyewall, Crawl, Gorgantherron, Ponykiller, Motherplant and many more. The band will focus on intoxicating more audiences in the live setting over the rest of 2013 as they conjure and capture the material for their new full-length which will see release in early 2014 via Domestic Genocide.
In the meantime, BLACK TAR PROPHET will continue to bring the pain live. The newest batch of tour dates will begin this Friday, June 21st as the band begins burning through clubs across through ten cities in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Georgia. On August 24th they’ll take part in Doom At The Beach II in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with Halmos, Crawl, Dead Southern Bishop, Heathen Bastard, Snake Oil, Greenseer, Grim Creeper, Compel, Tripping The Mechanism and more. Additional tour dates will follow as they’re confirmed.
BLACK TAR PROPHET Tour Dates:
6/21/2013 Checkpoint Charlie’s – New Orleans, LA
6/22/2013 The Trial Bar – Monroe, LA [info]
6/23/2013 Rudyard’s British Pub – Houston, TX [info]
6/24/2013 Taqueria El Picante – Ft Worth, TX [info]
6/25/2013 Big D’s BBQ Shreveport – Shreveport, LA [info]
6/26/2013 Downtown Music Hall – Little Rock, AR
6/27/2013 The High Note – Birmingham, AL [info]
6/28/2013 The Plughouse – Columbus, GA
6/29/2013 The Ally Cat – Carrollton, GA [info]
6/30/2013 Ziggy’s Chattanooga – Chattanooga, TN [info]
7/01/2013 Springwater Supper Club – Nashville, TN [info]
8/24/2013 The Sound Hole – Myrtle Beach, SC @ Doom At The Beach II [info]

YPSYHAWK recently completed a brand new video for “Silver Queen” from their most recent album, Revelry & Resilience. That video was directed by Farron Loathing for Mortichrome Films with producer Brian Sowell, and editor/visual FX artist Josh Ethier. The complete list of the crew is below as it took many talented people to complete this project! Fans can view the video now, and exclusively, at RevolverMag.com.
Vocalist and bassist Eric Harris summarizes the “Silver Queen” video shoot experience: “One bottle of fireball, a fifth of Jim, some Kessler, some more beers, a couple of joints, sandwiches, one ditch, zero acting classes, 6 titties and a LARPers wet dream. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you… ‘Silver Queen.’”
“Silver Queen” crew:
Farron Loathing – Director / Producer
Brian Sowell – Director of Photography / Producer
Josh Ethier – Editor / visual FX
Rachel P Hsuing – Wardrobe / Props / Set Decorator
Erika Clum – Wardrobe / Props / set decorator
Michael Hsuing – Art Department
Chris Veliz – Art Department
Cliff Düyn – Visual FX
April Edwards – Still Photographer
John Paul Altamirano – Location Scout
Jennifer Ziliotto – hair and makeup

Following a wildly victorious tour alongside cult metal sorcerers, Ghost B.C., Los Angeles’ favorite ethereal doom dealers IDES OF GEMINI today unveil a brand new video for the track “Starless Midnight” via Cvlt Nation. The ghostly tune comes by way of the trance-inducing trio’s Constantinople full-length, released through Neurot Recordings last Spring.
Elaborates guitarist J. Bennett “We shot this video in the middle of nowhere during an off day on the Ghost B.C. tour. It was directed by our friend Daciana Birladeanu, a Romanian sorceress who also happens to be my cousin. The process basically consisted of me complaining for eight hours while the girls did all the work. But at least I got to wear my Shriner belt buckle. Enjoy!”
Adds Cvlt Nation: “This visual is a nuanced visual journey through one of my favorite songs off the album. Like their music, it is bleak and dreamy at the same time, and although shot in black and white there is a warmth to it of fire and human body.”
IDES OF GEMINI’s Constantinopleis a truetranscendental doom masterwork. Applauded by Outburn “depressing dynamics topped by ethereal wonderment,” and called, “…a dirg-y doom crawl of an album…,” by Decibel, the record continues to raise the eyebrows on the non-initiated. Purchase Constantinople at THIS LOCATION today!
