The Eternal – Under The New Sun blog

‘Under A New Sun’ has been named as the title for the up-coming album from The Eternal set to see the light of day in 2010. The album will be the follow up to the acclaimed ‘Kartika’ & also the bands fourth full length album. We can also reveal that song titles include: ‘Control’, ‘Under A New Sun’, ‘A Thousand Shades of You’, ‘Collapse’ & ‘Cast In Stone’ to name a few.

The band have also launched a studio blog which can be viewed at:

http://www.the-eternal-studio.blogspot.com

The band enter 301 Studios in Byron Bay on December 4th. The blog will be updated daily throughout December with pictures and the latest news on the recording process, so be sure to check it out.

‘Under A New Sun’ will be produced by Jeff Martin (The Tea Party). Jeff adds this about the album; ‘I proudly re-introduce The Eternal… The type of band I’ve been waiting to produce. It’s been a year now since Mark and I agreed to embark on a journey that begins this December. For The Eternal this will not be a stepping stone but a launch pad. For me, a creative working relationship that allows me to realise an artist’s vision and re-connect with past influences, all the while looking into the future…darkly. I envision an alchemical marriage, a musical landscape anchored by organic rock and roll and infested with industrial overtones. To put things lightly, you’re not playing with kids here. The Eternal are the real deal.’

The album will be co-engineered by Paul Pilsneniks who has worked with such artists as The Living End, The Mars Volta, Silverchair, Grinspoon & Alanis Morissette, and The Eternal has also enlisted acclaimed Finnish keyboard player Maria Ilmoniemi (Tarja / Husky Rescue) to contribute.

(SIC)MONIC album on Aural Music

(SIC)MONIC RELEASE NEW ALBUM

(Sic)Monic from Arizona are ready to release their new album on Aural Music. Titled “Somnambulist”, this album has surpassed the traditional Metal/Hard Rock sound and forged a new blend of emotion, human experience, and trials and tribulations that make up everyday life… Drawing from influences ranging from jazz fusion to death metal or progressive rock, the band intertwine an intricate yet catchy composition of Heavy, Heady, Heavenly, and some times plain un-categorical sound.

“Sicmonic is heavy rock at its best” quotes Billboard Magazine

Official Tracklisting:

1. To the Fiendz
2. Till the morning light
3.Somnambulist
4. illumination
5.of blood and grace
6. requiem
7. Oxygen
8. no conscience
9.Just how Far Down do you want to go?
10. paradiseum
11. acidic epiphanies
bonus tracks:
12. fist to throat
13. seven inches deep
14. hypnotic
15. devil went down to georgia

cover artwork preview by “Black Sails design” available below:

Advance demo tracks online on the band’s myspace : www.myspace.com/sicmonic

 

 

Secrets Of The Moon after tour update from sG

Black metallers SECRETS OF THE MOON recently returned from their first ever North American tour with Moonspell and Divine Heresy. Guitarist/vocalist sG issued the following update:

“Friends and foes: After nearly 50 shows we played across this planet, I am back home, feeling utterly dead in the most positive sense. The past two months have been an amazing, yet really raw experience for the band. Ups and downs, sickness, storm; no calmness. We spent the last month touring North America and Canada with Moonspell and Divine Heresy. Both bands are truly professional and cool guys. We salute them and our fantastic crew: Cartel – tour manager, Phil – stagehand, Ringo  – bus driver and most important: the amazing Jorge Pina for his massive technical support! Moreover we want to thank all the fans (present and future) we met out there, who believe in what we are doing. It’s been a groundbreaking experience to meet people on the other side of planet earth so familiar with and dedicated to our music… an excuse to the people in Kansas City and Denver: I couldn’t bring forth 100% due to the flu that hit me. Actually I don’t have any memories from these shows besides lying dead in my bunk. What is to come until the end of the year? Nothing but creating music. A new album is already in the making, too many ideas storm our minds these days… We’ll be back with another European tour in spring 2010, heading out to some countries we’ve never brought our sickness before. Watch out! — sG.”

SECRETS OF THE MOON recently released their first full-length in over three years. Privilegivm offers a unique mix of classic black metal with elements of rock. That album is available from http://www.lethalconflict.com.
Upcoming Kolonized Magazine will feature interview with sG done before the tour.

 

Be’lakor interview on metalnews.de

Be’lakor interview on http://www.metalnews.de, also nice 6.5/7.0 review of new Stones Reach album.
Check them out!

And if you missed the original press release:

BE’LAKOR sign with Kolony Records

Australian metallers BE’LAKOR have inked a deal with Italy’s Kolony Records for the European release of their 2nd album “Stone’s Reach”. The release of the album will be 30.11.2009 (Italy), 16.12.2009 (Europe).

Quickly come to be regarded as one of Australia’s most promising and creative metal acts, BE’LAKOR has recently ventured across Australia for the first time, taking in performances in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney.

BE’LAKOR can be described as melancholic and epic melodic death metal done in right Scandinavian fashion.

Album track listing:
01. Venator
02. From Scythe To Sceptre
03. Outlive The Hand
04. Sun’s Delusion
05. Held In Hollows
06. Husks
07. Aspect
08. Countless Skies

For further information:
http://www.myspace.com/belakor
http://www.last.fm/music/Be%27lakor

The Vision Bleak – Set Sail To Mystery album in 3/2010

The Vision Bleak: Title of upcoming album revealed

“Set Sail To Mystery” will be the title of the fourth studio album by The Vision Bleak. This was confirmed by the band just recently. The album release is tentatively scheduled for March 2010. More information soon!
http://www.the-vision-bleak.de/
http://www.myspace.com/thevisionbleak
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Vision+Bleak
http://irc-galleria.net/community/810071-the-vision-bleak

V/A Better Undead Than Alive ready for Christmas Rush

BETTER UNDEAD THAN ALIVE 2 is READY!!!!!

CODE666 release 10th Anniversary Album “Better Undead Than Alive 2″

here’s what label manager Emiliano Lanzoni had to say about this special album, featuring brand new unreleased and exclusive tracks from Negura Bunget, Fen, The Axis Of Perdition, Davide Tiso, Diabolicum, Void Of Silence and many more: ” It’s no use denying it, actually the label compilations are nearly always boring and useless: a jumble of pieces from  albums to-come, or, at best, a couple of unpublished tracks or remastered versions of old ones – nothing worth spending money on, not worth listening to even if they are given you free. So you will be wondering why Code666 has decided to celebrate its 10th birthday producing a compilation of its bands…. well, for a lot of reasons: First, this is NOT a “standard” compilation of our bands, this is actually a 79 minutes concept-album written by 35 different musicians; secondly, because all the music that you will hear has been composed expressly and exclusively for this CD…. and finally because we decided to resort to the talent of Davide Tiso, mastermind of avantgarde metal giants Ephel Duath, whose task has been to assemble, edit and merge the various tracks by means of little songs and interludes acting as links. The record, in this way, goes beyond the summing up of each piece and becomes an unprecedented concept album, a record with a meaningful course both as a whole and in each song. We are proud of it as it represents in the best possible way the ideas and the passion that have characterized Code666 for ten years”

OFFICIAL TRACKLIST:

1 Davide Tiso – Well
2 Minethorn – Icons ( of the cursed Earth)
3 Davide Tiso – Done!
4 The Axis of perdition – Chained in the Damnation Asylum
5 Davide Tiso – We Have
6 Dsd – Abandoned Emptiness
7 Davide Tiso – Been Good
8 Diabolicum – Salvation Through Vengeance
9 Void of Silence – Instrumental Void
10 Davide Tiso – At
11 Herrschaft – Abyssal Wounds
12 Davide Tiso – Holding On
13 The Oath – Abstract Emotion
14 Davide Tiso – it Was
15 The Prophecy – Adrift
16 Davide Tiso – Worth
17 Negura Bunget – Cumpana
19 Davide Tiso – It
19 Fen – Twilight Descends (Eulogy)

cover artwork preview by “temno un.art” available below:

Better Undead than Alive is scheduled for Xmass 2009 on code666 records

www.myspace.com/code666records

DE PROFUNDIS sign with Kolony Records

London, UK-based progressive extreme metal band DE PROFUNDIS have inked a deal with Kolony Records to release their second album “A Bleak Reflection” in Europe. The album was recorded in June/July 2009 with producer Fernando Pereira Lopes (MISANTHROPE, ORAKLE) and mastered by Tim Turan (EMPEROR, OPETH, MOTORHEAD).

Commented the label:

“We at Kolony Records are very proud of this signing and would like to welcome DE PROFUNDIS to the label’s roster. We were blown away by the band’s musical style (an original mix of black-death-doom and, why not, some progressive metal) from the moment we listened to their promo. The guys showed a lot of professionalism during all our discussions and we were really impressed with the international live experience of DE PROFUNDIS. The band has a proven track record when it comes to live performances, having landed high profile gigs with likes of IRON MAIDEN, NEVERMORE and ANNIHILATOR in both the UK and abroad. DE PROFUNDIS has already performed in Greece, France, Portugal, Romania and India; the band is currently finalising plans to tour Europe on a wider scale during 2010. That’s the kind of band we like to work with!”

DE PROFUNDIS stated, “Right from the first communication, we have been very impressed by Kolony Records’ professional and honest approach. Following countless emails and a face-to-face meeting with the label manager Lorenzo Marchello, we are confident that we have found the right label to release our new album and help DE PROFUNDIS to reach the next level. We are very happy to be the part of the Kolony family and look forward to working with them for many years to come.”

“A Bleak Reflection” will be released in Europe in the first week of February 2010 via Kolony Records and will come with a 12 page booklet, created by artist Darryll Jones, that hints at the concept behind the album’s lyrics. DE PROFUNDIS guitarist Roman Subbotin commented, “[the new album] represents a significant moment for our musical evolution. We’ve all worked really hard and, in my humble opinion, achieved rather spectacular results.”

“A Bleak Reflection” track listing and front cover:

01. The Ephemeral Burden
02. Ablaze In Autumn’s Fire
03. Nocturnal Splendour
04. Cease To Be
05. Crimson Black Bleeding
06. Cold Is The Grave
07. Longing
08. The Mourner

For more information, visit: http://www.myspace.com/deprofundisuk

 

 

Pantheist searching new guitarist

PANTHEIST are a signed, London-based underground band. Rooted in heavy metal, Pantheist cross-over into 70’s prog rock (King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Eloy), atmospheric doom/death (Anathema, Paradise Lost, Thergothon, Unholy) and explore byzantine, middle-eastern and Asian scales. So far we have 4 CD releases which have received great reviews internationally and routinely play in the UK and Europe.

We are looking for a replacement for guitarist Pete Benjamin (Akercocke, Corpsing, For the Blind). You must be capable of both rhythm and lead guitar, have your own equipment suitable for live performances and be willing to commit to at least 3 rehearsals a month in London, England.

Confidence, live and recording experience are necessary and skills in other instruments are highly welcome. If you feel you are the right person for the job, contact the band at pantheistuk@googlemail.com or through our Myspace site.

http://www.pantheist.co.uk http://www.myspace.com/pantheistuk

Deathbound to tour with Demonical & My Own Grave

Dreamtide Music are proud to present the “Accession to the Throne Tour 2010” featuring the swedish hellfire horde DEMONICAL as headliners with finnish death grind maniacs DEATHBOUND and swedish death dealers MY OWN GRAVE as direct supports.

The tour will run for 16 shows through 11 European countries:

12.02 (SWE) Stockholm @ Snövit

13.02 (DK) Fredericia @ Ungdomens Hus

14.02 (GER) Osnabrück @ Bastard Club

15.02 (NL) Tilburg @ Little Devil

17.02 (BEL) Roeselare @ De Verlichte Geest

18.02 (GER) Neuss @ Das Haus

19.02 (GER) Annaberg-Buchholz @ Gleis 3

20.02 (GER) Stuttgart @ Club Zentral

21.02 (CH) Zürich @ Dynamo Werk 21

22.02 (ITA) Vicenza @ The Jack Hole

23.02 (SLO) Ljubljana @ Channel Zero

24.02 (HUN) Pecs @ Toxic Music Club

25.02 (CRO) Zagreb @ Zeljeznicar

26.02 (CZE) Slavonice @ Kawarna

27.02 (GER) Leipzig @ Hellraiser

28.02 (GER) Greifswald @ Klex

The tour is presented by: Legacy Magazine, Cyclone Empire, Dynamic Arts, Pulverised, Firestarter Merchandise, Ancient Spirit, Hard Rocker Management, Sure Shot Worx.

This is what some of the guys had to say about the crusade:

”Old-school brother lowlifes sharing bus touring Europe for three weeks in the middle of the winter – what could possibly go wrong? Every tour I did was the best tour I ever did, and I have no reason to believe that this will be an exception. Looking forward to meet old (school) friends in February; or as we know it – what Stays on the road Happens on the road! It must never stop!” /Sverker (DEMONICAL)

“What could be better than touring in Europe, drinking (free) beer and playing great gigs with our good friends from DEMONICAL and MY OWN GRAVE! This is a great opportunity for us to promote our new album “Non Compos Mentis” and to brainwash some new souls out there! Prepare yourself, death comes for a visit!” /Pete (DEATHBOUND)

“It feels great to get out on the road again and promote our newest album! This is a fucking great line-up; no bullshit, death metal from start to finish! It feels great to tour with DEMONICAL and DEATHBOUND, great bands and good guys. I reckon the alcohol will flow along with sweat and blood. Prepare to be crushed by Northern Death Metal. None shall be spared!” /Anders (MY OWN GRAVE)

http://www.deathbound.net / http://www.myspace.com/deathboundspace

In Mourning – Shrouded Divine pre-orders shipping next week

Kolony Records (Italy) will issue the debut album of In Mourning (Sweden) in vinyl format. The album Shrouded Divine was originally released in CD format by Norwegian Aftermath Music in 2008.

The album is described as an eclectic mix of progressive and melodic death/doom metal, packed in a bullet-proof production and strong musicianship. The vinyl version will be released on 30.11.2009 and is now available for pre-order at http://www.kolonyrecords.com. All paid pre-orders are shipping now.

Online:
http://www.myspace.com/in_mourning
http://www.last.fm/music/In+Mourning
http://www.kolonyrecords.com
http://www.myspace.com/kolonyrecords