Search results for 'grand magus'

Review

Look What God Did To Us

I appreciate atmospherics and ethereality, but generally speaking I read words like "post-rock", post-punk" or "post-whatthefuckever" and I throw up in my mouth a little. It's not always the case, as the shoe-gaze and lushness that one hears on albums by bands like ALTAR OF PLAGUES and WOLVES IN THE...

Review

Death Transmutation

I've been listening to Australian merchants of death IGNIVOMOUS for a while now, the band's vinyl offerings spending a lot of quality time on my turntable. So it is with some glee that I welcome an actual compact disc from the band into my humble abode. "Death Transmutation" is as pure as the blacke...

News

NETHERBIRD Announces New Bassist

Jönköping, Sweden-based death/black metallers NETHERBIRD have issued the following update: "We are proud to announce that Tobias Gustafsson has joined NETHERBIRD as bassist. We have spent 48 hours in studio Scarecrow recording bass for our next release and it was a grand ride and Tobias was quite ev...

News

MASTERPLAN, THRESHOLD, U.D.O., DELAIN Members Confirmed For 'Christmas Metal Symphony'

Jorn Lande (MASTERPLAN),Damian Wilson (THRESHOLD),Udo Dirkschneider (U.D.O., ACCEPT),Mats Levén (THERION, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) and Charlotte Wessels (DELAIN) are among the guest vocalists who will participate in the second "Christmas Metal Symphony" show, set to take place on Sunday, December 20, 20...

News

DEAD SHAPE FIGURE: Demo Version Of Second New Song Available For Streaming

Finnish thrashers DEAD SHAPE FIGURE have posted the demo version of a new song entitled "Face On The Nails" on their MySpace page. According to the band, "[this is] pretty much a straight-forward rock 'n' roll song [which] we have played for a while now." The group adds, 'As much as we enjoy ...

News

QUEENSRŸCHE: 'Home Again' Video Available

The video for "Home Again", the touching ballad from QUEENSRŸCHE's latest album "American Soldier", can now be viewed on Military.com, the largest military and veteran membership organization. The clip is also available below. "Home Again" has really struck a chord with the military community and th...

News

THE DESTRO To Release 'Harmony Of Discord' In October

Texas' THE DESTRO will release its sophomore album, "Harmony Of Discord" on October 13 via Ironclad Recordings. According to a press release, the band "possess the aggression and directness or hardcore but it's not metalcore; they have the thick sludge toned riffage and big bottom groove of metal wh...

News

GALAR Signs With DARK ESSENCE RECORDS

Norwegian "viking" metal band GALAR has inked a deal with the Bergen-based label Dark Essence Records. The group's new album, "Til Alle Heimsens Endar", will be released in early 2010. The CD was recorded at Conclave Media Studio (HELHEIM, TAAKE) with producer Bjørnar E. Nilsen and was previously de...

News

QUEENSRŸCHE: 'Home Again' Video To Make Its Online Debut Tomorrow

The video for "Home Again", the touching ballad from QUEENSRŸCHE's latest album "American Soldier", will receive its worldwide debut on Tuesday, September 1 at noon ET on Military.com, the largest military and veteran membership organization. "Home Again" has really struck a chord with the military...

News

CANDLEMASS: Footage From Norway's HOLE IN THE SKY Festival Posted Online

Fan-filmed video footage of CANDLEMASS' August 28, 2009 performance at the Hole In The Sky festival in Bergen, Norway can be viewed below (courtesy of "OndeOrm"). According to Metalzone.gr, CANDLEMASS' previously announced October 2009 shows in Greece (in Thessaloniki on October 3 and in Athens on O...

News

CARACH ANGREN: More Video Footage From The Studio Posted Online

Dutch symphonic black metal act CARACH ANGREN is currently recording its new album, "Death Came Through A Phantom Ship", at Tidal Wave Studio in Karlsdorf, Germany. A late 2009/early 2010 release via Maddening Media is expected. The third video clip featuring footage from the studio can be viewed be...

News

M.A.N Claims To Be First Metal Band Ever To Incorporate 'Full Scale Quarter Tone System'

M.A.N — the group formed out of the ashes of Sweden's TRANSPORT LEAGUE (featuring former MNEMIC frontman Tony Jelencovich) — has tapped Ulrich Wild (WHITE ZOMBIE, STAIND, STATIC-X, DEFTONES, PANTERA, LIMP BIZKIT) to mix the band's third album, "Massive, Audio, Nerve". The band will enter Grand Recor...

News

CANDLEMASS: Quality Footage From PARANOID OPEN AIR Festival Available

Quality fan-filmed video footage of CANDLEMASS' performance at this year's Paranoid Open Air festival — which was held August 13-15, 2009 at Autopoligon Ljubecna, near Celje, Slovenia — can be viewed below (courtesy of "gokizoki"). According to Metalzone.gr, CANDLEMASS' previously announced October...

News

EVERY TIME I DIE: 'Wanderlust' Video Released

"Wanderlust", the new video from Buffalo's hardest-rocking band EVERY TIME I DIE, can be viewed below. The clip was helmed by visionary director Chris Sims (STAIND, NORMA JEAN, LAMB OF GOD) and is described in a press release as "a mind trip set in a dimly lit hotel, where singer Keith Buckley walks...

News

THERION's 'The Miskolc Experience': New Trailer Available

"The Miskolc Experience", the new 2CD+DVD from Swedish progressive/experimental metallers THERION, is being released today in the U.S. and Canada. View a preview trailer of the DVD footage below. Recorded and filmed at the remarkable and renowned International Opera Festival in Miskolc, Hungary on J...