Search results for 'leviathan'

News

Report: Hard Rockers Struggle To Find Mainstream Success

Todd Martens of Billbord magazine reports: SHADOWS FALL may be the latest hard rock band to jump from the indie world into the major label system, but breaking out of the metal genre and winning a mainstream fan base won't be easy. Bands like MASTODON on Reprise and LAMB OF GOD on Columbia may have...

News

Report: Black Metal Rises From The Shadows

Bob Gendron of the Chicago Tribune reports: "Black metal is not about life," says Wrest, the San Francisco-based musician behind the bands LEVIATHAN and LURKER OF CHALICE. "It is horrible, ugly and negative music. It reflects the negativity of the surrounding world and the disgust from within." True...

News

HEATHEN DEITY Track To Be Used In Next DESIGN CONFEDERACY Film Release

Design Confederacy, makers of the cult black metal comedy "Legalize Murder", have chosen "Cornu (The Sign of the Horns)" from veteran U.K. black metallers HEATHEN DEITY's 2002 album "Walpergisnacht" as one of the songs to be included on their next production, "Serving Time in the Middle of Nowhere"....

Review

Psalm II: Infusco Ignis

I'm not sure about this whole black metal vision thing, but one-man band Skamfer (ex-ONDSKAPT) with his project HERESI has put together a hardy 28 minutes of ripping, if unoriginal, black metal. Skamfer plays all instruments on "Psalm II: Infusco Ignis" (originally released on Sweden's Total Holocau...

News

NACHTMYSTIUM Nominated For PLUG INDEPENDENT Award

Chicago-area black metal act NACHTMYSTIUM's album "Instinct: Decay" (Battle Kommand Records) has been nominated for "Metal Album of the Year" by the Plug Independent Music Awards. Other nominees for this honor include CELTIC FROST's "Monotheist" and AGALLOCH's "Ashes Against the Grain". Cast your vo...

News

WRITTEN IN TORMENT: Debut Mini-CD Out Now

"The Uncreation", the first release from U.K. black metal band WRITTEN IN TORMENT, has been made available via new Canadian label None More Black Records. Check out audio samples at this location. Composed and performed solely by WRITTEN IN TORMENT member The Leviathan and produced by Jonny Maudling...

News

MASTODON: 'Colony Of Birchmen' Video Posted Online

MASTODON's video for the song "Colony of Birchmen" is availble for viewing online exclusively at MP3.com. The track comes off the group's latest album, "Blood Mountain", which came out in September via Warner Bros. Records. MASTODON will support TOOL in Europe throughout November. The group's drumme...

News

MASTODON: 'Colony Of Birchmen' Video To Debut Next Week

MASTODON recently finished filming a video for the song "Colony of Birchmen". Look for it to debut online sometime next week. The track comes off the group's latest album, "Blood Mountain", which came out in September via Warner Bros. Records. MASTODON will support TOOL in Europe throughout November...

News

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE's HOMME Performs With MASTODON: Video Available

A video clip of QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE frontman Josh Homme and MASTODON soundchecking at the Music Box @ Fonda in Los Angeles on Sept. 29, 2006 prior to MASTODON's headlining set at the venue has been posted online at YouTube.com (courtesy of FPE-TV). The unpredictable metal band ran through "The C...

News

AVIAN To Open For TWISTED SISTER In Minneapolis

AVIAN, the band featuring singer Lance King (BALANCE OF POWER, PYRAMAZE),bassist David Ellefson (F5, ex-MEGADETH),guitarist Yan Leviathan and keyboardist Jonah Wiengarten (LILITU, PYRAMAZE),will open for TWISTED SISTER on Friday, December 1 at Myth in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The concert will be t...

News

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Frontman Performs With MASTODON In Los Angeles

According to MTV.com, Josh Homme of QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE joined MASTODON onstage at the Music Box @ Fonda in Los Angeles Friday night (Sept. 29). The unpredictable metal band ran through "The Colony of Birchmen" with Homme on vocals, dipping into new "Blood Mountain" material elsewhere with seari...

News

MASTODON Drummer Talks About Touring With SLAYER, Band's Songwriting Process

David Pehling of KTVU.com recently conducted an interview with MASTODON drummer Brann Dailor. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: KTVU.com: MASTODON has played with SLAYER in the past. Does playing with them still force you to elevate your game onstage? Brann Dailor: The first SLAYER tour we...

News

MASTODON To Support TOOL In Europe

Atlanta's MASTODON has reportedly been confirmed as the support band for the entire TOOL European tour. A list of upcoming TOOL dates can be found at Toolshed.down.net. MASTODON's "Blood Mountain" sold over 24,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release — significantly more than the...

Review

Blood Mountain

MASTODON fully lives up to its name and cements its status as one of the best newer American metal bands out there with, of all things, its major label debut. The band's third studio offering is an immense slab of brutally heavy rock that veers wildly between all-out thrash on cuts like opener "The...

News

PAPA ROACH, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, MASTODON First-Week Sales Revealed

PAPA ROACH's "The Paramour Sessions" sold nearly 37,000 copies in the United States during its first week of release — a drop from the 52,000 first-week performance of 2004's "Getting Away with Murder" — to debut at position No. 16 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart. Meanwhile, BLACK LABEL SOCIE...