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0 SCYTHIA Return With Xmas Song ‘…Of Santa’
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SCYTHIA Return With Xmas Song ‘…Of Santa’
L-R – Morgan Zentner – Oboe of Death | Celine Derval – Drums, Vox | Terry Savage – Bass, Back-up Vox | Dave Khan – Lead Vocals, Guitar – (Photo Credit – James Weekes) [High Res – Press Photo – Download]
Canada’s favorite purveyors of folk/prog metal, Scythia are back once again with a re-mixed and re-mastered version of their holiday tune ‘…Of Santa’, a cheerful track about Santa and his brave reindeer!
‘…Of Santa’ – audio streams – (please share on your social networks)
http://scythia.bandcamp.com/album/of-santa-single
https://soundcloud.com/scythia-metal/of-santa-scythia-2012-edition
In additional news, Scythia unleashed their latest music video ‘Video Game Medley’ in support of their new EP ‘For The Bear’ released early this fall.
New Music Video – ‘Video Game Medley’
About: Following the success of their 2010 “…Of War” and 2011 “…Of Exile” albums, Scythia unleashed their 2012 scorcher, “For the Bear,” this fall. The short, but sweet seven-track EP departs from the orchestration and central concept of its predecessors, instead representing a leaner, faster, sharper folk metal machine.
“The songs are faster, more exciting, heavier and straight to the point,” says vocalist/guitarist Dave Khan. “There’s much less of the acoustic interludes and extensive progressive sections in favor of capturing the excitement of folk/power metal. The result is a more modern and conservative mix that showcases our ability to play rippin’ folk metal.
So what is Scythia?
Taking its name from Khan’s infatuation with a painting of Nordic/Russian warriors riding bears while brandishing swords, Scythia not only “gives the painting musical significance,” but it is also “the name of an ancient empire spanning from the Caucasus through Russia and into Eastern Scandinavia,” says Khan.
0 Death Metallers XUL Offer FREE DOWNLOAD Of Debut Album ‘Malignance’
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Death Metallers XUL Offer FREE DOWNLOAD Of Debut Album ‘Malignance’
Left to right: Bill Ferguson (Vocals/Guitar), Wallace Huffman (Guitar), Marlow Deiter (Bass), Lowell Winters (Drums), Levi Meyers (Vocals) Photo Credit: Bailey Gottlieb
Brutal Western Canadian death metallers XUL are offering their debut full length ‘Malignance’ released earlier this year as a FREE DOWNLOAD as the band currently works on their follow up EP. If you’re a fan of Behemoth, Dissection and Immortal this is one album not to be missed as the band forges their brand of Blackened Death Metal. Malignance features eight tracks of crushing rhythms seamlessly coalescing into atmospheric passages, accompanied by punishing percussion waves and subtle vocal harmonies.
FREE DOWNLOAD at the following link here. (http://xulmetal.bandcamp.com/album/malignance)
XUL vocalist Levi Meyers comments:
“”We are excited to offer our debut album, “Malignance” for free (or by pay what you want donation) to our fans as a token of our appreciation for the endless support they offer us. We are currently writing an EP, which will be due out sometime in 2013.”
Track Listing – Malignance
1. Battlestorm 04:27
2. Mastication of Putrescent Empyrean Remains 05:14
3. Porta Noctis 05:08
4. Vengeance 03:28
5. Winter’s Reign 04:26
6. Hordes of Black 05:29
7. Incinerate the Earth 04:17
8. Tomb of Tyrants 05:54
For more info on XUL, please visit these links:
http://www.facebook.com/Xulband
http://www.twitter.com/xulofficial
About:
A five piece group based out of Vernon, British Columbia, Canada, following in the footsteps of bands such as: Behemoth, Dissection, and Immortal, XUL have left the beaten path and set out to forge their own brand of Blackened Death Metal.
An energetic and interactive live performance – with crushing rhythms seamlessly coalescing into atmospheric passages, accompanied by punishing percussion waves and subtle vocal harmonies – expands upon the previously established essence of the sub-genre. With songs reminiscent of war-torn landscapes, destructive human nature and evil intent, XUL has captivated audiences and garnered positive reviews, and on June 16, 2012, released their first full length album, entitled “Malignance”.
Driven by determination and a diverse accumulation of musical comprehension, XUL has toured Western Canada, as well as proven themselves worthy to share the stage with bands such as: Obscura, Exhumed, Vreid, Kampfar, Woods of Ypres, Macabre, Withered, Cephalic Carnage, Archspire and 3 Inches of Blood. With a spring 2013 tour looming, XUL is determined to build on an impressive local following by infecting Western Canada with hopes of Canada in its entirety in the near future. XUL’s focus for winter 2012 is to meticulously craft new material for another release in 2013.
0 THE RABID WHOLE Post Teaser For Upcoming Music Video ‘Future’ + Show Dates In Montreal & Sherbrooke
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From Left to Right: JJ Tartaglia: Drums | Andreas Weiss: Vocals, Guitar | Oscar Anesetti: Bass Guitar | Chalsey Noelle: Keyboards, Vocals | George Radutu: Guitar (Photo Credit: Darko – www.darkophoto.com) [ DOWNLOAD – HIGH-RES PRESS PHOTO ]
Electro alt rockers The Rabid Whole are giving fans a sneak peak of what’s to come in the New Year as the band will be releasing their new music video ‘Future’, but before they do, they have posted a teaser online. Check it out at the following link below.
Teaser Video – ‘Future’
Video Credits: Directed by Shawn Haynes
http://www.loveandcrossbones.com/
In additional news, TRW will be bracing Quebec’s snow and slush and playing back to back dates across the province, December 14th & 15th stopping in Montreal and Sherbrooke with Ogenix & Nanochrist.
Dec 14th: Montreal @ Cafe Chaos w/Ogenix + Nanochrist – Show Details
Dec 15th: Sherbrooke @ Bar Le Magog w/Ogenix + Nanochrist (Goth-Industrial-Metal night) – Show Details
Drum Solo at Indie Week – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-S8f3NQMQ
FREE DOWNLOAD – ‘Delusion’ – http://puregrainaudio.com/audio/the-rabid-whole-delusion-free-download
FREE DOWNLOAD – ‘Future’ – http://puregrainaudio.com/audio/the-rabid-whole-future-free-download
Full stream of album – ‘Refuge’:
http://puregrainaudio.com/audio/the-rabid-whole-refuge-album-stream-exclusive-world-premiere
“Refuge”
1. Future
2. Metro
3. Corporate
4. New System
5. Serenity Falls
6. Solution
7. Rhythmic Reflection
8. Stargazer
9. Delusion
10. Refuge
About:
There’s something to be said for fate in the music world. One moment you’re left with the skeleton of a band, unsure when you’ll be able to follow your calling again, the next you’ve got a whole new line-up, a brand new home, a stronger, more defined sound and are recording with some of the biggest names in the industry. This is the tale of The Rabid Whole.
Disenchanted with playing in bands whose music was unchallenging and run of the mill, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Andreas Weiss set out to remedy his predicament. Purchasing an arsenal of music and noise-making gadgets, he began writing songs for his own band’s 2009 debut album, Autramaton.
Recruiting musicians along the way, the first incarnation of The Rabid Whole was solidified, releasing their first album and touring Canada, sharing the stage with the likes of The Birthday Massacre, Econoline Crush, Hinder, Apoptygma Berzerk, and 16Volt.
But that’s when things began to take a turn. Following the departure of several band members, Weiss decided to leave his hometown of Regina, SK behind, taking a leap of faith and moving to Toronto, ON along with guitarist and founding member George Radutu.
Through some lucky online ads, he discovered drummer JJ Tartaglia and bass guitarist Oscar Anesetti while a Christmas trip back home to Regina put him face-to-face with Chalsey Noelle, a friend of a friend looking for a new career path after quitting her job. Wouldn’t you know it – Noelle was a talented keyboardist and vocalist.
Now, the new and improved Rabid Whole is set to release their second album, Refuge, on May 1, 2012. A direct reflection of the emotional and external changes of Weiss’ journey, the album deals with relatable themes.
“I sold my house, quit my engineering consultant job and moved…We were starting from square one again, but with more uncertainties than ever and weren’t sure when we would even have a full band again. Part of the writing had begun randomly scattered over the past couple of years, but the majority came right after the move. I set up the studio in the basement of my house and got to work. I didn’t leave the house for two months and wrote from the moment I’d wake up until I’d fall asleep,” says Weiss.
Recorded and produced by Karl Schubach (Misery Signals, Solace), mixed by Dave Ogilvie (Jakalope, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson) and mastered by Noah Mintz (Broken Social Scene, Death From Above 1979), the finished product delivers rock and electronic elements pushed to the max, a male and female vocal showdown and, as Weiss puts it, showcases “a 21st century, high-energy, electro alternative, orgasmic-punch-in-the-face-rock band.”
Isn’t it time you fell down the rabid whole?
0 FREE DOWNLOAD – AxisOfMetal.com Presents: The Axis Of The Underground Vol.2 Compilation Album, features Scythia, Adrenechrome, Auroch, Mortor, Fatality
After the tremendous out pouring of support for volume 1, you, the Axis Of Metal community have spoken loud and clear and they’ve answered the call, and countered with Volume 2. Volume 2 features more emerging artists, and is more encompassing of the metal world than the previous release.
Volume 2 will treat your eardrums to the thrashiest of metal, heinous black metal, putrid death metal, empowering traditional metal, methodical doom metal, boundary pushing progressive metal, the grooviest of groove metal, avant-garde madness, and bouncy folk metal among many other genres and incarnations of heavy sounds.
They’ve loaded their heavy metal shotgun and are discharging the most comprehensive of compilations to satisfy even the pickiest of nay-sayers and nitpickers.
If you’re wondering who crafted the sublime cover art, Axis Of Metal’s good friend Kartigan has stepped up to the plate and donated his time, effort, and patience and delivered the goods. If your band needs any sort of artwork, please don’t hesitate to contact him at: contact@axisofmetal.com and they can put both parties into motion.
Axis Of The Underground is their way to give back to the genre that has brought all of us years and years of elation and enjoyment. So sit back, crack a cold one, or roll a herbal cigarette and hit play on the bandcamp link below, and be prepared to be whisked away to a heavy metal nirvana.
FREE DOWNLOAD – http://axisofmetal.bandcamp.com/album/the-axis-of-the-underground-vol-2
Axis Of The Underground Vol.2 Tracklisting:
1. Obduracy – Virtue And Vice
2. Razorwyre – Knights of Fire
3. Wings Denied – Clockwork
4. Desultor – Black Monday
5. Monsterworks – Freewill
6. Rusted Brain – Caught In The Fire
7. Scythia – Sailor’s Accolade
8. Symptom – Into the Scalding Spring
9. Eryn Non Dae – Hidden Lotus
10. Lich King – In The End, Devastation
11. Cultfinder – Archangel Burial
12. Derelict – Shackles Of Indoctrination
13. Infiltrator – Crush The False
14. Mares Of Thrace – The Gallwasp
15. Cryptopsy – Damned Draft Dodgers
16. Entropy – Encryption
17. Auroch – From Forgotten Worlds
18. Fatality – Thrash Fuck Eat Sleep
19. Gypsy Chief Goliath – St. Covens Tavern
20. Adrenechrome – Titans Fall
21. Invective – Systemic
22. Dire Omen – Deserving Of Ash
23. Mortor – Under the Flag
24. Bushwhacker – Forest Lord
25. Abstract Violence – S.N.M.
26. Seprevation – Sea of Thoughts
27. Luna Azure – Meadows Of Spring
***PLEASE NOTE THAT ONCE THE *FREE* DOWNLOAD CREDITS RUN OUT, THE COMPILATION WILL BE UPLOADED TO A FILE HOSTING WEBSITE. **** DO NOT UNDER **ANY** CIRCUMSTANCE PAY **ANYTHING** FOR THIS COMPILATION! THIS IS **100% FREE**
***ONCE THE CREDITS RUN OUT AND IT ASKS FOR PAYMENT PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE COMPILATION IN 320 K MP3 HERE OR HERE *** DO NOT PAY FOR THIS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE ****
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0 En Route To HVY MTL Announce BOTB 2013 Line Up Presented by Dungeonworks and Evenko
En Route To HVY MTL Announce BOTB 2013 Line Up Presented by Dungeonworks and Evenko
Following the success of the inaugural edition in 2012, Dungeon Works Productions and Evenkoare proud to present En Route to Heavy MTL 2013 and the selected twenty bands that will be battling it out over the next five months to win one of two opening slots at this year’s 2013 HVY MTL.
With hundreds of applications this year from across the province of Quebec, the selection of bands was a difficult one as the talent pool was rich with head banging metal.
The line-up and genre nights are listed below with show dates at Les Katacombes (1635 St-Laurent Blvd) starting in January 2013. The grand finale will feature the five bands with the top overall scores and will take place on June 2013 at Théatre Corona (2490 Rue Notre-Dame W) date TBD.
*Note: The panel of guest judges, both local and international alongside a number of industry representatives for each night will be announced at a later date. Last year’s judges included members of Testament, Voivod, Heaven & Hell, Megadeth, Slaves on Dope, Annihilator, Despised Icon and Cannibal Corpse.
En Route to Heavy MTL 2013
For more info, please visit (www.dungeonworksprods.com & http://heavymtl.com/en/jouer-heavy/)
Video Announcement – (please share on your social networks)
Progressive Death Metal Night:
Brought By Pain – http://www.facebook.com/broughtbypain
Pronostic – http://www.facebook.com/pronosticofficial
Tunguska Mammoth – http://tunguskamammoth.bandcamp.com/
Derelict – http://derelictmetal.com/
Alternative Metal Night:
Projekt F – http://www.reverbnation.com/projektf
Ogenix – http://www.ogenixmetal.com/
Truth or Scare – http://www.reverbnation.com/truthorscare
DOT – http://www.facebook.com/dotarmy
Prog/Power/Epic Metal Night:
Transcend – http://www.reverbnation.com/transcendband
Eclipse Prophecy – http://www.facebook.com/eclipseprophecy
Kalter (Quebec City) – http://kalterofficial.com/
Unbeing – http://www.unbeingmusic.com/
Metalcore Night:
Pandora’s Wake – http://www.facebook.com/pandoraswake
Fall of Gabriel – http://www.reverbnation.com/thefallofgabriel
In Beliefs – http://www.facebook.com/inbeliefsband
Reason Prevails – http://www.reasonprevailsband.com/
Deathcore Night:
Rosewood – http://www.facebook.com/RosewoodMTL
Self Collapse – http://www.reverbnation.com/selfcollapsemetal
Of Temples – http://www.facebook.com/oftemples
Death Lullaby – http://www.deathlullaby.com/
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En Route Vers Heavy MTL 2013
Pour plus d’informations, s’il vous plaît visitez (www.dungeonworksprods.com &www.heavymtl.com/jouer-heavy/)
Annonce Vidéo – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7PnUJRR14g (s’il vous plaît partager sur vos réseaux sociaux)
Nuit Progressive Death Metal:
Brought By Pain – http://www.facebook.com/broughtbypain
Pronostic – http://www.facebook.com/pronosticofficial
Tunguska Mammoth – http://tunguskamammoth.bandcamp.com/
Derelict – http://derelictmetal.com/
Nuit Alternative Metal:
Projekt F – http://www.reverbnation.com/projektf
Ogenix – http://www.ogenixmetal.com/
Truth or Scare – http://www.reverbnation.com/truthorscare
DOT – http://www.facebook.com/dotarmy
Nuit Prog/Power/Epic Metal:
Transcend – http://www.reverbnation.com/transcendband
Eclipse Prophecy – http://www.facebook.com/eclipseprophecy
Kalter (Quebec City) – http://kalterofficial.com/
Unbeing – http://www.unbeingmusic.com/
Nuit Metalcore:
Pandora’s Wake – http://www.reverbnation.com/pandoraswake
Fall of Gabriel – http://www.reverbnation.com/thefallofgabriel
In Beliefs – http://www.facebook.com/inbeliefsband
Reason Prevails – http://www.reasonprevailsband.com/
Nuit Deathcore:
Rosewood – http://www.facebook.com/RosewoodMTL
Self Collapse – http://www.reverbnation.com/selfcollapsemetal
Of Temples – http://www.facebook.com/oftemples
Death Lullaby – http://www.deathlullaby.com/
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