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0 Dutch Metal Maniac – [Evertrapped] – Under The Deep (Hellstorm Recordz)

  • September 27, 2015
  • by Asher
  • · Evertrapped

http://timvv9.blogspot.nl/2015/09/review-evertrapped-under-deep.html

0 The Killchain Blog: Review: Evilheart – Quinquaginta (Test Your Metal Records)

  • September 26, 2015
  • by Asher
  • · Evilheart

https://thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2015/09/26/review-evilheart-quinquaginta/

0 VOIR – Vantablack Warship – S/T EP

  • September 26, 2015
  • by Asher
  • · Vantablack Warship

http://voir.ca/disques/vantablack-warship-vantablack-warship-ep/

0 Maximum Volum Music – REVIEW: Saints Of Death – Saints Of Death EP (2015)

  • September 25, 2015
  • by Asher
  • · Saints of Death

http://www.maximumvolumemusic.com/review-saints-of-death-saints-of-death-ep-2015/

0 Thy Demon Be Scribblin – Feind’s Fast & Furious #8 – Display of Decay – Dust of Existence

  • September 25, 2015
  • by Asher
  • · Display of Decay

http://www.thydemonsbescribblin.com/album-reviews—spin-or-burn/feinds-fast-furious-8-first-impressions

0 Thy Demons Be Scribllin – [Evertrapped] – Under The Deep (Hellstorm Recordz)

  • September 25, 2015
  • by Asher
  • · Evertrapped

http://www.thydemonsbescribblin.com/album-reviews—spin-or-burn/feinds-fast-furious-8-first-impressions

0 Thy Demons Be Scribblin – Fast & Furious #7 – Defect Designer – Ageing Accelerator (Sleaszt Rider Records)

  • September 25, 2015
  • by Asher
  • · Defect Designer

http://www.thydemonsbescribblin.com/album-reviews—spin-or-burn/fast-furious-7-fan-suggestions

0 Out Now! Calgary’s DRI HIEV New EP ‘CONTRAVIRTUAL’ Full Stream via Exclaim! Available on Shake! Records and Bunghole Records

  • September 25, 2015
  • by Asher
  • · DRI HIEV · Music News

For Interview, Album Requests, Media List contact

Cara Ashbey – Music Publicist – caraashbey[@]gmail.com

Radio Promotions – radiotrackingashermedia [AT] gmail.com

#514.581.5780 – www.ashermediarelations.com

NEWS RELEASE

Edmonton, AB – September 25, 2015

For Album Promo, please send request to caraashbey[at]gmail.com

For fans of White Lung, Metz, Sonic Youth, Nine Inch Nails, My Bloody Valentine

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They played short, wild bursts of noise punctuated by frontman Carter Crough, dressed in white overalls and a gold lamée mask,  weaving, bobbing and rolling around on the stage while howling like the tormented ghost of a tortured serial killer.” – Richard Amery, L.a. Beat

Gritty noise punk with a catchy backbeat. Highly aggressive, highly distorted, very good. – Dave host of Contramandatum on CJSW 90.9 FM

#6 Year end list – Sonikraf

Out Now! Calgary’s DRI HIEV New EP ‘CONTRAVIRTUAL’ Full Stream via Exclaim! Available on Shake! Records and Bunghole Records

Tour Dates:

Sept 25 Regina, Saskatchewan- The German Club

Sept 26 Winnipeg, Manitoba- UMFM

Sept 29 Sudbury, Ontario- TBA

October 7 Winnipeg, Manitoba – Big Fun HQ

October 8 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – Horse Club

October 9 Calgary, Alberta – Tubby Dog

October 10 Edmonton, Alberta – Acid Church

Top (left to right): Kyle Crough (Bass), Igor Gvozdenovic (Synth and Samples), Carter Crough (Vocals), and Daniel Auger (Guitar and Drum Machine) (Photo credit: Heather Ross)

    Releasing their new EP through the help of Shake! Records and Bunghole Records, Calgary noise project DRI HIEV are streaming their new release ‘ContraVirtual’ via Exclaim.ca plus making the five boundary pushing tracks available on cassette. The abrasive four-piece is pushing the boundaries by combining punk with industrial all the while constantly bringing the noise.

Guitarist and drum machine musician Dan Auger had this to say about the EP’s release, “Last year we lost our drummer and released an EP. By the time that EP was released we had become a different band and that music became irrelevant. We spent the next eight months writing and trying to re-evaluate what we wanted to do as a band. ‘CONTRAVIRTUAL’ is the result of those eight months. It represents where we are and where we’re going.”

To purchase and hear the full EP stream of ‘CONTRAVIRTUAL’, please visit the following links:

Exclaim! Album Stream: https://exclaim.ca/music/article/dri_hiev-contravirtual_ep_stream

Cassette Purchase – http://experienceshake.com/store/index.php?id_product=132&controller=product

Track Listing

1. Good Shirt (3:19)

2. Felix Down (2:48)

3. OHMz (3:19)

4. Amberman (2:31)

5. ContraVirtual (3:34)

Album Length: 14:51

About:

DRI HIEV is a Calgary noise quartet specializing in creating disorienting music with one foot in modern electronic music and the other in aggressive punk rock.

Three out of four members (Dan Auger, Carter Crough, and Kyle Crough) originally played in Bloody Circuits from Grande Prairie, Alberta, but upon relocating to Calgary they recruited Igor Gvozdenovic and became DRI HIEV. Their live show demands your attention with all members creating a wall of noise while maintaining a steady driving electronic sample to get people moving.

They are going to be touring across Canada with fellow noise enthusiasts Feverfew. DRI HIEV are also releasing their EP CONTRAVIRTUAL on cassette through Shake! Records and Bunghole Records on September 23, 2015.

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0 Out Now! Progressive Rock/Metal TYLOR DORY TRIO New EP ‘Carried Away’

  • September 25, 2015
  • by Asher
  • · Music News · Tylor Dory Trio

For Interview, Album Requests, Media List contact

Cara Ashbey – Music Publicist – caraashbey[@]gmail.com

Radio Promotions – radiotrackingashermedia [AT] gmail.com

#514.581.5780 – www.ashermediarelations.com

NEWS RELEASE

Edmonton, AB – Sept 25, 2015

For Album Promo, please send request to caraashbey[at]gmail.com

For fans of Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Rush

EPK | TylorDoryTrio.com | Facebook | Twitter | Bandcamp

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Out Now! Progressive Rock/Metal TYLOR DORY TRIO New EP ‘Carried Away’

PROMO 2015

From L-R: Jonathan Webster (Drums, Backing Vocals), Tylor Dory (Guitar, Vocals), Slava Fedossenko (Bass, Backing Vocals) – Photo credit: Photo Junkies

Free Download – ‘Time, The Beholder’ – PureGrainAudio.com

     The brainchild of three multi-genre masters Jonathan Webster (Drums, Backing Vocals), Tylor Dory (from Death Toll Rising) (Guitar, Vocals) and Slava Fedossenko (Bass, Backing Vocals), Edmonton, AB’s loudest progressive rock band TYLOR DORY TRIO is proud to present their latest EP ‘Carried Away’ that features their unique blend of progressive rock with a tinge of metal over haunting and soaring vocals. Featuring 4 tracks written entirely by the trio, mixed by Christer-Andre Cederberg and mastered by Jens Bogren (Amon Amarth, Devin Townsend, and Opeth), each track combined with the album artwork is an all encompassing journey into the adventurous, genre-fusing music.

“Carried Away is a compilation of 4 songs that we best feel represents the group at this point in time, with its sweeping dynamics not only song to song, but within each individual track as well. Each song has a distinct feel, but all have a commonality to tie it all together; heavier, moodier riffs supporting expressive, melodic vocals. We’re incredibly proud with how it came together and thrilled to finally be able to share this with you!” comments drummer Jonathan Webster.‎

To purchase ‘Carried Away’, please visit the following links:

Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/carried-away-ep/id1042942269

TDT - album cover

Track Listing

1. Time, The Beholder (8:43)

2. Carried Away (5:19)

3. The Black Lodge (8:33)

4. Anne (6:49)

Album Length: 28:44

About:

Edmonton’s own Tylor Dory Trio are creating pummeling rock-infused progressive metal with their soaring yet haunting vocals and subtle harmonies draped over technically driven guitar riffs.

Formerly known as Illusive Man, the Tylor Dory Trio features Jonathan Webster on drums and backing vocals, Slava Fedossenko on bass and backing vocals, and of course — Tylor Dory (Death Toll Rising, Villanizer) on guitar and vocals.

The band carries their influences like a badge of honour due to the fact that they are all incredibly diverse – Rush, Alice In Chains, Tool, and Devin Townsend. The intention of the group is to create non-genre specific music drawing from all realms of influence; metal, progressive, grunge, and anything else that inspires them.

Their debut EP “Carried Away” is set to be released September 25, 2015. The band is currently recording a follow-up to be mixed and mastered by Christer-André Cederberg beginning later in 2015.

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“It’s not often that you get to say that a band is different, but with the Tylor Dory Trio there is a uniqueness to their sound, a genre on its own. The Tylor Dory Trio introduces us to Progressive Grunge.”- Danny Fournier, Oddball Productions

“Being an Opeth fan, I can’t help but to find similitudes between both bands, but to reduce Tylor Dory Trio(Illusive Man) as an Opeth clone would be too simplistic. The band has a lot of influences, ranging from Dream Theater to Strapping Young Lad to Protest the Hero, it is quite an interesting mix.” – Metal Made In Canada

0 NEWS: PSYCHOSTICK Post UK Tour Video Blog + October Dates For ‘The Ugly Americans Tour’ w/ Dog Fashion Disco

  • September 25, 2015
  • by Asher
  • · Music News · Psychostick

For Interview, Album Requests, Media List contact

Jon Asher – Music Publicist – ashermedia [AT] gmail.com

Radio Promotions – radiotrackingashermedia [AT] gmail.com

C#.514.581.5780 – www.ashermediarelations.com

NEWS RELEASE

Montreal, QC – September 25, 2015

ALBUM PROMO CAN BE REQUESTED at ashermedia[at]gmail.com

R.I.Y.L. = Dethklok, Bloodhound Gang, Tenacious D, Weird Al Yankovic, Primus, Stephen Lynch, Mr. Bungle

EPK | Press Photo

Tour Dates | Psychostick.com | Facebook | Youtube | Reverbnation | Twitter | Soundcloud

Buy Links:  Psychostick Store | Bandcamp | iTunes

PSYCHOSTICK Post UK Tour Video Blog + October Dates For ‘The Ugly Americans Tour’ w/ Dog Fashion Disco

New Music Video ‘Bruce Campbell’, A Tribute To Ash vs. Evil Dead

Video – Danger Zone – Watch here.

Video – ‘Obey The Beard’ – Watch here.

Psychostick’s top 10 uses for a beard. Check it out on Metal Hammer UK here.

Metal Hammer UK – Blessed Are The Stick – Read here.

Coming off their UK leg of  ‘The Ugly Americans Tour’ w/ Dog Fashion Disco, which will continue its US leg this October (dates below), the champions of the comedy metal universe PSYCHOSTICK have posted behind the scenes video from their first UK tour stop in London, England earlier this month.

To watch the video, please visit the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyFgdru7Ims 

psychostick in london @ the garage - uk tour blog 1

Check out the new music video ‘Bruce Campbell’:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX_vADIJts0 

"bruce campbell" by psychostick [official] ash tribute song evil dead

The ‘Ugly Americans Tour’ is in support of PSYCHOSTICK‘s latest album ‘IV: Revenge of The Vengeance’ released last November on Rock Ridge Music. The album features 21 tracks of pure rock comedy genius with titles such as ‘Obey The Beard‘, ‘Dogs Like Socks‘, ‘Quack Kills’ (a song about Anatidaephobia: The fear of being watched by a duck), ‘Bruce Campbell’ (a tribute to the 21st century’s most beloved action hero), ‘NSFW’ featuring Bill Manspeaker (founder of Green Jello), a spoof cover of Kenny Loggins’ ‘Danger Zone’ and many more! There’s no wonder why these guys are the kings of parody metal!

‘Revenge of The Vengeance’ is available on iTunes here, all major online retailers plus the band’s online store here.

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*= Psychostick only shows
* Sept 26 – Danville, IL @ Vintage Villians

* Sept 27 – Dubuque, IA @ DBQ Con @ Five Flags Center)

* Sept 29 – Lansing, MI @ The Loft

* Sept 30 – Toledo, OH @ Frankies

* Oct 2 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Shakas

*Oct 3 – Raleigh, NC @ Southland Ballroom

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‘The Ugly Americans Tour’ US Dates w/ Dog Fashion Disco

Oct 4 – Winston Salem, NC @Ziggy’s

Oct 6 – Wilmington, NC @ Ziggy’s By The Sea

Oct 8 – Orlando, FL @ West End Trading Co.

Oct 9 – Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum

Oct 10 – Jacksonville, FL @ Underbelly

Oct 13 – Houston, TX @ Scout Bar

Oct 14 – Austin, TX @ Dirty Dog Bar

Oct 15 – Fort Worth, TX @ The Rail Club

Oct 16 – Oklahoma City, OK @ 89th Street (formerly the Conservatory)

Oct 17 – St Louis, MO @ Fubar

Oct 19 – Joliet, IL @ The Tree of Joliet (formerly Mojoe’s)

Oct 20 – Shawnee, KS @ Aftershock

Oct 21 – St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar and Hall

Oct 22 – Madison, WI @ The Red Zone

Oct 23 – Lakewood, OH @ The Foundry Concert Club

Oct 24 – Trenton, NJ @ Championship

Oct 25 – Baltimore, MD @ The Ottobar

For more info, music and tour dates, please visit http://www.psychostick.com

About:

Harnessing their crazy sense of humor and love of all things metal, vocalist Rob “Rawrb” Kersey and guitarist Josh “The J” Key joined forces with drummer Alex “Shmalex” Dontre and bassist  Matty J “Moose” to create Pyschostick, a band they’ve coined as humorcore. With hilarious lyrics, heavy riffs, notorious stage antics and high-energy performances, the band has caused millions of laughs around the world and hundreds of mosh pits across the US of A, often simultaneously, since its birth in Phoenix, AZ in 2000.

Now residing in Chicago, IL, with four full-length albums behind them – “We Couldn’t Think of a Title” (2006), their holiday album “The Flesh Eating Rollerskate Holiday Joyride” (2007), “Sandwich” (2009),  and “Space Vampires vs. Zombie Dinosaurs in 3D” (2011), the almost 100 percent do-it-yourself laugh factory, Psychostick returns with their signature sound (Chimaira, Machine Head and Hatebreed sexing Tenacious D and Weird Al Yankovic) to showcase their latest offering, the crowd funded album ‘IV: Revenge of The Vengeance’ (fan thank youvideo) due out on November 4, 2014. Featuring a hilarious track listing that includes previously released singles the beard anthem ‘Obey The Beard’ and popular ‘Dog Like Socks’ plus new tracks such as ‘Quack Kills’, ‘So. Heavy’, ‘Blue Screen’, and a tribute to the 21st century’s most beloved action super hero ‘Bruce Campbell’. Psychostick are crazy to share with fans many more comedy sing-a-longs on the road and more!

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“In a genre with a lot of anger, aggression and seriousness, every once in a while some levity is good. That’s wherePsychostick come in. Their fourth albumIV: Revenge Of The Vengeance is musically solid and lyrically amusing.” – Heavy Metal – About.com

“humorcore band Psychostick is like the Jerry Seinfeld of metal. On its fourth full-length release, IV: Revenge of The Vengeance, the band’s sound invokes similarities too oddball artists such as Mr. Bungle, GWAR, Primus, Green Jello, Scatterbrain and Austrian Death Machine, to name a few. On its 21 ridiculous tracks (including various short skits between songs), the band explores its brand of observational comedy mixed with brutal breakdowns. The band exceeds expectations by parodying popular culture, relationships and binge drinking.” – Bravewords

“Psychostick pulls the pin from a hand grenade and shoves it down the gullet of comedy. When it explodes, anyone within earshot finds themselves covered in the entrails of hilarity! These guys are off-the-chart insane. Imagine if the cast of “Jackass” formed a metal band with Andy Samberg, Sam Kinison, and Seth Rogen and then they threw a house party that made “Project X” look like amateur hour by comparison. Yeah, now you’re getting it!” – Axs

“I do like when bands like Pyschostick inject humour into songs and REVENGE OF THE VENGEANCE is pretty damn funny…The first single ‘Obey The Beard’ is magnificent and this is coming from a clean-shaven dude. It made me want to grow one. Comedy Metal fans can listen for a couple of inside Metal jokes (Captain Stupid!) and a cameo by ‘snaky’. The production is immaculate and as always these guys are as heavy as hell. Weird Al on crack. I wanted to use that phrase and I couldn’t even think how to work it into this review so I just dumped it here at the end. Humour is so subjective but I know what I like and I really like IV: REVENGE OF THE VENGEANCE.” – Metal Rules

“IV: Revenge of the Vengeance isn’t just a Psychostick album, it’s a Psychostick experience. They really went all out on this album. Not all of it makes sense and some of it may be a little over the top, but that’s what makes this band so great- they aren’t afraid to push the envelope of ridiculousness. In fact, they bask in it. Get ready, world. Get ready for the revenge of the vengeance and one of the most action-packed metal albums ever concocted. Rating: 9/10” – Front Row Report

“The creator of “Humorcore” knock one out of the fucking park with this one (IV: Revenge of The Vengeance). If you’re in a band trying to do parody and funny Metal songs stop right now, you’re just embarrassing yourself, you will not be able to dethrone Psychostick. ” – Rock Hard Place

“In ‘IV: Revenge of The Vengeance’ you have more craziness and beard than ever before, weighing in at a whopping twenty one beard bending tracks of strictly tongue in cheek craziness and general insanity with song titles ranging from ‘NSFW’, ‘Quack Kills’, ‘Loathe Thy Neighbor’ and the previously unleashed  ‘Dogs Like Socks’ and ‘Obey The Beard’ as well as a cover of Kenny Loggins ‘Danger Zone’. Add a couple of cameos from Bill Manspeaker, the founder of Green Jello and you can imagine the types of craziness that is unleashed once play is pressed. Simply put, ‘IV: Revenge of The Vengeance’ is beardtastic and in the words of Psychostick ‘Obey The Beard’.” – Firebrand After Darkness Mag

“make no mistake about it – these guys rock first and foremost, especially on this album’s standouts, the anthemic “Obey the Beard,” as well as “Dogs Like Socks,” which explores the complexities of canine/hosiery relations.” – Erie Reader

“This new album features twenty-one tracks of skits and songs that will make you listen to it until you can catch all the references from pop culture, the metal scene, and moments of “did he just say what I think he said?” With the fast paced musings of being stalked by a water fowl in “Quack Kills” to “NSFW” that will never see airplay on your local radio station, the album covers a wide range of subjects in its lampooning. It is no wonder their fans, that have had three albums to delight them in metal geekiness and humor, have waited anxiously for this new release.” – National Rock Review

“Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!
Okay, give me a moment. I’m still chuckling every time I think of Psychostick’s latest 21 track album Revenge of the Vengeance. Every moment on it is filled with hilarity, from marrying beards, being afraid of ducks and then saving a crowd of people from a dimensional time portal. And I thought I’d heard it all…Tenacious D were the kings of comedy metal, but Rize of the Fenix has made it look like they’ve reached their hay day, as much as I love them. The king’s crown has to go somewhere, and for an album like this, it looks like Psychostick are next in line for the throne.” – Rock Revolt Magazine

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