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0 Heavy New York – Ashen Horde-Fallen Cathedrals Review
0 The Rock Metal Podcast – Bonus Episode: Calgary’s 3rd Annual 420 Music & Arts Festival 2019
0 Technical Music Review – Accursed Spawn – The Virulent Host “We have another killer Canadian death metal band on deck for you guys! Man, does some great music come out of the country….cheers to our metal brethren in the North! Accursed Spawn’s debut album “The Virulent Host” is a mind bending no nonsense death metal record. It has blistering guitar solos, sweet riffs and some super impressive vocals as well. The album is a groovy piece of music that keeps on going and going. This smashing debut album is out on PRC Music.”
“We have another killer Canadian death metal band on deck for you guys! Man, does some great music come out of the country….cheers to our metal brethren in the North! Accursed Spawn’s debut album “The Virulent Host” is a mind bending no nonsense death metal record. It has blistering guitar solos, sweet riffs and some super impressive vocals as well. The album is a groovy piece of music that keeps on going and going. This smashing debut album is out on PRC Music.”
https://technicalmusicreview.com/2019/03/23/accursed-spawn-the-virulent-host/
0 Beatroute Premiere Psychedelic Vibes of GONE COSMIC’s “Faded Release” Off Upcoming Album “Sideways In Time”
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – March 25, 2019
For fans of Earthless, Alabama Shakes, Black Sabbath, Tess Parks, Pink Floyd
Beatroute Premiere Psychedelic Vibes of GONE COSMIC’s “Faded Release” Off Upcoming Album “Sideways In Time”
New Album ‘Sideways In Time’ Out April 12th via Kozmik Artifactz
Canadian Tour Dates (AB/SK/BC)
L-R: Abbie Thurgood (Vocals), Marcello Castronuovo (Drums), Devin “Darty” Purdy, (Guitar), Brett Whittingham (Bass)
Photo Credit: Mario Montes
Canada’s GONE COSMIC have released their second single, “Faded Release” off their upcoming debut album “Sideways In Time”. “Faded Release” is premiered on Beatroute and will definitely have you entranced in their psychedelic fuzz vibes.
Vocalist Abbie Thurgood comments:
“Faded Release is a throat punching, face melting, melodically driven trip. Starting off unknowingly sweet and approachable, quickly turning the tides to clutch your attention and shake your senses. It touches on the ultimate sacrifice and give-all nature that takes place for a loved one, be it a friend, a lover, a partner, etc. Faded Release focuses on when passion is what drives your intention and those surrounding see it as an opportunity to take advantage.”
Fade into another world with “Faded Release” at the following link: http://beatroute.ca/2019/03/25/gone-cosmic%e2%80%a8-faded-release%e2%80%a8/
“Sideways In Time” will be released April 12, 2019, through Kozmik Artifactz and available for pre-order on Bandcamp here.
Comprised of musicians from Western Canadian staple acts Chron Goblin, Witchstone, Funkenshiest, and The Torchettes, fans have an idea of what to expect from this quartet, but can drink it all in, live, on the following dates listed below.
Tour Dates:
April 12 – Calgary, AB – The Palomino
April 13 – Edmonton, AB – Bohemia
April 14 – Red Deer, AB – Bo’s Bar & Stage
April 19 – Saskatoon, SK – Amigo’s Cantina
April 20 – Regina, SK – German Club
May 3 – Victoria, BC – Wheelies
May 4 – Vancouver, BC – SBC Restaurant
Track Listing:
1. Dazed (4:49)
2. Deadlock (6:41)
3. Siren (4:48)
4. Faded Release (5:46)
5. Turbulent (4:36)
6. Misfit Wasted (7:10)
7. Bear The Weight (5:53)
8. My Design (6:28)
Album Length: 46:14
Album Band & Live Line Up:
Abbie Thurgood (Vocals)
Marcello Castronuovo (Drums)
Devin “Darty” Purdy, (Guitar)
Brett Whittingham (Bass)
For more info:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/gonecosmic
Twitter: www.twitter.com/gonecosmicband
Instagram: www.instagram.com/gonecosmic
EPK – https://wp.me/pciNW-d3q
Bio:
Championed by a soaring songstress Abbie Thurgood (The Torchettes), whose boldly evocative tones recall Skunk Anansie chanteuse Skin and Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard, and accompanied by an agile and aggressive psych-rock outfit, composed of guitarist Devin “Darty” Purdy (Chron Goblin), bass player Brett Whittingham (Chron Goblin), percussionist Marcello Castronuovo (Witchstone), Gone Cosmic has carved out an expansive domain that stretches from sweltering Southern sludge pits to breath-stealing sonic spacewalks.
A blood (orange)-scented breeze that bows the trees, Gone Cosmic chases the infinite haze from the skies and puts it right back in your eyes. Groove-mining breakdowns become the stuff of legend as the four pieces’ floor-thudding tail kick and hellfire halo holler originates a whole that is far more potent than the sum of its individual elements. Meet your new astromancers, the phase-shifting and hard- rocking force that channels the empyreal sounds of heaven on Earth.
Bio was written by Christine Leonard (Beatroute AB, Canada)
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“And then there’s Gone Cosmic with their Sideways In Time album, released through Kozmik Artifactz. Set for an early April release this is some grade A, female-fronted psych rock, it whirls and it winds and it wails like a hard rocking banshee on the prowl! Simply stunning!” – Stoner Hive
“It feels like an evolution of the genre” – Chris Beck – Doom Tomb
“Fresh off of announcing their signing to the Kozmik Artifactz label before the April release of their debut Sideways in Time (so bleeding bloody good, by the way), this Calgary supergroup comprised of members of Chron Goblin, Witchstone and Joplin-esque lung pummeler Abbie Thurgood, formerly of The Torchettes, are a heavy, groovy, psych-storm, headtrip. You’re welcome.” – Mike Bell – YYScene
“ It works in a spectacularly gnarly and boombastic, rifftastic, fantastic Joplin blues-rock way.” Mike Bell – YYScene
“Awakening the ears and seducing souls with an addictive pairing of folk-blues and psych-rock, Calgary’s Gone Cosmic is a band that thrives on the mix of complementary and contrasting traits that each member brings to the party. “ – Christine Leonard – Beatroute
“The electromagnetic energy generated when Thurgood’s soaring vocals and passionate lyrical narratives are added to the compelling riffs and hypnotic pulses of the band’s instrumentation is a stunning and stimulating force to behold. “ – Christine Leonard – Beatroute
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0 Heavy New York – Review – Accursed Spawn – The Virulent Host “Brutality at its finest!”
0 Metal Trenches – Accursed Spawn – The Virulent Host “the debut offering courtesy of Accursed Spawn is certainly one that is worthy of spawning more brutal riffs and hard-hitting technicality for the band in the future. It’s pure, unadulterated death metal on the surface; however, once listeners dive in deeper when it comes to The Virulent Host, it is made apparent that the conjunctive display of complex musical patterns and edgy, fast-paced vibes is actually fairly flexible at its core: a factor of this album that helps to make the artists’ brand of death metal one that rather sticks out.”
“the debut offering courtesy of Accursed Spawn is certainly one that is worthy of spawning more brutal riffs and hard-hitting technicality for the band in the future. It’s pure, unadulterated death metal on the surface; however, once listeners dive in deeper when it comes to The Virulent Host, it is made apparent that the conjunctive display of complex musical patterns and edgy, fast-paced vibes is actually fairly flexible at its core: a factor of this album that helps to make the artists’ brand of death metal one that rather sticks out.”
https://metaltrenches.com/reviews/raffy-reviews-accursed-spawn-the-virulent-host-1884
0 Pest Webzine – Interview – The Flaying
0 Metal Temple – Mishapen – Transcendence – “”MISSHAPEN have created a powerful set of five tracks. They’re fast, melodic, technical, layered and heavy. It’s like if you took the melody and atmosphere from AETHEREUS’s “Absentia” and mixed it with the riffage of VALE OF PNATH’s “The Prodigal Empire”. That’s MISSHAPEN’s “Transcendence”. I look forward to a full-length.””
“MISSHAPEN have created a powerful set of five tracks. They’re fast, melodic, technical, layered and heavy. It’s like if you took the melody and atmosphere from AETHEREUS’s “Absentia” and mixed it with the riffage of VALE OF PNATH’s “The Prodigal Empire”. That’s MISSHAPEN’s “Transcendence”. I look forward to a full-length.”
http://www.metal-temple.com/site/catalogues/entry/reviews/cd_3/m_2/misshapen-transcendenc.htm
0 The Headbanging Moose – Album Review – Helevorn / Aamamata (2019) “Helevorn elevated not only the quality and potency of their already refined Doom Metal in Aamamata, but the spirits of all of those who admire the fusion of good heavy music with a strong background message or meaning. And that, my dear metalheads, is the true essence of heavy music and everything we should always look for when in pursuit of new or unique names in the underground metal scene like Helevorn.”
via Album Review – Helevorn / Aamamata (2019)
Helevorn elevated not only the quality and potency of their already refined Doom Metal in Aamamata, but the spirits of all of those who admire the fusion of good heavy music with a strong background message or meaning. And that, my dear metalheads, is the true essence of heavy music and everything we should always look for when in pursuit of new or unique names in the underground metal scene like Helevorn.
0 Angry Metal Guy – Ashen Horde – Fallen Cathedrals (Extreme Metal Music/Rockshots Records) “Portz has crafted an album that’s simultaneously brutal and catchy, and Boiser has provided his strongest and most varied performance that I’ve heard to date. I can’t recommend this enough for fans of black and death metals being combined in unique ways.”
https://www.angrymetalguy.com/ashen-horde-fallen-cathedrals-review/
Portz has crafted an album that’s simultaneously brutal and catchy, and Boiser has provided his strongest and most varied performance that I’ve heard to date. I can’t recommend this enough for fans of black and death metals being combined in unique ways.
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