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0 Metal Gods TV – Dreams in Fragments – Rockshots Records ““Defy Every Storm” is a personal highlight and sounds like it should be an instant live favourite. The production on the album is some of the best I have ever heard, clean, crisp and clear, while the band employ light and shade, as well as plenty of time changes. So girls and boys, this album should appeal to fans of Nightwish and Evanescence and I for one, have really enjoyed it.”
Metal Gods TV – Dreams in Fragments – Rockshots Records ““Defy Every Storm” is a personal highlight and sounds like it should be an instant live favourite. The production on the album is some of the best I have ever heard, clean, crisp and clear, while the band employ light and shade, as well as plenty of time changes. So girls and boys, this album should appeal to fans of Nightwish and Evanescence and I for one, have really enjoyed it.” https://metalgodstv.com/dreams-in-fragments-album-review-reflections-of-a-nightmare/
0 Calgary’s DIE ANOTHER DAY Release Catchy Upbeat Debut Single ‘Broken Youth’
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Montreal, QC – August 26, 2019
For fans of Thrice, A Day To Remember, Billy Talent, Avenged Sevenfold, All That Remains
Calgary’s DIE ANOTHER DAY Release Catchy Upbeat Debut Single ‘Broken Youth’
One of Calgary, Canada’s freshest bands, DIE ANOTHER DAY are releasing their debut single ‘Broken Youth’, a fun track that is creative, bouncy and upbeat. The single was mixed by Jesse Kopala along with being mastered by Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me, He Is Legend, Scale The Summit) and is available as of August 28, 2019.
YouTube here.
Spotify here.
Google Play here.
Started in the spring of 2019 with a variety of influences, DIE ANOTHER DAY expands into multiple genres, getting fans excited to embrace different styles of music. The band is really proud of the single which has plenty of energetic riffs, aggressive lyrics, and melodic harmonies that everybody can really enjoy and get into. The band quotes:
“We all really love the single and I’m hoping fans feel the same as we do about it. We’re hoping fans wind up being as excited about the single as we are. We’re a new band in town and we have a different style of music that other bands. Hopefully, we leave them wanting more and hyped for another single in the future from us.”
With primary genres being metalcore and pop-punk, DIE ANOTHER DAY is recommended for fans of Thrice, A Day To Remember, Billy Talent, and Avenged Sevenfold and anyone else that enjoys high energy music that inspires jumping, headbanging, and fun.
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0 BLACK MASTIFF Unleashes A Blizzard Of Distortion With ‘Down By A Sound’
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Montreal, QC – August 28, 2019
For fans of Deep Purple, Queens of the Stone Age, Black Keys, Kyuss
BLACK MASTIFF Unleashes A Blizzard Of Distortion With ‘Down By A Sound’
New Album ‘Loser Delusions’ Out October 18th via Grand Hand Records
Canadian Tour Dates w/ Chron Goblin
L-R: | Allan Harding (Drums) | Bobby Yiannakoulias (Guitar and Vocals) | Clay Shea (Bass)
Photo Credit: A.Kalinowski
Edmonton’s Black Mastiff are ready to put listeners into a fuzzy mood with their signature groove with their new album ‘Loser Delusions’ out on October 18, 2019 via Grand Hand Records.
“The comradely instrumentation contrasts nicely with Yiannakoulias’s singular, yearning, existential vocals that speak to his listener in clouded lonely confessions, through half-glimpsed, elemental psychic-scapes of uncertain sky, rising rivers and darkness “looking for something that does not exist yet.” But the musical and lyrical theme of artistic searching for new experience is heightened on Loser Delusion, the tone more awake, the touch more urgent: we all need a rest, getting through this mess Yiannakoulias sings on the first track “Down By a Sound”. – Thea Bowering
The single ‘Down By A Sound’, premieres on Doomed and Stoned on Wednesday. August 28 and can be heard here.
Vocalist/guitarist Bob Yiannakoulias sums up the single:
“An existential crisis that leads to change and moving on “what isn’t green you leave behind”, all wrapped up and delivered with Phil Lynott attitude and a Knight Rider vibe.”
For fans of Deep Purple, Queens of the Stone Age, Black Keys, and Kyuss, Black Mastiff is a blizzard of distortion and can be experienced in full on October 18, 2018 through all music platforms.
In additional news, Black Mastiff will be hitting the road to promote the new album for the ‘Tourgether At Last’ with label mates Calgary’s Chron Goblin. The Canadian tour will be kicking off in Lethbridge, AB on October 10th and head east towards Montreal, QC to then circle back out west to wrap up on October 25th in Edmonton, AB.
Canadian Tour Dates: Black Mastiff + Chron Goblin ‘Tourgether At Last’
October 10 – Lethbridge, AB – Owl Acoustic Lounge
October 11 – Calgary, AB – The Palomino Smokehouse
October 12 – Regina, SK – The German Club
October 13 – Winnipeg, MB – The Handsome Daughter
October 15 – Sudbury, ON – The Asylum
October 16 – Ottawa, ON – House of Targ
October 17 – Montreal, QC – Turbo Haus
October 18 – Toronto, ON – Hard Luck
October 19 – Windsor, ON – Dominion House
October 20 – Hamilton, ON – This Ain’t Hollywood *
October 21 – Sault Ste. Marie, ON – Six Two Oh!
October 25 – Edmonton, AB – Temple
*= Black Mastiff Only
Track Listing:
1. Down By A sound (4:44)
2. Bike Club (4:33)
3. Machines (4:23)
4. A Tangle (4:33)
5. Other Kinds (3:46)
6. Star Base 77 (4:02)
7. Paddle (3:57)
8. Mind Vibe (4:30)
9. Spastic Rhythms (4:14)
10. Stranger (4:26)
Album Length: 43:13
Album Band and Live Line Up:
– Bobby Yiannakoulias – Guitar and lead vocals
– Clay Shea – Bass and Backing vocals
– Allan Harding – Drums and Backing vocals
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Edmonton’s Black Mastiff (Bob Yiannakoulias, Clay Shea, Allan Harding) is a band built around lifelong friendships and having fun, a vibe they’ve extended to both their porous, heavy, and vigorous live performance, and their recordings.
With their third full-length album Loser Delusions (Fall 2019), keeping it together became a literal priority. During the four years since their well-received Music Machine (New Damage Records, 2015), recorded and beautifully produced at Thunder Underground Studio in the desert of Palm Springs with John Garcia (Kyuss, Vista Chino), the trio had to change their perception of how a band operates. Already Renaissance men and entrepreneurs in other life ventures, when facing unforeseen challenges the band sharpened their production and business know-how by starting their own label, Grand Hand, with tour mates Chron Goblin. When drummer Allan moved to Vancouver, they decided to see how distance apart could add to, rather than take away from, their creative process and sound. The result is a determined continuation of what they do best, with a voyaging out into new sonic territory.
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“This one rises above the ultra-crowded stoner rock genre with its seriously ’70s vibe, cool and lazy vocal delivery, warm production and adherence to the riff over everything else.” – Exclaim
“Black Mastiff is a power trio that creates their own version of stoner rock. They take a super heavy riff for a ride and explore a groove with a heavy rhythmic infra-structure and beautiful melodic vocals that bear the influence of the sounds of the desert.” – Coachella Valley Weekly
“I’m a fan of music….when you hear music that makes you feel….well, that’s what Black Mastiff did for me…they made me feel…… there was just something there. When music makes you feel anything, anything at all. Happy, sad, takes you back…I don’t care who it is. I don’t care if it’s Earth, Wind or Fire, Motley Crue, if it draws out deep emotion, I become a fan. I became a fan of Black Mastiff when Bruno Fevery and I caught their set….So much so, that I covered one of their songs on my new solo album.” – John Garcia-(KYUSS, Slo Burn, Vista Chino)
“I saw them in Edmonton, Canada. They have such a unique take on music and just when you think you know where it’s gonna go, they take it somewhere completely unexpected….some of their songs remind me of a modern version of The Doors whether they see it or not.” – John Garcia – (KYUSS, Slo Burn, Vista Chino)
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0 Bluesy, Yet Incendiary, MOKOMOKAI Reveal Music Video ‘World of Sorrow’
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Montreal, QC – August 28, 2019
Bluesy, Yet Incendiary, MOKOMOKAI Reveal Music Video ‘World of Sorrow’
MOKOMOKAI have released their latest music video for their banging track ‘World of Sorrow’ off the 2018 release “Shores of The Sun”.
Taking a new age hard rock sound with a taste of some old school influences such as Diamond Head, Judas Priest, Motörhead, and Black Sabbath,MOKOMOKAI’s explosive lineup starts with originals John Ellis on high-octane guitar and Halfordesque vocals matched by the heavy bottom of bassist Jermy Pastic along with Bobby Deuce (of east coast heavyweight quartet Iron Giant). MOKOMOKAI recently firmed up their assault with the addition of JJ Tartaglia (of renowned Toronto bands Skull Fist and Final Trigger).
“When it comes to good old Canadian thrash that is new and, frankly, still relevant, there is only one band to turn to… Peterborough, Ontario’s Mokomokai” – rockandrolljunkie.com
The music video for the track, ‘World of Sorrow’ is incendiary and artistic capturing the well-refined range of the vocals alongside the bluesy bass lines, and tight guitar work that rounds out into a gripping heavy rocking ballad.
Stepping it up from inner-city Toronto, Canada by way of the province of Ontario’s pastoral Lakeland frontier of Peterborough, MOKOMOKAI is a hard-rocking foursome whose thundering stage assault has set the Canadian rock and metal tour circuit alight since first forming in 2011.
Watch the video for ‘World of Sorrow’ on YouTube here.
MOKOMOKAI‘s latest album “Shores of The Sun” is available for download and stream on Spotify, Bandcamp, Apple Music plus CD from Boonsdale Records here.
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Track Listing:
1. Come Down (4:11)
2. Empty As My Pockets (5:05)
3. Shadow In The Storm (3:20)
4. World Of Sorrow (3:35)
5. Blood Drunk (3:00)
6. Enemy (2:37)
7. Our Love Is Murder (3:10)
8. Shores Of The Sun (4:36)
Album Length: 29:38
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Stepping it up from Inner-city Toronto, Canada by way of the province of Ontario’s pastoral Lakeland frontier of Peterborough, Mokomokai is a hard-rocking foursome whose thundering stage assault has set the Canadian rock and metal tour circuit alight since first forming in 2011. Critics and fans alike have been astounded by Mokomokai’s white-hot brand of rock and roll, which takes influence from the likes of Motorhead and Judas Priest, and pushes it fast and further into incendiary territory.
If you are a lover of all eras and aspects of heavy metal then look no further than Mokomokai’s newest album “Shores Of The Sun”. This album is yet another seemingly impossible merger between the classic and the modern. From the bluesy stadium vibes of World of Sorrow to the full tilt Ride the Lightning infused power of Shadow in the Storm, this album truly stands on the shoulders of every corner of the heavy metal universe. Produced at Pro Gold Studios in Toronto ON by mastermind Ian Blurton, the follow-up to their debut album “Poison Whiptail”, this is yet another hook, line and sinker in a way that only these boys can deliver.
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“Hot damn, but does Ontario’s Mokomokai fucking rock!… Whatever band you want to name or you’re a huge fan of from that era [NWONHM}, guess what? Their sound and stamp is on this somewhere be it Diamond Head, Tygers Of Pan Tang, UFO, Jaguar, Whitesnake, Praying Mantis, or __________ (insert NWOBHM band here)” – Metal Nexus
“Mokomokai boasts a singer, John Ellis, with that rare set of pipes that can scale traditional heavy metal heights à la Dio and then clench the end of a line with a thrillingly nightmarish Halfordian screech” – Now Magazine
“The vocalist sounds like a cross between Diamondhead, Angel Witch and Ian Gillan era Deep Purple.” – Hellbound.ca
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0 Coming to Kelowna on Sept 13th to promote their new album ‘Old Stardust, Love and Chaos’ being released Sept 6th. Details on Kelowna Daily Courier
Coming to Kelowna on Sept 13th to promote their new album ‘Old Stardust, Love and Chaos’ being released Sept 6th.
Details on Kelowna Daily Courier
0 The Metal Bulletin paper zine – Scimitar “Fans of melodic death metal with lots melodies, and in this case the melodies are of the folky/proggy variety, would find this Canadian band a worthwhile investigation.”
The Metal Bulletin paper zine – Scimitar “Fans of melodic death metal with lots melodies, and in this case the melodies are of the folky/proggy variety, would find this Canadian band a worthwhile investigation.” https://metalbulletin.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-scimitar.html
0 The Metal Crypt – Review of Astralium Rockshots Records – Land of Eternal Dreams “This is a solid effort from Astralium… and I’ll be watching for the band to take it to the next level with album number two.”
The Metal Crypt – Review of Astralium Rockshots Records – Land of Eternal Dreams “This is a solid effort from Astralium… and I’ll be watching for the band to take it to the next level with album number two.” http://www.metalcrypt.com/pages/review.php?revid=11395
0 Hellbound.ca – Chron Goblin “I’ve always considered these guys to be Calgary’s closest thing to Kyuss, and the mellow desert grooves of opening track “Oblivion” don’t disappoint…This has all the makings of a pretty solid stoner rock record.”
Hellbound.ca – Chron Goblin “I’ve always considered these guys to be Calgary’s closest thing to Kyuss, and the mellow desert grooves of opening track “Oblivion” don’t disappoint…This has all the makings of a pretty solid stoner rock record.” https://www.hellbound.ca/2019/08/chron-goblin-here-before/
0 Astralium – Land of Eternal Dreams ( Rockshots Records) | Dead Rhetoric.com “Land of Eternal Dreams appeases those who want some more power/ progressive might injected into those sweeping cinematic/orchestral passages, and as a result could produce a wider following beyond one sub-genre.”
Astralium – Land of Eternal Dreams ( Rockshots Records) | Dead Rhetoric.com “Land of Eternal Dreams appeases those who want some more power/ progressive might injected into those sweeping cinematic/orchestral passages, and as a result could produce a wider following beyond one sub-genre.”
http://deadrhetoric.com/reviews/astralium-land-of-eternal-dreams-rockshots-records/
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