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0 NEWS: Southern Groove Metal A REBEL FEW Premiere Video ‘Rebel Few’ via Metal Injection; Debut Album ‘As The Crow Flies’ Out Now!
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Southern Groove Metal A REBEL FEW Premiere Video ‘Rebel Few’ via Metal Injection
Debut Album ‘As The Crow Flies’ Out Now!
This past April, Canada’s A REBEL FEW unleashed their debut album ‘As The Crow Flies’ produced by Sterling Winfield (Pantera, Damageplan, Hellyeah, Texas Hippie Coalition) and mastered by Howie Weinberg (Rush, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Beastie Boys, Pantera). The album features nine tracks of heavy shredding guitars with a huge rhythm section and a gravel-blasted soulful voice for straight up in your face rock n roll to add to their lyrical themes of empowerment.
The band has a new video for their track ‘Rebel Few’ and have teamed up with MetalInjection.net for its premiere. If ya dig old school southern groove metal, head on over to the following link: http://www.metalinjection.net/video/a-rebel-few-rebel-few-brings-the-old-school-southern-groove-youre-looking-for
The band has a new video for their track ‘Rebel Few’ and have teamed up with MetalInjection.net for its premiere. If ya dig old school southern groove metal, head on over to the following link: http://www.metalinjection.net/video/a-rebel-few-rebel-few-brings-the-old-school-southern-groove-youre-looking-for
To listen to a full stream of ‘As The Crow Flies’, please visit the following link: https://arebelfew.bandcamp.com/releases
Album order available on Bandcamp and iTunes:
https://arebelfew.bandcamp.com
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/as-the-crow-flies/id1094563406
1. Born Again (4:06)
2. Rebel Few (4:20)
3. Empires Fall (3:39)
4. Dyin’ Breed (3:57)
5. Said n Done (4:12)
6. Serious (6:26)
7. Who Knows (4:54)
8. Bitter Man (4:06)
9. Pure Revolution (4:51)
Album Length: 40:36
For more info, please visit www.arebelfew.com.
About:
A REBEL FEW follow a simple motto.
“They’re not “making waves in the scene” … They’re not “from the ashes”… They’re not “creating a sound for the generation”…They’re a straight ahead no nonsense Rock n Roll band! If you dig music that you can be a part of … and a live show that isn’t 4 guys staring at their shoes, then they are a band for you!! What lives in them, lives in you … together WE are all A REBEL FEW”
That motto comes from a band philosophy that as individuals, we’ve all dealt with the feelings of not belonging or fitting into the status quo.
“We’ve always been seen as the black sheep and proud of it because we never liked the notion of simply conforming to what society has had us believe to be “normal”. A Rebel Few is badge for all those who feel abandoned by societies “standards” and are looking for refuge. A place where they belong and find strength in like minded souls.” says vocalist Chris Raposo.
A heavy hitter of Southern rock with an injection of groove, A REBEL FEW is comprised of ex-West Memphis Suicide members Chris Raposo (Vocals-Guitar), Barry Martin (Guitar), Chris Spiers (Drums) along with Adam Shortreed (Bass). Playing music to fill the void not only for themselves, but for those who connect with their sound, the band has already shared the stage with Steel Panther, Jackyl, Skid Row, Killer Dwarfs, Anvil, Kill Devil Hill, Texas Hippie Coalition, My Darkest Days, The Headstones, and Danko Jones all before their debut album ‘As The Crow Flies’, which is now available as of April 22nd, 2016.
The debut was produced by Sterling Winfield (Pantera, Damageplan, Hellyeah, Texas Hippie Coalition) and mastered by Howie Weinberg (Rush, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Beastie Boys, Pantera).
Raposo, the main lyric writer says “My lyrics mostly stem from a childhood of being shunned for not adhering to what everyone saw as normal and being persecuted for simply being who I was. The music has always been my therapist.
As lead by example with the group’s single Rebel Few, a song about unity and belonging. Overall the album has a message of “Don’t let anything or anyone tell you can’t achieve what you want to, be who you are despite what others think you should be and don’t change who you are just to appease the masses.”
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0 Out Now! Brazilian Power Metal HIBRIA Release New Album ‘XX’ To Celebrate 20 Years In Metal + North American Tour
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Out Now! Brazilian Power Metal HIBRIA Release New Album ‘XX’ To Celebrate 20 Years In Metal
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North American Tour
HIBRIA are kicking off their North American tour presented by PureGrainAudio.com and releasing their new album ‘XX’ via Test Your Metal Records on August 9th to celebrate their 20th anniversary in metal. The Brazilian power metallers are proud to reveal the full stream premiere of their sixth release with the aforementioned site.
The band comments:
“HIBRIA’s soul is full of music. To celebrate our 20th anniversary we present to you ‘XX’. It’s heavy metal with no boundaries especially made for the fans. Can you feel it?” Music video – ‘Leading Lady’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0D-UPhDu9Y
‘XX’ can be heard at the following link:
http://puregrainaudio.com/audio/brazilian-band-hibria-unleash-full-power-metal-stream-of-new-xx-album-exclusive-premiereThe band comments:
“HIBRIA’s soul is full of music. To celebrate our 20th anniversary we present to you ‘XX’. It’s heavy metal with no boundaries especially made for the fans. Can you feel it?” Music video – ‘Leading Lady’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0D-UPhDu9Y
1. Leading Lady (5:37)
2. Music (5:11)
3. Fools Paradise (5:41)
4. Silent Revenge (Live) (6:57)
5. Lonely Fight (Live) (4:59)
6. Tightrope (Live) (5:53)
7. Tiger Punch (Live) (6:17)
Album Length: 40:40
Album Length: 40:40
08/09 Victoria, BC – Upstairs Cabaret
08/10 Vancouver, BC – The Red Room
08/10 Vancouver, BC – The Red Room
08/12 Calgary, AB – Dickens
08/13 Edmonton, AB – Mercury Room
08/16 Winnipeg, MB – The Merch
08/18 Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
08/19 Chicago, IL – Reggies
08/20 Toronto, ON – Hardluck Bar
08/22 Subury, ON – The Asylum
08/22 Subury, ON – The Asylum
08/23 Ottawa, ON – House of Targ
08/24 Quebec City, QC – Bar La Source
08/25 Montreal, QC – Piranha Bar
08/27 Boston, MA – Middle East Up
08/28 Queens, NY – Blackthorn51
About:
A Brazilian power metal band formed in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul in 1996. Hibria has grown in popularity in their home country plus worldwide with the successful release of five albums and a live DVD that showcases their intense concert energy (if ya never seen them in person). Their releases have reached the #1 position on sales charts for HMV stores across Japan, which has lead them to be support for such bands as Metallica, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth plus perform at Rock in Rio in Brazil and Loud Park, Japan’s most important metal festival, where they shared the main stage with some of the world’s most known bands.
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0 NEWS: ÉOHUM Posts ‘Eurocide’ Video Teaser + New EP ‘Ealdfaeder’
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ÉOHUM Posts ‘Eurocide’ Video Teaser + New EP ‘Ealdfaeder’
Montreal blackened doom Éohum (pronounced ee-o-um) have posted a teaser for their upcoming video ‘Eurocide’ directed by Chris Kells of The Agonist and his film company FTB Visuals. The teaser video can be viewed at the following link below and will be premiered on August 26th. ‘Eurocide’ is off Éohum’s latest EP ‘Ealdfaeder’ released during March 2016 via guitarist Jeremy Perkins’ indie label Mycelium Networks and was produced with Chris Donaldson of Cryptopsy at The Grid along with a special guest recording from drummer Simon Mackay (The Agonist) on tracks 2-4-5 to follow up their debut album ‘Revelations, Aurora Of An Epoch’. Lyrically the EP is inspired by poems written by Perkins on the loss of culture and tradition due to greed and colonization across the globe.
‘Eurocide’ Teaser Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MeMnde62dQ
To listen to the full stream of ‘Ealdfaeder’, please visit http://eohum.bandcamp.com
1. Eurocide (6:16)
2. Unmasking A World Of Deceit (6:10)
3. The Apathetic Plague (7:41)
4. Ode To A Martyr (4:34)
5. Curative Undulations (4:39)
EP Length: 29:22
About: Éohum blends the most gruesome with the cleanest of black and doom metal to create hypnotic riffs with seducing French Horn. Founded by Jeremy Perkins (guitar) who birthed the band from a poetic project, their second release Ealdfaeder’ sees the return of Annie Perreault (French Horn/Flute), Sylvain Dumont (Guitar), Barrie Butler (Vocals) plus new comers Cesar Franco (bass) and Luca Belviso (drums) whom have made up the band up for over a year now. All are focused on the distinct grassroots of old school, very heavy progression that has flourished since last year to give way to a distinct path, sound and image with each member sharing common ground on the message, beliefs and ideas behind Éohum.
For more info, please visit http://www.facebook.com/eohumband.
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0 NEWS: Fuzz Rockers HOWLING GIANT Premiere Full EP Stream ‘Black Hole Space Wizard: Part 1’ via TheObelisk.net; Due Out Aug 12th
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Fuzz Rockers HOWLING GIANT Premiere Full EP Stream ‘Black Hole Space Wizard: Part 1’ via TheObelisk.net
Due Out Aug 12th
New Video ‘Dirtmouth’
L-R – Roger Marks – Bass, Vocals, Tom Polzine – Guitar, Vocals, Zach Wheeler – Drums, Vocals
Photo Credit: Kim Auch
HOWLING GIANT is what happens when three nerds write about space travel, doomed seafarers, and a sentient android hellbent for a camel killing death crusade. HOWLING GIANT plays self-indulgent, drop-tuned, fuzzed out riffs that could curdle milk. With the release of their upcoming EP ‘Black Hole Space Wizard: Part 1’ due out on August 12th, the fuzz rockers from Nashville, TN have teamed up with TheObelisk.net for the full stream premiere of their EP at the following link: http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2016/08/08/howling-giant-black-hole-space-wizard-part-1-review-stream/
‘Black Hole Space Wizard: Part 1’ was produced by HOWLING GIANT, mixed by Kim Auch plus mastered by Chris Fasco as the follow up to their 2015 self titled debut.
EP pre-order available at the following link: http://howlinggiant.bigcartel.com
Music Video – Dirtmouth – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6fW9b_lCuM
1. Mothership (4:51)
2. Exodus Earth (4:51)
3. Dirtmouth (4:31)
4. Clouds of Smoke (7:01)
EP Length: 21:05
About:
HOWLING GIANT! The very name summons up mental images of a huge mutated orc-warrior astride an even more gigantic mastodon, ready to bring death, doom, damnation and destruction (and many other things beginning with “d”) down upon its enemies.
Names matter, and something magical happened when three nerds obsessed with all that is fuzzed-out, riffed-out, and heavy came together to compose cosmic odes to space travel, doomed sea-farers, and even an android on a camel-killing crusade (what harm did the poor camel ever do to him?), under the name Howling Giant.
Drummer Zach Wheeler says the name is no accident and reflects the band’s music. “Howling Giant sounds a lot like a loud beast, which is what we strive to do musically. We aim to create a full sound that people might normally expect from a five-piece rather than a power-trio.” Indeed, by employing the three-piece format, Howling Giant is following in the footsteps of legends like Motorhead, MC5, Cream, and Corrosion of Conformity; good company to be in! As the band’s philosophy would have it wisely: “Teamwork makes the dream work.”
Hailing from Nashville, Howling Giant obviously had some special metal immunity to all the country and western music in the air. The boys started jamming at school in Boston with an aim to move away from overtly serious music and have fun, describing their music accurately as “loud, energetic, heavy, melodic, and cosmic.”
Overall, Howling Giant’s music forms part of a fascinating Black Hole Space Wizard concept EP series. As guitarist Tom Polzine explains, “Musically we aim to write songs that are melodic, catchy, and head bang-able. As a concept series, we strive to conjure up space-themed imagery of heroes and villains at war, introducing the story and setting the scene of things to come within the Black Hole Space Wizard Universe. We’re not trying to spell out the entire story so much as we are creating scenes to provoke your imagination.”
Writing is very much a collaborative effort. “We usually come up with a general theme, then we write riffs and musical passages to support said theme. After that, we work on overall arrangements to create a nice flow and build within the song. Lyrics and vocal melodies come last as an icing on a very meaty cake. We find the flow of an album is just as important as the flow of an individual song and we strive to make each song unique. We wanted to include a combination of heavy, spacey, doom, and thrash, all wrapped up in a crunchy garage-sounding blanket. Fans can expect two more EPs within the Black Hole Space Wizard Universe. And with an overflowing riff bank, who knows how long we’ll go.”
Such far-out music deserves far-out lyrics, and Howling Giant is prepared to go to extreme lengths to get them. As bassist Roger Marks reveals, “We have a strict regimen of smashing our heads into walls daily until lyrics finally come to us.” As for inspiration, “We are inspired by science fiction and occult rituals, as well as books, movies, and other music.”
As part of an overall concept, the EP paints four distinct scenes.
The pinnacle of mankind.
An exodus from Earth.
The Black Hole Space Wizard destroying everything.
A lone survivor trapped on a ravaged Mother Earth.
In Roger’s own words, “The first track is a little more progressive, packed with riffs both dark and triumphant. The second track is all about build and groove. The third track is thrash, metal, and destructive. The final track is spacey with doom elements.”
Overall, it you are one of the many that wishes Mastodon had continued in the cosmic, crushing progressive manner of Crack The Skye and Blood Mountain, Howling Giant is your dream band!
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0 Transcending Obscurity – Medevil – Conductor of Storms
Whoa, where did this band come from? Canadian power metal/thrash band Medevil knows how to make one hell of a first impression with their debut ‘Conductor of Storms’….Categorizing them as power/thrash is just scratching the surface of what makes this album so compelling, as the instrumentals have a flair for the progressive and head into unexpected territory with each song. Early on it sounds like you’re going to get a healthy dose of 80s thrash and early power metal that’s delivered with precision, but by the time you get to The Angel of Rain the band has mellowed out completely and heads towards sweeping progressive melodies that are incredibly compelling. Plus when you have a vocalist who sounds like Udo Dirkschneider in his prime, Medevil sure knows how to stand out. -Chris Dahlberg
http://tometal.com/heavy-power-prog-everything-round-part-1/
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