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0 NEWS: Montreal Prog Metal FRACTAL CYPHER Reveal Their Softer Side With ‘Awakening’; Debut Album ‘The Human Paradox’ Out Sept 7th

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Montreal Prog Metal FRACTAL CYPHER Reveal Their Softer Side With ‘Awakening’
Reveal Album Artwork and Track Listing For ‘The Human Paradox’

Montreal prog metallers FRACTAL CYPHER are giving fans a taste of their softer side with their third single and ballad ‘Awakening’ off their upcoming debut album‘The Human Paradox’ set for a release on September 7th. The album is produced by Chris Donaldson (Cryptopsy, The Agonist, Beyond Creation, Neuraxis) and will be comprised of 9 songs, each hand picked and strategically chosen to best represent the living, breathing entity that is FRACTAL CYPHER.
“Let yourself be seduced by the melodies of ‘Awakening’, first of the two ballads from ‘The Human Paradox’. Very special thanks to Julie Jasmin (Violin) and Sara Jasmin (Viola), two special guests on this track. Now just close your eyes and let your imagination do the rest. Enjoy!” comments vocalist Simon Lavoie.

‘Awakening’ is available on iTunes, Bandcamp, Amazon, CD Baby, Google Play and can be heard at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob0lvfrZQmQ
FRACTAL CYPHER‘s two previous released singles ‘Lost’ and ‘Prison Planet’ can be heard at the following links:
‘Lost’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yVQz5qIjtE
‘Prison Planet’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4EvJ1CHhXE
FRACTAL CYPHER exists to captivate audiences with progressive instrumentals that cut through the mesmerizing vocals yet somehow evolving; each listen provides a new perspective. Straight out of the heart of Canada’s metal scene, these Montreal metallers constantly shift their compositions with seamless transitions and theatrical interludes to keep audiences on their toes. Since 2014, ex-Far From Reality members Simon Lavoie (vocals), Ludovick Daoust (keyboard), and Vincent Bruneau (guitar) have dedicated themselves to FRACTAL CYPHER.
The powerful quintet is just as versatile in their music as they are in their musical interests, darting between djent, death metal, and classic rock. Each song acts of their own volition almost taking control of the members and shaping a personality and energy not unlike a living entity. Ludovick is at the helm of songwriting, calculating and unlocking each melody and becoming the voice for each piece.

1. Lost (8:23)
2. Endless Circle (6:26)
3. Shining A While (8:04)
4. Prison Planet (5:27)
5. Imminent Extinction (6:28)
6. Final Abode (8:32)
7. Awakening (6:21)
8. Idle Words (7:52)
9. The Ghost Of Myself (7:24)
For more info, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/fractalcypher.
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0 Colorado Springs Independent – Bands and brews, the best of both worlds – Helleborus
0 Summer of Canadian Metal! #3 Black Absinthe, #4 Sludgehammer, #10 Scythia – earshot The National Loud Chart For the Week Ending: Tuesday, July 12, 2016
0 Durham Region – Vow of Thorns crunching Oshawa on tour
0 NEWS: SIGNS OF CHAOS Offer Free Download ‘Break You’ Show Dates July 13th w/ Hatebreed In Ottawa + July 23rd w/ First Fragment in Gatineau

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SIGNS OF CHAOS Offer Free Download ‘Break You’
Show Dates July 13th w/ Hatebreed In Ottawa + July 23rd w/ First Fragment in Gatineau

L-R – Tom Hansen – Bass, Matt MacIvor – Guitar, Nick Bedard – Vocals, Stephane Desilets – Drums, Dave McCann – Guitar
Photo Credit: Cheryl Gunhouse at Cher’s Photography
EP Stream – Watch It Burn – Listen here.
Ottawa, ON’s SIGNS OF CHAOS are offering fans a FREE download of their track ‘Break You’ via their Bandcamp from their brutally hard hitting EP ‘Watch It Burn’ unleashed this past April to follow 2012’s debut album ‘Rise’ and 2009’s untitled Demo.
To get your FREE download of ‘Break You’, please visit the following link: http://signsofchaos.bandcamp.com/track/break-you
The song download is in promotion of their upcoming show date as local opening support for Hatebreed’s tour stop on July 13th at Mavericks (full details here) plus their show date in Gatineau, QC on July 23rd with Great Knights and First Fragment (full details here). The band has previously been local Ottawa support for Alestorm, Eluveitie, Insomnium, Firewind, Dark Tranquility, Beyond Creation, Exciter, Death Angel to name a few.
Upcoming Show Dates:
July 13 – Ottawa, ON – Mavericks w/ Hatebreed, Accursed Spawn – info
July 23 – Gatineau, QC – Minotaure w/ Greta Knights, First Fragment, About: Blank, Fumigation – info

EP Length: 32:28
For more info, please visit: http://www.signsofchaos.ca.
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0 NEWS: NoCleanSinging Premiere ENTITY’s ‘200,000 Years’ + Western Canadian Tour Dates

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NoCleanSinging Premiere ENTITY’s ‘200,000 Years’ + Western Canadian Tour Dates

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Hitting the road for a tour across Western Canada with their main stop being the Armstrong Metal Fest on July 15th, Winnipeg’s blackened death metallers ENTITY are premiering their new single ‘200,000 Years’ via NoCleanSinging.com. The track features a guitar solo from Roger Mowat of GOD SAID KILL and will be one of many brutal assaulting tracks from their forthcoming 2017 album ‘Phobia of The Formless’. Since the band’s inception in 2012, they have unleashed a discography featuring 2015’s ‘Vindictive Killing’ (single), 2014’s Horrendous and Repugnant (single), 2014’s ‘Strings’ (EP) and 2014’s ‘Demo(n)’ (LP) plus have shared the stage with such acts as Skeletonwitch, Cryptopsy and legendary Canadian metal act Razor.

‘200,000 Years’ is streaming via NoCleanSinging.com at the following link: http://www.nocleansinging.com/2016/07/12/an-ncs-premiere-entity-200000-years/#more-111188

The Armstrong Metalfest Tour w/ Inverted Serenity:
July 13 – Vancouver, BC @ The Hindenburg
July 14 – Kamloops, BC @ The Office – info (Armstrong Metalfest Kick Off Party)
July 15 – Armstrong, BC @ Armstrong Metal Fest – info
July 17 – Edmonton, AB @ DV8 – info
July 18 – Calgary, AB @ Distortion – info
July 19 – Winnipeg, MB @ The Park Theatre
July 29 – Winnipeg, MB @ The Park Theatre*
*without Inverted Serenity
More info: https://www.facebook.com/EntityDM.
Biography:
Thundering in the distance of the Canadian prairies from the depths of Winnipeg hail four-piece ENTITY generating blasphemous death metal tainted with thrash. The four-year-old project grew out of a desire to generate terrifying metal complete with gratuitous solos and complimentary blast beats that whip each song into shape. They have had the pleasure of sharing the stage with such acts as Skeletonwitch, Cryptopsy, and legendary Canadian metal act Razor.
Carl Brown (bass), Kyle Braun (drums), Adam Kozak (guitar/vocals), Tyler Augusto (guitar) are constantly pushing their writing abilities to create music that sounds like an army pacing through the muddy trenches of war and emerges victorious. Their influences are present in each song, and elements from old school thrash to new school technical death metal can be extracted throughout. Instrumentally, the guitar tone pierces through the blasting drums and is stitched together with doomy vocals. Each song is written to be a map through a tremendous journey with the band as the listener’s adept guide.
The band has produced a staggering four albums over the course of 4 years and is ready to release the height of their musical efforts, ‘Phobia Of The Formless’ [LP] in early 2017. Their songs are filled with torturous lyrics that pair well with their high energy stage performance
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0 Brutalism – Sludgehammer – The Fallen Sun
It is rare to find a release that crosses so many paths in terms of musical style, the production is a perfect balance, the band delivers near flawless and the enjoyment, well that’s pretty much expected and clear for all to hear. ‘The Fallen Sun’ is a rather strong release and for those fed up with retro trends, go and give Sludgehammer a go, they master the art of the hybrid metal band taking all the good riffs and rhythms out for themselves and leaving others to deal with the leftovers.
http://www.brutalism.com/content/sludgehammer-the-fallen-sun
0 REMINDER: Armstrong Metalfest Online Tickets End Wednesday Night @ Midnight 12AM PST

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Montreal, QC – July 2016
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Armstrong MetalFest – AMF Online ticket sales will end Wednesday night at Midnight 12AM PST
Physical tickets will be for sale right up until the event starts.
Get them now! https://armstrongmetalfest.ca/tickets/
w/ Beyond Creation, Dayglo Abortions, Unleash The Archers,
Archspire, Rivers of Nihil, The Zenith Passage and More!

Promo Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9zHeA2pKWs
Free Digital Sampler – https://armstrongmetalfest.bandcamp.com/album/armstrong-metalfest-2016-mountain-moshpit-vol-1
(over 90 minutes of headbanging tracks from bands performing at this year’s festival)
Armstrong Metal Fest are proud to reveal the full schedule for this year’s 2016 line up that includes headliners Beyond Creation, Dayglo Abortions, Unleash The Archers, Archspire, Rivers of Nihil, The Zenith Passage and more!
The fest is held in Armstrong, BC on July 15th and 16th at the Hassen Arena showcasing a high caliber of Western Canadian metal along with international touring acts. Follow event details and news at the following facebook event here orwww.ArmstongMetalFest.ca.
Schedule:
Friday, July 15th:
Saturday, July 16th:
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Tickets can be purchased at the following link: https://armstrongmetalfest.ca/tickets/
About:
Taking influence from Europe’s music festival circuit, Armstrong Metal Fest is a heavy metal celebration that encourages metal heads from across Canada and the globe to mosh and camp with the backdrop of great outdoors of British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. What started as a backyard party in 2009 with nothing but eleven local metal bands such as Terrifier, Xul and Odinfist to name a few, has grown into a a huge success admired by the Western Canadian Metal scene. 2016 will be the eighth year of the festival and is planned to be the largest year for music and attendance yet. This year’s team of organizers known as the West Metal Entertainment Society is the most dedicated to date and are excited to present an incredible line up along with some changes to come for AMF 2016. Previous years of the festival have seen line ups with Cattle Decapitation, Suffocation, Anciients, Bison BC, Striker, Crimson Shadows, Holy Grail, Archspire, Cryptopsy, Unleash The Archers, Divinity, Into Eternity, Ninjaspy, Vesperia, XUL, Odinfist, Death Toll Rising, Gomorrah among many others .
For more info, please visit www.ArmstrongMetalFest.ca
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0 NEWS: VESPERIA Joins ‘Okkultis In Canada Tour’ Presented By PureGrainAudio.com w/ Necronomicon, Abiotic

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VESPERIA Joins ‘Okkultis In Canada Tour’ Presented By PureGrainAudio.com w/ Necronomicon, Abiotic

L-R – Casey Elliott (Guitar), Morgan Rider (Vocals, Bass), Frankie Caracci (Guitar), Dylan Gowan (Drums)

8/4 – Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks
8/5 – St. Catherines, ON @ Detour Music Hall
8/6 – Windsor, ON @ Windsor Beer Exchange
8/7 – London, ON @ Call The Office
8/9 – Sudbury, ON @ The Asylum
8/12 – Thunder Bay, ON @ Crocks
8/13 – Brandon, MA @ North Hill Inn
8/14 – Winnipeg, MA @ The Park Theatre
8/15 – Regina, SK @ The Exchange
8/16 – Lethbridge, AB @ Inferno Nightclub
8/17 – Edmonton, AB @ The Brixx
8/18 – Kelowna, BC @ Muninn’s Post
8/19 – Victoria, BC @ The V-Lounge
8/20 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
8/21 – Prince George, BC @ Generator Cabaret
8/22 – Calgary, AB @ Distortion
8/23 – Saskatoon, SK @ O’Brian’s Event Centre
8/26 – Timmins, ON @ The Working Class
*8/27 – Oshawa, ON @ The Atria
* = Abiotic & Vesperia only
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