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0 The Median Man – Benevolent Like Quietus – Kill The Bliss
0 Benevolent Like Quietus – Kill The Bliss (Own Label) – Sentinel Daily “it is simply impossible not to walk away from Kill The Bliss without a huge smile on your usually stern-faced dial after close exposure to this album. It’s hard to imagine a better album of its type emerging from the gloaming this year, so why not leave me to my reveries and just hurry on and secure a copy as soon as you can. Satisfaction’s guaranteed, I promise.”
BLQ – Benevolent Like Quietus – Kill The Bliss (Own Label) – Sentinel Daily “it is simply impossible not to walk away from Kill The Bliss without a huge smile on your usually stern-faced dial after close exposure to this album. It’s hard to imagine a better album of its type emerging from the gloaming this year, so why not leave me to my reveries and just hurry on and secure a copy as soon as you can. Satisfaction’s guaranteed, I promise.” https://www.sentineldaily.com.au/benevolent-like-quietus-kill-the-bliss
0 ITUS Unleash Dramatic Doom Single ‘This Can’t Be’ Off Upcoming EP “Primordial” via Doomed and Stoned
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – February 21, 2020
For fans of Conan, Sleep, Electric Wizard, Windhand, Black Sabbath
ITUS Unleash Dramatic Doom Single ‘This Can’t Be’ Off Upcoming EP “Primordial”
Debut EP “Primordial” Out March 13th
(L-R) Reinier Vandenbosch – Vocals, Brandon Lucking – Guitars and Bass
Photographer Credit: Justin Ryan Lawrence
Toronto’s ITUS recently released their first single / title track off their debut recording “Primordial”. They are now following it up with the second ‘This Can’t Be’, which contrasts with the first by being much slower and mellower with a rising crescendo.
“Primordial” is out on March 13, 2020 and is the first of two EPs that will culminate into a full-length album. The EP’s songs focus around aggressive, dark and primal concepts and embrace the death metal roots of the duo. They explain their goals for the release’s reception:
“We think that this EP will manage to ensnare those who are into heavier music, as well as attract other listeners who may not be so into death metal and related genres. The clean vocals and bright lead guitars really lighten up the darker, heavier passages of the songs. Reinier’s aggressive, chortling screams and yelling portrays an unhinged, brooding darkness, sure to keep listeners on the edge of their seats.”
Complemented with a black and white music video, ‘This Can’t Be’ aims to remind the listener of the sleepless nights where thoughts run a mile a minute while bombarding the listener with layer upon layer of guitar. ITUS explains in-depth:
“This song is intended to bring us down the aggression that the previous two songs delivered, into a calm and thoughtful zone. The lyrics are based around struggling with past burdens and with one’s own sense of worthlessness. We wanted the end of the song, where the solo and heavy guitars come in, to give a feeling of relief, comfort, and closure.”
The stark contrast between this single and the first is an excellent representation of the flexibility ITUS has. For fans of Electric Wizard, Sleep and Left Behind, the video for ‘This Can’t Be’ can be watched via its premiere on Doomed & Stoned HERE.
ITUS‘ first single and title track ‘Primordial’ can be heard HERE.
Track Listing:
1. Cloud Reader (3:17)
2. Question Everything (4:16)
3. Primordial (4:13)
4. This Can’t Be (4:19)
5. The Chaplain (5:43)
EP Length: 21:50
For more info:
Facebook.com/ITUSDOOM
Instagram.com/ITUSDOOM
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About:
Early in 2019, ITUS was formed by Brandon Lucking (guitars) and Reinier Vandenbosch (vocals), who at the time, were in another band with a different style but looking to try something new. The result was these Ontario boys blending doom and stoner rock with crushing heavy metal passages, in a psychedelic atmosphere of horror influenced sounds.
The writing process is fairly simple for ITUS, Lucking writes the melodies as they come to him, and Vandenbosch writes the vocals and lyrics. The foundation of the lyrics always starts from personal experience, traumas, and how events in life unfold which are further imbued with influence from science fiction and horror fiction, mythology, dark philosophy, and political angst.
The soundscape of horrors that ITUS paints is enthralling already as a two-piece online project, and there are plans on the horizon to build it into a full-on touring 3 piece band delivering an energetic and abrasive live experience with a heavy, brooding ambiance.
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0 The Metal Wanderlust – ALBUM REVIEW: LE TEMPS PESTE – Maudiir “Le Temps Peste” is overall an engaging listen that, as it progresses, gets even better and more complex, gradually easing you into the building mood and feel of the EP, the first couple of tracks “Product” and “Abuse The Used” build on bleak Blackened driving riffs alongside a vitriolic rasping vocal delivery, the latter also benefiting from more of a haunting melody developing, a galloping Thrashy second half and soaring lead work which really adds to the sound.”
The Metal Wanderlust – ALBUM REVIEW: LE TEMPS PESTE – Maudiir
“Le Temps Peste” is overall an engaging listen that, as it progresses, gets even better and more complex, gradually easing you into the building mood and feel of the EP, the first couple of tracks “Product” and “Abuse The Used” build on bleak Blackened driving riffs alongside a vitriolic rasping vocal delivery, the latter also benefiting from more of a haunting melody developing, a galloping Thrashy second half and soaring lead work which really adds to the sound.”
https://themetalwanderlust.com/2020/02/21/album-review-le-temps-peste-maudiir/
0 Rockshots Records: Out Now! ISLE OF THE CROSS Debut Album “Excelsis”
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – February 21, 2020
For fans of Symphony X, Ayreon, Opeth
Rockshots Records: Out Now! ISLE OF THE CROSS Debut Album “Excelsis”
Progressive-death metal band ISLE OF THE CROSS’ debut album “Excelsis” is now available as of Feb 21st via ROCKSHOTS RECORDS.
Infusing a blend from the avant-garde realms of extreme, symphonic, melodic and technical death-metal, ISLE OF THE CROSS is led by composer and multi-instrumentalist Je Schneider.
The debut full length “Excelsis” is a concept release based on a tale of two lovers amidst betrayal, murder and their search to reunite in the afterlife. From the immediate and vicious thrust of the opening track ‘Sacrifice’, the listener is quickly catapulted into an enigmatic journey of sonic power. From the furious to the melodious opuses on the album, the listener is enveloped in a dynamic exploration until the very end. At the heart of ISLE OF THE CROSS is the conveyance of depth, poignancy, and redemption through the endurance of tragedy.
‘Excelsis’ was produced, mixed and mastered by Je Schneider.
Album order available at ROCKSHOTS RECORDS’ official store – http://bit.ly/Excelsis_CD
Music Video – Sacrifice – https://youtu.be/kEXqU0voyn0
Single ‘Tartarus’ stream and download:
YouTube – https://youtu.be/KgEBS6385Xg
Spotify – https://spoti.fi/38OXfdG
iTunes – https://apple.co/2Pw6ffP
Track Listing:
1. Sacrifice (4:14)
2. Tartarus (8:25)
3. Excelsis (4:35)
4. The Wolf, Pt. I. Invocation (1:09)
5. The Wolf, Pt. II. Sanctuary (7:20)
6. Stars (6:25)
7. Empyrean (7:42)
8. Paradigm (4:21)
9. Breatheia (5:57)
10. The 9th Circle, Pt. I. Caina (2:28)
11. The 9th Circle, Pt. II. Judecca (0:53)
12. The 9th Circle, Pt. III. Inferno (8:34)
Album Length: 1:02:04
ISLE OF THE CROSS is:
Je Schneider – Lead Songwriter & Lyricist, Multi-Instrumentalist, Vocalist
Eric Gillette – Lead Guitar
Diane Lee – Vocals
Eric Castiglia – Vocals
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0 Glacially Musical – Are You Ready To Rock with Messora
Glacially Musical – Are You Ready To Rock with Messora http://glaciallymusical.blogspot.com/2020/02/are-you-ready-to-rock-with-messora.html
0 Heavy New York- Isle of the Cross- Excelsis Review – Rockshots Records
0 \m/\m/ Thank you for the airplay love MDs and DJs #7 Woodhawk !earshot – The National Loud Chart For the Week Ending: Tuesday, February 18, 2020
\m/\m/ Thank you for the airplay love MDs and DJs
#7 Woodhawk
!earshot – The National Loud Chart
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, February 18, 2020
0 The Rock Metal Podcast E605: Interview w/ Diamonds On Neptune
The Rock Metal Podcast E605: Interview w/ Diamonds On Neptune Homesite http://www.therockmetalpodcast.ca/2020/02/e605-diamonds-on-neptune.html
0 Metal Hammer Italia – Iron Kingdom – On The Hunt
Metal Hammer Italia – Iron Kingdom – On The Hunt http://www.metalhammer.it/recensioni/2020/02/18/iron-kingdom-on-the-hunt/
