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0 Hellfire Magazin – 9/10 – Of Hatred Spawn ““Plage” ist einer meiner Favoriten. Vielfältiger als seine Vorgänger werden meine Gehörgänge treibend malträtiert. Die schrampfenden Gitarrenklänge, die Brutalität und die Schlagkraft zum Ende hin beindrucken mich. “Nocturnal Swarm” und “God Of Wrath” lassen ganz gewaltig die Muskeln spielen und selbige spüre ich im Nacken, zum Ende hin nun nicht mehr.”

““Plage” ist einer meiner Favoriten. Vielfältiger als seine Vorgänger werden meine Gehörgänge treibend malträtiert. Die schrampfenden Gitarrenklänge, die Brutalität und die Schlagkraft zum Ende hin beindrucken mich. “Nocturnal Swarm” und “God Of Wrath” lassen ganz gewaltig die Muskeln spielen und selbige spüre ich im Nacken, zum Ende hin nun nicht mehr.” – 9/10 – Hellfire Magazin

https://www.hellfire-magazin.de/of-hatred-spawn-of-hatred-spawn/

0 Technical Music Review – Of Hatred Spawn Self Titled Debut “The band’s debut album is a wild and energetic effort with a fun mix of classic and modern death metal that will appeal to fans of every generation of the genre.”

https://technicalmusicreview.com/2018/12/18/of-hatred-spawn-self-titled-debut/

“The band’s debut album is a wild and energetic effort with a fun mix of classic and modern death metal that will appeal to fans of every generation of the genre.”

0 EPK – Backstabber – Conspiracy Theorist – LP (2019)

Backstabber – Conspiracy Theorist – LP (2019)

For fans of Kataklysm, Hypocrisy, Decapitated, Deicide, At The Gates

Release Date: February 15, 2019

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“Powered by drumwork that resembles a ferocious mix of machine-gun and mortar fire, Backstabber mount the attack with flurries of vicious, seething riffery and nail-gunning jab-fests, with the lyrics voiced in heartless, imperious roars. The devastation is pushed to further heights of frenzy with a shrill, eerily spiraling solo, and concludes with a hint of off-planet mystery.” – No Clean Singing

“Fast, frantic, politically minded and heavy” – Exclaim!

“Backstabber’s death metal is more of the modern variety (in a good way) with a very clean yet brutal sound and speed aplenty. The playing is insanely tight at times and it’s often hard to believe that this is only the first album of a relatively young band, their first demo having been released in 2016. Some passages are a little on the thrash side but for the most part, this is heavy, pounding, fast death metal driven by a drummer who is really asking for a speeding ticket. ” – 4/5 – The Metal Crypt

“The songs are heavy, and the death and thrash influences make for some fairly easy to get into head bobbing as each track progresses… Conspiracy Theorist is a solid beginning for Backstabber… Solid for those that want some new, well-rounded death metal.” – Dead Rhetoric

“Backstabber’s Conspiracy Theorist is a self-released album that makes one wonder how they haven’t been signed to any label yet… Backstabber have on their hands the first essential death metal release of 2019.” – 4/5 – Heavy Music HQ

“It may be early in the year, but this is easily one of the best death metal releases of the year. Backstabber show off that bands can have that Hypocrisy style, without blatantly ripping off the band. The songs are incredibly well written, alongside the inclusion of different speeches and other famous public speaking that’s mixed in before, after and even in the middle of some of the songs. The mixing is great and if you’re a death metal fan of any caliber, this is an album that should definitely be included in your collection. ” – Five Magics Music

“BACKSTABBER deliver aggressively systematic silver lining lacerations of rip-roaring screams of vengefully vicious old-school Death ‘N’ Thrash Metal professionalism – simply put – recommended.” – Metal-Temple

“Conspiracy Theorist has a real face crushing, devastatingly great death/thrash metal feel to it…” – Crannk

“This album is hard as nails. They do not care for making the music too melodic. It is hard-driving, grooving-thrashing pounding metal. The vocals are super aggressive and abrasive on the ears. The guitars, bass and drums work in marching unison with the purpose of making you form a moshpit or to jump into one or to make you think that you are going to bench press 500 pounds today and do 100 pull-ups at the gym… No melodic singing. No sweet whispers in your ears, just aggro-angry metal to rile you up even more about politics, the government and the extraterrestrials.” – Metal Bulletin Zine

““Conspiracy Theorist” is a very refreshing listen, I’ve no favourite track, each stands solidly alone on its own individual merits, and should appeal to fans of the likes of Kataklysm, Hypocrisy, Decapitated, Deicide, and At The Gates.” – The Metal Wanderlust

Backstabber – Conspiracy Theorist – LP (2018)

Label and Distribution: Independent
Release Date: February 15, 2019

Track Listing:
1. Inaugural Address (1:18)
2. Whistle Blower (2:46)
3. No Privacy (3:35)
4. Subterranean (3:26)
5. Ink Spill (3:19)
6. The Hum (1:55)
7. My Disclosure (3:32)
8. Geo Engineering (3:37)
9. Banksters (4:06)
10. Conspiracy Theorist (4:50)
Album Length: 32:28

Sales link: Bandcamp | Spotify | Itunes

Album Credits:

All were written and performed by Backstabber
Produced by: Christian M. Theriault
Mixed by: Francis C. Beaulieu
Mastered by: Yannick St-Amand
Album Artwork by: Marie-Jeanne Lemieux

Album Band Line Up:

Christian M. Theriault (Guitars & Vocals)
Eric Seguin (Bass)
Patrick Gagne (Drums)

Live Band Line Up:
Christian M. Theriault (Lead guitar & Vocals)
Eric Seguin (Bass & Back Vocals)
Patrick Gagne (Drums)
Sebastien M. Theriault (Rhythm guitar (Festivals and local shows))

L-R – Patrick Gagné (Drums), Christian M. Thériault (Guitars & Vocals), Éric Séguin (Bass & Back Vocals) | Photo credit: Jean-François Girard

SHORT BIO:

Starting with themes and gradually adding riffs, drums, bass and finally vocals, they pride themselves on complimenting their compositions with energetic and interactive live shows, the entire reason for them writing their songs.

Eager to bring raw and fierce metal to the ears of listeners, Backstabber has recorded their first full-length set to be released on February 15, 2019.

LONG BIO:

Hailing from Rouyn-Noranda in northern Quebec, Canada, Backstabber is a formidable death/thrash metal trio inspired by conspiracies, new technologies, philosophy and history. Covering a vast number of themes throughout their music, Backstabber can be likened to a ‘loose cannon’ with no foreshadowing of what direction they will take next, musically and lyrically.Starting with themes and gradually building around adding guitars, drums, bass and finally vocals, they pride themselves on complimenting their compositions with energetic and interactive live shows, the entire reason for them writing their music.

“Backstabber’s music is meant to be groovy and entertaining. Our live shows consists of the most groovy and intense songs. Set-lists are designed to leave place for crowd entertaining, presentation of the band and thanks during songs to ensure that the show has a good pacing and mood.” says guitarist/vocalist Christian Mongrain Thériault.

Formed as a solo project in 2012 by Christian Mongrain Thériault (guitar/vocals, Ex.: Cryptik Howling, Depths of Hatred, Decrepity, Black Empire), Backstabber was quickly out on ice until 2015 following the addition of Étienne Leclerc (drums) and Sebastien Jean (bass). Backstabber then proceeded to record a 3 track demo entitled Revenge (Is a Meal Best Served Cold), released in January 2016 accompanied with a music video for the opening track “Negatron”. As Revenge came out, Leclerc and Jean were replaced by Patrick Gagné (drums, ex In Flames we Trust, Hécatombe) and Éric Séguin (bass). The newly formed trio went on to appear at the Ontario Death Fest IV later that year. In fall 2017, Backstabber recorded and released a single and a music video entitled “Subterranean”.

As of 2018, Backstabber has carved their place into the local scene playing Festival des Guitares du Monde en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Festival de Musique Émergente alongside Cattle Decapitation and Depths of Hatred along with sharing the stage with First Fragment, Ending Tyranny, Insurrection, Blinded by Faith, Aepoch and more. Eager to bring raw and fierce metal to the ears of listeners, Backstabber has recorded their first full-length set to be released on February 15, 2019.

Discography:

Conspiracy Theorist (LP) (February 19, 2019)
Subterranean (Single) (2017)
Revenge (Demo) (2016)

Shared the stage with:
Cattle Decapitation, Depths of Hatred, First Fragment, Unbreakable Hatred, Get The Shot, Ending Tyranny, Insurrection, Blinded by Faith, Aepoch, and AtaxiaLive Shows:
Black Empire and Legion of Decadence (2015)
Unbreakable Hatred, First Fragment, and Evil Prevails (2016)
Ending Tyranny, Ataxia, Ruptured Birth, and Aepoch (2016)
Misshapen, Projekt Gothenburg, and Whispers in the Maze (2017)
Get The Shot and Seismic (2017)
Archetype and Peronicus (2017)
Blinded by Faith, Insurrection, and Abitabyss (2017)
Insurrection and Ruptured Birth (2017)
Die Some More and Morbid Chaos (hommage à Sepultura) (2018)
Abitabyss, Archons, Evil Prevails, Black Empire, I Apocalypse, Seismic, Die Some More, Away To Die (2018)
Cattle Decapitation and Depths of Hatred (2018)
Abitabyss and Away to Die (2018)

0 Rockshots Records: Bad As Posts New Lyric Video ‘Black Star’

December 18, 2018
by Asher
· Bad As - Rockshots Records · Music News

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NEWS RELEASE

Montreal, QC – December 18, 2018

For fans of Alter Bridge, DIO, Whitesnake

Rockshots Records: Bad As Posts New Lyric Video ‘Black Star’

New Album ‘Midnight Curse’ Out Now!

Coming off their recent tour supporting legendary guitarist Vinnie Moore (UFO) and recently releasing their new album “Midnight Curse” on Rockshots Records, Italian hard-rock band Bad As are sharing a new lyric video for their track “Black Star”, which can be viewed at the following links below.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rockshotsrecords/videos/413089549229434/

Founded in 2016 by world-renowned bassist Alberto Rigoni (solo, Vivaldi Metal Project, former – Twinspirits) under the monicker BADASS, in 2018 the Italian modern hard-rock band turned into Bad As, featuring a brand new line-up and a huge step forward their unique and personal music style. While ‘Hard Rock’ is the starting point of Bad As, their debut album “Midnight Curse” is a melting of genres including metal and progressive as well as a mixing of influences in the style of legendary bands such as Metallica, Megadeth, Whitesnake, DIO, Symphony X, Alter Bridge and many others. “Midnight Curse” features unforgettable vocals and lyrics, killer guitars and a background wall of bass and drums.

Released on November 30th in Europe and December 7th in North America, “Midnight Curse” is available on Rockshots Records official store here, Spotify and iTunes.

Track Listing:
1. Black Star
2. Midnight Curse
3. Coming Far Away
4. Shadows of the Night
5. Cause of my Poetry
6. Dream Fighter
7. Open Your Mind
8. At a Sunset
9. This Time
10. Dark Element

Bad As is:
Mattia Martin: Singer
Alessio “Lex” Tricarico: Guitars
Marino De Bortoli: Drums
Alberto Rigoni: Bass

For More Info:
www.rockshots.eu
https://www.badas.rocks
https://www.facebook.com/badasrocks

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0 Dire Peril and Lords of The Trident on WSCA 106.1 FM (Portsmouth, NH) Black Night Meditations most played and favorites for 2018

WSCA 106.1 FM – Portsmouth, NH – Black Night Meditations

Favorite albums for 2018 (alphabetical order, so many are missing)

All My Sins	Pra Sila – Vukov Totem
Altars of Grief	This Shameful Burden (reissue)
Chevalier	Chapitre II
Depravity	Evil Upheaval
Dire Peril	The Extraterrestrial Compendium
Grave Upheaval	untitled
Immortal	Northern Chaos Gods
Monstrosity	The Passage of Existence
Moonspell	Lisboa Under the Spell (Live)
Nervosa	Downfall of Mankind
Overkill	Live in Overhausen
Speedclaw	Beast in the Mist
Superstition	Surging Throng of Evil’s Might – EP
Unleashed	The Hunt For White Christ
Vargrav	Netherstorm

My favorite songs of the year (alphabetical order, so many are missing)

All My Sins	Zov iz Magle
Back to Eden	Temptation
Cauldron	Letting Go
Cauldron	No Longer
Chevalier	The Messenger
Dire Peril	Planet Preservation
Freeways	Drag City
Immortal	Northern Chaos Gods
Lizzy Borden	A Stranger to Love
Lizzy Borden	Obsessed with You
Matterhorn	I Am Become Death
Monstrosity	Cosmic Pandemia
Nervosa	Horrordome
Primordial	To Hell or the Hangman
Rocka Rollas	Riding Wild
Sacral Rage	Vaguely Decoded
The Night Flight Orchestra	This Time
The Night Flight Orchestra	The Last of the Independent Romantics
Third Storm	As the Stars Watched the Birth of Eternity
Unleashed	The City of Jorsala Shall Fall

Labels I really like (and so should you)

Blood Harvest

Dark Descent

Fighter

Gates of Hell

Heavy Chains

Helldprod

Hells Headbangers

HPGD

Hypnotic Dirge

I, Voidhanger

Inner Wound

Iron Bonehead

Nordvis

Nuclear War Now!

Punishment 18

Pure Steel

Rapid Fire

Rock Of Angels

Roxx

Scarlet

Sentient Ruin

Shadow Kingdom

Transcending Obscurity

W.T.C.

XenoKorp

The top 5 most played albums for 2018

#1 Lizzy Borden	My Midnight Things
#2 The Night Flight Orchestra	Sometimes the World Ain’t Enough
#3 Judas Priest	Firepower
#4 Cauldron	New Gods
#5 Saxon	Thunderbolt

…and the rest of the top 50 most played albums (alphabetical order)

Airborn	Lizard Secrets
All My Sins	Pra Sila – Vukov Totem
Altars of Grief	This Shameful Burden (reissue)
Amorphis	Queen of Time
Anvil	Pounding the Pavement
Back to Eden	Blackened Heart – EP
Black Trip	Black Trip
Brainstorm	Midnight Ghost
Chevalier	Chapitre II
Dee Snider	For the Love of Metal
Deicide	Overtures of Blasphemy
Depravity	Evil Upheaval
Dire Peril	The Extraterrestrial Compendium
Grave Digger	The Living Dead
Grave Upheaval	untitled
Haunt	Burst Into Flame
Immortal	Northern Chaos Gods
Krisiun	Scourge of the Enthroned
Lords of the Trident	Shadows from the Past
Lion	Dangerous Attraction (30th Anniversary)
Mass	When 2 Worlds Collide
Matterhorn	Crimes of Man
Metal Church	Damned If You Do
Monstrosity	The Passage of Existence
Nervosa	Downfall of Mankind
Overkill	Live in Overhausen
Primal Fear	Apocalypse
Primordial	Exile Amongst the Ruins
Rocka Rollas	Celtic Kings
Salems Lott	Mask of Morality
Snew	You’ve Got Some Nerve
Speedclaw	Beast in the Mist
Stephen Pearcy	View to a Thrill
Superstition	Surging Throng of Evil’s Might – EP
Third Storm	The Grand Manifestation
U.D.O.	Steelfactory
Unleashed	The Hunt For White Christ
Victorius	Dinosaur Warfare – Legend of the Power Saurus – EP
White Wizzard	Infernal Overdrive
Witch King	Voice of the Ossuary

And how about the 25 most played songs (in order, *the top 3 are tied)…

Back to Eden	Temptation*
Cauldron	Letting Go*
The Night Flight Orchestra	This Time*
Judas Priest	Firepower
Lizzy Borden	Long May They Haunt Us
Lizzy Borden	The Scar Across My Heart
Mass	Revenge for the Maiden
Matterhorn	I Am Become Death
Speedclaw	Faster than Hell
Cauldron	No Longer
Chevalier	The Messenger
Crashdiet	We Are the Legion
Dire Peril	Planet Preservation
Lizzy Borden	A Stranger to Love
Lizzy Borden	My Midnight Things
Lords of the Trident	Tormentor
Lords of the Trident	Zero Hour
Nervosa	Vultures
Salems Lott	When Heaven Comes Down
Salems Lott	You Can’t Hide from the Beast Inside
Saxon	Thunderbolt
Superstition	Outer Mutation
Witchfyre	The Guardian of the Dead
Airborn	Defenders of Planet Earth
All My Sins	Zov iz Magle

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