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0 Out Now! Brazilian Power Metal HIBRIA Release New Album ‘XX’ To Celebrate 20 Years In Metal + North American Tour

  • August 9, 2016
  • by Asher
  • · Hibria · Music News

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Out Now! Brazilian Power Metal HIBRIA Release New Album ‘XX’ To Celebrate 20 Years In Metal
+
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.

‘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-premiere

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?”

Album order available on CD here and digital here.

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

08/09 Victoria, BC – Upstairs Cabaret
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
08/23 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’

  • August 9, 2016
  • by Asher
  • · Eohum · Music News

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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

eurocide video premier teaser

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

  • August 8, 2016
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  • · Howling Giant · Music News

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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

howling giant - dirtmouth


 
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 NEWS: CHARIOTS OF THE GODS Posts Studio Video For Upcoming Album ‘Ages Unsung’; New Single ‘Into Oblivion’ Ft. Pascal Jobin of The Agonist

  • August 5, 2016
  • by Asher
  • · Chariots of The Gods · Music News

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CHARIOTS OF THE GODS Posts Studio Video For Upcoming Album ‘Ages Unsung’

New Single ‘Into Oblivion’ Ft. Pascal Jobin of The Agonist


Upcoming Show Dates:

Sept 17 – Gatineau, QC – Minotaure (CD Release Show) – info

Nov 14 – Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks w/ Sonata Arctica, Leaves’ Eyes, Omninum Gatherum – info

L-R: David Gravel (Drum) | Payam Doryani (Bass) | Mathieu St-Amour (Lead Guitar) | Christian Therien (Vocals) | Rock Déziel (Rhythm Guitar)

(Photo credit: Chris Bubinas)

After a small hiatus and line up change, Ottawa, ON’s CHARIOTS OF THE GODS return in 2016 full force with an upcoming album ‘Ages Unsung’ set for release on September 16th to follow their 2013 debut album ‘Tides of War’ that was produced by music legend Glen Robinson (Queensryche, Gwar, Annihilator). Creating a kickstarter / pre-order campaign (thank you video), COTG surpassed their goal of $3,000 and recorded the album at The Grid with legendary Montreal producer Chris Donaldson (Cryptopsy, The Agonist, Beyond Creation, Neuraxis). The band has posted a teaser video with studio and music clips for fans to check out at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKsPX8vZopA


chariots of the gods @ the grid studio

COTG are also streaming the first single ‘Into Oblivion’, which features a guitar solo from Pascal Jobin of The Agonist and can be heard at the following link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tjbhCkxPVY

1. Primordial Dawn (1:22)
2. Tusk (4:40)
3. Of Prometheus And The Sacred Flame (3:57)
4. War of The Gods (4:21)
5. As The Sky Falls (4:25)
6. Resurrection (3:46)
7. Through Darkness And Decay (5:50)
8. Into Oblivion (4:40)
9. New World (3:59)
10. Ages Unsung (4:45)
Album Length: 41:49

For more info, please visit www.chariotsofthegods.net.
About:

Blitzing out of Canada’s capital with their punishing hard-rock rooted in heavy metal, Chariots of the Gods has-been on one sole assignment since 2007: shredding endlessly in a neighborhood near you.

The five-piece band gave birth to their first EP “Reverence” in 2010. Their first full length album, “Tides of War”, was produced by music legend Glen Robinson (Queensryche, Gwar, Annihilator) in 2013.

In 2014, the band went on their first international tour in Cuba and were the first Canadian metal band to do so. Chariots of the Gods are now set to storm the world with the musical assault that is their latest masterpiece: “Ages Unsung”.

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0 NEWS: SIGNS OF CHAOS Posts New Lyric Video ‘Taking You Out’; New EP Out ‘ Watch It Burn’

  • August 4, 2016
  • by Asher
  • · Music News · Signs of Chaos

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For Fans of Dethklok, Pantera, Gojira, Machine Head, Testament, Arch Enemy, Nevermore

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SIGNS OF CHAOS Posts New Lyric Video ‘Taking You Out’; New EP Out ‘ Watch It Burn’

Offer Free Download ‘Break You’

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 have posted a new lyric video for their track ‘Take You Out’ 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. The EP was produced by SOC, mixed and mastered by bassist Tom “Big Dirty” Hansen and tracked by Topon Das of Fuck The Facts at Apartment 2 studios.
‘Take You Out’ can be viewed at the following link:

In additional news, the band is offering fans a FREE download of their track ‘Break You’ via their Bandcamp at the following link: http://signsofchaos.bandcamp.com/track/break-you

1. Taking You Out (3:28)
2. No Guilt (4:05)
3. All Kinds of Sick (4:37)
4. Monster (3:41)
5. Break You (5:08)
6. Watch It Burn (11:26)

EP Length: 32:28

For more info, please visit: http://www.signsofchaos.ca.

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0 NEWS: Canadian Psychedelic Rock A DEVIL’S DIN Announce UK Tour; New Album ‘Skylight’ Out Now!

  • August 2, 2016
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  • · A Devil's Din · Music News

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70’s prog: Yes, King Crimson, etc, QOTSA, Tool, My Bloody Valentine

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Canadian Psychedelic Rock A DEVIL’S DIN Announce UK Tour; New Album ‘Skylight’ Out Now!


L-R – Dominique Salameh – Drums, Vocals,  David Lines – Keys, Guitar, Vocals, Thomas Chollet (R) Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Photo Credit: Renaud Kasma
Music Video – ‘Skylight’- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9lX4H7hMc0

Canadian psychedelic rockers A DEVIL’S DIN will be touring the UK this September in support of their latest album ‘Skylight’ released this past June via Island Dive Records to follow their 2011 debut album ‘One Day All This Will Be Yours’. The tour will kick off in London on September 10th and end with a special family reunion as A Devil’s Din’s David Lines (originally from the UK) will share the stage with his brother’s band The Electric Zoltz on September 23rd in London.

Full Album Stream of ‘Skylight’ can be heard at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaLTUpQjGzQ


Sept 10 – TBA – London, UK
Sept 11 – The Fiddler Elbow – London, UK
Sept 12 – Nambucca – London, UK
Sept 13 – The Chambers – Folkestone, UK
Sept 14 – Pitcher & Piano – Brighton, UK
Sept 15 – Dog & Whistle – Hertford, UK
Sept 16 – Crowley’s Rock Bar – Swansea, UK
Sept 17 – Lounge 41 – Workington, UK
Sept 18 – Percy’s – Whitchurch, UK
Sept 19 – The Skerries – Bangor, UK
Sept 20 – Saturn Bar – Liverpool, UK
Sept 21 – Thirsty Scholar – Manchester, UK
Sept 22 – Mullberry Tavern – Sheffield, UK
Sept 23 – London, UK – The Birds Nest w/ support from The Electric Zoltz

A DEVIL’S DIN is made up of 3 musicians born in the Old World who traveled across the ocean to find each other in Montreal, QC where they were drawn together by a mutual love of melodic, innovative, inventive and daring rock / metal tinged music. Fusing the colourful sounds of Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd & the psychedelic-era Beatles with intensity of classic power bands like Sabbath, The Who, and Led Zeppelin, as well as the boundary-pushing adventure of Yes, Gentle Giant and King Crimson, A DEVIL’S DIN is an uncommon and uncompromising voice in modern music.

Vocalist / guitarist David Lines comments on their album ‘Skylight’:

“Essentially this album is really a tribute to the psychedelic experience. I drew on my own personal involvement with certain consciousness-expanding substances to create a set of songs that would take the listener on a journey, both lyrically and musically. Within these 9 songs there exists a certain contrast between the hallucinatory and the heavy. Obviously we also owe a lot of this album’s influence to another era, not just by sound and texture, but by the spirit of adventure, daring and experimentation that was prevalent then and bring all of that to the world today, right now.”

Bassist Tom G. Stout also adds “Even though we are inspired by LSD trips, we still like to hit hard, and enjoy getting a little aggressive. You have to balance out the light with the darkness, because otherwise you’re not being real.”

Album order available at www.ADevilsDin.com and Bandcamp.

1) Skylight (3:14) [Music Video]
2) Phaze Ulysses (3:29)
3) Never The Same Thing (5:20)
4) Bow To Thee, Absurde (3:43)
5) I Don’t Know (7:06)
6) Nature Of The Beast (4:23)
7) For A While (5:38)
8) Eye’s Pie (4:05)
9) Prequel (5:20)
Album Length: 42:16

About:

A Devil’s Din is made up of 3 musicians born in the Old World who traveled across the ocean to find each other in Montreal, drawn together by a mutual love of melodic, innovative, inventive and daring rock music. Fusing the colourful sounds of Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd & the psychedelic-era Beatles with intensity of classic power bands like Sabbath, The Who, and Led Zeppelin, as well as the boundary-pushing adventure of Yes, Gentle Giant and King Crimson, A Devil’s Din is an uncommon and uncompromising voice in modern music.

In 2008, UK-born stalwart Montreal-based multi-instrumentalist and session musician David Lines decided he needed to form a musical outfit that would suit his own particular psychedelically-induced musical visions, and thus A Devil’s Din was born. While still working as a musical “gun-for-hire” around town, he continued to develop the songs and sound for A Devil’s Din–which he considers an Art Project not to be tainted by commercial desires–recording their first album One Day All This Will Be Yours between 2009 and 2010, and releasing it on his own label Island Dive Records in 2011.

Though the musicians on that record were excellent, it wasn’t until Lyonnais bassist and disciple of the Holy Trinity of Rickenbacker Bass (John Entwistle, Chris Squire and Geddy Lee) Thomas Chollet entered the picture, along with drummer Dom Salameh (whose being born in Abu Dhabi did not at all prevent him from becoming an ardent Keith Moon devotee) that the sound really began to take shape. The synergy of the three took the music to another level, as witnessed at their intense and energetic live shows and has been made manifest on the new A Devil’s Din album SKYLIGHT that is set for release on June 17th, 2016.

A Devil’s Din continues to travel further afield in the world of psychedelic and progressive rock music, transforming listeners’ minds where ever they go.

Their first European tour will take place in September and their albums are available through various retailers on line and through their website www.ADevilsDin.com.

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0 NEWS: THE APEX Streams Title Track From Upcoming EP ‘Underbelly + Canadian Tour Dates

  • August 2, 2016
  • by Asher
  • · Music News · The Apex

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THE APEX Streams Title Track From Upcoming EP ‘Underbelly + Canadian Tour Dates

‘Fresh Out of The Foundry Tour’ (ON/QC/PE/NB/NS)

Supporting THE DILLENGER ESCAPE PLAN – Aug 4th – Toronto, ON

L-R: The Apex Album lineup: Brian Gemus (Guitar) | Tyson Taylor (Drums) | Darren Marchand (Vocals) | Jer Candusso (Bass) | Steve Landgraff (Guitar) (Photo Credit Shari Richards)

2015 – Self-Titled – Album Stream – Bandcamp

Music Video – If Detroit River Could Speak – Watch here.

      Windsor, ON’s THE APEX will be hitting the road this August for their two week ‘Fresh Out of The Foundry Tour’ with Regina’s The Man and His Machine across Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (dates listed below). The tour is in support of their upcoming EP ‘Underbelly’ that will feature 3 ear piercing blasts of extreme shrapnel for fans. The title track is now streaming at the following link: https://theapexband.bandcamp.com/track/underbelly.

The band comments:

“This track is about how things have changed in the music industry and how these changes can bring negative effects to the art itself.”

The ghetto tech metallers have also launched a Go Fund Me / Pre-Order Campaign for fans to support. A full list of perks ranging from limited edition shirts, tapes, CDs, vinyls plus an exclusive performance can be viewed at the following link here.

The Apex – Underbelly (EP)
1. Scabs and Sheep
2. Underbelly
3. Paid in Exposure
EP Credits:
Music and lyrics written by: Steve Landgraff and Tyson Taylor
Recorded at: Empire Recording Studios
Engineered by: Nick Kinnish at Serafina Productions

In additional news, prior to the tour, THE APEX will be supporting THE DILLENGER ESCAPE PLAN in Toronto on August 4th at the Hard Luck Bar. Full details can be found here.


‘Fresh Out of The Foundry Tour’:
Aug 17 – Windsor, ON – The Dominion House – info
Aug 18 – Toronto, ON – Coalition T.O. – info
Aug 19 – Montreal, QC – THR Bar – info
Aug 20 – Drummondville, QC – Pur Heriot – info
Aug 21 – Quebec City, QC – La Source de la Martinière – info
Aug 22 – Charlottetown, PE – Babas Lounge – info
Aug 23 – Moncton, NB – Plan B – info
Aug 25 – Sussex, NB – Uncle G’s – info
Aug 26 – Sydney, NS – Embers – info
Aug 27 – Sackville, NS – House Show – info
Aug 28 – Halifax, NS – Gus’ Pub – info
Aug 29 – Fredericton, NB – Charlotte Street Arts Center – info

BIO:

The Apex formed in August of 2013.

They are a collective of individuals from the Ontario metal community, whom over the years have come together from past bands such as, Closed Casket Funeral, Dismata, Blood Shot Eye, The Coalition Design, and Corprophemia to form The Apex.

In a true culmination of talent, dedication, and timing, this group has created a unique hometown sound that is now being called “Windsor Ghetto Tech”. The brutal sonic assault of their music coupled with the emotional reckless abandonment of their live performance, have drawn stanch comparisons to Meshuggah and classic Dillinger Escape Plan rounded out with a distinctly Canadian flair. To add influence, vocalist Darren M. suffers from Neurogenic Stammering, which effects his speech where the brain won’t tell the mouth what to say so he’s unable to carry on a normal conversation, but for some reason he’s able to scream all the lyrics live and that is how he gets to express himself vocally with the band.

In July, 2014 they entered Shark Tank Productions studio in Windsor, Ontario to begin recording their debut self-titled full length album, “The Apex”. They hired engineer Nick Kinnish of Serafina Productions (Johnny Truent, Architects, and more) to aid them in capturing their sound accurately. In November, 2014 they completed their recording and announced the independent release date of February 21st, 2015. In 2016, the band entered Empire Recording Studios to record their next release, the EP ‘Underbelly’ set to be unleashed in August.

TOUR EXPERIENCE
This band is no stranger to hitting the pavement to support the music they love to make. In their 15+ years of experience creating music in previous bands, they’ve been support on tour for bands like: Cephalic Carnage, All Shall Perish, Despised Icon, Cryptopsy, Today Is The Day, Killitorous, Erimha and Ion Dissonance to name a few. In previous bands they’ve also shared the stage on festivals with bands like: SOD, Venom, Obituary, Cradle Of Filth, Earth Crisis, God Forbid, Skinless, Beneath The Massacre and more to crowds up to 7500+ in North America.

As their current lineup “The Apex”, they have already invested in a mid-sized tour bus and have began to book many shows and festivals across Canada for 2016.

For more info, please visit http://www.facebook.com/wearetheapex.

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0 NEWS: Brazilian Power Metal HIBRIA Post New Video ‘Leading Lady’; Celebrate 20 Years With New Album ‘XX’ + North American Tour

  • August 1, 2016
  • by Asher
  • · Hibria · Music News

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Montreal, QC – August 1, 2016

Album Promo Request here.

Hibria.com | Facebook | Twitter @Hibria | Youtube
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Brazilian Power Metal HIBRIA Post New Video ‘Leading Lady’
Celebrate 20 Years With New Album ‘XX’ + North American Tour

HIBRIA are celebrating their 20th anniversary with a new album entitled ‘XX’ and a North American tour presented by PureGrainAudio.com and Test Your Metal Records that will kick off in Victoria, BC on August 9th and wrap up in New York City on August 28th (full details below).

The Brazilian power metallers have posted their new music video ‘Leading Lady’, which is one of three new tracks along with four live performances from their catalog on the 20th anniversary album. ‘XX’ is set for release on August 9th via Test Your Metal Records and available for pre-order on CD here and digital here.

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?”

‘Leading Lady’ can be viewed at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0D-UPhDu9Y

hibria - leading lady (4k)


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

08/09 Victoria, BC – Upstairs Cabaret
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
08/23 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: NO LIST RECORDS Releasing Split: The Great Sabatani / Godstopper; The Sludgelord Premiere GODSTOPPER’s ‘It’s Alright’

  • August 1, 2016
  • by Asher
  • · Music News · SPLIT: The Great Sabatini / Godstopper (No List Records)

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Montreal, QC – August 1, 2016

Split Promo Request here. 

No List Records | EPK – Split: Great Sabatini / Godstopper

The Sludgelord Premiere GODSTOPPER’s ‘It’s Alright’
NO LIST RECORDS Releasing Split: The Great Sabatani / Godstopper

1. The Great Sabatini – I’m Not The Man Of The Hour (2:09)
2. The Great Sabatini – Shortwave Radio (1:03)
3. The Great Sabatini – The Ear Collector (2:31)
4. The Great Sabatini – Dog Years (Quiet) (2:51)
5. Godstopper – It’s Alright (3:59)
6. Godstopper – A Prayer (4:47)
Split Length: 17:23

NO LIST RECORDS has teamed up The Sludgelord to premiere GODSTOPPER‘s new track ‘It’s Alright’ that will be unleashed on a split with Montreal sludge kingsTHE GREAT SABATINI. The split features a total of six tracks, four from THE GREAT SABATINI and two from GODSTOPPER. The split is slated for release on August 19th and will available digitally plus on cassette at the following link:  http://store.nolistrecords.com.

To listen to GODSTOPPER‘s ‘It’s Alright’, please visit the following link: http://thesludgelord.blogspot.ca/2016/08/the-sludgelord-song-premiere-toronto.html

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About: Great Sabatini
 
No List Records | Solar Flare Records
Thegreatsabatini.com | Facebook | Twittter @thegreatsabatini 
Youtube | Instagram @thegreatsabatini | Bandcamp | CD Baby
For fans of Melvins, Today Is The Day, Neurosis, Helmet, Whores, Torche, Unsane, Keelhaul
“…hails from further out in left-field with more peaks and valleys than the heads-down-tits-up sludgy rock they fire at you from the stage…these dudes have a 90s alt-rock edge grinding against their love affair with riffs that crash bolts of lightning into stacks of Orange amps in delivering a rumbling calling card of hellacious noise.” – Decibel
 
“In 2012, the unpredictability and wickedness of Matterhorn and the gritty violence of the companion release The Royal We established the group as one to watch closely; Dog Years confirms that attention was well worth it.” – Exclaim
“The Great Sabatini are not just playing by-the-numbers sludge, but rather mixing things up, and transposing their punk attitude into new forms of musical expression beyond what you might be expecting.” – The Sleeping Shaman
TGS 2015 BETTER
L-R – Joey (bass. vocals), Steve (Drums, vocals), Sean (guitar, vocals), Rob (guitar, vocals) Photo Credit: Marc Bourgon
Since forming in Montreal in late 2007, The Great Sabatini have released four eps, three full length albums, and logged seemingly endless tour dates around North America and Europe. Their music is an aggressive mixture of noise rock, doom, hardcore, and metal wrapped up in a burly sludge aesthetic. They’ll fearlessly employ any musical device if it suits their needs, from standard pop song structures and hooks to utterly tuneless experimentation or any degree between the two. All four band members handle vocal duties. They play loud, and with conviction.

Their latest full length album “Dog Years” (2014) was the result of years of accumulated experience writing, performing and recording together. It was recorded in Hamilton by Sean Pearson (Cursed, Shallow North Dakota) and self-released by the band in Canada on digital and vinyl and released by Solar Flare Records on vinyl for Europe and USA.

Show Dates:
Aug 19 – Montreal, QC – Casa Del Popolo

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About: Godstopper

Bandcamp | Facebook

For fans of Melvins, Failure, YOB, Torche, Big Business

“There’s a lot of compositional bells and whistles on deck here, from a chugging chorus riff that feels like it’s perpetually interrupting itself to a left-turn Thin Lizzy guitar lick that King Buzzo would surely appreciate. But the part that’ll really suck you in is the sublime vocal harmonies that frontman Mike Simpson layers over the song like fishnet over a boulder.” – Stereogum

“Like the best records by Today Is the Day, Swans and Harvey Milk, all of which I hear in Godstopper’s jarring songwriting…We talk a lot about making extreme music as cathartic for the music maker, but what the listener? I feel no more relieved for having heard Empty Crawlspace. In fact it’s psychically draining. And totally addictive, too. I’m not going to be able to sleep for a week.” – Metalsucks

“Somewhere between the Thunder-Pop of sparkly heavy-hitters Torche, the aggressive sludge of fellow Floridians Cavity and the awkward stop-start dream-logic quasi-operatic noise rock of Pony Express Record-era Shudder To Think lie Toronto’s Godstopper…What Matters is a tough record to describe, in some ways, as any comparisons I care to make are merely rough approximations used in an attempt to point you, the potential listener, in a certain direction, as far as preparing you for what to expect. However, the truth of it is that Godstopper sound exactly like Godstopper, and, really, how many bands these days can truly lay claim to such a thing?” – Sleeping Shaman

Godstopper Promo 1

L-R – Mike Simpson- Guitar/ Vocals, Miranda Armstrong – Bass,  Derek Del Vecchio – Guitar, Adam McGillivray- Drums

Godstopper was formed in 2010. Mike Simpson wrote, performed and recorded a demo, later released on cassette, called “Empty Crawlspace”. The band then became a performing unit in 2011, and has since toured the US and Canada, performing with acts such as Ehnahre, Tombs, and OXBOW.

Discography:
2015 – Lie Down
2014 – Children Are Our Future
2013 – split w/Tendril
2012 – What Matters
2011 – Empty Crawlspace (demo)
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0 REMINDER THIS WEEK! ‘Okkultis In Canada Tour’ Presented By PureGrainAudio.com NECRONOMICON, VESPERIA, ABIOTIC

  • August 1, 2016
  • by Asher
  • · Music News · Necronomicon · Vesperia

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Montreal, QC – August 2016


‘Okkultis In Canada Tour’ Presented By PureGrainAudio.com NECRONOMICON, VESPERIA, ABIOTIC



‘Okkultis In Canada Tour’ presented by PureGrainAudio.com:
8/4 – Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks
8/5 – St. Catharines, 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 (postponed)
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

Photo Credit – Myriam Francoeur

For fans of Behemoth, Cradle of Filth, Abbath, Immortal, Dimmu Borgir

Season of Mist | EPK | Facebook | Twittter @NecronomicoN_ca | Youtube

Music Video – Crown of Thorns – Watch here.

Album Stream – Advent of The Human God – Listen here.

About:
NECRNOMICON have a well-earned reputation for quality by releasing material only when ready and satisfied with the outcome ever since their demo entitled “Morbid Ritual” (1992) firmly established their name within the underground. “The Silver Key” EP (1996) led to mainstream recognition on a national level, but their debut album “Pharaoh Of Gods” (1999) and the sophomore “The Sacred Medicines” (2003) did even more to establish the band as a household name in Canada. “Return Of The Witch” (2010) marked the international break-through for NECRONOMICON, and saw them performing at prestigious festivals such as Inferno (Norway), Ragnarok (Germany), and the Barge To Hell metal cruise among others, while sharing stages with acts such as CRADLE OF FILTH, DIMMU BORGIR, BEHEMOTH, and MORBID ANGEL, to name but a few. Their steady advance around the globe grew considerably in impact by their next full-length “Rise Of The Elder Ones” (2013). Now NECRONOMICONare more than ready for the next step with ‘Advent Of The Human God’, their latest brutal assaulting soundtrack now available via Season of Mist for Europe as of March 18th and North America as of March 25th.

The Canadian veterans keep their tracks on ‘Advent Of The Human God’ as gloriously epic as furiously massive and harsh. Songs like “The Golden Gods”, “Unification Of The Four Pillars”, “Crown Of Thorns” and “I Bringer Of Light” tell of experienced songwriting and an eclectic wide range of influences that flow into the sound ofNECRONOMICON. Nodding to DIMMU BORGIR and BEHEMOTH to DEICIDE and SUFFOCATION, these extreme metal addicts carve their own sound out of the much cherished ingredients of brutal dark music.


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

For fans of Septicflesh, Wintersun, Arcturus, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Finntroll

VesperiaMetal.com | Bandcamp | iTunes

Live at Wacken Open Air 2015 – Watch here.
EP Stream – The Iron Tempests – Listen here.
Music Video – The Western Tempests – Watch here.

EP Download here.

 

About:
The cloudy beginnings of VESPERIA lay etched in the gorged bodies of former musical projects among the now four-member band. Twisting, writhing and forcing their aural onslaught upon metal audiences across the globe have sincerely ensured the band’s continuity through all the harsh and arduous battles modern metal bands are bound to encounter in their tenures.
Established in 2012 by vocalist/ bassist Morgan Rider, the sound, direction and theme of the music quickly and naturally evolved into the style of fierce and heroic metal the band is now known and praised for.
Shortly after releasing their first full-length album Voyage from Vinland, VESPERIA redefined themselves and further focused their direction with the 2012 demo, The Swordsman. In 2013, the band independently funded and released their 2nd full-length album An Olden Tale, drawing the ears and attention of metal fans around the world and demonstrating their true mastery of their craft. During that same year, the band also independently funded and completed several Canadian tours to support the album.
Early 2015 saw the band enter the studio once again to record some demo material, which would become The Iron Tempests EP. During this time, the band toured Canada from coast to coast and also made an appearance at Wacken Open Air in Germany, where they won the title of 2015 International Wacken Battle Champions, a second time win for the band’s frontman, Morgan.
With their most fierce music written to date and a bounty of opportunity awaiting, VESPERIA continue to hungrily eye 2015 as the year they will make their mark upon the Earth.
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