Los Angeles based Progressive Rock stalwarts AEGES have released a new music video for the title track off their new album, Weightless, which was released in July of this year on Another Century. The unconventional, stop motion video was produced by Eric Power and has premiered with VEVO. Speaking about their new video for “Weightless”, AEGES frontman Kemble Walters comments:
I wrote in my Ophidian Spell review that I love watching a band rise from humble beginnings. To restate what I’ve said, I’ve been lucky to watch Nails, Ghost, and a few others start from a single Facebook page and demo early demos to the juggernauts they are in the wider spectrum of heavy music. Omnium Gatherum, one of Finland’s quintessential melo death bands, are no newcomers to the genre, but with the release of Grey Heavens, it seems they’re finally getting an ever-increasing amount of attention.
Metallica’s 10th studio album, Hardwired…To Self Destruct, debuted at No. 1 around the world today selling over 800,000 albums worldwide. In addition to the United States, Hardwired…To Self Destruct is No. 1 on the album charts in: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, and Sweden with many of these markets having their best sales week of 2016. A complete list of the 20+ countries where the album debuted at No. 1 will be available midweek when the respective charts are published. In the United States, Hardwired…To Self Destruct debuted atop the Billboard Top 200 chart with over 291,266 equivalent...
In His Infernal Majesty’s Service, the 6th studio album from Swedish blackened metal sect WITCHERY is out now all across the world via Century Media Records. Some examples of the great media reactions to In His Infernal Majesty’s Service include: “Album of the Month” & 9/10 points review / Close-Up (Sweden) Soundcheck position # 2 & 8/10 points review / Rock Hard (Germany) Soundcheck position # 3 & 5/7 points review / Metal Hammer (Germany) Soundcheck position # 7 & 11/15 points review / Legacy (Germany) Soundcheck position # 2 & 9/10 points review / Powermetal.de (Germany) Soundcheck position #4 & 83/100 points review / Aardschok (The Netherlands) “Swedish...
Modern rock newcomers FROM ASHES TO NEW release the deluxe edition of their critically acclaimed debut album, DAY ONE, out NOW via Better Noise Records. The album is available for purchase digitally and streaming worldwide. Debuting at #23 on Billboard’s Top Current Albums Chart and landing as the #2 Hard Rock Album, Day One is reintroduced with four additional tracks. The deluxe edition includes “The Last Time” feat. Deuce, an acoustic version of the hard-hitting “Lost And Alone,” plus two new tracks: “Who’s Laughing Now,” and “An Ocean of Its Own.” “The Last Time”—which inspires taking a stand and rising above negative influences—marks Deuce’s first release since his 2012 album Nine...
IRATION has officially announced the details for their new acoustic album, DOUBLE UP. The 10-track album–set for digital release December 2 via their own Three Prong Records–marks the reggae-influenced alternative rock band’s first all-acoustic album as they prepare to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their first album in 2017. In anticipation of its release, IRATION has teamed up with Pandora for an exclusive album premiere, running from November 23 through December 1. Starting tomorrow, go to www.pandora.com/premieres to listen to DOUBLE UP. “We’re really pumped to announce the release of Double Up, our new acoustic release. We took songs from our whole catalog of music and stripped...
Legendary heavy metal band Slayer has teamed up with Metalocalypse writer Jon Schnepp and Twilight Zone artist Guiu Vilanova for a three-issue Dark Horse Comics series, Slayer: Repentless, with covers by Eisner Award–winning British comics artist Glenn Fabry. The first issue, with a variant cover by Eric Powell (The Goon), is scheduled for release on January 25, 2017.
ROOT is one of the original pre-second-wave black metal bands formed in 1987 by iconic vocalist Jiri ‘Big Boss’ Valter. In contrast to Bathory and Venom, ROOT took the black metal genre in a more refined direction, featuring Big Boss’ chartacteristic clean vocals, dark sound and an epic approach altogether. Nowadays, ROOT is often recognized as an epic heavy/black metal act, or as the band simply puts it – a dark metal band.
Finnish Metal Superstars CHILDREN OF BODOM will embark on a 21-date North American tour with special guests iconic black metal artist ABBATH, California-based metal act EXMORTUS, and Canada’s progressive metallers ONI. The trek presented by The Noise will commence in Quebec on November 23 and will hit 3 Canadian cities as well as Chicago, San Francisco, New York, and conclude in Brooklyn on December 19th.
Rock luminaries SIXX:A.M. release their 5th studio album Vol. 2 Prayers for the Blessed TODAY via Eleven Seven Music. Written and recorded at the same time as Vol. 1 Prayers For The Damned, which was released earlier this year, Volume 2 is an evolution from the first chapter that continues to push the band’s sound forward. The album is now available for purchase and streaming via Apple, Spotify, Amazon and Google.
