MONO and THE OCEAN. Two bands from very different cultural origins, Japan and Germany, yet spiritually akin and connected by many similarities: a cinematic approach to music, based on lengthy, escalating compositions, the fact that both bands have existed for more than 15 years and released multiple albums since their inception; that they have toured many times around the globe, visiting off-the-beaten-track territories like Siberia, New Zealand, South East Asia and South America; and finally their shared passion for double albums, such as THE OCEAN’s “Heliocentric” / “Anthropocentric“, and MONO’s “The Last Dawn” / “Rays Of Darkness“.
Behemoth has launched a brand new video for the title track from “The Satanist” on behemoth.pl. The video, directed by Andrzej Dragan (andrzejdragan.com), is another ambitious and visually striking piece of art from the band that’s known for videos that remain a cut above standard metal music videos.
In less than two weeks, after a year-and-a-half hiatus, Portland, Maine’s blackened rock’n’roll outfit, ZUD, will return to the stage, headlining day two of the first Shadow Woods Metal Festival on September 26th – the new mid-Atlantic, open-air, camping-based metal fest — in White Hall Maryland, just north of Baltimore. With the likes of Midnight, Occultation, Wormreich, Dreadlords and Sangharsha, and over two-dozen others at the two-day event, Shadow Woods can be expected to be a game changer in festivals held on the East Coast.
Italian progressive occult metal visionaries, VOID OF SLEEP, will release their sophomore full-length next month via Aural Music. Titled New World Order, the seven track concept album and follow-up to 2013’s acclaimed Tales Between Reality And Madness long player was captured by bassist Riccardo Pasini (Ephel Duath, The Secret) at Studio73 in Ravenna, Italy and mastered by Collin Jordan (Eyehategod, Indian, Wovenhand, Voivod et al.) at The Boiler Room in Chicago, Illinois.
Following their recent North American expedition supporting Superjoint and King Parrot on the successful It Takes Guts tour 2015, and the following Eastbound N’ Down tour with Down, Detroit’s favorite punk/metal/noise rock eccentrics, CHILD BITE, take to the streets again for a twenty-three date tour supporting KEN mode.
Puscifer, who embark on a lengthy North American tour on Nov. 1, premiere the title track from their forthcoming album, Money Shot (Oct. 30, Puscifer Entertainment): http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tools-maynard-james-keenan-on-climate-change-ac-dc-puscifers-new-lp-20150914. “With Puscifer, we realize that the digital age is just endless possibilities, and nothing is written in stone,” Maynard James Keenan says of the band’s Fall tour in the accompanying interview. “So whatever stage show we start off with on this tour, it might change and go in a complete opposite way.” The live line-up for the Money Shot tour includes Keenan, Mat Mitchell, Carina Round, Jeff Friedl, Mahsa Zargaran...
New York City natives Mother Feather have joined the Metal Blade Records roster! The self-described ‘pop cock rock’ band has been building a loyal following in the late night New York rock scene since their inception in 2009. This fall, fans will be able to see them live during “Pop Cock Rocktober,” the first four Fridays in October at midnight at Rockwood Music Hall, including October 16th as part of the CMJ Music Marathon. For the uninitiated, a Mother Feather recording can be heard now on teamcoco.com, and a music video can be seen now at ifc.com.
As the album nears release via Laser’s Edge this October, the entire track listing and guest musician track-by-track breakdown for MELTED SPACE’s The Great Lie has been released. The debut album from the metal opera project created by French composer Pierre le Pape features a wide cast of internationally-revered vocalists and musicians including members of Morbid Angel, Mayhem, Sunn O))), Dark Tranquillity, Orphaned Land, Shining, Ayreon, Sirenia and many more, in addition to the work of The City of Prague Philarmonic Orchestra.
