PRIMORDIAL wins all four magazine soundchecks in Germany

"Where Greater Men Have Fallen" to be released in less than two weeks!

Ireland's PRIMORDIAL have made quite an impact at German press with their latest offering "Where Greater Men Have Fallen"! The album has won the soundchecks in all four major metal magazines: METAL HAMMER, ROCK HARD, DEAF FOREVER and LEGACY! This is the first time this has ever happened, so congrats to PRIMORDIAL!

Comments singer A.A. Nemtheanga: "When you make an album, you try and step outside of the rehearsal and studio world and see if you still have the hunger and the energy. You take nothing for granted and we certainly don't so we are humbled by the critical reaction so far. Four #1s was not what we expected but we accept it graciously and hope the fans feel the same. See you on the field of battle. Vae victis!"

Here's some quotes from the aforementioned magazines:

"When the the guitarists of these Irishmen play their profoundly melancholic, yet gladly non-clichéd Celtic riffs while singer Alan Averill's voice is dripping with pathos, it's goosebumps galore. And since WHERE GREATER MEN HAVE FALLEN is once more an album that works out well, the result cannot be less than six points!" (Robert Müller, Metal Hammer magazine Germany)

"Sublime and tasteful: PRIMORDIAL celebrate on 'Where Greater Men Have Fallen' dark, sinister hymns to die for!" (Boris Kaiser, Rock Hard magazine Germany)

"brutally heavy, yet dramatic and sophisticated - the album of the year!" (Götz Kühnemund, Deaf Forever magazine Germany)

"an album hard to beat in authenticity, emotionality, in heaviness and atmosphere!" (Diana Glöckner, Legacy magazine Germany)

Listen to the new song "Come The Flood" at metal-hammer.de!

Visit metalblade.com/primordial to check out the lyric video for the title track "Where Greater Men Have Fallen" and to pre-order your copy of the album. The album will be available as a limited CD+DVD Digibook (Europe exclusive) as well as jewelcase CD and on different vinyl formats/colors. There will be a limited deluxe edition wooden boxset including the CD+DVD Digibook, an exclusive 7", a leather wristband, a poster and a certificate of authenticity. This boxset will only be on sale via our European ebay store HERE, as well as at the four PRIMORDIAL release shows in Hamburg, Essen (sold out), Berlin and Dublin!

An eight track, fifty-eight minute magnum opus, "Where Greater Men Have Fallen" was recorded at Grouse Lodge in Dublin with Jaime Gomez (Cathedral, Angelwitch, Grave Miasma) and delivers some of the band's deepest, most methodically arranged, thematically profound and plainly gripping compositions of their winding catalog of sonic enormity.

PRIMORDIAL

+ PORTRAIT

+ BÖLZER

20/11/14 DE - Hamburg - Knust

21/11/14 DE - Essen - Turock (sold out!)

22/11/14 DE - Berlin - Brutz & Brakel Stromgitarrenfest

Redemption Festival

PRIMORDIAL

+ NECROS CHRISTOS

+ DEAD CONGREGATION

+ MALTHUSIAN

28/11/14 IE - Dublin - The Academy

other PRIMORDIAL shows:

12/12/14 NL - Eindhoven - Metal Meeting

24/01/15 BE - Brussels - Magasin4

19/02/15 NO - Bergen - Blastfest 2015

21/02/15 RU - Moscow - Volta Club

05/04/15 DE - München - Dark Easter Metal Meeting

13-14/06/15 RO - Bucharest - Metalhead Meeting 2015

17/07/15 DE - Balingen - Bang Your Head!!!

"Where Greater Men Have Fallen" track listing:

1. Where Greater Men Have Fallen

2. Babel's Tower

3. Come The Flood

4. The Seed Of Tyrants

5. Ghosts Of The Charnel House

6. The Alchemist's Head

7. Born To Night

8. Wield Lightning To Split The Sun

PRIMORDIAL is:

A.A. Nemtheanga - Vocals

Ciaran MacUiliam - Guitar

Michael O'Floinn - Guitar

Paul MacAmlaigh - Bass

Simon O'Laoghaire - Drums

http://www.primordialweb.com

https://www.facebook.com/primordialofficial 

CANNIBAL CORPSE and BEHEMOTH confirm co-headline winter tour 2015

Two of the most prominent bands in the history of death metal are teaming up to take North America in 2015! Cannibal Corpse and Behemoth will join forces beginning on January 28th in New Orleans, LA at the House of Blues. Both bands are touring in support of their most recent and massively successful albums. Cannibal Corpse released their thirteenth album, "A Skeletal Domain," on September 16th and debuted at #32 on the Billboard Top 200. Behemoth's critically-applauded tenth album, "The Satanist," entered the Billboard Top 200 at #34 after its release on February 4th of this year.

Combining both bands' headlining sets into one touring package promises to make this the must see metal tour of 2015. To open the show, two of Sweden's finest metal acts have been enlisted: Aeon and Tribulation. Premium packages for the tour will be available at ticketspin.com/behemoth-cannibalcorpse. The premium packages include: a meet and greet with Cannibal Corpse and Behemoth, an exclusive t-shirt, early entry into the show, an exclusive screen printed poster, and a VIP Laminate.

BEHEMOTH and CANNIBAL CORPSE

Winter Tour 2015

w/ Aeon, Tribulation

01/28 New Orleans, LA House of Blues

01/29 Houston, TX House of Blues

01/30 Austin, TX Mohawk

01/31 Dallas, TX House of Blues

02/02 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theater

02/03 Denver, CO The Summit Music Hall

02/05 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex

02/06 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues

02/07 Santa Ana, CA The Observatory

02/08 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore

02/10 Seattle, WA El Corazon

02/11 Vancouver, BC Comodore Ballroom

02/13 Edmonton, AB Union Hall

02/14 Calgary, AB MacEwan Hall

02/16 Winnipeg, MB The Garrick

02/17 Minneapolis, MN Mill City Nights

02/18 Madison, WI Orpheum Theatre

02/20 Chicago, IL House of Blues

02/21 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room

02/22 Cleveland, OH House of Blues

02/23 Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall

02/24 Toronto, ON The Phoenix

02/25 Montreal, QC Metropolis

02/27 Boston, MA House of Blues

02/28 New York, NY Webster Hall

03/01 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of the Living Arts

03/02 Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore

03/03 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore

03/05 Atlanta, GA Masquerade

03/06 Tampa, FL Janus Landing

03/07 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution

Sweden's Aeon released "Aeons Black" in 2012 via Metal Blade Records and toured as part of the Summer Slaughter Tour in 2013. This will be the band's first time returning to North America since. Guitarist Zeb Nilsson comments: "We're back again! And this time with the most brutal line up possible. With Cannibal Corpse, Behemoth, Aeon and Tribulation there is no reason to hesitate if you like death metal. This will probably be the number one death metal show for a long time."

Tribulation, who also hails from Sweden, released the critically acclaimed and lengthy 75-minute "The Formulas of Death," in 2013 on Invictus Productions.

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https://www.facebook.com/aeon666

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tribulation-Official/169889709720460 

LORDS OF THE TRIDENT release cover / track list for upcoming "Frostburn" cd.

Lords of the Trident are proud to unveil the cover artwork and track listing of their new upcoming album "Frostburn" which is scheduled to be released throughout Europe via German record label "Killer Metal Records" and the rest of the world via "Junko Johnson Records".

Lords of the Trident vocalist Fang VonWrathenstein has released the following statement about the new album:

"We, your lords, are incredibly excited to announce the release of the best and most metal album ever to be recorded - our next full-length masterpiece "Frostburn".

We have once again teamed up with Plan of Attack's studio master Doug Olson - producer and engineer for bands like Nirvana, Cheap Trick and Smashing Pumpkins - to produce, mold, and craft an album so very metal, the UN has already preemptively classified it as a weapon of mass destruction!

Only the strongest barbarian warriors will survive listening to this entire album.

Are you up for the challenge?"

Lords of the Trident - "Frostburn" track list:

Knights of Dragon's Deep 

The Longest Journey 

Winds of the Storm 

Manly Witness 

Haze of the Battlefield 

Kill to Die 

Den of the Wolf 

Light this City 

The Cloud Kingdom 

Shattered Skies

For the latest band news and show dates, visit their official Facebook page:

Official Lords of the Trident Facebook page:

Killer Metal Records website

War on Music Records to Release A Tapestry of Scabs and Skin Vinyl LP from Vancouver's ASTRAKHAN on December 12

War on Music Records will release A Tapestry of Scabs and Skin from Vancouver sludge/doom dynamos ASTRAKHAN on 45-rpm vinyl 12" LP format on December 12. The album includes two songs from the band's digitally released EP The Pillarist and two brand new tracks recorded at Rain City Studios with Jesse Gander (BISON, ANCIIENTS, 3 INCHES OF BLOOD, JAPANDROIDS). The lavishly colored cover was created by Nick Patterson with inner sleeve design by Dena Lazarenko.

Stream album tracks "The Pillarist" and "Rest in Depths" at this location

Cupid's Fist

Blinded by the Diamond Planet

 Rest in Depths

 The Pillarist

"Western Canada is in the midst of quite a metal boom as of late, especially Vancouver, and Astrakhan is the latest to attract attention. Cut from the same cloth as Kylesa, [they] serve up a confident combination of sludge, prog, and garage rock" - Adrien Begrand (Decibel)

 

 "For a band that has only been together a couple years, the chemistry is incredible. They're already crafting their art in such grand fashion that before long they'll be forcing the bands now considered influences to up their game." - Matt Hinch (Hellbound.ca)

www.waronmusic.com

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https://astrakhanofficial.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/astrakhanofficial

Just Posted - Bill Hale Gives Us The Scoop on His New Thrash Book on This Weeks Focus on Metal

Episode 207 - Global Metal Hale

Besides a bit of discussion our good friend, photographer Bill Hale returns once again to Focus on Metal. This time Bill is here to tell us all about his new book project "Thrash Metal: The Global Metal Movement!". Unlike his first two books this one is going to be self published and he needs the global metal community to lend a hand. Bill is currently running a campaign on IndieGoGo to raise the needed capital to make this book a reality. 

Check out the campaign at: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/thrash-metal-the-global-metal-movement

Track of the week "Megalomaniac" is from Massacre Records artist Helldorados from their second release "Lessons in Decay" which is out this week. Get more info at: http://helldorados.com/

Visit http://focusonmetal.net/ for information on all the past episodes and to find the links to all our other social media sites.

Grab it now from the Focus on Metal Site, The Focus on Metal RSS feed, or on iTunes

And as always Focus On Metal…Everything Else is Insignificant.

RON KEEL, DAMIEN THORNE, FALLEN ANGEL, ARCHETYPE and others featured on new free download compilation.

ONLINE METAL PROMO and KILLER METAL RECORDS (Germany) are proud to jointly release "I Kill for Metal", a free download compilation featuring a mix of 40 current, advanced and unreleased original songs from established and up and coming OMP and KMR artist roster bands from the United States, UK, Portugal, Australia, Germany, Canada, Sweden and Poland.

International bands featured on the compilation include:

1. Annihilated

2. Archetype

3. Armory

4. Chris Violence

5. Colossus

6. Crimson Reign

7. Cyanide Scream

8. Damien Thorne

9. Dark Mirror

10. Diamond Lane

11. Dire Peril

12. Dragon’s Kiss

13. Dragonsclaw

14. Edge of Thorns

15. Enceladus

16. Fallen Angel

17. Hellscream

18. Hessler

19. Lords of the Trident

20. Maxxxwell Carlisle

21. Metalhead

22. Predatory Violence

23. Ravensthorn

24. Rezinwolf

25. Ritual Steel

26. Ron Keel

27. Seventrain

28. Shallow Ground

29. Skinner

30. Stu “The Hammer” Marshall

31. Taipan

32. Testor

33. The Loving Tongue

34. The Order of Chaos

35. Unity

36. Vanlade

37. Veritate

38. Virus

39. Witchcross

40. Zephaniah

Download the free songs, compilation artwork and track listing at the following location:

OMP / KMR free promotional compilation download link

KIller Metal Records Facebook Page

Job for a Cowboy debut "The Celestial Antidote" on Metal Injection!

Job for a Cowboy have loosed a third cut from their upcoming "Sun Eater" album. "The Celestial Antidote" is #6 in the sequence of nine songs that, front to back, comprise one of the finest technical death metal albums in recent memory. "The Celestial Antidote" is streaming exclusively now on MetalInjection.net HERE.

Guitarist Al Glassman discusses the song's significance: "Bobby Thompson, who left us as a full time member in 2010, continues to remain a part of Job for a Cowboy always, and once again contributed an incredible track to the new record. For those who have heard "Tarnished Gluttony" (his contribution to the last record), you will not be disappointed with his latest song. It's moody and heavy as hell, and features some of my favorite guitar work on the record on Tony's end. After years of writing with Bobby, I can honestly say that this is his best work yet with JFAC and I hope you guys dig it too!"

Producer Jason Suecof, vocalist Jonny Davy, guitarists Al Glassman and Tony Sannicandro, bassist Nick Schendzielos, and session drummer Danny Walker have crafted a cerebral and accomplished piece of technical death metal. Job for a Cowboy wrapped up touring in 2013 as part of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival that summer. Following that performance, the band collectively decided to sharpen their focus and set an intent on cooking up a record that encompassed their full dynamic range of talent. The group had all agreed on the main course being a desire for futuristic tones, a wider spectrum of textures and tempos, and an emphasis on slightly more ancestral song construction. The result, "Sun Eater," does not just sound like a new record, it sounds like an entirely new band.

Listen to "Sun of Nihility" and pre-order the album now at metalblade.com/jobforacowboy.

"Sun Eater" track listing:

1. Eating the Visions of God

2. Sun of Nihility

3. The Stone Cross

4. The Synthetic Sea

5. A Global Shift

6. The Celestial Antidote

7. Encircled by Mirrors

8. Buried Monuments

9. Worming Nightfall

Audiohammer producer Jason Suecof, whose first bout with the band was 2009's "Ruination," has now worked with the band for over six years. Few are more familiar with how Job for a Cowboy operates in the studio than Suecof, and he was also feeling the "vibe" on "Sun Eater": "This band is composed entirely of top notch musicians all the way around and they are clearly at the top of their game. This new album is a stellar combination of everyone's efforts and what we have now is something that conveys everyone's musicianship without being techy for the sake of being tech. This album has got feeling and it is fucking brutal!"

Sun Eater will be available via Metal Blade Records on November 11th in North America and November 7th/10th in Europe/UK.

Follow Job for a Cowboy online:

http://www.facebook.com/jobforacowboy

https://twitter.com/jfacmetal 

ANTI CLONE To Tour Europe With SKINDRED, New EP Released

UK metallers ANTI CLONE will embark on a European support tour in November with headliner SKINDRED. Pulling from a plethora of areas from Marilyn Manson and Slipknot, to Mudvayne and Tool, ANTI CLONE lay down a captivating blend of hard-hitting cutting metal laced with a biting industrial edge. The stage is now set for ANTI CLONE to truly soar. A video teaser for the tour can be viewed here: http://youtu.be/1P66XdGfzOg

The dates are as follows:

Nov 04 – Covent Garden Studios, Éragny, France
Nov 05 – Grillen, Colmar, France
Nov 07 – Sala Caracol, Madrid, Spain
Nov 08 – El Tren, Granada, Spain
Nov 09 – Razzmatazz 2, Barcelona, Spain
Nov 11 – Schüür, Lucerne, Switzerland
Nov 12 – Rock n Roll Arena, Romagnano Sesia, Italy
Nov 13 – Tvornica Kulture, Zagreb, Croatia
Nov 14 – Akvárium Klub, Budapest, Hungary
Nov 15 – Studio, Krakow, Poland
Nov 16 – Progresja, Warsaw, Poland
Nov 18 – Rosenhof, Osnabruck, Germany
Nov 19 – La BAM Metz, France

The Brit noise chiefs have just released their new EP ‘Hands Sewn Together‘, which already racked up critical support from Metal Hammer, Powerplay Magazine and Big Cheese Magazine. Two video teaser’s for the upcoming video “Take This Pill” can be viewed here: http://youtu.be/NcfZWI-u6a4 & http://youtu.be/r_t44mjKFJU

Tracklisting:

1. Take This Pill

2. Here Comes The Flood

3. 1984

4. System (featuring John Knight)

5. The Usurper

www.facebook.com/AnticloneHQ
www.anticlonehq.com

MAXXXWELL CARLISLE now available for worldwide online guitar lessons

After years of demands from fans and aspiring guitarists, Maxxxwell Carlisle has finally entered the realm of teaching with the announcement that, starting in November 2014, he will begin giving guitar lessons worldwide, via Skype.

Accompanying this announcement, Maxxxwell has released a promotional video describing his style and goals as a teacher with the included message that he, "is not responsible for injuries or legal problems which may result from his advanced teaching techniques".

Maxxxwell Carlisle Lesson Preview

In addition, Maxxxwell has a new solo compilation cd expected to be released worldwide in early 2015, as well as other yet to be unveiled musical projects in the works.

Currently Maxxxwell is on the Hellion North American Tour.

For the latest Maxxxwell Carlisle news, visit his official Facebook page:

Official Maxxxwell Carlisle Facebook page

DONNIE VIE (Enuff Z'nuff) To Release New Studio Album

Former Enuff Z’nuff singer/songwriter DONNIE VIE will release his brand new solo album “The White Album“, on 1st December 2014 via Cargo Records. The doulbe CD album contains 17 all new classic Vie cuts as well as versions of the Chicago classic ‘25 or 6 to 4‘ and John Lennon‘s ‘Imagine‘.

‘The White Album‘ features some of Donnie‘s finest songs to date including the stunning ‘My Love‘, ‘Haunted‘ and the exceptional ‘Unforsaken‘. This release is absolutely essential for all Enuff Z’nuff and Power Pop fan’s, this may be Vie‘s last release for some time… who knows?

Track Listing:

Disc 1

01. I Wanna Do It to You
02. Handy Dandy
03. For Your Pleasure
04. Happy Days
05. Crash and Burn
06. Light Shine On
07. Better Love Next Time
08. My Love
09. When Will You Love Me Again
10. Haunted
11. Unforsaken

Disc 2

01. 25 or 6 to 4 (Live)
02. You’re My Favourite Thing To Do
03. Almost Home
04. Imagine
05. Angel Eyes (Outtake)
06. Without You (Outtake)
07. Big Brother
08. Freaky Deaky

All songs (except ‘Imagine‘ and ‘25 or 6 to 4‘) written, produced, performed, engineered and even a bit of mixing by DONNIE VIE. The album was mixed by Lewis K John and mastered by Andy Pierce.

DONNIE VIE is best known as the main song writer and voice of ’90s pop sensations Enuff Z’nuff and one of the most gifted yet underrated songwriters of our generation.

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