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Friday, 3 August 2007

The destiny program - Video shooting (Nuclear Blast August 2007)

This weekend (August 3rd – 5th), the guys of THE DESTINY PROGRAM are going to make a video of the song "Project Hoax". This song is a part of the upcoming album "Subversive Blueprint", which will be released September 21st. The shooting will take place in Berlin together with True Jokx Videoproduction (www.truejokx.de). Watch out for the following "Subversive Blueprint" release parties. See all details below!

Tour with Katatonia (Nuclear Blast August 2007)

SCAR SYMMETRY will team up with INSOMNIUM and SWALLOW THE SUN as support acts for KATATONIA for a North American tour this fall. Kicking of September 4, the trek will make 21 stops around the country before concluding on September 26 in Houston. Check the confirmed September dates below!

Mac has left the band (Nuclear Blast August 2007)

THRESHOLD’s singer Andrew "Mac" McDermott has decided to leave the band for good.
"Mac's still not been in touch directly but he wrote a statement on the band forum confirming that he's left", states keyboarder Richard West. Former singer Damian Wilson, who already stood in at the band’s shows at Metal Camp and Earthshaker festival, will continue helping out THRESHOLD vocal-wise. "Damian's agreed to do the next shows and hopefully we can work out a way for him to do all the remaining tour dates."

Sonic Syndicate - Live and video footage (Nuclear Blast August 2007)

The five guys and the girl from Falkenberg, Sweden are the newcomers per se. Their latest album "Only Inhuman" climbed immediately up into the German top 100 album charts on #64. In autumn SONIC SYNDICATE will tour throughout Europe together with SOILWORK, CHIMAIRA and CALIBAN. At Bravo.de you’ll find the detailed tour dates, an article about the new video clip "Enclave" and you can win tickets and a meet and greet with the band at UP FROM THE GROUND FESTIVAL! Yet, before that, you can see the new star of the Melodic Death Metal world this Saturday at the world’s largest metal festival, the Wacken Open Air near Hamburg, Germany. Should this be too far for you, you may also watch the concert in Cologne (June 21st) with headliner EPICA comfortably at home. The show will be aired August 6, 0:15 AM at Rockpalast on WDR.

Nile -Ithyphallic entries (Nuclear Blast August 2007)

NILE have made a sensational debut in the German album charts, hitting position #76 with their great new album "Ithyphallic"! Congrats to Karl Sanders and his fellow egyptologists - also for the sensational other chart entries in Finland (#13), England (#139, Rock Charts #6, Indie Charts #8) and USA (#162). At the moment NILE are playing the Ozzfest and will tour Europe at the end of this year.

Nightwish Signing session & Release parties (Nuclear Blast August 2007)

Last Friday a huge crowd pilgered to the home of Nuclear Blast in Donzdorf, a small town near Göppingen, to join the signing session of successful NIGHTWISH. As recently announced, bandleader Tuomas Holopainen and new vocalist Anette Olzon intended to allow close contact with photos and autographs to their disciples for a range of one hour. The crowd was expected to not exceed a number of 500 people, but in short time about 1.000 people were waiting in front of the label ´s office to see the two band members. The loyal NIGHTWISH fans even travelled from countries such as Norway or Italy to the rural area to gain one of the signatures in great demand. The two successful musicians, their management and even the Nuclear Blast crew confessed, to never before have seen something like that in such a vast extent. Nevertheless, Anette and Tuomas were patient and generous enough to give an autograph to every single attendee, so, of course, they had to stay for much more than two hours. During the event the delighted audience could have the exclusive privilege to listen to the new album "Dark Passion Play" and to receive a first impression of the new voice of NIGHTWISH. This way, the long wait to the album release on September 28th was sweetened to the fans. Latest album news, tour dates and further information about the band is to find on www.nightwish.com!

For the release of "Dark Passion Play" on September 28th several release parties will take place throughout Germany. While listening to the latest tunes of NIGHTWISH, you can take part in a lottery and win shirts, signed singles, posters and stickers. Be sure not to miss one of the dates below!

Thursday, 2 August 2007

New Vocalist (Season of mist July News)

Jul 09th, 2007

NEW VOICE FOR NAER MATARON

Greek metallers NAER MATARON's new album, due early 2008 on Season of Mist's brand new Underground Activists division, will bear the name of "Praetorians".

But that's not all... NAER MATARON are proud to let you know that the band's new singer is none other than Vicotnik, of DODHEIMSGARD / DHG fame. Not only does Vicotnik sing on "Praetorians", but he's also the producer of the album! There's no doubt this new collaboration will kick some serious ass, which you'll witness within a few months...

Attila and Maniac of Mayhem (Season of mist July news)

Jun 19th, 2007

ATTILA VS. MANIAC

In a move that will surprise many who bought into the rumours that there is no love lost between the two, current MAYHEM vocalist Attila Csihar has joined former MAYHEM vocalist Maniac to record vocals for a track on the debut album from Maniac's new band SKITLIV. Commented Maniac: "Contrary to what a lot of people either say or believe, Attila and I are actually very good friends, and always find rumours about how we are supposed to resent each other quite amusing."

The track, entitled "Amfetamin", also has SHINING's Niklas Kvarforth on guitar. Kvarforth, a close friend of both vocalists, recently joined SKITLIV as recording guitarist. About the track, Maniac said: "'Amfetamin' started life as a pretty disturbing piece of music to begin with. Once Niklas joined in it became even more so, and now that Attila has added his vocals, it's taken on yet another dimension; his voice is used almost as an instrument."

Album release dates (Season of mist July News)

Jun 19th, 2007

COMING NEXT

Now that the first half of 2007 is nearly over, we let you know what to expect for the second semester from the SOM camp. Watch out for some big stuff! Here is the tentative schedule:

BESTIAL MOCKERY "Slaying the Life" - Aug. 20th in Europe, Sept. 11th in the US
THE OLD DEAD TREE "The Water Fields" - Sept. 17th in Europe, Sept. 25th in the US
GHOST BRIGADE "Guided by Fire" - Sept. 17th in Europe, Sept. 25th in the US
CHRISTIAN DEATH "American Inquisition" - Oct. 15th in Europe, Oct. 23rd in the US
AVA INFERI "The Silhouette" - Oct. 15th in Europe, Oct. 23rd in the US
ETHS tba - Oct. 15th in France and Benelux
ASRAI "Pearls in Dirt" - Nov. 12th in Europe, Nov. 20th in the US
CNK tba - Nov. 12th in Europe, Nov. 20th in the US

US-only releases:

SADIST "Sadist" - Jul. 17th
SERPENT THRONE - Jul 17th
DYING FETUS "Killing on Adrenaline" - Jul. 31st
ASTARTE "Demonized" - Jul. 31st
FORGOTTEN TOMB "Negative Megalomania" - Jul. 31st
CLUTCH "Slow Hole to China" - Jul. 31st
PROFESSOR FATE "Inferno" - Jul. 31st
WITHIN TEMPTATION "Enter" - Aug. 14th
WITHIN TEMPTATION "The Dance" - Aug. 14th
VISION DIVINE "The 25th Hour" - Aug. 14th
MISTRESS "The Glody Bitches of Doghead" - Aug. 14th
KRIEG "The black House" - Aug. 14th
KRIEG "Destruction Ritual" - Aug. 14th

...and more to come to be announced soon...

Underground Activists release BESTIAL MOCKERY's "Slaying the Life" late August and early September. BESTIAL MOCKERY stand for the ultimate downfall of humanity in all its forms, the mockery of everything sacred and holy. Proudly carrying the "SUA001" item number as new Season of Mist division Underground Activists' first release, "Slaying the Life", the band's new full length platter, is here to remind people that evil is everywhere and Black Metal is Satan's hand. Thrashingly evil, bleaker than black and 666% metal, BESTIAL MOCKERY wage musical war on YOU! UNPURE - UNHOLY - UNTIGHT!

And a few words about the next two SOM releases: French gothic metal act THE OLD DEAD TREE's upcoming third album is entitled "The Water Fields". It deals with an imaginary place where one finds refuge to escape from pain and everyday doubt. This album is about avoidance, kidding oneself, and the urge we have to hide from reality and to remain passive when we are on tenterhooks. Their critically acclaimed last album "The Perpetual Motion", presented live with the likes of PARADISE LOST, OPETH and EPICA, will be challenged by the promising "The Water Fields".

"Guided by Fire" will be Finland's GHOST BRIGADE first album, eagerly awaited by the thousands of people who, just like us, had a crush on last year's 4 track demo. Watch out for this true masterpiece of melancholic doomcore, a brilliant and indescribable, dark and emotional album emerging from the land of lakes and marshes.

Evil Offspring (Season of mist July News)

Jun 19th, 2007

SEASON OF MIST ANNOUNCE NEW EVIL OFFSPRING!

Season of Mist is proud to announce the creation of sublabel "Season of Mist - Underground Activists"! This division will bring you only extreme metal, focusing on the underground and extreme media and willing to promote promising not-yet-famous bands. The first release on Underground Activists will be BESTIAL MOCKERY's new album "Slaying the Life", and will be followed by NAER MATARON's upcoming opus early 2008.

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SOME DEFINITIONS ABOUT GENRE"S OF ROCK MUSIC & HEAVY METAL MUSIC

Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a genre of music that evolved in the United states in the late 1940s and became popular in the early 1950s, quickly spreading to the rest of the world. It later spawned the various sub-genres of what is now called simply 'rock

The musical basis of rock and roll is its beat, usually accompanied by lyrics. The beat is basically a boogie woogie blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat, the latter almost always provided by a snare drum. Classic rock and roll is played with one electric guitar or two electric guitars (one lead, one rhythm), an electric bass guitar, and a drum kit. Keyboards are a common addition to the mix. In the rock and roll style of the early 1950s, the saxophone was often the lead instrument, replaced by guitar in the mid 1950s. In the earliest form of rock and roll, during the late 1940s, the piano was the lead instrument, and indeed, among the roots of rock and roll is the boogie woogie piano of the big-band era that dominated American music in the 1940s.

The massive popularity and eventual worldwide scope of rock and roll gave it an unprecedented social impact. Far beyond simply a musical style, rock and roll influenced lifestyles, fashion, attitudes, and language. Many of its early stars, notably Elvis presley, built movie and/or television careers around their music.

The term "rock and roll", which was black slang for dancing or sex, appeared on record for the first time in 1922 on Trixie Smith's "My Baby Rocks Me With One Steady Roll". The word "rock" had a long history in the English language as a metaphor for "to shake up, to disturb or to incite". The verb "Roll" was a medieval metaphor which meant "having sex". Writers for hundreds of years have used the phrases "They had a roll in the hay" or "I rolled her in the clover". 1 In 1934 the Boswell Sisters were referring to the rock and roll of waves in their song "Rock and Roll" [2] Country singer Tommy Scott was referring to the motion of a railroad train in the 1951 "Rockin and Rollin'". [3]

John Lennon summed it up by stating: "If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."^[1]

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed between 1968 and 1974.^[1] With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion and fast guitar solos. Allmusic declares, "Of all rock & roll's myriad forms, heavy metal is the most extreme in terms of volume, machismo, and theatricality."^[2]

Heavy metal has long had a worldwide following of fans known as "metalheads" or "headbangers". Although early heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath attracted large audiences, they were critically reviled at the time, a status common throughout the history of the genre. As the original wave of heavy metal bands began to wane, the late 1970s brought the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, which stripped away much of the music's blues influence and fused it with a punk rock sensibility.

Heavy metal became broadly popular during the 1980s, when many now-widespread subgenres first evolved. Variations more aggressive and extreme than metal music of the past were mostly restricted to an underground audience; others, including glam metal and, to a lesser extent, thrash metal went on to mainstream commercial success. In recent years, new styles such as nu metal have further expanded the definition of the genre.

Power metal is a style of heavy metal music with the aim of evoking an "epic" feel, incorporating characteristics of primarily traditional metal along with thrash metal or speed metal, often within symphonic context. There is some dispute about the term, which can refer to two different, but related styles: one pioneered and largely practiced in North America, and one based in Germany, Italy and Scandinavia. In contemporary usage, "power metal" describes music influenced by or derived from the European variant, with the exception of several American bands that are associated with both power metal and thrash metal. (Iced Earth and Nevermore.)

Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music, one of the extreme metal subgenres, that is characterised by its high speed and aggression.^[1]

The origins of thrash metal are generally traced to the late 1970s and early 1980s, when a number of bands began incorporating the sound of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal^[2] with elements of hardcore punk (in particular its drum tempos), creating a new genre and developing into a separate movement from punk rock. This genre is much more aggressive compared to its relative, speed metal. There is often significant crossover from one metal category to another, and the influence of non-metal genres, including classical music and jazz, is not uncommon.

Doom metal is a form of heavy metal that emerged as a recognized genre of metal in the mid-1980s. Doom metal is slow, heavy, and rife with pessimism, evoking an atmosphere of darkness, despair and misery. It is strongly influenced by the early work of Black Sabbath. A number of early Black Sabbath tracks, such as "Black Sabbath" and "War Pigs," are often considered embryonic or prototypical doom metal songs. Many of the tracks on their third album Master of Reality (released in 1971) seem to have more in common with what today is seen as doom metal, with tracks such as "Sweet Leaf", "Into The Void", and "Children of the Grave" that featured Tony Iommi's guitar and Geezer Butler's bass tuned down to C# for heavier riffing and reduced string tension for his previously injured fingers. However Black Sabbath was not the only influence. Many doom metal bands started up only a few years after Black Sabbaths debut, with many hailing from countries where the popularity of Black Sabbath had not yet spread.

Gothic metal is a genre of heavy metal music that originated during the mid 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of doom-death, a fusion genre of doom metal and death metal.

The definition of gothic metal is commonly debated amongst fans and the media; older fans and musicians have a firm concept of the genre and its characteristics, having been around through its growth and evolution, having strict ideas of what bands pertain to the genre and what bands don't. Newer fans reject this categorization as limiting, useless or wrong, often claiming bands are gothic metal that do not meet the criteria of the older fans

Grindcore often shortened to grind, is an evolution of hardcore punk, most commonly associated with death metal and crust punk. Grindcore is characterized by heavily distorted, down-tuned guitars, blastbeats, hardcore punk and crossover thrash influenced riffing, short songs, and a vocal style consisting of growls and higher-pitched vocals, often similar to those found in black metal. Lyrical concepts range from social and political issues to gore and horror to humor.

Speed metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that spawned in the mid-late 1970s and was the direct musical progenitor of thrash metal^[1] ^[2]. When Speed metal first emerged as a genre, it innovatively increased the tempo of the music template set forth by Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple while keeping their melodic ideas. Speed Metal can find its significant beginnings with NWOBHM bands.

Many speed metal bands also ostensibly fall within the categories of other heavy metal sub-genres, typically Thrash metal, Shred metal and Power metal^[3]. This is mainly due to the influence speed metal had on the development of these genres, although it should also be mentioned that Speed metal was used by some Glam metal and NWOBHM groups during the 1980s. Many Japanese bands from the 1980s to the present can also be described as speed metal, largely due to the success of X Japan.

Black metal is a type of extreme heavy metal music that started in the early 1980s. The genre is characterized by an aggressive and abrasive sound, coupled with a dark atmosphere and rejection of Judeo-Christian values.

The first bands with black metal characteristics included Bathory, Mercyful Fate, Hellhammer/Celtic Frost and Venom. These bands were mostly thrash metal bands that formed the prototype for black metal; they are referred to collectively as the First Wave. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a Second Wave emerged in Norway, including prominent bands like Darkthrone and Mayhem. Although there is no well-defined Third Wave, modern black metal bands have incorporated new musical and lyrical trends into their music.

Black metal has been met with considerable hostility from mainstream culture, mainly because of the misanthropic and anti-Judeo-Christian attitude of bands contributing to the genre. Additionally, a few black metal bands have been known to have associations with church burnings, murder, and in rare instances, National Socialism.

Death metal Generally includes violent or dark lyrics which focus on death as a nihilistic metaphor, chromatic chord progressions and a varied song structure without a standard verse-chorus arrangement; compositions instead emphasize an ongoing development of themes and motifs. The genre is often identified with downtuned rhythm guitars, fast percussion, and dynamic intensity. Blast beats, exceedingly fast drum patterns, are frequently used to add to the ferocity of the genre. The vocals are often grunts, snarls, and low gurgles colloquially called death grunts or death growls. Death grunts require use of the throat and guts, unlike traditional singing techniques which discourage this technique. Some people consider it an overtone style of singing. Music journalist Chad Bowar notes that, because of the similarity of the vocals to those of the Sesame Street character, the style is sometimes called "Cookie Monster vocals".^[1] This term has become commonly used as a show of dislike for the genre.

Death metal is occasionally known for abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes, and extremely fast and complex guitar and drumwork, although this is not always the case, as seen in some forms of death metal which focus on ferocity and speed rather than technicality^[vague]. Bands of this genre frequently utilize downtuned and distorted guitars, a downtuned, sometimes distorted bass guitar, a drum set almost universally using two bass drums or a double bass drum pedal. Although this is the standard setup, bands have been known to incorporate other instruments such as keyboards and saxophone. Death metal is very physically demanding of its musicians, especially in its more complex forms.

Death metal lyrics usually address more nihilistic themes than other forms of rock music (with the exception of black metal), usually using metaphors of a gruesome nature to explore a larger concept. The genre, originally an offshoot of thrash metal, was established to celebrate the darker underlying ideas that lay dormant in metal music. The focus on mortality along with the extreme nature of the music likely inspired the naming of this genre.

There are three common theories on the origin of the term "death metal." The first being is the title of the Possessed song Death Metal, which was featured on their 1985 debut album Seven Churches (an album widely regarded as the first death metal album, predating Morbid Angel's and Death's works. But in the same year, a song called Death Metal appeared on the debut album Power from Hell by thrash metal band Onslaught. A 1985 demo by Death was also called Death by Metal. The second theory is that the name of genre pioneers Death was the origin of the genre's name, since their 1987 debut album Scream Bloody Gore made death metal a more recognised form. Their austere name has said to have been adopted as the genre's title. A third theory emerged in 2003 when the late Thomas 'Quorthon' Forsberg of black metal band Bathory claimed in an interview with the British journalist Joel McIver that he had invented the term 'death metal' as far back as 1984, even though his band never pursued a death metal approach.

*Definitons are taken from the wikipedia

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Friday, 3 August 2007

The destiny program - Video shooting (Nuclear Blast August 2007)

Tour with Katatonia (Nuclear Blast August 2007)

Mac has left the band (Nuclear Blast August 2007)

Sonic Syndicate - Live and video footage (Nuclear Blast August 2007)

Nile -Ithyphallic entries (Nuclear Blast August 2007)

Nightwish Signing session & Release parties (Nuclear Blast August 2007)

Thursday, 2 August 2007

New Vocalist (Season of mist July News)

Jul 09th, 2007

NEW VOICE FOR NAER MATARON

Attila and Maniac of Mayhem (Season of mist July news)

Jun 19th, 2007

ATTILA VS. MANIAC

Album release dates (Season of mist July News)

Jun 19th, 2007

COMING NEXT

Evil Offspring (Season of mist July News)

Jun 19th, 2007

SEASON OF MIST ANNOUNCE NEW EVIL OFFSPRING!

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