Archive for the ‘Metal News’ Category

Legendary folk metal outfit Moonsorrow will be starting to record their next full release album today, September 2nd, at some undisclosed studio in Finland. According to a blog post on their MySpace, “This stuff is Cold, Heavy and Crushing.” They’re aiming for a February 2011 release date.

They also made a separate blog site in which they’ll be posting studio diary updates, in case you’re interested in following that sort of shenanigans. According to that site, they’re going for an organic feel on this one, no “silicon implanted/software manipulated modern day metal sound” bullshit. They’re even recording their tracks on tape! Sadly, all of that will go to shit when the 90% of people who listen to them end up downloading it digitally anyway. But I guess it will make up for an excellent sounding vinyl record for those who like to keep it old school.

Hopefully the album will not be comprised of a single 80 minute long song with a 20 minute intro composed of squirrel sound samples. Although that would be awesome actually. If anything to annoy Zach.

“V: Havitetty” was a decent album, but not a great one like their previous stuff. Maybe they’ll surprise me with this one. Maybe.

This clip was just posted by Kamelot, it’s a sneak peak of the bonus DVD that’s shipping with the next album “Poetry of the Poisoned.

It’s mostly these weird black and white interview moments with the members talking about stories or how much they like “the rock and the classical and the romantic music”

I kinda want to hear that story he was telling at the end but they cut it off of course, just to fuck with me. Harumph.

If you’re not familiar with Bandcamp yet, you’d better start getting familiar now. It’s like MySpace, except it’s focused on music and not every other gay shit ever from the internet. I thought it would’ve picked up faster by now, but I guess every other gay shit from the internet is more popular. It’s a very attractive distribution model for small bands/solo musicians, as it allows them to sell (or just plain give away) their music directly to you, no middleman.

And now Wormed is on it, giving it some very needed death metal cred. They’re streaming 2 songs off their new single (singles?), “Quasineutrality” on their page. The production is finally up to date, taking them from their almost undecipherable sonic beginnings in “Planisphaerium” to an amazing full force assault on all 3 channels. And yes, they’re from Spain, but I guess you can’t have it all in metal nowadays. Definitely check them out.

Could have fooled me…

It’s good to know Dani is supporting his fans though, lonely first year graphic arts students. Even letting them create album covers for the band.

He also says the new album is going to be “The most br00tal album we’ve created to date”

This one is a bit less artsy then The Sword’s recent epic, but get’s the point across with some zombie soldiers or something, killing each other… or something, I have no idea wtf is going.

I do know that the drummer is about to have a fucking coronary.

Coinciding with the release of their new album “Warp Riders” The sword has unveiled the first of three planned music videos set to be released.

The video is for the song “Tres Brujas” and introduces us to a fat bearded, I’ll call him Ralph. Who gives the band a magical stress ball that will take them to see three witches.

There’s also this hot asian chick who I think they’re trying to save, because she’s floating around in fucking outer space, while some guy in a trucker cap gets in a sword fight.

Then they all take off in their spaceship.

FUCKING EPIC

Tres Brujas

The Sword | MySpace Music Videos

Megadeth has posted a live video of “Holy Wars… The Punishment Due” which is taken from the upcoming DVD “Rust in Peace Live”.

The video looks very nicely shot and the DVD will contain behind the scenes fun stuff to, not just a video of a concert you didn’t go to. Although this clip is suspiciously devoid of Dave Mustaine pissing and moaning about… well everything, I wonder what the DVD has in store.

Yup, and there aren’t a whole lot of marrow donors in Poland. They say it’s too far along to undergo chemotherapy, but we know it’s just because bone marrow transplants are way more metal than chemo.

His wife has donated some marrow, although it’s not known if it is a match yet. Many polish musicians and artists have begun organizing fundraiser events and concerts to help, and all scheduled Behemoth dates have been cancelled.

Don’t fuck with Jesus, he’ll give you cancer.

Megadeth bassist Dave Ellefson has picked up the camera on the American Carnage tour to talk with the guys behind the scenes. Check out the sound and light boards in the youtube videos.

Slough Feg is almost done recording the next album entitled “The Animal Spirits”. Aiming for a release by the end of the year, the band has released the track listing in the meantime.

"Trick The Vicar"
"The 95 Thesis"
"Ask The Casket"
"Heavyworlder"
"Materia Primia"
"Lycanthropic Fantasies"
"Second Coming"
"Free Market Barbarian"
"Tactical Air-War"