HEAVY SCOTLAND 2018 completes its lineup announcing the final two headliners, CHILDREN OF BODOM, and ENSIFERUM. They're joined by BLEED FROM WITHIN for the festival at Edinburgh's Corn Exchange, from Friday 31 August to Sunday 02 September. Tickets from only £35.

Full line-up (*Scottish 2018 exclusive):
CHILDREN OF BODOM
CARCASS*
ENSIFERUM
DECAPITATED*
BLEED FROM WITHIN
EXHUMED*
NERVOSA*
HATE*
GAMA BOMB* 
CORRUPT MORAL ALTAR
OST+FRONT*
MARTRYIUM*
SISTERS OF SUFFOCATION* 
WHORION*
PERPETUA
DEFACER

Purchase tickets from: http://www.heavyscotland.com/

Under-18 tickets are available now at just £35 and student Weekend tickets at just £50.

The festival have also announced their partnership with Haymarket Hub and Code Hostel. Buy the hotel ticket on http://www.heavyscotland.com/hotel-deals/ and you receive a discount code for the weekend.

The news follows a highly impressive first year from Heavy Scotland, placing Edinburgh on the international metal map. Headliners Behemoth and Arch Enemy topped a stellar bill, which also included the likes of Fleshgod Apocalypse, Destruction, Finntroll, Havok and more. Garnering local and international acclaim, Heavy Scotland is fast becoming Scotland's national heavy metal festival, and is the largest of its kind in the country's capital of Edinburgh. Borne from a love of all things loud and with a passion for the local scene, Heavy Scotland is an event deserving of the attention so far received. 

Progressive quartet DEADLY CIRCUS FIRE have launched a PledgeMusic campaign for their third studio album. 

On offer to pledgers are exclusive items including signed drumsticks, signed handwritten lyrics sheets and even a personal concert.

Guitarist Save Addario comments:

“After many months of writing as well as working on a detailed pre production, we are delighted to have finally completed work on our 3rd studio album, ‘Yet to be named’. 

"We have evolved, progressed once again, stretching our creative wings and pushed the envelope like never before, balancing infectious melodies with heavy groovy guitars, crazy driving bass lines melted within pounding drum beats. We are looking forward to sharing new music with you soon.”

Pledge here: https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/deadly-circus-fire-new-album 

In December, the band revealed their new track 'Ghost', which is expected to appear on the new album. The new track questions the meaning of forgiveness and greed through cinematic soundscapes and lyrical ambiguity.

DEADLY CIRCUS FIRE recently welcomed their new vocalist David Pear and toured the UK in February.

For more information:
https://www.facebook.com/deadlycircusfire
www.deadlycircusfire.co.uk
https://twitter.com/deadlycircus
 

UK progressive metal band DIVIDIUM have released their new single/video 'Satisfaction Guaranteed', taken from their new EP T.H.R.E.E., to be released June 1st.

Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY1LofB1_mY 

About the song, vocalist Neil Bailey said: ''I was always interested in the idea of a single moment being the focus for a song; essentially micro-fiction. I decided to focus on the idea of epiphanies: single moments of crystal clear clarity or a sudden realisation. Satisfaction was the first song I wrote with the idea of experiencing an epiphany.''

'Satisfaction Guaranteed' is the second in a series of six videos that chronicle the exploits of a group who are on a path of self-destruction and chaos. This video shows a theft by one of the characters of an important item that’s coveted by the rest of the group, resulting in a furious chase between two members of the group. The idea behind this video was the concept of ‘magic doors’, or doors that allow people to move through space. This is pretty integral to the story and the chase and sets the stage for the next four videos. 

Often compared to their key influences TesseracT and Protest The Hero, vocalist Neil Bailey's unique vocal style has often had the band's sound described as Iron Maiden meets The Dillinger Escape Plan.

DIVIDIUM have supported many acts passing through their hometown including Tesseract, Malefice, Valis Ablaze, Exist Immortal, toured the UK with The Colour Line and played Tech Fest 2016, which has enabled them to refine their incredible live show. Tour dates for the summer will be announced soon.

For more information:
https://www.dividium.co.uk/ 
https://www.facebook.com/DividiumBand/ 
https://twitter.com/dividiumband 
https://www.instagram.com/dividiumband/ 

Tech metal artist Heptaedium has released the title track from upcoming albumThe Great Herald Of Misery, due May 25th via Apathia Records.

Check out 'I'm The Great Herald Of Misery' here : 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIj1FQkkVp0&feature=youtu.be 

Pre-order the album: https://heptaedium.bandcamp.com

Heptaedium is a musical solo project born in 2012, mixing components of Meshuggah, Igorrr, The Algorithm, Dragon Ball Z and video game music.

Having released 3 LPs (Monochronic Visual Interface, Kawaii!!, How Long Shall I Suffer Now?) and an EP (Underground Business), the band signed to Apathia Records last year, and are ready to take on the world with their new album.

Although a metal record, The Great Herald of Misery revolves around industrial samples, creating a unique sound experience. The record isn't just instrumental - Florent invited his best friend Mickael Ratinaud to sing, and together they explore the never-ending possibilities of making music together. 

For more information:
https://www.facebook.com/heptaedium/

Danish proggers ODD PALACE have streamed their new single/video 'Liar's Attire', from their upcoming debut album Things To Place On The Moon, out on June 1st via Prime Collective.

Premiered via MetalSucks, check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPzQmpP60nU

The band have also announced their first ever London (UK) show at Thousand Island on 22 June.

Things To Place On The Moon, produced by Chris Kreutzfeldt (CABAL, Scarred By Beauty), follows the release of their first EP Insomnia. It’s a catchy yet aggressive album, which combines influences from Protest The Hero to King Crimson. The band’s love for effects and pedals contributes to create a unique atmosphere, with a variety of complex melodies.

Formed in 2015, the band have already played many festivals, including Slam-it, Distortion Festival, Thy Rock, and Prime Is Coming. They have also caught the attention of a wide range of international press, including Prog Sphere and IT DJENTS.

Odd Palace will be playing a show in Copenhagen alongside Royal Mob, on May 25th, to celebrate the release of Things To Place On The Moon and will be announcing a full UK / European tour later in 2018.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oddpalace/

California metal veterans IMPENDING DOOM have unveiled 'Everything's Fake', taken from their upcoming album The Sin and Doom Vol. II, due June 22 via eOne.

First premiered via Kerrang!, check out the video for the song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhtHCbHGEM8

The video was directed by J.D. Butler from Adapt Cinema. IMPENDING DOOM's David Sittig says, "This is the best Impending Doom video to date. The director understood our sound and takes the viewer visually into the darkness we’ve created.“

'Everything's Fake' and the first single 'The Wretched and Godless' are now available on all streaming platforms, and are available as iTunes instant downloads. 

IMPENDING DOOM will release their sixth studio LP called The Sin and Doom Vol. II on June 22, via Entertainment One.

All pre-orders of the album are available now: 
Digital
Physical

The new album will be the widely anticipated follow up to Death Will Reign (2013), which sold 4,300 copies in its first week of release and debuted at 116 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart.

IMPENDING DOOM commissioned artist Colin Marks (Fleshgod Apocalypse / Whitechapel) to do the artwork for the latest release. Marks have also done the artwork for The Serpent Servant (2009).

More information:
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UK metallers JONESTOWN will release their new single ''People's Temple'' on June 1st. Details on their new album DYATLOV will be revealed soon.

To coincide with the news, the band will head for a short run of shows in the UK with support from This Is Turin.

Dates:
14 June - Birmingham - Subside
15 June - Lancaster - The Bobbin
17 June - London - The Black Heart

JONESTOWN formed in 2014 in Brighton, on the south coast of the UK.

Winning the Metal To The Masses 2014 South East division helped propel the band into the studio and self finance their debut Aokigahara, which was released via Siege Music.

The release of Aokigahara resulted in a swathe of media attention, with Metal Hammer magazine touting them as the band to 'transcend the swarm of killer UK debuts', describing the album as 'Gojira and Meshuggah brawling in a dinosaur paddock' and 'ballsy, catchy metal that will have fans of everyone from Tesseract to Slipknot grinning ear-to ear and hurtling to the nearest pit'.

For more information:
https://www.facebook.com/jonestownbanduk/ 

Psychedelic doom has a new voice in newcomers MORAG TONG, who are streaming their debut LP Last Knell of Om.

Released 18.05.18, Last Knell of Om was first premiered via Metal Injection. Listen to the album now here: https://soundcloud.com/moragtongband/sets/last-knell-of-om

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Pre-order the album here: https://moragtong.bandcamp.com/album/last-knell-of-om

Unquestionably odd and instantly lovable, Last Knell of Om is ostensibly a stoner doom album but at heart an anti-doom record, the sounds of the genre taken to the nth degree. Slow, expansive, spacious sonorities meet a shared passion for musical experimentalism driven by a vocalist-drummer and a wall-of-sound approach.
 
Recorded in a studio at the top of a hill just south of London, Om is MORAG TONG's response to the vastness of the cosmos, and the fact that the entirety of life has developed vocalisations in their own unique ways. From primal screams to song to full-blown speech, there has always been a yearning to scream into the void; to scream into the void is the only thing ultimately that connects the entirety of life’s existence.
 
Although not strictly a concept album, there is an impressive level of cohesion to MORAG TONG’s Last Knell of Om. Led by drummer-vocalist Adam, the band avoid focusing on the presence of a frontman, concentrating on a wall-of-sound experience. Heavily DIY, MORAG TONG embarked on March tours with Tuskar and Sail, and put on their own mini-festival called The Local Fuzz. The band have played alongside Slabdragger, Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard, Earthmass, Monolithian, and more.

Bandcamp: moragtong.bandcamp.com
Facebook: facebook.com/moragtongband
Instagram: morag.tong
Twitter: twitter.com/moragtongband

British Contemporary Post Rockers TALONS
Announce Third Album Details; Stream New Single

We All Know will be released via Holy Roar 27th July 

“Just like the claws that provide the band with their name, these are compositions of sharp edge which will carve into the senses like bear traps around wayward ankles.”

— BBC Music

British contemporary post-rock sextet TALONS have announced their third album We All Know will be released via Holy Roar on July 27th 2018. Pre-orders are available here. 

The band recently premiered their first single 'The Drowning' on Daniel P Carter's BBC Radio 1 Rock Show, which is now available for streaming  listen here: https://www.gotalons.com

Across nine songs, TALONS expertly weave multiple layers of instruments and beats, showcasing real compositional visceral power, exhibiting their skills in structure and dynamic control. The musical portraits the band paint take us through a variety of sonic landscapes rich in vivid imagery, from bleak to warm and everything in between.

The progressively ambitious sextet, who celebrate their tenth anniversary this year, excel with their third release, carving their own exciting niche in contemporary music. Led by a dual violin instrumentation, TALONS variously touch on world / folk music, with more than occasional allusions to Indian classical music; modern classical; and heavy, expansive post-rock.

The band comments: 
We All Know” is both an exploration of the ominous and unpromising beliefs we often associate with collective self-assurance as well as a deeper reflection on our own ability to fully comprehend and make sense of the world. The album internalises this complexity to provide a soundtrack that is dense with intrigue whilst at times deeply unnerving. The songs reflect such themes thorough combining feelings of dread and horror with euphoria and ecstasy in order to try and paint a more revealing picture of our own collective insecurities, doubts and fears."

The album therefore touches upon collectively felt, but ultimately individually endured, experiences and feelings. The idea that we all share these feelings of dread and fear in life because this is part of our makeup and a mechanism of being a human and part of this species; but at the same time, when felt, these feelings are (or are often) felt alone, in isolation, not with others."

Recorded in August 2017 at Greenmount Studios in Leeds, inside an old church, with Lee Smith and Jamie Lockhart at the controls, We All Know was mastered by long-time collaborator Tom Woodhead (¡Forward Russia!). This is the second album TALONS have recorded at Greenmount Studios following 2014’s New Topographics. The recording process was done live as a full band with very few overdubs in order to give the recordings a more intimate and direct feel.

Forming in 2008, TALONS signed with Big Scary Monsters in 2009, releasing their debut single, "The Pearl" on 7” vinyl as well as a split single with And So I Watch You From Afar, featuring the song “Bethlehem”. 

The band recorded their debut album, Hollow Realm, releasing in November 2010 (CD - Big Scary Monsters; 12" vinyl - Topshelf Records; special extended CD - Xtal Records, Japan). It received critical acclaim, notably from BBC Music, Drowned In Sound, Rock Sound and The Line of Best Fit. TALONS also recorded a Radio 1 Maida Vale session for Huw Stephens, and toured the record across the UK and mainland Europe.

Four years later, TALONS returned with their second album, New Topographics. A change in mood, more rhythmic and expansive, the album again received high praise in the press, including DIY magazine, Clash and Drowned in Sound. The album was also ranked #2 best album of 2014 by Already Heard website. In promoting the album TALONS made notable appearances at ArcTanGent, Truck Festival, Damnation Festival and Tramlines, as well as support slots with Pianos Become the Teeth and Amenra.

TALONS' third album We All Know will be release July 27th 2018 on Holy Roar Records. Pre-orders are available here. 

Catch them live: 

16/6/2018 – Portals Festival – The Dome, Tufnell Park, London
21/7/2018 – Tramlines – City Hall Ballroom, Sheffield
16/8-18/8/2018 – Arctangent Festival
+ more to be announced. 

Find out more about the band:

WEBSITE || FACEBOOK || TWITTER ||  BANDCAMP || INSTAGRAM || SPOTIFY

We All Know Tracklisting

1. The Drowning
2. On Levels
3. Cradles
4. Movements on Seven
5. Long Reading Room
6. Southern Shade
7. Over and Again
8. We All Know
9. Quiet

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