NORMANDIE have released a video for their brand new single 'Ecstasy', the first taste of their forthcoming sophomore album. The track and video are also the first to feature the band's new drummer Anton Franzon.

'Ecstasy' marks the next chapter in NORMANDIE's whirlwind journey, building on their anthemic sound and reaffirming that they are one of the hottest up-and-coming bands to have surfaced in recent years. 

Check out 'Ecstasy' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGP34sE7jjg

Purchase/stream 'Ecstasy' here: http://radi.al/Ecstasy

NORMANDIE will make their Reading & Leeds Festival debut this summer, before they tour as main support to Hands Like Houses in October. 

Full live dates: 

24.08.2018 - Leeds UK, Leeds Festival
26.08.2018 - Reading UK, Reading Festival

w/ Hands Like Houses and Jule Vera 

19.10.2018 - Glasgow UK, Cathouse (Tickets)
20.10.2018 - Birmingham UK, The Asylum (Tickets)
21.10.2018 - Leeds UK, The Key Club (Tickets)
23.10.2018 - Bristol UK, The Fleece (Tickets)
24.10.2018 - Manchester UK, Academy 3 (Tickets)

After a huge response following the release of their debut album Inguz, NORMANDIE inked a deal with Easy Life Records and released an extended edition of the critically acclaimed record in April 2018. Inguz - Gold Edition features the original album tracks, follow up singles ‘Ghost’ and ‘Pay For This’, as well as alternative tracks that were recorded at Soundtrade Studios.

Inguz, a Viking rune, symbolised the band's new direction after the departure of their heavier co-vocalist. The band honed-in on a groundbreaking rock sound and have since seen support from the Radio 1 Rock Show, Kerrang! Radio, Rock Sound, Kerrang! TV, Scuzz TV and more. The soaring melodies are captivating, the choruses are explosive, and overall NORMANDIEdeliver a spine-tingling sound that wouldn't sound out of place in arenas.

The band’s live show has blown away crowds throughout the UK and Europe, with several headline runs, a tour supporting Yellowcard and numerous festival appearances under their belts, including their Download Festival debut in 2017.

NORMANDIE are paving their way to success and it’ll only be a matter of time before they turn heads even further across the globe.

For more information:
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Martyrium set for release on 28 September via Unique Leader

Vicious Italian death metal group BLOODTRUTH are set to unleash their blistering sophomore full length Martyrium on 28 September 28 on Unique Leader. 

The ferocious and uncompromising 10 track album was mixed and mastered by Italian producer Stefano Morabito at 16th Cellar Studios (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour of Penance) and features fantastic artwork by Jose Sabogal (Beheaded, Inferno). 

Martyrium sees BLOODTRUTH, who were formed in 2009 as a side project of Fleshgod Apocalypse members but now features the lineup of vocalist Luis Maggio, guitarists Stefano Ciucci and Stefano Clementini, bassist Riccardo Rogari, and drummer Giacomo Torti, truly coming into their own as a force to be reckoned with in extreme music. Martyrium is 10 tracks of pure death metal aggression, unrelenting musical intensity, and powerful, acidic, hateful vocals. 

The band commented on the album, "The main themes interlinking the wide range of subjects covered in “Martyrium” are human sacrifice, carnage and slaughter which the Christian Church carried out against all those found guilty of being “heretics”. In this album, historical and ethical relevance are both firmly bonded to the circumstances and facts mentioned in the lyrics. 

BLOODTRUTH decided to take into account some of the events narrated in the famous bestseller “The Name of the Rose” (Umberto Eco, 1980) and its vast number of historical and philosophical references, mostly focusing on the martyrdom topic too. The new artwork masterpiece, done by the highly acclaimed peruvian artist Josè Gabriel Alegria Sabogal (Beheaded, Inferno) fits perfectly with this concept.

Guitarist and co-songwriter Stefano Rossi Ciucci added, "Martyrium is a concept album. We took a really long time to release it but we believe that's a sign of more maturity and determination within the band. We always follow our feelings and try to express our state of mind through our music, and what we have in our hands now is the darkest and brutal Bloodtruth album ever!"

Martyrium Track Listing - 

1. 1184 P.C.
2. Centuries of Intolerance (Danse Macabre)
3. Schismatical Crusades
4. Inner Resurrection
5. Peste Noire
6. Prelude to Havoc
7. The Tome of Suffering
8. Persecution
9. The Last Prophet
10. Martyrium

Pre-orders and more BLOODTRUTH news will be forthcoming very soon. 

Formed in 2009 by guitarist Stefano Ciucci and Fleshgod Apocalypse members Francesco Paoliand Paolo Rossi, BLOODTRUTH have since come into their own as one of the most exciting upcoming bands in Italian death Metal. 

The group released a two track demo in 2012 which quickly caught the attention of extreme metal powerhouse Unique Leader Records, who released the group's debut full length Obedience in 2014. Recorded by Fleshgod Apocalypse members Francesco Paoli and Cristiano Trionfera and mixed and mastered by Stefano Morabito (Hour of Penance) the album showed BLOODTRUTH's blistering intensity and potential as a finely tuned instrument of death metal hate. 

After touring across Europe in support of Obedience with Nile, Suffocation, Antropofagus and Devangelic the group experienced a series of lineup changes, but reconvened in 2017 so begin recording their monstrous new full length Martyrium that will come out in September on Unique Leader. 

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The new album Covenant is out now

After the successful UK-tour with LONG BRANCH RECORDS labelmates VALIS ABLAZE with the final show at UK-Tech-Metal-Fest 2018, UNPROCESSED release the tour recap video for the song 'The Division' from their latest album Covenant

Check out 'The Division' here

'The Division' was written by Manuel Gardner Fernandes and David Levy when they were finishing touches on recent album Covenant. It is one of the heavier songs on the album and is extremely challenging to play due to the overwhelming amount of staccato chugs underneath the lucid piano layers evolving through the song. In order to shoot a synchronized music video, the band decided to bring it to the stages despite the hard work they had to put into realizing it, and were able to put the resulting impressions from their latest UK tour into a stunning music video, which was 100% filmed and edited by the bands members and touring crew.

Filming: Benjamin Malsy, Christopher Talosi, Malte Bernhard
Editing: David Levy, Christopher Talosi

Order Covenant here

LINE-UP

Manuel Gardner Fernandes - Vocals, Guitars
Christoph Schultz - Guitars
Christopher Talosi - Guitars
David Levy - Bass
Leon Pfeifer - Drums

Fast-rising Australian instrumentalist PLINI has released new single 'Kind', taken from his upcoming 'Sunhead' EP, set for release 27 July.

Premiered on Triple J radio, check out 'Kind' here

Sunhead is released ahead of PLINI's second European tour which includes dates at Arctangent (UK), Brutal Assault (CZ) and a headline show at London’s Islington Assembly that’s on track to sell-out. Dates:

10/08/18 - CZE, Musicians Festival, KARLOVY VARY
11/08/18 - CZE, Brutal Assault, FORTRESS JOSEFOV
14/08/18 - HUN, A38 Roof, BUDAPEST
15/08/18 - POL, Alchemia, KRAKOW
16/08/18 - POL, Hydrozadadka, WARSAW
18/08/18 - UK, ArcTenGent Festival, SOMERSET
19/08/18 - UK, Islington Assembly Hall, LONDON
22/08/18 - MLT, IR-Razzett L'Ahmar, MOSTA

Named #8 in Ultimate-Guitar’s top 12 guitarists of 2015 and listed as MusicRadar's "#1 prog guitar player in the world" in 2017, Sydney’s independent instrumental progressive rising star PLINI is set to release his new EP, Sunhead on July 27.

The EP announcement follows PLINI’s triumphant performance at Download Festival, where the band were the first instrumental guitar band to ever play the fest;Be Prog! My Friend (Barcelona), and a highly successful European tour with Arch Echo and Mestis.

PLINI will end the year on tour in Europe with TesseracT and Between the Buried and Me:

09/11/18 - DE, Cologne, Live Music Hall
10/11/18 - NL, Nijmegen, Doornroosje
11/11/18 - BE, Vosselaar, Biebob
12/11/18 - FR, Paris, Le Trabendo
13/11/18 - DE, Aschaffenburg, Colos-Saal
14/11/18 - DE, Hamburg, Gruenspan
15/11/18 - DK, Copenhagen, Pumpehuset
16/11/18 - NO, Oslo, Parkteatret
17/11/18 - SE, Stockholm, Kägelbanan
19/11/18 - DE, Berlin, Lido
20/11/18 - DE, Stuttgart, Im Wizemann
21/11/18 - AT, Vienna, Flex
22/11/18 - DE, Munich, Backstage
23/11/18 - CH, Aarau, Kiff
24/11/18 - IT, Parma, Campus Industry
25/11/18 - LU, Esch, Rockhal
 

For more information: 

PLINI Website || PLINI Facebook || PLINI Twitter || PLINI Youtube

British psychedelic power trio CHUBBY THUNDEROUS BAD KUSH MASTERS are streaming their much hyped, never bettered debut album Come & Chutney in full via Riff Rock Records on its release today - July 13th 2018. 

Listen to the album in full here

Orders are now available via Riff Rock Records here.

Never ones to shy away from media attention, political commentary or invitations to open new kebab shops, the band have waded into the political arena with the premiere of their new video 'Döner Trump' via Metal Hammer. The video sees the band deliver, in their own unique style, a scathing attack on American President Donald Trump via the medium of a protest song involving fans and other bands enjoying döner kebabs.

Check out the video here 

Comments the band on their inspiration for the video/track: "Seriously, what a dick! It’s astonishing that he’s reached the position he’s in, yet it’s also not surprising, given the levels of xenophobia around the world and this anti-globalisation thing some people are keen on. What the f*ck’s the problem with a larger, more inclusive society? Does it really matter if cultures change as humanity develops? It’s sad that things are going this way, or have they always been, we’ve just got better access to reading about it now? F*ck knows; what interesting times we live in."

Come & Chutney is a sublime pilgrimage through eight tracks of cosmos drenching, riff slinking, indignantly delirious, fuzzed out Chubbiosity. And a song about Donald Trump.

The album features several guest appearances including guest vocals from Chantal Brown of Vodun, guest guitar solo from Gary Harkin of Ten Foot Wizard, and guest keyboards by Thom Carter of Riddles on closing track ‘Psychedelic Hallucinogenic Vagrancy’.

The London band (which includes former Dopefight frontman Owen Carty) have been turning heads on the UK’s burgeoning underground scene not least because of their combination of tie-dye and corpsepaint, but with a staggeringly heavy live show that has everyone who sees them agreeing that they’re about to become huge. Probably. 

Their debut EP Earth Hog fused sludgy, blues riffs with stoner rock overtones and was recorded and produced by Sam Thredder of Slabdragger.They followed this with the Split EP "Special" with Ten Foot Wizard in 2017.

The band’s tongue-in-cheek approach belies their dedication to all things heavy and riff-shaped. A jaw-droppingly powerful live band, Bad Kush have already completed two European tours with Bongzilla, Boss Keloid and Ten Foot Wizard, headlined the Black Heart on the final day of Desertfest London 2017 playing alongside such legends as Sleep, Slo Burn and Turbo Negro and repeated circuits of the UK’s underground scene since their inception in late 2014. Having supported the likes of Slabdragger, Dopethrone and Honky, audience members have picked up on the band’s vibe and now blow bubbles in appreciation of the band’s heaviest riffs.

Come & Chutney is out NOW via Riff Rock Records. Orders are available here. 

Find out more about the band:

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Come & Chutney Tracklisting

1. Doggy Bag Of Slurry
2. Krones Of The Kiln
3. Cojones Feos
4. Glue Ear
5. Gutlads
6. Gawdless
7. Döner Trump
8. Psychedelic Hallucinogenic Vagrancy

"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 progressive post-rock sextet TALONS have premiered their new single 'On Levels' via Prog Magazine. The track is taken from their upcoming third album We All Know which is set to be released via Holy Roar on July 27th 2018. Pre-orders are available here. 

Listen to the track now

Across the nine songs on their new album 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.

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.

Catch them live: 

21/7/2018 – Tramlines – City Hall Ballroom, Sheffield
16/8-18/8/2018 – Arctangent Festival
1/9 - Big Scary Monsters Day Out, London
+ 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

New album Tormentor out July 20th via Outerloop Records/Cooking Vinyl

THE AGONY SCENE have dropped another track from their new album Tormentor, out 20 July via Outerloop Records/Cooking Vinyl. The album is available for pre-order here. 

Listen to 'Serpent's Tongue' here

Guitarist Chris Emmons comments: "Serpent’s Tongue was the first song we wrote after getting back together in 2014.  Lyrically the song is about individuals who give no f*cks about deceiving or trampling on others for personal gain. The track also features a guitar solo performed by the one and only Emil Werstler." 

The band recently shared 'The Submissive' via New Noise, check it out here

THE AGONY SCENE also partnered with Revolver to premiere 'Hand of the Divine'. Check out the song here.

Tormentor is the band's first album since 2007's Get Damned (Century Media), which was preceded by 2005's The Darkest Red (Roadrunner) and 2003's self-titled release (Solid State).

THE AGONY SCENE will appear on the annual Summer Slaughter Tour across the USA with Between the Buried and Me, Born of Osiris, Veil of Maya, and more. UK/European tour dates to be announced soon.

For more information
 

New album Dead Era out 28 September via Long Branch Records

German deathcore quintet WALKING DEAD ON BROADWAY are excited to announce the release of new album Dead Era on 28 September via LONG BRANCH RECORDS and have released new single 'Hostage To The Empire'.

Check out 'Hostage To The Empire' here

The band have also announced that they will tour with Annisokay in Japan this December.

Broadway is well known as the heart of the American theatre industry, the synonym for superior and critical entertainment. Similarly WALKING DEAD ON BROADWAY pursue the idea of fiercely unbiased art.

Brought to life in late 2009, the quintet focus on a vicious deathcore sound and disenchanted lyrics. Following the release of their debut album Aeshma, the quintet played at With Full Force, Summer Blast, Wacken festivals, and many more. They have also toured with Suicide Silence, Caliban, Eskimo Callboy and Whitechapel.

This was followed by their second full length, Slaves, released in November 2016 via Nuclear Blast / Arising Empire. In 2017 the band had their first headline tour in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France which included a number of big festival appearances. 

WALKING DEAD ON BROADWAY parted ways with vocalist Robert Horn in October 2017 who was replaced by Nils Richber, the perfect piece of the puzzle they never knew they were missing. In 2018 the band hit the road with Within Destruction and then went into the studio in April to record Dead Era.

Dead Era is a synonym for WALKING DEAD ON BROADWAY’s musical evolution from their deathcore roots, closing this chapter of their story.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Dead Era
2. Red Alert
3. Hostage To The Empire
4. Our Labour, Our Idol, Our Pride
5. Punish The Poor
6. Gospel Of The Kingdom
7. Song Of Courage
8. The Fire Never Lies
9. Anti-Partisan
10. Standstill
11. Dead End Utopia
12. Your God Is A Tyrant
13. Benevolent Warfare

Sunhead out 27 July

Named #8 in Ultimate-Guitar’s top 12 guitarists of 2015 and listed amongst MusicRadar's "#1 prog guitar player in the world right now" for 2017, Sydney’s independent instrumental progressive rising star, PLINI is set to release his new EP, Sunhead on July 27.

Filmed on PLINI's recent US tour and premiered via Prog mag, check out the new video to the single 'Charcoal and Dust' here:

The EP is released ahead of his second European tour this summer and a monster European tour this autumn with TesseracT and Between The Buried and Me.

Sunhead is written, recorded and produced by PLINI himself – and for the most part, all from a bedroom studio. PLINI explains the writing process and what inspired him: “I started working on the material almost straight after "Handmade Cities" was released in 2016, sort of with the goal to make a very big, small EP - aiming to put as much detail and refinement into the composition and playing as possible. Both musically and emotionally, the music is greatly influenced by the amount of touring and travel I've done in the past couple of years. I was particularly inspired by Animals As Leaders (who I toured Europe and North America with in 2016), by the musical adventurousness in their last album, and Disperse (who I toured with in Europe in early 2017) for the way they seamlessly combined contemporary pop and electronic elements with prog-metal - updating a genre that sometimes seems (ironically for the name, "progressive") entrenched in old musical cliches. Aside from this, I think the "Sunhead" EP is a musical expression of the pure excitement that comes with traveling to new places, meeting new people and eating new things.”

Sunhead features some exciting collaborations, including backing vocals and production from Skyharbor's Devesh Dayal (‘Salt & Charcoal’), saxophone from The 1975’s John Waugh (‘Flâneur’), piano and keyboards from Anomalie (‘Flâneur’) and a guitar solo from Tim Miller on ‘Sunhead’. The recording line up is completed with drummer Chris Allison and bassist Simon Grove, with PLINI performing everything else.

The EP announcement follows PLINI’s triumphant performance at Download Festival, where the band were the first instrumental guitar band to ever play the fest;Be Prog! My Friend (Barcelona), and a highly successful European tour with Arch Echo and Mestis. PLINI will next embark on a second European tour which includes dates at Arctangent (UK), Brutal Assault (CZ) and a headline show at London’s Islington Assembly that’s on track to sell-out. Dates:

10/08/18 - CZE, Musicians Festival, KARLOVY VARY
11/08/18 - CZE, Brutal Assault, FORTRESS JOSEFOV
14/08/18 - HUN, A38 Roof, BUDAPEST
15/08/18 - POL, Alchemia, KRAKOW
16/08/18 - POL, Hydrozadadka, WARSAW
18/08/18 - UK, ArcTenGent Festival, SOMERSET
19/08/18 - UK, Islington Assembly Hall, LONDON
22/08/18 - MLT, IR-Razzett L'Ahmar, MOSTA

PLINI will end the year on tour in Europe with TesseracT and Between the Buried and Me:

09/11/18 - DE, Cologne, Live Music Hall
10/11/18 - NL, Nijmegen, Doornroosje
11/11/18 - BE, Vosselaar, Biebob
12/11/18 - FR, Paris, Le Trabendo
13/11/18 - DE, Aschaffenburg, Colos-Saal
14/11/18 - DE, Hamburg, Gruenspan
15/11/18 - DK, Copenhagen, Pumpehuset
16/11/18 - NO, Oslo, Parkteatret
17/11/18 - SE, Stockholm, Kägelbanan
19/11/18 - DE, Berlin, Lido
20/11/18 - DE, Stuttgart, Im Wizemann
21/11/18 - AT, Vienna, Flex
22/11/18 - DE, Munich, Backstage
23/11/18 - CH, Aarau, Kiff
24/11/18 - IT, Parma, Campus Industry
25/11/18 - LU, Esch, Rockhal

For More Information: 

PLINI Website || PLINI Facebook || PLINI Twitter || PLINI Youtube