Ein Londoner Künstler reagiert auf das Utøya-Massaker und schenkt Norwegen einen Song
NEAL HOFFMANN ist ein Londoner Künstler, der sich nach einer Tour in das Land Norwegen und seine Leute verliebte. Er hat das Land seither einige Male besucht, norwegisch gelernt und sieht sich selbst als "Insider, der von außen reinschaut".
Ukrainian independent record label Svarga Music proudly reports about signing the contract for exclusive rights to re-release the first four albums of KHORS – one of the most dynamically developing Ukrainian bands. Uncountable editions and re-releases of these albums have already given the cult status to this band. At present KHORS having the contract with Candlelight Records (Great Britain), also released the albums through Osmose Productions (France) being one of the metal scene’s pillars.
In celebration of its official North American release, today the crypt keepers at The Gauntlet are streaming PYREXIA's ravaging Feast of Iniquity in its entirety.
Recorded at New York's Pitch Black Sound, and mixed and mastered by Chris "Zeuss" Harris (Kataklysm, The Red Chord, Crowbar, Municipal Waste, 3 Inches Of Blood et al) at Planet Z in Massachusetts, Feast of Iniquity serves as PYREXIA's most sonically mauling record to date.
Not only does today mark the official North American release of Serpents Unleashed, the fifth full-length from Midwestern blackened thrash metal conjurers, SKELETONWITCH, but the band has also chosen today to premiere the music video for the album's ferocious title track! Filmed in black and white, the video features just over two minutes of stylized, in-your-face performance footage produced and directed by Ralph Miller (Turnstyle Fims) and edited by Jon Nix.
Y2K... the turn of the millennium... the end of all things as we know it... or so they said. And while "they" were full of shit, the bands of those days preached the endtime message like no other era in history, and some of the most savage, genre-crossing, purveyance of extreme music took place in those days of the late 1990s.