Monday, September 29, 2008
WHAT THE HEL?
"I LOVE THE SMELL OF NAPALM IN THE MORNING!"
JANUARY 13th, 2009
STUCK MOJO - "The Great Revival" CD
ASGEMIN - "Arv" CD
THE MODERN AGE SLAVERY - "Damned to Blindness" CD
GRAVE DIGGER - "Pray" MCD
JANUARY 27th, 2009
GRAVE DIGGER - "Ballads of a Hangman" CD
ALESTORM - "Leviathan" MCD
.NTB. ***
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
BAHIMIRON UPDATE (NEW ALBUM REVIEW IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS)
BAHIMIRON drummer Blaash offers the following update: “[Newly released album] Southern Nihilizm is spreading like AIDS in Africa thanks to the MORIBUND propaganda campaign, causing general ill and discomfort, or so some of the reviews have stated. We just played our first live show in two years with Inquisition, Nokturne, and others in
Monday, September 22, 2008
FROM RUSSIA WITH "AMOR"
MOSCOW (Sept. 22) -- A Russian navy squadron set off for Venezuela Monday, an official said, in a deployment of Russian military power to the Western Hemisphere unprecedented since the Cold War.
The Kremlin recently has moved to intensify contacts with Venezuela, Cuba and other Latin American nations amid increasingly strained relations with Washington after last month's war between Russia and Georgia. During the Cold War, Latin America became an ideological battleground between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Russian navy spokesman Igor Dygalo said the nuclear-powered Peter the Great cruiser accompanied by three other ships sailed from the Northern Fleet's base of Severomorsk on Monday. The ships will cover about 15,000 nautical miles to conduct joint maneuvers with the Venezuelan navy, he told The Associated Press.
The deployment follows a weeklong visit to Venezuela by a pair of Russian strategic bombers and comes as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez — an unbridled critic of U.S. foreign policy who has close ties with Moscow — plans to visit Moscow this week. It will be Chavez's second trip to Russia in about two months.
The intensifying contacts with Venezuela appear to be a response to the U.S. dispatch of warships to deliver aid to Georgia which angered the Kremlin.
Chavez said in an interview with Russian television broadcast Sunday that Latin America needs a strong friendship with Russia to help reduce U.S. influence and keep peace in the region. In separate comments on his Sunday TV and radio program, he joked that he will be making his international tour to Russia and other countries this week aboard the "super-bombers that Medvedev loaned me," a reference to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. "Gentlemen of the CIA, to be clear, I'm joking," Chavez said with a laugh.
Chavez has repeatedly warned that the U.S. Navy poses a threat to Venezuela.
Russia has signed weapons contracts worth more than $4 billion with Venezuela since 2005 to supply fighter jets, helicopters, and 100,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles. Chavez's government is in talks to buy Russian submarines, air defense systems and armored vehicles and more Sukhoi fighter jets.
Russian and Venezuelan leaders also have talked about boosting cooperation in the energy sphere to create what Chavez has called "a new strategic energy alliance."
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, who visited Venezuela last week, announced that five of Russia's biggest oil companies are looking to form a consortium to increase Latin American operations and to build a $6.5 billion refinery to process Venezuela's tar-like heavy crude. Such an investment could help Venezuela, the world's ninth-biggest oil producer, wean itself from the U.S. refineries on which it depends to process much of its crude.
Sechin warned the United States that it should not view Latin America as its own backyard. "It would be wrong to talk about one nation having exclusive rights to this zone," he said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
WAS JUST WONDERING ABOUT THESE GUYS.
Featuring Nils Eriksson and Fredrik Mannberg from the mighty Nocturnal Rites and together in collaboration with the master of Thrash Metal artist Ed Repka (Megadeth, Atheist, Death, Venom, etc), Guillotine will crush all competitors in the genre and emerge as the reigning kings of Thrash Metaldom!
Mixed at Toontrack Studio by Mattias Eklund (Nocturnal Rites, Naglfar, etc) and mastered by Goran Finnberg at The Mastering Room (Soilwork, In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, etc), Blood Money will be released by Pulverised Records October 27, 2008.
Promos will be available soon; all promo requests for North America, get in touch with Earsplit...
"Guillotine is no trendy retro-thrash concoction;
Blood Money is aggressive, catchy and full of heart." - Metal Maniacs
'They might have left us 10 years ago with a retro classic but in 2008, Guillotine is a
meaner, faster and far more vicious thrashing bloodthirsty machine
ready to chop your head off!' - Terrorizer Magazine
Band Biography:
1997 - To large praise of the underground thrash scene and magazines alike, GUILLOTINE's debut album "Under the Guillotine" is released in the first quarter of 1997. Although this happened when the retro Thrash revival is at its peak and the scene is flooded with bands and projects, GUILLOTINE manages to secure a top position and "Under the Guillotine" is still to this day considered a classic second wave Thrash Metal release of the 1990's.
1998 - The main focus of Fredrik Mannberg and Nils Eriksson is devoted to NOCTURNAL RITES and any GUILLOTINE’s eventual plans for touring and further releases are indefinitely put on ice.
2007 - After a ten-tear break, the monster lives and the urge to produce killer Thrash Metal songs is back again! This time to stay, as it seems. The band recruits two new members, Daniel Sundbom (Guitars), Efraim Juntunen (Drums) and lays down two brand new tracks ("War", "Blood Money") for a demo and the intention of landing a record deal for their second - or comeback if you will - album. In early 2008, the band ultimately signs with Pulverised Records and begin work on what will become "Blood Money" (2008).
2008 - Present day. GUILLOTINE has finished recording for "Blood Money" and are awaiting it to be unleashed upon an anxious Thrash community. The band is here to stay. No project or second try - the real thing; only pure, simple and to-the-point Thrash Metal. In the rawest and most pissed off form there is.
Guillotine is:Nils Eriksson – BassFredrik Mannberg – Guitars / VocalsDaniel Sundbom – GuitarsEfraim Juntunen – Drums
http://www.myspace.com/guillotine2007
http://www.pulverised.net/
http://www.myspace.com/pulverisedrecords
BORIS AND NATASHA'S NINE INCH NAILS
This news comes immediately after Boris' monolithic headlining appearance at the East Village Radio Festival at Manhattan's South Street Seaport this month (see the full photo set here: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/09/boris_ssseaport.html), as well as their most recent monumental headlining North American tour on their latest album Smile, the album that has set the band up as superstars in the press, radio, video and all forms of music media.
Boris are here... and they're going to be here for quite some time. Get used to it - it's a good thing.
Boris with Nine Inch Nails
11/11/2008 Scotiabank Place - Ottawa, ON11/12/2008 Bell Centre - Montreal, QC11/13/2008 Lee's Palace - Toronto, ON (*BORIS HEADLINE - NO NIN)11/14/2008 Copps Coliseum - Hamilton, ON11/15/2008 Van Andel Arena - Grand Rapids, MI11/16/2008 Grog Shop - Cleveland, OH (*BORIS HEADLINE - NO NIN)11/17/2008 Schottenstein Center - Columbus, OH11/18/2008 Allen County Memorial - Fort Wayne, IN11/20/2008 US Cellular Center - Cedar Rapids, IA11/21/2008 Mizzou Arena - Columbia, MO11/22/2008 BOK Center - Tulsa, OK11/25/2008 Target Center - Minneapolis, MN11/26/2008 Mid-America Center - Council Bluffs, IA
http://www.inoxia-rec.com/boris
http://www.myspace.com/borisdronevil
http://www.southernlord.com
http://www.myspace.com/southernlordrecordings
http://blog.southernlord.com
YOU'LL TURN INTO A PUMPKIN.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
THEY SHALL PART THE RED SEA.
As far as Sabina Classen is concerned, the title of the new Holy Moses album says it all. Agony of Death is the medical term for the death struggle and is also the common denominator of the recording’s lyrics. Musically, Agony of Death features a stylistic review of Holy Moses classics such as Finished with the Dogs (1987) and The New Machine of Liechtenstein (1989), blended with more contemporary influences, complexity and diversity than any previous Holy Moses recording.
OLD
The title, artwork and full tracklisting of Russian OLD WAINDS' fourth album are finally disclosed. Germinated in the lifeless land of one season, the eight chilly odes of "Death Nord Kult" consume all within range, harbingers of the deathly coldness that will ultimately embrace and cloak us all.
Tracklisting is as follows:
1 - Storm Whip
2 - Once Moonlight...
3 - Cruel Black Dead
4 - Bloodstained
5 - Cold Twilight Of The Worlds
6 - Born In the Freezing Dark
7 - Death Nord Kult
8 - Cold Northern Order
The first 1000 copies will come in digipack format with a bonus video.
A track has been uploaded and can be heard here.
To be released on September 29th under the banner of Debemur Morti Productions.
HORNADOG
The title, artwork and full tracklisting of HORNA's forthcoming seventh album are finally disclosed. On "Sanojesi Äärelle", the abyssic ones have conceived a dual tribute to the energies that stimulate them – one side worshipping Satanic darkness, one praising Luciferian light. 14 hymns of instinctive Black Metal that materialise as the absolute epitome of Finnish filth!
Tracklisting is as follows:
Disc I : 1. Muinaisten Alttarilta, 2. Verilehto, 3. Mustan Kirkkauden Sarastus, 4. Katseet, 5. Askeesi, 6. Sanojesi Äärelle, 7. Orjaroihu, 8. Risti Ja Ruoska, 9. Wikinger, 10. Merkuriana
Disc II : 1. Liekki Ja Voima, 2. Ruumisalttari, 3. Musta Rukous, 4. Baphometin Siunaus
Two tracks are available on the band's Myspace.
To be released on September 29th via Debemur Morti Productions.
Small cover : http://www.debemur-morti.com/img/dmp0042-07_1.jpg
Big cover : http://www.debemur-morti.com/img/dmp0042-07_4.jpg
Tracks : http://www.myspace.com/thetruehorna