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CANTO: Fractal Universe, Deafheaven, Hell’s Guardian, and More

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Football is coming… to Rome.

  • Fractal Universe have announced “The Impossible Horizon – Alive” livestream event. That is, of course, in support of The Impossible Horizon, which just dropped via Metal Blade. The event is scheduled for July 25th, and they’ll be performing the album in its entirety. Tickets are available here.
  • Deafheaven premiered a new track, which we obviously need to include. This one is titled “The Gnashing”, and it’s further evidence that Infinite Granite is going to be some kind of incredible. That album drops on August 20th through Sargent House.
  • TesseracT have shared a performance video of “Nocturne” from P O R T A L S. The cinematic live experience will be released on August 27th through Kscope, and can be pre-ordered here.
  • That’s enough for today. I’m spent and have a crazy week ahead of me. So let’s close with some Italian melodic death metal… because of football going to Rome and stuff. Here’s the new video from Hell’s Guardian for “Sentenced”.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb

Album Review: Jonathan Hultén — “Chants From Another Place”

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Illuminated only by the stars in the night sky, a spirit dances out of a forest to guide you on a mystical journey through barren valleys, sparkling waters, and quiet mountain tops.  Jonathan Hultén‘s latest work of art and debut solo studio album, Chants From Another Place, brings listeners to magical places on an adventure filled with darkness, hopes, dreams, life, death, and rebirth.  The album is full of emotion and rises and falls in gentle cascading currents. Continue reading →

Initial Descent: June 4 – 10, 2017

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It’s Saturday and that means a lot of things for a lot of folks but for us it means NEW METAL. And once again we are stacked beyond ceiling height with it this week. Triumvir Foul leads us off (because they rule) with their second full length, Spiritual Bloodshed, and it finds them once again displaying some dangerous death metal chops but it’s darker than their first and they sound better than ever, you know what to do. Next up is the perfect soundtrack for a Saturday with Space Witch‘s space prog take on the stoner doom metal genre Arcanum and the band actually does the impossible in this crowded scene — they stand out! Rolling on is Abrams who truly find their identity with a career defining heavy rock album on Morning, it’s heavy and beautiful and well…I could go on but trust me here — GET IT. Anathema return with a further journey into their moody, melodic and astounding alt-rock on The Optimist and old school death metal darlings Necrot with their debut full length Blood Offerings — and I use darlings here because this band has that something special when it comes to bringing the death metal of yesteryear screaming into 2017. They combine all the high points from their limited material thus far into a fist pumping, hair raising album. But wait, there’s more — much, much more so dive in and find all the gems this week has to offer. Continue reading →

Album Review: Anathema – “The Optimist”

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The coordinates tell you where you need to go, and what you need to know.  There’s an abandoned car at the beach, a radio tuned to 2001 and A Fine Day to Exit, the flag in the ground for where Anathema would begin their journey into the unknown world of dark, contemporary music: beholden to no-one but themselves and the vision for what the band could be.  Sixteen years and four albums later the Anathema show no signs of giving up the ghost, continuing to explore an emotional tapestry of life on their newest album The Optimist.  It’s a beautiful, focused effort that channels a darkness and ultimate catharsis through mood, melody, and a adept touch with with electronics.   Continue reading →

Just the Tip: June 10’s New Releases in Brief

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It’s new release Tuesday, and what a lineup of new albums we have for you this week! Here’s what we’ll be discussing on this week’s podcast:

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June 10, 2014

Arch Enemy – War Eternal (Century Media)

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Anathema – Distant Satellites (Kscope)

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Saor – Aura (Northern Silence)

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Equilibrium – Erdentempel (Nuclear Blast)

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Tombs – Savage Gold (Relapse)

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Mayhem – Esoteric Warfare (Season of Mist)

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As you’ll see, there’s no Atlas Moth, because for some reason Spotify didn’t get their new record, The Old Believer. (We don’t understand either, but hey…that’s out too! As we said before, it’s quite a week for new releases.) At any rate, take a listen to these for yourselves and then check back for our thoughts this Friday in Episode 9!

Live. Love. Plow. Horns Up.