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Monuments’ Mike Maylan on new album “In Stasis,” musical inspirations, and more!

April 13, 2022April 8, 2022opethbodomLeave a comment

London’s progressive metallers Monuments are on the eve of releasing their fourth full length album, In Stasis, on April 15 and if you’ve been paying attention they’ve come along way since their debut. Their songwriting is more captivating than ever, the band’s performances are better than ever, and to add to it all, they’ve added a technical component here that makes this quite possibly their heaviest release yet.

Just ahead of this album’s release, Buke jumped in the interview machine to chat with drummer Mike Maylan to discuss a multitude of topics: the new album, his and the band’s musical inspirations, injuries and overcoming some major struggles, drumming styles, selling guitar tabs, enjoying music without judgement, and a whole host of other topics. We now present that conversation to you in its entirety.

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Initial Descent: April 10 – 16, 2022

April 11, 2022April 7, 2022JoshLeave a comment

Feel free to feel how you want about this statement, but I’m just over here basking in the glory of the metal 2022 has brought us thus far and several you don’t even know about yet that will knock the socks clean off your crusty feet. Speaking of new metal, we’ve got a full listing and a few of these are at the level of ‘knocking socks off’ so let’s get to it… Kicking things off are a couple of top tier brutal death metal entries from Analepsy and Atoll which have my full attention. Then, we’ve got another MASSIVE doom outing from Seer, a progressive and slightly technical outing from Monuments, and a bloated list of other records worthy of your time and hard earned dollars. Just keep some of that change for new socks, eh?!

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CANTO: Cave In, Ufomammut, Enterprise Earth, and More

March 16, 2022March 16, 2022CoreyLeave a comment

Skipped yesterday because… eh, nobody cares. But a lot of cool stuff happened all the same!

Speaking of which, we’re going to kick all this off with new Cave In. Their Relapse debut, Heavy Pendulum, is set for a May 20th release. Check out for the new music video for “New Reality” here. It’s expectedly awesome.
Enterprise Earth has announced a headlining tour this coming July and August, with support from Within Destruction, Sentinels, and Great American Ghost. That tour will be in support of The Chosen, which dropped earlier this year through MNRK Heavy.
Pittsburgh experimental sludge crew Pyrithe have announced a new full-length. Monuments To Impermanence will be out on April 29th through Gilead Media, and “Glioblastoma” is streaming over on their Bandcamp.
As the release of In Stasis draws closer, Monuments revealed another new track from their forthcoming effort. Check out “False Providence” here, and keep an out for that new album, which drops April 15th through Century Media.
And we’ll wrap up with some new material from Ufomammut, another 9C favorite. Fenice is out on May 6th through Neurot Recordings. Check out the clip for “Psychostasia” below.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb

CANTO: Kreator, Monuments, Arch Enemy, and More

February 4, 2022February 4, 2022CoreyLeave a comment

Everyone go spend a bunch of money on Bandcamp Friday.

I like the idea of leading off with Venom Prison. Check out the visualizer for the new track titled “Comfort of Complicity”. That, of course, is taken from Erebos, which is officially out today through Century Media.
A whole lot from Century Media today, apparently. Next we have Arch Enemy, who unveiled a new video for “Handshake with Hell”. Deceivers is out on July 29th. Here’s that purchase link, should you need it.
Josh was right, Kreator still has incredible album art. Such is the case with their upcoming new album, Hate Über Alles, which will be released on June 3rd through Nuclear Blast. Check out the music video for the title-track right here.
Chris told me this was good, so I’m including it. Here’s the latest from Ithaca, titled “They Fear Us”. That’s the title-track from their new album, which is set for a July 29th drop through Hassle Records.
Switching back to Century Media to wrap up, we have another new one from Monuments. Below is the video for “Cardinal Red”. In Stasis is out on April 15th, and can be pre-ordered here.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb

CANTO: Monuments, Mantic Ritual, Voivod, and More

January 26, 2022January 26, 2022CoreyLeave a comment

Well, today has been one of the longer days I’ve had in awhile.

I want to lead off with the new single from Corpsegrinder that I managed to miss earlier in the week. Here’s the lyric video for “On Wings of Carnage”. His debut solo album is out on February 25th through Perseverance Music Group and can be purchased here.
Monuments has a new album dropping on April 15th titled In Stasis. I assume that will be out through Century Media, but we’re going to have to wait a bit for new music, so here’s the link to “Lavos” in case you missed it way back when.
Voivod unveiled the music video for the titled-track from Synchro Anarchy today. Give it a watch and listen here. As a reminder, that album drops on February 11th through Century Media and can be snagged her.
Four is enough for today. So we’re going to close this out with the new single and video from Mantic Ritual for “Black Funeral”. That Mercyful Fate cover is featured on the B-side of Crusader, the 7″ set for release on Friday through M-Theory Audio.