Behemoth knows what happens when whores aren't put in their place.
01. Daimonos
02. Shemaforash
03. Ov Fire And The Void
04. Transmigrating Beyond Realms Ov Amenti
05. He Who Breeds Pestilence
06. The Seed Ov I
07. Alas, Lord Is Upon Me
08. Defiling Morality Ov Black God
09. Lucifer
This slab of blackened death will hit stores August 7th in Europe On Nuclear Blast and August 11 here in the States on Metal Blade.
- JR
Seriously. They had the single best metal record that came out last year and they put on one hell of a performance. There’s some poor band out there that has nothing because these guys have it all.
This video is over a year old, but it’s still amazing. And hilarious.
- JR
Two HevyDevy news posts in a row. It’s a good day.
Today while reading his twitter account, I saw that Dev released three bonus tracks from the Ki sessions on Bittorrent which features a b-side, a 15+ minute jam session, and Dev testing out his equipment. He actually did this a few weeks ago, but I couldn’t find any other place that had it available. Here’s what Dev had to say:
“Hey folks! Dev here…here’s three tracks for ya. I think they’re cool, but theyre just ‘bonus’ stuff for Ki…take em, love em, hate em, burn a disk and enjoy…(or not)
Track 1) SYNCHRONICITY FREAKS: This is the first song I wrote for Ki, didn’t end up quite right though…I like it and it’s cool to hear (I think) It’s unmastered.
Track 2) KI JAM: This is Me, Jean and Duris kind of jamming in between takes while we were recording the album…yup. It’s unmastered too.
Track 3) TESTING SOME FENDER TOYS: This was a sunny afternoon and I’m just messing around with clean sounds and different pickups. It was a Fender 57 Twin reissue with some Mullards, My EJ strat, and a Keeley compressor. Echos were after the fact. Aaaand, unmastered. Get yer wank on.
Theres lots more stuff I’ll put up here in the next month or so. Music is life, thanks for letting me continue to do it!
Devin.”
How nice of him! I downloaded the .wavs from the torrent and converted them to mp3 for all of you who want them. Spread the word and support The Devin Townsend Project!
These are definitely interesting tracks. Make sure you pick up Ki when it comes out June 19th in the USA. It’s actually worth paying money for.
- JR
I shit you not. The next album to be released under The Devin Townsend Project, “Addicted”, is going to be akin to Nickelback, only “not about the penis.” 
“Sex sells and I understand that but I started getting a real dark energy off of the record. It’s like “we’re making money and this is how you make money”, so this next record, I want to make it sound like the Nickelback record and I want to have chorus’s like the Nickelback record, but I want the lyrics to be about infinity and quantum mechanics.”
“The whole point of this is to say “sure, that sells but is it the aesthetics that sell or is it you singing about your penis because if it’s you singing about your penis, then I’m going to know right away”. If it’s about the penis then I’m not going to sell shit, but if it’s about the sound then maybe I’ll sell tons of it!”
Before, Devin said in an interview that he tried to make a pop record with these huge and melodic choruses, but it was out of his comfort zone as a forty year old with bad teeth and no hair. 
“I wanted to write a pop record and I wrote a pop chorus and then all of the sudden I tried to write another and I was like, “I don’t want to write this shit,” you know what I mean? It’s like no one’s going to buy it anyway. I mean, my reality scheme as a musician is that I’m a 40-year-old dude with bad teeth and no hair, right? I’m not going to be a pop star any time soon, so I just have to be honest with what I do — what is it that I want to do? Do you really want to write shitty pop music and try to sell it to a bunch of people that you don’t like? Or do you want to just do what comes naturally? And do I like choruses? Hell, yeah! I like choruses and I like pop melodies, so to speak, but the more I tried doing it, the more I realized that how I really wanted to frame all of those choruses was crushing.”
Wow. The way I see it, it’s going to end up like a really heavy Nickelback album? I don’t know how this will go down. I’m conflicted here, as being generally anti-Nickelback (although I admit they are catchy). If I like this Devin Townsend album, I’ll have no real excuse. I’ll just tell people what Devin told us: “Well, these songs aren’t about Chad Kroeger’s penis.”
Update: I just found out that Devin has also said that “Some parts of it sound like Meshuggah, some parts of it sound like Boney M,” whoever that is. Addicted will also include a new version of the song “Hyperdrive” from his album Ziltoid the Omniscient with lead vocals by Anneke van Giersbergen, a female dutch singer. I <3 me some Hyperdrive. This sounds like it’ll be a fun record after all.
- JR
Progressive and epically badass metalcore band Protest the Hero are coming out with their first live CD/DVD, entitled “Gallop Meets The Earth”.
The setlist to the performance:
01. Sequoia Throne
02. No Stars Over Bethlehem
03. Bloodmeat
04. The Dissentience
05. Palms Read
06. Blindfolds Aside
07. Goddess Bound
08. Goddess Gagged
09. Spoils
10. Nautical
11. Limb from Limb
The footage was shot at the Sound Academy in Toronto last December and includes several bonus features, including every music video and a documentary of the tour featuring antics from the PTH crew. Fortress was one of my top albums of last year, so I’ll be giving this a look. “Gallop Meets The Earth” comes out August 11th on Underground Operations/Universal in Canada and Vagrant Records in USA.
-JR
Looks like some pretty decent album art. Nothing really spectacular. The songs that I’ve heard from it are good though.
Speaking of Darkest Hour, have you downloaded their new song “No God” yet? You can do that here at HBIH.
Darkest Hour‘s The Eternal Return, comes out June 23 on Victory Records.
EDIT: Today, the tracklist was posted. So instead of wasting time with yet another Darkest Hour post, I’ll just add it here.
01. Devolution Of The Flesh
02. Death Worship
03. The Tides
04. No God
05. Bitter
06. Blessed Infection
07. Transcendence
08. A Distorted Utopia
09. Black Sun
10. Into The Grey
-JR
One of the heaviest holidays, so we’re taking the day off.
See you tomorrow.
The ironic redundancy is ridiculous, I know, but we are on our way to becoming more official looking.
Awesome. I for one, am pretty stoked for the new domain name. As a new blog, we will continue to grow with time. We recently broke 100 views the other day and we got a 7.5 rating right out of the bat on blogged.com. The first week is looking better than I expected.
Keep checking back for more here on HBIB!
- JR
Xerath are a prog metal quartet from good ol’ mother England. They’ve been chugging their way to a deal with candlelight records and have finally released their debut album ” I “ which is available now. This band fuses Meshuggah style chug riffs, with harsh thrash like vocals and a heavy orchestral back ground. They dub themselves filmscore metal, or chugscore due to the fact that they sound like an action movie score. Not everything is a chug, so don’t worry. You’re not going to get constant triplets and odd timings for 12 songs. They have traditional riffs, squealing pinches and solos and all that fancy stuff that all you fancy people like. I haven’t heard the album yet, only the songs on their myspace titled “False History” and “Reform I” which are fantastic and lead me to promote this album. They’ll have shirts coming out soon, and as I said the album is out now so hop in your lorry and grab a whole load of these and give me a copy.
Xerath at myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/xerath
Buy record at Plastic Head distro.:
http://www.plastichead.com/catalogue.asp?ex=fitem&verb=F&target=CANDLE274CD
-mw
If you haven’t heard of Gorod, you haven’t heard much of anything. Gorod are a french tech death band with a wide variety of interesting world music influences. They aren’t particularly full of low end chunky riffs but they still manage to be remotely heavy and contain great songwriting. They’re back with a new release for June 1st, which might be floating around on the internet somewhere, but I don’t know for sure. I also don’t know that it’s great.
You can catch a couple tracks over at their myspace.
www.myspace.com/gorod
-mw
