Category: Upcoming releases


Architects Post New Video For ‘Alpha Omega’

Filed Under: Upcoming releases, Video
May.09, 2012

Most of us here at Heavy Blog are pretty excited about the forthcoming Architects record Daybreaker, as it promises to be a return to form for the UK metalcore act. If you’ve written the band off after their previous record The Here And Now, then get ready to think again. The group unveiled their brand new video for the album track ‘Alpha Omega,’ and if it’s any indication of the quality of the record as a whole, then we’re in for a treat.

Daybreaker is due out June 5th on Century Media Records.

 

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What Do You Think Of This New Chelsea Grin Track?

Filed Under: New music, Upcoming releases
May.09, 2012

So Chelsea Grin, complete with ex-Born of Osiris guitarist Jason Richardson, are releasing their new Evolve EP soon, which contains some re-recorded tracks of theirs and a new track called ‘Lilith,’ which you can hear above. Either I am gaining a tolerance for/becoming desensitized to exhausting generic deathcore staples, but this new track seems like it could mark an upswing in the band’s otherwise abysmal discography.

‘Lilith‘ sees the band picking up some symphonic influences, Jason Richardson’s added guitar flair, and apparently clean singing. While I love me some vocal melodies, the chorus on ‘Lilith‘ is just not good, and that’s not to mention those whiney cleans earlier in the song. While the band are arguably musically better, the vocals and lyrics are the weakest part. If I had a dollar for every tough guy deathcore kid who used the lyrics ‘fuck this world’…

What do you folks think of the new track? Let us know! Evolve is due out June 19th on Artery Records.

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DEVWATCH: Pre-Order Devin Townsend’s “By A Thread” Live performance Boxset

Filed Under: Shut Up And Take My Money, Upcoming releases
May.09, 2012

Last November Devin Townsend and his intrepid crew of revolving musicians took on a monumental feat; they played all four current Devin Townsend Project releases in their entirety, one night at a time. Each night’s event was filmed for this massive DVD+CD release that somehow even manages to outshine Devin’s Contain Us Boxset from December, and our editor Chris even got to experience the Deconstruction performance. Althought it’s taken some time to get everything settled and up to par, the  massive project is finally available for pre-order, and it’s definitely enticing.

Among the contents are:

- All four concert performances on separate DVDs (Ki, Addicted, Deconstruction, Ghost).

- All four performances on separate CDs (Ki, Addicted, Deconstruction, Ghost).

- A fifth CD containing all the encores from the various performances.

- A seven inch vinyl of “Coast” from the Devin Townsend Project album, Ki.

It looks to be quite the package, and for fifty five bones it should be much more affordable than Contain Us. Here’s hoping it sells well enough. You can pre-order this monstrosity here. A pre-order for the package without the vinyl is also available. Cheers!

- EC

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Josh DeShazo of Stealing Axion: The Heavy Blog Is Heavy Interview

Filed Under: Upcoming releases
May.04, 2012

Don’t let their ‘djent’ tag on last.fm dissuade you; Stealing Axion are promising up-and-comers in the realm of progressive metal. Sure, their grooving staccato rhythms and guitar tones call back to the great progenitor Meshuggah, but this forward thinking four-piece has enough breadth of sound to appropriately land alongside fellow Washington natives 7 Horns 7 Eyes on the upcoming Dual Destruction tour. Their self-titled (and self-released) EP blew us away in 2010, and with their debut album Moments due out some time this year on Century Media/InsideOut Music, we spoke to guitarist/vocalist Josh DeShazo to speak on their new record and how they’ve been since their breakthrough EP.

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So, thanks for taking a moment to answer my questions. I’ll start off gently: who are you, and what do you do?

My name is Josh DeShazo and I’m the singer of Stealing Axion.  Our vocal duties are split up amongst the three members, but I mainly contribute clean vocals to most of the songs as well as a few screams here and there.  I split vocal duties with Daniel Forbrich, who screams and growls on most of our tracks.  We both play guitar in the band with Phil, our bassist, who also sings backup vocals with a few lead pieces here and there.  Other than performance-wise, I focus on lyrics, band business, and a little bit of writing when inspiration strikes.

I remember when we first received contact from you, you were promoting your self-titled EP. How did you find that process and what was the general response?

Our EP marked the dawn of our Facebook career as a band.  We had put out a demo before releasing the EP that was very well received.  I had spammed it all over the web (hahaha) and more specifically on Tesseract‘s webpage, where Acle happened to find it.  He then contacted us about mixing and mastering an EP/album.  When I contacted Heavyblog, our EP was done and we pretty much put it out there in the same vein as the demo.  It had a few more songs and the production was entirely better (on account of Acle doing it.)  People loved it and it spread around insanely fast.  I still to this day can’t believe how many people have heard our EP.  I meet people all the time in the weirdest places who have heard it and love songs off of it.  It’s an awesome feeling, considering it’s been around for quite a while now.

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Cryptopsy Debut New Track ‘Amputated Enigma‘ Live

Filed Under: New music, Upcoming releases, Video
May.03, 2012

Cryptopsy‘s relationship with their fans and the general metal populace has been shaky lately, to say the least. A lot of fans saw their 2008 outing The Unspoken King as the ultimate betrayal as the band dived head first into keyboards, clean singing and even breakdowns — amongst all the commotion, I never actually bothered to check it out but snippets came up every now and then and ‘disappointing’ was the word that sprung to mind. Then the band went on to stoop to the level of your average death metal elitist by insulting the fans and the entire debacle went from ‘major shitstorm’ to ‘full retard’. And you never want to go ‘full retard’.

Nevertheless, Cryptopsy are back and have returned with original guitarist Jon Levassuer being welcomed back into the fold. The new track ‘Amputated Enigma‘ was debuted at a gig in Ontario and finds the band harkening back to their more well received material and seems entirely devoid of a lot of the features of that made The Unspoken King so deplorable in nature. So this may be a step back in the right direction for the band, but I’m sure some people will talk about how they’ve ‘come crawling back after their failed experiment’. I’ll try and reserve judgement until the new self titled album arrives.

- DL

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Download A Free Candlelight Records Sampler, Featuring A New Ihsahn Track!

Filed Under: Downloads, New music, Upcoming releases
May.03, 2012

Around these parts we’re pretty big fans of the Ihsahn and we’ve all been waiting patiently to hear some new music from his forthcoming album, Eremita. Luckily for us — and of course all of you — today that option has been bestowed down by the good people at Candlelight Records by way of a free sampler available at Amazon.com. The free download is simply called Candlelight Sampler and features an assortment of new music from various bands on the Candelight lineup. I’m not too familiar with most of these bands, but it would appear that the only song that’s truly new is Ihsahn’s track — titled ‘The Paranoid’ — as the album cover list it as a world premier.

I haven’t had time to listen any thing other than the Ihsahn track, mostly because I’m a terrible person, but what I have heard (the Ihsahn track) is phenomenal. It’s pretty clear from this song that the old Norwegian has decided to move further in the realm of prog and continues to eschew his black metal roots for some pretty exciting and divisive sounds. Honestly, I think this is one of the most solid and well written songs in Ihsahn’s entire library of work. It has certainly gotten me even more pumped up for Eremita.

You can download the sampler here, but beware, Amazon makes you jump through a lot of stupid hoops to actually get the song onto your computer. Be sure to give it a listen and let us know what you think in the comments below. Ihsahn’s fourth solo album, Eremita, comes out June 19th on Candlelight Records.

- EC

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Nachtmystium Channel Ministry With New Track ‘As Made‘

Filed Under: New music, Upcoming releases
May.02, 2012

Nachtmystium have a habit of mixing things up when you least expect it — their transformation from traditional, earthy black metal to a blackened sound more at home in the vast emptiness of space is well documented. Both of the Black Meddle collection were well panned and praised by large sections of the metal community, meaning they succeeded in doing what a lot of groups fail to do in this day and age — get people’s attention. So instead, new track ‘As Made‘ finds the band taking a hard left turn down into the grisly industrial world of Ministry through the use of a robotic rhythm section and extensive electronic effects, it’s not known whether the band will continue this sound as it will be released as a two track EP alongside a cover of a Joy Division track but I certainly wouldn’t mind hearing them take this route in the future. The ever knowledgeable Invisible Oranges has the stream, so check it out!

 

- DL

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Trepalium Announce Details For H.N.P

Filed Under: New music, Upcoming releases
May.02, 2012

French metal is definitely a force to be reckoned with these days, new and veteran bands seem to have come out of the woodwork like there’s no tomorrow over the last few years and you only have to look at their alumni to see that there’s some heavy hitters in there. Trepalium, for example, have been pumping out swaggered and juddering death metal groove and all out jazzy weirdness since the turn of the century, producing some real hidden gems that seemed to get unfortunately lost in the tide when the floodgates opened. However, now is your chance to get acquainted with the band, as they release their new album H.N.P (an abbreviation of Heic Noenum Pax, which roughly translates from Latin to ‘here is no peace’) on the 8th of June through Seasons Of Mist. The above track ‘Insane Architect‘ will give you a good idea of the base sound of the band, lying somewhere between Pantera, early Daath and Hacride, but they’re another band that tend to shuffle into a lot of strange places over the course of an album. So definitely something to keep an eye on — also, after the jump you can listen to a cover of Pantera‘s ‘I’m Broken‘ which I can only assume is a bonus track for the album.

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Stream The New As Gods Track ‘Faith’

Filed Under: Audio, New music, Upcoming releases
May.01, 2012

Not too long ago, we gave you a brief teaser for the debut EP of British prog rockers As Gods, Crystalline. With the release looming on the horizon for May 14th, it was only a matter of time before we got a taste of the music to come. We’re streaming their new track ‘Faith‘ below!

 

 

Crystalline is a moody and introspective collection of tracks that doesn’t skimp out on the hooks. Fans of bands like Circles and Dead Letter Circus will thoroughly enjoy Crystalline when it drops May 14th. Keep up with As Gods on Facebook for up to date information!

- JR

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Whitechapel Announce Self-Titled New Album

Filed Under: New music, Upcoming releases, Video
Apr.30, 2012

Whitechapel are extremely high up on the ‘bands I should check out eventually’ list; their particular brand of deathcore always seems to get a little more respect than a lot of their peers so it’s probably fair to assume that they lie more towards the heavy and traditional end of the spectrum. So with Metal Blade announcing that the band will release Whitechapel on June 19th, I may finally get the chance to cross them off that list. While the artwork isn’t anything particularly special, the above track ‘Hate Creation‘, which contains the always tight and punchy production of Mark Lewis (Black Dahlia Murder and Devildriver), has a fair amount of brutal riffs, groove sections and even dynamics — more reminiscent of Despised Icon than say Oceano. Definitely not a game changer, but not something to be scoffed at either.

- DL

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