Everyone’s favorite independent progressive metal band Iron Thrones releases what might just be the best thing I’ve heard all year tomorrow, but if you didn’t pre-order The Wretched Sun and receive your copy yet, then you can listen to it right now on AOL Music.
This album (technically an EP, but I refuse to categorize it as such because of its length and significance) is a masterpiece, and if you liked Visions of Light, you will LOVE this. Go ahead and give it a listen. This is grand and poetic music that is worth hearing.
36 Crazyfists – Collisions And Castaways (Ferret Music)
Angels Of Babylon – Kingdom Of Evil (Burnhill Union)
Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare (Reprise)
The Body – All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood (At A Loss)
Brutal Truth – No Need To Control [Re-Release] (Earache)
Cruel Hand – Lock & Key (Bridge Nine)
Decrepit Birth – Polarity (Nuclear Blast)
Insidious Disease – Shadowcast (Century Media)
Invasion – Orchestrated Kill Maneuver (Rotting Corpse)
Iron Thrones – The Wretched Sun
King James – The Fall [Re-Release] (Retroactive)
Life Of Agony – 20 Years Strong: River Runs Red – Live In Brussels (CD/DVD) (I Scream)
Proghma-C – Bar-do Travel (Armoury)
Revamp – Revamp (Nuclear Blast)
Sodom – Lords Of Depravity II [DVD] (SPV)
Various Artists – 20 Years Of Century Media: 2001-2005 (Century Media)
Not a whole lot going on, but there’s some gems in there, such as Decrepit Birth and IRON THRONES ! Have a good week, guys!
7/29/10 Chicago, IL @ The Double Door w/ The Alaya Conscious, Hessler
7/31/10 Columbus, OH @ The Summit w/ The C.O.A.S.T., Artillery Breath
8/01/10 Aliquippa, PA @ The Fallout Shelter w/ Sathanas, Dethlehem
8/02/10 Brooklyn, NY@ The Charleston w/ East of the Wall, Name, & more!
8/03/10 Allenstown, NH @ Ground Zero w/ TBA
8/04/10 Worcester, MA @ Tammany Hall w/ Irepress, Frozen
8/05/10 Philadelphia, PA @ The M Room w/ Monolith, Willing Swords
8/07/10 Spartanburg, SC @ Ground Zero w/ TBA
8/10/10 Clarksville, TN @ The Coup w/ Evolve or Die
8/11/10 Nashville, TN @ The Muse w/ TBA
8/12/10 St. Louis, MO @ The Firebird w/ Ashes and Iron
8/13/10 Marshalltown, IA @ The American Legion w/ Anno Domine, Tony Rocky Horror
If you live near any of those stops and plan on going, e-mail the guys at streetteam(at)ironthrones(dot)com for details on what you can do to help promote. The more people who go to these shows, the more likely it will be that the band can tour again. This is a team effort guys, so spread the word!
Also, if you are in a (g00d) band and can make it to the Allenstown, Spartanburg, Clarksville, Nashville, and Marshalltown shows, you can be put in a support slot and open up for Iron Thrones and Last Chance To Reason! Send those inquiries over to booking(at)ironthrones(dot)com.
This should be a killer show if you can make it. I can’t, so take advantage of this tour, as it is most awesome. Be sure to tell the rest of us all about it so we can live through you vicariously.
Continuing the reporting of every minute Iron Thrones-related piece of news we can (because we are pants-wettingly excited for their upcoming EP The Wretched Sun), I would like to instruct you pleases to follow this link kindly yes?
Why? Because they have posted one of the songs from said EP, entitled – had you guessed it? – Like A Moth To Flame.
Yeah, that’s all really. Whilst you’re there, you may as well listen to the other songs on the player, because they’re awesome. Especially if you haven’t already.
Oh lordy. Announced last night, Minnesota’s own Iron Thrones are proud to present their new album The Wretched Sun, which will be hitting your earholes on July 27th.
It was revealed via a three minute video posted on their YouTube channel, the soundtrack to which was a section of one of the new songs. Rather than steal their thunder though, I’ll let them tell you about it themselves.
SO MUCH BEER!
Since hearing about them through Scion’s ‘No Label Needed’ contest, I’ve been pretty nuts about them, as their debut album Visions of Light was a sweeping masterpiece that yours truly gave the coveted HBIH 5/5 sticker. If you haven’t checked it out yet, I urge you to a) because it’s awesome, b) because it’s free and c) because did I mention it’s awesome?
As such, I’m pretty stoked for this album, and pending it also being awesome, it should give me a further chance to pimp them in my end of year list (yep, year’s only half down but I’m already thinking about it!). Iron Thrones seem like super cool dudes, and genuinely deserve your support.
EDIT: updated thanks to info from The Number of the Blog, .jpg artwork and tracklisting is as follows:
Like a Moth to Flame
Ever Flowing
Against the Grain
I Once Had the Crown
Forever Glowing
And the Sky Came Falling Down
Aww, issa poem. Isn’t that nice?
Seems that I stepped on Jimmy’s toes slightly with this post, as he had one scheduled, but I had planned to do this when I heard last night. Alas; sleepy time called, but that’ll serve him right for stealing my article ideas *mumblegrumbleplotplotplot*…
Iron Thrones were recently propelled into my peripheral vision via Metal Insider and Scion’s No Label Needed contest. The prize up for grabs was a month’s tutoring, advice, recording, and other bits and pieces; basically everything any band needs to increase their chances of becoming successful artists (provided they don’t suck, of course), without the interference of a record label. Iron Thrones, as you may have guessed, were the lucky winners.
As usual, our brothers over at The Number of the Blog are way ahead of us one this one, and have been all over these dudes for a while now (Spna15 interviewed guitarist Steve Henningsgard for the site last month), but deservingly so the rest of the metal community seems to be catching up.
A bit of research tells me that Visions of Light, released in 2008 and then re-released in 2009 by Tribunal Records, was one of those DIY, intense-labour-of-love jobbies: blood, sweat, tears – and probably a quantity of the less salubrious bodily fluids as well. But piss up a wall, does it ever show.
The first thing that stands out is their ability to build a song – and I don’t just mean how to construct it. Opening track Swell to the Surface does just that; serving as a three and a half minute intro, surging not once but twice before breaking into The Dark Design, which launches full throttle with vocalist Adam Clemans’ throaty growls. This pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the album.
