BATTLESWORD - Towards The Unknown CD
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Melodic Old School Death Metal strikes back !
With "Towards The Unknown", the German melodic death metal institution Battlesword returns with new material in the twenty-third year of its existence and proves that they are far from being old hat and certainly not willing to think about retirement. On the contrary - on the new material the concentrated load of experience breaks through in the form of an energetic steamroller that threatens to bury everything in its path.
With their distinctive mix of melodic death and Scandinavian old school, the band manages to write songs that have classic potential from the very first riff, seemingly effortlessly even in 2022.
"Towards The Unknown" was recorded and produced by Michael "Freio" Haas in April/May at Big Easy Studio in Hennef. For the mastering, the band turned to a master of the genre this time and so none other than Dan Swanö refined the album. In addition to new material, "Towards The Unknown" contains the songs from the "The 13th Black Crusade" maxi, which has been out of print for many years, as a bonus which als also been remastered for this purpose!
TRACKLIST
1. Departure
2. The Awakening
3. To Become The Wolf
4. Terra Combusta
5. The Shores Of I
6. Hound Of Hades
7. Backstabber
- Bonus Tracks -
8. There Will Be Blood
9. Fire And Storm
10. The 13th Black Crusade
With "Towards The Unknown", the German melodic death metal institution Battlesword returns with new material in the twenty-third year of its existence and proves that they are far from being old hat and certainly not willing to think about retirement. On the contrary - on the new material the concentrated load of experience breaks through in the form of an energetic steamroller that threatens to bury everything in its path.
With their distinctive mix of melodic death and Scandinavian old school, the band manages to write songs that have classic potential from the very first riff, seemingly effortlessly even in 2022.
"Towards The Unknown" was recorded and produced by Michael "Freio" Haas in April/May at Big Easy Studio in Hennef. For the mastering, the band turned to a master of the genre this time and so none other than Dan Swanö refined the album. In addition to new material, "Towards The Unknown" contains the songs from the "The 13th Black Crusade" maxi, which has been out of print for many years, as a bonus which als also been remastered for this purpose!
TRACKLIST
1. Departure
2. The Awakening
3. To Become The Wolf
4. Terra Combusta
5. The Shores Of I
6. Hound Of Hades
7. Backstabber
- Bonus Tracks -
8. There Will Be Blood
9. Fire And Storm
10. The 13th Black Crusade
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With "Towards The Unknown", the German melodic death metal institution Battlesword returns with new material in the twenty-third year of its existence and proves that they are far from being old hat and certainly not willing to think about retirement. On the contrary - on the new material the concentrated load of experience breaks through in the form of an energetic steamroller that threatens to bury everything in its path.
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Wenn man über schwedischen Melodic Death Metal der Neunziger spricht, fallen schnell Namen wie Dark Tranquillity, At The Gates und In Flames. Mit GATES OF ISHTAR wird dabei schnell eine Band vergessen, die musikalisch nicht weniger Einfluß auf das Genre hatte und zu den Einflüssen zahlreicher Bands gehört, die nach ihnen das Licht der Welt erblickten.
Nach dem 1996er Debut „A Bloodred Path“ erschienen mit „The Dawn of Flames“ und „At Dusk and Forever“ zwei absolute Meilensteine des Genres, welche leider auch die letzten Veröffentlichung der Schweden blieben.
Die Erstauflage ging Ende der Neunziger durch den Konkurs des damaligen Labels Invasion Records unter im Jahr 2017 erschien eine remasterte Neuauflage, die jedoch mittlerweile erneut entweder vergriffen ist, oder zu hohen Liebhaber und/oder Importpreisen gehandelt wird. Zeit also für ein ReRelease dieser zwei Rohdiamanten zu einer Zeit in der sich der Melodische Death Metal der Neunziger erneut einer steigenden Beleibtheit erfreut!
1. Perpetual Dawn (The Arrival of Eternity - End My Pain)2. Trail of Tears 3. Forever Scarred 4. Dreamfields 5. Dawn of Flames 6. Eternal Sin 7. No Time 8. The Embrace of Winter
IN SANITY - Welcome To The Show CD
€10.99*
Welcome To Insanity!
At In Sanity, which was founded in 2011, sanity and insanity are not only close together, they are virtually on the same line. Once founded with the goal of continuing up a bit of the good old Melodic Death Metal times of the late nineties, the band has since then taken a path that has now reached a new dimension in 2019. Multivoice guitars, covered with steel and styled with a sophisticated songwriting, after two albums released on their own - the band now delivers their masterpiece "Welcome To The Show" .
The sextet does not only set acoustic accents, but also tells a story visually, which is not only found on photos and in the artwork, but is also told in their extravagant live shows, which thus amount to an insane Extreme Melodic Metal performance.
"Welcome To The Show" was recorded and produced in the Greenman Studios by Sebastian "Seeb" Levermann (Orden Ogan, Rhapsody, Alamanac), which not only promises a superb sound, but also cements the demands of the band, which seems to know only one way: always forward and directly "in your face". With this in mind: Let the games begin!
SARLIC BLISS - Brægn Hæft - CD
€12.99*
Atmospheric, Dark and Doomy
The year 2021, in the midst of the Covid pandemic, turns out in retrospect to be a year for promising band formations. Sarlic Bliss also have their origins here. In this case, too, we are dealing with musicians active in the scene for many years, who apparently were looking for a new activity for self-realization. In this case, among others, Daniel Fischer (Midnattsol) and Jochen Turn (Bann) are involved.
With "Brægn Hæft" the full length debut of the quintet is now available, which brings it with only 6 songs to a stately length of over 45 minutes, whereby it should be clear that the fellows obviously take the necessary time to let a song unfold. Not surprisingly, the sound is characterized by dark, aggressive-melancholic sounds, melodically underpinned by the interplay of growls and clean vocals. The band itself sees itself somewhere between Doom-/, Post-Black-/ and Death-Metal at home and put in their lyrics deliberately with Old English language elements to reflect the atmosphere of the music even more authentic.
The present debut is dark, brute and poignant at the same time. Both the recordings and the production were done by the band themselves. "Brægn Hæft" is not least therefore an album as if from a single mold on which the band has portrayed and realized itself without compromise.
STRYDEGOR - Isolacracy Digipak CD
€12.99*
Metallic north wind!
For 10 years now Strydegor have been providing a steady musical north wind in the metal scene. They mix gusts of melodic death metal with hymnic-acoustic swirls, peppered with accentuated pinches of biting black metal. After the three albums and numerous gigs on European stages so far, the northmans are now preparing to unleash another storm of sound with "Isolacracy" as a testimony to their musical development. Like an Orcan that gets under your skin more incisive and lasting than anything the band has ever made before.
The waiting time for the new album was definitely worth it, because "Isolacracy" undoubtedly represents the high point of the quartet's musical work so far and should be a candidate for the title "Melodic Death Metal Album of the Year". The Classical Melodic Metal trademarks, multi-layered vocals, a great feeling for melodies and atmosphere, as well as the mature songwriting are definitely a demand for admission into higher spheres of Metal Olymp!
The present 11 songs were recorded between february 2018 and august 2020 in the Hell-Sounds Studio in Neu Brenz, refined by Oliver Carell/Blastbeat Productions (Ophis, Fäulnis, Heretoir, among others) and finally mastered by Lasse Lammert in the LSD Studio Lübeck (Alestorm, Gloryhammer) to a stunning neckbreaker. The cover artwork, which was created by Patrick Wittstock from Azrael Design, completes the harmonious overall picture of the almost 50 minute longplayer.
TRACKLIST
1. Beware the Beast Man
2. Innocence Corroded
3. Lucid
4. Stars and Strife
5. World in your Hands
6. Into the Unknown
7. Escape
8. Enemy:Inside
9. As April slowly fades
10. Oceans
11. Still Alive
running time: 46:48 min
Discography
Back on Ancient Traces (2009)
In the Shadow of Remembrance (2012)
Enraged (2014)
Isolacracy (2020)
Line-Up
Florian Kunde - Guitar, Vocals
Daniel Hauschild - Guitar
Martin Schmidt - Bass Guitar
Immanuel Promnitz - Drums
SuidAkrA - Cimbric Yarns Digipak CD
€15.99*
After 24 years of band history and 12 studio albums SUIDAKRA has become a flagship in the Celtic-Metalscene. During this time they toured around the globe, played any number of shows, mastermind Arkadius Antonik even spent a week on behalf of the German Goethe Institute to support regional musical projects in India and SUIDAKRA has been the first metal band ever that performed six shows there. Now, on 16th November 2018 they will release their thirteenth album, "Cimbric Yarns", that adopts a much calmer tone. Instead of their characteristic bombastic melodic death metal, the musicians impress with an acoustic, ambient masterpiece that takes the audience into a mystical land far before time.
Based on a fantasy world which was created during the artwork/soundtrack collaboration between the painter Kris Verwimp and Antonik on "Realms Of Odoric", the belgian artist explains: "Continuing the “Realms of Odoric” saga, “Cimbric Yarns” harks back to where it all began. Thousands of years before Odoric’s time, there existed an advanced civilisation that perished in a great cosmic cataclysm. “Cimbric Yarns” is an attempt at recreating its mythology, inspired by ancient Celtic texts and megalithic sites from all over the world. It weaves a fine thread between history and fantasy, chronicling the fate of its main characters Cruàc, Arma and Aenea in 10 compelling acoustic songs.”
Needless to say the overall visual concept and the epic artwork of the album was also done by Verwimp.
Among others Mathias Zimmer (Perzonal War) – vocals, Sascha Aßbach (Fall Of Carthage) - vocals, Tina Stabel - vocals, Shir-Ran Yinon (New Model Army) -viola, violin and Catalina Popa – flute appears as guest musicians.