The new and upcoming releases thread.

[metal evilution]

This thread is for people to post up news about and to discuss upcoming and new Metal releases. No matter if it's a major force in the world of Metal ala METALLICA or IRON MAIDEN or perhaps your own unsigned band about to release your first demo, this is the thread to let us know first about an imminent or recent release and any interesting surrounding info on it.
Let's get the mouths on anticipation salivating shall we.

 

[RazorStingRay]

Obvious choice for album of the year, Virgin Steele's much anticipated new album

Germany / Austria / Switzerland: October 22nd, 2010
Europe: October 25th, 2010
USA / Canada: November 9th, 2010

David DeFeis reveals: “The album is called: THE BLACK LIGHT BACCHANALIA, and the following tracks will most likely end up on there: BY THE HAMMER OF ZEUS, PAGAN HEART,THE BREAD OF WICKEDNESS, THE ORPHEUS TABOO, , IN A DREAM OF FIRE, NEPENTHE , NECROPOLIS (He Answers Them With Death) , TO CROWN THEM WITH HALOS Parts 1 & 2 , THE TORTURE’S OF THE DAMNED, THE BLACK LIGHT BACCHANALIA (The Age That Is To Come) and ETERNAL REGRET.
It will be a long album...close to 80 minutes...The album (to be really brief), concerns the reversal of all things...Once conquered by invading cultures, older Pagan deities become the demons…of the new religion. The Black Light Bacchanalia is a reversal of the sacred sexual customs, and the final desecration of the "Goddess Principle", switching from matrilineal descent to patrilineal descent, with the rise of the idea of the Mountain-Fire God.... And it also has to do with ancient fears such as the fear of the sun not rising...Lyrically it is a kind of continuation of the story I told on the last album...Musically it is quite something else...”

 

[metal evilution]

Founded by a young guitarist named Ashmedi in the city of Jerusalem back in 1993, MELECHESH has always been a visionary band that invented a genre on its own. Melting raw black metal with Mediterranean drum patterns and guitar scales was the idea and resulted in a phenomenal demo (“As Jerusalem Burns”) and a 7” EP (“The Siege Of Lachish”) which gained the band a certain popularity in the first place. However the first album “As Jerusalem Burns… Al’Intisar” was the one to put Jerusalem and Bethlehem on the map of extreme metal, making MELECHESH the first non Israeli metal band from the middle east to get signed – and the first ever metal band out of Jerusalem with a record deal. Ashmedi eventually moved to Europe in 1998 due to several demographic and socio political reasons.

The following year saw the recruitment of Proscriptor (from ABSU) on drums and a three-album deal with Osmose Productions. The new album, “Djinn”, was characterized by its subtle mix between extreme metal and Middle Eastern sounds, taking the bands brand to another level.

Although the band members being located all over the world, in 2003 determined Ashmedi took the next step. “Sphynx” (featuring an epic cover illustrated by Ron Woodall from George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic) brought the band a whole lot thrashier sound without denying their black metal roots. The album was greeted as “Sumerian thrashing black metal”, ranking as one of the top 10 metal releases of 2003 and one of the best 100 albums of the decade by Terrorizer magazine.

The following years also brought MELECHESH back to the live scene, playing festivals in Europe and North America. With Proscriptor living in the United States however, MELECHESH needed to recruit session drummer Xul who in 2005 would eventually replace Proscriptor once the band entered the writing phase for their fourth album, “Emissaries”.

The effort would be delayed by almost a year because of a mixing problem. “Emissaries” was finally released on 30 October 2006 (European/world date) and January 23, 2007 in the United States. According to their label this was the most expensive album for Osmose Productions after Immortal’s “Blizzard Beasts”. The bands fourth record got greeted as proof of MELECHESH’s determined character. According to Zero Tolerance magazine the album “stands majestically tall as a supreme victory for a band prepared to challenge the limits of what they can achieve” and USA’s Spin Magazine ambitiously praised the band as “setting the bar for metal in 2007”. The album was album of the month in several magazines and/or album of the year in 2006 and 2007. ”Emissaries” also confirmed that MELECHESH’s music was made to be played live, and so the band toured Europe in 2008 and several shows in North America and played numerous international festivals (Party San, Hellfest, Kaltenbach, Hole in the Sky, Maryland Deathfest….) and took them all the way to distant and unlikely places such as Dubai and Armenia.

The same year, MELECHESH took another step and signed with Nuclear Blast Records. Shortly before the new album went to the planning stages, Ashmedi was asked to write a monthly column about his life and thoughts. Still going his interesting autobiographical stories are being published worldwide by several big print & online publications which gained the band even more interest from all over the world and pushed the name already in advance of the album.

This multidimensional aspect is characteristic for a band that constantly seeks to explore the many facets of the sub genre it forged within the extreme metal scene. Preferring quality to quantity, musical honesty over trend, MELECHESH is answering a call. And so, with newly recruited Rahm on bass, in April 2010 the band was set to to record their fifth album “The Epigenesis”. Against all trends the band went eastwards rather than going for any skandinavian or US studio. “The Epigenesis” was recorded in Istanbuls newly built first class Babajim Studio. Amongst other surprises, the album incorporates more organic elements, subtly integrating traditional instruments (such as yayli tanbur, Azeri Tar, baglama saz, Indian sitar and Persian santur), 12string guitars and leaving room for jam-like improvisations that channel the inspiring aura of Istanbul, a city that has always been a melting point for cultures, for east and west…

This is sonic magick!

 

[metal evilution]

The recently announced news of another SANCTUARY album to be recorded sure has my attention!!!

 

[metal evilution]

Swedish death metallers EVOCATION will release their third album, "Apocalyptic", on October 29 via Cyclone Empire Records. The cover artwork was created by Xaay (BEHEMOTH, NILE, VADER) and it "fit both the title, 'Apocalyptic', and our musical achievements just perfect," says the band. "We are blown away by the effort and feeling [Xaay] gave it."

"Apocalyptic" track listing:

01. Sweet Obsession
02. We Are Unified Insane
03. Infamy
04. Parasites
05. Reunion In War
06. Psychosis Warfare
07. Murder In Passion
08. It Is All Your Fault
09. Curse On The Creature
10. Apocalyptic

A four-and-a-half-minute video clip featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the album can be viewed below.

Audio samples of all the tracks that are set to appear on the CD are available for streaming at http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/Evocation-Apocalyptic/hnum/1137512

EVOCATION's second album, "Dead Calm Chaos", was released on October 31, 2008 via Cyclone Empire. The CD featured guest appearances by Anders Björler (AT THE GATES, THE HAUNTED) and Swedish producer/multi-instrumentalist Dan Swanö (BLOODBATH, EDGE OF SANITY). The album was recorded in the band's own studio under the watchful eye of guitarist Vesa Kenttäkumpu.

EVOCATION is:

Thomas Josefsson – Vocals
Janne K. Bodén – Drums
Vesa Kenttäkumpu – Guitar
Marko Palmén – Guitar
Martin Toresson – Bass

 

[Force101]

The new Sodom album 'In War And Pieces' comes out Nov 22nd! Can't wait!

Song from the album: http://soundcloud.com/sodomized/in-war-and-pieces

 

[MotherEel]

Mass Burial have just released their album.
Apparently The Red Shore's new album is pretty good and not a 'core' band no more.

 

[metal evilution]

Mighty Dutch Death Metallers GOD DETHRONED have launched a landing page for their upcoming new album 0'Under The Sign Of The Iron Cross'!

Head over to www.metalblade.com/goddethroned to stream the title track off the new album

Comments singer/guitarist Henri Sattler on the title track: "The 1905 Schlieffen Plan made by the Prussian Count von Schlieffen after England signed the previous Entente Cordiale in 1904 with France. The plan was based on a battle between Hannibal and the Roman army in 216 B.C. that was later modified and eventually failed when put into practice. It remains uncertain if the changes to the Schlieffen Plan or the plan itself was the reason for not being successful."

The bands 9th album was recorded at the Soundlodge Studios in Leer, Germany.

Comments singer/guitarist Henri Sattler: "Musically the new album turned out to be one of the most extreme records we ever did. Nevertheless with the very recognizable God Dethroned hooks present in all the songs.Producer Joerg Uken outdid himself this time, because our new album is in my opinion the best produced album we ever had. Extremely raw, heavy, but crystal clear and super dynamic at the same time."

'Under The Sign Of The Iron Cross' will be released on November 22

 

[metal evilution]

German Heavy Metal queen DORO celebrated her 25th career anniversary in 2008 with a special concert at the ISS Dome Hall in Dusseldorf.
For every fan who didn’t have the chance to see that magic concert live, DORO is now about to release a special 2DVD+CD package of that concert.

Experience DORO live on stage with this amazing package that shows why she truly deserves to be the queen of metal.\

DVD 1:
25 Years In Rock …And Still Going Strong – The Concert (02:35:17)
01. Intro – 25 Years
02. Earthshaker Rock
03. I Rule The Ruins
04. You're My Family
05. The Night Of The Warlock
06. Hellraiser
07. Always Live To Win (feat. Bobby Blitz)
08. Above The Ashes
09. She's Like Thunder
10. Herzblut
11. Für Immer
12. Burn It Up (feat. Jean Beauvoir)
13. Metal Tango
14. Drum Solo by Johnny Dee
15. Celebrate (Full Metal Female Version) (feat. Sabina Classen, Floor Jansen, Liv Kristine, Ji-In Cho, Liv Jagrell, Jackie Chambers, Enid Williams)
16. Love Me In Black
17. Walking With The Angels (feat. Tarja Turunen)
18. East Meets West (feat. Chris Boltendahl and Axel Rudi Pell)
19. Breaking The Law
20. Big City Nights (feat. Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker)
21. Rock You Like A Hurricane (feat. Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker)
22. Fight For Rock (Warlock Line-Up 1986)
23. Burning The Witches (Warlock Line-Up 1986)
24. True As Steel (Warlock Line-Up 1986) (feat. Warrel Dane)
25. Unholy Love (feat. Honza K. Behunek)
26. Fight
27. All We Are (feat. all guests of this special night and a lot of good friends)
28. Outro

DVD 2:
25 Years In Rock …And Still Going Strong – The Documentary (01:17:25)
01. Intro
02. From Concept To Creation
03. Soundcheck
04. Ready to Go
05. Earthshaker Rock
06. I Rule The Ruins
07. You're My Family
08. Making Of The Warlock
09. The Night Of The Warlock
10. Always Live To Win
11. Above The Ashes
12. She's Like Thunder
13. Herzblut
14. Für Immer
15. Burn It Up
16. Celebrate (Full Metal Female Version)
17. Love Me In Black
18. Walking With The Angels
19. East Meets West
20. Big City Nights
21. Rock You Like A Hurricane
22. Fight For Rock
23. True As Steel
24. Hellbound
25. Unholy Love
26. Fans International
27. All We Are / Grand Finale
28. The Show Is Over
29. After The Show
30. Outro

EXTRA FEATURES, HIGHLIGHTS & BONUS GOODIES:
01. 2500th Concert Special (15:27) (feat. extracts of I Rule The Ruins, Danke, Burning The Witches (with Andy Brings), Burn Bitch Burn, We Are The Metalheads (with Schmier), On My Own (with Luke Gasser and Marc Storace), You’re My Family & Unholy Love)
02. China Special (03:13)
03. Wacken Open Air 2009: (12:55) I. I Rule The Ruins II. Burning The Witches III. Burn It Up
04. Bang Your Head 2010: (09:51) I. Egypt [The Chains Are On] II. Running From The Devil
05. Summer Breeze 2007: (04:26) I.You’re My Family (feat. Chris Caffery)
06. Metal Female Voices Fest 2009: (11:07) I. True As Steel II. Hellbound III. We Are The Metalheads
07. TV Special: 2500th Concert (03:05)
08. TV Special: A tattoo from Doro at Germany Ink (02:35)

Tracklist Bonus CD:
Special Tracks from the 25th Anniversary Show (42:56)
01. Introduction
02. Earthshaker Rock
03. I Rule The Ruins
04. You're My Family
05. Herzblut
06. Unholy Love feat. Honza K. Behunek
07. East Meets West feat. Chris Boltendahl and Axel Rudi Pell
08. Burn It Up feat. Jean Beauvoir
09. Above The Ashes
10. Celebrate feat. Sabina Classen, Floor Jansen, Liv Kristine, Ji-In Cho, Liv Jagrell, Jackie Chambers, Enid Williams
11. Breaking The Law

 

[Bucko]

hmm me likey