FLOWERLEAF are back and they are ready to start theirDreamerie journey! As a forerunner, they just released a brand new single along with a music video calledThe Storm.
The Storm is the first single from the Dreamerie - Chapter I: Time. It's a song about self-confidence, fighting for what you want and fulfilling your destiny.
"It was an amazing experience recording The Storm because it gave FlowerLeaf a new dimension and it gives us lots of possibilities for what we can create in the future" - singer Vivs Takahashi says.
… so it starts the Dreamerie
FlowerLeaf are preparing their next release in an ambitious project called “DREAMERIE”. The Dreamerie is the book of dreams, full of wishes, fantasies and nightmares. It contains the desires of the heart and the fears of the soul. Like every book, the Dreamerie is divided into chapters that will be released as a sequence of five short-albums within the next few years. Each chapter will bring its own theme and the first one will be called TIME. And Chapter II is already in the making.
The Storm release date: April 8th on all
streaming platforms. There's also physical copies of the single available
on FlowerLeaf's Webshop.
Dreamerie - Chapter I: Time estimated release date: December 2022
FlowerLeaf were founded in 2017 by Vivs Takahashi and
Marcelo Kaczorowsky with the ambition to follow their dreams. After a year of
discoveries and hard work, they released their debut album Stronger, which
received many positive reviews from all over the world.
But they wanted more, so they decided to leave their homeland Brazil in search
of new challenges and opportunities. And so they arrived in Germany in 2019,
where they immediately started playing live shows and participating in
festivals like the FemME - Female Metal Event in The Netherlands.
The corona-crisis struck them hard when they were still adapting to this new
life, but this didn’t stop them from writing music and working on all the
creative ideas and dreams that had brought them here.
And so, with the addition of Florian Mathes, David Schnödewind and Michal
Maciag to the team, they are ready to start a new chapter in FlowerLeaf’s
story.
I Baby Strange hanno annunciato il loro secondo album "World Below" in uscita il 17 giugno su Icons Creating Evil Art. C’è un’autenticità che sta alla base dell’energia cucita profondamente nel tessuto di Glasgow che i Baby Strange hanno imbrigliato con una forza inesorabile nelle dieci tracce dell'album. Scritto come reazione al modo in cui la pandemia ha giocato con la salute mentale, al divario di classe sempre più visibile e al rapido aumento dei banchi alimentari in tutto il paese, "World Below" è un album che esplora il paradosso degli argomenti esposti all'interno. È una narrazione sull'universo apparentemente alternativo in cui ci troviamo improvvisamente a vivere, che è in effetti diventato la nostra nuova realtà.
Il cantante e chitarrista Johnny Madden spiega a che punto si trovavano i Baby Strange e lo spazio mentale in cui è stato concepito "World Below": "Dall'uscita del nostro album di debutto abbiamo avuto molti alti e bassi come band. Gli alti sono stati incredibili e i bassi sono stati tra i più oscuri che abbiamo mai incontrato. C'è stato un periodo in cui non abbiamo mai pensato che avremmo pubblicato un altro album.
Quando la pandemia ha colpito, abbiamo fatto un passo indietro e abbiamo guardato a che punto eravamo. Come per ogni band, era difficile non fare musica dal vivo, stavamo tutti lottando con la nostra salute mentale a livello personale e abbiamo iniziato a sentirci sconfitti.
Ma, essendo di Glasgow, non ci tiriamo mai indietro di fronte a una battaglia, così ci siamo alzati e abbiamo ricominciato a scrivere. Abbiamo prenotato un paio di settimane in una casa in mezzo al nulla e abbiamo passato il tempo a lavorare su ritmi e nuovi suoni che fossero adatti al punto in cui ci troviamo nel 2022.
Il risultato è 'World Below', un disco che scoppia di energia ed emozione.
Ne siamo così orgogliosi. È esattamente quello che volevamo creare, un album entusiasmante e onesto che si sente coraggioso e audace allo stesso tempo. La nuova era è qui e non vediamo l'ora che la gente si unisca a noi."
L'annuncio arriva con l'uscita del nuovo singolo dei Baby Strange, 'Only Feel It When I'm With You', che vede la partecipazione di Hayley Mary della celebre band indie rock australiana The Jezabels. Un allontanamento creativo dal suono caratteristico della band, 'Only Feel It When I'm With You' si basa sulle nuove texture e i nuovi suoni recentemente presentati con il lancio a sorpresa del singolo 'Midnight' a Capodanno e il suo seguito 'Under The Surface' alla fine di gennaio.
Il ritmo più lento del nuovo singolo, la melodia ipnotizzante e la voce malinconica sia di Johnny che di Hayley lo rendono uno dei brani più audacemente belli che i Baby Strange abbiano pubblicato finora.
Parlando della collaborazione, Hayley dice: “Ho incontrato i ragazzi dei Baby Strange al Priory di Glasgow. Mi è piaciuta la loro atmosfera e siamo andati subito d'accordo. C'è una piccola grande scena rock che ribolle in quella città che mi sono persa non potendo andarci, quindi sono incredibilmente entusiasta di far parte di questo brano e di rimanere connessa con loro in modo musicale. È un canzone pazzesca e non vedo l'ora di venire a suonarla dal vivo con loro in un prossimo futuro". Madden aggiunge: "Questo è uno dei singoli più emozionanti che abbiamo mai pubblicato come band. Scriverlo ci ha portato completamente fuori dalla nostra zona di comfort e ci ha spinto in un nuovo territorio come scrittori e musicisti. Non abbiamo mai avuto una voce ospite in un brano prima d'ora, ma abbiamo capito subito che doveva essere Hayley. La canzone si presta perfettamente al suo stile vocale. Conosciamo Hayley da molto tempo, quindi essere in grado di lavorare insieme su questo brano è stato molto emozionante."
L'artwork e i visual collegati al singolo seguono la serie di uscite recenti, esplorando un mondo alternativo che offre una visione delle amare promesse del capitalismo dell'ultima fase. Portato in vita dall'animatore di Glasgow Bovine, l'artwork stesso è diventato un argomento di conversazione.
ALBUM TRACKLIST:
World Below
Beating In Time
Under The Surface
Only Feel It When I’m With You (ft. Hayley Mary)
Poor Old Me
When It Calls
Higher
0141
I Feel So Cold But It’s Warm Outside
Midnight
I BABY STRANGE SONO: Johnny Madden (Voce, Chitarra) Connaire McCann (Batteria) Aidan McCann (Basso)
French Prog/Rock project CELESTIAL BURST has signed with
Wormholedeath a licensing deal for the reissue of the EP "The Maze",
due for re-release on May 13th, 2022.
Celestial Burst statement: One year after the first release of The Maze, we've been contacted by the
record label WormHoleDeath. They reached us with the will to re-edit The Maze
and distribute it worldwide. We couldn't refuse the offer ! :) This is an awesome news for us, WormHoleDeath have a huge platform covering
the globe and have been in the business for over 10 years. We are certain they
will make sure our album reaches every corner of the world. and it will help
our fans wait while the second album is in the making :) We hope this great
news will help our fans to wait while the second album is in the making :)
'The Maze' : "It is the story of a woman who wanders in a world that she does not
understand and to which she cannot adapt to because it does not suit her. The labyrinth is the symbol that I wanted to give to the adventure that
awaits her, littered with obstacles and dead ends (Alexis, Celestial Burst).
Celestial Burst is a French Progressive-Rock band
launched by Alexis Lustenberger in 2012 as a solo studio
project, Celestial Burst became a two-persons band in
2020 when Alexis was joined by Singer/Actress Kenza Laala to
work on the lyrics and contribute to the vocals. After some sessions @ Hesat
Recordings, Celestial Burst is proud to present its debut EP called 'The Maze'
where the duo invited the Dutch diva Anneke Van Giesbergen (The Gathering,
Devin Townsend...) as vocal guest on the title-track of the record.
Watch The Maze (feat. Anneke van Giersbergen)
Cover & Tracklist
1- Obedience
2- The Maze
3- First Flight
4- The Place Where I'm Supposed To Be
5- Anna
6- The Maze (feat. Anneke van Giersbergen)
Cosmic metallers VANDERLUST (ft. members of S91, Dreal) will be inviting fans into their galaxy of wonder with the release of their self-titled debut album on April 15th, 2022 via Rockshots Records.
Today, they share their next odyssey in the exploration for the "Orphan Planet", which is the fifth single off the forthcoming record. Having already introduced fans to singles "Scavengers of Kuiper Belt", "The Last Ganymedian", "Requiem For An Ancient World" and "3 Suns".
"Orphan Planet is a more proggy track. The riffs are complex, but the song has also fast and catchy melodic phrases. Around the end, the song gets heavier and heavier with a powerful falsetto vocal section. What if an orphan planet would enter our solar system? And what if this planet would have traces of an extinct alien form of life?" adds the band.
Birthed to travel the cosmos, Italy's Vanderlust is a power-heavy metal band with prog-thrash influences that tells tales of space travels, astronomy, space engineering, and sci-fi adventures.
"We tried to mix a prog-thrashy riffing in the roots of Megadeth, Vektor, and Tool with epic vocal parts like Iron Maiden, Helloween, Angra, and Lione’s Rhapsody. We also put sci-fi elements in our songs, so you can hear also something from Voivod." adds the band.
This debut recording is like a stellar system with 12 different planets. The star at the center of the system represents the heavy-power metal around all the songs revolving. Despite all the tracks being irradiated by the same light, they are all different from each other. Vanderlust has fast thrash, slow and doom, shiny and brilliant to grunge, and darker songs. Like planets, which appear like simple small bright spots, but in reality, are all big worlds, Vanderlust's songs are more complex than they sound at first listen. In fact, you can easily sing along to some of the choruses even if there are complex riffs in the background. Vanderlust is particularly proud of the participation of opera singer Letizia Cappellini who does vocals on select tracks and helps the band further expand the vocal register of their compositions. The band also adds the presence of synths and electronic elements to the compositions to set the sci-fi mood of the lyrics.
"The main goal was to start a metal band that could be an inspiration for young people, a band that could tell them stories from the future when mankind will have overcome its limits and the solar system will be an entire human colony. This idea came to mind to founding members Francesco and Santo when they began their search for other members that could fit. Drummer Giacomo Mezzetti joined the space odyssey right before the covid-19 outbreak. Vocalist Riccardo Morello joined the band during the first lockdown in Italy, so the first song was entirely composed online, using videocalls and file sharing." adds the band.
For their live aspect, Vanderlust is currently working hard to create a thrilling spectacle, giving all their energy to the fans and letting them join them on the space journey.
Vanderlust is recommended for fans of Iron Maiden, Angra, Tool, Helloween, and Vektor.
Track Listing: 1. Intro (0:58) 2. High Hopes (3:34) 3. Orphan Planet (3:41) 4. Forgotten Breed (5:13) 5. The Last Ganymedian (3:45) 6. Scavengers Of Kuiper Belt (4:02) 7. Mass Effect Destruction (2:04) 8. Requiem For An Ancient World (4:59) 9. 3 Suns (4:44) 10. Dyson's Swarm (4:00) 11. Ringworld (3:26) 12. Ten Years Back (3:38) 13. Zima Blue (4:39) Album Length: 48:49
Il momento è finalmente arrivato e i thrash metaller dell’Arizona INCITE pubblicano oggi il loro nuovo album "Wake Up Dead"! Forgiato tra sangue e lacrime, questo nuovo lavoro combina le più grandi forze del metal estremo. Gli INCITE, rispetto alle band più patinate, possiedono grinta e determinazione autentiche. Lo spirito della cultura musicale pesante e l’attitudine scorrono nelle vene del cantante Richie Cavalera, del chitarrista Eli Santana, del bassista Christopher "EL" Elsten e del batterista Lennon Lopez. Attraverso cinque album e una manciata di EP, il gruppo dell'Arizona con rabbia calibrata e intenti violenti ha dichiarato guerra all'ingiustizia, alla disuguaglianza economica e a una serie di simili mali sociali. Ora l'attesa è finalmente finita e si può ordinare "Wake Up Dead" in digipak, LP nero e LP limitato viola + nero marmorizzato qui: https://incite.afr.link/WakeUpDeadPR Il cantante Richie Cavalera commenta: "Dopo un anno e mezzo di attesa, 'Wake Up Dead' è qui! Siamo tutti così orgogliosi di questo disco, le nuove canzoni spaccano, i vecchi classici mostrano a tutti da dove siamo venuti musicalmente, e l'artwork è straordinario. Siamo entrati a fare parte di un nuovo team pazzesco, e siamo pronti per godere del duro lavoro e del sacrificio che tutti noi abbiamo messo in questo album. Non vedo l'ora di suonarlo dal vivo per voi metallari molto presto. Hella metal forever!". Gli INCITE suoneranno i seguenti concerti negli Stati Uniti 04/08 US - Laredo, TX - Wonder Lounge 04/09 US - Austin, TX - Come & Take It 04/10 US - El Paso, TX - The Rockhouse 05/13 US - Gallup, NM - Juggernauts 05/14 US - Mesa, AZ - The Nile Chi non può partecipare agli show, può godersi il nuovo video musicale della band, 'Mental Destruction', diretto da Vicente Cordero: https://youtu.be/07GOP9jsllA "Metalheads, eccovi 'Mental Destruction', per noi una nuova dimensione musicale", aggiunge Richie. "È pesante, ha una chitarra acustica e un video pazzesco. Parla del collasso del proprio stato mentale e del non fare nulla o preoccuparsi di cambiarlo. Abbiamo tutti il potere di cambiare in meglio chi siamo, dobbiamo solo farlo accadere. Questa è una canzone enorme per noi a tutti i livelli e mostra i nuovi confini che stiamo raggiungendo con la band. Muovete il culo!". Altro su "Wake Up Dead" 'Deadbeat': https://youtu.be/F8otOoZ4gNU 'War Soup (feat. Max Cavalera)': https://youtu.be/CzXN7znQ4DI INCITE sono: Richie Cavalera | voce Eli Santana | chitarra Christopher “EL” Elsten | basso Lennon Lopez | batteria
“Desdemona” è il nuovo video e singolo dei Rossometile. Sesto estratto dall’album omonimo “Desdemona”.
“Desdemona” è un nome di donna che significa “nata sotto una cattiva stella”.
In “Desdemona” tutti potrebbero immedesimarsi, ma è anche la Desdemona dell’Otello di Shakespeare, una donna il cui destino è già scritto, che finirà per essere uccisa. Il brano quindi si riferisce anche a tutte le donne vittime di violenza.
American tech-death titans ORIGIN will return with their eighth studio album titled “Chaosmos” on June 3rd on Agonia Records (Europe) and Nuclear Blast Records (rest of the world). Listen to the album's first single “Ecophagy”below.
Cover artwork by Santiago Jaramillo (Immolation, Pestilence)
The long-standing outfit celebrate not only their eighth full-length installment, but also ring in their 25th year on “Chaosmos.” The same fury, brutality, and musical savvy that brought ORIGIN critical acclaim and a devout fanbase on “Unparalleled Universe” (2017), “Antithesis” (2008), and “Origin” (2000) returns with reinvigorated intensity, passion, and skill. In 2022, the group - Paul Ryan (guitars/backing vocals), Mike Flores (bass/backing vocals), John Longstreth (drums), and Jason Keyser (lead vocals) - are undeterred by unprecedented roadblocks and global uncertainty as they push forward. Indeed, ORIGIN’s new-era shock and awe mission is complete on “Chaosmos.”
“The music of Origin is a fusion of order and disorder. Our music is viewed as a meaningless assemblage of infinite perspectives,” posits guitarist/vocalist Paul Ryan with cosmic import.
Formed in Topeka, Kansas, in 1997, ORIGIN have eight full-length albums to their name. The group buzzed early with their 1998 EP, “A Coming into Existence” (re-released and re-recorded from scratch in 2019 on Agonia Records, as part of the “Abiogenesis” release). Fans of high-caliber death metal and record label representatives had noticed. It was after ORIGIN joined luminaries Nile, Cryptopsy, and Gorguts on the 1998 “Death Across America” tour that a monster was unleashed. In 2000, ORIGIN signed to Relapse Records, issuing four full-length albums in “Origin,”“Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas” (2002), “Echoes of Decimation” (2005), and the Billboard-charting“Antithesis”. While on the label, the group gigged incessantly, appearing on such notable tours as “Death Across America 2000”, “Relapse Contamination Tour 2008”, “The Summer Slaughter Tour North America 2009” and several successful European runs. Additionally, guitarist/vocalist Paul Ryan was listed on Decibel’s Top 20 Death Metal Guitarists list in 2007. ORIGIN’s subsequent albums “Entity” (2011), “Omnipresent” (2014), and “Unparalleled Universe” garnered praise in Metal Hammer, Allmusic, and Exclaim!, while occupying prime slots on the “Occupation Domination 2012,” the “Devastation on the Nation”, and “The Hell Over Europe” tours. “Chaosmos” yet again sees ORIGIN’s technically apt death metal in scarily superlative form.
“It’s our third album with the same lineup,” Ryan says. “And I personally feel it’s a continuation of who the band is currently. At the start of 2021, people started talking about a new Origin album, and I wasn’t sure if the world was literally ready for it due to lockdowns/restrictions. In March, I told myself, ‘I will write one song per month until I finish the album.’ When it was completed, I sent over what I had written to the rest of the band. From that point forward, our collective alchemy resulted in what you hear on Chaosmos.”
“Chaosmos” is the tip of ORIGIN’s newly honed spear. Fronted by the frenetic “Ecophagy,” stabbed mid-way through by vicious duo of “Panoptical”/ “Decolonizer,” and capped by the ominous coda of “Heat Death,” this is some of Paul Ryan’s most riveting guitar work to date. Drummer John Longstreth - known for his highly dexterous playing style - also shines throughout, but he’s imposing on “Cullscape,”“Cognito, Tamen Non Sum,” and the reality-blurring title track. The triple vocal attack of Jason Keyser, Ryan, and Flores is also an ORIGIN original. The three-headed beast of Keyser/Ryan/Flores effuses sounds that are at one end hellishly subterranean and at the other horrifically otherworldly. Whereas most death metal buries bass frequencies into the din of the guitars, bassist Mike Flores is expertly all over and in-between his fellow bandmates - ”Panoptical,” for example, is masterclass finger work - on “Chaosmos”.
“Chaosmos is who we are,” says Ryan. “Everyone in death metal has copied our style and techniques. Then, tried to call them their own. Origin just is what it is and what it needs to be. I had nothing but blank pages for this album, and then the word ‘Chaosmos’ kept ringing in my head for about six months. We all suffered during the pandemic, and I personally was in a dark place. Thankfully, the music was a positive release of negative energy.”
That vitality manifested itself deeply in the lyrics for “Chaosmos”. Whereas previous full-length, “Unparalleled Universe”, explored cosmosophy and had tendrils of inspiration from Frank Herbert’s“Dune,”“Chaosmos” is more ominous. For all the pain, suffering, joy, and accomplishment humanity faces, it’s relatively nothing in the front of the universe’s gaping maw. Frontman Keyser dissected the insignificance of everything we hold dear - from life and death to Earth’s very existence. He posits that we’re simply nanoscopic against the vast nothingness beyond our feeble atmosphere. Throughout “Chaosmos,”Keyser tackles the subject at different angles.
Says Keyser: “In the words of Lovecraft, ‘We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.’ On ‘Ecophagy,’ we explore the ‘devour and move on’ mentality of the billionaire pipe dream of colonizing other worlds after we’ve drained our own to a husk. ‘Cogito, Tamen Non Sum,’ Latin for ‘I think, yet I am not,’ delves into the rise of artificial intelligence, ripping an unsolicited consciousness from the nether, like a Boltzmann brain spontaneously becoming aware of itself and the horrors that surround it. ‘Cullscape’ and ‘Panoptical’ look into the rise of the despotic machine and humanity’s brutality towards itself. These all culminate in a final crescendo, ‘Heat Death,’ the final stage of the universe, where the last stars are snuffed out of the sky, and all our strife and efforts are finally revealed for what they have always been, utterly insignificant. Ultimately, that is the theme of Chaosmos. The cosmos is chaos. We must accept our end.”
ORIGIN re-tapped Kansas City-based studio guru Rob Rebeck (Unmerciful, Vänlade) to engineer, produce and mix “Chaosmos”. The production team holed up in GFM Recording Studios in Blue Springs, Missouri and Chapter 2 Recording in Lenexa, Kansas, over 14 days. Rebeck worked the mix over four days, while Colin Marsten at Menegroth in Queens, New York, mastered “Chaosmos” in two. The goal was, as always, to preserve yet expand upon ORIGIN’s savage signature, and that’s precisely what Rebeck and Marsten achieved. If “Unparalleled Universe” was the crawling insanity that is Nyarlathotep, then “Chaosmos” is the crushing tentacles of Cthulhu.
“The studio sessions are always super-high stress - unprepared madness,” Ryan says. “There is some improv magic that happens because of it, too. I feel like something great comes out of the aggression in death metal, and if you’re happy laying down tracks, maybe you shouldn’t be recording death metal. Origin bends but doesn’t break when in the studio.”
When ORIGIN broke out of the heartland in the aughts, death metal had no idea what was coming. A new era of brutality was born. Now, many years later, the outfit are ready for another round of redefinition on “Chaosmos”. They’ve blazed trails few could barely conceive, they’ve achieved more than they ever thought possible (the track “Finite” has two million YouTube views), and ORIGIN continue to innovate and enervate all. Be warned… the inevitable end is near with “Chaosmos”.
“Push play and hold on for the next ride,” says Ryan. “We hope you enjoy it as we do! Ad Astra Per Aspera. Vincit Qui Patitur.”
Tracklisting: 1. Ecophagy 2. Chaosmos 3. Cogito, Tamen Non Sum 4. Panoptical 5. Decolonizer 6. Cullscape 7. Nostalgia for Oblivion 8. Heat Death
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