GOATWHORE announce European tour as direct support to SKELETONWITCH in April of 2015
Goatwhore comments: "After being part of a really successful European and UK tour with Dying Fetus, Malevolence and Fallujah for the last 6 weeks, I am really stoked to be returning in April with our good friends in Skeletonwitch & Mortals to offer another dose of Extreme Metal to our European and UK fans. This will be a crushing experience to all that attend. We would like to thank everyone that attended the shows in November & December. See you in 2015!"
Skeletonwitch
+ GOATWHORE
+ Mortals
03/04/15 NO - Oslo - Inferno Fest (SW/GW only)
04/04/15 SE - Motala - Kulturakademin
06/04/15 DK - Copenhagen - Pumpehuset
07/04/15 DE - Hamburg - Hafenklang
08/04/15 DE - Osnabrück - Bastard Club
11/04/15 UK - Manchester - Sound Control
12/04/15 IE - Dublin - Voodoo Lounge
13/04/15 UK - Glasgow - Ivory Blacks
14/04/15 UK - Birmingham - The Oobleck
15/04/15 UK - Sheffield - Corporation
16/04/15 UK - London - Underworld
17/04/15 BE - Brussels - Magasin 4
18/04/15 DE - Köln - Underground
19/04/15 FR - Eragny/Paris - Covent Garden
20/04/15 FR - Angouleme - La Nef
21/04/15 ES - Madrid - Sala Lemon
22/04/15 ES - Barcelona - Sala Razz 3
23/04/15 FR - Lyon - MJC O Totem
24/04/15 CH - Zürich - Dynamo / Werk 21
25/04/15 IT - Milan - Lo Fi
26/04/15 IT - Rome - Traffic Live
27/04/15 AT - Innsbruck - p.m.k.
28/04/15 DE - München - Backstage
29/04/15 DE - Leipzig - Conne Island
30/04/15 DE - Berlin - Magnet
01/05/15 AT - Wien - Arena
02/05/15 CZ - Prague - Exit-us
GOATWHORE have just recently launched a brand new music video for the track "Nocturnal Conjuration of the Accursed." The song is from their latest collection of NOLA-flavored extreme metal cuts, entitled "Constricting Rage of the Merciless." The video can be viewed now at metalblade.com/goatwhore, where fans can also order the album in various configurations!
"Constricting Rage Of The Merciless" debuted at #81 on Billboard's Top 200 chart, toppling their last entry position of #171 with "Blood for the Master." Additionally, the album ranked in at #21 on Billboard's Rock chart, #7 on the Hard Rock chart and #13 on the Independent chart.
Marty Friedman releases "UNDERTOW" Music Video
Get swept into the "Undertow" with the premiere of the new music video from acclaimed guitarist MARTY FRIEDMAN, taken from his Billboard-charting 2014 release "INFERNO"!
“EXTOL: OF LIGHT AND SHADE” DOCUMENTARY TO BE BROADCASTED ON NOR TV!
Being strong believers in a music scene dominated by atheists and anti-religious practitioners creates some challenges. Extol, with its Christian content and death metal expression, has hence experienced its share of difficult situations and obstruction. Christians react with disgust on the aesthetics and effects the band uses, while the secular fraction of the music scene shows great dissatisfaction regarding the lyrical themes. On one side, local churches organized bonfire sessions of Extol products and held prayer meetings against the band, whilst on the other side they’ve experienced bomb threats from self-appointed Satanists before a gig, getting spat at and scorned.
After 6 releases with success, 2007 was the start of a five year long break for Extol due to the vocalists strong tinnitus and anxiety. The documentary gives an insight on tinnitus and anxiety where the singer speaks openly about some of the challenges he experienced in 2007 and the years that followed. Questions about faith and freedom of speech set in a musical perspective are also important topics. The film does also illustrate the band's position in the Norwegian music scene and their international position. Eyvind Skeie, Hank von Helvete, now deceased Pater Arnfinn Haram and the charismatic American rock pastor Bob Beeman are some of the characters we meet in "Extol: Of Light And Shade."
Dubai Extreme Metallers Voice of the Soul Announce Debut Album Release
First formed in Kuwait on the opposite side of the Persian Gulf in late 2007 17 year-old Kareem Chehayeb and 16 year-old Monish Shringi released their first EP, ‘Winds of Apprehension’ in July 2009 with second EP, ‘Eyes of Deceit’ seeking the light of day the following summer. After playing several shows in Dubai since January 2011, the band opted to relocate to the most popular city and emirate in the UAE before releasing their third EP, ‘Into Oblivion’, live on SOS Heavy Metal Radio in Portugal in August 2011. ‘Into Oblivion’ was undoubtedly the bands most successful record with songs receiving regular airplay across the globe.
During April 2014, the band made home at Haven Studio with producer Hadi Sarieddine in Dubai and recorded their debut full-length album ‘Catacombs’.
Kareem Chehayeb comments: "While the band started off as a straight up melodic death metal band, 'Catacombs' took on a different shift. The thrash has virtually disappeared from our sound on this album and riffs have some added 'colour' now which was inspired by bands like Opeth, Gojira, Daylight Dies, and various jazz bands that really inspired me to start writing metal again. 'Catacombs' also introduces occasional clean vocals, as well as more doom metal on some tracks."
The artwork (as seen above) was designed by Syrian Dubai-based artist Hamood Hallak of MHD Graphics, and was inspired by the concept of one of the tracks from the album called 'Pendulum'.
Kareem elaborates: "While it appears evident that there is a priest/figure leading sheep, the cliff that they are about to walk off is within the temple itself. We don’t specify whether it’s religious or not, because religion isn’t the sole focus. It’s political, it’s social."
‘Catacombs’ Track Listing
1) Desolation
2) Perpetual De...
3) Pendulum
4) Quarantine
5) Cold Rupture
6) The Mist
7) Perdition
8) Defiled
9) Images Subside
Hollow Earth - Hell
You can download Hollow Earth's album for free at: www.hollowearthofficial.com.
Technomancer - Free Christmas Download
FREE CHRISTMAS DOWNLOAD! Here is a free download of the brand new Technomancer feat. Angst Pop 6-track single "Electronic Warfare". December via this link: subculturerecords.bandcamp.com. Official release date is the January 5th, 2015.
