Vi avslutter våre listening parties med en skikkelig brutal godbit fra det amerikanske death metal bandet MALEVOLENT CREATION. Bandets 12. album har fått tittelen "Dead Man’s Path" og inneholder ti raske brutale death metal låter i kjent MALEVOLENT CREATION stil. Skiva slippes 2. oktober og vi spiller den i sin helhet oppe i Sky Lounge på Scandic Lerkendal lørdag 3. oktober fra klokken 15:30.
Bedre grunn til å dra på Tons of Rock 2016 får du ikke, for i dag kan alle norske fans av BLACK SABBATH glede seg. Tungrockens ubestridte gudfedre BLACK SABBATH kommer til Fredriksten Festning og Tons of Rock!!Bandet legger ut på sin aller siste turne neste år kalt "The End" og Tons of Rock er blant de heldige som får besøk av Ozzy, Tony Iommi og Geezer Butler.
The first album from this Pennsylvania quintet "The Conscious Seed of Light" didn’t sit very well in the hook department, which can be a problem for technical death metal bands. "Monarchy" is the follow up, and with a couple of lineup changes (welcome Alan Balamut on drums and Jon Topore on guitar) plus a boatload…
The birth place of doom, the United Kingdom has all the right influences as far as weather, atmosphere, and blue collar work environments to channel the movement from Black Sabbath into current bands like Witchsorrow. "No Light, Only Fire" is the third full-length for the trio, active since 2005 – and has a little bit…
9. oktober slippes "Sólverv", den nye skiva til VREID. Dette er bandets syvende opus og vi er så heldige at vi kan feire skiva med et eksklusiv Listening Party under årets Trondheim Metalfest. Dette skjer i Sky Lounge på Scandic Lerkendal førstkommende lørdag og moroa starer allerede klokka 14:00.
14 years together as a band and a number of releases under their belt, Rubikon feature a potent bluesy oriented stoner hard rock sound that is very commercially viable for their new album "Delta". Heavier songs like "Live That Lie" and "Captain Deep" nestle nicely against more exploratory, dynamic material such as the ZZ Top-like…
Det amerikanske metalbandet TRIVIUM slipper også sitt nye album denne fredagen og vi spiller hele skiva fra klokken 16:15 i Sky Lounge på Scandic Lerkendal. Tittelen på skiva er "Silence in the Snow" og er bandets syvende fullengder. Arrangementet er en del av Trondheim Metalfest 2015.
Featuring 220 Volt guitarist Mats Karlsson, Easy Action drummer Björn Höglund, plus vocalist Michael Klemmé and bassist Lars Ericsson, The Summit on their debut album "Higher Ground" reach back into the 1970’s for a hard rock record that’s bluesy, heavy, and very melodic while also possessing a modern production touch. A Queen aspect in the…
Det er muligens misvisende å kalle Enslaved for en institusjon innen norsk metal, all den tid begrepet i kulturell sammenheng bærer med seg en forestilling om at noe er satt og gjerne har sine mest kreative år bak seg. Enslaved har aldri hvilt på en vinnerformel og har alltid hatt det som forsett å utfordre både seg selv og lytteren når de har skrevet ny musikk. Men om man skal oppsummere norsk metal-historie og dens internasjonale appell, er det ingen tvil om at Enslaved spiller en avgjørende rolle både som sjangerspydspiss og brobygger de siste 20 årene.
2. oktober slipper Nuclear Blast den nye skiva til CHILDREN OF BODOM. Skiva heter "I Worship Chaos" og dette er den åttende fullengderen til finnene. Dette skal vi selvsagt feire med Listening Party på Trondheim Metalfest i Sky Lounge på Scandic Lerkendal på fredag. Dette blir det første av to vi kjører denne dagen. Vi begynner allerede klokka 15:00, og er ferdig i god tid før konsertene begynner kl 19:00.
8. til 10. juni neste år vil NORWAY ROCK gjenoppstå på Øyesletta i Kvinesdal.
Eternal Terror kan i dag by på en helt ny låt fra det kommende debutalbumet til det unge norske thrash metal bandet SEPULCHER. Låta heter "Delirious" og den blir å finne på deres debutalbum "Mausoleum Tapestry" som slippes på limitert kassett av Edged Circle Productions 30. september.
In my early tape trading years of the late 80’s and early 90’s, Florida’s Malevolent Creation are one of the bands that set the US death metal scene on fire. Their early albums "The Ten Commandments" and "Retribution" still stand well today for their aggression, intensity, and overall impact on the next generation of death…
Malevolent Creation are still doing what they do best, namely pouring out straight forward death metal, without any nonsense. 24 years since the debut album "The Ten Commandments" and 8 albums later, these Floridians still knows how to satisfy a simple souls craving for dark and brutal music. There are some changes from 2010 album "Invidious Dominion", the band have…
A newly formed international project, Polarized consists of four musicians who hail from the lands of Connecticut, Bosnia, Italy, and Sweden – starting in 2013, "Western Hypnosis" is their debut full-length record. Probably the most notably name in the bunch is bassist Lars Lindén, who also plays in Carnal Forge – the rest of the…
A split 7" limited to 500 copies, this is a true treat for fans of Dew-Scented and Angelus Apatrida. It’s important to see where a band comes from as far as their roots, and both bands willingly put that out there on this release. Dew-Scented choose to recover a Vio-lence song "World in A World"…
TRONDHEIM METALFEST blir neste helg arrangert for sjette gang. Denne gangen har festivalen flyttet inn på Scandic Lerkendal og i følge festivalsjefen har de flyttet inn for godt. Tre dager med metal, rock, utflukter, filmer, Metal Market, listening parties, Meet & Greet med banda, quiz og Karaoke er bare noe du kan få med deg om du blir med på årets trønderske metalfest. SABATON og STRATOVARIUS er headlinere, men det blir også muligheten til å oppleve band som EVILE, TANKARD, ANAAL NATHRAKH, DØDHEIMSGARD, KHOLD, ROTTING CHRIST, HELLISH OUTCAST, CIRCUS MAXIMUS, BETRAYING THE MARTYRS, NERGARD, AURA NOIR, KORPIKLAANI, PRIMORDIAL og SUSPERIA. Vi har tatt en prat med festivalsjef Eirik Tiller nå bare en uke før det sparker i gang.
Another Swedish melodic hard rock sensation at the cusp of a "Revolution", here is the sextet Art Nation. Their debut album contains 12 tracks of addictive hooks on both musical/vocal fronts, something you would expect out of H.E.A.T., Eclipse, and Work of Art. Alexander Strandell’s exemplary voice puts "3000 Beats" on the map, and his…
The third studio album from French melodic metal act Asylum Pyre contains 13 tracks of diverse riffs, dual female clean vocals and male growls, and a sense of cyber/dance oriented grooves at times. Artists like Nightwish and Within Temptation come up, as well as the uniqueness of Pain of Salvation, on cuts like "Unplug My…
Lines are drawn. Geoff Tate won the right to take the Operation: Mindcrime name following the lengthy court battle, while Queensÿche can continue with Todd LaTorre at the helm. "The Key" is the first effort with Geoff and his bandmates as Operation: Mindcrime, familiar names involved include drummer Simon Wright, guitarist Kelly Gray, and drummer…
Classic hard rock never dies – especially when artists like Deep Purple keep writing, recording, and touring after 47 plus years. "…To the Rising Sun (In Tokyo)" is a double live album taken from a recent tour in Japan, featuring 18 songs and over 107 minutes of music. Newer songs like "Apres Vous" and "Vincent…
Blackened death can be an acquired taste, but when done in this fierce, aggressive manner as Danish band Reverie illustrate for "Bliss", it can get no better. Wails of sorrow against a cocktail of furious riffing, occasional Voivod-ish excursions give the ears a reprieve before the next aural assault assails. Softer military drum patterns open…
Transformation appears to be an expectation when it comes to legendary bands who have decades in the books career-wise. The UK classic melodic hard rock/metal band Praying Mantis is no exception, as "Legacy" their latest studio album has two new members in the fold: vocalist Jaycee Cuijpers and drummer Hans in’t Zandt. As long as…
Eternal Terror kan i dag by på en helt ny låt fra det kommende albumet til det ungarske avant-garde metal bandet THY CATAFALQUE. Låta heter "Jura" og den blir å finne på deres nye album "Sgùrr" som slippes av Season of Mist 16. oktober i år.
Austrian band Loud At Least! started in 2008, releasing their debut album "Painful Exploration" a year later. Lineup shuffles and natural personal growth caused 6 years to pass for the follow up "Dirty" – but this melodic hard rock/metal act serves up a decent variety of material in this 13 song record. Catchy, multi-part harmonic…
Nine years between albums seems like a lifetime to most metal listeners – but that’s the fact you’ll face when checking out Raise Hell’s newest studio offering "Written in Blood". Drummer Dennis Ekdahl parted ways in 2013, so the band recruits ex-Destruction drummer Sven Vormann to be the session guy for this fifth full effort.…
The 12th studio album from Canada’s Kataklysm, "Of Ghosts of Gods" has an even more commercial melodeath feel than their last album "Waiting for the End to Come". Possibly even modern in spots for the down-tuned opening guitar hook choice within "Thy Serpents Tongue", tracks like "Breaching the Asylum" and "Carrying Crosses" take on a…
Ah… the days of early Teutonic thrash have now hit a second generation of musicians who want to push those ideals to a fresh audience. Portland, Oregon’s Cemetery Lust are a five-piece who develop a style they call ‘rape thrash’… don’t know quite what to make of that, but based on stage names like Disgustor,…
Sadistik Exekution, either you love em or you don´t (personally I fall into the first category). SE hails from Australia and have been spreading their ugly death/black metal since the late 80´s and they can truly be categorised as pioneérs of the now growing death/black genre that we all love. Their form of extreme metal…
Horrendous (US) took the metal world with storm with their debut "The Chills" back in 2012. Their formidable follow-up two years later, "Ecdysis" continued in the same good manner and now the world must prepare it self for their third opus, "Anerata". Just to get it out of the way, "Anerata" is good, very good…
Dette er litt teknisk, men først og fremst brutal death metal. Med litt teknisk mener jeg at det er visse tekniske finesser her. De er ikke like teknisk som for eksempel band som Origin, men det er da noe slik at det forsvarer at man kan kalle det teknisk brutal death metal. God vokal, masser…
Ahead of the curve in terms of combining the industrial and computer tools at their disposal while still being aggressive in their metal stance, Fear Factory took the world by storm out of the gate in the early 1990’s. Their first two albums "Soul of a New Machine" and "Demanufacture" put them on the map…
Okey, as many know by now The 3rd Attempt is a spawn of Carpathian Forest. With Tchort and BloodPervertor leaving CF because of stagnation in creativity it hits me immediatly when I see the front cover of their new album, wow looks like a CF cover and the new logo isn`t so new thinking either…
The 3rd Attempt is a brand new Norwegian black metal outfit consisting of four members, two of which are seasoned veterans within the black metal scene, namely Tchort (ex-Blood Red Throne, ex-Carpathian Forest) and BloodPervertor (ex-Carpathian Forest). The outfit is rounded out by vocalist Ødamark (ex-Midnattsvrede) and drummer Tybalt (Fortid, Den Saakaldte). The debut album…
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Eternal Terror kan i dag by på en helt ny låt fra det kommende albumet til det svenske black metal bandet THIS GIFT IS A CURSE. Låta heter "We use your dead as Wessels" og den blir å finne på deres nye album "All Hail the Swinelord" som slippes av Season of Mist 16. oktober i år.
Polske VADER er klare for Inferno Festivalen 2016.
Yellowtooth hail from Michigan City, Indiana in the US. They feature a quite common line-up of a drummer, a bassist/vocalist and a guitarist/vocalist, and like many before them, they deliver a solid musical punch to the ear of anyone brave enough to listen to their newest album, Crushed by the Wheels of Progress. The album…
A Gothenburg, Swedish sextet, Archaea since 2007 have been pushing out their brand of melodic death/thrash to the masses. "Catalyst" is their full-length debut, after releasing a demo and EP earlier in their career. Taking to the time to build their own studio allows the group to record on their own pace and time, and…
Death metal progressive grind – a swirling whirlwind of guitars, bass, drums, and growls/ screams that doesn’t go off the rails. That’s Cattle Decapitation in a small nutshell – yet "The Anthropocene Extinction" is so much more that pushes their style into the hearts of the underground whether young or old. Guitarist Josh Elmore wears…
Cattle Decapitation from US are quite an oddball in my book. Starting out with some really not that great grind, then morhping over to more deathish metal that worked out quite well and now on their seventh full-length adding more progressive elements into their mix of grind/death. I really dug their last album so when…
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KARMØYGEDDON har sluppet sine første band for neste års festival: Både HELLOWEEN, KAMELOT, ENSIFERUM, FINNTROLL, KATATONIA, EINHERJER, SAMAEL, CANDLEMASS og SODOM er alle å finne i den veldig gode lineupen til festivalen. KARMØYGEDDON 2016 finner sted på Karmøy mellom 28. og 30. april neste vår.
Rare is the day that a debut release from a more traditional heavy metal/ 80’s oriented act comes down the pike from Ireland, but that’s the case currently in front of my ears with Stereo Nasty. The quartet have all the primary tools down – riffing and chord progressions that are lean and mean for…
Lucifer’s Child is a new act comprising members of Greek masters Rotting Christ and Nightfall. You can probably guess from that what the sound is like: although black metal influences exist, the overall offering of this album is mid-paced tracks with a strong emphasis on creating driving rhythms that create an occult but not blasphemous…
Opeth fusjonerer metal, klassisk rock, deathprog, symfoniske elementer og frijazz, og har kjørt sitt helt eget løp i 25 år. Musikkmagasinet Kerrang! kaller dem "planetens mest unike band".
De har en unik historie på våre scener, og har spilt her nesten en gang i året i snart ti år! Forrige album "Silverthorn" (2012), var det første med svenske Tommy Karevik på vokal.
Den canadiske power-trioen er rock med stor R. De er aktuelle med albumet "Fire Music", som ble sluppet tidligere i år. Men det er på scenen vi virkelig ser hvor hardt de sparker fra seg.
Progmetal-heltene i startet opp i 2000 i North Carolina, og på de siste 15 årene har det foreløpig blitt seks studioalbum. Line-upen har vært konstant siden 2005, og siden den gang har alle platene havnet på Billboard Top 200.
Korpiklaani («Skogsklan» på finsk ) er et finsk folk metal-band som ble stiftet av Jonne Järvelä i 1993 under navnet Shaman. Shaman skiftet navn til Korpiklaani i 2003. Da Shaman skiftet navn, skiftet de også vokal-stil. Helt siden utgivelsen av debutalbumet "Spirit Of The Forest" i 2003, har de finske tradisjonelle folkemetal pionerene Korpiklaani kontinuerlig banet seg vei til toppen.
