Woodcut Records will release Alghazanth's 7th full-length offering, entitled The Three-faced Pilgrim, on vinyl and as a digipak CD on the 13th of December. The album consists of 46 minutes of the band's more or less familiar brand of majestic black metal.
This week Brescia, Italy-based progressive metal quintet, TRAGODIA, has released the first of two video diaries capturing the inception of their third full-length, Mythmaker. The intense album was recorded this Spring at Elfo Studio in Piacenza with producer Daniele Mandelli (Forgotten Tomb) and mastered at Sterling Sound in New York City by UE Nastasi (Lamb Of God, Gojira, Paradise Lost), and is set for release in North America on November 5th via Kolony Records.
In honor of its impending street date, now less than two weeks away, today the noise merchants at Stereokiller hurl forth a full stream of GIGAN's Multi-Dimensional Fractal Sorcery and Super Science. The latest full-length from the Chicago-by-way-of-Florida progressive tech metallers is a mammoth multi-textured audio adventure. Instrumentally dense, meticulously concise, conceptually absorbing and physically taxing, Multi-Dimensional Fractal Sorcery and Super Science was recorded with renowned sound-weaver Sanford Parker (Minsk, Buried At Sea, Yakuza) at Earth Analog Studios in Chicago and commands its listener's attention upon first note.
In just over a week, 20 Buck Spin will release the innovative Valonielu, the crushing and expansive new LP from Finnish cosmic black metal collective ORANSSI PAZUZU to North American earthlings. The psychedelically-infused, mesmerizing, blackened passages the band creates on the new opus have been captivating inquisitive journalists worldwide preceding its pending public appearance, with incredibly diverse but equally positive reactions in early reviews of Valonielu.
The Red Rocker, Sammy Hagar scored the 11th Billboard Top 25 album of his career this week when his new album Sammy Hagar & Friends debuted at #23 on the US Billboard 200. The album marks the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s highest charting solo album in 18 years, since 1997’s Marching To Mars. The album also scored the #7 Rock Album and #5 Independent Album release for Frontiers Records this week.
Zwölf sturmfeste Songs hat RUNNING WILD Kapitän Rock´n`Rolf in die harten Schiffsbohlen geritzt, zehn davon erscheinen am 4. Oktober 2013 (Skandinavien: 02. Oktober, Europa: 7. Oktober; USA: 22. Oktober) auf der regulären CD, zwei zusätzliche Bonustracks plus ein Poster gibt es bei der limitierten DigiPak Version des Albums.