The alternative/progressive metallers Nexus from Mexico are about to embark on their European Tour. On their The Art of Affecting Consciousness Tour, they will play France, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and many more.
Established in 2004, the band has released 2 studios albums, 3 singles and 4 official videos. Nexus toured three times nationally and played important festivals in Mexico such as the Cervantino Internacional and Force Fest 2015 held in Guadalajara headlined by the Judas Priest.
In 2018, they opened for the French post metal band Alcest on their Mexico tour. Nexus also played the Force Fest in Mexico City sharing line up with legendary bands like System of a Down, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Slayer and many more. This year, Nexus opened in Guadalajara for one of the most important current progressive bands Leprous.
Norway’s Black/Death Metaller Brotthogg self released their first full-length Echoes on the Past on 2 August. The album follows their critically acclaimed 2017 EP The Last Traveler. You can stream the full album through Black Metal Promotion on YouTube (link below).
The band states: “We aim to offer our listeners both the superficial adrenaline rush of furiously heavy metal and the deeper, more sustained pleasure that comes via repeated listens. This is black metal influenced heavily by melodic death metal, and strongly laced with elements of thrash, and I hope we have created an ambitious and intriguing release well worth exploring.”
The name Brotthogg is derived from an old forgotten Norwegian word in dialect meaning ”The one who has to take care of the job, the unpleasant one”. Brotthogg deals in epic, progressive black/death/thrash metal that owes its allegiance to bands like Emperor, Old Man’s Child, Symphony X and Dissection. The members are known from bands like Subliritum and Chton.
Tracklist:
1. The Summoning
2. Northland
3. The Descent
4. The Aftermath
5. Broken Chains
6. The Last Traveler
7. Total Death (Isengard cover)
Brotthogg are:
Kristian Larsen Moen – All instruments, music and lyrics*
Jonas Moen – Vocals
Craig Furunes – Vocals
Stephen Carlson – Guitar solos track 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
*Total Death written by Gylve Fenris Nagell
Brotthogg’s album Echoes of the Past is now available for download on their Bandcamp page.
Ewigkeit just released the re-recorded song Lightspeed Evolution on Youtube (video below). The song is part of Ewigkeit’s newest project – a re-release: In 1999, Ewigkeit released the 2nd album Starscape, a Symphonic Black Metal album large in it’s scope and ambition, but with an almost unlistenably poor sound quality. Now, in 2019, Ewigkeit present Starscape 2.019 – a complete re-recording of the original album.
With epic tracks like Point of Origin (Black Metal’s first waltz?), Unveiling The Mystery or Legend of Keshara or the straight ahead mid-paced Swedish Death Metal inspired Lightspeed Evolution or the sublime classical of Space Symphony, this is now in the form it was originally intended way back there at the end of the 20th Century.
The man behind Ewigkeit, James Fogarty, states: “It’s the first track I am sharing, and went from being a song I had literally forgotten existed to being one of my personal favourites on the totally rerecorded and reproduced album Starscape 2.019.”
Lyrical themes are reflections of the dark past and a look towards the unknown future in the realms above and beyond. Fogarty, says: “20 years ago, I wrote and recorded an album called Starscape; it was wildly ambitious for my meagre beginnings and I ramped up the orchestral elements and added a futuristic feel for the space theme. I thought, and still think, that the music was great and original material!” However, it became hard to listen after some year. James explains further: “I just couldn’t listen to it within a few years, because my first album production was virtually of an UNLISTENABLE sound quality (even for 90s Black Metal)!”
He proudly presents Starscape 2.019 : “20 years since my teenage self recorded it, I present to you Starscape 2.019 – a vastly improved and polished product which I’m really pleased with and now proud of.”
Tracklist:
01 – Point of Origin
02 – Unveiling the Mystery
03 – Legend of Keshara
04 – Return of Planet ‘X’
05 – Deviant
06 – Lightspeed Evolution
07 – Starscape
08 – Capsule
09 – Birth of Horus
10 – Space Symphony
Starscape 2.019 is available to pre-order now from www.deathtomusic.com.The album will be released digitally across all platforms to buy and stream on 23/08/19 and on CD on 23/09/19.
Plague 9‘s EP Mr Ass is out now! The Australian traditional heavy metal newcomers from Adelaide have just released their debut EP. Mr Ass is a good mix of thrash and more traditional style heavy metal riffs. Drawing influence from bands such as Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, Iron Maiden and also Jeff Loomis, Marco Sfogli and Andy James… there is sure to be something for every headbanging metal junkie.
“Each track is riddled with savage & catchy riffs and filled out with blazing solos.” Hysteria Mag
The EP’s artwork was created by Dusan Markovic who has worked with bands like Dragony, Mystic Prophecy, Dragonheart..
Formed by rhythm guitarist/singer Devon Smith and bassist John Hopf in 2017, Plague 9 recorded their first song Stuck in Hell for the release on the Metal United Down Under Vol 1 compilation. Since then lead guitarist David Hone has jumped on board bringing his very unique playing style and blistering speed taking the songs into a new dimension.
Plague 9 are: John Hopf – Bass guitar David Hone – Lead guitar Devon Smith – Rhythm guitar/vocals Kon Tsacos – Drums
Tracklist
1. Stuck in hell
2. Criminal justice
3. Flavour of the weak
4. Feed it
5. Mr ass
Sydney’s Alchemy just released their crushing debut EP Infinite Forms of Torture. The EP features 3 tracks rooted in brutal death and black metal displaying Alchemy’s blend of the best of many worlds. The guys create a style of intricate riffs, melodies and grooves stemming from multiple musical backgrounds outside of the genre.
Just formed in 2018, the band made very quick a name for themselves with there high energy performances. Supports for Australian bands like Psycroptic, Obscura, Disentomb, Whoretopsy and King Parrot followed very fast.
Just after the release of the EP, Alchemy toured Japan with Hypocrisy and Kataklysm. They also released the official video for the title track Infinite Forms of Torture.
Alchemy are: Nic Webb – Vocals Mateja Ostrugnaj – Drums Christopher Puglia – Guitar Daniel Saeed – Bass
Tracklist
1.Infinite Forms of Torture
2.Hadethma
3.Nocturnal Forest
Mixed and mastered by Adrian Cappaletti of Disentomb who also plays bass on the first 2 tracks
Hot on the heels of Ewigkeit‘s UFO themed album DISClose, the space theme is explored further by a trip back through time. Of sorts… in 1999, Ewigkeit released the 2nd album Starscape, a Symphonic Black Metal album large in it’s scope and ambition, but with an almost unlistenably poor sound quality. Now, in 2019, Ewigkeit present Starscape 2.019 – a complete re-recording of the original album.
With epic tracks like Point of Origin (Black Metal’s first waltz?), Unveiling The Mystery or Legend of Keshara or the straight ahead mid-paced Swedish Death Metal inspired Lightspeed Evolution or the sublime classical of Space Symphony, this is now in the form it was originally intended way back there at the end of the 20th Century.
Lyrical themes are reflections of the dark past and a look towards the unknown future in the realms above and beyond. The man behind Ewigkeit, James Fogarty, states: “20 years ago, I wrote and recorded an album called Starscape; it was wildly ambitious for my meagre beginnings and I ramped up the orchestral elements and added a futuristic feel for the space theme. I thought, and still think, that the music was great and original material!” However, it became hard to listen after some year. James explains further: “I just couldn’t listen to it within a few years, because my first album production was virtually of an UNLISTENABLE sound quality (even for 90s Black Metal)!”
Thus, James rerecorded and produced the album as part of his personal crusade to rescue his legacy before “I start getting too fucking old“.
He proudly presents Starscape 2.019 : “20 years since my teenage self recorded it, I present to you Starscape 2.019 – a vastly improved and polished product which I’m really pleased with and now proud of.”
Ewigkeit is the ever-changing project of British multi-instrumentalist James Fogarty (In The Woods, Old Forest, Jaldaboath and others). Starting off as a Black Metal project in the mid 90s, the project has veered from Symphonic Black Metal to Industrial to 70’s Space Rock and back again in the many years of it’s on/off existence.
All music is written, performed and produced by James Fogarty (also of In The Woods, Old Forest, Jaldaboath and Orcrypt). Mastering is by Kjetil Ottersen (Vektor Facilities) and artwork is by Lenny Bridgeman.
Tracklist:
01 – Point of Origin
02 – Unveiling the Mystery
03 – Legend of Keshara
04 – Return of Planet ‘X’
05 – Deviant
06 – Lightspeed Evolution
07 – Starscape
08 – Capsule
09 – Birth of Horus
10 – Space Symphony
Starscape 2.019 physically is available to pre-order now and digitally from 23/07/19 from www.deathtomusic.com.The album will be released digitally across all platforms to buy and stream on 23/08/19 and on CD on 23/09/19.
After the release of “Metal United” the bonus track for the great worldwide“Metal United World Wide“-Festival event ENVENOMED release their first official single and video for the upcoming album “The Walking Shred”.
OFFICIAL VIDEO “Abandon Hope”:
The first reviews came from Australia and Central Europe:
“An unexpected but very welcome surprise from Down Under!”
“Well worth the five years wait, then, and quite probably a must-have album if you like to think of yourself as a heavy metal fan of taste and style.”
05.07 Italy, Pavia, Pelle d’Oca
06.07 Italy, Lauriano, Metal Fest
07.07 HRV, Split, Metal Club EKS
09.07 Czech Republic, Ceske Budejovice, MC Fabrika
10.07 Germany, Passau, Zuckerfabrik
11.07 Germany, Nurnberg, Bela Lugosi
12.07 Germany, Berlin, Blackland
13.07 NLD, Tilburg, Little Devil Bar
14.07 France, Volmerange-Les-Mines, No Man’s Land
16.07 France, Strasbourg, L’Elastic
17.07 France, Lyon, Cco
18.07 Switzerland, Zurich, Ebrietas
19.07 Italy, Turin, Ziggy
20.07 Italy, Vigone, Positive Music
21.07 Italy, Somma Lombardo, Rock Inn Somma