Ravenscry’s debut album “One Way Out” will be released in Japan through Hydrant Music on March the 14th, 2012. After the successful Europen and Scandinavian releases the hype continues for “One Way Out”. The album will be distributed in Japan by EMI music thanks to the new deal with Hydrant Music.
The whole band stated: “We are very excited to have our debut album “One Way Out” released by Hydrant Music in Japan. We were searching for someone who could collaborate with us in Japan and Hydrant Music proposal just came across our way. We are very happy about this agreement and we are sure that One Way Out will be heard by our Japanese fans… and of course it would be awesome to come over Japan to promote our music!”
Japanese mighty BURRN! Magazine will introduce the release to the nipponic audience on the next issue. Stay tuned!
www.ravenscryband.com
www.hydrantmusic.com
www.wormholedeath.com
Levania sign with DREAMCELL11
2012-01-17
Italian Gothic Metal band Levania have signed a deal with Dreamcell11/Aural Music Group for the release their debut album “Parasynthesis”. The album, that includes 10 very original tracks with a sound never listened before, was recorded and mixed in December 2010 at Zenith Recording Studios in Italy and produced by Frank Andiver. The mastering was taken care of Mika Jussila at Finnvox Studios in Finland. The artwork and photos for the album was made by Patrizia Cogliati of Musicphoto Designs.
Levania is enthusiastic to annunce the signing with Dreamcell11 of Aural group. For us it’s the best opportunity to make known to all the world who we are and listen to it how deep is our sound. After some years playing and three demos recorded in studio, under label Dreamcell11, it will be released our first full lenght album entitled “Parasynthesis”.
Parasynthesis is a conceptual synthesis that expresses the essence of the notion of gothic-metal, a sort of definition of the absolute meant as a union of opposites in a complementary dichotomy in love-death that has its roots in the twentieth century and romanticism.
The two opposites that can be seen in the various songs on the album are not static but rather charged with different tones and details gradually, starting from a lack of erotic boost seen as the beginning of everything (Agharti I), through a wild and emotional research about what is missing from our completeness (Agharti II, Basteth’s Kiss,Midnight of Silence), through anger (The Narrow Way of Juliette, Carthago Nova), despair (Sibyl of the Dark), beliefs (Natural Motion) and the acceptance of this absence (Agharti III, Eroica) until you reach a sort of rapture limbo where the absence is satisfied only in our hearts, where the Seeker takes refuge from the outside world. Parasyntesis just tells us in this long inner journey through a quest that will never end, because that will coincide with the end goal of research, mixed blessing of our ego.
http://www.myspace.com/Levania
http://www.facebook.com/LevaniaBand
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Levania/79684453130
http://vampirefreaks.com/profile.php?user=LEVANIA&preview=1
http://www.reverbnation.com/levania
The Stompcrash was born in Milan in 2002 as a darkwave project inspired by the gothic stories of writers like Lovecraft, Poe, Kafka. Tales about love and death. The first album “Requiem Rosa” was released in 2007 for Nomadism Records as the result of researching melodies and atmospheres to give special emphasis to every story told. The aim of the band was to catch all the energies and emotions felt and put them in songs. “Requiem Rosa” contains some classic like “Dorian”, “The London Fog” and “Like a noise” and achieved great reviews from all the gothic scene all over the world.
After involvements in compilations from Greece, Russia and Germany in 2009 a new song called “The Buried Cat” was released for german magazine “Dark Spy vol. 21” and the same year the band was included in the english goth journalist Mick Mercer’s book titled “Music To Die For”. In 2010 the band start to look for new musical directions writing new songs and began the collaboration with Alkemist Fanatix Management, in 2011 the agreement with DreamCell11 for a new album is signed.
The Stompcrash is back with a whole new sound, more fine and conscious, 12 new tracks in a new album called “Directions”, an album about love, sorrow, regret, about blood on the wheels of history, about how in life “behind each corner new directions lie in wait”.
Websites:
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http://twitter.com/thestompcrash
The Oath presents new video
2011-12-06
AKPHAEZYA sign with code666
2011-10-25
French “Avantgarde Metal” band AKPHAEZYA have inked a new album deal with code666 (part of the Aural Music Group). The band formed in 2002 to create music without boundaries and released their first demo in 2004 called “Akphaezya – Anthology II: Links from the Dead Trinity” , finally releasing their first full length album effort in 2008 on Ascendance/Candelight Records with worldwide critical acclaim. AKPHAEZYA guitarist Stephan H. commented on the new deal: “We are very proud to work with a cult label like code666, Tte new album “Anthology IV : The tragedy of Nerak” which is mastered by Brian Gardner (Down, Lamb of God, QOTSA…) will be released in March 2012.“code666’s Emiliano Lanzoni stated: “AKPHAEZYA are crazy, in the good way. I enjoyed their debut album, but when i received the new songs i was blown away: this is really top notch avantgarde metal: what code666 is renowed for.”AKPHAEZYA are now working on the artwork and video for the new album, titled “Anthology IV : The tragedy of Nerak” and scheduled for march 2012 on code666.
Italian Rockers RAIN just posted a preview of their new album titled “XXX”, check it out HERE !
ENID POSTS FIRST AND SECOND PART OF A MAKING OF FOR THEIR NEW ALBUM, MUNSALVAESCHE ON YOUTUBE
2011-09-23Masters of Orchestral Fantasy Metal, ENID, just shot a new Studio video for the album Munsalvaesche scheduled for code666 on November 28th, 2011.
The video is split in four interesting Studio Reports regarding the whole production of the new album and was produced and directed by Martin Wiese.
The “making of” video for the Orchestral parts of Musalvaesche is online on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHpnkaHfO40
while the “making of” video for the Groovy/Metal parts of Musalvaesche is online here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3ZmWd8VZJc
and here’s the third video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtbxU1sTHSs&feature=colike
RAIN announce details of new album “XXX”
2011-09-21
October 12, 2011 is the release day of the Rain’s new work “XXX”, subtitled “30 years on the road”. So many are the years spent on tour by the band, working hard in order to be a solid touchstone in the Italian (and not only) rock and metal panorama. The three X’s of the title represent number 30 in Roman numerals, but, ironically, they are also the symbol of highly erotic films, eroticism being often present in the band’s texts. This work is a sort of celebration of the thirty years since 1980, but far from being a compilation or a best of, it’s a choice of 13 pieces (one of which new) from the previous 8 albums, re-adapted, re-arranged and completely re-sung, masterized by Mats “Limpan” Lindfords in the famous Cutting Room Studios in Stockholm. The result is an elaborate album, modern but still with hard & heavy sonority, the brand of the Bolognese band. “XXX” is released by Aural Music and will be available in cd and vinyl; it can also be downloaded on digital supports.
The tracklist will be slightly different from the vinyl:
Tracklist cd:
1 Energy
2 Whiskey on the route 666
3 Blood Sport
4 Rain Revolution
5 The Gate
6 Born to Kill
7 We Want R.n.R
8 In the Night
9 End Of Time ( cd exclusive track)
10 Only your dreams
11 Fight for the power
12 Only for the rain crew
13 Rain Are Us ( acoustic version)
Tracklist Lp:
1 Whiskey on the route 666
2 Blood Sport
3 In the Night
4 The Gate
5 Network ( lp exclusive track)
6 Only for the rain crew
7 Born to kill
8 Energy
9 Rain Revolution
10 We watt R.n.R
11 Only your dreams
12 Fight for the power
13 Rain Are Us ( acoustic version)
Live dates and promotion: In order to promote their new album, the band will be on tour from October 15, 2011 to March 2012. The tour will consists of two parts and will rely on the quality rather than the quantity of the concerts. The first date of the tour will be precisely October 15 at Tilburg, Holland. A release party will follow on November 5 at the Boulevard Music Club of Misano Adriatico (Rimini) where the band will perform a showcase and will be supported on stage by guests and friends. On November 12 they will be at Onirica, Parma, and on November 19 at the Black Out in Rome. More dates are being arranged both for the first and the second leg of the tour, in Italy and Europe. Another important appointment (extra tour) will be their presence as headliner on the stage of “Songs for a friend”, a charity festival in aid of the victims of road accidents which will be held at Trecate, Novara, on September 23, 2011. But it’s not only the Live concerts that will promote the new work of the Rain. The band will be a guest in many radio and television programs where they will present the video of their piece “Whiskey on route 666”, shot at Tarifa in Spain at mid-September.
