News From The Underground: Ibyss, Lodz, Speed Stroke, Ghost Horizon, Closer To Found, Raw Silk

A roundup of the latest in the underground rock and metal scene including updates from Ibyss, Lodz, Speed Stroke, Ghost Horizon, Closer To Found and Raw Silk.

 

 

German metallers Ibyss release new controversial album “Hate Speech”

Ibyss - Hate Speech
Two guys. Two guitars. Riffs. One singer. Shouts. Growls. Programmed drums. Distorted bass. Taking Industrial-Metal back to it ́s underground roots, the German duo known as Ibyss celebrates an assault on the progressive-sound-complex of today ́s Heavy Metal. Rudimental and raw.

 

Within just 27 minutes, the new album HATE SPEECH delivers a blow of six punching songs.
Thematically dealing with the hysteria around #safe spaces #trigger warnings
#toxic masculinity #sexism and #mansplaining, it ́s an unapologetic statement
against censorship and rising authoritarian tendencies in the midst of a battle of the
sexes which are already sweeping into the Heavy Metal subculture.

 

 

 

Lòdz – French Post-Metal Collective Share Music Video For “Time Doesn’t Heal Anything”

French post-metal collective Lòdz have just shared a new music video for the title track from their newly announced second album “Time Doesn’t Heal Anything”, which is set for release this Friday via Klonosphere Records/Season of Mist.

Recorded by Fabrice Boy and mastered by Nick Zampiello (Caspian, Cave In, Converge, Isis), “Time Doesn’t Heal Anything” follows-up the band’s critically acclaimed debut effort “Something In Us Died” released in 2013 and once again sees the Lyon-based quartet exploring a dark, melancholic and emotionally intense post-metal sound that will be familiar to fans of Cult Of Luna, Katatonia and Ghost Brigade.

 

 

Speed Stroke release brand-new video “Believe in Me” and announce new shows in Germany & Italy

Speed Stroke

Two new shows in Germany announced today for the Italian band SPEED STROKE!
A true “No Stop Live” band, deeply addicted to the stage, is continuously playing its own Music at the best venues. The last show has been @ Angels & Demons Fest in Rome, with a great and powerful concert, and the next one will be the first of the two new live dates abroad.

 

The destination is Germany, for both the 2 shows: the band will play in Bayern at the end of March for a sleaze rock & punk & roll night with two other bands live. Then, SPEED STROKE will go till Leipzig at the end of May, for the 13° anniversary of the live club, and will split the stage with the worldwide famous band Babylon Bombs, with the original line-up!

 

Here are the locations, the venues and all the details:
saturday 03/25 4Rooms, Lipsia – Germany > http://bit.ly/2noj23T
saturday 05/27 Paunchy Cats Inn Bar, Lichtensfels, Bayern – Germany > http://bit.ly/2lVS4Up

 

To mention that the band’s latest video “Believe in Me” has been released only a week ago. It is the 3rd single taken from the latest album “Fury”, published by Bagana Records in March 2016. It has been preceded by “Demon Alcohol” e “The End Of This Flight”.

 

Believe in Me (Official Video) > https://youtu.be/VyUk6OpvRtQ

 

Here are the next Italian shows already announced:
saturday 04/01 Lab End 2.0, San Lazzaro di Savena (BO) > http://bit.ly/2n0JS2a
friday 04/14 Satyricon, Alatri (FR) > http://bit.ly/2lXJVuB
saturday 04/22 Gasoline, Ravenna > http://bit.ly/2lzCM7L

 

 

GHOST HORIZON REVEAL NEW TRACK, SIGN WITH TRIDROID RECORDS

Ghost Horizon

Black metal band GHOST HORIZON have teamed up with Nine Circles to reveal “Radiant Eyes”, a new track from their forthcoming album The Erotics of Disgust.

Band founder Dan Stollings commented, “Radiant Eyes” is a very different type of song for me, not just musically, but lyrically as well. Instead of writing about something mysterious or evil in nature, I decided I wanted to write about a more real and relatable idea–something that you could tell genuinely came from the heart and wasn’t “put on”. The track is (abstractly) about having an intense love for someone, losing that love, and then, consequently, fighting to get that love back.”

Listen to “Radiant Eyes” here: https://ninecircles.co/2017/03/09/exclusive-stream-ghost-horizon-radiant-eyes/

In further news Ghost Horizon has signed with Tridroid Records to release The Erotics of Disgust on April 7th 2017. More details will be revealed soon.

 

 

Closer To Found US Tour Dates & Video Premiere ‘Listen Close And You Hear The…

Closer To Found

Montreal, QC’s CLOSER TO FOUND bring melody, heart, and intellect to their music; their dual vocal approach gives an individual edge to their sound, which transcends their influences of Bring Me The Horizon, Issues, Norma Jean, Vanna, and Underoath, overall they are best described as “heavy, groove-driven metalcore”.

Their 1o track debut album ‘Always Just As Lost’ was released during November of last year and has seen the band consistently touring and unleashing music videos such as ‘Remember When’ and ‘Ashes’ in support of the release.

Kicking of 2017, the band has teamed up with New Noise Magazine for the premiere of their next video for their album’s opening track ‘Listen Close And You Hear The Ocean’, which is also the title of their upcoming USA tour with Cincinnati, OH’s Lift The Medium and New Jersey’s Silence In Solitude.

To watch ‘Listen Close And You Hear The Ocean’, please visit the following link: http://newnoisemagazine.com/closer-found-listen-hear-ocean-video/

The full album stream of ‘Always Just As Lost’ can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN7jXOzwT4Y

THE LISTEN CLOSE AND YOU HEAR THE OCEAN TOUR
w/ Closer To Found, Lift The Medium, Silence In Solitude
Dates:
07/04 – Jamestown, NY – Mojo’s
10/04 – Long Branch, NJ – Brighton Bar
11/04 – Murfreesboro, NC – Zakk’s Coffeehouse
12/04 – Carrollton, GA – Alley Cat
13/04 – Jacksonville, FL – Jack Rabbit’s
15/04 – Marietta, GA – Swayze’s Venue
16/04 – Nashville, TN – Springwater
18/04 – Austin, TX – Texas Mist
20/04 – Houston, TX – Acadia Bar & Grill
21/04 – Lawton, OK – The Railhead Saloon
22/04 – Kansas City, MO – Prohibition Hall
23/04 – Chicago, IL – Lilly’s
24/04 – New Haven, IN – Carl’s Tavern
26/04 – Hazel Park, MI – Phoenix Cafe
28/04 – Kittanning, PA – Club Radioactive
29/04 – Rochester, NY – Monty’s Krown

 

 

Raw Silk – The Borders Of Light – Info / 1st single lyric video release

Raw Silk

Raw Silk burst onto the Greek and European A.O.R. scene in the 90s with the legendary debut album “Silk Under the Skin”. The 2004 re-release of the album on CD brought the band back to the forefront and led to high profile reunion concerts supporting Pink Cream 69, Jeff Scott Sotto and Winger. After a second long hiatus and led by composer-drummer and Raw Silk founder Kostas Kyriakidis the band has regrouped in the UK with a brand new lineup and will release the elusive and long-awaited follow-up to their revered debut “Silk Under the Skin”.

The new album, entitled “The Borders of Light”, is a modern take on the classic metal sound of the late 80s featuring 10 brand new tracks with a total running time of over 60 minutes. Seamlessly bridging past and present, “The Borders of Light” delivers strong melodies combined with signature keyboard lines and heavy riffs. Superbly recorded and produced at Vault Studios in the rock heartlands of the Black Country.

Listen to the band’s first single and lyric video “Nobody Fills the Loneliness”

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