A roundup of the latest news from Nuclear Blast including updates on Wednesday 13, Decapitated, Rage and Pristine.
WEDNESDAY 13 – unveils new music video ‘Blood Sick’
WEDNESDAY 13 has unveiled a brand new video for ‘Blood Sick’, the next track to be taken from his forthcoming album, »Condolences«, which arrives on 2nd June via new record label home, Nuclear Blast. Check it out here:
WEDNESDAY tells us:
“I’m really excited for you all to see the video for ‘Blood Sick’. It was all shot on green screen with director Matt Zane. The song is about a spider torturing a fly in its web before devouring it, and I wanted to try and capture that scenario with the band in a giant spider web. I had this vision in my head when we first wrote the song and it’s so cool to see it finally come to life.”
DECAPITATED – new album “ANTICULT” on July 7th/digital single “Never” out now!
Polish metal extremists DECAPITATED have revealed details of their upcoming seventh album »ANTICULT«, out July 7 via Nuclear Blast. The band has also dropped the new song “Never” which is available as an Instant Grat track for all fans who pre-order the album. Anticult is available for pre-order here: http://nblast.de/DecapitatedAnticultNB
Digital here: http://nblast.de/DecapitatedDigital
Check out the video of “Never” here:
»ANTICULT« highlights just how vital DECAPITATED have remained two decades deep into their career. DECAPITATED have long been undeniable masters of their craft and they are expanding their parameters with »ANTICULT«, which should elevate the band’s profile beyond the death metal realm in which it has dominated for years.
“Anticult represents the legacy and future of Decapitated,” said guitarist Vogg. “We’re extremely proud of the record, in both the song compositions and the production. This is the best representation of our music and we’re really excited for the world to hear it!”
The album’s massive musical leap forward is evidenced by “Never.” It’s a song with an incredible bite and retains DECAPITATED‘s signature fury. But it’s also undeniably catchy and takes up residence in your brain and stays there.
“‘Never,’ the first track we are showcasing from the record, is fast, it’s technical, and most importantly, it’s heavy,” Vogg commented. “For us, it’s what Decapitated is all about… and it will be really fun to play live. Enjoy it!”
Vocalist Rasta weighed in about the subject matter of “Never,” offering this insight into the lyrical content: “There is no mystical, doomish fate waiting for us. The only judgment pending is our own. The simple relationship between cause and effect is what determines our future. We are now witnessing something that should never have happened — our homes have become our civilization’s grave.”
RAGE – new studio album “Seasons Of The Black” in July
The creativity and productivity of the German heavy metal trio RAGE seems to have no limits. Only 14 months after the successful “The Devil Strikes Again” neckbreaker, RAGE deliver their new, 23rd studio album called “Seasons Of The Black”, which will be released on July 28th!
“Our fans are getting RAGE metal of the very first grade. We’ve been able to bring the band’s typical trademarks into eleven new songs, and we’re sticking to the course that we forged on the last album! This means hard and very catchy compositions that also sound thrash, aggressive and epic”, tells band leader Peavy.
Since the reorientation of 2015, the three band members have now fully adapted to each other and the lost harmony has been fully restored. “We are even better matched with each other,” says Peavy happy. “We offer new ideas to each other like we’ve never done something else before! It also happened that we created a whole new song within just two hours from start to finish, from scratch! Regarding the production we were also able to prevent some complications, which had been an element of the last album due to a lack of experience. This time, everything worked perfectly.”
Guitarist Marcos Rodriguez and drummer Vassilios “Lucky” Maniatopoulos have been long-time RAGE fans from the very beginning. Their input also leaves its mark on their second album. “Marcos and Lucky well know the “classic” style-creating spirit of RAGE so to speak, and on a personal level we all really like each other as well. This contributed to the possibility of continuing to develop and expanding the band’s spirit,” the vocalist adds.
The stylistic connection between “The Devil Strikes Again” and “Seasons Of The Black” is also visually reflected in the artwork, once again created by graphic artist Karim König. “We developed the idea together,” says Peavy. “In this way we want to show that both albums belong together in their own way. I modelled the sonically inspired sculpture that dominates the cover on my own. As a basis, I used a very rare skull from my collection, which I poured myself and then re-modelled. Karim created the gloomy landscape with the Golgotha Hill.”
The title song ‘Seasons Of The Black’ will be the opener of the 11 track-album. “The song is very personal, it is about a failed life-long dream. Imagine being stamped to the ground and looking at the broken pieces of your existence. This sadly is a destiny that many people have to share. Most of the songs on the album include a very gloomy view of the world, so we thought “Seasons Of The Black” would be suitable for the entire album,” the vocalist, who founded RAGE over three decades ago, sums up.
“Seasons Of The Black” was recorded in February / March 2017 at Megafon Studios (Burscheid, Germany) and at Soundchaser Studios (Zandhoven, Belgium). Its production was handled by RAGE, whilst the renowned Dan Swanö (MARDUK, OPETH, KATATONIA) took care of the mix and mastering at Unisound Studios (Grefrath, Germany).
PRISTINE – release music video for ‘You Are The One’, »Ninja« pre-orders up
Norwegian rock band PRISTINE, featuring lead singer and primus motor Heidi Solheim, today release the music video for the brand new song from their upcoming, fourth studio album, entitled »Ninja«. Check out ‘You Are The One’ here:
Commented Heidi Solheim:
“I wrote ‘You Are The One’ after I’d been out on the town with a friend of mine. We were talking a lot about how things have changed from when we were teenagers. The ‘cool guys’ stayed in the small villages we came from and the weird ones (like myself) went out to see the world. ‘You Are The One’ is about how the tables have turned and that things might not be the end of the world even if it feels like it when you’re 16.»
