A roundup of the latest news from the underground metal scene that includes updates on Raven Black, Mortor, Rapheumets Well, Skeletoon, Prometheus, Simplefast, Abandoned Palace, Hollow, While She Sleeps, Pyramaze, American Standards, Prayers Of Sanity and Mindmaze
Canadian atmospheric post-metal project ABANDONED PALACE have just released their new single “Shades of Autumn” for free download or pay-what-you-want via their Bandcamp site at the following link: https://abandonedpalace.bandcamp.com/track/shades-of-autumn
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Metalcore quartet, Hollow has release their debut single “Anomaly“. The single comes from their upcoming debut album titled, Home Isn’t Where The Heart Is, which is set to release June 9th. The band formerly known as Hollow Heart has a history of metalcore, but in this new album, they mix genres of rock, metal and post hardcore giving a unique approach to the new modern metal genre.
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UK, Sheffield-based metal powerhouse WHILE SHE SLEEPS have released another new music video for their song ‘Feel’. The song comes off the upcoming album, »You Are We«, which will be released via Arising Empire on the 21st of April 2017
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The melodic metal band PYRAMAZE just released a music video for the track “A World Divided” from their highly anticipated new album “Contingent”. The album will be released on April 28th in Europe and North America through Inner Wound Recordings.
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Phoenix hardcore outfit American Standards, has release their second music video single “Carpe Diem, Tomorrow”, which comes off their upcoming record “Anti-Melody”. In this claustrophobically dark video filmed by Jacob Reynolds (Dead Rabbits, Escape The Fate, The New Low), silhouettes of the band thrash amidst seizure-like inducing lights, capturing the passion and intensity of the song.
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LA based Alternative Metal Band Raven Black has released the Official Music Video for their single “Twinkle Twinkle Little Scars” off of their debut EP Seven Sins, out NOW via WURMgroup. Directed Josh Apple and filmed by Andrew Spirk of Monoblocstudios.com “Twinkle Twinkle Little Scars” originally premiered on Revolver Magazine.
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The US progressive power metal band MINDMAZE just released a lyric video for “One More Moment”, the second single from their new album “Resolve”. The album will be released on April 28th in Europe and North America through Inner Wound Recordings.
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After launching two pulverizing albums back to back, Metal Ride in 2010 and Shoot ‘Em Up in 2012, the war metal household that is MORTÖR fell back to recharge its line up and compose their third album. In 2016, the band resurfaced, more vicious than ever, with a new secret weapon ready to be dropped upon the face of the world, entitled Burn Up The Dead.
The band has released a lyric video for the title track ‘Burn Up The Dead‘ off their upcoming album.
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Hickory, N.C. sci-fi metal band RAPHEUMETS WELL (Ra-few-mets) will be releasing their next full length ‘Enders Door’ via Test Your Metal Records on May 26th. Once again they will being bring forth a voyage enriched with lore and a sound that is a complex mix of classical orchestrations, cosmic synths, and extreme metal to portray the epics of parallel worlds.
To watch ‘Ender’s Door’, please visit the following link on SkullsnBones.com: https://skullsnbones.com/rapheumets-well-premiere-music-video-enders-door/
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Portuguese thrash metal trio Prayers Of Sanity has just shared a new song from their impending third album “Face Of The Unknown”, out next week, April 28th via Rastilho Records.
Titled “Dead Alive”, this new track is now playing via No Clean Singing, who commented “It’s so supercharged with energy, so head-hammering and gut-punching in its grooviness, so raw and chain-splitting in the vibrant fury of its vocal attack, that it has the power to just blot out all the suckage around and within your festering soul — at least for a few minutes.”
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Power metal band Skeletoon have released the official live video here.
Recorded in France, Switzerland, Spain and Italy, during European “Triumvirate Tour” with Dgm, Trick or Treat and Secret Sphere.
Listen the last Skeletoon’s album “Ticking Clock” on Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/album/15100001
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Macedonia’s black / death metallers PROMETHEUS have just premiered a new song titled “The Disgusting Tongues”.
The new single, which is the opening track of the band’s upcoming debut album “Consumed In Flames”, is available at this location.
“Consumed In Flames will be released on April 28th via Katoptron IX Records.
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SIMPLEFAST premiered today, the second single “The Escape” from their new album “Apocalypse” out on May 19th, 2017 via AMAdea Music.
Simplefast is a Modern Metal/ Thrash Metal band from Athens,Greece. They were formed in 2011. After some changes on their line-up, in March 2012, Simplefast started to play live gigs and began their journey to the world of music.
