Aetherian are a melodic death project-band from Athens, Greece, formed in autumn, 2013.They take influence from great acts of the genre, to create their own dark and melodic metal. On 2013 two singles were released and on 2015 the EP "Tales of our Times". On April 2016 a new single went out together with a avideo clip and it went by the name "The Rain". On November 24th, 2017 the first full length album "The Untamed Wilderness" was released.
Formed In: 2013
Status: Active
Years Active: 2013-Present
LINE UP Panos Leakos – Vocals, Bass Angelos Maniatakos – Guitars Giorgos Evgeniadis – Guitars Nikos Parotidis – Drums
Country of origin: Greece Location: Athens, Attica Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Shrouded in mystery, we’re not sure who is behind the scenes of GOD. All that we know is that GOD is a multi-layered progressive metal juggernaut waiting to be discovered by the metal community at large. Utilizing 4, 5, and 8 string bass guitars, 6-string and baritone guitars, and complex musical structures, the band creates a unique sound that differs greatly with each track. One of the most prominent features of GOD’s debut album GOD I is the emphasis on melody over bone crunching heavy metal. Of course, the music is plenty heavy.
Listening through the band’s debut I’m taken to a world of mystery and enchantment. Though the name might be off-putting to someone who might have hostility toward the concept of God or many gods, the lack of lyrics keeps the possibility of preaching at a maximum of 0 while allowing for an immersive musical experience built around various concepts pertaining to a higher power.
GOD is greater than the individual who felt led to create the concept of multi-layered progressive metal and as such wishes to remain completely anonymous. GOD utilizes the concept of "Inception" to induce thought into the listener through each song title and the project title itself. GOD returns this October 9 thru December 25, 2017 with GOD II – the follow up to 2016’s challenging debut instrumental multi-layered progressive metal album GOD I. With the help of some incredibly talented music editors, writers, reviewers, sites and publications ” GOD I” the debut instrumental progressive metal album from GOD released with hundreds of downloads, over 115,000 streams, 75+ Mainstream & Listener Reviews , international press coverage from publications such as Decibel Magazine, Bloodrock Media, Metal At The Gates, Djent Mag, The Rockpit, Headbanger Reviews as well as an avid GOD fanbase growing beyond 45,000 social media followers & listeners.
GOD challenges listeners to consider their life & death through the power of music and through the concept of “Inception”. Each track utilizes the concept of “Inception” by releasing with a coinciding video to ask listeners & viewers questions regarding the song title rather than force ideas, opinions or beliefs onto them.
GOD represents something greater than the one who was lead to channel this concept, this sound and this message to listeners all over the world. Due to the title, topics and reverence to the subject matter the writer- producer of GOD sincerely wishes to remain anonymous.
“The reason for remaining anonymous is to be humble and realize whose name this project is named after. In reverence and respect to who and what GOD is to me. As an individual who felt, lead to create this it has been a spiritual battle to humble myself and realize that the music is not really mine at all. It was there before I existed.” - Commented the band.
Chronicles 5:13
13 The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the LORD and sang: “He is good, his love endures forever.”
GOD II – Jesus Christ – The Origin, The Life, Death & Resurrection Of Jesus Christ.
“I am” begins memorizing the audience with the introduction of a gentle harmony of the guitar quickly changing course with a brutal guitar riff and the penetrating rhythm of the double bass drums, establishing authority. Obey follows by intensifying the continuous rhythms of the guitar. Worship enters with the pounding of the bass guitar and the whining sound of the guitars. Temptation lures you in with the angelic sounds of short guitar riffs. Transfiguration comes in with commanding sound of both the drums and bass guitar. Holy gives a sense of comfort with the soft harmony of the guitar still emphasizing the power of the drums. Prayer a melody of harmonics, carrying you into Trust amplifying the distortion of the guitars. Forsaken becomes brutal with the pounding of the drums and sorrow of the the guitar. Crucified pleads with the melodic harmony of the guitar. Death comes with the heavy pumping of the bass and screeching fear of the guitar riffs. Finally, Forgiveness ends with the harmonic sounds of the guitar leaving your skin with frisson.
Among the contemporary Doom Metal bands who have risen in the international scene during the last decade, French-based MONOLITHE, whose musical journeys opened up new horizons for the genre, stood out from the mass since its early days.
MONOLITHE’s music needs to be lived more than listened to. Its atmosphere is grandiose and epic. The entire discography is a musical saga that mixes heaviness, mysticism and complex structures tinged with hints of progressive flair. The listener is invited into a world of beauty, horror and nothingness.
MONOLITHE 's music can be qualified as Dark Doom Metal : a Doom/Death basis on which we add other influences, from Extreme Metal to Progressive, passing through the adventurism and psychedelia of the 70's. The music is mostly loud and powerful, rich in riffs and atmosphere, very immersive and spatial. It evolves with each albums, MONOLITHE does not want to stagnate, neither to stick to the over-exploited codes of the gender. The band, which exist since 2001, released 6 albums, 2 EPs and a Best-Of. They have, at first, been known for their sets of albums composed of only one long track, starting with "The Great Clockmaker" saga ("Monolithe I - II - III - IV") and then followed by the duology "Epsilon Aurigae" and "Zeta Reticuli".
7 musicians gathered to record the 7-minutes songs to feature on MONOLITHE’s upcoming 7th opus - NEBULA SEPTEM.
On the album, the tonality of each song is one of the 7th notes of the western scale.
The first letter of the songs’ titles is one of the 7th first letters of the alphabet ; It is also the tonality of each song - from A to G.
Song lyrics develop science-fiction stories mainly focused on extra-terrestrial life. The music - while reminiscent of the band’s usual touch, is a new step ahead in the band’s career, with new influences and a rejuvenating approach.
Tracklist:
1. Anechoic Aberration
2. Burst In The Event Horizon
3. Coil Shaped Volutions
4. Delta Scuti
5. Engineering The Rip
6. Fathom The Deep
7. Gravity Flood
NEBULA SEPTEM is set for release on January 26th 2018 on Les Acteurs de l'ombre Productions.
Founded by Putrefatus and Skymning. Gray Souvenirs was formed when Putrefatus won his first guitar as a birthday present, February 4 2015. In its first incarnation the band with the participation of Skymning (base guitar) that after the release "Ventos da Transcendência" came to leave the project. Putrefatus had in mind to do a friendlier sound pro blackgaze / DSBM, but over time the compositions tended more to the side blackgaze, shogeaze and post-black metal with strong influences of Alcest, Amesoeurs, Les Discrets, Lantlôs, Shyy and ... (dotdotdot).
The lyrics revolve around memories and nostalgia, as Putrefactus himself says "Dreams of an empty life and all that I have not lived." Gray Souvenirs has a nostalgic and atmospheric sound with elements of aspects such as post-rock, shoegaze, indie and even post-black metal.
"The First Sight" is a gaze in the sky, is like sinking inside the deepest universe. This album is about the energy that connects an atom to another. It's about the essential force who makes us exist. It's an experience between life and death. The thin line that screams inside yourself in search of a answer;
"The Ocean Will Drown The Light" is the first single from the upcoming album "Letters to the Forgotten". "The Ocean Will Drown The Light" tells a story. It's a song about elevation. It's the exactly moment when you're entering in a deep sleep. Everything is dark you feel fear but suddenly you see a bright light calling you. This light is a better world far away from this one. New colors in light. New perspective. New world.
Formed In: 2015 Status: Active Years Active: 2015-Present LINE UP Putrefactus: All Instruments, Vocals & Lyrics
Coutry of Origin: Brazil Location: Vitória da Conquista - ba Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal/Post-Black Metal/Shoegaze
“Storm Alive” is A Constant Storm’s debut album and follow up to the 2014 EP “Storm Born”. This new work features lead vocals by Ricardo Pereira (Moonshade, Vimara) and was recorded and produced by Afonso Aguiar (Moonshade, Dark Oath, @ISFrame).
This video was recorded in first live appearance of the project A Constant Storm on July 23, 2017 included in the solidarity event organized by the Association of Homeless and Paulo D'Ávila Club.
It was a small acoustic showcase and took place at the Recreational and Cultural Center of Aparecida in Lousada.
Flow Of Time (Acoustic Live - 2017)
Released: September 30th, 2017
A Constant Storm Live at Lousada, Portugal (Acoustic Showcase) - July 23, 2017
Video: João Lobo (ISFrame)
Editing: João Lobo (ISFrame)
Storm Alive was released on May 6th, 2016 on ACS’ official bandcamp page (http://aconstantstorm.bandcamp.com) and is available for streaming and digital purchase on the same website.
Foremed In: 2013 Status: Active Years Active: 2013-Present LINE UP Daniel Laureano (Stormbringer) – Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Backing Vocals Additional Musicians: Ricardo Pereira – Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals Afonso Aguiar – Drum Programming
The Almanac is Kardashev’s second EP, and 4th studio album in their 5 year tenure. Lyrically, it follows the story they began telling with their 2012 EP, Excipio, in which the concepts of discovery, truth, and humility play out across a starry landscape. Musically, the album is profound in soaring, evocative melodies and musical movements.
Kardashev have always existed in the metal genre, but over the years have incorporated the delicate and elegant atmosphere that interweaves the aggressive sound they began with from the start. The aggression is becoming less frequent and is being replaced by melody, and the dynamic range brought on by their singer, Mark Garrett, can only be compared to his performance on their 2014 single, IOTA. Additionally, Garrett has written AND speaks a language he created for this album called, “Alunea”. The intro and outro tracks of the album, aptly named Prologue and Epilogue, serve as musical landscapes for him to deliver the language in the form of a story from the perspective of the unnamed traveler.
Kardashev’s guitarist, Nico Mirolla, has been performing on Twitch.com since October 2016 and the band are in the early stages of performing their live show online as a group at http://www.twitch.tv/kardashevband. They’ve decided to forgo any live opportunities elsewhere due to the extraordinary costs associated with touring and playing locally. However, this album is set to be performed through their Twitch account soon after release as a proof of concept.
Chris Gerlings, bassist and art director for Kardashev, narrowed his eye toward photography for this release. He toiled over the visual themes that could best represent the aural content and then gracefully layered in intrigue. A profound white hand moving through flora, earth, water, and sky. The apotheosis of story, sound, and visual art, Gerlings drives home the image of discovery and unfamiliarity with his capturing of this curious hand inexorably moving toward the next discovery.
Beyond The Dark is a melodic death metal band formed in 2014 in Rome, Italy. The band started composing their own songs immediately and at the end of 2014, after a period of intense work, entered in the studio to record the first and homonymous EP "Beyond The Dark". The EP was released on November 30, 2015 and was mixed and mastered at Overload Recording Studios.
Aside from delivering blast beats and blistering guitar riffs, Beyond the Dark also displays impressive range and mellows things down just a bit. Just a bit, though. It still retains the driving sound that makes it fit with the rest of the album. The sum total is 6 tracks that deliver a great sound. On October 25th, 2016 the band announced a new EP "Unspoken" following the below statement: "Hi guys, we have some news to share with you all. Giovanni -main songwriter and founding member of the band- is undergoing a big change in his life and he is going to leave Italy very soon. As a result, we decided to change priorities and we are now switching the direction of the band to a studio project. This doesn't mean we won't be playing live again, but it will just be in selected shows and not in the near future. And now, for the good news... we already started the recording sessions of a new 3-tracks EP to be released in the first months of 2017! Stay tuned, updates coming soon!" - Commented the band. On June 30th, 2017, Beyond The Dark released the first single "Retune Your Mind", the whole EP was released on July 23rd, 2017. This Ep is the first band's release with their new vocalist Giuseppe Massimiliano Di Giorgio (Black Therapy, ex-Eyeconoclast, ex-Adimiron).
Founded by Putrefatus and Skymning. Gray Souvenirs was formed when Putrefatus won his first guitar as a birthday present, February 4 2015. In its first incarnation the band with the participation of Skymning (base guitar) that after the release "Ventos da Transcendência" came to leave the project. Putrefatus had in mind to do a friendlier sound pro blackgaze / DSBM, but over time the compositions tended more to the side blackgaze, shogeaze and post-black metal with strong influences of Alcest, Amesoeurs, Les Discrets, Lantlôs, Shyy and ... (dotdotdot).
The lyrics revolve around memories and nostalgia, as Putrefactus himself says "Dreams of an empty life and all that I have not lived." Gray Souvenirs has a nostalgic and atmospheric sound with elements of aspects such as post-rock, shoegaze, indie and even post-black metal.
"The First Sight" is a gaze in the sky, is like sinking inside the deepest universe. This album is about the energy that connects an atom to another. It's about the essential force who makes us exist. It's an experience between life and death. The thin line that screams inside yourself in search of a answer;
In short existence the band has shown a lot of work and shows signs that it has a promising future.
Formed In: 2015 Status: Active Years Active: 2015-Present LINE UP Putrefactus: All Instruments, Vocals & Lyrics
Coutry of Origin: Brazil Location: Vitória da Conquista - ba Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal/Post-Black Metal/Shoegaze
"Howling North" is a project, founded in 2009, in the city of Syktyvkar. The only participant is Artem "A.D." Dmitriev.
Through the prism of music are transmitted such topics as: nature and its phenomena, mental and psychological experiences, the philosophy of what is happening. The project is mainly instrumental and is written in the Atmospheric Black Metal style.
In 2013, Demo released an album, which includes three instrumental tracks.
In 2016 came out: the single "Citynism" and EP album "My own Black". The single is written with a specific, even more experimental style, using a combination of genre techniques Hard Core, Doom, Black Metal. The EP consists of five tracks, using vocals in the fourth track.
In November 2017 the album "Immersion" was released, consisting entirely of instrumental compositions. The album raised the level of sound quality.
At this time the project lives and develops, new material is being written.
Formed In: 2009
Status: Active
Years Active: 2009-Present
LINE UP
Artem Dmitriev - Everything
Country of Origin: Russia
Location: Syktyvkar, Komi (early), Nizhny Novgorod (later)
Genre: Atmospheric/Post-Black Metal
In 2013, a metal band arises in St. Pölten, Lower Austria. AEONS OF ASHES are born. Soon they earn quite a reputation for their modern melodic death inspired debut album Shutdown (2014), as well as numerous club and festival shows all over and around Austria, also supporting renowned acts such as DARK TRANQUILLITY, HAIL OF BULLETS, CRIPPER, and PARADISE LOST. Gathering followers all over the planet, their video Remember My Name has reached more than 80.000 views on YouTube by now.
[Autumn 2017]
AEONS OF ASHES are back. More angry. More atmospheric. More post metal. Their new recording did take some time, they admit. As the band sought for their roots, more time was invested in the songwriting process, leading to more diversified, more complex songs. AEONS OF ASHES' new 6-track-EP "Impatience" was launched up on November 11th, followed up by the video "Dying Lights".
Formed in: 2013 Status: Active Years active: 2013-Present
EPHEMERALD was formed in 2016 by Joni Snoro (ex-Frosttide), Lauri Myllylä (ex-Frosttide), Vesa Salovaara (Vorna) and Juho Suomi (Apocryfal & Prayed and Betrayed) in order to create epic yet furious and straightforward metal music coming straight from the hearts of its creators.
The members have years of experience in the music business and have been touring and working amongst the finest. Now, with joined forces and multiple new collaborators, the band is soon ready to take the world by storm – this is a journey you don’t want to miss!
Their music can be described as straightforward, fast-paced, epic and melodic metal music accompanied by huge orchestrations and both clean and harsh vocals.
The band first started as Joni Snoro’s side project alongside his main band Frosttide. By July 2016 Joni had a few compositions in his pockets and he decided to ask Vesa Salovaara, the vocalist of Vorna, if he would be interested in doing vocals on them. The two of them had met and become friends during the collective gigs of Frosttide and Vorna over the years and Vesa said yes to the proposition without hesitation. Juho Suomi – a close friend of Joni and Lauri as well as an established drummer – had also offered his help with the drum recordings if necessary.
The situation changed quite radically in October 2016 when Joni and Lauri Myllylä (the ex-bassist of Frosttide) ended up leaving Frosttide due to insolvable personal differences within the band. As a result, Lauri joined the project as a bass player. Thus, a side project had suddenly become an ambitious, full-grown and fully functioning band, which was soon to be named EPHEMERALD.
Even though the band itself is new and fresh, the members have years of experience in the music business and have been touring and working amongst the finest. With joined forces and multiple new collaborators, the band was able to proceed very fast and entered SHED Studios (owned by their friend Juhamatti Kauppinen of Enthrone the Unborn etc.) as soon as December 2016 to record their first single – “I Bear Fire”
Ephemerald's second single "Till the Sea Swallows Us Whole" was released October 13, 2017 via ROCKSHOTS Music! The single gives you the first impression of what this band is about – epic yet furious and straightforward metal music coming straight from the hearts of its creators!
Sit back, turn up the volume, have a listen and spread the word all over the world!
Nightland were formed in Pesaro in 2006 for the will of the singer and guitarist Ludovico Cioffi, to whom several years ago several musicians are added, before arriving to the present formation formed by Filippo Scrima (Guitar), Francesco Ambrogiani (Keyboards), Brendan Paolini ) and Filippo Cicoria (Battery).
Very active on the live and musically receptive fronts for contemporary productions of symphonic, death, folk and viking, the five propose to combine these influences with a scream / growl singing alternating with epic and powerful choirs. So after a first ep "Knights of the Dark Empire" (2011), in 2012 is the turn of "In Solemn Rise", a 5-track ep by which it is extracted as single / video "Diamond Siren", a further step forward which brings the band to an intense live activity (opening for Suffilation, Cephalic Carnage, Vision Divine, Ancient Bards, Havok, Eyeconoclast), embellished with scenic elements that will become a constant during subsequent performances.
By the end of 2013, the Nightland came into the studio to begin working on the first full-length album titled "Obsession", which represents a new exciting chapter in their career taking on new stylistic nuances. The same definition of "Epic Death Metal" begins to take on less defined and wider contours, the sound becomes more aggressive, the keyboard riffs of the 90s power are almost completely abandoned to give space to powerful orchestrations and symphonic choirs. Even the content is more dull, the themes are dramatic, at times disturbing, highlighted by numerous atmospheric digressions in support of the concept behind Obsession: a profound analysis of the most cruel aspects of the mental instability of ' man, derived from obsessions, paranoia and phobias.
Today, on November 3rd 2017 the band released their new single "Astralize" from the upcoming album, more details set to be revealed soon.
After 2016 they snatched the post black metal scene with the album "III: Trauma", the Austrians Harakiri For The Sky return to the albums with "Arson" that will be released on February 16, 2018 by AOP Records.
"Tomb Omnia" is the breakthrough, and over it, vocalist JJ says it's a song about one of the "darkest and saddest" chapters in his family's history. While affirming that such events have had a great impact on each other, JJ concludes: "There are things that will never be forgotten ..."
"This song is about one of the darkest and mournful chapters in my family’s history and the impact it had on its members, especially the one it had on myself. Sadly there are happenings and experiences far formative as its protagonist was aware of while acting. But these happenings and actions are so intangible disturbing and unsettling they wander on and keep up destroying lifes relentless in their future. Cause some things that can never be forgotten…" - Commented J.J
Formed In: 2011
Status: Active
Years Active: 2011-Present LINE UP M. S. - All Instruments, Songwriting J. J. - Vocals, Lyrics Live Musicians Thomas Dornig - Bass Mischa - Drums Marrok - Rhythm Guitars And Backing Vocals Country of Origin: Austria Location: Vienna/Salzburg Genre: Black Metal/Post-Rock Current Label: Art of Propaganda Press Contact: HarakiriForTheSky@gmx.at Agent: christian@eld-events.eu Managment: chris@quantheon-touring.eu Booking: http://www.district-19.com
