Oreamnos - Into The Night

From the ashes of Weverin comes a new band from sole members Samuel and Matthew, both of whom worked together for the entirety of Weverin's lifespan.  A different approach rises up to bring a mix of old and new, combined with a heavy atmosphere and precise riffing. Oreamnos allows Samuel's guitar playing and Matthew's precise drumming to dive into the minds of unsuspecting listeners with weight and imagination.

Line-up:

Sam- guitars, lead guitar, bass (Weverin, Phthisis, Governmental Crucifixion)

Matthew- drums, vocals, lead guitar, mixing/fx (Valdur, Sxuperion, Weverin, SXAP)

Album Credits:

Doug White- Watchmen Studios

Kevin Andreassian- Backroom Studios

Matthew S.- Bloody Mountain Bunker / Canyon Lodge Studios

Sean K.- mastering

Track Listing:

1. Into the Night

2. Shadows of Misery

3. Bombastic Utterances

4. Torrid Hate

5. March Towards Oblivion

6. Forlorn (Fire of Despair)

Purchase/Stream:

https://bloodymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-night

 

 

Stellar Death - Fragments of Light

 

Washington D.C. two-piece STELLAR DEATH will release their debut album, Fragments of Light, in early 2021.

Featuring eight instrumental tracks that traverse a vast and richly diverse musical landscape, Fragments of Light takes the listener on a challenging, yet rewarding journey. The album blends elements of prog rock, post metal and emotive ambiance for a sonic experience like none other.

Fragments of Light is set for release on January 8, 2021.

The concept for the songs and album began in the Fall of 2019. Scott and Matt began to focus more on the development of instrumental music outside of the typical song structures and trappings. Through the Fall and Winter of 2019/2020, the songs and ideas kept coming back to their inspiration from the vast, cold, violent, and chaotic universe through which we are all traveling, seemingly unaware.

The album provides a journey from the initial countdown-like and metronomic riffing of “The Astronomer,” which ascends into the maelstrom as the listener journeys deeper into the cosmos. As the album progresses, the voyage delves into the calm and serene vastness of space, while managing through the ever-changing turbulent and destructive forces that exist throughout.

PRE-ORDER:

https://stellardeath.bandcamp.com/album/fragments-of-light

TRACKLISTING:

1) The Astronomer

2) Endless

3) Betelgeuse

4) Binary Collapse

5) Approaching the Singularity

6) Everywhere and Nowhere

7) Critical Mass (That Which Cannot Be Created)

8) Afterglow

STELLAR DEATH is a Washington, DC-based instrumental music project for the varied influences and inspirations of members Scott Loose and Matt Kozar. The two have collaborated musically for nearly 15 years, primarily through their band BRAVE. Although there is much appreciation and love for the music they have created through BRAVE, Scott and Matt sought a path not constrained by the structure and expectations that come with a band that has existed for over 20 years.

Their collective desire to create instrumental music that focuses on specific themes, while drawing from their appreciation of film scores, led to the creation of STELLAR DEATH in November 2019. The project affords them the ability to fully explore different musical landscapes and sonic textures. Thus far they have dabbled with ambient and electronic soundscapes, embraced and elaborated on their progressive rock foundations, and further explored the tension and dynamics of post rock and post metal. STELLAR DEATH has only just started to venture into new and exciting musical areas that attempt to merge all of these varied influences into a unique experience for the listener.

STELLAR DEATH is: 

Matt Kozar - guitars and keys Matt has played guitar for over 25 years and for numerous bands/projects. Matt currently plays in the progressive rock band BRAVE and has contributed to the varied cinematic atmospheres and doom metal offerings of WITNESSES.   

Scott Loose - guitars, keys and percussive offerings Scott is a composer and multi-instrumentalist, whose primary instrument is guitar. He has played in a number of bands since the 1990s. Scott is a founding member of ARISE FROM THORNS/BRAVE, and is an active member of AS THE SEA PARTS and WHILE HEAVEN WEPT.

www.facebook.com/stellardeathdc

stellardeath.bandcamp.com

 

Destruction will present its "Live Stream Attack" this Friday Last days to purchase tickets

Después de meses de trabajo y preparación, los legendarios thrashers alemanes, Destruction, presentarán este viernes 1 de enero su "Live Stream Attack". Este será un show en vivo nunca antes visto, en el cual el conjunto liderado por Schmier interpretará un set de dos horas, dando vida al repertorio más extenso de su carrera. ¡Lo mejor de 38 años de trayectoria!

This is the last week to purchase tickets for the event. They can be purchased by clicking here.

The live broadcast of the concert will be on Friday, January 1, 2021. The show will begin at 8:00 p.m. from Spain, at 4:00 p.m. in Argentina / Chile time, at 2:00 p.m. in Colombia / Peru time and at 1:00 p.m. in Mexico City.

In addition, the recital will be available 48 hours on demand once the ticket has been purchased. As if this were not enough, they can get official merchandising of the event, exclusive content and much more.

If you are a Thrash Metal lover, this is something you cannot miss. Destruction invites you to enjoy this special concert, as a sign of hope, solidarity and a great start in 2021!

About the "Live Stream Attack"

The show will be filmed at the Z7, Switzerland's leading concert hall, in Pratteln. Destruction will offer an out of this world show, a once in a lifetime event. It will have a longer duration than usual, a special setlist, a few surprises, and the main production complete with top-notch picture and sound quality.

In relation to this unique and special event, the band commented:

"We are all new to this. Right now, an event like this is the only thing that can keep the flame burning, that gives us hope, keeps us busy and entertained, and hopefully can help us survive this crisis that paralyzed our industry and profession ".

"THANK YOU for being a part of this. Your support is the key to any of our future projects, we really appreciate having such loyal fans all over the world! We look forward to seeing you all in the near future in person, at a real live concert. again, because we all know that nothing can beat the tension, energy, power and experience of a live concert! WE STAY UNITED !!! "

 

Stealth

 

Stealth is an Italian metal band from Corridonia, Marche, Italy. Founded in 1997 they released several albums and EPs and performed all over Italy and in many other European countries.

 Stealth is an Italian metal band from Corridonia, Marche, Italy. Founded in 1997 they released several albums and EPs and performed all over Italy and in many other European countries.
    
    

    
EARLY YEARS AND FIRST ALBUM RELEASE
The band was formed in 1997 by Daniele Gorbini (bass guitar) and Ivan Lattanzi (vocals/rhythm guitar) playing some Metallica cover songs. They performed their first gig on August 3rd 1997 under the name of Metal Militia together with other 2 local musicians. After that first gig Daniele and Ivan chose Lorenzo Pimpini (lead guitar) and Roberto Rastelli (drums) to complete the band line-up. On December 1998 Metal Militia released their first self produced EP ‘Mind Is Blind’ with 6 original songs and also started playing outside of their region and got their first local radio appearances and magazine reviews.
On March 2000 the band released its second self produced EP ‘Existence’ made of 5 original tracks. At the same time the band changed its name into Stealth. At the end of the same year summer, after various gigs to publicize the new EP, drummer Roberto Rastelli sadly decided to leave the band. In November Federico Governatori replaced Rastelli at the drums. The band started writing new material and on February 2001 entered the ‘Potemkin Studio’ of Andrea Mei to record their first full length album.
On March 14th 2001 was released ‘Stealth’, a self produced album of 11 original songs and presented to the public during a gig in a well known local rock/metal club. Soon after they started an Italian tour of 30 gigs that lasted one year and half.
On August 2001 the song ‘Take the Message’ was chosen to be part of ‘Cosarock 2001’, a compilation of local bands released after the ending of the homonym festival, during which Stealth also played.
On January 2002 Pimpini left the band to focus on his solo projects. Nazario Campofiloni, emerging musician of the area, becomes the first guitarist. During summer 2002 the audio/video compilation ‘Kosarock 2002’ was released with 3 Stealth’s songs performed live and recorded during the second edition of that festival.


 
CHECK AND COVER THIS OUT ! AND EARLY GIGS IN EUROPE
The band resumed live performing after a forced break due to the guitarist change and worked on the 9 songs that would then be recorded from spring 2003 at the ZdB studios ,an independent label from Latina. After drums recording sessions ended Governatori decided to drop the band and Mirko Antolini replaced him. With Antolini Stealth started promoting the new album ‘Check this out !’ that was released in co-production with the Italian label ZdB on December 17th 2004.
‘Check This Out !’ is Stealth’s second album, product of one year of work in search of both technical and artistic improvement. The result was an album with a captivating sound where the band pushed on toward a wide internationalism. Tracks are sung in Spanish, German, English, expressing the need of a new communication which aimed to win listeners beyond borders’ (ZdB press release)
The album received good national and international reviews and allowed the band to play their first gig abroad, more precisely in Dubrovnik, Croatia at Klub Orlando on May 13th2006.
Just after that, Campofiloni told the band that his journey with Stealth was over. After some auditions, Marco Scocco became the new temporary guitarist and he allowed the band to finish the ‘Check This Tour’ including 2 amazing gigs in Latvia on March 23rd and 24th 2007 at Fontaine Palace Club in Liepaja and Klub Depo in Riga.
Also in 2007 the song ‘Crack ‘n Roll’ from the latest album was featured on an Italian heavy metal compilation called ‘SG Revolution II’ and released by SG Records. The perfect way to celebrate the first decade of music of the band.
On July Stealth went back at ZdB studios in Latina to record ‘Cover This Out!’, a project album featuring cover songs the band was playing during their early years and some 80s and 90s remakes. The album was released on 18th July 2008 with a launch gig in Italy. The song Freestyler (cover of Bomfunk MC’s) was included on the compilation ‘Cover For Madness’ released the same year by SG Records.
Some months later Marco Scocco left the band and in the early months of 2009 Stealth announced on its official website the reunion with Lorenzo Pimpini. After 7 years Lorenzo decided it was time to come back and the other members welcomed him back with open arms.
OTHER GIGS IN EUROPE - LIVE BOOTLEG AND BOILER
After some weeks spent trying a new set list, the band went back on the road playing gigs in Slovakia, Switzerland, Belgium and Italy during the “Cover This Tour!” In December 2009, due to recurrent problems at his wrist, the drummer Mirko Antolini left the band. On 21st March 2010 Stealth choose David Gasparetti as new drummer. After various gigs in Italy during spring and summer to finish the ‘Cover This Tour !’, on 30th October 2010 Stealth hit the stage of ‘Rout 66’ in Kiev, Ukraine for a memorable show.
On 30th December 2010 the band released the official live bootleg ‘Alive For The Live’ with 13 tracks recorded live during the performance in Kiev, later mixed at the ZdB studios and distributed by CPRS/Venus Dischi.
Two official live music videos were released in 2011 from that album: ‘Crack ‘n Roll’ and ‘Take The Message’.
On 29th December 2011 the band released the single ‘Boiler’, the first original song the band produced since ‘Check This Out!’. In June 2012 Stealth went back to studio but this time at the ‘UNDAtheC studios’ of Simone Cicconi in Macerata to start recording a new album. At the end of that year the band released a ‘Medley ’98-‘11’ of all the songs recorded until that period. The medley is available as free download on both their official website and soundcloud channel.
The song ‘Boiler’ was included on the compilation ‘All Metal 2013’ released by Sonny Music on 21st May 2013. Later that year the band released an unofficial video version of the song.

THE ‘FIGHT’ ERA
On 21st February 2014 Stealth released its third unedited album ‘Fight For Your Faith’ .
The album was produced and recorded by Simone Cicconi at his UNDAtheC Studios in Macerata, Italy, mastered at HMM Studios in Lilla Edet, Sweden and distributed by Sliptrick Records.
Few months after the release, the band started the ‘Fight For Your Tour’ performing in many European countries including UK, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia and Italy. During the tour, after a gig in Rome in 2016, the drummer David Gasparetti decided to leave the band. Following auditions the band welcomed Michele Cipolletta as new drummer at the end of November 2016. In the meanwhile the album got very good national and international reviews and hundreds of radio broadcastings over the world. The band released 3 official music videos from the album: 7 Hours Under Fire, Perpetual War and Inner Land.
They also appeared in various international compilations such as: the British TBFM breaking bands 2016 summer and winter CDs with the songs ‘7 Hours Under Fire’ and ‘Perpetual War’. On the Issues 31 and 32 of the Spanish ‘Rock Estatal’ DVD Romreleased both in 2017 with the magazine, with the songs ‘Lo Que No Sé’, ‘Risiko’, ‘Perpetual War’, ‘Radiophobia’, ‘Boiler’ and the video of ‘Lo Que No Sé (Live in Kiev)’. On the Issue 83 of Fireworks Metal Rock Magazine CD with the song ‘Perpetual War’.
In an interview on Metal Rulz on 3rd February 2017, Ivan announced the band was working on a remix version of ‘Fight For Your Faith’.
On August 3rd 2017, to celebrate its 20th anniversary, Stealth released a DVD Rom with almost 2 hours of unedited videos and hundreds of exclusive pictures taking during more of 100 concerts throughout Europe. On the 1st of July 2018 the band released the remix album “Fight For Your Fate” showcasing DJs and artists from many countries. The album is a mixture of genres and styles from industrial to techno dance which well reflects the different artists’ backgrounds.
On 20th October 2018 Stealth released the official lyric video of Radiophobia (Luciferro Remix)
On 3rd June 2020 the band released the Official Live Video of the song Risiko, preview of the Live album released later in December

Stealth is:
Ivan Lattanzi – Vocals/Guitars/Gtr Synth/Background groove
Daniele Gorbini – Bass/Background vocals
Lorenzo Pimpini – Guitars/Keyboards
Michele Cipolletta – Drums

http://www.stealthattack.it (official website)
https://www.facebook.com/stealthattack.it
http://www.youtube.com/user/stealthattack1997
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2JA0PGjkn9ciKdDcrFu2Q5
https://www.instagram.com/stealthband1997/ 

Pete Hinton ( Review by Javier Barba Vallejo)

.... And I continue with unexpected Christmas gifts, this time in the form of congratulations
.
Last Monday night when I got home I took out of the mailbox in addition to the electricity bills, two congratulations
 Christmas one, the always original of the Cabanes-Miro Advocats law firm of my GREAT friend Joan Cabanes, a Saxon lawyer wherever there are and that I recommend you in any move you may have with legal issues, which I hope not !!!!.
And another that intrigued me more since it came from England. I'm hoping for a Biff Byford greeting card, but this is going to go along with the coolest, limited-edition pack of the new Saxon Inspirations album and Paint in Black single on vinyl, so it couldn't be his, then who. ....
And when you open it flipe !!!!
Pete Hinton was the producer of the three most famous, talented and Heavys Saxon albums of his discography and that contain true hymns of Heavy Metal globally in the history of the genre, they are Wheels Of Steel (1980), Strong Arm Of The Law (1981) and Denim And Leather (1981) as well as being a producer on multiple Saxon compilations and on albums by groups like Picture, Viva, Demon, Coroner, Wichfinder General, etc ...
Months ago we agreed on "likes" in a Nigel Durham publication
 , Hinton's friend and former Saxon drummer (in the seventh photo Durham is with bassist Paul Johnson who recorded with Saxon Destiny (1988) and Pete Hinton.). And since I have already named Pete Hinton in my chronicles, I consider him the "Sixth" member of Saxon at its most successful time.
 

So it would be an honor for me to get his autograph and so I let him know in a message a bit adventurous, because we were not even friends on social networks and it was like launching the message of a castaway in a bottle from a desert island to the immensity of the Sea waiting for an answer ... and so months went by without any news whatsoever, considering such a precious autograph of the Saxon universe for me impossible, until I open the red envelope from the mailbox and I find a letter from him addressed to me !! !!
First of all, he is glad that I love his work on those records and he tells me that he remembers that time with great affection.
He is currently retired after working as a producer for many groups and Manager at Carrere, EMI and twenty years as an English teacher. And that he was super happy to be back in production lending a hand to his friends from Onslaught who asked him to produce their latest album Generation Antichrist (2020).
And he closes the letter congratulating me on the Christmas holidays, wishing me a happy new year and sealing everything with his precious autograph for me, in a letter / congratulations that of course I will end up framing at home !!!!
NEVER SURRENDER !!!!!!!!

Review by Javier Barba Vallejo

PARAGON ZERO – OMASS ( Review by Varg The Mighty )

 

Today’s review is of Hungarian Black Doom Metal band Paragon Zero’s new EP.

The release consists of 4 diverse songs that display a strong return of the band. With some really clear Paradise Lost and Tiamat influences on their music, this band doesn’t play a very common kind of Black Doom Metal.

While the Black Metal side to them is quite visible despite the slower rhythms and lack of straightforward aggressiveness, but the Doom Metal side is kind of more hidden, although it is sometimes very prominent, especially on the acoustic parts on tracks like “Phosphorous Blaze”. The Gothic touch they apply to the songs surely makes them unique and dark, and the calmer approach even in quicker parts like on “Remnants” results in an interesting and out of the ordinary release with no need for absurd experimentation and instead sticking to the beauty in the occult.

I recommend this EP to fans of Black Metal, Gothic Metal, Black Doom Metal and Gothic Doom Metal. My rating is of 8,5/10.

 Review by Varg The Mighty