The new Sahg album, ‘Sahg III’, will be out August 30, 2010 and here is the first of a few sneak peeks into the making of the album! Please follow this link.
Not many heavy metal bands can boast of chart positions and two-page bulletins in all the national newspapers for a debut album. Sahg can. With their gloomy chords, ten ton rhythms and a taste for the heavy rock pioneers of the seventies, the Bergen-based quartet had the audience and critics toss their hats in the air with excitement.
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Indie Recordings, Sahg
The Swedish Band Spiritual Beggars featuring guitarist Michael Amott (Arch Enemy, Carcass) and bassist Sharlee D’Angelo (Arch Enemy, Witchery) started working with Apollo Papathanasio (Firewind) as a new singer after parting ways with JB (Grand Magus) and finished the recordings of their 7th studio-album at Sweetspot Studio with producer Rickard Bengtsson, who already produced the “On Fire” (2002) and “Demons” (2005) albums and is also known for his work with Arch Enemy, Opeth etc.
On the Spiritual Beggars official myspace page the band uploaded a short audio sample of the new album as a pre-listening. For more information please check the bands
myspace profile as well as their
Twitter account.
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InsideOut Music, Spiritual Beggars
Reunited ’80s metal legends Sanctuary, which features in its ranks current Nevermore frontman Warrel Dane, will perform at the September 19 ”Thrash Domination 2010″ event at Club Citta in Kawasaki, Japan. Also scheduled to appear are Exodus, Overkill, Outrage and Agent Steel.
Dane recently announced that Sanctuary will record a new studio album. “[I've] been talking with Lenny [Rutledge, former Sanctuary guitarist],” Dane explained. “We are really good friends again and it feels good.” He adds, “I missed my relationship with him for many years.”
Petting Zoo favorites, Sanctuary
Reprise Records will release a 6 track EP from Mastodon from the film’s original motion picture score Jonah Hex on June 29th, 2010.
Jonah Hex features an original score by Reprise recording artists Mastodon and Oscar®-nominated composer Mario Beltrami (The Hurt Locker, 3:10 to Yuma). Mastodon were asked to create the score personally by the film’s director, Jimmy Hayward who was inspired by repeated listenings of Mastodon’s 2006 album Blood Mountain.
Find out more at www.mastodonrocks.com
Mastodon, Petting Zoo favorites
Austin, TX: A new release from Lost Art Records captures the legendary singer-songwriter Blaze Foley on his earliest known recordings. Simple, straightforward and strong, “Sittin’ by the Road” contains a dozen tracks recorded during Blaze’s “tree house” days in Georgia.
The 12 tracks featured on “Sittin’ by the Road” were recorded by Blaze in the mid-1970s on the home reel-to-reel machine he carried with him on his travels between Texas and rural Georgia. These songs showcase Blaze’s talent in early form. The CD includes a number of Blaze’s songs that are now considered his classics. Sittin’ also boasts three Foley songs that do not appear on any of his previous recordings; ‘The Way You Smile’, ‘Fat Boy’, and the title track.
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Blaze Foley, Petting Zoo favorites
Amazing news! Shining has been nominated for the A-ha Grant of 1 million NOK! (This sum equals 150’000 USD / 125’000 EUR.) The band is one of two bands that will receive the award – if they get enough votes from you!
The voting starts Tuesday 15th June, and lasts until Friday 18th June 20:30 CET. Detailed info on how and where to vote to be posted at www.shining.no shortly. And as Jørgen Munkeby says himself: “If there was one time we needed your vote, it is now.”
Munkeby comments, in an upcoming voting propaganda video, to be posted on Shining sites shortly: “The fact that Shining has been nominated for a huge grant by A-ha, the most successful pop act ever to come out of Norway, reminds us of the fact that it is possible to make jazz catchy, and that metal is no longer reserved only for people with big shoes, leather pants, and frizzy hair.”
As a part of the Grant, Shining will perform their single “The Madness and the Damage Done” for an audience of 100’000 people at the City Hall Square in Oslo, Norway, June 18th. This show will also be broadcast for 1 million TV viewers in Norway, one quarter of the whole Norwegian population.
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Indie Recordings, Shining
Spaced-out Vancouver riff-rockers Black Mountain have spent much of the time since releasing their last album, 2008′s “In the Future”, concentrating on side projects like Pink Mountaintops and Lightning Dust. But this summer, the main band roars back into action. Jagjaguwar will release “Wilderness Heart”, their new album, on September 14 in the U.S. and a day earlier in the UK and Europe.
Here you can stream ‘Old Fangs’, the album’s chugging first single. If you head over to this site and cough up an email address, the download is yours for free.
The band will spend their entire summer and some of their fall touring through North America and Europe, check the dates below.
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Black Mountain
Here’s a message we recently received from Pure Reason revolution:
“Afternoon! It may have been a long time coming but as a gift for your patience the 3rd album sampler is now up at our myspace page! Also just a quick note to say we have re-signed and extended our deal with Superball/Century Media to now include North America, this means that the album will now be released worldwide in the Autumn. Until next time…”
- Jamie / Pure Reason Revolution
Pure Reason Revolution, Superball Music
Hank III is releasing his new record (and LAST on Curb Records) called “Rebel Within” on May 25th. Check out the brand new song ’Drinkin’ Ain’t Hard To Do’ on www.myspace.com/hank3
Nashville native Hank Williams III has built his musical brand around hard-hitting songs, an ornery Hellbilly attitude and a do-it-yourself ethos, as he wrote 10 of the album’s 11 original tracks, did the vocals, played drums and the acoustic rhythm guitar parts. And he recorded and produced the album at his home studio. “I don’t like being told what to do, and I don’t need to be told what my record should sound like,” says Hank. “I got that covered.”
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Hank III, Petting Zoo favorites
After a very succesful first edition in 2009 the FortaRock festival will again take place at Park Brakkenstein in Nijmegen. 13 metalbands will be playing at FortaRock – The Festival on Saturday 3 July in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Today the festival announced their time schedule, have a look below. The festival has 2 stages, a tent stage and an open stage*:
12.00 – 12.30 – Textures
12.35 – 13.10 – Ex Deo*
13.15 – 13.50 – Hail Of Bullets
13.55 – 14.30 – Decapitated*
14.35 – 15.15 – Baroness
15.20 – 16.10 – Deicide*
16.15 – 17.05 – Behemoth
17.10 – 18.00 – Ensiferum*
18.00 – 18.55 – Fear Factory
19.00 – 20.00 – Kreator*
20.05 – 21.05 – Killswitch Engage
21.10 – 22.10 – Suicidal Tendencies*
22.15 – 23.15 – Bullet For My Valentine
A time schedule is available online here at the FortaRock website. On Friday 2 July there will be a FortaRock pre-party held at the Doornroosje club in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Bands confirmed are Daath, The Lucifer Principle and local heroes Victimizer.
More info and tickets available at www.fortarock.nl
Fortarock
