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Rock 'n Scroll part 2

21/9/2016

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Armstrong Metal Fest open for band submissions

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After a successful 2016 line up that included headliners Beyond Creation, Dayglo Abortions, Unleash The Archers, Archspire, Rivers of Nihil, The Zenith Passage and more. ARMSTRONG METAL FEST announces they are now taking submissions for their 2017 edition held in Armstrong, BC at the Hassen Arena. The festival has been showcasing a high caliber of Western Canadian metal along with international touring acts for the last 8 years.

Band submissions end November 1, 2016 11:59pm PST. ​Please send submissions to the following email: bandsamf@gmail.com

What should you send?
– BAND NAME
– ONLINE MUSIC (Where can we check out your music example: bandcamp) 
– AREA/CITY BANDS FROM
– GENRE/ DESCRIPTION OF WHAT KIND OF BAND YOU ARE
– HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN TOGETHER AS A BAND? 
– LAST ALBUM RELEASE DATE/NEXT PLANNED ALBUM RELEASE DATE
– EXPERIENCE/ WHO HAVE YOU SHARED THE STAGE WITH
– CONTACT PERSON/CONTACT EMAIL
– ADDITIONAL INFO/COMMENTS


1000Mods reveal another track + tourdates

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After unveiling a first track; 'The Son' earlier, ​Greek stoner rockers 1000Mods have just unveiled “Loose”, the second single from their forthcoming third album "Repeated exposure to...”. Produced once again by 1000Mods and George Leodis at Wreck It Sound Studios and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege Studios, "Repeated exposure to…” is set for release on September 26th on CD/Digital via Ougabooga And The Mighty Oug Recordings. A vinyl release is planned for October 30th and pre-orders are now available at this location.

1000Mods have recently confirmed a new European tour along with Monkey 3 and Moaning Cities. Check out the full dates below:

29.09.16 STUTTGART | KELLERCLUB
30.09.16 PRATTELN | UP IN SMOKE FESTIVAL
02.10.16 FULDA | KULTURKELLER
03.10.16 COLOGNE | UNDERGROUND
04.10.16 NIJMEGEN | DOORNROOSJE
05.10.16 BREMEN | SCHLACHTHOF (Magazinkeller)
06.10.16 BIELEFELD | FORUM
07.10.16 ATHENS | DESERTFEST*
08.10.16 BERLIN | BI NUU
09.10.16 LEIPZIG | WERK 2
10.10.16 WIESBADEN | SCHLACHTHOF
11.10.16 MANNHEIM | 7er CLUB
12.10.16 JENA | KULTURBAHNHOF
13.10.16 HAMBURG | HAFENKLANG
14.10.16 KIEL | SCHAUBUDE
15.10.16 ANTWERP | DESERTFEST
16.10.16 DRACHTEN | IDUNA
18.10.16 WÜRZBURG | IMMERHIN
19.10.16 WIEN | ARENA
20.10.16 LINZ | STADTWERSTATT
21.10.16 EBENSEE | KINO EBENSEE
22.10.16 MUNICH | KEEP IT LOW FESTIVAL
23.10.16 DRESDEN | OSTPOL *
27.10.16 WARSAW | HYDROZAGADKA*
 
28.10.16 KRAKOW | SOULSTONE GATHERING*
29.10.16 BRATISLAVA | FUGA*
30.10.16 BUDAPEST | GOZSDU MANO*
* 1000Mods only
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Tracklist

​1. Above 179
2. Loose
3. Electric Carve
4. The Son
5. A.W.
6. On A Stone
7- Groundhog Day
8. Into The Spell



Street Sects announce US tourdates

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On the heels of the release of their poignant and punishing new album End Position (September 16, The Flenser), Austin duo Street Sects have announced tour dates this fall to support the album.  Following their record release show on September 21st in Austin, Street Sects will tour out to the west coast in October (including an LA show with label mates Wreck and Reference), and will canvas the state of Texas in November.  Check out all tour dates below.

September 21 Austin, TX @ The North Door *Record Release Show*
October 4 El Paso, TX, @ Lovesprout
October 7 San Diego, CA @ The Porch
October 8 Los Angeles, CA @ The Handbag Factory ^
October 9 Riverside, CA @ Pixels %
October 10 La Puente, CA @ Bridgetown DIY %
October 11 San Francisco, CA @ The Honey Hive Gallery
October 12 Portland, OR @ The Raven
October 13 Seattle, WA @ Victory Lounge
October 15 Los Angeles, CA @ Union *Das Bunker Festival*
October 27 Austin, TX @ The Lost Well
November 7 Dallas, TX @ RBC #
November 8 Denton, TX @ TBA #
November 9 Ft. Worth, TX @ 1919 Hemphill #
December 7 Austin, TX @ Sidewinder +
 
^ with Wreck and Reference, Fake Snake
% with Fake Snake
# with Lung
+ with All Your Sisters, Soft Kill

In Flames, HellYeah and Source tourdates confirmed

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Boulder, Colorado's SOURCE will join HELLYEAH and IN FLAMES on the 'Forged in Fire' U.S. Tour, beginning in November and continuing through December.
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11/14 Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore
11/15 Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE
11/16 New York, NY - PlayStation Theater
11/18 Binghamton, NY - Magic City Music Hall
11/19 New Haven, CT - College Street Music Hall
11/20 Boston, MA - House of Blues
11/22 Montreal, QC - Metropolis
11/23 Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall
11/25 Detroit, MI - The Crofoot
11/26 Fort Wayne, IN - The Hub
11/27 Cleveland, OH - Agora Theater
11/29 Cincinnati, OH - Bogarts
11/30 Chicago, IL - House of Blues
12/01 Kalamazoo, MI - State Theater

12/03 Saint Paul, MN - Myth Live Event Center
12/04 Green Bay, WI - The Sandlot
12/06 Lincoln, NE - Bourbon Theatre
12/07 Denver, CO - Summit Music Hall
12/09 Los Angeles, CA - Belasco Theater
12/10 Chico, CA - Senator Theater
12/11 San Francisco, CA - The Regency Ballroom
12/13 Seattle, WA - Showbox Sodo
12/14 Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
12/16 Edmonton, AB - Union Hall
12/17 Calgary, AB - MacEwan Hall
12/18 Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory Concert House
12/19 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater

Lilium Sova reveals two new tracks

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A few days after a first audio excerpt "Pakeneminen", Swiss post-noise-hardcore- jazz-experimental trio Lilium Sova just premiered a brand new song from its upcoming album with "Invisible in Swarm" available right now on Bandcamp.  

Following the acclaimed 'Epic Morning' (2012, Cal Of Ror Records) and celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the band, 'Lost Between Mounts and Dales / Set Adrift in the Flood of People' will be released for a CD/LP/Digital on October 1st throughCold Smoke Records (Challenger, Das Röckt, Ogmasun…) and URGENCE DISK Records (Rorcal). 

Ambassador21 return with new album - reveal teasers

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Belarusian digital hardcore duo Ambassador21 have announce the release of their new album, named 'Human Rage'. The album is due to be released on October 25th on Invasion. It will be available as CD, 2CD Deluxe Edition and digital
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Pre-sales will start October 3rd in AMBASSADOR21 online store.

Meanwhile, the band has published two teasers/


Demonic Resurrection announce new album, start pledge campaign

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Indian metal veterans Demonic Resurrection have announced the release of their fifth full length studio album and launched a pledge music campaign in support of the release.  Click here to visit the campaign

The band have announced no details for the record except a tentative release date in Feb 2017. Demonstealer commented, "More than money being a motivation, for us the pledge campaign was launched to share this experience with our fans before anyone else. I believe the fan-artist relationship is closer than ever and platforms like pledge music bypass the social media giants like Facebook and Twitter and let you interact with fans 1 on 1. So for us this campaign is about sharing the album name, tracklist, artwork, songs etc with the fans before anyone else. So we're really excited to embark on this journey. At this point we don't have any release details for how the album is released after the campaign but we are in talks with some labels, so fingers crossed."


Across The Burning Sky album details and trailer

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The Nordic melodic death metallers Across The Burning Sky will release their long-awaited album "The End Is Near" 28 October at MDD Records! Now there is also an album trailer on the MDD Youtube Channel, which for the first time for over 2 years provides insight into the musical work of the band and contains sounds from the album! In this context, even the cover artwork was unveiled on which Kali, according to the album title, awaits the approaching end as the goddess of death, destruction, but also of renewal.


The artwork was realized by the german airbrush artist from brushnroll.de. The band, whose personal background and origin still is not closer known, has the album largely self-recorded and produced. 
The album will contain final 11 tracks. For the atmospheric In/Outro the Soundtrack Composer Darren Curtis from Maryland is responsible. On the other 9 songs the still anonymous musicians celebrate finest melodic death metal with the feeling from the early days of the genre in the mid-nineties. The mastering was refined by Pluto Neuber in MegaWimpSound Studio (Primordial, Necrophobic, War From a Harlots Mouth, Aeternus, Blood Red Throne).
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​Damned Pilots sign with Sliptrick Records, announce new album

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Damned Pilots announce the release of their new cd ‘Overgalaxy’ via Sliptrick Records due to be available in Winter 2016. ‘Overgalaxy’ is a steam punk concept album as drummer/founder Don Nutz says ”..it is built on the story of four cartoon characters, The Damned Pilots Don Nutz, Sgt Ote, Willer Hertz and Erik Space. They travel through space in the year 2500 A.C. on a 1970 ‘s hippy van customized to fight against their archenemy Gorguss and his evil empire”.

The lyrics, written by Sgt Ote, are about love and hate, war and peace, past and future, rebellions against failed systems, with the sense of humor typical of a sci-fi b-movie. The album has been recorded at Track Terminal Studio in Trieste, Italy by Francesco Bardy, except ‘Just Another Day’, ‘People Don’ t Die’ at Voodoosound Studios in Ijmuiden, Holland by Paul van Rijswijk. 

‘Overgalaxy’ is produced by Ron Goudie (Gwar, Death Angel, Poison) and mixed and mastered by legendary producer Bill Metoyer (W.A.S.P., Trouble, Slayer). as the artwork (due to be revealed soon) has been made by Philipino artist Uzi Emperado.

‘Overgalaxy’ features nine songs written by Don Nutz and Sgt Ote and one by Ron Goudie (‘Hell Is Cold’). The style goes from mid tempo groovy metal to doom metal and psychedelics ballads combined by catchy melodies. ‘Damned Pilots’ and ‘Season of the endings’ are two groovy metal pounding numbers dominated by solid huge riffs made to bang your head to. 


Poste 942 release new video

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French rockers Poste 942 have released a new video for the song '49.3', showing the band playing and having fun at a festival named 'MC Morts Subites' on 11-09-2016.

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Scum announce new album

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Born in 1998, Scum moved from small time garage metal band to national act, with its own signature sound, an incendiary blend of Bay Area Old School metal and modern soundscapes, all embedded in a nightmare of claustrophobia! Such is the concept behind their up-n-coming album ‘Humana’ where no-nonsense lyrics are vomited over a carpet of melting thrash/death metal.

Dealing with different issues, the album “Humana” is an attempt to elaborate about human nature, what humanity means, and what role could have mankind in modern society (The intro is a Gustav Jung’s speech about human as the origin of all evil.)

Humana was recorded, mixed and produced by Stefano “Saul” Morabito at “16th Cellar Studio” 
(Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour of Penance, Hideous Divinity, Adimiron and many more…) in Rome, while the artwork, by Carlo Settembrini (also vocalist of Scum) and due to be revealed soon is an allusion to the human tendency to be driven by the trends, ignoring all the limitless 
potential of the individual , in favour of something bigger than the individual itself.

Scum has shredded stages for 18 years along with bands such as Node, Eyeconoclast, Subliminal Crusher, Hour of Penance and more as well as being officially endorsed by Schecter Guitar Research. The new album will be released by Sliptrick Records


Flayed release new single

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French heavy rockers FLAYED have just shared a new single from their forthcoming EP, “XI Million”, due out on November 4th via Kaotoxin Records (The Erkonauts, Sidious, 6:33, Mercyless, etc...). Additionally, the group has announced a new French tour with support from Canadian rockers Les Trimpes, check out the confirmed dates below.

Nov.03 - FR - Barberaz - Brin de Zinc
Nov.04 - FR - Vienne - MJC
Nov.05 - FR - Puget-sur-Argens - Rat's
Nov.06 - FR - Marseille – Molotov
Nov.08 - FR - Lyon - Ninkasi Kafe
Nov.09 - FR - Poitiers – Zinc
Nov.10 - FR - Nantes - Scène Michelet
Nov.11 - FR - Paris – TBA
Nov.12 - FR - Thionville - Shamrock

Limb announce EU tourdates

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London sludge rockers LIMB are very pleased to announce their first tour into Europe. After five years of playing festivals and venues around the UK, the band is finally bringing its albums 'Terminal' and 'Limb' to the mainland. After UK tours with Black Moth and Vodun, this European tour will take LIMB to Copenhagen, Hamburg, Berlin, and Eindhoven, ending at Into the Void festival in the Netherlands. They’ll be appearing alongside bands like Monolord, Fu Manchu, and Fistula.

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15.10 - Copenhagen, (Den) BETA
19.10 - Hamburg, (De) Hafenklang
20.10 - Berlin (De)Tiefgrund
21.10 - Eindhoven (NL) Dynamo
22.10 - Leeuwarden (NL) Into the Void Festival



Gojira release new video

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And we finish off this edition of 'Rock 'n Scroll' with style, because French progressive death metal horde Gojira have revealed a video for the track 'The Shooting Star'. The song comes from the album 'Magma' which will had been released by Roadrunner Records

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