Search results for 'electric wizard'

Review

The Unquiet Sky

As the cosmic whirring and acid-trip drone of four-and-a-half minute instrumental opener "No Able Fires" fills the air, it's a cinch that smooth crooning and hardcore breakdowns won't be following. In fact, INDIAN moves right into a nine-and-a-half-minute crawl called "Ration" that sets the tone for...

News

WITHIN Y: 'Portraying Dead Dreams' Artwork Posted Online

WITHIN Y, the Swedish melodic death metal band featuring former GARDENIAN drummer Thim Blom, have uploaded the cover artwork for their sophomore album, "Portraying Dead Dreams", at this location. "The album is done, we got it back from the mastering just before Christmas," the band write on their we...

News

RIGOR MORTIS To Perform With 'Godfather Of Gore' At TEXAS FRIGHTMARE WEEKEND

Director Herschell Gordon Lewis, who is widely credited with inventing the slasher horror film in the early 1960s with the release of his film "Blood Feast" in 1963, will join reunited Texan thrashers RIGOR MORTIS live on stage at the Texas Frightmare Weekend in early February. "We are, of course, h...

News

Singaporean Music Fans Arrested In Malaysia For Taking Part In 'Illegal' Black Metal Concert

Seto Nu-Wen of Singapore's The Electric New Paper has issued the following report: They had gone to Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia] to watch a Singaporean band perform at a New Year's Eve concert. But the six Singaporeans and one of the Singapore band members ended up staying overnight at a police station....

News

Report: Singaporean Black Metal Fans Hope To See MAYHEM Perform

Singapore's The Electric New Paper is reporting that Dave Tan, 30, the lead vocalist in local pop rock band ELECTRICO (photo),said he hopes to see the Norwegian band perform in the country. "It'll be very sad if it's banned here. People should be allowed to see all genres of music ...

News

Should MAYHEM Be Allowed To Perform In Singapore?

Kor Kian Beng of Singapore's The Electric New Paper is reporting that a local record label is trying to get Norwegian black metallers MAYHEM to perform in Singapore on February 5. The record company has already applied for the license. The Media Development Authority (MDA) confirmed that it has rece...

Review

The Acoustic Verses

Anyone unfamiliar with the pedigree of GREEN CARNATION could be forgiven for thinking this EP was, at various intervals, a new product from COLDPLAY, U2, PINK FLOYD or PORCUPINE TREE. Make no mistake, while this is all acoustic, it's as lush, orchestrated, and enigmatic as any "electric" album from...

Review

Age of Winters

How much more self-conscious orc rock can you fit into your Viking helmet? Not to be confused with the half-decent Canuck '80s metal outfit of "Metalized" and "Sweet Dreams" fame, these guys are an altogether more unwashed and skunk-weed-reeking prospect. Tumbling down thirdhand from SABBATH's loins...

Review

Out Loud

"Out Loud" by Slovenia's NAIO SSAION seems to be Napalm Records' attempt to make a big splash in the modern rock/pop world. If you're looking for a review of an album representative of the label's more gothic-folk-metal catalogue, look elsewhere (the band's violin-driven folk slivers notwithstanding...

News

AVULSED To Record New Mini-CD

Spanish extreme metallers AVULSED will enter the studio in late January/early February to record a mini-CD, "Reanimations", featuring two brand new tracks ("River Runs Red" and "Foetal Consolation"),a remake of one song from their 1992 debut demo ("Unconscious Pleasure") and three cover songs: W.A....

News

KEEN OF THE CROW: New Demo Samples Posted Online

KEEN OF THE CROW, the new band featuring former MORGION members Rhett Davis and Justin Christian, along with NEPENTHEAN founder Ron Slater, have completed work on a new demo, entitled "Premonition". Audio samples of the tracks "Mercurial" and "Speaker of the Suns" can be heard at www.myspace.com/kee...

News

CODE OF PERFECTION Sign With LIMB MUSIC PRODUCTS

Limb Music Products has announced the signing of the German-Japanese powerhouse high-tech trio CODE OF PERFECTION. The band consists of guitar virtuoso Thorsten Koehne (ex-DEMON DRIVE),bass wizard Keisuke Nishimoto (KELLY SIMONZ, HIDEOUS SUN DEMONS) and drum genius Frank Kraus (ex-DEMON DRIVE, LETT...

News

SEVENDUST: More U.S. Tour Dates Announced

SEVENDUST are gearing up to embark on their own headlining tour in 2006. After taking a much-deserved break for the holidays (except for one show in Orlando, FL at the House of Blues on New Year's Eve),the band will criss-cross the U.S. starting January 18 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL at Revolution in sup...

News

SOULFLY Guitarist To Perform At NAMM Convention

SOULFLY guitarist Marc Rizzo will be performing electric and acoustic instrumental sets from his Shrapnel Records debut, "Colossal Myopia", at the Peavey and Digitech booths at the NAMM convention in Anaheim, CA on Saturday, January 21 and Sunday, January 22. Marc has also announced the following so...

News

GRAND MAGUS: 'Kingslayer' Video Posted Online

GRAND MAGUS' video for the track "Kingslayer" has been posted online at Yahoo! Music. The song comes off the Swedish group's third album, "Wolf's Return", which is available now on on Candlelight Records (via a licensing deal with Rise Above). The band recorded the CD in Stockholm with producer/engi...