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REHUMANIZE sign on with OPEN GRAVE RECORDS

OPEN GRAVE RECORDS is pleased to be partnering with SewerSound Records for the signing of REHUMANIZE.

REHUMANIZE was born in May of 2007 as a project of Broc Toney of Eternal Mystery, and Baphomet Evisceration on guitar & bass, and Phil Diez of Sorrowstorm, Encryptor, and Northern Ash on vocals & drums as a tool to take The Gospel into a scene full of depravity. REHUMANIZE brings back the sounds of old school grindcore like few are doing today, think early Napalm Death, Carcass and Brutal Truth amongst others. With two split albums already under their belt, REHUMANIZE is currently putting the final touches on their debut full length album, “Resident Apostasy” with a plan to release in early 2009.

Check out REHUMANIZE on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/rehumanize

AMASEFFER Films Two New Videos

Isreal’s “holy project” AMASEFFER has issued the following update:

“We are happy to announce the shooting/editing of two documented video clips for two songs taken from our debut album, ‘Exodus – Slaves for Life’. The chosen ones are: ‘Slaves For Life’ and ‘The Burning Bush’. Both videos will be directed by Israeli Tal Engelstein (founder and singer of heavy rock band 195DB). Clips will have two versions: edited short version and full length as they appear in the album. It is not yet decided if we will release them both simultaneously or separately. An announcement regarding that will be posted by our record label, InsideOut Music/SPV, once the videos are done, hopefully in a month or so.”

“Exodus – Slaves for Life” is the first in a trilogy about the history of the people of Israel as portrayed in the Old Testament.

Hanan Avramovich (guitars), Yuval Kramer (guitars) and Erez Yohanan (drums) offer a unique mixture of progressive metal and epic Middle East-influenced orchestral film score parts played by a full symphony orchestra. All lead vocals were sung by Levén.

The album was recorded and mixed by Markus Teske (VANDEN PLAS, ABYDOS) and the artwork was created by Mattias Norén (EVERGREY, KAMELOT, EPICA).

“Exodus – Slaves for Life” was released on June 6 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland; June 9 in the rest of Europe; and June 24 in North America.

The title track, “Slaves for Life”, is available for streaming on the band’s official web site. According to the group, “this is the opening track from our first part of a trilogy recounting the Bible story of Moses and the Exodus from Egypt. On the first album of the trilogy we pick up the story right from the slavery period in Egypt when the new Pharaoh enslaves and oppresses the Israelites with forced labour. This is what we tried to emphasize on this song, the cruelty and ruthless power of the cold hearted Pharaoh and on the other hand the Israeli slaves desperate cry for deliverance!”

SEVENTH ANGEL: Footage From Norway’s NORDIC FEST Available

Video footage of the reformed British metal band SEVENTH ANGEL performing the song “Forbidden Desires” at the Nordic Fest 2008, which was held November 14-16 at Sub Scene in Oslo, Norway, can be viewed below.

SEVENTH ANGEL is currently working on a new, as-yet-untitled studio album for a 2009 release. The band’s first recording in 17 years, “The Turning Tide”, was recorded at bassist Mark Broomhead‘s house and was produced and mixed by Mark and guitarist Simon Bibby. It was mastered by Jeff Mortimer at JM Mastering. Check it out at this location.

SEVENTH ANGEL‘s current lineup is a mixture of the early and final lineup of the band before it split in 1992:

Ian Arkley (MY SILENT WAKE, PARAMAECIUM, CENTURY SLEEPER, THE OTHER WINDOW, ASHEN MORTALITY) – Vocals/Guitar
Tank (SUK MUNKY, FREEKSPERT) – Drums
Simon Bibby (FIRE FLY, EXORIA, AMARANTH) – Guitar
Mark Broomhead (FIRE FLY, EXORIA, DETRITUS) – Bass

Each member of SEVENTH ANGEL has been on his own musical and spiritual journey since the split, and the reformation has produced a band of increased depth and maturity, with all the musical intensity that made SEVENTH ANGEL such an international success.

Before its split, SEVENTH ANGEL produced two highly acclaimed internationally released studio albums and continued interest in the band prompted the release of early demos and live recordings in 2005. Throughout its career, SEVENTH ANGEL was the focus of much media attention within the music press and beyond, having appeared on the BBC, Channel 4 and featured in the Daily Telegraph.

For more information, visit www.myspace.com/seventhangelofficial.

THE AWAKENING, awake again

South Africa based THE AWAKENING have announced that after a three year hiatus that in 2009 they will release not one, but two new albums of material. No further information about these releases is available at this time.

THE AWAKENING also plan to launch a new website on January 2nd 2009 at www.awakening.co.za.

In other news ASHTON NYTE, founder of THE AWAKENING will be performing his first South Africa shows since 2007. He will be performing a selection of songs, including work from THE AWAKENING, selected solo releases, unreleased material and launching the new album “The Valley“! ASHTON will be joined on stage by long time friend and collaborator Matthew Fink.

Date are as follows:

Sat 29 Nov 2008 – The Bohemian (5 Park Rd, Richmond, Johannesburg, SA) with The Black Hotels.
Wed 3 Dec 2008 – Durbanville Kunskafee (1 Scher St, Durbanville, Cape Town, SA)
Thurs 4 Dec 2008 – Decodance at The Old Biscuit Mill (375 Albert St, Salt River, Cape Town, SA)
Fri 12 Dec 2008 – Cafe Barcelona (Elardus Park Centre, Barnard St, Elardus Park, Pretoria, SA)

THE FAMINE Frontman Opens Up About His Faith In New Audio Interview

Kris McCaddon, lead singer and co-founder of the Dallas, Texas-based death metal band THE FAMINE, is featured on I Testify Online in an audio broadcast interview with Ivan Parrish. Listen to the chat at this location (Windows Media).

In the interview, Kris talks about his past with other bands such as EMBODIMENT and DEMON HUNTER. He reveals how he teamed up with ex-bandmates Andrew Godwin and Mark Garza from EMBODIMENT to form THE FAMINE. Kris McCaddon also opens up about his faith in Jesus Christ and explains why he and his bandmates made the decision not to make THE FAMINE a Christian-themes act.

THE FAMINE released its full-length debut, “The Raven and the Reaping”, in May 2008 via Solid State Records. The CD was recorded with Andreas Magnusson (THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, AGONY SCENE) and is described as “an album of urgent metal with plenty of chunky riffs; the music is at once blustery yet totally memorable.

“Our roots are in death metal and grindcore,” McCaddon says. “But there is also this element about being from the South, like PANTERA, that translates. We have that Southern guitar metal sound. You can pick up on the Southern vibe. The songs are a little more structured, and we had never done that in the past. It’s not an album just of riffs; we focused on structure and choruses and keeping things efficient. . . If SUFFOCATION was covering PANTERA songs, that’s how THE FAMINE sounds.”

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RED announced new album, “INNOCENCE & INSTINCT”

GRAMMY-nominated modern rock band RED is preparing to release its second CD, INNOCENCE & INSTINCT, on February 10, 2009, via Essential Records. The disc features 10 songs, including its first single Fight Inside. The band will simultaneously release a Deluxe Edition of INNOCENCE & INSTINCT featuring four bonus tracks, the Death of Me music video, a making of documentary and more.

The Nashville-based group is currently touring the U.S. with Puddle Of Mudd–with a November 16 show at Highline Ballroom in New York City–through November 29, and will perform at select radio shows in December. Known for relentless touring and riveting live shows, RED–JASEN RAUCH (guitars), MICHAEL BARNES (vocals), ANTHONY ARMSTRONG (guitar) and RANDY ARMSTRONG (bass)–has logged an impressive 500+ live shows since releasing its End Of Silence debut album in 2006 and are giving fans a taste of its new music while on the road in late 2008.

INNOCENCE & INSTINCT offers a primal and provocative look into the dark and sometimes seemingly hopeless fight inside each one of us, told through the powerful sphere of the bands hard-hitting music. Produced by award-winning Rob Graves and mixed by Ben Grosse (Disturbed, Depeche Mode, Sevendust), the provocative INNOCENCE & INSTINCT was forged in a perfect storm of inspiration and catastrophe. From the literary spark of Dantes Inferno to the bloody aftermath of a 75mph highway crash, RED absorbed a flood of ideas and emotions that empowered the band to create powerful and thought-provoking rock songs. Finding the sonic sweet spot where epic and primal converge, INNOCENCE & INSTINCT features dynamics that super-charge its innocence vs. instinct theme.

INNOCENCE & INSTINCT is about the duality of man, explains guitarist/songwriter RAUCH. The album examines the fight between our childlike innocence and the instinctive side that makes us do things we shouldn’t. A lifetime is spent on this internal tug of war between who we really are and who we hope to be.

A highway crash in late 2007 accelerated the bands emotional core. As the tour van smashed into a guardrail and violently slid sideways across the highway, the band experienced new heights of horror that they channeled into INNOCENCE & INSTINCT. It brought an intensity and depth that we couldnt reach without going through this experience, RAUCH reflects. In the months after the accident, it felt like everything was in overdrive. In a split second, it changed our lives, adds six-stringer ANTHONY ARMSTRONG.

The disc is highlighted by its first Rock radio single, Fight Inside. The song is an anthem for what the entire album is about. On our first release, End of Silence, we addressed issues we struggled with, but this time its about the struggle itself, says guitarist-songwriter Jasen Rauch. It encapsulates the struggle between innocence and instinct that resonates through all the songs on this record. The music captures the internal tug-of-war inside all of us; between good and evil, light and darkness, spirit and flesh, exploring that fragile barrier between overcoming and being overcome.

RED made an immediate impact with its 2006 debut, End of Silence, which sold more than a quarter-million copies and earned several awards and nominations. The GRAMMY-nominated disc–featuring the radio hits Breathe Into Me (No. 1 , Christian Rock & Top 10, Active Rock), Break Me Down (No.1, Christian Rock), Already Over (No. 1, Christian Rock & Top 15, Active Rock), Let Go (No. 1, Christian Rock & Top 15, Active Rock) and Lost (No.1, Christian Rock) — introduced the sonic layering, rich orchestration and visceral dynamics that became REDs signature sound. The album steadily built momentum, cracking the Billboard Top 200 a year after its release. Not surprisingly, the album became a hit with other bands as well, leading to tours and shows with Breaking Benjamin, Papa Roach, Sevendust, Three Days Grace, Flyleaf, Buckcherry, Puddle Of Mudd, Staind, Seether, Disciple, Third Day and Switchfoot, among others.

TROUBLE To Release Live Recording

Legendary Chicago doomsters TROUBLE will release a live recording from Los Angeles via their web site. The show, recorded on the band’s last West Coast tour, has been mixed and mastered and will be made available at NewTrouble.com.

As previously reported, TROUBLE is in the process of writing songs for a new album for a tentative summer 2009 release. Tours will follow both in Europe and the U.S.

In other news, Trouble Inc. has opened a second store called the Metal Playground which will offer merchandise and music from some of TROUBLE‘s favorite bands. New products will be added often.

In a recent interview with Rock N Roll Experience, TROUBLE guitarist Rick Wartell was asked if the group was planning to record a new TROUBLE CD with its new frontman Kory Clarke (WARRIOR SOUL). “Yes,” Rick replied. “We started writing and we’ve got eight or nine songs written and we’re going to begin recording as soon as we get home from this East Coast leg and we are going to start piecing it together, so, YES!”

Regarding the new music’s direction, Rick said, “I know people have said this a million times and I know you’ve heard this a million times, but it’s pretty fucking heavy, let’s put it that way! The music end of it that Bruce [Franklin, guitar] and I are writing is getting heavier and heavier…it’s getting heavier and then we want Kory to incorporate his style to what we are doing, that’s basically all that we really want out of this.”

Speaking to Viewmag, guitarist Bruce Franklin of stated about Clarke‘s inaugural tour of duty with TROUBLE, “We had sent him some MP3s and he had the chance to listen to some stuff but it is not the same until you are playing with the band. We only had a couple of rehearsals before the tour started and the first few shows were a little rough. By the fourth show it was getting pretty good and from there on it just got better. We couldn’t expect him to learn twenty songs at once, so we picked the most popular songs. We were hoping to do more early songs but Kory was latching on to the early Nineties stuff because it has the most hooks and is the catchiest material. It’s probably easier for him to remember those. We did a setlist that was heavier in that era and finally managed to get one or two old ones in by the end of the tour.”

Fan-filmed video footage of TROUBLE‘s July 9, 2008 performance at Slim’s in Francisco, California can be viewed below (clip uploaded by YouTube user “Repro”).

GRAVE DEFIER is resurrected

California based GRAVE DEFIER have announced via their myspace page that they will be releasing new material in 2009.

Here is the message posted via their blog:

If anyone has been curious as to the future of GD is a little blog to explain where we are at, as of right now the band is going to consist of myself (Robert) and Rogelio as a two piece SIDE PROJECT for right now, we haven’t really decided if or how we will play shows. The band did break up for a period and this is something that Roger and I continued to do because of the ministry that we started with the band and to let our fans know what the situation was. If the opportunity ever came up to play live again we would definitely do it, but to what capacity we haven’t really discussed. We are currently writing some new songs, and its been going very well, as of this blog we have 1 1/2 songs down so we are excited to see where this goes. If anyone has any questions or comments please feel free to ask, we thank you all for the continued love and support that you have given this band and that without your support this band would of never probably seen the light of day. God bless you all and be on a look out in early 09 for some new stuff.