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NOVEMBER 10tH, 2008 In this issue: featured artists, free tracks, new videos, behind the scenes, in stores now, coming soon |
The year is winding down, but the metal just doesn’t stop in the latest edition of the OMN. This time out, we’re thrilled to highlight two of our personal favorite releases of 2008. Floridian prog-metal forefathers Cynic offer up their first release in a decade and a half in the form of Traced In Air. The physical release isn’t coming until later this year, but you can snag a digital copy now. Go ahead. And in case all out prog assaults aren't exactly your thing, how about a split release featuring New Brunswick hardcore titans Thursday, and some face-melting awesomeness from Japanese decibel-lovers Envy? That’s right, our friends at Temporary Residence have pulled together both on an impossibly brilliant twofer.
Elsewhere in the OMN, we’ve got tracks from both of the above releases, music from the recently-unveiled Sonic Syndicate slayer, and some choice barn burners from Bloodbath, Deadlock, and plenty more. Nuclear Blast offers up two new videos – one from Sonic Syndicate and another from Scar Symmetry – while we also take a look into the studio with Darkthrone and Cynic. And don’t forget to check out our current and forthcoming releases in the In Stores Now and Coming Soon sections.
Until next time…
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Thursday/Envy Split [Temporary Residence]Release Date: Nov 4 |
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More than two years after New Brunswick hardcore titans Thursday first put the idea in their heads, Temporary Residence Ltd. is proud to finally bring together two influential bands from two very different places – Thursday and Japanese metal monolith Envy. Recorded in Spring 2008, both bands turn in some of their most inspired work yet. In addition, Thursday invited Anthony Molina of Mercury Rev to remix the dark instrumental “In Silence” into the pitch-black closing track, “Appeared And Was Gone,” providing the perfect transition into the massive dynamics of Envy. Beginning with the subtle electronics of the symphonic opener, “An Umbrella Fallen Into Fiction,” Envy thrashes and burns through a trio of thoughtful face-melters. |
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Cynic | Evolutionary Sleeper from Traced In Air [Season of Mist] |
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Thursday & Envy | Split Song from Split [Temporary Residence] |
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Sonic Syndicate | My Escape from Love And Other Disasters [Nuclear Blast] |
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Deadlock | The Brave/Agony Applause from Manifesto [Lifeforce] |
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Darkthrone | Hiking Metal Punks from Dark Thrones & Black Flags [Peaceville] |
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Coronatus | Exitus from Porta Obscura [Massacre Records] |
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Catamenia | Garden of Eden from The Time Unchanged [Massacre Records] |
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Bloodbath | Slaughter The Will To Live from The Fathomless Mastery [Peaceville] |
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Dawn of Winter | The Music of Despair |
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Sonic Syndicate | My Escape from Love And Other Disasters [Nuclear Blast] |
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Scar Symmetry | Morphogenesis from Holographic Universe [Nuclear Blast] |
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Deadlock | The Brave/Agony Applause from Manifesto [Lifeforce] |
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Darkthrone | Studio Video |
| It's hard not to love Darkthrone, what with their massive plumes of black smoke riffs and general doomy dominance. But when the dudes allow a camera into the studio, our faith and adoration is completely vindicated. Check out this clip for some footage of the guys noodling around and chatting about their tunes. | |||
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Cynic | Album Preview & Interview | |
| In the run up to their first album in fifteen years, a reuinited Cynic allowed a camera crew to document their recording process. A snippet of the result is available here, complete with interviews with the band, snippets of songs, and plenty more. Check it out now for everything you wanted to know about these Floridian prog-metaloids' new album, but were afraid to ask. | |||
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Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery [Peaceville] |
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Bloodbath
are an extreme metal supergroup from Stockholm, Sweden. Formed in 1998
with a mutual fascination for the glory days of death metal, the band’s
line up has changed and evolved throughout the years, featuring the
elite of Swedish metal. This line-up has once again reunited for The
Fathomless Mastery which they have described as representing ‘nothing
but hateful brutality.’ |
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Sonic Syndicate Love And Other Disasters [Nuclear Blast] |
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Third album from Swedish melodic death metal combo who won Nuclear Blast's 2006 Bandcontest. Previous album Only Inhuman [2007] debuted at #22 on Swedish charts; Rock Sound praised its "groundbreaking killer riffs, raging grooves and tons of sweeping melodies." RIYL: Children of Bodom, Killswitch Engage |
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Darkthrone Dark Thrones & Black Flags [Peaceville Records] |
Fourteenth album from the "true pioneers of the extreme underground scene" [Metal Hammer]. Their 2006 album The Cult Is Alive scanned nearly 33K copies.
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Catamenia The Time Unchanged [Massacre Records] |
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Deadlock Manifesto [Lifeforce]Release Date: Nov 18 |
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Third album by German death metal combo. Video: Album preview RIYL: Killswitch Engage |
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Virus The Black Flux [Season of Mist ]Release Date: Nov 18 |
Second album from Norwegian avant-metal trio, the first since multi-instrumentalist / band leader Carl-Michael "Czral" Eide [Ved Buens Ende, Aura Noir] shattered his legs in an accident. | ||
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Outlaw Order Dragging Down The Enforced [Season of Mist]Release Date: Nov 25 |
Debut full-length from New Orleans sludge metal band featuring past and current members of notorious crust pioneers Eyehategod. Their name stems from the fact that all five members were on probation when the band formed | ||
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Dawn of Winter The Peacful Dead [Massacre Records]Release Date: Dec 2 |
New album from German doom metal monolith Dawn of Winter. Produced by Achim Köhler (Primal Fear, Sinner, Totenmond etc.). |
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Coronatus Porta Obsurca [Massacre Records]Release Date: Dec 2 |
Second LP from German goth metal newcomers Coronatus. Fronted by dueling female vocalists Carmen R. Schäfer and Ada Flechtner. Produced by Vision Bleak and Eisregen mastermind Markus Stock. |
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