What’s the weirdest cover song a band could whip out? Well… Novelists guitarist Flo Durand has taken the cake by dropping a cover of a song from Japanese virtual K-pop girl group K/DA! They feature in a program called League of Legends. To be fair they’re calling the cover a remix of “Pop/Stars” and if
The bills for their 2019 Arising Empire album “Thirst” might still be coming in but Progressive Metalcore act Vitja have surprised with the release of a brand new single today going by the name of “Payback“! They’re on the road starting tonight in Germany with Our Mirage, Breathe Atlantis and The Narrator.
Normally during the phase prior to an album release you get staggered tracks or playthroughs or interview and making of snippets. Arising Empire have surprised in dropping a trio of separate parts spliced from an interview with Novelists about their third album “C’est La Vie” which came out last week, on the same day…
It’s rare that a band that have been around the block and then some get legally challenged over their name but in the case of Parisian DJentlemen Novelists who were formed as long ago as 2012 by brothers Amael and Florestan Durand, that’s exactly what happened. Forced to re-brand as “Novelists FR” during a period
French DJentlemen Novelists dropped their third studio album via Arising Empire earlier today and to celebrate they’ve shared a music video for “Modern Slave“. The third single from “C’est La Vie” should be followed by a playthrough video in a week’s time. No crystal balls or soothsayers involved, they’ve done it that every other time
Belgian female fronted Groove Metallers Spoil Engine dropped “Renaissance Noire“ via Arising Empire in November 2019 with a lyric video for “Venom” and were perhaps a surprise choice for this year’s incarnation of 70000 Tonnes of Metal. Here’s a trio of cuts culled from their set, including the obvious choice “Black Sails“!
Still locked firming in “Fantasy“, Frenchmen Landmvrks have shared a Pro-Shot live cut of “Scars“. It was filmed in Germany on 22nd December 2019 at Turbinenhalle Oberhausen and was mixed by vocalist Florent Salfati at Homeless Records. The album is out via Arising Empire with the band joining up with the Impericon Festival 2020 shows
Complete with a live video filmed at Euroblast Festival, French DJentlemen Kadinja have gone back to their covers album “DNA” for this new clip. In case you missed it they followed up original work “Super 90” with a tribute to the 1999-2003 Nu-Metal era, putting their own spin on some classics of the time including
German Metalcore crew Annisokay have recaped their Xmas Bash shows in Cologne and Berlin Germany with this just shy of 10 minutes of footage from Josh Wagner. Having announced that screamer Dave Grunewald has stepped away and Rudi Schwarzer is filling his shoes, they’ve used these recent recaps and shows to introduce him. Do they
The love of Hardcore on the European Mainland and particularly in Germany has always meant that acts like Evergreen Terrace, Deez Nuts and Lionheart have been hugely successful in the region. Lionheart dropped their second album since returning after calling it a night with “Valley Of Death” via Arising Empire back in November and it’s
