Every week Monuments drummer Mile Malyan has been dropping the one take playthroughs of the bands classic material and this week is the turn of “Leviathan“. This one actually has a two fill edit with gear from Meinl, Evans, ProMark, Pearl, Gibraltar, Tama and more used in the process but the thing we love the
How about a second cut from Unearth at Meow Meow in Portland Oregon on 10th September 2004? Here’s “The Charm” from the semi pro-shot set, a track which originally appeared on 2002’s “Endless” EP. The Metalcore mainstays have been pummeling the Globe with “Extinction(s)” via Century Media, a triumphant return after 5 years out of
In 2019 Avatar reunited with producer Jay Ruston (Stone Sour, Slipknot, Anthrax) at Sphere Studios in Los Angeles, California, where the foundation for each song on Hunter Gatherer was laid with the band performing altogether, as they’d done only once before on 2014’s “Hail the Apocalypse“. Aimed at capturing the bands live energy by allowing
The retro bootlegs and live streams have been keeping us alive during lockdown with the hope of live shows returning at some point, hopefully in the not to distant future. Here’s a freshly liberated one from the archives of Metalcore Monsters Unearth, “Internal War“, filmed at Meow Meow in Portland Oregon on 10th September 2004.
After a pair of critically acclaimed albums in 2014’s “The Wreckage Of Stars” and it’s follow up in 2016’s “Selves We Cannot Forgive“, Reading Pennsylvanian Progressive Death Metallers Black Crown Initiate can be forgiven for taking their time over getting to their third studio record “Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape“, which finds them with a
7th August will see Century Media distribute the third studio record from Pennsylvanian Progressive Death Metallers Black Crown Initiate and so lead guitarist and clean vocalist Andy Thomas took a moment out of his busy schedule to speak to Heavy New York about “Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape“. Watch this space for our upcoming review of
Following previously released singles “The Adorned Fathomless Creation” and “A Return To The Earth Below“, US Progressive Metallers Oceans Of Slumber have turned to ballad “The Colors of Grace”, a duet featuring Mike Moss of Antimatter for their third. Each one will appear on their forthcoming self titled album, which will appear on 4th September
What’s Mike Malyan going to do with his time when he’s completed a playthrough video for the entire Monuments back catalogue? Keeping himself sharp for the next opportunity to play a show, which at this point looks like 2021, he’s done a one take video for “Horcrux”. No audio edits and no triggers.
This time next week it will be the eighth Christmas Eve for Avatar fans as they will be getting ready to dive into “Hunter Gatherer” as it falls, courtesy of Century Media, down their chimneys on 7th August. In the meantime, here’s guitarist duo Jonas Jarlsby and Tim Ohrstrom taking Gear Gods through their live
Century Media will be unveiling the third album from US Progressive Death Metallers Black Crown Initiate on 7th August, going by the name “Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape”. It promises much from the singles released so far and we would have seen the band in action this summer at Tech-Fest had circumstances been different. So
