Tag: The Agonist

NEWS: The Agonist announce “Days Before The World Wept”!

Produced by Christian Donaldson (Beyond Creation, Cryptopsy, Despised Icon), a new EP titled “Days Before The World Wept” will be arriving from Canadian Melodic Death Metallers The Agonist on 15th October. The first single doubles as the opening track of the EP in “Remnants In Time” and has vocalist Vicky Psarakis adding in some ghostly

Playthrough: “In Vertigo” from The Agonist!

The Agonist frontwoman Vicky Psarakis is celebrating her birthday so she’s picked “In Vertigo” from the bands current album “Orphans” for a one take vocal performance. That would be album number six from the Montréal Québec Canada outfit who are celebrating 15 years together this year with a pair of summer Festival dates announced for

NEWS: Vicky Psarakis pays tribute with “Hate Me”!

Continuing her run of cover songs with a tribute to the much loved and dearly departed Alexi Laiho, The Agonist frontwoman Vicky Psarakis is joined by Quentin Cornet and Nils Courbaron of Siernia and Think Of A New Kind fame for a rendition of “Hate Me” by Finnish Melodic Death Metallers Children of Bodom. The now

NEWS: Vicky Psarakis takes on Dark Tranquillity!

As Vicky Psarakis and Quentin Cornet continue their covers series with their take on “Eyes Of The World” by Gothenburg Sweden Melodic Death Metal masters Dark Tranquillity, we’re asking just when the Psarakis main squeeze The Agonist will begin work on the follow up to their 2019 album “Orphans“, nominated for Canadian Juno Award in

Bootleg: “As The Pages Burn” from Arch Enemy!

“Sweet amnesia here to free you, As the pages burn (burn!), All you trials solved bye fire, As the pages burn, As smoke fills the room soon to pass… heavy gloom, The wind will whisk away the past, A blank page stares at you, Nothing left, Where to start?” From the Ronnie James Dio stage

Bootleg: “You Will Know My Name” from Arch Enemy!

Bloodstock have treated us to another pro-shot track cut from the set of Swedish Melodic Death Metallers Arch Enemy on the Ronnie James Dio stage at the annual event in 2017. This time out it’s “You Will Know My Name” from the bands 2014 record “War Eternal”, their ninth in all and first with ex-Arsis

Bootleg: “Avalanche” from Arch Enemy!

A second cut culled from the set of Arch Enemy at Bloodstock Open Air Festival in 2017 sees the band performing “Avalanche” from the Swedish Melodic Death Metallers ninth studio album “War Eternal“. That was the first album to see former The Agonist vocalist Alissa White-Gluz taking over from long-time vocalist Angela Gossow and she’ll

NEWS: Vicky Psarakis covers Bring Me The Horizon!

The eclectic nature of some of the weekly covers that The Agonist frontwoman Vicky Psarakis has put out alongside her partner in crime in multi instrumentalist Quentin Cornet has been quite something to behold. The pairs latest offering comes in the form of “Teardrops” by Bring Me The Horizon as Cornet uses Solar guitars with

Vs Tuesday: Two Bands! One Song! Who Wins?! FIGHT! Ghostbusters!

While the score for the 1984 original version of Ghostbusters was written by Elmer Bernstein and performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra at The Village in Los Angeles California, the title song is the work of Ray Parker Jr. An Actor, singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist in his own right, he’d inked a

NEWS: The Agonist’s Vicky Psarakis covers At The Gates!

Having announced her participation in a new crowd funded The Chronomaster Project earlier this week (which you can find out about here) The Agonist frontwoman Vicky Psarakis is back to the covers with a rendition of “Blinded by Fear” by Gothenburg Legends At The Gates. She’s accompanied by the Skull Strings and Solar Guitars endorsed