Martriden News

Independence!

martriden — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:16:31 +0000

Martriden is now independent! We are no longer affiliated with SOAR or Candlelight and are proud to announce that tracking of our new CD, ‘Encounter the Monolith’ is complete. Dave Otero of Flatline Audio is currently mixing/mastering. We are quite pleased with our progress and feel this is our best work to date. We have extremely high personal standards and know you all will be pleased as well. Watch our blog for announcements regarding the CD launch and be sure to become a Martriden fan on Facebook too!

Become a fan on Facebook!

martriden — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:22:42 +0000

We’ve just created a Facebook page! We’ll periodically add some pictures and videos to it, but to be notified as soon as we do, you need to become a fan. So get it done!

Martriden on Facebook

- Martriden

New Martriden Album? HELL YES

martriden — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:43:39 +0000

Well folks, we are currently on the finishing touches of our recording session before we go to work with our good friend Dave Otero at Flatline Audio for mixing and mastering next week. The album consists of 6 songs and an approximate running time of 50 minutes. Tracklist is as follows:

1. The Three Metamorphoses
2. Heywood R. Floyd
3. Discovery
4. Human Error?
5. Encounter The Monolith
6. Death and Transfiguration

We are very excited about this album, we feel it contains some of the most brutal, epic and perhaps most importantly…the most interesting bits of music we’ve put together. We are confident that it is the best collection of songs we’ve composed!

Keep your eyes peeled for more updates as things get finalized!

- Martriden

Post Tour Rundown

martriden — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:49:40 +0000

Well, The Unsettling Dark Tour has come to a close. We’d like to thank everyone who came out to see us perform, even if the show was on a weeknight. We really enjoyed ourselves, and hope to see you all again when we’re back on the road!

We are now in writing mode for our next album, tentatively planned to be recorded next summer.

Remember, for the latest in Martriden news, be sure to take a look at our myspace.

Tour Update

martriden — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:06:14 +0000

We’ve updated the tour listing, see below for all dates.

Martriden announces “The Unsettling Dark Tour”!

martriden — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:37:33 +0000

Martriden will be embarking on their “The Unsettling Dark” tour along with Colorado natives Alabaster Morgue from June 25 - August 18, 2008.

Dates are as follows:

06/25/2008 09:00 PM - The Zombie Room; Spokane, Washington w/ guest Age of Nefilim
06/26/2008 07:30 PM - Studio Seven; Seattle, Washington
06/27/2008 08:00 PM - The Glo Loca; Portland, Oregon
06/28/2008 08:00 PM - The Samurai Duck; Eugene, Oregon

06/30/2008 08:00 PM - John’s Place; Willits, California

07/04/2008 07:00 PM - Day Customs on Highway 264; Window Rock, Arizona

07/06/2008 08:00 PM - Metal Devastation on Bell; Phoenix, Arizona

07/09/2008 08:00 PM - Broken Record; Salt Lake City, Utah w/ guests Reptilians, Xolotl

07/10/2008 08:00 PM - PT’s Club Inferno; Denver, Colorado

07/11/2008 08:00 PM – Iliff Park Saloon; Denver, Colorado

07/13/2008 08:00 PM - Black Sheep; Colorado Springs, Colorado

07/17/2008 08:00 PM - The War Legion Underground; Amarillo, Texas

07/19/2008 08:00 PM – Rocky City Icehouse; Austin, Texas w/ guests Vesperian Sorrow + others

07/24/2008 08:00 PM – Doug’s Rock House; Aurora, Illinois

07/26/2008 08:00 PM – Red Line Tap; Chicago, Illinois

07/27/2008 08:00 PM - The BBC Upper Level; Milwaukee, Wisconsin

07/28/2008 10:00 PM - Station 4; St Paul, Minnesota w/ guest Under Eden

07/29/2008 08:00 PM – The Underground; St. Louis, Missouri

07/31/2008 08:00 PM - Rex Theatre; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

08/07/2008 08:00 PM – Union Station; Colorado Springs, Colorado

08/09/2008 08:00 PM - F.O.E; Billings, Montana

08/12/2008 08:00 PM - Black Eagle Community Center; Great Falls, Montana

08/13/2008 08:00 PM – The Palace; Missoula, Montana

08/14/2008 08:00 PM - The Filling Station; Bozeman, Montana

We will be periodically announcing dates as the tour looms ever closer, check back often! For the absolute latest in Martriden news, check our myspace!

UPDATE 6/21 - Dates added to tour listing

The Unsettling Dark

martriden — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:19:51 +0000

As many of you may know, this summer we recorded a new album. This will be our full-length debut, titled “The Unsettling Dark”. The album is due to be released in the US on February 5 via Candlelight USA, and in the UK/Europe on March 3, through SOAR/Candlelight Records.

Tracklisting is as follows:

01. Introduction
02. The Enigma of Fate
03. The Calling
04. Ascension Pt. 1
05. Ascension Pt. 2
06. Processional for The Hellfire Chariot
07. The Unsettling Dark
08. Prelude
09. A Season in Hell
10. Immaculate Perception

Martriden Featured in Terrorizer Magazine!

martriden — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:29:40 +0000

Martriden was recently reviewed and featured in Terrorizer Magazine. Transcription of the review and picture of the feature below:

In an era where death metal is suffering all manner of indignities from folks who don’t seem to entirely get the gist of it, with weak blastbeats and unacceptably nondescript growling haunting metal records the length and breadth of the downtuned battlefield, it’s a relief to come across an outfit who not only appear to know what time it is, but are so efficient at conjuring up an atmosphere of windswept majesty that we’re even willing to excuse their tub-thumping oft resembling a drum machine. Montana based Martriden’s self-titled slab of salvation is a veritable masterclass in frost-bitten, blasting gloom, marking a dusky marriage between the weighty sturm und drang of Opeth and the symphonic standing-on-a-mountaintop grandeur ( if not exactly the riffs_ of Emperor, and elevated above the vast hordes of similar hue by some sparklingly spine chilling melodics that miraculously manage to steer clear of standard issue swedeath riffage. With wide-screen sweep worthy of Peter Jackson and sword-wielding intensity aplenty, this bunch of visually unappealing fellows are enough to renew faith in the fine art of the raised horns in even the most jaded cynic.

8/10

- Jim Martin

Terrorizer

Studio Report 1: Drum Tracking

martriden — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:19:16 +0000

Here are some selected clips from our first week of recording. Jeremy Portz did an astonishing job with our material, and the songs are shaping up to be killer! Enjoy.

Youtube Link

Martriden Featured in Metal Hammer Magazine!

martriden — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:47:17 +0000

Martriden was reviewed and featured in Metal Hammer.

Martriden
‘Martriden’
(SOAR)

Who knows why the fact that these Black Metallers hail form the great plains state of Montana should come as a surprise? It does, though. Most US Black Metal that reaches outside these shores tends to be of the ‘outsider’ variety- possibly because afficionados tend to number in single figures in most American Towns and Cities. But Martriden’s impressive debut EP is firmly in the mainstream tradition of the best Scandinavian bands from Bathory onwards. There’s even a faint whiff of Opeth influence in the extended epic song ‘In Death We Burn’. It’s maddeningly brief, but hopefully a taster of a more in-depth album to come. Incidentally there’s something refreshing about Black Metallers called Kyle, Shane, Will and Michael who haven’t felt the need to invent absurd pseudonyms like Azbagorgothia and the like.

8/10
Gregory Sallust
METAL HAMMER

Here’s a scan of Martriden’s Metal Hammer Feature in “Fresh Meat”