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SLAYER’s World Painted Blood artwork revealed

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:53:40 +0000

Slayer’s World Painted Blood, the band’s highly-anticipated new album set for a November 3 release (American Recordings), will initially ship with four special collector’s edition CD covers. Each of the four covers will display one-fourth of a provocative continental map illustrated with human skulls and bones; when placed together, the four images form a complete and grisly map of the world (see above).

All four of the initial CD packages will include a special blood-red, see-through top panel with the map displayed beneath it.

The World Painted Blood Deluxe Edition will have its own special layout of the map cover art and will be in a double-digipak housed in a blood-red, see-through plastic sleeve. The Deluxe Edition will include the World Painted Blood CD, the “Playing With Dolls” DVD, a 20-minute animated graphic novel featuring music from the album (including part of a new non-album song), and an expanded booklet.

[ Source: Metalkult.com ]

SLAYER reveals ‘World Painted Blood’ tracklisting

METAL MANIACS Magazine relaunches online

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:13:41 +0000

Metal Maniacs Magazine returns to a new online format after closing the doors to its print operation in February 2009.

Resurrected by the owner of Metalhit.com, with a site developed by Reh3 Design (www.reh3.com / www.mouthforwar.net), the new Metal Maniacs features regularly updated content and features from the latest in underground metal.

The site boasts an exhaustive Mp3 store featuring more than 13,000 songs available for preview and purchase as well as a new forum, monthly contests, a weekly “deadly discovery” showcasing up and coming bands and a monthly free digital music compilation.

The debut launch features a 24 song compilation with free downloads from bands like: Asphyx, Augury, Black Anvil, Daath, Hands, Impending Doom, Leaves’ Eyes, Merauder, Séance, Skeletonwitch, Suicide Silence, Vader and more!!!

In this issue:

James Malone (ARSIS) discusses his struggle with anorexia.
Frank Watkins talks about the new OBITUARY and GORGOROTH albums
Katon D. Pena updates us on the new HIRAX album and talks about thrash metal history.

Other features include:

1349
November’s Doom
Bone Gnawer
Hands
Gravehill
Pig Destroyer
The Project Hate MCMXCIX
Immolith
Sauron
Behind the scenes with Willie Gee
Label spotlight on The Ajna Offensive
Artists spotlight on Vince Locke (coming soon)
+ Reviews and more!

www.metalmaniacs.com

KEKAL calls it quits, offers free downloads

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:23:52 +0000

Avant Garde metal band, KEKAL, are sadly no more. The band’s members called it quits after 14 years of existence. KEKAL started out as an extreme metal band but over the years their music progressed and diversified. Jeff and Leo, the only existing members of the band have left the band but decided to keep Kekal to remain exist as a band (read: institution) albeit without active band-members. The official statement is available on the band’s official website.

The band has made 3 of their albums available as free download:

Official Website: Kekal

SLAYER reveals ‘World Painted Blood’ tracklisting

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:15:11 +0000

Slayer revealed track listing of their upcoming release ‘World Painted Blood‘. World Painted Blood is due out in October via American Recordings/Columbia Records and will feature the following tracks:

World Painted Blood
Unit 731
Snuff
Beauty Through Order
Hate Worldwide
Public Display Of Dismemberment
Human Strain
Americon
Psychopathy Red
Playing With Dolls
Not Of This God

GORGOROTH reveal new album cover tracklisting

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:03:05 +0000

Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt

Black metallers, GORGOROTH, have just revealed their ninth studio album Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt cover. The album is due in November through Regain Records.

Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt track listing:

01. Aneuthanasia
02. Prayer
03. Rebirth
04. Building a Man
05. New Breed
06. Cleansing Fire
07. Human Sacrifice
08. Satan-Prometheus
09. Introibo ad Alatare Satanas

SHRAPNEL’s debut album available for download

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:00:41 +0000

Shrapnel - Intellectual Pursuit

Bangalore based thrash metal band, SHRAPNEL, are giving away their excellent debut album ‘Intellectual Pursuit’ as free download at http://www.gimmesound.com/shrapnel

KRYPTOS debut album available as free download

admin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:43:29 +0000

Kryptos - Spiral Ascent

Banglore based old school thrashers, KRYPTOS, are giving away their debut album, Spiral Ascent, as free download. Those who missed out now have a chance to get hold of the awesome debut release. Just goto http://www.gimmesound.com/Kryptos/ and download the songs.

INFERNAL WRATH release debut album

admin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:37:29 +0000

Infernal Wrath - Inside Of Me

Mumbai based death metal band, INFERNAL WRATH, release their debut album ‘Inside Of Me’ on Counter Culture Records. The long awaited debut release comes without much buzz or album gig trend.

The band describes the album as :

The band speaks about the path of self realization that is set to a backdrop of the events preceeding the Apocalypse which has been foretold in various scriptures which form the basis of various religions & sects all across the globe.

Track listings:-
1. Truth
2. Inside of Me
3. Turmoil
4. Behold Ezekiel
5. This Forever Lasting Journey
6. Funeral Pyre
7. The Swordbearer
8. At the Foothills of Palestine
9. The Creation of the Lotus
10. The Destruction of the Third Temple
11. Siddh Arth

Pre Order your INSIDE OF ME CDs now. Just Email to infernalwrathindia@gmail.com CD is for Rs 250 only (Courier Included)

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Unrestrained Magazine Final Issue

admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:20:55 +0000

Unrestrained Magazine, extreme metal magazine which recently closed doors due to sad passing away of Adrian Bromley, the publisher, coordinator, and co-editor of the magazine. Tate Bengtson has offered the last issue, #39, as free download. Unrestrained! #39 has been released by Adrian’s friends and family as a tribute to him in PDF format. You could download the issue 39 here.

TuxGuitar – Open Source Tablature Editor

admin — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:03:17 +0000

TuxGuitar, an open source tablature editor, is an music composer and player. The editor can be used to compose music using score and could be played back as midi file. The editor has multitrack display for different instruments, fret board view and matrix editor for percussion instruments. The editor has autoscroll feature for simulaneous playback. The editor has standard music notations as well as various effects like bend, slide, vibrato, hammer on/pull-off, time signature and tempo management. The editor can import and export gp3,gp4 and gp5 files. The music can be exported in Lilypond, MusicXML formats to name a few.

Download TuxGuitar here