REVIEW: TRINERGIC - 'RISE OF XYRITH

Trinergic (previously Dystopia) are a melodic death metal band from Mumbai. The band changed its name when Rahul Nair(ex Grimmortal vocalist) joined the band to perform the vocal duties.The band also borders on some djent influences with its intricate time signatures, intense drumming and some textured solos added in between, complete with ear-splitting guttural vocals. Their new single "Rise of Xyrith" is a fine blend of all these and manages some killer breakdowns, starting with an odd time riff kicking in repeatedly after the verse and solo parts.

"Martyr" is another single involving good instrumentals and a very technical solo section.
Particularly noteworthy is the nicely timed drumming by Emmanuel Paul. This song is richer on its lyrics, more progressive and structured in approach and hints at the direction the band might take in future. Definitely a must listen at least once for all melodic/djent fans out there, these guys have done a good work with their debut effort.

 Rating: 3.5 - ‎Review by  Abhimanyu Watve - ‎Feb 26, 2014

Genre: Melodic Death Metal

          

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Diabolus Arcanium - Spellbound: Debut Full-Length Available From Haught Records, USA

Diabolus Arcanium, a black metal band from chennai have just released a debut full length on 23rd February. Spellbound served as their debut full-length and the band managed to release it digitally worldwide via USA based Haught Records. Even it can be purchased from Haught Records for digital download and the physical copies will be released very soon.


Spellbound tracklist reads as follows:
01. Inno Arcanium
02. Spiritual entropy
03. Frozen dreams
04. Spellbound
05. Ascension
06. Herald of darkness
07. Kingdom of sin
08. In death's embrace
09. Of fire and ashes
10. Herald of darkness

Grab it from Haught Records

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INTERVIEW: DIABOLUS ARCANIUM

1. Introduce yourself.
Vyas: We are ‘Diabolus Arcanium’ from Chennai and I am Vyas ‘HEX’ Manalan, the band’s Lead guitarist and Lead Vocalist.
Harsha: I am Harsha ‘AGIEL’ Vardhan, the band’s manager/promoter.

2. What does “Diabolus Arcanium” even mean?
 Vyas: “Diabolus” means ‘The Devil or Satan’ or whatever people want to refer him as and “Arcanium” means ‘A Mystic Sanctuary’. It’s a latin word which basically means “Satan’s Mystic Sanctuary”.

3. “Diabolus Arcanium” was formerly known as ‘Fortified Destruction’. How are things going in the band and when was the new line up formed?
Vyas: DA is not related to Fortified Destruction musically, the only relation is me, who formed both the bands.
FD played power metal and I was done with it. It wasn't who I am, I grew up listening more to ‘Black Metal’ and wanted to make Black Metal, so this struck me and I thought fuck Power Metal let me do what I want..
Diabolus Arcanium was formed on December 18th, 2013 with the last live band member crew, with the addition of Solas on bass as Kevin was not included.

4. FD had a really unstable lineup. Will the fans be able to see the difference in DA?
Harsha: FD and DA are very different musically. FD played Power Metal with Melodic Death Metal influence. Though we were one of the most popular bands during that time, we wanted to be unique rather. So we wanted to play Black Metal which is a very rare scene in India. By December 18th, 2013 we formed Diabolus Arcanium, with the new line up. We also started working on “Spellbound” our debut full length which is releasing worldwide digitally on 23rd February, 2014.

5. How did your fans receive your lyric video of the song “Of Fire and Ashes” from the album SpellBound?
Harsha: Of Fire and Ashes is one the most technical song from the album and the symphony is massive. We thought this song would be well accepted by the audiences as it sounds catchy too. We made the lyric video of it and it worked well with them.

6. “SpellBound” is the new upcoming full length album from you guys. How are you seeing ahead with the album?
Vyas: ‘Spellbound’ is our debut album, we came up with that in a quick succession. We needed to establish us well within this scene and globally. I am glad the album has come out well. People will like it and we hope to move on to the next level.

7. What are the Influences of your band?
Vyas: Our band is majorly influenced by Dimmu Borgir, Dark Funeral, Mayhem basically the early Norwegian Black Metal scene.

8. To many musicians out there, what message would you like to convey?
Vyas: Well for all the new musicians, what I would like to say is to work hard and stay committed. Focus more on originals rather than covers. Recognition will come automatically, if not sooner.

Interviewer: Shwetha Kamath

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Aborted Reveals Details For Upcoming Album and tour dates with Kataklysm

Belgian death metal lunatics Aborted have just finished their eighth full-length, The Necrotic Manifesto, with producer Jacob Hansen. The band will manage to release the album on April 28th in Europe and on April 29th in North America
via Century Media Records.

The Necrotic Manifesto Tracklist reads as follows:
01.Six Feet Of Foreplay
02.The Extirpation Agenda
03.Necrotic Manifesto
04.An Enumeration Of Cadavers
05.Your Entitlement Means Nothing
06.The Davidian Deceit
07.Coffin Upon Coffin
08.Chronicles Of Detruncation
09.Sade & Libertine Lunacy
10.Die Verzweiflung
11.Excremental Veracity
12.Purity Of Perversion
13.Of Dead Skin & Decay
14.Cenobites

In support of The Necrotic
Manifesto, Aborted will tour North America together with Kataklysm in March/April 2014. See below for all upcoming tour dates.

Aborted tour dates
Feb. 22 – BlastFest – Bergen
(Norway)
Mar. 27 – Empire – Springfield, VA
(United States)
Mar. 28 – Sounds Asylum –
Middletown, NY (United States)
Mar. 29 – The Underground Arts –
Philadelphia, PA (United States)
Mar. 30 – Montage Music Hall –
Rochester, NY (United States)
Mar. 31 – Bogie’s – Albany, NY
(United States)
Apr. 1 – Middle-East – Cambridge,
MA (United States)
Apr. 2 – Palace Theater – Stafford
Springs, CT (United States)
Apr. 3 – St. Vitus – Brooklyn, NY
(United States)
Apr. 4 – Club Soda – Montreal, QC
(Canada) *
Apr. 5 – El Mocambo – Toronto,
ON (Canada) *
Apr. 6 – The Foundry – Lakewood,
OH (United States) *
Apr. 7 – High Noon Saloon –
Madison, WI (United States) *
Apr. 8 – Zoo Cabaret – Winnipeg,
MB (Canada) *
Apr. 9 – The Exchange – Regina, SK
(Canada) *
Apr. 10 – Pawn Shop – Edmonton,
AB (Canada) *
Apr. 11 – Republik – Calgary, AB
(Canada) *
Apr. 12 – Columbo Lodge –
Kamloops, BC (Canada) *
Apr. 13 – Rickshaw Theatre –
Vancouver, BC (Canada) *
Apr. 14 – Studio Seven – Seattle,
WA (United States) *
Apr. 15 – Jub Jubs – Reno, NV
(United States) *
Apr. 16 – DNA Lounge – San
Francisco, CA (United States) *
Apr. 17 – Ramona Mainstage –
Ramona, CA (United States) *
Apr. 18 – Mirror Image – Anaheim,
CA (United States) *
Apr. 19 – Joe’s Grotto – Phoenix,
AZ (United States) *
Apr. 20 – Tricky Falls – El Paso, TX
(United States) *
Apr. 21 – Marquis Theatre –
Denver, CO (United States) *
Apr. 22 – Riot Room – Kansas City,
MO (United States) *
Apr. 23 – Reggie’s – Chicago, IL
(United States) *
Apr. 30 – Magasin 4 – Brussels
(Belgium)
May 1 – Steinbruch Theater –
Darmstadt (Germany) *The
Necrotic Manifesto release show w/GORGUTS, MISERY INDEX*
May 2 – Neurotic Deathfest –
Tilburg (The Netherlands)
July 18 – Boarstream Festival –
Mulfingen (Germany)
July 19 – Grindtastic Open Air –
Mittelsinn (Germany)
July 21 – Metal Days – Tolmin
(Slovenia)
Aug. 1 – Xtreme Fest – Albi (France)
Aug. 8 – Party San Open Air –
Schlotheim (Germany)
Aug. 10 – Bloodstock – Walton on
Trent (United Kingdom)
Aug. 14 – Summer Breeze –
Dinkelsbuhl (Germany)
Aug. 23 – Kaltenbach Festival –
Spital am Semmering (Austria)
*=with KATAKLYSM

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REVIEW: TERRORWAY - 'Blackwaters'

Listening to certain kind of metal has exposed me to various kind of metal. In fact, originally there are more than 26 genres in metal,for example: New wave of American Metal which we call it as modern metal or maybe hardcore. For different people,its different genre all in tact.

Terrorway is one such band who claims to be "Modern aggressive". To be honest, I like them. Their riffs, drumming, bass and clear growl vocals has bounced to height of the unexpected. With their another launch called "blackwaters" signed to Bakerteam records, they have been usual from the unusual to their lyrics as well.
Its a long way for a small city of Italy "Cagliari" to come across with such major talent in the middle of nowhere. Terrorway,being a new band yet have launched two albums. This band has the potential to provide the best of "modern aggressive" to the global metal 2014. With their influence of Lamb Of God, Meshuggah and Pantera, they are trying their best to reach more in variation level rather than other bands. Being a 4 piece band, they are doing better than any other italian bands I came across with. Thriving in their tracks as "blackwaters & swamp",  Rest of their tracks are kind of monotonous.























The major drawback of their album is Every track sounds monotonous. Hearing monotonous is not my thing. You dont want to end up hearing a loop instead of keeping the track in loop. The other plus point is the vocalist Valentino "sidh" Casarotti' s exhale growls is amazing. One can hear the word clear through his growls. The bass lines of Giovanni Serra is prominently seen in the their epic track "Blackwaters". As well as the riffs created by Ivan Fois is splendid. The beats of the drums and the timing for every track pumped up by Cosma Secchi is perfectly on the spot. Studio version is tight but You can see the vocals are more dominating rather than the music itself and usually its other way around. Its a plus point that the vocalist has the energy level to put up a great show in live.

With their previous album, Absolute and the present launch Blackwaters,they are in for a win. With the genre itself one can expect them to be brutally facing you on floor to a moshpit and swinging you to the beats of smashing violence. Very tight band indeed. Techincal skills are meant to be praised. A whole new level of energy and metal can kick your butt to listen to them and headbang your heads off in wall of death.
So be prepared to plunge into the violent headbanging !!

 Rating: 3.7 - ‎Review by Shwetha Kamath - ‎Feb 22, 2014

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NEWS: Autopsy To Release 'Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Graves' In April

California gore-metal morticians Autopsy are set to release another album this April.

Tourniquets, Hacksaws And
Graves will serve as Autopsy‘s seventh studio opus and follows the footsteps of last year’s awesome The Headless Ritual.

“TOURNIQUETS TIGHTEN….HACKSAWS RIP…..GRAVES ARE FILLED…..THIS IS AUTOPSY, THIS IS DEATH METAL,” say the band themselves. “With the stench of The Headless Ritual still permeating the befouled air, Autopsy has once again come for your very metal soul with their newest blood soaked homage to all things dark, twisted and horrific….once again bone crushingly heavy nightmares await…. Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves will awaken the most depraved part of the coldest zombie’s stare…..blood will flow, brains will be destroyed, coffin lids will be opened….”

Check out the album artwork below and grab it from April 21 via Peaceville...

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KIRK HAMMETT: We Have To Start Working On The New Album

Kirk Hammett spoke to Kerrang! magazine about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the long-awaited album, conditionally due in 2015.

"We cannot think of any other reasons to procrastinate; of any other things to put on the calendar to push back the start date for the new album writing sessions" he said. "We're kind of backed up into the corner now, so yes, we have to start working on the album. And I'm excited. James has, like, 800 riffs. I only have 400, but there's not going to be any shortage of ideas. It's going to be interesting to see how it turns out."

He continued: "If we can write and record an album within a year's time, from January 2014 to, say, January 2015, I'm fucking up for it, man. That's something we have not done in a long time, and that would be a bona fide challenge for us to see if we could make an album in 12 months. We did it with Lou Reed, but that doesn't really count, does it?

"We don't have any songs yet. We have little bits and pieces of music earmarked to become songs, and really, that's all I can say about it. We're pretty psyched about it. We're only procrastinating because we love being at home with our families, but we really do love writing songs together and making an album."

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