Editorial

I remember the way promotion used to be made by all the labels about 12 years ago. They had several promo CD copies that they shared with magazines & webzines around the globe. Certainly this...

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Morganha’s brand new album, “Rebellion”, will be released in June 2013.
 
Authors of a Technical Groove Thrash Metal, the album promises to be the heaviest of their history, the strength of a powerful and devastating production by Francesco Riganelli to BPA studio and mixed and mastered at Studio Domination by Simone Mularoni. 
 
"Desecrated" is the first single from the album. You can listen to it below.
 
Kaotoxin Records will release "Hand of Glory" from French instrumental doom act THE LUMBERJACK FEEDBACK on July 2nd in France and August 6th in the UK and U.S. 
 
On August 2nd LINGUA MORTIS ORCHESTRA will release their new album, concisely entitled “LMO”. 
 
Get your first impression about this opulent orchestral project below.
 
LINGUA MORTIS ORCHESTRA was formed by the three RAGE musicians Victor Smolski (guitar, keyboard and chello), Peavy Wagner (vocals and bass) and André Hilgers (drums) as a continuation of 1996’s “Lingua Mortis” album – back then a true piece of pioneering work. 
 
I remember happening upon this band during its early demo days when they used to be called Avalanche. Besides the gifted and beautiful Elize and the band’s mastermind Olof, I knew that this band generally had the talent and the will go big. I was impressed by their demo songs back in the day and I was waiting to see how they would evolve further.
 
Bass player Henk Vonk is REVAMP's new man on bass guitar! He replaces Jaap Melman who left the band before the recordings of the new upcoming album. The decision was made in mutual understanding and we can still drink a glass of beer together. 
 
On the album plays "STREAM OF PASSION" bassist Johan van Stratum who filled in on short notice and did an amazing job to record and edit the bass parts. 
 
Outrageous guitar shredder, big time wrestler, sometimes member of THE MENTORS, and all-around lunatic GENERAL BASTARD has announced the commencement of a multi-front assault on the American psyche, including the July 15th release for new album entitled "Revolution Rock". 
 
"We have really cool deals going on for our friends who want to order the new album including getting personal guitar lessons from General Bastard himself, not to mention most packages call for getting your name included in the albums liner notes for being a loyal friend", says The General.
Swedish visionary metallers SOILWORK have announced the first dates of the upcoming “The European Infinity Tour” in support of the band's most recent album “The Living Infinite”. Additional tour and festival dates will be announced later.
 
Real Doom has to be felt. It has to bewail and it has to hurt. Hailing from Lima, Peru, Death/Doom entity MIRTHLESS will release their debut full-length, entitled "A Dirge For Your Suicide", on June 1st via Dunkelheit Produktionen.   
 
DARKANE have released the artwork as well as the tracklisting of their upcoming, brand new album "The Sinister Supremacy"!
 
The band's sixth album, mixed by Daniel Bergstrand, will also be available as limited edition digipak and features the following tracks.
 
Tracklist:
1. Sounds Of Pre-Existence
2. The Sinister Supremacy
3. Mechanically Divine
4. Ostracized
5. The Decline
6. Insurrection Is Imminent
7. In The Absence Of Pain
8. Humanity Defined
9. Hate Repentance State
Sodom is, without any doubt, one of the top thrash metal bands of Europe. Along with Kreator, Destruction, Sabbat, Tankard and some others that I can’t remember now, they have delivered some truly great and influential albums to the thrash metal scene globally. Venom could easily have been in the category above but they also influenced black metal later and that’s a whole different story. Surely, their early “thrash metal” played a major role to the thrash metal movement as well.