Razorwyre's Another Dimension

Wellington trad Heavy Metal band, Razorwyre are due to release their debut album "Another Dimension" in 2012.

Check out their facebook: http://www.facebook.com/razorwyre

What I assume is a vinyl pressing: a limited Edition Pressing of only 300 copies worldwide released in cooperation with Underground Power/Germany -- www.underground-power.de
CD's will be available worldwide in cooperation with Inferno Records - www.inferno-records.net/

It seems you can still download their "Coming Out" E.P at http://www.razorwyreband.com/

Playlist for 26th December 2011

MUSTASCH- Mine
THE SONIC BATS- Wellywood (NZ band)
GWAR- Isn't this Disgusting (Dayglo abortion cover)
STEEL PANTHER- Sexy Santa
MINISTRY- 99%
HERESIARCH- Carnivore (NZ band, new album )
SOILWORK- Stabbing the Drama
SUICIDAL ANGELS- No more than illusion
HIGH ON FIRE- Frost Hammer
KYUSS- Shine (Request)
DEVIN TOWNSEND- Bad Devil
RINGWORM- Hellbound
SIGN OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS- Doomswagger
RESPORN- Solace (NZ band)
ZAO- Human cattle masses marching forward
BLACK ANVIL- The Evil of all roots
A DAY TO REMEMBER- 2nd Sucks
AFTER THE BURIAL- Sleeper
GOATWHORE- Carving out the eyes of God
ABORTED- Global flatline
PSYCROPTIC- Carriers of the Plague

Playlist for 19th December

KORPIKLAANI- Metsalle. (New Single)
CLAIM THE THRONE- Set Sail on Ale.
AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE- It's Turbo Time.
KULUS- Falling Sleepless. (NZ Band)
EMMURE- You sunk my Battleship.
SYBREED- Synthetic Breed.
PSYCROPTIC- Carriers of the Plague (New Single)
DYING FETUS- Your Treachery will Die with you.
KRISIUN- The Extremist.
ABIGAIL WILLIAMS- The Departure.
MACABRE- The Black Night.
CAVALERA CONSPIRACY- Electric Funeral (Cover)
ACID BATH- Paegen Love Song. (Request)
PSYCHOSTICK- Because Boobs. (Request)
INFINITED HATE- Demon King. (Request)
THE RED SHORE- Knives and Wolves (Request)
KLONE- The Spell is cast.
OUR LAST ENEMY- Carrion.
INDICATOR DOGS- Hell Money. (NZ Band)
DARKLIGHT CORPORATION- The Fallen. (NZ Band)

Playlist for 12th December 2011

GRAVEYARD- Ungrateful are the Dead.
GHOST- Con Clav Con Dio.
RAGE- Into the Light.
RAMMSTEIN- Benzine (Mehuggah)
IN DREAD RESPONSE- Concrete Sanctuary.
DORO- Merry Metal Xmas.
TENACIOUS D- Double Team.
LAMB OF GOD- Ghost Walking.
NORTHLANE- Dispossession.
MISS MAY I- Relentless Chaos.
AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE- I'm not a Pervert.
AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE- Get to the Choppa.
COAL CHAMBER- Untrue.
NILE- Lashed to the Slavestick.
NAPALM DEATH- Time waits for no slave.
FRANKENBOK- Gods gift to no-one.
TERROR- Boxed In.
CARNIFEX- Curse my Name.
VENOM- Damnation of Souls.
GENERATION KILL- Depraved Indifference.
SEPULTURA- Relentless.
KORPIKLAANI- Keep On Galloping.

Nephelium debut album out Feb 7, 2012.

Nephelium (http://www.reverbnation.com/nephelium follow the link for a free download of their song "Merciless Annihilation".) who originate from the sandy shores of Dubai, now based in Canada will release their debut "Coils of Entropy" February 7th, 2012.
Also, check out: http://nephelium.bandcamp.com/

I'll be back with a bit of a review of their album closer to the official release date (Feb 7th), you know, once I've had a good listen.

R.I.Y.L. – Cannibal Corpse, Death, Deicide, Vader, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, Aeon, Nile, Kronos, Suffocation

Thanks to Jon Asher http://ashermediarelations.com/ for bringing these guys to my attention. He's also worked with Omega Crom, Titans Eve, Fallstaf, Fatality and heaps more.

Free music from Nuclear Blast Records, in time for the holidays

Nuclear Blast have released a massive 25 song sampler, rounding up a year of big Nuclear Blast releases.
Just go to their facebook page, 'like' it and you're away, to be linked to a page were you have to type in your email address and await a download link to be emailed to you (if it's anything like my experience the email with the download link will have instructions in german (in the top half)) http://www.facebook.com/nuclearblasteurope
Tracklisting:
01 Destruction - The Price
02 Hell - Save Us From Those Who Would Save Us
03 Demonaz - All Blackened Sky
04 Scar Symmetry - lluminoid Dream Sequence
05 Chrome Division - Bulldogs Unleashed
06 Hammerfall - One More Time
07 Pain - Dirty Woman
08 Rhapsody Of Fire - Aeons Of Raging Darkness (edit)
09 Symphony x - Dehumanized
10 Communic - Destroyer Of Bloodlines
11 Vader - Come And See My Sacrifice
12 Seven - Get It
13 Fleshgod Apocalypse - The Violation (edit)
14 Tasters - Please Destroy This World
15 Cipher sytem - Communicate The Storms
16 Anthrax - Fight'em Till You Can't
17 Biohazard - Vengeance Is Mine
18 Textures - Singularity
19 We Came As Romans - Mis/understanding
20 Threat Signal - Fallen Disciples
21 Texas In July - 1000 Lies
22 Graveworm - See No Future
23 Like Moths To Flames - You Won't Be Missed
24 Gotthard - Remember It's Me
25 Battle Beast - Enter The Metal World

THE BIG DAY AFTER (followed by a big hangover)

Sinate
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sinate/266998407037

Dawn of Azazel
facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dawn-of-Azazel/39641391009

Cripple Mr Onion
facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cripple-Mr-Onion/107632759264381
website http://www.cripple.co.nz/
this http://www.itunes.com/cripplemronion

Septicide
facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Septicide/137134639652917

Osmium
faecbook http://www.facebook.com/osmiumbandnz

Just One Fix
facebook http://www.facebook.com/justonefixnz

Invasion of Piracy
facebook http://www.facebook.com/InvasionofPiracy

Free music from Basick records, in time for the holidays

http://basickrecords.bandcamp.com/album/basick-2012-sampler
Free download, no email or facebbok 'like' required.
tracklist:
1. Chimp Spanner – Dark Age of Technology
2. Circles – Act III
3. Monuments – The Uncollective
4. Skyharbor – Celestial (edit)
5. Uneven Structure – Awaken (edit)
6. 7 Horns 7 Eyes – The Winnowing
7. Blotted Science – A Sting Operation – Human Barbequed
8. Ion Dissonance – This Is The Last Time I Repeat Myself
9. The Arusha Accord – The Resurgent
10. Aliases – The Reality of Beliefs
11. Visions – Oceans
12. The Algorithm - Isomety

Free music from Prosthetic Records, in time for the holidays

Free sampler from Prosthetic Records. It's a facebook download, so you'll have to 'like' their page to get it.
http//www.facebook.com/prostheticrecords
Tracklisting:
1. Skeletonwitch- Reduced To The Failure Of Prayer
2. Animals as Leaders-  An Infinite Regression
3. Junius- A Universe Without Stars
4. Everything Went Black- Lifeless
5. Landmine Marathon- Cutting Flesh And Bone
6. Wolves Like Us- Deathless
7. Century- Iconoclaust
8. White Arms of Athena- Ascend
9. Last Chance to Reason- Temp Files
10. Scale the Summit- Gallows
11. Black September- Creation of Chaos
12. The Greenery- Highest

Free music from Earache Records, in time for the holidays.

Earache Records are offering a free download of a new 13-track Winter Sampler over at this location. The sampler features tracks from Rival Sons, Evile, White Wizzard, Savage Messiah, Cauldron, Diamond Plate, The Browning, Wormrot, Cerebral Bore, SSS, The Soulless, Hour Of 13 and Woods Of Ypres.
http://earache.com/misc/downloads/sampler/
This might not be the newest of free downloads, but they are (or seem to be) the latest and active.

Free Music from Relapse Records, in time for the holidays

If you go to Relapse Records' facebook page, they'll have a tab or app to allow you to download their 2011 sampler; featuring songs from; Baroness, Red Fang, Black Tusk, Revocation, Obscura, Abysmal Dawn, Cephalic Carnage, Dying Fetus, Msery Index, Howl, Black Anvil, Tombs, Kingdom of Sorrow, Toxic Holocaust, Noisear, Murder Construct, Kill the Client, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Brutal Truth, Mose Giganticus, Royal Thunder, Titan, Cough, Horseback, Circle of Animals and a remastered Death track!
Being a facebook download, you will have to 'like' the page first, but big deal given the free songs, right?

facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/RelapseRecords
Or go straight to the free download: http://www.facebook.com/RelapseRecords?v=app_162097493835692

Free music from Century Media, just in time for holiday season.

Follow the link below, enter your email, to which will be sent a confirmation email with a link to follow to download (individually) the songs listed in the image under the link.
You can pick and choose which songs you want, and after you've downloaded them you can chuck 'em on your mp3 player or whatever and drown out the festive weekend with metal.

For free music go to: http://www.centurymedia.com/specials/winter_sampler/

Indicator Dogs, Subtract, Sonic Altar at Kings Arms, Jan 13th.

Awesome night of mix genre madness, hard rock meets metal meets glam/trad metal.

Indicator Dogs
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Indicator-Dogs/156536981051428
reverbnation: https://www.reverbnation.com/indicatordogs
website: http://indicatordogs.com/

Subtract
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Subtractband

Sonic Altar:
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SonicAltar
website: http://www.sonicaltar.com/

We're not breaking for the holidays

The 95bfm Hard, Fast and Heavy show will not be stopping for the holidays, as per usual, this year. You will still be able to tune into us on Boxing day (night) and Jan 2nd, as if it were any other night of the year.

The station office closes over the break, so podcasts will probably not be updates, but I have yet to confirm that.

As they say: no rest for the wicked.

Osmium: The Misery Harvesy NZ Tour 2012

Invercargill's Osmium hit the road again.
Download Osmium's Debut "Relentless, Primal Being" from here: http://osmiumnz.bandcamp.com/
Go fan the bands facebook page and keep up with the Southern Groove metal band from the bottom of the world. http://www.facebook.com/osmiumbandnz

Soundwave sidewave 'mini-fests' for NZ

**UPDATE:**
Twitter, by means of facebook, has informed me that the NZ soundwave mini-fests have hit a snag, apparently, the council doesn't like the idea of 2 nights in a row of noise from Soundwave type bands, and probably the crowds it would draw into the seemingly, and based on my experience last time I was there a few years ago, non-residential area surrounding Trust Stadium: crosby, stills & nash  and the cranberries are much better than a soundwave type crowd (they're upcoming events at the venue: http://www.thetrustsstadium.co.nz/ )

Granted, all this news, including the NZ mini-fest idea is all completely unconfirmed & unofficial at the moment, but it all stems from the twitter account of the promoter.

To check out tweets related to  soundwave coming to NZ: https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23SWNZ (i hope this works, I don't really know how to use twitter but the thing to search is #SWNZ )
the Soundwave promoters twitter account:  https://twitter.com/iamnotshouting
** **

Thanks in getting my attention to the situation: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Soundwave-to-New-Zealand/108918035819405 The organiser for the Aussie touring festival answered a tweet in his twitter page stating that there will be a major soundwave event in NZ, namely two mini-festivals at Trusts Stadium, over two consecutive nights, Feb 22nd & 23rd the bands will be different each night with roughly 5-6bands in the lineup per night.

NOTE:

• A Day to Remember is (apparently and according to a tweet reply) on the bill,
• Marilyn Mason is not,
• System of a Down has some heavy rumours 
• Lamb of God, The Black Dahlia Murder and Unearth are playing their own show, March 7th at the studio on K Rd.
• Having just had a quick squizz over the soundwavefestival.com site- there are roughly 94 bands on the lineup, which leaves 86 other bands that potentially could fill out the remaining bulk of the lineups for the two nights.

It all sounds like something that is currently in progress, but I don't know how these things work so whether AJ even mentioning it means its one band's confirmation way from being announced or only one band on the bill so far, I don't know.
I haven't heard of any offical annoucements dates (specifics, just wait til next week), or any offical annoucements (beyond tweets) for that matter.

Notes for show; 6th Dec 2011

• Shadows fall putting final touchs on new (7th) album with KSE's Adam D. tbh; I did think their 2009 Retribution was better than 2007s Threads of life.
• Killswitch Engage have 8 demos ready for a new album.
• Canadian metallers CANCER BATS have set "Dead Set On Living" as the tentative title of their fourth album, due in early 2012.
• Wacken 2012 is sold out for the seventh time in a row. All 75,000 tickets. Sort of. There are still two ways you can make the trip. Google it/check out the wacken website to find out.
• Caliban announce new album, artwork and tracklisting: Album title: I Am Nemesis.
• The legends that are, Venom have their new album, "Falling Angels" out now.
• Regarding the Meshuggah & Periphery tracks; i.e. djent- it's a 'genre' that the copycat-ism etc rather than the sounds themselves, could have been removed from 2011, for the better.
• Dreams of the Dead, playing this Thursday @ Kings Arms, good times=yes.

 
 
 
 

Playlist for 6th December 2011

SAVAGE MESSIAH- Plague of Conscience.
STICKY FILTH- Crimson Red and Indigo.
COBRA KHAN- Borderlands.
DREAMS OF THE DEAD- King of the Snakes.
SHADOWS FALL- Still I Rise.
CANCER BATS- We are the Undead.
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE- Temple from Within.
CALIBAN- It's Our Burden to Bleed.
FUELSET- Sounds of a Dying Seagull.
VENOM- Damnation of Souls.
VENOM- Hellhound.
AMON AMARTH- Wrath of the Norsemen.
DIMMU BORGIR- Progenies of the Great Escape.
NORTHLANE- Dispossession.
TIMES OF GRACE- Where the Spirit Leads me.
PERIPHERY- Insomnia.
MESHUGGAH- Combustion.
DAWN HEIST- Time Wave Zero.

Big Day After 2012

http://www.facebook.com/events/314696311891925/

If you happen to be up in auckland around the time of next years Big Day Out and want to release from mosh withdrawl, and to farewell Sinate, check this out..

 

From the Facebook events page:

Saturday 21st January

Kings Arms

With nowhere near enough Metal at the Big Day Out, come to the BIG DAY AFTER!
Sinate's 3rd album release gig and last Auckland show before moving back to Europe, with
Dawn Of Azazel, Cripple Mr Onion, Just One Fix, Septicide, Osmium, Invasion Of Piracy, with 1 more band to be announced.
http://www.facebook.com/events/314696311891925/





Sinate
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sinate/266998407037

Dawn Of Azazel
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dawn-of-Azazel/39641391009

Cripple Mr Onion
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cripple-Mr-Onion/107632759264381

Just One Fix
http://www.facebook.com/justonefixnz

Septicide
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Septicide/137134639652917

Osmium
http://www.facebook.com/osmiumbandnz

Invasion Of Piracy
http://www.facebook.com/InvasionofPiracy

Claim the Throne U.K dates.

Claim the Throne, who very briefly visited NZ for a few shows up and down the country in september this year, are tagging along with Alestorm (also played a NZ earlier this year) for a string of UK dates in February next year.

This is some awesome news, it's one thing to support an international band when they come to town, but to support them in their own backyard is something else!


Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/claimthethrone
Merch: http://claimthethrone.bigcartel.com/

From Press release:

Greetings dudes! In February 2012 we'll be hitting the road for our biggest headlining UK tour EVER, including our first ever shows in Ireland! Along with us will be our Australian buddies Claim The Throne, who are really good at getting drunk. Here's the dates:

2012.02.04 - Plymouth - White Rabbit
2012.02.05 - Stoke-on-Trent - Green Star
2012.02.06 - Sheffield - Corporation
2012.02.07 - Bristol - The Fleece
2012.02.08 - Southhampton - Talking Heads
2012.02.09 - Manchester - Moho Live
2012.02.10 - Glasgow - Garage
2012.02.11 - Belfast - Speakeasy
2012.02.12 - Dublin - The Pint
2012.02.13 - Leicester - Sub 91
2012.02.14 - Brighton - The Haunt
2012.02.15 - Wrexham - Central Station
2012.02.16 - Leeds - The Well
2012.02.17 - Wolverhampton - Slade Rooms
2012.02.18 - London - O2 Academy
2012.02.19 - Norwich - Waterfront

Riding high on the success of the latest album TRIUMPH AND BEYOND and huge Australian tours with ALESTORM, FINNTROLL and their own headlining tour in 2012 , CLAIM THE THRONE are well primed to bring their all conquering and frothy guzzling live show to the mother land. Putting the ‘fun’ in funnels since 2005, CLAIM THE THRONE have built a reputation for outrageous live performances and a unique take on the folk metal genre. With a newly refined line-up in 2010, TRIUMPH AND BEYOND displays the band at their peak with 12 tracks of fearless victory and its festive aftermath.

Resporn, everybody: Resporn.

Since April, Resporn have been hard at work; releasing their first EP, "Divisionary" (available on iTunes), the official release gig in June which was a great success & the release of their first music video for the song "Blessed Wings".

Between all of this and a few select shows, Resporn have started work on their first full length album, as yet untitled.

Writing and recording "Divisionary" was a huge achievement that they are very proud of but say the next album is going to be a huge leap in an entirely different direction. And with current influences being so varied between band members, the follow up to Divisionary is going to be filled with more complexity, depth and dynamics than even they could have imagined. 

Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/resporn
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Resporn

Stay tuned for further updates...

Still tuning in?

Resporn will be joining Cripple Mr Onion, Fuelset and Catalyst at the Coda Lounge, February 4th 2012

Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/173095086120154/

No doubt Cripple Mr Onion will be warming up for their Lamb of God, The Black Dahlia Murder, Unearth gig & then Fuelset with their new (ish) vocalist.