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Guitar Legend Ace Frehley Releases 10,000 Volts: Behind The Scenes Video.
10,000 Volts Album Out on February 23, 2024
Stream: https://acefrehley.ffm.to/10kvolts
Grammy-nominated R&RHOF inductee and guitar legend ACE FREHLEY offers a sneak peek into the making of his new album, 10,000 Volts, and the title track with a new Behind the Scenes video. The thunderous, riff-tastic, 11-track album was produced by Ace and Steve Brown (Trixter) and will be released on February 23, 2024.
Ace released the single "10,000 Volts" on November 28th. The track has already amassed over 1.6M streams, with the video approaching 800k views. Watch the video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi0FGUkSE2
Rock ‘n’ roll and heavy metal simply wouldn’t sound, look, or feel the same without Ace Frehley. Among hundreds of accolades, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame® inducted him in 2014 as a Co-founder and the original lead guitarist of Kiss. Guitar World named him in the Top 15 of its “100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time” and plugged the lead from “Shock Me” on the “50 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time.” Magnifying the imprint of his catalog as a solo artist, Foo Fighters cut a fan favorite cover of “Ozone,” and he even jammed out “New York Groove” alongside The Roots on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The late Dimebag Darrell of Pantera proudly sported a tattoo of Frehley on his chest, while Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine celebrated him on X/Twitter as “My first guitar hero.”
10,000 Volts upholds an incredible legacy for Frehley, spanning 50-plus years in the limelight. Back in 1978, he delivered his solo debut, Ace Frehley. It reached platinum status and exploded as “the highest-selling of the four Kiss solo albums in the Soundscan era.” Pitchfork even retrospectively rated it a rare “8.5” score. In 1987, he dropped Frehley’s Comet. Following Anomaly in 2009, he went on to make history once again. His 2014 Space Invader LP captured #9 on the Billboard 200 and emerged as “The only solo album by a past or current Kiss member to reach the Top 10 on the chart.” 2016’s Origins Vol. 1, bowed at #1 on the Billboard Top Hard Rock Albums Chart and in the Top 5 of the Billboard Top Rock Albums Chart. He notably maintained his momentum with Spaceman [2018].
DARKEST HOUR präsentieren heute mit "Societal Bile" den zweiten Song samt Video aus ihrem neuen Album Perpetual Terminal, das am 23.02. erscheint
Darkest Hour, aus Washington, D.C. - Mike Schleibaum [Gitarre], John Henry [Gesang], Aaron Deal [Bass], Travis Orbin [Schlagzeug] und Nico Santora [Gitarre] - präsentieren heute den neuen Song und Video "Societal Bile": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CGOId2-EDw
"This song is for survivors," sagt Schleibaum. "While we all have our own special survival story, this song touches on the bile that immerses us as we navigate this modern life. It's also an acknowledgment of the personal responsibility we all share to ourselves to reject all that attempts to consume us and fight each day to find our own space to exist in peace with a world at war. It's dedicated to everyone who's got that survivor's disease and won't ever give up."
Ihr zehntes Album "Perpetual | Terminal" erscheint am 23. Februar über MNRK Heavy und kann hier vorbestellt werden: https://darkesthour.ffm.to/perpetualterminal
DARKEST HOUR - Perpetual I Terminal
23. Februar 2024
Mnrk Heavy / SPV
LORD DYING: Decibel Magazine Premieres “The Universe Is Weeping” Video From Portland-based Progressive Sludge Metal Outfit; Clandestine Transcendence Full-Length Nears Release On MNRK Heavy
Stream/Purchase Here: https://lorddying.ffm.to/clandestinetranscendence
Lord Dying - The Universe Is Weeping (Official Music Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RGY82xhUe0
Portland, Oregon-based progressive sludge metal outfit LORD DYING today unleash their monolithic new single, “The Universe Is Weeping,” alongside its accompanying video. Now playing at Decibel Magazine, the track comes by way of the band’s new studio album, Clandestine Transcendence, set for official release on January 19th via MNRK Heavy.
From the earliest rumblings of their debut demo and self-titled EP (both issued in 2011), through the piledriving force of 2013’s Summon The Faithless and devastating despair of 2015’s Poisoned Altars, LORD DYING has composed masterfully melancholic music for the misanthropic, with grit and grime.
On Clandestine Transcendence, LORD DYING co-founders Erik Olson (guitar, vocals) and Chris Evans (guitar) are joined by Alyssa Maucere (former bassist for Eight Bells) and Kevin Swartz (current drummer of Tithe). Produced by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou (High On Fire, Code Orange, Kvelertak) at his God City Studios, the twelve-track offering steps even further into the great unknown, filled with riffs and vibes.
Clandestine Transcendence picks up where 2019’s critically championed Mysterium Tremendum left off. Latin for “awe-inspiring mystery” or “terrible mystery” depending on one’s view of existence, Mysterium Tremendum began a narrative centered on a central character the band calls The Dreamer. Olson describes The Dreamer as an immortal being who wants to die. On Clandestine Transcendence, part two of a planned trilogy, he gets that wish. “This one is about what happens beyond death,” the frontman explains.
Woven throughout the songs, that story and its rich thematic material inform a wholly immersive listen. Tension, drama, and atmosphere abound all over songs like “Unto Becoming” and latest single, “The Universe Is Weeping.”
Notes Olson on single “The Universe Is Weeping,” We are very psyched to premiere the opening track and video for ‘The Universe Is Weeping’ off our upcoming album. This song picks up directly where our previous album leaves off. Post death. Blazing beyond the cosmos and outside the realms of consciousness. Total dissolution of the self. Into Clandestine Transcendence.”
Adds Maucere, who directed and produced the video, “When asked to direct the video for ‘The Universe Is Weeping,’ I couldn’t help but tackle the concept of the Cosmic Calendar. For instance, the Universe’s birthdate is January 1st. Life on earth = Sept 30th. Human history is Dec 31st at 23:59:57. We consume everything in our path as our sources of energy, some of which have been on earth for over 600 million years. If the past can tell us anything about life, a new life form could come along one day that decides that they can house us, raise us, and overfeed us to become their most preferred source of energy. Or we could just destroy each other before that day may come, which seems more likely to me.”
Writes Decibel, “The song starts slowly, letting clean guitars give way to lively riffs and melancholic lead guitar that imbues the track with a sense of emotional weight. Guitarist Erik Olson and bassist Alyssa Maucere both lend their voices to the song, using both screamed and sung vocals. At the song’s end, everything else fades out, leaving just Maucere’s vocals; in the context of the full record, it’s an exciting transition to the second track. In the context of this track premiere, it’s still a pretty neat way to end the song.”
Escuela Grind "DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL" EP ab heute überall erhältlich
Die aus New England stammende Extrem-Metal-Band Escuela Grind heute heute ihre neue EP "DDEEAATHHMMEETTAALL" über MNRK Heavy veröffentlicht: https://escuelagrind.ffm.to/ddmm
Aufgenommen mit Will Killingsworth, abgemischt vom GRAMMY-Preisträger Kurt Ballou (High on Fire) und gemastert von Nick Townsend (Cheap Trick, Dr. Dre), enthält die EP vier neue Songs, darunter den Titelsong "Ball and Chain" und "Meat Magnet", mit einem Gastauftritt von Napalm Death-Sänger Barney Greenway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lRNrxSmGNk
Quelle: Oktober Promotion