Mönchengladbach, Germany-based traditional heavy metal band SACRED GATE released its full-length debut, "When Eternity Ends", on April 27 via Metal On Metal Records.

It’s been seven years—in present pop-cultural terms, an eternity—since Garbage last graced the airwaves with its slick, sultry pop songs. Given the long break and the reported estrangement between the band members, it seemed like the group had checked out permanently. But after singer Shirley Manson had to scrap plans for a solo album due to disagreements with her record label, and the cancellation of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles cut her fledgling acting career short, she ended up back in touch with the band’s other members—grunge producer and drummer Butch Vig, and studio pals ...

Human Don't Be Angry came to represent a minor triumph of the most unassuming variety , and indeed tonight's a rather subdued affair for Shoreditch. You can hear the soles of Malcolm Middleton's trainers squelch as they stick to and unstick from this stage persistently splattered in viscous stuff. Whisky or the odd drop of Wallace IPA perhaps and despite the LP only being outed later on last month, over the wearying of said period it has already matured to a fine vintage. A slight reluctance to gargle his gruff brogue down the mic accompanies an anticipated onstage ...

Canadian progressive metal band INTO ETERNITY has announced more tour dates with Pennsylvania based metal band Single Bullet Theory and Riksha. The complete tour dates are as follows: 8/09 ? Blue Pig ? Cudahy, WI 8/10 ? The Reverb Rock Garden ? Waterloo IA 8/11 ? Reggies ? Chicago IL 8/12 - I-Rock - Detroit, MI 8/13 - The Foundry, Lakewood, ... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

SWALLOW THE SUN writer and guitarist Juha Raivio's female-fronted side project with singer Aleah Stanbridge, TREES OF ETERNITY, recently signed a publishing deal with AMF Music — a U.K.-based servicing publishing company that also offers management services, synchronization opportunities and additional marketing.

What an incredible find we have here! First I would thank gnosismen Dave and Tom (yes, he from the sister blog cdrwl and under the radar cds) for alerting me to this unbelievably brilliant band, that has been performing now for some twenty + years, down to the present day! Next, amazingly, master musician Jorge Beltran himself from the band has given his approval to post it for us to enjoy, thanks to undertheradar cds for the connection. I am glad to be able to share this with you with his seal of approval, because I haven't stopped listening to ...

It seems like an eternity ago when I saw a bunch of nervous guys play their first ever festival set in a cramped tent at Homebake. Since then Boy And Bear's rise in Australian music has been nothing short of meteoric, and at no time has this been more clear than last night, when they played the second of two sold out shows at The Forum in Melbourne. And it was immediately obvious that the band have polished their live act to the point now where they are perfectly comfortable with playing a one and a half hour set ...

Female-fronted symphonic folk metal act Cryptic Age has posted a new song online titled "Sounds of Infinity II: Eternity Beckons," which can be heard in the player below. The band also commented: "Now for the moment you&aposve; all been waiting for! The album is mastered, and to celebrate we thought we&aposd; release a single and let you all download it f... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Artist: Jeff Loomis Album: Plains Of Oblivion Released: 2012 Style: Instrumental Format: MP3 320Kbps / FLAC Size: 105+35 Mb Tracklist: 01 – Mercurial 02 – The Ultimatum 03 – Escape Velocity 04 – Tragedy And Harmony 05 – Requiem For The Living 06 – Continuum Drift 07 – Surrender 08 – Chosen Time 09 – Rapture 10 – Sibylline Origin Bonus Tracks: 11 – Collide 12 – Reverie For Eternity DOWNLOAD LINKS: RAPIDGATOR: DOWNLOAD FILEZPRO: [...]

Two years ago, we made the Savannah sunburst-pop duo Sunglasses a Band To Watch. And now, an internet eternity later, they finally have a record coming out. Lefse will release their Namesake/Swim cassette EP later this summer. And below, we’ve got a download of their seven-minute track “Swim.” Sunglasses – “Swim” Namesake/Swim is out 7/3 [...]

Artist: Roberto Rodriguez Album: Dawn Released: 2012 Style: Electronic Format: MP3 320Kbps / FLAC Size: 169 Mb Tracklist: 01 – Tito 02 – Show Mw 03 – Eternity 04 – I Believe In You 05 – Love Withdrawal 06 – Tell Me feat. Kholi 07 – Saturn 08 – Try (How Am I Supposed To) 09 – Eva 10 – Body Right 11 – Shibuya 12 – Lies feat. Max C 13 [...]

Read part two of Kris Needs Fifty Outiders list for Clash magazine's Outsider issue taking in Joe Meek, Allen Ginsberg, The Fugs and more. 11. KENNETH ANGER One of the most influential independent filmmakers in cinema history, notorious for surreally unsettling works such as 1964’s Scorpio Rising, 1969’s Invocation Of My Demon Brother and 1972’s Lucifer Rising, injecting homoerotica, gay culture and his abiding fascination with Aleister Crowley 12. MONTGOMERY CLIFT Personalised inner turmoil roles while becoming a heartthrob in films such as From Here To Eternity, Clift got into booze and prescription drugs after a ...

Guitarist and co-singer-songwriter Nick Finch talks to DOUG WALLEN about his obsession with death, balancing humour and horror and the hammer-and-chain as a “viable, actual instrument”. Live photo by ROBERT CARBONE . One of the more head-turning success stories in recent Australian music, Melbourne six-piece Graveyard Train have parlayed a brash live show and gravelly songs about monsters into unlikely national stardom. Piling on four singers and instruments like washboard and, um, hammer and chain, the band are at the front of a fertile crop of dark, country-inspired Melbourne acts. Following 2009’s The Serpent & The Crow and 2010’s The Drink The Devil & The Dance , their third album Hollow wrestles with the biggest monster of all: death. If certain song titles don’t tip you off, there are confronting lyrics like, “One day your eyes will see blackness for eternity”, and “No one has a soul/There is no great unknown.” And yet these timeless-minded songs are somehow empowering and fun. You have quite a few songs about death. Was there a point when you realised, “Hey, this is something we can write about”? I guess so. When we first started, we wanted to make it a horror country band. [But] we can make that whatever we want: we can do death or we can do monsters. It’s just gotta be dark, and we’ve gotta somehow make it horror. But as the years went on, we used up all the big monsters and all the schlocky stuff. All the Universal Horror monsters? Yeah. So the songs on this new album are definitely much more focused on death itself. Because I guess that’s the most horrific thing I can think of. [ Laughs ] It’s just like, straight-up, “Do we have a soul? No, we don’t. That is horrific. Let’s write a song about it.” Do people ever bristle at that? When I saw you guys live, one of you said, “You’re all gonna die!” I’m okay with hearing that at a gig, but some people might not be. That was me saying that. [ Laughs ] That’s one of my favourite songs to sing. People generally don’t seem to mind it. We played some festivals up in Canada, and I noticed a few people looking at each other a bit strangely and maybe not enjoying the points of the song. [ Laughs ] And what song is it? It’s called ‘All Will Be Gone’. Appropriate. Yeah, yeah. We’ve never actually recorded that song. We were thinking about doing it for this album, but it’s a real kind of live, interactive song. I really work off the audience and whoever I’m looking at. It’s a bit of a shame because it’s a really cool song. I don’t know, I’m just obsessed with death. Not like a goth or anything; I’m just constantly worried about ...

This is an odd but welcome release, one that in lesser hands might have been self-indulgent. Maverick filmmaker Jim Jarmusch teams up with sound artist/lute manipulator Jozef Van Wissem with the heavy, important sounding title "Concerning the Entrance into Eternity." But what could have been pretentious is instead powerful and full of surprising beauty; what might have been a vanity project is instead a coherent, bold exploration that often lives up to its weighty title.  For most the five tracks, it is Van Wissem who drives the bus. "Apokatastasis (Restoration)" features a minimal, single chord, the foundation for the ...

The Turkish black metal band Cosmic Funeral has announced the release of a new EP titled "Godless War To Eternity." The EP was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Logos Studios in Ankara, Turkey. The artwork, available below, was designed by Bahrul Marta from Abominationimaginary Design and the EP will be released on May 13th, 2012. You can check a... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com