NERVOSA – Recording of their new album started!
9. February 2018
Fernanda Lira (vocal and bass), Prika Amaral (guitar and backing vocals) and Luana Dametto (drums) are already gathered in São Paulo, Brasil, for the recording of the band’s third full-length.
The chosen studio is the already renowned Family Mob Studio, where someBrazilian bands like the legendary Ratos de Porão and Andreas Kisser (Sepultura) and also international bands like Coldplay have already recorded. Other big names who also visited and rehearsed at the studio were Dave Lombardo, King Diamond and Death Dta during recent appearances in Brazil.
The production and recording is in charge of the Argentinian producer Martin Furia, who worked as a sound engineer on some of Nervosa’s European tours, as well as for bands like Destruction and Flotsam & Jetsam, and in studio for Evil Invaders and Sisters of Suffocation, among others.
“I’m very excited to record with these girls I’ve known for a few years now. I want to bring all the energy and aggressiveness they have live for this studio album! “
More details on the album will be announced in the coming weeks.
Follow the whole process through the band’s social networks:
Links:
https://www.facebook.com/femalethrash
https://www.instagram.com/nervosathrash
https://twitter.com/nervosathrash
Source of Information: Napalm Records Promotion Team
MONSTER MAGNET – Release New Video For The Title Track Of MINDFUCKER
7. February 2018
In late December 2017, Dave Wyndorf, MONSTER MAGNET‘s iconic mastermind, stated that sound of the forthcoming studio album “MINDFUCKER” will be “full-ahead Detroit-style, early 70s, MC5 and Stooges type of rock”. And he delivered exactly what he promised!
The first single and title track “Mindfucker” enforces once again where MONSTER MAGNET has always been rooted: deep in the heart of true ROCK music. Dirty, dangerous and totally on fire!
Now MONSTER MAGNET delivers the video for “Mindfucker”! It’s packed with all the MONSTER MAGNET trademarks: Orange amps, psychedelic patterns, the bullgod, flaming explosions and the band rocking the fuck out. Check out the video for the title track “Mindfucker” here:
The full-length album “MINDFUCKER” will be released on March 23, 2018, and it can be pre-ordered right HERE!
Links:
https://www.zodiaclung.com
https://www.facebook.com/monstermagnet
https://www.instagram.com/monstermagnetofficial
Source of Information: Napalm Records Promotion Team
ALIEN WEAPONRY SIGNS WORLDWIDE DEAL WITH NAPALM RECORDS!
8. February 2018
New Zealand’s rising musical stars and teenage thrash metal band ALIEN WEAPONRY have signed a worldwide deal with Napalm Records! With such an impressive career that started five years ago when the band members were just 10 and 12 years old and this unique combination of thrash metal and Māori cultural background, Napalm Records is excited to welcome ALIEN WEAPONRY to their eclectic artist roster:
„Napalm Records is proud to announce the signing of the thrash metal band Alien Weaponry from New Zealand“ says Sebastian Muench, A&R of Napalm Records. „Besides the fact that they are the youngest musicians we ever added to the Napalm band roster they are also one of the most exciting and unique bands in recent years. Their combination of old school thrash metal and Māori culture elements and language creates intense and energetic songs that should be highly attractive to all true genre fans especially those stopped listening to the Sepultura after the „Roots“ album. Kia Ora Alien Weaponry and welcome to the Napalm family!“
The band comments: “Napalm is a great label for us to work with because their whakapapa (genealogy) includes a lot of thrash metal, which is where our roots are. So we fit within their whanau (family), but we’re also doing something different, introducing our own language and style. For these reasons, we think we will both grow and benefit from this relationship. “Being based in the tiny town of Waipu, New Zealand, we are pretty much as far away as you can get from the heavy metal centre of the world (which to us is Wacken, Germany), so this is a massive step for us towards establishing our career internationally.“
The trio shocks and surprises audiences on a number of levels. ALIEN WEAPONRY‘s songwriting is complex, developed and highly political. Their live performance energy is startling, with just two fifteen-year olds commanding the front of stage as effectively as four- and five-piece bands three times their age. But perhaps most surprising of all, given their blonde flailing locks and Viking appearance, many of their songs are in New Zealand’s native language, Te Reo Māori. In fact, guitarist/lead singer Lewis de Jong (15) and his brother, drummer Henry (17), are of Ngati Pikiāo and Ngati Raukawa descent – they call themselves ‘Stealth Māori.’ They attended a full immersion kura kaupapa Māori (Māori language school) until they were seven years old, where singing waiata and performing haka were a daily routine. Also ingrained in their early learning were stories of New Zealand history from a Māori perspective. In September 2017, they won the prestigious APRA Maioha award for their song ‘Raupatu’ – a thrash metal commentary on the 1863 act of parliament that allowed the colonial government to confiscate vast areas of land from the indigenous Māori people. On 16 November, they took their places among NZ’s musical elite as nominees at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards.
The combination of thrash metal with Māori history and language has proved popular. Their latest music video for Rū Ana Te Whenua has more than a million Youtube and Facebook views, spent 2 weeks at no. 1 on Spotify’s NZ Viral chart, and hit no. 2 on the iTunes global metal chart (just behind Iron Maiden’s ‘Run to the Hills’). The band’s music has been playlisted on stations in New Zealand and around the world – from Scotland to Brazil, as well as the USA, Australia and Germany.
ALIEN WEAPONRY’s English material is equally controversial, calling out everyone from teachers and friends at school to the media for variously glorifying and destroying the lives of television and sports stars. “We listened to all sorts of music when we were younger,” says lead singer and guitarist Lewis de Jong, “but we were drawn to thrash metal because it’s quite complex music, and it is a great vehicle for expressing real stories and emotions.” “It also works with Te Reo Māori,” adds drummer Henry. “Both the musical style and the messages have a lot of similarities with haka, which is often brutal, angry and about stories of great courage or loss.”
But it’s not just the metal community who are taking notice. London-based youth culture and fashion institution i-D ran a piece on the band in September 2017. More recently, Alien Weaponry featured in a story entitled ‘Can a Thrash Metal Band help save the Maori Language?’ published in the respected New York political and cultural journal, The Atlantic. In New Zealand, they have appeared on everything from Kids’ TV shows Pukana! and Sticky TV to late night political comedy panel 7 Days. “These guys could be bigger than Lorde in terms of our musical export,” says TV One Breakfast music correspondent Sarah Gandy. “They believe in their identity as a metal band, their use of Te Reo is impressive, there’s really nothing else like this in the world at the moment,” agrees Jeff Newton from NZ On Air.
Napalm Records is proud to welcome ALIEN WEAPONRY to their roster, more exciting news and album details about the band’s upcoming record, set to be released for mid of 2018, will follow soon!
Links:
https://www.alienweaponry.com
https://www.facebook.com/AlienWeaponry
https://www.youtube.com/c/alienweaponry
https://www.alienweaponry.bandcamp.com
https://www.napalmrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/napalmrecords
Source of Information: Napalm Records Promotion Team
Infiltration Sign with Wormholedeath and Announce “Nuclear Strike Warning” EP Release Date!
7.2.2018
We are proud to announce that russian death metal combo Infiltration have signed a worldwidedistribution deal for their EP “Nuclear Strike Warning” with Wormholedeath.
The band stated:
“Hello everyone! This is Infiltration, and we’ve got some bad ass news for y’all) We are proud to announce that we are currently signing a deal with WormHoleDeath record label!!! We are super stoked to be signed with such a cool label and to be part of WormHoleDeath family!”
“Nuclear Strike Warning” EP will be out on February the 23rd 2018 via Wormholedeath / The Orchard. The pre order date is February the 9th 2018.
Teaser:
Links:
https://www.facebook.com/infiltrationdeath
https://infiltrationdeath.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXHQWfaD0YsGbC8fiuy5T2A
Source of Information: WormHoledeath Press