“Filming with indieATL was a very pleasant, professional experience,” said Mlny Parsonz, vocalist and guitar player for Royal Thunder.  “We are grateful to have been considered for this amazing experience. The end result is stellar footage.”  Three additional songs were filmed during the session, which will be made available soon.

The band is currently on tour with Baroness and have a hometown show on May 2 as part of Decibel Magazine’s first national tour.  Royal Thunder will be announcing additional dates shortly.
Tour dates are:
April 26  St. Louis, MO  Firebird *
April 27  Nashville, TN  The End *
May 2  Atlanta, GA  The Masquerade

* = w/Baroness

Royal Thunder’s CVI will be streaming in its entirely via AOL Spinner beginning May 21 for one week.  The band is currently giving fans an opportunity to hear another track from the forthcoming album via a lyric video for “Whispering World,” which can be found on Royal Thunder’s Facebook page (facebook.com/royalthundermusic).  Pre-orders for CVI are available here: www.relapse.com/label/artist/royal-thunder.html.

indieATL is a video partner to Georgia State University’s radio station, WRAS 88.5.

UPDATE: May 1st, 2012

May 1, 2012, Philadelphia — Royal Thunder, the Atlanta-based quartet who release their debut album CVI on May 22 (Relapse Records), and RCRD LBL are offering a download of “Whispering World”: http://rcrdlbl.com/2012/05/01/download_royal_thunder_whispering_world.

Royal Thunder perform a hometown show tomorrow night at The Masquerade as part of the Decibel Magazine Tour.  The band has announced two additional dates: June 27 at The Marquis Theater in Denver and July 12 at the Black Sheep in Colorado Springs.  Additional tour dates will be announced shortly.

The band recently recorded an in-studio performance of  ”Sleeping Witch,” another track from the forthcoming release, for indieATL, which can be viewed at http://indieatl.com/indieatl-videos/first-video-from-royal-thunder-indieatl-session-sleeping-witch/.  indieATL is a video partner to Georgia State University’s radio station, WRAS 88.5.

Royal Thunder’s CVI will be streaming in its entirely via AOL Spinner beginning May 21 for one week.

In addition, EMPATIC is beginning to compose the material for their next album. During Terrasound Festival, which took place on 13-14.04.2012 in Wien, the band presented their brand new song Valley of Shadows

And here can see some pics from the show EMPATIC on Terrasound Festival 2012:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.474010099995.63160.180951329995&type=1

The band have confirmed their show at OstFest on 09.06.2012, with the likes of Eris is My Homegirl, Butelka or Devastating Enemy from Austria taking part too.

http://www.facebook.com/ostfest.info

More info:
http://www.empatic.com
http://www.facebook.com/empatic.info

FEAR FACTORY

As previously announced, The Industrialist is a conceptual record based around a short fiction written by Bell; lyrics to the album’s ten songs divulge the narrative as discussed recently by Bell with Decibel Magazine. The album will be available on three formats – standard CD, a limited edition deluxe digi-book (featuring two additional songs), and 180-gram double vinyl. Pre-orders for the album in all formats will be available shortly via Candlelight Records’ official webstore.

Bell notes, “the protagonist (The Industrialist) is the incarnation of all industries in the form of an automaton. The mechanical, technological, and scientific advances through the industrial age led to the creation of The Industrialist. In the story, the automaton becomes sentient as it collects memories with each passing day. Through observation and learning, it gains the will to exist. What was meant to help man, will eventually be man’s demise.”

The Industrialist follows the 2010 release of Mechanize. Widely regarded, the album was the first release from FEAR FACTORY in six years.Mechanize debuted on Billboard’s Top 100 album chart week of release and topped CMJ’s Loud Rock radio chart as programmers embraced the band’s triumphant return. Sirius XM and Headbangers Ball’s host Jose Mangin noted, “after Mechanize dominated 2010 as Liquid Metal’s Album Of The Year, North America is chompin’ at the bit to get an ear full of new Fear Factory. I have no doubt that FEAR FACTORYare going to kick our collective asses in 2012.”

Members of FEAR FACTORY are currently in Los Angeles rehearsing for upcoming performances in South America followed by their first U.S. tour since late 2010. Bell and Cazares presented members of Slipknot the “Comeback Of The Year” award last week at the 4^th Annual Revolver Golden God Awards; an award they were nominated for in 2010. Xbox broadcast the program, including pre-ceremony black carpet interviews, to all game console owners; Revolver Magazine streamed the event live via their Facebook page. Rebroadcast information will be announced by Revolver Magazine shortly.

Dates on FEAR FACTORY’s upcoming American tour are noted below.

• 5/01/2012 Backstage Live – San Antonio, TX
• 5/02/2012 Trees – Dallas, TX
• 5/03/2012 Scout Bar – Houston, TX
• 5/05/2012 State Theater – St. Petersburg, FL
• 5/06/2012 Culture Room – Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• 5/07/2012 Masquerade – Altanta, GA
• 5/09/2012 Ziggy’s – Winston-Salem, NC
• 5/10/2012 Theater of Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA
• 5/11/2012 Wally’s Pub – Hamton Beach, NH
• 5/12/2012 Sonar – Baltimore, MD
• 5/13/2012 Gramercy Theatre – New York, NY
• 5/15/2012 McGuffy’s House of Rock – Dayton, OH
• 5/16/2012 The Crofoot Ballroom – Pontiac, MI
• 5/17/2012 Bottom Lounge – Chicago, IL
• 5/19/2012 Summit Music Hall – Denver, CO
• 5/21/2012 Ace of Spade – Sacramento, CA
• 5/22/2012 Regency Ballroom – San Francisco, CA
• 5/23/2012 Yost Theater – Santa Ana, CA

Like Satan himself set loose in the hallowed halls of heavy metal, these Athens-based headbangers careen wildly through the music’s history, gleefully destroying and setting flame to every genre along the way, only stopping at the forefront of today’s metal scene to look back and watch that fucker burn — and then piss on the flames. No other band has tapped into the fire, fury, and frost of all things metal like SKELETONWITCH.Released last October through Prosthetic Records, Forever Abomination continues to raise eyebrows with its relentless, fuck-all attack. In an 8/10 rating of the record, Decibel Magazine named SKELETONWITCH, “one of the most likeable bands in metal,” Terrorizer dubbed Forever Abominationa “masterclass in modern metal,” Revolver noted its “bad-ass thrash attack,” while Pitchfork championed the offering calling it “exciting, skilled, fist-pumping, true-to-life stuff…”

SKELETONWITCH return to the road today beginning with a warm-up show in Cleveland before joining forces with The Black Dahlia Murder, Nile and labelmates Hour Of Penance for a four-week tour that concludes at the New England Metal And Hardcore Festival. This marks the group’s first North American tour action of 2012.  The band will take a brief break before heading overseas for a stretch of Euro dates. Confirmed dates thus far are included below:

SKELETONWITCH

w/ The Black Dahlia Murder, Nile, Hour Of Penance

3/23/2012 Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH ^
3/24/2012 The Intersection – Grand Rapids, MI
3/25/2012 Eagles Club – Milwaukee, WI
3/26/2012 Station 4 – Minneapolis, MN
3/27/2012 Bottom Lounge – Chicago, IL

3/28/2012 The Waiting Room – Omaha, NE^
3/29/2012 Marquis Theatre – Denver, CO
3/30/2012 The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT

3/31/2012 The Venue – Boise, ID *
4/02/2012 El Corazon – Seattle, WA
4/03/2012 Hawthorne Theater – Portland, OR
4/04/2012 Slim’s – San Francisco, CA
4/05/2012 House Of Blues – Los Angeles, CA
4/06/2012 Nile Theater – Phoenix, AZ
4/07/2012 Sunshine Theater – Albuquerque, NM
4/09/2012 Prophet Bar – Dallas, TX
4/10/2012 White Rabbit – San Antonio, TX
4/11/2012 Warehouse Live – Houston, TX
4/13/2012 Masquerade – Atlanta, GA

4/14/2012 Cincinnati Metal Fest @ Bogarts – Cincinnati, OH w/ Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, Nile, Hour of Penance, Abysmal Dawn, Arkaik, Exhumed

4/15/2012  Skully’s Music Diner  - Columbus, OH ^
4/16/2012  123 Pleasant St. – Morgantown, WV ^
4/17/2012 Ram’s Head Live – Baltimore, MD
4/18/2012 Theatre Of The Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA
4/19/2012 Irving Plaza – New York, NY
4/20/2012 New England Metal & Hardcore Fest @ The Palladium – Worcester, MA

^ SKELETONWITCH only

* w/ Black Tusk

SKELETONWITCH European Tour  2012:

6/15/2012 Copenhell – Copenhagen, Denmark
6/16/2012 Metal Town – Gothenburg, Sweden
6/18/2012 Comet Club – Berlin, Germany
6/20/2012 Luxor – Cologne, Germany
6/22/2012 Graspop Metal Meet – Hasselt, Belgium
6/23/2012 Earshakerdays – Basel, Switzerland
6/25/2012 Durer Kert Small Hall – Budapest, Hungary
6/26/2012 Chelsea – Vienna, Austria
6/28/2012 Rock Café – Prague, Czech Republic
6/29/2012 With Full Force Festival – Leipzig, Germany
6/30/2012 Sputnikhalle – Muenster, Germany
7/01/2012 Open Air Metal – Tuska, Finland

“SUBMISSION FOR LIBERTY” OUT FEB 6 2012 WORLD WIDE -

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The band commented on the video: “This Image is a natural extension of the track’s lyrics- Two characters, two symbols, conflict, solution. We spit in faces and say it’s raining.”

Watch the video below:

http://stillborn.pl/

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While raging in northern New York state for the video shoots this weekend, BRUTAL TRUTH have also confirmed a Sunday evening slaughterfest in Williamsville with several local acts. Full info can be found here.

Additionally, BRUTAL TRUTH have been named in the latest wave of acts confirmed to storm the annual French outing Hellfest, the three-day binge going down in Clisson, France June 15th through the 17th. On this massive outing the New York grinders will throw down their reefer-ripping blastbeats alongside Hatebreed, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Machine Head, Cannibal Corpse, Amon Amarth and dozens more, in addition to fest headliners Black Sabbath. See the full confirmed lineup to date here.

While their latest album End Time was and still is being featured on the Best of 2011 lists for Decibel, Exclaim, MetalSucks, Metal Injection and countless other publications internationally, BRUTAL TRUTH have confirmed that they are already recording several brand new tracks for an unspecified forthcoming release. All we know is that it was referred to by the band as a “bizarre freakout,” so we are stoked.

BRUTAL TRUTH Live Actions:

12/18/2011 Club Infinity – Williamsville, NY

6/15-17/2012 Hellfest – Clisson, France

Stay tuned for updates on all of these new BRUTAL TRUTH joints over the weeks ahead. Interviews with the band and review copies of End Time are available now. For all press requests on the band, in North America contact: earsplitpr@aol.com, in the UK contact: pip@relapse.com, and the rest of Europe contact: frank@pettingzoo.nl.

EVERYTHING WENT BLACK previously debuted the track, “Lifeless,” on Lambgoat.com. ”Cycles of Light,” which will be released on January 17th, 2012 on Lost Shepherd/Prosthetic Records, is now available for pre-order through the Prosthetic webstore and is available on vinyl and CD, and as part of a T-shirt bundle. Order here..

EVERYTHING WENT BLACK play a concise, sophisticated brand of fast and heavy aggressive music drawing influence from the likes of The Hope Conspiracy, Black Flag and Entombed, while still maintaining a sound that is very much so their own. Since the band’s formation in the spring of 2009, the band self released an EP, a 7″ on Hands Up! Records, and a split with Louisville, KY hardcore outfit Rattletooth on St. Louis based label I Hate Punk Rock Records.

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The clip was filmed with renowned Swedish director Jonas Akerlund, who has previously worked with METALLICA, SATYRICON, OZZY OSBOURNE, MADONNA and THE PRODIGY, among others. The song will also be released as a single pack on November 14th, 2011 along with three other songs, a previously unreleased song, “Vergiss Uns Nicht”, as well as remixes from BossHoss and Mogwai, but also, the “Mein Land” video and a digital booklet.

Bellow is the Beach Boys inspired video for Rammstein’s latest “Mein Land”: