Industrial Band CONTROVERSIAL Drops Visualizer For The Track, "Violence" - @thebeast

ICYMI: July 2, 2021 - Belgian industrial band CONTROVERSIAL has just dropped the visualizer for their song, "Violence."  The track appears on CONTROVERSIAL's most recent Cleopatra Records release, Second Genesis. The song, "Violence" is based on a documentary from the 1990s about human violence.  As far as motivation is concerned, CONTROVERSIAL deals with the darker side of humanity. Violence is of course up there and we refer also to war as the culmination of violence. We do it from the position of a spectator outside of humanity. For fans of: SKREW & MINISTRY "There's aesthetic/sound inspirations like for instance using social commentary samples (like Ministry for instance). These are mainly represented by songs on social and political themes. There are also themes that evoke an emotional reaction, like anger, frustration and hate. Then there are "streams of consciousness" songs, where we don't really have a concrete theme, but we open ourselves up to what comes naturally while we mentally associate with certain feelings and themes. Lastly, since we are a "left hand path" band, themes of that philosophy are to be found in our lyrics, like the importance of the ego and the emancipation of the "self". - Bart - (CONTROVERSIAL) Buy/Stream CONTROVERSIAL Now
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Dusty Hill, ZZ Top Bassist, Dead at 72 - @thebeast

Dusty Hill, bassist and longtime member of ZZ Top, has died at the age of 72. “We are saddened by the news today that our Compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, TX,” surviving ZZ Top band members Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard said in a statement. “We, along with legions of ZZ Top fans around the world, will miss your steadfast presence, your good nature and enduring commitment to providing that monumental bottom to the ‘Top’. We will forever be connected to that ‘Blues Shuffle in C.’ You will be missed greatly, amigo.” Via COS
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Dusty Hill, ZZ Top Bassist, Dead at 72 - @thebeast

Dusty Hill, bassist and longtime member of ZZ Top, has died at the age of 72. “We are saddened by the news today that our Compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, TX,” surviving ZZ Top band members Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard said in a statement. “We, along with legions of ZZ Top fans around the world, will miss your steadfast presence, your good nature and enduring commitment to providing that monumental bottom to the ‘Top’. We will forever be connected to that ‘Blues Shuffle in C.’ You will be missed greatly, amigo.” Via COS
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New Promo: Winter Nights - Sky Burial - (Death Metal) - @thebeast

FYI: FFO: Kalmah, Death, Amon Amarth, Sentenced, Behemoth Release date: August 18th 2021 Winter Nights is a four-piece melodic death metal band emanating from Brooklyn, New York in Winter of 2007. The sound and lyrical themes of their music portray loss, pain, grievance and darkness. Guitar driven melodies evoke visceral reactions to the mythic end of the world. They are an integral part of the thriving New York metal scene. As of 2021, their formation consists of dueling guitar brothers Jeremy and Efrain Farfan, bassist Martin Tune and drummer James Yarusinsky. This album was Recorded at Backroom Studio & Brady Street Recordings in New Jersey, United States  Autumn 2020 – Winter 2021  All songs by: Winter Nights  All Lyrics by: Jeremy Farfan     Engineered by: Mikhail Marinas  Mixed by Ahti Kortelainen at Tico Tico Studio in Kemi, Finland  Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music      All Artwork By: Masruron Nihayanto at Moron Fathers Logo By: Luis Hermosilla at Luigiht Design    Official lyric video for 'WITHDRAWALS', off their self-titled 2020 album. Album band line - up:  Jeremy Farfan vocals and guitar   Efrain Farfan guitars  Martin Tune bass  James Yarusinsky Drums and backing Vocals  Marco Sneck Keyboards (Guest Apperence)   Current Live Band Line Up:  Jeremy Farfan vocals and guitar   Efrain Farfan back up vocals and guitar  Martin Tune bass  James Yurusinsky drums  Follow the band at these links: Www.winternights.nyc https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/winternights/winter-nights-2 https://www.facebook.com/winternightsnyc/   https://twitter.com/winternightsnyc https://www.youtube.com/user/WinterNightsOfficial https://www.instagram.com/winternightsnyc/ https://winternights.bandcamp.com/ https://twitter.com/winternightsnyc https://open.spotify.com/album/5NlSlRncclBDpMjSvP4N0W Check them out on Spotify and add them to your playlists!
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New Promo: Alfa Bravo - Zulu - (Hardcore) - @thebeast

Released July 21, 2021 FFO: Inclination, Harms Way, Boundaries, The Purge It was June 2020 when Alfa Bravo first posted on Instagram. The channel was originally somewhere to post guitar covers, gear reviews and to spread the message of straight edge. However, A year has passed, and Alfa Bravo is now focused on producing original music and is preparing to release his debut single Zulu 21st July.  Zulu by Alfa Bravo Follow the band at these links: https://www.instagram.com/alfabravox https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCseNIcJ22mmdDHJF1N_HFfQ https://open.spotify.com/artist/5j1ofxo2IzFFvEqrAuoqWI https://music.apple.com/us/artist/1573944369 https://www.facebook.com/alfabravox https://twitter.com/AlfaBra83818759 https://alfabravo.bandcamp.com/
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METAL CHURCH Singer MIKE HOWE Dead At 55 - @thebeast

METAL CHURCH   singer   Mike Howe   has died at the age of 55. No cause of death has been revealed. The news of   Howe 's passing was broken by   METAL CHURCH   in a social media post this evening. The band wrote: "It is with our deepest regrets that we must announce the passing of our brother, our friend and true legend of heavy metal music.   Mike Howe   passed away this morning at his home in Eureka, California. We are devastated and at a loss for words. Please respect our privacy and the   Howe   family's privacy during this most difficult time." Howe , who fronted   METAL CHURCH   from 1988 until 1994, officially rejoined the band in April 2015. The reunion between   Mike   and   METAL CHURCH   was put in motion in July of 2014 when   Mike   started working with guitarist   Kurdt Vanderhoof   on a side project   Kurdt   was forming with   Nigel Glockler   from   SAXON . Through these initial conversations,   Kurdt   convinced   Mike   to ultimately return to   METAL CHURCH . The idea was to see if they could recapture some of the magic from the three albums   METAL CHURCH   released in the late '80s:   "The Human Factor" ,   "Blessing In Disguise"   and   "Hanging In The Balance" . Out of those sessions, 2016's   "XI"   was born and captured the sound that made the band fan favorites in the '80s and mixed it with a new, invigorated sound. During the making of the   "XI"   album,   Mike   stated about his return to   METAL CHURCH : " Kurdt Vanderhoof   got ahold of me in August of 2014, and he proposed [me] coming back to the band. He said   Ronny   [ Munroe ] left the band and he didn't really wanna carry on with   METAL CHURCH   unless maybe I would consider coming back. So I said, 'Well, I don't know. I'm open to it. But let's see what kind of music we can come up with.' So   Kurdt   went back to the studio and started writing songs in the vein of   'Hanging In The Balance' , where we left off twenty years ago, and he sent them to me over the Internet. And I was, like, 'Damn! The guy still has it and he's doing great work.' So he sent me another batch, and that batch was just as good [as], if not better than, the other. So, from there, I said, ‘Well, I can’t say no to this. And let's just see how it goes.' And we started writing lyrics and getting together, and it's now morphed into this, being back in Aberdeen in the studio making the new   METAL CHURCH   record." METAL CHURCH 's latest release was   "From The Vault" , which arrived in April 2020 via   Rat Pak Records . The effort was a special-edition compilation album that featured 14 previously unreleased songs from the   Howe   era, including four newly recorded studio tracks, among them a redux of the band's fan favorite classic   "Conductor" . In a 2018 interview with   Sticks For Stones   promoting 2018's   "Damned If You Do"   LP,   Mike   stated about the 20-year gap between his stints in the band: "I lived my life just like everybody else. I was a carpenter/builder, and I raised two boys. Out of the blue, I got a call from   Kurdt , and he invited me back. At first, I was apprehensive — I was happy to be retired [from music]; I had a great career and [was] very grateful for what I had — but because he's an old friend, I was open to listening to his proposition. We had long talks — a lot of talks — about how the music industry had changed, and how file-sharing was making it more possible to live in different areas and have family life and not cutting into your personal time as much. With the advent of technology in that way, it really helps facilitate being in a band. We just started with writing the record, because I said, 'I'm not coming back to   METAL CHURCH   for nostalgia's sake. If I'm going to do this, I want to make sure we can write music just as good, if not better, than what we were doing before.' We took baby steps and started writing some songs... if we like the way it sounds, we keep it; if we don't, we move on. We do that a few times until we had a good amount of songs, and we really liked what we were doing, so we put it out. That went well, and I said, 'Okay, I'm ready to go on the road with that.' [ 'Damned If You Do' ], we took the same philosophy, and we're very happy with the end result." Howe   is not the first singer of   METAL CHURCH   to die.   David Wayne   passed away in May 2005 from complications following a car crash. He was 47 years old. Wayne   sang on   METAL CHURCH 's first two classic offerings (1984's   "Metal Church"   and 1986's   "The Dark" ) before leaving the group and being replaced by   Howe . Via Blabbermouth It is with our deepest regrets that we must announce the passing of our brother, our friend and true legend of heavy... Posted by   Metal Church   on  Monday, July 26, 2021
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New Promo: The New Bardots - On Our Own - (Rock N Roll) - @thebeast

Release Date June 18th 2021 FFO: The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Led  Zeppelin Coming back together from their early roots in the NYC music scene (CBGB's, Max's Kansas City, China Club) to write and record together again, Gar Francis, Wayne Olivieri, Dan Skye, new drummer Johnny Rago and keyboard player John Croot are five New Jersey veterans out to save Rock and Roll from extinction! www.thenewbardots.com Check out the new video! Biography THE NEW BARDOTS ARE ON A MISSION TO KEEP ROCK AND ROLL ALIVE! Lead guitarist and songwriter of The Doughboys, Gar Francis couldn't stand listening to the contemporary radio shows filled with pop, hip hop, trap and the likes. Where has the rock and roll gone? Time for a mission: he called in Wayne Olivieri, longtime friend and ex bandmate with The Rockids and "one of the most charismatic singer/frontman in a long time" - in the words of Rock and Roll HALL of Fame and Songwriter Hall Of Fame Member Eddie Brigati from the Rascals. Wayne could never possibly decline such a call: his entire life had been devoted to rock and roll. Starting as a musician at a very young age, by the time Wayne was 17 he and Gar were playing full time with their band Rockids in New York City clubs like CBGB's, Max's Kansas City, The Limelight,The Village Gate on the same bill as The Ramones, The Talking Heads, Blondie. After two years the duo parted ways, Gar formed his own successful band and continued to perform and write songs and draw crowds wherever he performed. In the 1980s Francis wrote a song called "Baby, It's You" for the band Ricochet and did session work as a guitar player on Billy Idol's recorded version of "Mony, Mony". Wayne continued performing up and down the East Coast with the newly formed Rockids. After a few years the Rockids disbanded, Wayne moved to Asbury Park NJ and started Oliver’s Twist , performing at the legendary club The Stone Pony. It was there where he met and became good friends with John Bongiovi (Jon Bon Jovi).  Check them out on Spotify and add them to your playlists! Wayne and Jon stayed friends for many years and performed together on several occasions. He became a regular at The Stone Pony, where he rocked the stage with acts like David Johansson, Huey Lewis, Southside Johnny, Cindy Lauper, Beaver Brown, Rick Derringer, Billy Idol. During his life, Wayne have performed with some of the biggest rockstars in the world, including Bruce Springsteen. Back to these doomed times, when good old rock and roll seems to have been relegated to an euphemistically unfair underground, The New Bardots embarked the quest to “Help save rock and roll from extinction“ enrolling also Dan Skye, with whom Olivier was playing back in the 80s in a band called “Olivier’s Twist” and the drummer Johnny Rago. Heavily inspired by the roots of rock and roll, in 2018 the new band sign with the New Jersey-based label Bongo Boys Records and release their first single "Great Balls of Fire", taking one of Rock and Rolls most classic tunes and making it their own. One year later, on May 31th of 2019 The New Bardots present, with a special live show at the legendary Stone Pony, their first LP "French Kisses". Three singles and videoclips are extracted from French Kisses: Great Balls of Fire, Change Reaction and Gone for the Weekend. After recording French Kisses The Band focused on performing live and decided to recruit Keyboardist John Croot, whom Wayne was friends and band mates with, in a popular show band called Little Jimmy & The Starlites. During the global lockdown of 2020 the Rock and Roll mission is still alive and kicking! Profoundly touched by the human drama and heroic efforts of those who risk their own lives out there, Wayne and Gar write "We're in this together", a "feel good" and uplifting tribute to all the healthcare professionals who are on the front lines making a difference and also to everyone who needs a little encouragement to get through their situation. "We're in this together" is released in free download by Bongo Boy Records on April, 20th 2020. On May 8th 2020 The New Bardots release the EP "Already Been Chewed (A Return to Bubblegum)": 3 remakes of old hit "Bubble Gum" songs from the 1960's and two new original songs, followed by the Christmas single "If Santa Claus Were President" first with the Italy-based label I Cuochi Music Company. After a few months in the studio working on new music, The NEW Bardots make their come back in April 2021 with a rock and fast paced remake of the 1969 hit "In The Year 2525", followed - two months later by the original song "On Our Own". Written by Wayne Olivieri and Gar Francis, "On Our Own" is an uptempo rock n roll track which was originally meant to be the theme song for a new American sitcom about the working class.  "Wayne's one of the most charismatic singer I've seen in a long time. When he's on stage he doesn't let you not pay attention." Eddie Brigati (The Rascals) "Electrifying! That's how I would describe my reaction to seeing The New Bardots' Live show. The repertoire is filled with energetic, groove filled songs. The musicianship is tight and exciting. And the personalities are explosive and contagious to watch. Complete, electrified enjoyment." Myke Scavone (Ram Jam - The Yard Birds) Lineup: Gar Francis: Guitar / Vocals Dan Skye: Bass/ Vocals John Croot Jr: Keyboards Johnnie Rago: Drums Wayne Olivieri: Lead Vocals/Harmonica Follow the band at these links: https://music.apple.com/us/album/on-our-own-single/1570235070 https://www.facebook.com/TheNEWBardots/ https://www.thenewbardots.com/ https://open.spotify.com/track/6I15JvueRpmI2kXgz8qlcN?si=f51153729fee4c8b
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