PHANTOM FIRE premiere new video at "Decibel" magazine's website - features members of GAAHLS WYRD, KRAKOW+++ - @thebeast

Today, uprising Norwegian metallers   Phantom Fire  premiere the new video  "Feed on Fire"  at  Decibel   magazine's website . The track is  the first to be revealed  from the band's  highly anticipated debut album,  The Bust of Beelzebub , set for international release on October 22nd via  Edged Circle Productions . See & hear  Phantom Fire 's "Feed on Fire" video in its entirety exclusively  HERE . It was but May 2021 when a brand-new entity burst from Bergen, Norway, bearing the all-too- apropos  moniker  Phantom Fire . With members hailing from such bands as Gaahls Wyrd and Krakow, the duo surprisingly went a different route with their debut EP,  Return of the Goat . Hard-rocking, hard-charging, reeking of rust and diesel,  Phantom Fire  proved they were their own band removed from any sort of lineal references. Better yet, perhaps, they were just getting started and already promised a debut full-length... Before the dust of  Return of the Goat  even had a chance to clear, that debut album is finally here:  The Bust of Beelzebub ! Flexing the same chops  and  some new ones,  Phantom Fire 's first full-length salaciously spans pitch-black speed metal and moody epic metal alike, all of it in (evil) obeisance to timeless HEAVY METAL magick. At once decades old and years ahead of the game,  The Bust of Beelzebub  bears an ageless wisdom across its succinct seven-song/29-minute runtime, like Aura Noir jamming out on some Cirith Ungol covers or early Omen getting turned onto the Swedish Cranium, and vice versa - on and on,  ad infinitum ,  excelsior ! Nevertheless, some interesting twists crop up in the most unselfconscious ways, like the spattering of spiraling psychedelic guitar or solemn Viking-dirge acoustics, altogether making for a wild ride across the hinterlands of the frozen Norwegian tundra...all before it's lit afire! With stout and richly analog recording courtesy of Iver Sandøy (Enslaved) at Solslottet Studio in Bergen and deliciously warped cover art by Nifelheim's Hellbutcher,  Phantom Fire 's  The Bust of Beelzebub  is an exceptionally unique take on the traditional. The band will be making their live debut at this year's Beyond the Gates: Uprising festival in Bergen on August 6th. In the meantime, see & hear the brand-new video "Feed on Fire" exclusively  HERE , courtesy of  Decibel , North America's only monthly metal magazine. Preorder info can be found  HERE  at  Edged Circle 's Bandcamp. Aforementioned cover art and tracklisting are as follows : Tracklisting for Phantom Fire's The Bust of Beelzebub 1 Return Of The Goat [2:26] 2 Bust Of Beelzebub [2:21] 3 Sweet Jezebel [3:22] 4. Pihsrow [5:26] 5. Shut Eye [5:10] 6. Feed On Fire [4:26] 7. The Ninth Gate [5:46] MORE INFO: www.facebook.com/phantomfireofficial MORE INFO: www.edgedcircleproductions.com www.facebook.com/edgedcircleproductions
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Cassius King - Featured Interview & The Zach Moonshine Show - @thebeast

ICYMI: Dan Lorenzo from Cassius King and Vessel Of Light joins us on the show to talk about the new record from Cassius King called Field Trip. We take questions from the audience and play new music from the band. We also play tributes to Joey Jordison, Mike Howe, and Dusty Hill. This episode features new and old music from Murderdolls, Metal Church, Vessel Of Light, Cassius King, ZZ Top, State Of Mind, Jerry Cantrell, Slipknot, Skrog, Metallica, Pantera, White Crone, and battle of the bands winners - Dark Visitor! Track List: 1 - Slit My Wrist/People Hate Me/I Love To Say Fuck - Murderdolls 2 - The Zach Moonshine Intro 3 - Fake Healer/In Mourning/Damned If You Do - Metal Church 4 - Last Ride/Torture King/ - Vessel Of Light 5 - Cassius King - Interview featuring Traveler/Cleopatra's Needle/I Move with the Moon 6 - Gimme All Your Lovin' - ZZ Top 7 - Wardance - State Of Mind 8 - Atone - Jerry Cantrell 9 - People = Shit/The Heretic Anthem/Left Behind - Slipknot 10 - Enter Sandman (Metallica Cover) - Skrog 11 - Harvester of Sorrow/The Thing That Should Not Be (Live / Seattle '89) - Metallica 12 - 5 Minutes Alone/Domination/Fucking Hostile (Live From Donington '94) - Pantera 13 - Stargazer - White Crone 14 - Encadenado - Dark Visitor Listen to the full episode on Mixcloud! Listen to the interview on Spotify! Listen to the Interview on Apple iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-zach-moonshine-show/id1533618474 Listen to the interview on YouTube! Released July 23, 2021 CASSIUS KING  Jason McMaster - vocals Jimmy Schulman - bass Ron Lipnicki - drums Dan Lorenzo - Guitars (Scott LePage solos on King of Lies and I Move With The Moon) Guitars, drums and bass recorded Jon “Jonny Rod” Ciorciari JRod Productions music. Mixed and mastered by Jon “Jonny Rod” Ciorciari  Vocals recorded at Self Studios Lockhart, TX. All songs -Music Lorenzo -Lyrics McMaster BMI/ASCAP Except: This Side of Forever Lyrics McMaster/Schulman  I Move With The Moon and King of Lies lyrics Schulman/McMaster*-Out on the Tiles-Page, Bonham, Plant- ASCAP/Warner Chappel*-Big Eyes- Nielson- Screen gems/EMI Music Inc. (BMI) Cover concept by Jimmy Schulman, Jason McMaster and Claudio Bergamin Cover art by Claudio Bergamin (claudiobergamin.com)Cover Model-Jacob Stults Layout by Josephe Timmons Field Trip by Cassius King
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Battle Of The Bands Championship For The Week Of 08/01/21 - 08/06/21 - @thebeast

Who will be the winning champion this week on ' MDR Battle Of The Bands' and who will be next months band of the month? Last month ' Nexus Imperium ' won with 16,620 votes! Check em out HERE ! This is the weekly Championship addition to the Band Of The Month – Battle Of The Bands we host every month on MDR! How does this work you ask? Well what we will do is run a poll with the bands that submit music each week on metaldevastationradio.com starting each Sunday and ending each Friday! The winning band each week will be blog posted on site and played and announced on The Zach Moonshine Show , getting thousands of listens on Mixcloud ! At the end of the month we will tally the scores from all weeks polls for that month and the band with the highest score of votes will be the winning band for Band Of The Month which includes a feature on our Facebook page reaching thousands of fans, a feature on the front page of metaldevastationradio.com which gets around 140,000 views a month ! A free email blast from our PR department , reaching well over 10k contacts including other metal websites, radio stations, record labels, zines and more! Airplay every hour on our stream during general rotation and lots of shares on social media! If you want the world to know who your band is, this is the easiest way to make it happen! If you want to compete in this battle, comment below with the name of your band and we will add you to next weeks battle or send me an email via zach@metaldevastationradio.com every week for battle submissions! Any band can compete an unlimited amount of times in this competition! (If the same band competes each week during the Month, the votes will be combined at the end of the Month) Click on the bands below you would like to vote for as many times as you like or add your own! Poll will be open till 9pm est 08/06/21 Image Credit HERE Battle Of The Bands Championship For The Week Of 08/01/21 - 08/06/21
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Nexus Imperium - Band Of The Month - August 2021 - @thebeast

Coming in with a total of 16,620 votes! We are Nexus Imperium, an experimental, atmospheric black metal act from Athens, Greece. The band was formed in 2005. Inspired by deep space and the unknown universe, begun to work on music based on traditional and modern black metal mixed with sci-fi vibes through synthesizers and special effects. Music that travels from Mayhem and Blut Aus Nord to Vangelis and Klaus Schulze. Nexus Imperium's mission is to study and present the past, present and future of this vast universe we live in from when time began to which future plans may be for all lifeforms. Starting with this E.P music and lyrics narrate how it all started. This is Nexus Imperium's very first official work. There was a demo back in 2007 composed by the only member and founder back then "Synapse" that never saw the light. Through Nexus Imperium's music one will experience the evolution of universe, space - time and humanity. Nexus Imperium: Synapse - Bass, Guitars, Synths The Apostate - Vocals Currently unsigned/independent. Released digitally June 17, 2021. Physical copies and merchandise to come in the future. Follow the band at these links: https://nexusimperium.bandcamp.com/releases https://www.instagram.com/nexusimperium/ https://www.facebook.com/Nexus-Imperium-109764188009330 nexusimperiumbm@gmail.com https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Nexus_Imperium/3540490239 Nexus Imperium by Nexus Imperium
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Dark Visitor - Wins Battle Of The Bands This Week On MDR! - @thebeast

Coming in with a devastating 4,753 votes! Somos una banda de Death/Thrash Metal de Saltillo, Coahuila, México. Batería - Andy Bajo - Dok Guitarra - Gino Guitarra/Voz - Charly Voz Principal - Caver Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7M9XyCN9dOrExMtJRuH2WN?si=d08fdcd37c744b1a Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DarkVisitorSaltilloCoahuila Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darkvisitorband/
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Florida Deathcore Kill The Imposter USA Tour & Festival Dates w/ The Convalescence - @thebeast

Florida deathcore all-stars  Kill The Imposter  will be hitting the road in support of  their new album  “The Violence Sessions”  released this past May. They will be performing the following  show and festival dates alongside  The Convalescence  listed below. Ticket info at  http://tconband.com/tour- dates/ .  Tour Dates  w/ The Convalescence * = Kill The Imposter Only Aug 20 - Winter Park, FL - The Haven Lounge - Central Florida Metal Fest w/ The Convalescence, The Crowned  Sept 11 - Charlotte, NC - The Milestone Club * Sept 12 - Danville, VA - Blue Ridge Rock Festival * Sept 14 - Youngstown, OH - Westside Bowl * Sept 15 - Cincinnati, OH - The Mad Frog * Sept 16 - Hamtramck, MI - Sanctuary  Sept 17 - Richmond, IN - E Street Club  Sept 18 - Lake Odessa, MI - Riot At The Racetrack  Sept 19 - Columbus, OH - King of Clubs   Sept 20 - Memphis, TN - Growlers  Sept 21 - Haltom City, TX - Haltom Theater  Sept 22 - San Antonio, TX - Paper Tiger  Sept 23 - New Orleans, LA - The Goat  Sept 24 - Fort Walton Beach, FL - Jimmy's Jukebox  Sept 26 - Orlando, FL - Rebel Rock Fest w/ Rise Against, The Used, Sevendust, All That Remains, Emmure, Miss May I, Suicide Silence, Islander, The Convalescence “The Violence Sessions”  is the third release from  KTI , following 2019’s “The Decimation” and 2020 “A Strain Of Agony” EP. According to guitarist Danny Arrieta, this album is the result of years of anger and frustration of being told you can’t, you’re not ready, you’re not this or that, and saying ‘No’ with everything in your soul and the conviction - to fight tooth and nail for your place in the world.  Heavy and tight, your hair will stand on end and you will feel the energy  KTI  has poured into this release. As each song blares through your speakers, every note, beat, and lyric will awaken the energy in you to get up and go! “The Violence Sessions”  is recommended for fans of Fit for an Autopsy, Slaughter To Prevail, and Meshuggah and available on the following platforms: Killtheimposter.bandcamp.com ,  Spotify ,  Apple Music   Music Videos: Broken Crown -  https://youtu.be/ 4Uz1LX8-23k   Unfit Coward  ft. Taylor Barber (Left To Suffer)   -  https://youtu.be/I_ k0qF5Xpno   Dongan Hills   -  https://youtu.be/ nJb933KNx3c   Mace -    Suffer Alone -    For more info: Facebook.com/thelegendagency Instagram.com/thelegendagency Facebook.com/killtheimposter Instagram.com/killtheimposter EPK   About: Kill The Imposter is an Orlando, USA-based deathcore band that was formed in late 2018. Pulling musical inspiration from everywhere, the intention of this four-piece band is to make you move in any capacity you see fit.  Coming from local and national bands, Kill The Imposter brings experience, drive, and mayhem, to the stage. The quartet banded together over a shared love for heavy and violent music, after sharing the stage for one song they knew they had something special, so they sat down together and within a week had 3 songs written and a video lined up. They haven’t stopped since that first sit down, and they won’t stop. One of the founding members Danny Arrieta (guitar) is the primary music writer getting help with arrangement by Johnny Nobody (vocals). Nick Colvin (drums) carries the aggressive speed and heavy grooves with Wilson Bembry ( bass) definitely sharing and blending the thundering lows and technical playing between all of it. Since they got together, Kill The Imposter has released “The Decimation” (2019), “A Strain Of Agony” (2020) and “The Violence Sessions” (2021). They have pummeled the stages of Central Florida Metal Fest and Tampa DeathFest and played alongside heavy hitters such as Nile and Terrorizer.
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Jon Mikl Thor New Album “Alliance” is the Fourth Album Co-Produced By Kevin Stuart Swain - @thebeast

Los Angeles, CA – The long-awaited 39th studio album from classic metal superhero THOR is officially released worldwide! This marks the fourth album co-produced with Kevin Stuart Swain. Kevin also appears as an engineer, songwriter and musician. To celebrate this monumental release, THOR shares a brand-new video of the Thor/Swain composition ” Because We’re Strong”, the Official Music Video for the short film “LIBERATOR” starring Lou Ferrigno, Peta Wilson and Ed Asner. The flaming punk of “Power Hungry” that Kevin Stuart Swain’s six and four strings push towards a climax. -- DME Let It Rock Purchase or stream at https://orcd.co/thor_alliance_album The album, Alliance, includes special guest appearances from W.A.S.P.’s Chris Holmes, Danko Jones, Anthrax’s Neil Turbin, Ross “The Boss” Friedman, Prism’s Al Harlow and many more. It features stunning artwork from Timo Wuerz and is available on both digital as well as on CD in a digipak and limited-edition silver vinyl in a gatefold jacket! Kevin sat down to discuss his involvement in the Thor album Alliance. What was your full involvement with the new Thor album? "On Alliance as with his last 3 albums, I was an engineer,co-producer, co-writer, Guitarist, Bassist, Background vocalist. I recorded all the vocals for the entire album and was heavily involved with 7 tracks. I coordinated with other contributors and over saw the overall project to varying degrees. As it was a co-production, Jon Mikl Thor was more hands on production on the other album tracks. Of course the lines are blurred and we worked together on all of it. As we all have to wear a lot of hats these days, I also directed and created/edited the " Because We Are Strong" video, and will be involved in future videos coming up. I have made videos for Jon for years, beginning with “Thunderstyker”." How did you approach the new album differently than the previous album? "On the previous album, Rising, we had time constraints and our original intention wasn't to do a whole album. Thor had a tour booked for the USA in early 2020 and we wanted him to have an album to promote. Because of that we had to get it done quickly. It turned out that he was playing venues in areas that where hard hit by the emerging covid epidemic and clubs and cities where closing the doors as he moved to the next town. I stayed home and re-recorded- remixed 3 single versions from Rising that I felt needed more attention. Ted Jedlicki, who is a writer, bassist and project coordinator on the new album and many other Thor albums mentioned that my single versions inspired him to increase production values on his contributions, so we were all on the same page. I would say that I didn't approach the album differently, I just had better tools and more experience, so I did what I usually do with a clearer focus and a great team I could go to." How did COVID impact the writing and recording of the new album? "The impact of Covid affected everything. How we wrote, how we felt and the logistics of making a record. Because I live alone I was always allowed 2 people in my bubble. They were Lisa Freakrock and Jon Mikl Thor. Lisa is a videographer and photographer, so she did a lot of work on videos and shots we needed. In the height of lockdown and in the early days I would put Jon in a vocal room and we wouldn't even physically see each other too much. We didn't know what the future held but threw ourselves into work and remembered that music is very healing. We had time and could polish and shape the songs. We connected with guest artists and technicians with zoom and dropbox etc, and got the parts, songs and mixes we needed. I assembled all the finished pieces and came up with an LP and CD order. Input from Thor and Ted Jedlicki changed that slightly, but I feel together we made this thing happen. I would say Jon's friendship and enthusiasm really got me through some dark days and inspired me to keep going." Thor Allliance Track List:  1. We Need Musclerock feat. John Gallagher (Raven) 2. Niflhel (Realm Of The Dead) feat. Björn Strid (Soilwork) 3. The Ultimate Alliance feat. Chris Holmes (W.A.S.P.), Ross “The Boss” Friedman (Manowar), Nina Osegueda (A Sound Of Thunder) & Fang VonWrathenstein (Lords Of The Trident) 4. Ode To Odin feat. Dan Cleary (Striker) 5. We Will Fight Forever feat. Neil Turbin (Anthrax) 6. Because We Are Strong 7. Rock Around The World feat. Danko Jones 8. Queen Of The Spiders feat. Frank Soda (The Imps) 9. Power Hungry 10. Bounty Hunter feat. Frank Meyer (The Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs) & Dennis Post (Warrior Soul) 11. Battlements feat. Trevor William Church (Haunt) 12. Thor vs. The Juggernaut (War Of The Gods) feat. Sean Peck (Death Dealer) 13. Generation Now feat. Joey Killingsworth (Joecephus & The George Jonestown Massacre) 14. After The Laughter feat. Martin Gummesson (Thundermaker) 15. Good Stuff feat. Al Harlow (Prism) 16. Congregate feat. Joey Roads & Sheldon Byer (Roadrash) 17. We Will Fight Forever (Reprise) More information: http://kevinstuartswain.ca https://www.facebook.com/kevinstuartswain https://thorcentral.net
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