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2011 Releases From Century Media, Sumerian, And Metal Blade

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So, it’s just a few more days until 2011 and that means a whole year of new releases from some of your favorite bands. Well, we’ve got a partial list and we want to know what you’re looking forward to. Check after the jump to see partial lists from Century Media Records, Sumerian Records, and Metal Blade Records. Keep in mind that release dates shift, new bands are added to the roster, and other quirky last minute things crop up. And if you’re interested, I’ll be marking several albums that I’m really excited for.

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Metal Blade Records

JANUARY
Electric Wizard – Black Masses
Ghost – Opus Eponymous
FEBRUARY
Six Feet Under (DVD) Wake the Night! Live in Germany
Lazarus A.D. – Black Rivers Flow
Behemoth (2CD – reissue of older EP’s – may be bumped to March or later) Conjuration/Slaves Shall Serve
Cannibal Corpse (DVD – possibly being bumped to March) 
MARCH
Amon Amarth – title TBA Yup, loving it
Ipsissimus – title TBA
Across the Sun – title TBA
APRIL
Primordial – The Puritans Hand Definitely into this band
SPRING
Sister
In Solitude
SUMMER
The Black Dahlia Murder
Charred Walls of the Damned
Hate Eternal
Unearth
FALL
The Ocean (DVD)
King Diamond If he doesn’t scream for Grandma, I’m going to be pissed
Shai Hulud
The Red Chord
Hammers of Misfortune
Century Media Records
Architects UK – ‘The Here and Now’ (Jan)
Bob Wayne – ‘Outlaw Carnie’ (Jan)
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead – ‘Tao of the Dead’ (Feb)
Vampires Everywhere – ‘Kiss the Sun Goodbye’ (Feb)
Turisas – ‘Stand Up and Fight’ (Feb)
Aborted – TBA
Naglfar – ‘Ashes and Ruin’ (TBA)
Daath – TBA Don’t care if there was already a release, if there is another one, I’m on it
Pain of Salvation – ‘Road Salt Two’ (TBA) Because I love their older stuff, I really want to give this a shot
Deicide – ‘To Hell With God’ (March)
Norther – TBA
Angelus Aptrida – TBA
Devin Townsend Project – ‘Ghost’ (TBA) Both this and ‘Deconstruction’ are must’s for my 2011
Devin Townsend Project – ‘Deconstruction’ (TBA)
Tesseract – ‘One’ (TBA) Probably my most anticipated title
Lacuna Coil – TBA Curiosity rears it’s head
Winds of Plague – TBA
Arch Enemy – TBA
Nachtmystium – ‘Addicts Deluxe Edition’
Iced Earth – TBA
Dredg – TBA Definitely looking forward to this one
King’s X – TBA
Suicide Silence – TBA
3 Inches of Blood – TBA
Earth Crisis – TBA
Gorguts – TBA
The Agonist – TBA
Insomnium – TBA
Iwrestledabearonce – TBA
The Haunted – TBA FUCK YES!!!
Napalm Death – TBA
Sumerian Records
Feb 2011
I See Stars – The End of The Year Party
Born of Osiris – Title TBA
March
Asking Alexandria – Reckless and Relentless
May
The Faceless – Title TBA This one could definitely be interesting
So that’s what we’ve got for 2011 so far. What do you think? What stands out for you as a “must have”?

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‘Lost Themes IV: Noir’ – John Carpenter Announces New Album & Releases New Music Video!

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(l-r) Cody Carpenter, John Carpenter, Daniel Davies - Photo Credit: Sophie Gransard

John Carpenter has been teasing big news for a couple weeks now and all has been revealed this morning. Carpenter is back with Lost Themes IV: Noir from Sacred Bones Records!

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

John Carpenter called the first Lost Themes album “a soundtrack for the movies in your mind.”

From John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, Lost Themes IV: Noir is set for release on May 3 via Sacred Bones Records. The album pays tribute to Noir cinema!

In conjunction with the announcement, they’ve shared a music video for the album’s first single, “My Name Is Death”, a miniature noir film directed by Ambar Navarro, starring Natalie Mering (Weyes Blood), Staz Lindes (The Paranoyds) and Misha Lindes (SadGirl). “Noir is a uniquely American genre born in post-war cinema,” states Carpenter. “ We grew up loving Noir and were influenced by it for this new album. The video celebrates this style and our new song, My Name is Death.”

Sacred Bones previews, “The scene-setting new single marks new territory for Carpenter and his cohorts, propelled by a driving post-punk bassline that is embellished by washes of atmospheric synth, pulsing drum machine, and, at the song’s climax, a smoldering guitar solo.”

“Sandy [King, John’s wife and producer] had given John a book for Christmas, of pictures from noir films, all stills from that era,” Davies says of the lightbulb moment for Lost Themes IV. “I was looking through it, and I thought, ‘I like that imagery, and what those titles make me think of. What if we loosely based it around that? What if the titles were of some of John’s favorite noir films?’ Some of the music is heavy guitar riffs, which is not in old noir films. But somehow, it’s connected in an emotional way.”

Sacred Bones notes, “Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes the songs on Lost Themes IV ‘noirish’ is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone. The noir quality, then, is something you understand instinctively when you hear it.”

“It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that became the initial Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts,” the label explains. “Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. In the years since, Carpenter, Carpenter, and Davies have released close to a dozen musical projects, including a growing library of studio albums and the scores for David Gordon Green’s trilogy of Halloween reboots. It helped that they grew up in a musical environment. Daniel’s dad is The Kinks’ Dave Davies, and he would pop by the L.A. studio – the same one the Lost Themes records are made in today – to jam, or to perform at wrap parties for John’s films. That innate free-flowing chemistry helps Lost Themes IV: Noir run like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

Here’s the full Lost Themes IV: Noir track list:

1. My Name is Death
2. Machine Fear
3. Last Rites
4. The Burning Door
5. He Walks By Night
6. Beyond The Gallows
7. Kiss The Blood Off My Fingers
8. Guillotine
9. The Demon’s Shadow
10. Shadows Have A Thousand Eyes

The following physical variants will be available:

  • Sacred Bones Exclusive Red on Clear Splatter vinyl w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Silver Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • Sacred Bones Society Exclusive on Black and White Splatter on Clear w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Silver Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • All retail Transparent Red, with a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • Indie Exclusive Tan and Black Marble, w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • Rough Trade Exclusive Oxblood Red and Black Splatter, w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • Shout Exclusive Black and Clear cloudy, w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • Black LP, with a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • CD
  • Tape

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now!

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