Music

News Bit: Ashers, Hellyeah, and Immortal

Published

14 years ago

July 15, 2010

Ashers, Boston’s thrash punk outfit featuring punk legend Mark Civitarese of The Unseen, has teamed up with AMP Magazine for an exclusive stream of their debut full-length record, Kill Your Master, which hit stores yesterday on Thorp Records. Head HERE to hear the cutting-edge 13-song debut in its entirety.

Rockstar Uproar talks with Chad Gray and Vinnie Paul from Hellyeah about their new album Stampede, in stores now. They also plug some fellow UPROAR bands whose albums you can expect in the coming months. You can watch it HERE. Catch Hellyeah headlining the Jägermeister stage on the entire Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival August 17- October 4. Tickets are on sale now HERE.

Check after the jump for news about the long-awaited Immortal live DVD!

Founding figures in the birth and construction of the black metal genre and important figures in the Norwegian scene that later became the topic of mainstream press and film documentaries, Immortal remain one of thee most revered and esteemed black metal bands in all the world. Many remember the shock in 2003 when – thirteen years into their existence and one year after the band was nominated for an Alarm award for Sons Of Northern Darkness – Immortal suddenly announced they would disband.

It was four years into their abrupt retirement when the men in black reconnected with their creative force and announced to their worldwide fan base that Immortal would reunite and return to the stage. Luckily, every moment of Immortal’s headlining reunion show at the prestigious Wacken Open Air festival in Germany in 2007 was captured for all future generations of black metal fans to enjoy.

Immortal manager Håkon Grav had this to say about the long-awaited DVD:

“This release has been due many years, but finally we can present Immortal’s first concert DVD. The band paid their dues with hard roadwork during the first decade and then some during their career, but they were hardly given the tools and surroundings worthy of a full-blown video production like this demands. The mighty Wacken Open Air proved to be the perfect partner for us in that sense, and this was truly a special night for both the band and the fans. The band played several great shows on the reunion tour, but the fact that headlining the Black Stage at Wacken would be something spectacular was a given in advance, and now the DVD is here to prove it again. It has taken some time, but good things rarely come easily or quickly. If you were present at the show, I think you will appreciate the possibility to relive the magic, and if you´re witnessing the show for the first time within your own four walls, I hope you enjoy it just as much! For those of you coming to Wacken again this year – what can I say but ‘Auf Wiedersehen!’”

The Seventh Date Of Blashyrkh, the band’s first official live DVD & live CD release in the history of their existence, features songs that span Immortal’s timeless discography and includes three back-to-back-to-back selections from their most acclaimed release to date. The leather & spikes, the “war paint,” the bursting pyrotechnics, the essential anthems, Abbath’s on-stage acrobatics, and an audience that drew upwards of 70,000 people… the magic’s all there, ready to be absorbed into your consciousness.

Take a walk through the mystical Norwegian landscape and witness Abbath, Horgh, and Apollyon as they return to the fabled & mythical kingdom of Blashyrkh, where they are destined to rule for all eternity.

The Seventh Date Of Blashyrkh will be released in Europe on August 6th and in North America on September 14th. The track listing for both the DVD and the CD is:

01. Intro

02. The Sun No Longer Rises (from Pure Holocaust)

03. Withstand The Fall Of Time (from At The Heart Of Winter)

04. Sons Of Northern Darkness (from Sons Of Northern Darkness)

05. Tyrants (from Sons Of Northern Darkness)

06. One By One (from Sons Of Northern Darkness)

07. Wrath From Above (from Damned In Black)

08. Unholy Forces Of Evil (from Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism)

09. Unsilent Storms In The North Abyss (from Pure Holocaust)

10. At The Heart Of Winter (from At The Heart Of Winter)

11. Battles In The North (from Battles In The North)

12. Blashyrk (Mighty Ravendark) (from Battles In The North)

View the trailer for The Seventh Date Of Blashyrkh here.

JonathanBarkan

Managing editor/music guy/social media fella of Bloody-Disgusting

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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

7 days ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on 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.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. 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. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “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 trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs 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.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…