Archive for the ‘RISE ABOVE RECORDS’ Category
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Swedish Heavy Rock Band GHOST Announces North American Headlining Tour
Occult Rock Bands BLOOD CEREMONY and ANCIENT VVISDOM to Support On Highly Anticipated Winter Tour
Mysterious Swedish buzz band GHOST has announced that it will embark on its first ever North American headlining tour in January, 2012. GHOST cult leader "Papa Emeritus" (who takes the stage in the form of "a satanic pope") and his anonymous ghouls will team up with doom rockers BLOOD CEREMONY and ANCIENT VVISDOM for a two week trek dubbed the "13 Dates of Doom" tour that will launch on January 18 in New York City. GHOST continues to tour in support of its debut album Opus Eponymous, which has been called "amazing" by Stereogum and "a primer on the creation of melodic hard rock" by The Big Takeover.
GHOST floored music fans ...
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BRITISH ROCK BAND GENTLEMAN’S PISTOLS TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM “AT HER MAJESTY’S PLEASURE” ON JUNE 21, 2011
Fast-rising UK rock band GENTLEMAN'S PISTOLS will release their sophomore LP At Her Majesty's Pleasure on June 21 via Rise Above Records / Metal Blade. The follow up to the group's self-titled debut, At Her Majesty's Pleasure was produced by the band's singer/guitarist James Atkinson at Mutiny studios in Bradford and promises to be "a record full of energy and powerful songs."
First formed in 2003 and drawing inspiration from the classic glam bands (Slade, Sweet) and heavy 70's bands (such as Deep Purple and Captain Beyond), GENTLEMAN'S PISTOLS' sound has been described as "what 70's proto-punks Edgar Broughton Band would've sounded like if they were put through a woodchipper machine along with Budgie and ...
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THE GATES OF SLUMBER TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM
Doom lords THE GATES OF SLUMBER will unleash their hotly-anticipated fifth full-length album The Wretch on May 10, 2011 via Rise Above Records / Metal Blade. Featuring eight slabs of punishing metal, The Wretch boils doom down to its purest form, resulting in the Indianapolis trio's finest work to date.
Recorded during the cold British winter of 2010 at London's Orgone Studios and produced by Jaime Gomez Arellano (GHOST, ANGEL WITCH), The Wretch sees THE GATES OF SLUMBER pushing its trademark blend of skull-crushing riffs and pounding rhythms to new heights and marks a return to the slower all-out doom tempos of the group's early albums combined with "true doom metal" lyrical themes. From the funereal crawl of opener ...
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ORANGE GOBLIN ANNOUNCES U.S. HEADLINING TOUR; UK BAND SET TO STORM THE STATES
ORANGE GOBLIN, the heavy hitting British metal band that has inspired a generation of up-and-coming rock acts has announced a U.S. headlining tour. The spring trek will kick off on May 28 in New York City and will also see the band perform as part of the 2011 Maryland Death Fest. Support on the tour will be provided by THE GATES OF SLUMBER and NAAM.
Formed in 1995 (as Our Haunted Kingdom), ORANGE GOBLIN has released six full length albums, developing an enthusiastic fan base that revels in the band's aggressive sound built on "booze sodden riffs and attitude." Longtime label Rise Above Records has just reissued the group's super-heavy back catalog and the quartet - now signed to Candlelight Records - will deliver a ...
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BLOOD CEREMONY RELEASE NEW LP “Living with the Ancients”
Toronto-based occult rockers BLOOD CEREMONY will release their sophomore album Living with the Ancients on March 1, 2011 via Rise Above Records / Metal Blade. Living with the Ancients expands on the sound cultivated by the quartet with its critically-celebrated self-titled debut which was released in 2008 and dubbed "skull-crushing by SPIN.
BLOOD CEREMONY's distinct style of flute-tinged "witch rock" evolves from an infernal marriage of occult-inspired acid folk and vintage hard rock riffing. After a mind-numbing study of hundreds of witchcraft-themed films, the group began to pour their energies into crafting songs, transforming their fascination for horror into a profane musical vision. Invoking the mischievous ...
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CULT DOOM METAL BAND ELECTRIC WIZARD TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM
World-class British doom metal band ELECTRIC WIZARD will release its long-awaited new album Black Masses in North America on January 18, 2011 via Rise Above Records. The legendary group's seventh studio album and first since 2007's Witchcult Today, Black Masses was recorded with Grammy Award-winning British recording engineer Liam Watson (The White Stripes) in London's Toe Rag Studios and promises to deliver "a crushing behemoth of funereal march pyschedelia" and "the oblivion and ecstasy of 10,000 watts of doom!"
Long hailed as the true heirs to Black Sabbath, ELECTRIC WIZARD have achieved near iconic status in the metal underground but have not -- as of yet -- crushed the world! Now, in league with Satan himself, ...
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EXTRAORINDARY SWEDISH BLACK METAL BAND GHOST TO RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM
Bizarre Swedish black metal buzz band GHOST will dispense its debut directive Opus Eponymous in North America on January 18, 2011 via Rise Above Records. The release of the album will assist the abhorrent agents in spreading their "unholy gospel" and "tricking mankind into believing the end is ultimately a good thing via the ever so popular rock music medium."
GHOST's Opus Eponymous is a daringly fascinating combination of satanic rock music merged with an almost unthinkable pop sensibility; this is Black Metal at its most original and deceiving apex. Musically rich and teeming with an undeniably authentic classic metal aura (described "as if the last three decades of heavy metal history never existed"), Opus ...
