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June is going to be a huge month for metal releases and it starts with a bang today, the month’s first Tuesday. New releases by Morbid Angel, Arch Enemy, Job For A Cowboy and Amorphis are the biggest hitters, while new ones from Origin, Engineer, Gigan, Khann and Tombs are sure to put some hair on your chest. And that’s just a small sampling of all that comes out today. Vic Vaughn on each and every one of ‘em after the jump.
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So the three-day weekend kinda threw our schedule out of whack; you may have noticed that we still haven’t finished announcing the line-up for our Magical Mystery Tour, and we didn’t get to finish our list of The Top 25 Modern Metal Guitarists, either. Both of those blessed events will go down next week, though, when we’re back for a full five days! So get stoked.
In the meantime, let’s review all the fun we managed to pack into this week’s abbreviated set:
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone. You will always be at the forefront of our thoughts, dreams, and prayers.
-AR
As we reported a few weeks back, June is going to be a big, big month for Black Market Activities. The label helmed by The Red Chord frontman Guy Kozowyk begins their new distribution and artist development deal with Good Fight Entertainment with four, count ‘em four, releases in just two weeks — Engineer’s Crooked Voices and Khann’s Erode both come out June 7, and Ed Gein’s Bad Luck and Fit For An Autopsy’s The Process of Human Extermination on June 21.
And guess what? All four releases are fucking fantastic. We dug them all so much, in fact, that we begged Black Market Activities to let us debut four songs at once — one from each album — so we could revel in their awesomeness with you, our beloved readers. You’re welcome, beloved readers!
So check out the tracks below. BMA is a diverse label, and no two of these bands sound even remotely similar, so it’s impossible for us to believe that you won’t dig at least one of these songs. And don’t forget to pick up the full releases when they come out June 7 and June 21!!! You can pre-order them all right here.
ENGINEER, “BRUISED BLUE COLLAR”
Black Market Activities is about to have a ridiculously strong summer, with new releases from Engineer, Khann, Ed Gein, and Fit for an Autopsy all coming out in June, and then, at some point thereafter, a new Today is the Day album, which is pretty much never bad news. And as promotional efforts for these releases ramp up, we’ll get to hear more and more of what all this more or less guaranteed to be terrific music, which is, of course, great news for us!
So; yesterday, Fit for an Autopsy debuted a track online; now our Broseph Gordon-Levitts over at The Deciblog are streaming a new Engineer track,”The Idiot’s Theme.” It’s good because it rocks, and it’s good because it does things which are unexpected — for example, there are gang shouts over a section of the song which is relatively quiet, which is to say, not the part of the tune where you’d expect to hear a gang shout. A little bit of creativity goes a long way, y’know?
Headbang here, then come back and let us know what you think in the comments section. Engineer’s new album, Crooked Voices, comes out June 7, but don’t forget that we’re currently giving away a test press copy of the album on vinyl, along with test presses of vinyls for those new releases from Ed Gein and Khann, too. Enter for your chance to win.
-AR
As we revealed yesterday, the answer to last week’s logo was Iwrestledabearonce, or IWABO (both answers were considered acceptable). A surprising amount of you got the wrong answer, but a lot of you got it right, too. Alas, there can be only two randomly-selected winners, and in this case, those winners are Andrew Hamblin and Jillian McClure. They each get a special prize pack from Century Media. Three cheers for Andy and Jill! (You guys don’t mind if I call you “Andy” and “Jill,” do ya?)
This week we have another awesome prize to give away: a package from Black Market Activities, featuring vinyl test presses (pic here) of three of the label’s most highly anticipated forthcoming releases — Engineer’s Crooked Voices (out June 7), Khann’s Erode (also out June 7), and Ed Gein’s Bad Luck (out June 21). If you already know these bands that you already know that these albums are worth getting excited about, and if you don’t, well… you should educate yourself. These albums are going to rule, and these are vinyl test presses, so they’re definitely gonna be collector’s items!
All you gots to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail at axl AT metalsucks DOT net with your answer, your name, and your address. ALL ENTRIES WITHOUT AN ADDRESS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. From everyone who gets it right, we’ll randomly select a winner and announce his or her name a week from today.
This week’s logo was suggested by reader Jason Apoch Weiss. Thanks, brother!
-AR
Black Market Activities, the label helmed by The Red Chord frontman Guy Kozowyk, has announced a new distribution and artist development deal with Good Fight Entertainment, bringing to an end their long-standing distribution arrangement with Metal Blade. With that announcement also comes an exciting calendar of new releases set to roll out this summer via BMA:
June 7 – Engineer – Crooked Voices
June 7 – Khann – Erode
June 21 – Fit For An Autopsy – The Process Of Human Extermination
June 21 – Ed Gein - Bad Luck
tba – Today Is The Day – Pain Is A Warning
