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…although you’d barely know it to watch the band’s latest, Stu Block-centric, video, for “Time Immemorial.” Still, it’s hard to be too pissed, because a) the visuals are pretty, b) Stu Block is a cool dude with a funny Canadian accent, and c) the song is good.
-AR
The chill of fall is in the air but the gossip mill never cools off at the MetalSucks Mansion. This week’s notables and quotables included:
See ya next week.
Into Eternity’s new album, The Incurable Tragedy, just dropped last week (read David Bee Roth’s review here), and now the band is getting ready to hit the road with Iced Earth – an appropriate tour mate for IE if ever there was one. Just one little problem: guitarist, founder, and all around main man Tim Roth won’t be on the tour.
In a War & Peace-length statement, the band explains…
Congrats to our winners of last week’s Funny Photo Caption Contest who will each receive an Aborted “Evidence Bag” prize pack containing an autographed copy of Strychnine.213, an autographed poster and an Aborted t-shirt. The winning entries:
This week we have a few special prize packages provided by the good men and women of Century Media; 1 grand prize winner will receive a gatefold double-LP vinyl of Nachtmystium’s amazing Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1 pressed on beer-colored vinyl and limited to 2,000 copies (read Sammy O’Hagar’s glowing review of the album. Two runners up will each receive CD copies of Into Eternity’s The Incurable Tragedy (read David Bee Roth’s review) and Intronaut’s Prehistoricisms, which was just released yesterday. Alls ya gotta do is come up with a funny caption for the below photo and post it in the comments, and one of these packages could be all yours! (Ghaal jokes automatically excluded for lack of originality.)
[Thanks: Zarko M.]
Last week, a bunch of self-satisfied millionaires released an album called Dead Magnets or something, and in all the name-calling and fan-rage that ensued, I became so emotionally shattered after being called a “talentless hack” who should “go play Guitar Hero” that I was forced to delay a review for a release that was actually worth listening to. My only hope is that we can all put this behind us and mend the chords of metal brotherhood with reinforced steel so that we might be united once more in our elitist musical sausage fest.
Arriving just in time for the peace offering is Into Eternity’s The Incurable Tragedy, an album that manages to be so credibly metal, yet so vastly accessible, that there’s something for everyone. If you’re like me, you most likely began to hear the buzz about them around the release of their 2006 breakthrough, The Scattering of Ashes. If you liked that album, then I can only tell you to run out and get this one now, as there’s no chance you’ll be disappointed. Into Eternity have not skipped a beat since 2006, and you’ll be waltzing into capable but familiar territory.
Well, not really, of course.
They will, however, be debuting “at least two songs” off their forthcoming concept album, The Incurable Tragedy, on 93.1 FM CJTR Regina Community Radio in Saskatchewan, Canada, which strikes me as kind of an odd platform from which to dive into the album’s promotion. Still, you can stream the broadcast live (which will also feature interviews with front man Stu Block and guitarist Tim Roth) this Friday, June 13 at 6:00 p.m. here. And I imagine mp3s of the new tracks will be floating around the ‘net within hours of the broadcast.
Vince and I are both really, really, really excited about this album. And the rough mix of new song “Diagnosis Terminal,” currently streaming on the band’s MySpace page, is totally crazy and way way way heavier than I anticipated, so… even if the band is debuting new songs on a community radio station is Saskatchewan, I’m sure we’re all gonna buy this thing when it drops.
-AR
[via Blabbermouth]
Blabbermouth has posted the below footage of At the Gates playing one of their first reunion shows in Japan this past week as part of a tour with Dillinger Escape Plan, Pig Destroyer, Into Eterenity and Mayhem (Holy purple poop, that’s a sweet tour!). At the Gates don’t show up ’til the 6:43 mark, but it’s actually kinda worth it to just sit through the Pig Destroyer and DEP footage.
Obviously this isn’t the highest quality video, but the band sounds pretty killer to me. What do y’all think?
-AR
Let’s get some love for Pacific Northwest metallers Nevermore around here. The first time I saw these guys was at the first Gigantour (’04?), and it was quite the spectacle — five dudes with hair below their asses windmilling in perfect unison. Nevermore deserves so much credit for being an American band forging ahead with the European style of metal in the late ’90s when literally NO ONE would touch it this side of the Atlantic, other than an underground nation of Doom 3-playing, Magic card-toting teenage geeks. Thankfully they made it through those darkest of times and forged the way for new bands like Into Eternity to carry the torch.
Nevermore – “Final Product”
Nevermore – “The Psalm of Lydia”
Nevermore – “Narcosynthesis”
Nevermore – “The River Dragon Has Come”
Nevermore – “Dreaming Neon Black”
The following video for “Voyager” from their 2003 release Enemies of Reality gives a pretty good flavor of the band. And those finger-spike thingies; oh my, where do I get my pair of those?
-VN
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Into Eternity – easily one of our favorite power metal bands out there right now (and, mixing in of death/black metal vocals be damned, they are a power metal band) – have finished touring behind last year’s jizz inducing The Scattering of Ashes, and, according to an update from guitarist/vocalist/mastermind Tim Roth (not to be confused with the Oscar nominated actor of the same name), are working on a concept album:
“Right now we are home in Canada awaiting the cold chill of winter. It is supposed to snow tomorrow, so I’ll be in front of my warm computer composing new riffs for the next album. For the first time ever, we will be doing a concept album. Stu [Block, vocalist] and I are working on the lyrics right now. It’s always good to keep moving forward and to try new things, and this is something that we have always wanted to do. We have done two songs already, and it’s turning out really cool. We’ll keep you posted in the future as things start to progress further.”
Oh man oh man, does this news make me excited. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna jerk off to Leia in the gold bikini in Jedi and cry myself to sleep.
-AR
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