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California Power Metal NIVIANE Release New Album “Queen of Phantoms”

Mar 7, 2025 Fistoffreedom 0 Comments

The wait is over — Sacramento, California's Niviane unleash their powerful new album, "Queen of Phantoms", out today March 7th, 2025! With a refined lineup, sharpened songwriting and a thunderous production, this release solidifies the band’s place at the forefront of modern power metal.

Crafted with precision over the past years, "Queen of Phantoms" represents Niviane’s strongest and most dynamic work to date. The album was written during the pandemic lockdowns and carefully shaped to highlight the band’s evolution, featuring a new rhythm section with drummer Isaiah AR and bassist Tyler Satterlee who inject fresh power into the music. Each of the 11 tracks offers a different shade of power metal, from blistering speed and aggression to uplifting melodies and dark atmospheres pushing beyond the genre’s conventions.

Featuring the commanding title track "Queen of Phantoms", the emotionally charged "Tomorrow’s a New Day" and the thunderous "Under Black Flags" just to name a few, the album strikes a perfect balance between heaviness and melody. "Queen of Phantoms" showcases Niviane’s signature blend of intricate guitar work, anthemic choruses and cinematic storytelling, appealing to fans of Judas Priest, Queensrÿche, Primal Fear and Nevermore.

The album’s official lyric videos for "Queen of Phantoms" and "12 BC Legions" further bring its powerful themes to life, visually enhancing its dark, immersive storytelling. The latest official music video for "Tomorrow’s a New Day" explores deep and personal themes of mental health, setting it apart as one of the band’s most moving compositions.

With "Queen of Phantoms", Niviane delivers a bold and unapologetic statement—this is power metal at its finest, evolved and redefined. Experience the full force of Niviane’s latest masterpiece now!

CD order - https://rockshots.eu/products/niviane-queen-of-phantoms-cd

Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3FmnmwY

Tracklist:
1. Queen of Phantoms
2. 12 BC: Legions
3. 12 BC: Germania
4. Beacon In The Darkness
5. Some Wounds… Never Heal
6. All Debts Repaid
7. Tomorrow’s A New Day
8. Event Horizon
9. Our Maze
10. Gunslingers & Graves
11. Under Black Flags

Band line up
Aaron Robitsch: Keys & Orchestration
Gary Tarplee: Guitars
Isaiah AR: Drums
Mark Miner: Guitars
Norman Skinner: Vocals
Tyler Satterlee: Bass

More info:
https://www.rockshots.eu

https://www.niviane.com/

https://www.facebook.com/nivianemetal/

https://www.instagram.com/nivianemetalofficial/

https://x.com/nivianeofficial
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BENEDICTION - Release Video For New Single 'Crawling Over Corpses'

Mar 6, 2025 Al Feliciano 0 Comments

British death metal legends, BENEDICTION, have released yet another single from their upcoming new studio album, Ravage Of Empires, which is due to be released on April 4, 2025, via Nuclear Blast Records.

'Crawling Over Corpses' is a ferocious up-tempo banger, which transports the band's old school roots into the here and now while destroying everything that stands in its way. Dave Ingram's primal growls have never sounded more vicious, and the rhythm section fires on all cylinders with a barrage of riffs and massive breakdowns. Alongside the single, another fiercely entertaining music video has been released, which you can watch below.

Ravage Of Empires is available for pre-order on CD, LP and as digital album.

PRE-ORDER/PRE-SAVE RAVAGE OF EMPIRES:
https://benediction.bfan.link/ravage-of-empires

STREAM 'CRAWLING OVER CORPSES':
https://benediction.bfan.link/crawling-over-corpses

WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR 'CRAWLING OVER CORPSES':
https://youtu.be/tfQJT29e6T0

ABOUT BENEDICTION

“Sometimes They Come Back” is not just the title of a horror movie based on a macabre tale by Stephen King, it is also a summary of what happened to UK death metal veterans BENEDICTION, yet you might like to add a “better than ever before”. While never officially disbanded, 2020’s Scriptures, the group’s eighth studio album achieved what is usually not an easy feat. It connected well with classics like Transcend the Rubicon (1993) and its immediate and memorable songwriting, the heavy-as-a-brick Grind Bastard (1998), and also saw legendary vocalist Dave Ingram return with his merciless roar and knack for morbid, twisted lyrics. After two albums with Dave Hunt on vocals, Scriptures was BENEDICTION’s first record in over a decade impressing with aggressive up-tempo attacks like ‘Iterations of I’ and ‘Rabid Carnality’ or the neck-breaking mid-tempo barrage of ‘Stormcrow’, songs that became live staples alongside ‘evergreens’ such as ‘I Bow to None’, ‘Magnificat’, ‘Subconscious Terror’ or ‘Vision in the Shroud’ in no time. With Scriptures, BENEDICTION even almost cracked Germany’s top ten by entering at a phenomenal #11 of the Official German Charts showing that the death metal veterans founded 1989 in Birmingham, England, offered an extremely well received sonic catharsis when due to the pandemic, people were locked down and pissed off.

With their brilliant new record Ravage Of Empires in tow, founding members and guitarists Darren Brookes and Peter Rew, longtime vocalist Dave Ingram, drummer Giovanni Durst, and Nik Sampson (bass) will travel far and wide once more. Already confirmed are the Tales of the Triple Death Tour with Jungle Rot and Master kicking off on album release date as well as confirmed appearances at Wacken Open Air and Maryland Deathfest. More to be announced soon!

Catch BENEDICTION live on their European release tour in April 2025 with guests Jungle Rot and Master. All confirmed live dates below.

TALES OF THE TRIPLE DEATH...
BENEDICTION
W/ JUNGLE ROT & MASTER

04.04.25	DE	Hamburg	Kultur Palast
05.04.25	DE	Bad Oeynhausen	Druckerei
06.04.25	NL	Sittard	Volt
07.04.25	BE	Kortrijk	DVG
08.04.25	LU	Esch-Belval	Rockhal
09.04.25	DE	Mannheim	7er Club
10.04.25	DE	Obertraubling	Event Hall Airport
11.04.25	DE	Geiselwind	Eventzentrum Strohofer
12.04.25	AT	Salzburg	Rockhouse
13.04.25	DE	Jena	F-Haus
15.04.25	DE	Berlin	Lido
16.04.25	DE	Essen	Turock
17.04.25	CH	Aarau	KIFF

TICKETS HERE: https://www.we-live.agency/shows

More confirmed dates for 2025:


21.05.25	US	Brooklyn, NY	The Meadows
22.05.25	US	Baltimore, MD	Maryland Deathfest
21.06.25	PT	Beja	Nada Fest
25.06.25	CZ	Spalene Porici	Basinfirefest
26.-27.07.25	ES	Cangas De Morrazo	Kanekas Metalfest
30.07-02.08.25	DE	Wacken	Wacken Festival
01.08.25	DE	Loebnitz	Full Rewind Fest

Inhuman Slam Grind NECRAMBULANT's New Album "Upheaval of Malignant Necrambulance"

Mar 6, 2025 Fistoffreedom 0 Comments

NEWS RELEASE

Montreal, QC - March 6, 2025

Streaming Now! Inhuman Slam Grind NECRAMBULANT's New Album "Upheaval of Malignant Necrambulance"

Phoenix, Arizona's Necrambulant bring forth their next offering of inhuman slam grind with their second full-length "Upheaval of Malignant Necrambulance" via Gore House Productions. Being unleashed officially on March 7th, 2025, the band has teamed up with NoCleanSinging for the album's full stream premiere, which can be heard HERE.

"We are stoked to be back in proper form. This full-length has been a long time coming, in that we've spent the past two years working on fine tuning these songs to be a proper representation of our original moniker of "Inhuman Slam Grind". We hope this new album is something that fans of our earlier material will appreciate, and something fresh for the newer fans as well. Expect a full audial assault of horror, gore, and guttural slamming sickness the Necrambulant way." adds the band.

Striving for a no-bullshit / no-filler tracklist "Upheaval of Malignant Necrambulance" is a relentless barrage of slamming brutal death metal. Presenting an anthology of all that Necrambulant's represent, horror, gore, and extreme metal. Incorporating a full arsenal of death metal and slam to further define their self-described sound of "Inhuman Slam Grind", this new record has something to offer on many levels of thematic brutality; zombies, serial killers, cannibals, sci-fi, and Warhammer.

Recommended for fans of Devourment, Kraanium, Cephalotripsy, Cannibal Corpse, and Abominable Putridity, Necrambulant's "Upheaval of Malignant Necrambulance" is available for pre-order on CD, Cassette and digital from Gore House Productions at https://orcd.co/uomnecrambulance

Album Art by Nev (Gruesome Graphx)

Track Listing
1. Amalgamation of Gresome Curdling Ambonination - 3:09
2. Inhumane Creophagus Repulsion - 3:14
3. Catastrophic... / Epoch 0 - 3:14
4. Barbarian Brute Force Annihilation - 3:47
5. Sentenced to a Guttonous Pit - 2:59
6. Pestilential Ascendancy - 2:53
7. Ineffable Tormenting Possession - 2:24
8. Chunked Pus Chowder - 3:04
9. Upheaval of Malignant Necrambulance - 2:01
10. Coffin Meat - 2:50
11. Self-Biologic Carnivorous Cannibalism - 3:00
Album Length: 32:35

More info: Gorehouseproductions.com | Facebook.com/necrambulantaz | Instagram.com/necrambulant | Tiktok.com/@necrambulant
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Streaming Now! FROGG's Debut Album Sets An "Eclipse" of Technical Modern Metal

Mar 6, 2025 Fistoffreedom 0 Comments

New York, USA's FROGG are ready to descend an "Eclipse" of technical modern metal with their debut album out on March 7th, 2025. A long time in waiting, this first full-length features ten tracks of heavy, raw, progressive, death and avant-garde thinking metal. The record was co-produced by Frogg guitarist/vocalist Sky Moon Clark and Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me, The Contortionist, Scale the Summit). Fans who have been following Frogg since their conception will find exactly what that they signed up for along with lots of fun surprises. The band doesn't operate in one genre all the time and "Eclipse" is set to marvel.

"A sonic eclipse where every genre collides—progressive, technical, and just enough death to keep your neck sore for weeks." adds bassist Ethan Emery.

Lyrically, the record explores Mythology from various places along with tying tales and emotions together. Fans can expect seasonal singles from Frogg going forward as they already have plans for follow-up singles to come real soon after the album's release.

FROGG’s main ambition is to hit the live circuit with a perfected performance and its brand-new line-up. With performance in mind, FROGG has been relentlessly rehearsing new original material and old, to deliver an authentic live experience.

Committed to technical excellence and progressive innovation, Frogg is recommended for fans of weird and wild, and fans who appreciate bands such as Protest The Hero, Between The Buried And Me, Zenith Passage, Unexpect, and Obscura.

Listen to the full stream album premiere for "Eclipse" via TheProgSpace HERE.

"Eclipse" is due out on March 7, 2025, and is available for pre-order at https://froggofficial.bandcamp.com.

Spotify - https://spoti.fi/4heSdtu

Album Artwork - Artists: Yann Kempen & Bertrand LeFebvre

Track Listing:
1. Walpurgisnacht (4:44)
2. Life Zero (4:30)
3. Dandelion (3:50)
4. Eclipse I: Blind Bakunawa (4:20)
5. Eclipse II: Sickened By Silence (4:48)
6. Interspecific Hybrid Species (4:19)
7. Wake Up (6:22)
8. Sun Stealer (4:41)
9. Double Vision Roll (3:29)
10. Omni Trigger (4:07)

Album Recording Credits:
• All songs performed by: FROGG
• All songs written by: FROGG
• Produced by: Jamie King & Sky Moon Clark
• Mixed by: Jamie King
• Mastered by: Jamie King
• Album Artwork by: Yann Kempen & Bertrand LeFebvre

Album Band Line Up:
Sky Moon Clark - Vocals, Guitars
Will Brown - Drums, Percussion, World Instruments
Brett Fairchild - Guitars on tracks 1, 5, 6,10
Nick Thorpe - Bass on tracks 1,4,5,7,8,10
David White - Bass on track 2
Brad Williamson - Bass on track 6
Jack Lynch - Bass on track 3
Emma Rae - Clean vocals & keys

Live Band Line Up:
Sky Moon Clark - Vocals, Guitars
Brett Fairchild - Backup Vocals, Guitars
Ethan Emery - Bass
Will Brown - Drums

For more info: https://linktr.ee/froggband
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DOUBLE EXPERIENCE Nominated for Ottawa Capital Music Award for Album of the Year "Undefeated" + Ontario Tour Dates + Toronto Comicon

Mar 5, 2025 Fistoffreedom 0 Comments

NEWS RELEASE

Montreal, QC - March 5, 2025

DOUBLE EXPERIENCE Nominated for Ottawa Capital Music Award for Album of the Year "Undefeated"

+ Ontario Tour Dates

Double Experience (L-R - Ian Nichols - Vocals and Bass, Brock Tinsley - Guitar) - Photo by Curtis Perry

In 2020, the Ottawa rock duo Double Experience took everything they knew about music - thousands of international concerts, presenting at industry conferences, and writing songs inspired by video games and film - and channeled their process into a series of livestreams. The result? A crowdfunded album - consisting largely of spontaneous suggestions from Twitch users - called “Undefeated” released in May 2024 via their indie label Colfax Music Ltd.. Nearly a year after its release, Double Experience’s modern rock opus is now nominated for a 2025 Ottawa Capital Music Award for Album of the Year.

"WE’RE NOMINATED: “Undefeated” is up for “Album of the Year”. This is a huge honour, especially considering the nature in which this album was created via our Twitch channel." adds the band.

Double Experience are nominated alongside the following artists listed below. More info on 2025 nominees can be found at at https://ottawamic.com/cma

Album of the Year | Album de l'année *Public vote | Vote du public
Show Love - Kellylee Evans
Undefeated - Double Experience
To Be Clear - Mia Kelly
Love & Patience - Country Club Pool Boy
Hugging the Cactus - Twin Flames

The Capital Music Awards will be held on May 22nd, 2025 at Southham Hall at the National Arts Centre (1 Elgin Street) in Ottawa, ON. Details at https://ottawamic.com/

By taking influence from Coheed and Cambria, Weezer and Palaye Royale, Double Experience bounce between sounds in a quest to compose music as diverse as an arcade gallery. In doing so, Double Experience have bonded with a passionate global fan-base with their undeniable live prowess amounting to nearly 1000 concerts across 18 countries, opening for all manner of acts, from Badflower to Danko Jones, from JJ Wilde to Galactic Empire.

By day, mild-mannered band members Ian Nichols (vocals, bass) and Brock Tinsley (guitar) deliver band-oriented workshops and panels at conferences, conventions and festivals (IndieWeek, MAGFest, Ottawa ComicCon), teaching up-and-coming creatives how to take control of their own destiny in a similar way as the duo’s musical alter-ego. The band have cowritten songs with Jayson DeZuzio (Imagine Dragons) and in 2016, their Destiny-themed anthem “The Glimmer Shot” caught the attention of the game's developers at Bungie.

Their fourth studio album "Underneath" (released May 2024 via Colfax Music Ltd.) was inspired by the fans for the fans all through live streaming on Twitch and has all things nerdy and is all about perseverance.

"Ever since writing songs on Twitch, our fans have a day-one connection with the music. No matter how weird or strange the goal might seem, our band is living proof that you can really make a breakthrough if you celebrate what makes you weird or strange, not shy away from it." comments Double Experience.

"Undefeated" is available on all digital platforms - https://linktr.ee/2xxp

In additional news, Double Experience are a never stopping tour de force and will be hitting the road for dates in March across Southern Ontario (dates listed below).

Tour Dates:
March 12 - St. Catharines, ON - Warehouse
March 13 - Hamilton, ON - Mills Hardware
March 14 - Tillsonburg, ON - Paddy’s Underground Gastropub
March 15 - Toronto, ON - Toronto Comicon (Theatre 3 at 1:15 PM for a live songwriting workshop / performance)
March 18 - Toronto, ON - Rivoli

Track Listing:
1. Undefeated (3:36)
2. Goddess (3:43)
3. Figured You Out (3:23)
4. Dancing on the Moon (2:58)
5. Bill Murray (3:02)
6. Stranger (2:48)
7. This is War (3:04)
8. Alter Ego (3:18)
9. Drive Away (3:06)
10. Top of the World (3:04)

Album Credits:
Music and Lyrics by Double Experience
Steve Foley - additional engineering, instrumentation
Al Jacob - production, mixing, engineering Ian Nichols - vocals, bass
El Stich - artwork Brock Tinsley - guitar Matt Tuttle - mastering
Member of SOCAN
MAPL - Canadian Content

More info:
https://www.2xExperience.com
https://www.facebook.com/DoubleExperience
https://www.youtube.com/DoubleExperience
https://www.instagram.com/DoubleExperience
https://www.twitch.tv/DoubleExperience
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