By a show of hands, who enjoyed that first song that The Ritual Aura premiered? Well, we aren’t done yet folks! We have a guitar playthrough from band mastermind Levi Dale….of ANOTHER new song! The man was extremely kind to lend us this fun playthrough of a tastefully somber, heavy […]
Guys! Dave’s letting me do my first featured band! How dope is that! It’s been a minute since TMR has done a band close to home, nonetheless one that has enough material to saturate an entire month’s worth of social media posting without repetition. That being said, there […]
Artisan Era newcomers Warforged have released a new song today from their upcoming album titled “We’ve Been Here Before”. It’s a stellar progressive blackened death metal opus packed with so many blast beats, tremelo riffs and amazing vocals it’ll make you preorder this upcoming album in a heartbeat. I’ve been into […]
So we helped keep this show in Buffalo, and we got assigned jobs. Vick was running doors and collecting teh monies, and for some reason they trusted Dave to do sound. It went okay, unusually enough! Dave took some crappy pictures but was right on stage side, so […]
Progressive Melodic Death Metal outfit Archaic Decapitator is releasing their upcoming EP “The Apothecary” on April 19th and we have our extremely invaluable opinion on that upcoming effort! The band recently added Xenosis drummer Gary Marotta to their lineup as their drummer, and didn’t hesitate at all to get familiar […]
Chicago’s progressive blackened death metal band Warforged announced their debut full length (they have an EP “Essence Of The Land” from 2014). These guys have been on the road playing all kinds of shows, and been recording their first full length for a while. In celebration of their accomplishment the […]
How fitting that TMR’S 300th article is a premiere from an amazing band?! No disrespect to the awesome music I’ve premiered before, I didn’t know of those bands before we communicated. This instance however…..I’ve been following The Ritual Aura shortly after the debut was released and have an emotional connection […]
It’s no secret to the metal world Nick doesn’t tour…..but his bandmates Phil Tougas (guitar) and Hugo Doyon-Karout (bass) have time to do an Equipoise playthrough of “Waking Divinity”! You shouldn’t be shocked at the wizardly fret work of both players, always worth seeing such wild songs translated to a playthrough is always mesmerizing…..and that’s what these […]
Blackened Death Metal group Hath premiered another song from their upcoming effort “Of Rot And Ruin” through Metal Injection today. You already know with the link in the previous sentence that I really dig this band, and am in love with the album as much as the upcoming Ceremony Of Silence (Willowtip […]
As well all know, Nick Padovani of Equipoise DOESN’T tour……yet! The TMR crew made him answer some questions, after we found him out back in the dumpster of a Chili’s high on bath salts scavenging for food. Now if that last sentence were actually true, we wouldn’t let him […]