HERETIC Album Details; Special Guest On ARKHAM WITCH Album - Metal On Metal Records Updates
by: Mike - 2012-07-08 12:24:20
Metal On Metal Records has issued the following updates on the forthcoming new Heretic album and the forthcoming new Arkham Witch album.
*** METAL ON METAL RECORDS NEWS - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ***
Heretic - A Time Of Crisis: new song, artwork and more album details revealed.
A Time Of Crisis, the come-back album of the US power/thrash metal legends Heretic, will be released on July 26th through Metal On Metal Records. The band stayed true to their roots and created a really solid album in the best US metal tradition: heavy, melodic and aggressive.
Metal On Metal Records revealed the third song from this album, "Child Of War". It can be streamed together with two previously posted songs, "Remains" and "Police State", from the Heretic page on label's website: http://metal-on-metal.com/bands/heretic/.
A promo clip featuring a fragment of yet another song from the album, "For Your Faith", can be watched on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uezNhWP--8U.
The complete track listing of the album is as follows: 1. The Divine Inquisition 2. Tomorrow’s Plague 3. Betrayed 4. Remains 5. A Time Of Crisis 6. For Your Faith 7. Raise Your Fist 8. Heretic 9. Child Of War 10. Police State 11. The End Of The World 12. Let Me Begin Again
Metal On Metal Records started taking pre-orders for the CD, offering it for a discounted price from their web store: http://metal-on-metal.com/shop/. The pre-order will end on July 22nd. The album can be also pre-ordered as a digital download (WAV files) from the label's Bandcamp page: http://metalonmetalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/heretic-a-time-of-crisis. After July 26th it will be distributed digitally by CD Baby and made available also from iTunes, Amazon MP3, eMusic and other retailers. _________________________________
Leo Stivala (Forsaken) recording guest vocals for Arkham Witch.
Leo Stivala, the vocalist of the Maltese doom metal veterans Forsaken, has recently recorded additional vocals for the title track of the upcoming Arkham Witch album Legions Of The Deep (to be out on October 1st on Metal On Metal Records). The recording took place in the home studio of Chris Grech (guitarist of Nomad Son) in Mellieha, Malta. Present at this event were also Simon, Emily and Aldo of Arkham Witch, as well as Jowita and Simone of Metal On Metal Records.
Leo Stivala commented: "After the awesome time passed last year at the third edition of the Malta Doom Metal fest, I was contacted by Aldo from Arkham Witch to see if I was interested in performing in one of their songs for their new album. My answer was an immediate YES... taking into consideration the great sense of friendship I have with band and the fact that I like their music so much. So after a few months we talked again, agreed about the song "Legions of the Deep", and that the recordings will be done at Chris Grech’s studio in Mellieha, Malta. We met in Mellieha a day after I got back from Hellfest and went straight to the studio... Bammm, there we go... first take was already awesome!!! I really had a great time singing this song, as I felt that I really gave it a live feeling... we were all headbanging and having a good time... things sounded so great!!! Simon also gave a very solid performance re-recording his vocal parts. Some touches from Chris on the desk to get everything together and it was ready. It is an honor for me to be part of this album from Arkham Witch and I want to thank the band, Jowita and Simone from Metal on Metal Records for showing trust in my vocal capabilities and for showing such a great sense of friendship for so many years and through this recording!!! YOU RULE!!! Metal till the End!!!"
Simon Iff?, Arkham Witch vocalist, added: "We just wanted Leo to sing on our album because he is a true doom metal legend! Aldo "Dodo" Doom has a long history and friendship with Forsaken and Leo, and it is an honour for us that a vocalist from a band that has been a big inspiration to Arkham Witch, both in terms of their music and the passion with which they go about delivering it, should consent to sharing a mic with us! Singing with Leo was a blast and I really hope that someday we get to perform this song together live! The man's molecular structure is composed from particles of pure heavy metal!"
Metal On Metal Records filmed and put together a short video report from this special recording session - the metal madness that took place on that very day, June 23rd, can be viewed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktsIllEprg0
About the label: Metal On Metal Records is a label started in 2008 by two old school metal fans who had been involved in the scene in other ways (as cover artist, designer, journalist and photographer) and decided to take their support for the music they love to the next level. MOMR is focused on all traditional styles of metal: classic heavy, US power, thrash, speed, doom, power/prog, NWOBHM and black/thrash/death.
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