5to1: 5 Q&A with Greek newcomers Celestial Immunity

[of violence] keeps coming across some fine metal from all over the world with the help of myspace. This time we are presenting an interview of Celestial Immunity, a fresh Greek band worthy of receiving some more attention. George Stoiloudis, responsible for band's vocal duties and lyrical concept, was the victim of [of violence]'s 5 questions. Here we go!1 Celestial Immunity was formed in 2006 but it seems it took awhile until February '09 for you guys to settle down and record a demo.. didn't want to rush things?
- Yes it took us 3 years to be ready for our first demo. In fact we had a few changes in the line up and our drummer had military duties. So thats why it took us so long to prepare the songs. Of course we want rush things but if you force things you probably do something wrong, we want the time to be in our side not against us! :D The time has come and we recorded our demo and we are very happy.

2 Could you give us more info about 5-track demo "...Lost In Shades" which is limited to 500 copies only ?
- Our demo was recorded between February and April 2009. At the end of April we finished the recordings and we begun mix/mastering with our sound engineer Doukas Siskopoulos. The recordings took place at Music Temple Studio at Alexandroupolis/Greece.The demo includes 5 songs and the artwork/layout made by Dimitris Polymeridis. We decide to release only 500 copies just for the beginning to see how it goes and if we need more copies its easy to be created. All music written by our guitarist Simos and Celestial Immunity. All lyrics written by me. Produced by Doukas Siskopoulos owner of Music Temple Studios and Celestial Immunity. The title of the demo is "...Lost In Shades" and our lyrics discourse subjects about the human feelings and souls, about the failure and how we ruin our lives and overall about sad and depressed themes.
3 How's the reactions you've received about the demo? Both from Greek scene and international audience?
- We are very happy because we hear only good criticism about our songs and the audience here in Greece is very excited about our music. This is the feedback we received and you know we are out here especially me i go to all gigs to the northern Greece and i hear very good comments about our music. We havent received any criticism by a zine or major metal magazine because we send our 5-track demo recently. So we wait for the criticism of major magazines and zines with great impatience. We have our site in myspace and the comments are very good. The feedback is that keep us chained together as a band and give us strength to go on.4 It's kind of a tradition to ask a newcomer band about their inspirations, reasons to form a band and write songs.. so what are yours? [of violence] would like to know about your all time favorite albums too..
- Heeh thats an easy question. Inspirations? The darkness, sadness, failure, the hope, all the human feelings even fanatsy themes like our song called Angels Cry. All the sad situations we ever lived, our unfulfilled dreams everything is possible to insipre us. We formed Celestial Immunity because we want to express all our feelings, thoughts through the music. We do reahersals we go out and drink beers you know its the whole package i think that lead us to form the band. We love what we do and we have faith to Celestial Immunity. Many bands insipred us but i think the most important with the most effectiveness are Dark Tranquillity/At The Gates/Amon Amarth/In Flames/Rotting Christ/Septic Flesh and our favourite albums are Damage done or the last of DT/ With odin on our side of Amon Amarth The jester Race of In Flames, Triarchy of the lost lovers of RC and the list goes on.
5 Whats next for Celestial Immunity? i guess booking live shows is top priority for the moment, right?
- Right! We wanna play live shows all over the Greece and we recently confirm some shows with Septic Flesh/Overgarven/Crossover at Northern Greece during September. We will play live to the following months. We planning to send more copies of our demo to magazines for reviews.Next year we will prepare the music for our debut full-lenght album and we will search for a deal. I would like to say Celestial Immunity will participate in the compilation cd of the metal magazine RockHard Greece with title Greek Power V1. We parcticipate with the last song of our demo named "The dream fades". I wanna thank you for the interview i will remember this interview cause it is our first haha! Thank you very much keep deathin!!

Celestial Immunity @ myspace: www.myspace.com/celestialimmunityband

-- listen Shadows Fall's King Of Nothing now!

Shadows Fall is finally back in action!!
Check out their myspace to listen to the new sounds from the these Springfield now-veterans. www.myspace.com/shadowsfall

You can also download the new track "King Of Nothing" from this location: www.myspace.com/windows

-- Download Eminence's new track now!

After 2008's The God of all Mistakes, Brazillan metallers are about to records a new full-length with an addition of a new vocalist. Bruno became a member of the band in January '09 after the departure of Wallace Parreiras.
click here to download the rerecorded version of The God Of All Mistakes with Bruno Paraguay on vocals directly from Eminence website.
for further details about the upcoming release & European tour dates check out Eminence official website

--Autumn announces German Tour promoting their Attitude!

Dutch female fronted metallers announces the confirmed tour dates for September.
04/09/09 – NL – Hoogeveen – Occultfest
06/09/09 – DE – Berlin – Knaack
07/09/09 – DE – Hamburg – Ballroom
08/09/09 – DE – Bochum – Matrix
09/09/09 – DE – Frankfurt – Nachtleben
10/09/09 – DE – München – Backstage Club
11/09/09 – NL – Den Haag – Metal Mayhem Festival
13/09/09 – DE – Köln - Underground

for more tour dates etc. : autumn @ myspace

ADAMAS - EXARCO EP [2008]

Self Released
2008
www.myspace.com/metaladamas
[6/10]

Italian metal scene is on the rise… It has been always an active seen, partly because of the bands sounding identical to Rhapsody (now known as Rhapsody Of Fire) with that unique Italian accent and partly because the country itself has a history of penning fine quality music. But nowadays whole metal scene in the country seems to be gearing up. We, at [of violence], have been bumping into more and more bands hailing from Italian shores recently. So now you know why this entry is babbling about Italy now. We’ve received a 4 -Track EP titled Exarco.

Adamas is the brainchild of Castellani brothers (yes, now it sounded totally like a family name you’d be hearing among the dialogues of a Coppola movie). Once they’ve managed to gather a proper line-up the usual cover songs eventually replaced by self-written genuine Adamas tunes. Exarco EP kicks off with destined to be a live-set opener The Cradle Of Judas. But that is not the first song that caught [of violence]’s attention. With its right-in-yer-face thrash riffage, Baghdad Singin’ In The Raid is the one gets the shoot at first sight. The title says it all, Castellani brothers like their metal served with a slight political twist reminding what’s going on in the real world. The thrashy riffage and lyrical concept somehow turns into a Children Of Bodom-esque guitar-keyboard marriage. And that is moment one rebellious eye-brow raises with “i’ve heard this before” suspicion… Even though we are quite familiar with the European Metal’s keyboard cliches are spread all over every single band featuring a Roland or Korg enthusiast. We just can’t help but think that sometimes it’d be very good idea to hear some unique additions of keyboards to heavy music. Into The Fit (nope, no mispelling, it’s Fit not Pit!) is the second track of the EP and has headbang encouraging pace representing a song form perfected by Flight 666 veterans, Iron Maiden. Luigi’s vocals which are quite in the vein of early Sentenced meets British thrashers Xentrix, manages to pull to the song to a different level. These two tracks are no doubt appears to be the highlights of the EP. The other two, Revenge (Best Served Cold) and The Cradle Of Judas can’t match up with the aforementioned ones neither arrangement wise nor songwriting wise. Both sounds still they have to be worked on more. Some fine ideas here and there but as a whole both sound they were quite rushed to get caught on tape. Especially Revenge (Best Served Cold).
Adamas is one of those bands you’d definitely want to hear what they will do next… They are young (& restless) and more they play live more their songwriting skills will be sharpened. No need to have a sixth sense to realize they are armed and ready to move forward and hit the next step.

-- Ladies & gentleman we give you IMMORTAL declaring ALL SHALL FALL

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[of violence] has just came across a bulletin from official myspace profile of the mighty born -again darkness worshippers Immortal announcing the cover artwork for the long awaited new record!
"All Shall Fall" will be out via Nuclear Blast as everybody predicted and it will hit the stores on september 25th. The tracklisting will possibly be like as follows:
1. ALL SHALL FALL
2. THE RISE OF DARKNESS
3. HORDES TO WAR
4. NORDEN ON FIRE
5. ARCTIC SWARM
6. MOUNT NORTH
7. UNEARTHLY KINGDOM

Immortal @ myspace: www.myspace.com/immortalofficial

-- Time to get a new dose of British darkness: Paradise Lost's new tune available now!

A new track from British genre definers Paradise Lost is now available for listening & embracing purposes! It is the title track of the new Paradise Lost album which is due to be out early October via Century Media Records. Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us 's cover artwork is done by Stefan Wibbeke based upon a 16th century woodcut.
And this time the production credits go to Swedish producer Jens Bogren. Nick Holmes comments the reason for not working with Rhys Fulber as they did in their last three records:"We are very happy with Rhys Fulber's work on the last album but after working on three albums together, we decided it was time to go for a different approach. After hearing the work he did with our 'Anatomy Of Melancholy' live DVD, we decided that Jens Bogren was the man for the job." Holmes also has some words to say about the new albums sound.. "Our music may have had different facelifts, but it has always been 'dark' and the new album will be no exception. Musically and lyrically."
Excited? Curious? Can't wait to hear the new songs?
well, click here to get a preview and more details about the upcoming record..

-- "Signs Of Infinite Power"

Signs Of Infinite Power will the title of Souther Californian Stoner Rockers, Fu Manchu's upcoming new full-length. Celebrating their 19 years of rockin' and rolling' in style, the band will release the new album late october. As some of you probably recall Fu Manchu last studio recording was out in 2007 by the name of We Must Obey via Liquor and Poker.
click here to get latest updates about the new record.

-- Arch Enemy - The Root Of All Evil artwork finally revealed

September 28th will be a fine day for Arch Enemy fans! All Root Of Evil, a brand new studio release, featuring all re-recorded tunez from band's first three albums with former vocalist Johan Liiva era. The Production duties were held by band themselves and the mixing was done by Andy Sneap.

You can view the cover artwork done by Brazilian artist Gustavo Sazes above. Click on the pic to view it in full.

-- Behind-The-Scene footage from Behemoth's latest video shoot

for more detailed info click here

-- Evergreen Terrace drummer Kyle Mims hospitalized

There are some bad news from a history [of violence] 's favorite evergreen metallers.
Here is the official statemen directly from Metal Blade Records' myspace blog:
"Unfortunately we have some bad news. Although Kyle's surgery for his shoulder went smooth, he is back in the hospital with a blood clot in his lung, otherwise known as a pulmonary embolism. It is pretty serious. His family is still accepting donations for medical costs. Kyle was just a few weeks away from qualifying for health insurance through his work before this accident. His medical bills have become insanely expensive. Anything you can do to help is much appreciated by Kyle, his family and Evergreen Terrace. To donate please go to: http://www.staceyandmark.com/KylesClavicle.htm"


Evergreen Terrace @ myspace: http://www.myspace.com/evergreenterrace

-- CENTRAL ILLINOIS METALFEST 2009 COMPLETE LINEUP ANNOUNCED!!!

here are the confirmed acts for the Central Illinois Metalfest's 2009 installment..

GOATWHORE (LA)
MASTER (CZECH REPUBLIC/US)
IMMOLATION (NY)
ANAL CUNT (MD)
VITAL REMAINS (NE)
DAATH (GA)
MALIGNANCY (NY)
ABIGAIL WILLIAMS (NY)
WACO JESUS (IL)
LIVIDITY (IL)
GOREAPHOBIA (PA)
RUMPLESTILTSKIN GRINDER (PA)
ABYSMAL DAWN (CA)
HUMAN FILLETED (IN)
FUCK THE FACTS (CANADA)
EZRA (NE)
BLASPHEMER (ITALY)
DISFIGURED (TX)
PATHOLOGY (CA)
DREAMING DEAD (CA)
PUTRID PILE (WI)
STRONG INTENTION (MD)
SECRET OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS (IL)
SUCCESS WILL WRITE APOCALYPSE ACROSS THE SKY (FL)
SIKFUK (MN)
DEAD FOR DAYS (IL)
NECROTIC DISGORGEMENT (OH)
DYSENTERY (MA)
ROTTENNESS (MEXICO)