Xenotrone kick off the year with fine progressive thrash

I like thrash metal, but most when it comes with progressive elements that make the music a bit more variable and not monotone. Ukrainian progressive thrash metal band Xenotrone's debut full-length album, "Into the Void" is drawing near these days with a release date set to February 21, 2025.

Within the vastness of space, humanity is but dust says the upcoming album by Xentrone.

The first single "Evolution of Soul" speaks with many breaks throughout it's duration. It's sometimes not clear how the song may continue it's way but it keeps pushing forwards along with a nice bass guitar sound running smoothly through the sound keeping it all together.

Another ear catcher are the guitar solos towards the end that make the ears open up - they sound different with the high tonality but are kept short in duration something warmly welcomed to keep the tension of the track moving.

Catch a quick glimpse with the YouTube player or head on over to a a overview of other streaming services on offer.

The track list also let's my imagination fly on what to expect of the album.

1. Into the Void (instrumental)
2. Evolution of Soul 
3. Tower of madness
4. Elysium
5. I Have no mouth and i must scream
6. Conatus Ad Deliciendum
7. Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (feat. Orphun)
8. Stone cross (feat. Kelly Shaefer)
9. Territorial Pissings (Nirvana cover)
10. Boötes Void

You can follow Xenotrone further through the following websites and services.

https://sites.google.com/view/xenotronethrash
https://www.instagram.com/xenotrone_thrash
https://open.spotify.com/artist/11KKTzeDAhsXLj0Bz3qtYF

Scarleth ask the sense of mind manipulation in new virtual reality video

Scarleth have premiered a great video about changing and altering your memories by replacing them with virtual reality. The great thing besides the blasting refrain that perfectly brings the message up to the point is the fact that the whole video comes packed in a style that looks like a video game / virtual reality itself and tells the story step by step to the viewer.

The lyrics are placed cleverly into the video as sort of advert messages or messages that are shown from a computer system. A excellent piece of video, I've not seen such a great mixture of story based video along with the lyrics. Don't hesitate and have a look for yourselves:

The track appears on their newest album called "The Silver Lining" and has been released in July 2015 by their label The Leaders. The band's webshop lists several ways how you can purchase the record.

Scarleth is a remarkable and experienced Ukrainian metal band playing music on joint of modern heaviness and diverse melodism. For the time being the band has played several hundreds of live shows, released two full-length albums worldwide and took part in festivals where Sergey Mavrin, Cherniy Obelisk, Dark Lunacy and other famous bands performed. The band’s style is expanding constantly and represents mind-blowing mixture of many melodic genres - from power, folk, doom and gothic metal to modern/progressive metal. 

The band Scarleth, (c) by Scarleth, used with kind permission

The band will play some shows in the upcoming time, here are the dates:

09.07.2016     Glukhov           Severnye Zemli bike fest
16.07.2016     Illichevsk     Metropolis Arena     BLACK SEA METAL FESTIVAL III
31.07.2016     Kiev     Druzhby Narodiv park     Carpathian Alliance Metal Festival    
20.08.2016     Rechytsa           Metal Crowd Festival  

Make sure to keep a eye upon the band through their own web presence or Facebook. You can also subscribe to their YouTube channel so you won't miss out on further video updates.