Single-Preview: The Lazlo Device - You stumble, I Fall (Post Rock, 2018)

This beautiful piece of Post Rock packs all the facettes such music is able to show into one compact track.

The cover of the new The Lazlo Device single "You stumble, I Fall". (c) by The Lazlo Device, used with kind permission

This new track of London-based post-rockers The Lazlo Device is going to be released this very friday 27th April 2018. It's the title tracks of the upcoming album of the same name. Heavy Metal Underdogs had a pre-listen to the new single and here's what came around:

Out of a misty intro the song beginns. "You stumble, I Fall" starts out as a harmonic, clear track. Everything is set in a balanced mood with straight vocals, drums and guitars. But as time goes by the song changes. The cymbals announce the change with their constant ringing. More rougher guitars slowly begin to fade in adding a more ghosty and moving note to the tune. Finally the rough notes start to take over bringing in a more harsh sound with distorted experimental sounds. The end comes shortly - a mixture of the more melodic and the rough parts melting together and bringing the single to an end.

I can share a little snippet of what's to come with all of you.

'You Stumble, I Fall' is set to drop on 27th April, with two more singles to follow before the release of the album later in the year.

You Stumble, I Fall album tracklisting:

1. These Eyes

2. Change

3. Sleep Till Summer

4. Beetle

5. Known To You

6. Blanket

7. Alderon

8. Mt Songo

9. I Don't Know

10. Fleeting Seconds

11. Fix Your Sights

12. You Stumble, I Fall

Keep a eye on the band through Twitter, Facebook or their Homepage. That's also the places where you'll surely will be notified of where to purchase the track once it's released. 

Arcade Messiah previews new album III

Instrumental metal albums are a exciting sort of releases for me. Since they focus completly on the music they have to work differently to keep the interest of the listener. If you've ever experimented with sound snippets on your PC you surely know what I mean and how hard it is to fill just one minute with instrumental music that is something worth your time.

A new album of John Bassett's project Arcade Messiah is about to be unleashed this November. It's the third installment entiled "III" and we can finally catch some short snippets of the record in the player below. While listening to the music the video also reveals the artwork by Michael Kerbow. The pre-order phase starts November 10th 2016 on Bandcamp.

Make sure to follow the next steps of the project through Twitter or Facebook.

Metal Church release first rough mix snippet of Suffer Fools

Currently Metal Church are working on a new album that is anticipated to be released in fall this year. Some days ago I posted a audio stream from youtube that featured a re-recorded version of the classic "Badlands".

It showed that Mike Howe is still laying it down heavy on the vocals these days, something that is not certain after so many years in between. But what does this mean for the new record? How has his voice developed and overall: how does the fresh material sound like? Well, you can judge for yourselfs from the small but very fine snippet below that the band released via Facebook.


As for me I can only say: Great snippet from the upcoming album! Like the variations Mike Howe puts inside the vocals very much. Plus the song so far reveals as a midtempo stomping track, something not too many Metal Church songs came along with. All in all things remind me of "The human factor" so far. I'll keep a eye on this for sure.

Urban Breed's new project Serious Black releases first trailer and tourdates

These days a lot of so called supergroups form together. They mostly consist out of ex-members that once played in bigger, well known bands.

One of these bands just surfaced some days ago of Facebook. They are called Serious Black and feature Roland Grapow (Guitar/Masterplan, Ex-Helloween), Thomen Stauch (Drums/Savage Circus, Ex-Blind Guardian), Mario Lochert (Bass/Emergency Gate), Jan Vacik (Keyboards, Ex-Dreamscape) and Dominik Sebastian (Guitar/Edenbridge), together with the well-known vocalist Urban Breed (Trail of Murder/ex-Tad Morose).

The debut album will be released via AFM in the beginning of 2015 but the band has put out a first trailer so we can already have a idea of what is to come.



The band has also been confirmed to play a long list of live shows as a support on the upcoming Hammerfall tour in Europe along with various festivals in 2015. Just check out the trailer to see the exact dates.

Update 2015/01/17: The album should be out now. The first videoclip has been released.

Update 2014/12/13: The second full song called "Sealing my fate" has been uploaded.


Update 2014/11/21: The first full song of the record has been released as a lyric video online.


Update 2014/11/07: More details about the album have been released!

You can preorder the album "As Daylight Breaks" on Amazon, Nuclear Blast Shop, Emp or in each record store world wide already!

Limited Edition (14 Songs): http://amzn.to/1xcrSRl

Standard Edition (11 Songs): http://amzn.to/10DWorV

and as Special Box Set - Limited to 100 pieces (Limited Edition, 3 guitar picks, handsigned autograph cards, T-Shirt - M, L or XL and a merch pass which will get you 10 % discount on tour. Everything will come in a metal box.

Size M: http://amzn.to/1xoxjfk
Size L: http://amzn.to/10xDcf7
Size XL: http://amzn.to/1xcrwdC

If you want to stay up to date on the further activities of the band just check in here from time to time or follow the band on Facebook or through their official homepage.

A Light Within returns with snippet from the upcoming EP

A while ago we here at metalunderdogs had a interview with the Post/Progressive Alt Rock band "A Light Within". The band also gave a little info about what to expect from the upcoming EP the band was preparing at those days.

By now the songwriting and recording process made some progress and the band recently revealed a first short, but in my eyes very cool teaser so we can have a idea of what's going on. Just sit back and enjoy the little preview below.

If you want to stay up to date about further developments just make sure to pick the RSS feed featured on the top of this blog or have a look at the bands Facebook page or the bands presence on Bandcamp.

Update 2014/07/25: I oversaw that there's another teaser for the track "Glaso" online so I added it here today.

Senate of Prevail gives first insight into the upcoming album

The swedish band Senate of Prevail is currently working on the second record. Today the band published the very first snippet from the album the band is laying down on tapes these days. It's a cut from the song "Illusion" in a very early mixing stage but I like the mix of riffing, vocals and rhythm already now. So please go ahead and take some seconds to listen to this one.

If you want to follow the progress of the recordings make sure to give the band a like on Facebook or follow them on Instagram. The band is also going to play on the Bollnäs Metal Rules Festival on May 31st 2014 in Sweden.