Classic Rise Above Records Titles To Be Released

Metal Blade Records will be releasing albums from Rise Above Record's storied catalog throughout this summer. Albums on the schedule so far include: Witchcraft's Witchcraft, Firewood, and The Alchemist, all to be released on July 17th. On July 31st, the self-titled first album from Gentleman's Pistols, and Firebird's album, Hot Wings will be released - both albums feature the legendary Bill Steer of Carcass/Napalm Death fame. Additionally, Metal Blade released two classic Grand Magus albums, Wolf's Return, and the critically acclaimed Iron Will on June 5th.

Order your copies and listen to tracks from the albums at the following links:
http://www.metalblade.com/witchcraft
http://www.metalblade.com/gentlemanspistols
http://www.metalblade.com/firebird

The latest release from Rise Above recording artists, Witchsorrow, will be released on July 3rd. God Curse Us is available now in Europe, and North American fans can pre-order and listen to the title track from the album now at metalblade.com/witchsorrow. God Curse Us is a stellar example of traditional doom; Decibel Magazine noted that "it's equally important that bands such as Witchsorrow champion doom's archetypal morbid value system of slow-coach Sabbath riffs and moribund world outlook a la Electric Wizard, Reverand Bizarre, etc. Witchsorrow are a trio of traditionalists whose sound has been reared on the fundamentals."

In other Rise Above news, Electric Wizard has record a 4-track demo, Satyr IX, exclusively for the Decibel Magazine Flexi Series. The flexi will be in the special "Queens of Noise Women in Metal" issue and can be ordered now on decibelmagazine.com. A stream is Satyr IX can be heard now on metalsucks.net.

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New Witchsorrow Track "Aurora Atra" Is Streaming

Witchsorrow, the pure, no-frills doom trio from the UK, will release their new album, God Curse Us, on July 3rd in North America. A new track from the album, Aurora Atra, is streaming now over on DecibelMagazine.com HERE. Guitarist/vocalist Necroskul describes the song: "This is a song for when you begrudge the sun rising, the coming of another day. When you curse the sky and the sun hanging in it. It sets the tone for the album quite aptly, I think".

Recorded over Hallowe'en by Chris Fielding at Wales' ultra-remote Foel Studios (Electric Wizard, Primordial, Hawkwind), God Curse Us is an album that brings the dark spirit of '70s Sabbath forward to 2012. Capturing the dark essence of classic doom: heavy, mournful riffs; oppressive atmosphere, bleak, sinister vocals and full-power metal freakouts, there's no mistaking it for anything else.

"I just want to carry on what Sabbath started," states frontman Necroskull. "I want to keep that old flame alive. I think that's always been what all the great doom bands have strived to do. It's a tremendous honour to add our own colour to the great tapestry of doom metal."

God Curse Us certainly does that over its hour of pure heaviness, taking in an Electric Funeral-esque vision of the apocalypse (God Curse Us), morbid, crawling grimness (Masters Of Nothing), dark fascination (Ab Antiquo/Megiddo) and pure Heavy Metal thunder (Breaking The Lore). For fans of the lighter side of metal, this is not.

"There isn't any light at all in the album," asserts Necroskull. "It's far too easy for metal to become a parody. We're not the band out high-fiving everyone and pouring shots down your throat. Everything is falling apart, you can almost taste Armageddon - we're the ones peering ahead to the end of the world."

Having already taken their doom-worshipping hymns all over the UK – including a slot headlining the Jagermeister Stage at Sonisphere 2011, where they unleashed Hell to the surprisingly large number of acolytes they pulled away from Metallica's performance on the Main Stage – God Curse Us looks set to cast Witchsorrow's shadow even further."

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Witchsorrow To Release New Album, "God Curse Us"

The UK's Witchsorrow will release their new doom-filled opus, God Curse Us, on July 3rd, 2012 in North America. The title track from the album can be heard now on metalblade.com/witchsorrow. Also, an in-depth interview with guitarist/vocalist Necroskull can be read on decibelmagazine.com.

Witchsorrow are a prime example of a band that plays pure, epic, and non-pretentious doom metal straight from the heart. If their self-titled 2010 debut suggested that, God Curse Us confirms it across almost an hour of unsullied doom.

Recorded over Hallowe'en by Chris Fielding at Wales' ultra-remote Foel Studios (Electric Wizard, Primordial, Hawkwind), God Curse Us is an album that brings the dark spirit of '70s Sabbath forward to 2012. Capturing the dark essence of classic doom: heavy, mournful riffs; oppressive atmosphere, bleak, sinister vocals and full-power metal freakouts, there's no mistaking it for anything else.

"I just want to carry on what Sabbath started," states frontman Necroskull. "I want to keep that old flame alive. I think that's always been what all the great doom bands have strived to do. It's a tremendous honour to add our own colour to the great tapestry of doom metal."

God Curse Us certainly does that over its hour of pure heaviness, taking in an Electric Funeral-esque vision of the apocalypse (God Curse Us), morbid, crawling grimness (Masters Of Nothing), dark fascination (Ab Antiquo/Megiddo) and pure Heavy Metal thunder (Breaking The Lore). For fans of the lighter side of metal, this is not.

"There isn't any light at all in the album," asserts Necroskull. "It's far too easy for metal to become a parody. We're not the band out high-fiving everyone and pouring shots down your throat. Everything is falling apart, you can almost taste Armageddon - we're the ones peering ahead to the end of the world."

Having already taken their doom-worshipping hymns all over the UK – including a slot headlining the Jagermeister Stage at Sonisphere 2011, where they unleashed Hell to the surprisingly large number of acolytes they pulled away from Metallica's performance on the Main Stage – God Curse Us looks set to cast Witchsorrow's shadow even further."

http://www.metalblade.com/witchsorrow
https://www.facebook.com/witchsorrowdoom