Napalm Records News Roundup: John Garcia, Samael, Xandria, Ex Deo, Warbringer & more

JOHN GARCIA
The Coyote Who Spoke In Tongues Out Now! Streaming In Full

John Garcia

Slo Burn, Unida, Hermano, Vista Chino, the former singer of Kyuss – yes, desert legend JOHN GARCIA may rightfully be considered as the ultimate incarnation of stoner rock.
His first solo album and opus eponymous from 2014 is followed roughly three years later by ‘The Coyote Who Spoke In Tongues’, a comparatively relaxed and purely acoustic affair, set to be released today!

 

“Better late than never”, Mister Garcia himself comments on the rather lengthy period of time he invested in his new baby. Offering chilled out renditions of some well-known classics as well as JOHN GARCIA’s solo work, 
‘The Coyote Who Spoke In Tongues’ seamlessly merges past gems with future, howling hits – all you need now is a crackling fire!

 

To celebrate his first acoustic release ever, JOHN GARCIA is now streaming ‘The Coyote Who Spoke In Tongues’ in its entirely! Get into old and new classics in a brand new shape like you have never heard the most distinctive voice of desert rock before, and stream it in full right here

 

 

The Coyote Who Spoke In Tongues’  is out now!

 

 

SAMAEL
Sign Worldwide Deal With Napalm Records!
Samael

 

From left to right: 
Xy, Markus Riedler (Napalm CEO), Sebastian Münch (Napalm A&R), Vorph, Håkon Grav (Photograve Management)

 

Black metal pioneers SAMAEL from Switzerland have signed a worldwide record deal with Napalm Records!
The band is working on a new album, which will be released later in 2017.

 

Founded in 1987 as an old school black metal act that was influenced by the likes of Bathory, fellow countrymen Celtic Frost, and Venom, the brothers Vorph and Xy later developed the band’s style further towards a more industrial dark metal sound that found its high peak in those legendary album such as “Passage” and “Eternal”.

 

Napalm’s A&R Sebastian Münch states:
“I could not be prouder! Today we would like to announce the worldwide signing of the Swiss cult band SAMAEL! SAMAEL has created some of the most lethal and authentic Black Metal albums with “Blood Ritual” and “Ceremony of Opposites”!  With a more industrial approach later on, masterpieces likes “Passage” and “Eternal” saw the light of day! To make a long story short, SAMAEL are musical geniuses and we are happy to continue, together, this success story! Welcome to the Napalm family!”

 

The band on the signing to Napalm Records and their future endeavors:
“We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve tightened the knot with Napalm Records for the release of our new album! We’re looking forward to this exciting alliance for what will undoubtedly be the most important record in the S A M A E L history!”

 

We’ve been around long enough to appreciate the importance of collaboration when it comes to turn projects into reality. We still have many great things to achieve and our partnership with Napalm Records will most certainly help us in doing so.2017 is the year! With a dynamic and enthusiastic team behind us and with the help of our dedicated fans we’re more than ready to unleashed new music upon the world… more to follow soon!”

 

Stay tuned for more exciting news to come!

 

 

XANDRIA
Release Music Video for Call Of Destiny
Theater Of Dimensions Out Today!
Xandria

 

German Epic Symphonic Metal stalwarts XANDRIA have found lineup stability with singer Dianne van Giersbergen and are ready to take things to the next level with their seventh studio album Theater of Dimensions.  

The album is a hyper-emotional
 affair that digs deep, lyrically speaking. It’s also an incredibly metallic effort.  There is a soundtrack-like, orchestral finesse inherent to the compositions, echoed by pounding groove and sophisticated shredding. You can experience it for yourself with the brand new music video for the track “Call Of Destiny” 

 

Watch It Here
http://smarturl.it/CallOfDestinyVideo 

And yes, we can fully understand if you can’t get enough of XANDRIA! Check out their latest lyric video for “We Are Murderers (We All)” feat. Björn Strid (SOILWORK) HERE: 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB-1Luo75vU&t=1s 
 
“This… is what operatic metal should be. Unimaginably epic brilliance.”
 New Noise Magazine, US

 “This new album of XANDRIA is pure magic! This album is magnificent!”
~ Rock Hard, SK/CZ

“Continuing with 2014’s lavish power opus Sacrificium, “Theater Of Dimensions” sees the band take their fantastical arrangements to an even darker place!”
~ Metal Hammer UK
 

Theater Of Dimensions is out now!

 

 

EX DEO
Premiere The Rise Of Hannibal As First Song Of Upcoming Album!
Ex Deo
Join the legion!
Rome, the Eternal City, is baffled: a horde of French Canadians have made it their duty to chronicle the Roman Empire, showing it’s true colors as the cradle of modern civilization. We are of course talking about Kataklysm side project Ex Deo. Indulging fully in pomp and drama the bands third album The Immortal Wars offers epic war tales, melodic death metal riffs and orchestral anthems that’ll surely raise fists! Guitarist J-F Dagenais once again took on production duties, while Jens Bogren fine-tuned the whole affair at his mixing desk in Sweden.

EX DEO’s third album The Immortal Wars offers epic tales, melodic death metal riffs and orchestral anthems that will surely raise fists!
Prepare ..Defend …Destroy!  

Now Italian blooded frontman Maurizio Iacono and his converted Gauls from French Canada send the first strike from The Immortal Wars! Ensure to witness “The Rise of Hannibal”! 
It’s the first song of EX DEO’s upcoming masterpiece and it’s available NOW. 

Stream “The Rise of Hannibal” in its entire length here: 

 

 

EX DEO spread the word of Rome and states:
“People of Rome, there is a threat looming from Carthage, a force has awaken and we most stop The Rise of Hannibal,  the soundtrack to ancient Rome is here, you have waited so long … raise your Gladius in pride!”
 
The full track listing of The Immortal Wars 


The Rise of Hannibal 
Hispania (The Siege of Saguntum)
Crossing of the Alps  
Suavetaurilia (Intermezzo)
Cato Major: Carthago delenda est!  
Ad Victoriam (The Battle of Zama) 
The Spoils of War  
The Roman
The Immortal Wars  will be released on February 24th 2017 via Napalm Records.
Pre orders coming soon

 

 

ZOMBIE MOTORS WRECKING YARD
Release First Music Video Of Upcoming Debut Album! 
Zombie Motors Wrecking Yard
Freshly signed to Napalm Records ZOMBIE MOTORS WRECKING YARD are ready to rock the world with their debut album Supersonic Rock’N Roll. 
As the release date is coming closer and closer, these Australian guys have prepared a special lyric-video for the track Galactic Motherfucker! Don’t.Miss.Out!

Check the video for “Galactic Motherfucker” HERE: 

 

 

ZOMBIE MOTORS WRECKING YARD combine Ministry-style grooves with the good old sex, drugs & rock’n’ roll attitude. 

Their debut album Supersonic Rock’N Roll will be released on February 24th 2017 via Napalm Records. 
 
Pre-order your copy here & be prepared for the most smashing debut out of the Australian desert! https://shop.napalmrecords.com/zombiemotorswreckingyard

 

 

WARBRINGER
Release First Song & Music Video For Track Silhouettes
Warbringer
New Album and Napalm Records Debut Woe to the Vanquished Available March 31

 

WARBRINGER definitely are one of the most aurally devastating bands in the scene today and make a triumphant step forward on their upcoming record, Woe to the Vanquished.
On March 31st they deliver their monumental 5th full-length and Napalm Records debut. We can’t wait! Can you?

 

To shorten the waiting time WARBRINGER unleashes the first ripping track from Woe to the Vanquished today!
The band are more than proud to release the first song and music video, “Silhouettes”, directed by Orie McGinness (Enlighten Creative Studio) and produced by Shan Dan Horen (Shadow Born Group).

 

Check out the video here

John Kevill gives a deeper insight into the first song “Silhouettes”:

 

This song, the album opener, is a blazing and intense number; we wanted the album to open with pure annihilation.
I had the lyric in my head and the frantic riff under the verse since the beginning of 2014, and I am very pleased that it exists as a full song now.

 

The idea for the song came from a particularly chilling detail found at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; when the atomic bombs went off the shadows of people whose bodies were vaporized still remain burned onto the walls and the ground where they once stood. To me, this is goddamn horrifying. I thought – “What if the souls of those dead remain trapped in the shadows?” I wanted to have the song written from a future where civilization has failed, the Earth is in ruins and the few remaining survivors live a horrible existence. The untold millions of shadows from this future, burnt into stone, look back at us in the present time and judge us for bringing about the apocalypse that, though we saw it coming, we did nothing to avoid.

 

The way I see it, we continue funding weaponry that keeps getting more and more devastating (search “satan-2” if you think this issue is some relic), and leadership seems on a sharp downward trend as well. Not the ingredients for a positive outcome. Remember, it only takes one mistake, once, and everything everyone has ever built, written, painted, all music, all culture, every ounce of human achievement is gone, in a single blinding flash. Like it or not, this is the world we live in today, and entering 2017 the delicate balance tips and sways more and more.
So, Happy New Year. Enjoy the time we have left, and fucking thrash. Woe to the Vanquished.
We’re Ghosts!

 

Pre-ordersof Woe to the Vanquished coming soon
www.nervegas.com.au/?rf=kw&kw=warbringer

 

 

SHYLMAGOGHNAR
Sign Worldwide Album Deal With Napalm Records! 
SHYLMAGOGHNAR

 

Napalm Records proudly welcomes the Dutch two man project SHYLMAGOGHNAR to their roster, rooted in finest Black Metal.
This atmospheric music revolves around themes that range from philosophy, life, dreams, nature and the universe to heavy emotions and abstract mysticism. 
SHYLMAGOGHNAR consists of Nimblkorg and Skirge, blood brothers that share various visions and their passion for alternate music.

 

SHYLMAGOGHNAR on the signing with Napalm Records:
“We are excited to announce we will be working together with Napalm Records! We feel they are a respectable label with an integrity and enthusiasm we very much connect with. As such, they are a natural match to the style and ideology behind Shylmagoghnar, and we are very much looking forward to our collaboration!”

 

Napalm Records A&R Sebastian Muench states:
„We are super excited to finally announce the world-wide signing of Dutch Progressive/Melodic Death Metal Band SHYLMAGOGHNAR! The debut album release of “Emergence” in 2014 can be considered one of the most brilliant albums in the last 10 years and already received close to 1 million views on YouTube! It makes me very happy to say that “Emergence” will be released on vinyl along with a new sophomore recording! Welcome to the Napalm family!”

 

In 2014 SHYLMAGOGHNAR released their first record Emergence. The whole album can be streamed via YouTube in full length

 

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